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Modern Middle East - History, Biography, Area Studies
Ebooks:
A prophet from amongst you: The life of Yigael Yadin : soldier, scholar, and mythmaker of modern Israel, by Silberman, Neil Asher
World I Loved : The Story of an Arab Woman
Cortas, Wadad Makdisi
Next Founders : Voices of Democracy in the Middle East
Muravchik, Joshua
Ariel Sharon : An Intimate Portrait
Dan, Uri
Man Who Pushed America to War : The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Roston, Aram
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A memoir in books
Nafisi, Azar
Son of the Cypresses : Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life
Benvenisti, Meron
Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur : From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada
Rejwan, Nissim
Print Books (click link to check status in CBC Library's Catalog):
Arafat : From defender to dictator
Aburish, Saïd K .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS119.7 .A68A28 1998
Atatürk
Mango, Andrew
CBC Library, Pasco - On Order
The Ayatollah begs to differ : The paradox of modern Iran
Majd, Hooman
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS318.9 .M35 2008
The Gulf states : A modern history
Commins, David Dean
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS247 .A135C66 2012
House of stone : A memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East
Shadid, Anthony
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ663.9 .S53 2012
Lipstick Jihad : A memoir of growing up Iranian in American and American in Iran
Moaveni, Azadeh
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - E184 .I5M63 2006
Man of defiance : A political biography of Anwar Sadat
Israeli, Raphael
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.828 .S23I84 1985
Mayada, daughter of Iraq : One woman's survival under Saddam Hussein
Sasson, Jean P.
CBC Library, Pasco - HQ1735.Z75A56 2004
Nasser
Nutting, Anthony
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.83 .N79 1972b
The Oil kings : How the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of power in the Middle East, Cooper, Andrew Scott
CBC Library, Pasco - E183.8 .I55C66 2011
Patriot of Persia : Muhammad Mossadegh and a tragic Anglo-American coup
De Bellaigue, Christopher
CBC Library, Pasco - DS318.6 .D42 2012
The Prince : The secret story of the world's most intriguing royal, prince Bandar bin Sultan
Simpson, William
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS244.526 .B55S56 2006
The Process : 1,100 days that changed the Middle East
Savir, Uri
CBC Library, Pasco - DS119.76 .S78 1999
Reading Lolita in Tehran : A memoir in books
Nafisi, Azar
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N34 2004
The Shah
Milani, Abbas
CBC Library, Pasco - DS318 .M494 2011
Things I've been silent about : Memories
Nafisi, Azar
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N345 2008
links updated 5/22/2013 cs
Introduction to Theatre
Actors
To determine which actors have won awards, here are the official databases from the associations:
Academy Awards Database
Emmy Awards Database
Tony Awards Database
The CBC Library does not routinely purchase book length biographies of actors; these may be found in the public libraries. Numerous biography reference articles may be found in print at the CBC Library, as well as in some of our online databases such as the ebrary title, New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson (Knopf, 2004), and the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Also try searching ebrary by keyword (name) or using a subject search such as Motion picture* AND Biography.
ProQuest holds many newspaper and magazine articles on actors;
you may find you get better results by changing the search to 'person' and either searching last name first or using the 'look up' feature.
Stage Directors
On Reference Reserve for Drama
Playwrights - The CBC Library's general biography resources mentioned above will also be useful for information about playwrights. In addition, playwrights are literary authors and are covered in literature reference sources. One database that we offer that contains many playwrights is ProQuest Learning: Literature. We also have substantial print reference in literature; for instance, you will find reference articles about Tennessee Williams in:
The Richland Public Library includes the Biography Resource Center and the Literature Resource Center among their databases; the first may be useful for all three assignments, the last for the playwright presentation. All CBC Students may gain access, and even non-residents will have the fee waived if they show proof that they are a current student.
links updated 5/22/2013 cs
To determine which actors have won awards, here are the official databases from the associations:
Academy Awards Database
Emmy Awards Database
Tony Awards Database
The CBC Library does not routinely purchase book length biographies of actors; these may be found in the public libraries. Numerous biography reference articles may be found in print at the CBC Library, as well as in some of our online databases such as the ebrary title, New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson (Knopf, 2004), and the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Also try searching ebrary by keyword (name) or using a subject search such as Motion picture* AND Biography.
ProQuest holds many newspaper and magazine articles on actors;
you may find you get better results by changing the search to 'person' and either searching last name first or using the 'look up' feature.Stage Directors
On Reference Reserve for Drama
- From Belasco to Brook : representative directors of the English-speaking stage / Samuel L. Leiter.
PN2597 .L45 1991 - From Stanislavsky to Barrault : representative directors of the European stage / Samuel L. Leiter.
PN2570 .L45 1991 - Great stage directors : 100 distinguished careers of the theater / Samuel L. Leiter
PN2205 .L44 1994
- Fifty key theatre directors / edited by Shomit Mitter and Maria Shevtsova
PN2053 .F54 2005 - Theatrical directors : a biographical dictionary / edited by John W. Frick & Stephen M. Vallillo.
PN2205 .T54 1994
Playwrights - The CBC Library's general biography resources mentioned above will also be useful for information about playwrights. In addition, playwrights are literary authors and are covered in literature reference sources. One database that we offer that contains many playwrights is ProQuest Learning: Literature. We also have substantial print reference in literature; for instance, you will find reference articles about Tennessee Williams in:
- American National Biography, volume 23 - Reference CT213 .A68 1999
- Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 7 part 2 - Reference PN451 .D52 1981
- Critical Survey of Drama, volume 5 - Reference PR623 .C75 1985
The Richland Public Library includes the Biography Resource Center and the Literature Resource Center among their databases; the first may be useful for all three assignments, the last for the playwright presentation. All CBC Students may gain access, and even non-residents will have the fee waived if they show proof that they are a current student.
links updated 5/22/2013 cs
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