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EBSCO: GreenFILE
Comprised of scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports, GreenFILE offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the ecology. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE will serve as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. GreenFILE’s initial release will include A&I for more than 600 titles, including comprehensive coverage – from to volume 1, issue 1 to present – for Bioscience (back to 1964), Conservation Biology (back to 1987), Journal of Ecology (back to 1913) and Journal of Environmental Planning & Management (back to 1948). The total number of records is approximately 295,000, and full text is provided for more than 4,600 records from open access titles.
International Education Week, November 17-21
Learn about education abroad. Access Web sites or scroll down to COM
Only Resources like eBooks and related print books in COM Library.
Notes: examples from other institutions--teacher exchange, like Oaxaca program,
interaction between foreign & domestic college classes, etc.
China road : a journey into the future of a rising power
DS712 .G53 2007
Czech & Slovak Republics
DB2010 .C974 2006
Dorling Kindersley traveler's atlas
G1021 .D629 2005 Atlas Stand
Foreign babes in Beijing : Behind the scenes of a new China
DS779.23 .D48 2005
France
DC20 .F715 2007
Great Britain
DA650 .G67715 2006
IIEPassport, academic year abroad : the most complete guide to planning academic year study abroad
LB2376 .U46 Ref
IIEpassport, short-term study abroad : the most complete guide to summer and short-term study abroad
LB2375 .S56 Ref
Ireland
DA980 .I52 2006
Istanbul : memories and the city
DR723 .P36
Italy : the best travel writing from the New York times
DG430.2 .I845 2005
Lost worlds : adventures in the tropical rainforest
QL695.5 .B44 2008
Mexico
F1209 .M48643 2006
The motorcycle diaries : notes on a Latin American journey
F2224 .G7813 2003
The new traveler's atlas : a global guide to the places you must see in
a lifetime
G153.4 .N49 2007 Atlas Stand
Poland
DK4037 .P62 2007
Summer jobs abroad
HD 6270 D5
Temptations of the West : how to be modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and beyond
DS337 .M58 2006
Writers & Musicians Abroad
Americans in Paris : a literary anthology
PS509.P28 A47 2004
Expatriates and patriots : American artists, scholars, and writers in Europe
E 184.2 E15
The jazz exiles : American musicians abroad
ML 3506 M66 1993
The innocents abroad : or, The new pilgrims' progress: being some account
of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy
Land
PS 1312 A1 1911
Traveling with the innocents abroad : Mark Twain's original reports from
Europe and the Holy Land
PS 1331 T7 1958
November is Native American Heritage Month
Learn about Native American culture. Access Web sites or scroll
down to COM Only Resources like related eBooks and print
books in COM Library.
Thanks to the Western History/Genealogy Department, Denver
Public Library for the use of their image of White Face and family, Dakota.
Veterans Day, November 11
Enacted by Congress on June 4, 1926: "WHEREAS the 11th of November
1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching
war in human annals..." See more on The
Origins of Veterans Day. Access Web
sites, eBooks and books for
this special focus; access general Veterans Day Web sites;
or general COM Only Resources like related eBooks and print
books in COM Library.
Charlie Company: What Vietnam Did to Us
DS 558 G64 1983
Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces: Photographed
by 125 of the World's Leading Photojournalists on a Single Day, October
22, 2002
UA 23.D39 2003
Facts About the American War
E 181 F28 1997 Ref
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
D 767 M18
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic
Mission
D 767.4 S54 2001
The Greatest Generation
D 811 A2 B746 1998
The Greatest Generation Speaks
D 811 A2 B747 1999
Guadalcanal Diary
D 767.98 T7 1955
Hellfighters of Harlem: African-American Soldiers Who Fought for the
Right to Fight for Their Country
D 639 N4 h35 2002
In the company of soldiers : a chronicle of combat
DS 79.764.U6 A85 2004
The Last Medal of Honor
U 53 B39 B55 1990
Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There
DS 559.5 B34
They were Expendable
D 811 W45
Testament : a soldier's story of the Civil War
E 505.5 25th B63 2003
Voices of the Buffalo Soldier : records, reports, and recollections of
military life and service in the West
E 185.925 .V65 2003
Voices of war : stories of service from the home front and the front lines
U52 .V55 2004
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