Neat Stuff Will Return in September
The Neat Stuff blog is going on a temporary hiatus. Fear not, Neat Stuff will return with brand new entries in September.
Entries Tagged as 'Neat Stuff'
Marjane Satrapi
For fans of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, we’ve added the sequel Persepolis 2, as well as her Embroideries and Chicken with Plums, respectively about Iranian women’s lives and Nasser Ali Khan, Satrapi’s great-uncle and a renowned player of the tar.
Playing Hurt
If you were coaching football and your star player had a head injury, would you let him play? Playing Hurt: Ethics and Sports Medicine, new on DVD, is an hour-long panel discussion about ethical and medical issues associated with injured athletes, featuring team doctors for the Cleveland Browns and Atlanta Falcons, and former L.A. Ram Jack Youngblood.
Manga Shakespeare
In Richard Appignanesi’s manga version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the star-crossed lovers are from rival yakuza (organized-crime families) in Tokyo.
Neat Stuff: To Recommend a Book–
Y’all can recommend books for us to buy! Sometimes, in all the excitement, we don’t realize we’ve overlooked a classic or a popular title. So don’t be shy! To recommend a book complete this form online: (http://www.valdosta.edu/library/forms/purchase.shtml)
Neat Stuff: Holocaust in Graphic Novels
Mendel’s Daughter: a Memoir is a graphic novel about author Martin Lemelman’s mother, who survived Nazi persecution as a young girl in Poland. In I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors Bernice Eisenstein, whose parents were imprisoned in Auschwitz, tells in words and drawings of her efforts to understand them and find her own place in history.
Neat Stuff: Ingenium
Physicist Mark Denny’s Ingenium: Five Machines that Changed the World examines the early development—and present-day significance—of the bow and arrow, the waterwheel, the counterpoise siege engine (including the trebuchet!), the pendulum clock anchor escapement, and the centrifugal governor.
Neat Stuff: Not in Kansas- New Graphic Novels
We’ve added Gipi’s Notes for a War Story (set in the Balkan Peninsula), Town Boy (Malaysia), The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (China and everywhere else), and Aya (Ivory Coast).
Neat Stuff: Fool’s Gold
You’ve probably been asked not to do all your research on the Internet. To help explain why not, check out Fool’s Gold: Why the Internet is No Substitute for a Library, or Web of Deception: Misinformation on the Internet.
Critical Thinking and the Web: Teaching Users to Evaluate Internet Resources tells how to determine a Web site’s authority, evaluate information on controversial topics, or figure out if an online article is “scholarly.”
It’s our job to help you understand this stuff- for more information don’t hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
Neat Stuff: Stories and Art from American High Schools
The Best Teen Writing of . . . Selected National Award-Winning Work from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards is available online, featuring a remarkable collection of high-school students’ paintings, photography, poems, and short stories.
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