On Display: Best Books of 2014
Happy New Year and welcome to the library's 6th annual best books display! This year we have consulted eighteen* best books lists to bring you the Best Books of 2014.
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On Display: What's Cooking?
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On Display: Lives in Film
"Is the cinema more important than life?"--Francois Truffaut Have you always been curious what Alfred Hitchcock was really like? Has the life of Oprah Winfrey or Katherine Hepburn always interested you? Cinephiles rejoice! The Bentley Library's latest display features biographies, autobiographies, and collections of interviews of filmmakers, actors, and actresses and DVDs of the films they made or starred in.
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New & Notable Nonfiction is On Display
Some of the most important and interesting nonfiction published within the past year is now on display at the library. These books have been pulled from the stacks by our reference librarians to showcase titles that may have escaped your notice when they were originally added to the shelves. ...
On Display: Our Animal Friends
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.” --Anatole France 
The library’s new display features our animal friends like Marley the dog, Alex the parrot, and Babe the pig. The collection of nonfiction, fiction, and film focuses on the special relationship between humans and animals, exploring how animals affect us and how they can “awaken” our souls.
On Display: The Future: Nonfiction, Novels and Film
In September 1956, Modern Mechanix magazine ran an article titled "Your Telephone of Tomorrow." In a summary of the article, it was predicted that people would eventually have "a tiny, touchtone, color videophone" (pictured at right).
Your Phone of Tomorrow
Modern Mechanix, September 1956
On Display: Graphic Novels and Comic Books
Plus: Movies and TV Shows They’ve Inspired! This display is brought to you by Craig Lordan '93. When we were kids, my older brother and future Bentley graduate spent many hours reading comic books and drawing his own comic book characters. It was the dark ages, and we lived in the suburbs, so Craig got his comic books through mail order. At some point, I started saving my allowance to buy my own comic books. Initially, all I wanted was Disney comic books, but I finally graduated to George Perez’s Wonder Woman.
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On Display: Inventions & Innovators
Inventions & Innovators is a collection of books highlighting innovation as a means of business transformation. Highlighted in this collection are some of the inventions, inventors and innovative companies that have altered the way we live and the way business is done.
“Fancy being remembered around the world for the invention of a mouse!”
- Walt Disney
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On Display: Best Books of 2013
Happy new year and welcome to the Bentley Library's 5th annual best books display! This year we have consulted fifteen* best books lists to bring you the Best Books of 2013.
On Display: "For Brevity's Sake" - The Short Story: Writers and their Craft
The Oxford English Dictionary defines brevity as “being short in speech or writing; contraction into few words, conciseness, terseness”. That we encounter brevity on a daily basis should come as no surprise. Twitter, one of the most widely used social networking services, is designed to only allow users 140 characters to convey thoughts, news, or commentary in dispatches known as Tweets. Most academic journal articles feature an abstract that summarizes the salient points of the document in a very brief paragraph, comprised of no more than a few sentences.
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