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The end of the year represents a celebration for many different cultures. Learn more about Ramadan, Hannukah , Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year from these sample HotSpot web sites, eBooks and print books all available in COM Library on the topic. For more like these, see COM Library's Holiday HotSpots : howstuffworks .com: How Ramadan Works (website) A Search for the Meaning of Christmas: Christmas Literature, Poetry and Stories (website) Hanukkah ( eBook ) Happy New Year, Everywhere! ( eBook ) Complete Kwanzaa: celebrating our cultural harvest (book) GT 4403 R56 1995 Noche buena : Hispanic American Christmas stories (book) PS 509 C56 N63 2000 Happy Holidays from COM Library!

"The Fulbright Program aims to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship." – J. William Fulbright Learn more about International Education Week and programs like Fulbright that are designed to promote programs that prepare Americans for a global environment and attract future leaders from abroad to study, learn, and exchange experiences in the United States from these sample HotSpot web sites, eBooks and print books all available in COM Library on the topic: US International Education Week ; Take the Geographic Economy Quiz : Take the Cultural Geography Quiz ; Take the Cities of the World Quiz (website) Employment in Foreign Countries search (eBook) Summer jobs abroad Call number HD 6270 D5 (book) Get more International Education Week HotSpots .

A compelling look at the quest for the origins of human language from an accomplished linguist Language is a distinctly human gift. However, because it leaves no permanent trace, its evolution has long been a mystery, and it is only in the last fifteen years that we have begun to understand how language came into being. The book follows two intertwined narratives. The first is an account of how language developed—how the random and layered processes of evolution wound together to produce a talking animal: us. The second addresses why scientists are at last able to explore the subject. For more than a hundred years, language evolution was considered a scientific taboo. Kenneally focuses on figures like Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker, along with cognitive scientists, biologists, geneticists, and animal researchers, in order to answer the fundamental question: Is language a uniquely human phenomenon? Main Author: Kenneally, Christine Title: The first word : the search for the origins of l

Veterans Day, November 11 Enacted by Congress on June 4, 1926: "WHEREAS the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals..." See more on The Origins of Veterans Day . This year COM focuses on World War II Vets. Learn more about Veterans Day and WW II from these sample HotSpot web sites, eBooks and print books all available in COM Library on the topic: US Army: CMH: Online Books: Images from World War II: The Early Years , Images from World War II: Preparing for Battle (website) Women pilots of World War II (eBook) Goodbye, darkness : a memoir of the Pacific War D 767 M18 (Book) Get more Veterans Day HotSpots .

A new feature in EBSCO accurately formats citations for any article found in an EBSCO database in APA or MLA style. This feature is a little tricky to get to. To make it easier, step by step instructions and screen shots have been added to COM Library's How to Cite MLA and How to Cite APA guides. Look for the instructions in the Articles section of the guides: MLA: http://libguides.com.edu/mla APA: http://libguides.com.edu/apa