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Fairfax, Va. — Turning historical and social-science data into pictures could help scholars identify new patterns in old records, according to researchers who gathered at George Mason University this weekend for a conference on technology in the humanities.

At a session devoted to visualization — as making pictures out of data is called — participants discussed their favorite examples. Here are three they discussed.

By Jeff Young

Chronicles of Higher Education - The WIRED CAMPUS

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Long a standard reference source for scholarship, largely because of its tightly controlled editing, the Encyclopaedia Britannica announced this week it was throwing open its elegantly-bound covers to the masses. It will allow the “user community” (in the words of the encyclopedia’s blog) to contribute their own articles, which will be clearly marked and run alongside the edited reference pieces.

from: The Chronicles of Higher Education -  The WIRED CAMPUS

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Video/DVDs

Jihad: The Men and Ideas Behind Al Qaeda [America at a Crossroads]

Lone Star

Days of Heaven

Talk To Me

One Hour Photo

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum

Clash of the Titans

Pinjar

Middle Sexes Redefining He and She

Human Footprint

Rebel Without a Cause

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

Inside Pol Pot’s Secret Prison

Gold Rush 21 - The Complete Conference

Da Vinci and the Code He Lived By: The Unique Vision and Determination of the Renaissance Master

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Reference

The Information Sources of Political Science

Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music

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Religion/Psychology/Philosophy

Psychology of the Unconscious

The Three Faces of Mind: Developing Your Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Intelligences

The Shambhala Guide to Taoism

The Reformation: A History

The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World

The Reformation: A History

The Inner Teachings of Taoism

Mary Magdalene a Biography

The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

Unveiling Mary Magdalene

The Essential Confucius

Unveiling Islam: an insider’s look at Muslim life and beliefs

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Social Issues / Economics

One Day in September : the full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre and the Israeli revenge operation “Wrath of God”

Not for Sale The Return of the Global Slave Trade - and How We Can Fight It

Famous Firsts of Black Women

Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader

Intellectual Property

The New Slavery

New Slavery [Contemporary World Issues]

Historic Costumes and How to Make Them

The Worldwide History of Dress

Breaking New Ground : American Women, 1800-1848

American Economic History

Profiling and Criminal Justice in America

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Language / Literature / Research

Research Strategies: Finding Your Way through the Information Fog

Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages

Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies

America Street : a Multicultural Anthology of Stories

The Associated Press Guide to News Writing

Find the Errors

Modernism the Lure of Heresy

Introducing Modernism

Modernism the New Critical Idiom

Modernism and Modernization in Architecture

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Art / Sports / Music

Art since 1900 : Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci Artist, Inventory, and Renaissance Man

Creative Colored Pencil: The Step-By-Step Guide & Showcase

The Alhambra

Moorish Architecture in Andalusia

Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball

The Jackie Robinson Story

Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball

The Rest is Noise Listening to the Twentieth Century

36,000 Days of Japanese Music: The Culture of Japan Through a Look at Its Music

JapRockSampler How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock’N'Roll

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Education

Culturally Responsive Teaching Theory Research & Practice

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Science

Earth, the Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming

The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450

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History

The Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940

Cliffs AP European History

The Terror in the French Revolution

The Napoleonic Empire

A Vanished World Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain

Jews, God, and History

The Ancien Regime

The French Revolution Class War or Culture Clash

Man and Nature in the Renaissance

Behind Barbed Wires Among War Prisoners in Germany

A Concise History of Brazil

History of Brazil

Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

The American Dream: Fact or Fancy? 1776-1976

Recollections and Letters: Lee

The Outbreak of the First World War : 1914 in Perspective

The Holy Roman Empire, 1495-1806

The German Reformation

Life’s Picture History of World War II

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

A Basic History of the United States

Lee’s Last Campaign; the Story of Lee and His Men Against Grant—1864

The Life of Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I

The Aztecs

Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles

To the Scaffold : the Life of Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette: The Last Queen of France

The Private Realm of Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Hannibal’s War : a Military history of the Second Punic War

The New Concise History of the Crusades

The Reformation of the sixteenth century

Pakistan

China Contested Borders

Hannibal

Jerusalem 1913: the origins of the Arab-Israeli crisis

Great Catherine

Elizabeth I Red Rose of the House of Tudor

Eleanor Crown Jewel of Aquitaine

Modern Africa A Social and Political History

Mary, Queen of Scots Queen Without a Country France, 1553

Modern Japan A social and political history

1400s Headlines in History

Pandemics Epidemics in a Shrinking World

Yankee Doodle Gals Women Pilots of World War II

The Reformation

Anatomy of a Miracle (South Africa)

Apartheid in South Africa

Surviving Hitler A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps

Legacies of Modernism: Art and Politics in Northern Europe, 1890-1950

Livy Hannibal’s War Books

Nelson Mandela [People Who Have Helped the World]

I have an image scanner at my desk if anyone ever needs one. You can also borrow it but you will have to install the drivers to scan and import.

TECHNOLOGY

WordPress for Dummies

Google SketchUp for Dummies

Teach Yourself Visually PowerPoint 2007

Journal of Computing in Teacher Education

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SOCIAL ISSUES

Good to Great — Why Some Companies Make the Leap

Marcus Garvey Said: Up you Mighty Race! You Can Accomplish What You Will

The Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey Or, Africa for the Africans

Difficult Conversations : How to Discuss What Matters Most

Marcus Garvey : Plights & Exploits : a Biographical Compendium : Jamaica’s First National Hero Who Challenged White Supremacy and aroused Negro Self-respect

Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey

HISTORY

Jihad vs. McWorld

The Horizon Book of the Age of Napoleon

The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom

The French Revolutionary Wars 1787-1802

The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cell Phone Reflections on India The Emerging 21st-Century Power

Cuba The Morning After Confronting Castro’s Legacy

The Enlightenment [Studies in European History]

The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism

PHILOSOPHY/RELIGION

A History of philosophy

How The Quakers Invented America

American Quakers

VIDEOS / DVDs

Iron Jawed Angels Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way

Prince Among Slaves The Amazing True Story of Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori, an African Prince Enslaved in the American South

Art : 21 Art in the Twenty-First Century (Seasons 1-4)

Time of Fear (Japanese American Internment)

Little Big Man (Dustin Hoffman - 1970)

Dog Day Afternoon (Al Pacino - 19xx)

Salaam Bombay

Mississippi Masala

Lost in Translation

Vietnam: A Television History American Experience, PBS

The Art of Romare Bearden

Pan’s Labyrinth

Skokie: Right or Wrong

My Beautiful Laundrette

The Last King of Scotland (Forest Whitaker)

Fidel Castro [American Experience]

Bhaji on the Beach

Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me

C.S.A. - The Confederate States of America

ARTS / ENGLISH / LITERATURE

Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need

Naming the World and Other Exercises for the Creative Writer

The August Wilson Century Cycle

Style Guide The Bestselling Guide to English Usage

McGraw-Hill’s Proofreading Handbook

The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage

School Newspaper Adviser’s Survival Guide

The Associated Press Guide to News Writing

Create Your Own Class Newspaper A Complete Guide for Planning, Writing, and Publishing a Newspaper

Kids in Print Publishing a School Newspaper

SCIENCE

Awakenings

Medicine before Science the Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Medieval & early Renaissance Medicine : an Introduction to Knowledge and Practice

Fads & Fallacies In the Name of Science

EDUCATION

Student Learning Assessment Options and Resources

Digital Game-Based Learning : Practical Ideas for the Application of Digital Game-Based Learning

Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 40 Number 3 - Spring 2008

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The Power of Protocols : an Educator’s Guide to Better Practice

Powerful Conversations How High Impact Leaders Communicate

ONLINE RESOURCES

Pub Med Central

Poetry.Org

I have wasted a lot of paper printing out web pages simply because I needed to highlight the information I was reading. Well now I don’t have to waste all that paper!

Awesome Highlighter is here.

With this tool you type in the url of the page you wish to highlight. Your page will open inside the program. When you are done Awesome Highlighter will give you a unique url to the page you have just highlighted. Bookmark the new page so you can get back to it anytime you wish.

As I mentioned in two previous posts, thanks to a generous parent donation we are setting up a fiction collection in the Middle School (Emily Cherkin’s room). This collection will include fiction classics along with current award-winning fiction.

According to a recent study (To Read or Not to Read) funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, there is no question anymore that we are seeing a decline in reading proficiency among teens. Although the report is quick to point out there is no causal relationship between voluntary reading and overall reading skill, however there is a very strong association between voluntary reading and advanced reading skill. With that in mind we are happy to report that our middle school teens are devouring the new collection. Way to go readers!

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The next batch of books coming the collection include the following titles:

The Alchemist

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Amazing Grace

Anansi Boys

Annie John

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

The Big Shuffle

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Brave New World

The Brief History of the Dead

The Bronx Masquerade

Catalyst

Catch-22

Copper Sun

Corelli’s Mandolin

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Dairy Queen

The Devil in the White City

The Distance From Normandy

Dune

The Eight

Feed

How I Live Now

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Twisted

NEW! 

Note the addition of two resource categories:

  1. Internet Resources
  2. United Streaming Videos   

Email Vicki Butler or Kathy Johnson for instructions on how to register for United Streaming.

Video/DVDs

Who Was Kafka? A Film by Richard Dindo

e.e. cummings The Master Poets Collection

The Metamorphosis a Study: Nabokov on Kafka

Ernest Hemingway Rivers to the Sea [American Masters]

 

Paris Was a Woman (Stein)

T.S. Eliot Voices & Visions

Bronka The Holocaust

Welding: Binding Ancient Technology to Modern Life

On Our Watch The World said “Never Again!” Then Came Darfur

 

Primary Colors (John Travolta)

Top Gun

 

Literature/Fiction

How to Write (Stein)

Don Juan (Byron)

The collected poems of William Carlos Williams

Two Lives Gertrude and Alice

 

Paris France (Stein)

Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

Hemingway A Life Without Consequences

Collected Poems, 1951-1971 (Ammons)

The Embodiment of Knowledge (Williams)

The Poems of Wilfred Owen

 

The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World

The Waste Land and Other Writings

Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (Eliot)

T.S. Eliot An Imperfect Life

 

The Complete Poems and Plays 1909-1950 (Eliot)

A Reader’s Guide to T.S. Eliot : a Poem-By-Poem Analysis

Men Without Women (Hemingway)

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Franz Kafka, a Biography

 

On the Road (Kerouac)

Ten Buttons (Stein)

The Dharma Bums (Kerouac)

A Trilogy : Three One-Act Plays (Keltz)

Trilogy (HD)

 

Modern Japanese Literature, an Anthology

May I Feel Said He: Poem (Cummings)

Famous Authors: James Joyce: 1882-1941

Japan: A Literary Overview

Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway)

 

The Trial (Kafka)

Wilfred Owen : a New Biography

Hemingway, a Biography

Kafka The Decisive Years

E. E. Cummings Selected Poems

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

Ernest Hemingway Wrestling with Life

 

Easter 1916 and Other Poems (Yeats)

James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

War Poets [Literary Classics]

Notes on Thought and Vision (HD)

100 Selected Poems (Cummings)

World War One British poets : Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, and others

End to Torment : a Memoir of Ezra Pound (HD)

 

 

Everybody Who was Anybody: a Biography of Gertrude Stein

Metamorphosis w/ Critical Essays & Explanations (Kafka)

Everybody Who was Anybody : a Biography of Gertrude Stein

The Cambridge Companion to T.S. Eliot

William Carlos Williams Selected Essays

HERmione (HD)

e.e. cummings a poet’s life

The Complete Stories (Kafka)

The Diaries, 1910-1923 (Kafka)

The Metamorphosis: Translation, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism

 

Modernism A New Critical Idiom

Modernisms : a Literary Guide

Modernism A Guide to European Literature 1890-1930

 

Reference

Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court VII 2000-2005

Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court I<!–[endif]–>

 

History

The Japanese Mind Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture

Chanoyu : Japanese Tea Ceremony

Cha-no-yu : The Japanese Tea Ceremony

The Tea Ceremony

Understanding China : a guide to China’s economy, history, and political structure

 

Queens of England

Japanese Internment

Jinnah of Pakistan

From Jinnah to Jihad Pakistan’s Kashmir Quest and the Limits of Realism

Looking Like the Enemy (Japanese Internment)

Nelson Mandela : the struggle is my life : his speeches and writings brought together with historical documents and accounts of Mandela in prison by fellow-prisoners.

 

Social Issues

The Thorn in the Chrysanthemum : Suicide and Economic success in modern Japan

Law in Everyday Japan

Playing It Safe : How the Supreme Court Sidesteps Hard Cases and Stunts the Development of Law

Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries, Oral Arguments & Multimedia (now includes recordings)

 

Voices Behind the Veil The World of Islam Through the Eyes of Women

Death Penalty Cases : Leading U.S. Supreme Court Cases on Capital Punishment

Free Speech On Trial Communication Perspectives on Landmark Supreme Court Decisions

May It Please the Court Transcripts and audio cassette recordings of 23 live Landmark Cases

 

Biology

Mind of the Raven

 

Technology/Software

Head First Software Development

Head First SQL

Head First C#

Head First JavaScript

 

Photography/Art

Anna Gaskil

William Eggleston’s Guide

Twilight Photographs by Gregory Crewdson

American Prospects: Photographs

Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Mitch Epstein WORK

Making Sense of Modern Art

 

Streaming Video from United Streaming

William Wordsworth: 1770-1850 Famous Authors

Emily Dickinson, Poet: 1830-1886 Famous Authors

Franz Kafka: Novelist Famous Authors

Walt Whitman: 1819-1892 Famous Authors

William Blake: 1757-1827 Famous Authors

Great Books: Kafka’s Metamorphosis

Famous Authors: Ernest Hemingway: 1899-1961

Ernest Hemingway: Rivers to the Sea American Masters

 

Online Resources

LII : Legal Information Institute Database of Supreme Court Decisions (Cornell Law University)

Densho Website (documents Japanese Internment WW II)

Write a Novel in Six Words

Either our attention spans have atrophied terribly or writers have become extraordinarily efficient. This article from the Houston Chronicle, February 9, 2008 describes their challenge to readers inspired by the very same challenge given to Ernest Hemingway: write a novel in six words. He did.

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

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Here are a few more examples from the Chronicle:

Found true love, married someone else.Bjorn Stromberg

Fifteen years since last professional haircut. Dave Eggers

One tooth, one cavity, life’s cruel.John Bettencourt

Feel free to add your novel in the comment section below.

Videos/DVDs

The Belle of Amherst (Emily Dickinson)

Pioneers of the Spirit - William Blake

Walt Whitman and the Civil War

William Blake A Concise Biography [Famous Authors Series]

Walt Whitman A Concise Biography [Famous Authors Series]

Beat Angel: A Film about the Spirit of Jack Kerouac

Egypt’s Golden Empire

 

Into the West [TV series]

Faith without Fear [America at a Crossroads]

William Wordsworth A Concise Biography [Famous Authors Series]

Instant-Mix Imperial Democracy and Come September Two Talks by Arundhati Roy with Howard Zinn

Enron The Smartest Guys in the Room

The Crucible

 

Reference

Design: The Key Concepts

Fifty Key Thinkers in International Relations

Economics The Key Concepts

Sociology The Key Concepts

Landmark decisions of the United States Supreme Court

 

Religion/Philosophy

Great Minds

Locke Oxford

 

Social Issues / Government / Economics

Political Science Quarterly: The Journal of Public and International Affairs

Das Kapital A Critique of Political Economy

Mary Wollstonecraft Mother of Women’s Rights

Machiavelli Founders of Modern Social and Political Thought

 

History

Collapse and Recovery of the Roman Empire

Darfur The Ambiguous Genocide

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

From Empire to Republic Turkish Nationalism & The Armenian Genocide

The Root causes of Sudan’s civil wars

The Lemon Tree An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East

A Short History of Asia Stone Age to 2000 AD

Kamikaze Japan’s Suicide Gods

 

Literature & Language

Reading and Writing Chinese Traditional Character Edition

A Blake Dictionary : The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake

The World of Emily Dickinson

The Portable Blake.

The Emily Dickinson Handbook

The life of Emily Dickinson

The Friendship Wordsworth & Coleridge

 

William Wordsworth The British Library Writers’ Lives

Cambridge Companion to William Blake

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Collected Poems of Robert Service

The Passion of Emily Dickinson

William Wordsworth The Major Works

Beat Down to Your Soul : What was the Beat Generation?

The Cambridge Companion to Byron

George Gordon, Lord Byron

Unruly Times Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time

Walt Whitman Selected Poems American Poets Project

The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake

William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism

The Prelude A Casebook

 

Biography

Jack Kerouac’s American Journey

Wordsworth a Life

The Stranger from Paradise : a Biography of William Blake

 

Science / Technology / Health

The Elements

Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks

 

Audio / Music

Dance Mania (Tito Puente)

 

Education

Reading Research Quarterly (serial) A Journal of the International Reading Association

 

Online Resources

Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

Lyrical Ballads 1798

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Selections from Five English Poets Burns, Coleridge, Dryden, Goldsmith, Gray

Drum Taps

Leaves of Grass

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

A Noiseless Patient Spider

Poems by Walt Whitman

Song of Myself Selections

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations

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