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Issues and Controversies - Health Care

The issues surrounding the Public Health Care Option debate are explored this week in the Facts On File Issues & Controversies database. You can learn about key events in the history of public health care as well as the views from both supporters and critics of the public health care option.

Facts on File is available from any on campus computer, for information on off campus access visit our Off Campus Access website to learn how you can use this resource from home.

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Maths from Scratch for Biologists

by Alan J. Cann

Call Number New Book Shelf QH 322.5 C363 2003

Unable to find a book, that concentrated on why numerical skills are useful to biologists, Professor Alan Cann wrote his own. The result is Maths from Scratch for Biologists , a highly instructive, informal text that explains step by step how and why you need to tackle maths within the biological sciences.

This title Math from Scratch for Biologists is also available in a digital form as part of our electronic book collection. For information on how you can create your own e-book account and access over 20,000 electronic books select the Netlibrary link.

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Dream in Color: How the Sanchez Sisters are Making History in Congress

by Linda and Loretta Sanchez

Call Number New Book Shelf E901.1.S26 S26 2008

In this joint memoir, congresswomen Linda and Loretta Sanchez present their compelling story—noteworthy not only for their history-making achievements (including first sisters or women of any relation to serve together in Congress, first woman and person of color to represent a district in Orange County, first Latina on the House Judiciary Committee and first Head Start child to be elected to Congress) but also for its American Dream aspect—their parents immigrated from Mexico and despite lacking a formal education managed to send their seven children to college.

Written as a first-person dialog with Loretta's words printed in serif type and Linda's in sans serif, the book describes growing up in a family of seven children, who helped each other and their parents make sense of American culture and its educational systems. Each sister describes her struggle to win elective office and fight against sexism and racism in the halls of Congress as well as among some of their campaigns' opponents.

Artstor - Mexican Architecture and Urban Design

ARTstor and the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin have collaborated to share more than 5,700 images from the Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design. This collection documents outdoor communal spaces in Mexico, including Pre-Columbian sites, as well as buildings and public spaces from the 16th through 20th centuries.

To view the Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin) collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click "Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin)." Or search the keywords: box wagner.

To view ARTstor from off campus locations you need to create an ARTstor account at http://www.artstor.org/ from any on campus computer.

Library Hours at Off Campus Locations

Library services are available at all three Southwestern College Higher Education Centers. Reference librarians are also available to help with your information needs.

Library materials from the main campus library can be transfered and borrowered at all three libraries located at each higher education center.

For the fall semester the education center libraries are open during these hours:

Higher Education Center at Otay Mesa 619-216-6750 x4424
Monday & Thursday 12:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday & Wednesday: 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Higher Education Center at National City 619-216-6665 x4868
Monday 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Tuesday & Wednesday: 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Thursday: 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Higher Education Center at San Ysidro 619-216-6790 x4907
Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Wednesday: 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

This Week in CQ Researcher

Afghanistan Dilemma by Thomas J. Billitteri, August 7, 2009

Is President Obama pursuing the right course?

Nearly eight years ago, U.S. forces first entered Afghanistan to pursue the al Qaeda terrorists who plotted the Sept. 11 terror attacks. American troops are still there today, along with thousands of NATO forces.

Under a new strategy crafted by the Obama administration, military leaders are trying to deny terrorists a permanent foothold in the impoverished Central Asian country and in neighboring, nuclear-armed Pakistan, whose western border region has become a sanctuary for Taliban and al Qaeda forces.

The Afghanistan-Pakistan conflict – "Af-Pak" in diplomatic parlance – poses huge challenges ranging from rampant corruption within Afghanistan's police forces to a multibillion-dollar opium economy that funds the insurgency. But those problems pale in comparison with the ultimate nightmare scenario: Pakistan's nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists, which foreign-policy experts say has become a real possibility.

• Is the Obama administration pursuing the right course in Afghanistan?
  
• Are troop levels in Afghanistan adequate?
  
• Should the United States negotiate with the Taliban?

To read this article and others visit our Articles and Databases webpage and click on CQ Researcher. Select the Remote Access link for information on how to access this resource from off campus locations.