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New ebooks from Editorial Iberoamericana

Posted on April 11, 2025April 21, 2025 by Claude Potts

Just in time for the end of the semester, a couple hundred ebooks have recently flown in from from Spain from publishers like Akal, CSIC, Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, Ediciones Universidad de Cantabria, Plaza y Valdés, Dickinson, Editorial Egales, Trotta Editorial, Ediciones Complutense and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. All are available through the Digitalia Hispánica platform. Below are some highlighted from Iberoamericana Editorial Vervuert available to you wherever you may find yourselves this summer:

cover — La ejemplificación gramatical: aproximaciones teóricas para su investigación en historiografía lingüística y en otras áreas
Francisco Escudero Paniagua

Workshop reminder — Publish Digital Books & Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks

Posted on February 26, 2025 by Timothy Vollmer

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 11:00am–12:00pm
Location: Zoom. RSVP.

If you’re looking to self-publish work of any length and want an easy-to-use tool that offers a high degree of customization, allows flexibility with publishing formats (EPUB, PDF), and provides web-hosting options, Pressbooks may be great for you. Pressbooks is often the tool of choice for academics creating digital books, open textbooks, and open educational resources, since you can license your materials for reuse however you desire. Learn why and how to use Pressbooks for publishing your original books or course materials. You’ll leave the workshop with a project already under way.

Curious about how UC Berkeley faculty, students, and staff have used Pressbooks? Check out some of the Berkeley-created digital books and resources below, or browse over 8,000 open access books on the Pressbooks Directory.

Workshop Reminder — Publish Digital Books & Open Educational Resources with Pressbooks

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Timothy Vollmer

UC Berkeley Open Book Publishing website with buttons to create a book or find a book

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 11:00am–12:30pm
Location: Online. Register via LibCal and you’ll receive the Zoom link for the event.

Curious about how UC Berkeley faculty, students, and staff have used Pressbooks? Check out some of the Berkeley-created digital books and resources below, or browse over 6,400 open access books on the Pressbooks Directory.

New Publication by Art History Faculty Henrike Lange

Posted on February 23, 2024February 20, 2024 by Nina Bayley

You can view Art History Professor Henrike Lange’s new book Eclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature and the Arts, online.

Eclipse book cover

From the Oxford University Press website:

“A total solar eclipse is a spectacle without equal. Henrike Christiane Lange and Tom McLeish study the human and cultural impact of totality. Every human culture has a mythology about solar eclipses. These stories should be told and this book is an excellent survey of many cultures across the continents and throughout the centuries. I especially enjoyed the excerpts from Tom McLeish’s travel diary from August 2017 which capture the thrill of the chase and the allure of the corona in the co-authored Introduction. Chapter 2 by my late friend Jay Pasachoff on the solar corona is a masterclass in science communication. I highly recommend Eclipse & Revelation to anyone interested in solar eclipses and their many interactions with humanity.” — Michael Zeiler, Cartographer and Eclipse Chaser

“Genius! Truly marvelous and relevant work, beautifully illustrated and delivered: an utterly brilliant new take on interdisciplinary collaborations between the arts, humanities, and sciences exploring a gripping natural phenomenon across human history. Unlike any other, this book includes fascinating perspectives and early science from ancient Asia, Assyria, Babylonia, India, China, Greece and Rome, the scientific revolution to the present… – all topped off with the latest meteorological methods and a conclusion that creates a poetic awareness of the entire cosmos… Lange and McLeish deliver a passionate defense of the liberal arts and a delightful account of the perpetual curiosity, excitement, joy, and enduring love of wisdom at the core of the scientific and scholarly life.” — Andrew Stewart, Professor emeritus, History of Art and Classics at the University of California, Berkeley

Native American Heritage Month Art Resources

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Nina Bayley

November is National Native American Heritage Month. Check out these online resources about Native American Art. Come see additional titles on display in the Art History/ Classics Library.

Unsettling Native Art Histories on the North West Coast

The Sweet Smell of Home Unsettling Native Art Histories… Women and Ledger Art

Shifting Grounds Mapping Modernisms Making History

Indigenuity Art for an Undivided Earth Art for a New Understanding

Ebook collection: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment ONLINE

Posted on October 20, 2023October 20, 2023 by dorner

Oxford University Studies in the Englightenment Online is made up of two monograph series: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (SVEC) (first published in 1955) and Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (955-2016). The collection of 572 volumes provides a broad overview of a variety of subjects relating to the Enlightenment including: history, cultural studies, literature, biography, religious studies, philosophy, and gender studies.

Primary sources: Russian language historical ebook collections

Posted on August 23, 2023August 21, 2023 by dorner

This post highlights some of the Library’s acquisitions of Russian-language historical ebook collections that may have escaped your notice.

Anti-religious alphabet book Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda ebook collection

East View has digitized a collection of 280 e-books that are most emblematic of Soviet anti-religious fervor. They were published mainly in the 1920s and 1930s on a variety of atheist or anti-religious topics, with titles including Christianity versus Communism, Church versus Democracy, and The Trial of God.

Early Soviet Cinema

Another collection from East View of 116 ebooks, originally published from 1928 to 1948, relating to the golden age of Soviet Cinema.

Russian Avant-garde Online

An ebook collection of 778 works from Brill Online. It represents works of all Russian literary avant-garde schools, most published betwen 1910-1940. According to the publisher, “the strength of this collection is in its sheer range. It contains many rare and intriguingly obscure books, as well as well-known and critically acclaimed texts, almanacs, periodicals, literary manifests. This makes it a gold mine for art historians and literary scholars alike. Represented in it are more than 30 literary groups without which the history of twentieth-century Russian literature would have been very different. Among the groups included are the Ego-Futurists and Cubo-Futurists, the Imaginists, the Constructivists, the Biocosmists, and the infamous nichevoki – who, in their most radical manifestoes, professed complete abstinence from literary creation.”

Celebrate Earth Week with Art/Ecology Texts Online

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Nina Bayley

Here are some featured e-Resources from the Art & Architecture ePortal. Click the titles below to view them on the portal.

"THE ANTHROPOCENE AND THE HUMANITIES" book cover

THE ANTHROPOCENE AND THE HUMANITIES: FROM CLIMATE CHANGE TO A NEW AGE OF SUSTAINABILITY

Carolyn Merchant
Yale University Press
Apr, 2020

THE ANATOMY OF NATURE: GEOLOGY AND AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING, 1825–1875

Rebecca Bedell
Princeton University Press
Jan, 2002

ART AND ECOLOGY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE: THE LANDSCAPES OF THÉODORE ROUSSEAU

Greg M. Thomas
Princeton University Press
May, 2000

WASTELAND: A HISTORY

Vittoria Di Palma
Yale University Press
Aug, 2014

IMPLICATION: AN ECOCRITICAL DICTIONARY FOR ART HISTORY

Alan C. Braddock
Yale University Press
Mar, 2023

FREDERIC CHURCH: THE ART AND SCIENCE OF DETAIL

Jennifer Raab
Yale University Press
Nov, 2015

Celebrating Women’s History Month in Art History

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Nina Bayley

Check out these online resources available through UC Library Search. Click on the titles to view them in the catalog, or visit the Art History/ Classics Library to view new publications of women artists on display.