{"id":3195,"date":"2014-09-23T20:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2014-09-23T20:35:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:35:21","slug":"celebrate-banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/09\/23\/celebrate-banned-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Banned Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bannedbooksweek.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/bendy_wide\/public\/ABFFE.jpg?itok=vg3bah3o\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of books have been either removed or challenged in schools and libraries in the United States every year. According to the American Library Association (ALA), there were at least\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/top10#2012\">464 in 2012.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0ALA estimates that 70 to 80 percent are never reported.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate, here are some books of interest in Engineering and Science that have been banned at one time or another:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Banned in 17th Century Europe: \u00a0Any writing or discussion demonstrating the heliocentric nature of the universe.<br \/>\nWritings by Physicist and Astronomer Galileo Galilei was charged and convicted of heresy by the Inquisition in 1632 for writing, &#8220;Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems&#8221;\u00a0<a style=\"color: #313428\" href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=UIOWA&amp;request=001498806\">Main\u00a0Library\u00a0QB41\u00a0.G1356 1967<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Banned in schools in Tennessee following the Butler Act of 1925: \u00a0Books and teaching materials on Darwinian evolution theory.<br \/>\nThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin \u00a0<a style=\"color: #313428\" href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=UIOWA&amp;request=000234657\">Main\u00a0Library\u00a0QH365\u00a0.O2 1979<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Banned in Menifee School District, California: \u00a0Dictionary banned for too explicit definition.<br \/>\nMerriam-Webster&#8217;s Collegiate Dictionary \u00a0\u00a0<a style=\"color: #313428\" href=\"http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&amp;find_code=SYS&amp;local_base=UIOWA&amp;request=001142363\">Hardin Library For Health Sci\u00a0Library\u00a0PE1628\u00a0W4M4 1993<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Banned through the United States: For being too accurate in its scientific initiative.<br \/>\nThe Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, written in 1960 by Robert Brent and illustrated by Harry Lazarus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #4e4e4e\">Banned Classic Books: <\/span><\/h4>\n<p>According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, at least 46 of the\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.modernlibrary.com\/top-100\/radcliffes-rival-100-best-novels-list\/\" >Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century<\/a>\u00a0have been the target of ban attempts. \u00a0See which books these are and learn the reasons for being banned at the following link<span style=\"color: #4e4e4e\">:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/classics\/reasons\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/classics\/reasons<\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>References:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Banned Book Week. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bannedbooksweek.org\/\">http:\/\/www.bannedbooksweek.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Baron, Dennis. \u00a0Webster&#8217;s Banned for too much sex. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/illinois.edu\/blog\/view\/25\/20915\">http:\/\/illinois.edu\/blog\/view\/25\/20915<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Banned Books Awareness: \u201cThe Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bannedbooks.world.edu\/2013\/07\/07\/banned-books-awareness-the-golden-book-of-chemistry-experiments\/\">http:\/\/bannedbooks.world.edu\/2013\/07\/07\/banned-books-awareness-the-golden-book-of-chemistry-experiments\/\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of books have been either removed or challenged in schools and libraries in the United States every year. 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