COLLEGE OF T1lE BAHAMAS

VOLUME V

NASSA11. BAHAMAS- CST. 1')74­

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May, 1993

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From The Acquisitions Librariant1rs. B. Wa 1ker

New Arrivals: Great Artists of the Wes ern World:Series. Includes:

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of Centr.:.1 :'-'orl a at 'ne ;,c.rriott's Orlando ·,.,;orldCenter, Orlanco, Fla. The 14th annual meeting oftne i·:c.tiono.! Eaucc.clon<ii Comput'ng Conference.Contact: Donna J. B~umbac • Univ. of Central fla.Dept. of Ed. Services, Cr1o.ndo, r'I, 328i6-1250,?hone: ~07-823-3275. Fax: 407-823-3276,

,;. 9 :3: 23--27., .AI-ED '?3: Yiorid Confe.ence on .".c','fieialIntell 'gence in Educac!on, Edinburgh ConferenceCentre, EalnDurgn Scar-la,flc. Husted by ",he Universi yof Edinourgh.Contact: AACE P.O. Box 2966, Charlottesvi I Ie, Va.22902, 804-973-3987, Fax 804-978-7449,

From The Cata 1 oguer ~ Mr. Stanley Williams

New Books Received in the Cataloguing Department

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University ?~ess, C~ffib[jcge: c qqQ, 49Upp.

46 pp.

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The End 0: a Nil lrary Century: oy A Legault,Puo! isned oy -nternational Development Research Centre, Ottawa:c 1q02. llipEJ.

Least eveloped Countries: Structure andDevelopment: PUblished by United Nations Industr'alDeve 1oproen t Organ i z.:.. ti on. Vlanna: 1992. 250pp,

Book Review

Chiiaren of t e Dream: the P~ychologv of Black Success,by ~uarey Eawards and Craig K. Polite. Publ ished by Doubleday,Hew York: c1992, 287pp.

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7. Engl ish ?ortra' t re and Landscape:Joshua ReynoldsThomas GainsboroughJohn ConstableJoseph Turner

8. Pre-Renaissance In Northern Europe:The L mbolrg BrothersJan iJan EYCk·Rog i er ..ander !,leydeni-i' €ronymus Bosch,

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Con£ecences & Seminars

Academic Conferences of Particular interest to Scholars.

June ~3--26, , .ECUCA:IONAL ~EDIA 93: World Conference onEd c~tionel Mu ,'media and Hypermedi~, HyattOrlanao Hotel I Orlando, Fla. Sponsored by the Asso.tor the ,;dlJancemen,t of Computing in Education.Contact: AACE, P.O. Box 2966, CharlotteslJi; Ie, Va,22902. Phone: 804-973-3987, Fax: 804-978-7449.

~oo~ 2eview continuea:In Martin Luther King's now legendary. "I have a Dream" speech,

ne noped for a time when ~ little chlldren~ will not be Juaged by~he co1our of ~helr skin, but by the content of their c aracter,i~ is these ch' Idren, now come of &g8 in the post civil rights era,snapea by the Del let tnat the key to their success would be IniSS'ITt! 1-i'Cing Into tne vec' culture that has for so long cienlecl-.ne::: o?por~'J;Ii'Cy ::ra eq .;,!i:' ,:.r.rj ina ore, "The Chilcren of heGre=..rn. '

I, ~his 000' :::he c.vthors aefine oiae" S' ccess In the ias~nl~:~ ye~rs ~s tne ~e~1 Izac on o~ an American promise: ~cc~ss to~o equ:l opportunity. Using Do~n ~n econom'c ana an occupational~r~~owor~ [0 ~8sess (ne pnenomenon of acnie~ement on a generat'onCr olacks wno grew up in an e[~ aefinea by the concept ofnegra 'on, tney have focussea on black babY boomers who grew up

possessing sOI.e(nlng no generar.ion of blacks has ever beforee~periencea: a sense of entitlement,~or more than tWO years the authors travelled the country seekingcut those b ackmen and women who nave achieved posi ions of powerana influence in the American Workplace. The thoughts and Insightsof chis generation ilfumlnate what"· takes to be a successfulblack living in white America.Whatever their personal behavioral styles, the one CO~illon traitthat emerged :rom all the in ervlews presented is that successfulblacks ace first and foremost affirmed and empower~d by a positivesense of racial identity. They fully understand that as blacks theywill encounter obstacles, prejl d'ces, and iniquities, but theynever view their race ~s the j iabi I Ity or cause of the proolem.They unders and it is he perverse reactions of others to theaI-c' ~ace that create the problem.C 1 'dren of ~he ~[eam, stands as a vivid test many to the'ncreasing y complex world in which black ~mer\cans strive to~l.,:::ceeCI.

:he 287 page DOOK covers:- Bl::'C:<. S "ccess I. i\mer~ca: ;., p ogress report.- :0 oe ycu~g gifted and qual' :'ed.- ~c~ing jOu~ colour: Credi( to the cace.- 3_~cess ~na ~ne BlaCk ~oman: BlaCk Man,- Tne ?sy_no!ogy 0_ n:~c~ S ccess.!~ II :umin~-es JLS( not ~ne pS'cnology of a people but the"cs"[uggIe ::0 ~rluITt!?n, end ~s ~:J insp'ring record of perso,.alst~.~!ng ~~_ suc:ess agai. se odds. It 's a necessary and essentialaoo~ for aeveloplng positive role models foc black youth.