Archive for 2012
Stacks Spotlight – June 2012
Here’s a look at the latest hot fiction and bestsellers recently added to Cowles’ collection. Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area
Twelve desperate miles: the epic WWII voyage of the SS Contessa / Tim Brady.
Her majesty: Queen Elizabeth II and her court / Robert Hardman.
Time to start thinking: America in the age of descent / Edward Luce.
A Titanic love story: Ida and Isidor Straus / June Hall McCash.
Unsinkable: the full story of the RMS Titanic / Daniel Allen Butler.
And the band played on– / Christopher Ward.
The Titanic: disaster of a century / Wyn Craig Wade ; introduction by Barbara Wade ; foreword by John Chatterton.
Starting and closing: perseverance, faith, and one more year / John Smoltz ; with Don Yaeger.
What money can’t buy: the moral limits of markets / Michael J. Sandel.
The impulse economy: understanding mobile shoppers and what makes them buy / Gary Schwartz.
Greed is good and other fables: office life in popular culture / Tony Osborne.
Networked: the new social operating system / Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman.
The moral molecule: the source of love and prosperity / Paul J. Zak.
The great inversion and the future of the American city / Alan Ehrenhalt.
Oklahoma City: what the investigation missed– and why it still matters / Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles.
Game over: Jerry Sandusky, Penn State, and the culture of silence / Bill Moushey and Bob Dvorchak.
Do not ask what good we do: inside the U.S. House of Representatives / Robert Draper.
Dropped names: famous men and women as I knew them / Frank Langella.
Yours in truth: a personal portrait of Ben Bradlee / Jeff Himmelman.
Rather outspoken: my life in the news / Dan Rather with Digby Diehl.
Wish you were here / Graham Swift.
The uninvited guests / Sadie Jones.
Home / Toni Morrison.
Stolen prey / John Sandford.
The grey album ; on the blackness of blackness / Kevin Young.
The newlyweds: a novel / Nell Freudenberger.
iDisorder: understanding our obsession on technology and overcoming our addiction / Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D.
Garbology: our dirty love affair with trash / Edward Humes.
Flix 4 Free! – May 2012
Here’s a look at some of the latest DVDs added to our collection during the past month. These movies, and many more, are located in the Electronic Resource Center (west side, main floor), and available for check-out with just your Drake ID!
Game of thrones. The complete first season
Nazis at the center of the Earth
People like us. The complete series
Rise of the planet of the apes
Supernatural. The complete 6th season
Stacks Spotlight – May 2012
Here’s a look at the latest hot fiction and bestsellers recently added to Cowles’ collection. Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area
Immortality: the quest to live forever and how it drives civilization / Stephen Cave.
World War II remembered / by residents of Kendal at Hanover ; Clinton C. Gardner, managing editor ; editors, Jane Atwood Barlow … [et al.].
Prague winter: a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright ; with Bill Woodward.
America the beautiful: rediscovering what made this nation great / Ben Carson, with Candy Carson.
After Camelot: a personal history of the Kennedy family 1968 to the present / J. Randy Taraborrelli.
Leak: why Mark Felt became Deep Throat / Max Holland.
Gilded lives, fatal voyage: the Titanic’s first-class passengers and their world / Hugh Brewster.
Farewell, Titanic: her final legacy / Charles Pellegrino.
Bill Veeck: baseball’s greatest maverick / Paul Dickson.
Insanely simple: the obsession that drives Apple’s success / Ken Segall.
Dreaming in French: the Paris years of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Susan Sontag, and Angela Davis / Alice Kaplan.
Learning from the octopus: how secrets from nature can help us fight terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and disease / Rafe Sagarin.
The presidents club: inside the world’s most exclusive fraternity / Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy.
We can all do better / Bill Bradley.
And furthermore / Judi Dench ; as told to John Miller.
The white woman on the green bicycle / Monique Roffey.
Charles Jessold, considered as a murderer / Wesley Stace.
Lots of candles, plenty of cake / Anna Quindlen.
If you follow me: a novel / Malena Watrous.
The personal history of Rachel Dupree: [a novel] / Ann Weisgarber.
The hockey stick and the climate wars: dispatches from the front lines / Michael E. Mann.
The story of Earth: the first 4.5 billion years, from stardust to living planet / Robert M. Hazen.
Drop dead healthy: one man’s humble quest for bodily perfection / A. J. Jacobs.
Stacks Spotlight – April 2012
Here’s a look at the latest hot fiction and bestsellers recently added to Cowles’ collection. Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area
Imagine: how creativity works / Jonah Lehrer.
Alger Hiss: why he chose treason / Christina Shelton ; an introduction by Richard Pipes.
Showdown: the inside story of how Obama fought back against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party / David Corn.
Empire of shadows: the epic story of Yellowstone / George Black.
Illegal procedure: a sports agent comes clean on the dirty business of college football / Josh Luchs and James Dale ; [foreward by George Dohrmann].
The big miss: my years coaching Tiger Woods / Hank Haney.
Escape from Camp 14: one man’s remarkable odyssey from North Korea to freedom in the west / Blaine Harden.
Covenant of liberty: the ideological origins of the Tea Party movement / by Michael Patrick Leahy.
Angelmaker / by Nick Harkaway.
Stay close / Harlan Coben.
The Hunger games trilogy / Suzanne Collins.
Fifty shades darker / E. L. James.
The watchman’s rattle: thinking our way out of extinction / Rebecca D. Costa ; with a foreword by E. O. Wilson.
How it began: a time-traveler’s guide to the universe / Chris Impey.
Flix 4 Free! – April 2012
Here’s a look at some of the latest DVDs added to our collection during the past month. These movies, and many more, are located in the Electronic Resource Center (west side, main floor), and available for check-out with just your Drake ID!
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I
Stacks Spotlight – March 2012
Here’s a look at the latest hot fiction and bestsellers recently added to Cowles’ collection. Find these new books, as well as others, on the main floor stand at the top of the ramp and in the Cowles Cafe area.
The happiness of pursuit: what neuroscience can teach us about the good life / Shimon Edelman.
On an Irish island / Robert Kanigel.
Borrow: the American way of debt / Louis Hyman.
Killing the messenger: a story of radical faith, racism’s backlash, and the assassination of a journalist / Thomas Peele.
The swing vote: the untapped power of independents / Linda Killian.
We’re with nobody: two insiders reveal the dark side of American politics / Alan Huffman, Michael Rejebian.
Babel no more: the search for the world’s most extraordinary language learners / Michael Erard.
Ten pound pom / Niall Griffiths.
The confession / Charles Todd.
Flatscreen: a novel / Adam Wilson.
Abundance: the future is better than you think / Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler.
The American way of eating: undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, farm fields and the dinner table / Tracie McMillan.
Flix 4 Free – March 2012
Here’s a look at some of the latest DVDs added to our collection during the past month. These movies, and many more, are located in the Electronic Resource Center (west side, main floor), and available for check-out with just your Drake ID! 
The Big bang theory. The complete second season
The Big bang theory. The complete first season
The Big bang theory. The complete fourth season
The Big bang theory. The complete third season
Doctor who. The complete sixth series
Doctor Who. The complete fourth series
Doctor Who. The complete second series
Doctor Who. The complete first series
Doctor Who. The complete fifth series
Doctor Who. The complete third series
The Girl with the dragon tattoo
Managing shame, preventing violence
Meredith
On Saturday morning, February 25th, some twenty eager middle-schoolers from Des Moines Meredith Middle School, visited the “Many Faces of George Washington” exhibit at Cowles Library.
Each institution hosting the exhibit from the Mount Vernon Estate, Museum & Gardens also received a beautifully-framed replica of Rembrandt Peale’s famous porthole portrait of Washington.
This portrait will be awarded to Meredith Middle School, along with a “George Washington Celebration Kit,” containing suggested lesson plans for classroom use. Also included in the kit is a flag of the United States flown over Mount Vernon. Teacher Randi Montag Weeks announced that the portrait would hang in the school’s new Media Learning Center.
Research Guides
Research Guides
In the first three months of 2012, there have been 18,594 visits to the most popular Research Guide: Pharmacy. What is it pharmacy students (and faculty) know? Research Guides are an invaluable resource provided by Cowles Library. Librarians have developed Research Guides for each department and school at Drake. There are numerous guides designed to help students in particular courses and with particular assignments. There are even guides designed for First Year Seminars and the Engaged Citizen experience.
Each guide was created by a librarian who is an expert in that field and contains links to both Cowles Library resources and relevant information sources available online. These guides are not static, however, as librarians are frequently updating Research Guides as more resources become available. While there are changes to what databases and journals Drake subscribes to, Research Guides are invaluable tools to knowing what is available now. Research Guides highlight relevant resources and help students figure out which resources are best for each research need.
One of the many perks of the library’s new website is the better visibility and integration of Research Guides. To discover and explore Research Guides, simply navigate to the library’s home page and select Research Guides from the Find menu or visit http://researchguides.drake.edu.
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