14 May 2019 Archives

More French ebooks through OpenEdition

Posted on May 14, 2019May 14, 2019 by Claude Potts

The Library has recently added 731 titles mostly in French but also Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and English to its ebook holdings through OpenEdition — an interdisciplinary open access initiative in France. Now, more than 4,700 academic ebooks in the humanities and social sciences are discoverable through the portal or through the Library’s catalogs permitting researchers to benefit from a range of DRM-free formats, some optimized specifically for e-readers, tablets, and smart phones (ePub, PDF, etc.). OpenEdition’s Freemium program makes it possible for UC Berkeley to participate in an acquisitions policy that supports openness and sustainable development of scholarly resources such as these.

Lire l'humain : Aragon, Ponge : esthétiques croisées — *Lire l’humain : Aragon, Ponge : esthétiques croisées*
Alain Trouvé

*Le bovarysme et la littérature de langue anglaise*
coordonné par Nicole Terrien et Yvan Leclerc

*Ce que nous devons aux anciens poètes de la France*
Michel Zink

*Le corps érotique dans la poésie française du XVIe siècle*
David Dorais

*Le devenir-juif du poème Double envoi : Celan et Derrida*
Danielle Cohen-Levinas

*À la place du roi : Vice-rois, gouverneurs et ambassadeurs dans les monarchies française et espagnole (xvie-xviiie siècles)*
Daniel Aznar, Guillaume Hanotin, Niels F. May

*Le cinéma ou le dernier des arts*
Luc Vancheri

*1969 en Europe. Année des relèves ou des ruptures?*
Jean-Marc Guislin

*Algérie : sortie(s) de guerre 1962-1965*
Patrick Harismendy et Vincent Joly

*L’Afrique postcoloniale en quête d’intégration : S’unir pour survivre et renaître*
Patrick Dramé

*L’énigme haïtienne : Échec de l’État moderne en Haïti*
Sauveur Pierre Étienne

*Rousseau et le marxisme*
sous la direction de Luc Vincenti et al.

*Écrits, genre et autorités : Enquête en Tunisie*
Abir Kréfa

*Cases-pixels: une histoire de la BD numérique en France*
Julien Baudry

Visit OpenEdition to read even more open access ebooks.

An Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month Reading List

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Literatures at the Library

Asian Pacific American Lit

by Taylor Follett

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month! While the official website contains audio and visual resources, as well as selected digital exhibitions and collections, you can also honor Asian/Pacific American Heritage at home—or at the library. UC Berkeley’s library has a significant amount of fiction and non-fiction works by Asian and Pacific American authors. Where to start? These works come highly recommended! A few have had hugely popular adaptations, turned up in a lot of book clubs, or are well-known as Pulitzer Prize winners, and they might be a good starting place for readers starting fresh. If you’ve already read novels like Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians trilogy or Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, the following works are just as compelling.

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Summer reading: Educated

Posted on May 14, 2019 by UC Berkeley Library

Book cover for Educated Educated
Tara Westover

This memoir is about the life of a woman growing up very secluded and closed off from society, and it covers her experience of going to college and learning about the world and how her thirst for knowledge led to her complete transformation as she moved away from her family and into the world.

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This book is part of the 2019 Berkeley Summer Reading List. Stay tuned for more weekly posts!