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Huggable Robot Befriends Girl in Hospital

Meet Huggable Robot—an app-controlled stuffed animal designed by the MIT Media Lab. Created to help young patients who are fighting cancer, Huggable is operated by an expert Child Life Specialist at Boston Children’s Hospital. See the interactive bear in action, and find out how it’s helping to relieve children’s anxiety while engaging with them on an emotional level.




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Angry Nerd - Clicking Dislike on the Cyber-Horror Film "Unfriended"

The new horror movie “Unfriended” uses a screen-capture format to shape the film’s narrative. But guess what? Using Facebook messages, Skype calls, and Gchats to tell a story isn’t innovative, it’s LAZY! Angry Nerd explains why the cyber-horror flick deserves an IRL “dislike."




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CES 2016 - Fridges for the Future

LG's Signature Fridge and Samsung's Family Hub Refrigerator concepts are a glimpse of the future of connected, touchscreen and app-controlled refrigerators that might even order their own groceries.




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CES 2017 - The Fridges of the Future Surf the Web and Take Pictures

A fridge should do more than just keep your food cold, right? Samsung and LG think so. Both companies showcased their outrageously smart fridges at CES this year.




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No-nonsense quantum mechanics : a student-friendly introduction / Jakob Schwichtenberg

Schwichtenberg, Jakob, author




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Saturn and melancholy : studies in the history of natural philosophy, religion, and art / Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky, and Fritz Saxl ; edited by Philippe Despoix and Georges Leroux ; with a foreword by Bill Sherman

Klibansky, Raymond, 1905- author




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Precipitation partitioning by vegetation: a global synthesis / John T. Van Stan, II, Ethan Gutmann, Jan Friesen, editors

Online Resource




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Writing after postcolonialism: Francophone North African literature in transition / Dr Jane Hiddleston

Online Resource




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Writing after postcolonialism: Francophone North African literature in transition / Jane Hiddleston

Rotch Library - PQ3980.5.H47 2017




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The silence of the spirits / Wilfried N'Sondé ; translated by Karen Lindo

Hayden Library - PQ3989.3.N76 S5513 2017




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What Is Africa to me?: fragments of a true-to-life autobiography / Maryse Condé ; translated by Richard Philcox

Hayden Library - PQ3949.2.C65 Z4613 2017




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Flaubert in the ruins of Paris: the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year / Peter Brooks

Hayden Library - PQ2247.B683 2017




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Seven plays of Koffi Kwahulé: in and out of Africa / translated by Chantal Bilodeau and Judith G. Miller ; edited with Introductions by Judith G. Miller

Hayden Library - PQ3989.2.K87 A2 2017




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State/society: narrating transformations in selected African novels / Gilbert Shang Ndi

Hayden Library - PQ3984.N35 2017




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Je découverte... Maurice Sixto / écrit par Mirline Pierre ; dessiné par Fritzgérald Muscadin ; caricaturé par Ralphaël [i.e., Raphaël] Paquin

Barker Library - PQ3949.2.S59 Z55 2019




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Patron Services: Conversations with African Poets and Writers, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah

The African Section, African & Middle Eastern Division is sponsoring “Conversations with African Poets and Writers”, featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah, author and 2019 Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing, on Thursday, February 20, 2020, from 12:00 -1:00PM, in the Whittall Pavilion, Ground Floor, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 11 First St. SE, Washington, DC.  A book signing and a display of Africana books and other materials follow. 

The Conversations with African Poets and Writers Series presents interviews with current African diaspora writers committed to the literature of continental and diasporic Africa (fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, literary criticism) and readings from their written works. Authors include established writers as well as highly talented ‘new’ and emerging writers.

Please forward inquiries to Laverne Page at (202) 707-1979 or email mpag@loc.gov.

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or email ADA@loc.gov.

 

Click here for more information.

 




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Playful identities: the ludification of digital media cultures / edited by Valerie Frissen, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Jos de Mul, Joost Raessens

Hayden Library - GV1469.17.S63.P52 2015




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Black voices rise: African American artists at the Met, 1955-1985.

MEDIA PhonCD B5606 voi




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Rush: revolution, madness, and the visionary doctor who became a founding father / Stephen Fried

Browsery E302.6.R85 F75 2018




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Sweet Home Cafe cookbook: a celebration of African American cooking / Albert G. Lukas and Jessica B. Harris, with contributions by Jerome Grant ; foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch III ; introduction by Jacquelyn D. Serwer ; in association with the National Muse

Browsery TX715.2.A47 L85 2018




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Nobody's girl Friday: the women who ran Hollywood / J.E. Smyth

Browsery PN1995.9.W6 S639 2018




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Searching for inter-racial, interstitial, intersectional, and interstates meeting spaces: Africa vs North America / edited by Tendai Rinos Mwanaka

Browsery PN6071.A45 S437 2018




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Robert Fripp Releases Free Ambient Music to Get You Through the Lockdown: Enjoy “Music for Quiet Moments”

King Crimson’s master guitarist Robert Fripp has had a career long reputation as an autocrat, and exacting, difficult taskmaster. He’s named an album, a band, and a record company “Discipline.” Drummer Bill Bruford once described him as an “an amalgam of Stalin, Gandhi and the Marquis de Sade,” according to The Telegraph. But recently, there’s […]

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Who is Priyanka's best friend? She tells us

'My life hasn't changed much, in terms of how I travel and work since I got married. Nick and I are both work-oriented and have a lot of drive and ambition. But two countries are a part of it, so it takes a lot of flights, a lot of beating jet lag, forgetting to eat, not getting enough time to sleep...'




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Zora and Langston: a story of friendship and betrayal / Yuval Taylor

Dewey Library - PS3515.U789 Z93 2019




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Friday black / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Barker Library - PS3601.D49 A6 2018




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E.E. Cummings, the art of his poetry / Norman Friedman

Online Resource




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Letters from Max: a book of friendship / Sarah Ruhl & Mark Ritvo

Hayden Library - PS3618.I8 Z48 2018




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Sacraments of memory: Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature / Erin Michael Salius

Hayden Library - PS508.N3 S25 2018




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Pan-African American literature: signifyin(g) immigrants in the twenty-first century / Stephanie Li

Dewey Library - PS153.N5 L472 2018




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Temperance and cosmopolitanism: African American reformers in the Atlantic world / Carole Lynn Stewart

Dewey Library - PS153.N5 S754 2018




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Piano concertos: Martha Argerich & friends / Bach

Browsery DVD B122 co sel




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Saul: a dramatic oratorio in three acts / by George Frideric Handel ; libretto by Charles Jennens ; a co-production between Glyndebourne, François Roussillon et associés, Sky Arts, and Sonostream.tv ; with the participation of ZDF-Arte, YLE

Browsery DVD H191 sau




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Anastasia / music, Pyotr Ilʹyich Tchaikovsky and Bohuslav Martinů ; electronic music produced by the studio of the Technical University of West Berlin (Fritz Winckel and Rüdiger Rüfer) ; choreography, Kenneth MacMillan ; production realized by

Browsery DVD T782 sy1




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Friday Night Lights. The first season (2006) / created, written and directed by Peter Berg [DVD].

[U.K.] : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2019]




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Friday Night Lights (2004) / directed by Peter Berg [DVD].

[U.K.] : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2019]




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BAML sees platinum, palladium deficit this year as South Africa production losses bite




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Medicinal plant research in Africa: pharmacology and chemistry / edited by Victor Kuete

Online Resource




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The Oxford handbook of the prehistoric Arctic / edited by T. Max Friesen and Owen K. Mason

Hayden Library - G606.O94 2016




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A world of empires: the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada / Edyta M. Bojanowska

Online Resource




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Perspectives on rural tourism geographies: case studies from developed nations on the exotic, the fringe and the boring bits in between / editors, Rhonda L. Koster and Doris A. Carson

Online Resource




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Working with map projections: a guide to their selection / Fritz C. Kessler and Sarah E. Battersby

Online Resource




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Earth observations and geospatial science in service of sustainable development goals: 12th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing and the Environment / Souleye Wade, editor

Online Resource




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New directions in South African tourism geographies / Jayne M. Rogerson, Gustav Visser, editors

Online Resource




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Managing Chinese-African business interactions: growing intercultural competence in organizations / Claude-Hélène Mayer, Lynette Louw, Christian Martin Boness, editors

Online Resource




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Developing global leaders: insights from African case studies / Eva Jordans, Bettina Ng'weno, Helen Spencer-Oatey

Online Resource




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Business and social crisis in Africa / Antoinette Handley, University of Toronto

Dewey Library - HD60.5.A35 H36 2019




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African camera : an introduction to African cinema / Australian Film Institute




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Bonnie and Clyde / Lester D. Friedman

Friedman, Lester D., author




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Statistical mechanics of lattice systems: a concrete mathematical introduction / Sacha Friedli (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil), Yvan Velenik (Université de Genève)

Hayden Library - QC174.8.F65 2017