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Resources Related to Heroism
Searching Wallace Library's Einstein Catalog provides
information relating to heroism. Remember, you can do a keyword
search or a subject search to locate information
on a topic. When doing a keyword search, you can
make use of Boolean searching by combining your
search words with the words and, or, not.
Advanced searching will allow you to set some limitations
to your search results. Below is a sampling of titles along with
their call numbers and the floor location.
The Ancient World: Justice, Heroism and Responsibility.
PA3621 .S75, 3rd floor.
The Hero in Literature. PN56.H45B7, 3rd floor.
Hidden Heroism: Black Soldiers in America's Wars. E185.63
.E34 2001, 4th floor.
Joan of Arc: The Image of the Female Heroism. DC103.W27
1981, 4th floor.
Thomas Eakins, The Heroism of Modern Life. ND237 .E15J64
1983, 3rd floor.
Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality. The Gifford
Lectures Delivered in the University of St. Andrews in the Year
1920. BL785 .F26, 4th floor.
The Hero: A Study in Tradition, Myth and Drama. BL325 .H46R3
1975, 4th floor.
The Hero in America: A Chronicle of Hero-Worship. E176
.W4, 4th floor.
Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth; The Hero's Adventure;
Message of the Myth; First Storytellers, DVD308, ETC/Media
Resource Center.
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero: A Psychological Interpretation
of Mythology. BL313 .R263 1970, 4th floor.
Research
Databases:
Click on the above link for the complete list of
the RIT Library's Online Databases. Suggested databases are listed
below.
Military
and Government Collection: Formerly Military Library. Collection
includes military and government related titles, trade publications
and newsweeklies. Designed to bring current news this database
contains: searchable full text for nearly 270 periodicals including
Army Times, Navy Times, Naval Institute Proceedings and Joint
Forces Quarterly abstracts and indexing for over 430 periodicals
and 240 pamphlets.
Academic
Search Elite: Provides information on a wide range of academic
areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general
academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics.
It features full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating
back to 1990, abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly
journals, and coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York
Times and The Christian Science Monitor.
America:
History and Life: Covers United States and Canadian history
from pre-history to present.
ArticleFirst:
Describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately
12,600 journals in science, technology, social science, business,
the humanities, etc.
Encyclopaedia
Britannica Online: Complete 32 volume Encyclopaedia Britannica
containing more than 215,000 entries.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic: Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical
and news and information from over 5000 sources.
Philosopher's
Index: Covers philosophy and related fields. It covers the
areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy,
epistemology and as well as material on the philosophy of law,
religion, science, history, education, and language.
Wilson Social
Sciences Full Text (part of OmniFile): Covers the fields of
anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political
science, social work, sociology, etc.
Internet
Resources Relating to Heroism:
The
Hero Chronicles. Learn about heroic lives and times of the
decades past.
Heroism
in Action. A ThinkQuest site. Biographies of heroes and a
challenge to discover the hero within each of us.
The Heroism Project:
In Search of Heroes: An American Journey. The Heroism Project
is dedicated to creating
programs that strengthen the fabric of our society by fostering
the values of integrity, courage, generosity, tolerance,
wisdom and compassion.
The
Purple Heart: Heroism and Sacrifice. "Site dedicated
to the memory of those men and women who left and never came
home...."
Ralph
Waldo Emerson's Heroism: Heroism from Essays: First Series
(1841).
