Included are many rare and fragile manuscripts containing eyewitness accounts and court records of the trials of witches, including harrowing original manuscript depositions taken from the victims in the torture chamber. These documents, in both original manuscript and in print, reveal the harsh outcome of the more remote doctrinal disputes. Perhaps the most significant of all manuscripts in the Witchcraft collection is the minutes of the witchcraft trial of Dietrich Flade, a sixteenth-century city judge and rector who spoke out against the cruelty and injustice of the persecutions in the 1580s.
The pronouncements of advocates of witch persecution - Binsfeld, Boguet, Del Rio, Remi - can be compared and contrasted to the courageous warning of Bekker, Löher, Loos, Scot, Spee - men who doubted the validity of witch believers and witch trials. Also, numerous dissertations and limited printed works examining theological, legal, social implications of witchcraft are reproduced in their entirety. However, this collection unlocks much more than the world witchcraft alone; spanning the 15th to 20th centuries, it also enables researchers to trace the history and culture of European civilization during the Renaissance and Enlightenment.
The majority of texts are in Latin, English and German, although there are also selected items in French, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch and Spanish.
Friday, June 25, 2010
New: Confidential print. Middle East
This collection covers c. 1839 to 1969, taking in the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan
Covering such events as the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Covering such events as the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
New: The accountant's handbook of fraud prevention and detection (FRAUD)
Canada’s foremost strategic fraud prevention and management guide, designed to help manage the risk of fraud, deal with suspected fraud, and protect against liability exposure.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
New: Underground and independent comics, comix, and graphic novels
Adult comic books and graphic novels. At completion, this collection will include more than 100,000 pages of materials, including 75,000 pages of primary materials (the comics themselves), and more than 25,000 pages of materials about comics—interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism—from The Comics Journal and other secondary sources.
You are currently viewing the first release of the collection, which features approximately 24,000 pages of comics and a small number of The Comics Journal issues. This initial release is meant to demonstrate the basic structure of the collection: future releases will introduce additional content and functionality that will allow for more detailed browsing, searching, and content analysis.
PS: An excellent complement to the George Morley Cartoon Collection
You are currently viewing the first release of the collection, which features approximately 24,000 pages of comics and a small number of The Comics Journal issues. This initial release is meant to demonstrate the basic structure of the collection: future releases will introduce additional content and functionality that will allow for more detailed browsing, searching, and content analysis.
PS: An excellent complement to the George Morley Cartoon Collection
Title Change: North American Indian Biographical Database to North American Indian Thought and Culture
Formerly known as North American Indian biographical database, at: http://alexanderstreet6.com/ibio/
and is now known as
North American Indian Thought and Culture at: http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/ibio/?
To learn more go to
http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/ibio/ibio.about.html
and is now known as
North American Indian Thought and Culture at: http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/ibio/?
To learn more go to
http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/ibio/ibio.about.html
New: Design Review
Important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The initial offering consists of The Studio, Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration and Art et Decoration
The initial offering consists of The Studio, Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration and Art et Decoration
Monday, June 07, 2010
New: U.S. relations with the Vatican and the Holocaust, 1940-1950
This publication provides a wealth of unique correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes U.S.-Vatican relations, Vatican’s role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope’s personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
New: Ethnographic Video Online
...hundreds of the most frequently assigned films in anthropology, ethnography, and social psychology courses. Targeted for inclusion are works by world-famous pioneers in the field, including Edward Curtis (In the Land of the War Canoes); Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North together with his article, “How I Filmed Nanook of the North”); John Marshall (The Hunters, the entire !Kung Bushman Series; A Kalahari Family); Jean Rouch; Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; Robert Gardner (Dead Birds, Rivers of Sand, Forest of Bliss); Timothy Asch, Patsy Asch, and Napoleon Chagnon (the complete Yanomamo Series, The Ax Fight); and Asen Balikci.
...will contain more than 750 hours of documentaries
... previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films.
... include field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing, full-text materials.
... footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures, and is particularly rich in its coverage of the developing world.
...include a wide range of indigenous media, from early experiments, to works from modern-day indigenous film production companies and other projects, including the DER Video in the Villages Presents Itself series and Jeff Arak’s documentaries about indigenous media, Voice Through Film (2006) and Those With Voice (2008). These materials allow researchers and students to compare indigenous to Western documentary approaches and will encourage dialogue on the practice and philosophy of visual anthropology.
...will contain more than 750 hours of documentaries
... previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films.
... include field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing, full-text materials.
... footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures, and is particularly rich in its coverage of the developing world.
...include a wide range of indigenous media, from early experiments, to works from modern-day indigenous film production companies and other projects, including the DER Video in the Villages Presents Itself series and Jeff Arak’s documentaries about indigenous media, Voice Through Film (2006) and Those With Voice (2008). These materials allow researchers and students to compare indigenous to Western documentary approaches and will encourage dialogue on the practice and philosophy of visual anthropology.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
New: DailyPublinet.ca
A daily information service that tracks parliamentary business in both the House of Commons and the Senate. PubliNet monitors legislative and committee activity, and provides a summary of news releases from the federal government, political parties, and numerous non-governmental agencies.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
New: Nursing Reference Center
In-depth content covering conditions and diseases, patient education resources, drug information, continuing education, lab & diagnosis detail, best practice guidelines, and much more.
(paid for by Calgary Campus and Qatar Faculties of Nursing)
(paid for by Calgary Campus and Qatar Faculties of Nursing)
Monday, April 05, 2010
New: State Papers Online. Tudors. State Papers Foreign
Reproduces the original historical manuscripts in facsimile linking each manuscript to its corresponding fully-searchable Calendar entry.
By overcoming the challenge of matching an individual Calendar entry to the original Paper, State Papers Online 1509-1714 marks an enormous advance in historical research.
By overcoming the challenge of matching an individual Calendar entry to the original Paper, State Papers Online 1509-1714 marks an enormous advance in historical research.
New: 19th C UK Periodicals Empire
Periodicals illustrating the topic of Empire including travel, anthropology, economics, missionary work and colonialism.
Content from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland,the National Library of Australia, and many other sources.
For the over 180 periodicals currently available, every front page, editorial, article, poem, recipe, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within their pages for the time period available will be easily accessible from what is a virtual chronicle of history for this period. Users of the database will be able to search every word on every page.
Content from the British Library, the National Library of Scotland,the National Library of Australia, and many other sources.
For the over 180 periodicals currently available, every front page, editorial, article, poem, recipe, advertisement and classified ad that appeared within their pages for the time period available will be easily accessible from what is a virtual chronicle of history for this period. Users of the database will be able to search every word on every page.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
New: Confidential print. North America, 1824-1961
The series originated out of a need for the British Government to preserve all of the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Some of these were one page letters or telegrams – others were large volumes or texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to Heads of British missions abroad.
New: Perdita Manuscripts
Manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
“Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. One of the key attractions of Perdita Manuscripts is that it brings together little known material from widely scattered locations. The provision of a powerful searching facility, biographical and bibliographical resources, and contextual essays by academics working in the field, makes this an indispensable resource for students and researchers
Thanks to the endeavours of the Perdita Project the valuable work of these “lost” women is being rediscovered. This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University.
“Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form. One of the key attractions of Perdita Manuscripts is that it brings together little known material from widely scattered locations. The provision of a powerful searching facility, biographical and bibliographical resources, and contextual essays by academics working in the field, makes this an indispensable resource for students and researchers
Thanks to the endeavours of the Perdita Project the valuable work of these “lost” women is being rediscovered. This resource is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University.
New: The American West
Tales of frontier life, of Native Americans and of vigilantes and outlaws are of constant interest, and are matched by more recent interest in the growth of urban centres, the environmental impact of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands.
The Graff Collection is a unique resource which will allow scholars to explore all of these areas and more. Through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources, this collection will act as a dynamic teaching and research resource.
* Papers of early pioneers, explorers and hunters are well represented, including items such as the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon.
* Canada and the Pacific Northwest are well documented including accounts of the Gold Rush and of the landscape.
* The evolution of Western towns can be seen through materials such as prospectuses and city directories.
* The growth of railway and road networks can be explored through maps and through records of key railroad companies.
* Emigrants guides, manuscript travel journals, store catalogues, illustrations and maps enable scholars to understand the phenomenon of Westward expansion.
* Accounts of ranches and of the prairie lands document the agricultural transformation of the West.
* There are rich resources for the study of Texas, Mexico and the South.
* Literary and historical works – as well as contemporary newspapers and posters - enable a better understanding of the real and mythic West – with first hand accounts of the lives of vigilantes and outlaws.
* Native American history and culture is also very well documented.
Original manuscripts, ephemeral material (trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets etc), maps, and rare printed works.
The Graff Collection is a unique resource which will allow scholars to explore all of these areas and more. Through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources, this collection will act as a dynamic teaching and research resource.
* Papers of early pioneers, explorers and hunters are well represented, including items such as the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon.
* Canada and the Pacific Northwest are well documented including accounts of the Gold Rush and of the landscape.
* The evolution of Western towns can be seen through materials such as prospectuses and city directories.
* The growth of railway and road networks can be explored through maps and through records of key railroad companies.
* Emigrants guides, manuscript travel journals, store catalogues, illustrations and maps enable scholars to understand the phenomenon of Westward expansion.
* Accounts of ranches and of the prairie lands document the agricultural transformation of the West.
* There are rich resources for the study of Texas, Mexico and the South.
* Literary and historical works – as well as contemporary newspapers and posters - enable a better understanding of the real and mythic West – with first hand accounts of the lives of vigilantes and outlaws.
* Native American history and culture is also very well documented.
Original manuscripts, ephemeral material (trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets etc), maps, and rare printed works.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
New Resource: Counseling and psychotherapy transcripts, client narratives, and reference works
More than 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions, together with almost 40,000 pages of client narratives and 25,000 pages of major reference works. There are diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs along with the full text of therapy and counseling sessions themselves. All accounts are non-fiction, delivered in the first person and, where possible, contemporaneous. The database will be updated biweekly and so the depth and breadth of the material included will be continuously growing.
New Resource: Counseling and therapy in video
Collection of video for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible. .
New Resource: American history in video
Coverage ranges from the early history of Native Americans, to the lost colony of Roanoke, to the 1988 Vicennes Affair in the Persian Gulf. Biographical coverage ranges from eighteenth century figures such as Benedict Arnold and Daniel Boone to modern day figures such as Thurgood Marshall and Helen Thomas. Includes documentaries, newsreels, public affairs video, and archival footage.
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