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004.67 L287g 2006
AUT Langville, Amy N ; Meyer, C. D.
TIT Google's PageRank and beyond : the science of search engine rankings.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction to web search engines -- 2. Crawling, indexing, and query processing -- 3. Ranking webpages by popularity -- 4. The mathematics of Googles PageRank -- 5. Parameters in the PageRank model -- 6. The sensitivity of PageRank -- 7. The PageRank problem as a linear system -- 8. Issues in large-scale implementation of PageRank -- 9. Accelerating the computation of PageRank -- 10. Updating the PageRank vector -- 11. The HITS method for ranking webpages -- 12. Other link methods for ranking webpages -- 13. The future of web information retrieval -- 14. Resources for information retrieval -- 15. The mathematics guide.

005.2 H693d 2007
AUT Hoekman, Robert.
TIT Designing the obvious : a common sense approach to Web application design.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : New Riders, c2007.

006.7 H885b 2008
AUT Hudson, David L.
TIT Blogging.
PUB New York : Chelsea House, c2008.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Point: many bloggers are journalists who deserve the protection of a reporter shield law -- Counterpoint: bloggers should not receive the protections of mainstream journalists -- Point: employees should have the right to blog without fear of reprisal from employers -- Counterpoint: employers should have wide latitude to discipline bloggers for comments detrimental to the workplace -- Point: school officials don't have authority to regulate students' off-campus blogging -- Counterpoint: school officials should have broad leeway to regulate student blogs and student online speech -- Conclusion: controversies over the blogosphere are here to stay.

070.4 S792a 2007
AUT Stanton, Richard.
TIT All news is local : the failure of the media to reflect world events in a globalized age.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.
CON Contents: Imagining news -- Presentation of global image: editors, reporters and journalists -- Democracy and media: obligations of international participation -- The power triangle: media, corporations and governments -- The continuing transformation of the public sphere: from Jurgen Habermas to Osama bin Laden -- Global institutions of persuasion and influence: issues and events imagined as news -- Global news institutions: the United Nations -- Trade and participation: conflict and effects of global capital and the World Trade Organization -- Citizens and participation: the role of NGOs -- Rethinking global news media.

070.44 E64e 2006
AUT Epstein, Gene.
TIT Econospinning : how to read between the lines when the media manipulate the numbers.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2006.
CON Contents: Eldercare fraud -- Two ways to measure employment -- Bush league economics -- Long-term unemployment myths -- The case of the phantom dropouts -- Participation rate follies -- What does the employment-population ratio tell us? -- Average hourly earnings rip -- Hourly compensation and the unemployment rate -- Wages and productivity -- The "spectacular profit boom" that never happened -- End the monthly madness : the change in payroll employment -- End the monthly madness : the unemployment rate -- Greenspan idolatry -- Best-selling myths : freakonomics -- Best-selling myths : nickeled and dimed -- Dobbs and jobs.

070.449 S915m2 2008
AUT Streitmatter, Rodger.
TIT Mightier than the sword : how the news media have shaped American history. - 2nd ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008.

071.3 S876f 2007
AUT Stoltzfus, Duane C. S.
TIT Freedom from advertising : E.W. Scripps's Chicago experiment.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
SER History of communication.
CON Contents: A time for dissent and reform -- Chain-builder for the common people -- The secret plan takes shape -- The day book's debut -- Critic of the hometown press -- Sandburg and Company -- Watchdog on State Street -- Champion of labor -- Struggling in the shadow of war.

071.3 W315a 2006
AUT Washburn, Patrick Scott.
TIT The African American newspaper : voice of freedom.
PUB Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2006.
SER Visions of the American press.

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Ref 103 O96 2005
AUT Honderich, Ted.
TIT The Oxford companion to philosophy. - 2nd ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

121 A468c 2008
AUT Altman, Matthew C.
TIT A companion to Kant's Critique of pure reason.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008.

128.4 R883b 2006
AUT Rowlands, Mark.
TIT Body language : representation in action.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Representation: the word and the deed -- Content externalism -- Vehicle externalism -- The myths of the giving -- Enacting representation -- Actions, doings, and deeds -- The informational constraint -- The teleological constraint -- Decouplability and misrepresentation -- The combinatorial constraint -- Representation in action.

150.71 K92e 2007
AUT Kripal, Jeffrey John.
TIT Esalen : America and the religion of no religion.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Openings. Introduction: on wild facts and altered categories -- Geographic, historical, and literary orientations (1882-1962). Slate's Hot Springs : homestead, family spa, literary paradise -- The empowerment of the founders (1950-1960). The professor and the saint : the early inspirations of Michael Murphy -- Buddhism, breakdown, breakthrough : the early inspirations of Richard Price -- The outlaw era and the American counterculture (1960-1970). "Totally on fire" : the experience of founding Esalen -- Mind manifest : psychedelia at early Esalen and beyond -- Mesmer to Maslow : energy and the Freudian left -- Perls to Price : consciousness and the gestalt lineage -- Esalen goes to the city : the San Francisco center -- On ecstasy, education, and the end of sex : George Leonard and the human potential -- The serpent spine of spirit and sex : Don Hanlon Johnson and the somatics movement -- The occult imaginal and Cold War activism (1970-1985). The cosmic womb : Stanislav and Christina Grof and the counsels of spiritual emergence -- Golf in the kingdom : Plato and Ramakrishna for Republicans -- Jacob Atabet and the tantra of physics -- Superpowers : Cold War psychics and citizen diplomats -- Sex with the angels : nonlocal mind, UFOs, and An end to ordinary history -- The Tao of Esalen : the spiritual art and intuitive business of managing emptiness -- Crisis and the religion of no religion (1985-1993). The religion of no religion : the Donovan era -- Realizing Darwin's dream : the transformation project and The future of the body -- Before and after the storm (1993-2006). After the storm : reassessment, disaster, and renewal -- (In)conclusion. The future of the past and the mystical idea of "America.".

152.4 B264e 2007
AUT Bar-On, Reuven ; Maree, Kobus ; Elias, Maurice J.
TIT Educating people to be emotionally intelligent.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.

155.418 E43p 2007
AUT Elkind, David.
TIT The power of play : how spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Lifelong, c2007.
CON Contents: Play, love, and work : an essential trio -- Toys aren't us -- Screen play and iconic literacy -- Child play and parent angst -- Misunderstandings about how young children learn -- Playing for a reason: building the units of math, reading, and science -- It isn't only a game: the role of play in becoming social -- Lighthearted parenting -- Schooling with heart, mind, and body -- Epilogue: gifts for a lifetime.

155.418 S785c 2001
AUT Stanford, Beverly Hardcastle ; Yamamoto, Kaoru.
TIT Children and stress : understanding and helping.
PUB Olney, Md. : Association for Childhood Education International, c2001.

155.7 K88g 2007
AUT Kovas, Yulia ; Haworth, Claire M. A ; Dale, Philip S.
TIT The genetic and environmental origins of learning abilities and disabilities in the early school years.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Blackwell, 2007.
SER Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 0037-976X ; serial no. 288, vol. 72, no. 3, 2007.
CON Contents: Abstract -- I. Introduction -- II. Methods -- III. Nature and nurture -- IV. The abnormal is normal -- V. Genetic stability, environmental change -- VI. Generalist genes, specialist environments -- VII. Conclusions and implications -- Appendices -- References -- Acknowledgments.

155.8 L376u 2007
AUT Laungani, Pittu.
TIT Understanding cross-cultural psychology : Eastern and Western perspectives. - 1st ed.
PUB London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.
CON Contents: What is this thing called culture? -- Nature, rationale and scope of cross-cultural psychology -- A conceptual model of cross-cultural differences in eastern and western cultures -- Research in cross-cultural settings: ethical considerations -- Methodological issues in cross-cultural psychology -- Doing research in India: cultural and ethical considerations -- Family structures and child-rearing practices -- Intercultural perception and interaction -- Cross-cultural considerations in health, happiness, and illness -- Death and bereavement: cross-cultural perspectives.

171.2 C893b 2007
AUT Crary, Alice.
TIT Beyond moral judgment.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Wider possibilities for moral thought -- Objectivity revisited: a lesson from the work of J.L. Austin -- Ethics, inheriting from Wittgenstein -- Moral thought beyond moral judgment: the case of literature -- Reclaiming moral judgment: the case of feminist thought -- Moralism as a central moral problem.

171.3 K91w 2007
AUT Kraut, Richard.
TIT What is good and why : the ethics of well-being.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: In search of good -- A Socratic question -- Flourishing and well-being -- Mind and value -- Utilitarianism -- Rawls and the priority of the right -- Right, wrong, should -- The elimination of moral rightness -- Rules and good -- Categorical imperatives -- Conflicting interests -- Whose good? The egoist's answer -- Whose good? The utilitarian's answer - Self-denial, self-love, universal concern -- Pain, self-love, and altruism -- Agent-neutrality and agent-relativity -- Good, conation, and pleasure -- "Good" and "good for" -- "Good for" and advantage -- "Good that" and "Bad that" -- Pleasure and advantage -- Good for S that P -- The "for" of "good for" -- Plants, animals, humans -- Ross on human nature -- The perspectival reading of "good for" -- The conative approach to well-being -- Abstracting from the content of desires and plans -- The faulty mechanisms of desire formation -- Infants and adults -- The conation of an ideal self -- The appeal of the conative theory -- Conation hybridized -- Strict hedonism -- Hedonism diluted -- Prolegomenon to flourishing -- Development and flourishing: the general theory -- Development and flourishing: the human case -- More examples of what is good -- Appealing to nature -- Sensory un-flourishing -- Affective flourishing and un-flourishing -- Hobbes on tranquility and restlessness -- Flourishing and un-flourishing as a social being -- Cognitive flourishing and un-flourishing -- Sexual flourishing and un-flourishing -- Too much and too little -- Comparing lives and stages of life -- Adding goods: Rawls's principle of inclusiveness -- Art, science, and culture -- Self-sacrifice -- The vanity of fame -- The vanity of wealth -- Making others worse-off -- Virtues and flourishing -- The good of autonomy -- What is good and why -- The sovereignty of good -- The importance of what is good for us -- Good's insufficiency -- Promises -- Retribution -- Cosmic justice -- Social justice -- Pure antipaternalism -- Moral space and giving aid -- Slavery -- Torture -- Moral rightness revisited -- Lying -- Honoring the dead -- Meaningless goals and symbolic value -- Good-independent realms of value -- Good thieves and good human beings -- Final thoughts.

174.2 R477b 2007
AUT Rhodes, Rosamond ; Francis, Leslie ; Silvers, Anita.
TIT The Blackwell guide to medical ethics.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
SER Blackwell philosophy guides. ; 21.
CON Contents: Autonomy, the good life and controversial choices / Julian Savulescu -- Individual responsibility and reproduction / Rachel A. Ankeny -- Patient and family decisions about life-extension and death / Felicia Nimue Ackerman -- The professional responsibilities of medicine / Rosamond Rhodes -- Truth telling / Roger Higgs -- Medical confidentiality / Kenneth Kipnis -- Patient competence and surrogate decision making / Dan Brock -- Ending life / Frances Myrna Kamm -- Discrimination in medical practice : justice and the obligations of health care providers to disadvantaged patients / Leslie P. Francis -- Institutional practices, ethics, and the physician / Mary V. Rorty, Ann E. Mills, and Patricia H. Werhane -- Reproductive choice / Rebecca Bennett and John Harris -- Public policy and ending lives / Evert van Leeuwen and Gerrit Kimsma -- Drug legalization / Douglas N. Husak. Contents: Selling organs, gametes, and surrogacy services / Janet Radcliffe-Richards -- The patient as victim and vector : the challenge of infectious disease for bioethics / Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.] -- Controlling science and technology / Glenn McGee and Dýrleif Bjarnadóttir -- Allocation of scarce resources / Paul Menzel -- Just caring : the challenges of priority-setting in public health / Leonard M. Fleck -- Justice and the financing of health care / Stephen R. Latham -- Judgment and justice : evaluating health care for chronically ill and disabled patients / Anita Silvers -- Justice in research on human subjects / David R. Buchanan and Franklin G. Miller -- Community standards, medical mistakes, practice reform & malpractice / Troyen Anthony Brennan -- Pre-existing conditions : genetic testing, causation and the justice of medical insurance / Robert T. Pennock.

174.4 H938c 2007
AUT Hunnicutt, Susan.
TIT Corporate corruption.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, c2007.
SER At issue. Crime.
CON Contents: The Enron trial exposes a dark chapter in American business history / Peter Elkind, Bethany McLean, and Doris Burke -- The casualty of Enron's collapse: confidence of the business community / Jack Welch and Suzy Welch -- The Enron scandal is the result of a corrupt capitalist system / Joe Kay -- Harsh punishment will deter some corporate criminals / Patti Bond -- Media portrayals of corrupt executives are unfair / Charles Simpson -- Shareholder protections of Sarbanes-Oxley should be strengthened / Ethan Burger -- Sarbanes-Oxley does not provide protection for corporate whistleblowers / Curtis C. Verschoor -- Legislation is not an effective way to build trust in business / Paul Hilton -- Business schools must integrate ethics into their curricula / Sandra Waddock -- Top executives deserve to be well compensated / Colin Stewart -- High CEO pay is unfair to workers / Madeleine Baran -- High CEO pay is unfair to shareholders / Gary Strauss and Barbara Hansen -- Corporate greed is a spiritual problem / William J. McDonough -- Back dating stock options undermines trust in business / Jeff Brown.

179.3 K14a 2007
AUT Kalof, Linda ; Fitzgerald, Amy J.
TIT The animals reader : the essential classic and contemporary writings.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
CON Contents: The history of animals / Aristotle -- Principles of morals and legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- In defense of slavery / Marjorie Spiegel -- Animal liberation or animal rights? / Peter Singer -- The rights of humans and other animals / Tom Regan -- The moral status of animals / Martha Nussbaum -- Becoming-animal / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- An apology for Raymond Sebond / Michel de Montaigne -- From the letters of 1646 and 1649 / René Descartes -- Speaking for dogs / Clinton R. Sanders, Arnold Arluke -- Wild justice and fair play : cooperation, forgiveness, and morality in animals / Marc Bekoff -- Grief, sadness, and the bones of elephants / Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Susan McCarthy -- Orangutan cultures and the evolution of material culture / Carel P. van Schaik ... [et al.] -- The hunter-gatherer prehistory of human-animal interactions / Steven Mithen -- Animal planet / Harriet Ritvo -- Animal pets : cruelty and affection / Yi-Fu Tuan -- The eating of flesh / Plutarch -- Brave new farm? / Jim Mason, Mary Finelli -- The sexual politics of meat / Carol J. Adams -- The promotion of "meat" and its consequences / David Nibert -- Combats of elephants / Pliny the Elder -- On being human in the bullfight / Garry Marvin -- Dogfighting : symbolic expression and validation of masculinity / Rhonda Evans, DeAnn Kalich (Gauthier), Craig J. Forsyth -- Zoo spectatorship / Randy Malamud -- Hunting and humanity in western thought / Matt Cartmill -- Why look at animals? / John Berger -- The totemic illusion / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Animals as tradition / Boria Sax -- What is the postmodern animal? / Steve Baker -- The illumination of the animal kingdom : the role of light and electricity in animal representation / Jonathan Burt -- The brown dog riots of 1907 / Coral Lansbury -- Into the laboratory / Lynda Birke -- Hybrid geographies : rethinking the "human" in human geography / Sarah Whatmore -- Dolly's body : gender, genetics, and the new genetic capital / Sarah Franklin -- Cyborgs to companion species : reconfiguring kinship in technoscience / Donna Haraway.

Ref 181.112 R869 2003 v.1-2
AUT Yao, Xinzhong.
TIT RoutledgeCurzon encyclopedia of Confucianism.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
SER RoutledgeCurzon encyclopedias of religion.

184.1 L629p 2006
AUT Lesher, J. H. ; Nails, Debra ; Sheffield, Frisbee C. C.
TIT Plato's Symposium : issues in interpretation and reception.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
SER Hellenic studies. ; 22.
CON Contents: Part I: The symposium and Plato's philosophy -- The symposium as a Socratic dialogue / Christopher Rowe -- The role of the earlier speeches in theSymposium : Plato's endoxic method? / Frisbee C. C. Sheffield -- A platonic reading of Plato's Symposium / Lloyd P. Gerson -- Part II: Interpreting Plato's Symposium -- Medicine, magic, and religion in Plato's Symposium / Mark L. McPherran -- Permanent beauty and becoming happy in Plato's Symposium / Gabriel Richardson Lear -- A study in violets : alcibiades in the Symposium / C.D.C. Reeve -- Where is Socrates on the "ladder of love"? / Ruby Blondell -- Tragedy off-stage / Debra Nails -- The virtues of platonic love / Gabriela Roxana Carone -- Part III: The Symposium, sex, and gender -- Agathon, Pausanias, and Diotima in Plato's Symposium : Paiderastia and Philosophia / Luc Brisson -- Female imagery in plato / Angela Hobbs -- Plato in the courtroom: the surprising influence of the Symposium on legal theory / Jeffrey carnes -- Part IV: The reception of Plato's Symposium -- Plato's Symposium and the traditions of ancient fiction / Richard Hunter -- Some notable afterimages of Plato's Symposium / J.H. Lesher -- The hangover of Plato's Symposium in the Italian Renaissance from Bruni (1435) to Castiglione (1528) / Diskin Clay -- Platonic selves in Shelley and Stevens / David K. O'Connor.

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201.4 G118i 2007
AUT Gabriel, Theodore P. C ; Geaves, Ron.
TIT --Isms : understanding religion.
PUB New York : Universe, 2007.
CON Contents: Judaism -- Christianity -- Islam -- Buddhism & South Asian religions -- Vernacular religions -- Regional religions -- Reference section.

201.7 S189c 2007
AUT Samman, Khaldoun.
TIT Cities of God and nationalism : Mecca, Jerusalem, and Rome as contested world cities.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2007.

205.66 R241f 2007
AUT Regnerus, Mark.
TIT Forbidden fruit : sex & religion in the lives of American teenagers.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Fashioning new stories from old wisdom -- Can religion cause behavior? -- Learning sexuality -- Motivating sexual decisions -- Sexual experience -- Imitation sex and the new middle class morality -- A typology of religious influence.

215 G445o 2007
AUT Giberson, Karl ; Artigas, Mariano.
TIT Oracles of science : celebrity scientists versus God and religion.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : The oracles of science -- A good devil's chaplain : Richard Dawkins -- Rocks of ages and the ages of the rocks : Stephen Jay Gould -- Reading the mind of God : Stephen Hawking -- A light in the darkness : Carl Sagan -- Understanding a pointless universe : Steven Weinberg -- A Pulitzer for the ants : Edward O. Wilson -- Conclusion : Science and beyond.

215 S129v 2006
AUT Sagan, Carl ; Druyan, Ann.
TIT The varieties of scientific experience : a personal view of the search for God.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Nature and wonder : a reconnaissance of heaven -- The retreat from Copernicus : a modern loss of nerve -- The organic universe -- Extraterrestrial intelligence -- Extraterrestrial folklore : implications for the evolution of religion -- The god hypothesis -- The religious experience -- Crimes against creation -- The search -- Selected Q & A.

229.8 E33L 2006
AUT Ehrman, Bart D.
TIT The lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot : a new look at betrayer and betrayed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: My introduction to the Gospel of Judas -- Judas in our earliest Gospels -- Judas in later Gospel traditions -- Before the discovery: our previous knowledge of a Gospel of Judas -- The discovery of the Gospel of Judas -- The Gospel of Judas: an overview -- The Gospel of Judas and early Christian Gnosticism -- Jesus, Judas, and the twelve in the Gospel of Judas -- Who was Judas Iscariot? -- What did Judas betray and why did he betray it? -- The Gospel of Judas in perspective.

230.2 B463e 2007
AUT Benedict XVI, Pope ; Thornton, John F. ; Varenne, Susan B.
TIT The essential Pope Benedict XVI : his central writings and speeches. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperSanFrancisco, c2007.

231.6 U54t 2007
AUT Unamuno, Miguel de ; Orringer, Nelson R.
TIT Treatise on love of God.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
SER Hispanisms.
CON Contents: Love of God and knowledge of God -- What is love? -- What is faith? -- What is truth? -- The mystery of mortality -- What is charity? -- Life in God -- Religion -- Christianity.

232.9 E92f 2006
AUT Evans, Craig A.
TIT Fabricating Jesus : how modern scholars distort the gospels.
PUB Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Books, c2006.

235.2 G785c 2007
AUT Graziano, Frank.
TIT Cultures of devotion : folk saints of Spanish America.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

267.13 M647g 2007
AUT Miller, David W.
TIT God at work : the history and promise of the Faith at Work movement.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: "Faith at work"? -- The Social Gospel era (c. 1890s-1945) -- The Ministry of the Laity era (c. 1946-1985) -- The Faith at Work era (c. 1985-present) -- Response of the church and the theological academy to FAW -- Faith at Work as a social movement -- Analyzing and understanding the Faith at Work movement -- The future of the Faith at Work movement.

270.82 C328e 2007
AUT Cartledge, Mark J.
TIT Encountering the spirit : the charismatic tradition.
PUB Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 2007.
SER Traditions of Christian spirituality series.
CON Contents: Charismatic spirituality -- Twentieth century Pentecostal and charismatic movements -- Theological context : spirituality as process and framework -- Main themes and a community of interpreters -- The charismatic tradition in church history -- The early church and early Middle ages -- The high Middle ages -- Reformation and Catholic reformation period -- Post-reformation and the holiness movement -- Praise and worship -- General characteristics of contemporary charismatic worship -- Liturgy and song -- Songs and hymns -- Classifying charismatic songs : is there a typology? -- Inspired speech -- The day of Pentecost : inspired speech renewed -- Revelatory experiences -- Categories of inspired speech -- The sanctified life -- The roots of contemporary charismatic holiness -- Roman Catholic renewal and 'sanctity'? -- Contemporary British Pentecostalism -- Empowered kingdom witness -- Empowered witness : signs and wonders -- Eschatological tension -- Empowerment for witness : baptism in the spirit -- Witness : mission and evangelism -- Doing the stuff : prayer ministry -- The end : the apocalyptic vision -- The community of interpreters -- Early and contemporary Pentecostal biblical interpretation -- 'This is that' interpretation -- Conclusion.

270.83 J52n 2006
AUT Jenkins, Philip.
TIT The new faces of Christianity : believing the Bible in the global south.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Shall the fundamentalists win? -- Power in the book -- Old and new -- Poor and rich -- Good and evil -- Persecution and vindication -- Women and men -- North and south.

287.6 M528w 2007
AUT Melton, J. Gordon.
TIT A will to choose : the origins of African American Methodism.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Anthony's Legacy -- African American Methodism's Beginnings -- Emerging Centers of Black Methodism: Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Wilmington -- Emerging Centers of Black Methodism: Philadelphia, New York City, and Brooklyn -- African Methodism away from the Cities -- The Push into the South -- Women, the new force in church life -- Toward Emancipation -- Emancipation and Its Transitions -- A Selected Bibliography of Antebellum African American Methodism.

289.9 S967a 2007
AUT Sutton, Matthew Avery.
TIT Aimee Semple McPherson and the resurrection of Christian America.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Prologue -- Faith in the City of Angels -- The Foursquare Gospel -- Marketing the old-time religion -- Kidnapping the bride of Christ -- Unraveling the mystery -- Wilderness wanderings -- The long road back to Pentecost -- Searching for Christian America -- Remaking the city on the hill -- Epilogue.

294.308 G878b 1993
AUT Gross, Rita M.
TIT Buddhism after patriarchy : a feminist history, analysis, and reconstruction of Buddhism.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1993.

Ref 294.5 E56 2008
AUT Cush, Denise ; Robinson, Catherine A ; York, Michael.
TIT Encyclopedia of Hinduism.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Ref 294.5 J76e 2007
AUT Jones, Constance ; Ryan, James D.
TIT Encyclopedia of Hinduism.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2007.
SER Encyclopedia of world religions. Facts on File library of religion and mythology.

294.5 P659w 2007
AUT Pintchman, Tracy.
TIT Women's lives, women's rituals in the Hindu tradition.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Pt. 1. Engaging domesticity. The cat in the courtyard: the performance of Sanskrit and the religious experience of women / Laurie L. Patton -- Wandering from "hills to valleys" with the goddess: protection and freedom in the Matamma tradition of Andhra / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Lovesick Gopi or woman's best friend: the mythic Sakhi and ritual friendships among women in Benares / Tracy Pintchman -- Words that breach walls: women's rituals in Rajasthan / Lindsey Harlan -- Threshold designs, forehead dots, and menstruation rituals: exploring time and space in Tamil Kolams / Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan. Pt. 2. Beyond domesticity. Domesticity and difference/women and men: religious life in medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie C. Orr -- The anatomy of devotion: the life and poetry of Karaikkal Ammaiyar / Elaine Craddock -- The play of the mother: possession and power in Hindu women's goddess rituals / Kathleen M. Erndl -- Does Tantric ritual empower women? Renunciation and domesticity among female Bengali Tantrikas / June McDaniel -- Performing arts, re-forming rituals: women and social change in South India / Vasudha Narayanan.

296.12 S296j 2007
AUT Schäfer, Peter.
TIT Jesus in the Talmud.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Jesus' family -- The son/disciple who turned out badly -- The frivolous disciple -- The Torah teacher -- Healing in the name of Jesus -- Jesus' execution -- Jesus' disciples -- Jesus' punishment in hell -- Jesus in the Talmud.

296.41 R582d 2007
AUT Ringwald, Christopher D.
TIT A day apart : how Jews, Christians, and Muslims find faith, freedom, and joy on the Sabbath.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: From Sinai to Sunday: the Holy Day in three religions and three families -- The birth of the Sabbath: from creation to Mount Sinai and into the Promised Land in 1100 BCE -- The fight for the Sabbath: from the monarchy to Jesus and the age of the rabbis: 1000 BCE to 200 CE -- The Lord's Day: Easter to 1600 -- Islam's Day of Judgment -- Citizens and Sabbatarians: 1600 to 1890 -- The Sabbath defeated, reborn, converted: 1890 to the present -- The window on eternity -- Give me a break: work, rest, equality, play, and place -- The promise of peace: sharing the Holy Day.

297.122 S954q 2007
AUT Sultan, Sohaib.
TIT The Quran and sayings of Prophet Muhammad : selections annotated & explained.
PUB Woodstock, Vt. : SkyLight Paths Pub., c2007.
SER SkyLight illuminations series.
CON Contents: On contemplation, reason, and faith -- On God and divine attributes -- On revelation and scripture -- On prophetic character and message -- On the purpose and responsibility of human life -- On the stages of human life -- On the psyche, heart, and soul -- On spiritual practice and discipline -- On laws in daily life -- On noble character and good morals -- On envisioning a just and moral society -- On pluralism, inclusive theology, and interfaith relations -- On peace, war, and reconciliation -- On women and gender relations -- On marriage and family life.

297.63 Z48i 2007
AUT Zeitlin, Irving M.
TIT The historical Muhammad.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction and overview of the life of Muhammad -- Ibn Khaldun's social and economic theory -- Pre-Islamic Arabia -- The role of Abraham, Hagar, and Ishmael -- Recent and current scholarship -- Possible influences on Muhammad's inspiration -- The Jews of Arabia: a recent re-examination -- Richard Bell's origin of Islam in its Christian environment -- W. Montgomery Watt's Muhammad -- Muhammad at Medina: William Muir's analysis -- Muhammad and the Jews -- Concluding sociological reflections.

299.7 P214n 2007
AUT Paper, Jordan D.
TIT Native North American religious traditions : dancing for life.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
CON Contents: pt. I. General considerations -- 1. Introduction -- Prelude -- Dancing for life -- Native North American religious traditions -- Common features -- The number four -- Reciprocity -- Tobacco and other sacred herbs -- Experiential religion -- Western perceptions -- No religion : the heathen savage -- Animism, totemism and other nineteenth-century fallacies -- The Noble savage -- New age hucksters -- Further considerations -- Esotericism -- Suppression and secrecy -- "Stealing religion" -- Avoidance of photographs and recordings -- 2. From past to present -- Native traditions before contact -- North and Northeast -- Great Lakes and Midwest -- Southeast and Mississippi and Ohio River basins -- Mississippi and Ohio River basins -- Plains and plateau -- Northwest coast -- Southwest, Great Basin and Southern California -- Far South and Caribbean -- From contact to reservations -- Reservations and enforced Christian conversion -- Revitalization of Native traditions -- 3. Theology -- Cosmogony and the influence of Christianity -- The environment as numinous -- Ancestral and other spirits of the dead -- Culture heroes and "tricksters". Contents: pt. II. Ceremonies from a variety of traditions -- 4. Great Lakes and Northeast -- Anishnabe religion : modernization of gathering-hunting spirituality -- The Haudenausaunee : from horticulture-hunting to agriculture -- 5. Southwest and Southeast -- Diné Menarche rituals : celebrating female spiritual power -- Navajo Kinaaldá -- Apache Sunset Dance -- Muskogee Green Corn Ceremony : continuing an agricultural tradition -- 6. Plains -- Missouri basin horticultural-hunting complex : twinning corn and bison -- Nitsitapi Bundle Ceremonies : the effects of horse Nomadism -- 7. Northwest coast -- Potlatch : religious heart of coastal traditions -- Makah whale hunt : continuing persecution of Native religion -- 8. Pan-Indian rituals -- Circumpolar rituals -- Spirit ("sweat") lodge -- Binding rituals : "shaking tent" and Yuwipi -- Regional Pan-Indian rituals -- Thirst ("Sun") Dance -- Dance drums and the powwow -- The sacred pipe : ritual of adoption -- Native American church (Peyote religion).

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302.2 A792m 2007
AUT Artz, Lee ; Kamalipour, Yahya R.
TIT The media globe : trends in international mass media.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
CON Contents: Africa : life in the margins of globalization / Lyombe Eko -- Asia : the Hollywood factor / Kuldip R. Rampal -- Europe : television in transition / Jeanette Steemers -- The Middle East : transnational Arab television / Marwan M. Kraidy and Joe F. Khalil -- Latin America : media conglomerates / José-Carlos Lozano -- Australia : media and globalization / Alan Knight -- The corporate model from national to transnational / Lee Artz.

302.23 M122v 2007
AUT McCall, Jeffrey M.
TIT Viewer discretion advised : taking control of mass media influences.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
CON Contents: Media awareness for all -- Getting to know the first amendment -- Sex, skin, and swearing -- This is not news -- Television news or MTV? -- Packaged politics -- Media-saturated kids -- Big media, little responsibility -- How you can fight back--today.

302.234 P369c 2007
AUT Pecora, Norma Odom ; Murray, John P ; Wartella, Ellen.
TIT Children and television : fifty years of research.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007.
SER LEA's communication series.
CON Contents: The changing nature of children's television : fifty years of research / Norma Pecora -- From attention to comprehension : how children watch and learn from television / Aletha C. Huston, David S. Bickham, June H. Lee, and John C. Wright -- The impact of television on cognitive development and educational achievement / Marie Evans Schmidt and Daniel R. Anderson -- Television, social roles, and marginality : portrayals of the past and images for the future / Gordon L. Berry -- Is television healthy? : the medical perspective / Michael Rich -- Advertising and consumer development / Nancy A. Jennings and Ellen A. Wartella -- TV violence : research and controversy / John P. Murray -- Health, drugs, and values / Elizabeth P. Lorch.

302.24 L793p 2006
AUT Lloyd, Mark.
TIT Prologue to a farce : communication and democracy in America.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
SER History of communication.
CON Contents: The challenge of American democracy -- The role of communications in the democratic experiment -- The break : the telegraph from Jackson to Hayes (1830-1876) -- The telephone and the trusts (1876-1900) -- From Roosevelt to Roosevelt : wireless and radio (1900-1934) -- From Truman to Eisenhower : the birth of television (1935-1959) -- Kennedy, Johnson, and satellites (1960-1968) -- From Nixon to Reagan : backlash and cable (1968-1991) -- The Internet : communications policy in the Clinton era (1992-2000) -- The end of history -- A few lessons -- Reclaiming our republic.

302.33 S357c 2006
AUT Schnapp, Jeffrey T. ; Tiews, Matthew.
TIT Crowds.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: A book of crowds / Jeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Tiews -- Mob porn / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- 'Turba' : Latin / Alexandra Katherina T. Sofroniew -- Bathing in the multitude / Michael Hardt -- The invention of the masses : the crowd in French culture from the Revolution to the Commune / Stefan Jonsson -- 'Mass' : English (French, German) / Marisa Galvez -- Ceremony / Michel Serres -- Crowd politics : the myth of the 'Populus Romanus' / Joy Connolly -- 'People' : English / Marisa Galvez -- Compactings and loosenings / Susan Buck-Morss -- Intimacy and anonymity, or, How the audience became a crowd / William Egginton -- 'Crowd' : English / Marisa Galvez -- The crowds laughs / T.J. Clark -- Sports crowds / Allen Guttmann -- 'Multitude' : English / Susan Schuyler -- Rolling Stones play free concert at Altamont Speedway, December 6, 1969 / Greil Marcus -- Captive crowds : pilgrims and martyrs / Susanna Elm -- 'Hamon' : Hebrew / Na'ama Rokem -- Beyond the blindfold / Luiz Costa-Lima -- Movies and masses / Anton Kaes -- 'Samuuha' : Sanskrit / Peter Samuels -- Dolores Park, dyke march, June 2002 / Tirza True Latimer -- Mass, pack, and mob : art in the age of the crowd / Christine Poggi -- 'Mob' : English / Maria Su Wang -- Crowd writings / Armando Petrucci -- The return of the blob, or, How sociology decided to stop worrying and love the crowd / John Plotz -- 'Foule,' 'folla' : French/Italian / John B.Hill -- My summer of solitude / David Humphrey -- From crowd psychology to racial hygiene : the medicalization of reaction and the new Spain / Joan Ramon Resina -- 'Gente' : Spanish / Jeronimo Ernesto Arellano -- Take it / Ann Weinstone -- Crowds, number, and mass in China / Haun Saussy -- 'Zhong' : Chinese / Ka-Fai Yau -- Crowd control / David Theo Goldberg -- Market crowds / Urs Stäheli -- 'Ochlos' : Ancient Greek / Sebastian de Vivo -- Barneys New York : the warehouse / Jessica Burstein -- Wunc / Charles Tilly -- 'Cs\u0151d,' 'tömeg,' 'cs\u0151dtömeg' : Hungarian / Dániel Margócsy -- Protest crowds / Tom Seligman -- Far above the madding crowd : the spatial rhetoric of mass representation / Andrew V. Uroskie -- 'Tolpa' : Russian / Dustin Condren -- Crowd experiences / Hayden White -- Far from the crowd : individuation, solitude, and 'society' in the western imagination / Jobst Welge -- 'Vulgus' : Latin / Alexandra Katherina T. Sofroniew -- MLK rally / Richard Rorty -- Agoraphobia : an alphabet / Jessica Burstein -- A singular month of May / Alain Schnapp -- Crowds as tear-jerking opportunities / Luigi Ballerini -- Afterword / N. Katherine Hayles.

303.32 G892h 2007
AUT Grusec, Joan E ; Hastings, Paul D.
TIT Handbook of socialization : theory and research.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction / Joan E. Grusec and Paul D. Hastings -- Historical and methodological perspectives on socialization -- Historical overview of socialization research and theory / Eleanor E. Maccoby -- Socialization and interventions for antisocial youth / Timothy A. Cavell, Shelley Hymel, Kenya T. Malcolm, and Amy Seay -- Socialization within biological frameworks -- An evolutionary approach to socialization / David A. Beaulieu and Daphne Blunt Bugental -- Evidence from behavioral genetics for environmental contributions to antisocial conduct / Terrie E. Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi -- The influence of early socialization experiences on the development of biological systems / Rena Repetti, Shelley E. Taylor, and Darby Saxbe -- Temperament, parenting, and socialization / John E. Bates and Gregory S. Pettit -- Socialization across the lifespan -- Early socialization : a relationship perspective / Deborah Laible and Ross A. Thompson -- Socialization in emerging adulthood : from the family to the wider world, from socialization to self-socialization / Jeffrey Jensen Arnett -- Socialization in old age / Karen L. Fingerman and Lindsay Pitzer -- Socialization within the family -- Agency and bidirectionality in socialization: interactions, transactions, and relational dialectics / Leon Kuczynski and C. Melanie Parkin -- Socialization in the family : the roles of parents / Joan E. Grusec and Maayan Davidov -- Siblings and socialization / Judy Dunn -- Socialization in the context of family diversity / Charlotte J. Patterson and Paul D. Hastings -- Socialization outside the family -- Peers and socialization : effects on externalizing and internalizing problems / William M. Bukowski, Mara Brendgen, and Frank Vitaro -- Socialization in school settings / Kathryn R. Wentzel and Lisa Looney -- Media and youth socialization : underlying processes and moderators of effects / Eric F. Dubow, L. Rowell Huesmann, and Dara Greenwood -- Class and cultural perspectives on socialization -- Social class and socialization in families / Rand D. Conger and Shannon J. Dogan -- Do roots and wings complement or oppose one another? : the socialization of relatedness and autonomy in cultural context / Fred Rothbaum and Gisela Trommsdorff -- Children's development of cultural repertoires through participation in everyday routines and practices / Barbara Rogoff, Leslie Moore, Behnosh Najafi, Amy Dexter, Maricela Correa-Chávez, and Jocelyn Solís -- Emotion socialization from a cultural perspective / Pamela M. Cole and Patricia Z. Tan -- Acculturation / John W. Berry -- Targets of socialization -- The socialization of gender / Campbell Leaper and Carly Kay Friedman -- The socialization of cognition / Mary Gauvain and Susan M. Perez -- The socialization of emotional competence / Susanne A. Denham, Hideko H. Bassett, and Todd Wyatt -- The socialization of prosocial development / Paul D. Hastings, William T. Utendale, and Caroline Sullivan -- Families, schools, and developing achievement-r...

303.482 E58g 2007
AUT Enloe, Cynthia H.
TIT Globalization and militarism : feminists make the link.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
SER Globalization.
CON Contents: Crafting a global "feminist curiosity" to make sense of globalized militarism : tallying impacts, exposing causes -- Tracking the militarized global sneaker -- How does "national security" become militarized? -- Paying close attention to women inside militaries -- Wielding masculinity inside Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo : the globalized dynamics -- Demilitarizing a society in a globalizing world, or, Do you wear "camo"? -- The diverse lives of militarized and demilitarized women : globalizing insights from local Japanese places -- Conclusion: The global, the local, and the personal.

303.482 K15p 2007
AUT Kamdar, Mira.
TIT Planet India : how the fastest-growing democracy is transforming America and the world.
PUB New York : Scribner, c2007.
CON Contents: Life on Planet India -- Indians and Americans -- India imagines the future -- Retailing India -- 600,000 villages -- The cities -- The other India -- Power -- As goes India, so goes the world.

303.482 S191c6 2007
AUT Samovar, Larry A ; Porter, Richard E ; McDaniel, Edwin R.
TIT Communication between cultures. - 6th ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thompson/Wadsworth, c2007.
SER Wadsworth series in communication studies.

303.482 S793a 2007
AUT Stapel, Diederik A ; Suls, Jerry M.
TIT Assimilation and contrast in social psychology.
PUB New York : Psychology Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction / Jerry Suls and Diederik A. Stapel -- Classic, perceptual, and judgmental perspectives -- Psychological magnetism : a brief history of assimilation and contrast in psychology / Jerry Suls and Ladd Wheeler -- Contrasting models of assimilation and contrast / Douglas H. Wedell, Susanne K. Hicklin, and Laura O. Smarandescu -- Stereotypes and shifting standards : assimilation and contrast in social judgment / Monica Biernat and Melvin Manis -- Assimilation and contrast effects of affect on judgment / Franois Ric and Paula M. Niedenthal -- Social cognitive perspectives -- Mental construal processes : the inclusion/exclusion model / Norbert Schwarz and Herbert Bless -- In the mind of the beholder : the interpretation comparison model of accessibility effects / Diederik A. Stapel -- Assimilation and contrast as comparison effects : a selective accessibility model / Thomas Mussweiler -- Assimilation and contrast in counterfactual thinking and other mental simulation-based comparison processes / Keith D. Markman ... [et al.] -- Set/reset and self-regulation : do contrast processes play a role in the breakdown of self-control? / Leonard L. Martin and Steve Shirk -- Motivational perspectives -- Contrast effects in automatic affect, cognition, and behavior / Jack Glaser -- Complementary contrast and assimilation : interpersonal theory and the social functions of contrast and assimilation effects / Larissa Z. Tiedens, Rosalind M. Chow, and Miguel M. Unzueta -- Contrast effects in knowledge activation : the case of inhibition effects due to competing constructs or goal fulfillment / Jens Förster and Nira Liberman -- Contrast and assimilation in upward comparison : the intra-group dimension / Michael L. W. Vliek, Colin Wayne Leach, and Russell Spears -- Several answers to four questions : reflections and conclusions / Diederik A. Stapel & Jerry Suls.

303.48273 S555a 2007
AUT Shibusawa, Naoko.
TIT America's geisha ally : reimagining the Japanese enemy.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Women and children first -- "Like a boy of twelve" -- Sunday at Hirohito's -- A transpacific treason trial -- A kamikaze goes to college -- Channeling atomic guilt -- Hollywood's Japan -- Epilogue: rising sun redux.

303.483 W423e 2007
AUT Weinberger, David.
TIT Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Times Books, 2007.
CON Contents: The new order of order -- Alphabetization and its discontents -- The geography of knowledge -- Lumps and splits -- The laws of the jungle -- Smart leaves -- Social knowing -- What nothing says -- Messiness as a virtue -- The work of knowledge.

303.484 B193d 2006
AUT Ballvé, Teo ; Prashad, Vijay.
TIT Dispatches from Latin America : on the frontlines against neoliberalism. - 1st American ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Strategic challenges for Latin America's anti-neoliberal insurgency / Gerardo Rénique -- Latin American feminism: gains, losses and hard times / Maruja Barrig -- The making of a transnational movement / Guillermo Delgado-P. -- Timely demise for free trade area of the Americas / Laura Carlsen -- The Kirchner Factor / Andrés Gaudin -- Chavistas in the halls of power, Chavistas in the streets / Jonah Gindin -- Venezuela: defying globalization's logic / Steve Ellner -- Is Venezuela the new Cuba? / Teo Ballvé -- Paraguay's enigmatic president / Peter Lambert -- Brazil takes Lula's measure / Emir Sader -- The Uruguayan left and the construction of hegemony / Raúl Zibechi -- Evo Morales turns the tide of history / Luis A. Gómez -- Bolivia de pie / Teo Ballvé -- The roots of the rebellion: insurgent Bolivia / Forrest Hylton, Sinclair Thomson -- The roots of the rebellion: reclaiming the nation / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui -- A seat at the table / Chris Jochnick, Paulina Garzón -- A sense of possibility: Ecuador's indigenous movement takes centre stage / Jennifer N. Collins -- Autonomy and resistance in Chiapas / Richard Stahler-Sholk -- Zapatismo and the emergence of indigenous feminism / R. Aída Hernández Castillo -- Incas, Indios, and indigenism in Peru / Shane Greene -- Beset by violence, Colombia's indigenous resist / Mario A. Murillo -- Rethinking indigenous politics in the era of the "Indio permitido" / Charles R. Hale -- Brazil's landless hold their ground / Harry. E. Vanden -- Testimony of an MST settler: Romilda da Silva Vargas / Sue Branford, Jan Rocha -- Homeless movement builds momentum / Nicholas Watson -- Making people's budget in Porto Alegre / Hilary Wainwright -- Multinational gold rush in Guatemala / Benjamin Witte -- Stories from the borderland / David Bacon -- Worker-run factories: from survival to economic solidarity / Raúl Zibechi -- Another world is possible: the ceramics of Zanon / Raúl Zibechi.

303.6 B743c 2007
AUT Bose, Sumantra.
TIT Contested lands : Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Sri Lanka -- Cyprus -- Bosnia -- Kashmir -- Israel and Palestine.

304.2 G616i 2007
AUT Goklany, Indur M.
TIT The improving state of the world : why we're living longer, healthier, more comfortable lives on a cleaner planet.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.
CON Contents: A: Economic development, technological change, and the human condition -- The improving state of humanity -- Has globalization widened the gaps in human well-being? -- The cycle of progress: factors propelling humanity's progress -- B: The effects of economic development and technological change on the environment -- Competing views regarding affluence, technology, and the environment -- Long-term environmental trends -- Are long-term trends consistent with environmental transitions? -- Factors affecting environmental trends -- C: Reconciling human well-being with environmental quality -- The promise and peril of bioengineered crops -- Climate change and sustainable development -- D: Sustaining the human enterprise -- The future sustainability of human populations -- Extending the limits: the role of economic development, technological change, and free trade.

304.2 M829h3 2008
AUT Moran, Emilio F.
TIT Human adaptability : an introduction to ecological anthropology. - 3rd ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008.

304.6 E16e 2007
AUT Eberstadt, Nick ; Groth, Hans.
TIT Europe's coming demographic challenge : unlocking the value of health.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.

304.663 G335G 2007
TIT Genocide.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER Contemporary issues companion.

305.23 L655c 2006
AUT Levander, Caroline Field.
TIT Cradle of liberty : race, the child, and national belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
SER New Americanists.
CON Contents: Introduction : natal nationalism : the place of the child in American cultural studies -- The child and the racial politics of nation making in the slavery era -- Southern fictions and the "race" of nations along the Mexican border -- Consenting fictions, fictions of consent : the child and the nineteenth-century sentimental novel -- Transnational Twain -- Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and psychologies of race -- Raceless states: W. E. B. Du Bois and Cuba.

305.40956 K25w 2007
AUT Keddie, Nikki R.
TIT Women in the Middle East : past and present.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Book 1. Women in the Middle East : a history -- Introduction. Issues in studying Middle Eastern women's history -- I. Regional background and the beginnings of Islam -- II. From the pious caliphs through the dynastic caliphates -- III. From the Turkish and Mongol invasions to 1798 -- IV. Change in the long nineteenth century 1798-1914 -- V. 1914-45 : nationalism and women's movements -- VI. 1945-today : new states and trends, women's activism, and the rise of Islamism -- Conclusion -- Notes to book one -- Bibliography of books -- Book 2. Approaches to the study of Middle Eastern women -- Part 1. Shifting boundaries in sex and gender -- Part 2. Scholarship, relativism, and universalism -- Part 3. Women in the limelight : recent books on Middle Eastern women's history since 1800 -- Part 4. Problems in the study of Middle Eastern women -- Part 5. Sexuality and Shi\u02B9i social protest in Iran (coauthored with Parvin Paidar [Nahid Yeganeh]) -- Book 3. Autobiographical recollections -- Part 1. Autobiographical interview -- Part 2. Supplement to the interview -- Bibliography of works by Nikki R. Keddie since 1995.

305.42 B632A 2007
AUT Alcoff, Linda ; Kittay, Eva Feder.
TIT The Blackwell guide to feminist philosophy.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
SER Blackwell philosophy guides. ; 20.
CON Contents: Justifying the inclusion of women in our histories of philosophy: the case of Marie de Gournay / Eileen O'Neill -- Feminism and the history of philosophy / Robin May Schott -- Pragmatism / Shannon Sullivan -- Ethics and feminism / Marilyn Friedman and Angela Bolte -- Moral psychology / Margaret Urban Walker -- Feminist bioethics: where we've been, where we're going / Hilde Lindemann -- Feminism and disability / Anita Silvers -- Feminist political philosophy / Nancy Hirschmann -- Postcolonial feminisms: genealogies and recent directions / Ofelia Schutte -- Lesbian philosophy / Cheshire Calhoun -- Can third wave feminism be inclusive? Intersectionality, its problems, and new directions / Naomi Zack -- Feminist epistemologies and women's lives / Lorraine Code -- Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science / Elizabeth Potter -- Feminism and aesthetics / Peg Brand -- Feminism and Poststructuralism: a Deleuzian approach / Tamsin Lorraine. Contents: Women and philosophical canon -- Ethical inquiries -- Political perspectives -- Knowing and representing.

305.489 B877h 2006
AUT Browder, Laura.
TIT Her best shot : women and guns in America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: The news about women and guns -- Military heroines : narratives of female soldiers and spies in the Civil War -- Little Miss Sure Shot and friends, or, How armed women tamed the West -- Maid Marians and bad mothers : from the gungirls of the 1920s to the gangsters of the 1930s -- Radical women of the 1960s and 1970s -- Armed women of the far right : race mothers, warriors, and the surprising case of Carolyn Chute -- Armed feminism or family values? : women and guns today -- Conclusion.

305.5 G892s3 2008
AUT Grusky, David B ; Ku, Manwai C ; Szelényi, Szonja.
TIT Social stratification : class, race, and gender in sociological perspective. - 3rd ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Forms and sources of inequality -- The structure of contemporary inequality -- Inequality at the extremes -- Generating inequality -- Race and ethnicity -- Gender inequality -- The consequences of inequality -- The future of inequality.

305.8 E94t 2006
AUT Ewen, Elizabeth ; Ewen, Stuart.
TIT Typecasting : on the arts & sciences of human inequality : a history of dominant ideas. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Seven Stories Press, c2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Genesis : the modern world system -- 1. Didot's invention -- 2. The company of strangers -- 3. Created equal -- 4. Visual truth -- 5. Curiosity cabinets -- pt. 2. Taxonomies of human difference -- 6. Physiognomy : the science of first impressions -- 7. Hierarchies of humanity -- 8. Camper's angle -- 9. Tablier rasa -- 10. Spurzheim's funeral -- 11. Crania Americana -- 12. An American tale -- 13. The pencil of nature -- 14. Facial politics -- 15. The costermonger's tongue and Roget's thesaurus -- Interlude -- 16. Reverberations of change -- pt. 3. The faces of degeneration -- 17. Identifying the group within the individual -- 18. Finding the individual within the group -- 19. Criminal types -- pt. 4. Nordic nightmares -- 20. The amazing race -- 21. Morons in our midst -- 22. Eugenics goes to the fair -- pt. 5. The modern battlegrounds of type -- 23. Dat famous chicken debate -- 24. Male and female created he them -- 25. The return of the repressed -- 26. Writing history with lightning -- 27. Movable types -- 28. Persistence of vision -- 29. Tales of before and after -- Coda -- 30. Recent social trends.

305.8098 N244s 2007
AUT Nascimento, Elisa Larkin.
TIT The sorcery of color : identity, race, and gender in Brazil.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2007.

305.896 B259a 2007
AUT Barnard, Alan J.
TIT Anthropology and the bushman.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

305.896 H348b 2007
AUT Hashaw, Tim.
TIT The birth of Black America : the first African Americans and the pursuit of freedom at Jamestown. - 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
PUB New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007.
CON Contents: I: The founders of black America leave Africa -- Masquerade -- Jagas -- A game at chess -- Into the realm of Kalunga -- Alias, the "Dutchman" -- II: The founders land at Jamestown -- Unmasked -- The black knight's last pawn -- III: The founders seek freedom -- The first martyr -- Two save the colony -- That the child shall be free -- Ties that bind -- Making hay -- The shirt -- Angola plantation -- America George -- IV: The founders' legacy -- Jamestown burns -- Roots of abolition.

305.896 S653a 2007
AUT Smith, Kimberly K.
TIT African American environmental thought : foundations.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007.
SER American political thought.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Strange rendings of nature -- A land cursed by injustice -- Possessing the land -- Race natures -- Black folk -- Urban montage -- Conclusion.

305.896 T455o 2007
AUT Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall.
TIT The old way : a story of the first people. - 1st Picador ed.
PUB New York : Picador, 2007.
CON Contents: About words and names -- Fifteen thousand centuries -- Our lineage -- Meat and fire -- The Kalahari -- The search -- The place -- Hunting -- Gathering -- Poison -- Dangerous animals -- Lions -- Men and women -- The life cycle -- The social fabric -- Peacekeeping -- Knowledge -- Religion -- Tsumkwe -- Return -- The present.

305.906 O94 1995
AUT Creekmur, Corey K ; Doty, Alexander.
TIT Out in culture : gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1995.
SER Series Q.
CON Contents: Responsibilities of a gay film critic / Robin Wood -- Lesbians and film / Edith Becker ... [et al.] -- The hypothetical lesbian heroine in narrative feature film / Chris Straayer -- The great escape / Al LaValley -- There's something queer here / Alexander Doty -- Supporting character : the queer career of Agnes Moorehead / Patricia White -- The ambiguities of "lesbian" viewing pleasure : the (dis)articulations of Black widow / Valerie Traub -- From responsive tolerance to erotic liberation : Mädchen in uniform / B. Ruby Rich -- Acting like a man : masculine performance in My darling Clementine / Corey K. Creekmur -- Hitchcock's homophobia / John Hepworth -- The murderous gays : Hitchcock's homophobia / Robin Wood -- "Crisscross" : paranoia and projection in Strangers on a train / Sabrina Barton -- "I'm not the sort of person men marry" : monsters, queers, and Hitchcock's Rebecca / Rhona J. Berenstein -- The queer voice in Marnie / Lucretia Knapp -- Flaming closets / Michael Moon -- Men's pornography : gay vs. straight / Thomas Waugh -- Freud's "fetishism" and the lesbian dildo debates / Heather Findlay -- Tom of Finland : an appreciation / Nayland Blake -- Visible lesions : images of the PWA / Jan Zita Grover -- Pee Wee Herman : the homosexual subtext / Bruce La Bruce -- In living color : Toms, coons, mammies, faggots, and bucks / Essex Hemphill -- In defense of disco / Richard Dyer -- Crossover dreams : lesbianism and popular music since the 1970s / Arlene Stein -- Immaculate connection / Michael Musto -- The house the kids built : the gay Black imprint on American dance music / Anthony Thomas -- Children of paradise : a brief history of queens / Mark Thompson -- The politics of drag / Jeffrey Hilbert -- Black macho revisited : reflections of a snap! queen / Marlon Riggs -- All dressed up but no place to go? Style wars and the new lesbianism / Arlene Stein -- Commodity lesbianism / Danae Clark.

306 R529n 2005
AUT Richerson, Peter J ; Boyd, Robert, Ph. D.
TIT Not by genes alone : how culture transformed human evolution.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Culture is essential -- Culture exists -- Culture evolves -- Culture is an adaptation -- Culture is maladaptive -- Culture and genes coevolve -- Nothing about culture makes sense except in the light of evolution.

306.0973 S561g 2004
AUT Shrock, Joel.
TIT The Gilded Age.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Series foreword / by Ray B. Browne -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Timeline of popular culture, 1875-1900 -- Everyday America -- World of youth -- Advertising -- Architecture -- Fashion -- Food -- Leisure activities -- Literature -- Music -- Performing arts -- Travel -- Visual arts -- Cost of products, 1890-1899 -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index.

Ref 306.1 E56 2000
AUT Landes, Richard Allen.
TIT Encyclopedia of millennialism and millennial movements.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2000.
SER Routledge encyclopedias of religion and society.

306.10973 W878s 2006
AUT Wood, Robert T.
TIT Straightedge youth : complexity and contradictions of a subculture. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Theory and method -- Music, scenes, and cultural transitions -- (Re)negotiating a straightedge identity -- Straightedge in social and historical context -- Straightedge symbolism -- Toward a theory of subcultural change and schism -- Conclusion.

306.3 B259h 2004
AUT Barnard, Alan J. Gathering Societies (9th : 2003 : Heriot-Watt University) ; Barnard, Alan et al.
TIT Hunter-gatherers in history, archaeology and anthropology.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2004.

306.36 C537e 2006
AUT Childs, Matt D.
TIT The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the struggle against Atlantic slavery.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : The University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
SER Envisioning Cuba.
CON Contents: Introduction: worse than Aponte -- The present time period is very delicate: Cuban slavery and the changing Atlantic world, 1750-1850 -- Nothing worse in the world than to be a slave: slaves and free people of color in early nineteenth-century Cuba -- Organizing the rebellion: the overlapping worlds of the militia and the Cabildos de Nación -- Burn the plantations: the Cuban Aponte Rebellion(s) of 1812 -- Vanquish the arrogance of our enemies: emancipation rumors and rebellious royalism -- Conclusion: plaques of loyalty: the legacy of the Aponte Rebellion -- Appendix: Biographical database of the Aponte rebels.

306.4 B849m 2006
AUT Bribiescas, Richard G.
TIT Men : evolutionary and life history.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: I: Setting the stage -- Change happens -- Birth, death, and everything in between -- The ancestral male -- II: Human male life history -- Stacking the deck -- Womb to grow -- Getting a life -- Sex and fatherhood -- The male furnace -- Men and medicine -- The old guard -- Conclusion: The solitary male.

306.484 C456c 2005
AUT Chang, Jeff.
TIT Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation. - [1st Picador ed.].
PUB New York : Picador, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction / by DJ Kool Herc -- Prelude -- Necropolis : the Bronx and the politics of abandonment -- Sipple out deh : Jamaica's roots generation and the cultural turn -- Blood and fire, with occasional music : the gangs of the Bronx -- Making a name : how DJ Kool Herc lost his accent and started hip-hop -- Soul salvation : the mystery and faith of Afrika Bambaataa -- Furious styles : the evolution of style in the seven-mile world -- The world is ours : the survival and transformation of Bronx style -- Zulus on a time bomb : hip-hop meets the rockers downtown -- 1982 : rapture in Reagan's America -- End of innocence : the fall of the old school -- Things fall apart : the rise of the post-civil rights era -- What we got to say : black suburbia, segregation and utopia in the late 1980s -- Follow for now : the question of post-civil rights black leadership -- The culture assassins : geography, generation and gangsta rap -- The real enemy : the cultural riot of Ice Cube's Death certificate -- Gonna work it out : peace and rebellion in Los Angeles -- All in the same gang : the war on youth and the quest for unity -- Becoming the hip-hop generation : The source, the industry, and the big crossover -- New world order : globalization, containment and counterculture at the end of the century.

306.766 R577L 2008
AUT Rimmerman, Craig A.
TIT The lesbian and gay movements : assimilation or liberation.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008.
SER Dilemmas in American politics.

306.81 H996m 2006
AUT Hymowitz, Kay S.
TIT Marriage and caste in America : separate and unequal families in a post-marital age.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2006.
CON Contents: Marriage and caste -- What American marriage does -- The black family: forty-plus years of lies -- The missionary position -- Dads in the 'hood -- The teen mommy track -- The end of herstory -- It's morning after in America.

306.874 B734r 2007
AUT Borkowski, John G.
TIT Risk and resilience : adolescent mothers and their children grow up.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

306.8742 R535b 2006
AUT Richter, Linda M ; Morrell, Robert.
TIT Baba : men and fatherhood in South Africa.
PUB Cape Town, South Africa : HSRC Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction / Robert Morrell, Linda Richter -- Fathers, fatherhood and masculinity in South Africa / Robert Morrell -- On being a father and poor in southern Africa today / Francis Wilson -- The demographics of fatherhood in South Africa : an analysis of survey data, 1993-2002 / Dorrit Posel, Richard Devey -- The importance of fathering for children / Linda Richter -- Migrancy, family dissolution and fatherhood / Mamphela Ramphele, Linda Richter -- The state as non-biological 'father' : exploring the experience of fathering in a South African state institution in the period 1950 to 1970 / Azeem Badroodien -- Fathers without amandla : Zulu-speaking men and fatherhood / Mark Hunter -- Men and children : changing constructions of fatherhood in Drum magazine, 1951 to 1965 / Lindsay Clowes -- The father in the mind / Graham Lindegger -- Where have all the fathers gone? Media(ted) representations of fatherhood / Jeanne Prinsloo -- Representations of fatherhood in black US film and how this relates to parenting in South Africa / Solani Ngobeni -- Children's view of fathers / Linda Richter, Wendy Smith -- Fatherhood from an African cultural perspective / Desmond Lesejane -- African traditions and the social, economic and moral dimensions of fatherhood / Nhlanhla Mkhize -- Legal aspects of fatherhood in South Africa / Jacqui Gallinetti -- Men, work and parenting / Alan Hosking -- HIV/AIDS and the crisis of care for children / Chris Desmond, Cos Desmond -- Absent fathers : why do men not feature in stories of families affected by HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal? / Philippe Denis, Radikobo Ntsimane -- Being a father in a man's world : the experience of goldmine workers / Marlize Rabe -- Fathers don't stand a chance : experiences of custody, access, and maintenance / Grace Khunou -- The new gender platforms and fatherhood / Dean Peacock, Mbuyiselo Botha -- The child's right to shared parenting / Patrice Engle, Tom Beardshaw, Craig Loftin -- Taking forward work with men in families / Tom Beardshaw.

307.12 E68m 2006
AUT Erickson, Donna L.
TIT MetroGreen : connecting open space in North American cities.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Connected open space : the metropolitan scale -- Learning from city stories : ten case study comparisons -- Ecology - home : Toronto and Chicago -- Recreation - well-being : Milwaukee and Ottawa -- Transportation - movement : Calgary and Denver -- Community - neighborhood : Vancouver and Portland -- Green infrastructure - hardworking city systems : Cleveland and Minneapolis-St. Paul -- Lessons for realizing connected open-space networks in North American cities.

307.12 S559a 2006
AUT Short, John R.
TIT Alabaster cities : urban U.S. since 1950. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
SER Space, place, and society.
CON Contents: The rise of metropolitan America -- Urban renewal: "we must start all over again from the ground up" -- Stimulating suburbs, starving cities: "I should prefer to see the ash heaps" -- Robert Moses versus Jane Jacobs: "hack your way with a meat ax" -- Downtown: "the heart that pumps the blood of commerce" -- Creating a suburban society: "a landscape of scary places" -- New suburban realities: "trouble in paradise" -- Metropolitan fragmentation: "obsolescent structure of urban government" -- Urban economies: "all that is solid melts into air" -- Race and ethnicity: "e pluribus unum" -- Housing and the city: "shaky palaces" -- Politics and the city: "informal arrangements-- formal workings" -- Reimagining the city: "place wars" -- Civic engagement in the city: "civic spirit" -- Emerging trends.

307.76 B383w 2006
AUT Beauregard, Robert A.
TIT When America became suburban.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The short American century -- Urbanization's consequences -- Parasitic urbanization -- Culture and institutions -- Domestic prosperity -- Ways of life -- America's global project -- Identity and urbanity -- Appendix A: Decennial population loss for the fifty largest U.S. cities, 1820-2000 -- Appendix B: Demographic and economic comparisons across periods of urbanization -- Appendix C: Measures of urbanization for historical periods.

320.01 R499a 2007
AUT Rich, Wilbur C.
TIT African American perspectives on political science.
PUB Philadelphia, PA. : Temple University Press, 2007.

320.011 P746j 2007
AUT Pogge, Thomas Winfried Menko ; Kosch, Michelle.
TIT John Rawls : his life and theory of justice.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Biography -- The focus on the basic structure -- A top-tier criterion of justice -- The basic idea: justice as fairness -- The first principle of justice -- The second principle of justice -- A Rawlsian society -- On justification -- The reception of justice as fairness.

320.51 H572L 2006
AUT Hershberg, Eric ; Rosen, Fred.
TIT Latin America after neoliberalism : turning the tide in the 21st century?.
PUB New York : New Press : NACLA : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.

320.5409 M442c 2006
AUT Matthews, Weldon C.
TIT Confronting an empire, constructing a nation : Arab nationalists and popular politics in mandate Palestine.
PUB London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
SER Library of Middle East history. ; v. 10.
CON Contents: Key concepts and historical context -- The nationalist youth and veteran nationalists -- The Arab unity scheme and the beginnings of popular mobilization -- An Islamic congress, and Arab congress and the Istiqlal Party -- Creating and regulating the Palestinian public sphere -- The non-cooperation programme -- The demonstrations of 1933 -- Through the lens of 1936.

320.54095 N975c 2007
AUT Nussbaum, Martha Craven.
TIT The clash within : democracy, religious violence, and India's future.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: 1. Genocide in Gurjarat -- 2. The human face of the Hindu right -- 3. Tagore, Gandhi, Nehru -- 4. A democracy of pluralism, respect, equality -- 5. The rise of the Hindu right -- 6. Fantasies of purity and domination -- 7. The assault on history -- 8. The education wars -- 9. The diaspora community -- 10. The clash within.

323.0956 K11h 2007
AUT Kabasakal Arat, Zehra F.
TIT Human rights in Turkey.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
SER Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
CON Contents: Collisions and crossroads: introducing human rights in Turkey / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat -- Part I: Freedoms and antidiscrimination -- Freedom of press and broadcasting / Dilruba Çatalba\u015F -- The minority concept and rights in Turkey: the Lausanne Peace Treaty and current issues / Baskin Oran -- The human rights condition of the Rum Orthodox / Prodromos Yannas -- Linguistic human rights and the rights of Kurds / Mary Lou O'Neil -- Freedom of religion: secularist policies and Islamic challenges / Özlem Denli -- Part II: Social and economic rights -- So near, yet so far: freedom of association and workers' rights / Edward Weisband and Sera Öner -- The right to education / Fatma Gök and Deniz Ilgaz -- Environmental protection and rights / N. Burcu Ta\u015Fatar Parlak -- Part III: The rights of the displaced -- Conflict-induced internal displacement / Alpaslan Özerdem and Tim Jacoby -- Turkish asylum policy and human rights / Kemal Kiri\u015Fçi -- Part IV: Women's rights -- Women's rights, women's organizations, and the state / Yildiz Ecevit -- The effect of CEDAW on women's rights / Yasemin Çelik Levin -- Part V: Civic and educational efforts -- Human rights discourse and domestic human rights NGOs / Ba\u015Fak Çali -- Tensions and dilemmas in human rights education / Kenan Çayir -- Part VI: International affairs and interactions -- Turkey's participation in global and regional human rights regimes / Füsun Türkmen -- Leveraging norms: the ECHR and Turkey's human rights reforms / Thomas W. Smith -- Conclusion: Turkey's prospects and broader implications / Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat.

323.1196 H714m 2007
AUT Hogan, Wesley C.
TIT Many minds, one heart : SNCC's dream for a new America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Part one. A movement education -- The nonviolent anvil -- Come get my mattress and I'll keep my soul : freedom riding -- The inner life of recruiting -- Part two. How democracy travels -- Bridges to the North -- Testing the southern blueprint -- SNCC teaches SDS how to act -- Part three. Delta civics : fashioning a new America -- The core struggle -- The high summer of transformation -- Part four. Movement ecology -- Contact with power : Atlantic City -- Desperate initiatives : Waveland -- Vertigo -- Not quite there : the search for enduring ground -- Conclusion: Freedom as an inside job -- Afterword: Beyond sacred ground -- Appendix A: We'll never turn back : freedom songs -- Appendix B: Affidavits -- Appendix C: The other sacred ground -- Appendix D: Incidents of violence against voter registration activities in Mississippi, 1964 -- Appendix E: James Forman's speech at Waveland, November 1964 -- Appendix F: Suggested structures for SNCC, November 1964 -- Appendix G: Structure debate at Waveland -- Appendix H: SNCC as the borning struggle.

323.1196 J47b 2006
AUT Jeffries, J. L.
TIT Black power in the belly of the beast.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois, c2006.

323.34 A658 2005
TIT The Arab human development report 2005 : towards the rise of women in the Arab world.
PUB New York : United Nations Development Programme, Regional Bureau for Arab States, c2006.
CON Contents: Changes in human development in the Arab countries since the launch of AHDR 2004 -- Towards the rise of women in the Arab world frame of reference -- Concepts and problematic issues -- The state of women in the Arab world -- The acquisition of human capabilities -- The use of human capabilities -- Levels of human well-being -- The Arab women's movement: struggles and experiences -- The societal context of the state of women -- Culture -- Social structures -- Legal structures -- Political economy -- Towards the rise of women in the Arab world -- A strategic vision: two wings for the rise of women.

323.448 C319p 2006
AUT Carroll, Jamuna.
TIT Privacy.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2006.
SER Opposing viewpoints series.

324.273 P187r 2007
AUT Panagopoulos, Costas.
TIT Rewiring politics : presidential nominating conventions in the media age.
PUB Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
SER Media & public affairs.

325.3 S557d 2008
AUT Shipway, Martin.
TIT Decolonization and its impact : a comparative approach to the end of the colonial empires.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

326.0973 M411s 2006
AUT Mason, Matthew.
TIT Slavery and politics in the early American republic.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Slavery and politics to 1808 -- Federalists, Republicans, and slavery during the War of 1812 -- Slavery and partisan conflict during the era of good feelings -- Slavery in Anglo-American relations -- The political impact of African Americans -- Defending against slavery -- Defending slavery -- Commencement exercises : the Missouri crisis -- Antebellum legacies.

327.73 m466d 2006
AUT May, Ernest R ; Zelikow, Philip ; Lundberg, Kirsten.
TIT Dealing with dictators : dilemmas of U.S. diplomacy and intelligence analysis, 1945-1990.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2006.
SER BCSIA studies in international security.
CON Contents: Introduction : Seven tenets / Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow -- China, 1945-1948 : making hard choices / Ernest R. May, with assistance from Kirsten Lundberg and Robert D. Johnson -- The Congo, 1960-1963 : weighing worst choices / Charles G. Cogan and Ernest R. May, with assistance from Kirsten Lundberg and Robert D. Johnson -- Nicaragua, 1977-1979 : losing "our son-of-a-bitch" / Robert D. Johnson, with assistance from Kirsten Lundberg -- Iran, 1978-1979 : coping with the unthinkable / Gregory F. Treverton, with assistance from James Klocke -- The Philippines, 1983-1986 : arranging a divorce / William E. Kline and James Worthen, with assistance from Kirsten Lundberg and Robert D. Johnson -- Iraq, 1988-1990 : unexpectedly heading toward war / Zachary Karabell ... [et al.] -- Learning from the cases / Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow.

330.12 E36r 2007
AUT Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus.
TIT The real wealth of nations : creating a caring economics. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., c2007.
SER BK currents book.
CON Contents: Introduction : reasons to care -- We need a new economics -- Economics through a wider lens -- It pays to care...in dollars and cents -- The economic double standard -- Connecting the dots -- The economics of domination -- The economics of partnership -- Technology, work, and the postindustrial era -- Who we are and where we are -- The caring revolution.

330.12 L884f 2007
AUT Lott, John R.
TIT Freedomnomics : why the free market works and other half-baked theories don't.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Regnery Pub. ; Lanham, Md. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.

330.122 B348g 2007
AUT Baumol, William J ; Litan, Robert E. ; Schramm, Carl J.
TIT Good capitalism, bad capitalism, and the economics of growth and prosperity.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.

330.943 T672w 2007
AUT Tooze, J. Adam.
TIT The wages of destruction : the making and breaking of the Nazi economy. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Viking, 2007.
CON Contents: Recovery -- 'Every worker his work' -- Breaking away -- Partners: The regime and German business -- Volksgemeinschaft on a budget -- Saving the peasants -- War in Europe -- 1936: Four years to war -- Into the danger zone -- 1939: Nothing to gain by waiting -- Going for broke: the first winter of war -- Victory in the West - Sieg im Westen -- Britain and American: Hitler's strategic dilemma -- World War -- Preparing for two wars on once -- The grand strategy of racial war -- December 1941: turning point -- Labour, food and genocide -- Albert Speer: 'miracle man' -- No room for doubt -- Disintegration -- The end.

330.951 R551h 2007
AUT Riedel, James ; Jin, Jing ; Gao, Jian.
TIT How China grows : investment, finance, and reform.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Overview of economic reforms and outcomes -- The source of growth and the role of investment -- Saving and the financing of investment in China -- Financial sector repression -- Banking sector reform -- Developments in the bond market -- The rise and fall of the stock market -- Macroeconomic policy and performance.

331.25 N277t 2007
TIT Tough choices or tough times : the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
CON Contents: Executive summary -- Preface -- Prologue -- The nature of the challenge now -- The scenario: The recommendations as they might look from the vantage point of an observer in 2021 -- Comments -- Background papers: Estimates of the additional expense and savings associated with the Commission's proposed reforms in elementary and secondary education; Teachers and teaching policy; Early childhood education; The adult workforce -- Appendixes: The study; Trustees of the National Center on Education and the Economy; Biographies of members of the Commission; Commission staff and associates.

331.3 W534c 2005
AUT Weston, Burns H.
TIT Child labor and human rights : making children matter.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.
CON Contents: Rethinking child labor: a multidimensional human rights problem / Burns H. Weston and Mark B. Teerink -- Defining child labor as if human rights matter / Judith Ennew, William E. Myers, Dominique Pierre Plateau -- Child labor and the rights of children: historical patterns of decline and persistence / Hugh Cunningham and Shelton Stromquist -- Child labor standards: from treaties to labels / Holly Cullen -- Translating standards into practice: confronting transnational barriers / S. L. Bachman -- Translating standards into practice: confronting local barriers / Michael F.C. Bourdillon -- Combating child labor in Tanzania: a beginning / Donald Mmari -- Combating child labor in the Philippines: listening to children / Victoria V. Rialp -- Combating child labor in Brazil: social movements in action / Benedito Rodrigues dos Santos -- Abolishing child labor: a multifaceted human rights solution / Burns H. Weston and Mark B. Teerink -- Conceiving child labor in human rights terms: can it mobilize progressive change? / David M. Post -- Working children as change-makers: perspectives from the South / Victor P. Karunan -- Shifting positions on child labor: the views and practice of intergovernmental organizations / Ben White -- Nongovernmental organizations in the struggle against child labor / Laurie S. Wiseberg -- Earning and learning: tensions and compatibility / Susan L. Bissell -- Trade-based strategies for combating child labor / Frank J. Garcia and Soohyun Jun -- Bringing human rights to child labor: guiding principles and call to action / Burns H. Weston.

331.409 C654s 2007
AUT Cobble, Dorothy Sue.
TIT The sex of class : women transforming American labor.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Increasing class disparities among women and the politics of gender equity / Leslie McCall -- More than raising the floor : the persistence of gender inequalities in the low-wage labor market / Vicky Lovell, Heidi Hartmann, and Misha Werschkul -- Two worlds of unionism : women and the new labor movement / Ruth Milkman -- The lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender challenge to American labor / Gerald Hunt and Monica Bielski Boris -- Sex discrimination as collective harm / Marion Crain -- Changing work, changing people : a conversation with union organizers at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center / Lydia Savage -- Unions fight for work and family policies- not for women only / Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones -- Working women's insurgent consciousness / Karen Nussbaum -- "We were the invisible workforce" : unionizing home care / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Expanding labor's vision : the challenges of workfare and welfare organizing / Vanessa Tait -- Worker centers and immigrant women / Janice Fine -- Female immigrant workers and the law : limits and opportunities / Maria L. Ontiveros -- Women crossing borders to organize / Katie Quan -- Representing informal economy workers : emerging global strategies and their lessons for North American unions / Leah F. Vosko.

332.042 T243g 2007
AUT Taylor, John B.
TIT Global financial warriors : the untold story of international finance in the post-9/11 world. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton, c2007.
CON Contents: The first shot in the global war on terror -- Financial reconstruction in Afghanistan -- Avoiding global financial contagion -- New rules for the International Monetary Fund -- Accountability at the World Bank and beyond -- Financial diplomacy and the Turkish option -- A plan for financial stability in Iraq -- Iraq achieves financial stability -- Negotiating the mother of all debt deals -- Exchange rate diplomacy.

Ref 332.603 P485w 2007
AUT Peterson, Nora.
TIT Wall Street lingo : thousands of investment terms explained simply.
PUB Ocala, Fla. : Atlantic Pub. Group, 2007.
CON Contents: Market mechanics -- The exchanges : at home and abroad -- Exchange operations : bringing order to the markets -- Playing fair : rules and regulations -- Who's who -- The big wheels : Wall Street professionals -- The money machines : bankers, economists and world trade -- The money makers : corporations at home and abroad -- Investors, big and small -- The industry guard dogs : regulators, enforcers and safety nets -- Market forces -- Economics for investors : the ups and downs of business the business cycle -- Economic indicators : taking the business cycle temperature -- The long and short of trends, cycles and crashes : market movement and the indexes that track them -- Asset classes -- Stocks : owning a piece of something big -- Funds : letting a professional make the decisions -- Bonds : loaning corporations and governments money -- Options and futures : taking bigger chances -- Initial public offerings : the darling of the 90s -- Analysis strategies: identifying a good investment when you see it --Fundamental analysis : cheap or undervalued? -- Decoding financial statements : seeing beyond the numbers -- Equity valuations : it's all relative -- Bond valuations : all debt is not created equal -- Technical analysis : using the past to predict the future -- Charting : more than pretty pictures -- Investment mechanics -- Tools that match your style : starting with the right broker -- Orders, quotes and fills : getting the price you want -- Recordkeeping and taxes : paying the piper -- Additional resources -- Investor resources : getting help when you need it -- Acronyms : alphabet soup.

332.6327 S855s4 2007
AUT Stigum, Marcia L ; Crescenzi, Anthony ; Stigum, Marcia L.
TIT Stigum's money market. - 4th ed. / Marcia Stigum, Anthony Crescenzi.
PUB New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007.

Ref 333.7 E61 2007 v.1-2
TIT Environmental statutes.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Government Institutes, 1979-.

333.79 B229e 2006
AUT Passero, Barbara.
TIT Energy alternatives.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, c2006.
SER Opposing viewpoints series.

337.51 W788d 2007
AUT Winters, L. Alan ; Yusuf, Shahid.
TIT Dancing with giants : China, India, and the global economy.
PUB Washington, D.C. : World Bank : Institute of Policy Studies, c2007.

338.272 M329o 2007
AUT Margonelli, Lisa.
TIT Oil on the brain : adventures from the pump to the pipeline.
PUB New York : Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, c2007.
CON Contents: Gas station -- Distribution -- Refinery -- Drilling rig -- Strategic petroleum reserve -- NYMEX oil market -- Venezuela -- Chad -- Iran -- Nigeria -- China.

338.4 F761w 2007
AUT Fotsch, Paul Mason.
TIT Watching the traffic go by : transportation and isolation in urban America. - 1st ed.
PUB Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The trolley, the automobile, and autonomy -- Townless highways and highwayless towns -- The building of a superhighway future at the New York World's Fair -- Film noir and the hidden violence of transportation in Los Angeles -- Stories of the MTA: contesting meanings of subway space -- Urban freeway stories: racial politics and the armored automobile.

338.4779 M884g 2007
AUT Morse, Edward A. ; Goss, Ernest.
TIT Governing fortune : casino gambling in America.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
CON Contents: A brief history of gambling in America -- Casino expansion in the United States -- Tax revenues from casinos -- Casinos as economic development tools -- Social costs -- Regulating gambling-an introduction -- Casino regulation in Nevada -- Casino regulation in other states -- Regulating gambling: the federal government's role -- The internet: gambling's new frontier -- Tribal gaming -- Governing fortune in a changing world.

338.4779 V878e7 2007
AUT Vogel, Harold L.
TIT Entertainment industry economics : a guide for financial analysis. - 7th ed.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Economic perspective -- Basic elements -- II: Media-dependent entertainment -- Movie macroeconomics -- Making and marketing movies -- Financial accounting in movies and television -- Music -- Broadcasting -- Cable -- Publishing -- Toys and games -- III: Live entertainment -- Gaming and wagering -- Sports -- Performing arts and culture -- Amusement/theme parks -- IV: Roundup -- Performance and policy.

338.96 N337c 2007
AUT Ndulu, B. J ; Chakraborti, Lopamudra.
TIT Challenges of African growth : opportunities, constraints, and strategic directions.
PUB Washington D.C. : World Bank, c2007.
CON Contents: Facing the challenges of African growth : opportunities, constraints, and strategic directions -- Africa's long-term growth experience in a global perspective -- Explaining the African growth record : what appears to matter most -- Constraints to growth -- Tackling the challenges of African growth.

338.98 F834p3 2007
AUT Franko, Patrice M.
TIT The puzzle of Latin American economic development. - 3rd ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
CON Contents: Development in Latin America: conceptualizing economic change in the region -- Historical legacies: patterns of unequal and unstable growth -- Import substitution industrialization: looking inward for the source of economic growth -- Latin America's debt crisis: the limits of external financing -- Macroeconomic stabilization: a critical ingredient for sustained growth -- The role of the state: from a smaller to a smarter state -- Financing for development: public and private capital flows to Latin America -- Contemporary trade policy: engine or brakes for growth? -- Policies underpinning growth: productivity and competitiveness in the global economy -- Rural development: sowing the seeds of equitable, sustainable growth in Latin America -- Poverty and inequality: addressing the social deficit in Latin America -- Health policy: investing in people's future -- Education policy: the source of equitable, sustainable growth -- Environmental challenges: internalizing the costs of development -- Lessons learned: cycles in Latin American development.

341.23 M257i 2006
AUT Malone, David.
TIT The international struggle over Iraq : politics in the UN Security Council 1980-2005.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Cold War peacemaker : brokering peace in the Iran-Iraq war -- New world order policeman : responding to Iraqi aggression against Kuwait -- Creeping unilateralism : humanitarian interventions and no-fly zones -- Sanctions enforcer : economic sanctions and the oil-for-food program -- Weapons inspector : UNSCOM, UNMOVIC and the disarming of Iraq -- Sidelined : from 9/11 to August 19, 2003 -- Crisis of confidence : annus horribilis and a 'vital' role -- Conclusions : serious consequences : how twenty-five years of involvement with Iraq has changed the Security Council.

341.24 M131e4 2008
AUT McCormick, John.
TIT The European Union : politics and policies. - 4th ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008.
CON Contents: What is the European Union? -- Origins : the postwar world -- Emergence : the road from Paris -- Consolidation : to the Euro and beyond -- The European Commission -- The Council of Ministers -- The European Parliament -- The European Court of Justice -- The European Council and specialized agencies -- Representing interests -- Public policy in the EU -- Economic policy -- Agricultural and environmental policy -- Cohesion policy -- Foreign policy -- The EU and the United States.

342.08 R896w 2006
AUT Rubio-Marín, Ruth.
TIT What happened to the women? : gender and reparations for human rights violations.
PUB New York : Social Science Research Council, 2006.
CON Contents: The gender of reparations : setting the agenda / Ruth Rubio-Marín -- Evaluating the gender content of reparations : lessons from South Africa / Beth Goldblatt -- Guatemala : gender and reparations for human rights violations / Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey -- Linking gender and reparations in Peru : a failed opportunity / Julie Guillerot -- Women and reparations in Rwanda : a long path to travel / Heidy Rombouts -- Gender and reparations in Sierra Leone : the wounds of war remain open / Jamesina King -- Learning to engender reparations in Timor-Leste : reaching out to female victims / Galuh Wandita, Karen Campbell-Nelson and Manuela Leong Pereira.

342.73 B658u 2007
AUT Blum, Edward.
TIT The unintended consequences of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Texas now and then: how both parties use the Voting Rights Act for partisan ends-and make messy politics even messier -- Safe-seats-for-life in Arizona : using the Voting Right Act to kill competitive elections -- Wasting everyone's time and money: Cumberland County, Virginia, and the town of North, South Carolina.

343.7302 J39i2 2006
AUT Jasper, Margaret C.
TIT Identity theft and how to protect yourself. - 2nd ed.
PUB [Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.] : Oceana Publications, c2006.
SER Oceana's legal almanac series. Law for the layperson.
CON Contents: Overview of identity theft -- Identity theft statistics -- Credit and debit cards -- Internet safety -- Privacy policies and direct marketing -- Identity theft legislation -- Minimizing your risks -- Resolving your identity theft problems -- Identity theft risks for businesses -- Appendices.

Ref 346.73 B587t2 2007
AUT Bielefield, Arlene ; Cheeseman, Lawrence.
TIT Technology and copyright law : a guidebook for the library, research, and teaching professions. 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2007.
CON Contents: Technology and the history of copyright law -- Technology and copyright legislation -- Technology and the future of copyright -- Fair use : the basics -- Fair use : in education -- Fair use : technology in the library -- Special exemptions for the blind and other people with disabilities -- Special privileges for libraries and archives -- Contracts and copyright : paths that cross -- Copyright and distance education -- The worldwide view -- Twelve common misconceptions about copyright.

347.732 B163a 2007
AUT Baird, Vanessa A.
TIT Answering the call of the court : how justices and litigants set the Supreme Court agenda.
PUB Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2007.
SER Constitutionalism and democracy.
CON Contents: The Supreme Court in the U.S. legal system : appeals and case selection -- Explaining the Supreme Court's policy cycles -- Immigrants' rights, welfare, and federalism -- Cyclical patterns on the Supreme Court's agenda -- Corroborative analyses : the political and legal context of the Supreme Court -- The impact of moderate justices' preferences on the ideological placement of future cases.

347.732 G798s 2007
AUT Greenburg, Jan Crawford.
TIT Supreme conflict : the inside story of the struggle for control of the United States Supreme Court.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Day's end -- Settling for Tony -- False hopes -- The devil you don't -- "The youngest, cruelest justice" -- Change of heart -- The Clinton way -- The natural -- "Except he's not a woman" -- "Trust me" -- Deconstructing Miers -- A full count.

352.48 R625r 2007
AUT Rivlin, Alice M ; Antos, Joseph R.
TIT Restoring fiscal sanity 2007 : the health spending challenge.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.

355.02 C559i 2006
AUT Chubin, Shahram.
TIT Iran's nuclear ambitions.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace ; Baltimore, MD : Hopkins Fulfillment Service [distributor], c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- 1. The view from Tehran -- 2. Nuclear energy rationale, domestic politics, and decision making -- 3. Fear of a nuclear Iran -- 4. Iran's negotiating strategy -- 5. The international response -- 6. Iran and regional security -- Conclusion.

355.343 C953e 2006
AUT Crowdy, Terry.
TIT The enemy within : a history of espionage.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Osprey, 2006.
CON Contents: In ancient times -- Through dark ages -- Spy, Britannia -- Espionage in the Age of Reason -- Vive la Révolucion? -- Napoleon's 'secret part' -- Uncivil war -- The godfather of secret service -- Spy fever -- Eastern peril -- Double agents & radio games -- Axis spies against America -- Spies of the Soviet era -- With no end in sight--.

361.61 H848w 2007
AUT Howard, Christopher.
TIT The welfare state nobody knows : debunking myths about U.S. social policy.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: I: Basic tour -- She's so unusual -- Tracks of my tiers -- Twice in a lifetime -- II: New horizons -- Ogres, onions, and layers (or, how Republicans built the American welfare state) -- Programs for the poor are not always poor programs -- Shaq is still pretty tall: public support for the American welfare state -- The world according to AARP -- III: Checkpoints and roadblocks -- The American states: laboratories of Democracy or cryogenic chambers? -- Race still matters -- Change versus progress.

361.74 O16b 2007
AUT O'Clery, Conor.
TIT The billionaire who wasn't : how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune.
PUB New York : Public Affairs c2007.

362.1 J39y 2007
AUT Jasper, Margaret C.
TIT Your rights as a tenant.
PUB [Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.] : Oceana Publications, c2007.
SER Oceana's legal almanac series. Law for the layperson. 1075-7376.
CON Contents: Overview of the landlord-tenant relationship -- The search for rental property -- Fair housing and discrimination -- The lease -- Security deposits -- Health, safety and habitability -- Renter's insurance -- Lease termination and eviction -- Co-op/Condo conversion -- The Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act.

362.178 H434L 2006
AUT Healy, Kieran Joseph.
TIT Last best gifts : altruism and the market for human blood and organs.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

362.6 B513s 2003
AUT Berkman, Barbara ; Harootyan, Linda K.
TIT Social work and health care in an aging society : education, policy, practice, and research.
PUB New York : Springer, c2003.

362.82 M133d2 2008
AUT McCue, Margi Laird.
TIT Domestic violence : a reference handbook. - 2nd ed.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.
SER Contemporary world issues.

362.829 D128w 2006
AUT Daguerre, Anne ; Nativel, Corinne.
TIT When children become parents : welfare state responses to teenage pregnancy.
PUB Bristol, U.K. : Policy Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction: the construction of teenage pregnancy as a social problem / Anne Daguerre with Corinne Nativel -- Part One: Liberal welfare states : 2. Young single mothers and 'welfare reform' in the US / Christine Carter McLaughlin and Kristin Luker -- 3. Teenage pregnancy in New Zealand: changing social policy paradigms / Georg Menz / 4. Teenage pregnancy and parenthood in England / Anne Daguerre -- Part Two: Continental and Scandinavian welfare states : 5. Approaches to teenage motherhood in Québec, Canada / Johanne Charbonneau -- 6. Teenage pregnancy and reproductive politics in France / Corinne Nativel -- 7. Early motherhood in Italy: explaining the 'invisibility' of a social phenomenon / Elisabetta Pernigotti and Elisabetta Ruspini -- 8. Teenage reproductive behaviour in Denmark and Norway: lessons from the Nordic welfare state / Lisbeth B. Knudsen and Ann-Karin Valle -- Part Three: Transition states : 9. Meeting the challenge of new teenage reproductive behaviour in Russia / Elena Ivanova -- 10. Teenage pregnancy in Poland: between laissez-faire and religious backlash / Stephane Portet -- 11. Conclusion: welfare states and the politics of teenage pregnancy: lessons from cross-national comparisons / Corinne Nativel with Anne Daguerre -- Statistical appendix:Teenage fertility in OECD countries.

363.23 H669r 2007
AUT Hirschmann, Kris.
TIT Racial profiling.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2006.
SER At issue.

363.32 G521t 2007
AUT Giraldo, Jeanne K ; Trinkunas, Harold A.
TIT Terrorism financing and state responses : a comparative perspective.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The political economy of terrorist finance / Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas --Terrorism financing mechanisms and policy dilemmas / Nikos Passas -- Organized crime and terrorism / John T. Picarelli and Louise I. Shelley -- Terrorist organizations' vulnerabilities and inefficiencies: a rational choice perspective / Jacob N. Shapiro -- Warning indicators and terrorist finances / Phil Williams -- Financing Afghan terrorism: thugs, drugs, and creative movements of money / Thomas H. Johnson -- Al Qaeda finances and funding to affiliated groups / Victor Comras -- Hezbollah finances: funding the party of God / Matthew Levitt -- Arab government responses to the threat of terrorist financing / Moyara de Moraes Ruehsen -- Terrorist financing in Europe / Loretta Napoleoni -- Terrorist financing and government response in East Africa / Jessica Piombo -- Terrorist financing and government response in South East Asia / Aurel Croissant and Daniel Barlow -- Terrorist financing and government response in the tri-border region of South America: the challenge of effective governmental response in a permissive environment / John L. Lombardi and David J. Sanchez -- Anti-terror strategy, the 9/11 Commission Report and terrorism financing: implications for U.S. policymakers / Raphael Perl -- U.S. and international responses to terrorist financing / Anne L. Clunan -- Terrorist financing: explaining government responses / Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas.

363.34 B619m 2006
AUT Birkmann, Jörn.
TIT Measuring vulnerability to natural hazards : towards disaster resilient societies.
PUB Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction / Janos J. Bogardi -- Basic principles and theoretical basis -- Measuring vulnerability to promote disaster-resilient societies: conceptual frameworks and definitions / Jörn Birkmann -- Indicators and criteria for measuring vulnerability: theoretical bases and requirements / Jörn Birkmann -- Social levels and hazard (in)dependence in determining vulnerability / Stefan Schneiderbauer, Daniele Ehrlich -- User needs: why we need indicators / Angela Queste, Peter Lauwe -- Vulnerability and environment -- Environmental components of vulnerability / Fabrice G. Renaud -- Human vulnerability to environmental change: an approach for UNEP's global environmental outlook (GEO) / Marcel T.J. Kok, Vishal Narain, Steven Wonink, Jill Jäger -- Global, national and sub-national index approaches -- Review of global risk index projects: Conclusions for sub-national and local approaches / Mark Pelling -- The disaster risk index: overview of a quantitative approach / Pascal Peduzzi -- Disaster risk hotspots: a project summary / Maxx Dilley -- A system of indicators for disaster risk management in the Americas / Omar D. Cardona -- Multi-risk assessment of Europe's regions / Stefan Greiving -- Disaster vulnerability assessment: the Tanzania experience / Robert B. Kiunsi, Manoris V. Meshak -- A human security index / Erich J. Plate -- Local vulnerability assessment -- Community-based disaster risk index: pilot implementation in Indonesia / Christina Bollin, Ria Hidajat -- Measuring vulnerability: the ADRC perspective for the theoretical basis and principles of indicator development / Masaru Arakida -- Vulnerability assessment: the sectoral approach / Juan Carlos Villagrán de León -- Self-assessment of coping capacity: participatory, proactive, and qualitative engagement of communities in their own risk management / Ben Wisner -- Measuring vulnerability in Sri Lanka at the local level / Jörn Birkmann, Nishara Fernando, Siri Hettige -- Institutional vulnerability, coping and lessons learned -- Assessing institutionalised capacities and practices to reduce the risks of flood disaster / Louis Lebel, Elena Nikitina, Vladimir Kotov, Jesse Manuta -- Public sector financial vulnerability to disasters: the IIASA CATSIM model / Reinhard Mechler, Stefan Hochrainer, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Georg Pflug -- Text box effective measurement of vulnerability is essential to help those most in harm's way / Simon Horner -- Overcoming the black hole: outline for a quantitative model to compare coping capacities across countries / Peter Billing, Ulrike Madengruber -- A methodology for learning lessons: experiences at the European level / Elisabeth Krausmann, Fesil Mushtaq -- Conclusion and recommendation / Jörn Birkmann -- Core terminology of disaster reduction: a comparative glossary / Katharina Thywissen -- List of contributors -- Index.

363.34 M828e 2007
AUT Moral, Roger del ; Walker, Lawrence R.
TIT Environmental disasters, natural recovery and human responses.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

363.34 O18h 2006
AUT O'Connor, Rebecca.
TIT How should the world respond to natural disasters?.
PUB Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2006.
SER At issue.
CON Contents: The international response to natural disasters must be improved / Ed Tsui -- International donors save many lives / UNICEF -- International efforts to limit the devastation of natural disasters are inadequate / Emma Young -- An Indian Ocean tsunami warning system must be developed / Costas Synolakis -- Creating an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system is futile / Keith Alverson -- Developing countries lack adequate disaster prevention and recovery programs / Suprakash Roy -- Developed nations must help poorer countries modernize / Ross Clark -- Trauma counseling helps disaster victims / Sherwin B. Nuland -- Trauma counseling may not help victims / Erzulie Coquillon -- The U.S. government's response to disasters discriminates against the poor and minorities / Ted Steinberg -- Nations should provide aid for humanitarian reasons alone / The Economist -- Developers should build more carefully on coastlines / David M. Bush, William J. Neal, Robert S. Young -- People should not live in hazard-prone areas / Seth R. Reice -- Relief agencies must dispel myths about natural disasters / Claude de Ville de Goyet -- Relief agencies should study past disasters / Thomas R. DeGregori -- Hurricane Katrina revealed the weakness of U.S. emergency response / Paul Light -- A belief in God can protect against disasters / John Ross Schroeder.

363.42 H371g 2007
AUT Haugen, David M. ; Musser, Susan.
TIT Gambling.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2007.
SER Opposing viewpoints series.

363.47 O525o 2007
AUT Berne, Emma Carlson.
TIT Online pornography.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER Opposing viewpoints series.

363.738 M736h 2007
AUT Monbiot, George.
TIT Heat : how to stop the planet from burning.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2007.
CON Contents: A Faustian pact -- The denial industry -- A ration of freedom -- Our leaky homes -- Keeping the lights on -- How much energy can renewables supply? -- The energy internet -- A new tansport system -- Love miles -- Virtual shopping -- Apocalypse postponed.

363.738 R221d 2007
AUT Rappaport, Ann ; Creighton, Sarah Hammond.
TIT Degrees that matter : climate change and the university.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
SER Urban and industrial environments.
CON Contents: Foreword / by Lawrence S. Bacow -- A time for action -- Climate change basics and the university -- The campus inventory and climate goals -- Climate actors and climate advocacy -- Strategy and tactics for climate action -- Buildings and climate change action -- Tackling emissions at the source : climate actions in buildings and central facilities -- Action beyond facilities -- Planning and policies for climate change -- Personal action initiatives -- Climate action in the classroom -- Degrees that matter.

363.739 S399a 2007
AUT Schwartz, Joel ; Hayward, Steven F.
TIT Air quality in America : a dose of reality on air pollution levels, trends, and health risks.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007.

364.1 H242t 2007
AUT Hamm, Mark S.
TIT Terrorism as crime : from Oklahoma City to Al-Qaeda and beyond.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007.
SER Alternative criminology series.
CON Contents: Introduction: The criminology of terrorism -- Criminal stupidity and the age of sacred terrorism : the first World Trade Center bombing -- Vulnerabilities of the Jihad - prelude to 9/11 : the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania -- The legacy of lost causes : the covenant, the sword, and the arm of the Lord -- Charisma, conflict, and style : the Order -- The seduction of terrorist mythology : the Aryan Republican Army -- Al-Qaeda, the radical right, and beyond : the current terrorist threat.

365.973 W235c 2006
AUT Walters, Stephen Paul ; Caywood, Tom.
TIT Correctional officers in America : the emergence of a new profession.
PUB Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The world of correctional officers -- Selection and training -- Characteristics of correctional officers -- Correctional officers, inmates, & social control -- The social psychology of correctional officers -- The subculture of correctional officers -- Minorities as correctional officers -- Correctional officers without walls" probation & parole officers -- Current issues concerning correctional officers.

370.154 S952a 2007
AUT Sullo, Robert A.
TIT Activating the desire to learn.
PUB Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2007.
CON Contents: Theory and research. Understanding internal motivation -- "Where's the evidence?" -- Elementary school. Competition is as important as cooperation -- Helping students value learning -- From bossing to leading -- "Consequence" is not a four-letter word -- Middle school. Positive relationships support competence and high standards -- Self-evaluation leads to lasting change -- Inspiring through collaboration -- Being what we choose -- High school. Creating a need-satisfying environment -- From telling to asking -- From enforcing to teaching responsibility and fostering positive relationships -- Reflections of a high school senior.

370.9173 F944u 2007
AUT Fruchter, Norm.
TIT Urban schools, public will : making education work for all our children.
PUB New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, c2007.

370.9173 G618s 2007
AUT Gold, Barry A.
TIT Still separate and unequal : segregation and the future of urban school reform / Barry A. Gold.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, c2007.
SER Sociology of education series.
CON Contents: Abbott v. Burke V: New Jersey's revolution in urban education reform -- No child left behind: the federal solution to Brown -- The urban education revolution in perspective: a theory of educational change -- The Bridge Street School: unanticipated incremental change -- The College Avenue School: the normal appearance of change -- The Church Street School: immediate sustained rigid change -- The Park Avenue School: chronic resistance to change -- What changed? Why separate cannot be equal -- Segregation and the future of urban school reform: planning for a post-Abbott and post-NCLB era.

371.102 B112r 2007
AUT Babbage, Keen J.
TIT Results-driven teaching : teach so well that every student learns.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007.
CON Contents: What is teaching? -- What is a teacher? -- What is the idea and the ideal of a teacher? -- What is the purpose of teaching? -- What is the job description of a results-driven teacher? -- What results-driven teaching is not -- What a results-driven teacher is not -- What college students preparing to be results-driven teachers need to know now -- What results-driven teacher who will stay in this profession need to know -- Wonderful possibilities and the realistic frustrations-how to thrive and cope -- Case studies and profiles : results-driven teaching in action.

371.1024 R917t 2006
AUT Rudolph, Amanda M.
TIT Techniques in classroom management : a resource for secondary educators.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006.
CON Contents: Classroom management and course content -- Bad lesson -- Cheaters -- A quick finish -- Special needs -- A heckler. Classroom management and social issues -- The class clown -- Gossiping -- Black and white -- Angry outburst -- Ms. popularity. Classroom management and special circumstances -- A power struggle -- Violent students -- Bullies -- Weapons -- An angry parent.

371.271 M393c 2006
AUT Marzano, Robert J.
TIT Classroom assessment & grading that work.
PUB Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2006.
CON Contents: The case for classroom assessment -- The role of state standards -- A scale that measures learning over time -- Designing classroom assessments -- Assessments that encourage learning -- Final scores and grades -- Report cards and the future of standards-based or topic-based schooling -- Technical notes.

371.4 N269m 2006
AUT Nastasi, Bonnie K.
TIT Multicultural issues in school psychology.
PUB Binghamton, N.Y. : Haworth Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Multicultural issues in school psychology practice: introduction / Bonnie K. Nastasi -- Validating culture- and gender-specific constructs: a mixed-method approach to advance assessment procedures in cross-cultural settings / John H. Hitchcock ... [et al.] -- Using a participatory culture-specific intervention model to develop a peer victimization intervention / Kris Varjas ... [et al.] -- Targeting English language learners, tasks, and treatments in instructional consultation / Emilia C. Lopez -- Home-school partnerships with culturally diverse families: challenged and solutions for school personnel / Ena Vazquez-Nuttall, Chieh Li, Jason P. Kaplan -- Addressing cultural factors in development of system interventions / Chryse Hatzichristou, Aikaterini Lampropoulou, Konstantina Lykitsakou -- Multicultural issues in evidence-based interventions / Colette L. Ingraham, Evelyn R. Oka -- Multicultural issues in school psychology practice: a critical analysis / Samuel O. Ortiz.

371.82 E14c 2007
AUT Eaton, Susan E.
TIT The children in room E4 : American education on trial. - 1st ed.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.
CON Contents: Jeremy -- How we got here in the first place -- A feeling that we can do better -- Trials -- Back to school -- The suburbs -- Settling -- You just have to do what you can -- The beloved community?.

371.95 J65t 2005
AUT Johnsen, Susan K ; Kendrick, James.
TIT Teaching gifted students with disabilities.
PUB Waco, Tex. : Prufrock Press, c2005.
SER Gifted child today reader.
CON Contents: The gifted/learning-disabled child: a guide for teachers and parents / by Erin A. Fetzer -- A closer look at gifted children with disabilities / by Cindy Little -- Gifted children with disabilities / by Starr Cline and Kathryn Hegeman -- Children who are gifted/ADHD / by Sal Mendaglio -- Asperger's Syndrome in gifted individuals / by Lynnette M. Henderson -- Surviving or thriving?: 21 gifted boys with learning disabilities share their school stories / by Mary Ruth Coleman -- Patrick's story: a gifted/learning-disabled child / by Colleen Thrailkill -- What's wrong with Doug?: the academic struggles and triumphs of a gifted student with ADHD from preschool to college / by Thomas N. Turk and Douglas A. Campbell -- Serving the gifted/learning disabled / by Deborah B. Rivera, Jane Murdock, and David Sexton -- From paradox to performance: practical strategies for identifying and teaching gifted/LD students / by Jennifer Dix and Susan Schafer -- Using learning-strategies instruction with students who are gifted and learning disabled / by Amy Bisland.

372.35 W724L 2007
AUT Williams, Kerry C ; Veomett, George E.
TIT Launching learners in science, preK-5 : how to design standards-based experiences and engage students in classroom conversations.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, a Sage Pub. Co., c2007.

372.4 P397a 2007
AUT Pence, Khara L.
TIT Assessment in emergent literacy.
PUB San Diego, Calif. : Plural Pub., c2007.
SER Emergent and early literacy series.

Curr 372.7 H362m6 2008
AUT Hatfield, Mary M.
TIT Mathematics methods for elementary and middle school teachers. - 6th ed. / Mary M. Hatfield ... [et al.].
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley [distributor], 2008.

378.101 H986u 2007
AUT Harper, Shawn R ; Museus, Samuel D.
TIT Using qualitative methods in institutional assessment.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2007.
SER New directions for institutional research, 0271-0579 ; no. 136, winter 2007.

378.747 D263b 2004
AUT Davis, R. Deborah.
TIT Black students' perceptions : the complexity of persistence to graduation at an American university.
PUB New York : P. Lang, c2004.
SER Counterpoints, 1058-1634 ; v. 199.
CON Contents: Social context in the early 1990s -- Student development/Black student development -- The campus as the Black students see it -- Students' perceptions of race -- Talk about being visible and invisible -- A different perception of the Black students' experience.

381.149 V415w 2006
AUT Vedder, Richard K ; Cox, Wendell.
TIT The Wal-Mart revolution : how big-box stores benefit consumers, workers, and the economy.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : Wal-Mart and the big-box discount store revolution -- Wal-Mart and its imitators : saints or sinners? -- The genesis of the big-box revolution -- The economic impact of Wal-Mart and other big-box stores -- What should we do about Wal-Mart? -- pt. I. Why Wal-Mart matters -- 1. The importance of retail innovations -- The economic importance of retail trade -- The discount revolution and consumer surplus -- The supply side -- Spillover effects, or "externalities" -- Public attitudes concerning retail trade in America -- Conclusions -- 2. Wal-Mart and its critics -- The criticisms -- The intensity of the rhetoric -- Who are the critics? -- Tactics of Wal-Mart's critics : litigation and legislative changes -- Conclusions. Contents: pt. II. The Wal-Mart revolution -- 3. A history of retail innovation in America before Wal-Mart -- Retailing in America before Wal-Mart -- Retailing at the beginning of the discount age -- Conclusions -- 4. The Wal-Mart story -- Retail trade growth since 1965 : an overview -- Sam Walton -- The growth of Wal-Mart -- Conclusions -- 5. Imitators and innovators -- The rise of big-box stores : Wal-Mart's competitors -- Discount department stores and supercenters -- Membership warehouses -- Specialty big-box stores : home improvement -- Specialty retailers : consumer electronics -- Specialty stores : office supplies -- Other specialty operators -- The next generation of retailing? -- Conclusions. Contents: pt. III. Wal-Mart : good or bad? -- 6. Employment and wage effects of discount stores -- Employment in retail trade -- Employment effects of Wal-Mart -- Are Wal-Mart workers underpaid? -- Fringe benefits -- Conclusions -- 7. Competition and communities -- Some analysis of store openings -- Findings of other scholarly researchers -- Wal-Mart and its suppliers -- Conclusions -- 8. Wal-Mart and the poor -- Wal-Mart's customers -- Implications for policy -- Wal-Mart and public assistance -- Conclusions -- 9. The discount revolution in broader economic context -- Estimating broader economic effects : some issues -- The big-box discount revolution and productivity change -- Broader economic effects : social savings of modern discount stores -- Conclusions. Contents: pt. IV. The future of Wal-Mart -- 10. Wal-Mart and the world -- The rise of big-box stores in Europe -- International big-box firms -- International big-box specialty stores -- International purchasing by big-box operators -- International labor standards : better life or more poverty? -- Conclusions -- 11. Critiquing the critics -- Assessing the criticisms of Wal-Mart and other big-box discounters -- Conclusions -- 12. What should we do about Wal-Mart? -- Policies relating to employee relations -- Wal-Mart's impact on communities and the environment -- Policies regarding globalization and overseas worker standards -- Should Wal-Mart enter banking? -- The other side of the coin : subsidizing Wal-Mart or other stores -- Leveling the playing field : stop subsidizing Wal-Mart's critics -- Appeasing the unappeasable : Wal-Mart's public relations campaign -- The future of Wal-Mart and other big-box discounters -- Conclusions.

382.3 L264c 2007
AUT Landy, Marc Karnis ; Levin, Martin A ; Shapiro, Martin M.
TIT Creating competitive markets : the politics of regulatory reform.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.

391.0094 W373q 2006
AUT Weber, Caroline.
TIT Queen of fashion : what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : H. Holt, 2006.
CON Contents: Pandora's box -- Stripped -- Corseted -- Ride like a man -- The pouf ascendant -- The simple life -- Galled -- Revolutionary redress -- True colors -- Black -- White -- Afterward: fashion victim.

393.09 M234s 2007
AUT Major, Andrea.
TIT Sati : a historical anthology.
PUB New Delhi ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, 2007.

394.1 A325f 2003
AUT Albala, Ken.
TIT Food in early modern Europe.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
SER Food through history.

394.1 A825f 2003
AUT Ashkenazi, Michael ; Jacob, Jeanne.
TIT Food culture in Japan.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
SER Food culture around the world.
CON Contents: Historical overview -- Major foods and ingredients -- Cooking -- Typical meals -- Eating out -- Special occasions: holidays, celebrations, and religious rituals -- Diet and health.

394.1 S474f 2004
AUT Sen, Colleen Taylor.
TIT Food culture in India.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
SER Food culture around the world, 1545-2638.

394.1 S775c 1995
AUT Stacey, Michelle.
TIT Consumed : why Americans love, hate, and fear food. - 1st Touchstone ed.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995, c1994.

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401 M877i 2007
AUT Morris, Michael.
TIT An introduction to the philosophy of language.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SER Cambridge introductions to philosophy.
CON Contents: Locke and the nature of language -- Frege on sense and reference -- Russell on definite descriptions -- Kripke on proper names -- Natural-kind terms -- Quine on de re and de dicto modality -- Reference and propositional attitudes -- The semantics of propositional attitudes -- Davidson on truth and meaning -- Quine and Davidson on translation and interpretation -- Quine on the indeterminacy of translation -- Austin on speech acts -- Grice on meaning -- Kripke on the rule-following paradox -- Wittgenstein on the Augustinian picture.

417.7 H319w 2007
AUT Harrison, K. David.
TIT When languages die : the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: 1 A World of Many (Fewer) Voices -- 2 An Extinction of (Ideas about) Species -- Case Study: Vanishing Herds and Reindeer Words -- 3 Many Moons Ago: Traditional Calendars and Time-Reckoning -- Case Study: Nomads of Western Mongolia -- 4 An Atlas in the Mind -- Case Study: Wheel of Fortune and a Blessing -- 5 Silent Storytellers, Lost Legends -- Case Study: New Rice versus Old Knowledge -- 6 Endangered Number Systems: Counting to Twenty on Your Toes -- Case Study: The Leaf-Cup People, India's Modern Primitives -- 7 Worlds within Words.

Ref 427.09 H893e 2006
AUT Hughes, Geoffrey.
TIT An encyclopedia of swearing : the social history of oaths, profanity, foul language, and ethnic slurs in the English-speaking world.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2006.

428.2 J52t 2007
AUT Jenkins, Evan.
TIT That or which, and why : a usage guide for thoughtful writers and editors.
PUB New York : Routledge, c2007.

428.24 H424g 2007
AUT Haynes, Judie.
TIT Getting started with English language learners : how educators can meet the challenge.
PUB Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2007.
CON Contents: Key concepts of second-language acquisition -- How students acquire social and academic language -- Correlating instruction with the stages of second-language acquisition -- The newcomers' first weeks of school -- Challenges for ELLs in content-area classes -- Differentiating instruction for English language learners -- Programs for English language learners -- Appendix: activities for professional development programs.

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510 H388n 2007
AUT Havil, Julian.
TIT Nonplussed! : mathematical proof of implausible ideas.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Three tennis paradoxes -- The uphill roller -- The birthday paradox -- The spin of a table -- Derangements -- Conway's chequerboard army -- The toss of a needle -- Torricelli's trumpet -- Nontransitive effects -- A pursuit problem -- Parrondo's games -- Hyperdimensions -- Friday the 13th -- Fractran.

516.15 B393c 2007
AUT Beck, Matthias ; Robins, Sinai.
TIT Computing the continuous discretely : integer-point enumeration in polyhedra.
PUB New York : Springer, c2007.
SER Undergraduate texts in mathematics.
CON Contents: PART I. THE ESSENTIALS OF DISCRETE VOLUME COMPUTATIONS. -- The coin-exchange problem of Frobenius -- A gallery of discrete volumes -- Counting lattice points in polytopes: the Ehrhart theory -- Reciprocity -- Face numbers and the Dehn-Sommerville relations in Ehrhartian terms -- Magic squares -- PART II. BEYOND THE BASICS. -- Finite Fourier analysis -- Dedekind sums -- The decomposition of a polytope into its cones -- Euler-Maclaurin summation in R[superscript]d -- Solid angles -- A discrete version of Green's theorem using elliptic functions -- Appendix: Triangulations of polytopes.

521 C393c 2007
AUT Celletti, A. ; Perozzi, Ettore.
TIT Celestial mechanics : the waltz of the planets.
PUB Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, U.K. : Praxis, c2007.
SER Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.

523.01 M296a 2007
AUT Maoz, Dan.
TIT Astrophysics in a nutshell.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
SER In a nutshell.

523.02 E56s 2007
AUT Encrenaz, Thérèse.
TIT Searching for water in the universe.
PUB Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, U.K. : Published in association with Praxis Pub., c2007.
SER Springer-Praxis books in popular astronomy.
CON Contents: Introduction why water? -- A very simple molecule -- The quest for cosmic water -- The ice line and the birth of the planets -- Comets and water -- Water in the solar system -- At the ice line: the asteroids -- Water and the terrestrial planets -- The search for other earths.

523.112 N653d 2007
AUT Nicolson, Iain.
TIT Dark side of the universe : dark matter, dark energy, and the fate of the cosmos.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : John Hopkins University Press, 2007.

523.84 W563c2 2007
AUT Wheeler, J. Craig.
TIT Cosmic catastrophes : exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe. - 2nd ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Setting the stage: star formation and hydrogen burning single stars -- Stellar death: the inexorable grip of gravity -- Dancing with stars: binary stellar evolution -- Accretion disks: flat stars -- White dwarfs: quantum dots -- Supernovae: stellar catastrophes -- Supernova 1987A: lessons and enigmas -- Neutron stars: atoms with attitude -- Black holes in theory: into the abyss -- Black holes in fact: exploring the reality -- Gamma-ray bursts, black holes and the universe: long, long ago and far, far away -- Supernovae and the universe -- Wormholes and time machines: tunnels in space and time -- Beyond: the frontiers.

530.092 I73e 2007
AUT Isaacson, Walter.
TIT Einstein : his life and universe.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
CON Contents: The light-beam rider -- Childhood, 1879-1896 -- The Zurich Polytechnic, 1896-1900 -- The lovers, 1900-1904 -- The miracle year: quanta and molecules, 1905 -- Special relativity, 1905 -- The happiest thought, 1906-1909 -- The wandering professor, 1909-1914 -- General relativity, 1911-1915 -- Divorce, 1916-1919 -- Einstein's universe, 1916-1919 -- Fame, 1919 -- The wandering Zionist, 1920-1921 -- Nobel laureate, 1921-1927 -- Unified field theories, 1923-1931 -- Turning fifty, 1929-1931 -- Einstein's God -- The refugee, 1932-1933 -- America, 1933-1939 -- Quantum entanglement, 1935 -- The bomb, 1939-1945 -- One-worlder, 1945-1948 -- Landmark, 1948-1953 -- Red scare, 1951-1954 -- The end, 1955 -- Epilogue: Einstein's brain and Einstein's mind.

530.11 K36t 2007
AUT Kennefick, Daniel.
TIT Traveling at the speed of thought : Einstein and the quest for gravitational waves.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The gravitational wave analogy -- The prehistory of gravitational waves -- The origins of gravitational waves -- The speed of thought -- Do gravitational waves exist? -- Gravitational waves and the renaissance of general relativity -- Debating the analogy -- The problem of motion -- Portrait of the skeptics -- On the verge of detection -- The quadrupole formula controversy -- Keeping up with the speed of thought.

531.38 B415e 2007
AUT Beerling, D. J.
TIT The emerald planet : how plants changed Earth's history.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Leaves, genes, and greenhouse gases -- Oxygen and the lost world of giants -- An ancient ozone catastrophe? -- Global warming ushers in the dinosaur era -- The flourishing forests of Antarctica -- Paradise lost -- Nature's green revolution -- Through a glass darkly.

539.7 B552n 2007
AUT Bertulani, Carlos A.
TIT Nuclear physics in a nutshell.
PUB Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, c2007.
SER In a nutshell.

541.28 W188b 2006
AUT Wallace, Dorothy ; BelBruno, Joseph.
TIT The bell that rings light : a primer in quantum mechanics and chemical bonding.
PUB Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2006.
SER Mathematics across the curriculum, 1793-3145 ; v. 1.
CON Contents: Rutherford, Bohr and Balmer -- Some important experiments -- Early quantum mechanics : The atom -- New assumptions -- Zetetics -- Classical waves -- Particle-in-a-box -- Exploring the analogy -- Dr. Schrodinger, I presume? -- The quantum numbers -- Pleased to meet you, Dr. Schur -- The spherical harmonics -- More French mathematicians -- Reprise : The quantum numbers -- Chemistry and bonding -- Valence shell electron pair repulsion -- The shape of an orbital -- Molecular orbital theory -- Valence bond theory -- Other kinds of bonding -- Case study : Dye molecules.

Chem Ref 543 K45h 2007
AUT Khandpur, Raghbir Singh.
TIT Handbook of analytical instruments.
PUB New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007.
CON Contents: Fundamentals of analytical instruments -- Colorimeters and spectrophotometers (visible-ultraviolet) -- Infrared spectrophotometers -- Flame photometers -- Atomic absorption spectrophotometers -- Fluorimeters and phosphorimeters -- Raman spectrometer -- Photoacoustic and photothermal spectrometers -- Mass spectrometer -- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer -- Electron spin resonance spectrometers -- Electron and ion spectrometers -- Radiochemical instruments -- X-ray spectrometers -- Automated chemical analysis systems -- Gas chromatographs -- Liquid chromatographs -- Thermo-analytical instruments -- Electrophoresis apparatus and densitometers -- Electrochemical instruments -- pH meters and ion analyzers -- Blood gas analyzers -- Industrial gas analyzers -- Environmental pollution monitoring instruments -- Electronic devices and circuits -- Digital circuits -- Computer-based analytical instruments.

Chem 547.7 H633p2 2007
AUT Hiemenz, Paul C. ; Lodge, Timothy.
TIT Polymer chemistry. - 2nd ed.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction to chain molecules -- Step-growth polymerization -- Chain-growth polymerization -- Controlled polymerization -- Copolymers, microstructure, and stereoregularity -- Polymer conformations -- Thermodynamics of polymer solutions -- Light scattering by polymer solutions -- Dynamics of dilute polymer solutions -- Networks, gels, and rubber elasticity -- Linear viscoelasticity -- Glass transition -- Crystalline polymers.

551.22 H838r 2007
AUT Hough, Susan Elizabeth.
TIT Richter's scale : measure of an earthquake, measure of a man.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The magnitude of the problem -- Formative years -- Margaret Rose -- Harnessing the horses -- Earthquake exploration -- The Kresge era -- Beno Gutenberg -- Earthquake! -- Richter scale -- Charlie -- Lillian -- Richter's women -- Autumn -- Asperger's syndrome -- Here it comes again -- Predicting the unpredictable -- Sizing up earthquake hazard -- Hazard in a nuclear age -- Supernova -- Appendix: A belated farewell.

551.6 D744a 2007
AUT Dow, Kirstin ; Downing, Thomas E.
TIT The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge. - Rev. and updated ed.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ; Brighton : Myriad Editions, 2007.
CON Contents: Signs of change -- Warning signs --Polar changes -- Glacial retreat -- Everyday extremes -- Forcing change -- The greenhouse effect -- The climate system -- Interpreting past climates -- Forecasting future climates -- Driving climate change -- Emissions past and present -- Fossil fuels -- Methane and other gases -- Transportation -- Disrupting the carbon balance -- Agriculture -- Expected consequences -- Disrupted ecosystems -- Threatened water supplies -- Food security -- Threats to health -- Rising sea levels -- Cities at risk -- Cultural losses -- Responding to change -- International action -- Meeting Kyoto targets -- Carbon trading -- Financing responses -- Local commitment -- Carbon dioxide and economic growth -- Renewable energy -- Adapting to change -- Commiting to solutions -- Personal action -- Public action -- Climate change data -- Data table.

551.6 P359w 2007
AUT Pearce, Fred.
TIT With speed and violence : why scientists fear tipping points in climate change.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2007.

571 K13i 2007
AUT Kaiser, Gary W.
TIT The inner bird : anatomy and evolution.
PUB Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

576.8 P511s 2007
AUT Petto, Andrew J ; Godfrey, Laurie R.
TIT Scientists confront intelligent design and creationism.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2007.
CON Contents: The problems with creationism / Massimo Pigliucci -- Darwinism, creationism, and "intelligent design" / Ronald L. Numbers -- Creation science lite : "intelligent design" as the new anti-evolutionism / Eugenie C. Scott -- Wielding the wedge : keeping anti-evolutionism alive / John R. Cole -- Physics, cosmology, and the new creationism / Victor J. Stenger -- The ages of the earth, solar system, galaxy, and universe / G. Brent Dalrymple -- Creationism and the origin of life : did it all begin in a "warm little pond"? / Antonio Lazcano -- "Transitional forms" versus transitional features / Kevin Padian & Kenneth D. Angielczyk -- Biological complexity / Robert Dorit -- Logic and math turn to smoke and mirrors : William Dembski's "Design inference" / Wesley R. Elsberry -- Human emergence : natural process or divine creation? / C. Loring Brace -- God of the gaps : the argument from ignorance and the limits of methodological naturalism / Robert T. Pennock -- Is evolution "only a theory"? Scientific methodologies and evolutionary biology / Norman A. Johnson -- The invisible Bible : the logic of creation science / J. Michael Plavcan -- Why target evolution? The problem of authority / Alice Beck Kehoe -- Why teach evolution? / Andrew J. Petto & Laurie R. Godfrey.

576.8 S677c3 2006
AUT Sober, Elliott.
TIT Conceptual issues in evolutionary biology. - 3rd ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The propensity interpretation of fitness / Susan K. Mills and John H. Beatty -- The two faces of fitness / Elliott Sober -- Excerpts from Adaptation and Natural Selection / George C. Williams -- Levels of selection: an alternative to individualism in biology and the human sciences / David Sloan Wilson -- The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme / Stephen Jay Gould and Richard C. Lewontin -- Optimization theory in evolution / John Maynard Smith -- Empathy, polyandry, and the myth of the coy female / Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Pre-theoretical assumptions in evolutionary explanations of female sexuality / Elisabeth Lloyd -- Toward mapping the evolved functional organization of mind and brain / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- Evolutionary psychology: a critique / David J. Buller -- The evolutionary contingency thesis / John H. Beatty -- Two outbreaks of lawlessness in recent philosophy of biology / Elliott Sober -- 1953 and all that: a tale of two sciences / Philip Kitcher -- Why the antireductionist consensus won't survive the case of classical mendelian genetics / Kenneth Waters -- The multiple realizability argument against reductionism / Elliott Sober -- Typological versus population thinking / Ernst Mayr -- Evolution, population thinking, and essentialism / Elliott Sober -- A matter of individuality / David L. Hull -- Choosing among alternative "phylogenetic" species concepts / David A. Baum and Michael J. Donoghue -- Cases in which parsimony and compatibility methods will be positively misleading / Joseph Felsenstein -- The logical basis of phylogenetic analysis / James Farris -- Why there are no human races / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- A new perspective on the race debate / Robin O. Andreasen -- Does culture evolve? / Joseph Fracchia and Richard C. Lewontin -- Models of cultural evolution / Elliott Sober -- Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson -- Four ways of "biologicizing" ethics / Philip Kitcher.

576.82 B882d 2006
AUT Browne, E. J.
TIT Darwin's Origin of species : a biography.
PUB New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2006.
SER Books that changed the world.
CON Contents: Beginnings -- "A theory by which to work" -- Publication -- Controversy -- Legacy.

577 W262u 2007
AUT Ward, Peter Douglas.
TIT Under a green sky : global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future. - 1st Smithsonian Books ed.
PUB New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007.

578.7 B973m 2007
AUT Burt, William.
TIT Marshes : the disappearing Edens.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.

578.77 K86s 2007
AUT Koslow, J. Anthony.
TIT The silent deep : the discovery, ecology and conservation of the deep sea.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The rise of deep-sea exploration : early paradigms -- On the shoulders of giants: the Challenger expedition -- Life in the twilight zone and beyond -- Bugs in the mud : the Lilliputian fauna of the deep seafloor -- Vents, seeps, and whale falls : alternative energy sources in the deep sea -- Seamounts and deepwater coral reefs -- Dumping and pollution -- Mining the deep sea -- Climate change -- Deepwater fisheries : no more an oxymoron -- The way forward : conservation and policy options / written with Kristina Gjerde.

581.4 K42s 2006
AUT Kesseler, Rob ; Papadakis, Alexandra ; Stuppy, Wolfgang.
TIT Seeds : time capsules of life.
PUB Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2006.

590 K69a 2005
AUT Knight, John.
TIT Animals in person : cultural perspectives on human-animal intimacy. - English ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2005.
CON Contents: Care, Order and Usefulness: The Context of the Human-Animal Relationship in a Greek Island Community / Dimitrios Theodossopoulos -- Person, Place or Pig: Animal Attachments and Human Transactions in New Guinea / Peter D. Dwyer and Monica Minnegal -- Disciplined Affections: The Making of an English Pack of Foxhounds / Garry Marvin -- On 'Loving Your Water Buffalo More Than Your Own Mother': Relationships of Animal and Human Care in Nepal / Ben Campbell -- Loved to Death? Veterinary Visions of Pet-keeping in Modern Dutch Society / Joanna Swabe -- From Trap to Lap: The Changing Sociogenic Identity of the Rat / Birgitta Edelman -- The Unbearable Likeness of Being: Children, Teddy Bears and The Sooty Show / Candi Forrest, Laurence Goldman and Michael Emmison -- The Elephant-Mahout Relationship in India and Nepal: A Tourist Attraction / Lynette A. Hart -- Loving Leviathan: The Discourse of Whale-watching in Australian Ecotourism / Adrian Peace -- Enchanting Dolphins: An Analysis of Human-Dolphin Encounters / Veronique Servais -- Feeding Mr Monkey: Cross-species Food 'Exchange' in Japanese Monkey Parks / John Knight -- Anthropomorphism or Egomorphism? The Perception of Non-human Persons by Human Ones / Kay Milton.

Folio 591.77 N934d 2007
AUT Nouvian, Claire.
TIT The deep.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

599.8 C518b 2007
AUT Cheney, Dorothy L ; Seyfarth, Robert M.
TIT Baboon metaphysics : the evolution of a social mind.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The evolution of mind -- The primate mind in myth and legend -- Habitat, infanticide, and predation -- Males : competition, infanticide, and friendship -- Females : kinship, rank, competition, and cooperation -- Social knowledge -- The social intelligence hypothesis -- Theory of mind -- Self-awareness and consciousness -- Communication -- Precursors to language -- Baboon metaphysics.

599.8 M186m 2007
AUT Maestripieri, Dario.
TIT Macachiavellian intelligence : how rhesus macaques and humans have conquered the world.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : The University of Chicago Press, 2007.

599.9 W231t 2006
AUT Walter, Chip.
TIT Thumbs, toes, and tears : and other traits that make us human. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Walker & Co. ; [New York?] : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
CON Contents: Toes -- Thumbs -- Pharynx -- Laughter -- Tears -- Kissing.

599.9 W739e 2007
AUT Willoughby, Pamela R.
TIT The evolution of modern humans in Africa : a comprehensive guide.
PUB Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2007.
SER African archaeology series.
CON Contents: Foreword / by Joseph O. Vogel -- Modern human origins : a people without history -- Historical perspectives : the place of humans in nature -- The palaeoenvironmental context : the origin and dispersal of modern humans -- The chronological framework : dating the appearance and spread of homo sapiens -- Out of Africa : when and how many times : alternative models of modern human origins -- Mitochondrial Eve and the Middle Stone Age : genetics and human variation -- The fossil hominin evidence -- The archaeological evidence from North Africa -- The archaeological evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa I -- The archaeological evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa II -- Conclusions: What does it mean to be a modern homo sapiens?.

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Ref 610.3 M194 2008 v.1-5
AUT Chang, Anne.
TIT Magill's medical guide. - 4th rev. ed. / medical consultants, Anne Lynn S. Chang ... [et al.] ; project editor, Tracy Irons-Georges.
PUB Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Vol. 1. Abdomen - Corns and calluses -- vol. 2. Corticosteroids - Heel spur removal -- vol. 3. Heimlich maneuver - Nervous system -- vol. 4. Neuralgia, neuritis, and neuropathy - Smallpox -- vol. 5. Smell - Zoonoses.

612.82 L744a 2007
AUT Linden, David J.
TIT The accidental mind.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Brain, explained -- The inelegant design of the brain -- Building a brain with yesterday's parts -- Some assembly required -- Sensation and emotion -- Learning, memory, and human individuality -- Love and sex -- Sleeping and dreaming -- The religious impulse -- The unintelligent design of the brain -- That middle thing.

613.2 S932b 2007
AUT Stuart, Tristram.
TIT The bloodless revolution : a cultural history of vegetarianism from 1600 to modern times. 1st American ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.
CON Contents: I. Grass roots -- 1. Bushell's bushel, Bacon's bacon and The great instauration -- 2. John Robins : the Shakers' God -- 3. Roger Crab : levelling the food chain -- 4. Pythagoras and the sages of India -- 5. 'This proud and troublesome thing, called man' : Thomas Tryon, the Brahmin of Britain -- 6. John Evelyn : salvation in a salad -- 7. The Kabbala stripped naked -- 8. Men should be friends even to brute beasts : Isaac Newton and the origins of pagan theology -- 9. Atheists, deists and the Turkish spy -- II. Meatless medicine -- 10. Dieting with Dr. Descartes -- 11. Tooth and nail : Pierre Gassendi and the human appendix -- 12. The mitre and the microscope : Philippe Hecquet's Catholic fast food -- 13. Dr. Cheyne's sensible diet -- 14. Clarissa's calories -- 15. Rousseau and the bosoms of nature -- 16. The counter-vegetarian mascot : Pope's happy lamb -- 17. Antonio Cocchi and the cure for scurvy -- 18. The Sparing diet : Scotland's vegetarian dynasty -- III. Romantic dinners -- 19. Diet and diplomacy : eating beef in the land of the Holy Cow -- 20. John Zephaniah Holwell : Voltaire's Hindu prophet -- 21. The cry of nature : killing in the name of animal rights in the French Revolution -- 22. The Marquis de Valady faces the guillotine -- 23. Bloodless brothers -- 24. John 'Walking' Stewart and the utility of death -- 25. To kill a cat : Joseph Ritson's politics of atheism -- 26. Shelley and the return of nature -- 27. The Malthusian tragedy : feeding the world -- Epilogue : vegetarianism and the politics of ecology : Thoreau, Gandhi and Hitler.

614.1 G657i 2007
AUT Goodwin, William, Dr ; Linacre, Adrian ; Hadi, Sibte.
TIT An introduction to forensic genetics.
PUB Chichester, England ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction to forensic genetics -- DNA structure and the genome -- Biological material : collection, characterization and storage -- DNA extraction and quantification -- The polymerase chain reaction -- The analysis of short tandem repeats -- Assessment of STR profiles -- Statistical interpretation of STR profiles -- The evaluation and presentation of DNA evidence -- Databases of DNA profiles -- Kinship testing -- Single nucleotide polymorphisms -- Lineage markers.

614.4 H371p 2007
AUT Haugen, David M. ; Musser, Susan.
TIT Pandemics.
PUB Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER At issue. Health.
CON Contents: Infectious diseases are a global health concern / Nick Drager and David L. Heymann -- Noncommunicable diseases are a global health concern / George Alberti -- The avian flu is a serious pandemic threat / Tyler A. Kokjohn and Kimbal E. Cooper -- The threat of an avian flu pandemic is exaggerated / Rebecca Cook Dube -- Quarantine may be an effective response to avian flu / George W. Bush -- Quarantine would be an ineffective response to avian flu / Wendy Orent -- America will be prepared for the avian flu pandemic / George W. Bush -- National sovereignty is hampering response to AIDS and other pandemics / Maureen T. Upton -- The world is becoming too complacent about the AIDS pandemic / Maxwell Madzikanga et al.

614.5 S635a 2007
AUT Smallman, Shawn C.
TIT The AIDS pandemic in Latin America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The Caribbean: Cuba and Haiti -- Brazil -- Mexico and Central America -- Spanish South America -- Conclusion.

615.8515 P593a 2007
AUT Pichot, Teri ; Coulter, Marc.
TIT Animal-assisted brief therapy : a solution-focused approach.
PUB New York : Haworth Press, c2007.
SER Haworth brief therapy series.
CON Contents: The basics of animal-assisted activities/therapy (AAA/T) -- The solution-focused basics -- What every therapist needs to know about dogs before partnering with one in AAA/T -- How to create a successful AAA/T program for your setting -- Using AAA in solution-focused treatment settings -- Using a therapy dog in solution-focused therapy treatment sessions -- Applying AAA/T to special populations -- Using animal-assisted activities with employees and agencies.

616.027 H371h 2007
AUT Haugen, David M. ; Musser, Susan.
TIT Human embryo experimentation.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER At issue.

616.69 M161i 2007
AUT McLaren, Angus.
TIT Impotence : a cultural history.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The impenetrable penetrator: manhood in Greece and Rome -- When "desire refuses service": impotence in the Christian west -- The "infirmity of others": laughing at fumblers in early modern Europe -- "Shameful to wives, ridiculous for husbands, and unworthy of tribunals": impotence in the age of reason -- Neurasthenia, decadence, and nineteenth-century manhood -- Marketing manly vigor: Victorian medicine versus quackery -- Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes, and "the love of civilized man" -- Sex glands, rejuvenation, and eugenics between the wars -- The "impotence boom": from Kinsey to Masters and Johnson -- Viagra: hard science or hard sell?.

616.89 F762hK 2006
AUT Foucault, Michel ; Khalfa, Jean.
TIT History of madness.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

616.89 H665m 2007
AUT Hinshaw, Stephen P.
TIT The mark of shame : stigma of mental illness and an agenda for change.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

616.89 R577s2 2005
AUT Richards, P. Scott ; Bergin, Allen E.
TIT A spiritual strategy for counseling and psychotherapy. - 2nd ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005.
CON Contents: The need for a spiritual strategy -- Historical perspectives -- The alienation between religion and psychology -- The new zeitgeist -- Theological, philosophical, and theoretical -- Perspectives -- Theological and philosophical foundations of theistic psychotherapy -- Theoretical and empirical foundations of theistic psychotherapy -- Theistic psychotherapy: process and methods. Contents: A theistic, spiritual view of psychotherapy -- Ethical and process issues and guidelines -- Religious and spiritual assessment -- Religious and spiritual practices as therapeutic interventions -- Spiritual interventions used by contemporary psychotherapists -- Research and future directions -- A theistic, spiritual view of science and research methods -- Directions for the future.

616.8914 M652i 1999
AUT Miller, William R.
TIT Integrating spirituality into treatment : resources for practitioners. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c1999.
CON Contents: Spirituality and health / William R. Miller and Carl E. Thoresen -- The historical context / Ernest Kurtz -- Assessing spirituality / Richard L. Gorsuch and William R. Miller -- Mindfulness and meditation / G. Alan Marlatt and Jean L. Kristeller -- Prayer / Michael E. McCullough and David B. Larson -- Spirituality and the 12-step programs : a guide for clinicians / J. Scott Tonigan, Radka T. Toscova, and Gerard J. Connors -- Values, spirituality, and psychotherapy / P. Scott Richards, John M. Rector, and Alan C. Tjeltveit -- Behavioral approaches to enhance spirituality / John E. Martin and Jennifer Booth -- Spiritual surrender : a paradoxical path to control / Brenda S. Cole and Kenneth I. Pargament -- Acceptance and forgiveness / Cynthia Sanderson and Marsha M. Linehan -- Evoking hope / Carolina E. Yahne and William R. Miller -- Serenity / Gerard J. Connors, Radka T. Toscova, and J. Scott Tonigan -- Diversity training in spiritual and religious issues / William R. Miller.

616.8915 L283i 2006
AUT Langley, Dorothy M.
TIT An introduction to dramatherapy.
PUB London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2006.
SER Creative therapies in practice.
CON Contents: What is dramatherapy? -- Theory into practice -- Preparing for dramatherapy -- Beginning a dramatherapy session -- Applying dramatherapy -- The heart of dramatherapy -- Dramatherapy and 'mental illness' -- Dramatherapy and other forms of disorder of mind -- Other client groups and dramatherapy.

616.9 P119m 2007
AUT Packard, Randall M.
TIT The making of a tropical disease : a short history of malaria.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
SER Johns Hopkins biographies of disease.
CON Contents: Beginnings -- Malaria moves north -- A southern disease -- Tropical development and malaria -- The making of a vector-borne disease -- Malaria dreams -- Malaria realities -- Rolling back malaria: the future of a tropical disease?.

618.9289 G443c2R 2003
AUT Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor ; Huang, Larke.
TIT Children of color : psychological interventions with culturally diverse youth. - 2nd, rev. ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2003.

631.4 M787d 2007
AUT Montgomery, David R.
TIT Dirt : the erosion of civilizations.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Good old dirt -- Skin of the Earth -- Rivers of life -- Graveyard of empires -- Let them eat colonies -- Westward hoe -- Dust blow -- Dirty business -- Islands in time -- Life span of civilizations.

639.9 L141b 2007
AUT Lacki, Michael J. ; Hayes, John P. ; Kurta, Allen.
TIT Bats in forests : conservation and management.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Bats in forests : what we know and what we need to learn / R. Mark Brigham -- Ecology and behavior of bats roosting in tree cavities and under bark / Robert M.R. Barclay and Allen Kurta -- Behavior and day-roosting ecology of North American foliage-roosting bats / Timothy C. Carter and Jennifer M. Menzel -- Foraging ecology of bats in forests / Michael J. Lacki, Sybill K. Amelon, and Michael D. Baker -- Importance of night roosts to the ecology of bats / Patricia C. Ormsbee, James D. Kiser, and Stuart I. Perlmeter -- Migration and use of autumn, winter, and spring roosts by tree bats / Paul M. Cryan and Jacques P. Veilleux -- Silvicultural practices and management of habitat for bats / James M. Guldin ... [et al.] -- The influences of forest management on bats in North America / John P. Hayes and Susan C. Loeb -- Ecological considerations for landscape-level management of bats / Joseph E. Duchamp ... [et al.] -- Assessing population status of bats in forests : challenges and opportunities / Theodore J. Weller -- Planning for bats on forest industry lands in North America / T. Bently Wigley, Darren A. Miller, and Greg K. Yarrow.

Ref 641.3 O98 2004 v.1-2
AUT Smith, Andrew F.
TIT The Oxford encyclopedia of food and drink in America.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.
CON Contents: v. 1. A-J -- v. 2. K-Z.

649.7 B414i 2007
AUT Bee-Gates, Donna.
TIT I want it now : navigating childhood in a materialistic word. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

657 A172C11 2007 v.1-2
AUT Carmichael, D. R. ; Whittington, Ray ; Graham, Lynford.
TIT Accountants' handbook. - 11th ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2007.

658.041 L637s4 2007
AUT Lesonsky, Rieva.
TIT Start your own business : the only startup book you'll ever need. - 4th ed.
PUB [Irvine, Calif.] : Entrepreneur Press, c2007.
CON Contents: On your mark -- Think -- Introduction -- Taking the plunge : get ready to be an entrepreneur -- Good idea! : how to get an idea for your business -- Good timing : should you launch your business full or part time? -- Build it or buy it? : starting a business vs. buying one -- Plan -- Choose your target : defining your market -- If you build it, will they come? : conducting market research -- The name game : naming your business -- Make it legal : choosing a business structure -- Plan of attack : creating a winning business plan -- It's official : don't forget licenses and permits -- Protect yourself : understanding patents, trademarks and copyrights -- Call in the pros : hiring a lawyer and an accountant -- Fund -- All in the family : financing starts with yourself and friends and relatives -- Nothing ventured, nothing gained : how to find and attract investors -- Looking for loans : the ins and outs of debt financing -- Fed funds : how to get government loans -- Get set -- Prepare -- What's your deal? negotiating successfully -- Site seeking : choosing a location for your business -- Bring it home : starting a homebased business -- Looking good : creating a professional image -- Stock answers : the lowdown on inventory -- It's in the mail : setting up mailing systems and shipping accounts -- Charging ahead : offering your customers credit -- Cover your assets : getting business insurance -- Staff smarts : hiring employees -- Perk up : setting employee policies and benefits -- Buy -- Buyer's guide : business equipment basics -- Play it safe : tech security and privacy -- Business 24/7 : using technology to boost your productivity -- Net works : building your company website -- Keep in touch : using technology to stay connected -- Drive time : the inside scoop on buying or leasing a car -- Go -- Market -- Brand aid : building a brand -- Marketing genius : advertising and marketing your business -- Net sales : online advertising and marketing -- Talking points : how to promote your business -- Sell it! : effective selling techniques -- Now serving : offering superior customer service -- Profit -- Keeping score : the basics of bookkeeping -- Making a statement : how to create financial statements -- On the money : effectively managing your finances -- Pay day : how to pay yourself -- Tax talk : what you need to know about your taxes -- Succeed -- It's about time : time management -- Second wind : learning from your failures -- Appendix A: business resources -- Appendix B: government listings -- Appendix C: small-business-friendly banks -- Index.

658.046 T175w 2006
AUT Tapscott, Don ; Williams, Anthony D.
TIT Wikinomics : how mass collaboration changes everything.
PUB New York : Portfolio, 2006.
CON Contents: Wikinomics -- The perfect storm -- The peer pioneers -- Ideagoras -- The prosumers -- The new Alexandrians -- Platforms for participation -- The global plant floor -- The Wiki workplace -- Collaborative minds -- The Wikinomics playbook.

658.0973 K54m 2006
AUT King, Thomas A.
TIT More than a numbers game : a brief history of accounting.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2006.
SER Wiley finance series.
CON Contents: Double-entry -- Railroads -- Taxes -- Costs -- Disclosure -- Standards -- Science -- Inflation -- Volatility -- Intangibles -- Debt -- Options -- Earnings -- SOX -- Epilogue.

658.3 L566h 2007
AUT Lengnick-Hall, Mark L.
TIT Hidden talent : how leading companies hire, retain, and benefit from people with disabilities.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
CON Contents: The problem and the opportunity : people with disabilities need jobs and employers need workers. Where will businesses find the workers they need in the future? / Jodi Messer Pelkowski ; Why employers don't hire people with disabilities / Mark L. Lengnick-Hall and Philip Gaunt -- Solutions : what some leading companies are doing to hire and retain people with disabilities. Hewlett-Packard / Philip Gaunt ; Dow Chemical Company / Robert R. Hull ; SunTrust Banks / Nancy Bereman and Stephanie J. Hargrave ; A&F Wood Products / Philip Gaunt ; Giant Eagle Inc. / Nancy Bereman and Stephanie J. Hargrave ; Microsoft / Mark L. Lengnick-Hall ; Marriott International / Robert R. Hull -- Lessons learned about hiring and retaining people with disabilities. The business case for hiring people with disabilities / Mark L. Lengnick-Hall ; Creating a disability-friendly organizational culture and climate / Mark L. Lengnick-Hall ; Conclusion / Mark L. Lengnick-Hall -- Appendixes. Tax incentives for hiring people with disabilities / Robert R. Hull ; Resources for hiring people with disabilities / Robert R. Hull ; The Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation / Robert R. Hull ; The Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) / Mark L. Lengnick-Hall.

658.8 Y68p 2007
AUT Young, Antony ; Aitken, Lucy.
TIT Profitable marketing communications : a guide to marketing return on investment.
PUB London ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Kogan Page Ltd, 2007.
CON Contents: A need for a new marketing model -- A change in philosophy -- Our marketing ROI stars -- Invest, don't spend -- Concentrate on outcomes, not outputs -- Forget consumers, target customers -- Manage your communication investment portfolio -- Differentiate any way you can -- Engagement and experience are the new 30-second ads -- Apply a 'focus investing' approach -- Establish a measurement culture -- Leverage your employee capital -- Is your organization marketing ROI-fit?.

658.812 Z66c 2007
AUT Ziegenfuss, James T.
TIT Customer friendly : the organizational architecture of service.
PUB Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2007.
CON Contents: 1. The customer service problem in six cases : Uncle Arthur's bad day -- 2. Organizational architecture of customer friendly companies : the case of Westside Hospital -- 3. The product system : the case of autocoach -- 4. The structure of customer friendly : the case of intercoast air -- 5. Psychology of customer friendly : the case of the Royal Court Hotel -- 6. Managing for customer friendliness : the case of the Federalist Bank -- 7. Creating a customer friendly culture : the case of Eastern University -- 8. The process of becoming customer friendly : the case of Mapletree Library.

658.879 M357w 2007
AUT Marquard, William H ; Birchard, Bill.
TIT Wal-smart : what it really takes to profit in a Wal-mart world.
PUB New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007.
CON Contents: Choose or lose -- I: How did we end up in the Wal-mart world? -- 1. How the super-retailer defines our world : New economy, new challenges -- 2. Joy on a treadmill : The loop that changes everything -- 3. Gold star management : The secret behind strong processes -- 4. Genes of a winner : Examining Wal-mart's unique DNA -- II: What do we do now? " Twelve smart choices in a Wal-mart world -- 5. Differentiate, emulate, dominate : The competitor's conundrum -- 6. Leverage, invest, diversify : The supplier's bargain -- 7. Reward, impassion, grow : The company's compact with the worker -- 8. Belong, align, engage : Terms of community endearment -- Epilogue: Being Wal-smart : Find the and.

659.2 C775i 2007
AUT Coombs, W. Timothy ; Holladay, Sherry J.
TIT It's not just PR : public relations in society.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
CON Contents: Does society need public relations? --Ethical implications of public relations -- Who practices public relations? -- Public relations influences society --Global effects of public relations.

677.39 S367s 2007
AUT Schoeser, Mary.
TIT Silk.
PUB New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Silk in history : sericulture -- Silk in use -- Silk in detail -- The potential of silk : the future of silk -- Silk in action.

687 F914f9 2008
AUT Frings, Gini Stephens.
TIT Fashion : from concept to consumer. - 9th ed.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2008.

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700.285 D621d 2007
AUT Dixon, Steve.
TIT Digital performance : a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
SER Leonardo.

704.0396 K61a 2007
AUT Kirschke, Amy Helene.
TIT Art in crisis : W.E.B. Du Bois and the struggle for African American identity and memory.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- W. E. B. Du Bois and African American memory and identity -- A history of Black political cartoons and illustrations: the artists -- The "crime" of blackness: lynching imagery in the crisis -- Theories of art, patronage, and audience -- Images of Africa and the diaspora -- Art, political commentary, and forging a common identity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

709.04 M918w 2007
AUT Motherwell, Robert ; Ashton, Dore ; Banach, Joan.
TIT The writings of Robert Motherwell.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2007.
SER Documents of twentieth-century art.

709.35 C975a 2007
AUT Curatola, Giovanni.
TIT Iraq, l'arte dai sumerai ai califfi. English. The art and architecture of Mesopotamia. - 1st ed., English languague ed.
PUB New York : Abbeville Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction / Donny George -- Mesopotamian art, from its origins to c. 2000 BC / Jean-Daniel Forest and Nathalie Gallois -- Mesopotamian art, from c. 2000 to 330 BC / Jean-Daniel Forest and Nathalie Gallois -- Hellenism in Mesopotamia / Carlo Lippolis -- The Parthian and Sasanian periods / Roberto Venco Ricciardi -- The Islamic Era / Giovanni Curatola.

709.73 S525a 2007
AUT Warhol, Andy ; Shafrazi, Tony.
TIT Andy Warhol portraits.
PUB London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Andy Warhol: portraits / Tony Shafrazi -- Looking good: Andy Warhol's utopian portraiture / Carter Ratcliff -- Warhol portraits, then and now / Robert Rosenblum -- Portraits.

711.40974 B193r 2007
AUT Ballon, Hilary ; Jackson, Kenneth T.
TIT Robert Moses and the modern city : the transformation of New York. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2007.
CON Contents: Robert Moses projects : a portfolio / Andrew Moore -- Introduction / Hilary Ballon and Kenneth T. Jackson -- Robert Moses and the rise of New York : the power broker in perspective / Kenneth T. Jackson -- Equipping the public realm : rethinking Robert Moses and recreation / Marta Gutman -- Rebuilding New York in the auto age : Robert Moses and his highways / Owen D. Gutfreund -- Robert Moses and urban renewal : the Title I program / Hilary Ballon -- Robert Moses, race, and the limits of an activist state / Martha Biondi -- Revolt of the urbs : Robert Moses and his critics / Robert Fishman -- Robert Moses and city planning / Joel Schwartz -- Catalog of built work and projects in New York City, 1934-1968: Pools -- Beaches -- Neighborhood playgrounds and parks -- City parks -- Roads and crossings -- Housing and urban renewal -- Miscellaneous projects.

712.089 P946c 2006
AUT Price, V. B. ; Morrow, Baker H.
TIT Canyon gardens : the Ancient Pueblo landscapes of the American Southwest.
PUB Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Europe, the new world, and buildings without history / by Stephen H. Lekson -- The berry gardens of Quarai and the pocket terraces of Abó / by Baker H. Morrow -- Reading the ancestral Puebloan landscape : a paleoethnobotanist's text of seeds and wood / by Carol B. Brandt -- A durable legacy : construction and spatial analysis at Sand Canyon Pueblo in the Mesa Verde country / by Bruce A. Bradley -- Tewa fields, Tewa traditions / by Kurt F. Anschuetz -- The estancia : the New Mexican hacienda / by James E. Ivey -- Zuni maize / by Mary Beath -- The narrative construction of landscape : Hopi, 1879-94 / by Louis A. Hieb -- Conflicting landscape values : the Santa Clara Pueblo and day school / by Rina Swentzell -- Mary Jane Colter and the ancestral Puebloan tradition / by Kenneth A. Romig -- AMREP and the Pueblos : River's Edge and La Luz / by Anthony Anella -- Landscape and survival : thoughts on new urbanism and ancestral Puebloan strategies for designing pragmatic desert built environments / by V.B. Price -- The Chaco ancestral Puebloans : lessons learned / by David E. Stuart.

730.92 R757a 2006
AUT Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette ; Rodin, Auguste ; Buley-Uribe, Christina.
TIT Auguste Rodin : drawings & watercolors.
PUB New York : Thames & Hudson, 2007, c2006.
CON Contents: Drawings 'kneaded in ink' / Antoinette Le Normand-Romain -- 'The ultimate point of his work' / Christina Buley-Uribe -- Drawings and watercolours.

745.2 B886e 2006
AUT Bruce, Gordon.
TIT Eliot Noyes.
PUB London: Phaidon, 2006.
CON Contents: Early years -- The Harvard School of Design -- The Museum of Modern Art -- Building an architectural and industrial design profession -- International Business Machines -- Curator of corporate ethos -- A celebration.

748.2 K97c2 2004
AUT Kuspit, Donald B.
TIT Chihuly. - 2nd ed., rev. and expanded, 6th printing.
PUB New York : H.N. Abrams, [2004], c1998.

759.13 K19j 2002
AUT Katz, Vincent.
TIT Janet Fish : paintings.
PUB New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

759.13 L665e 2007
AUT Levin, Gail.
TIT Edward Hopper : an intimate biography. - Updated and expanded ed.
PUB New York : Rizzoli, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: Truth and pain -- The roots of conflict: 1882-1899 -- Defining the talent: 1899-1906 -- Seductive Paris: 1906-1907 -- The ambivalent American: 1907-1910 -- In search of a style: 1911-1915 -- The detour through etching: 1915-1918 -- The deeper hunger: 1918-1923 -- The leading lady -- First success: 1923-1924 -- Getting established: 1925-1927 -- On the road to America: 1928-1929 -- Recognition: 1930-1933 -- First retrospective and the Truro House: 1933-1935 -- An intellectual self-portrait -- Consequence of success: 1936-1938 -- The struggle to paint: 1939 -- The war begins: 1940 -- Failed odyssey: 1941 -- Nighthawks: 1942 -- Mexico: 1943 -- War on the home front: 1944 -- The aesthetic divide: 1945 -- Anxiety: 1946-1947 -- Illness and loss: 1948 -- Melancholy reflection: 1949 -- A retrospective year: 1950 -- Mexico again: 1951 -- Planning reality: 1952 -- Reality: 1953 -- Taking stock: 1954 -- Personal vision: 1955 -- Time cover story: 1956 -- Toward reconciliation: 1957-1958 -- Excursion into philosophy: 1959 -- Protest: 1960 -- Prints again: 1961-1962 -- Last rehearsal: 1963-1964 -- Final curtain: 1965-1967 -- Expanded edition: Hopper's legacy ; Erased but not forever: the recovery of Jo Nivison Hopper ; Hopper's legacy for visual artists ; Hopper's legacy for cinema.

759.4 D716sy 2007
AUT Dorra, Henri.
TIT The symbolism of Paul Gauguin : erotica, exotica, and the great dilemmas of humanity.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Gauguin's heritage : his family and their nineteenth-century world -- Budding symbolism -- Caricatures and friendships -- The great dilemmas of humanity -- The artist as Messiah -- Visions of death, visions of escape -- From Papeete to Mataiea -- The Polynesian pantheon -- Desire of the night -- Paris furlough -- The last years in Tahiti -- Hiva Hoa.

759.4 G211u 2007
AUT Ganz, James A ; Kendall, Richard ; Monet, Claude.
TIT The unknown Monet : pastels and drawings.
PUB Williamstown, Mass. : Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Portrait of the artist as a young draftsman -- Oscar Monet, caricaturist -- Encounters with draftsmen, 1859-63 -- Drawing and painting, 1863-66 -- Monet's pastels in public -- Monet's pastels in private -- Rough drafts: the sketchbook drawings -- Drawing for the mass media -- Monet in print -- Lines of color: drawing in the late years -- Appendix: the Thornley-Monet portfolio.

759.987 E37a 2007
AUT Elderfield, John ; Pérez Oramas, Luis ; Reverón, Armando.
TIT Armando Reverón.
PUB New York : Museum of Modern Art, c2007.
CON Contents: The natural history of Armando Reverón / John Elderfield -- Armando Reverón and modern art in Latin America / Luis Perez-Oramas -- Catalogue / Nora Lawrence -- Early works -- Early landscapes -- Portraits of the 1930s -- Landscapes of the 1940s -- Figural works of the 1940s -- Self-portraits -- Dolls and other objects -- El Castillete.

760.044 G598p 2007
AUT Goeser, Caroline.
TIT Picturing the New Negro : Harlem Renaissance print culture and modern black identity.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007.
SER CultureAmerica.
CON Contents: Introduction : making black modern in the medium of illustration -- An overview of Harlem Renaissance illustrations and their reception. Strategizing from spaces between : Aaron Douglas and the art of illustrating ; From racial uplift to vernacular expression : commercial and little magazine illustrations ; "Worth the price of the book" : dust jacket and book illustrations ; Critical ambivalence : illustration's reception in print -- Critical themes in Harlem Renaissance illustration. Remaking the past, making the modern : race, gender, and the modern economy ; Religion as "power site of cultural resistance" ; Black and tan : racial and sexual crossings in Ebony and topaz ; "To smile satirically" : on wearing the minstrel mask -- A brief conclusion : on making black modern during the Renaissance and beyond.

Ref 770.3 O98 2005
AUT Lenman, Robin.
TIT The Oxford companion to the photograph.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

781.64 A132r 2007
AUT Abbott, Lynn ; Seroff, Doug.
TIT Ragged but right : black traveling shows, "coon songs," and the dark pathway to blues and jazz. - 1st ed.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
SER American made music series.
CON Contents: Coon songs, big shows, and black stage stars of the Ragtime era -- The spirit of the smart set -- Blues for the sideshow tent -- "Under canvas" : African American tented minstrelsy and the untold story of Allen's New Orleans Minstrels, the Rabbit's Foot Company, the Florida Blossoms, and Silas Green from New Orleans.

781.64 P453m 2004
AUT Perone, James E.
TIT Music of the counterculture era.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
SER American history through music.
CON Contents: Background -- Popular music trends through the counterculture era -- Music and the anti-war movement -- Music and the oppressed -- Music and radical politics -- Music and other social and lifestyle issues -- An A-Z of music and the counterculture era.

781.65 A547t 2007
AUT Anderson, Iain.
TIT This is our music : free jazz, the Sixties, and American culture.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2007.
SER Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
CON Contents: The resurgence of jazz in the 1950s -- Free improvisation challenges the jazz canon -- Free jazz and Black nationalism -- The musicians and their audience -- Jazz outside the marketplace.

782.421 C653t 2007
AUT Cobb, William Jelani.
TIT To the break of dawn : a freestyle on the hip hop aesthetic.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The roots -- The score -- Word of mouth -- Asphalt chronicles : hip hop and the storytelling tradition -- Seven MCs.

782.421 J13p 2007
AUT Jackson, Mark Allan.
TIT Prophet singer : the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie. - 1st ed.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
SER American made music series.
CON Contents: Is this song your song anymore? : revisioning "this land is your land" -- Busted, disgusted, down and out : documenting the stories of America's agricultural workers -- The poor, hard-working man blues ; documenting the troubles of other American workers -- Skin trouble : documenting race and redemption -- Stepping outside the law : class consciousness in Guthrie's outlaw songs -- The union feeling : tracing a vision of a better world.

791.4 L524b 2007
AUT Lehu, Jean-Marc.
TIT Branded entertainment : product placement & brand strategy in the entertainment business.
PUB London ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Kogan Page, 2007.
CON Contents: Origins of and reasons for product placement -- History of product placement in the cinema -- Films under a necessary advertising influence -- The useful association of cinema and advertising -- Advantages and methods of the use of product placements -- Product placement : a competitive means of communication -- Professional recommendations for effective placements -- Respect for a legal framework and the desire for ethical practice -- The expert opinion : Jean-Patrick Flandé -- Branded entertainment in all its forms -- Using all available vectors -- Controlling further opportunities -- Brand integration -- Stage direction of brands in the twenty-first century -- Towards a new strategic brand management.

791.43 F792f 2007
AUT Fox, Jo.
TIT Film propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany : World War II cinema. - English ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
CON Contents: Film propaganda and World War II : debates and contexts -- Justifying war -- Blitzkrieg : the bombers and the bombed -- The enemy -- The 'men of destiny' : the image of wartime leadership, past and present -- Victory and defeat : the end of the 'thousand year Reich' and post-war reconstruction.

791.4302 B118L 2007
AUT Bach, Steven.
TIT Leni : the life and work of Leni Riefenstahl. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : A.A. Knopf, 2007.
CON Contents: Berlin -- Metropolis -- Debuts -- Climbing -- Higher -- Above the clouds -- The Blue Light -- Ascent -- Lightning -- The turning point -- Total devotion -- Triumph -- The Olympic idea -- Tomorrow the world -- Aftermath -- Leni at war -- Goodbye to all that -- Pariah -- Survivor -- Comeback -- Fortune and men's eyes -- The last picture show(s) -- Afterlife.

791.4302 M146i 2007
AUT McGowan, Todd.
TIT The impossible David Lynch.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
SER Film and culture.
CON Contents: The bizarre nature of normality -- Sacrificing one's head for an eraser -- The integration of the impossible object in The elephant man -- Dune and the path to salvation -- Fantasizing the father in Blue velvet -- The absence of desire in Wild at heart -- Twin peaks: Fire walk with me and identification with the object -- Finding ourselves on a Lost highway -- The ethics of fantasizing in The straight story -- Navigating Mulholland Drive, David Lynch's panegyric to Hollywood -- The ethics of fantasy.

791.4302 M877c 2007
AUT Morris, Nigel.
TIT The cinema of Steven Spielberg : empire of light.
PUB London ; New York : Wallflower, 2007.
SER Directors' cuts.
CON Contents: Close Encounters of the Third Kind: tripping the light fantastic -- Duel: the descent of Mann -- The Sugarland Express: a light comedy? -- Jaws: searching the depths -- 1941: war on Hollywood -- Raiders of the Lost Ark: lights, camera, action -- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: turn on your love light -- Twilight Zone: The Movie: magic lantern man overshadowed -- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: anything goes -- The Color Purple: sisters and brothers -- Empire of the Sun: shanghai showmanship -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: cut to the chase -- Always: light my fire -- Hook: an awfully big Pan(a)vision adventure -- Jurassic Park: another monster hit -- Schindler's List: darkness visible -- The Lost World: Jurassic Park: more digital manipulation -- Amistad: black and white in colour -- Saving Private Ryan: Hollywood on war -- A.I. Artificial Intelligence: eyes wide open -- Minority Report: through a glass, darkly -- Catch Me If You Can: captured on celluloid -- The Terminal: all that jazz -- War of the Worlds: rays in the mirror -- Munich: bitter fruit on the olive branch -- Audiences, subjectivity and pleasure.

791.436 H251c 2007
AUT Hantke, Steffen.
TIT Caligari's heirs : the German cinema of fear after 1945.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.

791.436 W927h 2007
AUT Worland, Rick.
TIT The horror film : an introduction. - 1st ed.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
SER New approaches to film genre. ; 2.
CON Contents: Introduction : undying monsters -- A short history of the horror film : beginnings to 1945 -- A short history of the horror film : 1945 to the present -- Monsters among us : cases of social reception -- Edges of the horror film : Lon Chaney, Tod Browning, and The unknown (1927) -- Frankenstein (1931) and Hollywood expressionism -- Cat people (1942) : Lewton, Freud, and suggestive horror -- Horror in "the age of anxiety" : Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) -- Slaughtering genre tradition : The Texas chain saw massacre (1974) -- Halloween (1978) : the shape of the slasher film -- Re-animator (1985) and slapstick horror -- Demon lover : Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) -- Afterword : our haunted houses -- Appendix: Horror auteurs.

791.4375 P465m 2006
AUT Perry, Ted.
TIT Masterpieces of modernist cinema.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The birth of film out of the spirit of modernity / Tom Gunning -- The cabinet of Dr. Caligari: expressionism and cinema / Anton Kaes -- Entr'acte: Dada as real illusion / Ted Perry -- Man with a movie camera-lines of resistance: Dziga Vertov and the twenties / Yuri Tsivian -- L'age d'or and the eroticism of the spirit / Dudley Andrew -- Meshes of the afternoon: a model of visual thinking / John Pruitt -- Brakhage and modernism / P. Adams Sitney -- Andy Warhol's Sleep: the play of repetition / Branden W. Joseph -- Last year at Marienbad: high modern and postmodern / T. Jefferson Kline -- Bruce Conner's Report: contesting Camelot / Bruce Jenkins / Au hasard, Balthazar: the body in the soul / Tony Pipolo -- Gehr's Still / Gilberto Perez -- Lives of performers and the trouble with empathy / Carrie Lambert-Beatty.

792.023 V878c 2006
AUT Vogel, Frederic B ; Hodges, Ben.
TIT The Commercial Theater Institute guide to producing plays and musicals.
PUB New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, c2006.
CON Contents: Wet and happy, or how to hold on to your inspiration / David Binder -- An independent view, from MARS / Amy Danis and Mark Johannes -- Collaborations between not-for-profit and commercial theatres / Michael David -- Other people's money / Susan Quint Gallin -- Business as unusual / Kevin McCollum -- You never forget your first time / Harriet Newman Leve -- For the love of theatre / Daryl Roth -- Commercial producer, resident theatre collaborations / Roche Edward Schulfer -- From the West End to Broadway / Elizabeth Williams -- You can take the agent out of the theatre... / William Craver -- The view from here / Jack Tantleff -- The center of tension, the physical production / Neil A. Mazzella -- Things that have been done to me, confessions of a theatre landlord / Alan Schuster -- The road not taken / Mike Isaacson -- Financing commercial theatre / Steven Baruch -- Disposing of disposable income / Rodger Hess -- Developing a theatrical property / George Allison Elmer -- I'm not a [insert profession here], but I play one in the theatre / Roger Alan Gindi -- The arranged marriage between not-for-profit theatre companies and commercial producers / Jason Baruch -- Notes from the trenches of a young (well, under 40) theatrical attorney / Ben Feldman -- Too much is not enough, theatrical public relations in the age of the Blackberry[superscript TM] / Adrian Bryan-Brown -- Why Broadway is booming / Nancy Coyne -- Advertising to producers, advertising to audiences / Jim Edwards -- Top billing : theatrical advertising / Barbara Eliran -- Passion / Shara Victoria Mendelson.

792.8 G549a 2007
AUT Glass, Barbara S.
TIT African American dance : an illustrated history.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.
CON Contents: Two dance traditions meet in the new world -- Black dance in the slavery era: the ring shout and buzzard lope -- Early Black festivals and Congo Square -- Solo percussive dance -- The minstrel show and other traveling productions -- Black Broadway -- Variety -- Grassroots.

795.09 S399r 2006
AUT Schwartz, David G.
TIT Roll the bones : the history of gambling.
PUB New York : Gotham Books, c2006.
CON Contents: Prologue: The rainmaker reborn -- Pt. 1: The discovery of gambling. Thoth's gift : the ancient origins of gambling ; The die is cast : from classical to medieval times ; Knaves and kings : cards come into play -- Pt. 2: Gambling becomes a science. Taming Tyche : the science of chance creates professional gambling ; The Ridotto revolution : mercantile gamblers create the casino -- Pt. 3: Gambling takes to the sea. All is on the hazard : The British come to play ; Star-spangled gamblers : the birth of American gambling ; Baiting John Bull : British gambling, 1750-1900 -- Pt. 4: Europeans gamble at home and abroad. Seeking the cure : spa gambling defines Europe ; Flight of the sparrow : gambling, conquest, and colonies -- Pt. 5: The United States bets big. Wild cards : gambling moves west ; Fools of fortune : American gambling becomes urban -- Pt. 6: Gambling for fun and profit. A sunny place for shady people : gambling on the French Riviera ; Wise guys and one-armed bandits : big-city gambling in the twentieth century -- Pt. 7: The legitimization of American gambling. Hard to resist : Nevada becomes America's gambling oasis ; The salvation of sin : is gambling a crime or a virtue? ; A place in the sun : the Strip is born -- Pt. 8: Gambling's new prominence. Runaway American dream : gambling in the public interest ; All in : gambling's global spread -- Pt. 9: Into the twenty-first century. A clockwork volcano : technology and triumph ; The dream : history in perspective.

796.01 S678 2007
AUT Jowett, Sophia ; Lavallee, David, Ph. D.
TIT Social psychology in sport.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2007.

796.42 S662s 2007
AUT Smith, Tommie ; Steele, David.
TIT Silent Gesture : autobiography of Tommie Smith.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2007.
SER Sporting.
CON Contents: Welcome home -- October 16, 1968 -- Out of the fields -- The biggest city I had ever seen -- Run before you walk -- The coach and the professor -- Linked forever -- No gold, no glove -- Paying the price -- Going underground -- Families lost, and found -- It will outlive me -- Silent and eternal.

801.95 H236G5 2005
AUT Guerin, Wilfred L.
TIT A handbook of critical approaches to literature. - 5th ed.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Getting started: the precritical response -- First things first: textual scholarship, genres, and source study -- Historical and biographical approaches -- Moral and philosophical approaches -- The formalist approach -- The psychological approach: Freud -- Mythological and archetypal approaches -- Feminisms and gender studies -- Cultural studies -- The play of meaning(s): reader-response criticism, dialogics and structuralism and poststructuralism, including deconstruction.

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Curr 808.066 K88w 2001
AUT Kovac, Jeffrey ; Sherwood, Donna W.
TIT Writing across the chemistry curriculum : an instructor's handbook.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2001.

809 A681r 2007
AUT Arendt, Hannah ; Gottlieb, Susannah Young-ah.
TIT Reflections on literature and culture.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
SER Meridian, crossing aesthetics.
CON Contents: 1. Rilke's Duino elegies (with Günther Stern) -- 2. Review of Hans Weil, The emergence of the German principle of "Bildung" -- 3. Friedrich von Gentz: On the 100th anniversary of his death, June 9, 1932 -- 4. Adam Müller--Renaissance? -- 5. Berlin salon -- 6. Review of Hans Hagen, Rilke's revisions -- 7. Review of Käte Hamburger, Thomas Mann and Romanticism -- 8. Stefan Zweig: Jews in the world of yesterday -- 9. The Jew as pariah: a hidden tradition -- 10. Nightmare and flight -- 11. Franz Kafka, appreciated anew -- 12. Great friend of reality: Adalbert Stifter -- 13. French existentialism -- 14. No longer and not yet -- 15. Proof positive -- 16. The streets of Berlin -- 17. The too ambitious reporter -- 18. Beyond personal frustration: the poetry of Bertolt Brecht -- 19. Introduction to Bernard Lazare, Job's dungheap -- 20. The achievement of Hermann Broch -- 21. Between vice and crime (on Proust) -- 22. The imperialist character (on Kipling) -- 23. The permanence of the world and the work of art -- 24. Culture and politics -- 25. Foreword to Carl Heidenreich's exhibition catalog -- 26. The social question (on Melville and Dostoevski) -- 27. Review of Nathalie Sarraute, The golden fruits -- 28. What Is permitted to Jove ...: reflections on the poet Bertolt Brecht and his relation to politics -- 29. Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 -- 30. Isak Dinesen, 1885-1962 -- 31. Dostoevski's Possessed -- 32. Emerson address -- 33. Afterword to Robert Gilbert, No donkey has lost me while galloping -- 34. Remembering Wystan H. Auden, who died in the night of the twenty-eighth of September, 1973.

810.935 M135a 2007
AUT McDonald, Gail.
TIT American literature and culture, 1900-1960.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
SER Blackwell introductions to literature. ; 16.
CON Contents: 1. Big : Expansion and its discontents -- The city -- Representing nature -- Apocalypse -- The sense of place -- 2. Rich : Weber and Veblen: Reasons to work and reasons to spend -- USA -- Work and identity -- Labor reform -- Consumption and identity -- 3. New : Beginning anew: Crevecoeur and Hawthorne -- Young America -- Making it new I: literary modernism -- Making it new II: the other arts -- 4. Free : The multiple meanings of freedom -- War and the affirmation of American values -- Writing war -- Upstream against the mainstream -- "An inescapable network of mutuality".

Ref 810.98 E56P 2007 v.1-2
AUT Page, Yolanda Williams ; Page, Yolanda Williams.
TIT Encyclopedia of African American women writers.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

810.989 K53j 2006
AUT King, Lovalerie ; Scott, Lynn Orilla.
TIT James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

813.08 P191o 2006
AUT Panek, LeRoy.
TIT The origins of the American detective story.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: The first fifty years -- Enter the great detective -- Why not cops? -- The scientist hero? -- New science and pseudo science -- Journalists and journalism -- The private eye -- Women -- Lawyers and the law -- Everybody else -- Last thoughts.

813.52 O48c 2007
AUT Oliver, Charles M.
TIT Critical companion to Ernest Hemingway : a literary reference to his life and work.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2007.
SER Facts on File library of American literature.

813.6 H646t 2007
AUT Hill, Joe.
TIT 20th century ghosts.
PUB New York : William Morrow, c2007.

821.17 H816c 2007
AUT Horobin, Simon.
TIT Chaucer's language.
PUB Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

821.914 R646t 2007
AUT Roberts, Neil.
TIT Ted Hughes : a literary life.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
SER Literary lives.

822.309 N412p 2000
AUT Neill, Michael.
TIT Putting history to the question : power, politics, and society in English Renaissance drama.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2000.
CON Contents: PART 1: The stage and social order. Servant obedience and master sins: Shakespeare and the bonds of service -- "This gentle gentleman": social change and the language of status in Arden of Faversham -- Massinger's patriarchy: the social vision of A new way to pay old debts -- "The tongues of Angels": charity and the social order in The city madam -- "In everything illegitimate": imagining the bastard in English renaissance drama -- Bastardy, counterfeiting, and misogyny in The Revenger's tragedy -- "Amphitheaters in the body": playing with hands on the Shakespearean stage. PART 2: Race, nation, empire. Changing places in Othello -- "Unproper beds": race, adultery, and the hideous in Othello -- "Mulattos," "Blacks," and "Indian Moors": Othello and early modern constructions of human difference -- Putting history to the question: an episode of torture at Bantam in Java, 1604 -- "Material flames": romance, empire, and mercantile fantasy in John Fletcher's Island princess -- Broken English and broken Irish: nation. language, and the optic of power in Shakespeare's histories -- "The exact map or discovery of human affairs": Shakespeare and the plotting of history -- The world beyond: Shakespeare and the Tropes.

822.33 S527 as B
AUT Bloom, Harold ; Loos, Pamela.
TIT As you like it.
PUB New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2008.
SER Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages.

822.33 S527 J B
AUT Shakespeare, William ; Bloom, Harold ; Loos, Pamela.
TIT Julius Caesar.
PUB New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.
SER Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages.

822.33 S527 KL BL
AUT Shakespeare, William ; Heims, Neil ; Bloom, Harold.
TIT King Lear.
PUB New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2008.
SER Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages.

822.33 S527 Mer B
AUT Shakespeare, William ; Bloom, Harold ; Heims, Neil.
TIT The merchant of Venice.
PUB New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2008.
SER Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages.

822.33 S527 O BL
AUT Shakespeare, William ; Bloom, Harold ; Heims, Neil.
TIT Othello.
PUB New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.
SER Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages.

822.33 S527 tam B
AUT Shakespeare, William ; Bloom, Harold ; Loos, Pamela.
TIT The taming of the shrew.
PUB New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.
SER Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages.

822.33 S527 Tem BL
AUT Shakespeare, William ; Heims, Neil ; Bloom, Harold.
TIT The tempest.
PUB New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.
SER Bloom's Shakespeare through the ages.

822.33 S527oF 2006 v.1-3
AUT Shakespeare, William ; Freeman, Neil.
TIT Once more unto the speech, dear friends : monologues from Shakespeare's first folio with modern text versions for comparison.
PUB New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books ; Milwaukee, Wis. : Sales & distribution, Hal Leonard Corp., c2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. The comedies -- v. 2. The histories -- v. 3. The tragedies.

840.9 L154d 2007
AUT Ladenson, Elisabeth.
TIT Dirt for art's sake : books on trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Gustave Flaubert : Emma Bovary goes to Hollywood -- Charles Baudelaire : florist of evil -- James Joyce : Leopold Bloom's trip to the outhouse -- Radclyffe Hall : the well of prussic acid -- D.H. Lawrence : sexual intercourse begins -- Henry Miller : a gob of spit in the face of art -- Vladimir Nabokov : lolitigation.

860.9 S721s 2007
AUT Soufas, C. Christopher.
TIT The subject in question : early contemporary Spanish literature and modernism.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The Spanish literary generation and early contemporary literary history -- Modernism and Spain : aesthetics, ideology, tradition, subjectivity -- From the labyrinth : the Spanish modernist novel and the "new man" -- Modernist hieroglyphics : geographies of presence in the poetry of Jorge Guillén and Vicente Aleixandre -- Absence and experience in the poetry of Luis Cernuda and Rafael Alberti -- Subjective fragmentation in the theater of Federico García Lorca.

861.6 V182c 2007
AUT Vallejo, César ; Eshleman, Clayton.
TIT The complete poetry : a bilingual edition.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Los heraldos negros = The black heralds -- Trilce -- Poemas humanos = Human Poems -- España, aparte de mí este cáliz = Spain, take this cup from me.

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907.2 H219bN
AUT Hamilton, Nigel.
TIT Biography : a brief history.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Evolutionary biography -- Hagiography -- The renaissance of biography -- Victorian pseudobiography -- The early twentieth century -- The rise of film -- The people's war -- Death of the author -- New directions -- Biography comes of age -- Biography on trial -- The miner's canary -- Biography today.

Ref 910 C7372 2007 v.1-2
AUT Douglas, Ian ; Huggett, Richard J ; Perkins, C. R.
TIT Companion encyclopedia of geography : from local to global. - 2nd ed. / edited by Ian Douglas, Richard Huggett, Chris Perkins.
PUB London : Routledge, 2007.

939.21 S912t 2006
AUT Strauss, Barry S.
TIT The Trojan War : a new history.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
CON Contents: War for Helen -- The black ships sail --Operation beachhead -- Assault on the walls -- The dirty war -- An army in trouble -- The killing fields -- Night moves -- Hector's charge -- Achilles' heel -- The night of the horse.

940.5318 C953h 2008
AUT Crowe, David.
TIT The Holocaust : roots, history, and aftermath.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Jewish history: ancient beginnings and the evolution of Christian anti-Judaic prejudice through the Reformation -- Jews, the Enlightenment, Emancipation, and the rise of racial anti-Semitism through the early twentieth century -- The world of Adolf Hitler, 1889-1933: war, politics, and anti-Semitism -- The Nazis in power, 1933-1939: eugenics, race, and biology; Jews, the handicapped, and the Roma -- Nazi Germany at war, 1939-1941: "euthanasia" and the handicapped; ghettos and Jews -- The invasion of the Soviet Union and the path to the "Final Solution" -- The "Final Solution," 1941-1944: death camps and experiments with mass murder -- The Final Solution in Western Europe and the Nazi-allied states -- The Holocaust and the role of Europe's neutrals: then and now -- Liberation, DPs, and the search for justice: war crimes investigations and trials in Europe, the United States, and Israel.

940.5421 F911f 2006
AUT Friedrich, Jörg.
TIT The fire : the bombing of Germany, 1940-1945.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Weapon ;The approach ; Fire protection engineers ; The heavy bomber ; Radar ; The crew -- Strategy ; Morale bombing ; The way to the Rhine -- Land ; The North ; The West ; The South ; The East -- Protection ; Refuge in the vault ; Home front ; Care ; Evacuees -- We ;Bad mood, good attitude ; Reprisal -- I ; Sensory perception ; Emotion ; Experience -- Stone ; Immovables ; Transport ; Books.

940.5449 M647m 2006
AUT Miller, Donald L.
TIT Masters of the air : America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
CON Contents: The bloody hundredth -- The bomber mafia -- Eaker's amateurs -- The dangerous sky -- Airman down! -- The anatomy of courage -- Teach them to kill -- The bells of hell -- Men at war -- The turning -- Liberated skies -- The fatal trap -- Prisoners of the Swiss -- My bellyful of war -- The wire -- Terror without end -- The chimneys hardly ever fall down -- A pageant of misery.

942.03 S256t 2005
AUT Saul, Nigel.
TIT The three Richards : Richard I, Richard II and Richard III.
PUB London, U.K. : Hambledon and London, 2005.

943 C592i 2006
AUT Clark, Christopher M.
TIT Iron kingdom : the rise and downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

943.087 J37a 2006
AUT Jarausch, Konrad Hugo.
TIT After Hitler : recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Folio 943.9 L639r 2006
AUT Lessing, Erich.
TIT Revolution in Hungary : the 1956 Budapest uprising.
PUB New York : Thames & Hudson, 2006.
CON Contents: Chronology -- Memories of the year 1956 / Erich Lessing -- Budapest 1956: an anti-totalitarian revolution / François Fejtö -- Communist Hungary -- In the countryside -- Religion -- In town -- At the factory -- The start of the uprising -- The political actors -- A stroll in Budapest in 1956 / George Konrad -- The revolution -- The failure -- The flight -- Beginnings of a new era -- The revolution seen from the West: shock and helplessness / Nicolas Bauquet -- In remembrance -- Epilogue / Erich Lessing and János M. Rainer.

943.904 C749n 2006
AUT Congdon, Lee ; Király, Béla K. ; Nagy, Károly.
TIT 1956: the Hungarian revolution and war for independence.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Social Science Monographs ; Highland Lakes, N.J. : Atlantic Research and Publications ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2006.
SER Atlantic studies on society in change. ; no. 128 War and society in East Central Europe. ; v. 40 East European monographs. ; no. 700.

956.704 S634b 2007
AUT Sluglett, Peter.
TIT Britain in Iraq : contriving king and country, 1914-1932.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: From the outbreak of war to the Cairo conference, 1914-1921 -- From the Cairo conference to the ratification of the Anglo-Iraq treaty, March 1921 - September 1924 -- Oil, boundaries and insolvency: political and economic problems, 1924-1926 -- The years of frustration, 1926-1929 -- Prelude to independence, 1929-1932 -- Tenurial, revenue and tribal policy -- Defence and internal security: the role of the Iraq army and the RAF -- Educational policy -- The mandate and its legacy.

956.7044 A421o 2007
AUT Allawi, Ali A.
TIT The occupation of Iraq : winning the war, losing the peace.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The great divides -- The rise of the opposition -- The build-up to war -- The invasion -- Occupation authorities -- A collapsed state : a ruined economy : a damaged society -- Deepening rifts in a brittle society -- Dismantling the Ba'athist state -- The formation of the governing council and the rise of the insurgency -- The shadow of real power -- The enigma of Ayatollah Sistani -- A constitution in waiting -- The fires of sectarian hatreds -- A Marshall Plan for Iraq? -- April 2004 : the turning point -- The interim Iraqi government -- Arabs and Persians -- Showdown at the shrine -- To hold or abort an election -- Corruption and the Potemkin state -- Iraqi society on the eve of free elections -- The vote -- Negotiating a constitution -- Crises and the Jaafari government -- Into uncharted waters.

956.7044 B855i 2006
AUT Brigham, Robert K.
TIT Is Iraq another Vietnam?. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : PublicAffairs, c2006.
CON Contents: America goes to war -- The military half -- The problems of nation building -- Staying the course -- Challenges to America's power.

958.1 R842b 2007
AUT Rotberg, Robert I.
TIT Building a new Afghanistan.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Preface -- Map of Afghanistan -- Renewing the Afghan State / Robert I. Rotberg -- The legacy of war and the challenge of peace building / Ali A. Jalali -- Strengthening security in contemporary Afghanistan : coping with the Taliban / Hekmat Karzai -- Neither stable nor stationary : the politics of transition and recovery / Paula R. Newberg -- Rebuilding a robust Afghan economy / Alastair J. McKechnie -- Revitalizing Afghanistan's economy : the government's plan / Hedayat Amin Arsala -- Regional development in greater Central Asia : the Afghan pivot / S. Frederick Starr -- Responding to the opium dilemma / Cindy Fazey -- The place of the province in Afghanistan's subnational governance / Sarah Lister and Hamish Nixon.

959.704 L422f 2007
AUT Lawrence, Mark Atwood ; Logevall, Fredrik.
TIT The first Vietnam War : colonial conflict and cold war crisis.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction / Mark Atwood Lawrence and Fredrik Logevall -- 2. Making sense of the French war : the postcolonial moment and the first Vietnam war, 1945-1954 / Mark Philip Bradley -- 3. Vietnamese historians and the first Indochina war / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen -- 4. Franklin Roosevelt, trusteeship, and Indochina : a reassessment / Stein Tønnesson -- 5. Creating defense capacity in Vietnam, 1945-1947 / David G. Marr -- 6. Forging the "great combination" : Britain and the Indochina problem, 1945-1950 / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- 7. French imperial reconstruction and the development of the Indochina war, 1945-1950 / Martin Thomas -- 8. Ho Chi Minh and the strategy of people's war / William J. Duiker -- 9. The declining value of Indochina : France and the economics of empire, 1950-1955 / Laurent Cesari -- 10. "The same struggle for liberty" : Korea and Vietnam / Marilyn B. Young -- 11. Assessing Dien Bien Phu / John Prados -- 12. China and the Indochina settlement at the Geneva conference of 1954 / Chen Jian -- 13. After Geneva : the French presence in Vietnam, 1954-1963 / Kathryn C. Statler -- 14. Chronicle of a war foretold : The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1954 / Andrew J. Rotter.

962.05 W913a 2006
AUT Woollacott, Martin.
TIT After Suez : adrift in the American century.
PUB London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2006.
CON Contents: The roads from Suez -- England's fall -- Two faces of freedom -- The search for perfect force -- From Suez to Iraq -- Magic carpets.

968.06 L822m 2006
AUT Lodge, Tom.
TIT Mandela : a critical life.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Childhood and upbringing -- Becoming a notable -- Volunteer-in-chief -- Making a messiah -- Trials -- Prisoner 466/64 -- Leading from prison -- Messianic politics and the transition to democracy -- Embodying the nation.

Folio 968.06 M214m 2006
AUT Maharaj, Mac ; Kathrada, A. M.
TIT Mandela : the authorized portrait.
PUB Kansas City, Mo. : Andrews McMeel Pub., 2006.

972.02 T747m 2006
AUT Townsend, Camilla.
TIT Malintzin's choices : an Indian woman in the conquest of Mexico.
PUB Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
SER Diálogos.
CON Contents: Pelican's kingdom -- The men from the boats -- One of us people here -- Tenochtitlan -- Water-pouring song -- Reed mats -- The concubine speaks -- Doña María -- Don Martín.

972.87 S211p 2007
AUT Sánchez, Peter Michael.
TIT Panama lost? : U.S. hegemony, democracy, and the Canal.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2007.

972.94 F254r 2007
AUT Fatton, Robert.
TIT The roots of Haitian despotism.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Habitus, political culture, and African legacies -- Social hierarchies and authoritarian legacies -- Presidential monarchism -- The empire arrives: the road to the US occupation -- Imperialism and authoritarianism -- From Duvalier to the unending democratic transition -- Conclusion.

973.0497 C522f2 2005
AUT Perdue, Theda ; Green, Michael D.
TIT The Cherokee removal : a brief history with documents. - 2nd ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Bedford/St. Martin's, c2005.
SER Bedford series in history and culture.

973.0497 S935t 2007
AUT Sturgis, Amy H.
TIT The Trail of Tears and Indian removal.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
SER Greenwood guides to historic events, 1500-1900.
CON Contents: Overview : The Trail of Tears as turning point -- The Cherokee Nation and the literacy revolution -- The Jacksonian revolution, the U.S. Supreme Court, and popular opinion -- Political parties and the Treaty of New Echota -- The Trail of Tears -- Aftermath.

973.2 M129k 2006
AUT McConville, Brendan.
TIT The king's three faces : the rise & fall of royal America, 1688-1776.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c2006.

973.21 K96j 2007
AUT Kupperman, Karen Ordahl.
TIT The Jamestown project.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Elizabethan England engages the world -- Adventurers, opportunities, and improvisation -- Indian experience of the Atlantic -- English hunger for the new -- Grasping America's contours -- A welter of colonial projects -- Jamestown's uncertain beginnings -- The project revised -- James Cittie in Virginia.

973.58 C893j 2006
AUT Crapol, Edward P.
TIT John Tyler : the accidental president.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Forewarned, forearmed -- Visions of national destiny -- Defending slavery -- Avoiding war & preserving peace -- Pacific visions -- Texas -- Retirement & secession -- Conclusion : precedents & legacies.

973.9041 S566f 2004
AUT Sickels, Robert.
TIT The 1940s.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Series foreword / by Ray B. Browne -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Timeline of the 1940s -- pt. 1. Live and youth during the 1940s. Everyday America -- World of youth -- pt. 2. Popular culture of the 1940s. Advertising -- Architecture -- Fashion -- Food -- Leisure activities -- Literature -- Music -- Performing arts -- Travel -- Visual arts -- Cost of products in the 1940s -- Notes -- Bibliography and further reading -- Index.

973.9042 D789t 2004
AUT Drowne, Kathleen Morgan ; Huber, Patrick.
TIT The 1920s.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Series foreword / Ray B. Browne -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Timeline of the 1920s -- Part I. Life and youth during the 1920s -- 1. Everyday America -- 2. World of youth -- Part II. Popular culture of the 1920s -- 3. Advertising -- 4. Architecture and design -- 5. Fashion -- 6. Food and drink -- 7. Leisure activities -- 8. Literature -- 9. Music -- 10. Performing arts -- 11. Travel and recreation -- 12. Visual arts -- Cost of products in the 1920s -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index.

973.918 J43t 2007
AUT Jeansonne, Glen ; Luhrssen, David.
TIT A time of paradox.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2007.
CON Contents: I: An era of uncertainty, 1945-1968 -- The fair deal and the Cold War, 1945-1952 : Jackie Robinson: Champion -- Peace and peril, 1953-1960 -- The affluent society -- Cultural dissent : Charles Van Doren: The man for the role -- Janis Joplin: a turbulent life for turbulent times -- New frontiers, new anxieties at home, 1961-1968 -- Foreign anxieties, 1961-1968 -- II: An era of diversity, since 1969 -- The Nixon years, 1969-1974 -- Healing and Malise: the Ford and Carter administrations : Barbara Jordan: A voice that commands respect -- The Reagan rebellion -- A culture of diversity : Madonna: Material Girl in a material age -- "Can we all get along?": The soul of the nation : Cesar Chavez: organizing the poor -- From George Bush to George W. Bush -- The presidency of George W. Bush.

973.921 Y78n 2004
AUT Young, William H. ; Young, Nancy K.
TIT The 1950s.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Series foreword / Ray B. Browne -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Timeline of the 1950s -- Part I. Life and youth during the 1950s -- 1. Everyday America -- 2. World of youth -- Part II. Popular culture of the 1950s -- 3. Advertising -- 4. Architecture and design -- 5. Fashion -- 6. Food and drink -- 7. Leisure activities -- 8. Literature -- 9. Music -- 10. Performing arts -- 11. Travel and recreation -- 12. Visual arts -- Cost of products in the 1950s -- Notes -- Further reading -- Index.

973.923 R555s 2003
AUT Rielly, Edward J.
TIT The 1960s.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
SER American popular culture through history.

973.927 D573r 2007
AUT Diggins, John P.
TIT Ronald Reagan : fate, freedom, and the making of history. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.

973.929 O99n 2003
AUT Oxoby, Marc.
TIT The 1990s.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Acknowledgments -- Series foreword / Ray B. Browne --Introduction --Timeline of the 1990s -- Life and youth during the 1990s -- Everyday America -- World of youth -- Popular culture of the 1990s -- Advertising -- Architecture -- Fads, games, toys, hobbies, and sports -- Fashion -- Food -- Literature -- Music -- Performing arts -- Travel -- Visual arts -- Cost of products in the 1990s --Notes --Further reading --Index. Contents: The last decade of the millennium was, in many ways, the most diverse and fascinating in the history of American culture. Alternative subcultures gained unprecedented exposure, manifest in such phenomena as grunge music, "gansta" rap, hip-hop fashion, raves, extreme sports, and the art of Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano. Twelve narrative chapters depict the United States as brought to you by Generation X--a culture busting out in new and unforeseen ways.

973.931 K49c 2006
AUT Kimmel, Paul R ; Stout, Chris E.
TIT Collateral damage : the psychological consequences of America's war on terrorism.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
SER Contemporary psychology, 1546-668X.
CON Contents: Foreword / Philip G. Zimbardo -- Introduction / Paul R. Kimmel -- US & THEM : moderating group conflict : a track four diplomacy program / Stephen Fabick -- 9/11 aftershocks : an analysis of conditions ripe for hate crimes / Daniel J. Christie -- Jujitsu politics : terrorism and responses to terrorism / Clark McCauley -- The social psychology of punishing dissent : negative reactions to antiwar views in the United States / Bernice Lott -- Untangling the web : threat, ideology, and political behavior / Rhoda Unger -- Perceptions of threat, national representation, and support for procedures to protect the national group / Gordon Hodson, Victoria M. Esses, and John F. Dovidio -- Efforts to prevent terrorism : impact on immigrant groups / Nina K. Thomas -- Psychological effects of the virtual media coverage of the Iraq War : a postmodern humanistic perspective / Ilene A. Serlin -- The impact of U.S. antiterrorism interventions on terrorist motivation : preliminary research in Afghanistan and Iraq / Michael Wessels -- Cities of fear, cities of hope : public mental health in the age of terrorism / Chris E. Stout and Stevan Weine -- Afterword / Chris E. Stout.

973.931 M938m 2004
AUT Moyers, Bill D ; Pycior, Julie Leininger.
TIT Moyers on America : a journalist and his times.
PUB New York : New Press ; Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2004.
CON Contents: pt. 1: America now. This is your story, pass it on -- Which America will we be now? ; One year later ; War is war -- Crossing the Euphrates -- pt. 2: The soul of democracy. The Declaration in our times -- Many faiths, one nation -- The soul of democracy ; Democracy in peril -- Wearing the flag -- pt. 3: The media. The making of a journalist -- Journalism and democracy -- Countering the bastard muses -- The fight of our lives ; Public access in peril -- pt. 4: Looking back. Where the jackrabbits were -- Empty nest -- Second thoughts -- Good friend -- Aging.

974.402 H691g 2006
AUT Hodgson, Godfrey.
TIT A great & godly adventure : the Pilgrims & the myth of the first Thanksgiving. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : PublicAffairs, c2006.
CON Contents: Thanksgiving -- The Reformation -- Scrooby -- The waters of exile -- Voyage and landfall -- A place of habitation -- First encounters -- The loss of trust -- The colony -- Fasts and thanksgiving -- A republic gives thanks -- The invention of a tradition.

975.004 P433ch 2007
AUT Perdue, Theda ; Green, Michael D.
TIT The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears.
PUB New York : Viking, 2007.
SER Penguin library of American Indian history.
CON Contents: The land and the people -- "Civilizing" the Cherokees -- Indian removal policy -- Resisting removal -- The Treaty of New Echota -- The Trail of Tears -- Rebuilding in the West.

976.335 S755k 2007
AUT Spielman, David G.
TIT Katrinaville chronicles : images and observations from a New Orleans photographer.
PUB Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.

978 E85b 2006
AUT Etulain, Richard W.
TIT Beyond the Missouri : the story of the American West.
PUB Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Western landscapes and first peoples -- Spain in the Southwest -- Imperial rivalries and colonial empires -- Opening the Southwest -- Mountain men, missionaries, and the trail to Oregon -- Mormons, miners, and the search for western community -- Ranching, farming, and transportation networks -- Conflicts, compromises, and accommodations -- Frontier social patterns -- Culture in the frontier West -- Social and economic patterns, 1900 to 1940 -- Politics and culture, 1900 to 1940 -- The West transformed : World War II to 1960 -- The Cold War West, 1960 to 1980 -- In search of region : the American West, 1980 to the present.

983.065 H934p 2007
AUT Huneeus, Carlos.
TIT The Pinochet regime. - [English-language ed.].
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
CON Contents: The many faces of the Pinochet regime -- Installing the authoritarian regime -- Pinochet's leadership : the bases of power -- The role of the military -- The legitimation strategy -- The organization of political power -- Jaime Guzmán and the Gremialista movement -- The Chicago boys : legitimation through economic success -- Privatization : the economic policy of the authoritarian regime -- The 1982-1983 economic crisis and the politics of apertura -- Pinochet's defeat and the question of succession -- The limits of the new democracy -- The consolidation of democracy -- Conclusion.

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DVD 294.32 A523 2007
AUT Burger, Edward A ; Pankewitz, Chad.
TIT Amongst white clouds.
PUB Canada : Cosmos Pictures, c2007.

Software 302.234 P369c 2007
AUT Pecora, Norma Odom ; Murray, John P ; Wartella, Ellen.
TIT Children and television : fifty years of research.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007.
SER LEA's communication series.
CON Contents: The changing nature of children's television : fifty years of research / Norma Pecora -- From attention to comprehension : how children watch and learn from television / Aletha C. Huston, David S. Bickham, June H. Lee, and John C. Wright -- The impact of television on cognitive development and educational achievement / Marie Evans Schmidt and Daniel R. Anderson -- Television, social roles, and marginality : portrayals of the past and images for the future / Gordon L. Berry -- Is television healthy? : the medical perspective / Michael Rich -- Advertising and consumer development / Nancy A. Jennings and Ellen A. Wartella -- TV violence : research and controversy / John P. Murray -- Health, drugs, and values / Elizabeth P. Lorch.

DVD 551.7 H847 2007
AUT Herrmann, Edward.
TIT How the earth was made.
PUB New York : A & E Television Networks ; distributed by New Video, c2007.
SER History Channel digital library.

DVD 709.04 H894s v.1-8
AUT Hughes, Robert.
TIT The shock of the new.
PUB New York : Ambrose Video Pub., [2001?].
NOT Documentary. - Videodisc release of television series.
CON Contents: Vol. 1. The mechanical paradise -- Vol. 2. The powers that be -- Vol. 3. The landscape of pleasure -- Vol. 4. Trouble in Utopia -- Vol. 5. Threshold of liberty -- Vol. 6. The view from the edge -- Vol. 7. Culture as nature -- Vol 8. The future that was.

DVD 791.436 L157J
AUT Hitchcock, Alfred.
TIT The lady vanishes.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 1938. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Based on the novel "The wheel spins" by Ethel Lina White. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.436 T447
AUT Hitchcock, Alfred.
TIT The 39 steps.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006.
NOT Videodisc release of a 1935 motion picture. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Adapted from the novel by John Buchan. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.437 A379
AUT Pavlenko, Petr Andreevich.
TIT Aleksandr Nevski (Motion picture) Alexander Nevsky.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006.
NOT Originally released as motion picture in 1938. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films".
CON Contents: Credits -- The thirteenth century -- The Piescheevo Lake -- The free city of Novgorod -- Debate in the town square -- Pskov -- Peryaslavl -- "Arise, you Russian people" -- Novgorod -- Off to hunt the Russian bear -- The rabbit and the fox -- Chudskoye Lake -- April 5, 1242 -- The battle is joined -- "For Russia" -- German retreat -- Prince Alexander vs. the Master -- Germans overrun -- Death of Ignat -- Thin ice -- Women and torches -- Pskov -- Court of justice -- Alexander the matchmaker -- "And now...let us celebrate" -- Epilogue.

DVD 791.437 B384
AUT Cocteau, Jean.
TIT Belle et la bête Beauty and the beast.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection[distributor], c2006.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture by Lopert Films in 1946. - Based on the fairy tale by Mme. Leprince de Beaumont. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - "...features a pristine digital transfer of the film in its original language, as well as English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing."--Criterion website.

DVD 791.437 G751
AUT Renoir, Jean.
TIT La grand illusion.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006.
NOT Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films". - Release Date: October 24, 2006.

DVD 791.437 I26
AUT Motoki, Sojiro.
TIT Ikiru To live.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006.
NOT Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1952. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films. - "...features a pristine digital transfer of the film in its original language, as well as English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing"--Criterion website.

DVD 791.437 L399J
AUT Antonioni, Michelangelo.
TIT L'avventura.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006.
NOT Videodisc release of the 1960 motion picture. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - " ... features a pristine digital transfer of the film in its original language, as well as English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing."--Criterion website.

DVD 791.437 M111J
AUT Tati, Jacques.
TIT Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006.
NOT Originally produced as a motion picture in 1953. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - "Under exclusive license from Plaza Production International. ©1936 Lumière." - - On disc label. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.437 M6771 c.1&2
AUT Costa-Gavras ; Lemmon, Jack ; Spacek, Sissy.
TIT Missing.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : Universal, [2004].
SER Universal Studio selections.
NOT Title from container. - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1982. - Based on the book by Thomas Hauser.

DVD 791.437 P189
AUT Pabst, G. W. ; Vajda, Ladislaus ; Horetsky, Georg C.
TIT Die Büchse der Pandora = Pandora's box.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006.
NOT Adapted from the plays "Erdgeist" and "Die Bueschse der Pandora" by Frank Wedekind. - Originally released as a motion picture in 1929. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.437 R224J
AUT Minoura, Jingo.
TIT Rashmon.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006.
NOT Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Based on Yabu no naka (= In a grove) and Rash\u014Dmon and other stories by Ryunosuki Akutagawa. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.437 R935
AUT Renoir, Jean.
TIT La règle du jeu.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 1939. - "Under exclusive license from Janus Films ©Les Grands Films Classiques 1961, 1996"--Disc surface. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.437 S888J
AUT Ozu, Yasujir ; Nakamura, Ganjir ; Kyo, Machiko.
TIT Ukigusa Floating weeds.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006.
NOT Released as part of the "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films.". - "...features a pristine digital transfer of the film in its original language, as well as English subtitles for the deaf and hard o hearing"--Criterion website.

DVD 791.437 S895
AUT Fellini, Federico ; Pinelli, Tullio ; De Laurentiis, Dino.
TIT La strada The road.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006.
NOT Originally released in 1954 as a motion picture. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.437 T445
AUT Korda, Alexander, Sir ; Selznick, David O. ; Greene, Graham.
TIT The third man.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006.
NOT Originally released as motion picture in 1949. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Based on the novel by Graham Greene. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.4372 M111
AUT Nebenzal, Seymour ; Lang, Fritz ; Lorre, Peter.
TIT M.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006.
NOT Originally produced as a motion picture in 1931. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.4372 S497J
AUT Kurosawa, Akira ; Motoki, Sojiro ; Hashimoto, Shinobu.
TIT Seven samurai.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006.
NOT Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese. - Originally released as motion picture in 1954. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 791.4372 S759
AUT Erice, Víctor ; Querejeta, Elías ; Fernández Santos, Angel.
TIT El espíritu de la colmena.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in Spain in 1973. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD 822.33 S527J Ric3
AUT Olivier, Laurence ; Cibber, Colley ; Garrick, David.
TIT Richard III.
PUB [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. - Released as part of the "Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.". - Release date: October 24, 2006. - Based on the play by William Shakespeare. - Accompanying book "Essential Art House : 50 Years of Janus Films" cataloged separately.

DVD BOT 407 Popular Collection
AUT Crowley, Patrick Timothy ; Marshall, Frank ; Sandberg, Paul L.
TIT Bourne ultimatum (Motion picture) The Bourne ultimatum.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2007.
NOT Based on the novel by Robert Ludlum. - Special features: Deleted scenes; "Man on the move:" Jason Bourne (scenes from Berlin, Paris, London, Madrid and Tangier locations) featurette; "Rooftop pursuit" featurette; "Planning the punches" featurette; "Driving school" featurette; "New York chase" featurette; feature commentary with director Paul Greengrass.

DVD HOP 408 Popular Collection
AUT Barron, David ; Heyman, David ; Goldenberg, Michael.
TIT Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Motion picture) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. - Full screen ed.
PUB Brubank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c2007.
NOT Title from container. - Based on the novel by J.K. Rowling.

DVD OFA 409 Popular Collection
AUT Daniels, Greg ; Carell, Steve ; Wilson, Rainn.
TIT Office (Television program : United States) The office.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2005.
NOT Title from disc label. - Based on the BBC television program created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. - Originally broadcast on television on NBC in Mar.-Apr. 2005 as six ca. 23 min. episodes. - Dual layer; Region 1; anamorphic widescreen format (1.78:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 2.0. - Special features include: deleted scenes; commentary.

DVD PAW 406 Popular Collection
AUT Bruckheimer, Jerry ; Elliott, Ted ; Rossio, Terry.
TIT Pirates of the Caribbean, at world's end (Motion picture) Pirates of the Caribbean.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c2007.
NOT Based on the characters created by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert. - Based on Walt Disney's "Pirates of the Caribbean". - Special features: Bloopers.

DVD SIC 410 Popular Collection
AUT Moore, Michael ; O'Hara, Meghan.
TIT Sicko. - Widescreen.
PUB [New York] : Weinstein Co. : Distributed by Genius Products, c2007.
NOT Special features: Sicko goes to Washington, This country beats France, Uniquely American, what if you worked for G.E. in France?, Sister Mary Fidel, Who would Jesus deny, more with Mike & Tony Benn, a different kind of Hollywood premiere, "Alone without you," music video performed by the Nightwatchman, interview gallery, theatrical trailer.

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Holocaust J 940.5318 T245s 2007
AUT Taylor, Peter Lane ; Nicola, Christos.
TIT The secret of Priest's Grotto : a Holocaust survival story.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : Kar-Ben Pub., c2007.