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The library is now subscribing to a new full text database,  ArtSource from Ebsco.  This is an expansion of our former subscription to Ebsco's Art Full Text.  It includes the full text articles from over 700 journals and more than 200 online books.  It also offers podcasts about artists and more than 60,000 searchable images.  It is international in scope and covers a wide range of topics including:     Archaeology     Architecture and Architectural History     Art History     Contemporary Art     Textiles and Costume Design     Decorative and Folk Arts     Graphic Arts     Industrial Design     Interior Design     Landscape Architecture     Motion Pictures, Video and Television     Painting    ...

Somethingtofoodabout By Questlove and Ben Greenman Call number:  TX 649 .A1 S66 2016 Review from the New York Times Publisher's description :  Questlove is a drummer, producer, musical director, culinary entrepreneur, and  New York Times  best-selling author. What unites all of his work is a profound interest in creativity. In somethingtofoodabout , Questlove applies his boundless curiosity to the world of food. In conversations with ten innovative chefs in America, he explores what makes their creativity tick, how they see the world through their cooking and how their cooking teaches them to see the world. The conversations begin with food but they end wherever food takes them. Food is fuel. Food is culture. Food is history. And food is food for thought. Featuring conversations with: Nathan Myhrvold, Modernist Cuisine Lab, Seattle;  Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park, and NoMad, NYC;  Michael Solomonov, Zahav, Philadelphia;...

Lab Girl By Hope Jahren Call Number:  QH 31 .J344 A3 2016 Review from the New York Times Book Review Publisher's Description :  An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world.   Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the inevitabl...