Featured catalogs collection for Books Division page
- Catherine Madison: From the front lines of a Korean War prison camp, 65 years ago.
- Sixty-five years ago, on June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, initiating the Korean War. The U.S. and sixteen other nations joined forces t ...
- What is "Malian music"?
- BY RYAN THOMAS SKINNER Assistant professor of ethnomusicology at The Ohio State University For many, to think of a place called “Mali” is to hea ...
- What do ellipses do for us?
- Beyoncé (feat. Jay-Z) "Drunk in Love" Unofficial Emoji Video from JESSE HILL on Vimeo . BY JEFF SCHEIBLE Assistant professor of cinema studie ...
- Meditations of an Infomaniac, Part 2 of 2
- BY PAUL STEPHENS In early 2012 I thought I had discovered the perfect title for my new project, which was to be a diary of my information habits. I ...
- Meditations of an Infomaniac, Part 1 of 2
- BY PAUL STEPHENS My iPhone slips from my hand and lands on the subway tracks. I glance down the tunnel and don’t see a train. I’m carrying a hea ...
- NYT: The Same-Sex Couple Who Got a Marriage License in 1971
- Minneapolis couple Jack Baker and Michael McConnell were profiled on the front page of today's Sunday New York Times as the first same-sex couple kno ...
- Bruce H. Kramer on finding a place of balance and harmony while living with the "dis ease" of ALS.
- Bruce H. Kramer, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2010, speaks with Cathy Wurzer about the power of reaching out in a still from this video . Bru ...
- Fractured Media Materialities: On Geology of Media
- BY JUSSI PARIKKA Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton Fracking is a controversial process of forcing the ground open in order to extr ...
- 25 years of Hubble images from space: strange, alien, phenomenal—and yet somehow, familiar.
- This image created by the Hubble Space Telescope is often referred to as the "Pillars of Creation." It has been a common subject for painters such as ...
- Introducing "Verge: Studies in Global Asias"
- The history of scholarship on Asian America, when juxtaposed with the fields of Asian Studies, reminds us how much nations, national movements, and ot ...