Results tagged “Book Recommendations” from Iwasaki Library Blog

Recommendation:

Four Freedoms - John Crowley
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It - Maile Meloy

(both just came out - thanks!)

Response:

Thanks for the recommendations. We'll order these two books.

Recommendation:

"Earth Spirit" Frank Wedekind

Response:

We have this play in several collections, including Plays. English. Selections. The Lulu plays. and Plays. English. Selections. The Lulu plays; The Marquis of Keith

It can be tricky to find plays in the library catalog, especially translations, so please ask a reference librarian if you can't locate what you need.

Recommendation:

Obey: Supply & demand: the art of Shepard Fairey

Response:

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll purchase this book.

Recommendation:

BUY BREAKING DAWN - Stephenie Meyer

Response:

Not only will we buy Breaking Dawn, but we'll also buy Eclipse and New Moon so we have the entire series!

Recommendation:

"Lowboy" by John Wray

Thanks!

Response:

Thanks for the recommendation. We'll order it.

Recommendation:

"Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned" by Wells Tower
Thanks!

Response:

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll order it.

Recommendation:

Arturo's Island by Elsa Morante (the Quigley translation)

Response:

Thanks for your suggestion. This book is out of print, but we'll try to get a copy. In the meantime, you may request it through interlibrary loan.

Recommendation:
The Invisible Cut by Bobbie O'Steen

Response:
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll order it.

Recommendation:
Recording the Beatles

It would be a tremendous asset to anyone interested in the history and development of recording techniques and music history in general.

Response:
Thanks for the recommendation. We'll order it. If you'd like to be notified when it comes in, you may place a request in the library catalog.

Recommendation:
Such a good book!

How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively & Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

Thomas C Foster

Response:
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll order it.

Recommendation:
Unforgivable Blackness

40 Million Dollar Slaves

Response:
Thanks for the suggestions.

We'll order Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson.

$40 Million Slaves: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete is available at Lesley University, so you may place a request for this title through the library catalog, and the book will be delivered to the Emerson library.

Recommendation:
A History of the American People
Paul Johnson

Response:
Thanks, we'll order it.

Recommendation:
The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill (Epic poetry)

Response:
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll order it.

Recommendation:
Mr. Spic Goes to Washington by Ilan Stavans

The works by Roberto Bolano in translation into English

Response:
Thanks for the suggestions. We'll order the first title.
We have The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano and we'll order 2666, Last Evenings on Earth, and Distant Star.

Recommendation:
Doris Kearns Goodwin
"Team of Rivals"

Response:
Great suggestion. We'll order it.

Recommendation:
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
From Hell by Alan Moore

Response:
Thanks for the recommendations. We'll order them.

Recommendation
Fred Ritchin - After Photography
2008 - Norton - $30

Response
Thanks for the suggestion. We'll order it.

Suggestion/Comment:

"Speech & Debate" by Stephen Karam

Response:

According to Dramatists Play Service, this play is not yet published. We'll order a copy when it becomes available. And we'll go ahead and order his previous work Columbinus.

"Crimewave" by Brendan Constantine (poetry) in fact, anything by Brendan Constantine! Thanks!

Thanks for the recommendation. We searched Amazon, Books in Print, and Worldcat and we couldn't find Crimewave. We will, however, order Maytag Heights and One Matador by Brendan Constantine.

Miles, the autobiography / Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe.
We already have it!

A love supreme : the story of John Coltrane's signature album / Ashley Kahn.
Available at New England Conservatory Spaulding Library

Freedom from the known, by J. Krishnamurti.
Available at Lesley Main Stacks

The character of physical law [by] Richard Feynman.
Available at 4 FLO libraries

The meaning of it all : thoughts of a citizen scientist / Richard P. Feynman.
We already have it!

The pleasure of finding things out : the best short works of Richard P. Feynman / by Richard P. Feynman ; edited by Jeffrey Robbins ; foreword by Freeman Dyson.
We already have it!
Nog a Dod, edited by Marc Bell
Please order through ILL.

Black Dice & Jason Frank Rothernberg: Gore (Picturebox Books)
Please order through ILL.

Me a mound / Trenton Doyle Hancock.
Available at MassArt Main

Painting / Yokoyama Yuichi
Please order through ILL.

New Engineering / Yokoyama Yuichi
Please order through ILL.

Travel / Yokoyama Yuichi
We'll order it!

Ben Jones / New Painting and Drawing
We'll order it!

Free radicals / [compiled by Leif Goldberg].
Available at MFA-SCH

Paper Rad, B.J., and Da Dogs / [Paper Rad].
Available at MassArt Artists' Books

Art out of time : unknown comics visionaries, 1900-1969 / [compiled by] Dan Nadel
Available at 3 FLO libraries

Jinsei Risetto Botan / Artist Name
Please order through ILL.

The Ganzfeld, 3, 4, 5, and 7
Available at MFA-SCH

Ninja / [Brian Chippendale].
Available at MFA-SCH

Powr Mastrs No.1 and 2
Please order through ILL.

Hooray the library is open again! Since people will be trickling in and out, I'm going to go ahead and give you another book recommendation. This time, it's The Complete Essays of Mark Twain. Why should you read this? Because Mark Twain was funny, witty, clever, wore spectacularly dapper white suits, had a killer 'stache, and because without him, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert don't have jobs.

Batman: Year One Hundred by Paul Pope

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

Voicings: Ten Plays & a Scenario from the Documentary Theatre edited by Attilio Favorini. Book was due July, 2005

This book is out-of-print, but we’ll try to order a used copy to replace our missing copy. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Please pre-order Chris Onstad's Achewood: The Great Outdoor Fight. And maybe order anything else you can find that he has made. You will not be sorry! Also! A good thing to have would be The Best of Dinosaur Comics 2003-2005 A.D. (a.k.a. Your Whole Family Is Made Out of Meat) by Ryan North

Thanks for the recommendations. We’ll order both books.

Fashion Illustration by Fashion Designers by Laird Borrelli

Thanks for the suggestion. We'll order it for the collection.

HIGHSCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL

Do you mean the recent book by Jeremy Iversen?
We do have the 1958 film in the media collection.

"A Woman in Charge" by Karl Bernstein

But Beautiful: a book about jazz, Geoff Dyers, please. I could really use it for my research paper.

"Stuff of Thought" by Steven Pinker

Fridays with Art

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

Eurydice (a play) Sarah Reuhl

Divine fire: eight contemporary plays inspired by the Greeks

The clean house and other plays

The complete play is also available in the journal Theater, 34, no. 2 (2004): 36-67, in the library’s periodical collection. The play has not been published separately.

You should have more GRE prep books available, particularly more updated ones as the test is in the process of changing. I need to borrow one, but can't get a hold on any copies to take out from either the FLO or BPL catalogs.

Thanks for the suggestion. The test prep books do get outdated quickly, so we'll order a few newer ones for the library collection. In the meantime, you may want to request one through interlibrary loan by filling out the form at http://www.emerson.edu/library/about/services/book-request-form.cfm.

The Age of American Unreason by Jacoby

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

Maggie Taylor: Adobe Photoshop Master Class

awesome surrealist artist who uses scanned images & photoshop

Film School Confidential: the Insider's Guide to Film Schools -2nd edition -revised in 2007

No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July

What color is your parachute 2008

Inkheart -Funke

Thanks for these suggestions. We'll order both books.

P.I.G. (Politically Incorrect guides) series

We’ll order a couple of titles from the series:

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwin and Intelligent Design

If you’d like to read any other titles in the series, you can request them through the MA Virtual Catalog or interlibrary loan. Please check with a reference librarian if you need help placing the requests.

The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan and The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II

Thanks for your suggestions. We’ll order the Carl Sagan book. The other book was recently cataloged and should be available soon.

Book Title: The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps Author: Edited by Otto Penzler Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Year: 2007 ISBN: 9780307280480

Thanks for the recommendation. We'll order it for the library.

Burlesque and the Art of the Teese (great costumes, photography)

Thanks for your suggestion. We'll order it.

You HAVE to get Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing and Vitamin P: New…Paint The BEST contemporary artists in these media

Thanks for the suggestions. We’ll order them.

Any/all plays or novels by Maxim Gorky.

We have 24 books in the library containing work by Gorky (including novels, plays, and plays in anthologies.) Please let us know if there’s a particular title you’re looking for, or if you have trouble finding the books in the stacks.

Writing for a Good Cause by Joseph Banbato

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

Historical Dictionary of Chile (3rd edition) by Salvatore Bizzarro

Gender Trouble - Judith Butler (hard copy, or online available to Emerson?)

We have 2 copies of this book. As of 11/16, one copy is checked out, and one copy is available in the library, call number HQ1154 .B88 1990. Please check with a librarian if you can’t find it.

Can we have more self-teaching computer manuals for programs like “Adobe Final Cut” + “Photoshop?” They’re hard to keep updated + are expensive, so having multiple students use them would be useful.

We try to keep the computer manuals up-to-date, but it’s tough since they release new versions so frequently. We have 8 manuals for Final Cut published between 2006 and 2008, and 7 manuals for Photoshop published between 2006 and 2008. But we’ll order a few more. And if you have any specific titles in mind, just let us know.

Come on Down: Behind the Big Doors at “The Price is Right” by Stan Blits

Television Game Show Hosts: Biographies of 32 Stars by David Baber

You Guys Rock! :)

We’ll order these two books. And thanks!

Can you please order any script of My Name is Earl. Thanks.

and

Scripts for the American Office. I just need the script for any episode of the American Office.

Thanks for the suggestions. We’ll order scripts for these two shows as well as some other recent TV scripts.

“Beyond the Curve” by Kobo Abe

Thanks for the recommendation. We’ll order it.

Superman: Red Son

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

Cigar Aficionado or books about cigars or just some cigars!

We have the following book about the history of cigars:

Title: Holy smoke / G. Cabrera Infante.
Location: Emerson Main Stacks
Call Number: GT3020 .C25 1985

And we’ll order Cubans: The Ultimate Cigars. But we won’t be handing out cigars anytime soon. :)

I would really like to see a more complete collection of sci-fi/fantasy fiction in the library. Authors such as Judith Tarr, Tad Williams, Gene Wolfe, and even Ursula K. Le Guin are either absent or woefully under-represented. For example, you have books 1, 2, and 4 (of ) of the Earthsea Cycle by Le Guin, which is a classic fantasy work. The Farthest Shore is missing. And The Tomb of Atuan is in very poor condition.

Thanks for your suggestions. We’ll replace several of the older Le Guin paperbacks and order The Farthest Shore. We have several books by Gene Wolfe and we’ll order titles by the other authors you suggested. If you have any other recommendations, please let us know.

Oliver Sacks - “Musicophilia: Tales of Music & the Brain”

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

The reference/regular selection for writers is severely limited in comparison with the bookstore. There are a lot of useful writing workbooks we should have, such as: The Little Red Writing Book The 3 AM Writing Epiphany A Writer’s Workbook The Pocket Muse & more! They’re fun.

We’ll order A Writer's Workbook: Daily Exercises for the Writing Life and The Little Red Writing Book: 20 Powerful Principles of Structure, Style, & Readability.
We have many other books for writers in the library. Try a search for these subject headings or ask a librarian for help locating what you need:

Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
English language-Style
Fiction-Authorship

Looking for a copy of any episode of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”

There’s just one episode available for purchase called Gun Control. We’ll order that one.

The Lorax by: Dr. Seuss

We should have a copy of The Lorax! So we’ll order one.

Air Guitar and The Invisible Dragon
By Dave Hickey

Beyond Kvetching and Jiving
by Joseph Boskin 1987

This essay is available in the book Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor. We’ll order a copy for the library.

Words that Work
The True Believer, Eric Hoffer
Popol Vuh, Dennis Tedlock

We have these three books in the library. Please see a librarian if you have trouble finding them.

Title: Words that work : it’s not what you say, it’s what people hear
Call Number: PE1431 .L87 2007

Title: The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements
Call Number: HM716 .H63 2002

Title: Popol vuh : the definitive edition of the Mayan book of the dawn of life and the glories of gods and kings
Call Number: F1465 .P813 1985

“Hirohito” – Herbert Bix The definitive book on WWII-era Japan and beyond (Short of Dower’s Embracing Defeat).

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order it.

Selling the President 1968

We have two copies of this in the main stacks: call number E851 .M3. If you have trouble finding it, please ask at the Reference Desk.

Neurolinguistic Programming for Dummies Romilla Ready Kate Burton

We’ll order this. If you’d like to be notified when it comes in, you may place a request in the Library Catalog.

Batboy the Musical by Keythe Farley & Brian Flemming (2007 Emerson Stage Show)

We have a copy of Bat Boy: the Musical on reserve: call number ML50.O538 B3 2002.

Electoral Guerilla Theatre by Larry Bogad

Thanks, we’ll order it.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll order this.

Something by Aleister Crowley!

Thanks for your suggestion. We’ll order The Book of the Law. Many of his books are available at the Boston Public Library, or you may request them through interlibrary loan.

The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, 3rd edition, by David Schwartz, Steve Ryan, & Fred Westbrook

We own this book. It is located in the reference collection at [X] PN 1992.8 Q5 S38 1999.

It would be great to have the Emerson Race Book on file. It’s new this year and was created by Emerson students.

We didn’t realize the Race Book had been published yet! We’ve now received a copy and it will soon be available in the reference collection.

Robert B. Parker: Night Passage

Thanks for your suggestion! We'll order this book.

Erich Maria Remarque: Arch of Triumph and A Time to Love and a Time to Die

Thanks for your suggestions! We'll order them.

You can also get a copy of Arch of Triumph sent over from a school in our library consortium by placing a request in the FLO Library Catalog.