While doing more inventory scannin, I was surprised by the secretary carrying in a box of new books. Seems like that is going to make the inventory problematic...
oh well
We got books in a huge variety of subjects. I will tell you about the first half today.
Pilgrimage is an interesting photo intensive book following twenty different pilgrimages across many cultures and religions. First Families is an interesting photo intensive book featuring photographs of Native Americans in California from the last century, with descriptions and tribes identified in each photo.
Revolutionary Characters: What made the founders Different seeks to paint written portraits of eight of the original "American Worthies" from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Aaron Burr. Should be an interesting read for any history buff.
How to Flunk out of Community College offers 101 proven ways to mess up college, but a lot more suggestions on how to overcome your own foibles and succeed. We also got the Animator's Survival Kit: a big paperback which details how to be an animator, from angles and multiple images to expressions and more. I had a student complain that the art teacher did not like her cartoon images (I could not blame the art teacher, who was trying to teach realistic drawing techniques, not every subject related to drawing every student might ever want to learn). It got me thinking, though that once a student knows how to draw reasonably well, he or she may wish to develop further skills like animation and comic styles (coming in a future shipment).
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The Animator's Survival Kit would've been reasonably useful to me back in high school. There are just so many books on *everything* that it's impossible to find all the books about all the things I'm interested in. Sometimes, I feel a bit like the guy in the old Twilight Zone episode who broke his glasses.
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