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| 000 General, Computer, Libraries 004.6 B177m, 2003 AUT Baldi, Pierre ; Frasconi, Paolo ; Smyth, Padhraic. TIT Modeling the Internet and the Web : probabilistic methods and algorithms. PUB Chichester, England ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2003. 005.13 P266j, 2005 AUT Parsian, Mahmoud. TIT JDBC recipes : a problem-solution approach. PUB Berkeley, Calif. : Apress, c2005. top of page |
| 100 Philosophy, Psychology 126.09 M382r, 2006 AUT Martin, Raymond ; Barresi, John. TIT The rise and fall of soul and self : an intellectual history of personal identity. PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2006. CON Contents: Introduction -- From myth to science -- Individualism and subjectivity -- People of the book -- Resurrected self -- The stream divides -- Aristotelian synthesis -- Care of the soul -- Mechanization of nature -- Naturalizing the soul -- Philosophy of spirit -- Science of human nature -- Before the fall -- Paradise lost -- Everything that happened and what it means. 150.9 B468b, 2007 AUT Benjamin, Ludy T. TIT A brief history of modern psychology. PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford, U.K. : Blackwell Pub., 2007. CON Contents: Pre-scientific psychology -- Physiology, psychophysics, and the science of mind -- Germany and the birth of a new science -- Origins of scientific psychology in America -- The early schools of psychology -- The birth of the new applied psychology in America -- Psychoanalysis -- Behaviorism -- The new profession of psychology -- A psychology of social action and social change -- Cognitive psychology. Contents: Pre-scientific psychology -- Physiology, psychophysics, and the science of mind -- Germany and the birth of a new science -- Origins of scientific psychology in America -- Early schools of psychology -- The birth of the new applied psychology in America -- Psychoanalysis -- Behaviorism -- The new profession of psychology -- A psychology of social action and social change -- Cognitive psychology. 150.924 G812t, 2006 AUT Greenfield, Robert. TIT Timothy Leary : a biography. - 1st ed. PUB Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, Inc., c2006. CON Contents: Dreaming of heroes : Springfield, Massachusetts, 1920-1938 -- The long gray line : West Point, New York, June 1940-August 1941 -- The Berkeley circle : Berkeley, California, 1941-1958 -- God and man at Harvard : Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958-1963 -- Xanadu : Millbrook, New York, 1963-1968 -- Come together : California, 1968-1970 -- Escape and flight : San Luis Obispo, California, March-September 1970 -- Exile-no silence, no cunning : Algeria, Switzerland, Afghanistan, September 1970 to January 1973 -- Folsom Prison blues : California, January 1973-May 1976 -- To live and die in LA : California, June 1976-May 31, 1996. 155.82 K49i, 2006 AUT Kim, Uichol ; Yang, Guoshu ; Hwang, Kwang-kuo. TIT Indigenous and cultural psychology : understanding people in context. PUB New York : Springer, c2006. CON Contents: I. Theoretical and methodological issues. 1. Contributions to indigenous and cultural psychology: understanding people in context / Uichol Kim, Kuo-Shu Yang & Kwang-Kuo Hwang -- 2. The scientific foundations of indigenous and cultural psychology: the transactional approach / Uichol Kim & Young-Shin Park -- 3. The importance of constructive realism for the indigenous psychologies approach / Fritz G. Wallner & Martin J. Jandl -- 4. Constructive realism and Confucian relationalism: an epistemological strategy for the development of indigenous psychology / Kwang-Kuo Hwang -- 5. From decolonizing psychology to the development of a cross-indigenous perspective in methodology: the Philippine experience / Rogelia Pe-Pua -- II. Family and socialization. 6. Parental ethnotheories of child development: looking beyond independence and individualism in American belief systems / Carolyn Pope Edwards et al. 7. Close interpersonal relationships among Japanese: amae as distinguished from attachment and dependence / Susumu Yamaguchi & Jukari Ariizumi -- 8. Affect and early moral socialization: some insights and contributions from indigenous psychological studies in Taiwan / Heidi Fung -- 9. Cultures are like all other cultures, like some other cultures, like no other culture / James Georgas & Kostas Mylonas -- III. Cognitive processes. 10. The mutual relevance of indigenous psychology and morality / Lutz H. Eckensberger -- 11. Naive dialecticism and the tao of Chinese thought / Kaiping Peng, Julie Spencer-Rodgers & Zhong Nian -- 12. Indian perspectives on cognition / R.C. Mishra -- IV. Self and personality. 13. Indigenous personality research: the Chinese case / Kuo-Shu Yang -- 14. An historic-psycho-socio-cultural look at the self in Mexico / Roland Diaz Loving -- 15. The Chinese conception of the self: towards a person-making perspective / Yang Chung-Fang -- 16. Naive psychology of Koreans' interpersonal mind and behavior in close relationships / Sang-Chin Choi & Kibum Kim -- V. Application. 17. Humanism-materialism: century-long Polish cultural origins and twenty years of research in cultural psychology / Pavel Boski -- 18. Chinese conceptions of justice and reward allocation / Zhi-Xue Zhang -- 19. Family, parent-child relationship, and academic achievement in Korea: indigenous, cultural, and psychological analysis / Young-Shin Park & Uichol Kim -- 20. Paternalism: towards conceptual refinement and operationalization / Zeynep Aycan -- 21. Creating indigenous psychologies: insights from empirical social studies of the science of psychology / John G. Adair. 172.42 E84S, 2006 AUT Sorabji, Richard ; Rodin, David. TIT The ethics of war : shared problems in different traditions. PUB Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2006. CON Contents: Introduction / Richard Sorabji and David Rodin -- pt. I: Traditions. Just war from ancient origins to the conquistadors debate and its modern relevance / Richard Sorabji -- The just war of eastern Christians and the holy war of the Crusaders / Angeliki Laiou -- Conceptions of justice in war : from Grotius to modern times / Karma Nabulsi -- Arguments concerning resistance in contemporary Islam / John Kelsay -- War and reason in Maimonides and Averroes / Noah Feldman -- The ethics of war : Judaism / Norman Solomon -- Just war in the Mahabharata / Nick Allen -- pt. II: Contemporary problems -- The ethics of asymmetric war / David Rodin -- Preventive war and the killing of the innocent / Jeff McMahan -- War, humanitarian intervention, and human rights / Richard Norman -- Culture, the enemy, and the moral restraint of war / Anthony Coates -- Application of just war criteria in the period 1959-89 / Richard Harries -- Britain's wars since 1945 / Michael Quinlan. 172.42 O66m, 2006 AUT Orend, Brian. TIT The morality of war. PUB Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, N.Y. : Broadview Press, c2006. CON Contents: I: Just war theory and international law -- A sweeping history of just war theory -- Resisting aggression -- Non-classical wars -- Just conduct in war -- Supreme emergencies -- Just after war -- Coercive regime change -- II: The alternatives -- Evaluating the realist alternative -- Evaluating the pacifist alternative. 174.993 S286e, 2006 AUT Scarre, Christopher ; Scarre, Geoffrey. TIT The ethics of archaeology : philosophical perspectives on archaeological practice. PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. CON Contents: Cultures and the ownership of archaeological finds / James O. Young -- Who guards the guardians? / Oliver Leaman -- Is culture a commodity? / Robert Layton and Gillian Wallace -- Moral arguments on subsistence digging / Julie Hollowell -- Human subjects review and archaeology : a view from Indian country / Jeffrey C. Bendremer and Kenneth A. Richman -- Trust and archaeological practice : towards a framework of virtue ethics / Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh and T.J. Ferguson -- Truthfulness and 'inclusion' in archaeology / David E. Cooper -- Ethics and native American reburials : a philosopher's view of two decades of NAGPRA / Douglas P. Lackey -- Stewardship gone astray? Ethics and the SAA / Leo Groarke and Gary Warrick -- Can archaeology harm the dead? / Geoffrey Scarre -- Archaeological ethics and the people of the past / Sarah Tarlow -- A plea for responsibility towards the common heritage of mankind / Sandra M. Dingli -- The ethics of the World Heritage concept / Atle Omland -- What value a unicorn's horn? A study of archaeological uniqueness and value / Robin Coningham, Rachel Cooper and Mark Pollard. 179.1 C976e, 2006 AUT Curry, Patrick. TIT Ecological ethics : an introduction. PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2006. 193.9 N677ni, 2007 AUT Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm ; Fritzsche, Peter. TIT Nietzche and the death of God : selected writings. PUB Boston, Mass. : Bedford/St. Martin, 2007. top of page |
| 200 Religion 203 N427a, 2006 AUT Nelson, Louis P. TIT American sanctuary : understanding sacred spaces. PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2006. 215 C712L, 2006 AUT Collins, Francis S. TIT The language of God : a scientist presents evidence for belief. PUB New York : Free Press, c2006. 242 W341w, 2006 AUT Watson, Nicholas ; Jenkins, Jacqueline ; Julian, of Norwich. TIT The writings of Julian of Norwich : A vision showed to a devout woman and a revelation of love. PUB University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006. 277.3 B336b, 2006 AUT Battle, Michael. TIT The Black church in America : African American Christian spirituality. PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006. 282.73 B136L, 2006 AUT Badillo, David A. TIT Latinos and the new immigrant church. PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. CON Contents: Beginnings: Catholic religious tradition in Spain and Latin America -- Mexico's revolution travels to San Antonio -- Colonial dilemmas: Puerto Ricans and the U.S. church -- Powers of the prelates: urban hierarchies contrasted -- Cuban Miami and exile Catholicism -- Suburbanization and mobility in Catholic Chicago -- New urban opportunities: church leadership in Texas and New York City -- Globalization and the new immigrant church -- Latino religious tradition as metaphor. 294.3 C752B, 2000 AUT Bodhi, Bhikkhu. TIT The connected discourses of the Buddha : a translation of the Sayutta Nikaya ; translated from the Puli by Bhikkhu Bodhi. PUB Boston, Mass. : Wisdom Publications, c2000. 294.3 G786T, 2003 AUT Nyanaponika, Thera ; Hecker, Hellmuth ; Bodhi, Bhikkhu. TIT Great disciples of the Buddha : their lives, their works, their legacy. PUB Boston, Mass. : Wisdom Publications in collaboration with the Buddhist Publication Society of Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2003. 294.3 I35B, 2005 AUT Bodhi, Bhikkhu. TIT In the Buddha's words : an anthology of discourses from the Puli canon. - 1st ed. PUB Boston, Mass. : Wisdom Publications, c2005. 294.3 L848W, 1995 AUT Walshe, Maurice O'C. TIT The long discourses of the Buddha : a translation of the Digha Nikaya. PUB Boston, Mass. : Wisdom Publications, c1995. 294.3 M627N, 1995 AUT Bodhi, Bhikkhu. TIT The middle length discourses of the Buddha : a new translation of the Majjhima Nikp-saya. PUB Boston, Mass. : Wisdom Publications in association with the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, 1995. 296 N496s, 1992 AUT Neusner, Jacob. TIT A short history of Judaism : three meals, three epochs. PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c1992. 297.122 R593b, 2006 AUT Rippin, Andrew. TIT The Blackwell companion to the Qur-an. PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006. CON Contents: Preface / Andrew Rippin -- pt. I: Orientation. Introducing / Tamara Sonn -- Discovering / Christopher Buck -- Contextualizing / Abdullah Saeed -- pt. II: Text. Linguistic structure / Salwa M.S. El-Awa -- Patterns of address / Rosalind Ward Gwynne -- Language / Mustansir Mir -- Poetry and language / Navid Kermani -- Foreign vocabulary / Michael Carter -- Structure and the emergence of community / Angelika Neuwirth -- Sacrality and collection / Aliza Shnizer -- Written transmission / François Déroche -- Context: Muhammad / Herbert Berg -- Context: `Umar b. al-Khattab / Avraham Hakim -- pt. III: Content. God / Andrew Rippin -- Prophets and prophethood / Uri Rubin -- Moses / Brannon Wheeler -- Argumentation / Kate Zebiri -- Knowing and thinking / A.H. Mathias Zahniser -- Sex, sexuality, and the family / Khaleel Mohammed -- Jihad / Reuven Firestone -- pt. IV: Interpretation. Hermeneutics: al-Tha`labi / Walid Saleh -- Stories of the prophets / Marianna Klar -- Sufism / Alan Godlas -- Rumi / Jawid Mojaddedi -- Twelver Shi`i Ta wil / Diana Steigerwald -- Isma`ili Ta wil / Diana Steigerwald -- V: Application. Exegetical sciences / Jane Dammen McAuliffe -- Theology / Binyamin Abrahamov -- Jurisprudence / A. Kevin Reinhart -- Contemporary ethical issues / Leah Kinberg -- Narrative literature / Roberto Tottoli -- Recitation / Anna M. Gade.. top of page |
| 300 Sociology, Economics, Politics, Law, Education | 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 |
| 400 Languages | 428.4 S936p, 2006 AUT Sturtevant, Elizabeth G ; Anders, Patricia L. TIT Principled practices for adolescent literacy : a framework for instruction and policy. PUB Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2006. top of page |
| 500 Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics | 515.353 Z39p3, 2006 AUT Zauderer, Erich. TIT Partial differential equations of applied mathematics. - 3rd ed. PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2006. 519.2 R589s, 2006 AUT Ripley, Brian D. TIT Stochastic simulation. PUB New York : Wiley-Interscience, c2006. 519.5 C749b2, 2006 AUT Congdon, P. TIT Bayesian statistical modelling. - 2nd ed. PUB Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2006. CON Contents: Introduction : the Bayesian method, its benefits and implementation -- Bayesian model choice, comparison and checking -- The major densities and their application -- Normal linear regression, general linear models and log-linear models -- Hierarchical priors for pooling strength and overdispersed regression modelling -- Discrete mixture priors -- Multinomial and ordinal regression models -- Time series models -- Modelling spatial dependencies -- Nonlinear and nonparametric regression -- Multilevel and panel data models -- Latent variable and structural equation models for multivariate data -- Survival and event history analysis -- Missing data models -- Measurement error, seemingly unrelated regressions, and simultaneous eqations. 519.5 H827a2, 2000 AUT Hosmer, David W ; Lemeshow, Stanley. TIT Applied logistic regression. - 2nd ed. PUB New York : Wiley, c2000. 519.5 L742b4, 2003 AUT Lind, Douglas A ; Marchal, William G ; Wathen, Samuel Adam. TIT Basic statistics for business and economics. - 4th ed. PUB Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c2003. 522.29 C554h, 2006 AUT Christensen, Lars Lindberg ; Fosbury, R. A. E. TIT Hubble : 15 years of discovery. PUB New York : Springer, c2006. 530.12 S285q, 2006 AUT Scarani, Valerio. TIT Quantum physics : a first encounter : interference, entanglement, and reality. PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. CON Contents: Quantum Interference -- At the heart of the problem -- Let's step back -- Dimensions and boundaries -- Authority contradicted -- A nice idea -- Quantum correlations -- Indistinguishability at a distance -- On the origin of correlations -- Orsay, Innsbruck, Geneva -- Attempts at explanation -- In my end is my beginning. 551.55 B823u, 2006 AUT Brasch, Walter M. TIT 'Unacceptable' : the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. PUB Charleston, S.C. : BookSurge, 2006, c2005. 576.5 L672g, 2006 AUT Lewin, Benjamin. TIT Genes IX. - 9th ed. PUB Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2008. top of page | | | 600 Applied Science, Business | 612.79 J11s, 2006 AUT Jablonski, Nina G. TIT Skin : a natural history. PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006. CON Contents: Introduction -- Skin laid bare -- History -- Sweat -- Skin and sun -- Skin's dark secret -- Color -- Touch -- Emotions, sex, and skin -- Wear and tear -- Statements -- Future skin. 614.4 M332g, 2007 AUT Mari, Christopher. TIT Global epidemics. PUB Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson Company, 2007. CON Contents: Notable epidemics in human history -- Preventing, controlling, and eradicating epidemic outbreaks -- Is avian flu the next epidemic? -- The psychological and economic impact of epidemics -- Bioterrorism. 620.001 S617r, 2006 AUT Singpurwalla, Nozer D. TIT Reliability and risk : a Bayesian perspective. PUB Chichester, West Sussex, England ; New York : J. Wiley & Sons, c2006. 658.3 K18g, 2006 v.1-3 AUT Karsten, Margaret Foegen. TIT Gender, race, and ethnicity in the workplace : issues and challenges for today's organizations. PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006. 658.4 S476f, 2006 AUT Senge, Peter M. TIT The fifth discipline : the art and practice of the learning organization. - Rev. and updated. PUB New York : Doubleday/Currency, c2006. 658.802 A545L, 2006 AUT Anderson, Chris. TIT The long tail : why the future of business is selling less of more. - 1st ed. PUB New York : Hyperion, c2006. CON Contents: The long tail -- The rise and fall of the hit -- A short history of the long tail -- The three forces of the long tail -- The new procedures -- The new markets -- The new tastemakers -- Long tail economics -- The short head -- The paradise of choice -- Niche culture -- The infinite screen -- Beyond entertainment -- Long tail rules -- Coda: tomorrow's tail. 659 K19m3, 2007 AUT Katz, Helen E. TIT The media handbook : a complete guide to advertising media selection, planning, research, and buying. - 3rd ed. PUB Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2007. CON Contents: What is media? -- Media in the marketing context -- Developing optimal media objectives -- Exploring the media -- Terms, calculations, and considerations -- Creating the plan -- Offering alternatives -- Making the media buys -- Evaluating the media plan. 659.1 P247f, 2006 AUT Parkin, Katherine J. TIT Food is love : food advertising and gender roles in modern America. PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. CON Contents: Advertisers and their paradigm: women as consumers -- Love, fear, and freedom: selling traditional gender roles -- Women's power to make us: cooking up a family's identity -- Authority and entitlement: men in food advertising -- Health, beauty, and sexuality: a women's responsibility -- A mother's love: children and food advertising. 687 W855w, 2003 AUT Wolfe, Mary Gorgen. TIT The world of fashion merchandising. PUB Tinley Park, Ill. : Goodheart-Willcox Co., c2003. top of page |
| 700 Art, Music, Sports | 700.453 B167m, 2006 AUT Baker, Brian. TIT Masculinity in fiction and film : representing men in popular genres, 1945-2000. PUB London ; New York : Continuum, c2006. 709.04 D549d, 2005 AUT Dickerman, Leah ; Doherty, Brigid ; Centre Georges Pompidou. TIT Dada : Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris. PUB Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art in association with D.A.P./ Distributed Art Publishers, New York, c2005. CON Contents: Zurich / Leah Dickerman -- Plates 1-65 -- Berlin / Brigid Doherty -- Plates 66-135 -- Hannover / Dorothea Dietrich -- Plates 136-187 -- Cologne / Sabine T. Kriebel-- Plates 188-247 -- New York / Michael R. Taylor -- Plates 248-315 -- Paris / Janine Mileaf & Matthew S. Witkovsky -- Plates 316-380 -- Dad� films / Emmanuelle de L'Ecotais & Mark Levitch. 709.436 C624a, 2006 AUT Clegg, Elizabeth. TIT Art, design, and architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1920. PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006. CON Contents: 'The most centrally positioned state in Europe' -- The 1890s and the spirit of secession -- New voices: disruption and innovation in the 1900s -- Imagined empires: retrospectivism/progressivism around 1910 -- 1912-1916: Austria-Hungary and the 'ultra-modern' -- 1917 and beyond: reinventing central Europe. 741.5 S116c, 2001 AUT Sabin, Roger. TIT Comics, comix & graphic novels : a history of graphic novels. PUB London ; New York : Phaidon Press, [2001?]. 759.13 A2374a, 2006 AUT Adler, Kathleen ; Hirshler, Erica E ; Weinberg, H. Barbara. TIT Americans in Paris, 1860-1900. PUB London, U.K. : National Gallery, 2006. CON Contents: 'We'll always have Paris' : Paris as training ground and proving ground / Kathleen Adler -- At home in Paris / Erica E. Hirshler -- Summers in the country / H. Barbara Weinberg -- Assimilation and resistance 1880-1900 / Rodolphe Rapetti -- American art, American power at the Paris Expositions Universelles / David Park Curry -- American artists in France, French art in America / Christopher Riopelle. 759.9493 W565f, 2005 AUT Wheelock, Arthur K. TIT Flemish paintings of the seventeenth century. PUB Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art ; New York : Distributed by Oxford University Press, c2005. CON Contents: Osias Beert the Elder -- Jan Boeckhorst -- Adriaen Brouwer -- Jan Brueghel the Elder -- Sir Anthony van Dyck -- Flemish seventeenth century (possibly Jan Cossiers) -- Frans Francken the Younger and Master HDB -- Abel Grimmer -- Peeter Gysels -- Jan van Kessel -- Peeter Neeffs the Elder -- Willem Reuter -- Sir Peter Paul Rubens -- Gerard Seghers -- Justus Sustermans -- David Teniers the Younger -- Jan Philips van Thielen -- Gillis van Tilborgh the Younger. 780.23 P288a6, 2006 AUT Passman, Donald S. TIT All you need to know about the music business. - 6th ed.; [rev. and updated]. PUB New York : Free Press, c2006. CON Contents: Your team of advisors -- How to pick a team -- Personal managers -- Business managers -- Attorneys -- Agents -- Record deals -- Broad-strokes overview of the record business -- Advances and recoupment -- Real-life numbers -- Other major deal points -- Producer and mixer deals -- Advanced record deal points -- Advanced royalty computations -- Loan-out, independent production, label, and distribution deals -- Songwriting and music publishing -- Copyright basics -- Publishing companies and major -- Secondary publishing income -- Songwriter deals -- Copublishing and administration deals -- Advanced copyright concepts -- Even more advanced copyright concepts -- Group issues -- Groups -- Touring -- Personal appearances-touring -- Merchandising -- Tour merchandising -- Retail merchandising -- Classical music -- Classical music -- Motion picture music -- Overview of motion picture music -- Performer deals -- Film songwriter deals -- Composer agreements -- Licensing existing recordings and existing songs for motion pictures -- Music supervisors -- Soundtrack album deals. 781.62 C678f, 2006 AUT Cohen, Ronald D. TIT Folk music : the basics. PUB New York : Routledge, 2006. CON Contents: 19th century background : Great Britain and the United States -- 1930-1950 -- The fifties -- The sixties -- Century ends. 782.421 S211c, 2006 AUT S�nchez, Martha I. Chew. TIT Corridos in migrant memory. PUB Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2006. CON Contents: Paso del Norte, qu� lejos te est�s quedando!: music along El Camino Real -- Collecting the debris of history and reshaping identity -- Romper con el canto la frontera : narrative analysis of corridos about migration -- Voy a contarles la historia : migrants' perceptions of corridos -- De parranda con el diablo : performance and the aesthetics of conjunto norte�o dance music -- De paisano a paisano : negotiations and resistance between migrants and cultural industries. 790.2 V878e6, 2004 AUT Vogel, Harold L. TIT Entertainment industry economics : a guide for financial analysis. - 6th ed. PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. 794.8 T246p, 2006 AUT Taylor, T. L. TIT Play between worlds : exploring online game culture. PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006. CON Contents: 1. Finding new worlds -- 2. Gaming lifeworlds : social play in persistent environments -- 3. Beyond fun : instrumental play and power games -- 4. Where the women are -- 5. Whose game is this anyway? -- 6. The future of persistent worlds and critical game studies. top of page |
| 800 Literature 811.54 K76se, 2007 AUT Koch, Kenneth ; Padgett, Ron. TIT Selected poems. PUB [New York] : Library of America, c2007. 811.608 B561, 2001 AUT Lehman, David. TIT The Best American poetry, 2001. PUB New York : Scribner, c2001. 812.52 W673th, 2007 AUT Wilder, Thornton ; McClatchy, J. D. TIT Thornton Wilder : collected plays & writings on theater. PUB New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, c2007. CON Contents: Nascuntur poetae -- Proserpina and the devil -- Fanny Otcott -- Brother fire -- The penny that beauty spent -- The angel on the ship -- The message and Jehanne -- Childe Roland to the dark tower came -- Centaurs -- Leviathan -- And the sea shall give up its dead -- Now the servant's name was Malchus -- Mozart and the Gray Steward -- Hast Thou considered my servant job? -- The flight into Egypt -- The angel that troubled the waters -- The long Christmas dinner -- Queens of France -- Pullman Car Hiawatha -- Love and how to cure it -- Such things only happen in books -- The happy journey to Trenton and Camden -- Our town -- The skin of our teeth -- The matchmaker -- The Alcestiad -- The drunken sisters -- The marriage we deplore -- The unerring instinct -- Scenes from The Emporium -- Bernice -- The wreck on the five-twenty-five -- A ringing of doorbells -- In Shakespeare and the Bible -- Someone from Assisi -- Cement hands -- Infancy -- Childhood -- Youth -- The rivers under the earth -- Foreword to The Angel That Troubled the Waters and Other Plays -- Notes for the producer : The Long Christmas Dinner -- Notes for the producer : The Happy Journey -- A preface for Our Town -- Our Town : story of the play -- Our Town : some suggestions for the director -- Our Town - from stage to screen : a correspondence between Thornton Wilder and Sol Lesser -- Preface to Three Plays -- Notes on The Alcestiad -- Noting the nature of farce -- Some thoughts on playwriting -- Richard Beer-Hofmann's Jaakobs Traum -- Sophocles's Oedipus Rex -- Foreword to three comedies by Johann Nestroy -- George Bernard Shaw -- Shadow of a doubt. 812.608 W452n, 2006 AUT Wellman, Mac ; Lee, Young Jean. TIT New downtown now : an anthology of new theater from downtown New York. PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2006. CON Contents: Interim / Barbara Cassidy -- Tragedy : a tragedy / Will Eno -- Nine come / Elana Greenfield -- Sachiko / Madelyn Kent -- Enoshima island / Madelyn Kent -- The appeal / Young Jean Lee -- The vomit talk of ghosts / Kevin Oakes -- Ajax (por nobody) / Alice Tuan -- Apparition : an uneasy play of the underknown / Anne Washburn -- Demon baby / Erin Courtney. 813.52 B448nP, 2007 AUT Bellow, Saul. TIT Novels, 1956-1964. PUB New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, c2007. CON Contents: Seize the day -- Henderson the rain king -- Herzog. 813.52 S819tr, 2007 AUT Steinbeck, John ; DeMott, Robert J. ; Railsback, Brian E. TIT Travels with Charley and later novels, 1947-1962. PUB New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, c2007. CON Contents: The wayward bus -- Burning bright -- Sweet Thursday -- The winter of our discontent -- Travels with Charley : in search of America. 813.54 B676d, 2007 Leisure area AUT Bohjalian, Christopher A. TIT The double bind : a novel. - 1st ed. PUB New York : Shaye Areheart Books, c2007. 813.54 D547f, 2007 AUT Dick, Philip K. TIT Four novels of the 1960s. PUB New York : Library of America, 2007. CON Contents: The man in the high castle -- The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch -- Do androids dream of electric sheep? -- Ubik. 813.54 S641te, 2007 Leisure area AUT Smiley, Jane. TIT Ten days in the hills. - 1st ed. PUB New York : Knopf, 2007. 813.54 S673w, 2006 AUT Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. TIT Walter Dean Myers : a literary companion. PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006. 818.5409 H859c, 2006 AUT Howells, Coral Ann. TIT The Cambridge companion to Margaret Atwood. PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006. CON Contents: Margaret Atwood in her Canadian context / David Staines -- Biography/autobiography / Lorraine York -- Power politics : power and identity / Pilar Somacarrera -- Margaret Atwood's female bodies / Madeleine Davies -- Margaret Atwood and environmentalism / Shannon Hengen -- Margaret Atwood and history / Coomi S. Vevaina -- Home and nation in Margaret Atwood's later fiction / Eleanora Rao -- Margaret Atwood's humor / Marta Dvorak -- Margaret Atwood's poetry and poetics / Branko Gorjup -- Margaret Atwood's short stories and shorter fictions / Reingard M. Nischik -- Margaret Atwood's dystopian visions : The handmaid's tale and Oryx and Crake / Coral Ann Howells -- Blindness and survival in Margaret Atwood's major novels / Sharon R. Wilson. 843.914 W651nH, 2006 AUT Wiesel, Elie ; Wiesel, Marion. TIT Night. - 1st ed. PUB New York : Hill and Wang, c2006. 848.914 M373s, 2006 AUT Marso, Lori Jo ; Moynagh, Patricia. TIT Simone de Beauvoir's political thinking. PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006. CON Contents: Introduction: A radical approach to political thinking / Lori Jo Marso and Patricia Moynagh -- Exemplary validity : Beauvoir on lived reality and a method for political thought / Patricia Moynagh -- Differences in equality : Beauvoir's unsettling of the universal / Emily Zakin -- Retrieving subjectivity for feminism : reading Beauvoir against Foucault / Sonia Kruks -- Feminist geneaologies : Beauvoir on mothers, daughters, and sisterhood / Lori Jo Marso -- Ethical action and responsibility :Beauvoir on the Algerian War / Karen Shelby -- Acting on behalf of the other : Beauvoir and the case of Djamila Boupacha / Mary Caputi. 863.32 D948f, 2006 AUT Dur�n, Manuel ; Rogg, Fay R. TIT Fighting windmills : encounters with Don Quixote. PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006. CON Contents: Cervantes -- Experimenting with existing narrative tools -- Constructing Don Quixote -- A look into Cervantes' masterpiece -- Cervantine sallies into eighteenth-century France and England -- An abbreviated look at Cervantes in nineteenth-century France, Russia, and Spain -- Don Quixote and the New World : two American perspectives -- Sightings of Cervantes and his knight in the twentieth century. 880.09 H893h, 2005 AUT Hughes, Bettany. TIT Helen of Troy : goddess, princess, whore. - 1st American ed. PUB New York : Knopf, 2005. CON Contents: Introduction -- Cherchez la femme -- An evil destiny -- Helen-hunting -- Goddess, princess, whore -- pt. 1. Helen's birth in pre-history -- 1. A dangerous landscape -- 2. A rape, a birth -- 3. The lost citadel -- 4. The Mycenaeans -- 5. The pre-historic princess -- pt. 2. The land of beautiful women -- 6. The rape of 'fair Hellen' -- 7. Sparte kalligynaika -- 8. Tender-eyed girls -- pt. 3. The world's desire -- 9. A trophy for heroes -- 10. The kingmaker -- 11. A royal wedding -- pt. 4. Kourotrophos -- 12. Hermione -- 13. A welcome burden -- 14. Helen, high priestess -- 15. La belle el�ne -- pt. 5. A lover's game -- 16. The golden apple -- 17. Bearing gifts -- 18. Alexander Helenam Rapuit -- 19. The female of the species is more deadly than the male -- pt. 6. Eros and Eris -- 20. Helen the whore -- 21. The pain of Aphrodite -- 22. The sea's foaming lanes -- pt. 7. Troy beckons -- 23. East is east and west is west -- 24. The fair Troad -- 25. The topless towers of Ilium -- 26. The golden houses of the east -- 27. A fleet sets sail -- pt. 8. Troy besieged -- 28. Helen, destroyer of cities -- 29.Death's dark cloud -- 30. A beautiful death, Kalos Thanatos -- 31. The fall of Troy -- pt. 9. Immortal Helen -- 32. Home to Sparta -- 33. The death of a queen -- 34. The age of heroes ends -- 35. 'Fragrant treasuries' -- 36. The daughter of the ocean -- pt. 10. The face that launched a thousand ships -- 37. Helen in Athens -- 38. Helen lost and Helen found -- 39. Helen, Homer and the chances of survival -- 40. Veyn fables -- 41. Helen of Troy and the bad Samaritan -- 42. 'Perpulchra,' more than beautiful -- 43. Dancing with the devil -- 44. Helen's nemesis -- Appendices -- 1. The Minotaur's island -- 2. La Parisienne -- 3. Women of stone and clay and bronze -- 4. Elemental Helen, she-gods and she-devils -- 5. Royal purple, the colour of congealed blood -- Epilogue. Myth, history and historia. 892.4 K12w, 1957 AUT Kahn, Sholom Jacob. TIT A whole loaf : stories from Israel. PUB Tel Aviv, Israel : Karni Publishers, c1957. CON Contents: The dead and the living / S. Yizhar -- Doctor Schmidt / Moshe Shamir -- The Lord have mercy! A Yemenite story / Hayim Hazaz -- The judgment of Solomon / Yehuyda Yaari -- The seven / Nathan Shaham -- The party / Aharon Meged -- The roll of canvas / Benjamin Tammuz -- Metamorphosis / Shmuel Yosef Agnon -- Shaitana / Moshe Smilansky -- Reb Shmelke of Safed / Yaakov Churgin -- Country town / Yitzhak Shenhar -- Polka / Yigal Mossinsohn -- The lateborn / Yehoshua Bar-Yosef -- Enigma / Yisrael Zarchi -- A whole loaf / Agnon -- Biographical and critical notes. 892.43 R256n, 1969 AUT Ravikovitch, Dalia. TIT The new Israeli writers : short stories of the first generation. PUB New York : Funk and Wagnalls, c1969. CON Contents: The tower / Yitzhak Ben-Ner -- Uri and Rachel / Dalia Rabikovitz -- The Trappist monastery / Amos Oz -- Zili and my friend Shaul / Yehudit Handel -- Seven of them / Nathan Shaham -- Parent's day / Dan Ben-Amotz -- The prisoner / S. Yizhar -- Oded Yarkoni's private war / Avraham Raz -- Mother of the Oleanders / Moshe Shamir -- The window / Yosef Bar-Yosef -- In a son's footsteps / Hanoch Bartov -- An unusual deed / Aharon Megged -- My daughter / Ori Orlav -- Angioxyl, a rare cure / Benjamin Tammuz. 892.43 Y94h, 1993 AUT Yudkin, Leon I. TIT Hebrew literature in the wake of the Holocaust. PUB Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1993. CON Contents: Narrative perspectives in Holocaust literature / Leon I. Yudkin -- The ivory tower and the gas chamber : on the nature and teaching of Holocaust literature / Abraham Marthan -- Memory in the work of Yehiel Dinur (Ka-Tzetnik 135633) / William D. Brierley -- Miriam Akavia : redeeming the past / Livia Bitton-Jackson -- Aharon Appelfeld's The immortal Bartfuss : the Holocaust, the body, and repression / Zilla Jane Goodman -- Aharon Appelfeld's For every sin : the Jewish legacy after the Holocaust / Avraham Balaban -- The reception of Holocaust testimony in Israeli literature : Shulamit Hareven's "The witness" and "Twilight" / Rachel Feldhay Brenner -- The influence of the Holocaust on my work / Savyon Liebrecht. 892.43 Y94i, 1993 AUT Yudkin, Leon I. TIT Israeli writers consider the "outsider". PUB Rutherford, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c1993. CON Contents: Writing as its own subject : An introductory essay / L.I. Yudkin -- Natan Alterman : The "Other" as "wanderer" in his early poetry / C. Goodblatt -- David Grossman : Translating the "other" in "Momik" / N. Sokoloff -- Amos Oz and Izhak Ben Ner : The Image of woman in literary works and as transvalued in film adaptations / N. Gertz -- Pinhas Sadeh : On writing Life as a parable / P. Sadeh -- Moshe Shamir : The Author's view of time distant, time near / M. Shamir -- Moshe Shamir : The King of flesh and blood--Literary source and creative imagination / D. Patterson -- A.B. Yehoshua : Arab dissent in his early fiction / K. Frieden -- A.B. Yehoshua : Fictions of Zion and diaspora / G. Morahg. top of page |
| 900 History, Geography 909.07 H842c, 2006 AUT Housley, Norman. TIT Contesting the Crusades. PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006. CON Contents: 1. Defining the Crusade -- 2. The origins and character of the First Crusade -- 3. The development of crusading in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- 4. The intentions and motivations of crusaders -- 5. Crusading outside the Latin East in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries -- 6. Crusading after 1291 -- 7. Consequences : the effect of the Crusades on the development of Europe and interfaith relations. 940.5318 E34r, 2000 AUT Eichengreen, Lucille ; Fromer, Rebecca. TIT Rumkowski and the orphans of Lodz. PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Mercury House, c2000. 940.5318 R846j, 2005 AUT Rothkirchen, Livia. TIT The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia : facing the Holocaust. PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press ; Jerusalem : Yad Vashem, c2005. CON Contents: Prologue : Prague and Jerusalem : spiritual ties between Czechs and Jews -- The historical setting -- Years of challenge and growth : the Jewish minority in Czechoslovakia (1918-38) -- The aftermath of Munich : the crisis of the intellectuals -- Under German occupation (1939-45) -- The protectorate governments and the "Final Solution" -- The Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London : attitudes and reactions to the Jewish plight -- Jews in the Czech home resistance -- The "righteous" and the brave : compassion and solidarity with the persecuted -- Gateway to death : the unique character of Ghetto Terez�n (Theresienstadt) -- The spiritual legacy of the Terez�n inmates -- Epilogue : between 1945 and the Velvet Revolution of 1989. 940.5485 C782c, 2006 AUT Copeland, B. Jack. TIT Colossus : the secrets of Bletchley Park's codebreaking computers. PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. CON Contents: A brief history of cryptography from Caesar to Bletchley Park / Simon Singh -- How it began : Bletchley Park goes to war / Michael Smith -- The German Tunny machine / Jack Copeland -- Colossus, codebreaking, and the digital age / Stephen Budiansky -- Machine against machine / Jack Copeland -- D-Day at Bletchley Park / Thomas H. Flowers -- Intercept! / Jack Copeland -- Colossus / Thomas H. Flowers -- Colossus and the rise of the modern computer / Jack Copeland -- The PC user's guide to Colossus / Benjamin Wells -- Of men and machines / Brian Randell -- The Colossus rebuild / Tony Sale -- Mr. Newman's section / Jack Copeland, with Catherine Caughey ... [et al.] -- Max Newman : mathematician, codebreaker, and computer pioneer / William Newman -- Living with Fish : breaking Tunny in the Newmanry and the Testery / Peter Hilton -- From Hut 8 to the Newmanry / Jack Good -- Codebreaking and Colossus / Donald Michie -- Major Tester's section / Jerry Roberts -- Setter and breaker / Roy Jenkins -- An ATS girl in the Testery / Helen Currie -- The Testery and the breaking of Fish / Peter Edgerley -- Dollis Hill at war / Jack Copeland, with David Bolam ... [et al.] -- The British Tunny machine / Gil Hayward -- How Colossus was built and operated : one of its engineers reveals its secrets / Harry Fensom -- Bletchley Park's Sturgeon : the Fish that laid no eggs / Frode Weierud -- German teleprinter traffic and Swedish wartime intelligence / Craig McKay. 941 M821o, 2005 AUT Moore, David W. TIT The other British Isles : a history of Shetland, Orkney, the Hebrides, Isle of Man, Anglesey, Scilly, Isle of Wight, and the Channel Islands. PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2005. 942.055 M813s, 2006 AUT Montrose, Louis Adrian. TIT The subject of Elizabeth : authority, gender, and representation. PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006. 943.004 F296r, 2005 AUT Fehrenbach, Heide. TIT Race after Hitler : Black occupation children in postwar Germany and America. PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005. CON Contents: Democratizing the racial state: toward a transnational history -- Contract zones: American military occupation and the politics of race -- Flaccid fatherland: rape, sex, and the reproductive consequences of defeat -- "Mischlingskinder" and the postwar taxonomy of race -- Reconstruction in black and white: the Toxi films -- Whose children, theirs or ours? Intercountry adoptions and debates about belonging -- Legacies : race and the postwar nation. 943.08 K62h, 2006 AUT Kitchen, Martin. TIT A history of modern Germany, 1800-2000. PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006. 943.8 K18s, 1944 AUT Karski, Jan. TIT Story of a secret state. PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1944. 943.84 T871L, 2006 AUT Trunk, Isaiah ; Shapiro, Robert Moses. TIT Lódz Ghetto : a history. PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2006. CON Contents: Isaiah Trunk / Joseph Kermish -- Introduction : The distinctiveness of the Lódz Ghetto / Israel Gutman -- Foreword / Jacob Robinson -- Establishment of the Ghetto -- Organization of the Ghetto -- Provisioning -- Forced labor -- Diseases and mortality -- Persecutions, murder, and deportations -- Internal conditions -- The problem of resistance -- Conclusions and summations -- Documents arranged by chapter -- Street names in Lódz Ghetto. 944.36 H972p, 2007 AUT Hussey, Andrew. TIT Paris : the secret history. - 1st U.S. ed. PUB New York : Bloomsbury USA, 2007. CON Contents: The old ocean, prehistory to AD 987 -- City of joy, 988-1460 -- Slaughterhouse city, 1461-1669 -- New Rome and old Sodom, 1670-1799 -- Dream house, dream city, 1800-1850 -- Queen of the world, 1851-1899 -- Magnetic fields, 1900-1939 -- The capital of treason, 1940-1944 -- Society of the spectacle, 1945-2005. 944.36 Y59p, 2006 AUT Yonnet, Jacques. TIT Paris noir : the secret history of a city. PUB Sawtry, U.K. : Dedalus ; Gardena, Calif. : Distributed in the US by SCB Distributors, 2006. 947.086 A751r, 2007 AUT Aron, Leon Rabinovich. TIT Russia's revolution : essays 1989-2006. PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2007. Ref 955.05 L868h2, 2007 AUT Lorentz, John H. TIT Historical dictionary of Iran. - 2nd ed. PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2007. CON Contents: Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- User notes -- Acronyms -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- Bibliography -- Appendices -- Index -- About the author. 956.04 F539g, 2005 AUT Fisk, Robert. TIT The great war for civilisation : the conquest of the Middle East. PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. CON Contents: "One of our brothers had a dream ..." -- "They shoot Russians" -- The choirs of Kandahar -- The carpet-weavers -- The path to war -- "The whirlwind war" -- "War against war" and the fast train to paradise -- Drinking the poisoned chalice -- "Sentenced to suffer death" -- The first Holocaust -- Fifty thousand miles from Palestine -- The last colonial war -- The girl and the child and love -- "Anything to wipe out a devil ..." -- Planet damnation -- Betrayal -- The land of graves -- The plague -- Now thrive the armourers ... -- Even to kings, he comes ... -- Why? -- The die is cast -- Atomic dog, annihilator. arsonist, anthrax, anguish and agamemnon -- Into the wilderness. 956.05 O99h, 2006 AUT Oz, Amos ; Rheinberg, Brigitta van. TIT How to cure a fanatic. - English-language ed. PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006. 956.9405 P218e, 2006 AUT Papp�, Ilan. TIT The ethnic cleansing of Palestine. PUB Oxford, England : Oneworld, 2006. 972.94 B434t, 2007 AUT Bell, Madison Smartt. TIT Toussaint Louverture : a biography. - 1st ed. PUB New York : Pantheon Books, c2007. CON Contents: Opening the gate -- Before the storm -- Turning the tide -- Closing the circle -- The last campaign -- Toussaint in chains -- Scattering the bones -- The image of Toussaint . 973.92 L285c, 2006 AUT Langston, Thomas S. TIT The Cold War presidency : a documentary history. PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2007. 973.924 H825e, 2007 AUT Hosansky, David. TIT Eyewitness to Watergate : a documentary history for students. PUB Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2007. 975.502 S652w, 2007 AUT Smith, John ; Horn, James P. P. TIT Writings : with other narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the first English settlements of America. PUB New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Putnam, c2007. top of page |
| NonPrint/Media Materials DVD 751.42 C476p AUT Reid, Charles. TIT Charles Reid. PUB [United States] : Crystal Video, [2006]. NOT Title from container. - "Contemporary watercolor master"--Container. Video 759.065 A164 AUT Byrnes, Richard A. TIT Abstract expressionism. PUB New Canaan, Conn. : Double Diamond, c2001. Video 759.13 S728 AUT Byrnes, Richard A. TIT The Southwest of Georgia O'Keeffe. PUB Morris Plains, N.J. : Lucerne Media, c1995. DVD 759.13 W779 AUT Lynch, Graeme ; Best, Wayne ; DeBoer, Ryan. TIT Winslow Homer an American original. PUB Toronto : Devine Entertainment, [2002]. SER Artists' specials. NOT Title from disc surface. - Includes special features. Video 759.4 H518 TIT Henri Matisse patterns & paper. PUB New Canaan, Conn. : Double Diamond, c2002. Video 759.5 L581 AUT Angiolillo, Amedeo ; Stella, Claudio ; Christian, Karen. TIT Leonardo da Vinci the visionary intellect. PUB New York : Academic and Entertainment Video Corporation : Distributed by SACIS International, c1992. Video 760.92 P324 AUT Angiolillo, Amedeo ; Stella, Claudio ; Hopkins, Page. TIT Paul Klee. - American ed. PUB New York : Academic and Entertainment Video, 1992. DVD AWF 349 pt.1.1-2 AUT Moore, Michael. TIT The awful truth [the entire series]. PUB New York : Docurama : Distributed by New Video, [2003]. NOT Subtitle from container. - Contains all 24 episodes, broadcast in two seasons, 1998-1999. - Features: Michael Moore Biography ; "Moore awful truths" ; extra Lenny "The Bookie" odds ; behind the scenes commentary. CON Contents: First season. v. 1: episode 1. A cheaper way to conduct a witch hunt. Funeral at an HMO -- episode 2. Beat the rich. The sodomobile -- episode 3. Crackers vs. Mickey Mouse. The voice-box choir. -- episode 4. Sal, the bill collector. Duck and cover -- episode 5. The Awful truth man of the year. TV pundits? 150 feet from NBC -- episode 6. Work care! LucyCam. Air-drop TVs on Afghanistan. Contents: First season. v. 2: episode 7. Cohen is a wimp. LucyCam #2. Manpower Inc. -- episode 8. Montana shacks. Joe Camel needs a job. LucyCam #3 -- episode 9. Hail Turdonia. Teen sniper school. Hitler makes a withdrawal -- episode 10. Crackers vs. the Egg Farm. The Michael Moore playset. American apartheid. Bill Gates' housewarming -- episode 11. Weapon inspectors. The "Make a Wish Foundation". We find Hillary a date -- episode 12. NAFTA Mike. Strikebreakers. The merger. Contents: Second season. v. 1: episode 1. Advertiser appreciation night -- episode 2. Compassionate conservative night -- episode 3. Help the dead guy -- episode 4. German vacation night -- episode 5. Ficus for Congress -- episode 6. Taxi driver. Contents: Second season. v. 2: episode 7. Dixie flag night -- episode 8. Stop and frisk night -- episode 9. Replacement Mike -- episode 10. Store the homeless -- episode 11. Gulf War -- episode 12. Find Clinton a job. DVD AWF 351 pt.2.1-2 AUT Moore, Michael. TIT The awful truth [the entire series]. PUB New York : Docurama : Distributed by New Video, [2003]. NOT Subtitle from container. - Contains all 24 episodes, broadcast in two seasons, 1998-1999. - Features: Michael Moore Biography ; "Moore awful truths" ; extra Lenny "The Bookie" odds ; behind the scenes commentary. CON Contents: First season. v. 1: episode 1. A cheaper way to conduct a witch hunt. Funeral at an HMO -- episode 2. Beat the rich. The sodomobile -- episode 3. Crackers vs. Mickey Mouse. The voice-box choir. -- episode 4. Sal, the bill collector. Duck and cover -- episode 5. The Awful truth man of the year. TV pundits? 150 feet from NBC -- episode 6. Work care! LucyCam. Air-drop TVs on Afghanistan. Contents: First season. v. 2: episode 7. Cohen is a wimp. LucyCam #2. Manpower Inc. -- episode 8. Montana shacks. Joe Camel needs a job. LucyCam #3 -- episode 9. Hail Turdonia. Teen sniper school. Hitler makes a withdrawal -- episode 10. Crackers vs. the Egg Farm. The Michael Moore playset. American apartheid. Bill Gates' housewarming -- episode 11. Weapon inspectors. The "Make a Wish Foundation". We find Hillary a date -- episode 12. NAFTA Mike. Strikebreakers. The merger. Contents: Second season. v. 1: episode 1. Advertiser appreciation night -- episode 2. Compassionate conservative night -- episode 3. Help the dead guy -- episode 4. German vacation night -- episode 5. Ficus for Congress -- episode 6. Taxi driver. Contents: Second season. v. 2: episode 7. Dixie flag night -- episode 8. Stop and frisk night -- episode 9. Replacement Mike -- episode 10. Store the homeless -- episode 11. Gulf War -- episode 12. Find Clinton a job. DVD DEP 353 AUT DiCaprio, Leonardo ; Grey, Brad ; King, Graham. TIT The departed. - Full screen ed. PUB Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2007. NOT Title from container. - Based on the 2002 screenplay "Wu jian dao" by Alan Mak and Felix Chong. - Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. - Special features: None. DVD HOS 354 pt.1.1-3 AUT Laurie, Hugh ; Edelstein, Lisa ; Leonard, Robert Sean. TIT House M.D. (Television program) House M.D. PUB Universal City, Calif. : Universal, [2005]. NOT Title from container. - Originally broadcast during the 2004-2005 season. - Special features: Dr. House; medical cases; the concept; set tour; House-isms; casting session with Hugh Laurie. CON Contents: Disc 1: Pilot -- Paternity -- Occam's razor -- Maternity -- Damned if you do -- The socratic method -- Fidelity -- Poison -- Disc 2: DNR -- Histories -- Detox -- Sports medicine -- Cursed -- Control -- Mob rules -- Heavy -- Disc 3: Role model -- Babies & bathwater -- Kids -- Love hurts -- Three stories -- Honeymoon. DVD SIX 345 pt.1.1-4 AUT Ball, Alan ; Krause, Peter ; Hall, Michael C. TIT Six feet under (Television program) Six feet under the complete first season. PUB New York : HBO Home Video, 2003. NOT Features: behind the scenes featurette featuring interviews with the cast, audio commentary tracks, deleted scene from the pilot with commentary, featurette on the creation of the show's opening titles, music tracks, episode recaps, previews, cast and filmmaker biographies. CON Contents: Episode 1. The plot -- Episode 2. The will -- Episode 3. The foot -- Episode 4. Familia -- Episode 5. An open book -- Episode 6. The room -- Episode 7. Brotherhood -- Episode 8. Crossroads -- Episode 9. Life's too short -- Episode 10. The new person -- Episode 11. The trip -- Episode 12. A private life -- Episode 13. Knock, knock. top of page |
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