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New Books This Week

New Books

Here’s what’s new for the week of June 9:

The panther
Private : Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, London, Chicago, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Rome
Daddy’s gone a hunting
Champion : a Legend novel
The bone season
A storm of swords
Bones are forever : a novel
Doing hard time
Star trek memories
“I will fight no more forever” : Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War
The Hindenburg
On the road
English-Spanish, Spanish-English medical dictionary = Diccionario médico, inglés-español, español-inglés
A game of thrones
Shadow planet
ProQuest statistical abstract of the United States : 2014
A clash of kings
Complementary & alternative therapies in nursing
Paul Strand; a retrospective monograph, the years 1915-1968
A cultural history of women
PDR nurse’s drug handbook
Current medical diagnosis & treatment 2014
Taber’s cyclopedic medical dictionary
CRC desk reference on sports nutrition
The Vietnam reader : the definitive collection of American fiction and nonfiction on the war
A rumor of war : with a twentieth anniversary postscript by the author
The joke’s over : bruised memories : Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and me
Nerd do well : a small boy’s journey to becoming a big kid
Coraline
Legend
Prodigy : a Legend novel
Saga
Nutrition : concepts & controversies
Generation of swine : tales of shame and degradation in the ’80s
The Sandman
The partly cloudy patriot
How to be alone : essays
The bright continent : breaking rules and making change in modern Africa
Just a geek : unflinchingly honest tales of the search for life, love, and fulfillment beyond the Starship Enterprise
Flagship of a fleet : a Korea Gallery guide
A cook’s tour : global adventures in extreme cuisines
Choose your foods : exchange lists for weight management
The SAGE handbook of educational action research
Chicago : city on the make
An introduction to community health
Love is a mix tape : life and loss, one song at a time

How to Access Mental Measurements Yearbook

Alerts, Resources

Mental Measurements Yearbook is a database of information on evaluations and tests in business, education, leadership, and psychology. To access the database, click here.

Access to Mental Measurements Yearbook is limited to 4 users at a time. If you are unable to access the database, you may need to wait and try again later. Out of respect for others, please be sure exit the database when you are finished.

If you are on-campus you should be automatically connected. If you are off-campus you will need to enter your Adams State username and password. Please see our off-campus login page or call the reference desk at 719-587-7879 if you are having difficulty.

Mental Measurements Yearbook, along with the rest of the library’s databases, can also be accessed by clicking the Articles and Databases link on the Nielsen Library website. Here you can find our most popular databases, recommended databases by subject, and an alphabetical listing of all our databases.

New Books This Week

New Books

Sorry for the delay…Here’s what’s new for the week of June 2:

The 5 love languages : the secret to love that lasts
The drunken botanist : the plants that create the world’s great drinks
Mountains beyond mountains
The myths of happiness : what should make you happy but doesn’t, what shouldn’t make you happy but does
The sorrow of war : a novel of North Vietnam
So long, and thanks for all the fish
Speaker for the dead
Shatner rules : your guide to understanding the Shatnerverse and the world at large
The secret world of red wolves : the fight to save North America’s other wolf
The triple package : how three unlikely traits explain the rise and fall of cultural groups in America
The future of the mind : the scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind
John Muir and the ice that started a fire : how a visionary and the glaciers of Alaska changed America
Missing microbes : how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues
Six amendments : how and why we should change the Constitution
Redeemer : the life of Jimmy Carter
A fighting chance
Man in the moon : essays on fathers and fatherhood
Cannabis : evolution and ethnobotany
Touching the wild : living with the mule deer of Deadman Gulch
The Low Countries : arts and society in Flanders and the Netherlands
Painting the landscape with fire : longleaf pines and fire ecology
Social psychology and theories of consumer culture : a political economy perspective
Ecology of climate change : the importance of biotic interactions
Corporations and citizenship
Tool use in animals : cognition and ecology
The U.S. War with Mexico : a brief history with documents
The cultural cold war : the CIA and the world of arts and letters
Positive neuropsychology : evidence-based perspectives on promoting cognitive health
Crucible of struggle : a history of Mexican Americans from colonial times to the present era
Domestic intimacies : incest and the liberal subject in nineteenth-century America
Mathematical modeling in systems biology : an introduction
Davis’s comprehensive handbook of laboratory & diagnostic tests with nursing implications
Sparks and Taylor’s nursing diagnosis reference manual
Encyclopedia of nursing research
Dispatches
The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990
Egg : a culinary exploration of the world’s most versatile ingredient
How Jesus became God : the exaltation of a Jewish preacher from Galilee
Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012
Texcoco : prehispanic and colonial perspectives

For a Limited Time – Stream PBS Documentaries!

Resources

Want to watch one of Ken Burns’ productions on the West?  Or see Season one of the PBS series Craft in America?  The PBS Video Collection brings over 200 documentaries directly to your computer.  Browse by discipline, series, title, or look up producers.  These videos are available for streaming right now for all Adams State University faculty, staff and students.  This trial will last until June 21, 2014.  If you wish to make this a permanent offering of the library, let us know!

New Books This Week

New Books

Here’s what’s new for the week of May 19:

The illustrated history of early man
Pioneers of the Territory of Southern Colorado
Education in school and nonschool settings
A philosophy of music education : advancing the vision
The Great War : July 1, 1916 : the first day of the Battle of the Somme : an illustrated panorama
Where there is no dentist
Where there is no doctor : a village health care handbook
The Oxford handbook of qualitative research in American music education
Musical creativity : insights from music education research
Principles of sedimentology and stratigraphy

New Books This Week

New Books

Here’s what’s new for the week of May 5:

Speak
The fault in our stars
Divergent
Insurgent
The death cure
Allegiant
The maze runner
Life of Pi : a novel
Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
Night
Reign of error : the hoax of the privatization movement and the danger to America’s public schools
Pinch pottery : functional, modern handbuilding
Revisiting gender
Contemporary music education
The revenge of the past : nationalism, revolution, and the collapse of the Soviet Union
Arguing for our lives : a user’s guide to constructive dialog
The invention of tradition
Reinventing race, reinventing racism
A prairie home companion pretty good joke book
Lens on outdoor learning
The Scorch trials
Looking for Alaska
The great American Dust Bowl
A call to action : women, religion, violence, and power
Cultivating outdoor classrooms : designing and implementing child-centered learning environments
The bishop’s utopia : envisioning improvement in colonial Peru
A cultural psychology of music education
Teaching music in American society : a social and cultural understanding of teaching music
A history of American music education
Afro-vegan : farm-fresh African, Caribbean & Southern flavors remixed
Music with the brain in mind
Leadership strategies for women : lessons from four queens on leadership and career development
Histories of victimhood
Science : a discovery in comics
Assessing conditions to enhance educational effectiveness : the inventory for student engagement and success

Finals Week at the Nielsen Library

Events

The Nielsen Library is the place to be during finals week!

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Whether you’re cramming for exams or need to relax here’s what’s going on:

Extended Hours
We’ll be open 8am-2am Monday-Thursday

Free Coffee, Tea, & Hot Chocolate
At the Reference Desk 5pm-2am Monday-Thursday

Quiet Zones
1st floor = Collaborative Zone, 2nd floor = Quiet Zone, 3rd floor = Silent Zone
Create your own Silent Zone with earplugs

Paws and Relax with Therapy Dogs
Monday 2pm-3pm, Tuesday 6pm-7pm

De-stress
Coloring pages and crayons near the Circulation Desk
Bubbles on tables throughout the library
Hobbit puzzle near the coffee cart