Just in time for all the publicity surrounding the Oscar-nominated film The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, the Thammasat University Libraries have acquired two books about the film’s subject, Alan Turing.
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New Books: Elephants
You probably saw the news that a wild elephant in Khao Yai National Park near Bangkok stomped on a car. Another elephant, or possibly the same one, also attacked a shop and restaurant in the park. Khao Yai National Park director Kanchit Srinoppawan says this is due to the elephant’s mating season, but it is especially timely that the Thammasat University Libraries have acquired a book, Elephants and ethics: toward a morality of coexistence, to explain the problem.
New Books: Animals and History
In November 2014, the Thai government passed Thailand’s first-ever animal protection law.
So a timely new acquisition to the Thammasat Universities Libraries collection is Noble Cows and Hybrid Zebras: Essays on Animals and History by Harriet Ritvo:
New Books: Microbiology in Thailand
Microbes are living things that are too small to be seen without the aid of a microscope. They may be found anywhere and they turn out to be extremely important for life. So the Thammasat University Libraries did well to acquire The Amoeba in the Room: Lives of the Microbes by Nicholas P. Money:
New Books: Abstract Painting
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was a Dutch modernist painter who died just over seventy years ago in New York, so the Thammasat University Libraries have made a timely acquisition of The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian by Nancy Troy.
New Books: Hawks in Thailand
Thailand is rich with almost 1000 bird species, of which fifty are threatened all over the world. Almost 200 species of water and forest birds are endangered due to the destruction of forests and wetlands in the Kingdom, so it is always good to appreciate natural beauties before they disappear. This is one of the themes of H is for Hawk, a new book about birds in the Thammasat University Libraries collection:
New Books: Nelson Mandela
In July 2014, Chulalongkorn University launched a lecture series in honor of Nelson Mandela (1918–2013), the South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize and served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999.
2014 was also the 20th year since the end of apartheid – South Africa’s former system of racial segregation – and the Thammasat University Libraries made a timely acquisition of The Cambridge Companion to Nelson Mandela.
New Books: World War I
The British, the Great War, and Yod Sangrungruang.
A new book in the Thammasat University U Libraries collection arrives just in time for the centenary of the outbreak of World War I:
New Books: Rudolf Nureyev
Nureyev: the life by Julie Kavanagh.
Fans of traditional Thai dance may be interested to learn about other types of world dance.
