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CountryWatch Premium provides socio-demographic, cultural, historical, economic, political, environmental and investment information, along with news, analysis, maps, data and statistics on all of the world’s 192 countries and many non-sovereign nations. CountryWatch Premium is made up of four distinct features, the Country Reviews, Country Wire, CountryWatch Data, and Map Gallery, each

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Newsy is a multiperspective online video news site that monitors, synthesizes and presents the world’s news coverage.It take stories in the news and then bring together multiple video (and sometimes text-based) news reports from a number of sources and place them all on a single location. It’s not only a great way to see how a news story is reported but viewing the same story from different news

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Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlandsby Colin Legerton and Jacob RawsonChicago Review Press, 2009Authors Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson, two Americans fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Uyghur, throw away the guidebook and journey over 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of China to meet the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their

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The College Book for Spring 2010 is The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch. It earned 40 of the ninety votes cast, with Generation Me a close second at 35. The third finalist, with 15 votes, was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.Copies of the winning book will be placed on seven-day Reserve in the Library later this month. For Spring semester there will be discussion questions and

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Human Rights Issues by Kenneth JostOctober 30, 2009Are they a low priority under President Obama?Human rights advocates are voicing disappointment with what they have seen so far of President Obama’s approach to human rights issues in forming U.S. foreign policy. They applaud Obama for working to restore U.S. influence on human rights by changing President George W. Bush’s policies on

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Try our Online Reference Chat ServiceReal People - Real Help - Real Fast24 hours a day, 7 days a weekhttp://www.swccd.edu/~library/ask.htm

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Voxalead News, finds keywords in transcriptions of video from mainly major US and French broadcast news resources. Run your search and the video clips appear on the screen, choose the one that you're interested in and the video starts a few moments before your word(s) appear to put it into some sort of context.

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Charles W. Bryant writes for HowStuffWorks about the Top 10 Things You Should Not Share on Social Networks. Even if you think you’ve got social networking figured out, you will want to read through the author’s discussion and warnings for each item on the list.

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Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USAby Julia AlvarezCall Number: New Book Shelf GT2490 .A45 2007In Once Upon a Quinceañera, a fascinating book about the celebration of a girl's coming of age, bestselling novelist Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and In the Time of the Butterflies, studies the ancient ritual that unites the U.S. Latino community and is

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The website Online Classes has put together a mega-list of 100 Free Tools to Tutor Yourself in Anything. Find a wide range of online tutorials and websites in the following categories in this useful post:GeneralLanguageMusicLife SkillsAround the HouseTechnologyGeneral AcademicBusinessHealth and FitnessMath and ScienceLiberal ArtsFine Arts

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President Obama has declared that October 2009 is National Information Literacy Awareness Month.What is Information Literacy?Information Literacy is the set of skills needed to find, retrieve, analyze, and use information.Southwestern College library offers these courses that will improve your information literacy skills: LIB 110 Simplified Research: Print and Electronic and LIB 151 Research

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Zoom: the global race to fuel the car of the futureby Iain Carson and Vijay V. VaitheeswaranCall Number: New Book ShelfHD 9710 A2 C27 2007In Zoom, Iain Carson and Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran, award-winning correspondents for The Economist, show why and how geopolitical and economic forces are compelling the linked industries of oil and autos to change as never before. Drawing on years of industry

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Rescuing Children by Rob Kiener,October 2009 Is the global community doing enough? The numbers are grim: Every day more than 25,000 children under age 5 – the equivalent of 125 jetliners full of youngsters – die from hunger, poverty or easily preventable illnesses, such as diarrhea and malaria. Millions of others are abandoned, trafficked into prostitution, forced into armed conflict or used

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Try our Online Reference Chat Service Real People - Real Help - Real Fast24 hours a day, 7 days a weekhttp://www.swccd.edu/~library/ask.htm

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ARTstor is partnering with Occidental College to share approximately 2,500 images of California architecture from the archives of Robert Winter in the Digital Library. A noted architectural historian, Winter photographed buildings and sites throughout California for over 40 years.His photographs document major 19th and 20th century styles from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco, Spanish Colonial to Mission

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In recognition of Banned Books Week, OCLC NetLibrary and HarperCollins Publishers are pleased to announce that Burn This Book will be available as the October eBook of the Month.Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book explores the meaning of censorship, and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves. Contributors including Toni

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As public concern about Pandemic H1N1 and the upcoming flu season continues to grow, the medical and nursing editors from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) are offering the latest evidence-based flu-related information available for free.This free flu information resource is located at www.ebscohost.com/flu and will provide continually updated, evidence-based clinical information from DynaMed™ and

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Gays in the Military by Peter Katel,September 18, 2009Should the ban on homosexuals be lifted?Political passions over the ban on open homosexuality in the U.S. military are stirring again. A new legislative fight on the issue may be headed for House and Senate hearings as early as this fall. Iraq War veteran Rep. Patrick J. Murphy, D-Pa., is proposing legislation to end sexuality-based

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ARTstor is collaborating with Northwestern University Academic and Research Technologies to share 20 images, including 7 Quick Time Virtual Reality (QTVR) panoramas, documenting Buddhist sculpture at Shuilu'an Temple in Lantian, Shaanxi Province, China. The temple structure dates from the Tang Dynasty (c. 1000 CE) and the site is famous for its Ming Dynasty (c. 1500 CE) painted sculpture.To view

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Shades of Difference: A History of Ethnicity in America by Richard ReesCall no: New Book Shelf E 184 A1 R426 2007Reviewer: Tanya Carr, SWC LibrarianRichard Reese, university teacher of literature, writing and American Studies, takes an in-depth look at the diverse "schools" from which the concept of ethnicity in America has derived throughout history. By analyzing works in sociology,

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State Budget Crisis by Alan Greenblatt, September 11, 2009Are permanent changes in spending needed? State budgets always fall out of balance during recessions, but in the current downturn states are facing the worst budget crunch since the Great Depression. Over the past two years, states have had to close budget gaps exceeding $300 billion. Many have raised taxes, but they’ve mainly dealt with

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Occupational Outlook for Community College StudentsEditors Richard M. Romano and Hirschel Kasper Call Number New Book ShelfLB 2328 .N4 v. 146This new title in the Southwestern College library focuses on the trends in the labor markets most common to community college programming. It considers the long-run employment projections for programs in the fields of interest to community college students:

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ARTstor has collaborated with the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin to distribute 458 images of modern European and American architecture, with a special focus on museum architecture. Architects represented include: Alvar Aalto, Frank Gehry, Louis Kahn,José Rafael Moneo,and Alvaro Siza. The images were digitized from slides housed in the School of Architecture's Visual

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Garage to Gigs: A Musician's Guideby Andrew ThomasCall Number New Book Shelf ML3795 .T56 2008Professional musician Andrew Thomas shows musicians the possibilities open to them at every stage of their careers: be in a cover band or write new songs; collaborate with other band members or back a star; the choices are wide open.This book walks you through the steps of considering what kind of band to

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