The Sixties: An Alexander Street Press flashback
We’ve had this one for a few months now, but somehow we missed it, man. “The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974 brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents…” well you get the drift. Check it out here.
MIT CogNet:501 eBooks added to the Catalogue
Finding MIT CogNet titles just got easier. Over five hundred (hey, 501 is greater than 500) records for CogNet ebook titles have been added to the UBC Library Catalogue. Take a look at this list of titles.
Nature Archive: Issues back to 1869
“Every boy should be furnished with a small deal board, a lens, and a sharp knife.” –Science-Teaching in Schools, Nature, 1869 You can now peruse every issue of Nature from 1869 to the present. Read what was being written about Darwin. Read what Darwin wrote about “Rats and Water-Casks.”
IPA Source: Opera Online
“Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts.” “Ha, stolzer ozean!” Who said that? Find out at IPA Source. (…psst, I think he was Dutch)
Sabin Americana: Publications about the Americas
Based on Joseph Sabin’s landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900’s. Read more at our Sabin Americana info page. Then go in and have a look at “British Columbia and Vancouver’s island : a complete handbook” – 1858.
British Columbia Historical Federation Publications: Now Online!
British Columbia Historical Federation Publications are now available ONLINE HERE. Titles included are: British Columbia Historical Association – Report and Proceedings: 1923 – 1929 British Columbia historical news: 1968 – 2004 British Columbia historical quarterly: 1937 – 1958 British Columbia History: 2005 – 2007