301.412 B788w, 1975
AUT Boxer, C. R.
TIT Women in Iberian expansion overseas, 1415-1815 : some facts, fancies and personalities.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 1975. 303.483 D574B, 2006
AUT Buckingham, David ; Willett, Rebekah.
TIT Digital generations : children, young people, and new media.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2006. 303.483 R554t, 2005
AUT Rieger, Bernhard.
TIT Technology and the culture of modernity in Britain and Germany, 1890-1945.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005. 303.484 S921r, 2006
AUT Stromquist, Shelton.
TIT Reinventing "The People" : the progressive movement, the class problem, and the origins of modern liberalism.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The labor problem and the crisis of the old order -- Constituting progressivism -- The politics of reform -- Communities of reformers -- Class bridging and the world of female reform -- The boundaries of difference -- Class wars and the crisis of progressivism -- Conclusion: war and the ragged edges of reform. 304.2 P855h, 2006
AUT Posey, Darrell Addison ; Balick, Michael J.
TIT Human impacts on Amazonia : the role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation and development.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Thoughts on the future of Amazonia : the region, residents, researchers, and realities / Michael J. Balick -- Romance and reality : the first European vision of Brazilian Indians / John Hemming -- Constructing tropical nature / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Demand for two classes of traditional agroecological knowledge in modern Amazonia / Charles R. Clement -- Fire in Romania, 1998 - politics and human impact : what role for indigenous people in Brazilian Amazonia? / Elizabeth Allen -- The Cerrado of Brazilian Amazonia : a much-endangered vegetation / James A. Ratter, J. Felipe Ribeiro, and Samuel Bridgewater -- A review of Amazonian wetlands and rivers : valuable environments under threat / Christopher Barrow -- Fragility and resilience of Amazonian soils : models from indigenous management / Peter A. Furley -- Is successful development of Brazilian Amazonia possible without knowledge of the soil and soil response to development? / Stephen Nortcliff -- Fragile soils and deforestation impacts : the rationale for environmental services of standing forest as a development paradigm in Amazonia / Philip M. Fearnside -- Concurrent activities and invisible technologies : an example of timber management in Amazonia / Christine Padoch and Miguel Pinedo-V�squez -- Institutional and economic issues in the promotion of commercial forest management in Amerinidian societies / Michael Richards -- Collect or cultivate - a conundrum : comparative population ecology of ipecac (Carapichea ipecacuanha (Brot.) L. Andersson), a neotropical understory herb / Jan Salick -- Extractivism, domestication, and privatization of a native plant resource : the case of jaborandi (Pilocarpus microphyllus Stapf ex Holmes) in Maranh�o, Brazil / Claudio Urbano B. Pinheiro -- Peasant riverine economies and their impact in the lower Amazon / Mark Harris -- Conservation, economics, traditional knowledge, and the Yanomami : implications and benefits for whom? / William Milliken -- The commodification of the Indian / Alcida Rita Ramos -- Euphemism in the forest : ahistoricism and the valorization of indigenous knowledge / Stephen Nugent -- What's the difference between a Peace Corps worker and an anthropologist? A millennium rethink of anthropological fieldwork / Joanna Overing -- Traditional resource use and ethnoeconomics : sustainable characteristics of the Amerindian lifestyles / Cl�vis Cavalcanti -- Enhancing social captial : productive conservation and traditional knowledge in the Brazilian rain forest / Anthony Hall. 304.663 L716t, 2006
AUT Lieberman, Benjamin David.
TIT Terrible fate : ethnic cleansing in the making of modern Europe.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
CON Contents: Bag and baggage: ethnic cleansing begins: the Ottoman and Russian Empire, 1800-1906 -- Farewell to Salonica: the Balkans, 1912-1915 -- How much worse it is than massacre! : Turkey, Russia, and Macedonia, 1914-1918 -- Ethnic cleansing between the world wars: Turkey, Transcaucasia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, 1918-1939 -- There was no one left for me: Central and Eastern Europe, 1939-1945 -- The land of the Poles that is lost to the Germans: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, USSR, and Yugoslavia , 1945-1954 -- After the Ottomans: Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, Iraq, and Bulgaria, 1947-2004 -- A kind of second reality: the Caucasus and Yugoslavia, 1988-1959 -- A continent cleansed. 305.38 R524b, 2007
AUT Richardson, Rich�.
TIT Black masculinity and the U.S. South : from Uncle Tom to gangsta.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2007. 305.562 K18t, 2004
AUT Karoly, Lynn A. ; Panis, Constantijn W. A.
TIT The 21st century at work : forces shaping the future workforce and workplace in the United States.
PUB Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2004. 305.8 J17wh, 2006
AUT Jacobson, Matthew Frye.
TIT Roots too : White ethnic revival in post-civil rights America.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : beyond Hansen's law -- 1. Hyphen nation -- 2. Golden door, silver screen -- 3. Old world bound -- 4. The immigrant's bootstraps, and other fables -- 5. I take back my name -- 6. Our heritage is our power -- 7. Whose America (Who's America)? -- Coda : Ireland at JFK. 305.8095 Y51e, 2006
AUT Yiftachel, Oren.
TIT Ethnocracy : land and identity politics in Israel/Palestine.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
CON Contents: I: Settings -- Introduction -- The ethnocratic regime: the politics of seizing contested territory -- II: Ethnocracy and territory in Israel/Palestine -- Zionist and Palestinian nationalism: the making of territorial identities -- Debating Israeli democracy -- The making of ethnocracy in Israel/Palestine -- The spatial foundation: the Israeli land system -- III: Ethnocracy and its peripheries: Palestinian Arabs and Mizrahim -- Fractured regionalism among Palestinian Arabs in Israel -- Bedouin Arabs and urban ethnocracy in the Beer-Sheva region -- Mizrahi identities in the development towns: the making of a "third space" -- Between local and national: mobilization in the Mizrahi peripheries -- IV: Looking ahead -- A way forward? The planning of a binational capital in Jerusalem -- Epilogue: a demos for Israel/Palestine? Toward gradual binationalism. 305.892 M375e, 2006
AUT Mart, Michelle.
TIT Eye on Israel : how America came to view the Jewish state as an ally.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Images of the "new Jew" in postwar culture : building on the legacies of antisemitism and the Holocaust -- The United States and the founding of Israel : a particularist state with a universal mission -- Views of the new Jewish state : the "Americanization" of Israel -- The 1950s religious revival and "Christianizing" the image of Israel and Jews -- Acceptance and assimilation : Jews in 1950s American culture and politics -- The cold war, Suez, and beyond : cultural images and changing American-Israeli relations in the late 1950s. 305.892 M624p, 2006
AUT Michlic, Joanna B.
TIT Poland's threatening other : the image of the Jew from 1880 to the present.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : the concept of the Jew as the threatening other and modern nation building in Poland -- The representation of the Jew as the threatening other : a historical introduction, part I -- The myth of the Jew as the threatening other in interwar Poland, 1918-39 : a historical introduction, part II -- The myth and anti-Jewish violence between 1918 and 1939 : instigation, rationalization, and justification of violence -- Perceptions of Jews during the German occupation of Poland, 1939-45 : a new set of political and social circumstances -- Old wine in a new bottle : Polish perceptions of Jews in the early postwar period, 1945-49 -- Judeo-Communists, Judeo-Stalinists, Judeo-anti-Communists, and national nihilists : the Communist regime and the myth, 1950s-80s -- Conclusion : the beginning of the end of the image, 1989-2000s. 306.0956 O99i, 1983
AUT Oz, Amos.
TIT In the land of Israel. - 1st ed.
PUB San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1983. 306.3 S862f, 2005
AUT Stitziel, Judd.
TIT Fashioning socialism : clothing, politics, and consumer culture in East Germany.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Berg, 2005.
CON Contents: Ideologies and politics of consumption -- The logic and contingencies of planning, producing, and distributing -- From "new out of old" to "socialist fashion" : patching together an alternative consumer culture -- Economies of value and politics of price -- The embarrassment of surpluses -- The disillusionment of dreams of distinction : hochmodisch apparel, fashion boutiques, and exquisit stores -- Shopping, sewing, networking, complaining : consumer practices and the relationship between state and society. 306.362 D261in, 2006
AUT Davis, David Brion.
TIT Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World.
PUB Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of modern slavery -- The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World -- How Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave system : Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America -- The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I : from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II -- Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts -- Explanations of British abolitionism -- Abolitionism in America -- The politics of slavery in the United States -- The Civil War and slave emancipation. 306.4 M123p, 2006
AUT McCaskill, Barbara ; Gebhard, Caroline.
TIT Post-bellum, pre-Harlem : African American literature and culture, 1877-1919.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Creative collaboration: as African American as sweet potato pie / Frances Smith Foster -- Commemorative ceremonies and invented traditions: history, memory, and modernity in the "new Negro" novel of the Nadir / Carla L. Peterson -- Landscapes of labor: race, religion, and Rhode Island in the painting of Edward Mitchell Bannister / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw -- "Manly husbands and womanly wives": the leadership of educator Lucy Craft Laney / Audrey Thomas McCluskey -- Old and new issue servants: "race" men and women weigh in / Barbara Ryan -- Savannah's Colored Tribune, the Reverend E.K. Love, and the sacred rebellion of uplift / Barbara McCaskill -- A marginal man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York tenderloin / Robert M. Dowling -- Jamming with Julius: Charles Chesnutt and the post-bellum-pre-Harlem blues / Barbara A. Baker -- Rewriting Dunbar: realism, black women poets, and the genteel / Paula Bernat Bennett -- Inventing a "Negro Literature": race, dialect, and gender in the early work of Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson / Caroline Gebhard -- No excuses for our dirt: Booker T. Washington and a "new Negro" middle class / Philip J. Kowalski -- War work, social work, community work: Alice Dunbar-Nelson, federal war work agencies, and Southern African American women / Nikki L. Brown -- Antilynching plays: Angelina Weld Grimk�, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the evolution of African American drama / Koritha A. Mitchell -- Henry Ossawa Tanner and W.E.B. Du Bois: African American art and "high culture" at the turn into the twentieth century / Margaret Crumpton Winter and Rhonda Reymond -- The Folk, The School, and the Marketplace: Locations of Culture in The souls of black folk / Andrew J. Scheiber. 306.4 W411g, 2006
AUT Wegenstein, Bernadette.
TIT Getting under the skin : the body and media theory.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Making room for the body -- Body performances from 1960s wounds 1990s extensions -- Faces have become obsolete -- The medium is the body. 306.484 G333b, 2006
AUT Gennari, John.
TIT Blowin' hot and cool : jazz and its critics.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : (much more than) a few words about jazz -- "Not only a new art form but a new reason for living" -- "As if it were artistic and not just a teenage enthusiasm" : hot collecting across the color line -- Hearing the "noisy lostness" : telling the story of jazz -- Writer's writers and sensitive cats : mapping the new jazz criticism -- Swinging in a high-class groove : mainstreaming jazz in Lenox and Newport -- The shock of the new : black freedom, the counterculture, and 1960s jazz criticism -- Race-ing the bird : Ross Russell's obsessive pursuit of Charlie Parker -- Tangled up in blues : the new jazz renaissance and its discontents -- Conclusion : change of the century. 306.7 M169s, 2006 v.1-3
AUT McAnulty, Richard D ; Burnette, M. Michele.
TIT Sex and sexuality.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. Sexuality today : trends and controversies -- v. 2. Sexual function and dysfunction -- v. 3. Sexual deviation and sexual offenses. 306.70943 H582s, 2005
AUT Herzog, Dagmar.
TIT Sex after fascism : memory and morality in twentieth-century Germany.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: 1. Sex and the Third Reich -- 2. The fragility of heterosexuality -- 3. Desperately seeking normality -- 4. The morality of pleasure -- 5. The romance of socialism -- 6. Antifascist bodies. 320.082 O43r, 2005
AUT Olcott, Jocelyn.
TIT Revolutionary women in postrevolutionary Mexico.
PUB Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : the daughters of La Malinche : gender and revolutionary citizenship -- "A right to struggle" : revolutionary citizenship and the birth of Mexican feminism -- Laboratory of Cardenismo : constructing Michoac�n's postrevolutionary edifice -- Educators and organizers : populating the national women's movement -- "All the benefits of the Revolution" : labor and citizenship in the Comarca Lagunera -- "Her dignity as woman and her sovereignty as citizen" : claiming postrevolutionary citizenship -- "All are avowed socialists" : political conflict and women's organizing in Yucat�n -- Conclusions and epilogue : the death of Cardenismo. 320.951 G619p, 1999
AUT Goldman, Merle ; MacFarquhar, Roderick.
TIT The paradox of China's post-Mao reforms.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999. 320.951 P377c, 2006
AUT Pei, Minxin.
TIT China's trapped transition : the limits of developmental autocracy.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Why transitions get trapped : a theoretical framework -- Democratizing China? -- Rent protection and dissipation : the dark side of gradualism -- Transforming the state : from developmental to predatory -- China's mounting governance deficits -- Conclusion. 323.2 P995e, 2006
AUT Pybus, Cassandra.
TIT Epic journeys of freedom : runaway slaves of the American Revolution and their global quest for liberty.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Liberty or Death -- Crossing over to Freedom's Shore -- Marching to Catastrophe -- Fleeing the Founding Fathers -- Starving in the Streets of London -- Bound for Australia's Fatal Shore -- Relief for London's Black Poor -- Recalcitrant Convicts in New South Wales -- The Province of Freedom in Sierra Leone -- At the End of the World in New South Wales -- Promises Unfulfilled in Sierra Leone -- In Bondage to This Tyrannous Crew. 324.256 Y35e, 2006
AUT Yavuz, M. Hakan.
TIT The emergence of a new Turkey : democracy and the AK Parti.
PUB Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, c2006. 324.78 C823n, 2005
AUT Corrado, Anthony.
TIT The new campaign finance sourcebook.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction / Thomas E. Mann and Anthony Corrado -- Money and politics : a history of federal campaign finance law / Anthony Corrado -- The current state of campaign finance law / Trevor Potter -- The First Amendment and the limits of campaign finance reform / Daniel R. Ortiz -- Campaign finance disclosure laws / Trevor Potter -- Party finances / Anthony Corrado -- Public funding of presidential campaigns / Anthony Corrado -- Speech governed by federal election laws / Trevor Potter and Kirk L. Jowers -- The FEC : administering and enforcing campaign finance laws / Thomas E. Mann -- Election law and the internet / Trevor Potter and Kirk L. Jowers -- Reform agenda / Thomas E. Mann. 327.11 S519h, 2007
AUT Seybolt, Taylor B.
TIT Humanitarian military intervention : the conditions for success and failure.
PUB Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Controversies about humanitarian intervention -- Judging success and failure -- Humanitarian military interventions in the 1990s -- Helping to deliver emergency aid -- Protecting humanitarian aide operations -- Saving the victims of violence -- Defeating the perpetrators of violence -- The prospects for success and the limits of humanitarian intervention. 327.73009 J68c, 2006
AUT Johnson, Robert David.
TIT Congress and the Cold War.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Constructing a bipartisan foreign policy -- Legislative power and the Congressional right -- Redefining Congressional power -- The consequences of Vietnam -- The transformation of Stuart Symington -- The new internationalists' Congress -- The triumph of the Armed Services Committee. 327.7308 M172i, 2006
AUT McPherson, Alan L.
TIT Intimate ties, bitter struggles : the United States and Latin America since 1945. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2006. 330.904 G568c, 2006
AUT Glyn, Andrew.
TIT Capitalism unleashed : finance globalization and welfare.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. Challenges to capital -- 2. Austerity, privatization and deregulation -- 3. Finance and ownership -- 4. Globalization and international economic relations -- 5. Labour's retreats -- 6. Growth and stability -- 7. Welfare and income inequality. 330.962 I26e, 2005
AUT Ikram, Khalid.
TIT The Egyptian economy, 1952-2000 : performance, policies, and issues.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
CON Contents: Economic development and policymaking, 1952-73 -- Economic development and policymaking, 1973-87 -- Economic development and policymaking, 1987-2000 -- Growth, productivity, and structural change, 1960-2000 -- The external sector -- The public finances -- The financial sector and monetary policy -- Labor force and employment -- Poverty and income distribution -- Towards sustainable growth : strategic and institutional issues. 330.97 P786c, 2006
AUT Pomfret, Richard W. T.
TIT The Central Asian economies since independence.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Uzbekistan : economic gradualism and political stability -- 3. Kazakhstan : oil-boom economy -- 4. Tajikistan : civil war and its aftermath -- 5. The Kyrgyz Republic : the region's rapid reformer -- 6. Turkmenistan : the realm of Turkmenbashi the Great -- 7. Measuring economic performance -- 8. Winners and losers -- 9. The role of natural resources -- 10. International economic policies : regionalism and integration into the world economy -- 11. Shared problems and national economic differentiation. 330.973 G231a, 2006
AUT Garfinkle, Norton.
TIT The American dream vs. the gospel of wealth : the fight for a productive middle-class economy.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The American economic vision -- Lincoln's economics : the origin of the American dream -- The gospel of wealth -- The age of reform -- The business of America is business -- The renewal of the American dream -- The new gospel of wealth -- The current debate : supply-side vs. demand-side economics -- The way forward. 331.10973 J93w, 1997
AUT Judy, Richard W ; D'Amico, Carol ; Geipel, Gary L.
TIT Workforce 2020 : work and workers in the 21st century.
PUB Indianapolis, Ind. : Hudson Institute, c1997. 331.4 K53s, 2001
AUT King, Mary C.
TIT Squaring up : policy strategies to raise women's incomes in the United States.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2001.
CON Contents: Why we need policies to raise women's incomes / Mary C. King -- Moving beyond "get a job": what real welfare reform would look like / Randy Albelda, Chris Tilly -- What would we gain by subsidizing child care? / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Public support for parents / Nancy Folbre -- Are older women economically secure? : reforming Social Security / Lois B. Shaw, Catherine Hill -- Raising the minimum wage and living wage campaigns / Deborah M. Figart -- Pay equity: did it work? / Margaret Hallock -- Just ask: women's strengths in collective bargaining / Peter Donohue -- Promoting women's economic progress through affirmative action / M.V. Lee Badgett, Jeannette Lim -- Great work if you can get it: women in the skilled trades / Barbara Byrd -- Is teaching more girls more math the key to higher wages? / Catherine J. Weinberger -- A policy agenda to raise women's incomes in the United States / Mary C. King. 331.89 B651j, 2006
AUT Block, Richard N.
TIT Justice on the job : perspectives on the erosion of collective bargaining in the United States.
PUB Kalamazoo, Mich. : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2006.
CON Contents: An introduction to the current state of workers' rights / Richard N. Block, Sheldon Friedman, Michelle Kaminski, and Andy Levin -- A logical extreme : proposing human rights as the foundation for workers' rights in the United States / James A. Gross -- International elections standards and NLRB representation elections / David L. Cingranelli -- Collective bargaining rights in the public sector : promises and reality / Donald S. Wasserman -- Significant victories : an analysis of union first contracts / Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner, and Robert Hickey / -- Bad service jobs : can unions save them? can they save unions? / Laura Dresser and Annette Bernhardt -- Dancing with the smoke monster : employer motivations for negotiating neutrality and card check agreements / Adrienne E. Eaton and Jill Kriesky -- Supreme Court supervisory status decisions : the impact on the organizing of nurses / Steven E. Abraham, Adrienne E. Eaton, and Paula B. Voos -- Law and collective bargaining power : an experiment to test labor law reform proposals / Gangaram Singh and Ellen Dannin -- America's union-free movement in light of international human rights standards / Roy J. Adams -- The United States and ILO conventions 87 and 98 : the freedom of association and the right to bargain collectively / Richard McIntyre and Matthew M. Bodah -- Members-only collective bargaining : a back-to-basics approach to union organizing / Charles J. Morris -- The commercial temp agency, the union hiring hall, and the contingent workforce : toward a legal reclassification of for-profit labor market intermediaries / Harris Freeman and George Gonos -- No more business as usual : using pension activism to protect workers' rights / Jayne Elizabeth Zanglein. 332.098 S782f, 2006
AUT Stallings, Barbara ; Studart, Rog�rio.
TIT Finance for development : Latin America in comparative perspective.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Finance for development: issues and trends -- Finance within a new development model in Latin America -- Latin America's financial sector today: stylized facts -- Substantive and methodological contributions -- Overview of the book --Changes in Latin America's financial system since 1990: comparisons with East Asia -- Financial liberalization, crisis, and the aftermath -- Financial liberalization: literature and hypotheses -- Financial liberalization: empirical trends -- Financial liberalization and crisis -- Rescue programs: costs and outcomes -- Conclusions -- Changes in ownership: public, private, and foreign banks -- Bank ownership and institutional environment: literature and hypotheses -- Trends in bank ownership -- Ownership and performance -- Ownership, institutions, and performance -- Conclusions -- Toward stability: regulation, supervision, and the macroeconomic context -- Regulation and supervision: literature and hypotheses -- Regulation and supervision: the state of the art -- Regulation, supervision, and financial performance -- Conclusions -- From banks to capital markets: new sources of finance -- Capital market performance: literature and hypotheses -- Comparing financial market trends across regions -- Analysis of financial market trends -- Conclusions -- The impact of the new financial system on investment and access in Latin America -- Chile: mixed ownership provides a new model -- Liberalization, crisis, and response -- Changes in structure -- Finance, investment, and growth -- Access to finance for small firms -- Conclusions -- Mexico: foreign banks assume control -- Liberalization, crises, and response -- Changes in structure -- Finance, investment, and growth -- Access to finance for small firms -- Conclusions -- Brazil: public banks continue to play a key role -- Liberalization, crises, and response -- Changes in structure -- Finance, investment, and growth -- Access to credit by small firms -- Conclusions -- Policy recommendations for a stronger financial system -- A policy agenda for the financial sector -- Banks and capital markets since 1990 -- Toward a policy agenda on finance -- Final comments. 333.95 K23L, 2006
AUT Kaye, Roger.
TIT Last great wilderness : the campaign to establish the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
PUB Fairbanks, Ak. : University of Alaska Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Genesis of the Campaign -- To Northeast Alaska -- A Last Great Wilderness -- The 1956 Sheenjek Expedition -- Wilderness, Wildlife Range, or Both? -- Finally, Legislation Introduced -- Senate Hearings -- House Passage, Senate Inaction, Executive Action -- A Symbol of Wilderness. 335.70951 E19r, 2005
AUT Economy, Elizabeth.
TIT The river runs black : the environmental challenge to China's future.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], 2005.
CON Contents: The death of the Huai river -- A legacy of exploitation -- The economic explosion and its environmental cost -- The challenge of greening China -- The new politics of the environment -- The devil at the doorstep -- Lessons from abroad -- Averting the crisis. 338.4778 K89t9, 2003
AUT Krasilovsky, M. William ; Shemel, Sidney ; Gross, John M.
TIT This business of music : the definitive guide to the music industry. - 9th ed.
PUB New York : Billboard Books, 2003.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Music business trends and transformation -- pt. 2. Record industry agreements and practices -- pt. 3. Music publisher and writer agreements and practices -- pt. 4. Other aspects of the music business. 343.73 E64a, 2007
AUT Epstein, Richard A.
TIT Antitrust consent decrees in theory and practice : why less is more.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Theoretical foundations -- Case studies -- The breakup of the bell system -- Microsoft -- Lessons learned. 352.23 S797, 2007
TIT State of the union : presidential rhetoric from Woodrow Wilson to George W. Bush.
PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2007. 355.008 H775c, 2006
AUT Honwana, Alcinda Manuel.
TIT Child soldiers in Africa.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006. 361 P751i2, 2007
AUT Poindexter, Cynthia Cannon ; Valentine, Deborah P.
TIT An introduction to human services : values, methods, and populations served. - 2nd ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson Brooks/Cole, c2007. 361.7 W132w, 2000
AUT Wagner, David.
TIT What's love got to do with it? : a critical look at American charity.
PUB New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2000. 361.7 W583c, 2007
AUT White, Doug.
TIT Charity on trial.
PUB Fort Lee, NJ : Barricade Books, c2007.
CON Contents: The United Way -- Adelphi University -- The Baptist Foundation of Arizona -- New Era -- The good they failed to do -- What is a charity? -- Charity in America -- Firmly established -- Charity and terrorism -- The Texas lawsuit -- The Ohio State University -- The Nature Conservancy -- The legacy of Solferino -- The Red Cross and public opinion -- Ugly Tiffany -- Money and mission -- How charities raise their money -- What charities tell the IRS -- The ratings game -- In a perfect world -- Epilogue: Looking in the mirror. 362.1 S954r, 2006
AUT Sulmasy, Daniel P.
TIT The rebirth of the clinic : an introduction to spirituality in health care.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Pt. I. Rebirth in the clinic -- 1. Why surgeons must be very careful -- 2. Is health care a spiritual practice? -- 3. Dignity, vulnerability, and the personhood of the patient -- 4. The wisdom of Ben Sira -- 5. The dialectic of healing -- 6. Taking physicians' oaths seriously -- Pt. II. The book of numbers : empirical research on spirituality and healing -- 7. What the data cannot mean -- 8. A biopsychosocial-spiritual model of health care -- 9. Scientific studies of the healing power of prayer -- 10. Is there a moral obligation to address the spiritual needs of patients? -- Pt. III. At the threshold of death -- 11. On praying for a cure -- 12. Healing the dying -- 13. At W;t's end -- 14. Peg. 362.18 R822a, 2006
AUT Rosner, David ; Markowitz, Gerald E.
TIT Are we ready? : public health since 9/11.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, c2006.
CON Contents: September 11 and the shifting priorities of public and population health in New York City -- Emergency preparedness, bioterrorism, and the states -- Emergency preparedness, bioterrorism, and the CDC: federal involvement before and after 9/11. 362.2 K32m, 2007
AUT Kemp, Donna R.
TIT Mental health in America : a reference handbook.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.
CON Contents: BACKGROUND AND HISTORY -- The United States in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries -- The Twentieth Century -- Mental Health Policy -- THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: PROBLEMS, CONTROVERSIES AND SOLUTIONS -- Defining Mental Illness -- Mental Disabilities -- Who Are the Mentally Ill? -- Treatment -- Research and Prevention -- Consumer Choice and Involuntary Treatment -- Funding -- Parity -- Managed Care -- Integration and Linking with Primary Care -- When the System Fails -- Grading the States 2006 -- An Ideal System -- WORLDWIDE PERSPECTIVE -- The Global Burden of Mental Disorders -- Mental Health Policy and Practice -- Financing and Human Resources -- CHRONOLOGY -- BIOGRAPHIES: Karl Abraham, Nathan W. Ackerman, Alfred Adler, Franz Gabriel Alexander, Gregory Bateson, Clifford W. Beers, Eric Berne, Eugene B. Brody, George W. Bush, Rosalyn Carter, Jean Martin Charcot, Bill Clinton, Albert Deutsch, Albert Ellis, Erik Homburger Erikson, Anna Freud, Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm, William Glasser, Erving Goffman, Mike Gorman, Carl Gustav Jung, John F. Kennedy, R. D. Laing, Abraham Harold Maslow, David Mechanic, Fritz Perls, Otto Rank, Ronal Reagan, B. F. Skinner, Thomas Szasz, E. Fuller Torrey, -- FACTS AND STATISTICS -- Federal Agencies and Mental Health Data Collections -- Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) -- Mental Health State Statistics -- Healthy People 2010 -- National Institute of Mental Health -- The Impact of Mental Illness on Society -- Mental Disorders in America -- Suicide Facts and Statistics -- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services -- Nonprofit Organizations and Mental Health Statistics. Contents: -- DOCUMENTS, REPORTS AND NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS -- Achieving the Promise: Transforming Mental Health Care in America 2003 -- Epidemiological Studies: Epidemiological Catchment Area (ECA) Study 1980-1985, National Co-Morbidity Study 1990-1992, and NCS-Replication Released 2005 -- Free to Choose: Transforming Behavioral Health Care to Self-Direction: Report of the 2004 Consumer Direction Initiative Summit -- Global Burden of Disease -- Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General -- National Alliance for the Mentally Ill -- National Mental Health Association -- National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action -- Rosenhan Study -- World Federation for Mental Health -- LEGISLATION AND COURT CASES -- Protection -- Commitment -- Commitment and Criminal Justice -- Right to Treatment -- Right to Refuse Treatment and Informed Consent -- Legislation -- The Social Security Act of 1935 and Its Amendment -- The Community Mental Health Centers (CMHC) Act of 1963 -- Head Start 1964 -- The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 -- The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1975 -- The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 -- The McKinney Act of 1987 -- The Fair Housing Amendments of 1988 -- The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 -- The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 -- ORGANIZATIONS -- Professional Societies and Nonprofit Issue and Advocacy Associations -- Government Agencies -- International Organizations -- SELECTED PRINT AND NONPRINT RESOURCES -- Books and Reports -- Electronic Library-Based Resources -- Health Research and Healthcare Policy Organization Web Sites. 362.734 M693a2, 2007
AUT Moe, Barbara A.
TIT Adoption : a reference handbook. - 2nd ed.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007. 363.23 H537c, 2006
AUT Herbert, Steven Kelly.
TIT Citizens, cops, and power : recognizing the limits of community.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. The terrain of community -- 2. The political status of community -- 3. Elusive legitimacy : subservient, separate, or generative? -- 4. "Don't drink the Kool-Aid" : on the resistence to community policing -- 5. "It is so difficult" : the complicated pathways of police-community relations -- 6. The unbearable lightness of community. 363.25 L478L, 2006
AUT Lee, Henry C ; Labriola, Jerry.
TIT Dr. Henry Lee's forensic files : five famous cases--Scott Peterson, Elizabeth Smart, and more--.
PUB Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2006.
CON Contents: Prologue -- The Scott Peterson case -- The Elizabeth Smart case -- The Michael Peterson case -- The Duntz brothers case -- The Myers/Fontanille case -- Epilogue. 363.31 B175b, 2006
AUT Bald, Margaret.
TIT Literature suppressed on religious grounds. - Rev. ed.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2006.
CON Contents: Works discussed in this volume : Alice series (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor) -- Always running, La Vida Loca : gang days in L.A. (Luis T. Rodriguez) -- America (the book) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction (Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum) -- An American tragedy (Theodore Dreiser) -- The Arabian nights, or The thousand and one nights (Sir Richard Burton, trans.) -- The art of love, Ars Amatoria (Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso) -- Bessie Cotter (Wallace Smith) -- The bluest eye (Toni Morrison) -- Boy (James Hanley) -- The buffalo tree (Adam Rapp) -- Candide (Voltaire, Fran�ois Marie Arouet Voltaire) -- Candy (Maxwell Kenton) -- The carpetbaggers (Harold Robbins) -- Casanova's homecoming, Casanova's heimfahrt (Arthur Schnitzler) -- The Chinese room (Vivian Connell) -- Christine (Stephen King) -- The clan of the cave bear (Jean Auel) -- Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) -- The decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) -- The deer park (Norman Mailer) -- The devil rides outside (John Howard Griffin) -- The diary of Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepys) -- Droll stories (Honor� de Balzac) -- Dubliners (James Joyce) -- Eat me (Linda Jaivin) -- Fanny Hill, or memoirs of a woman of pleasure (John Cleland) -- The fifteen plagues of a maidenhead (Anonymous) -- Flowers for. Contents: Algernon (Daniel Keyes) -- The flowers of evil, Les fleurs du mal (Charles Baudelaire) -- Forever (Judy Blume) -- Forever Amber (Kathleen Winsor) -- From here to eternity (James Jones) -- The genius (Theodore Dreiser) -- The gilded hearse (Charles O. Gorham) -- The ginger man (J.P. Donleavy) -- The goats (Brock Cole) -- God's little acre (Erskine Caldwell) -- The group (Mary McCarthy) -- Hagar Revelly (Daniel Carson Goodman). Contents: The handmaid's tale (Margaret Atwood) -- The heptameron, L'heptameron ou histoires des amans fortunez (Marguerite d'Angoul�me, Queen of Navarre) -- The history of Tom Jones, a foundling (Henry Fielding) -- Homo sapiens (Stanley Przybyskzewski) -- How to make love like a porn star (Jenna Jameson) -- If it die (Andr� Gide) -- Isle of pines (Henry Neville) -- It's perfectly normal : changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health (Robbie H. Harris) -- Janet March (Floyd Dell) -- Jude the obscure (Thomas Hardy) -- Jurgen : a comedy of justice (James Branch Cabell) -- Justine, or the misfortunes of virtue Juliette, her sister, or the prosperities of vice (Marquis de Sade) -- The kama sutra of Vatsayana (Sir Richard Burton, F.F. Arbuthnot, translators) -- The Kreutzer sonata (Leo Tolstoy) -- Ladies in the parlor (Jim Tully) -- Lady Chatterley's lover (D.H. Lawrence) -- La Terre, the earth (�mile Zola) -- Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) -- The lustful Turk (Anonymous) -- Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) -- Madeleine (Anonymous) -- Mademoiselle de Maupin (Th�ophile Gautier) -- The maid of Orleans, La pucelle (Fran�ois-Marie Arouet Voltaire) -- Memoires (Giovanni Casanova de Seingalt) -- Memoirs of a young rakehell (Guillaume Apollinaire) -- Memoirs of Hecate. Contents: County (Edmund Wilson) -- The merry muses of Caledonia (Robert Burns) -- Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) -- My life and loves (Frank Harris) -- A night in a Moorish harem (Anonymous) -- November, Novembre (Gustave Flaubert) -- The 120 days of Sodom, Les 120 journ�es de Sodome (Marquis de Sade) -- Our lady of the flowers, Notre-Dame des fleurs (Jean Genet) -- Outlaw representation (Richard Meyer) -- Pamela, or virtue rewarded (Samuel Richardson). 363.31 K18b, 2006
AUT Karolides, Nicholas J.
TIT Literature suppressed on political grounds. - Rev. ed.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2006.
CON Contents: Works discussed in this volume : The affluent society (John Kenneth Galbraith) -- After such knowledge, what forgiveness? : my encounters with Kurdistan (Jonathan C. Randal) -- The age of Keynes (Robert Lekachman) -- All quiet on the Western front (Erich Maria Remarque) -- America in legend (Richard M. Dorson) -- American civics (William H. Hartley and William S. Vincent) -- The American pageant : a history of the republic (Thomas A. Bailey) -- Andersonville (MacKinlay Kantor) -- Animal farm (George Orwell) -- Areopagitica (John Milton) -- Black boy (Richard Wright) -- Bloods : an oral history of the Vietnam War by black veterans (Wallace Terry) -- Born on the Fourth of July (Ron Kovic) -- Boss : Richard J. Daley of Chicago (Mike Royko) -- Burger's daughter (Nadine Gordimer) -- Bury my heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown) -- Bus stop, Chezhan (Gao Xingjian) -- By way of deception : the making and unmaking of a Mossad officer (Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy) -- Cancer ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) -- Cat's cradle (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) -- The China lobby in American politics (Ross Y. Koen) -- The CIA and the cult of intelligence (Victor Marchetti and John D. Marks) -- Citizen Tom Paine (Howard Fast) -- The commercial restraints of Ireland considered (John Hely-Hutchinson) -- Comparative politics today : a world view (Gabriel A. Almond, general editor) -- Cry Amandla! (June Goodwin). Contents: Das Kapital (Karl Marx) -- Daughter of earth (Agnes Smedley) -- The day they came to arrest the book (Nat Hentoff) -- Decent interval (Frank Snepp) -- Did six million really die? The truth at last (Richard Harwood) -- Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak) -- The Drapier's letters (Jonathan Swift) -- A dry white season (Andr� Brink) -- Du Pont : behind the nylon curtain (Gerard Colby Zilg) -- Fail-safe (Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler) -- Fields of fire (James Webb) -- The fragile flag (Jane Langton) -- The fugitive, Perburuan (Pramoedya Ananta Toer) -- Fugitives, Taowang (Gao Xingjian) -- The grapes of wrath (John Steinbeck) -- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) -- Gulliver's travels (Jonathan Swift) -- Handbook for conscientious objectors (Robert A. Seeley, editor) -- The hoax of the twentieth century (Arthur R. Butz) -- I am the cheese (Robert Cormier) -- Inside Russia today (John Gunther) -- Inside the company : CIA diary (Philip Agee) -- In the spirit of Crazy Horse (Peter Matthiessen) -- An introduction to problems of American culture (Harold O. Rugg) -- The invisible government (David Wise and Thomas B. Ross) -- It can't happen here (Sinclair Lewis) -- Johnny got his gun (Dalton Trumbo) -- A journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev) -- Julie of the wolves (Jean Craighead George) -- The jungle (Upton Sinclair) -- Keeping faith : memoirs of a president (Jimmy Carter). Contents: The land and people of Cuba (Victoria Ortiz) -- Land of the free : a history of the United States (John W. Caughey, John Hope Franklin, and Ernest R. May) -- Laughing boy (Oliver La Farge) -- El libro negro de la justicia Chilena, The black book of Chilean justice (Alejandra Matus).-- The man died : prison notes of Wole Soyinka (Wole Soyinka) -- The manifesto of the Communist Party (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) -- Marxism versus Socialism (Vladimir G. Simkhovitch) -- Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler) -- Les Mis�rables (Victor Hugo) -- My brother Sam is dead (James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier) -- My name is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok) -- My people : the story of the Jews (Abba Eban) -- Nelson and Winnie Mandela (Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler) -- 1984 (George Orwell) -- Novel without a name (Duong Thu Huong) -- Oil! (Upton Sinclair) -- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn) -- One people, one destiny : the Caribbean and Central America today (Don Rojas) -- The open sore of a continent : a personal narrative of the Nigerian crisis (Wole Soyinka) -- Our land, our time : a history of the United States (Joseph Robert Conlin) -- Paradise of the blind (Duong Thu Huong) -- The patriot, Ha patriot (Hanoch Levin) -- The queen of the bathtut, Malkat Ambatya (Hanoch Levin) -- The politics of dispossession (Edward W. Said) -- The prince (Niccol� Machiavelli). Contents: Principles of nature (Elihu Palmer) -- Promise of America (Larry Cuban and Philip Roden) -- Report of the Siberian delegation (Leon Trotsky) -- The rights of man (Thomas Paine) -- Russia (Vernon Ives) -- Secrecy and democracy : the CIA in transition (Stansfield Turner) -- El se�or presidente, The president (Miguel Angel Asturias) -- Slaughterhouse-five, or the children's crusade (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) -- Spycatcher (Peter Wright) -- The state and revolution (Vladimir I. Lenin) -- Strong wind, Viento fuerte (Miguel Angel Asturias) -- The green pope, El papa verde (Miguel Angel Asturias) -- The struggle is my life (Nelson Mandela) -- A summary view of the rights of British America (Thomas Jefferson) -- Sylvester and the magic pebble (William Steig) -- Ten days that shook the world (John Reed) -- The things they carried (Tim O'Brien) -- This earth of mankind child of all nations (Pramoedya Ananta Toer) -- 365 days (Ronald J. Glasser) -- Today's isms : communism, fascism, capitalism, socialism (William Ebenstein) -- The ugly American (William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick) -- Uncle Tom's cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) -- United States-Vietnam relations, 1945-1967, The Pentagon papers (U.S. Department of Defense) -- Waiting (Ha Jin) -- Why are we in Vietnam? (Norman Mailer) -- Words of conscience : religious statements on conscientious objection (A. Stauffer Curry, editor, first edition ; Shawn Perry, editor, ninth edition). 363.31 S729bse, 2006
AUT Sova, Dawn B.
TIT Literature suppressed on sexual grounds. - Rev. ed.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2006.
CON Contents: Works discussed in this volume : Alice series (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor) -- Always running, La Vida Loca : gang days in L.A. (Luis T. Rodriguez) -- America (the book) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction (Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum) -- An American tragedy (Theodore Dreiser) -- The Arabian nights, or The thousand and one nights (Sir Richard Burton, trans.) -- The art of love, Ars Amatoria (Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso) -- Bessie Cotter (Wallace Smith) -- The bluest eye (Toni Morrison) -- Boy (James Hanley) -- The buffalo tree (Adam Rapp) -- Candide (Voltaire, Fran�ois Marie Arouet Voltaire) -- Candy (Maxwell Kenton) -- The carpetbaggers (Harold Robbins) -- Casanova's homecoming, Casanova's heimfahrt (Arthur Schnitzler) -- The Chinese room (Vivian Connell) -- Christine (Stephen King) -- The clan of the cave bear (Jean Auel) -- Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) -- The decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) -- The deer park (Norman Mailer) -- The devil rides outside (John Howard Griffin) -- The diary of Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepys) -- Droll stories (Honor� de Balzac) -- Dubliners (James Joyce) -- Eat me (Linda Jaivin) -- Fanny Hill, or memoirs of a woman of pleasure (John Cleland) -- The fifteen plagues of a maidenhead (Anonymous) -- Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) -- The flowers of evil, Les fleurs du mal (Charles Baudelaire) -- Forever (Judy Blume) -- Forever Amber (Kathleen Winsor) -- From here to eternity (James Jones) -- The genius (Theodore Dreiser) -- The gilded hearse (Charles O. Gorham) -- The ginger man (J.P. Donleavy) -- The goats (Brock Cole) -- God's little acre (Erskine Caldwell) -- The group (Mary McCarthy) -- Hagar Revelly (Daniel Carson Goodman). Contents: The handmaid's tale (Margaret Atwood) -- The heptameron, L'heptameron ou histoires des amans fortunez (Marguerite d'Angoul�me, Queen of Navarre) -- The history of Tom Jones, a foundling (Henry Fielding) -- Homo sapiens (Stanley Przybyskzewski) -- How to make love like a porn star (Jenna Jameson) -- If it die (Andr� Gide) -- Isle of pines (Henry Neville) -- It's perfectly normal : changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health (Robbie H. Harris) -- Janet March (Floyd Dell) -- Jude the obscure (Thomas Hardy) -- Jurgen : a comedy of justice (James Branch Cabell) -- Justine, or the misfortunes of virtue Juliette, her sister, or the prosperities of vice (Marquis de Sade) -- The kama sutra of Vatsayana (Sir Richard Burton, F.F. Arbuthnot, translators) -- The Kreutzer sonata (Leo Tolstoy) -- Ladies in the parlor (Jim Tully) -- Lady Chatterley's lover (D.H. Lawrence) -- La Terre, the earth (�mile Zola) -- Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) -- The lustful Turk (Anonymous) -- Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) -- Madeleine (Anonymous) -- Mademoiselle de Maupin (Th�ophile Gautier) -- The maid of Orleans, La pucelle (Fran�ois-Marie Arouet Voltaire) -- Memoires (Giovanni Casanova de Seingalt) -- Memoirs of a young rakehell (Guillaume Apollinaire) -- Memoirs of Hecate County (Edmund Wilson) -- The merry muses of Caledonia (Robert Burns) -- Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) -- My life and loves (Frank Harris) -- A night in a Moorish harem (Anonymous) -- November, Novembre (Gustave Flaubert) -- The 120 days of Sodom, Les 120 journ�es de Sodome (Marquis de Sade) -- Our lady of the flowers, Notre-Dame des fleurs (Jean Genet) -- Outlaw representation (Richard Meyer) -- Pamela, or virtue rewarded (Samuel Richardson). Contents: Pansies (D.H. Lawrence) -- The perfumed garden (Sir Richard Burton, trans.) -- Peyton Place (Grace Metalious) -- The philanderer (Stanley Kauffmann) -- Poems and ballads (Algernon Charles Swinburne) -- Point counter point (Aldous Huxley) -- Rabbit, run (John Updike) -- The rainbow (D.H. Lawrence) -- Replenishing Jessica (Max Bodenheim) -- Sanctuary (William Faulkner) -- Sari says (Sari Locker) -- The satyricon (Gaius Petronius Arbiter) -- September in Quinze (Vivian Connell) -- Serenade (James M. Cain) -- Sex (Madonna) -- Sexus (Henry Miller) -- Shanghai baby (Wei Hui, Zhou Weihui) -- Simon called Peter (Robert Keable) -- 1601 : a fireside conversation in ye time of Queen Elizabeth (Mark Twain) -- Sleeveless errand (Norah C. James) -- Snow falling on cedars (David Guterson) -- Sophie's choice (William Styron) -- A story teller's holiday (George Moore) -- Studs Lonigan : a trilogy (James T. Farrell) -- Susan Lenox : her fall and rise (David Graham Phillips) -- Sweeter than life (Mark Tyron) -- Ten North Frederick (John O'Hara) -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) -- Then again, maybe I won't (Judy Blume) -- The thief's journal (Jean Genet) -- Three weeks (Elinor Glyn) -- Tobacco road (Erskine Caldwell) -- Tragic ground (Erskine Caldwell) -- Trilby (George du Maurier) -- The triumph of death (Gabriele D'Annunzio) -- Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller) -- Tropic of Capricorn (Henry Miller) -- Ulysses (James Joyce) -- Venus and Tannhauser, Under the hill (Aubrey Beardsley) -- The wild palms (William Faulkner) -- Women in love (D.H. Lawrence) -- Women on top : how real life changed women's sexual fantasies (Nancy Friday) -- A young girl's diary (Anonymous). 363.31 S729bso, 2006
AUT Sova, Dawn B.
TIT Literature suppressed on social grounds. - Rev. ed.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2006.
CON Contents: Works discussed in this volume : The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) -- The adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) -- The adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) -- Alice's adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) -- The amboy dukes (Irving Shulman) -- The American Heritage dictionary of the English language -- Am I blue? (Marion Dane Bauer) -- And still I rise (Maya Angelou) -- Anne Frank : the diary of a young girl (Anne Frank) -- Annie on my mind (Nancy Garden) -- Another country (James Baldwin) -- Aphrodite (Pierre Lou�s) -- Appointment in Samarra (John O'Hara) -- As I lay dying (William Faulkner) -- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin) -- The autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X, with Alex Haley) -- The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Ernest J. Gaines) -- Baby Be-bop (Francesca Lia Block) -- The basketball diaries (Jim Carroll) -- Being there (Jerzy Kosinski) -- The bell jar (Sylvia Plath) -- The best short stories by Negro writers (Langston Hughes, ed.) -- Black like me (John Howard Griffin) -- Bless the beasts and children (Glendon Swarthout) -- Blubber (Judy Blume) -- Brave new world (Aldous Huxley) -- Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson) -- Cain's book (Alexander Trocchi) -- Camille (Alexandre Dumas, Jr.) -- The Canterbury tales (Geoffrey Chaucer) -- Captain Underpants, series (Dav Pilkey) -- Catch-22 (Joseph Heller). Contents: The catcher in the rye (J.D. Salinger) -- The chocolate war (Robert Cormier) -- A clockwork orange (Anthony Burgess) -- The color purple (Alice Walker) -- Cujo (Stephen King) -- Daddy's roommate (Michael Willhoite) -- A day no pigs would die (Robert Newton Peck) -- Deliverance (James Dickey) -- A dictionary of American slang (Harold Wentworth) -- Dictionary of slang and unconventional English (Eric Partridge) -- Doctor Dolittle, series (Hugh John Lofting) -- Dog day afternoon (Patrick Mann) -- Down these mean streets (Piri Thomas) -- Dracula (Bram Stoker) -- The drowning of Stephan Jones (Bette Greene) -- East of Eden (John Steinbeck) -- Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis) -- End as a man (Calder Willingham) -- Esther Waters (George Moore) -- Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) -- Fallen angels (Walter Dean Myers) -- A farewell to arms (Ernest Hemingway) -- Final exit (Derek Humphry) -- The fixer (Bernard Malamud) -- Fruits of philosophy : the private companion of married couples (Charles Knowlton) -- Gargantua and Pantagruel (Fran�ois Rabelais) -- Gentleman's agreement (Laura Z Hobson) -- The giver (Lois Lowry) -- Go ask Alice (Anonymous) -- Gone with the wind (Margaret Mitchell) -- Gorillas in the mist (Dian Fossey) -- Go tell it on the mountain (James Baldwin) -- Grendel (John Gardner) -- Heather has two mommies (Leslea Newman) -- A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich (Alice Childress) -- Howl and other poems (Allen Ginsberg) -- I know why the caged bird sings (Maya Angelou). Contents: In the night kitchen (Maurice Sendak) -- Invisible man (Ralph Ellison) -- Jake and Honeybunch go to heaven (Margot Zemach) -- James and the giant peach (Roald Dahl) -- Jaws (Peter Benchley) -- Junky (William S. Burroughs) -- King & King (Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland) -- Kingsblood royal (Sinclair Lewis) -- Last exit to Brooklyn (Hubert Selby, Jr.) -- Leaves of grass (Walt Whitman) -- Little Black Sambo (Helen Bannerman) -- Little house on the prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder) -- Little Red Riding Hood (Charles Perrault) -- Lord of the flies (William Golding) -- Manchild in the promised land (Claude Brown) -- Married love (Marie Stopes) -- My house (Nikki Giovanni) -- The naked ape (Desmond Morris) -- Naked lunch (William S. Burroughs) -- Nana (�mile Zola) -- Never love a stranger (Harold Robbins) -- New dictionary of American slang, discussed with A dictionary of American slang (Robert L. Chapman) -- Of mice and men (John Steinbeck) -- Of time and the river (Thomas Wolfe) -- One flew over the cuckoo's nest (Ken Kesey) -- Ordinary people (Judith Guest) -- The ox-bow incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark) -- The red pony (John Steinbeck) -- The scarlet letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) -- A separate peace (John Knowles) -- Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) -- Soul on ice (Eldridge Cleaver) -- Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse) -- Strange fruit (Lillian Smith) -- Stranger in a strange land (Robert A. Heinlein) -- The sun also rises (Ernest Hemingway) -- To have and have not (Ernest Hemingway) -- To kill a mockingbird (Harper Lee) -- Unlived affections (George Shannon) -- We all fall down (Robert Cormier) -- Welcome to the monkey house (Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.) -- The well of loneliness (Radclyffe Hall) -- Whale talk (Chris Cutcher) -- Woman in the mists, discussed with Gorillas in the mist (Farley Mowat) -- Working : people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do (Studs Terkel) -- A world I never made (James T. Farrell). 363.32 H138m, 2006
AUT Hafez, Mohammed M.
TIT Manufacturing human bombs : the making of Palestinian suicide bombers.
PUB Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Explanations of suicide terrorism -- Palestinian suicide bombings since 1993 -- Organizational motives : the strategic logic of insurgent groups -- Individual motives : the redemptive logic of suicide bombers -- Societal motives : the logic of communities in conflict -- Policy implications. 363.45 M325d, 2005
AUT Mares, David R.
TIT Drug wars and coffeehouses : the political economy of the international drug trade.
PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The drug trade as a global and national phenomenon -- Analytic perspectives for explaining the drug trade -- Conceptualizing consumption : drug use and drug users -- The production of psychoactive substances -- Distribution : linking producers and consumers -- Money laundering : money makes the world go round -- The political economy of international drug strategies : going it alone or working together -- The United States : from crime reduction to drug war, 1968-1982 -- The Netherlands : from drug war to dynamic harm reduction, 1960-2002 -- Sweden : from harm reduction to drug war, 1965-1993. 363.72 M143u, 2006
AUT Macfarlane, Allison ; Ewing, Rodney C.
TIT Uncertainty underground : Yucca Mountain and the nation's high-level nuclear waste.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Nuclear waste story : setting the stage / Thomas A. Cotton -- Regulating the geologic disposal of high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain / William M. Murphy -- Performance assessment : what is it and why is it done? / Chris Whipple -- Performance assessments : are they necessary or sufficient? / Rodney C. Ewing -- Technical policy decision making in siting a high-level nuclear waste repository / Allison M. Macfarlane -- The mountain matters / David Applegate -- Volcanism : the continuing saga / Bruce M. Crowe ... [et al.] -- Climate change at Yucca Mountain : lessons from earth history / MaryLynn Musgrove and Daniel P. Schrag -- Hot upwelling water : did it really invade Yucca Mountain? / Nicholas S.F. Wilson and Jean S. Cline -- Water and radionuclide transport in the unsaturated zone / June Fabryka-Martin ... [et al.] -- Colloidal transport of radionuclides / Annie B. Kersting -- The importance of mineralogy at Yucca Mountain / David L. Bish ... [et al.] -- Contaminant transport in the saturated zone at Yucca Mountain / Lynn W. Gelhar -- Thermohydrologic effects and interactions / G.S. Bodvarsson -- The near field at Yucca Mountain : effects of coupled processes on nuclear waste isolation / William M. Murphy -- Waste package corrosion / David W. Shoesmith -- Drip shield and backfill / David Stahl -- Zircaloy cladding / Eric R. Siegmann -- Spent fuel / Jordi Bruno and Esther Cera -- Glass / Werner Lutze -- Storing waste in ceramic / WiIliam L. Bourcier and Kurt Sickafus -- The path to Yucca Mountain and beyond / Luther J. Carter -- Uncertainty, models, and the way forward in nuclear waste disposal / Allison M. Macfarlane. 364.132 S957c, 2004
AUT Sun, Yan.
TIT Corruption and market in contemporary China.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.
CON Contents: The phenomenology of reform-era corruption : categories, distribution, and perpetrators -- Between officials and citizens : transaction types of corruption -- Between officials and the public coffer : nontransaction types of corruption -- Between the state and localities : the regional dynamics of corruption -- Between the state and officials : the decline of disincentives against corruption. 364.168 S559c, 2006
AUT Shover, Neal ; Hochstetler, Andrew.
TIT Choosing white-collar crime.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: White-collar crime -- Lure -- The predisposed and tempted -- Self-restraint and oversight -- Decision making -- Criminal careers and career criminals -- Beyond the law?. 364.3 M385i, 2006
AUT Martinez, Ramiro ; Valenzuela, Abel.
TIT Immigration and crime : race, ethnicity, and violence.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Coming to America: the impact of the new immigration on crime / Ramiro Martinez, Jr. -- Rethinking the Chicago school of criminology: a new era of immigration / Robert J. Bersik, Jr. -- Immigrant assimilation and crime: generational differences in youth violence in Chicago / Jefferey D. Morenoff and Avraham Astor -- Immigration and incarceration: patterns and predictors of imprisonment among first- and second-generation young adults / Rubin G. Rumbaut, Roberto G. Gonzales, Golnaz Komaie, Charlie V. Morgan, and Rosaura Tafoya-Estrada -- Immigration and Asian homicide patterns in urban and suburban San Diego / Matthew T. Lee and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. -- Delinquency and acculturation in the twenty-first century: a decade's change in a Vietnamese American community / Min Zhou and Carl L. Bankston III -- Beyond conflict and controversy: Blacks, Koreans, and Jews in urban America / Jennifer Lee -- The "war on the border": criminalizing immigration and militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border / Sang Hea Kil and Cecilia Menj�var -- New immigrants and day labor: the potential for violence / Abel Valenzuela, Jr. -- Multiple disadvantages and crime among Black immigrants: exploring Haitian violence in Miami's communities / Arnie L. Nielsen and Ramiro Martinez, Jr. 368.4 R439d, 2007
AUT Rettenmaier, Andrew J ; Saving, Thomas Robert.
TIT The diagnosis and treatment of medicare.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The medicare problem and its potential solution -- The current status and future of today's medicare -- Paying for projected medicare expenditures: taxing the young -- Paying for projected medicare expenditures: making the elderly pay -- Scoring medicare reform I: the medicare commission -- scoring medicare reform II: fixing technology at retirement -- scoring medicare reform III: controlling first-dollar coverage -- Scoring medicare reform IV: means-tested medicare -- What can reform accomplish? the medicare reform scores -- The fundamentals of prepaying medicare -- Prepaying reformed medicare benefits -- The transition to prepaid retirement health insurance -- Medicare and the social contract -- Conclusions and other issues in the medicare reform debate. 370.11 K96p, 2007
AUT Kuh, George D.
TIT Piecing together the student success puzzle : research, propositions, and recommendations.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Wiley Subscription Services at Jossey-Bass, c2007.
CON Contents: Executive summary -- Foreword -- Introduction, context, and overview -- Definitions and conceptual framework -- Major theoretical perspectives on student success in college -- The foundation for student success : student background characteristics, precollege experiences, and enrollment patterns -- Student behaviors, activities, and experiences associated with student success -- Institutional conditions associated with student success -- Propositions and recommendations for student success in postsecondary education -- Appendix A. Note on research methods -- Appendix B. Indicators of student success in postsecondary education -- References -- Name Index -- Subject index -- About the authors. 378.1 B218a, 2006
AUT Banks, David A.
TIT Audience response systems in higher education : applications and cases.
PUB Hershey, Pa. : Information Science Pub., c2006.
CON Contents: A brief history of networked classrooms : effects, cases, pedagogy, and implications / Louis Abrahamson -- Audience response systems : insipid contrivances or inspiring tools? / Eugene Judson, Daiyo Sawada -- The use and evolution of an audience response system / Ray A. Burnstein, Leon M. Lederman -- ARS evolution : reflections and recommendations / Harold M. Horowitz -- Practical lessons from four years of using an ARS in every lecture of a large class / Quintin Cutts -- Using an audience response system to enhance student engagement in large group orientation : a law faculty case study / Sally Kift -- Question driven instruction : teaching science (well) with an audience response system / Ian D. Beatty ... [et al.] -- Anonymous polling in an engineering tutorial environment : a case study / Steven M. Durbin, Kristi A. Durbin -- Using audience response systems to develop critical thinking skills / Robert Webking, Felix Valenzuela -- Using the personal response system to enhance student learning : some evidence from teaching economics / Kevin Hinde, Andrew Hunt -- Evaluation electronic voting systems in lectures : two innovative methods / Gregor E. Kennedy, Quintin Cutts, Stephen W. Draper -- Selected and constructed response systems in mathematical classrooms / Leslee Francis Pelton, Tim Pelton -- Theorizing the transformed classroom : sociocultural interpretation of the effects of audience response systems in higher education / William R. Penuel, Louis Abrahamson, Jeremy Roschelle -- Wireless interactive teaching by using keypad-based ARS / Jiankun Hu ... [et al.] -- The audience response system : a new resource in medical education / Vivienne O'Connor, Michele Groves, Sandy Minck -- Learning and anxiety : exploring individual judgement processes in a learning environment with a group support system / Sam Groves ... [et al.] -- The trial of an audience response system to facilitate problem-based learning in legal education / Kelley Burton -- Live assessment by questioning in an interactive classroom / Michael McCabe -- Eight years of asking questions / Jim Boyle -- Interactive response systems in higher education / Mick Wood -- CommuniCubes : intermediate technology for interaction with student groups / Stephen J. Bostock, Julie A. Hulme, Mark A. Davys -- Creating a constructed response system to support active learning / Tim Pelton, Leslee Francis Pelton -- Instructor mobile audience response system / Jay Dominick, Anne Bishop -- Using mobile phones and PDAs in ad hoc audience response systems / Matt Jones, Gary Marsden, Dominic Gruijters -- Reflections on the use of ARS with small groups / David A. Banks. 378.125 G559m, 2007
AUT Glickman, Theodore S ; White, Susan C.
TIT Managing for innovation.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2007.
CON Contents: Application of the Baldrige Model for innovation in higher education -- Innovation in higher education : a case study of the Western Governors University -- Universal design across the curriculum -- A challenging journey : from leadership courses to leader foundation for higher education -- Higher education assessment : linking accreditation standards and the Malcolm Baldrige criteria -- Information technology ; a contributor to innovation in higher education -- Innovation in higher education : implications for the future -- INDEX. 379.2 N778u, 2006
AUT Noguera, Pedro ; Wing, Jean Yonemura.
TIT Unfinished business : closing the racial achievement gap in our schools. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley imprint, c2006.
CON Contents: Part one: the structure and culture of inequality in schools -- Introduction: unfinished business : closing the achievement gap at Berkeley High School / Pedro A. Noguera, Jean Yonemura Wing -- 1. Structuring inequality at Berkeley High / Beth C. Rubin ... [et al.] -- 2. Integration across campus, segregation across classrooms : a close-up look at privilege / Jean Yonemura Wing -- 3. The discipline gap and the normalization of failure / Anne Gregory, Kysa Nygreen, Dana Moran -- Part two: Agency in the fight for equity -- 4. Changing teacher practice and student outcomes / Pharmicia Mosely -- Teacher voices / Dana Moran ... [et al.] -- 5. Creating demand for equity : transforming the role of parents in schools / LaShawn Rout�-Chatmon ... [et al.] -- Parent voices : Isabel Parra ... [et al.] -- 6. Songs of experience : student reflections on four years at Berkeley High / Elena Silva -- Student voices / Nabila Lester ... [et al.] -- Conclusion : lessons learned : the limits and possibilities of using research to counter racial inequality / Pedro A. Noguera -- Epilogue : Finishing school / Jabari Mahiri. 384.535 H819c, 2006
AUT Horst, Heather A ; Miller, Daniel.
TIT The cell phone : an anthropology of communication.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Infrastructure -- Locations -- Possession -- Link-up -- Coping -- Pressure -- Welfare -- Evaluation. top of page |
