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44 Days Honoring Black History
Register for our Feb. 17 screening of Coded Bias, connect with and contribute to Black history in the College Archives, and explore Black futures through books and film with our virtual Afrofuturism display.
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Askalib presents Wikipedia: "Under the Hood"
Come to the online workshop, Wednesday, March 17.
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Get books and DVDs with SMC Library Pickup
During COVID-19, you can request a book or DVD from the SMC Library or Link+, then make an appointment for parking lot pickup.
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New Books
Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center...
Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture.
These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent...
These deaths are the forgotten faces of an increasingly urgent public-health crisis that we have the tools, but not the will, to solve.
Linguistically inventive niche online communities spread slang...
Linguistically inventive niche online communities spread slang and jargon exponentially faster than in the days when new dialects were constrained by physical space.
First, she demonstrates that the objects themselves communicate...
First, she demonstrates that the objects themselves communicate a paradox of dissimilar similitude–that is, that in their very details they both image the glory of heaven and make clear that that heaven is beyond any representation in earthly things.
Long one of the most incisive, ferociously intelligent, and...
Long one of the most incisive, ferociously intelligent, and widely respected cultural critics online, McNeil here establishes a singular vision of who we are now, tells the stories of how we became us, and helps us start to figure out what we do now.
Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces,...
Discussing popular works alongside auteurist masterpieces, Yomota Inuhiko considers films in light of both Japanese cultural particularities and cinema as a worldwide art form.
This innovative book explores the new relationships connecting...
This innovative book explores the new relationships connecting computer science, social science, and the humanities.
While early twentieth-century scholarship searched for a...
While early twentieth-century scholarship searched for a catholic universalism in shared European and Chinese art motifs, this inquiry looks to the relationships among societies of central, western, and eastern Asia during the Mongol era as a core site of social and political discourse that defined a globalizing era in Eurasian artistic exchange.
This colorful and celebratory time capsule of San...
This colorful and celebratory time capsule of San Francisco’s Chinatown–the largest Chinese community outside of Asia–shares the stories of the unique businesses, culture, and people encountered by map illustrator Ken Cathcart between 1939 and 1955.
The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world’s...
The Cerro Rico alone provided over half of the world’s silver for a century, and even in decline, it remained the single richest source on Earth. Potosí is the first interpretive history of the fabled mining city’s rise and fall.
She also reflects on her own experiences of carrying her two...
She also reflects on her own experiences of carrying her two children and seeing how the sacrifices demanded during pregnancy carry over seamlessly into the cult of motherhood, where women are expected to play the narrowly defined roles of “wife” and “mother” rather than be themselves.
After Hitler’s death, several posthumous books were...
After Hitler’s death, several posthumous books were published which purported to be the verbatim words of the Nazi leader - two of the most important of these documents were Hitler’s Table Talk and The Testament of Adolf Hitler.
The “Female Drama” is Socrates name for the action...
The “Female Drama” is Socrates name for the action of the central books of the Republic: V-VII. Much has been made of what this transition in the Republic signifies for political questions.
Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred...
Love Saves the Day includes material from over three hundred original interviews with the scene’s most influential players, including David Mancuso, Nicky Siano, Tom Moulton, Loleatta Holloway, Giorgio Moroder, Francis Grasso, Frankie Knuckles, and Earl Young.
So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with...
So Seidel was in, and soon she was down the rabbit hole with him, into the wild, fiercely competitive, overwhelmingly masculine world of high-stakes Texas Hold'em, their initial end point the following year’s World Series of Poker.
The book attempts to provide a Roll of Remembrance with...
The book attempts to provide a Roll of Remembrance with biographies of the Jews who perished in the death camp as well as of those who escaped from Treblinka in individual efforts or as part of the mass prisoner uprising on August 2nd, 1943.
She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication...
She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them.
Her collection as a whole insists on the philosophical and...
Her collection as a whole insists on the philosophical and aesthetic importance of African texts of the kind discussed here–to the global reading public as much as to the ‘real world’ of their original contexts.
Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel...
Through careful examination of primary documents, Noa Turel reveals that paintings were consistently described as au vif: made not “from life” but “into life.”