Search

IMLS Digital Collections and Content, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. URL: http://imlsdcc.grainger.illinois.edu/ [e] 52-0004 [Internet Resource] [Visited Jun'14] The Institute of Museum and Library Services' Digital Collections and [...]

Details the city of Cahokia, a 13th century city across the Mississippi from present-day St. Louis, which consisted of more than 100 neatly proportioned mounds, but which did not anticipate ecological change and environmental degradation. Genius of the mound-builders; Details some early indian tribes, their habits, behavior and intellectual achievements. INSET: The Spain that Columbus left behind, by M. Horn & D. Hawkins....

Details the American scene a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor and into the early 1940s. Great Depression fading; The effects of the New Deal throughout different aspects of American life; American feeling of security before Pearl Harbor; Communities sharply divided by class and ethnic groups; Racism; The American dream; Tuberculosis, the big killer; Equal-rights amendment. INSET: Heroes.;Couples (in movies); Commerce; Women.;Children....

Profiles of ten high-school seniors who won scholarships in the 47th annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Immigration and family influences in their success; Science and math in US high-school curriculums; Profile of Nobel laureate Roald Hoffman, former Westinghouse Science Talent winner in 1955.

[e] 50-5913 [Internet Resource] Register & Read, from JSTOR URL: http://about.jstor.org/rr [Visited Apr '13] Register & Read (R&R) is intended to be a quick, convenient way for researchers without a [...]

[e] 49-4785 [Internet Resource] Early Journal Content on JSTOR, part of ITHAKA URL: http://www.jstor.org/action/ showAdvancedSearch?ModifySearch=Modify+Sarch&wc=off&acc=on [Visited Feb' 12] Early Journal Content from the database JSTOR (CH, Jan'11, 48-2403), part of [...]

48-0701 P96 2009-34844 CIP Myers, Greg. Discourse of blogs and wikis. Continuum International Publishers Group, 2010. 180p bibl index ISBN 9781847064134, S 150.00; ISBN 9781847064141 pbk, $44.95. Reviewed in 20100ct [...]

(e) 47-3533 [Internet Resource] Palgrave Connect. Palgrave Macmillan. Site license for complete e-book collection(s) in 8 subject areas, avail, by publication year and based on organization type/FTE. URL: http://www.palgraveconnect.com [Visited [...]

(e) 46-3625 [Internet Resource] UChannel (University Channel) URL: http://uc.princeton.edu/main/ [Visited Dec'08] UChannel is a site for the academically inclined. It offers lectures, open panel discussions, and presentations by experts from [...]

Covers the slew of movies which deal with real people and real events, including `Born on the Fourth of July,' `My Left Foot,' and `Glory.' Movies cannot convey the complexities and ambiguities and ironies as well as the written word, but with their visual impact, they can convey drama and the tragedy more effectively to a wider audience. INSET: From `Inertia Projector' of the `40s to SDI of the `80s.;How's....

Describes the one-volume `Encyclopedia of Southern Culture' by Professor Charles Reagan Wilson and colleague William Ferris, scheduled to come out next spring. At nearly $50 a copy, the 1600-page book will include 1260 essays and articles on a variety of topics. INSET: Uniquely Southern..

[e] 50-3001 [Internet Resource] The Web Index, from the World Wide Web Foundation. URL: http://www.webfoundation.orglprojects/the-web-indexl [Visited Nov'12] The Web Index was launched in September 2012 under the guidance of the [...]

White, Charlie. Bloggers boot camp: learning how to build, write, and run a successful blog, by Charlie White and John Biggs. Elsevier/ Focal Press, 2012. 199p index ISBN 0240819179 pbk, [...]

[e] 49-0595 [Internet Resource] eBooks@Adelaide, from the University of Adelaide, Australia. URL: http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/ [Visited Jul'11] This site's embedded Facebook links initially may lead visitors away from the expected e-books, but [...]

(e) 48-5416 [Internet Resource] SitePoint URL: http://www.sitepoint.com/ [Visited Mar' 11] SitePoint serves as 'a community of people devoted to helping you build a better Web site.' Even at first glance, [...]

48-0701 P96 2009-34844 CIP Myers, Greg. Discourse of blogs and wikis. Continuum International Publishers Group, 2010. 180p bibl index ISBN 9781847064134, $150.00; ISBN 9781847064141 pbk, $44.95 Released in the 'Continuum [...]

Academic writing groups are acknowledged as a successful approach to increasing research publication output and quality. However, the possible links between the formation and ongoing utilisation of writing groups and improvements in scholarly written research outputs remain relatively undertheorised. In this article, we draw on academic writing group literature, structuration theory and an analysis of the literature on characteristics of effective teams to explore the experiences of one successful academic writing group. By referring to these areas of literature and theory, we provide insights and tentative lessons that may be relevant to other academics in similar organisational contexts.

The article looks at the applications and reactions of pet owners on personalised identification (ID) tags applied on cats and dogs in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The study was performed through a poll on pet owners who have appointments on veterinary hospitals and spay/neuter clinics in the city, where 59 percent of 291 owned pets have ID tags with accurate contact information of pet owners. Results of the poll stated that 79.6 percent of respondents find ID tags essential for locating pets.

A study was undertaken to evaluate owners' perception of the effect that epilepsy and long‐term phenobarbital therapy had on the quality of pet and owner lifestyle. Selected owners who participated in a prospective, longitudinal clinical epilepsy study were sent a questionnaire at the end of the two‐year study. Inclusion criteria were dogs with a history of seizures without previous medical attention or therapy by any veterinarian before enrolment, subsequent determination of seizure aetiology using a standardised diagnostic protocol and treatment with phenobarbital for a minimum period of six months. A relatively equal distribution of the respondents' dogs had a determined (secondary, 47 per cent) or undetermined (primary, 53 per cent) seizure aetiology, and the vast majority of owners agreed that they would choose to treat their epileptic pet again rather than opt for other alternatives. Most owners disagreed that their pet was leading a poor quality of life after the start of phenobarbital therapy. A significant negative correlation existed between an owner's perception of the pet's quality of life and the amount of work required to care for the pet during the two‐year study period. This study demonstrates that many owners are willing to care for epileptic dogs on long‐term phenobarbital treatment, regardless of the underlying cause.

Pays tribute to the life and success of Sam Walton, owner of America's No. 1 retailer, Wal-Mart, who died last week at the age of 74. Walton's personal touch with each Wal-Mart grand opening; Considered the greatest retailer of his day; How Walton transformed the small-town merchant; His way of always putting the customer first.

Announces that the Maxwell House plant in Hoboken, N.J., shut down after more than half a century. Hundreds of workers found themselves unemployed; Competition from abroad; The organizational bond between employee and employer is disintegrating;The victims of downsizing companies; The aspect that is lost in downsized companies.

Recounts the experience aboard the ship Delta Queen at Helena, Arkansas last spring during the Ole Miss's `College of Southern Studies on the Water,' at which Alex Haley, author of the `Roots' books, participated. Those whom Haley greeted; The events that occurred aboard the boat; The signing of autographs; Haley's death last week at the age of 70.

Part VI: Medal of Honor. Profiles John Upshur Dennis Page who, at the age of 46, while fighting in the Korean War, earned not only the Medal of Honor but the Navy Cross as well. Professional army for nearly two decades; Saw no action in World War II; Assigned to Koto-ri; Fearless against the enemy; Died Dec. 10, 1950, clearing a roadblock of enemy Chinese; Details.

Part V: Medal of Honor. Profiles Air Force flier Lance Sijan, whose day of glory began November 9, 1967 when a faulty fuse caused the bombs on his F-4 to explode only a few feet from the Phantom, and Sijan ejected over a Laotian mountain slope near the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Captured by the North Vietnamese 46 days later, with broken wrist and leg, Sijan never admitted more than his name and serial number, was repeatedly beaten for trying to dig his way out. He died January 22, 1968.

Comments on President George Bush's comments on the Persian Gulf War in his State of the Union message, which appeared to be understood out where the snow covers the cornfields. Huey Hewitt, 53, at Huey's Chuck Wagon, Lawrenceville, Illinois, `I'd go if I could'; Sam Davis, 44, Flat Rock, Illinois, Medal of Honor recipient, `I have had nightmares for 20 years.... more frequent the last few months. Sometimes there are things worth fighting for.'

Presents short vignettes from towns along Route 50, headed west from Washington. Ellen Thomas, Navy mom, living in Lafayette Park, Washington. The Braddock Street Methodist Church, Winchester, Va.: four parishioners in the gulf; American Legion Hampshire Unit No. 91, Romney, W.Va.; Sharon Maloney, Parkersburg, W.Va. and MASH; The children of Darren and Shirley Cox with grandparents in Coolville, Ohio; Athens (Ohio) Peace Coalition; 1001st Field Support Company, Chillicothe, Ohio.

Previews the PBS special 11-hour television series `The Civil War,' Ken Burns' five-and-one-half-year, million dollar extravaganza which some Civil War historians are already terming the best Civil War film ever made. Nine hundred first-person accounts read off camera by actors and celebrities; Tiny moments speak volumes.