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New Books and Media: April 2007

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The following are new titles in the Library's collection:

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

B              Essayists and prophets.  H. Bloom.

B              Mindsight: image, dream, meaning.  C. McGinn.

B              Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future.  F. Nietzsche.

BC            History of reasonableness: testimony and authority in the art of thinking.  R.  
                 Kennedy.

BF            Psychology: a course introduction.  R. Griggs.

BF            Cognitive psychology: a student’s handbook.  M. Eysenck.

BF            Listening effectively: achieving high standards in communication.  J. Kline.

BF            Memory: a self-teaching guide.  C. Turkington.

BF            Reasoning skills success in 20 minutes. 

BF            Crunch time: eight steps to making the right decisions at the right time.  K. Lindner.

BF            Anger habit in parenting: a new approach to understanding and resolving family
                 conflict.  C. Semmelroth.

BF            Enough about you, let’s talk about me: how to recognize and manage the
                 narcissists in your life.  L. Carter.

BF            Definitive book of body language.  A. Pease.

BF            Weight bias.  K. Brownell.

BF            Life span: human development for helping professionals.  P. Broderick.

BF            Parker’s astrology: the essential guide to using astrology in your daily life.  J.
                Parker.

BF            Abducted: how people come to believe they were kidnapped by aliens.  S. Clancy.

BJ             Atheism, morality, and meaning.  M. Martin.

BJ             Hypocrisy: ethical investigations.  B. Szabados.

BL            Rethinking religion: a concise introduction.  W. Deming.

BL            Dead but not lost: grief narratives in religious traditions.  R. Goss.

BL            Spook: science tackles the afterlife.  M. Roach.

BL            Atheism: a very short introduction.  J. Baggini.

BP            Dear people: remembering Jonestown.  D. Stephenson.

BR            Politics as a Christian vocation.  F. Gamwell.

BS            Rachel’s cry: prayer of lament and rebirth of hope.  K. Billman.

BT            War and the Christian conscience: where do you stand?  J. Fahey.

BX            Pope Benedict XVI: successor to Peter.  M. Collins.

BX            Baptists in America.  B. Leonard.

Biography, Ancient History

World History

D                 Recording oral history: a guide for the humanities and social sciences.  V. Yow.

D                 Intelligent person’s guide to history.  J. Vincent.

D                 Crusades: a history.  J. Riley-Smith.

D                 First World War.  R. Prior.

D                 Escaping Auschwitz: a culture of forgetting.  R. Linn.

D                 Auschwitz: a history.  S. Steinbacher.

D                 Witnesses of war: children’s lives under the Nazis.  N. Stargardt.

DC              French way.  R. Steele.

DF              Troy and Homer: towards a solution of an old mystery.  J. Latacz.

DK              History of Russia.  R. Bartlett.

DS              Alliance against Babylon: the U.S., Israel, and Iraq.  J. Cooley.

DS              How Israel lost: the four questions.  R. Cramer.

DS              Changing face of antisemitism: from ancient times to the present day.  W. Laqueur.

DS              Vietnam War.  D. Anderson.

DS              At the water’s edge: American politics and the Vietnam War.  M. Small.

American History

E                 Voices of a people’s history of the United States.  H. Zinn.

E                 People’s history of the United States, 1492 – present.  H. Zinn.

E                 Asian Americans: contemporary trends and issues.  P. Min.

E                 Voices of American Muslims: 23 profiles.  L. Cateura.

E                 Black crescent: the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the Americas.  M. Gomez.

E                 Bearing witness: not so crazy in Alabama.  C. Thompson.

E                 Fossil legends of the first Americans.  A. Mayor.

E                 Henry Adams and the making of America.  G. Wills.

E                 Perfect union: Dolley Madison and the creation of the American nation.  C. Allgor.

E                 Age of anxiety: McCarthyism to terrorism.  H. Johnson.

E                 Here’s where I stand: a memoir.  J. Helms.

E                 Defining moment: FDR’s hundred days and the triumph of hope.  J. Alter.

E                 JFK myths: a scientific investigation of the Kennedy assassination.  L. Sturdivan.

E                 Laura Bush: an intimate portrait of the first lady.  R. Kessler.

F                 Southern past: a clash of race and memory.  W. Brundage.

F                 American legend: the real-life adventures of David Crockett.  B. Levy.

F                 Restoring Shakertown: the struggle to save the historic Shaker village of Pleasant Hill.  T. Parrish.

F                 Our town: a heartland lynching, a haunted town, and the hidden history of White America.  C. Carr.

F                 Oregon Trail: an American saga.  D. Dary.

F                 Gold!: the story of the 1848 Gold Rush and how it shaped a nation.  F. Rosen.

Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

G              Making sense: a student’s guide to research and writing.  M. Northey.

GE            Fifty key thinkers on the environment.  J. Palmer.

GE            America’s environmental report card: are we making the grade?  H. Blatt.

GN           Smithsonian intimate guide to human origins.  C. Zimmer.

GR           Fall foliage: the mystery, science, and folklore of autumn leaves.  C. Smith.

GT            Management of event operations.  J. Tum.

GV           Gladiators: history’s most deadly sport.  F. Meijer.

GV           Backpacker, trekking the Southern Appalachians: the Carolinas, Tennessee,
      Georgia.  J. Igleman.

GV           Hiking and backpacking.  K. Berger.

GV           $40 million dollar slaves: the rise, fall, and redemption of the Black athlete.  W.
       Rhoden.

GV           In the game: gay athletes and the cult of masculinity.  E. Anderson.

GV           Female gladiators: gender, law, and contact sport in America.  S. Fields.

GV           Game work: language, power, and computer game culture.  K. McAllister.

Business, Social Sciences

HB              Basics of economics.  D. O’Connor.

HC              Undercover economist: exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor – and why you can never buy a decent used car!  T. Harford.

HD              Business plans for dummies.  P. Tiffany.

HD              Blog rules: a business guide to managing policy, public relations, and legal issues.  N. Flynn.

HD              Why some companies emerge stronger and better from a crisis.  I. Mitroff.

HD              Effective media relations: how to get results.  M. Bland.

HD              Fighting for a living wage.  S. Luce.

HD              Selling women short: the landmark battle for workers’ rights at Wal-Mart.  L. Featherstone.

HD              New American workplace.  J. O’Toole.

HD              Battle for social security: from FDR’s vision to Bush’s gamble.  N. Altman.

HD              Thousand barrels a second.  P. Tertzakian.

HD              Powerful medicines: the benefits, risks, and costs of prescription drugs.  J. Avorn.

HF              Firestarters: 100 job profiles to inspire young women.  K. Beatty.

HF              Creating a mentoring culture: the organization’s guide.  L. Zachary.

HF              Malling of America: travels in the United States of shopping.  W. Kowinski.

HF              Design of things to come: how ordinary people create extraordinary products.  C. Vogel.

HF              Working with you is killing me: freeing yourself from emotional traps at work.  K. Crowley.

HF              People business: psychological reflections on management.  A. Furnham.

HF              How to manage problem employees.  G. Shepard.

HF              Strategic business letters and e-mail.  S. Lindsell-Roberts.

HF              Meetings, meetings, and more meetings: getting things done when people are involved.  S. Ramo.

HF              Principles of advertising: a global perspective.  M. Lee.

HG              Federal Reserve System: a history.  D. Wells.

HM             Why?  C. Tilly.

HM             Global outrage: the impact of world opinion on contemporary history.  P. Stearns.

HQ              Born to be gay: a history of homosexuality.  W. Naphy.

HQ              Gay rights.  R. Kranz.

HQ              Baby’s first skills.  M. Stoppard.

HQ              See Jane hit: why girls are growing more violent and what can be done about it.  J. Garbarino.

HQ              Babes in tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the making of the American child, 1930-1960.  N. Sammond.

HQ              Emerging adults in America: coming of age in the 21st century.  J. Arnett.

HQ              Death’s door: modern dying and the ways we grieve.  S. Gilbert.

HQ              Immigrant women tell their stories.  R. Berger.

HS              Freemasons: a history and exploration of the world’s oldest secret society.  H. Jeffers.

HT              New slavery; a reference handbook.  K. Bales.

HV              Storm: what went wrong and why during Hurricane Katrina.  I. Heerden.

HV              Katrina: state of emergency.  I. Heerden.

HV              Out of the woods: tales of resilient teens.  S. Hauser.

HV              Citizens without shelter: homelessness, democracy, and political exclusion.  L. Feldman.

HV              My friend Leonard.  J. Frey.

HV              Meth: the home-cooked menace.  D. Johnson.

HV              Narcotics Anonymous.

HV              Million Little Pieces.  J. Frey.

HV              Terrorism: a documentary and reference guide.  V. Burns.

HV              Next attack: the failure of the war on terror and a strategy for getting it right.  D. Benjamin.

HV              Unholy messenger: the life and crimes of the BTK serial killer.  S. Singular.

HV              Betrayed: the assassination of Digna Ochoa.  L. Diebel.

HV              Torture: does it make us safer?  is it ever okay?: a human rights perspective.  K. Roth.

HV              Death by design: capital punishment as social psychological system.  C. Haney.

HX              Main currents of Marxism: the founders, the golden age, the breakdown.  L. Kolakowski.

Political Science

JC               Invasion of privacy: a reference handbook.  K. Keenan.

JC               Sins of the parents.  B. Weiner.

JN               What kind of Europe?  L. Tsoukalis.

Law

K                 Tales from Tennessee lawyers.  W. Montell.

KF              Griswold v. Connecticut: birth control and the constitutional right to privacy.  J. Johnson.

KF              Collapse of the common good: how America’s lawsuit culture undermines our freedom.  P. Howard.

KF              Un-making law: the conservative campaign to roll back the common law.  J. Feinman.

KF              Constitution in wartime.  M. Tushnet.

Education

LA              Teacher man: a memoir.  F. McCourt.

LB               Preparing teachers for a changing world: what teachers should learn and be able to do.  L. Darling-Hammond.

LC              Marketing fear in America’s public schools: the real war on literacy.  L. Poynor.

LC              College student retention: formula for student success.  A. Seidman.

LC              Playing it straight: uncovering gender discourses in the early childhood classroom.  M. Blaise.

LC              Losing our minds: gifted children left behind.  D. Ruf.

Music

ML              Chasin’ the bird: the life and legacy of Charlie Parker.  B. Priestley.

ML              Frank Sinatra.  C. Rojek.

ML              Salsa talks: a musical heritage uncovered.  M. Kent.

ML              Souled American: how black music transformed white culture.  K. Phinney.

ML              This is your brain on music.  D. Levitin.

MT              Understanding jazz.  T. Piazza.

MT              Guitar tunings: a comprehensive guide.  D. Weissman.

Fine Arts, Architecture

N                 Renaissance art: a very short introduction.  G. Johnson.

N                 Jerry Garcia: the collected artwork.  A. Higashi.

NA              George Washington Smith: architect of the Spanish colonial revival.  P. Gebhard.

NA              State houses: America’s 50 state capitol buildings.  S. Thrane.

NA              Homes with a view: 175 home plans for golf-course, waterfront, and mountain homes.

NC              Swiss graphic design: the origins and growth of an international style, 1920-1965.  R. Hollis.

NC              Graphic design business book.  T. Crawford.

NK              Essential arts and crafts.  K. Livingstone.

NK              500 pitchers: contemporary expressions of a classic form.  S. Tourtillott.

NK              Discovering home with Laurie Smith.  L. Smith.

NK              English country interiors: inside Cotswold homes.  S. North.

NK              AutoCAD for interior design and space planning using AutoCAD 2006.  B. Kirkpatrick.

NK              Great windows and walls collection. 

NK              Surface texture bible: more than 800 color and texture samples for every surface, furnishing, and finish.  C. Martin.

NK              Kids’ rooms: decorating ideas under $50.  V. Christian.

NK              New cottage style.  V. Ingham.

NK              Furniture in history, 3000 B.C. – 2000 A.D.  L. Pina

Language, Literature

P                 Mediamaking: mass media in a popular culture.  L. Grossberg.

P                 Tragedy and farce: how the American media sell wars, spin elections, and destroy democracy.  J. Nichols.

PE               Building vocabulary skills.  C. Mohr.

PE               Just a note to say … the perfect words for every occasion.  F. Isaacs.

PJ                Isaac Bashevis Singer: an album.  I. Stavans.

PN              Epic.  H. Bloom.

PN              Spunk and bite: a writer’s guide to punchier, more engaging language & style.  A. Plotnik.

PN              Oxford anthology of African-American poetry.  A. Rampersad.

PN              Poets and poems.  H. Bloom.

PN              Invitation to the party: building bridges to the arts, culture, and community.  D. Walker-Kuhne.

PN              Playwriting: the structure of action.  S. Smiley.

PN              Dramatists and drama.  H. Bloom.

PN              Producing for TV and video: a real-world approach.  C. Kellison.

PN              Watching daytime soap operas: the power of pleasure.  L. Spence.

PN              DVD revolution.  A. Barlow.

PN              American independent cinema.  G. King.

PN              Film production management.  B. Cleve.

PN              Samurai film: expanded and revised edition.  A. Silver.

PN              Winning auditions: 101 strategies for actors.  M. Brandon.

PN              Local acts: community-based performance in the United States.  J. Cohen-Cruz.

PN              Lost one: a life of Peter Lorre.  S. Youngkin.

PN              Hattie McDaniel: Black ambition, White Hollywood.  J. Watts.

PN              Novelists and novels.  H. Bloom.

PN              Short story writers and short stories.  H. Bloom.

PN              Writing feature articles.  B. Hennessy.

PN              Motherhood: poems about mothers.  C. Ciuraru.

PN              Dave Barry’s money secrets.  D. Barry.

PQ              Julio Cortazar.

PQ              Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the time of cholera.  H. Bloom.

PR              Buying whiteness: race, culture, and identity from Columbus to hip hop.  G. Taylor.

PR              Women travel writers and the language of aesthetics, 1716-1818.

PR              Love poems of John Keats: in praise of beauty.  J. Keats.

PR              Inside Narnia.  D. Brown.

PR              User ID.  J. Shute.

PS               Cambridge companion to American modernism.  W. Kalaidjian.

PS               Unwelcome voices: subversive fiction in the Antebellum South.  P. Jones.

PS               American vein: critical readings in Appalachian literature.  D. Miller.

PS               Modern American drama.  H. Bloom.

PS               Modern American poetry.  H. Bloom.

PS               Aunt Lute anthology of U.S. women writers.  L. Hogeland.

PS               Writing Los Angeles: a literary anthology.  D. Ulin.

PS               American wits: an anthology of light verse.  J. Hollander.

PS               Poets of World War II.  H. Shapiro.

PS               Dangerous women.  O. Penzler.

PS               Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown.  N. Hawthorne.

PS               Walt Whitman and the earth: a study in ecopoetics.  M. Killingsworth.

PS               John Greenleaf Whittier: selected poems.  B. Wineapple.

PS               Essential Gwendolyn Brooks.  E. Alexander.

PS               Ernest Hemingway.  H. Bloom.

PS               Zora Neale Hurston and a history of Southern life.  T. Patterson.

PS               Carson McCullers’ Ballad of the sad café.  C. McCullers.

PS               Holden Caulfield.  H. Bloom.

PS               Edith Wharton’s The age of innocence.  E. Wharton.

PS               Truth and fiction in The Da Vinci code.  B. Ehrman.

PS               House of leaves.  M. Danielewski.

PS               Samuel Menashe: new and selected poems.  S. Menashe.

PS               Toni Morrison.  H. Bloom.

PS               Close range: Wyoming stories.  A. Proulx.

PS               Affrilachia.  F. Walker.

PS               King Hedley II.  A. Wilson.

Mathematics, Computer Science, Sciences

Q                Grand contraption.  D. Park.

Q                Great betrayal: fraud in science.  H. Judson.

Q                Republican war on science.  C. Mooney.

Q                Improving urban science education.  K. Tobin.

QA              Computers: the life story of a technology.  E. Swedin.

QA              Linux in a Windows world.  R. Smith.

QA              Computer security.  D. Gollmann.

QA              Windows forensics and incident recovery.  H. Carvey.

QA              Discovering knowledge in data: an introduction to data mining.  D. Larose.

QB              Life as we do not know it: the NASA search for (and synthesis of) alien life.  P. Ward.

QB              Big bang: the origins of the universe.  S. Singh.

QC              Climate: the force that shapes our world and the future of life on earth.  G. Ochoa.

QC              Global warming: personal solutions for a healthy planet.  C. Spence.

QD              Curies: a biography of the most controversial family in science.  D. Brian.

QE              When the Mississippi ran backwards.  J. Feldman.

QH              Human genome sourcebook.  T. Acharya.

QH              Climate change and biodiversity.  T. Lovejoy.

QH              Guide to wetlands 2005.  P. Dugan.

QH              Proteus effect: stem cells and their promise for medicine.  A. Parson.

QL              Life in the undergrowth.  D. Attenborough.

QL              Our inner ape: a leading primatologist explains why we are who we are.  F. Waal.

QP              Human factors in lighting.  P. Boyce.

QP              Natural history of families.  S. Forbes.

Medicine

R                 Traditional Chinese medicine: how to maintain your health and treat illness.  H. Lu.

R                 Case of Terri Schiavo: ethics at the end of life.  A. Caplan.

R                 Happiness in a storm: facing illness and embracing life as a healthy survivor.  W. Harpham.

RA              Status syndrome: how social standing affects our health and longevity.  M. Marmot.

RA              Public toilet design: from hotels, bars, restaurants, civic buildings and businesses worldwide.  C. Schuster.

RA              Yellow fever: a deadly disease poised to kill again.  J. Dickerson.

RA              Microbe: are we ready for the next plague?  A. Zelicoff.

RA              Diseases and human evolution.  E. Barnes.

RA              Baby boomer’s guide to women’s health: living great the next 50 years.  K. Dougherty.

RA              Stretching: the stress-free way to stay supple, keep fit, and exercise safely.  S. Martin.

RA              Managing stress: the stress survival guide for today.  U. Markham.

RA              Stress relief for disasters great and small.  G. Witkin.

RC              Nobel Prize winning discoveries in infectious diseases.  D. Rifkind.

RC              College of the overwhelmed: the campus mental health crisis and what to do about it.  R. Kadison.

RC              Understanding paranoia.  M. Kantor.

RC              Emotion-focused therapy for depression.  L. Greenberg.

RC              Thriving in the wake of trauma.  T. Bryant-Davis.

RC              Handbook of anger management: individual, couple, family, and group approaches.  R. Potter-Efron.

         

Agriculture

SB               Practical science for gardeners.  M. Pratt.

SB               Rodale’s illustrated encyclopedia of organic gardening.  P. Pears.

Technology

T                 Nanofuture: what’s next for nanotechnology.  J. Hall.

T                 Graphic designer’s digital toolkit.  A. Wood.

TA              Box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger.  M. Levinson.

TH              Better Homes and Gardens baths.  P. Marshall.

TJ               Homeowner’s guide to energy independence: alternative power sources for the average American.  C. Woodside.

TJ               Robots: from science fiction to technological revolution.  D. Ichbiah.

TK              Aggressive network self-defense.  N. Wyler.

TK              Guide to firewalls and network security: with intrusion detection and VPNs.  G. Holden.

TK              Internet, the Web, and eBusiness: formalizing applications for the real world.  K. Olsen.

TK              Exploring the art and technology of Web design.  R. Anderson.

TK              Creating web pages.  P. Gralla.

TK              Professional CSS: cascading style sheets for Web design.  C. Schmitt.

TK               Dreamweaver 8 bible.  J. Lowery.

TK              Visual studio hacks.  J. Avery.

TL               Electric vehicle technology explained.  J. Larminie.

TR              Complete Photoshop CS2 for digital photographers.  C. Smith.

TR              We are one: a photographic celebration of diversity in America.  R. Hiles.

TR              Digital video: an introduction.  T. Ang.

TX              Being Martha: the inside story of Martha Stewart.  L. Allen.

TX              Experts’ guide to life at home.  S. Ettus.

TX              Real simple solutions.  A. Hinnant.

TX              How to break an egg.

Military Science

U                 Trained to kill: soldiers at war.  T. Nadelson.

U                 Warfare in the seventeenth century.  J. Childs.

UB              Children at war.  P. Singer.

UB              Moving beyond G.I. Jane.  S. Zeigler.

UG              History of chemical warfare.  K. Coleman.

Publishing

Z                 Graphic designers’ print + color handbook.  C. Sidles. 

Reference

E                 American naval history.  J. Sweetman.

HF              Encyclopedia of business & finance.

HF              Encyclopedia of business information sources.

HF              New guide for occupational exploration.  M. Farr.

HQ              World’s women, 2005: progress in statistics.

K                 Codes guidebook for interiors.  S. Harmon.

ML              Oxford dictionary of music.  M. Kennedy.

ML              All music guide to classical music.  C. Woodstra.

QE              Guide to minerals, rocks, & fossils.  A. Bishop.