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Compiled by Joyce Miller, Professor of Library Science
Adirondack Community College Library
(518) 743-2260
Below are suggestions for further reading about the lecture series’ topics. All of these books are in the ACC Library in the Circulating Collection, on the ACC Library’s second floor. Selected Web sites also are listed.
Area residents may obtain a community borrower card by showing a photo ID at the circulation desk. Books may be borrowed for four weeks. Ask a librarian for guidance at any time during your library visit.
This handout also available online through ACC Library’s Web page:
http://Iibrary.sunyacc.edu > Research Guides & Tutorials link > Senior Lecture Series.
Tuesday, April 22
OJ? OK: A look at the OJ Simpson Trial
Presenter: Annina Carter, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Lee, Henry C. Cracking cases: the science of solving crimes
Circulating Collection HV 8073 .L44 2002 (includes chapter on O.J. Simpson case)
Evans, Colin. A question of evidence: the casebook of great forensic controversies, from Napoleon to O.J.
Circulating Collection HV 8073 .E926 2003
Fletcher, Connie. Every contact leaves a trace: crime scene experts talk about their work from discovery through verdict
Circulating Collection HV 8073 .F54 2006
Ramsland, Katherine M. The C.S.I. effect
Circulating Collection HV 8073 .C75 2006
Timmermans, Stefan. Postmortem: how medical examiners explain suspicious deaths
Circulating Collection HV 8073 .T56 2006
Lee, Henry C. Blood evidence: how DNA is revolutionizing the way we solve crimes
Circulating Collection RA 1057.55 .L44 2003
Lee, Henry C. Dr. Henry Lee’s forensic files: five famous cases--Scott Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, and more
Circulating Collection HV 8073 .L369 2006
PBS Frontline: The O.J. Verdict http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/oj/
Web site to accompany the 2005 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Frontline documentary about the O.J. Simpson trial of 1994-1995.
Zeno’s Forensic Site http://forensic.to/forensic.html
Extensive Web site with a multitude of links from a European forensic scientist.
Anthropological Concepts about Race
Presenter: Valerie Haskins, Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology
Olson, Steve. Mapping human history: discovering the past through our genes
Circulating Collection QH 455 .O474 2002
Boaz, Noel Thomas. Biological anthropology: the state of the science
Circulating Collection GN 50 .B56 1995
Marks, Jonathan. Human biodiversity: genes, race, and history
Circulating Collection GN 62.8 .M37 1995
Crews, Douglas E. Biological anthropology and aging: perspectives on human variation over the life span
Circulating Collection QP 86 .B516 1994
Sykes, Bryan. The seven daughters of Eve
Circulating Collection GN 289 .S94 2002
Wells, Spencer. The journey of man: a genetic odyssey
Circulating Collection GN 281 .W44 2002
Ethnicity and Race: An Introduction to the Nature of Social Group Differentiation and Inequality
http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/default.htm
Web site with tutorial created by Dr. Dennis O'Neil of Palomar College, California.
Race: Are We So Different? http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html
This Web site is a project of the American Anthropological Association.
Anthropology in the News (from Texas A&M University) http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html
Albert Schweitzer—Theologian, Musician, Physician
Presenter: Dr. Charles Bailey, Distinguished Professor of History
Schweitzer, Albert. The quest of the historical Jesus
Circulating Collection BT 303 .S42 2005
Schweitzer, Albert. Out of my life and thought: an autobiography
Circulating Collection CT 1018.S45 A282 1998
Berman, Edgar. In Africa with Schweitzer
Circulating Collection RD 27.35.B46 A3 1986
Schweitzer, Albert. Reverence for life
Circulating Collection BV 4244 .S3613 [1969]
Schweitzer, Albert. Christianity and the religions of the world
Circulating Collection BR 127 .S3 1960
Schweitzer, Albert. The mysticism of Paul the apostle
Circulating Collection BS 2655.M9 S43 1960
Schweitzer, Albert. The philosophy of civilization
Circulating Collection CB 19 .S423 1960
Schweitzer, Albert. J. S. Bach
Circulating Collection ML 410.B1 S312 1958 VOL.2
Schweitzer, Albert. Peace or atomic war?
Circulating Collection JX 1974.7 .S3 1960
Schweitzer, Albert. Indian thought and its development
Circulating Collection BL 2003 .S2 [1957]
The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship: About Albert Schweitzer
http://www.schweitzerfellowship.org/features/about/
Tuesday, April 29
FDR: A 50-Year Re-Evaluation
Presenter: Professor Emeritus Dr. Norman Enhorning
Smith, Jean Edward. FDR
Circulating Collection E 807 .S58 2007
Hamby, Alonzo L. For the survival of democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the world crisis of the 1930s
Circulating Collection E 806 .H293 2004
Janeway, Michael. The fall of the house of Roosevelt: brokers of ideas and power from FDR to LBJ
Circulating Collection E 806 .J27 2004
Beschloss, Michael R. The conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman, and the destruction of Hitler’s Germany, 1941-1945
Circulating Collection E 807 .B46 2002
Persico, Joseph E. Roosevelt ’s secret war: FDR and World War II espionage
Circulating Collection D 810.S7 P45 2002
Casey, Steven. Cautious crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American public opinion, and the war against Nazi Germany
Circulating Collection D 753.3 .C37 2001
McJimsey, George T. The presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Circulating Collection E 806 .M46 2000
Fried, Albert. FDR and his enemies
Circulating Collection E 807 .F77 1999
Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt , the lion and the fox
Circulating Collection E 807 .B835 1984
Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt, the soldier of freedom: 1940-1945
Circulating Collection E 807 .B836 2006
Schlesinger, Arthur M. The age of Roosevelt.
Circulating Collection E 806 .S34 (three volumes: The crisis of the old order, 1919-1933; The coming of the New Deal; The politics of upheaval.)
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: Rendezvous With History
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/projects/fdr/
On the Roosevelts' mark on the Hudson Valley, from the Poughkeepsie Journal.
Great Porches of the Adirondacks – 1875-1890
Presenter: Timothy Weidner, Executive Director, Chapman Historical Museum
Kaiser, Harvey H. Great camps of the Adirondacks
Circulating Collection NA 7575 .K34 1982
Schneider, Paul. The Adirondacks: a history of America’s first wilderness
Circulating Collection F 127.A2 S35 1997 COP.2 Regular Loan
Gates, William Preston. History of the Fort William Henry Hotel
Circulating Collection F 127.G3 H57 2004
Buckell, Betty Ahearn. Old Lake George hotels: a pictorial review
Circulating Collection TX 907.B786 1986
Donaldson, Alfred Lee. A history of the Adirondacks
Orig.Hill Collection F 127.A2 D67 1921 (library use only)
Adirondack Museum http://www.adkmuseum.org/
Web page of the museum in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., with details on exhibits, events.
Balanchine and Robbins with the NYC Ballet
Presenter: Robert Maiorano, former NYC Ballet soloist, teacher, the School of the Arts and Glens Falls Ballet
Costas. Balanchine: celebrating a life in dance
Circulating Collection GV 1788 .B35 2003
Reynolds, Nancy. No fixed points: dance in the twentieth century
Circulating Collection GV 1619 .R49 2003
Au, Susan. Ballet and modern dance
Circulating Collection GV 1787 .A79 2002
Garafola, Lynn. Dance for a city: fifty years of the New York City Ballet
Circulating Collection GV 1786.N4 D36 1999
Greskovic, Robert. Ballet 101: a complete guide to learning and loving the ballet
Circulating Collection GV 1787 .G74 1998
Martins, Peter. The New York City Ballet workout: fifty stretches and exercises anyone can do for a strong, graceful, and sculpted body
Circulating Collection GV 505 .M35 1997
Goldner, Nancy. The Stravinsky festival of the New York City Ballet
Circulating Collection ML 410.S932 G64
New York City Ballet
http://www.nycballet.com/nycb/home/
Ballet's Web page, with history of the company, dancer biographies, descriptions of the repertory, more.
Tuesday, May 6:
Yiddish-Based Haiku: A Tribute to Sugihara, Rescuer of Jews During the Second World War
Presenter: Martin Wasserman, Professor Emeritus of Psychology
Kerouac, Jack. Scattered poems
Circulating Collection PS 3521 .E735 A6 1991
Kerouac, Jack. Book of haikus
Circulating Collection PS 3521.E735 B66 2003
Hass, Robert. The essential haiku: versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa
Circulating Collection PL 759.535 .E88 1994
Sakowicz, Kazimierz. Ponary diary, 1941-1943: a bystander’s account of a mass murder
Circulating Collection DS 135.L52 V556 2005
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. From that place and time: a memoir, 1938-1947
Circulating Collection DS 135.R93 V523 1989
Currie, Stephen. Escapes from Nazi persecution
Circulating Collection D 805.A2 C87 2004
Berenbaum, Michael. The world must know: the history of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Circulating Collection D 804.3 .B464 2006
Kershaw, Ian. Fateful choices: ten decisions that changed the world, 1940-1941
Circulating Collection D 741 .K43 2007
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
http://www.yadvashem.org.il/
Birding in China
Presenter: Joyce Miller, Professor of Library Science
The Terracotta Army: China's first emperor and the birth of a nation
Circulating Collection DS 747.9 .Q254 2007
China: people, place, culture, history
Circulating Collection DS 706 .C4873 2007
Gifford, Rob. China road: a journey into the future of a rising power
Circulating Collection DS 712 .G53 2007
The Great Wall of China
Circulating Collection DS 793.G67 G745 2007
Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archeological Perspective
Circulating Collection DS 741.65 .C528 2005
Beijing & Shanghai (Eyewitness travel guide)
Circulating Collection DS 795.A4 B457 2007
Hessler, Peter. Oracle bones: a journey between China’s past and present
Circulating Collection DS712 .H458 2006
See, Lisa. Snow flower and the secret fan: a novel
Circulating Collection PS 3569.E3334 S66 2005
Krannich, Ronald L. The treasures and pleasures of China: best of the best
Circulating Collection DS 705 .K72 1998
Beletsky, Les. Birds of the world
Circulating Collection QL 673 .B44 2006
China: Yours to Discover
http://www.cnto.org/aboutchina.asp
From China National Tourist Office.
Finding Information on New York State Birds
http://www.sunyacc.edu/academics/library/handouts/Birdguide.htm
Information about birding as a hobby; links to state and national birding Web pages.
Queensbury’s Blind Rock
Presenter: John Strough, Queensbury Town Board; teacher, Queensbury Union Free School District
Here are some books generally about the Queensbury area and its history:
Glens Falls and Sandy Hill and their points of interest: illustrated, 1895.
Circulating Collection F 129.G6 G56 2002 Copy 2
History of the Queensbury Union Free School District (edited and forward by John Austin, Carolyn Curren and John Strough)
Circulating Collection LA 338.3 .Q4 2000 Copy 2
Starbuck, David. Archaeology of the French & Indian War: military sites of the Hudson River, Lake George, and Lake Champlain corridor
Circulating Collection E 199 .A73 1994 Regular Loan
These books are in the Hill Collection, the local history collection room at the ACC Library. Ask a librarian for details. These books may be used in the library only.
Eddy, Robert L. Queensbury’s heritage
Hill Collection F129.Q3 E33 1991
History and biography of Washington county and the town of Queensbury, New York, with historical notes on the various towns
Original Hill Collection F127.W3 G8 1894
Tuesday, May 13:
The Euro: Five Years Old and Counting
Presenter: Nicolas Buttino, Professor of Business
Coffey, Peter. The euro: an essential guide
Circulating Collection HG 925 .C628 2001
Chabot, Christian N. Understanding the euro: the clear and concise guide to the new trans-European economy
Circulating Collection HG 925 .C46 1999
Ferguson, Niall. The cash nexus: money and power in the modern world, 1700-2000
Circulating Collection HJ 235 .F47 2001
Weatherford, J. McIver. The history of money: from sandstone to cyberspace
Circulating Collection HG 231 .W4 1997
The Euro Home Page
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Eurohomepage/
From European University Institute’s Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies.
The Euro: Our Currency
http://ec.europa.eu/euro/entry.html
European Union’s Web pages about Europe’s common currency, the euro.
EUROPA: Gateway to the European Union
http://europa.eu/index_en.htm
EU’s latest news, activities, polls, more.
The Last Straw – A Green Building Odyssey
Presenter: Sean Guenette, molecular biologist, Ganesh Creations
Woodside, Christine. Homeowners guide to energy independence: alternative power sources for the average American
Circulating Collection TJ 163.5.D86 W674 2006
Snell, Clarke. Building green: a complete how-to guide to alternative building methods: earth plaster, straw
Circulating Collection TH 4860 .S6397 2005
Roberts, Jennifer. Good green homes
Circulating Collection NA 2542.35 .R63 2003
Ramsey, Charles George. Ramsey/Sleeper architectural graphic standards.
Circulating Collection TH 2031 [2000]
Gould, Frederick E. Managing the construction process: estimating, scheduling, and project control
Circulating Collection TH 438 .G625 2005
Ganesh Creations
http://www.ganeshcreations.com/
California Straw Building Association
http://www.strawbuilding.org/
Music and Orchestras in Our Community
Presenter: Charles Peltz, Music Director, Glens Falls Symphony
Scherer, Barrymore Laurence. A history of American classical music
Circulating Collection ML 200 .S34 2007
Furia, Philip. America’s songs: the stories behind the songs of Broadway, Hollywood, and Tin Pan Alley
Circulating Collection ML 3477 .F87 2006
Griffiths, Paul. A concise history of western music
Circulating Collection ML 160 .G823 2006
Mendoza de Arce, Daniel. Music in North America and the West Indies from the discovery to 1850: a historical survey
Circulating Collection ML 198 .M458 2006
Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra web site
http://www.gfso.org/