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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers: Celebrate 15 Million Pages with Us! Find Out More and Join our Twitter #ChronAmParty Today (May 21)!

Join us in celebrating a new milestone in Chronicling America – 15 million pages freely available to all! You can find out more on LC's Headlines and Heroes blog and join the #ChronAmParty on Twitter all day Tuesday, May 21 (today!). Follow the threads and find out about all the fun kinds of “15 Million” things we’ve discovered in Chronicling America – feel free to celebrate with us and tweet your own discoveries! Just add #ChronAmParty and #15MillionPages to your tweet to join the party!

We’ve also been working on new ways to explore and visualize what’s available in Chronicling America and have included a sneak peek in Headlines and Heroes and a more in-depth explanation of these tools in the Library’s The Signal digital libraries blog. Understand and interact with our newspapers in a different way using maps, time-based views, charts of language and ethnic press in American newspapers and more!

Read more about it and follow us all the time on Twitter @librarycongress #ChronAm!




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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: "Soy Cubana": Documentary Screening and Discussion

The documentary Soy Cubana charts the daily lives of four middle-aged women from Santiago de Cuba and their efforts to draw on a broad repertoire of musical genres in creating their own a capella style in an era of studio production and hi-tech sounds. Dr. Joseph Scarpaci, Director of the Center for the Study of Cuban Culture and the Economy, is the co-producer, creator, and translator/interpreter of the documentary. He will provide a short introduction before the screening and a Q&A will follow.

Date and Time: Wednesday, April 3, 2019--4:00 p.m.
Location:
Hispanic Reading Room (LJ-240), Hanke Room (conference room) / Thomas Jefferson Building, 2nd floor

Click here for more information.




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Hispanic Resources: News & Events: Join us tomorrow -- Reading and Conversation with Portuguese Poet Ana Luisa Amaral

Portuguese poet Ana Luísa Amaral will participate in a conversation and reading from her new book of poems What’s in a name? (New Directions, 2019) translated by Margaret Jull Costa. Amaral is one of Portugal’s most exciting poets whose work has been described as “small hypnotic miracles […] reminiscent of Szymborska and of Emily Dickinson”. This event will include a display of special editions of authors that have shaped Amaral’s literary work and scholarship, like Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Sponsored by the Hispanic Division in collaboration with Instituto Camões and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Georgetown University. 

Free tickets available via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-reading-conversation-with-ana-luisa-amaral-tickets-58858781199

Click here for more information.




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Sustainability in the anthropocene: philosophical essays on renewable technologies / edited by Róisín Lally

Hayden Library - GE196.S85 2019




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Environmental nanotechnology. Nandita Dasgupta, Shivendu Ranjan, Eric Lichtfouse, editors

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Climate change from the streets: how conflict and collaboration strengthen the environmental justice movement / Michael Méndez

Dewey Library - GE235.C25 M45 2020




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Waste management in the palm oil industry: plantation and milling processes / Phaik Eong Poh, Ta Yeong Wu, Weng Hoong Lam, Wai Ching Poon, Chean Shen Lim

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Systems thinking and WASH: tools and case studies for a sustainable water supply / edited by Kate Neely

Barker Library - TD345.S97 2019




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Sustainable agriculture reviews. Inamuddin, Abdullah M. Asiri, Eric Lichtfouse, editors

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Environmental nanotechnology. Nandita Dasgupta, Shivenu Ranjan, Eric Lichtfouse, editors

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Sustainable and economic waste management: resource recovery techniques / edited by Hossain Md Anawar, Vladimir Strezov, Abhilash

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Zero Waste: Management Practices for Environmental Sustainability / edited by Ashok K. Rathoure

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Water, sustainable development, and the nexus: response to climate change / editors, Velma I. Grover, Amani Alfarra

Barker Library - TD390.W3845 2020




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Sustainable agriculture reviews. Inamuddin, Abdullah M. Asiri, Eric Lichtfouse, editors

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Integrating sustainability planning and the environmental review process / Carol Lurie, Matthew Egge, VHB Inc., in association with Environmental Science Associates, Inc., American Infrastructre Development Inc., Changing Climates Consulting, Ralph Thomp

Barker Library - TD195.A36 L87 2019




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Water quality index prediction using multiple linear fuzzy regression model: case study in Perak River, Malaysia / Samsul Ariffin Abdul Karim, Nur Fatonah Kamsani

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Chemistry of environmental systems: fundamental principles and analytical methods / Jeffrey S. Gaffney, University of Arkansas at Little Rock (retired) USA, Nancy A. Marley, Argonne National Laboratory (retired), USA

Dewey Library - TD193.G34 2020




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Advances in Water Pollution Monitoring and Control: select proceedings from HSFEA 2018 / Nihal Anwar Siddiqui, S.M. Tauseef, Rajendra Dobhal, editors

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Environmental justice in postwar America: a documentary reader / edited by Christopher W. Wells

Dewey Library - GE230.E594 2018




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Sustainability in the textile and apparel industries: consumerism and fashion sustainability / Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu, Miguel Angel Gardetti, editors

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The five-ton life: carbon, America, and the culture that may save us / Susan Subak

Dewey Library - TD885.5.C3 S83 2018




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Urban mining and sustainable waste management / Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, editor

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Taking turns with the Earth: phenomenology, deconstruction, and intergenerational justice / Matthias Fritsch

Hayden Library - GE42.F75 2018




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Waste management as economic industry toward circular economy / Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, editor

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Environmental justice, popular struggle and community development / edited by Anne Harley and Eurig Scandrett

Dewey Library - GE220.E58 2019




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The ecocentrists: a history of radical environmentalism / Keith Makoto Woodhouse

Hayden Library - GE197.W66 2018




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Struggles for climate justice: uneven geographies and the politics of connection / Brandon Barclay Derman

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Sustainable groundwater management: a comparative analysis of French and Australian policies and implications to other countries / Jean-Daniel Rinaudo [and 3 others], editors

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The principles of green and sustainability science Adenike A. Akinsemolu

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Climate change, consumption and intergenerational justice: lived experiences in China, Uganda and the UK / Kristina Diprose, Gill Valentine, Robert Vanderbeck, Chen Liu, Katie McQuaid

Dewey Library - GE220.D57 2019




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Valorisation of agro-industrial residues. Zainul Akmar Zakaria, Cristobal N Aguilar, Ratna Dewi Kusumaningtyas, Parameswaran Binod, editors

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Combined application of physico-chemical and microbiological processes for industrial effluent treatment plant Maulin Shah, Aditi Banerjee, editors

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Bioinspired water harvesting, purification, and oil-water separation Bharat Bhushan

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Designing Refractive Index Fluids using the Kramers-Kronig Relations

Faraday Discuss., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0FD00027B, Paper
Open Access
Tianqi Sai, Matthias Saba, Eric Dufresne, Ullrich Steiner, Bodo Wilts
For a number of optical applications, it is advantageous to precisely tune the refractive index of a liquid. Here, we harness a well-established concept in optics for this purpose. The...
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The Role of Temperature and Adsorbate on Negative Gas Adsorption in the Mesoporous Metal-Organic Framework DUT-49

Faraday Discuss., 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0FD00013B, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Simon Krause, Jack D. Evans, Volodymyr Bon, Irene Senkovska, François-Xavier Coudert, Daniel M Többens, Dirk Wallacher, Nico Grimm, Stefan Kaskel
Unusual adsorption phenomena, such as breathing and negative gas adsorption (NGA), are rare and challenge our understanding of the thermodynamics of adsorption in deformable porous solids. In particular, NGA appears...
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Design by Nature: Using Universal Forms and Principles in Design

New Peachpit Release Shows How to Create Designs that Appeal to a Worldwide Audience




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Emerging topics and controversies in neonatology Elaine M. Boyle, Jonathan Cusack, editors

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Mental health care services in community settings: discussions on NGO approaches in India / Gayathri Balagopal, Aruna Rose Mary Kapanee

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Datenqualität in der medizinischen Forschung: Leitlinie zum adaptiven Management von Datenqualität in Kohortenstudien und Registern / M. Nonnemacher, D. Nasseh, J. Stausberg ; unter Mitwirkung von U. Bauer [and others]

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The convergence of infectious diseases and noncommunicable diseases: proceedings of a workshop / V. Ayanoo Ogawa, Cecilia Mundaca Shah, Yamrot Negussie, and Anna Nicholson, rapporteurs ; Forum on Microbial Threats, Board on Global Health, Health and Medic

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Advanced Practice Nursing Leadership: A Global Perspective edited by Susan B. Hassmiller, Joyce Pulcini

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To raise up the man farthest down: Tuskegee University's advancements in human health, 1881-1987 / Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell ; foreword by Linda Kenney Miller

Hayden Library - R746.A2C5 2018




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Death is all around us: corpses, chaos, and public health in Porfirian Mexico City / Jonathan M. Weber

Hayden Library - RA452.M6 W43 2019




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US National Science Foundation clamps down on misconduct

Agency will now require every grantee organization to report cases of sexual harassment




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Create a Modal Window Login Form Effect Using jQuery

The hidden modal window technique is a great solution for dealing with interface elements which are not particularly necessary on the page. Social networks can use modal windows for private messages and forms which are only being used by members of the site. This is also true for blogs and magazines which have an author […]




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25 Useful Resources for Creating Tooltips With JavaScript or CSS

Tooltips are awesome, there’s simply no denying it. They provide a simple, predictable and straightforward way to provide your users with useful, context-sensitive information, and they look cool to boot. We all agree on how great tooltips are, but how we go about implementing them can differ dramatically. If you’re at square one, looking for […]




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How to Build a Dynamic Imgur Upload App Using jQuery & PHP

Many new online web services are providing backend APIs for developers. These allow anyone to connect into a web app and pull out specific information (or push or change bits of data). Today we’re specifically looking at the API for Imgur. In this tutorial I want to demonstrate how we can remotely mirror an image […]




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Build an HTML5 Form With on-Off Input Sliders Using jQuery

Mobile app interfaces have been utilizing on/off sliding switches for a while. These are most commonly found on the settings page where users can update preferences for their account. But web designers have taken notice and have built many open platforms to generate your own on/off switch sliders. In this tutorial I want to look […]




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Build a Sliding Client Testimonials Carousel With jQuery

Many portfolio websites include a list of previous clients to build trust from other potential customers. Reading what other people have said about a service or product is one way to garner support from visitors who have never heard about your company before. (Of course, this design technique only works if you have previous clients […]