South College Library provides students, faculty, and staff access to over 100,000 eBooks? Find eBooks related to your academic studies, personal interests, and self-improvement. Do you enjoy reading fiction books? The library’s collection includes novels, collections of short stories, and poetry too. Look for our monthly eBook displays, spotlighting a sampling of our collection, on a campus tv screen near you!
From the Mouth of Dogs by B.J. Hollars
What is it that dogs have done to earn the title of “man's best friend”? Why do we love them? What can we learn from them? And why is it so difficult to say good-bye? Join B.J. Hollars as he attempts to find out.
Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music by Gerald Horne
A galvanizing history of how jazz and jazz musicians flourished despite rampant cultural exploitation. The music we call “jazz” arose in late nineteenth century North America—most likely in New Orleans—based on the musical traditions of Africans, newly freed from slavery. Grounded in the music known as the “blues,” which expressed the pain, sufferings, and hopes of Black folk then pulverized by Jim Crow, this new music entered the world via the instruments that had been abandoned by departing military bands after the Civil War. Jazz and Justice examines the economic, social, and political forces that shaped this music into a phenomenal US.
The Decarbonization Imperative by Michael Lennox and Rebecca Duff
Responding to the existential threat of climate change, Michael Lenox and Rebecca Duff propose a radical reconfiguration of the industries contributing the most, and most harmfully, to this planetary crisis. The authors analyze precisely what this might look like for specific sectors of the world economy—ranging from agriculture to industrials and building, energy, and transportation—and examine the possible challenges and obstacles to introducing a paradigm shift in each one.
Fermented Foods: Nutrition and Role in Health and Disease by Oliver Kovalyov
Fermented Foods: Nutrition and Role in Health and Disease provides a comprehensive review of the recently discovered, or bioengineered, vitamin B2, B9 and B12-producing lactic acid bacteria, providing an in-depth analysis of the latest biotechnological applications and potentialities, particularly the development of novel bioenriched fermented foods. The authors elucidate the impact of lactic acid fermentation on sulforaphane rich products in an effort to improve our understanding on the role of sulforaphane as a potential medicine in the treatment of various disorders.
The Pain Epidemic by Don Goldenberg
Internationally-recognized pain expert Don Goldenberg helps readers better understand the intricacies of chronic pain through the lens of personal stories, including his own. One out of three Americans lives with chronic pain. Pain is the number one reason we seek medical care and accounts for 40% of doctor visits. Chronic pain is the most common cause of work loss world-wide. The yearly cost of chronic pain in the United States is between $560-$630 billion, higher than that of heart disease, diabetes and cancer combined. Despite this, physicians and the public are woefully ill-informed about chronic pain. The litany of self-help books available to the public are largely misleading, quick-fix, junk-science. Although there is a major push to better inform primary health-care providers on chronic pain, they have been provided no authoritative treatment of the subject. The Pain Epidemic provides the latest medical information and pathways to better understanding and treatment of chronic pain.
Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power by David Dayen
Over the last forty years our choices have narrowed, our opportunities have shrunk, and our lives have become governed by a handful of very large and very powerful corporations. Today, practically everything we buy, everywhere we shop, and every service we secure comes from a heavily concentrated market. This is a world where four major banks control most of our money, four airlines shuttle most of us around the country, and four major cell phone providers connect most of our communications. If you are sick you can go to one of three main pharmacies to fill your prescription, and if you end up in a hospital almost every accessory to heal you comes from one of a handful of large medical suppliers. Dayen, the editor of the American Prospect and author of the acclaimed Chain of Title, provides a riveting account of what it means to live in this new age of monopoly and how we might resist this corporate hegemony.
Did you know the Parkside campus has a skeleton on reserve? The skeleton initially lived at the Lonas campus but made its way over to Parkside where it will have its eternal rest. Jokes aside, the skeleton moved campuses because a work study student, who worked at both locations, thought the skeleton would be better suited for Parkside, as the physical therapy programs are there. Around 2019, the PTA and pre-nursing courses moved from Lonas to Parkside, which is why the skeleton also made the move.
For more history behind the skeleton, there are actually two, and they belonged to Gary Cooper, who is currently the co-Department Chair for Health Science. He kept them in the library for several years for student use and study, but they could only be used in the library. Once the skeleton made its way over to Parkside, it was cataloged and put on reserve for students to use in the library. The other skeleton, the one not on reserve in the library, made its way back to a lab classroom at Lonas as Cooper thought it might get more use in the lab.
Check out the skeleton if you are studying human anatomy! The skeleton contains 23 plastic human bone facsimiles, including a skull with removable teeth, a complete left foot, a true and false rib, and much more. The skeleton is not all connected, rather it has six parts and while they might not feel like real bone, they are very detailed and closely resemble the real thing.
The skeleton might be in pieces, but I think it still looks pretty happy. Currently, the skeleton does not have a name, so look out for a future opportunity to name it!