Adventure Fiction and Waste Management: New Reference Items
09/14/2009 (new books)
I always look forward to flipping through the new reference items that have been added to the collection. These latest books sit behind the reference desk for the librarians to review before they are added to the reference collection. Be sure to ask at the reference desk if you are unable to locate an item of interest.
Encyclopedia of adventure fiction / Don D’Ammassa. If only they had called them “Adventure Fiction” instead of “Required Summer Reading”. The list of entries in this encyclopedia includes many of the “classics” read in high schools and colleges. The encyclopedia includes entries on the books as well as their creators. The editor hopes “that readers derive a little bit of adventure just by reading about these works, and a great deal more by sampling some of them”. PR830.A38D36 2009
Encyclopedia of alternative investments / edited by Greg N. Gregoriou. As described by the editor, the “main objective of this encyclopedia is to be the most authoritative source on alternative investments for academics, students, professionals, and practitioners.” HG4513.E53 2009
The literary 100 : a ranking of the most influential novelists, playwrights, and poets of all time / Daniel S. Burt. The perfect item to back you up for those late night arguments with your roommate as to who was a more influential poet, Walt Whitman (39) or Emily Dickinson (52). The editor has “tried to distill the essence of each writer’s career and charachter to help prompt the reader’s consideration of literary merit and relationships.” PN451.B87 2009
The Praeger handbook of religion and education in the United States / edited by James C. Carper and Thomas C. Hunt. This is a two volume set was developed “as a resource for parents, journalists, policy makers, educators, religious leaders, and citizens as well as scholars….” Includes many summations of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions regarding religious liberty. LC111.P78 2009.
Waste management : a reference handbook / Jacqueline Vaughn. The editor states that the goal of the book is “to provide readers with background information and an overview of waste that has not been available in a single volume….using an interdisciplinary approach combining history, political science, environmental science, engineering, sociology, and public health”. Chapter 4 provides a straight chronology of waste management to 2008, beginning in 1757 with Benjamin Franklin’s introduction of a street-cleaning service in Philadelphia . TD791.V38 2009