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Slave old man / Patrick Chamoiseau ; with texts by Édouard Glissant ; translated from the French and Creole by Linda Coverdale

Hayden Library - PQ3949.2.C45 E8213 2018




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Montaigne: a life / Philippe Desan ; translated by Steven Rendall and Lisa Neal

Hayden Library - PQ1643.D39513 2017




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Life of David Hockney: a novel / Catherine Cusset ; translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan

Hayden Library - PQ2663.U84 V5413 2019




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The order of the day / Éric Vuillard ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti

Dewey Library - PQ2682.U45 O7313 2018




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Babylon / Yasmina Reza ; translated by Linda Asher

Barker Library - PQ2678.E955 B3313 2018




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Me & other writing / Marguerite Duras ; translated by Olivia Baes & Emma Ramadan; with an introduction by Dan Gunn

Dewey Library - PQ2607.U8245 A2 2019




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The living days / Ananda Devi ; translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman

Dewey Library - PQ3989.2.N547 J6813 2019




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The dancing other / Suzanne Dracius ; translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Catherine Maigret Kellogg

Dewey Library - PQ3949.2.D73 A8813 2018




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The cheffe: a cook's novel / Marie NDiaye ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump

Dewey Library - PQ2674.D53 C4613 2019




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Patron Services: Saturday Research Orientation: Researching Old Companies

Join the Business Reference Section of the Science, Technology & Business Division for a focused research orientation to resources for researching old companies. Whether you are trying to find out more about your great grandfather's small business, the value of that old stock certificate in your attic, or just curious about a company from the past, learn how to find materials both at the Library of Congress and in your local public library and historical society to help answer your questions. The session covers both print and electronic sources. All researchers are welcome.

 Date: Saturday, November 30, 2019, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EST

 Location: Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Room LJ-139B

 Click here for more information and to register.

 Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov.

 

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Patron Services: Saturday Research Orientation: Manuscript Division

Join Manuscript Reference Librarian Lara Szypszak for a focused orientation to resources located in the Manuscript Reading Room. This session will share the letters of love from members of congress to their spouses, writers to their paramours, artists to their muses, and more. Celebrate Valentine’s Day (better late than never) with notes of romance found in the Manuscript Division’s collections, and also learn how to find materials for your research projects utilizing the Manuscript Reading Room’s resources in-person and remotely. The session includes general information on conducting research in the Manuscript Reading Room and time for Q&A about research strategies or steps on specific research projects. All researchers are welcome. See the following link for Maps and Floor Plans in the Jefferson Building: https://www.loc.gov/visit/maps-and-floor-plans/thomas-jefferson-building/first-floor/

Date: Saturday, February 15, 10:00 am - 11:30 am EST

Location: Library of Congress Jefferson Building, Room 139B

Click here for more information and to register.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or email ADA@loc.gov.

 

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Qualitative Methods: The Added Value of Non-Numerical Data

Researchers from EDI Group and Mathematica discuss the added value of qualitative methods and spotlight how a mixed-method approach is providing important insights about how well reading and community engagement programs are serving young children and their parents in Nicaragua.




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How Learning Collaboratives Can Help Address Today’s Pressing Policy Challenges

Researchers and policymakers across a number of fields have long understood the power of peer-to-peer learning.




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To Address the Social Determinants of Health, Start with the Data

Social determinants of health—the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—have gained increasing interest among policymakers and practitioners as they struggle to improve the value and quality of U.S. health care.




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Siloed, Incomplete, and Neglected: The Trouble with State Administrative Data and What to Do About It

In this week’s episode of On the Evidence, Mathematica’s Beth Weigensberg talks about an article she co-authored describing findings from a 2013 needs assessment on the challenges state agencies faced in using their data to inform their programs.




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Lost in Translation: The Importance of Social Determinants of Health Data from the Patient Perspective

In order to improve patients’ overall health and well-being, we need better information about their social determinants of health – the social, behavioral, and environmental factors – which influence the health and well-being of individuals and communities.




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The Power of a Data-Informed Partnership: Working with Community-Based Organizations to Address Social Determinants of Health

With their multi-faceted understanding of the communities in which they operate, community-based organizations bring a valuable lens that could help health systems learn how certain social services received in the community affect health, and how other factors may dampen an intervention’s effect.




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Prescribing Social Services: Leveraging Data to Diagnose and Treat the Social Determinants That Affect Health

This post describes how health care systems and providers have been—and can be—critical partners in collecting and acting on social determinants of health data.




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Celebrating International Literacy Day 2019

Mathematica and EDI Global staff share insights and read passages from The Little Prince to help call attention to the importance of embracing linguistic diversity in education and literacy interventions.




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The Journey to Becoming Data Driven

Too many conversations about the promise of using data to drive decisions lead with new steps, new requirements, new resource needs, and new expectations that are simply out of reach for too many. It doesn’t have to be that way.




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Helping Connect Youth to Jobs, Apprenticeships, and Internships with More Timely and Detailed Data

Each day, millions of people between the ages of 16 and 24 don’t attend school or head to work. Instead, these young people—often called opportunity youth—face greater risk of social exclusion, poverty, and falling behind without the skills to improve their lives.




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The Most Comprehensive Study of Soda Taxes Says a Lot About Consumption, Prices, and the Future of Nudges

For this episode of On the Evidence, we spoke with the principal investigators for the project: Dave Jones, an associate director in the Health Unit at Mathematica, and Dave Frisvold, an associate professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Iowa.




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Echoes of the Past, Lessons for Today

In echoes of the past lie lessons for today: our country’s confrontation with AIDS can inform our battle against COVID-19.




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Rajan Nanda: The man who fast-tracked Escorts' tractor business

It is interesting that Nanda tried his hands over multiple businesses but in his lifetime realised the need to focus on the core, which is, tractor beside construction and railway equipment




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Portable play in everyday life: the Nintendo DS / Samuel Tobin

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63 T63 2013




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A game design vocabulary: exploring the foundational principles behind good game design / Anna Anthropy, Naomi Clark

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.A97 A58 2014




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Virtual ascendance: video games and the remaking of reality / Devin C. Griffiths

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.G74 2013




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Make a 2D RPG in a weekend: with RPG Maker VX Ace / Darrin Perez

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Gameworlds: virtual media and children's everyday play / Seth Giddings

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.S52 G53 2014




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Make a 2D RPG in a weekend: with RPG Maker MV / Darrin Perez

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Atari to Zelda: Japan's videogames in global contexts / Mia Consalvo

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.C646 2016




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Transactions on edutainment XII / Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, Mingmin Zhang (eds.)

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Beginning RPG Maker MV / Darrin Perez

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Doom: scarydarkfast / Dan Pinchbeck

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Serious games: foundations, concepts and practice / Ralf Dörner, Stefan Göbel, Wolfgang Effelsberg, Josef Wiemeyer, editors

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Mobile gaming in Asia: politics, culture and emerging technologies / Dal Yong Jin, editor

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Transactions on edutainment XIII / Zhigeng Pan, Adrian David Cheok, Wolfgang Müller, Mingmin Zhang (eds.)

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The Tetris effect: the game that hypnotized the world / Dan Ackerman

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.A35 2016




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The monopolists: obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world's favorite board game / Mary Pilon

Hayden Library - GV1469.M65 P55 2016




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Learn Unity for Android game development: a guide to game design, development, and marketing / Adam Sinicki

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Explore/create: my life in pursuit of new frontiers, hidden worlds, and the creative spark / Richard Garriott with David Fisher

Hayden Library - GV1469.34.A97 G37 2017




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Dangerous games: what the moral panic over role-playing games says about play, religion, and imagined worlds / Joseph P. Laycock

Hayden Library - GV1469.6.L395 2015




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Computer games: 6th Workshop, CGW 2017, held in conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2017, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, August, 20, 2017, Revised selected papers / Tristan Cazenave, Mark H.M. Winands, Abdallah

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Location-based mobile games: design perspectives / Davide Spallazzo, Ilaria Mariani

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Fans and videogames: histories, fandom, archives / edited by Melanie Swalwell, Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.F36 2017




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Brenda Laurel: pioneering games for girls / Carly A. Kocurek

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.L38 K58 2017




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100 greatest video game franchises / edited by Robert Mejia, Jaime Banks, Aubrie Adams

Hayden Library - GV1469.3.A15 2017




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Break out: how the Apple II launched the PC gaming revolution / David L. Craddock

Hayden Library - GV1469.15.C73 2017




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A play of bodies: how we perceive videogames / Brendan Keogh

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Practical shader development: vertex and fragment shaders for game developers / Kyle Halladay

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