UDM Libraries Book of the Week

By Alex Kershaw From bestselling author and historian Alex Kershaw comes the true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe – from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau. From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when...

By Sash Issenberg The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign. Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-called wise men and replacing them with a radical new data-driven order. We’ve seen it in sports, and now in The Victory Lab, journalist Sasha Issenberg tells the hidden story of the analytical revolution upending the way political campaigns are run in the...

Television Series, The complete first season An anthology series that centers on different characters and locations, including a haunted house, an insane asylum and a witch coven. CATALOG PAGE...

by Rebecca L. Johnson Are zombies real? Scientists know this for sure: dead people do not come back to live and start walking around, looking for trouble. But there are things that can take over the bodies and brains of innocent creatures, turning them into senseless slaves. Meet nature’s zombie makers–including a fly-enslaving fungus, a suicide worm, and a cockroach-taming wasp–and their victims. CATALOG PAGE...