Find Resources by SubjectSubject Guide - World Languages and Ethnic Studies
Compiled by Paul Jackson, World Languages and Ethnic Studies Librarian Liaison. Updated 2007. Selected Reference BooksAmerican Sign Language REF HV 2475 .B87 1995 The Perigee Visual Dictionary of Signing, 3rd rev. & expanded ed. REF HV 2475 .S77 1998 American Sign Language, unabridged ed. Arabic
French REF PC 2105 .R64 1992 The Oxford Guide to the French Language REF PC 2640 .O93 1995 The Concise Oxford Hachette French Dictionary: German REF PF 3640 .C69 1991 The Concise Oxford-Duden German Dictionary: English-German/German-English REF PF 3640 .C64 1999 Collins German-English/English-German Dictionary, Unabridged, 4th ed. Italian REF PC 1640 .C33 1967 Cassell’s Italian Dictionary Japanese Russian REF 2640 .M8 1985 English-Russian Dictionary: 53,000 Entries, 20th stereotype ed. Spanish REF PC 4640 .O94 2001 The Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish, 2nd rev. ed with supplements REF PC 4640 .V69 1994 Vox Compact Spanish and English Dictionary: English-Spanish/Spanish-English Ethnic Studies REF GH 495.4 .E53 1993 The Encyclopedia of the Peoples of the World REF E 184 .A1 G14 2000 Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America REF E 184 .A1 H35 Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups
Selected Circulating BooksAmerican Sign Language HV 2474 .G73 2003 Talking with Your Hands, Listening with Your Eyes: A Complete Photographic Guide to American Sign Language HV 2474 .D46 2005 Sign to Learn: American Sign Language in the Early Childhood Classroom Arabic PJ 7510 .N5 1969 A Literary History of the Arabs PJ 7694 .E1 Anthology of Islamic Literature from the Rise of Islam to Modern Times French PQ 405 .F6 M62 1992 Modern French Poets, Selections with Translations: A Dual-Language Book PQ 2082 .C3 1959 Candide (Voltaire) PQ 2605 .A3734 M93 The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays (Albert Camus) PQ 2637 .A82 H9 No Exit and Three Other Plays (Jean-Paul Sartre) German PT 921 .K5613 1992 The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm PT 2621 .A26 A225 1997 Best Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book (Franz Kafka) PT 1327 .F58 A6 1993 Five Great German Short Stories: A Dual-Language Book PT 1160 .E5 G74 1995 Great German Poems of the Romantic Era Italian PQ 4302 .F69 The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) PQ 4338 .B6 E44 1990 The Life of Dante (Trattatello in laude di Dante) (Giovanni Boccaccio) PQ 4809 .A45 C513 1978 Invisible Cities (Italo Calvino) PQ 4695 .E5 B6 1995 The Coffee Shop (Carlo Goldoni) Japanese PL 782 .E8 M62 1962 Modern Japanese Stories PL 794.4 .A25 The Way of Silence: The Prose and Poetry of Basho PL 898 .J3 Japanese Haiku: Two Hundred Twenty Examples of Seventeen-Syllable Poems PL 839 .A7 A26 1963 Seven Japanese Tales (Junichiro Tanizaki) Latin PA 6004 .H3 A History of Latin Literature PA 6394 .A2 1961 Complete Works of Horace: The Original Latin Text of Horace’s Odes, Epodes, Satires, and Epistles with an Interlinear English Translation (Students’ Interlinear Translations) PA 6807 .A1 H3 1961 Virgil’s Aeneid, Books I-XII, Together with Bucolis, Eclogues, and Georgics (Students’ Interlinear Translations) PA 6236 .D4 Caesar’s Commentaries on the Gallic War, Books I-VII: The Original Latin Text with an Interlinear English Translation (Students’ Interlinear Translations) Russian PG 3213 .G8 1943 A Treasury of Russian Literature PG 3366 .A6 W37 1966 War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy) PG 3325 .B76 1957 The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) PG 3488 .O4 P813 1977 Prussian Nights: A Poem (Alexander Solzhenitsyn) Spanish PC 4271 .K38 2003 501 Spanish Verbs Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses and Moods in a New Easy-to-Learn Format, Alphabetically Arranged PQ 6172 .R46 N56 1994 Nine Centuries of Spanish Literature: A Dual-Language Anthology PQ 6613 .A763 P613 1987 Poem of the Deep Song (Federico Garcia Lorca) PQ 8097 .N4 E7913 1991 Spain in the Heart (Pablo Neruda) Ethnic Studies 185.925 .T39 1998 In Search of the Racial Frontier: African Americans in the American West, 1528-1990 F 869 .L89 M57 1993 Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 E 184 .A75 A8433 2000 Asian Americans: Experiences and Perspectives E 184 .A1 S3 2000 Racial and Ethnic Groups, 8th ed
Full-Text Books OnlineThis database includes access to such titles as: The Complete Idiot’s
Guide to Learning Sign Language, The Arabian Nights, The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to Learning French on Your Own, The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to Learning German on Your Own, The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to Learning Italian on Your Own, The Complete
Idiot’s Guide to the Roman Empire, Russian Identities: A Historical
Survey, Countdown to Spanish: Learn to Communicate in 24 Hours, Encyclopedia
of Race and Ethnic Studies. Lessons
(American Sign Language)
Print Magazines in Kiefer LibraryLa Tribuna The Library’s subscriptions to computing journals are primarily in electronic format. Full-text articles are available in electronic formats through online databases. (see below)
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Other Library MaterialsVideo/DVDMDSV VIDEOCASSETTE #3-B09 Sign Language: Singing in Sign HF 5386.5 .D43 1994 Dealing with Diversity Audiocassettes/CD
Searching the Library CatalogThe above titles are just a few of the resources available for you. The Kiefer Library Catalog, http://tlc.aims.edu/ provides access to resources available at Aims Community College. Use the following subjects (Library of Congress) and keywords to search in the library catalog: American Sign Language, Arabic language, French language, German language, Italian language, Japanese language, Latin language, Russian language, Spanish language, ethnic groups
Selected Web ResourcesAmerican Sign Language Arabic French German Italian Japanese Latin Russian Spanish: Ethnic Studies
Selected Statistical ResourcesVistawide World Languages and Cultures Global Reach, Bring the World to Your Website: Global Internet Statistics (by Language) NCELA, National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) of the U.S. Department of Education: Languages Spoken by U.S. Students NationMaster.com: Languages by Country NationMaster.com: Ethnic Groups by Country
Selected Online Images and Other MediaTeacherVision, Lesson Plans, Printables, and More: American Sign Language Manual Alphabet Locali d’autore: Un progetto di ABech informatica Kwintessential Language and Culture Specialists: Japan—Language, Culture, Customs, and Etiquette Languages of the World: Latin (Latina Linqua) Vistawide World Languages & Cultures: Spanish U.S. Department of State, International Information Programs, eJournalUSA: The United States in 2005: Who We Are Today Other Library Catalogs |

