LibGuides: New Titles at the UConn Library Avery Point: February 2025

Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel

Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo explores the historical development of representing journeys through lines on maps, focusing on maritime travel. The book traces the evolution of this cartographic practice from its roots in the early sixteenth century, emphasizing the role of European sea-bound empires. It examines how these 'tracks' have influenced Western perceptions of space, movement, and storytelling. The narrative delves into the cultural, historical, and technological shifts that enabled the creation and significance of journey lines, highlighting their role in modernity, colonial occupation, and the rise of accuracy and discovery. Intended for readers interested in maritime history, cartography, and cultural studies, the book offers insights into how these concepts transformed human interaction with the natural environment.

The story of drawing: an alternative history of art

Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehistoric ancestors drew with natural pigments on the walls of caves, and every subsequent culture has practiced drawing – whether on papyrus, parchment or paper. Artists throughout history have used drawing as part of the creative process. While painting and sculpture have been shaped heavily by money and influence, drawing has always offered extraordinary creative latitude. Here we see the artist at his or her most unguarded. Susan Owens offers a glimpse over artists’ shoulders– from Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Hokusai to Van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz and Yayoi Kusama – as they work, think and innovate, as they scrutinize the world around them or escape into their imaginations. The Story of Drawing loops around the established history of art, sometimes staying close, at other times diving into exhilarating and altogether less familiar territory.

Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically

A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our livesIn an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically?Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values. These essays are not lectures about what you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead, the contributors tell stories of real people-real bellies, real bodies-including the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.A wide array of themes, topics, and perspectives inform the selections within Good Eats, contributing to an enhanced understanding of how we eat as individuals and in groups. From factory farming and the exploitative labor practices surrounding chocolate production, to Indigenous foodways and home and community gardens, the topics featured in this collection describe the wider context of sustenance and ethical choices. Good Eats will encourage you to become more mindful of what and how you eat-and to consider the larger systems and cultures that shape that eating. These essays turn mundane meals into remarkable symbols of how we live, encouraging each of us to find food that is both sustaining and sustainable. Contributors include Ross Gay, DeLyssa Begay, Lynn Z. Bloom, Michael P. Branch, Nikky Finney, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Barbara J. King, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Leah Penniman, Adrienne Su, Ira Sukrungruang, Tina Vasquez, Nicole Walker, Thérèse Nelson, Lisa Knopp, Jane Brox, Maureen Stanton, Taté Walker, and many others.

Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel

Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo explores the historical development of representing journeys through lines on maps, focusing on maritime travel. The book traces the evolution of this cartographic practice from its roots in the early sixteenth century, emphasizing the role of European sea-bound empires. It examines how these 'tracks' have influenced Western perceptions of space, movement, and storytelling. The narrative delves into the cultural, historical, and technological shifts that enabled the creation and significance of journey lines, highlighting their role in modernity, colonial occupation, and the rise of accuracy and discovery. Intended for readers interested in maritime history, cartography, and cultural studies, the book offers insights into how these concepts transformed human interaction with the natural environment.

The story of drawing: an alternative history of art

Drawing is at the heart of human creativity. The most democratic form of art-making, it requires nothing more than a plain surface and a stub of pencil, a piece of chalk or an inky brush. Our prehistoric ancestors drew with natural pigments on the walls of caves, and every subsequent culture has practiced drawing – whether on papyrus, parchment or paper. Artists throughout history have used drawing as part of the creative process. While painting and sculpture have been shaped heavily by money and influence, drawing has always offered extraordinary creative latitude. Here we see the artist at his or her most unguarded. Susan Owens offers a glimpse over artists’ shoulders– from Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Hokusai to Van Gogh, Käthe Kollwitz and Yayoi Kusama – as they work, think and innovate, as they scrutinize the world around them or escape into their imaginations. The Story of Drawing loops around the established history of art, sometimes staying close, at other times diving into exhilarating and altogether less familiar territory.

Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically

A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our livesIn an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically?Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, chefs, farmers, activists, educators, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to individual and collective values. These essays are not lectures about what you should eat, nor an advertisement for the latest diet. Instead, the contributors tell stories of real people-real bellies, real bodies-including the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, cultures, histories, and systems that have shaped their eating and their ethics.A wide array of themes, topics, and perspectives inform the selections within Good Eats, contributing to an enhanced understanding of how we eat as individuals and in groups. From factory farming and the exploitative labor practices surrounding chocolate production, to Indigenous foodways and home and community gardens, the topics featured in this collection describe the wider context of sustenance and ethical choices. Good Eats will encourage you to become more mindful of what and how you eat-and to consider the larger systems and cultures that shape that eating. These essays turn mundane meals into remarkable symbols of how we live, encouraging each of us to find food that is both sustaining and sustainable. Contributors include Ross Gay, DeLyssa Begay, Lynn Z. Bloom, Michael P. Branch, Nikky Finney, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Barbara J. King, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Leah Penniman, Adrienne Su, Ira Sukrungruang, Tina Vasquez, Nicole Walker, Thérèse Nelson, Lisa Knopp, Jane Brox, Maureen Stanton, Taté Walker, and many others.

Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel

Tracks on the Ocean by Sara Caputo explores the historical development of representing journeys through lines on maps, focusing on maritime travel. The book traces the evolution of this cartographic practice from its roots in the early sixteenth century, emphasizing the role of European sea-bound empires. It examines how these 'tracks' have influenced Western perceptions of space, movement, and storytelling. The narrative delves into the cultural, historical, and technological shifts that enabled the creation and significance of journey lines, highlighting their role in modernity, colonial occupation, and the rise of accuracy and discovery. Intended for readers interested in maritime history, cartography, and cultural studies, the book offers insights into how these concepts transformed human interaction with the natural environment.

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Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel

The story of drawing: an alternative history of art

Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically

Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel

The story of drawing: an alternative history of art

Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically

Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps, and Maritime Travel