"Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World provides information about major world developments from 1750 to the present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics. The encyclopedia contains articles on world events; countries; organizations; regions; ethnic groups; and themes such as social history, demography, family life, politics, economics, religion, thought, education, science and technology, and culture. ." -- from Oxford website

Ebooks, Oxford encyclopedia cataloged

The Academic Library in the American University by Stephen E. Atkins, first published in 1991 byt the ALA, presents a critical examination of the emergence and evolution of the academic library as a special purpose institution supporting higher education. This free electronic edition, part of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections, offers scanned page images, as well as OCR text, and is full-text searchable.


The Dynamic Terrorist Threat:
An Assessment of Group Motivations
and Capabilities in a Changing World is a 2004 report that the RAND Corporation was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to produce. It assesses terrorist threats, and analyzes past terrorist attackes on the United States and other nations.









The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, edited by Bonnie G. Smith, captures the experiences of women throughout history in a far-reaching, four-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no other text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. Boasts over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles covering topics such as geography and history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies.














-- from encyclopedia home page

PBS videos available online

NC Live has made over 200 PBS television broadcasts available to member libraries as streaming Flash videos. You can browse the list at http://0-media.nclive.org.uncclc.coast.uncwil.edu/video_home.phtml , with the ability to sort by subject, series, or captioned videos. Alternatively, you can view in our catalog and access from off-campus by searching author: NC Live digital media collection .

Korean Film Council e-books

In addition to several print titles from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) that were recently ordered, 3 PDF titles from KOFIC were added to the catalog. These 3 books are part of the publisher's Korean Film Direcotrs series, and each covers the life and career of a prominent Korean director. They are:

Ryoo Seung-wan : the action kid (also spelled Yu Sŭng-wan)

Bong Joon-ho : mapping reality within the maze of genre (also spelled Pong Chun-ho)






Park Chan-wook : savior of violence (also spelled Pak Ch'an-uk)





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