LINUS October 1998 : Library News
Beyond dust jackets
Central Library RIS Dept Head
During the past year, more than a few library users have shown great interest in the dust jackets of books displayed at the Central Library and some have asked for more information after the change of display. Here is a select list of such titles for others who may be interested. They are usually the ones that will not appear on your required reading list!
All the titles listed were published last year or this year and are located in the Central Library (CL Main Shelves) unless otherwise indicated. To save space, author information is not given for most of the non-fiction works. Please check LINC the library catalogue for more details.
On Singapore
Expect to queue if you want to read the latest book by our Senior Minister, The Singapore story: memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
(DS599.51 Lee).
One of the latest academic monographs on Singapore is Linda Low's The political economy of a city-state: government-made Singapore (HC497.12 Low).
On a different theme is the publication by the Institute of Policy Studies, City and the state: Singapore's built environment revisited (HT169.12 Cit; CL Main Shelves & RBR).
Interested in Singapore novels?
Let Catherine Lim entice you with The teardrop story woman (PL5149 Lc.Te; CL Main Shelves & HL Gen Reading) or The bondmaid. (PL5149 Lc.Bo; CL Main Shelves & HL Gen Reading)
For a collection of creative writings by other Singapore women, try More than half the sky / edited by Leong Liew Geok. (PL5147 Mor)
All about Cyberspace
Cyberspace divide: equality, agency, and policy in the information society. (HM221 Cyb)
Cyberspace: the world in the wires. (HM221 Kit)
Cybertrends: chaos, power and accountability in the information age. (HC79 Inf.Br, CL & SC Main Shelves)
Cyberwars: espionage on the Internet. (HV6773 Gui; CL & SC Main Shelves)
Death of distance: how the communications revolution will change our lives. (HE7631 Cai; CL & HL RBR)
The economics of electronic commerce. (HF5548.32 Whi)
Growing up digital: the rise of the net generation. (QA76.9 Com.Ta; CL & HL Main Shelves)
The soul of cyberspace: how new technology is changing our spiritual life. (BL37 Zal)
Virtual culture: identity and communication in cybersociety. (QA76.9 Comc.Vi; CL & HL Main Shelves)
Children first
Children first (HV703 Bla) is in fact a 1996 publication on the story of UNICEF.
Betrayal trauma: the logic of forgetting childhood abuse, 1996. (RJ506 Chi.F)
Child sexual abuse and false memory syndrome.
(RC455.2 Fal.C)
Children exposed to marital violence: theory, research and applied issues. (HQ784 Vio.Ch)
The little trials of childhood and children's strategies for dealing with them, 1996. (HQ772.5 Wak)
Lost futures: our forgotten children. (HV713 Gro).
A moving chronicle by photographer/writer Stan Grossfeld, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner.
Stolen dreams: portraits of working children. (HD6231 Par)
Stories of resilience in childhood: the narratives of Maya Angelou, Maxine Hong Kingston, Richard Rodrigues, John Edgar Wideman, and Tobais Wolff. (PS129 Cha).
Reflect upon the above titles as the world celebrates Children's Day in October while almost one quarter of the world's children are working full- or part-time, according to a study by the International Labour Organisation.
Family matters
Abused men: the hidden side of domestic violence. (HV6626.2 Cok)
Caring for the parents who cared for you: what to do when an aging parent needs you, 1996. (HQ1063.6 Sci)
Fatherhood reclaimed: the making of the modern father. (HQ756 Bur)
Fathers and mothers in literature, 1994. (PN6071 Pac.F)
Friends for life: enriching the bond between moth ers and their adult daughters. (HQ755.85 Jon)
Like son, like father: healing the father-son wound in men's lives, 1991. (HQ756 Vog)
Motherguilt: how our culture blames mothers for what's wrong with society, 1996. (HQ759.48 Eye)
My mother was right: how today's women reconcile with their mothers. (HQ755.85 Mcf)
Life stories
What is it like to grow up as children of celebrities? Get a glimpse from Some of me (PN2827 Rose) by well-known model and actress Isabella, daughter of Roberto Rossellini and actress Ingrid Bergman whose own life story is chronicled in Notorious: the life of Ingrid Bergman (PN2778 Ber.S).
Don't tell Dad: a memoir (PN2287 Fon) is in turn the poignant story of Peter Fonda, brother of Jane Fonda, who recollects that the house his mother and father Henry Fonda built was "the opposite of their inner lives. It was a paradise."
Man and wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: my parent's early years 1996 (HQ614 Oak). Ann Oakley, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at London University, drawing on the private papers of her parents and on her own recollection, examines their lives and the conflict between the world of home and the world outside, "arguing that people's solid theory cannot be divorced from the politics of personal relationships." Richard Titmuss was one of the founders of Britain's welfare state and his Social policy: an introduction, 1974 (HN16 Tit CLRBR) remains required reading today.
What was it like to be the first male consort of the United Kingdom's prime minister? Let journalist Carol Thatcher, daughter of Margaret Thatcher, tell you about the 'adventures' of her father in Below the parapet: the biography of Denis Thatcher. (DA591 Tha)
Walt Whitman: a gay life. (PS3232 Sch)
Considered "the first biography to illuminate the vital connection between Whitman's life as a homosexual and his legacy as a landmark literary artist."
The creative life of Singapore's choreographer extraordinaire Goh Choo San (1948-1987), a NUS alumnus, is the focus of Singapore Dance Theatre's publication, Goh Choo San: master craftsman in dance (GV1785 Goh.S). It is written by Janek Schergen (the only person allowed to stage Goh's ballets around the world) and Goh Soo Khim.
The International Encyclopedia of Dance (GV1585 Int, CL Ref 1) has chosen to illustrate its writeup on the Washington Ballet with a photograph of Goh Choo San's Momentum.
Life, death, and living
The call of solitude: alonetime in a world of attachment (BF637 Sol.B) where aloneness is not loneliness.
Denial of the soul: spiritual and medical perspectives on euthanasia (R726 Pec) is "a masterwork of grace and scholarship, of meaning and medicine..." by the physician and psycharist M. Scott Peck who authored the best-selling The road less traveled, 1988 (BF637 Sel.P; CL Main Shelves & HL Gen Reading).
Man's search for ultimate meaning (RC455.4 Rel.F) is a journey by the author of Viktor Frankl - recollections: an autobiography (RC489 Log.F).
Travelogues and more
In 1995, V. S. Naipaul returned to the countries he visited in the book Among the believers: an Islamic journey (BP63 Nai), the journey now results in Beyond belief: Islamic excursions among the converted peoples (BP63 Nai).
For a different type of excursion, embark on One thousand roads to Mecca: ten centuries of travelers writing about the Muslim pilgrimages (BP187.3 Wol).
Visiting Prague? Those with literary interests may want to first savour Kafka's Prague: a travel reader, 1993 (PT2612 K11*Wa).
You may also want to explore The ethics of travel: from Marco Polo to Kafka, 1996 (GT5220 Isl).
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