Monday, November 9, 2009

New Books - November 2009

The EJA Library has newly purchased books and videos that may help you learn more about your paper topic!

If you're researching the increasing problem with obesity in the United States, check out our new book Suicide by Sugar. Author Nancy Appleton has written several books on health, including Lick the Sugar Habit.

For those who might want to better understand issues that impact people living close tot he Mexican border read Lynn Stephen's Transborder Lives.

Writing about how popular culture represents minorities who were part of the greatest generation borrow our copy of Spike Lee's film adaptation of the James McBride novel Miracle at St. Anna,

To search all new titles purchased by Palomar College, click this link.

Thursday, November 5, 2009




New Database: Credo Reference

The Library has obtained a subscription to Credo Reference. This is a full-text online reference collection that includes over three million current entries from hundreds of dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases. It covers a wide range of subjects in all disciplines, and even contains a measurement conversion tool. Click here for a complete title list.

Credo may be accessed by clicking the above hyperlink or from the Library’s database web page where you can find more information about this and all our other databases at (Palomar college e-services or network login required off-campus).