Leap Day Additions

IHE Library just received the following new books:

Title	Author(s)	Call number	ISBN
American Women Writers to 1800	Edited by Sharon M. Harris	PS508.W7 A49 1996	0195084535
Breast Health	Charles B. Simone	RC280.B8 S499 1995	0895296608
The Iliad of Homer	Homer, translated by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers	PA4025 .A2 L3 1940	None (see below)
Modern Japan	Harold R. Kerbo, John A. McKinstry	DS806 .K47 1998	0070344264
Song of Solomon	Toni Morrison	PS3563 .O8749 1977	0394497848
Ways of Reading	David Bartholomae, Anthony Petrosky	PE1417 .B373 1999	031217893X

Most books in our collection have an International Standard Book Number (ISBN), which is like a social security number for books. This edition of The Iliad of Homer does not have an ISBN because it was published before 1970, the year when the method of creating ISBNs was developed.

Ways of Reading is designed to help college students become better writers, so I added information about it to an earlier blog page, Writing Resources.  I wrote the following:

Addendum, February 29, 2012:  The IHE Library just received a copy of another book that can help you become a better writer, Ways of Reading:  An Anthology for Writers by David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky (Call number PE1417 .B373 1999, ISBN 031217893X).  According to the Google Books page on this tome (http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN031217893X&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true):

"Much admired, widely adopted, and one-of-a-kind -- Ways of Reading combines lengthy and challenging readings with an innovative and demanding apparatus to engage students in conversations with some of the most powerful voices of our culture."

One way to improve ones writing skills is to read works of great authors.  This book features works by W. E. B. Dubois, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Michel Foucault, Paulo Freire, Harriet (Brent) Jacobs, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf, and more, offering the reader the opportunity to analyze what makes their writing work so well.