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Waldorf University Luise V. Hanson Library

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The Luise V. Hanson Library provides a wide range of services to current students, faculty, staff and community members with a valid library card.

01/10/2023

Happy New Year!

Come check our new Martin Luther King, Jr. display here at the Hanson Library!

11/18/2022

This is one of the most exhaustive contemporary reconstructions of the life of Pliny the Younger (61-c. 113 CE), a senator and consul, and one of the best documented private individuals in this era of history.

11/18/2022

This is the story of the Federal Council of Negro Affairs, known as the "Black cabinet", a group of African Americans who pressed FDR to build reforms into the New Deal and WWII policies that would give full citizenship to the oppressed Black minority.

11/17/2022

Zorrie Underwood was born and raised in Depression-era Indiana. While she roamed the Midwest, Indiana always called her home.

11/17/2022

This book "explains how the judiciary sets and maintain identity binaries: male/female, gay/straight, cisgender/transgender". These binaries create a hierarchy that grants privilede and resources to the dominant group, excluding many trans people.

11/16/2022

This book examines the long-term history of India & the Indo-Islamic world from the perspective of world history & geography. It argues that the development of this world is because of shifts in the relationships between the people of the deserts, plains, & ocean.

11/16/2022

As Afrofuturism has exploded in the recent cultural scene, scholarly assessments have followed. This is a collection discussing comtemprorary Afrofuturism across the Black Atlantic, particularly how Black women have been leaders in the genre.

11/15/2022

This book is a sweeping analysis of the revolutionary tradition in Europe in the long 19th century (1775-1922). It covers Britain and much of continental Europe, as well as the Americas, and the Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds.

11/15/2022

This book is about the means that propertied classes used to steal land and compel labor from American Indians, slaves, and indentured servants through the history of the U.S. It is about labor, and how punishment is so central to the functioning of this country.

11/14/2022

This book offers insight into military topics by looking at them through the lens of information and media technologies. It discusses the rise of automation in warfare, and what the future of warfare might look like.

11/14/2022

This book analyzes the ongoing political struggles over affirmative action and open admissions in the post-civil rights period. She examines case studies of policies at public universities, and highlights students fighting policy shifts.

11/13/2022

This is an insightful look at the life and work of Stanley Kubrick. It particularly looks at how his Jewishness influenced his self-image, and his work.

11/13/2022

This book is both a history of Mars science, and a history of one of the few senior female planetary scientists involved in missions to Mars.

11/11/2022

This is one of the first attempts to bring together Leonardo da Vinci's work that displays his technical and aesthetic fascination with water.

11/11/2022

Henry VII became the first Tudor king of England in 1485. This was greatly due to his mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, who schemed to end the War of the Roses and put her son on the throne. This is a biography of the mother of the Tudor dynasty.

11/10/2022

The goal of this book is to explain international criminal law, how punishment works, and the purposes behind the punishment.

11/10/2022

This book is about current language debates and issues, and demonstrates how much words matter. It explores the roles of language in establishing social identities, navigating social landscapes, and debating social and linguistic change.

11/09/2022

This book examines the relationship between voters - called the "silent majority" by Nixon, and protesters: the loud minority, and the impact that protesters have on voter turnout, campaign contributions, and election outcomes.

11/09/2022

This study is an examination of how women respond psychologically to the sexism of patriarchy, drawing upon field research and in-depth qualitative data from different parts of the world.

11/08/2022

Ben Dane's father is dead, but no one knows if it was on purpose or by accident. Horatio Patel returns to NYC to be with his devastated best friend, even though it breaks his heart. Lia has been drawn into the fold of three florists whose bouquets hold magic.

11/08/2022

This book examines violent crimes within educational settings: from kindergarten to universities. It considers theoretical explanations, risk factors, mental illness, preventive measures, and victim assistance.

11/07/2022

In 1942, Eva was forced to flee Paris, discovering a talent for forgery at the same time. She and her mother end up in a small mountain town, where Eva begins work forging identity document for Jewish children fleeing to Switzerland.

11/07/2022

Cells are the building blocks of living things, but it is the communication between cells that brings us to life. This book delves into these communications, covering body cells, brain cells, microbial interactions, and intercellular communications.

11/06/2022

25 years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall. 3 weeks later, they fled, which the father recounted in a horror memoir. Now, Maggie has inherited the house, and is determined to go back.

11/06/2022

This is a book "about race and its longstanding, knotty relationship with basic biology, evolution, and genetics". It debunks myths and fallacies about race, and challenges racist pseudoscience.

11/04/2022

From the 1960s-1990s, The South African police collected over 7000 photos of apartheid's enemies, collecting them in "terrorist albums" and distributing them secretly to police stations. All were destroyed except for 3, and they form the basis for this book.

11/04/2022

The journey to understand human social life and structures begins in early childhood, and starts with the development of a "theory of mind", or understanding our inner mental states. This book discusses how children acquire their theory of mind.

11/03/2022

Amanda Gorman was the youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her poem "The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country" is in this book.

11/03/2022

This study explores how American librarians, archivists, and academics traveled throughout Europe to collect information relevant to the war effort in WWII, and how these missions impacted academic institutions and national security.

11/02/2022

This is a new biography of the German novelist, playwright, and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It covers his life, work, and lasting influences, as well as examining his areas of study.

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Forest City, IA
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Tuesday	8am - 11pm
Wednesday	8am - 11pm
Thursday	8am - 11pm
Friday	8am - 3pm
Sunday	4pm - 10pm

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