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Resources on Women's History Check out the Library's many biographies, herstories, videos, and other great works by women in celebration of Women's History Month.  "Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business"  This year's theme is women in labor and business and how they fought to make the workplace a less hostile environment. The National Women's History Project includes this year's honorees  and how they expanded women’s participation in commerce and their power in the paid labor force. Take some of these Women's History Quizzes!   Upcoming Events  Theresa Kaminski presents, "Angels of the Underground" Thursday, March 30th  5:00 p.m. ALB/LRC 104 Reference Studio  Description: Angels of the Underground tells the true story of four American women who risked their lives during World War II to oppose the Japanese occupation of the Philippine Islands. These women smuggled food and medicine to U....

Description: Curious about 3D printing and scanning?  Explore the equipment and software surrounding this new technology and turn your ideas into reality.  Intended Audience:  Campus wide (Approved for SBE event credit for students) Date & Time:   Wednesday, March 8, 2017 at noon-1:00 p.m. Location:  ALB 107 (Library) Presenter:  Matt Sonnenberg The workshop is free, but we would like you to  register here . Hope to see you there!  

Earning the Rockies:  How Geography Shapes America's Role in the World By Robert D. Kaplan Call Number:   E 161.3 .K37 2017 Review from the New York Times Publisher's Description :  An incisive portrait of the American landscape that shows how geography continues to determine America’s role in the world—from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography  and Balkan Ghosts As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father tell evocative stories about traveling across America in his youth, travels in which he learned to understand the country literally from the ground up. There was a specific phrase from Kaplan’s childhood that captured this perspective: A westward traveler must “earn the Rockies” by driving—not flying—across the flat Midwest and Great Plains. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation of American geography often lost in the jet age. Traveling west, in the same dir...

The  Praxis ®   tests are ta ken by individuals entering the teaching profession as part of the certification process required by many states and professional licensing organizations. The Library has a number of Praxis titles in the Reserve area of the Library, including: PRAXIS II English Subject Assessments PRAXIS Core for Dummies Praxis  II, mathematics: content knowledge (5161) exam secrets, study guide : your key to exam success Check out this collection! 

An Iron Wind:  Europe Under Hitler By Peter Fritzsche Call Number:   D 802 .A2 F77 2016 Review from the New York Times Book Review Publisher's Information :   An award-winning historian presents a cultural history of German-occupied Europe during World War II, as told through the writings of civilians who experienced the horrors of war firsthand. World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children made up the vast majority of those killed by the war, and the conflict displaced millions more. On Europe's home fronts, the war brought the German blitzkrieg, followed by long occupations and the racial genocide of the Holocaust. In  An Iron Wind , historian Peter Fritzsche draws on diaries, letters, and other first-person accounts to show how civilians in occupied Europe struggled to understand this terrifying chaos. As the Third Reich targeted Europe's Jews for deportation and death, ...