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	200 Religion
	300 Sociology, Economics, Politics, Law, Education
	400 Languages
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	600 Applied Science, Business
	700 Art, Music, Sports
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	900 History, Geography
	Juvenile Materials
	Non Print/Media Materials

005.1 R813d 2008
AUT Rosenberg, Scott.
TIT Dreaming in code : two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software. - 1st paperback ed.
PUB New York : Three Rivers Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Ch. 0. Software time (1975-2000) -- Ch. 1. Doomed (July 2003) -- Ch. 2. The soul of agenda (1968-2001) -- Ch. 3. Prototypes and Python (2001-November 2002) -- Ch. 4. Lego Land (November 2002-August 2003) -- Ch. 5. Managing dogs and geeks (April-August 2003) -- Ch. 6. Getting design done (July-November 2003) -- Ch. 7. Detail view (January-May 2004) -- Ch. 8. Stickies on a whiteboard (June-October 2004) -- Ch. 9. Methods -- Ch.10. Engineers and artists -- Ch. 11. The road to dogfood (November 2004-November 2005) -- Epilogue : A long betz (2005-2029 and beyond).

005.12 P316 v.4
AUT Buschmann, Frank.
TIT Pattern-oriented software architecture.
PUB Chichester [England] ; New York : Wiley, .
SER Wiley series in software design patterns.
CON Contents: v. 1. A system of patterns / Frank Buschmann ... et al. -- v. 2. Patterns for concurrent and networked objects / Douglas C. Schmidt -- v. 3. Patterns for resource management / Michael Kircher, Prashant Jain -- v. 4. A pattern language for distributed computing / Frank Buschman, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt -- v. 5. On patterns and pattern languages / Frank Buschman, Kevlin Henney, Douglas C. Schmidt.

005.133 P821o2 2008
AUT Poo, Danny C. C. ; Kiong, Derek Beng Kee ; Ashok, Swarnalatha.
TIT Object-oriented programming and Java. - 2nd ed.
PUB London : Springer, c2008.
CON Contents: Object, class, message and method -- A quick tour of Java -- Implementation in Java -- Classification, generalization, and specialization -- Inheritance -- Polymorphism -- Modularity -- Exception handling -- Input and output operations -- Networking and multithreading -- Generics and collections framework -- Graphical interfaces and windows -- Applets and loaders -- Java servlets -- Object serialization and remote method invocation -- Java database connectivity.

006.7 P846d 2008
AUT Porter, Joshua.
TIT Designing for the social Web.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : New Riders, c2008.
SER Voices that matter.

020.7155 C797 2009
AUT Thompson, Susan M.
TIT Core technology competencies for librarians and library staff : a LITA guide.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009.
SER Guide ; #15.
CON Contents: History and overview of technology competencies in libraries / Susan M. Thompson -- The library school's role in preparing new librarians for working with technology / Diane Neal -- Management and technology competencies for the systems librarian / Susan M. Thompson -- Core competencies for non-librarian systems managers / Kevin Herrera -- Social survival skills for the lone information technology librarian / Michelle Robertson -- Reinventing information technology support at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina / Kevin Moderow -- Core technology competencies at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Library / Richard Wayne -- The core competency program at the University of Iowa Libraries / Paul Soderdahl and Donna Hirst.

021.7 T671 2003
TIT Toolkit for academic and research libraries : messages, ideas, and strategies for promoting the value of our libraries and librarians in the 21st century.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : American Library Association and Association of College and Research Libraries, c2003.

025.042 D495g 2009
AUT Devine, Jane ; Egger-Sider, Francine.
TIT Going beyond Google : the Invisible Web in learning and teaching.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., c2009.
CON Contents: Characteristics of the Invisible Web -- Use of the Web for research -- Introducing students to the Invisible Web -- Further exploration of the Invisible Web -- Internet research strategies : an example -- A sampler of tools for mining the Invisible Web -- Visible versus Invisible Web : shifting boundaries.

028.7 H939m 2008
AUT Hunt, Fiona ; Birks, Jane.
TIT More hands-on information literacy activities.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Keywords, brainstorming, and search strings -- Library orientation scavenger hunt clues -- Card set : discover your library questions -- Types of information sources : books -- Types of information sources : encyclopedia -- Types of information sources : journals and magazines -- Types of information sources : web sites -- Exploring the library catalog -- Search strings practice -- Search strings answer key -- Search strings review -- Search strings review answer key -- Finding subject-specific resources -- Evaluating flowchart and checklist -- Sample evaluation flowchart and checklist -- Evaluation pairs -- Evaluation pairs answer key/teacher's guide -- The components of a good evaluative annotation -- Citation consistency -- Citation consistency : corrected version -- Citation consistency game : questions -- To cite or not to cite -- Cards : what is plagiarism? -- Student checklist : how to avoid plagiarism -- Details : how to avoid plagiarism -- Original paragraph : globalization -- Original paragraph paraphrased : globalization -- Highlighted paragraphs for comparison -- Writing in your own words : author's qualifications -- When to cite in text -- When to cite in text answer key -- Foreign language bibliography -- Cards : information literacy story fill in the blanks -- Cards : information literacy story vocabulary -- Information literacy story answer key -- Card set : publishing cycles -- IL team game question sheet -- IL team game answer key -- IL team game student answer sheet -- Cards : online learning benefits and challenges.

028.7 I435 2006
AUT Ragains, Patrick.
TIT Information literacy instruction that works : a guide to teaching by discipline and student population.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2006.
SER Information literacy sourcebooks. ; no. 3.

028.7 U85 2008
AUT Mackey, Thomas P ; Jacobson, Trudi.
TIT Using technology to teach information literacy.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2008.
SER Information literacy sourcebooks.

070.41 S837e2 2008
AUT Stepp, Carl Sessions.
TIT Editing for today's newsroom : a guide for success in a changing profession. - 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2008.
SER LEA's communication series.
CON Contents: The dynamic world of editing -- What makes a good editor? -- The rise of the new editor -- The editor as decision maker in a multimedia age -- Making decisions about people -- Making decisions about copy: editing for content -- Making decisions about copy: editing for structure -- Coaching writers -- Making decisions about coverage -- Making decisions about presentation -- Making decisions about legal issues -- Making decisions about ethics -- Toward excellence in editing.

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115 G879t 2005
AUT Grosz, E. A.
TIT Time travels : feminism, nature, power.
PUB Durham, [N.C] : Duke University Press, 2005.
SER Next wave.
CON Contents: Darwin and feminism: preliminary investigations into a possible alliance -- Darwin and the ontology of life -- The Nature of culture -- Law, justice, and the future -- The Time of violence: Derrida, deconstruction, and value -- Drucilla Cornell, identity, and the "Evolution" of Politics -- Philosophy, knowledge, and the future -- Deleuze, Bergson, and the virtual -- Merleau-Ponty, Bergson, and the question of ontology -- The thing -- Prosthetic objects -- Identity, sexual difference, and the future -- The Time of thought -- The Force of sexual difference -- (Inhuman) forces: power, pleasure, and desire -- The future of female sexuality.

116 S783e 2008
AUT Stamos, David N.
TIT Evolution and the big questions : sex, race, religion, and other matters.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

128 C752n 2002
AUT Connolly, William E.
TIT Neuropolitics : thinking, culture, speed.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
SER Theory out of bounds ; v. 23.
CON Contents: The body-brain-culture nexus -- The color of perception -- Nature, language, thinking -- Techniques of thought and regions of time -- Memory traces, mystical states, and deep pluralism -- Democracy and time -- Eccentric flows and cosmopolitan culture.

128 G879n 2004
AUT Grosz, E. A.
TIT The nick of time : politics, evolution, and the untimely.
PUB Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2004.
CON Contents: Darwinian matters : life, force and change -- Biological difference -- The evolution of sex and race -- Nietzsche's Darwin -- History and the untimely -- The eternal return and the overman -- Bergsonian differences -- The philosophy of life -- Intuition and the virtual -- The future.

152.3083 P613i 2006
AUT Piek, Jan P.
TIT Infant motor development.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2006.
CON Contents: Early movement capabilities -- Theoretical approaches to motor development -- Motor control and the brain: motor development and neural plasticity -- Postural control: development of stability, balance, and orientation -- Manual control: development of reaching and grasping -- Locomotion: development of creeping and walking -- Motor assessment tests -- Neurobehavioral motor assessment and other tests -- Diagnostic motor assessment and screening tests -- Motor development in preterm infants -- Cerebral palsy -- Down syndrome.

153 E965 2008
AUT Spirduso, Waneen Wyrick ; Poon, Leonard W. ; Chodzko-Zajko, Wojtek J.
TIT Exercise and its mediating effects on cognition.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, 2008.
SER Aging, exercise, and cognition series ; v. 2.

155.262 S915t 2008
AUT Strelau, Jan.
TIT Temperament as a regulator of behavior : after fifty years of research.
PUB Clinton Corners, N.Y. : Eliot Werner Publications, c2008.
CON Contents: Experiments on the diagnosis of the basic properties of the nervous system as Pavlov understood them: The forerunners of the regulative theory of temperament -- Diagnosis of the basic properties of the nervous system by means of questionnaires -- An outline of the regulative theory of temperament and the first stage of research on the functional role of temperament -- The regulative theory of temperament: a theoretical framework for temperament research at the turn of the twenty-first century -- The structure of temperament and a psychometric instrument with which to measure it -- Temperament as a moderator of stressful phenomena -- Temperament and extreme stress -- Research based on the behavior genetic paradigm conducted within the framework of the regulative theory of temperament.

155.92 C119L 2008
AUT Cacioppo, John T ; Patrick, William.
TIT Loneliness : human nature and the need for social connection. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.

155.92 M133b 2008
AUT McCullough, Michael E.
TIT Beyond revenge : the evolution of the forgiveness instinct. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Three simple truths about revenge and forgiveness -- Putting vengeance and forgiveness back into human nature -- Revenge is a problem : counting the costs -- Revenge is a solution : three evolutionary hypotheses -- The retribution solution : the evidence for adaptation -- Family, friendship, and the functions of forgiveness -- The forgiveness instinct -- The forgiving brain -- To promote and to maintain friendly relations : making forgiveness happen -- From neurons to nations -- Divine forgiveness and righteous revenge -- Homo ignoscens.

155.92 S689u 2008
AUT Solove, Daniel J.
TIT Understanding privacy.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

170 E11t 2009
AUT Eagleton, Terry.
TIT Trouble with strangers : a study of ethics.
PUB Chichester ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2009.
CON Contents: The insistence of the imaginary -- Introduction: The mirror stage -- Sentiment and sensibility -- Francis Hutcheson and David Hume -- Edmund Burke and Adam Smith -- The sovereignty of the symbolic -- Introduction: The symbolic order -- Spinoza and the death of desire -- Kant and the moral law -- Law and desire in measure for measure -- The reign of the real -- Introduction: Pure desire -- Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- Fictions of the real -- Levinas, Derrida and Badiou -- The banality of goodness.

175 E84M2 2007
AUT Morgan, William John.
TIT Ethics in sport. - 2nd ed.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2007.

179.1 G244e 2008
AUT Garvey, James.
TIT The ethics of climate change : right and wrong in a warming world.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, 2008.
SER Think now.
CON Contents: A warmer world -- Strange changes -- Consensus -- Sound science -- Prospects -- Right and wrong -- Philosophy and morality -- The importance of giving reasons -- Justifying moral beliefs -- Consistency, moral theories, intuitions -- Environmental ethics -- Responsibility -- Agency and spatial and temporal complexities -- The prisoner's dilemma and the tragedy of the commons -- Historical principles of justice -- Present entitlements and capacities -- Sustainability -- Doing nothing -- Uncertainty -- Costs -- Technological rescue -- Waiting for others to act -- Urgency -- Doing something -- Criteria of moral adequacy -- UNFCCC and Kyoto -- Equal per capita shares -- Comparable burdens -- Individual choices -- Consistency again -- Psychological barriers -- Individual action -- Civil disobedience.

179.1 R119 2008
AUT Sideris, Lisa H ; Moore, Kathleen Dean.
TIT Rachel Carson : legacy and challenge.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2008.
SER SUNY series in environmental philosophy and ethics.
CON Contents: A legacy of activism and advocacy -- One patriot / Terry Tempest Williams -- Rachel Carson's scientific and ocean legacies / Jane Lubchenco -- Rachel Carson and George J. Wallace : why public environmental scientists should be advocates for nature / Peter C. List -- Ethics on land and at sea -- Rachel Carson's environmental ethics / Philip Cafaro -- Thinking like a mackerel : Rachel Carson's Under the sea-wind as a source for a trans-ecotonal sea ethic / Susan Power Bratton -- The conceptual foundations of Rachel Carson's sea ethic / J. Baird Callicott and Elyssa Back -- Rachel Carson's The sea around us, ocean-centrism, and a nascent ocean ethic / Gary Kroll -- Reflections on gender and science -- The ecological body : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and breast cancer / Lisa H. Sideris -- Science and spirit : struggles of the early Rachel Carson / Maril Hazlett -- "Silence, miss Carson!" : science, gender, and the reception of Silent spring / Michael Smith -- An ongoing toxic discourse -- After Silent spring : ecological effects of pesticides on public health and on birds and other organisms / David Pimentel -- Contested icons : Rachel Carson and DDT / Steve Maguire -- In her footsteps / Christopher Merrill -- Living downstream of Silent spring / Sandra Steingraber -- A legacy of wonder -- The secular and religious sources of Rachel Carson's sense of wonder / Lisa H. Sideris -- How to value a flower : locating beauty in toxic landscapes / Vera Norwood -- The truth of the barnacles : Rachel Carson and the moral significance of wonder / Kathleen Dean Moore.

179.3 F996 2008
AUT Dawkins, Marian Stamp ; Bonney, Roland.
TIT The future of animal farming : renewing the ancient contract.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: The future of animal farming / Roland Bonney and Marian Dawkins -- The ethics of agriculture : the end of true husbandry / Bernie Rollin -- Why farm animals matter / Mary Midgley -- The urgency of change : a view from a campaigning organization / Joyce D'Silva -- Environmental ethics and animal welfare : re-forging a necessary alliance / Kate Rawles -- The business of farm animal welfare / Roland Bonney -- What is good welfare and how can we achieve it? / Marian Dawkins -- Animal needs and commercial needs / Ruth Layton -- Hard work and sustained effort required to improve livestock / Temple Grandin -- Bringing about change : a retailer's view / Michele Waterman -- Animal welfare as a business priority / Keith Kenny -- Providing assurance on welfare / David C. J. Main -- The role of assurance schemes and public pressure / Colin Spedding -- Improving the welfare of cattle : practical experience in Brazil / Mateus J. R. Piranhos de Costa -- Organic farming and animal welfare / Helen Browning --Enlightened agriculture and the new agrarianism / Colin Tudge.

179.4 H325w 2008
AUT Hart, Lynette A ; Wood, Mary W.
TIT Why dissection? : animal use in education.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Today's biology classroom crisis -- Early history of dissection: controversy and advances -- Controversy in the development of science education and dissection -- The context for dissection: educational testing -- National versus state educational standards: whither dissection? -- Legislation and regulations related to using animals and dissection in teaching -- Empowering teachers to find substitutes for dissection -- Students and the culture of dissection -- The animals used in teaching -- New teaching resources in the computer age -- Locating teaching resources and research literature on alternatives.

179.7 S359e 2008
AUT Schneiderman, L. J.
TIT Embracing our mortality : hard choices in an age of medical miracles.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

179.9 B881r 2006
AUT Brown, Wendy.
TIT Regulating aversion : tolerance in the age of identity and empire.
PUB Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Tolerance as a discourse of depoliticization -- Tolerance as a discourse of power -- Tolerance as supplement: the "Jewish question" and the "woman question" -- Tolerance as governmentality: faltering universalism, state legitimacy, and state violence -- Tolerance as museum object: the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance -- Subjects of tolerance: why we are civilized and they are the barbarians -- Tolerance as/in civilizational discourse.

181.112 C539a 2007
AUT Chin, Ann-ping.
TIT The authentic Confucius : a life of thought and politics. - 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Scribner, 2007.
CON Contents: Leaving home -- Families and politics -- Companions -- Wanderings -- Return -- Teaching -- The rites of life and death -- Defenders.

193 H114b 2008
AUT Habermas, Jürgen.
TIT Between naturalism and religion : philosophical essays.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Public space and political public sphere : the biographical roots of two motifs in my thought -- Communicative action and the detranscendentalized "use of reason" -- On the architectonics of discursive differentiation : a brief response to a major controversy -- Prepolitical foundations of the constitutional state? -- Religion in the public sphere : cognitive presuppositions for the "public use of reason" by religious and secular citizens -- Freedom and determinism -- "I myself am part of nature" : Adorno on the intrication of reason in nature : reflections on the relation between freedom and unavailability -- The boundary between faith and knowledge : on the reception and contemporary importance of Kant's philosophy of religion -- Religious tolerance as pacemaker for cultural rights -- Equal treatment of cultures and the limits of postmodern liberalism -- A political constitution for the pluralist world society?.

193 M697p 2008
AUT Mohanty, Jitendranath.
TIT The philosophy of Edmund Husserl : a historical development.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Anticipations : the Halle period, 18861900 -- Toward a philosophy of mathematics -- Beyond the Philosophie der arithmetik -- Breaking through the Brentanian circle -- The refutation of psychologism and pure logic : logical investigations (1) -- Theory of meaning : logical investigations (2) -- Husserl's preliminary formal ontology : logical investigations (3) -- Theory of consciousness and intentionality : logical investigations (4) -- Phenomenology of knowledge : logical investigations (5) -- On the unity of the investigations : logical investigations (6) : concluding observations -- Breakthrough to transcendental phenomenology : the Göttingen period, 1901-1916 -- From logical investigations to ideas, 1901-1913 -- Phenomenology and theory of knowledge revisited -- Lectures on theory of meaning (1908) -- The time-consciousness texts, 1893-1911 -- Toward a phenomenology of intersubjectivity -- Lectures on ethics and theory of values -- Phantasy, picture-consciousness, memory, and aesthetic consciousness -- Facts and essence : ideas i (1) -- Natural standpoint and epoché : ideas i (2) -- Structure of consciousness : ideas i (3) -- Truth and reason : ideas i (4) -- Husserl's conception of philosophy -- The end of the Göttingen period: on to the Black Forest.

195 A259p 1999
AUT Agamben, Giorgio ; Heller-Roazen, Daniel.
TIT Potentialities : collected essays in philosophy.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1999.
SER Meridian: crossing aesthetics.
CON Contents: Editor's introduction: "To read what was never written" -- The thing itself -- The idea of language -- Language and history: linguistic and historical categories in Benjamin's thought -- Philosophy and linguistics -- Kommerell, or on gesture -- Aby Warburg and the nameless science -- Tradition of the immemorial -- *Se: Hegel's absolute and Heidegger's Ereignis -- Walter Benjamin and the demonic: happiness and historical redemption -- The messiah and the sovereign: the problem of law in Walter Benjamin -- On potentiality -- The passion of facticity -- Pardes: the writing of potentiality -- Absolute immanence -- Bartleby, or on contingency.

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201.7633 J77b 2008
AUT Jones, James William.
TIT Blood that cries out from the earth : the psychology of religious terrorism.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Religion, psychology, and terrorism -- Religion and terrorism: the need for a multidimensional model -- Jihadism in comparative perspective: psychological themes in religiously motivated terrorism -- Aum Shinrikyo: violence and terrorism in Japanese Buddhism -- The divine terrorist: religion and violence in American apocalyptic Christianity -- The role of the individual: toward a clinical psychology of religious terrorism -- What does this tell us about religion?.

204.35 K79m 2008
AUT Kohn, Livia.
TIT Meditation works : in the Daoist, Buddhist, and Hindu traditions.
PUB Magdalena, N.M. : Three Pines Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The foundation: breathing and concentration -- Sound immersion: chanting and mantra -- Insight: Vipassana and observation -- Immediacy: oblivion and zen -- Visualization: highest clarity and tantra -- Body awareness: yoga and Daoyin -- Body energetics: inner alchemy and Kundalini.

211.3 A848o 2008
AUT Assmann, Jan.
TIT Of God and gods : Egypt, Israel, and the rise of monotheism.
PUB Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.
SER George L. Mosse series in modern European cultural and intellectual history.

261.7 W419a 2008
AUT Weigel, George.
TIT Against the grain : Christianity and democracy, war and peace.
PUB New York : Crossroad Pub. Co., c2008.

262.14 S562r 2008
AUT Shupe, Anson D.
TIT Rogue clerics : the social problem of clergy deviance.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Clergy malfeasance as secondary deviance: forms and extent -- Clergy malfeasance as secondary deviance: dynamics of exploitation -- The angry activists: victim advocacy as countermovement mobilization -- Counterreformation: redress or neutralization? -- Fallout from clergy malfeasance revelations -- Epilogue: waiting for the next big scandal.

266.2089 S218t 2008
AUT Sandoval, Alonso de ; Germeten, Nicole von.
TIT Treatise on slavery : selections from De instauranda Aethiopum salute.
PUB Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett Pub. Co., c2008.
SER KIDDY E HIS 352 2 HRS SPRING 2009.

270.3 M489 2009
AUT Bornstein, Daniel Ethan.
TIT Medieval Christianity.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c2009.
SER A people's history of Christianity ; v. 4.
CON Contents: Introduction: Living Christianity / Daniel E. Bornstein -- Part 1. Christianizing the People: -- 1. Converting the barbarian West / Yitzhak Hen -- 2. Death and burial / Bonnie Effros -- 3. Relics, ascetics, living saints / Daniel E. Bornstein -- Part 2. Ordering Worship: -- 4. The impact of architecture / Richard Kieckhefer -- 5. Medieval revivalism / Gary Dickson -- Part 3. Controlling Sex: -- 6. Clerical celibacy and the laity / André Vauchez -- 7. Hearing women's sins / Roberto Rusconi -- Part 4. Defining Boundaries: -- 8. Heresy and dissent / Grado G. Merlo -- 9. Jews, Muslims, and Christians / Teofilo F. Ruiz -- Part 5. Accessing the Divine: -- 10. Domestic religion / Diana Webb -- 11. Parish life / Katherine L. French -- 12. The burdens of purgatory / R. N. Swanson.

271.973 J58s 2004
AUT Jesús, Ursula de ; Van Deusen, Nancy E.
TIT The souls of purgatory : the spiritual diary of a seventeenth-century Afro-Peruvian mystic, Ursula de Jesús. - 1st ed.
PUB Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.
SER Diálogos.
CON Contents: The world of Ursula de Jesús -- Ursula's life story : portraits and portrayals -- A walk through Lima -- Ursula's early childhood -- A niche of female mysticism -- Life in the convent of Santa Clara -- "In the grave I may speak through stones" : purgatory and popular perceptions of the beyond -- "Apostles of the dead": medieval female intercession -- Early modern European and Latin American visionaries -- Ambassadresses to the beyond in seventeenth-century Lima -- The singularities of Ursula de Jesús -- The text -- Translation of Ursula's Diary -- Selections from Ursula's Diary.

277.3 E92b 2008
AUT Evans, Curtis J.
TIT The burden of Black religion.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The meaning of slave religion -- Black religion in the new nation : outside the boundaries of whiteness -- The social sciences and the professional discipline of black religion -- The creation and the burden of the Negro Church -- The drama of black life -- The religious and cultural meaning of The green pastures -- Urbanization and the end of black religion in the modern world.

282.4309 S754h 2008
AUT Spicer, Kevin P.
TIT Hitler's priests : Catholic clergy and national socialism.
PUB DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Adapting Catholic teaching to Nazi ideology -- In the trenches for Hitler -- The old fighters under Hitler's rule -- Antisemitism and the warrior priest -- From nationalism to national socialism -- Germanizing Catholicism -- Judgment day, Brown priests on trial? -- Appendix 1: German Catholic ecclesiastical structure -- Appendix 2: The Brown priests : biographical data.

Ref 297.03 G549n3 2008
AUT Glassé, Cyril.
TIT The new encyclopedia of Islam. - 3rd ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.

297.209 C178 2008
AUT Winter, T. J.
TIT The Cambridge companion to classical Islamic theology.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
SER Cambridge companions to religion.
CON Contents: Introduction / Tim Winter -- Part I. Historical Perspectives: -- 1. Qur'an and hadith / M. A. S. Haleem -- 2. The early creed / Khalid Blankinship -- 3. Islamic philosophy (falsafa) / Hossein Ziai -- 4. The developed kal\u0101m tradition / Oliver Leaman and Sajjad Rizvi -- 5. The social construction of orthodoxy / Ahmed El Shamsy -- Part II. Themes: -- 6. God: essence and attributes / Nader El-Bizri -- 7. Creation / David Burrell -- 8. Ethics / Steffen A. J. Stelzer -- 9. Revelation / Yahya Michot -- 10. The existence of God / Ayman Shihadeh -- 11. Worship / William C. Chittick -- 12. Theological dimensions of Islamic law / Umar F. Abd-Allah -- 13. Theology and Sufism / Toby Mayer -- 14. Epistemology and divine discourse / Paul-A. Hardy -- 15. Eschatology / Marcia Hermansen.

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300.723 S392m 2008
AUT Schuman, Howard.
TIT Method and meaning in polls and surveys.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

301 R615c5 2008
AUT Ritzer, George ; Goodman, Douglas J.
TIT Classical sociological theory. - 5th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

301.01 I29K4 2008
AUT Kivisto, Peter.
TIT Illuminating social life : classical and contemporary theory revisited. - 4th ed.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Working longer, living less : understanding Marx through the workplace today / John P. Walsh and Anne Zacharias-Walsh -- The Weberian theory of rationalization and the McDonaldization of contemporary society / George Ritzer -- Surfing the net for community : a Durkheimian analysis of electronic gatherings / Anne M. Hornsby -- Alcohol-related windows on Simmel's social world / William J. Staudenmeier, Jr. -- Criminalizing transgressing youth : a neofunctionalist analysis of institution building / Paul Colomy and Laura Ross Greiner -- Why do African Americans pay more for new cars? : a structural explanation / Christopher Prendergast -- Critical theory, legitimation crisis, and the deindustrialization of Flint, Michigan / Steven P. Dandaneau -- The socially constructed body : insights from feminist theory / Judith Lorber and Patricia Yancey Martin -- Wild thoughts : an interactionist analysis of ideology, emotion, and nature / Gary Alan Fine and Kent L. Sandstrom -- Goffman's dramaturgical sociology : personal sales and service in a commodified world / Peter Kivisto and Dan Pittman -- Contrasts of carnival : Mardi Gras between the modern and the postmodern / Kevin Fox Gotham -- Negotiating the social landscape to create social change / Anne F. Eisenberg -- Globalization theory and religious fundamentalism / William H. Swatos, Jr.

301.09 C834m2 1977
AUT Coser, Lewis A.
TIT Masters of sociological thought : ideas in historical and social context. - 2nd ed.
PUB Long Grove, Ill. : Reissued by Waveland Press, 2003, c1977.
CON Contents: Auguste Comte -- Karl Marx -- Herbert Spencer -- Emile Durkheim -- Georg Simmel -- Max Weber -- Thorstein Veblen -- Charles Horton Cooley -- George Herbert Mead -- Robert Ezra Park -- Vilfredo Pareto -- Karl Mannheim -- Pitirim A. Sorokin -- William I. Thomas, Florian Znaniecki -- Recent trends in American sociological theory.

301.092 G656c 2006
AUT Goodwin, Glenn A ; Scimecca, Joseph A.
TIT Classical sociological theory : rediscovering the promise of sociology.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2006.
CON Contents: Roots of sociology, morals, and science -- August Comte (1798-1857) -- Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) -- Karl Marx (1818-1883) -- Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) -- Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) -- Georg Simmel (1858-1918) -- Max Weber (1864-1920) -- George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) -- Jane Addams (1860-1935) -- William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) De Bois (1868-1963) -- Classical American sociology and the promise of sociology -- Glossary of terms.

301.452 D585aa 1994
AUT Dinnerstein, Leonard.
TIT Antisemitism in America.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

302.2 D179o2 2008
AUT Danesi, Marcel.
TIT Of cigarettes, high heels, and other interesting things : an introduction to semiotics. - 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
CON Contents: Cigarettes and high heels -- The universe of signs -- What does It mean? -- How humans represent the world -- Makeup -- Why do we put it on? -- Tell me about yourself -- What is language? -- Kisses sweeter than wine -- Metaphor and the making of meaning -- Now, tell me about yourself -- Why do we tell stories? -- At arm's length -- The meanings of spaces -- What a beautiful ring! -- The meanings of clothes and objects -- Art is indistinguishable from life -- The artistic nature of the human species -- There's more to perfume than just smell -- Advertising, pop culture, and television.

302.23 C951m3 2003
AUT Croteau, David ; Hoynes, William.
TIT Media society : industries, images, and audiences. - 3rd ed.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, 2003.
CON Contents: I: Media/society -- 1. Media and the social world -- II: Production: the media industry and the social world -- 2. The economics of the media industry -- 3. Political influence on media -- 4. Media organizations and professionals -- III: Content: media representations of the social world -- 5. Media and ideology -- 6. Social inequality and media representation -- IV: Audiences: meaning and influence -- 7. Media influence and the political world -- 8. Active audiences and the construction of meaning -- 9. Media technology and social change -- V: Globalization and the future -- 10. Media in a changing global culture.

303.32 U55 2008
AUT Prinstein, Mitchell J. ; Dodge, Kenneth A.
TIT Understanding peer influence in children and adolescents.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
SER Duke series in child development and public policy.
CON Contents: Current issues in peer influence research / Mitchell J. Prinstein and Kenneth A. Dodge -- A comprehensive conceptualization of the peer influence process in adolescence / B. Bradford Brown ... [et al.] -- Cognitive social influence : moderation, mediation, modification, and the media / Frederick X. Gibbons, Elizabeth A. Pomery, and Meg Gerrard -- Dynamics and ecology of adolescent peer influence / Thomas J. Dishion, Timothy F. Piehler, and Michael W. Myers -- Deviance regulation theory : applications to adolescent social influence / Hart Blanton and Melissa Burkley -- Variation in patterns of peer influence : considerations of self and other / William M. Bukowski, Ana Maria Velasquez, and Mara Brendgen -- Adolescent peer influences : beyond the dark side / Joseph P. Allen and Jill Antonishak -- Mobilizing and weakening peer influence as mechanisms for changing behavior : implications for alcohol intervention programs / Deborah A. Prentice -- Identity signaling, social influence, and social contagion / Jonah Berger -- Homophily in adolescent romantic relationships / Wyndol Furman and Valerie A. Simon -- Peer influence in involuntary social groups : lessons from research on bullying / Jaana Juvonen and Adriana Galván.

303.4833 L693g 2008
AUT Li, Charlene ; Bernoff, Josh.
TIT Groundswell : winning in a world transformed by social technologies.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Understanding the groundswell -- Why the groundswell--and why now? -- Jujitsu and the technologies of the groundswell -- The social technographics profile -- Tapping the groundswell -- Strategies for tapping the groundswell -- Listening to the groundswell -- Talking with the groundswell -- Energizing the groundswell -- Helping the groundswell to support itself -- Embracing the groundswell -- The groundswell transforms -- How connecting with the groundswell transforms your company -- The groundswell inside your company -- The future of the groundswell.

303.4833 R439b 2008
AUT Rettberg, Jill Walker.
TIT Blogging.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2008.
SER Digital media and society series.

303.484 R129V 1996
AUT Virno, Paolo ; Hardt, Michael.
TIT Radical thought in Italy : a potential politics.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1996.
SER Theory out of bounds ; v. 7.

303.6096 H199s 2008
AUT Hamblet, Wendy C.
TIT Savage constructions : the myth of African savagery.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2008.
CON Contents: The savagery of "civilizing" forces -- Orienting notions -- The truth of myth, the myth of truth -- Rebounding violence in social rituals -- Precolonial Africa -- Colonialist constructions of Africans -- Anthropological constructions of Africans -- Religio-medical constructions of Africans -- Philosophical constructions of Africans -- African self-identity after colonialist myth -- Conflict of African and colonial identifications -- Savage is as save does -- Rebounding violences -- African philosophical therapy -- Concluding the savagery.

303.64 R333s 2009
AUT Regan, Patrick M.
TIT Sixteen million one : understanding civil war.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2009.
SER International studies intensives.
CON Contents: Sixteen million -- Causes -- Discontent -- Forewarnings -- Houses built on sand -- Tipping point -- Perfect storm -- Who fights? -- Exclusion and solidarity -- Bloody favoritism -- Intransigence and repression -- Scylla and Charybdis -- World stage -- Lawyers, guns, and money -- Persuasion -- Blue helmets and bleu cheese -- The road to Damascus.

304.2 E61 2008
AUT Dove, Michael ; Carpenter, Carol.
TIT Environmental anthropology : a historical reader.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
SER Blackwell anthologies in social & cultural anthropology ; 10.
CON Contents: Introduction : Major historical currents in environmental anthropology / Michael R. Dove and Carol Carpenter -- Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems : the case of the Kayapó Indians of the Brazilian Amazon / Darrell Addison Posey -- False forest history, complicit social analysis : rethinking some West African environnmental narratives / James Fairhead and Melissa Leach -- Interest in cattle / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- The cultural ecology of India's sacred cattle / Marvin Harris -- Seasonal variations of the Eskimo : a study in social morphology / Marcel Mauss -- The Great Basin Shoshonean Indians : an example of a family level of sociocultural integration / Julian H. Steward -- Ecologic relationships of ethnic groups in Swat, North Pakistan / Fredrik Barth -- The wet and the dry : traditional irrigation in Bali and Morocco / Clifford Geertz -- Critical pressures on food supply and their economic effects / Raymond Firth -- How the Enga cope with frost : responses to climatic perturbations in the central highlands of New Guinea / Eric Waddell -- An ethnoecological approach to shifting agriculture / Harold C. Conklin -- Slash-and-burn agriculture : a closer look at its implications for settlement patterns / Robert L. Carneiro -- Ritual regulation of environmental relations among a New Guinea people / Roy A. Rappaport -- Why hunters gather : optimal foraging and the Aché of Eastern Paraguay / Kristen Hawkes, Kim Hill, and James F. O'Connell -- Foragers, genuine or spurious? Situating the Kalahari San in history / Jacqueline S. Solway and Richard B. Lee -- Links and boundaries : reconsidering the Alpine village as ecosystem / Robert McC. Netting -- Forest knowledge, forest transformation : political contingency, historical ecology, and the renegotiation of nature in Central Seram / Roy Ellen -- Articulating indigenous identity in Indonesia : resource politics and the tribal slot / Tania Murray Li -- Green dots, pink hearts : displacing politics from the Malaysian rain forest / J. Peter Brosius -- Becoming a tribal elder, and other green development fantasies / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- People into places : Zafimaniry concepts of clarity / Maurice Bloch -- Pleasant places, past times, and sheltered identity in rural East Anglia / Charles O. Frake -- Effects of conscious purpose on human adaptation / Gregory Bateson -- Globes and spheres : the topology of environmentalism / Tim Ingold.

304.23 C922p 2004
AUT Cresswell, Tim.
TIT Place : a short introduction.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
SER Short introductions to geography.
CON Contents: Introduction: Defining place -- The genealogy of place -- Reading 'a global sense of place' -- Working with place -- Place resources.

305.0951 W246b 2008
AUT Wang, Feng.
TIT Boundaries and categories : rising inequality in post-socialist urban China.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
SER Studies in social inequality.
CON Contents: From equality to inequality -- Categorical sources of inequality -- Prosperity and inequality -- Enlarging inequality : categories -- Maintaining equality : boundaries -- Varieties of inequality. 305.235 K25m 2006
AUT Keaton, Trica Danielle.
TIT Muslim girls and the other France : race, identity politics, & social exclusion.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Unmixing French "national identity" -- Structured exclusion : public housing in the French outer city -- Transmitting a "common culture" : symbolic violence realized -- Counterforces : educational inequality and relative resistance -- Beyond identity : Muslim girls and the politics of their existence -- Epilogue : and so it goes.

305.235 K45y 2008
AUT Khosravi, Shahram.
TIT Young and defiant in Tehran.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2008.
SER Contemporary ethnography.

305.4201 G879 1994
AUT Grosz, E. A.
TIT Volatile bodies : toward a corporeal feminism.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c1994.
SER Theories of representation and difference.

305.42097 M167s 2008
AUT McMillen, Sally Gregory.
TIT Seneca Falls and the origins of the women's rights movement.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Pivotal moments in American history.
CON Contents: Separate spheres : law, faith, tradition -- Fashioning a better world -- Seneca Falls -- The women's movement begins, 1850-1860 -- War, disillusionment, division -- Friction and reunification, 1870-1890 -- Epilogue : "Make the world better" -- Appendix.

305.486 G778m 2008
AUT Gray, Doris H.
TIT Muslim women on the move : Moroccan women and French women of Moroccan origin speak out.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2008.
CON Contents: Transgressing boundaries -- The tar of my country -- To God belong the East and the West -- Law of God, law of man -- A journey of a hundred years -- Conclusions.

305.4889 B873b 2008
AUT Brooks, Pamela E.
TIT Boycotts, buses, and passes : Black women's resistance in the U.S. South and South Africa.
PUB Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2008.

305.4889 M214f 1997
AUT Mah, Adeline Yen.
TIT Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter.
PUB New York : Wiley, 1997.
CON Contents: Appropriate door fits the frame of the correct house (Men Dang Hu Dui) -- Converting iron into gold (Dian Tie Cheng Jin) -- Inseparable as each other's shadows (Ru Ying Sui Xing) -- Surpassing loveliness good enough to feast upon (Xiu Se Ke Can) -- An episode of a spring dream (Chang Chun Meng) -- Family ugliness should never be aired in public (Jia Chou Bu Ke Wai Yang) -- Climbing a tree to seek for fish (Yuan Mu Qiu Yu) -- Extend the same treatment to all (Yi Shi Tong Ren) -- Inspired scholar in an enchanting land (Ren Jie Di Ling) -- Each day passes like a year (Du Ri Ru Nian) -- Original ideas in literary composition (Zi Chu Ji Zhu) -- Same bed, different dreams (Tong Chuang Yi Meng) -- Is anything impossible? (You He Bu Ke?) -- One lute, one crane (Yi Qin Yi He) -- Fish swimming in a cauldron (Fu Zhong You Yu) -- One horse, single spear (Pi Ma Dan Qiang) -- Marry a chicken, follow a chicken (Jia Ji Shui Ji) -- You plant melons, you reap melons (Zhong Gua De Gua) -- Hearts reduced to ashes (Xin Ru Si Hui) -- Scales and shells in the belly (Fu Zhong Lin Jia) -- Heaven-made union (Tian Zuo Zhi He) -- Besieged by hostile forces on all sides (Si Mian Chu Ge) -- Coarse tea and plain rice (Cu Cha Dan Fan) -- While drinking water, remember the source (Yin Shui Si Yuan) -- Sever this kinship with one whack of the knife (Yi Dao Liang Duan) -- Creating waves without wind (Wu Feng Qi Lang) -- Near Vermilion, one gets stained red; near ink, one gets stained black (Jin Zhu Zhe Chi, Jin Mo Zhe Hei) -- Wine and meat friends (Jiu Rou Peng You) -- Headless and clueless case (Wu Tou Gong An) -- Opened the door to salute the thief (Kai Men Yi Dao) -- Steal the bell while covering your ears (Yan Er Dao Ling) -- Falling leaves return to their roots (Luo Ye Gui Gen).

305.5 C945c3 2008
AUT Crompton, Rosemary.
TIT Class and stratification. - 3rd ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2008.

305.52 R846s 2008
AUT Rothkopf, David J.
TIT Superclass : the global power elite and the world they are making. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: The power élite on the promenade -- Each one is one in a million : meet the superclass -- Ceteris non paribus : inequality, backlash, and the New Order -- Lessons of history : the rise and fall of élites -- The multinational moment : when finance and business became the center of it all -- Globalists vs. nationalists : political fault line for a new century -- The Age of Asymmetry : decline of the titans and the rise of shadow warriors -- The information superclass : the power of ideas -- How to become a member of the superclass : myth, reality, and the psychopathology of success -- The future of the superclass--and what it may mean for the rest of us.

305.8 C637r 1997
AUT Clifford, James.
TIT Routes : travel and translation in the late twentieth century.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1997.

305.892 R438 2007
AUT Cherry, Robert D. ; Orla-Bukowska, Annamaria.
TIT Rethinking Poles and Jews : troubled past, brighter future.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : Confronting negative stereotypes : Polish behavior in wartime and contemporary Poland / Robert Cherry and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska -- Anti-Polish stereotypes / Thaddeus Radzilowski -- Poland and the Poles in the cinematic portrayal of the Holocaust / Mieczys\u0142aw B. Biskupski -- Cinema in the crossfire of Jewish-Polish polemics : Wajda's Korczak and Polanski's The pianist / Lawrence Baron -- American press coverage of Poland's role in the Holocaust / Shana Penn -- Measuring anti-Polish biases among Holocaust teachers / Robert Cherry -- Polish-Jewish relations in America / Guy Billauer -- Polish-Jewish relations during the Holocaust : a changing Jewish viewpoint / Havi Ben-Sasson -- Polish and Jewish historiography of Jewish-Polish relations during World War II / Helene Sinnreich -- The Holocaust : a continuing challenge for Polish-Jewish relations / John Pawlikowski -- Polish-Jewish relations since 1984 : reflections of a participant / Antony Polonsky -- Polish-Jewish relations in Poland : where have we come from and where are we headed? / Michael Schudrich -- The evolution of Catholic-Jewish relations in Poland after 1989 / Stanis\u0142aw Krajewski -- Antisemitism in contemporary Poland : does it matter? and for whom does it matter? / Joanna B. Michlic -- Polish historians respond to Jedwabne / Natalia Aleksiun -- March of the living : confronting anti-Polish stereotypes / Carolyn Slutsky -- Gentiles doing Jewish stuff : the contributions of Polish non-Jews to Polish Jewish life / Annamaria Orla-Bukowska.

305.9069 V282i 2006
AUT Van Tubergen, Frank.
TIT Immigrant integration : a cross-national study.
PUB New York : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2006.
SER The new Americans.

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AUT Rodriguez, Junius P.
TIT Encyclopedia of emancipation and abolition in the Transatlantic world.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : Sharpe Reference, c2007.

306.36 V937i 2008
AUT Volti, Rudi.
TIT An introduction to the sociology of work and occupations.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Work before industrialization -- The oldest and longest-lasting mode of life and work -- Gathering and hunting societies in the modern world -- The working lives of gather-hunters -- The agricultural revolution -- Farm labor and cultural change -- Artisan work -- Time and work -- Protestantism and the rise of capitalism -- Industrialization and its consequences -- The industrial revolution -- Capitalism and market economies -- Wages and working conditions in the industrial revolution -- Women in the industrial revolution -- Industrialization and social protest -- Making management "scientific" -- The assembly line -- A post-industrial revolution? -- Technology, globalization, and work -- Technology, work, and occupations -- Work and contemporary technologies -- Telework -- Technology and globalization -- Globalization, trade, and employment -- Immigration -- The organization of work in preindustrial times -- Traditional societies and the organization of work -- The family as a basis of work organization -- Slavery -- Caste and occupation -- The guilds -- Apprenticeship -- An assessment of guild organization -- Bureaucratic organization -- The rise of bureaucratic organization -- The elements of bureaucratic organization -- Where bureaucracy works and where it doesn't -- Bureaucratic organization, work, and the worker -- Alternatives to bureaucracy -- Professions and professionalization -- The checklist approach to the professions -- The professional continuum -- Attaining professional status -- Professionalization as a means of control -- Professionals in organizations -- Today's challenges to the professions -- Resource control and professional -- Autonomy: the case of medicine -- Diversity and professional status -- Getting a job -- The economics of the job market -- Minimum wage laws -- Jobs, human capital, and credentials -- Networks and their significance -- Diversity in the workplace -- Race, ethnicity, and hiring practices -- Women in the workforce -- Discrimination, occupational segregation, and pay -- Getting ahead. Contents: Who gets what? -- The determination of wages and salaries: market economics once again -- The widening income gap -- Why has income inequality increased? -- Unionization and its decline -- Computers and income inequality -- Globalization, employment, and income -- Immigration and income -- Occupational prestige -- Life on the job: work and its rewards -- Employment and unemployment -- The personal consequences of unemployment -- Varieties of employment -- Work without pay -- Job training and employment opportunities -- Work and social interaction -- Social relationships and job performance -- The intrinsic satisfactions of work -- Life on the job ii: the perils and pressures of work -- Work may be hazardous to your health -- Stress at work -- Jobs, secure and insecure -- Temporary workers -- Alienated labor -- Managerial efforts to reduce on-the-job alienation -- Job satisfaction and dissatisfaction today -- Workplace culture and socialization -- The significance of workplace cultures -- Socialization into a culture -- Socialization as an ongoing processes -- Socialization and identity -- Occupational and organizational heroes -- Rites of passage -- Organizations and subcultures -- Supportive workplace subcultures -- Deviant subcultures -- Socialization, careers, and strain -- Work roles and life roles -- The separation of work and residence -- Hours of work -- Women at work -- Couples, families, and careers -- Reconciling work and roles and life roles -- Conclusion: work today and tomorrow -- Technology, work, and occupations -- Making globalization and technological change more equitable -- Work and demographic change -- Women, work, and families -- Closing the income gap -- The health care morass -- The fate of the professions -- Organizations for the 21st century -- Jobs for the future -- Index.

306.362 W241a 2006
AUT Walvin, James.
TIT Atlas of slavery. - 1st ed.
PUB Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2006.

306.483 A877d 2008
AUT Atkinson, Michael ; Young, Kevin.
TIT Deviance and social control in sport.
PUB Champaign, Il. : Human Kinetics, c2008.

306.483 W896s 2007
AUT Woods, Ron.
TIT Social issues in sport.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2007.
CON Contents: pt. I. Studying sport in society -- 1. What is sport and why do we study it? -- Sport through the ages -- Definition of sport -- Study of sport -- Chapter summary -- 2. How do we study sport? -- Research methods -- Social theories -- Current status of sport sociology -- Chapter summary. Contents: pt. II. Scope and effect of sport on society -- 3. Participants versus spectators -- Sport participants -- Factors affecting sport participation -- Trends in sport participation -- Sport spectators -- Trends in spectator sports -- Marketing to participants and spectators -- Chapter summary -- 4. Business of sport -- Sport and the economy -- Ownership of professional sports -- Sport as a monopoly -- Collegiate sports as moneymakers -- Recreational sport as a business -- Chapter summary -- 5. Media and sport -- Evolution of sport media -- Interplay of sport and media -- How sport affects the media -- Ideology of sport through the media -- Careers in sport media -- Chapter summary. Contents: pt. III. Sport as an institution -- 6. Youth sport -- History of youth sport -- Sponsors of youth sport -- Current status of youth sport -- Organized youth sport -- Why kids play sport -- Burnout in youth sport -- Reforms for youth sport -- Chapter summary -- 7. Interscholastic and intercollegiate sport -- Interscholastic sport -- Collegiate sport -- Chapter summary -- 8. International sport -- Globalization of modern sport -- American influence on world sport -- Olympic Games -- Effect of media on the globalization of sport -- Nationalism versus economics -- Athletes and coaches as migrant workers -- Using sports for better world understanding -- Chapter summary -- 9. Olympic movement -- History of the Olympics -- Effect of the Olympic Games -- Nationalism and the Olympic movement -- United States Olympic Committee -- Athlete development -- Chapter summary.
CON Contents: pt. IV. Sport and culture -- 10. Sporting behavior -- Sporting behavior at different levels of sport -- Youth attitudes -- Development of moral values -- Moral values applied to sport -- Moral values taught through sport -- Strategies for good sporting behavior -- Chapter summary -- 11. Race, ethnicity, and sport -- Classifications of race and ethnicity -- Sport participation among racial and ethnic minorities -- Sport and promoting equality -- Minorities as sport leaders -- Chapter summary -- 12. Women and sport -- Historical role of women -- Women and sport before Title IX -- Title IX -- Women and sport after Title IX -- Social issues in women's sport -- Global status of women in sport -- Barriers for women in sport -- Golden age of sports reborn -- Chapter summary -- 13. Social class and sport -- Social classes -- Social class and sport activity -- Control of amateur and professional sport -- Class mobility in sport -- Chapter summary -- 14. Special populations and sport -- Americans with Disabilities Act -- American Association of People with Disabilities -- Sport participation for athletes with physical disabilities -- Sport participation for athletes with mental disabilities -- Sport participation for older athletes -- Issues for special populations in sport -- Chapter summary -- 15. Religion and sport -- Religion and sport in history -- Christian influence on sport -- Sport and religions other than Christianity -- Use of religion by athletes -- Use of religion by coaches, organizations, and owners -- Using sport to promote religion -- Using sport to promote Christian colleges and secondary schools -- Conflict between sport and religion -- Chapter summary -- 16. Politics and sport -- Government in physical activity and health -- Government in sport -- Government in promoting identity and unity among citizens -- Nationalism and sport -- Sport in promoting social values -- Politics within sport -- Chapter summary -- 17. Deviance and sport -- Rule breaking -- Emotion and deviant behavior -- Violence in sport -- Performance enhancement through drugs -- Eating disorders in sport -- Hazing in sport -- Gambling and sport -- Chapter summary -- 18. Coaching sport -- Influence of coaches -- Status of coaching -- Coaching at different levels of sport -- Coaching personality -- Challenges for the future of coaching -- Chapter summary -- 19. Future trends in sport -- Social trends -- Conflict between performance sport and participation sport -- Effects of social changes -- Effects of spectatorship -- Effects of technology -- Effects of the electronic media -- Will sport change? -- Chapter summary -- Glossary. 306.7663 S518 1995
AUT Grosz, E. A. ; Probyn, Elspeth
TIT Sexy bodies : the strange carnalities of feminism.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

306.77 R628s 2007
AUT Roach, Catherine M.
TIT Stripping, sex, and popular culture.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: Marie/Foxy -- The strip club -- Stripping: demeaning and/or empowering? -- The work of a stripper: six-inch heels and pole tricks -- "A lot of guys just want to talk" and (other) reality costs of stripping -- Where fantasy becomes reality -- Stripping and popular culture -- Striptease culture: thongs for everywoman -- Strippers, whores, and sluts: "Call off your old tired ethics" -- At the feet of the goddess: stripping, sex, and spirituality -- Conclusion: take it off! -- Notes -- Appendix -- Select bibliography and further reading -- Index.

306.815 K21s 2008
AUT Kaufmann, Jean-Claude.
TIT The single woman and the fairytale prince.
PUB Cambridge : Polity, c2008.

306.815 W872 2008
AUT Bell, Rudolph M ; Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia.
TIT Women on their own : interdisciplinary perspectives on being single.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction / Rudolph M. Bell and Virginia Yans -- Single women in Ireland / Anne Byrne -- Virgin mothers: single women negotiate the doctrine of motherhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / Eileen Janes Yeo -- Social and emotional well-being of single women in contemporary America / Deborah Carr -- Widows at the Hastings: gender, citizenship, and the Montreal by-election of 1832 / Bettina Bradbury -- Business widows in nineteenth-century Albany, New York, 1813-1885 / Susan Ingalls Lewis -- "His absent presence": the widowhood of Mrs. Russell Sage / Ruth Crocker -- "Great was the benefit of his death": the political uses of Maria Weston Chapman's widowhood / Lee V. Chambers -- The United Daughters of the Confederacy, Confederate widows, and the lost cause: "we must not forget or neglect the widows" / Jennifer L. Gross -- Modernity's miss-fits: blind girls and marriage in France and America, 1820-1920 / Catherine Kudlick -- The times that tried only men's souls: women, work, and public policy in the Great Depression / Elaine S. Abelson -- Globablization, inequality, and the growth of female-headed households in the Caribbean / Helen I. Safa.

320.011 A259h 1998
AUT Agamben, Giorgio.
TIT Homo sacer :
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.
SER Meridian.

320.011 B881e 2005
AUT Brown, Wendy.
TIT Edgework : critical essays on knowledge and politics.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.

320.011 B881p 2001
AUT Brown, Wendy.
TIT Politics out of history.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2001.

320.011 L141e 2007
AUT Laclau, Ernesto.
TIT Emancipation(s).
PUB London : Verso, 2007, c1996.
SER Radical thinkers ; 19.

Ref 320.03 S128sR 2008
AUT Safire, William.
TIT Safire's political dictionary.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

320.973 F236s 2009
AUT Farnsworth, Stephen J.
TIT Spinner in chief : how presidents sell their policies and themselves.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2009.
SER Media and power.
CON Contents: The many channels of presidential spin -- Spinning Congress and the rest of the government : persuasion (or not) along Pennsylvania Avenue -- President and citizens : spinning for public approval -- Modern media channels : presidents and presidential candidates spin the new media -- The consequences of presidential spin.

321 A259s 2005
AUT Agamben, Giorgio.
TIT State of exception.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The state of exception as a paradigm of government -- Force-of-law -- Iustitium -- Gigantomachy concerning a void -- Feast, mourning, anomie -- Auctoritas and potestas.

321.8 R185h 2006
AUT Rancière, Jacques ; Corcoran, Steve.
TIT Hatred of democracy.
PUB London : New York : Verso, c2006.

322.10973 M145o 2005
AUT McGarvie, Mark D.
TIT One nation under law : America's early national struggles to separate church and state.
PUB DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Toleration versus freedom : colonial society and the state church -- Revolutions in churches and society -- "To form a more perfect union" : the constitutional consideration of religion -- God is as man makes him : ideology and religion in the early republic -- Revolutionary-era disestablishment : the case of New York state -- Southern republicanism and constitutional-era disestablishment : the case of South Carolina -- The Dartmouth College case : New Hampshire's disestablishment crisis makes law for the nation.

323.1 C752p 2005
AUT Connolly, William E.
TIT Pluralism.
PUB Durham, [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Prelude -- Pluralism and evil -- Pluralism and relativism -- Pluralism and the universe -- Interlude -- Pluralism and time -- Pluralism and sovereignty -- Postlude: belonging to time.

323.1196 V235s 2008
AUT Van Delinder, Jean.
TIT Struggles before Brown : early civil rights protests and their significance today.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2008.
SER Advancing the sociological imagination.
CON Contents: The "master narrative" and civil rights protest -- From master narrative to border campaign : employing ideal types -- Border campaign, ideal types, and interpretive analysis -- Social action and racial segregation -- Overview of the book -- Before Brown : protest and school segregation in Kansas, 1880-1941 -- The "Black bourgeoisie" and racial segregation -- "Along the color line" -- School segregation in Kansas, 1861-1879 -- Challenges to contingencies -- Tentative beginnings -- "Invisibility blues" : Black women and the public sphere in Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1890-1910 -- Race, gender, and women's historical agency -- Race, gender, class, and activism in Oklahoma -- The public library movement and racial segregation -- Judith Carter Horton and the founding of Guthrie's Excelsior Library -- Race, class, gender, and the civil rights movement -- "Going where we could not" : race, gender, class, and religion in Merriam, Kansas, 1948-1949 -- Border campaign : time, place, and rhythm of action -- Career activist -- De facto school segregation in South Park -- Walker walk outs -- Race, gender, class, and religion : Jews and civil rights struggles -- Career activism and social movements -- Behind the Brown case, 1944-1954 -- Rising expectations and social unrest -- Challenges to segregated public accommodations, 1944-1948 -- "Separate schools are here to stay" : challenges to elementary school segregation in Topeka, 1948-1950 -- The Brown "story" -- Local initiatives in social movements -- "Standing up in the heartland" : the Oklahoma City lunch counter sit-ins, 1957-1964 -- Economic boycotts and the rise of consumer society -- Gender, leadership, and innovative organizational tactics -- Racial segregation in 1950s Oklahoma City -- Master narrative and border campaign analyses of social movements -- Current debates in theories of social movements -- Race and the sociological imagination -- "The personal is political" -- Culture and social movements -- Agency, structure, and social theory -- Preexisting protest traditions -- The historical situation -- Civil rights leadership and collective action -- Postmodern social action and the case of the career activist -- The border campaign type -- Hypothesized causes and effects of border campaign tendencies -- Directions for research : Montgomery and Birmingham reconsidered -- What happened to Brown? -- Post-Brown challenges in Topeka -- Future directions for social movement research.

323.1197 C777s 2008
AUT Cooper, Karen Coody.
TIT Spirited encounters : American Indians protest museum policies and practices.
PUB Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: American Indians, museums, and protest -- Politics and sponsorship of The spirit sings -- Display of sacred objects -- Display of human remains -- Art confined to a reservation of its own -- Demands for return of material objects -- Demands for return of human remains -- No celebration for Columbus -- Thanksgiving mourned -- The Custer chronicles -- Native cultural sites -- Transforming museums -- Conclusion: Achievements gained by protests.

323.4 F853 2008
TIT Freedom in the world : the annual survey of political rights & civil liberties.
PUB New York : Freedom House ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield,, 1978-.

324.089 N532 2008
AUT Junn, Jane ; Haynie, Kerry Lee.
TIT New race politics in America : understanding minority and immigrant politics.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: New race politics : the changing face of the American electoral landscape / Jane Junn and Elizabeth Matto -- In whose interest? : political parties, context, and the incorporation of immigrants / Kristi Andersen -- Beyond black and white : the experiences and effects of economic status among racial and ethnic minorities / Dennis Chong and Dukhong Kim -- Activity amid diversity : Asian American political participation / Janelle S. Wong, Pei-te Lien, and M. Margaret Conway -- Get me to the polls on time : co-ethnic mobilization and Latino turnout / Rodolfo O. de la Garza, Marisa A. Abrajano, and Jeronimo Cortina -- Se habla espanol : ethnic campaign strategies and Latino voting behavior / Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto and Jennifer M. Merolla -- Structuring group activism : a macro model of Black participation / Fredrick C. Harris, Brian D. McKenzie and Valeria Sinclair-Chapman -- Black elites and Latino immigrant relations in a Southern city : do Black elites and the Black masses agree? / Paula M. McClain ... [et al.] -- Understanding the new race politics : conclusions and challenges -- Kerry l. Haynie.

324.2 L141o 2007
AUT Laclau, Ernesto.
TIT On populist reason. - Pbk. ed.
PUB London ; New York : Verso, 2007.
CON Contents: Part I. The denigration of the masses. Populism : ambiguities and paradoxes ; Le bon : suggestion and distorted representations ; Suggestion, imitation, identification -- Part II. Constructing the "people." The "people" and the discursive production of emptiness ; Floating signifiers and social heterogeneity ; Populism, representation and democracy -- Part III. Populist variations. The saga of populism ; Obstacles and limits to the construction of the "people".

324.709 B928a 2008
AUT Buell, Emmett H ; Sigelman, Lee.
TIT Attack politics : negativity in presidential campaigns since 1960.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2008.
SER Studies in government and public policy.
CON Contents: Negativity and presidential campaigns -- The runaway races of 1964, 1972, and 1984 -- The somewhat competitive races of 1988, 1992, and 1996 -- The comeback races of 1968 and 1976 -- The dead heat race of 1960 -- The dead heat race of 1980 -- The dead heat races of 2000 and 2004 -- Summary and synthesis : have presidential campaigns become more negative? -- Appendix: Cold War background to 1960 presidential contest.

324.709 H655p 2008
AUT Hillygus, D. Sunshine ; Shields, Todd G.
TIT The persuadable voter : wedge issues in presidential campaigns.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Wedge issues in presidential campaigns -- The reciprocal campaign -- Measuring the persuadable partisan -- Capturing campaign persuasion -- The Republican Southern strategy : a case study of the reciprocal campaign -- Candidate strategy in the 2004 campaign -- Conclusions: Consequences for democratic governance.

324.78 P238p 2008
AUT Parker, David C. W.
TIT The power of money in Congressional campaigns, 1880-2006.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.
SER Congressional studies series. ; v. 6.
CON Contents: The puzzle -- The resource theory of campaigns -- Pomp, circumstance, and rationality in late-nineteenth-century Congressional campaigns -- Resources, the new media, and the race for the U.S. Senate, 1940-1960 -- FECA and national party resurgence -- Resources, strategies, and voter perceptions -- Resources rule.

324.973 E38S 2008
AUT Scheuren, Fritz ; Alvey, Wendy.
TIT Elections and exit polling.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.

325.344 S111e 2007
AUT Saada, Emmanuelle.
TIT Les enfants de la colonie : les métis de l'empire français entre sujétion et citoyenneté.
PUB Paris : Découverte, 2007.
SER Collection "L'espace de l'histoire".

327.1 K45s 2008
AUT Khanna, Parag.
TIT The second world : empires and influence in the new global order. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2008.
CON Contents: Pt. I: The West's East. Brussels : the new Rome ; The Russian devolution ; Ukraine : from border to bridge ; The Balkans : eastern questions ; Turkey : marching east and west ; The Caucasian corridor ; Conclusion : stretching Europe -- Pt. II: Affairs of the heartland. The Silk Road and the Great Game ; The Russia that was ; Tibet and Xinjiang : the new bamboo curtain ; Kazakhstan : "happiness is multiple pipelines" ; Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan : sovereign of everything, master of nothing ; Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan : men behaving badly ; Afghanistan and Pakistan : taming south-central Asia ; Conclusion: A change of heart -- Pt. III: The end of the Monroe Doctrine. The new rules of the game ; Mexico : the umbilical cord ; Venezuela : Bolívar's revenge ; Colombia : the Andean Balkans? ; Brazil : the southern pole ; Argentina and Chile : very fraternal twins ; Conclusion : beyond Monroe -- Pt. IV: In search of the "Middle East." The shattered belt ; The Maghreb : Europe's southern shore ; Egypt : between bureaucrats and theocrats ; The Mashreq : road maps ; The former Iraq : buffer, black hole, and broken boundary ; Iran : virtues and vices ; Gulf streams ; Conclusion: Arabian sand dunes -- Pt. V: Asia for Asians. From outside in to inside out ; China's first-world seduction ; Malaysia and Indonesia : the greater Chinese co-prosperity sphere ; Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam : the inner triangle ; Size matters : the four Chinas -- Conclusion: The search for equilibrium in a non-American world.

327.44 M634f 2008
AUT Migani, Guia.
TIT La France et l'Afrique sub-saharienne, 1957-1963 : histoire d'une décolonisation entre idéaux eurafricains et politique de puissance.
PUB Bruxelles : P.I.E. Peter Lang, c2008.
SER Euroclio ; no 41.

327.73009 B868a 2008
AUT Bromley, Simon.
TIT American power and the prospects for international order.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : Polity, 2008.
CON Contents: American ideology: modernization theory and the neo-conservatives -- America's transatlantic empire: where in the world is America? -- American oil, world oil: resources, conflicts, control, and scarcity -- American power, the future of the dollar, and the challenge of China.

327.73009 K213p 2008
AUT Kaufman, Scott.
TIT Plans unraveled : the foreign policy of the Carter administration.
PUB DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, c2008.

327.73051 K81s 2008
AUT Komine, Yukinori.
TIT Secrecy in US foreign policy : Nixon, Kissinger and the rapprochement with China.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub., c2008.
CON Contents: The Nixon-Kissinger leadership for a new China initiative -- Foreign policy decision-making machinery for the US rapprochement with China -- The development of policy options from January to July 1969 -- The reassessment of the China policy from July to November 1969 -- The resumption of the Warsaw ambassadorial talks from December 1969 to may 1970 -- The development of backchannel communications from June 1970 to July 1971 -- Kissinger's trips to Beijing in July and October 1971 -- Nixon's trip to China in February 1972.

327.73056 C548pE 2009
AUT Chomsky, Noam ; Achcar, Gilbert ; Shalom, Stephen Rosskamm.
TIT Perilous power : The Middle East & U.S. Foreign Policy : dialogues on terror, democracy, war, and justice. - Expanded ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. ; London : Paradigm Publishers, 2009.
CON Contents: Preface -- Terrorism and conspiracies -- Defining terrorism -- The terrorist threat -- Responding to terrorism -- 9/11 conspiracies -- Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait -- Fundamentalism and democracy -- Fundamentalism -- The Saudi Kingdom -- Democracy in the Middle East -- Fundamentalism and democracy -- Democracy since the Iraq invasion -- Sources of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East -- Oil -- Israel, the Israel lobby, and U.S. policy -- Israel and U.S. interests -- Wars in the "greater Middle East" -- Afghanistan -- Responding to 9/11 -- Afghanistan today -- The United States and Iraq, 2003 -- Other major powers and Iraq -- The current situation in Iraq -- The Iraqi insurgency -- U.S. policy in Iraq today -- What should the antiwar movement be calling for? -- Will withdrawal lead to civil war? -- The Kurds in Iraq -- The Kurds in Turkey -- Secession, self-determination, and justice -- Syria ; Iran -- The Israel-Palestine conflict -- The legitimacy of Israel -- Palestinian say in any settlement -- Going from a settlement to lasting peace -- Palestinians within Israel -- Mizrahim -- The Palestinian refugees -- Efforts to achieve peace -- The Palestinian view of a settlement -- Zionism and the Palestinians -- Israeli politics -- Palestinian politics -- How can we support justice in Israel/Palestine? -- Boycotts, divestment, and other tactics -- Anti-semitism -- Anti-semitism in Western Europe -- Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia -- Epilogue: Gilbert Achcar -- The situation in Iraq ; Hamas in power ; The Israel-Hezbollah-Lebanon conflict ; The Israel lobby ; The United States and Iran ; Hezbollah ; Confrontation with Hamas and Hezbollah -- Postcript: two more years of crisis -- Gilbert Achcar: -- The Iraq "surge" -- Lebanon and Israel -- Palestinian developments -- Noam Chomsky: -- The U.S. elections and Iraq -- Iran -- Israel-Patestine and the United States.

330.01 K36g6 2008
AUT Kennedy, Peter.
TIT A guide to econometrics. - 6th ed.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Criteria for estimators -- The classical linear regression model -- Interval estimation and hypothesis testing -- Specification -- Violating assumption one: wrong regressors, nonlinearities, and parameter inconstancy -- Violating assumption two: nonzero expected disturbance -- Violating assumption three: nonspherical disturbances -- Violating assumption four: instrumental variable estimation -- Violating assumption four: measurement errors and autoregression -- Violating assumption four: simultaneous equations -- Violating assumption five: multicollinearity -- Incorporating extraneous information -- The Bayesian approach -- Dummy variables -- Qualitative dependent variables -- Limited dependent variables -- Panel data -- Time series econometrics -- Forecasting -- Robust estimation -- Applied econometrics -- Computational considerations.

330.951 I42 2008
AUT Gustafsson, Björn ; Li, Shi ; Sicular, Terry.
TIT Inequality and public policy in China.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

332 C866s 2008
AUT Counts, Alex.
TIT Small loans, big dreams : how Nobel peace prize winner Muhammad Yunus and microfinance are changing the world.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.
CON Contents: Muhammad Yunus -from Vanderbilt to Chittagong -- The birth of the Grameen Bank -- Zianpur Bazaar -- Las Papillons -- Amena Begum's dream -- Omiyale Dupart -- The Haldar Para -- The Maxwell Street market -- Krishna Das Bala -- The hip hop shop -- Dry money in a monsoon -- The black on black love festival -- The sixteen decisions -- "We're here for you".

332.153 B513w 2008
AUT Berkman, Steve.
TIT The World Bank and the gods of lending.
PUB Sterling, Va. : Kumarian Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Broken promises and the gods of lending -- Managing for mediocrity -- The economist managers -- Confucius and the Bank -- Feeding the beast -- Groping in the dark -- And darkness was upon the face of the implementers -- A very special account -- Playing with the books -- "C" is for corruption -- As the train left the station -- A new regime -- The Potemkin village -- Death by a thousand cuts -- Alhaji the car dealer -- Bigger than Wal-Mart -- Lamin tells all -- In the eye of the beholder -- And the dance begins -- The fifty-year dilemma -- The cost of corruption -- So easy to steal -- The essence of knowledge -- Reporting the truth -- Money can't buy happiness -- Taming the gods of lending.

332.64 G249k 2007
AUT Gasparino, Charles.
TIT King of the club : Richard Grasso and the survival of the New York Stock Exchange. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Collins, c2007.
CON Contents: It's good to be king -- The Earl of sandwich -- "The empty suit" -- The little guy in the dark suit -- Sugar daddy -- The savior -- The last hurrah -- Star fucker or savior? -- The uprising begins -- One bad day -- With friends like these -- Enter the enforcer -- The Goldman Sachs Exchange -- Notes -- Index.

333.7209 M214n 2008
AUT Maher, Neil M.
TIT Nature's new deal : the Civilian Conservation Corps and the roots of the American environmental movement.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : New Deal conservation -- Ideas : Franklin Roosevelt's Progressive Era influences -- Landscape : the evolution of CCC conservation -- Labor : enrollee work and the body politic -- Community : locals and next-door natures -- Nation : the great conservation debate -- Planning : from top-down conservation to bottom-up environment -- Epilogue : New Deal landscapes in the environmental era.

333.79 S177i 2008
AUT Salter, Malcolm S.
TIT Innovation corrupted : the origins and legacy of Enron's collapse.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: From innovation to reckless gambling -- The impact of perverse incentives -- The evolving culture of deceit -- Ethical drift -- The directors' failure -- The collusion of financial intermediaries -- Enron and the public watchdogs -- Strengthening board oversight -- Avoiding perverse financial incentives -- Instilling ethical discipline.

335.411 R185p 2004
AUT Rancière, Jacques ; Parker, Andrew.
TIT The philosopher and his poor.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, c2004.

336.34 W952o 2008
AUT Wright, Robert E.
TIT One nation under debt : Hamilton, Jefferson, and the history of what we owe.
PUB New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.
CON Contents: A twinkle in the eye : the importance of government debt -- Parentage : European precedents -- Conception : financing revolution -- Gestation : the Constitution and the national debt -- Birth : Alexander Hamilton's grand plan -- Youth and maturity : the public debt grows up, then slims down -- Life : the life and times of federal bondholders in Virginia -- Blessing : American economic growth -- Death and reincarnation : Jackson's triumph and failure.

338.47687 M279d 2007
AUT Manlow, Veronica.
TIT Designing clothes : culture and organization of the fashion industry. - 1st pbk. ed.
PUB New Brunswick, [N.J.] : Transaction Pub, 2009.
CON Contents: Part I. The fashion industry : Clothing, fashion, and society -- The emergence of the fashion industry -- The fashion designer -- Leadership in the fashion industry -- Organizational culture in the fashion industry -- Part II. Tommy Hilfiger USA, Inc.: a case study -- Charisma, culture, and representation at Tommy Hilfiger -- Epilogue.

338.6422 W771d 2008
AUT Wingfield, Adia Harvey.
TIT Doing business with beauty : black women, hair salons, and the racial enclave economy.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2008.
SER Perspectives on a multiracial America.
CON Contents: The racial enclave economy -- Black entrepreneurship in historical context -- Business decisions in the racial enclave economy -- A pathway to financial security -- Stereotypes and social support -- Ethnic divisions in the racial enclave -- Conclusion.

342.73 K99a 2008
AUT Kyvig, David E.
TIT The age of impeachment : American constitutional culture since 1960.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2008.
CON Contents: Impeachment evolves -- Impeachment as exceptional: the case of Earl Warren -- Impeachment as political: the case of Abe Fortas -- Impeachment as partisan: the case of William 0. Douglas -- Impeachment as discretionary: the case of Spiro Agnew -- Impeachment as essential: the case of Richard Nixon -- Impeachment as routine: pardons, powers, prosecutors, and judicial self-policing -- Impeachment as cultural: shaping public conclusions -- Impeachment as distasteful: the case of Ronald Reagan -- Impeachment as inexorable: the cases of Harry Claiborne and Walter Nixon -- Impeachment as irreversible but not fatal: the case of Alcee Hastings -- Impeachment as consensual: the case of Bill Clinton -- Impeachment as conventional: expressions of public scorn -- The age of impeachment: ended or extended?.

342.73072 A511 2009
AUT Fredericks, Carrie.
TIT Amendment XIX : granting women the right to vote.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, 2009.
SER Constitutional amendments : beyond the Bill of Rights.
CON Contents: Historical background on the nineteenth amendment -- Voting rights trials -- Current debates on equality and voting rights.

342.7308 D244f 2008
AUT Dautrich, Kenneth ; Yalof, David Alistair ; López, Mark Hugo.
TIT The future of the First Amendment : the digital media, civic education, and free expression rights in America's high schools.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008.

343.7307 C743c 2008
AUT Conant, Michael.
TIT The Constitution and economic regulation : objective theory and critical commentary.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Constitutional structure and functions -- Objective theory of interpretation : textual analysis in social context -- Judicial review of legislation : scope and limits -- Commerce clause : textual meaning and judicial misconstruction -- Commerce clause : federalism and regulation of state transactions -- The commerce clause and the law merchant : law of nations -- Constitutional privileges and immunities : the Ninth Amendment and the antimonopoly tradition -- Procedural essence of due process : judicial error of substantive scope -- Injunctions against labor unions : antitrust and due process -- Equal protection clause : rights of persons and firms.

344.73 D563b 2007
AUT Dierenfield, Bruce J.
TIT The battle over school prayer : how Engel v. Vitale changed America.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2007.
SER Landmark law cases & American society.
CON Contents: Forced worship stinks in God's nostrils -- Christ loves all but the hypocrites -- Good fences make good neighbors -- The one-size-fits-all prayer -- The day I stopped believing in God -- Why are these people so afraid of God? -- Almighty God has been given his walking papers -- The most hated woman in America -- My God, what's wrong with that man?.

344.73 W822 2008
AUT Daugherity, Brian J. ; Bolton, Charles C ; Daugherity, Brian J.
TIT With all deliberate speed : implementing Brown v. Board of Education.
PUB Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Implementing Brown in Arkansas / Johanna Miller Lewis -- The cost of opportunity : school desegregation's complicated calculus in North Carolina / J. Michael McElreath -- "Keep on keeping on" : African Americans and the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia / Brian J. Daugherity -- The Palmetto revolution : school desegregation in South Carolina / Vernon Burton and Lewie Reece -- Defiance, protest, and compromise : the struggle to implement Brown in Georgia, 1950-1973 / Thomas V. O'Brien -- The last holdout : Mississippi and the Brown decision / Charles C. Bolton -- A state divided : implementation of the Brown decision in Florida, 1954-1970 / Caroline Emmons -- Promises of Brown : desegregating education in Delaware, 1950-1968 / Bradley Skelcher -- Border state ebb and flow : school desegregation in Missouri, 1954-1999 / Peter William Moran -- The complexity of school desegregation in the borderland : the case of Indiana / Jayne R. Beilke -- Northern desegregation and the racial politics of magnet schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin / Jack Dougherty -- Brown, integration, and Nevada / Michael S. Green.

345.7302 L998h 2008
AUT Lytton, Timothy D.
TIT Holding bishops accountable : how lawsuits helped the Catholic Church confront clergy sexual abuse.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: A short history -- Statistics -- Legal issues -- Framing clergy sexual abuse as a problem of institutional failure -- Placing clergy sexual abuse on policy agendas -- Uncovering concealed information -- Assessing the results of clergy sexual abuse litigation -- The complementary policymaking role of tort litigation.

346.7303 B317s 2008
AUT Bass, Alison.
TIT Side effects : a prosecutor, a whistleblower, and a bestselling antidepressant on trial. - 1st ed.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.

352.23 C947o 2009
AUT Cronin, Thomas E.
TIT On the presidency : teacher, soldier, shaman, pol.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2009.
SER On politics.
CON Contents: Searching for the perfect president -- The symbolic and shamanistic functions of the American presidency -- Overcoming groupthink, the separation of brain and state, and Machiavelli's flattery conundrum -- President John F. Kennedy : act III politician -- Problematic presidential power in our post-9/11 world.

355.009 V813a 2008
AUT Virden, Jenel.
TIT Americans and the wars of the twentieth century.
PUB Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
SER American history in depth.
CON Contents: The First World War -- The pre-war period -- Beginnings -- How the war was fought -- US home front -- The consequences -- The Second World War -- The interwar period -- Beginnings -- How the war was fought -- US home front -- The consequences -- The Korean War -- The interwar period -- Beginnings -- How the war was fought -- US home front -- The consequences -- The Vietnam War -- The interwar period -- Beginnings -- How the war was fought -- US home front -- The consequences -- Conclusions: How the wars began - justice of war -- How the wars were fought - justice in war -- How the wars ended - justice after the war -- US home front - justice at home.

355.0201 F612d 2008
AUT Fletcher, George P ; Ohlin, Jens David.
TIT Defending humanity : when force is justified and why.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Murder among nations -- How to talk about self-defense -- A theory of legitimate defense -- The six elements of legitimate defense -- Excusing international aggression -- Humanitarian intervention -- Preemptive and preventitive wars -- The collective dimension of war.

355.113 K89p 2008
AUT Krammer, Arnold.
TIT Prisoners of war : a reference handbook.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008.
SER Contemporary military, strategic, and security issues, 1932-295X.
CON Contents: War prisoners through the ages -- A search for legal protection -- The best and the worst -- The rules have changed -- Primary documents.

362.1 M145b 2008
AUT McGarity, Thomas O ; Wagner, Wendy.
TIT Bending science : how special interests corrupt public health research.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

362.104 D186s2 2008
AUT Daniels, Norman ; Sabin, James E.
TIT Setting limits fairly : learning to share resources for health. - 2nd ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Our lives in whose hands? -- Justice, scarcity, and public accountability for limits -- The legitimacy problem and fair process -- Accountability for reasonableness -- Managing last-chance therapies -- Lung volume reduction surgery: a case study -- Making pharmacy benefits accountable for reasonableness -- Indirect limit setting: accountability for physician incentives -- Accountability for reasonableness in action: public sector mental health contracting -- An international learning curve -- Learning to share medical resources -- Revisiting the international learning curve -- Developing country applications of accountability for reasonableness -- New uses for accountability for reasonableness -- Conclusion: what next?.

362.1086 U56 2008
AUT Wolitski, Richard J ; Stall, Ron ; Valdiserri, Ronald O.
TIT Unequal opportunity : health disparities affecting gay and bisexual men in the United States.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

362.87 A267o 2008
AUT Agier, Michel.
TIT On the margins of the world : the refugee experience today. - English ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, c2008.

363.34 S641g 2008
AUT Smil, Vaclav.
TIT Global catastrophes and trends : the next 50 years.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, c2008.
CON Contents: 1. How (not) to look ahead -- 2. Fatal discontinuities. Natural catastrophes -- Encounters with extraterrestrial objects -- Volcanic mega-eruptions and collapses -- Influenza pandemics -- Violent conflicts -- Transformational wars -- Terrorist attacks -- Imaginable surprises -- 3. Unfolding trends. Energy transitions -- Dominant fuels, enduring prime movers -- Solar (nuclear?) civilization -- New world order -- Europe's place -- Japan's decline -- Islam's choice -- Russia's way -- China's rise -- The United States' retreat -- Place on top -- Dominance and decline -- Globalization and inequality -- 4. Environmental change. Global warming and its consequences -- Rising temperatures -- Ocean's rise, dynamics and composition -- Ecosystems and economies -- Other global changes -- Changing water and nitrogen cycles -- Loss of biodiversity and invasive species -- Antibiotic resistance -- Biosphere's integrity -- 5. Dealing with risk and uncertainty. Relative fears -- Quantifying the odds -- Rational attitudes -- Acting as risk minimizers -- The next 50 years.

363.69 A633 2008
AUT Rothfield, Lawrence.
TIT Antiquities under siege : cultural heritage protection after the Iraq war.
PUB Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The case of Iraq and the context of looting. Preserving Iraq's heritage from looting : what went wrong (within the United States) / Lawrence Rothfield -- Preparations at the Iraq Museum in the lead-up to war / Donny George Youkhanna and McGuire Gibson -- Thieves of Baghdad : the looting of the Iraq Museum / Matthew Bogdanos -- Who are the looters at archaeological sites in Iraq? / Joanne Farchakh-Bajjaly -- See no evil : museums, art collectors, and the black markets they adore / Matthew Bogdanos -- The western market in Iraqi antiquities / Neil Brodie -- Preventing future looting after armed combat : the way forward for legislative bodies with respect to international law. The 1954 Hague Convention on the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict : its background and prospects for ratification in the United States / Patty Gerstenblith -- The implementation of international treaties at the national level : law and practice / Guido Carducci -- The way forward for legislative bodies and military commanders : beyond implementing international law -- Congressional responses to the looting of Iraq's cultural property / Patty Gerstenblith and Katharyn Hanson -- The chain of command / J. Holmes Armstead, Jr. -- The way forward for military and civilian war planners. Bridging the public security gap : stability police units in contemporary peace operations and the center of excellence for stability police units / Michael Dziedzic and Christine Stark -- Italian carabinieri and the protection of Iraq's cultural heritage / Carabinieri Unit for the Protection and Safeguarding of Italian Cultural Heritage -- Technology for the prevention of cultural theft / John B. Alexander -- Sidebar : a failed security plan for Iraq / Laura Page -- The way forward for postwar reconstruction planners. The way ahead : a five-point plan for future action / Matthew Bogdanos -- Assignment blue shield : the looting of the Iraq museum and cultural property at war / Corine Wegener -- The role of NATO and civil military affairs / Joris D. Kila -- The way forward for governmental and intergovernmental agencies. Practical and policy considerations in protecting cultural heritage and preventing looting during international peace and stability operations / Christopher J. Hoh -- UNESCO and the Safeguarding of Cultural Heritage in postconflict situations : efforts at UNESCO to establish an intergovernmental fund for the protection of cultural property in times of conflict / Mounir Bouchenaki -- Engaging interagency processes to protect cultural sites : communities, authorities, and capabilities / Scott R. Feil -- The way forward for cultural ministries, departments, and agencies. Governmental agencies and the protection of cultural property in times of war / Nancy C. Wilkie -- What cultural ministries and heritage sites should do to prepare for conflict / McGuire Gibson and Donny George Youkhanna -- The way forward for cultural heritage NGOs -- Preventing looting ...

363.7 B434i3 2009
AUT Bell, Michael.
TIT An invitation to environmental sociology. - 3rd ed. / Michael Mayerfeld Bell ; with Michael S. Carolan ; with illustrations by Matthew Raboin and Matthew Robinson.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2009.

363.7097 S136b 2008
AUT St. Clair, Jeffrey.
TIT Born under a bad sky : notes from the dark side of the earth.
PUB Petrolia, Calif. : CounterPunch ; Oakland : AK Press, 2008.

363.7289 P887a 2008
AUT Power, Max Singleton.
TIT America's nuclear wastelands : politics, accountability, and cleanup.
PUB Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The legacy of nuclear weapons production -- Risk: perception, assessment and conflict -- The legal and regulatory basis for cleanup -- Politics, jobs, and public engagement -- How clean is clean enough? -- The geographic chess game -- Cleanup accomplishments -- Cleanup challenges for today and tomorrow -- Trust and momentum to get the job done.

363.7387 H299c 2008
AUT Harrington, Jonathan Henry.
TIT The climate diet : how you can cut carbon, cut costs, and save the planet.
PUB London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan, 2008.
CON Contents: Cool strategies for a warming world -- Ten good reasons to go on a climate diet -- Going for the gold : the nuts and volts of climate diet success -- Less is more : creating a climate diet home -- Finding the right balance : heating, cooling, and outside spaces -- Shopping, eating, recycling, and more -- Hit the road the climate-wise way -- Community strategies for a better climate -- Putting it all together : your climate diet results -- Epilogue : our lifestyle, her life.

363.7387 V233a 2008
AUT Vanderheiden, Steve.
TIT Atmospheric justice : a political theory of climate change.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The politics of climate change mitigation -- Climate change, fairness, and equity -- Climate change and international justice -- Climate change and intergenerational justice -- Moral responsibility and greenhouse gas emissions -- Knowledge, beliefs, and responsibility -- Equity, responsibility, and climate change mitigation.

363.8 R646e 2008
AUT Roberts, Paul.
TIT The end of food.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
CON Contents: Starving for progress (history) -- Its so easy now -- Buy one, get one free -- Tipping the scales -- Eating for strength -- The end of hunger -- We are what we eat -- How long can this go on? -- Magic pill/hair of the dog -- Food fight -- Nouvelle cuisine.

364 C312c 2008
AUT Carrabine, Eamonn.
TIT Crime, culture and the media.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2008.
SER Crime & society series.

364.106 S485i 2008
AUT Serio, Joseph.
TIT Investigating the Russian mafia.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Mafia -- Russia -- Information -- Statistics -- Legacy -- The economy -- Vory v zakone -- Accumulation of capital -- Groups -- Business -- Law enforcement.

364.973 A258 2008
AUT Frampton, Mary Louise ; Haney-López, Ian ; Simon, Jonathan.
TIT After the war on crime : race, democracy, and a new reconstruction.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The place of the prison in the new government of poverty / Loïc Wacquant -- America doesn't stop at the Rio Grande : democracy and the war on crime / Angelina Snodgrass Godoy -- From the New Deal to the crime deal / Jonathan Simon -- The great penal experiment : lessons for social justice / Todd R. Clear -- The code of the streets / Elijah Anderson -- The contemporary penal subject(s) / Mona Lynch -- The punitive city revisited : the transformation of urban social control / Katherine Beckett and Steve Herbert -- Frightening citizens and a pedagogy of violence / William Lyons -- Smart on crime / Kamala D. Harris -- Rebelling against the war on low-income, of color, and immigrant communities / Gerald P. López -- Of taints and time : the racial origins and effects of Florida's felony disenfranchisement law / Jessie Allen -- The politics of the war against the young / Barry Krisberg -- Transformative justice and the dismantling of slavery's legacy in post-modern America / Mary Louise Frampton -- Afterword : Strategies of resistance / Van Jones.

370.115 A662a 2008
AUT Aronowitz, Stanley.
TIT Against schooling : toward an education that matters.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2008.
SER Radical imagination series.
CON Contents: How class works in education -- Against schooling: education and social class -- The world turned upside down again -- Higher education as a public good -- Subaltern in paradise -- Academic unionism and the future of higher education -- Should academic unions get involved in governance? -- The decline of labor education -- Gramsci and education -- Paulo Freire's radical democratic humanism.

370.117 B932 2008
AUT Teel, Karen Manheim ; Obidah, Jennifer E.
TIT Building racial and cultural competence in the classroom : strategies from urban educators.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, c2008.

371.24 G118t 2008
AUT Gabrieli, Christopher ; Goldstein, Warren.
TIT Time to learn : how a new school schedule is making smarter kids, happier parents, and safer neighborhoods.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.

371.26 K84m 2008
AUT Koretz, Daniel M.
TIT Measuring up : what educational testing really tells us.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: If only it were so simple -- What is a test? -- What we measure : just how good is the sample? -- The evolution of American testing -- What test scores tell us about American kids -- What influences test scores, or how not to pick a school -- Error and reliability : how much we don't know what we're talking about -- Reporting performance : standards and scales -- Validity -- Inflated test scores -- Adverse impact and bias -- Testing students with special needs -- Sensible uses of tests.

371.782 U55 2008
AUT Paludi, Michele Antoinette.
TIT Understanding and preventing campus violence.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.

371.95 H9965g 2009
AUT Hymer, Barry ; Whitehead, Jack ; Huxtable, Marie.
TIT Gifts, talents and education : a living theory approach.
PUB Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

Curr 372.6 M437d 2006
AUT Matthew, Kathryn I.
TIT Developing better readers and writers using Caldecott books.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Realistic fiction -- Historical fiction -- Traditional literature -- Memoirs, autobiographies, and biographies -- Poetry -- Fantasy -- Information -- Letters and diaries.

378.121
AUT Wilson, John K.
TIT Patriotic correctness : academic freedom and its enemies.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2008.
SER Cultural politics & the promise of democracy. CALL 378.121.
CON Contents: Introduction : the rise of patriotic correctness -- Academic freedom in America after 9/11 -- Censorship on campus of criticism of Israel -- David Horowitz's crusade for the "academic bill of rights" -- Biased numbers : counting Democrats and Republicans on campus -- Conservative correctness and free speech on campus -- What would Jesus censor? -- Dangerous words : freedom of the press on campus -- The Wal-Mart university -- Conclusion : fighting for academic freedom.

378.121 W749p 2008
AUT Wilson, John K.
TIT Patriotic correctness : academic freedom and its enemies.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2008.
SER Cultural politics & the promise of democracy.
CON Contents: Introduction : the rise of patriotic correctness -- Academic freedom in America after 9/11 -- Censorship on campus of criticism of Israel -- David Horowitz's crusade for the "academic bill of rights" -- Biased numbers : counting Democrats and Republicans on campus -- Conservative correctness and free speech on campus -- What would Jesus censor? -- Dangerous words : freedom of the press on campus -- The Wal-Mart university -- Conclusion : fighting for academic freedom.

378.125 B658d 2009
AUT Blumberg, Phyllis.
TIT Developing learner-centered teaching : a practical guide for faculty.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
SER Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
CON Contents: Foreword / Maryellen Weimer -- Transforming teaching to be more learner-centered -- Introduction -- Understanding the rubrics -- Tools for facilitating change and assessment -- The five dimensions of learner-centered teaching -- The function of content -- The role of the instructor -- The responsibility for learning -- The purposes and processes of assessment -- The balance of power -- Discussion and conclusion -- Can all courses be learner-centered? -- Strategies for overcoming obstacles and resistance -- Conclusions -- Appendix A : glossary of terms -- Appendix B : rubrics, planning for transformation exercise, and the documentation to support the selected status form -- Appendix C : development of the rubrics.

378.166 B573 2007
AUT Mezeske, Richard J ; Mezeske, Barbara A.
TIT Beyond tests and quizzes : creative assessments in the college classroom. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2007.

378.17 P168a 2009
AUT Palloff, Rena M. ; Pratt, Keith.
TIT Assessing the online learner : resources and strategies for faculty. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
SER Jossey-Bass guides to online teaching and learning.
CON Contents: Assessment basics -- 1: How do we know they know? -- Developing standards of assessment -- Getting down to the basics -- Learner-focused teaching -- Applying what we have learned -- 2: Assessment online -- Principles of effective online assessment -- Assessment and the online learner -- Using the online environment for assessment advantage -- Plagiarism and cheating -- Applying what we have learned -- 3: Course and program evaluation -- Course evaluation -- Instructor evaluation -- Program evaluation -- Competency assessment as course and program evaluation -- Applying what we have learned -- The assessment and evaluation toolkit -- Introduction to the assessment and evaluation toolkit -- Rubrics and rubric development -- Using student feedback for assessment -- How interactive is it? -- Authentic assessments -- Performance assessments -- Effective test and quiz development -- Portfolios -- Portfolios as assessment -- Reflective assessment and self-assessment -- Collaborative peer assessment -- The use of wikis and blogs in assessment -- Effective online course evaluation -- Effective faculty evaluation.

Ref 381 R437 2008-09
TIT Retail horizons.
PUB [Washington, D.C.?] : NRF Foundation ; [McLean, VA.?] : BearingPoint.

384.55 R826b 2008
AUT Ross, Sharon Marie.
TIT Beyond the box : television and the Internet.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Online/Offline: what it means to "Watch (and Make) TV" in the age of the Internet -- Fascinated with fandom: cautiously aware viewers of Xena and Buffy -- Power to the people, or the industry? American Idol voting, Adult Swim bumping, and viral video-ing -- Managing millenials: teen expectations of tele-participation -- No network is an island: lost's tele-participation and ABC's return to industry legitimacy -- Conclusion: the remains of the day: the future of "TV".

384.555 I89 2008
AUT Leverette, Marc ; Ott, Brian L ; Buckley, Cara Louise.
TIT It's not TV : watching HBO in the post-television era.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: The not TV industry / Marc Leverette -- Para-television and discourses of distinction / Avi Santo -- And now no word from our sponsor / Tony Kelso -- Will yingshuiji buzz help HBO Asia? / Shawn McIntosh -- It's not TV, it's HBO's original programming / Janet McCabe and Kim Akass -- Introduction: The not TV text / Brian L. Ott -- Carnivàle / David Marc -- Challenging sitcom conventions / Lisa Williamson -- "Cocksucker, motherfucker, tits" / Marc Leverette -- Baltimore on The wire / Blake D. Ethridge -- Introduction: The not TV audience / Cara Louise Buckley -- K street / Conor McGrath -- Praise you like I should / Rhiannon Bury -- Fashion(able/ing) selves / Cara Louise Buckley and Brian L. Ott -- "No country for the infirm" / Joanna L. Di Mattia.

387.7 D687t 2008
AUT Donohue, George L ; Shaver, R. D. ; Edwards, Eric.
TIT Terminal chaos : why U.S. air travel is broken and how to fix it.
PUB Reston, Va. : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, c2008.
SER Library of flight.

394.12 R436 2007
AUT Beriss, David ; Sutton, David E. ; Beriss, David.
TIT The restaurants book : ethnographies of where we eat. - English ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2007.

398.22 T134 2008
AUT Carson, Ciaran.
TIT Táin bó Cúailnge. English. The Táin : a new translation of the Táin bó Cúailnge. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Viking, 2008.

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428.4 B561 2008
AUT Hinchman, Kathleen A ; Sheridan-Thomas, Heather K.
TIT Best practices in adolescent literacy instruction.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
SER Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.

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511.3 K23m 2007
AUT Kaye, Richard.
TIT The mathematics of logic : a guide to completeness theorems and their applications.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: König's lemma -- Posets and maximal elements -- Formal systems -- Deductions in posets -- Boolean algebras -- Propositional logic -- Valuations -- Filters and ideals -- First-order logic -- Completeness and compactness -- Model theory -- Nonstandard analysis.

519.5 V218s2 2008
AUT Van Belle, Gerald.
TIT Statistical rules of thumb. - 2nd ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2008.
SER Wiley series in probability and statistics.

519.544 W424g 2008
AUT Weinstein, Lawrence ; Adam, John A.
TIT Guesstimation : solving the world's problems on the back of a cocktail napkin.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: How to solve problems -- Dealing with large numbers -- General questions -- Animals and people -- Transportation -- Energy and work -- Hydrocarbons and carbohydrates -- The earth the moon, and lots of gerbils -- Energy and the environment -- The atmosphere -- Risk -- Unanswered questions.

523.0197 B789i 2008
AUT Boyd, Richard N.
TIT An introduction to nuclear astrophysics.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Nuclear astrophysics background -- The instruments used to study astrophysics -- Nuclear basics of nuclear astrophysics -- Stellar basics of nuclear astrophysics -- Hydrogen burning -- Advanced stellar evolution, supernovae, and gamma-ray bursters -- Production of the abundant heavy nuclides -- Nucleosynthesis on the proton-rich side of stability, X-ray bursts, and magnetars -- The beginning of the universe -- Appendix : Addition of angular momenta, Clebsch-Gordan coefficients, and isospin.

523.1 L957w 2008
AUT Luminet, Jean-Pierre.
TIT The wraparound universe.
PUB Wellesley, Mass. : A.K. Peters, c2008.
CON Contents: The shape of space -- The universal mollusk -- The size of space -- The hall of mirrors -- The four scales of geometry -- Absolute or relative space? -- Celestial mirages -- Black hole -- Foam, strings, and loops -- From relativity to the big bang -- What is the curvature of the universe? -- Open or closed? -- The knowledge of places -- From the cylinder to the pretzel -- Fascinating shapes -- Topology and relativity -- Small, strange universes -- Topological mirage -- Hunting for ghosts -- Midnight suns -- Cosmic crystallography -- Circles in the sky -- Inflation, the infinite, and the folds -- Maya -- Folds in the universe -- A brief history of space -- The edge paradox -- The dark night paradox -- Non-Euclidean geometries -- Cosmos and logos -- Cosmic questions -- Expansion and the infinite -- Galaxies in flight -- The rate of expansion -- The age of the universe -- Astronomical distances -- Cosmic mathematics -- Cosmic repulsion -- Dark matter -- The cosmic microwave background -- Is the universe flat? -- Symmetry -- Polyhedra -- The classification of surfaces -- The classification of three-dimensional spaces -- Topos and cosmos -- Afterword: Listening to the cosmic drum.

530 F529m 2008
AUT Fischer-Cripps, Anthony C.
TIT The materials physics companion.
PUB New York : Taylor & Francis, c2008.
CON Contents: Part 1 Introduction to materials physics -- Crystallography -- Quantum mechanics -- Solid state physics -- X-ray diffraction -- Thermal properties of solids -- Mechanical properties of solids -- Part 2 Dielectric properties of materials -- Dielectric properties -- Polarizability -- Ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials -- Dielectric breakdown -- Examples of dielectrics -- Part 3 Magnetic properties of materials -- Magnetic field -- Magnetic moment -- Magnetic properties -- Ferromagnetism -- Superconductivity.

DVD BIB 539 pt.1.1-3 Popular Collection
AUT Galecki, Johnny ; Parsons, Jim ; Cuoco, Kaley.
TIT Big bang theory (Television program) The big bang theory. - Widescreen version.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, c2008.
NOT Title from container. - Created by Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady. - Originally broadcast on television during the 2007-2008 season. - Contains all 17 episodes from the first season. - Special feature (Disc 3): Quantum mechanics of "The big bang theory" : a behind-the-scenes look into geek chic.
CON Contents: Disc 1. Pilot / written by Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady ; directed by James Burrows -- The big bran hypothesis / teleplay by Robert Cohen & Dave Goetsch ; story by Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The fuzzy boots corollary / teleplay by Bill Prady & Steven Molaro ; story by Chuck Lorre ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The luminous fish effect / teleplay by David Litt & Lee Aronsohn ; story by Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The hamburger postulate / teleplay by Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro ; story by Jennifer Glickman ; directed by Andrew D. Weyman -- The Middle Earth paradigm / teleplay by David Litt & Robert Cohen ; story by Dave Goetsch ; directed by Mark Cendrowski. Disc 2. The dumpling paradox / teleplay by Lee Aronsohn & Jennifer Glickman ; story by Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The grasshopper experiment / teleplay by Lee Aronsohn & Robert Cohen ; story by Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro ; directed by Ted Wass -- The Cooper-Hofstadter polarization / teleplay by Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn & Dave Goetsch ; story by Bill Prady & Stephen Engel ; directed by Joel Murray -- The Loobenfeld decay / teleplay by Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn ; story by Chuck Lorre ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The pancake batter anomaly / teleplay by Bill Prady & Stephen Engel ; story by Chuck Lorre & Lee Aronsohn ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The Jerusalem duality / teleplay by Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro ; story by Jennifer Glickman & Stephen Engel ; directed by Mark Cendrowski. Disc 3. The bat jar conjecture / teleplay by Bill Prady & Robert Cohen ; story by Stephen Engel & Jennifer Glickman ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The Nerdvana annihilation / teleplay by Stephen Engel & Steven Molaro ; story by Bill Prady ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The pork chop indeterminacy / teleplay by Lee Aronsohn & Bill Prady ; story by Chuck Lorre ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The peanut reaction / teleplay by Dave Goetsch & Steven Molaro ; story by Bill Prady & Lee Aronsohn ; directed by Mark Cendrowski -- The tangerine factor / teleplay by Lee Aronsohn & Steven Molaro ; story by Chuck Lorre & Bill Prady ; directed by Mark Cendrowski.

541.22 H111m 2008
AUT Haaland, Arne.
TIT Molecules and models : the molecular structures of main group element compounds.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: 1. Atomic properties : one-electron atoms -- 2. Atomic properties : two-electron atoms -- 3. Atoms with more than two electrons : atomic properties and periodic trends -- 4. Homonuclear diatomic molecules -- 5. Gaseous alkali metal halides : ionic bonds -- 6. Other heteronuclear diatomic molecules : polar covalent bonds -- 7. Lewis' "cubical atom" model ; Molecular orbital calculations on the one-electron molecule Hb2s+ and the two-electron molecule Hb2s -- 8. Molecular orbital calculations on heteronuclear diatomic molecules, hybridization, and estimation of net atomic charges from calculated electron densities -- 9. Homonuclear diatomic species of second-period elements from Lib2s to Neb2s -- 10. Structure and bonding in the gaseous dihalides and dialkyl derivatives of the Group 2 and Group 12 metals -- 11. Structure and bonding in the gaseous monochlorides, trichlorides and trimethyl derivatives of the Group 13 elements -- 12. Electron deficient molecules : three-center, two-electron bonds -- 13. Structure and bonding in simple compounds of the Group 14 elements -- 14. Structure and bonding in some simple hydrocarbons and in ethane and ethene analogues of the heavier Group 14 elements -- 15. Structure and bonding in simple compounds of the Group 15 elements -- 16. Electron donor-acceptor complexes -- 17. Structure and bonding in simple compounds of the Group 16 elements -- 18. Structure and bonding in simple compounds of the Group 17 elements -- 19. Structure and bonding in simple compounds of the noble gases -- 20. Structure and bonding in oxides and oxoacids of carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, phosphoru.

Folio 547.2 N638m 2008
AUT Nicolaou, K. C ; Montagnon, T.
TIT Molecules that changed the world : a brief history of the art and science of synthesis and its impact on society.
PUB Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Atoms, molecules & synthesis -- Urea & acetic acid -- Glucose -- Aspirin® -- Camphor -- Terpineol -- Tropinone -- Haemin -- Quinine -- Morphine -- Steroids & the pill -- Strychnine -- Penicillin -- Longifolene -- Prostaglandins & leukotrienes -- Vitamin b12s -- Erythronolide B & erythromycin A -- Monensin -- Avermectin -- Amphotericin B -- Ginkgolide B -- Cyclosporin, FK506 & Rapamycin -- Calicheamicin Yb1p1s -- Palytoxin -- Taxol® -- Mevacor®, zaragozic acids & CP molecules -- Brevetoxin B -- Ecteinascidin 743 -- Epothilones -- Resiniferatoxin -- Vancomycin -- Thiostrepton -- Small molecule drugs.

Chem 547.2 R281 2007
AUT Tietze, Lutz-Friedjan.
TIT Reactions and syntheses in the organic chemistry laboratory.
PUB Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, 2007.

551.46 D412h 2008
AUT Denny, Mark W.
TIT How the ocean works : an introduction to oceanography.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.

551.46 K93a 2008
AUT Kroll, Gary.
TIT America's ocean wilderness : a cultural history of twentieth-century exploration.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2008.
CON Contents: The oceanic hunting grounds of Roy Chapman Andrews: whales as a resource and game in postfrontier America -- Robert Cushman Murphy and the national history of ocean islands: conservation and the myth of the inexhaustible ocean frontier -- Sensational management: William Beebe and the natural history of the ocean sublime -- Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us: the construction of oceancentrism -- Eugenie Clark and postwar ocean ichthyology: gender, oceanic natural history, and the domestication of the ocean frontier -- Technophobia and technophilia in the oceanic commons: Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques Cousteau during the American cold war -- Conclusion.

551.6 B865f 2008
AUT Broecker, Wallace S. ; Kunzig, Robert.
TIT Fixing climate : what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Hill and Wang, 2008.

551.701 M137n 2008
AUT Macdougall, J. D.
TIT Nature's clocks : how scientists measure the age of almost everything.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: No vestige of a beginning-- -- Mysterious rays -- Wild Bill's quest -- Changing perceptions -- Getting the lead out -- Dating the boundaries -- Clocking evolution -- Ghostly forests and Mediterranean volcanoes -- More and more from less and less.

570.92 R517t 2008
AUT Richards, Robert J.
TIT The tragic sense of life : Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Formation of a romantic biologist -- Research in Italy and conversion to Darwinism -- Triumph and tragedy at Jena -- Evolutionary morphology in the Darwinian mode -- Travel to England and the Canary Islands : experimental justification of evolution -- The popular presentation of evolution -- The rage of the critics -- The religious response to evolutionism : ants, embryos, and Jesuits -- Love in a time of war -- Conclusion : the tragic sense of Ernst Haeckel.

571.879 H413m 2008
AUT Haycock, David Boyd.
TIT Mortal coil : a short history of living longer.
PUB New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The history of life and death -- The elixir of life -- The romantic error -- From regeneration to degeneration -- A brave new world -- This immortal coil.

574.5 B6154 2008
AUT Thomas, David N. ; Fogg, G. E.
TIT The biology of polar regions.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER The biology of habitats series.
CON Contents: Introduction to the polar regions -- Introduction -- The energy balances of the polar regions -- Climate -- Thermohaline circulation -- El Niño Southern Oscillation -- Arctic and North Atlantic Oscillations -- Magnetic and electrical phenomena -- Stress, adaptation, and survival in polar regions -- Introduction -- Life at low temperatures -- Desiccation -- The effects of radiation -- Biological rhythms in the polar environment -- Periglacial and terrestrial habitats in polar regions -- Introduction -- Substrata -- Communities -- The physiological ecology of polar plants and invertebrates -- Specialized communities -- Comparison of Arctic and Antarctic terrestrial habitats and communities -- Glacial habitats in polar regions -- Introduction -- Life in the interior of polar ice sheets and glaciers -- Life at the margin -- The snow alga community -- Wider perspectives -- Inland waters in polar regions -- Introduction -- Arctic lakes -- Antarctic lakes -- Streams and rivers -- Conclusions -- Open oceans in polar regions -- Introduction -- Gradients in waters -- The plankton -- The physiological ecology of polar phytoplankton -- The zooplankton -- Squid -- Fish -- The polar marine pelagic systems -- Frozen oceans in polar regions -- Introduction -- The physical characteristics of sea ice -- The biology of sea ice -- The ice edge -- Polynyas -- The wider significance of sea ice biology -- Marine benthos in polar regions -- Introduction -- The littoral zone -- The shallow sublittoral zone -- The benthos of deep waters -- Benthos under ice shelves -- Seasonality and dynamics of benthic communities -- Comparisons and conclusions -- Birds and mammals in polar regions -- Introduction -- Seabirds -- Seals -- Whales -- Bears and foxes -- Climate change in polar regions -- Introduction -- Changes during geological time: the ice ages -- Biological responses to long-term changes -- Present-day global climate change and polar regions -- Human impact on polar regions -- The first invasions by humans -- The ecology of pre-industrial humans in the Arctic -- Sealing and whaling -- Hunting -- Fishing -- Pastoral and agriculture development -- Introduction of non-native organisms by humans -- Mineral and oil extraction -- Pollution -- Tourism -- Military uses of the polar regions -- Conservation -- Some conclusions.

576.82 C721d 2008
AUT Colp, Ralph.
TIT Darwin's illness.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2008.

576.839 B471b 2008
AUT Bennett, Jeffrey O.
TIT Beyond UFOs : the search for extraterrestrial life and its astonishing implications for our future.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008. DESC xiv, 211 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

591.59 H647v 2008
AUT Hill, Peggy S. M.
TIT Vibrational communication in animals.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Vibration as a channel for information transfer -- Communication and the medium -- Receiving signals -- Sending signals -- Predator-prey interactions -- Mating -- Group information transfer -- Why vibration?.

Folio 599.786 K23L 2008
AUT Kazlowski, Steven ; Roosevelt, Theodore.
TIT The last polar bear : facing the truth of a warming world, a photographic journey. - 1st ed.
PUB Seattle, Wash. : Braided River, 2008.

599.938 C663t 2009
AUT Cochran, Gregory ; Harpending, Henry.
TIT The 10,000 year explosion : how civilization accelerated human evolution.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2009.
CON Contents: Overview: conventional wisdom -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts.
CON Contents: The 10,000 year explosion -- The Neanderthal within -- Agriculture : the big change -- Consequences of agriculture -- Gene flow -- Expansions -- Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts.

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612.82 B814P 2009
AUT Partridge, Kenneth.
TIT The brain.
PUB New York : H.W. Wilson, 2009.
SER The reference shelf ; v. 81, no. 1.
CON Contents: I. Structure, functions, and historic approaches to study -- The strange anatomy of the brain / David Bainbridge -- Brainbox -- In our messy, reptilian brains / Sharon Begley -- II. Mapping the mind: advances in brain-imaging technology -- The new brain / Richard Restak -- Unlocking the secrets of the brain: part 1 ; Unlocking the secrets of the brain: part 2 / Tabitha M. Powledge -- MRI: a window on the brain / Paul Raeburn -- The economics of brains / Gregory T. Huang -- III. Works in progress: brain development from infancy to adulthood -- Shaping the brains of tomorrow / Ross A. Thompson -- How the arts develop the young brain / David Sousa -- The teenage brain / Nora Underwood -- When does your brain stop making new neurons? / Sharon Begley -- IV. How the brain processes language -- Addressing literacy through neuroscience / Steve Miller and Paula A. Tallal -- Mapping metaphor / Kenneth W. Krause -- The correlation between brain development, language acquisition, and cognition / Leslie Haley Wasserman -- Brains show two sides of language function / Bruce Bower -- V. The brain and aging -- The disappearing mind / Geoffrey Cowley -- The brain in winter ; The upside of aging / Sharon Begley -- The outlook for Alzheimer's disease / Tyler A. Kokjohn and Kimbal E. Cooper -- Neuron killers / Tina Hesman Saey -- Keeping your brain fit / Christine Larson -- VI. The "hard problem": efforts to understand human consciousness -- What makes up my mind? / Joel Achenbach -- The mystery of consciousness / Steven Pinker -- Brains wide shut? / Patricia Churchland -- Is there room for the soul? / Jay Tolson -- Consciousness in the raw / Bruce Bower.

612.86 G464w 2008
AUT Gilbert, Avery N.
TIT What the nose knows : the science of scent in everyday life. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Crown Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Odors in the mind : making sense of scents -- The molecules that matter : the key ingredients of nature's chemistry set -- Freaks, geeks, and prodigies : the wide range of olfactory ability -- The art of the sniff : how the brain edits what the nose detects -- A nose for the mouth : cooking, eating, and evolution -- The malevolence of malodor : when bad smells happen to good people -- The olfactory imagination : smell and creative genius -- Hollywood psychophysics : scent and cinema -- Zombies at the mall : leading consumers by the nose -- Recovered memories : Proust's soggy madeleine -- The smell museum : preserving odors from the past -- Our olfactory destiny : the future of smelling.

615.1 G816a 2008
AUT Greenwood, David.
TIT Antimicrobial drugs : chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Agents of infection -- Out of darkness -- From quinine to sulphonamides (by way of serendipity) -- Wonder drugs -- The taming of tuberculosis and leprosy -- The golden years of pills and profits -- Progress against parasites -- The poor relations : fungi and viruses -- The spectre at the feast.

615.82 M322m2 2009
AUT Marcus, Bess ; Forsyth, LeighAnn.
TIT Motivating people to be physically active. - 2nd ed.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2009.
SER Physical activity intervention series.
CON Contents: Describing physical activity interventions -- The stages of motivational readiness for change model -- Integrating other psychological theories and models -- Putting theories to work by looking at mediators of change -- Using the stages model for successful physical activity interventions -- Assessing physical activity patterns and physical fitness -- Using the stages model in individual counseling -- Using the stages model in group counseling programs -- Using the stages model in work site programs -- Using the stages model in community programs.

616.079 C596i 2008
AUT Clark, William R.
TIT In defense of self : how the immune system really works.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: What is an immune system? -- Antibodies -- How do antibodies work? -- T cells: the second arm of adaptive immunity -- The immune response to infectious disease: all out war! -- When the immune system is the problem, and not the solution: microbial immunopatholgoy -- Vaccines: how they work, why sometimes they don't, and what we can do about it --When the walls come tumbling down: HIV/AIDS -- When the walls come tumbling down: primary immune deficiencies -- When the immune system is the problem, and not the solution: hypersensitivity and allergy -- The immune system and cancer -- Autoimmunity -- Organ transplantation -- First defense: the immune system and bioterrorism.

616.89 A511c 2000
AUT Amen, Daniel G.
TIT Change your brain, change your life : the breakthrough program for conquering anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, anger, and impulsiveness.
PUB New York : Three Rivers Press, [2000], c1998.
CON Contents: For those who have eyes, let them see : images into the mind -- Carving knives and tooth fairies : a prelude to the brain and behavior -- Looking into love and depression : the deep limbic system -- Enhancing positive thought patterns and strengthening connections : deep limbic system prescriptions -- Looking into fear and anxiety : the basal ganglia -- Mastering fear : basal ganglia prescriptions -- Looking into inattention and impulsivity : the prefrontal cortex -- Becoming focused : prefrontal cortex prescriptions -- Looking into worry and obsessiveness : the cingulate system -- Getting unstuck : cingulate system prescriptions -- Looking into memory and temper : the temporal lobes -- Enhancing experience : temporal lobe prescriptions -- The dark side : violence : a combination of problems -- Brain pollution : the impact of drugs and alcohol on the brain -- The missing links : drugs, violence, and the brain -- I love you and I hate you, touch me, no don't, whatever : brain patterns that interfere with intimacy -- Help! : when and how to seek professional care -- Who is Andrew really? : questions about the essence of our humanity -- Brains dos and brain don'ts : a summary of ways to optimize brain function and break bad brain habits -- Appendix. Medication notes.

618.923 Y83 2008
AUT Smith, Alan L. ; Biddle, Stuart.
TIT Youth physical activity and sedentary behavior : challenges and solutions.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2008.
CON Contents: Definitions and measurement / Simon J. Marshall, Gregory J. Welk -- Youth health outcomes / David J. Stensel, Trish Gorely, Stuart J.H. Biddle -- A sociohistorical analysis of U.S. youth physical activity and sedentary behavior / Mary McElroy -- Conceptual perspectives / Claudio R. Nigg, Raheem J. Paxton.
CON Contents: "Couch potatoes" and "wind-up dolls"? : a critical assessment of the ethics of youth physical activity research / Michael Gard -- Biocultural factors in developing physical activity levels / Robert M. Malina -- Youth attitudes / Martin S. Hagger, Nikos L.D. Chatzisarantis -- Motivational characteristics / Stuart J.H. Biddle, Darren C. Treasure, C.K. John Wang. Contents: The role of the self / Peter R.E. Crocker, Kent C. Kowalski, Valerie Hadd -- Youth with movement difficulties / Janice Causgrove Dunn, Donna L. Goodwin -- The family / Brian E. Saelens, Jacqueline Kerr -- Peers / Alan L. Smith, Meghan H. McDonough -- Physical activity levels during the school day / Gareth Stratton, Stuart J. Fairclough, Nicola D. Ridgers. Contents: Organized sport and physical activity promotion / Robert J. Brustad, Runar Vilhjalmsson, Antonio Manuel Fonseca -- Community out-of-school physical activity promotion / David A. Dzewaltowski -- Living environments / Jo Salmon ... [et al.] -- Economic principles / Chad D. Meyerhoefer -- Culturally appropriate research and interventions / Suzanna M. Martinez ... [et al.].

620.5 I61 2008
AUT Hornyak, Gabor L.
TIT Introduction to nanoscience.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Societal implications of nano -- Characterization methods -- Fabrication methods -- Materials, structure, and the nanosurface -- Energy at the nanoscale -- The material continuum -- Nanothermodynamics -- Carbon-based nanomaterials -- Chemical interactions at the nanoscale -- Supramolecular chemistry -- Chemical synthesis and modification of nanomaterials -- Natural nanomaterials -- Biomolecular nanoscience.

627.8 T957d 2008
AUT Turpin, Trevor.
TIT Dam.
PUB London : Reaktion, 2008.
SER Objekt.

628.162 W324 2008
AUT Jiménez Cisneros, Blanca E. ; Asano, Takashi ; Jiménez Cisneros, Blanca E.
TIT Water reuse : an international survey of current practice, issues and needs.
PUB London : IWA Publishing, 2008.
SER Scientific and technical report ; no. 20.

632.7 M177a 2008
AUT McWilliams, James E.
TIT American pests : the losing war on insects from colonial times to DDT.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: "The insect tribes still maintain their ground" : insects and early Americans -- "There is no royal road to the destruction of bugs" : the rise of the professionals -- "Let us conquer space" : breaking the plains and fighting the insects -- "A great schemer" : Charles V. Riley and the broken promises of early insecticides -- "Let us spray" : mosquitoes, war, and chemicals -- "Vot iss de effidence?" : residues, regulations, and the politics of protecting insecticides -- "Complaints are coming in" : a year in the life of an insecticide nation, 1938 -- "Let's put our heads together and start a new country up" : silent springs and loud protests.

658 R816h 2007
AUT Rosenzweig, Philip M.
TIT The halo effect-- and the eight other business delusions that deceive managers.
PUB New York : Free Press, c2007.

658.3 H612o 2007
AUT Hewlett, Sylvia Ann.
TIT Off-ramps and on-ramps : keeping talented women on the road to success.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Foreword / by Carolyn Buck Luce -- The challenge -- Why mess with the male competitive model? -- Women's non-linear careers -- Extreme jobs, extreme demands -- The business case for diversity -- Models at the cutting edge -- Establishing flexible work arrangements -- Ernst & Young -- BT Group -- Citigroup -- Creating arc-of-career flexibility -- Booz Allen Hamilton -- Lehman Brothers -- Goldman Sachs -- Reimagining work life -- Citigroup -- Time Warner -- Johnson & Johnson -- Claiming and sustaining ambition -- Johnson & Johnson -- Time Warner -- General Electric -- Tapping into altruism -- Goldman Sachs -- Cisco Systems -- American Express -- Combating stigma and stereotypes -- Lehman Brothers -- Cisco Systems -- Ernst & Young -- Canaries in the coal mine.

658.4012 M345g 2008
AUT Markides, Constantinos.
TIT Game-changing strategies : how to create new market space in established industries by breaking the rules. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
CON Contents: The innovation is in the business model -- Discovering new business models -- Creativity is not enough : from discovering to implementing new business models -- Using dual business models to compete : is a separate unit necessary? -- Separation is not enough : how to achieve ambidexterity -- Responding to business-model innovation -- When would established firms discover new business models? -- Rethinking innovation in the big firm.

658.8343 B258c2 2008
AUT Barlow, Janelle ; Møller, Claus.
TIT A complaint is a gift : recovering customer loyalty when things go wrong. - 2nd ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: A complaint is a gift strategy -- Complaints: necessary evil or opportunities? -- Capitalizing on complaints -- Why most customers don't complain -- In the mind of the complaining customer -- The gift formula -- Creating better customers with goodwill -- When customers go ballistic -- It's all in the words: responding to written complaints -- From a whisper to a global shout -- When feedback gets personal -- When you complain, make sure you are giving a gift.

658.8343 G876a 2008
AUT Gronbach, Kenneth W.
TIT The age curve : how to profit from the coming demographic storm.
PUB New York : American Management Association, c2008.

658.872 O45b 2008
AUT O'Leary, Steve ; Sheehan, Kim.
TIT Building buzz to beat the big boys : word-of-mouth marketing for small businesses.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2008.
CON Contents: The importance of word of mouth and customer communities -- Who are your customers? -- Getting started with word of mouth -- Encouraging and rewarding word of mouth with family, flirts, and phantoms -- How customer communities work -- Establishing your online community -- Growing and supporting your online community -- Tracking the results -- Keeping your community fresh and vital -- Ethical considerations that will make your community more successful -- The adventure begins.

687.082 B967j 2007
AUT Burns-Ardolino, Wendy A.
TIT Jiggle : (re)shaping American women.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2007.
CON Contents: Not your grandma's girdles! -- Dress codes : foundationwear required -- Boomers and X-ers : mothers and daughters -- The myths of freedom and control : constructing the ideal feminine form in advertising -- Under cover agency? -- Minding our bodies : displacing the foundations of femininity -- Conclusions, and some afterthoughts.

696 H449s 2008
AUT Heckman, Davin.
TIT A small world : smart houses and the dream of the perfect day.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: A tale of two cities -- "Home is where the heart is", scientific management, electricity, and the early-twentieth-century home -- "Here's Johnny!" the introduction of information to the space of the home -- The emergence of the smart house -- The dawn of the perfect day.

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704.0368 G643p 2008
AUT González, Rita ; Fox, Howard N ; Noriega, Chon A.
TIT Phantom sightings : art after the Chicano movement.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ; Los Angeles, Calif. : Los Angeles County Museum of Art, c2008.
CON Contents: The orphans of modernism / Chon A. Noriega -- Phantom sites: the official, the unofficial, and the orificial / Rita Gonzalez -- Theater of the inauthentic / Howard N. Fox -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Artists in the exhibition -- The truthful history of the conquest of Nuevo Aztlán / Jim Mendiola and Rubén Ortiz-Torres.

709.2 D143 2008
AUT Taylor, Michael R.
TIT The Dalí renaissance : new perspectives on his life and art after 1940.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2008.

709.2 S534s 2004
AUT Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois.
TIT Seeing the unspeakable : the art of Kara Walker.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2004.
CON Contents: Tracing race and representation -- The "rememory" of slavery -- The lactation of John Brown -- Censorship and reception -- Final cut.

709.2 W181k 2007
AUT Walker, Kara Elizabeth.
TIT Kara Walker : after the deluge.
PUB New York : Rizzoli, 2007.
CON Contents: Murky -- Deep-rooted traditions -- Chocolate city -- Port of call -- Middle passages -- Savagery -- Sea -- The failure of containment -- Inundation -- Going under -- Darkness -- Black -- The whiteness of the wall -- Superdome -- Extraction -- Digestion -- Portents.

709.2 W423s 2008
AUT Weiner, Lawrence.
TIT Something to put something on. - 1st ed.
PUB Göttingen : Steidl, 2008.

709.46 S382e 2008
AUT Schroth, Sarah ; Baer, Ronni ; Battles, Matthew.
TIT El Greco to Velazquez : art during the reign of Philip III. - 1st ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : MFA Publications ; [Durham, N.C.] : published in association with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University ; New York : D.A.P. [distributors], c2008.

709.546 P153a 2007
AUT Pal, Pratapaditya ; Ames, Frank.
TIT The arts of Kashmir.
PUB New York : Asia Society ; Milan : 5 Continents, c2007.
CON Contents: Nagas, monks, Tantriks, and poets: the intellectual and religious foundations for the arts of Kashmir in the ancient period (300-1400) / Gerald James Larson -- Religious architecture (500-1200) / John Siudmak -- Faith and form: religious sculpture in ancient Kashmir / Pratapaditya Pal -- Painting in ancient Kashmir (600-1200) / Pratapaditya Pal -- Between ancient and modern Kashmir: the rule and role of Sultans and Sufis (1200/1300-1600) / Simon Digby -- Buildings for piety and pleasure: architecture under the Sultans and the Mughals / Pratapaditya Pal -- Painting and calligraphy (1200-1900) / Pratapaditya Pal -- The romance of Kashmir crafts / Pratapaditya Pal -- Woven legends: carpets and shawls of Kashmir (1585-1870) / Frank Ames.

709.73 K69p 2008
AUT Knight, Cher Krause.
TIT Public art : theory, practice and populism.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: a short history of the United States' "official" public art -- Roosevelt's New Deal -- General Services Administration's art-in-architecture program -- National Endowment for the Arts' art-in-public-places program -- Conventional wisdom: populist intentions within established paradigms -- Art as monument, art as memorial -- Art as amenity -- Art in the park, art as the park -- Art as the agora -- Art as pilgrimage -- Culture to go: from art world to the world -- What museums do for us -- My museum -- Education, outreach, programming -- The alternative museum/alternatives to museums -- Not quite "art," not quite "public": lessons from the private sector -- The art of entertainment -- This is special, I am special -- Open pocketbook, open agenda? -- Embracing spectacle -- Super viewer: increasing individual agency on the public art front -- Power to the people -- Claiming space and place -- Dig in -- Conclusion: art for all? -- The trouble with (re)development -- Nonprofits and the ephemeral idyll -- Back to school -- Grieving loss, remembering life -- Two tales in one city.

709.8 S881a2 2002
AUT Stone-Miller, Rebecca.
TIT Art of the Andes : from Chavín to Inca. - 2nd ed.
PUB London : Thames & Hudson, 2002.
SER World of art.
CON Contents: Early and Chavín art -- Paracas and Nasca -- Moche art and architecture -- Tiwanaku and Wari imperial styles -- Late Intermediate Period styles -- Inca art and architecture.

720.9 F287w2 2008
AUT Fazio, Michael W ; Moffett, Marian ; Wodehouse, Lawrence.
TIT A world history of architecture. - 2nd ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The beginnings of architecture -- The Greek world -- The architecture of ancient India and southeast Asia -- Traditional architecture of China and Japan -- The Roman world -- Early Christian and Byzantine architecture -- Islamic architecture -- Early Medieval and Romanesque architecture -- Gothic architecture -- Indigenous architecture in the Americas and Africa -- Renaissance architecture -- Baroque architecture -- The eighteenth century -- Nineteenth-century developments -- The twentieth century and modernism -- Modernisms in the mid- and late-twenty-first [i.e. twentieth] century and beyond.

746.92 M483m 2007
AUT Mears, Patricia.
TIT Madame Grés : the sphinx of fashion.
PUB New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The life and career of Madame Grés -- The Grecian gown and classical inspiration -- Ethnic influences -- Sculpting with fabric.

759.2 C672d 1995
AUT Coe, Sue.
TIT Dead meat.
PUB New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995.

759.985 A828f 2003
AUT Ashton, Dore ; Szyszlo, Fernando de.
TIT Fernando de Szyszlo.
PUB Barcelona : Polígrafa, c2003.
SER JOGAN K SPA 322 2 HRS SPRING 2009.

769.973 C785a 2008
AUT Coppel, Stephen ; Kierkuc-Bielinski, Jerzy.
TIT American prints from Hopper to Pollock.
PUB Burlington, Vt. : Lund Humphries, c2008.

778.52 F547L2 2002
AUT Fitt, Brian ; Thornley, Joe.
TIT Lighting technology : a guide for television, film, and theatre. - 2nd ed.
PUB Oxford [England] ; Boston : Focal Press, 2002.

Ref 780.72 S192m 2009
AUT Sampsel, Laurie J.
TIT Music research : a handbook.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
CON Contents: Research process and research tools -- Guides to the research process and research tools -- General music encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Special music encyclopedias and dictionaries -- Library catalogs -- Periodical indexes for music -- Indexes to music dissertations, theses, conference papers, and Festschriften -- Indexes to music in complete works editions, musical monuments, historical sets, and anthologies -- Thematic catalogs -- Music histories, source readings, and chronologies -- Bibliographies of music and music literature -- Discographies -- Music iconographies -- Music directories -- Internet resources for music -- Writing style manuals, and citation -- Writing -- Style manuals and citation of sources.

780.92 M191c 2008
AUT Magee, Gayle Sherwood.
TIT Charles Ives reconsidered.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
SER Music in American life.
CON Contents: The discovery -- Classes -- On the verge -- "A new sweet world" -- A tragic day -- Revising a life -- Epilogue : Beyond advocacy.

782.421 P312w 2008
AUT Patoski, Joe Nick.
TIT Willie Nelson : an epic life. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Little, Brown, c2008.
CON Contents: Somewhere in America, 2007 -- Abbott, 1938 -- East of Western Grove on Pindall Ridge, 1925 -- Abbott, 1933 -- Waco, 1952 -- San Antonio,1954 -- Fort Worth, 1955 -- Vancouver, Washington, 1956 -- Fort Worth again, 1958 -- Houston, 1959 -- Nashville, 1960 -- Los Angeles, 1961 -- Ridgetop, Tennessee, 1964 -- Tennessee to Texas, 1965 -- Coast-to-coast, border-to-border, 1967 -- Lost Valley, 1971 -- Austin, 1972 -- Orange to El Paso, Dalhart to Brownsville, 1973 -- Garland to Hollywood, 1975 -- The hill, 1979 -- The world, 1986 -- The valley, 1991 -- The new world, 1993 -- Paradise, 2004 -- Home, 2006.

791.4301 C574 2008
AUT Phillips, James.
TIT Cinematic thinking : philosophical approaches to the new cinema.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : what can cinema do? / James Phillips -- Alfred Hitchcock : fowl play and the domestication of horror / Kelly Oliver -- Luchino Visconti : insights into flesh and blood / Alexander García Düttmann -- Michelangelo Antonioni : the aestheticization of time and experience in The passenger / Alison Ross -- Robert Altman : the West as countermemory / Michael J. Shapiro -- Carlos Saura : cinematic poiesis / Krzysztof Ziarek -- Glauber Rocha : hunger and garbage / James Phillips -- Margarethe von Trotta : leviathan in Germany / Cecilia Sjöholm -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder : the subject of film / Andrew J. Mitchell -- Wim Wenders : the role of memory / Jeff Malpas -- Claire Denis : icon of ferocity / Jean-Luc Nancy.

791.4302 G323f 2008
AUT Gemünden, Gerd.
TIT A foreign affair : Billy Wilder's American films.
PUB New York : Berghahn Books, 2008.
SER Film Europa ; v. 5.
CON Contents: An accented cinema -- The insurance man always rings twice : Double indemnity -- In the ruins of Berlin : A foreign affair -- Ghosting Hollywood : Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Fedora -- All dressed up and running wild : Some like it hot -- Being a mensch in the administered world : The apartment -- In the closet of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : The private life of Sherlock Holmes.

791.436 D483i 2008
AUT Detweiler, Craig.
TIT Into the dark : seeing the sacred in the top films of the 21st century.
PUB Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2008.
SER Cultural exegesis.
CON Contents: Preface: A Hornet's nest -- Methodology: Into the Darko -- Pt. 1. Identity. Memento : duped in film noir -- Eternal sunshine : the risky rewards of romance -- Pt. 2. Community. Crashing into the ensemble drama : communities in crisis -- Talk to her (and him and us) : everyday ethics -- Pt. 3. History. Finding Neverland : nostalgia and imagination in history -- Spirited away by fantasy : tending the garden -- Conclusion: Mnemonic devices -- Appendix A: Top 250 movies as voted by IMDb users (January 1, 2007) -- Appendix B: The IMDb's top films of the 21st century (January 1, 2007) -- Appendix C: The IMDb's top films of the 21st century (April 15, 2008).

791.436 W629R 2008
AUT Rollins, Peter C ; O'Connor, John E.
TIT Why we fought : America's wars in film and history.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.
SER Film & history.
CON Contents: The American revolution on the screen: Drums along the Mohawk and The patriot / John E. O'Connor -- Reprinting the legend: the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson -- Assessing television's version of history: the Mexican-American war and the KERA documentary series / James Yates -- Ken Burns's rebirth of a nation: The civil war as made-for-television history / Gary R. Edgerton -- "It's what people say we're fighting for": representing the lost cause in Cold mountain / Robert M. Myers -- The great war viewed from the 1920s: The big parade / Michael T. Isenberg -- Technology and "reel patriotism" in American film advertising of the World War I era / James Latham -- Culture wars and the local screen: the reception of westfront 1918 and All quiet on the western front in one German city / David Imhoof -- The peace, isolationist, and anti-interventionist movements and interwar Hollywood / John Whiteclay Chambers II -- The B movie goes to war in Hitler, beast of Berlin / Cynthia J. Miller -- Why we fight and Projections of America: Frank Capra, Robert Riskin, and the making of World War II propaganda / Ian S. Scott -- On telling the truth about war: World War II and Hollywood's moral fiction, 1945-1956 / Frank J. Wetta, Martin A. Novelli -- James Jones, Columbia Pictures, and the historical confrontations of From here to eternity / J.E. Smyth -- Hollywood's D-Day from the perspective of the 1960s and 1990s: The longest day and Saving Private Ryan / Robert Brent Toplin -- Cold War Berlin in the movies: from The big lift to The promise / Thomas W. Maulucci Jr / Invaders of the Cold War: generic disruptions and shifting gender roles in The day the earth stood still / Susan A. George -- Using popular culture to study the Vietnam War: perils and possibilities / Peter C. Rollins -- Fragments of war: Oliver Stone's Platoon / Lawrence W. Lichty, Raymond L. Carroll -- The quiet American: Graham Greene's Vietnam novel through the lenses of two eras / William S. Bushnell -- Operation restore honor in Black hawk down / John Shelton Lawrence, John G. McGarrahan -- Documentary and the Iraq War: a new genre for new realities / Jeffrey Chown -- Jessica Lynch and the regeneration of American identity post 9/11 / Stacy Takacs -- Representing the unrepresentable: 9/11 on film and television / James Kendrick.

791.43653 P561c 2008
AUT Phillips, Kendall R.
TIT Controversial cinema : the films that outraged America.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.

Holocaust DVD 791.4372 Q1
AUT Brandes, David ; Todd, Kim ; Cohen, Eli.
TIT The quarrel.
PUB [New York?] : Fox Lorber Films : Distributed by WinStar TV & Video, c2000.
NOT Based on the short story, "My quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner," by Chaim Grade from a play by Joseph Telushkin. - For specific features see interactive menu. - Standard (1.33:1).

791.4502 P336a 2008
AUT Peck, Janice.
TIT The age of Oprah : cultural icon for the neoliberal era.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: The age of Oprah : culture and politics in the neoliberal era -- The therapeutic enterprise and the quest for women's hearts and minds -- Backlash politics, the dysfunctional self, and the recovery cure -- Recovery and Reaganism : the psychologization of the political and the politics of pathology -- Mind cure, the enchanted self, and the new liberal convenant -- "Transcending race" : the racial politics of Oprah Winfrey and new liberalism -- The Oprah brand and the enterprising self -- The anxieties of the enterprising self and the limits of mind cure in the age of Oprah.

792 D751a 2007
AUT Downs, William Missouri ; Wright, Lou Anne ; Ramsey, Erik.
TIT The art of theatre : then and now.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson Wadsworth, c2007.

792.025 C324b3 1994
AUT Carter, Paul ; Carter, Sally Friedman.
TIT Backstage handbook : an illustrated almanac of technical information. - 3rd ed.
PUB Louisville, Ky. : Broadway Press, 1994.

792.025 E78L2 2005
AUT Essig, Linda.
TIT Lighting and the design idea. - 2nd ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2005.
SER Wadsworth series in theatre.
CON Contents: Stage lighting: context and process -- Light and vision -- Functions and properties of light on the stage -- Elements of composition -- Conceptual framework -- Lighting design research -- Design development -- Color -- Lighting positions -- Instrumentation -- Organization and control -- Drafting the finished plot and section -- Execution of the design -- Cuing -- Lighting design into the future.

792.82 G619b 2008
AUT Goldner, Nancy.
TIT Balanchine variations.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2008.

794.8 P964 2008
AUT Despain, Wendy.
TIT Professional techniques for video game writing.
PUB Wellesley, Mass. : A.K. Peters, c2008.

794.809 V652 2008
AUT Wolf, Mark J. P.
TIT The video game explosion : a history from PONG to Playstation and beyond.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
CON Contents: A brief timeline of video game history -- pt. I. Looking at video games -- 1. What is a video game? / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 2. Imaging technologies / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 3. Modes of exhibition / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 4. Influence and precursors / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 5. The study of video games / Mark J.P. Wolf. Contents: pt. II. The early days (before 1985) -- 6. Mainframe games and simulations / David H. Ahl -- 7. Arcade games of the 1970s / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 8. Video games in Europe : the early years / David Winter -- Sidebar. System profile : the Magnavox Odyssey / David Winter -- 9. Early home video game systems / Leonard Herman -- 10. Company profile : Atari / Leonard Herman -- 11. System profile : the Atari Video Computer System (VCS) / Leonard Herman -- 12. Vector games / MarK J.P. Wolf -- 13. Video game stars : Pac-Man / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 14. The rise of the home computer / Bob Rehak -- 15. Genre profile : adventure games / Mark J.P. Wolf -- Sidebar. Company profile : Electronic Arts / Alison McMahan -- 16. Arcade games of the 1980s / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 17. Laserdisc games / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 18. The video game industry crash / Mark J.P. Wolf. Contents: pt. III. The industry rebounds (1985-1994) -- 19. System profile : the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Dominic Arsenault -- Sidebar. Company profile : Nintendo / Dominic Arsenault -- 20. A new generation of home video game systems / Leonard Herman -- 21. CD-ROM games / Carl Therrien -- 22. Genre profile : interactive movies / Bernard Perron -- 23. Arcade games of the 1990s and beyond / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 24. Handheld video game systems / Leonard Herman -- Sidebar. Company profile : Sega / Alison McMahan -- 25. Shareware games : between hobbyist and professional / Brett Camper. Contents: pt. IV. Advancing to the next level (1995-present) -- 26. The later generation home video game systems / Leonard Herman -- 17. Online role-playing games / Kelly Boudreau -- 28. System profile : Sony PlayStation / Dominic Arsenault -- Sidebar. Company profile : Sony / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 29. Video game stars : Lara Croft / Alison McMahan -- 30. Genre profile : first-person shooting games / Bob Rehak -- Sidebar. Retrogames / Bob Rehak -- 31. Independent and experimental video games / Brett Camper -- 32. Video games in Europe / Lars Konzack -- 33. Video games in Asia / Benjamin Wai-ming Ng -- 34. Video games in Australia / Thomas H. Apperley.
CON Contents: pt. V. A closer look at video games -- 35. The video game development process / Feichin Ted Tschang -- 36. Graphics in video games / Carl Therrien -- 37. Sound in video games / Eric Pidkameny -- 38. Video games genres / Mark J.P. Wolf -- Sidebar. Best-selling video games / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 39. The video game as an object of controversy / Dominic Arsenault -- Sidebar. Video games rating systems / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 40. Morals, ethics, and video games / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 41. Video games and their relationship with other media / Martin Picard -- Sidebar. How to get a job in the video game industry / Mark J.P. Wolf -- 42. The future of video games / Mark J.P. Wolf -- Glossary of video game terminology.

796.0973 G323s 2008
AUT Gems, Gerald R ; Borish, Linda J. ; Pfister, Gertrud.
TIT Sports in American history : from colonization to globalization.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2008.

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801.95 S651t 2008
AUT Smith, James.
TIT Terry Eagleton : a critical introduction.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : Polity, c2008.
SER Key contemporary thinkers.

808.82 J17c6 2009
AUT Jacobus, Lee A.
TIT The compact Bedford introduction to drama. - 6th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Bedford/St. Martins, c2009.

809.89 L615c 2008
AUT Lerer, Seth.
TIT Children's literature : a reader's history, from Aesop to Harry Potter.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

809.933 S881a 2008
AUT Stoneman, Richard.
TIT Alexander the Great : a life in legend.
PUB New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Nativity : Egyptian origins (356 BC) -- Golden vines, golden bowls and temples of fire : the Persian versions -- Cities of Alexander : Jews and Arabs adopt the hero -- The marvels of India (329-326 BC) -- 'How much land does a man need?' : Alexander's encounters with the Brahmans (326 BC) -- From the heights of the air to the depths of the sea : Alexander as inventor and sage -- Amazons, mermaids and wilting maidens -- The search for immortality -- The unclean nations and the end of time -- Death in Babylon (323 BC) -- Universal emperor : the Christian hero -- King of the world : Alexander the Greek.

810.989 L665e 2008
AUT Levinson, Julian.
TIT Exiles on main street : Jewish American writers and American literary culture.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2008.
SER Jewish literature and culture.
CON Contents: Breathing free in the New World : transcendentalism and the Jewish soul -- Battling the nativists : mystics, prophets, and rebels in interwar America -- Yiddish interlude -- "Orating in New Yorkese" : the languages of Jewishness in postwar America.

811.3 M958w 2008
AUT Muller, Gilbert H.
TIT William Cullen Bryant : author of America.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2008.

812.54 F534u 2008
AUT Fisher, James.
TIT Understanding Tony Kushner.
PUB Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2008. DESC x, 197 p. ; 19 cm.
SER Understanding contemporary American literature.
CON Contents: Understanding Tony Kushner -- Early plays: A bright room called day and Hydriotaphia, or the death of Dr. Browne -- Angels in America -- Homebody/Kabul -- Caroline, or change -- Adaptations -- Screenplays and other writings.

813.36 K29h 2008
AUT Kelley, Wyn.
TIT Herman Melville : an introduction.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
SER Blackwell introductions to literature. ; 19.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Melville's Life -- "Agatha" and the Invention of Narrative -- Melville's Early Yarns -- "Making Literary Use of the Story": Typee and Omoo -- "A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents": Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket -- Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre -- "So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth": Moby-Dick -- "All Tender Obligations": Pierre -- Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man -- "A Leaf from Professional Experience": Short Fiction of the 1850s -- "Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions": Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man -- Melville's Later Career -- "Fulness & Veins & Beauty": Battle-Pieces and Clarel -- "Different Considerations": Late Poetry -- "Instinct with Significance": Billy Budd -- Afterword: "Restoring to You Your Own Property": Owning Melville -- Appendix: "Agatha" Correspondence.

813.4 B878p 2008
AUT Brown, Lois.
TIT Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins : Black daughter of the Revolution.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
SER Gender & American culture.
CON Contents: Black daughter, Black history -- Patriarchal facts and fictions -- The creation of a Boston family -- Progressive arts and the public sphere -- Dramatic freedom : The slaves' escape; or, The underground railroad -- Spectacular matters : "Boston's favorite colored soprano" and entertainment culture in New England -- Literary advocacy : women's work, race activism, and lynching -- For humanity : the public work of Contending forces -- Contending forces as ancestral narrative -- Cooperative enterprises -- (Wo)manly testimony : the Colored American magazine and public history -- Love, loss, and the reconstitution of paradise : Hagar's daughter and the work of mystery -- "Boyish hopes" and the politics of brotherhood : Winona, a tale of Negro life in the South and Southwest -- The souls and spirits of Black folk : pan-Africanism and racial recovery in Of one blood and other writings -- Witness to the truth : the public and private demise of the Colored American magazine -- The Colored American magazine in New York City -- New alliances : Pauline Hopkins and the Voice of the Negro -- Well known as a race writer : Pauline Hopkins as public intellectual -- The New era magazine and a "singlewoman of Boston" -- Cambridge days.

813.4 H795h 2008
AUT Hopkins, Pauline E.
TIT Hagar's daughter : a story of southern caste prejudice.
PUB [England] : Dodo Press, [c2008].

813.52 B154c 2009 Popular reading
AUT Bailey, Blake.
TIT Cheever : a life. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

813.52 C515cn 2009
AUT Cheever, John ; Bailey, Blake.
TIT Complete novels.
PUB New York : Library of America, 2009.
SER Library of America. ; 189.
CON Contents: The Wapshot chronicle -- The Wapshot scandal -- Bullet park -- Falconer -- Oh what a paradise it seems.

813.52 C515cs 2009
AUT Cheever, John ; Bailey, Blake.
TIT Collected stories and other writings.
PUB New York : Library of America, 2009.
SER Library of America. ; 188.
CON Contents: Goodbye, my brother -- The common day -- The enormous radio -- O city of broken dreams -- The Hartleys -- The Sutton Place story -- The summer farmer -- Torch song -- The pot of gold -- Clancy in the Tower of Babel -- Christmas is a sad season for the poor -- The season of divorce -- The chaste Clarissa -- The cure -- The superintendent -- The children -- The sorrows of gin -- O youth and beauty! -- The day the pig fell into the well -- The five-forty-eight -- Just one more time -- The housebreaker of Shady Hill -- The bus to St. James's -- The worm in the apple -- The trouble of Marcie Flint -- The bella lingua -- The Wrysons -- The country husband -- The duchess -- The scarlet moving van -- Just tell me who it was -- Brimmer -- The golden age -- The lowboy -- The music teacher -- A woman without a country -- The death of Justina -- Clementina -- Boy in Rome -- A miscellany of characters that will not appear -- The chimera -- The seaside houses -- The angel of the bridge -- The brigadier and the golf widow -- A vision of the world -- Reunion -- An educated American woman -- Metamorphoses -- Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin -- Montraldo -- The ocean -- Marito in città -- The geometry of love -- The swimmer -- The world of apples -- Another story -- Percy -- The fourth alarm -- Artemis, the honest well-digger -- Three stories -- The jewels of the Cabots -- Summer theatre -- Forever hold your peace -- Of love: a testimony -- The brothers -- Publick house -- When grandmother goes -- These tragic years -- Expelled -- The autobiography of a drummer -- In passing -- Play a march -- Town house -- Roseheath -- The national pastime -- What happened -- Moving out -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The melancholy of distance -- On Saul Bellow -- Why I write short stories -- My friend, Malcolm Cowley.

813.52 W553et 2006
AUT Wharton, Edith.
TIT Ethan Frome.
PUB West Valley City, Utah : Waking Lion Press, c2006.

813.54 B118j 1970
AUT Bach, Richard ; Munson, Russell.
TIT Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
PUB New York : Scribner, c1970.

813.54 C266e 1991
AUT Card, Orson Scott.
TIT Ender's game. - [Rev. ed.].
PUB New York : Tor, 1991.
CON Contents: Third -- Peter -- Graff -- Launch -- Games -- Giant's drink -- Salamander -- Rat -- Locke and demosthenes -- Dragon -- Veni vidi vici -- Valentine -- Ender's teacher -- Speaker for the dead.

813.54 C579h 1994
AUT Cisneros, Sandra.
TIT The house on Mango Street. - 1st hardcover ed.
PUB New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1994.

813.54 G645f 2009 Popular reading
AUT Gooch, Brad.
TIT Flannery : a life of Flannery O'Connor. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009.

813.54 L849t 2008
AUT Long, Robert Emmet.
TIT Truman Capote, enfant terrible.
PUB New York : Continuum, 2008.

813.54 W521g 2003
AUT West, Stanley Gordon.
TIT Growing an inch. - 1st ed.
PUB Shakopee, Minn. : Lexington-Marshall Pub., 2003.

813.54 W521u 1997
AUT West, Stanley Gordon.
TIT Until they bring the streetcars back. - 1st ed.
PUB Shakopee, Minn. : Lexington-Marshall Pub., c1997.

813.5409 R989c 2008
AUT Ryan, Tim A.
TIT Calls and responses : the American novel of slavery since Gone with the wind.
PUB Baton Rouge, La. : Louisiana State University Press, c2008.
SER Southern literary studies.
CON Contents: Introduction: calls and responses -- Designs against Tara: representing slavery in American culture, 1936-1944 -- From Tara to Turner: slavery and slave psychologies in American fiction and history, 1945-1968 -- You shall see how a slave was made a woman: the development of the contemporary novel of slavery, 1976-1987 -- Scarlett and Mammy done gone: complications of the contemporary novel of slavery, 1986-2003 -- Mapping the unrepresentable: slavery fiction in the new millennium -- Conclusion: beyond black and white.

814.52 L716s 2009
AUT Liebling, A. J. ; Hamill, Pete.
TIT The sweet science and other writings.
PUB New York : Library of America, 2009.
CON Contents: The sweet science -- The earl of Louisiana -- The jollity building -- Between meals -- The press -- Anti-poetry night -- Paysage de crépuscule.

818.4 H436a 2009
AUT Hearn, Lafcadio ; Benfey, Christopher E. G.
TIT American writings.
PUB New York : Library of America, 2009.
SER Library of America. ; 190.
CON Contents: Some Chinese ghosts -- Chita: a memory of last island -- Two years in the French West Indies -- Youma: the story of a West-Indian slave -- Selected journalism -- Letters.

822.33 S527 O V
AUT Shakespeare, William ; Furness, Horace Howard.
TIT Othello. - The new variorum ed.
PUB Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2000.

823.914 E56b 1976
AUT Emecheta, Buchi.
TIT The bride price : a novel.
PUB New York : G. Braziller, 1976.

840.901 C178 2008
AUT Gaunt, Simon ; Kay, Sarah.
TIT The Cambridge companion to medieval French literature.
PUB Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
SER Cambridge companions to literature.

840.9896 F914b 2008
AUT Frindéthié, Martial K.
TIT The Black renaissance in Francophone African and Caribbean literatures.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, c2008.
CON Contents: The quest for originality -- Paradigm of the griot -- Negritude of incompossibility and negritude of compossibility -- The griot, his word, his body -- Fanon's will to unity -- Reiterating griotism -- Black women writers' dilemma with theory -- New nomadologies -- The African critic as a Griirontist.

840.996 P857 2007
AUT Milne, Lorna ; Milne, Lorna.
TIT Postcolonial violence, culture and identity in Francophone Africa and the Antilles.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, c2007.
SER Cultural identity studies ; v. 7.
CON Contents: "Ceci n'est past un conte, mais une histoire de chair et de sang" : representing the colonial massacre in Francophone literature and culture / Charles Forsdick -- Sony Labou Tansi's "violence engageante" / Roger Ravet -- Lying to tell the truth : fiction and the Rwandan genocide in Véronique Tadjo's L'ombre d'Imana / Aedín Ní Loingsigh -- Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali : writing the Rwandan genocide / Jeanette den Toonder -- Maghrebi women's writing : violence, silence and speaking out / Anne Marie Miraglia -- The violence of photography? : "Le besoin d'histoire" in Leïla Sebbar's "La photo d'identité" / Andy Stafford -- Carnal knowledge : trauma, memory and the body in Patrick Chamoiseau's Biblique des derniers gestes / Maeve McCusker -- Sex, violence and cultural identity in the work of Gisèle Pineau / Lorna Milne.

841.1 M982f 2008
AUT Murray, K. Sarah-Jane.
TIT From Plato to Lancelot : a preface to Chrétien de Troyes. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2008.
SER Medieval studies.
CON Contents: The Mediterranean -- Reading Plato, writing romance -- Rewritings of Ovid -- The Atlantic -- Brendan's voyage -- "The wave cry, the wind cry" -- France -- The dawn of Arthurian romance -- Lancelot and the future of Lettreüre.

843.92 L777k 2009 Popular reading
AUT Littell, Jonathan ; Mandell, Charlotte.
TIT The kindly ones : a novel. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperCollins, c2009.

860.9 V297w 2008
AUT Vargas Llosa, Mario.
TIT Wellsprings.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Four centuries of Don Quixote -- The fictions of Borges -- Ortega y Gasset : the revival of a liberal -- The challenge of nationalisms -- The elephant and culture -- Latin America : fiction and reality -- Isaiah Berlin : a hero of our time -- Updating Karl Popper.

860.99 M953 2005
AUT Arancibia, Juana Alcira.
TIT La mujer en la literatura del mundo hispánico.
PUB Westminster, Calif : Instituto Literario y Cultural Hispánico, c2005.
SER Colección La mujer en la literatura hispánica, 0888-3181 ; v. 6.

863.6 M676L 2008
AUT Miró, Gabriel ; Borenstein, Walter.
TIT The leper bishop = El obispo leproso.
PUB Oxford : Oxbow Books, c2008.
SER Aris & Phillips Hispanic classics.

863.64 V297wa 2003
AUT Vargas Llosa, Mario ; Wimmer, Natasha.
TIT The way to paradise. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2003.

880.09 C178 2008
AUT Whitmarsh, Tim.
TIT The Cambridge companion to the Greek and Roman novel.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
SER [Cambridge companions to literature].

891.21 N218r 1987
AUT Narayan, R. K. ; Kampar.
TIT The Ramayana.
PUB New Delhi : Vision, c1987.

892.41 M476i 2008
AUT Mazor, Yair.
TIT Israeli poetry of the Holocaust.
PUB Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2008.

892.737 C761 2008
AUT Mustafa, Shakir.
TIT Contemporary Iraqi fiction : an anthology. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2008.
SER Middle East literature in translation.

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909.0496 S736t 2004
AUT Sparks, Randy J.
TIT The two princes of Calabar : an eighteenth-century Atlantic odyssey.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
CON Contents: 1. "A very bloody transaction"; Old Calabar and the massacre of 1767 -- 2. "Nothing but sivellety and fare trade"; Old Calabar and the impact of the slave trade on an African society -- 3. "This deplorable condition"; The Robin Johns' enslavement in British America -- 4. "We were free people"; Bristol, the English courts, and the question of slavery -- 5. "A very blessed time"; The Robin Johns and English methodism -- 6. "We go home to Old Calabar"; The Robin Johns' legacy in Old Calabar and England.

909.0971 B862 2008
AUT Stockwell, S. E.
TIT The British Empire : themes and perspectives.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.

909.825 K35o 2007
AUT Kennedy-Pipe, Caroline.
TIT The origins of the cold war.
PUB Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: Cold wars : themes and trajectories -- Casting long shadows revolution to war -- Wars and empire -- Far from hegemony? uncertainties and constraints in the early cold war -- The shape of the cold war -- Reflections on the origins of the cold war shapes -- The origins of the cold war then and now : landscapes and shadows.

910.09 A678 KoN 2008
AUT Worden, Robert L.
TIT North Korea : a country study. - 5th ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008.
SER DA pam. ; 550-81. Area handbook series.
CON Contents: Historical setting / Bruce Cumings -- The society and Its environment / Helen-Louise Hunter -- The economy / David Kang -- Government and politics / Victor D. Cha and Balbina Y. Hwang -- National security / James M. Minnich.

912.72 M965m 1996
AUT Mundy, Barbara E.
TIT The mapping of New Spain : indigenous cartography and the maps of the relaciones geográficas. - [1st pbk. ed.].
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2000, c1996.

915.04 G665w 2008
AUT Gordon, Stewart.
TIT When Asia was the world.
PUB [Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Monasteries and monarchs : Xuanzang, 618-632 CE -- Caliph and caravan : Ibn Fadlan, 921-922 CE -- Philosopher and physician : Ibn Sina, 1020-1036 CE -- Ingots and artifacts : the Intan shipwreck, circa 1000 CE -- Pepper and partnerships : Abraham bin Yiju, 1120-1160 CE -- Nobles and notables : Ibn Battuta, 1325-1356 CE -- Treasure and treaty : Ma Huan, 1413-1431 CE -- Blood and salt : Babur, 1494-1526 CE -- Medicines and misunderstandings : Tomé Pires, 1511-1521 CE. -- The Asian world : 500-1500 CE.

936.2 J66s 2008
AUT Johnson, Anthony.
TIT Solving Stonehenge : the new key to an ancient enigma.
PUB London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2008.

940 P916i 1992
AUT Pratt, Mary Louise.
TIT Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

940.5317 M982h 2008
AUT Murray, Alice Yang.
TIT Historical memories of the Japanese American internment and the struggle for redress.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
SER Asian America.

940.5318 K36gR 2009
AUT Kenrick, Donald ; Puxon, Grattan.
TIT Gypsies under the Swastika. - [Rev. & updated ed.].
PUB Hatfield : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2009.

940.5318 K41h 2008
AUT Kershaw, Ian.
TIT Hitler, the Germans, and the final solution.
PUB Jerusalem : International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem ; New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: 'Working towards the "Führer' : reflections on the nature of the Hitler dictatorship -- Ideologue and propagandist : Hitler in light of his speeches, writings, and orders, 1925-1928 -- Improvised genocide? : the emergence of the 'final solution' in the 'Warthegau' -- Hitler's role in the 'final solution' -- The 'everyday' and the 'exceptional' : the shaping of popular opinion, 1933-1939 -- German popular opinion during the 'final solution' : information, comprehension, reactions -- Reactions to the persecution of the Jews -- Popular opinion and the extermination of the Jews -- German popular opinion and the 'Jewish question', 1939-1943 : some further reflections -- Hitler and the Holocaust -- 'Normality' and genocide : the problem of 'historicization' -- Shifting perspectives : historiographical trends in the aftermath of unification -- Hitler and the uniqueness of Nazism -- War and political violence in twentieth-century Europe.

940.5318 K96m 2007
AUT Kurzem, Mark.
TIT The mascot : unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Viking, 2007.

940.5318 S559 2008
AUT Brandon, Ray ; Lower, Wendy.
TIT The Shoah in Ukraine : history, testimony, memorialization.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press : In association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, c2008.
CON Contents: The murder of Ukraine's Jews under German military administration and in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine / Dieter Pohl -- The life and death of Western Volhynian Jewry, 1921-1945 / Timothy Snyder -- Shades of grey: reflections on Jewish-Ukrainian and German-Ukrainian relations in Galicia / Frank Golczewski -- Transnistria and the Romanian solution to the 'Jewish Problem' / Dennis Deletant -- Annihilation and labor: Jews and Thoroughfare IV in Central Ukraine / Andrej Angrick -- On him rests the weight of the administration: Nazi civilian rulers and the Holocaust in Zhytomyr / Wendy Lower -- Soviet ethnic Germans and the Holocaust in the Reich Commissariat Ukraine, 1941-1944 / Martin Dean -- Jewish losses in Ukraine, 1941-1944 / Alexander Kruglov -- Dina Pronicheva's story of surviving the Babi Yar Massacre: German, Jewish, Soviet, Russian, and Ukrainian Records / Karel C. Berkhoff -- White spaces and black holes: Eastern Galicia's past and present / Omer Bartov.

940.5318 V834 2008
AUT Bathrick, David ; Prager, Brad ; Richardson, Michael David.
TIT Visualizing the Holocaust : documents, aesthetics, memory.
PUB Rochester N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.
SER Screen cultures.
CON Contents: Introduction : seeing against the grain : re-visualizing the Holocaust / David Bathrick -- On the liberation of perpetrator photographs in Holocaust narratives / Brad Prager -- The interpeter's dilemma : Heinrich Jöst's Warsaw Ghetto photographs / Daniel H. Magilow -- Whose trauma is it? : identification and secondary witnessing in the age of postmemory / Elke Heckner -- No child left behind : Anne Frank exhibits, American abduction narratives, and Nazi bogeymen / L.J. Nicoletti -- Auschwitz as hermeneutic rupture, differend, and image malgré tout : Jameson, Lyotard, Didi-Huberman / Sven-Erik Rose -- Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and the intentionality of the image / Michael D'Arcy -- For and against the Bilderverbot : the rhetoric of "unrepresentability" and remediated "authenticity" in the German reception of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's list / Karyn Ball -- Celan's cinematic : anxiety of the gaze in Night and fog and "Engführung" / Eric Kligerman -- Affect in the archive : Arendt, Eichmann, and The specialist / Darcy C. Buerkle -- Home-movies, film-diaries, and mass bodies : Péter Forgác's Free fall into the Holocaust / Jaimey Fisher -- Laugher amid catastrophe : train of life and tragicomic Holocaust cinema / David A. Brenner -- "Heil myself!" : impersonation and identity in comedic representations of Hitler / Michael D. Richardson.

Holocaust DVD 940.5405 F721
AUT Hercules, Bob ; Pugh, Cheri ; Simpson, David E.
TIT Forgiving Dr. Mengele. - Standard format.
PUB Brooklyn, N.Y. : First Run/Icarus Films, [2007?].
NOT Special features: interview with co-director Bob Hercules (4 p.); biographies for Hercules (2 p.) & Pugh (1 p.).

940.5425 R851h 2008
AUT Rotter, Andrew Jon.
TIT Hiroshima : the world's bomb.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Making of the modern world.
CON Contents: The world's atom -- Great Britain : refugees, air power, and the possibility of the bomb -- Japan and Germany : paths not taken -- The United States I : imagining and building the bomb -- The United States II : using the bomb -- Japan : the atomic bombs and war's end -- The Soviet Union : the bomb and the Cold War -- The world's bomb -- Epilogue : nightmares and hopes.

943.088 P769 2008
AUT Green, Simon.
TIT The politics of the new Germany.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
CON Contents: Germany and the burden of history -- Germany's post-war development, 1945-89 -- Towards German unity? -- A blockaded system of government? -- The party system and electoral behaviour : the path to stable instability? -- Citizenship and demographics : a country of immigration? -- Economic management : the end of the 'German model'? -- The reform of the welfare state? -- Germany and the European Union : a European Germany or a German Europe? -- Foreign and security policy : a new role for the twenty-first century? -- Conclusion. 947.0842 K96v 2007
AUT Kuromiya, Hiroaki.
TIT The voices of the dead : Stalin's great terror in the 1930s.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Love with foreign diplomats: the lives of Goroshko and Vasil'eva -- Informers: the story of Moshinskaia and others -- A monarchist's swan song? -- 'The NKVD is Satan': priests and a beggar -- Ukrainian peasants and Kulaks: ubiquitous 'enemies' -- Ukrainian Bandurists: singers of 'national ballads' -- Koreans and Chinese in Kiev: improbable spies -- Foreign connections: German, Latvian and Romanian links -- Consular avairs: fatal visits -- Across the borders: families divided -- Husbands and wives: from love to death -- POW: 'the Polish military organisation' -- The case of a Trotskii: what's in a name?.

951.5 S663c 2008
AUT Smith, Warren W.
TIT China's Tibet? : autonomy or assimilation.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. c2008.
CON Contents: Historical and political background -- Tibetan ethnic origins -- Tibetan empire -- Tibetan Buddhist state -- British patronage for Tibetan autonomy -- Tibetan national identity -- Tibet under Chinese communist rule -- Seventeen-point agreement -- National regional autonomy -- Autonomy in practice, political integration -- Democratic reforms in eastern Tibet -- Anti-local nationalist campaign -- Tibetan revolt -- Democratic reforms -- When serfs stood up in Tibet -- The Panchen lama's 70,000-character petition -- Serf -- Confiscated for the benefit of the people -- Cultural revolution -- Rinbur Tulku on the cultural revolution in Lhasa -- Wrath of the serfs -- Tibet transformed -- Autonomy or assimilation -- Patriotic education campaign -- China's state council white papers on Tibet -- Renewed propaganda campaign -- Sino-Tibetan dialogue -- Revival of Sino-Tibetan contacts -- China's strategy on Sino-Tibetan dialogue -- Dialogue or deadlock -- The issue of Tibet.

956.014 P561s 2007
AUT Phillips, Jonathan.
TIT The Second Crusade : extending the frontiers of Christendom.
PUB New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Ongoing contact between the Latin East and the West and the development of crusading, 1099-1145 -- The legacy of the First Crusade in writing, reputations and architecture -- Quantum praedecessores : the Crusade appeal of Pope Eugenius III: context and content -- The launch of the Second Crusade : Bourges, Vézelay and the preaching message of Bernard of Clairvaux -- Bernard's preaching tour to Flanders and Germany : the attacks on the Jews and the recruitment of King Conrad III -- People, practicalities and motivation -- The final preparations of Louis and Conrad : diplomacy, regency and ceremonial -- The conquest of Lisbon -- Conrad's march to Constantinople and into Asia Minor -- The march of Louis VII to Constantinople and into Asia Minor -- The Crusade at Antioch and the siege of Damascus -- The Wendish Crusade -- Crusading in Iberia : Almería, Jaen, Tortosa, and Lérida -- The aftermath of the Second Crusade in the Holy Land and the West -- Appendix 1: Translation of Quantum praedecessores -- Appendix 2: Translation of Chevalier, mult estes guariz.

956.7044 H572r 2008
AUT Herspring, Dale R.
TIT Rumsfeld's wars : the arrogance of power.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2008.
SER Modern war studies.

968.06 B986cy 2008
AUT Butler, Anthony.
TIT Cyril Ramaphosa.
PUB Oxford : James Currey, 2008, c2007.

972.04 F789s 2007
AUT Fowler, Will.
TIT Santa Anna of Mexico.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Santa Anna's early life, 1794-1823. Between the volcano and the sea, 1794-1810 -- An officer and a gentleman, 1810-1821 -- Liberator of Veracruz, founder of the Republic, 1821-1823 -- pt. 2. The making of a caudillo, 1823-1832. A federalist on the periphery, 1823-1825 -- Among the Jarochos, 1825-1828 -- General of tricks, 1828-1832 -- pt. 3. The returns of the phoenix, 1832-1841. The absentee president, 1832-1835 -- The warrior president, 1835-1837 -- The landowner president, 1837-1841 -- pt. 4. A road paved with good intentions, 1841-1848. The Santanista Project, 1841-1844-- Our man in Havana, 1844-1846 -- The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848-- pt. 5. The autumn of the patriarch, 1849-1876. The man who would be king, 1849-1855 -- The general in his labyrinth, 1856-1876 -- "A Good Mexican.".

972.94 D815v 2005
AUT Dubois, Laurent ; Ruymbeke, Thomas van.
TIT Les vengeurs du Nouveau Monde : histoire de la révolution haïtienne.
PUB Rennes : Perséides, 2005.
SER Collection "Le monde atlantique," 1774-3850.

972.94 N458u 2008
AUT Nesbitt, Nick.
TIT Universal emancipation : the Haitian Revolution and the radical Enlightenment.
PUB Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
SER New World studies.
CON Contents: Saint-Domingue and the singularization of Enlightenment -- The idea of 1804 -- Penser la Révolution Haïtienne -- Beyond Jacobinism : hegemony and universalism in the Haitian Revolution -- Toussaint Louverture, the moun andeyo, and the transcendental conditions of political autonomy.

973 C672b 2004
AUT Coe, Sue ; Brody, J. A.
TIT Bully! : Master of the global merry-go-round.
PUB New York : Four Walls Eight Windows, 2004.

973.0495 C552m 2008
AUT Chou, Rosalind ; Feagin, Joe R.
TIT The myth of the model minority : Asian Americans facing racism.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: The reality of Asian American oppression -- Everyday racism : anti-Asian discrimination in public places -- Everyday racism : anti-Asian discrimination in schools and workplaces -- The many costs of anti-Asian discrimination -- Struggle and conformity: the white racial frame -- Acts of resistance -- Reprise and conclusions.

973.088 C726 2008
AUT Curtis, Edward E.
TIT The Columbia sourcebook of Muslims in the United States.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Whispers and echoes : American Muslims before World War I -- Contact and divergence : immigrant and African American Muslims from World War I to 1965 -- American Islam after 1965 : racial, ethnic, and religious diversities -- Women, gender, and sexuality in American Islam -- American Muslim politics and civic engagement after 9/11 -- American Muslim spirituality and religious life.

973.099 E37r 2009
AUT Eland, Ivan.
TIT Recarving Rushmore : ranking the presidents on peace, prosperity, and liberty.
PUB Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute, c2009.

973.7 B712g 2008
AUT Bonekemper, Edward H.
TIT Grant and Lee : victorious American and vanquished Virginian.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : Why Grant won and Lee lost -- Tough beginnings and Mexican War experience -- 1861: open and closed doors to Civil War command -- Late 1861/early 1862: Lee's first loss and Grant's early victories -- March-June 1862: Grant wins at Shiloh while Lee stymies McClellan -- 1862-63: Lee conducts a costly offensive while Grant aims for Vicksburg -- May-July 1863: Lee loses Gettysburg as Grant captures Vicksburg -- Autumn 1863: Lee lends an assist as Grant saves Chattanooga and a Union army -- Early 1864: both generals prepare for confrontation -- Spring 1864: Grant attacks and besieges Lee -- Late 1864: Grant and Sherman move toward victory -- Early 1865: Lee surrenders to Grant -- A comparison of Grant and Lee -- Appendix 1 : Casualties in Grant's battles and campaigns -- Appendix 2 : Casualties in Lee's battles and campaigns.

973.7 L289c 2008
AUT Lankford, Nelson D.
TIT Cry havoc! : the crooked road to Civil War, 1861 / Nelson D. Lankford.
PUB New York : Penguin Books, 2008.

973.7 L736H 2009
AUT Holzer, Harold.
TIT The Lincoln anthology : great writers on his life and legacy from 1860 to now.
PUB [New York] : Library of America, c2009.
SER The Library of America ; 192s.

973.82 B927b 2008
AUT Budiansky, Stephen.
TIT The bloody shirt : terror after Appomattox.
PUB New York : Viking, c2008.
CON Contents: "I thought the South wanted it to end there" -- "The war still exists" -- "The half has not been told you" -- "Plain honest convictions of a soldier" -- "Vote the Negro down or knock him down" -- "The passion-stirring event at Hamburg" -- "Greed, the father of slaves, was too much for us".

973.9 G697f 2008
AUT Gould, Lewis L.
TIT Four hats in the ring : the 1912 election and the birth of modern American politics.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2008.
SER American presidential elections.
CON Contents: Prologue: the new year, 1912 -- Progressive politics, 1909-1910 -- Prelude to the presidential race, 1911 -- Roosevelt versus Taft in 1912 -- Woodrow Wilson against the Democratic field -- A socialist celebrity runs for president -- The Bull Moose challenge to the major parties -- The clash of ideas.

973.91 L919f 2008
AUT Lowndes, Joseph E.
TIT From the New Deal to the New Right : race and the southern origins of modern conservatism.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.

973.924 P451n 2008
AUT Perlstein, Rick.
TIT Nixonland : the rise of a president and the fracturing of America. - 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Scribner, 2008.
CON Contents: Book 1. Hell in the City of Angels -- The orthogonian -- The stench -- Ronald Reagan -- Long, hot summer -- School was in session -- Batting average -- Book 2. The bombing -- Summer of Love -- In which a cruise ship full of governors inspires considerations on the nature of old and new politics -- Fed-up-niks -- The sky's the limit -- Violence -- From Miami to the siege of Chicago -- Wednesday, August 28, 1968 -- Winning -- Book 3. The first one hundred days -- Trust -- If gold rust -- The presidential offensive -- The polarization -- Tourniquet -- Mayday -- Purity -- Agnew's election -- Book 4. How to survive the debacle -- Cruelest month -- Ping-pong -- The coven -- The party of Jefferson, Jackson, and George Wallace -- The spring offensive -- Celebrities -- In which playboy bunnies, and Barbarella, and Tanya, inspire theoretical considerations upon the nature of democracy -- Not half enough.

973.928 C547a 2008
AUT Chollet, Derek H ; Goldgeier, James M.
TIT America between the wars : from 11/9 to 9/11 : the misunderstood years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the start of the War on Terror. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : BBS PublicAffairs, c2008.
CON Contents: Preface: Between the wars -- The lone superpower, adrift -- Democrats unite -- Wrong foot forward -- Contract and crisis -- Turning point -- The indispensable nation in a globalizing world -- "Remembering the past and imagining the future" -- Liberal bombs, conservative shields -- New world disorder -- The end of the modern interwar years -- The 11/9 world -- From 11/9 to 9/11: a chronology.

973.931 P527p 2008
AUT Pfiffner, James P.
TIT Power play : the Bush presidency and the Constitution.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
CON Contents: A government of laws or men? -- The nature of executive power -- Creating individual rights and an independent legislature -- The American Constitution -- The power to imprison : habeas corpus -- The power to torture -- The power to surveil -- The power to ignore the law : signing statements -- Conclusion: Constitutionalism and the rule of law.

976.335 S451 2008
AUT Marable, Manning ; Clarke, Kristen.
TIT Seeking higher ground : the Hurricane Katrina crisis, race, and public policy reader. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
SER Critical Black studies series.
CON Contents: Introduction: Seeking higher ground : race, public policy and the Hurricane Katrina crisis / Manning Marable -- The New Orleans mayoral election : the Voting Rights Act and the politics of return and rebuild / Ronald Walters -- The New Orleans that race built : racism, disaster, and urban spatial relationships / Darwin Bond Graham -- Race-ing the post-Katrina political landscape : an analysis of the 2006 New Orleans election / Kristen Clarke -- Property and security, political chameleons, and dysfunctional regime : a New Orleans story / D. Osei Robertson -- Hurricane Katrina as an elaboration on an ongoing theme : racialized spaces in Louisiana / K. Animashaun Ducre -- An interview with Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle / Suzette M. Malveaux -- New Orleans's African American musical traditions : the spirit and soul of a city / Michael White -- Hero, eulogist, trickster, and critic : ritual and crisis in post-Katrina Mardi Gras / Chelsey Louise Kivland -- (Re)imagining ethnicity in the city of New Orleans : Katrina's geographical allegory / Stephanie Houston Grey -- The rebuilding of a tourist industry : immigrant labor exploitation in the post-Katrina reconstruction of New Orleans / Loren Redwood -- "Do you know what it means-- ?" : mapping emotion in the aftermath of Katrina / Melissa Harris-Lacewell -- Witness: the racialized gender implications of Katrina / Kathleen A. Bergin -- The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the race and class divide in America / Thomas J. Durant, Jr. and Dawood Sultan -- Katrina's southern "exposure" : the Kanye race debate and the repercussions of discussion / Erica M. Czaja -- Oral history, folklore, and Katrina / Alan H. Stein and Gene B. Preuss -- What happens when the footprints shrink : New Orleans and the end of eminence / Julianne Malveaux -- "The city I used to-- visit" : tourist New Orleans and the racialized response to Hurricane Katrina / Lynell Thomas -- The social construction of disaster : New Orleans as the paradigmatic American city / Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires -- Are they Katrina's kids or ours? the experience of displaced New Orleans students in their new schools and communities / Kevin Michael Foster -- Envisioning "complete recovery" as an alternative to "unmitigated disaster" / Mindy Thompson Fullilove, et al.

977.311 B595r 1995
AUT Biles, Roger.
TIT Richard J. Daley : politics, race, and the governing of Chicago.
PUB DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, 1995.

985.01 M898iR 2001
AUT Moseley, Michael Edward.
TIT The Incas and their ancestors : the archaeology of Peru. - Rev ed.
PUB London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2001.

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Software 028.7 H939m 2008
AUT Hunt, Fiona.
TIT More hands-on information literacy activities.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Keywords, brainstorming, and search strings -- Library orientation scavenger hunt clues -- Card set : discover your library questions -- Types of information sources : books -- Types of information sources : encyclopedia -- Types of information sources : journals and magazines -- Types of information sources : web sites -- Exploring the library catalog -- Search strings practice -- Search strings answer key -- Search strings review -- Search strings review answer key -- Finding subject-specific resources -- Evaluating flowchart and checklist -- Sample evaluation flowchart and checklist -- Evaluation pairs -- Evaluation pairs answer key/teacher's guide -- The components of a good evaluative annotation -- Citation consistency -- Citation consistency : corrected version -- Citation consistency game : questions -- To cite or not to cite -- Cards : what is plagiarism? -- Student checklist : how to avoid plagiarism -- Details : how to avoid plagiarism -- Original paragraph : globalization -- Original paragraph paraphrased : globalization -- Highlighted paragraphs for comparison -- Writing in your own words : author's qualifications -- When to cite in text -- When to cite in text answer key -- Foreign language bibliography -- Cards : information literacy story fill in the blanks -- Cards : information literacy story vocabulary -- Information literacy story answer key -- Card set : publishing cycles -- IL team game question sheet -- IL team game answer key -- IL team game student answer sheet -- Cards : online learning benefits and challenges.

Software 028.7 I435 2006
AUT Ragains, Patrick.
TIT Information literacy instruction that works : a guide to teaching by discipline and student population.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2006.
SER Information literacy sourcebooks. ; no. 3.

DVD 791.437 A379C
AUT Eisenstein, Sergei ; Pavlenko, Petr Andreevich.
TIT Aleksandr Nevski\u012D (Motion picture) Alexander Nevsky.
PUB [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2001.
SER Eisenstein, the sound years. The Criterion collection ; 87 The Classic collection.
NOT 1.33:1 aspect ratio. - Originally released as motion picture in 1938. - Special features include: new digital transfer, with extensive image and sound restoration ; audio essay by film scholar David Bordwell ; Russell Merritt's multimedia essay on the Eisenstein-Prokofiev collaboration ; reconstruction of Eisenstein's unfinished film Bezhin Meadow by the Eisenstein Museum's Naum Kleiman, plus scholar Jay Leyda's photos and documents from the set ; drawings and production stills ; restoration demonstration ; new English subtitle translation.

DVD 791.4372 I93E
AUT Eisenstein, Sergei ; Prokofiev, Sergey ; Cherkasov, Nikola Konstantinovich.
TIT Ivan Grozny\u012D (Motion picture) Ivan the Terrible.
PUB [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2001.
SER Eisenstein, the sound years. The Criterion collection ; 88 The Classic collection.
NOT 1.33 aspect ratio. - Originally released as a motion picture in 1944 (Part I) and 1946 (Part II). - Special features include: Multimedia essay on the history of Ivan the Terrible by Joan Neuberger ; multimedia essay on Eisenstein's visual vocabulary by Yuri Tsivian ; deleted scenes ; drawings and production stills ; new english subtitle translation.

DVD 791.4372 L778
AUT Bertolucci, Bernardo ; Reeves, Keanu ; Fonda, Bridget.
TIT Little Buddha.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Buena Vista Home Entertainment ; Miramax Home Entertainment, c2000.
SER Miramax classics.
NOT Motion picture originally released in 1993.

DVD 845.5 S173 2008
AUT Grimaldi, Alberto ; Citti, Sergio ; Bonacelli, Paolo.
TIT Salò o le centoventi giornate di Sodoma (Motion picture) Salò, o, le 120 giornate di Sodoma. - Special ed.
PUB [United States] : The Criterion Collection, c2008.
SER The Criterion collection ; 17.
NOT Originally released in 1975. - Features: disc 1: theatrical trailer. disc 2: Salò : yesterday and today (33 min. documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend, Ninetto Davoli); Fade to black (23 min. documentary featuring directors Bernardo Bertolucci, Catherine Breillat, and John Maybury, as well as scholar, David Forgacs); The end of Salò (40 min. documentary about the film's production); new interviews with production designer Dante Ferretti and director and film scholar Jean-Pierre Gorin. Booklet includes new essays by Neil Bartlett, Catherine Breillat, Naomi Greene, Sam Rohdie, Roberto Chiesi, and Gary Indiana, and excerpts from Gideon Bachmann's on-set diary.
CON Contents: Disc 1. The film -- disc 2. The supplements.

DVD 845.5 S173P 1998
AUT Pasolini, Pier Paolo ; Grimaldi, Alberto ; Citti, Sergio.
TIT Salò o le centoventi giornate di Sodoma (Motion picture) Salò, o, Le 120 giornate di Sodoma.
PUB [London] : BFI ; [S.l.] : MGM Distribution, c1998.

DVD 940.5315 N968C
AUT Dauman, Anatole ; Halfon, Samy ; Lifchitz, Philippe.
TIT Nuit et brouillard Night and fog.
PUB [United States] : Criterion Collection, c2003.
SER Criterion collection ; 197.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 1955. - Special features : crew profiles written by film historian Peter Cowie ; optional isolated music track ; new essay about the film by Phillip Lopate ; excerpt from an audio interview with Alain Resnais, from "Les Etoiles du cinema (1994) ; information about the composer, Hanns Eisler, by Russell Lack.

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J 796.457 N427w 2008
AUT Nelson, Kadir.
TIT We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2008.

J 811.52 B915r 2008
AUT Bryant, Jennifer ; Sweet, Melissa.
TIT A river of words : the story of William Carlos Williams.
PUB Grand Rapids, MIich. : Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008.

J 811.54 E58s 2008
AUT Engle, Margarita.
TIT The surrender tree : poems of Cuba's struggle for freedom. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
CON Contents: The names of the flowers, 1850-51 -- The Ten Years War, 1868-78 -- The Little War, 1878-80 -- The War of Independence, 1895-98 -- The surrender tree, 1898-99.

J 811.54 T458b 2008
AUT Thomas, Joyce Carol ; Cooper, Floyd.
TIT The blacker the berry : poems. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperCollins, 2008.
NOT "Joanna Cotler books.".

J-Fic C957r
AUT Crutcher, Chris.
TIT Running loose. - 1st HarperTempest ed.
PUB New York : HarperTempest, 2003.
NOT "A Greenwillow book.". - Originally published: New York : Greenwillow Books, c1983.

J-Fic D911r
AUT Duncan, Lois.
TIT Ransom. - New Laurel-Leaf ed.
PUB New York : Laurel-Leaf Books, 2005.

J-Fic F251a 1962
AUT Fast, Howard.
TIT April morning.
PUB New York : Bantam Books, 1962, c1961.

J-Fic F848c 2008
AUT Frazee, Marla.
TIT A couple of boys have the best week ever. - 1st ed.
PUB Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2008.

J-Fic G141g 2008
AUT Gaiman, Neil ; McKean, Dave.
TIT The graveyard book. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperCollins Pub., c2008.

J-Fic L415s 2008
AUT Law, Ingrid.
TIT Savvy.
PUB New York : Dial Books for Young Readers ; Boston, Mass. : Walden Media, c2008.

J-Fic L421s
AUT Lawrence, Iain.
TIT The séance. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Delacorte Press, c2008.

J-Fic L767c
AUT Lipsyte, Robert.
TIT The contender. - 1st HarperTrophy ed.
PUB New York : HarperTrophy, 1993.
NOT Published in hardcover by Harper & Row in 1967.

J-Fic M214c
AUT Mah, Adeline Yen.
TIT Chinese Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter.
PUB New York : Dell Laurel-Leaf, 2001, c1999.
CON Contents: Top of the class -- A Tianjin family -- Nai Nai's bound feet -- Life in Tianjin -- Arrival in Shanghai -- First day at school -- Family reunion -- Tram fare -- Chinese New Year -- Shanghai school days -- PLT -- Big sister's wedding -- A birthday party -- Class president -- Boarding school in Tianjin -- Hong Kong -- Boarding school in Hong Kong -- Miserable Sunday -- End of term -- Pneumonia -- Playwriting competition -- Letter from Aunt Baba.

J-Fic N736s
AUT Nixon, Joan Lowery.
TIT The séance. - 1st Harcourt pbk. ed.
PUB Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2004, c1980.

J-Fic R896t 2008
AUT Rubin, Adam ; Salmieri, Daniel.
TIT Those darn squirrels!.
PUB New York : Clarion Books, c2008.

J-Fic S562h 2008
AUT Shulevitz, Uri.
TIT How I learned geography. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, c2008.

J-Fic S649k 2008
AUT Smith, Hope Anita ; Lewis, Earl B.
TIT Keeping the night watch. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
CON Contents: We are family -- Family cooking instructions -- Pretending -- Sticks and stones -- Somebody's callin' my name -- Showdown at the O.K. Corral -- Family tales -- If you can't stand the heat... -- Seven ways of looking at my father -- The night watchman -- Parents and teachers -- Unidentified family member (UFM) -- The jeweler -- Sign language -- A talk on the moon -- Mountain climbing -- The good stuff -- Crazy glue -- Place cards -- Man-to-man -- Maya's sonnet -- Preacher's sermon on the mount -- Tongue-tied -- Field trip -- Fences -- Lunch is a battlefield -- Row, row, row... -- For real -- (Nick) Tuck -- Best-kept secret -- Can you hear me now? -- Zuri's ABCs -- Light at the end of the tunnel -- Blueprint -- Dance with me.

J-Fic S972h 2008
AUT Swanson, Susan Marie ; Krommes, Beth.
TIT The house in the night.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.

J-Fic T246s
AUT Taylor, Theodore.
TIT Sniper. - 1st Harcourt pbk. ed.
PUB Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2007, c1989.

J-Fic W362b 2008
AUT Weatherford, Carole Boston ; Cooper, Floyd.
TIT Becoming Billie Holiday. - 1st ed.
PUB Honesdale, Pa. : Wordsong, c2008.

J-Fic W898a 2008
AUT Woodson, Jacqueline.
TIT After Tupac & D Foster.
PUB New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2008.

J-Fic Z77m
AUT Zindel, Paul.
TIT My darling, my hamburger. - 1st. Harper Trophy ed.
PUB New York, HarperTrophy, 2005, c1969.