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Listed below are the letters and titles of the main classes of the Library of Congress Classification. Click on any class to view an outline of its subclasses in an interactive PDF format. This list is based on the Library of Congress Classification Outline.
B -- Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
C -- Auxiliary Sciences of History
Online Encyclopedias
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Oxford Reference Online(Full-text)
This online resource is a collection of 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books combined into a single cross-searchable interface. -
Encyclopedia BritannicaThe electronic version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. An excellent starting point for almost any topic of research, the Britannica offers both concise descriptions, and longer, more comprehensive articles on a wide variety of topics.
Course Description: What is life? What does it mean to be alive? Is there, or can there ever be, a universally accepted definition of life? In this course, we will explore and integrate both classical and contemporary perspectives on the nature of life. We will consider the thoughts of philosophers including Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant, as well as physicists, chemists and biologists including Haldane, Schrödinger, Sagan, and Dawkins. We will strive to understand how ideas of what defines life have changed over time, and what factors have motivated or contributed to these changes. We will also analyze case studies that include prions, viruses, and ‘extremophiles’ - life forms that exist in the most extreme environments on earth. We will challenge our preconceived assumptions and biases on what constitutes life, and what it means to be alive.
Taught by: Jason Duncan
WU Libraries Catalogs
Select Books in the Stacks
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(Ebook) Madness and Memory: The Discovery of Prions--A New Biological Principle of Disease by ISBN: 9780300191141Publication Date: 2014-04-29Prusiner tells the remarkable story of his discovery of prions-infectious proteins that replicate and cause disease but surprisingly contain no genetic material-and reveals how superb and meticulous science is actually practiced with talented teams of researchers who persevere. -
Fatal Flaws: How a Misfolded Protein Baffled Scientists and Changed the Way We Look at the Brain by ISBN: 9780300189896Publication Date: 2013-03-19Discovered and identified as the cause of mad cow disease only three decades ago, the prion is a protein molecule that, when misshapen in the brain, becomes fatal. Novel and controversial, prions have provoked a scientific revolution. -
(Ebook) Extremophiles sustainable resources and biotechnological implications by Call Number: 1-118-39411-9ISBN: 1118394119Publication Date: 2012-10-16Recent technological advances have opened the door to exploring these organisms anew as sources of products that might prove useful in clinical and environmental biotechnology and drug development. -
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(Ebook) Planetary Systems and the Origins of Life by ISBN: 9780521875486Publication Date: 2007-12-06Interdisciplinary overview of astrobiology for students and researchers in astrophysics, planetary science, geosciences, biochemistry, and biology.
E-Books
For e-books, try the EBL Ebook Collection.
The library now has over 15,000 e-books as part of the Orbis Cascade Alliance's Demand Driven Acquisitions Project. Access to EBL is limited to current students, staff, and faculty of Willamette.
EBSCOhost eBooks is a collection of over 4,700 online books with subject strengths in reference, computer science and the Northwest.
It also includes books from regional university presses and Choice Outstanding Academic Titles.
Note: At this time the only way to read the EBSCOhost e-books is in their viewer.