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Loon Lore: in Poetry and Prose By Bill Sullivan Call Number:  PS3569.U35936 L66 2015  Publisher's Description:  The elusive loon—here one moment, gone the next—shows the limits of what we can grasp, and the temporary nature of what is   In Loon Lore: In Poetry and Prose , Bill Sullivan explores his admiration for and attachment to the common loon, the ancient aquatic bird that migrates from the northern lakes of New England and beyond to wintering sites along the coast of Rhode Island, bringing a taste of wilderness and a sense of wonderment and delight to the dark days of winter. The poems consider the loon’s past, present, and future in New England, recognizing that their future is ours as well. Interspersed prose reflections discuss native oral tales and myth, the ice age, Thoreau and wilderness, oil spills, bird migrations, concepts of time, and loon survival given the ecological challenges of our day. Illustrator Leslie...

One Islam, M any Muslim W orlds : S pirituality, I dentity, and R esistance A cross Islamic L ands By Raymond William Baker Call Number:  BP 161.3 B344 2015 Review from the journal Foreign Affairs Publisher's Description:   By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah , particularly its Arab heartland. Sober Muslim voices regularly describe their current state as the worst in the 1,400-year history of Islam. Yet, precisely at this time of unprecedented material vulnerability, Islam has emerged as a civilizational force strong enough to challenge the imposition of Western, particularly American, homogenizing power on Muslim peoples. This is the central paradox of Islam today: at a time of such unprecedented weakness in one sense, how has the Islamic Awakening, a broad and diverse movement of contemporary Islamic renewal, emerged as such a resilient and powerful transnational force and what imp...

It's that time of year again.... Need help with citations? A statistic? Help with a paper or final exam?  The Library and Tutoring Learning Center will be here on Tuesday, December 15 from 5:00 pm - midnight to help you! We will also have free coffee, including free fair trade coffee samples from the Students for Sustainability, cookies, fruit, stress release give aways, and other surprises! This year we also have Athena the therapy dog! She will be here for part of exam cram with her owner, Prof. Terese Barta from Biology :-) TUE DEC 15 - Library Lobby & IMC (3rd flr) 5 - MIDNIGHT FREE COFFEE, COOKIES, FRUIT and more! Good luck with studying from all of us at the Learning Resource Center!

London Fog:  the Biography By Christine L. Corton Call Number:  QC 929 .F7 C57 2015 Review from The Guardian Publisher's Description : In popular imagination, London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs, the thick yellow “pea-soupers,” were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. The first globally notorious instance of air pollution, they remained a constant feature of cold, windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s brought about their demise. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs, their dangers and beauty, and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination. As the city grew, smoke from millions of domestic fires, combined with industrial emissions and naturally occurring mists, seeped into homes, shops, and public buildings in dark yellow clouds of water droplets, soot, and sulphur dioxide. The fogs were sometimes so thick that people could not see their own feet. By the time...