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004.678 S648t 2008
AUT Smith, Gene.
TIT Tagging : people-powered metadata for the social web.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : New Riders, c2008.
CON Contents: What Is tagging? -- How tagging works -- Why tagging matters -- Summary -- The value of tagging -- What tags can do for you -- Return on experience: five motivations for tagging -- Return on investment: seven business benefits -- Summary -- Tagging system architecture -- Users, resources, and tags: exploring our three-part model of tagging -- Tagging in practice: examples from the real world -- Summary -- Tags, metadata, and classification systems -- Metadata for the masses -- Taxonomies and controlled vocabularies -- Facets --Folksonomies -- Tags in the metadata ecosystem -- Summary -- Navigation and visualization -- Tag clouds -- Navigating tags -- Geotagging -- Summary -- Interfaces -- Patterns in tagging interfaces -- Tag entry -- Suggestions -- Tag management -- Summary -- Technical design -- Data models -- Tag clouds -- Freetag -- Summary -- Appendix A. Case study: social bookmarking -- Tagging evolution: from Muxway to Del.icio.us -- How social bookmarking works -- Summary -- Appendix B. Case study: media sharing -- How media sharing works -- Summary -- Appendix C. Case study: personal information management -- Tagging for PIM -- Summary.

070.433 D186o 2008
AUT Daniloff, Nicholas.
TIT Of spies and spokesmen : my life as a Cold War correspondent.
PUB Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2008.

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111.85 O58 2007
AUT Eco, Umberto.
TIT Storia della bruttezza. English On ugliness. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Rizzoli, 2007.
CON Contents: Ugliness in the classical world -- Passion, death, martyrdom -- The apocalypse, hell, and the devil -- Monsters and portents -- The ugly, the comic, and the obscene -- The ugliness of woman from antiquity to the baroque period -- The devil in the modern world -- Witchcraft, satanism, sadism -- Physica curiosa -- Romanticism and the redemption of ugliness -- The uncanny -- Iron towers and ivory towers -- The avant-garde and the triumph of ugliness -- The ugliness of others, kitsch, and camp -- Ugliness today.

152.4 E542Br 2004
AUT Brewer, Marilynn B.; Hewstone, Miles.
TIT Emotion and motivation.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
SER Perspectives on social psychology.

155.446 E27 2008
AUT Crockenberg, Susan C. ; Collins, W. Andrew.
TIT The Effects of early social-emotional and relationship experience on the development of young orphanage children.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
SER Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; serial no. 291, vol. 73, no. 3, 2008.
CON Contents: Abstract -- Theoretical, empirical, and practical rationale -- Baby homes in the Russian Federation -- Research design and interventions -- Assessments -- Evidence that the interventions were implemented as planned -- Caregiver behavior on the wards (home inventory) -- Orphanage staff attitudes, perceptions, and feelings -- Intervention effects on physical growth -- The effects of the intervention on children's general behavioral development (Battelle Developmental Inventory) -- Effects of the interventions of caregiver-child interactions during free play (PCERA) -- Intervention effects on caregiver-child interactions (Infant Affect Manual, attachment variables) -- Scientific and practical conclusions and implications -- How valid are the results of the St. Petersburg-USA orphanage intervention study and what do they mean for the world's children? / Susan C. Crockenberg -- Institutional effects on children: design issues and substantive findings / Michael Rutter -- Earlier is better: a meta-analysis of 70 years of intervention improving cognitive development in institutionalized children / Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn, and Femmie Juffer.

155.633 P974D2 2008
AUT Denmark, Florence ; Paludi, Michele Antoinette.
TIT Psychology of women : a handbook of issues and theories. - 2nd ed.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
SER Women's psychology.

158 H193c 2006
AUT Hallowell, Edward M.
TIT CrazyBusy : overstretched, overbooked, and about to snap : strategies for coping in a world gone ADD. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Ballantine Books, c2006.

171.2 P957e 2007
AUT Prinz, Jesse J.
TIT The emotional construction of morals.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Morality and emotion -- Constructing morals.

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212.1 S825g 2007
AUT Stenger, Victor J.
TIT God : the failed hypothesis : how science shows that God does not exist.
PUB Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.

227.2 B582fF 2008
AUT Fitzmyer, Joseph A.
TIT Bible. N.T. Corinthians, 1st. English. Fitzmyer. 2008. First Corinthians : a new translation with introduction and commentary.
PUB New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2008.
SER Anchor Yale Bible ; v. 32.

241.697 D285p 2008
AUT Dear, John.
TIT Put down your sword : answering the Gospel call to creative nonviolence.
PUB Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008.
CON Contents: The Commandments of Gospel nonviolence -- The last words of Jesus -- The Beatitudes of peace -- Our image of God -- The politics of the sacred heart -- Resurrection! -- The common ground of interfaith nonviolence -- Nonviolence in action -- Sackcloth and ashes -- Standing up at the School of the Americas -- To the tombs and back -- The Santa Fe Nine -- Generosity, not domination -- Pilgrimages of nonviolence -- A pilgrimage to Gandhi's India -- Witness for peace in Colombia -- The road isn't easy -- Practitioners of nonviolence -- Dr. King's daring nonviolence -- The moral leadership of Ignacio Ellacuríia, César Chávez, and Philip Berrigan -- Ten Nobel Peace laureates -- Henri Nouwen's spirituality of peace -- Denise Levertov's peace making poetry -- Joan Baez : a voice for peace -- Bill O'Donnell : peace making priest -- On retreat with Thich Nhat Hanh -- Sophie Scholl and the white rose -- Franziska and Franz Jägerstätter -- The vision of nonviolence -- The earth means the world to me -- The wisdom of Thomas Merton -- A world without war.

271.3 B699L 2005
AUT Bonaventure, Saint ; Cousins, Ewert H.
TIT The life of St. Francis. - 1st ed.
PUB [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, [2005].

285.8 A648m 2006
AUT Applegate, Debby.
TIT The most famous man in America : the biography of Henry Ward Beecher.
PUB New York : Three Leaves Press, c2006.

289.73 B395k 2008
AUT Becker, Bruce.
TIT Kindness and compassion : the inspiring aftermath to the tragic Amish schoolhouse shootings. - 1st ed.
PUB Morgantown, Pa. : Masthof Press, c2008.

294.3657 F655a 2006
AUT Fogelin, Lars.
TIT Archaeology of early Buddhism.
PUB Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press, c2006.
SER Archaeology of religion ; v. 4.
CON Contents: Introduction: archaeology and early Buddhism -- A brief history of the early historic period in South Asia -- Buddhism in early historic period South Asia -- Religion, ritual, architecture, and landscape -- Thotlakonda's archaeological and environmental context -- Beyond the monastery walls -- The architectural layout and organization of Thotlakonda Monastery -- Thotlakonda Monastery in its local landscape -- Conclusion.

294.3923 D561w 2007
AUT Diemberger, Hildegard.
TIT When a woman becomes a religious dynasty : the Samding Dorje Phagmo of Tibet.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The world of Chokyi Dronma -- The life of Chokyi Dronma -- The manuscript and its enigmas -- Princess, nun, yogin\u012B -- Translation of the biography of the venerable Chokyi Dronma -- Succession and spiritual lineages: meaning and mysteries of Chokyi Dronma's reincarnation -- "Lady of the lake": the Dorje Phagmo at Samding -- Dorje Phagmo in the twentieth century: embodied divinity and government cadre -- The living tradition and the legacy of the princess -- Epilogue -- Twin reincarnation line and tentative chronology -- The families of Choki Dronma.

294.5178 H662 2000
AUT Chapple, Christopher Key ; Tucker, Mary Evelyn.
TIT Hinduism and ecology : the intersection of earth, sky, and water.
PUB Cambridge, MA : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, c2000.
SER Religions of the world and ecology.
CON Contents: [1] The cultural underpinnings : traditional Hindu concepts of nature. Dharmic ecology / O.P. Dwivedi -- The five great elements (pacamah\u0101bh\u016Bta) : an ecological perspective / K.L. Seshagiri Rao -- Nature romanticism and sacrifice in \u1E5Agvedic interpretation / Laurie L. Patton -- State responsibility for environmental management : perspectives from Hindu texts on polity / Mary McGee -- Literary foundations for an ecological aesthetic : dharma, aruyveda, the arts, and Abhijñ\u0101na\u015B\u0101kuntalam / T.S. Rukmani -- Reading the Bhagavadg\u012Bt\u0101 from an ecological perspective / Lance E. Nelson -- Can Hindu beliefs and values help India meet its ecological crisis? / Anil Agarwal. [2] Gandhian philosophy and the development of an indigenous Indian environmental ethic. Too deep for deep ecology : Gandhi and the ecological vision of life / Vinay Lal -- The inner logic of Gandhian ecology / Larry D. Shinn. [3] Forests in classic texts and traditions. The natural history of the R\u0101m\u0101yana / David Lee -- City, forest, and cosmos : ecological perspectives from the Sanskrit epics / Philip Lutgendorf -- "Sacred grove" and ecology : ritual and science / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin and Pramod Parajuli -- "If you cut a branch you cut my finger" : court, forest, and environmental ethics in Rajasthan / Ann Grodkins Gold. [4] Flowing sacrality and risking profanity : the Yamun\u0101, Ga\u1E45g\u0101, and Narmada Rivers. River of love in an age of pollution / David L. Haberman -- Separate domains : Hinduism, politics, and environmental pollution / Kelly D. Alley -- The Narmada : circumambulation of a sacred landscape / Chris Deegan -- Sacred rivers, sacred dams : competing visions of social justice and sustainable development along the Narmada / William F. Fisher -- Green and red, not saffron : gender and the politics of resistance in the Narmada valley / Pratyusha Basu and Jael Silliman. [5] Can Hindu text and ritual practice help develop environmental conscience? Rituals of embedded ecologies : drawing k\u014Dlams, marrying trees, and generating auspiciousness / Vijaya Nagarajan -- The ritual capsule of Durga puja : an ecological perspective / Madhu Khanna -- Ethical and religious dimensions of Chipko resistance / George A. James.

296.38 J92 2002
AUT Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava.
TIT Judaism and ecology : created world and revealed word.
PUB Cambridge, Mass : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School, c2002.
SER Religions of the world and ecology.
CON Contents: Introduction. Judaism and the natural world / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Part I : Constructive Jewish theology of nature -- Kabbalah for the environmental age / Arthur Green ; Toward a Jewish theology of nature / Michael Fishbane -- Part II : Human condition : origins, pollution, and death -- Ecology of Eden / Evan Eisenberg ; How much is too much? Conventional versus personal definitions of pollutions in Rabbinic sources / Eliezer Diamond ; Jewish death practices : a commentary on the relationship of humans to the natural world / David Kraemer ; Response. Mastery and stewardship, wonder and connectedness : a typology of relations to nature in Jewish text and tradition / Eilon Schwartz -- Part III : Doctrine of creation -- Nature's answer : the meaning of the Book of Job in its intellectual context / Stephen A. Geller ; Creation in the Bible and in the liturgy / Neil Gillman ; Doctrine of creation and the idea of nature / David Novak ; Response. Natural and supernatural justice / Jon D. Levenson -- Part IV : Nature and revealed morality -- Concepts of Torah and nature in Jewish thought / Shalom Rosenberg ; Respect for nature in the Jewish tradition / Lenn E. Goodman ; What are the ethical implications of Jewish theological conceptions of the natural world? / Moshe Sokol ; Response. Construction, discovery, and critique in Jewish ecological ethics / Barry S. Kogan -- Part V : Nature in Jewish mysticism -- Mirror of nature reflected in the symbolism of Medieval Kabbalah / Elliot R. Wolfson ; Nature, exile, and disability in R. Nahman of Bratslav's The seven beggars / Shaul Magid ; Early Hasidism and the natural world / Jerome (Yehudah) Gellman ; Response. The textualization of nature in Jewish mysticism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson -- Part VI : From speculation to action -- Reverence and responsibility : Abraham Joshua Heschel on nature and self / Edward K. Kaplan ; Can Judaism make environmental policy? Sacred and secular language in Jewish ecological discourse / Tsvi Blanchard ; Jewish environmentalism : past accomplishments and future challenges / Mark X. Jacobs.

297.27 I82 2003
AUT Foltz, Richard ; Denny, Frederick Mathewson ; Azizan Haji Baharuddin.
TIT Islam and ecology : a bestowed trust.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Divinity School : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2003.
SER Religions of the world and ecology.

297.61 R394f 2008
AUT Renard, John.
TIT Friends of God : Islamic images of piety, commitment, and servanthood.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.

299.2 D491d 2005
AUT Dever, William G.
TIT Did God have a wife? : archaeology and folk religion in ancient Israel.
PUB Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2005.

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301.09 N532 2008
AUT Kuklick, Henrika.
TIT A new history of anthropology.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

303.38 T777r4 2008
AUT Traugott, Michael W ; Lavrakas, Paul J.
TIT The voter's guide to election polls. - 4th ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: What are polls and surveys? And why are they conducted? -- What are election polls? How are they conducted? -- How do political candidates and organizations use poll data? -- How do news organizations collect and report poll data? -- Why do pollsters use samples? -- How are questionnaires put together? -- How do interviews take place? -- How do media organizations analyze polls? -- How can I evaluate published poll results? -- What are some common problems and complaints about polls -- Epilogue -- Appendix A. Standards for disclosing information about the methodology of public polls -- Appendix B. Sample tolerances (sampling errors) for samples of different sizes.

303.625 S538r 2007
AUT Shay, Shaul ; Liberman, Rachel.
TIT The Red Sea terror triangle : Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, and Islamic terror.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction, 2007, c2005.

304.23 F63 2008
AUT Florida, Richard L.
TIT Who's your city? : how the creative economy is making where to live the most important decision of your life.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2008.
CON Contents: WHY PLACE MATTERS. Spiky world -- Rise of the mega-region -- The clustering force -- THE WEALTH OF PLACE. The mobile and the rooted -- Where the brains are -- Job-shift -- Superstar cities -- THE GEOGRAPHY OF HAPPINESS. Shiny happy places -- Beyond Maslow's city -- Cities have personalities, too -- WHERE WE LIVE NOW. Three big moves -- The young and the restless -- Married with children -- When the kids are gone -- Place yourself.

305.231 P615s 2008
AUT Pierce, Anne R.
TIT Ships without a shore : America's undernurtured children.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Liberation, illusion, and the pressure to conform -- Love and stability : the fundamentals of early childhood which day care cannot provide -- Moral relativism and its influence upon modern parents -- Education without moorings : the surge forward that leaves innocence and introspection behind.

305.38 K29g 2008
AUT Kellner, Douglas.
TIT Guys and guns amok : domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombing to the Virginia Tech massacre.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2008.
SER Radical imagination series.
CON Contents: Introduction : media spectacle and the "Virginia Tech massacre" -- The time of the spectacle -- Guy Debord's "society of the spectacle" and its limitations -- Reading the spectacle with critical social theory and cultural studies -- Societal violence and guys and guns amok -- The epidemic of school shootings -- Media culture, militarism, and violent masculinity -- In this book -- 1. Deconstructing the spectacle : race, guns, and the culture wars -- The shootings and the politics of race -- A convocation and Cho's multimedia dossier -- Guns and political scapegoating -- School and workplace security : the debate begins -- Mourning, copycats, and ideological manipulation -- 2. The situation of contemporary youth -- From boomers to busters -- Post-boomers and contemporary youth -- Youth alienation, violence, and the war against youth -- The struggle against the war on youth -- Perils of youth -- 3. Constructing male identities and the spectacle of terror -- White male identity politics -- Militia, right-wing extremism, and terrorist bombings -- Home-grown terrorism : Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing -- Harvest of rage -- The Unabomber and the politics of terror -- Middle-class white male Columbine High School shootings -- The Columbine media spectacle and its exploitation -- Shooting at Columbine with Michael Moore : guns, U.S. history, and violence in America -- Seung-Hui Cho in the borderlands between the Korean and the American -- 4. What is to be done? -- Aftermath -- Gun laws, school and workplace safety, and mental health care : the delicate balance -- Beyond the culture of male violence and rage -- New literacies, democratization, and the reconstruction of education -- Politics, prisons, and the abolition democracy project -- Horrors of the prison-industrial-military complex -- The time of abolitions.

305.8 B573T 2002
AUT Thernstrom, Abigail M. ; Thernstrom, Stephan.
TIT Beyond the color line : new perspectives on race and ethnicity in America.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University ; New York : Manhattan Institute, c2002.
SER Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 479.

305.8972 T514b 2008
AUT Thornton, Thomas F.
TIT Being and place among the Tlingit.
PUB Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press ; Juneau [Alaska] : In association with Sealaska Heritage Institute, c2008.
SER Culture, place, and nature.
CON Contents: Introduction: Place and Tlingit senses of being -- Know your place : the social organization of geographic knowledge -- What's in a name? : place and cognition -- Production and place : "it was easy for me to put up fish there" -- Ritual as emplacement : the potlatch / ku.éex' -- Conclusion: Toward an anthropology of place.

306.4842 B935s 2007
AUT Bull, Michael.
TIT Sound moves : iPod culture and urban experience.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
SER International library of sociology.
CON Contents: Sound moves, iPod culture and urban experience : an introduction -- Sound epistemologies : strategies and technologies -- Sounding out cosmopolitanism : iPod culture and recognition -- The audio-visual iPod : aesthetics and the city -- Interpersonal sound strategies and iPod culture -- Mobilising of the social : mobile phones and iPods -- Contextualising the senses : the auditory world of automobility -- The auditory privatisation of the workplace -- Bergson's iPod? : the cognitive management of everyday life -- The nostalgia of iPod culture -- Sound timings and iPod culture -- Endnote : sound mediations.

306.9 G796b 2008
AUT Green, James W.
TIT Beyond the good death : the anthropology of modern dying.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Getting dead -- Exit strategies -- The body as relic -- Soulscapes -- Passing it on -- In our hearts forever -- The future of death.

320.5209 B838w 2008
AUT Brennan, Mary C.
TIT Wives, mothers, and the Red Menace : conservative women and the crusade against communism.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, c2008.
CON Contents: The cold war world -- Who were these women? -- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.

322.42 R476f 2007
AUT Rhodes, Jane.
TIT Framing the Black Panthers : the spectacular rise of a Black power icon.
PUB New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c2007.
CON Contents: Forty years in hindsight: the Black Panthers in popular memory -- Black America in the public sphere -- Becoming media subjects -- Revolutionary culture and the politics of self-representation -- Free Huey: 1968 -- A trial of the Black Liberation Movement -- From campus celebrity to radical chic -- Servants of the people: the Black Panthers as national and global icons -- The rise and fall of a media frenzy: the 1970s.

323.0968 E58p 2006
AUT Englund, Harri.
TIT Prisoners of freedom : human rights and the African poor.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
SER California series in public anthropology. ; 14.
CON Contents: The situation of human rights -- Rights as freedoms -- The hidden lessons of civic education -- Watchdogs unleashed? -- Legal aid for abused labor -- Crimes of exploitation -- Human rights and moral panics -- Redeeming freedom.

324.623 S671s 2008
AUT Sneider, Allison L.
TIT Suffragists in an imperial age : U.S. expansion and the woman question, 1870-1929.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: U.S. expansion and the woman question, 1870-1929 -- Reconstruction and annexation : suffragists in Washington D.C., and Santo Domingo, 1870-1875 -- Western expansion and the politics of federalism : Indians, Mormons, and territorial statehood, 1878-1887 -- Imperial expansion and the problem of Hawaii, 1898-1902 -- Getting suffrage in an age of empire : the Philippines and Puerto Rico, 1914-1929 -- Epilogue.

325.263 S741o 2005
AUT Spector, Stephen.
TIT Operation Solomon : the daring rescue of the Ethiopian Jews.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Restoring diplomatic relations, conceiving the Aliyah : July 1988-January 1990 -- The AAEJ accelerates the process : February-April 1990 -- A potential catastrophe : May-July 1990 -- Chomanesh and Dan'el -- Eggs : Uri Lubrani : cluster bombs : July-October 1990 -- Carrots, not carats : the kitchen cabinet : November-December 1990 -- The doomsday scenario : the Falash Mura : January-February 1991 -- Mengistu's chestnuts : the ante : March 1991 -- Taking the chips away : the Cordon Sanitaire : Rudy Boschwitz : April 1-18, 1991 -- The Boschwitz Mission : setting the price : April 24-29, 1991 -- Playing poker with sechel : May 1-19, 1991 -- The final week : Mengistu's flight : closing the deal : Monday-Wednesday, May 20-22, 1991 -- The wings of history : Thursday, May 23, 1991 -- Operation Solomon : Friday, May 24, 1991, 4:00 AM-3:00 PM -- Operation Solomon, continued : Friday, 3:00 PM-Saturday, 3:00 PM -- Chomanesh crosses the Red Sea.

327.73086 P652e 2007
AUT Pineo, Ronn F.
TIT Ecuador and the United States : useful strangers.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2007.
SER United States and the Americas.
CON Contents: From colonies to young republics : independence to the 1850s -- Establishing an unsettling relationship : the 1850s to the 1890s -- The railroad age : the 1890s to the 1920s -- Economic collapse and war : the 1920s to the 1940s -- The Cold War in Ecuador : the 1940s to the 1960s -- Tuna, oil, and trouble : the 1960s to the 1980s -- Democratization and neoliberalism : the 1980s to the present.

328.7309 C188s 2007
AUT Campbell, Karl E.
TIT Senator Sam Ervin, last of the founding fathers.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Tar heel born, tar heel bred -- Just a country lawyer -- Senator Sam -- The soft southern strategy -- Claghorn's Hammurabi -- Conservative civil libertarian -- Privacy and the false prophets -- A time of doubt and fear -- Rehearsal for Watergate -- Truth and honor.

330 S731e 2008
AUT Sowell, Thomas.
TIT Economic facts and fallacies.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2008.
CON Contents: The power of fallacies -- Urban facts and fallacies -- Male-female facts and fallacies -- Academic facts and fallacies -- Income facts and fallacies -- Racial facts and fallacies -- Third World facts and fallacies -- Parting thoughts.

330.9 S797 2009
AUT Starke, Linda.
TIT State of the World 2009 : into a warming world: a WorldWatch Institute report on progress toward a sustainable society.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.
CON Contents: The perfect storm / Christopher Flavin and Robert Engelman -- A safe landing for the climate / W.L. Hare -- Farming and land use to cool the planet / Sara J. Scherr and Sajal Sthapit -- An enduring energy future / Janet L. Sawin and William R. Moomaw -- Building resilience / David Dodman, Jessica Ayers, and Saleemul Huq -- Sealing the deal to save the climate / Robert Engelman -- Climate change reference guide and glossary / Alice McKeown and Gary Gardner -- Climate connections -- The risks of other greenhouse gases / Janos Maté, Kert Davies, and David Kanter -- Reducing black carbon / Dennis Clare -- Women and climate change: vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities / Lorena Aguilar -- The security dimensions of climate change / Jennifer Wallace -- Climate change's pressures on biodiversity / Thomas Lovejoy -- Small island developing states at the forefront of global climate change / Edward Cameron -- The role of cities in climate change / David Satterthwaite and David Dodman -- Climate change and health vulnerabilities / Juan Almendares and Paul R. Epstein --- India starts to take on climate change / Malini Mehra -- A Chinese perspective on climate and energy / Yingling Liu -- Trade, climate change, and sustainability / Tao Wang and Jim Watson -- Adaptation in locally managed marine areas in Fiji / Alifereti Tawake and Juan Hoffmaister -- Building resilience to drought and climate change in Sudan / Balgis Osman-Elasha -- Geoengineering to shade Earth / Ken Caldeira -- Carbon capture and storage / Peter Viebahn, Manfred Fischedick, and Daniel Vallentin -- Using the market to address climate change / Robert K. Kaufmann -- Technology transfer for climate change / K. Madhava Sarma and Durwood Zaelke -- Electric vehicles and renewable energy potential / Jeffrey Harti -- Employment in a low-carbon world / Michael Renner, Sean Sweeney, and Jill Kubit -- Climate justice movements gather strength / Ambika Chawla -- Shifting values in response to climate change / Tim Kasser -- Not too late to act / Betsy Taylor.

330.905 E19 2008
AUT Stiglitz, Joseph E ; Edlin, Aaron S ; De Long, J. Bradford.
TIT The economists' voice : top economists take on today's problems.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

330.98 C244N 2008
AUT Harris, Richard L. ; Nef, Jorge.
TIT Capital, power, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. - New ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2008.
SER Critical currents in Latin American perspective.
CON Contents: Capital, power, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean / Richard L. Harris and Jorge Nef -- Latin America's rural transformation: unequal development and persistent poverty / Cristóbal Kay -- Dependency, underdevelopment, and neoliberalism / Richard L. Harris -- Economic restructuring, neoliberalism, and the working class / Viviana Patroni -- Insecurity, development, and democracy: a Pan-American perspective / Jorge Nef -- The riddle of new social movements: who they are and what they do / Judith Adler Hellman -- Women in the social, political, and economic transformation of Latin America and the Caribbean / Francesca Miller -- Indigenous peoples: changing identities and forms of resistance / Michael Kearney and Stefano Varese -- Liberation theology, Christian base communities, and solidarity movements: a historical reflection / Wilder Robles -- Ecological crisis, sustainable development, and capitalism / Guido Pascual Galafassi -- Globalization and regionalization in the Americas / Richard L. Harris and Jorge Nef.

331.011 S458b 2007
AUT Seidman, G.
TIT Beyond the boycott : labor rights, human rights, and transnational activism.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2007.
SER American Sociological Association's Rose series in sociology.
CON Contents: Citizens, markets, and transnational labor activism -- Labor rights as human rights : regulation in the context of a "thinned" national state -- Monitoring multinationals : lessons from the anti-apartheid era -- Social labels, child labor, and monitoring in the Indian carpet industry -- Constructing a culture of compliance in Guatemala -- Citizenship at work.

331.0973 G813b 2008
AUT Greenhouse, Steven.
TIT The big squeeze : tough times for the American worker. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
CON Contents: Worked over and overworked -- Workplace hell -- The vise tightens -- Downright Dickensian -- The rise and fall of the social contract -- Leaner and meaner -- Here today, gone tomorrow -- Wal-Mart, the low-wage colossus -- Taking the high road -- Overstressed and overstretched -- Outsourced and out of luck -- The lowest rung -- The state of the union -- Starting out means a steeper climb -- The not-so-golden years -- Lifting all boats.

332.6327 L917i 2008
AUT Lowenstein, Louis.
TIT The investor's dilemma : how mutual funds are betraying your trust and what to do about it.
PUB Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley & Sons, c2008.

333.794 S964 2007
AUT Elliott, David.
TIT Sustainable energy : opportunities and limitations.
PUB Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
SER Energy, climate and the environment series.
CON Contents: Sustainable Energy: The Options / David Elliott -- Sustainable Energy: Nuclear Power and REnewables / David Elliott -- Wind Power and Similar Renewable Sources - Why Variability Doesn't Matter / David Milborrow -- Biomass - Greening the Transport Sector / Jonathon Scurlock -- Sea Power - How We Can Tap Wave and Tidal Power / David Elliott -- Solar Power: Using Energy from the Sun in Buildings / Ssan Roaf and Rajat Gupta -- Saving Energy - How to Cut Energy WAstage / Bob Everett -- The Limits to Energy Efficiency: Time to Beat the Rebound Effect / Horace Herring -- Making It Happen -- Supporting Renewables: Local Ownership, Wind Power and Sustainable Finance / Dave Toke -- Supporting Renewables: Feed in Tariffs and Quota/Trading Systems / David Elliot -- Carbon Trading: Opportunities and Issues / Stephen Peake -- The Future -- Long-term, Renewables-Intensive World Energy Scenarios / Godfrey Boyle -- Sustainable Lifestyles of the Future / Peter Harper -- A Sustainable Future For Energy / David Elliott.

333.9162 P857r 2003
AUT Postel, Sandra ; Richter, Brian D.
TIT Rivers for life : managing water for people and nature.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2003.
CON Contents: Where have all the rivers gone? -- How much water does a river need? -- The policy toolbox -- Down to the river -- Building blocks for better river governance -- Epilogue : can we save Earth's rivers?.

336.34 K29n2 2008
AUT Kelly, Robert E.
TIT The national debt of the United States, 1941 to 2008. - 2nd ed.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008.
CON Contents: Background 1789-1940 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1941-1944 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman, 1945-1948 -- Harry S Truman, 1949-1952 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1956 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957-1960 -- John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961-1964 -- Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965-1968 -- Richard M. Nixon, 1969-1972 -- Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford, 1973-1976 -- Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980 -- Ronald W. Reagan, 1981-1984 -- Ronald W. Reagan, 1985-1988 -- George H. W. Bush, 1989-1992 -- William J. Clinton, 1993-1996 -- William J. Clinton, 1997-2000 -- George W. Bush, 2001-2004 -- George W. Bush, 2005-2008.

338.5 H449d 2008
AUT Heckner, Dominik ; Kretschmer, Tobias.
TIT Don't worry about micro : an easy guide to understanding the principles of microeconomics : with 76 figures and 19 tables.
PUB Berlin ; London : Springer, 2008.

338.7622 T179hB 2003
AUT Tarbell, Ida M. ; Chalmers, David Mark.
TIT The history of the Standard Oil Company.
PUB Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2003.

341.48 G447i 2008
AUT Gibney, Mark.
TIT International human rights law : returning to universal principles.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Step one: responsibility -- Step two: territory -- Step three: accountability -- Step four: remedy.

341.58 U58 2007
AUT Aoi, Chiyuki ; De Coning, Cedric ; Thakur, Ramesh Chandra.
TIT Unintended consequences of peacekeeping operations.
PUB Tokyo, : New York : United Nations University Press, 2007.

342.7307 A511 2009
AUT Zacharias, Jared.
TIT Amendment XII : presidential election process.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
SER Constitutional amendments.
CON Contents: Historical background on the twelfth amendment -- Testing the twelfth amendment -- Election controversies in contemporary America.

342.73083 A511 2009
AUT Hay, Jeff.
TIT Amendment XIV : citizenship for all.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
SER Constitutional amendments.

342.73087 A511 2009
AUT Biscontini, Tracey Vasil ; Sparling, Rebecca .
TIT Amendment XIII : abolishing slavery.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
SER Constitutional amendments.
CON Contents: Historical background on the thirteenth amendment -- Cases concerning the thirteenth amendment -- Current debate on slavery and its impact on modern life.

345.7302 P314 2009
AUT Friedman, Lauri S.
TIT The Patriot Act.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
SER Introducing issues with opposing viewpoints.
CON Contents: Does the Patriot Act fight terrorism? -- Does the Patriot Act violate civil liberties? -- Who is threatened by the Patriot Act?.

347.732 Y26h 2008
AUT Yarbrough, Tinsley E.
TIT Harry A. Blackmun : the outsider justice.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Dayton's Bluff to Harvard -- Minnesota lawyer -- Circuit judge -- "A ton of bricks" -- The chambers -- The Minnesota twins -- Roe and beyond -- Liberal icon -- Changing the guard -- Citizen Blackmun.

347.755 G697i 2008
AUT Gould, Jon B.
TIT The Innocence Commission : preventing wrongful convictions and restoring the criminal justice system.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: History and background -- The Innocence Commission for Virginia -- The cases -- An unmet obligation -- Putting it together.

355.0217 R477a 2007
AUT Rhodes, Richard.
TIT Arsenals of folly : the making of the nuclear arms race. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

362.19699 C545 2008
AUT Miller, Kenneth D.
TIT Choices in breast cancer treatment : medical specialists and cancer survivors tell you what you need to know.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
SER Johns Hopkins health book.
CON Contents: The big picture -- Understanding the treatments: the doctor's perspectives -- Notes on the experience of having breast cancer -- Survivors tell their stories -- When cancer specialists get cancer.

362.29 A224H 2007
AUT Henningfield, Jack E ; Santora, Patricia B.; Bickel, Warren K.
TIT Addiction treatment : science and policy for the twenty-first century.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Drug addiction in America: challenges and opportunities / C. Everett Koop -- Treatment models and emerging science -- Is addiction a problem of self-control? / William R. Miller -- The P.R.I.M.E. theory of motivation as a possible foundation for the treatment of addiction / Robert West -- A future for the prevention and treatment of drug abuse: applications of computer-based interactive technology / Warren K. Bickel and Lisa A. Marsch -- Office-based treatment of addiction and the promise of technology / H. Westley Clark -- High-impact paradigms for the treatment of addiction / James O. Prochaska -- New approaches to the treatment of stimulant and other substance abuse: a behavioral perspective / Maxine L. Stitzer -- Using diminished autonomy over tobacco use to identify smokers in need of assistance with cessation / Joseph R. DiFranza -- New directions for tobacco cessation therapies / Edward F. Domino -- Could nutritional factors influence the development and maintenance of addiction to nicotine? / Gary A. Giovino -- Special populations -- Addiction and pregnancy / Hendree Jones -- Perspectives on the risk-benefit ratio of pharmacological treatment for adolescent chemical addiction / Eric T. Moolchan -- The inhibitory effect of insurance statutes on the provision of alcohol screening and intervention services in trauma centers / Larry M. Gentilello -- Addiction and multiple morbidities in HIV-positive patients / Heidi E. Hutton, Patricia B. Santora, and Jeffrey J. Weiss -- Providing access to treatment for opioid addiction in jails and prisons in the United States / Mark W. Parrino -- Addiction art and science: tow side of humanity / Jack E. Henningfield, Patricia B. Santora, and Warren K. Bickel -- Addiction, recovery, and art: my story / Raymond Materson -- Health care, social, and policy issues -- Advancing the science base for the treatment of addiction / Alan I. Leshner -- "Going upstream": thoughts for substance abuse professionals / Lawrence Wallack -- In praise of stigma / Sally Satel -- Addiction as disease: policy, epidemiology, and treatment consequences of a bad ideas / Stanton Peele -- Parsing the future of behavioral intervention for drug abuse: clinical science and policy / Jesse B. Milby -- Protecting patient confidentiality in alcohol and drug treatment / Paul N. Samuels -- Deterring sales and marketing of alcohol to youth: the role of litigation / Alexander C. Wagenaar -- How social policy can foster advances in the treatment of addiction: tobacco smoke pollution and the hospitality industry as an example / James L. Repace -- The role of the Food and Drug Administration in accelerating the development and release of new medications for the addictions / Curtis Wright -- Smoking status as the new vital sign: progress and challenges / Michael C. Fiore -- Epilogue: Jack E. Henningfield, Patricia B. Santora, and Warren K. Bickel.

362.5568 L531L 2007
AUT Lein, Laura ; Schexnayder, Deanna.
TIT Life after welfare : reform and the persistence of poverty. - 1st ed.
PUB Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Families in a changing welfare context -- The context for Texas poverty and welfare -- The weak (and tangled) safety net -- Making a living after welfare -- Coping with barriers to self-sufficiency -- Staying employed and off welfare -- Low-income families and TANF policies.

362.733 W423s 2007
AUT Weinberg, Lois A.
TIT The systematic mistreatment of children in the foster care system : through the cracks.
PUB New York : Haworth Press, c2007.
SER Maltreatment, trauma, and interpersonal aggression.
CON Contents: The child protective system -- The educational system -- Sharon : preventing placement in a state psychiatric hospital -- John : struggling to stabilize placement with a parent -- James : stabilizing placement with relatives -- Silvia and Carlos : placing siblings together in a foster home -- Robert : living at the county emergency shelter -- Debra : supplementing the appropriate program -- Patty : funding a unique program -- Anthony : advocating for foster home placement -- David : working with a court-appointed special advocate to reunite separated siblings -- Directions for change.

Ref 363.325 R896c 2008
AUT Rubin, Barry M ; Rubin, Judith Colp.
TIT Chronologies of modern terrorism.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.
CON Contents: The early history of terrorism as ideology and strategy -- Social revolutionary terrorism in Europe and North America -- Nationalist terrorism in Europe and North America -- Social revolutionary terrorism in Latin America -- Revolutionaries of Asia and Africa -- Terrorism in the Middle East -- Radical Islamist terrorism -- Global jihad, September 11 and afterwards.

363.37 P997y 2008
AUT Pyne, Stephen J.
TIT Year of the fires : the story of the great fires of 1910.
PUB Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub. Co., 2008.

363.705 T772 2008
AUT Alper, Donald K ; Day, John C.; Loucky, James.
TIT Transboundary policy challenges in the Pacific border regions of North America.
PUB Calgary : University of Calgary Press, c2008.

363.7387 C168g 2008
AUT Calvin, William H.
TIT Global fever : how to treat climate change.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The big picture -- We're not in Kansas anymore -- Will this overheated frog move? -- Pop! goes the climate -- Drought's slippery slope -- Why deserts expand -- From creeps to leaps -- What makes a cycle vicious? -- That pale blue sky -- Slip locally, crash globally -- Come hell and high water -- Methane is the double threat -- Sudden shifts in climate -- A sea of CO2 -- The extended forecast -- Doing things differently -- Cleaning up our act -- The climate optimist -- Turning around by 2020 -- Arming for a great war -- Get it right on the first try -- Read widely.

363.7387 W179g 2008
AUT Walker, Gabrielle ; King, D. A.
TIT The hot topic : what we can do about global warming. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2008.
CON Contents: The problem -- Warming world -- Whodunnit? -- Feeling the heat -- In the pipeline -- Climate wild cards -- Technological solutions -- What should we aim for? -- More from less -- Planes, trains, and automobiles -- Power to change -- Political solutions -- It's the economy, stupid -- The road from Kyoto -- Rapidly developing nations (or, Come on in, the agreement's lovely) -- Industrialized nations (or, Whose fault is it anyway?) -- How you can change the world.

371.1 V131h 2007
AUT Vairo, Philip D ; Marcus, Sheldon ; Weiner, Max.
TIT Hot-button issues for teachers : what every educator needs to know about leadership, testing, textbooks, vouchers, and more.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007.
CON Contents: The status of the teaching profession : where are we going? -- Decision makers who influence educational policy : who are they? -- Competition in the educational scene today : is this a new era? -- The professional preparation of teachers : what is the remedy? -- Job hunting and mobility : what should you know? -- Merit pay : has its day arrived? -- Teacher unions and collective bargaining : what are your views? -- Teaching performance and accountability : problems or opportunities? -- Mobility in the profession : politics or merit? -- Effective classroom management : can it be achieved? -- Curriculum and textbook selection : what needs to be changed? -- National standards : what are the dangers? -- Tests and other evaluation tools : are they fair? -- The grading system : how do you handle it? -- Teaching controversial issues : should they be included in the curriculum? -- Heterogeneous and homogeneous groupings : which do you prefer? -- Homework : too little or too much? -- Parent-teacher-principal relationships : can they be effective? -- The extended school year : are we ready for it? -- Separate schools for the sexes and school uniforms : are old ideas returning? -- Teacher burnout : myth or reality? -- School safety and violence : is there a solution? -- The middle school: is it effective? -- Political and social activism in the school : what are the pros and cons? -- Liberal arts and teacher preparation : friends or mortal enemies? -- Science and mathematics : where are they? -- Tips for teachers : how can you be an effective classroom teacher?.

371.334 P926d 2007
AUT Prensky, Marc.
TIT Digital game-based learning. - Paragon House ed.
PUB St. Paul, Minn. : Paragon House, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The digital game-based learning revolution -- The games generations : how learners have changed -- Why education and training have not changed -- Digital game-based learning : new hope for learner-centered training and education -- Fun, play and games : What makes games engaging? -- Digital game-based learning : why and how it works -- Digital game-based learning for kids and students : edutainment -- Digital game-based learning for adults -- Digital game-based learning in business : 41 examples and case studies, from the incredibly simple to the amazingly complex -- True believers : digital game-based learning in the military -- Bringing digital game-based learning into your organization -- The roles of teachers and trainers in digital game-based learning : digital game-based instruction -- Convincing management and getting the bucks : making the business case for digital game-based learning -- Evaluating effectiveness : does it work? -- So you have an idea -- The future : Where do we go from here?.

371.58 P698b 2006
AUT Plaford, Gary R.
TIT Bullying and the brain : using cognitive and emotional intelligence to help kids cope.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006.
CON Contents: What parents and the community must know -- What educators must know -- What students must know -- Bullies and victims -- Brain research -- Emotional intelligence -- Emotional intelligence and decision making -- Impact bias -- The limbic system -- The connections that bind us -- Building connections -- Building emotional intelligence -- Emotional triggers -- Creating an outward focus -- The magic of routine -- Final thoughts.

371.829 S625w 2008
AUT Sizemore, Barbara A.
TIT Walking in circles : the black struggle for school reform. - 1st ed.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Third World Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The roots of my biases -- The details of my education -- Making a living -- Being a school leader -- The search for a new paradigm -- The Pittsburgh administration -- Chicago school reform, 1988-2002 -- The school achievement structure and the structured ten routines -- Eliminating the achievement gap.

371.909 G494a 2007
AUT Giordano, Gerard.
TIT American special education : a history of early political advocacy.
PUB New York : Peter Lang, c2007.

371.94 K66L 2008
AUT Kluth, Paula ; Chandler-Olcott, Kelly.
TIT A land we can share : teaching literacy to students with autism.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : P.H. Brookes Pub., c2008.
CON Contents: What is autism? -- What is literacy? -- Promoting literacy development in inclusive classrooms -- Assessing literacy learning -- Focus on reading -- Focus on writing and representation -- Literacy learning for students with significant disabilities : yes, those students, too.

372.6 A178 2008
AUT Justice, Laura M.; Vukelich, Carol.
TIT Achieving excellence in preschool literacy instruction.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
SER Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.
CON Contents: Evidence for creating, expanding, designing, and improving high-quality preschool programs / Andrew J. Mashburn -- The scientifically based reading research approach to early literacy instruction / James F. Christie -- Establishing a science of professional development for early education programs: the knowledge application information systems theory of professional development / Sharon Landesman Ramey and Craig T. Ramey -- Models for coaching: making them work for preschools / Sharon Walpole and Carla K. Meyer -- Mentoring preschool teachers / Shelley Gray -- Formative assessment of classrooms: using classroom observations to improve implementation quality / Bridget K. Hamre, Jennifer LoCasale-Crouch, and Robert C. Pianta -- Are early childhood classrooms preparing children to be school ready?: The CIRCLE teacher behavior rating scale / Mike A. Assel, Susan H. Landry, and Paul R. Swank -- It's in the details: approaches to describing and improving preschool classrooms / David K. Dickinson, Betsy G. Watson, and Dale C. Farran -- Characteristics of classroom environments associated with accelerated literacy development / Renée Casbergue, Lea M. McGee, and April Bedford -- Increasing children's learning by getting to the bottom of their confusion / Judith A. Schickedanz -- Strategic and intentional shared storybook reading / Sonia Q. Cabell ... [et al.] -- Differentiating instruction in the preschool classroom: bridging emergent literacy insturction and developmentally appropriate practice / Terri Purcell and Catherine A. Rosemary -- Language and literacy practices for English language learners in the preschool setting / M. Adelaida Restrepo and Virginia Dubasik -- Quality counts: design and use of an early literacy program review tool / Kathleen A. Roskos and Carol Vukelich -- Indicators and goals of high-quality program evaluation for the preschool classroom / Khara L. Pence -- How to evaluate a screening process: the vocabulary of screening and what educators need to know / Christopher Schatschneider, Yaacov Petscher, and Kellee M. Williams -- Curriculum-based measurement of preschoolers' early literacy skills / Tanis Bryan, Cevriye Ergul, and Karen Burstein.

372.6 S618s 2008
AUT Sipe, Lawrence R.
TIT Storytime : young children's literary understanding in the classroom.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Picturebooks and children's responses -- Young children's literary understanding : either text or reader -- Young children's literary understanding : between text and reader -- Introducing the categories of response and the first type of analytical response -- Other types of analytical response -- Intertextual responses : how stories "lean" on stories (and other texts) -- Personal response : drawing the story to the self -- Transparent and performative responses -- A grounded theory of the literary understanding of young children -- Teachers' and children's roles in enabling literary understanding -- What's the point of literary understanding? : implications for practice, research, and beyond.

378.02 U85 2008
AUT Valcik, Nicolas A.
TIT Using financial and personnel data in a changing world for institutional research.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
SER New directions for institutional research, 0271-0579 ; no. 140.

378.198 F527 2008
AUT Barefoot, Betsy O.
TIT The first year and beyond : rethinking the challenge of collegiate transition.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
SER New directions for higher education. ; no. 144.

379.158 H727 2008
AUT Sunderman, Gail L.
TIT Holding NCLB accountable : achieving accountability, equity, & school reform.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2008.

379.158 I61 2008
AUT Webber, Karen L.
TIT International perspectives on accountability, affordability, and access to postsecondary education.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
SER New directions for institutional research, 0271-0579 ; assessment supplement 2008.

382.92 B983w 2008
AUT Buterbaugh, Kevin ; Fulton, Richard M.
TIT The WTO primer : tracing trade's visible hand through case studies. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, c2007.
CON Contents: History and development of the GATT/WTO -- The GATT rounds -- The Uruguay round and the creation of the WTO -- The WTO: structures, issues and challenges -- The World Trade Organization: cases and controversies -- The great banana war -- The beef over beef: food safety standards and the WTO -- Enter the dragon: China's accession into the WTO -- The battle in Seattle -- The look to the future -- The new round: Doha and Cancun -- Conclusions: foundations for the new round.

391.00954 S562g 2008
AUT Shukla, Pravina.
TIT The grace of four moons : dress, adornment, and the art of the body in modern India.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2008.
SER Material culture.
CON Contents: Body art in Banaras -- Getting ready -- Gaze, sacred and secular -- Shopping for clothes -- Weaving saris -- Making jewelry -- Kanhaiya Lal -- Shopping along the Vishvanath Gali -- Assembling bangle sets -- Nina Khanchandani -- Neelam Chaturvedi -- Mukta Tripathi -- After the wedding -- Before the wedding -- The wedding -- The study of body art.

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507.8 J67t 2008
AUT Johnson, George.
TIT The ten most beautiful experiments. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
CON Contents: Galileo : the way things really move -- William Harvey : mysteries of the heart -- Isaac Newton : what a color is -- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier : the farmer's daughter -- Luigi Galvani : animal electricity -- Michael Faraday : something deeply hidden -- James Joule : how the world works -- A.A. Michelson : lost in space -- Ivan Pavlov : measuring the immeasurable -- Robert Millikan : in the borderland -- Afterword : the eleventh most beautiful experiment.

512 C773c 2008
AUT Cooke, Roger.
TIT Classical algebra : its nature, origins, and uses.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2008.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Numbers and equations. What algebra is -- Equations and their solutions -- Where algebra comes from -- Why algebra is important -- Numerical solution of equations -- pt. 2. The formulaic approach to equations. Combinatoric solutions I: quadratic equations -- Combinatoric solutions II: cubic equations -- pt. 3. Resolvents. From combinatorics to resolvents -- The search for resolvents -- pt. 4. Abstract algebra. Existence and constructibility of roots -- The breakthrough: Galois Theory -- Modern Algebra / Roger Cooke.

519.5 F853s4 2007
AUT Freedman, David ; Pisani, Robert ; Purves, Roger.
TIT Statistics / David Freedman, Robert Pisani, Roger Purves. - 4th ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
SER SEAMAN W MAT 110C 2 HRS SPRING 2009.

530.1 C645v 2007
AUT Close, F. E.
TIT The void.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Much ado about nothing -- How empty is an atom? -- Space -- Waves in what? -- Travelling on a light beam -- The cost of free space

551.48 E38 1998
AUT Hornberger, George M.
TIT Elements of physical hydrology.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998.
CON Contents: The science of hydrology -- Catchment hydrology : land-atmosphere interactions -- The basis for analysis in physical hydrology : principles of fluid dynamics -- Open channel hydraulics -- Catchment hydrology : streams and floods -- Groundwater hydraulics -- Groundwater hydrology -- Water in the unsaturated zone -- Catchment hydrology : the hillslope-stream continuum -- Connections.

551.483 S914g2 2004
AUT Gordon, Nancy D.
TIT Stream hydrology : an introduction for ecologists. - 2nd ed.
PUB Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2004.
CON Contents: Introducing the medium -- How to study a stream -- Potential sources of data (how to avoid reinventing the weir) -- Getting to know your stream -- How to have a field day and still collect some useful information -- Water at rest and in motion -- It's sedimentary, Watson! -- Dissecting data with a statistical scope -- "Putting it all together" : assessing stream health, stream classification, environmental flows and rehabilitation.

570.1 R337w 2008
AUT Regis, Edward.
TIT What is life? : investigating the nature of life in the age of synthetic biology. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
CON Contents: The second creation -- Birth of a cell -- Schrödinger -- Unlocking the three secrets of life -- The fiftieth-anniversary coronation and dismissal -- ATP and the meaning of life -- Origins -- The spandrels of San Marco -- The twilight zone -- The synthetic cell Turing test -- What is life?.

572.838 F164r 2007
AUT Fairbanks, Daniel J.
TIT Relics of Eden : the powerful evidence of evolution in human DNA.
PUB Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.
CON Contents: Fusion -- McClintock's masterpiece -- Bogus genes -- Solving the trichotomy -- Darwinian DNA -- A spectacular confirmation -- Diversity -- The tree of life -- "When faith and reason clash" -- Abandoning the dichotomy -- Introduction to the appendices -- Appendix 1 : The story of NANOG and its pseudogenes -- Appendix 2 : Nine inversions -- Appendix 3 : From Darwin to the human genome : a brief history.

Chem 574.65 A518 2008
AUT Ricci, Alfredo.
TIT Amino group chemistry : from synthesis to the life sciences.
PUB Weinheim : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2008.
CON Contents: Simple molecules, highly efficient amination / Shunsuke Chiba and Koichi Narasaka -- Catalytic C-H amination with nitrenes / Philippe Dauban and Robert H. Dodd -- Nitroalkenes as amination tools / Robert Ballini, Enrico Marcantoni, and Marino Petrini -- Isocyanide-based multicomponent reactions (IMCRs) as a valuable tool with which to synthesize nitrogen-containing compounds / Alexander Doemling -- Direct catalytic asymmetric Mannich reactions and surroundings / Armando Córdova and Ramon Rios -- Amino-based building blocks for the construction of biomolecules / André Mann -- Aminated sugars, synthesis, and biological activity / Francesco Nicotra, Barbara La Ferla, and Cristina Airoldi -- Selective N-derivatization of aminoglycosides en route to new antibiotics and antivirals / Floris Louis van Delft -- Evolution of transition metal-catalyzed amination reactions : the industrial approach / Ulrich Scholz.

579.342 Z72m 2008
AUT Zimmer, Carl.
TIT Microcosm : E. coli and the new science of life. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
CON Contents: Signature -- E. coli and the elephant -- The system -- The E. coli watcher's field guide -- Everflux -- Death and kindness -- Darwin at the drugstore -- Open source -- Palimpsest -- Playing nature -- N equals one.

580.922 G846f 2008
AUT Gribbin, Mary ; Gribbin, John R ; Gribbin, John R.
TIT Flower hunters.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Prologue: John Ray (1627-1705) -- Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) -- Joseph Banks (174-1820) -- Francis Masson (1741-1805) and Carl Peter Thunberg (1742-1828) -- David Douglas (1799-1834) -- William Lobb (1809-1864) and Thomas Lobb (1817-1894) -- Robert Fortune (1812-1880) -- Marianne North (1830-1890) -- Richard Spruce (1817-1893) -- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911).

Folio 591.65 B126r 2008
AUT Backshall, Stephen.
TIT Venomous animals of the world.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, c2007.
CON Contents: Brutal toxin -- What is venom? -- The evolution of venom -- How venom works -- Overkill? Venom strength and power -- Valuable venom -- Antivenin: miracle antidote? -- What to do if you are bitten -- Myths about venom -- Facts and statistics -- Europe -- Violin, fiddleback and recluse spiders -- Fat-tailed scorpion -- Weeverfish -- Dog whelk -- Mauve stinger -- Black widow spiders -- European vipers -- Fire salamander -- Water shrew -- Water boatman -- Blister beetle or Spanish fly -- Devil's coach horse beetle -- Lepidoptera larvae -- North America -- Solenodon -- Bark scorpion -- Portuguese man-of-war -- Stingrays -- California newt -- Gila monster -- Beaded lizard -- Rattlesnakes -- Latin America -- Bushmaster -- Giant centipedes -- Brazilian wandering or Banana spider -- Tarantulas -- Poison dart frogs -- Tropical lanceheads -- Assassin bugs -- Bullet ant -- Tang or Surgeonfish -- Sponges -- Coral snakes. Contents: Africa -- Giant millipedes -- Killer bee -- Stonefish -- African bombardier beetle -- Lionfish, Zebrafish, Scorpionfish, Butterfly cod -- Scorpions -- Black mamba -- African cobras -- Puff adder -- Gaboon viper -- Australasia -- Box jellyfish -- Irukandji -- Sea anemones, corals and hydroids -- Australian paralysis tick -- Sydney funnel-web spider -- Redback spider -- Blue-ringed octopus -- Hooded pitohui -- Platypus -- Australian venomous snakes -- Cane toad -- Asia -- King cobra -- Other cobras -- Russell's viper -- Saw-scaled viper -- Deathstalker scorpion -- Crown-of-thorns starfish -- Red tides and Ciguatoxins -- Cone shells -- Pufferfish -- Yellow-bellied or Pelagic seasnake -- Slow loris -- Komodo dragon -- Asian giant hornet -- The future for venomous wildlife -- The pressure builds.

597.9 A883L 2008
AUT Attenborough, David.
TIT Life in cold blood.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: 1. Between water and land : salamanders, newts and frogs -- 2. A return to the water : tortoises, terrapins and turtles -- 3. The ancient hunters : crocodiles, alligators and gharials -- 4. Dragons of the dry : the lizards -- 5. Leglessness : the snakes -- 6. The cold-blooded truth : another way of life.

599.938 T221w 2008
AUT Tattersall, Ian.
TIT The world from beginnings to 4000 BCE.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER New Oxford world history.
CON Contents: Evolutionary processes -- Fossils and ancient artifacts -- On their own two feet -- Emergence of the genus homo -- Getting brainier -- Modern human origins -- Settled life.

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612.82 J84 2008
TIT The Jossey-Bass reader on the brain and learning. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
CON Contents: An overview of the brain. How our brain constructs our mental world / Richard Restak ; Mirrors in the mind / Giacomo Rizzolatti, Leonardo Fogassi, and Vittorio Gallese ; Alphabetized entries from How to explain a brain / Robert Sylwester -- The brain in the classroom : the brain-based learning debate. Neuroscience and education / Usha Goswami ; In search of--brain-based education / John T. Bruer ; Learning not by chance : enrichment in the classroom / Marian C. Diamond and Janet Hopson ; Mind and brain / John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking -- The thinking brain : memory, cognition, and intelligence. Learning and remembering / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith ; Who owns intelligence? / Howard Gardner ; The balance theory of wisdom / Robert J. Sternberg ; Remembrance of emotions past / Joseph LeDoux -- The feeling brain : emotional and social foundations. We feel, therefore we learn : the relevance of affective and social neuroscience to education / Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and Antonio Damasio ; Selections from Why zebras don't get ulcers / Robert M. Sapolsky ; The effect of violence and stress in kids' brains / Ronald Kotulak -- The learning brain : language, reading, and math. The literate brain / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Uta Frith ; Why some smart people can't read / Sally Shaywitz ; What happens in the brain when children read / Patricia Wolfe and Pamela Nevills ; Small heads for big calculations / Stanislas Dehaene ; Math skills / James P. Byrnes -- The learning brain : the arts. The brain and the arts / David A. Sousa ; The role of the arts in transforming consciousness : education is the process of learning how to invent yourself / Elliot W. Eisner ; My favorite thing : why do we like the music we like? / Daniel J. Levitin -- The exceptional brain : when it works differently. Exploring exceptional brains / Eric Jensen ; Selections from The minds of boys / Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens ; The great continuum : diagnosing autism / Temple Grandin ; Broken mirrors : a theory of autism / Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Lindsay M. Oberman.

615.5 I615 2008
AUT Strozier, Anne L ; Carpenter, Joyce.
TIT Introduction to alternative and complementary therapies.
PUB New York : Haworth Press, c2008.
SER Haworth practical practice in mental health.
CON Contents: Introduction / Anne L. Strozier -- Mindfulness, meditation, and health / Jeff Brantley, Dawn Doucette, Ann Lindell -- Spirituality / Mary P. Van Hook -- Tearing the darkness down: poetry as therapy / Perie J. Longo -- Art therapy / Laura A. Cherry -- Psychodrama / Trudy K. Duffy -- Dance/movement therapy / Irma Dosamantes-Beaudry -- Music therapy / Jennifer Jones -- Therapists and animals: demystifying animal-assisted therapy / Aubrey H. Fine, Pamela F. Beiler -- Touch therapies / Anne L. Strozier, Catherine E. Randall, Erin Kuhn.

616.8582 S4655 2009
AUT Williams, Mary E.
TIT Self-mutilation.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
SER Introducing issues with opposing viewpoints.
CON Contents: Is self-mutilation a problem? -- Why do some people harm themselves? -- How can self-injurers be helped?.

616.85882 R615u 2006
AUT Ritvo, Edward.
TIT Understanding the nature of autism and Asperger's disorder : forty years of clinical practice and pioneering research.
PUB London, U.K. ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2006.

616.8907 G946 2008
AUT Hunsley, John ; Mash, Eric J.
TIT A guide to assessments that work.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Oxford series in clinical psychology.
CON Contents: Developing criteria for evidence-based assessment: an introduction to assessments that work / John Hunsley, Eric J. Mash -- Child attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder / Charlotte Johnston, Janet W.T. Mah -- Child and adolescent conduct problems / Paul J. Frick, Robert J. McMahon -- Depression in children and adolescents / Lea R. Dougherty ... [et al.] -- Adult depression / Jacqueline B. Persons, David M. Fresco -- Bipolar disorder / Sheri L. Johnson, Christopher Miller, Lori Eisner -- Depression in late life / Amy Fiske, Alisa A. O'Riley -- Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors / Matthew K. Nock ... [et al.] -- Child and adolescent anxiety disorders / Wendy K. Silverman, Thomas H. Ollendick -- Specific phobia and social phobia / Karen Rowa, Randi E. McCabe, Martin M. Antony -- Panic disorder and agoraphobia / Melody L. Keller, Michelle G. Craske -- Generalized anxiety disorder / Nicole J. Gervais, Michel J. Dugas -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder / Jonathan S. Abramowitz -- Post-traumatic stress disorder / Terence M. Keane, Amy K. Silberbogen, Mariann R. Weierich -- Substance use disorders / Damaris J. Rohsenow -- Alcohol use disorders / Kelly Green ... [et al.] -- Gambling disorders / David C. Hodgins, Randy Stinchfield -- Schizophrenia / Kim T. Mueser, Shirley M. Glynn -- Personality disorders / Thomas A. Widiger -- Couple distress / Douglas K. Snyder, Richard E. Heyman, Stephen N. Haynes -- Sexual dysfunction / Marta Meana, Yitzchak M. Binik, Lea Thaler -- Paraphilias / Michael C. Seto, Carolyn S. Abramowitz, Howard E. Barbaree -- Eating disorders / Robyn Sysko -- Sleep disorders / Shawn R. Currie -- Child and adolescent pain / Erin C. Moon, C. Meghan McMurtry, Patrick J. McGrath -- Chronic pain in adults / Dennis C. Turk, Akiko Okifuji, Michelle Skinner.

616.8918 B234c 2008
AUT Barber, Charles.
TIT Comfortably numb : how psychiatry is medicating a nation. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.

618.9285 A939 2008
AUT Chawarska, Katarzyna ; Klin, Ami ; Volkmar, Fred R.
TIT Autism spectrum disorders in infants and toddlers : diagnosis, assessment, and treatment.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.

629.47 H937u 2008
AUT Hunley, J. D.
TIT U.S. space-launch vehicle technology : Viking to space shuttle.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2008.

634.772 K77b 2008
AUT Koeppel, Dan.
TIT Banana : the fate of the fruit that changed the world.
PUB New York : Hudson Street Press, c2008.

658.048 C957f 2008
AUT Crutchfield, Leslie R.; Grant, Heather McLeod.
TIT Forces for good : the six practices of high-impact nonprofits. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2008.
CON Contents: Forces for good -- Advocate and serve -- Make markets work -- Inspire Evangelists -- Nurture nonprofit networks -- Master the art of adaptation -- Share leadership -- Sustaining impact -- Putting it into practice.

658.301 R848h 2008
AUT Rothwell, William J.; Prescott, Robert K.; Taylor, Maria W.
TIT Human resource transformation : demonstrating strategic leadership in the face of future trends. - 1st ed.
PUB Mountain View, Calif. : Davies-Black Pub., c2008.
CON Contents: What is human resource transformation? -- recent influences on the workforce, workplace, and HR -- Future trends in the workplace -- Future trends in the general workforce -- Transforming HR by focusing on future trends -- What is HR leadership? -- Building HR leadership in your organization -- Demonstrating HR leadership in the face of outsourcing.

658.4 D2615i 2006
AUT Davis, Jim ; Miller, Gloria J ; Russell, Allan.
TIT Information revolution : using the information evolution model to grow your business.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2006.

658.4013 D247c 2007
AUT Davenport, Thomas H.; Harris, Jeanne G.
TIT Competing on analytics : the new science of winning.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Foreword / by Gary Loveman -- The nature of analytical competition -- What makes an analytical competitor? -- Analytics and business performance -- Competing on analytics with internal processes -- Competing on analytics with external processes -- Building an analytical capability -- A roadmap to enhanced analytical capabilities -- Managing analytical people -- The architecture of business intelligence -- The future of analytical competition.

658.409 C453o 2008
AUT Champy, James.
TIT Outsmart! : how to do what your competitors can't.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2008.

658.827 H361 2008
AUT Hatch, Mary Jo ; Schultz, Majken.
TIT Taking brand initiative : how companies can align strategy, culture, and identity through corporate branding. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
CON Contents: What is corporate branding? -- The value of brands -- Who are you? -- Diagnosing your corporate brand -- Managing corporate brands as organizations grow -- The influence of employees and their cultures -- Through stakeholders' eyes -- Aligning vision, culture, and images -- Getting into enterprise branding : catching the third wave.

664 G328 2009
AUT Skancke, Jennifer.
TIT Genetically modified food.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
SER Introducing issues with opposing viewpoints.

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709.73 A7843
AUT Sollins, Susan ; Sollins, Marybeth ; Miller, Wesley.
TIT Art:21 : art in the twenty-first century 3.
PUB New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

709.73 A7844
AUT Sollins, Susan ; Sollins, Marybeth ; Miller, Wesley.
TIT Art:21 : art in the twenty-first century 4.
PUB New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2007.
CON Contents: Jenny Holzer -- Alfredo Jaar -- An-My Lê -- Nancy Spero -- Robert Adams -- Mark Dion -- Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle -- Ursula von Rydingsvard -- Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla -- Mark Bradford -- Robert Ryman -- Catherine Sullivan -- Pierre Huyghe -- Judy Pfaff -- Lari Pittman -- Laurie Simmons.

759.5 A187 2007
AUT Arcimboldi, Giuseppe ; Ferino Pagden, Sylvia.
TIT Arcimboldo : 1526-1593.
PUB Milan : Skira ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2007.
CON Contents: Giuseppe Arcimboldo : court artist, philosopher, "rhétoriqueur", magician or an entertainer? / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- "... il gran pittore Giuseppe Arcimboldi" : on the construction of Arcimboldo's fame / Andreas Beyer -- Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Milan : documents and hypotheses / Silvio Leydi -- Art and culture at the court of Emperor Maxzimilian II ; Der Rom. Kay. Mt. conterfeter : Giuseppe Arcimboldo as portrait-painter to the Holy Roman Emperor / Karl Schütz -- Arcimboldo's composite heads : origins and invention / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- Arcimboldo as "counterfetter" of nature / Sylvia Ferino-Pagden -- Arcimboldo and Ulisse Aldrovandi / Manfred Staudinger -- Anamorphous portraits and reversible heads / Görel Cavalli-Björkman -- Between art and nature : Arcimboldo and the world of the Kunstkammer / Franz Kirchweger -- Arcimboldo's composite heads, grotesques and the aesthetics of paradox ; Giuseppe Arcimboldo : silk cultivation and manufacture / Philippe Morel --The princely stage : Arcimboldo's costumes and drawing for court festivities and tournaments / Andreas Beyer -- Giuseppe Arcimboldo : learning, letters, and art / Thomas DaCosta Kaufman -- Observations on the painting technique of Arcimboldo and his circle / Ina Slama and Monika Strolz -- Technical analysis of The vegetable gardener / Mario A. Lazzari and Mario Marubbi -- Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Milan : documents and hypotheses : summary of the documents relating to the Milanese period / Silvio Leydi -- Sources on Arcimbolo at the Habsburg court / Manfred Staudinger.

759.5 H927t 2007
AUT Humfrey, Peter.
TIT Titian.
PUB London : Phaidon, c2007.

781.65 C486t 2008
AUT Charters, Samuel Barclay.
TIT A trumpet around the corner : the story of New Orleans jazz.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.
SER American made music series.
CON Contents: A city like no other -- People, faces -- A society to itself -- Papa Jack's boys -- The other side of town -- On the circuit -- "Jass" -- The first sensational musical novelty of 1917! -- Some record! -- Southern stomps -- Rhythm Kings -- Mister Jelly -- Bouncing around -- Out to the halfway house -- Kings of New Orleans -- The tiger's paw -- The prodigal -- Jazz nights -- Glories, remembered -- Revival days -- Struttin'.

782.421 F935b 2007
AUT Frontani, Michael R.
TIT The Beatles : image and the media. - 1st ed.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
CON Contents: "The twentieth century's greatest romance" : imagining the Beatles -- "Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles!" : introducing the image -- "Preparing our teenagers for riot and ultimate revolution" : the touring years, 1964-66 -- "The mood of the sixties" : the Beatles as artists, 1966-68 -- "Beatlepeople" : Rolling Stone, 1967-70 -- "Beautiful people" : the Beatles' idealized past.

791.4302 B162c 2007
AUT Bainbridge, Caroline.
TIT The cinema of Lars von Trier : authenticity and artifice.
PUB London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2007.
SER Directors' cuts.

791.4309 S623e 2008
AUT Sitney, P. Adams.
TIT Eyes upside down : visionary filmmakers and the heritage of Emerson.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Emersonian poetics -- Marie Menken and the somatic camera -- Ian Hugo and superimposition -- Stan Brakhage's autobiography as a cinematic sequence -- Jonas Mekas and the diary film -- Hollis Frampton and the specter of narrative -- Robert Beavers's Winged distance/sightless measure: the cycle of the ephebe -- Beavers's second cycle: the past in the present - the present in the past -- Andrew Noren and the open-ended cinematic sequence -- Ernie Gehr and the axis of primary thought -- Warren Sonbert's movements in a concerto -- Brakhage and the tales of the tribes -- Frampton's Magellan -- Abigail Child: textual self-reliance -- Su Friedrich: "Giving birth to myself" -- Brakhage: meditative cinema -- Beavers's third cycle: the theater of gesture -- Mekas's retrospection -- Conclusion: Perfect exhilaration -- Appendix: Chronology of films.

791.43684 S795 2005
AUT Decker, Kevin S ; Eberl, Jason T.
TIT Star wars and philosophy : more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2005.
SER Popular culture and philosophy. ; 12.

791.4375 J17d 2008
AUT Jacobs, Lea.
TIT The decline of sentiment : American film in the 1920s.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.

791.4509 W341d2 2008
AUT Watson, Mary Ann.
TIT Defining visions : television and the American experience in the 20th century. - 2nd ed.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: Television enters the picture -- Television and the melting pot: race and ethnicity -- Home on screen: gender and family -- The Killing tube: violence and crime -- TV goes all the way: romance and sexuality -- The boxed-in workplace: jobs and professions -- Tuning out restraint: indulgence and advertising -- Taking the cue: television and the American personality -- Deep focus: television and the American character -- The webbed republic: democracy in the television age.

791.456 B456d 2008
AUT Benavides, O. Hugo.
TIT Drugs, thugs, and divas : telenovelas and narco-dramas in Latin America. - 1st ed.
PUB Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Melodrama as ambiguous signifier: latin american telenovelas and Narco-dramas -- Seeing Xica and the Melodramatic unveiling of colonial desire -- Producing the global west through latin tales of seduction and enby -- Karen's seduction: the racial politics of appropriate dinner guests -- A mother's wrath and the complex disjuncturing of class -- Being narco: the evolution of a continental sensibility -- Saintly figures and icons: the migration of a continental dream -- La reina del sur: Gender, racial, and national contestations of regional identity -- Sex, drugs, and cumbia: the hybrid nature of culture -- Conclusion: the postcolonial politics of melodrama -- Ugly Betty.

792.7 Z85c 2008
AUT Zoglin, Richard.
TIT Comedy at the edge : how stand-up in the 1970s changed America.
PUB New York : Bloomsbury USA, c2008.
CON Contents: After Lenny -- Rebellion -- Race -- Improv -- Clubbing -- Put-on -- Some fun -- Chasing Carson -- Extremists -- Women -- The boom -- Mainstream.

793.932 C355e 2007
AUT Castronova, Edward.
TIT Exodus to the virtual world : how online fun is changing reality. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: Dreams fashioned in silicon -- Game societies -- Worlds of the future -- Migration -- In search of an understanding of fun and games -- A theory of fun -- Virtual-world design as public policy -- The fun economy -- The fun society -- The fun revolution : ending the politics of misery -- Epilogue.

794.8 B675p 2007
AUT Bogost, Ian.
TIT Persuasive games : the expressive power of videogames.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Procedural rhetoric -- Political processes -- Ideological frames -- Digital democracy -- Advertising logic -- Licensing and product placement -- Advergames -- Procedural literacy -- Values and aspirations -- Exercise -- Purposes of persuasion.

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811.54 E53L 2005
AUT Emerson, Claudia.
TIT Late wife : poems.
PUB Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2005.
SER [Southern messenger poets].
CON Contents: Divorce epistles ; Aftermath ; Photograph : Farm Auction ; Rent ; Surface hunting ; Waxwing ; Chimney Fire ; Eight Ball ; Pitching Horseshoes ; The last Christmas ; Metaphor ; Possessions ; A Bird in the house ; The Spanish lover ; Frame -- Breaking up the house ; My Grandmother's plot in the family cemetery ; The change ; Breaking Up the house ; House-sitting ; Second bearing, 1919 ; Drought ; The Audubon collection ; The practice cage ; Atlas ; Migraine : aura and aftermath -- Late wife : letters to Kent ; Artifact ; The hospital ; Pond turtle ; Daybook ; The cough ; The X-rays ; Corrective ; Homecoming ; Driving glove ; Furnace ; Stringed instrument collection ; Old English ; Leave no trace ; Buying the painted turtle.

811.54 H353t 2007
AUT Hass, Robert.
TIT Time and materials : poems, 1997-2005. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Ecco, c2007.

811.54 S387f 2007
AUT Schultz, Philip.
TIT Failure : poems. - 1st ed.
PUB Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007.
CON Contents: It's Sunday morning in early November -- Talking to ourselves -- Specimen -- The summer people -- The magic kingdom -- Louse Point -- The idea of California -- Kodak Park Athletic Association, 1954 -- Grief -- The absent -- My dog -- The garden -- Exquisite with agony -- Bronze crowd: after Magdalena Abakanowicz -- Why -- My wife -- Husband -- Uncle Sigmund -- The amount of us -- What I like and don't like -- Blunt -- Shellac -- The adventures of 78 Charles Street -- Isaac Babel visits my dreams -- Dance performance -- The traffic -- The truth -- The one truth -- Failure -- The wandering wingless.

811.54 W949w 2003
AUT Wright, Franz.
TIT Walking to Martha's Vineyard : poems. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003.
CON Contents: Year one -- On Earth -- One heart -- Octaves -- June storm -- The word -- The first supper -- Promise -- Fathers -- To John Wieners : elegy & response -- Flight -- Medjugorje -- My place -- Study in acid & green -- Antipsychotic -- Old story -- Cloudless snowfall -- Shaving in the dark -- Registration of names -- 5:00 mass -- Dudley Wright -- University of one -- Slip -- Domesticity -- Little farm on the ocean -- Untitled ("She undressed ... ") -- The bird bride -- The maker -- Letter -- Abandoned letter -- Saying -- Baptism -- April orchard -- Circle drawn in water -- Weekend in the underworld -- Charlottesville winter -- Reunion -- Auto-lullaby -- Childhood's appointment -- September sunflower -- P.S. -- The word "I" -- How you will know me -- The new Jerusalem -- Quest -- Epitaph -- The poem -- Diary otherwise empty -- Icon from childhood -- The new child -- Walden -- Walking to Martha's Vineyard -- The only animal.

811.6 T799n 2006
AUT Trethewey, Natasha D.
TIT Native guard.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
CON Contents: I: The southern crescent -- Genus narcissus -- Graveyard blues -- What the body can say -- Photograph: ice storm 1971 -- What is evidence -- Letter -- After your death -- Myth -- At dusk -- II: Pilgrimage -- Scenes from a documentary history of Mississippi -- King Cotton, 1907 -- Glyph, Aberdeen 1913 -- Flood -- You are late -- Native guard -- Again, the fields -- III: Pastoral -- Miscegenation -- My mother dreams another country -- Southern history -- Blond -- Southern Gothic -- Incident -- Providence -- Monument -- Elegy for the native guards -- South.

812.54 Z78e 2008
AUT Zinman, Toby Silverman.
TIT Edward Albee.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, 2008.
SER Michigan modern dramatists.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Peter and Jerry: "Homelife" and The zoo story -- The zoo story -- The death of Bessie Smith -- The sandbox -- The American dream -- Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? -- Tiny Alice -- A delicate balance -- Box and quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung -- All over -- Seascape -- Listening -- Counting the ways: a vaudville -- The lady from Dubuque -- The man who had three arms -- Finding the sun -- Marriage play -- Tall women -- Fragments -- The play about the baby -- The goat or, who is Sylvia? -- Occupant -- Knock! knock! who's there!? -- Bibliography -- Chronology of plays.

813.54 E66f 2004
AUT Erdrich, Louise.
TIT Four souls : [a novel]. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2004.

813.54 J765k 2003
AUT Jones, Edward P.
TIT The known world. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Amistad, c2003.

813.54 K39sa 1985
AUT Kerouac, Jack.
TIT Satori in Paris ; and, Pic : two novels.
PUB New York : Grove Press, c1985.

813.54 L218h 2008 Popular reading
AUT Lamb, Wally.
TIT The hour I first believed : a novel. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2008.

813.54 M1225r 2006
AUT McCarthy, Cormac.
TIT The road. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

813.6 H263t 2009 Popular reading
AUT Harding, Paul.
TIT Tinkers. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.

815.508 B163r 2007-08
AUT Boucher, Brian.
TIT Representative American speeches 2007-2008.
PUB New York : H.W. Wilson Co., c2008.
SER Reference shelf. ; v. 80, no. 6.

818.5 B791b 2008
AUT Boyd, Herb.
TIT Baldwin's Harlem : a biography of James Baldwin. - 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Atria Books, 2008.
CON Contents: Born in Harlem -- Encountering Countee Cullen -- Langston Hughes -- Sanctuary -- Death in Harlem -- Malcolm X -- The Harlem Six -- The Jewish question -- Harlem, real and imagined -- Cruse's crisis -- Baraka.

891.86 C237w 1996
AUT Capek, Karel ; Weatherall, M. ;Weatherall, R.
TIT War with the newts.
PUB Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1996, c1985.
SER European classics.

892.43 B171b 1993
AUT Balaban, Abraham.
TIT Between God and beast : an examination of Amos Oz's prose.
PUB University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1993.

892.736 E37nm 2007
AUT El-Enany, Rasheed.
TIT Naguib Mahfouz : his life and times.
PUB Cairo, Egypt : The American University in Cairo Press, 2007.

899.15 B873m 2005
AUT Brooks, Geraldine.
TIT March.
PUB New York : Viking, 2005.

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911.58 A121p 2008
AUT Abazov, Rafis.
TIT The Palgrave concise historical atlas of central Asia. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
CON Contents: Introductory maps -- Early history, sixth century B.C. to sixth century A.D. -- Islamic golden age, seventh to twelfth centuries A.D. -- The Mongols and the decline of central Asia -- The era of colonialism and nation-state building -- Post-communism and independence.

939 C712h 2007
AUT Collins, Billie Jean.
TIT The Hittites and their world.
PUB Atlanta, Ga. : Society of Biblical Literature, c2007.
SER Archaeology and biblical studies ; no. 7.
CON Contents: A brief history of Hittite studies -- A political history of the Hittites -- Society -- Religion -- Hittites in the Bible -- Afterword.

940.5318 W195b 2006
AUT Wallach, Jafa ; Mirsky, Stuart W.
TIT Bitter freedom : memoirs of a Holocaust survivor.
PUB Schuylkill Haven, Pa. : Hermitage Publishers, 2006.

940.5352 E12c 2008
AUT Earhart, David C.
TIT Certain victory : images of World War II in the Japanese media.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.
SER Japan and the modern world.

940.54215 A877d 2007
AUT Atkinson, Rick.
TIT The day of battle : the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Henry Holt, 2007.
SER The liberation trilogy ; v. 2.

940.5423 A877a 2002
AUT Atkinson, Rick.
TIT An army at dawn : the war in North Africa, 1942-1943. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Henry Holt & Co., 2002.
SER The Liberation trilogy ; v. 1.
CON Contents: Passage: A meeting with the Dutchman -- Gathering the ships -- Rendezvous at Cherchel -- On the knees of the gods -- A man must believe in his luck -- Landing: "In the night, all cats are grey" -- In Barbary -- Villain -- To the last man -- "Glory enough for us all" -- Beachhead: A sword in Algiers -- A blue flag over Oran -- "An orgy of disorder" -- Battle for the Kasbah -- "It's all over for now" -- Pushing East: "We live in tragic hours" -- A cold country with a hot sun -- Medjez-el-Bab -- Fat geese on a pond -- Primus in Carthago: "Go for the swine with a blithe heart" -- "The dead salute the gods" -- "Jerry is counterattacking!" -- A country of defiles: Longstop -- "They shot the little son of a bitch" -- "This is the hand of God" -- Casablanca: The ice-cream front -- Speedy Valley -- "The touch of the world" -- The sinners' concourse --A Bits and pieces war: "Goats set out to lure a tiger" -- "This can't happen to us" -- "The mortal dangers that beset us" -- "A good night for a mass murder" -- Kasserine: A hostile debouchment -- None returned -- "Sometimes that is not good enough" -- "This place is too hot" -- Order, counter-order, and disorder" --"Lay roughly on the tanks" -- The world we knew is a long time dead: vigil in Red Oak -- "We know there'll be troubles of every sort" -- "One needs luck in war" -- "The devil is come down" -- Over the top: "Give them some steel!" -- "Search your soul" -- Night closes down -- "I had a plan ...Now I have none" -- The inner keep: Hell's corner -- Hammering home the cork -- "Count your children now, Adolf!" -- Tunisgrad -- Epilogue.

943.604 S627m 2008
AUT Sked, Alan.
TIT Metternich and Austria : an evaluation.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : has Metternich been misunderstood? -- What part did Metternich play in the downfall of Napoleon? -- Was Metternich Europe's leading statesman in the period 1815-48? -- Did Metternich plan to federalise the Habsburg Monarchy? -- Was Metternich's Austria a police state? -- Did Metternich's Austria oppress the people and cause the revolutions of 1848?.

Ref 946.03 S642h2 2009
AUT Smith, Angel.
TIT Historical dictionary of Spain. - 2nd ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
SER Historical dictionaries of Europe ; 65.

953.805 C697b 2008
AUT Coll, Steve.
TIT The Bin Ladens : an Arabian family in the American century.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Patriarchs : 1900 to September 1967. In exile -- The royal garage -- Silent partners -- The glory of his reign -- For Jerusalem -- The backlash -- A modern man -- Crosswind -- Sons and daughters : September 1967 to May 1988. The guardians -- Young Osama -- Realm of conspiracy -- The rising son -- Discovering America -- The convert's zeal -- Wired -- The amusement park -- In the king's service -- Anxiety disorder -- The grinder -- The arms bazaar -- Off the books -- The proposal -- Kitty Hawk field of dreams -- The global family : June 1988 to September 2001. Writer-director-producer -- Lump sums -- America in motion -- The Swiss accounts -- A Rolls Royce in the rain -- The construction of exile -- Hedge funds -- A trojan desk -- The aesthetics of worship -- One phone, one world -- Lawyers, guns, and money -- Bin Laden island -- Legacies : September 2001 to September 2007. The name -- Public relations -- Brands -- So what? -- In exile.

956.9405 S529y 2008
AUT Shapira, Anita ; Abel, Evelyn.
TIT Yigal Allon, native son : a biography.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
SER Jewish culture and contexts.

967.62 E47i 2006
AUT Elkins, Caroline.
TIT Imperial reckoning : the untold story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya. 1st Owl Books ed.
PUB New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2006, c2005.
CON Contents: Pax Britannica -- Britain's assault on Mau Mau -- Screening -- Rehabilitation -- The birth of Britain's gulag -- The world behind the wire -- The hard core -- Domestic terror -- Outrage, suppression, and silence -- Detention exposed -- The operating pipeline circa January 1956.

970.016 R433L 2007
AUT Reséndez, Andrés.
TIT A land so strange : the epic journey of Cabeza de Vaca : the extraordinary tale of a shipwrecked Spaniard who walked across America in the sixteenth century.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The prize that was snatched away -- A voyage of redemption -- Landfall -- Walking through Florida -- On rafts -- Enslaved -- Into the heart of the continent -- Following the corn trail -- Contact -- Epilogue.

971.05 R356e 2008
AUT Reid, John G., 1948- ; Baker, Emerson W ; Baker, Emerson W.
TIT Essays on northeastern North America, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
PUB Toronto ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, c2008.

973 T993t 2007
AUT Tyrrell, Ian R.
TIT Transnational nation : United States history in global perspective since 1789.
PUB Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: Born in the struggles of empires : the American republic in war and revolution, 1789-1815 -- Commerce pervades the world : economic connections and disconnections -- The beacon of improvement : political and social reform -- People in motion : nineteenth-century migration experiences -- Unwilling immigrants and diaspora dreams -- Racial and ethnic frontiers -- America's Civil War and its world historical implications -- How culture travelled : going abroad, c. 1865-1914 -- Building the nation-state in the Progressive Era : the transnational context -- The empire that did not know its name -- The new world order in the era of Woodrow Wilson -- Forces of integration : war and the coming of the American century, 1925-70 -- Insular impulses : limits on international integration, 1925-70 -- From the 1970s to new globalization : American transnational power and its limits, 1971-2001 -- Epilogue : "Nothing will ever be the same" : 9/11 and the return of history.

973.0468 C346e 2007
AUT Castañeda, Jorge G., 1953-.
TIT Ex Mex : from migrants to immigrants.
PUB New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2007.

973.0468 R696m 2007
AUT Rodriguez, Gregory.
TIT Mongrels, bastards, orphans, and vagabonds : Mexican immigration and the future of race in America. - 1st Vintage Books ed.
PUB New York : Vintage Books, 2008.
CON Contents: The birth of a people -- The rise and fall of the Spanish colonial racial system -- The Spaniards venture North -- Mexicans and the limits of slavery -- The Anglos move West -- Caught between North and South -- Becoming Mexican American -- The Chicano movement -- Mongrel America and the new assimilation.

973.332 F529w 2004
AUT Fischer, David Hackett, 1935-.
TIT Washington's crossing.
PUB Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
SER Pivotal moments in American history.
CON Contents: Three armies in America -- A cataract of disaster -- The pivot point -- The crossing -- Risking it all -- The boldest stroke.

973.7115 B648s 2007
AUT Blight, David W.
TIT A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation. - 1st ed.
PUB Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2007.
CON Contents: The Rappahannock river -- Mobile bay -- Unusual evidence -- The logic and the Trump of jubilee.

975.04 H148n 2003
AUT Hahn, Steven, 1951-.
TIT A nation under our feet : Black political struggles in the rural South, from slavery to the great migration.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
CON Contents: Prologue: Looking out from slavery -- pt 1. "The Jacobins of the country". -- Of chains and threads -- "The choked voice of a race at last unloosed -- Of rumors and revelations -- pt 2. To build a new Jerusalem. -- Reconstructing the body politic -- " A society turned bottomside up" -- Of paramilitary politics -- pt 3. The unvanquished. -- The education of Henry Adams -- Of ballots and biracialism -- The valley and the shadows -- Epilogue: "Up, you mighty race".

975.9063 C685f 2007
AUT Colburn, David R.
TIT From yellow dog Democrats to red state Republicans : Florida and its politics since 1940.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2007.
CON Contents: From darkness to sunshine : World War II, race, and the emergence of modern Florida -- Racial protest and the emergence of fault lines in the Democratic hegemony -- Reubin Askew, Lawton Chiles, and the reinvention of the Democratic Party -- An era of political transition -- Migration of the middle class, the search for community, and the emerging Hispanic presence -- Holding back the Republican tide, but for how long? -- From blue to red : the era of Jeb Bush and Republican hegemony -- The presidential election of 2000 : what happened in Florida? -- So what does the future hold for Florida?.

976.9 M849b 2007
AUT Morgan, Robert, 1944-.
TIT Boone : a biography. - 1st ed.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.
CON Contents: Brief chronology of Daniel Boone's life -- Introduction -- The mother world of the forest -- People of the forest -- The hills beyond the Yadkin -- The Yadkin was the wild west -- Domestic arts -- In search of the real west -- Visions of Eden -- Regulators -- Return to the Bluegrass land -- Where there was no forbidden fruit -- Kentucky was the key -- The trace and the river -- Freemasonry -- Light and shadow -- Sheltowee, Son of Blackfish -- Farthest outpost of rebellion -- With chain and compass -- Father, I won't leave you -- Filson, fame, and failure -- A deale of sine is seen -- Boating in the west -- Going east to go west -- To the farther west -- Done all the good that I can -- Across the river into legend.

981.1 H489t 2008
AUT Hemming, John, 1935-.
TIT Tree of rivers : the story of the Amazon.
PUB New York : Thames & Hudson, c2008.

985.033 T928 2008
AUT Stavig, Ward ; Schmidt, Ella ; Stavig, Ward et al.
TIT The Tupac Amaru and Catarista Rebellions : an anthology of sources.
PUB Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett Pub. Co., c2008.

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DVD 333.95 O58 2001
AUT De Graaf, John ; Cissell, Jim ; Bade, Michael et al.
TIT On nature's terms people and predators co-existing in harmony.
PUB Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c2001.

Software 551.48 E38 1998
AUT Hornberger, George M.
TIT Elements of physical hydrology.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998.
CON Contents: The science of hydrology -- Catchment hydrology : land-atmosphere interactions -- The basis for analysis in physical hydrology : principles of fluid dynamics -- Open channel hydraulics -- Catchment hydrology : streams and floods -- Groundwater hydraulics -- Groundwater hydrology -- Water in the unsaturated zone -- Catchment hydrology : the hillslope-stream continuum -- Connections.

DVD 577.37 S172 2001
AUT Suzuki, David T. ; Underwood, Caroline.
TIT The Salmon forest.
PUB Oley, Pa : Bullfrog Films, c2001.
NOT Originally broadcast as an episode of the CBC television program The nature of things.

DVD 595.789 M735 1997
AUT Simpson, Michael ; MacAndrew, Heather ; Springbett, David.
TIT The monarch a butterfly beyond borders.
PUB Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c1997.
NOT Also available in Spanish as La Monarca: Mariposa sin Fronteras.

DVD 599.773 W853 2004
AUT Coyote, Peter ; Rosen, Michael ; Howard, Sharon.
TIT Wolf an ancient spirit returns.
PUB Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c2004.

DVD 599.8 B114 1998
AUT McConnell, Amanda ; Martin, Bruce ; Kovanic, Gillian Darling.
TIT Baboon tales.
PUB Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c1998.
NOT This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

DVD 709.73 A7841
AUT Sollins, Susan ; Dowling, Susan ; Barney, Matthew.
TIT Art:21 (Television program) Art:21 art in the twenty-first century.
PUB [United States] : Art21,Inc. ; [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2003.
CON Contents: Disc one (season one) : place, spirituality, identity, consumption -- disc two (season two) : stories -- loss and desire -- time -- humor.

DVD 709.73 A7843
AUT Sollins, Susan ; Dowling, Susan ; Guo-Qiang, Cai.
TIT Art:21 (Television program) Art:21 art in the 21st century.
PUB [Alexandria, Va.] : Art 21, Inc. : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2005.
NOT DVD special features: highlights from season one and two -- special access by artist.
CON Contents: Power: Cai Guo-Qiang ; Laylah Ali ; Krzysztof Wodiczko ; Ida Applebroog ; Power / by Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler -- Memory: Susan Rothenberg ; Mike Kelley ; Hiroshi Sugimoto ; Josiah McElheny ; Memory / by Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler -- Structures: Matthew Ritchie ; Fred Wilson ; Richard Tuttle ; Roni Horn -- Structures / by Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler -- Play: Jessica Stockholder ; Ellen Gallagher ; Arturo Herrera ; Oliver Herring -- Play / by Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler.

Holocaust DVD 791.4372 T627
AUT Korda, Alexander, Sir ; Lombard, Carole ; Benny, Jack.
TIT To be or not to be.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, c2005.
NOT Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942. - "Presented in a format preserving the aspect ratio of its original theatrical exhibition"--Container. - Special features: The rounder; Buy savings bonds! A patriotic drama; scene selection.

CD 811.6 T799n 2006
AUT Trethewey, Natasha D.
TIT Native guard.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
CON Contents: I: The southern crescent -- Genus narcissus -- Graveyard blues -- What the body can say -- Photograph: ice storm 1971 -- What is evidence -- Letter -- After your death -- Myth -- At dusk -- II: Pilgrimage -- Scenes from a documentary history of Mississippi -- King Cotton, 1907 -- Glyph, Aberdeen 1913 -- Flood -- You are late -- Native guard -- Again, the fields -- III: Pastoral -- Miscegenation -- My mother dreams another country -- Southern history -- Blond -- Southern Gothic -- Incident -- Providence -- Monument -- Elegy for the native guards -- South.

Holocaust DVD 940.5318 I31
AUT Zapruder, Alexandra ; Leikind, Allison ; Lazin, Lauren.
TIT I'm still here real diaries of young people who lived during the Holocaust.
PUB [New York] : MTV Networks : Distributed by Sisu Home Entertainment, [2008].
NOT Title from container. - Based on the book: Salvaged pages : young writer's diaries of the Holocaust / by Alexandra Zapruder. - Originally produced in 2005. - Special features: Genocide today; MTV News segment; USHMM interview with Alexandra Zapruder; printable study guide; sneak peak.

DVD BAB 523
AUT Keaton, Diane ; Ramis, Harold ; Wanamaker, Sam.
TIT Baby boom.
PUB Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, [2001].
NOT Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987. - Widescreen.

DVD MFB 528
AUT Nugent, Elliott ; Hope, Bob ; Lamour, Dorothy.
TIT My favorite brunette. - Full screen ed.
PUB [Dunellen, N.J.] : Digiview Productions, c2004.
NOT Originally produced as a motion picture in 1947.

DVD PEN 527
AUT Stevens, George Cooper ; Grant, Cary ; Dunne, Irene.
TIT Penny serenade.
PUB [S.l.] : Digiview Productions, c2004.
NOT Title from container. - Originally released as a motion picture in 1941.

DVD POT 526
AUT Stewart, James ; Goddard, Paulette ; Heidt, Horace.
TIT Pot o' gold.
PUB [Dunellen, N.J.] : Digiview Productions, c2004.
NOT Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941. - Based on the idea originally conceived by Haydn Roth Evans and Robert Brilmayer.

DVD SNO 525
AUT King, Henry ; Peck, Gregory ; Hayward, Susan.
TIT Ernest Hemingway's The snows of Kilimanjaro.
PUB [S.l.] : Digiview, [200-].
NOT Originally issued as motion picture in 1952.

DVD WAI 536
AUT Roiff, Michael ; Shelly, Adrienne ; Russell, Keri.
TIT Waitress. - Full screen ed.
PUB Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2007.
NOT Special features: Commentary by producer Michael Roiff and actor Keri Russell; "This is how we made Waitress pie" featurette; "Written and directed by Adrienne Shelly: a memorial" featurette; "Hi! I'm Keri, I'll be your waitress; "The pies have it!" featurette; Fox Movie Channel presents "In character with: Keri Russell" and "In character with: Cheryl Hines" featurettes; a message from Keri Russel about the Adrienne Shelly Foundation; trailers.

DVD WOR 524
AUT Wade, Kevin ; Wick, Douglas ; Nichols, Mike.
TIT Working girl (Motion picture) Working girl.
PUB Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2001].

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