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025.52 F229s 2007
AUT Farkas, Meredith G.
TIT Social software in libraries : building collaboration, communication, and community Online.
PUB Medford, N.J. : Information Today, c2007.
CON Contents: What is social software? -- Blogs -- Blogs in libraries : practical applications -- RSS -- Wikis -- Online communities -- Social networking -- Social bookmarking and collaborative filtering -- Tools for synchronous online reference -- The mobile revolution -- Podcasting -- Screencasting and vodcasting -- Gaming -- What will work @ your library -- Keeping up : a primer -- Future trends in social software.

070.433 R815w 2007
AUT Rosenstiel, Tom.
TIT We interrupt this newscast : how to improve local news and win ratings, too.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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133.4 E47L 2004
AUT Ellis, Bill.
TIT Lucifer ascending : the occult in folklore and popular culture.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2004.
CON Contents: Wizards vs. muggles: a long-standing debate -- What were witches really like? -- Black books and chain letters -- Satanic bibles -- Why is a lucky rabbit's foot lucky? -- Visits to forbidden graveyards -- Table-setting and mirror-gazing -- The @#$%&! Ouija board -- The Welsh revival: Evangelical Christianity meets the occult -- Learning from Lucifer.

150.72 S697p5 2002
AUT Sommer, Robert ; Sommer, Barbara Baker.
TIT A practical guide to behavioral research : tools and techniques. - 5th ed.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
CON Contents: Multimethod approach -- Ethics in behavioral research -- Search the technical literature -- Observation -- Mapping and trace measures -- Experimentation -- Simulation -- Interview -- The questionnaire -- Attitude and rating scales -- Content analysis -- Personal documents and archival measures -- Case study -- Action research -- The big fuzzies : research on difficult-to-define concepts -- Standardized tests and inventories -- Sampling -- Descriptive statistics -- Inferential statistics -- Writing and reviewing a research report -- After the report -- Concluding notes -- Appendix A. Critical values -- Appendix B. Statistical tests -- Appendix C. Using computer software for data analysis -- Appendix D. Example of a manuscript prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association -- Appendix E. Example of style used for a technical report.

150.92 D186c 2007
AUT Daniels, Harry ; Cole, Michael ; Wertsch, James V.
TIT The Cambridge companion to Vygotsky.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Vygotsky in context : 1900-1935 / René van der Veer -- Vygotsky's demons / David Bakhurst -- An interesting resemblance : Vygotksy, Mead and American pragmatism / Anne Edwards -- Vygotsky, Mead, and the new sociocultural studies of identity / Dorothy Holland and William Lachicotte, Jr. -- Vygotsky on thinking and speaking / Vera P. John-Steiner -- Terminology in L.S. Vygotsky's writings / Boris G. Meshcheryakov -- Mediation / James V. Wertsch -- Vygotsky and culture / Michael Cole and Natalia Gajdamaschko -- Thought and word : the approaches of L.S. Vygotsky and G.G. Shpet / Vladimir P. Zinchenko -- The development of children's conceptual relation to the world, with focus on concept formation in preschool children's activity / Mariane Hedegaard -- Inside and outside the Zone of proximal development : an ecofunctional reading of Vygotsky / Pablo del Río and Amelia Álvarez -- Pedagogy / Harry Daniels -- Sociocultural theory and education of children with special needs : from defectology to remedial pedagogy / Alex Kozulin and Boris Gindis -- Putting Vygotsky to work : the change laboratory as an application of double stimulation / Yrjö Engeström.

155.2 S688b8 2009
AUT Sollod, Robert N ; Wilson, John P. ; Monte, Christopher F.
TIT Beneath the mask : an introduction to theories of personality. - 8th ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.

155.2072 H236 2007
AUT Robins, Richard W ; Fraley, R. Chris ; Krueger, Robert F.
TIT Handbook of research methods in personality psychology.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Designing a personality study -- Methods for assessing personality at different levels of analysis -- Analyzing and interpreting personality data.

155.283 G739ma4 2006
AUT Graham, John R.
TIT MMPI-2 : assessing personality and psychopathology. - 4th ed.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. Development of the MMPI and MMPI-2 -- 2. Administration and scoring -- 3. The validity scales -- 4. The clinical scales -- 5. Code types -- 6. Content interpretation -- 7. Restructured Clinical (RC) and Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5) scales -- 8. Supplementary scales -- 9. Psychometric considerations -- 10. Use with special groups -- 11. An interpretive strategy -- 12. Computerized administration, scoring, and interpretation -- 13. Forensic applications of the MMPI-2 -- Appendix A. Composition of standard validity and clinical scales -- Appendix B. T-score conversions for standard validity and clinical scales -- Appendix C. Composition of Harris-Lingoes subscales -- Appendix D. Linear t-score conversions for Harris-Lingoes subscales -- Appendix E. Composition of SI subscales -- Appendix F. Linear t-score conversions for SI subscales -- Appendix G. Composition of content scales -- Appendix H. Uniform t-score conversions for content scales -- Appendix I. Composition of content component scales -- Appendix J. Uniform t-score conversions for content component scales -- Appendix K. Koss-Butcher critical item numbers -- Appendix L. Composition of restructured clinical (RC) scales -- Appendix M. Uniform t-score conversions for restructured clinical (RC) scales -- Appendix N. Composition of personality psychopathology five (PSY-5) scales -- Appendix O. Uniform t-score conversions for personality psychopathology five (PSY-5) scales -- Appendix P. Composition of supplementary scales -- Appendix Q. Linear t-score conversions for supplementary scales -- Appendix R. Intercorrelations of MMPI-2 scales for normative sample -- Appendix S. Percentile equivalents for uniform t scores -- Appendix T. Data for four practice cases.

155.4 H825r 2007
AUT Hosin, Amer A.
TIT Responses to traumatized children.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

155.937 D658L 2007
AUT Doka, Kenneth J.
TIT Living with grief : before and after the death.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Hospice Foundation of America, c2007.
SER Living with grief series.

170.92 L533n 2007
AUT Leiter, Brian ; Sinhababu, Neil.
TIT Nietzsche and morality.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction / Brian Leiter and Neil Sinhababu -- Nietzsche : Perfectionist / Thomas Hurka -- The will to power and the ethics of creativity / Bernard Reginster -- Nietzschean 'animal psychology' versus Kantian ethics / Mathias Risse -- The case for Nietzschean moral psychology / Joshua Knobe and Brian Leiter -- Ressentiment, value, and self-vindication : making sense of Nietzsche's slave revolt / R. Jay Wallace -- Guilt, bad conscience, and self-punishment in Nietzsche's Genealogy / Christopher Janaway -- Honest illusion : valuing for Nietzsche's free spirits / Nadeem J.Z. Hussain -- Nietzsche and moral objectivity : the development of Nietzsche's metaethics / Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick -- Affect, value, and objectivity / Peter Poellner -- Vengeful thinking and moral epistemology / Neil Sinhababu -- Perspectives, fictions, errors, play / Simon Blackburn.

174.2 G545b 2007
AUT Glannon, Walter.
TIT Bioethics and the brain.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Brain, body, and self -- Neuroimaging -- Pharmacological and psychological interventions -- Neurosurgery, psychosurgery, and neurostimulation -- Brain death.

193 T396tK 2003
AUT Kant, Immanuel ; Walford, David ; Meerbote, Ralf.
TIT Theoretical philosophy, 1755-1770. - 1st pbk. ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
SER The Cambridge edition of the works of Immanuel Kant.

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200.974 B194r 2006
AUT Balmer, Randall Herbert ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the Middle Atlantic region : the fount of diversity.
PUB Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2006.
SER Religion by region. ; 7.
CON Contents: Introduction : the proving ground for pluralism / Randall Balmer -- The religious diversity of an immigrant region / Vivian Z. Klaff -- Protestants in the Middle Atlantic region / James Hudnut-Beumler -- Catholicism in the Middle Atlantic / James T. Fisher : Jews : Middle Atlantic and beyond / Lawrence Grossman -- Religions of immigrants in the Mid-Atlantic states / Wendy Cadge -- Conclusion : the pluralist imperative / Randall Balmer.

200.974 W223r 2004
AUT Walsh, Andrew ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in New England : steady habits, changing slowly.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
SER Religion by region. ; 3.
CON Contents: Introduction: religion in New England: reckoning with Catholicism / Andrew Walsh -- The demographic layout: a tale of two New Englands / Stephen Prothero -- Catholics I: majority faith with a minority mindset / James M. O'Toole -- Catholics II: in the flux of crisis / Michele Dillon -- Mainline Protestants: custodians of community / Maria Erling -- Conservative Protestants: prospering on the margins / Andrew Walsh -- Jews and African Americans: holding down the fort / Daniel Terris -- Conclusion: on common ground / Andrew Walsh.

200.975 W747r 2005
AUT Wilson, Charles Reagan ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the South : in the evangelical mode.
PUB Walnut Creek, [Calif.] : AltaMira Press, 2005.
SER Religion by region.

200.976 L753r 2005
AUT Lindsey, William D., 1950- ; Silk, Mark ; Lindsey, William D.
TIT Religion and public life in the southern crossroads : showdown states.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2005.
SER Religion by region. ; 5.
CON Contents: INTRODUCTION-AT THE CROSSROADS / William Lindsey -- RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION IN THE SOUTHERN CROSSROADS AND THE NATION- Religious Self-Identification and Adherents Claimed by Religious Groups, National and Regional Comparisons -- THE SOUTHERN CROSSROADS: RELIGION AND DEMOGRAPHY / Bill Leonard -- PROTESTANTS: FROM DENOMINATIONAL CONTROVERSIALISTS TO CULTURE WARRIORS / Andrew Manis -- HOLINESS AND PENTACOSTAL TRADITIONS: MAKING THE SPIRIT COUNT / Jane Harris -- NEGOTIATING CATHOLICISM: RELIGIOUS IDENTITY VS. REGIONAL CITIZENSHIP / Kathlyn Breazeale -- AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND NATIVE-AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FOLK: DOWN BUT NOT OUT / Cheryl Kirk-Duggan -- CONCLUSION: SHOWDOWNS / William Lindsey and Mark Silk.

200.977 S583r 2004
AUT Barlow, Philip L ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the midwest : America's common denominator?.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
SER Religion by region. ; 4.

200.978 S583r 2004
AUT Shipps, Jan, 1929- ; Silk, Mark ; Shipps, Jan.
TIT Religion and public life in the Mountain West : sacred landscapes in transition.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
SER Religion by region ; 2.
CON Contents: Introduction : religion in the Mountain West : geography as destiny / Jan Shipps -- Religious affiliation in the Mountain West and the nation : religious self-identification and adherents claimed by religious groups, national and regional comparisons -- The religious demography of an oasis culture / Walter Nugent -- How religion created an infrastructure for the Mountain West / Ferenc Morton Szasz -- Catholic heartland in transition : Arizona and New Mexico / Randi Jones Walker -- The Mormon corridor : Utah and Idaho / Kathleen Flake -- Polarized Tribes : Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana / Philip Deloria -- Conclusion : sacred landscapes in transition / Jan Shipps.

200.979 R776r 2005
AUT Roof, Wade Clark ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the Pacific region : fluid identities.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Alatmira Press, c2005.
SER Religion by region.
CON Contents: Preface / Mark Silk -- Introduction: Religion in the Pacific region / Phillip E. Hammond -- Religious affiliation in the Pacific region and the nation - Religious self-identification and adherents claimed by religious groups, national and regional comparisons -- Religion in the Pacific region : demographic patterns / Wade Clark Roof -- Toward an established mysticism : judeo-Christian traditions in post-World War II, California and Nevada / Douglas Firth Anderson -- New players and new patterns / David W. Machacek -- The influence of alternative religions / Tamar Frankiel -- Pono and Kapu : righteousness and taboo in Hawaii / George J. Tanabe, Jr -- Conclusion: Faith and spirituality in a fluid environment / Wade Clark Roof.

200.9795 K48r 2004
AUT Killen, Patricia O'Connell ; Silk, Mark.
TIT Religion and public life in the Pacific Northwest : the none zone.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
SER Religion by region. ; 1.
CON Contents: Patterns of the past, prospects for the future: religion in the None Zone / Patricia O'Connell Killen -- Surveying the religious landscape: historical trends and current patterns in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska / Patricia O'Connell Killen and Mark A. Shibley with assistance from Kellee Boyer and Kellie A. Riley -- Contesting the soul of an unlikely land: mainline Protestants, Catholics, and Reform and Conservative Jews in the Pacific Northwest / Dale E. Soden -- The churching of the Pacific Northwest: The rise of sectarian entrepreneurs / James K. Wellman, Jr. -- Religions of the Pacific Rim in the Pacific Northwest / Lance D. Laird -- Secular but spiritual in the Pacific Northwest / Mark A. Shibley -- Religious futures in the None Zone / Patricia O'Connell Killen.

201.7 P713s 2007
AUT Plante, Thomas G ; Thoresen, Carl E.
TIT Spirit, science, and health : how the spiritual mind fuels physical wellness.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
CON Contents: Spirituality, religion, and health : what's the deal? / Carl E. Thoresen -- Prayer and health / Kevin S. Masters -- A few good measures : assessing religion and spirituality in relation to health / Peter C. Hill, Katie J. Kopp, and Richard A. Bollinger -- How does one learn to be spiritual? : the neglected role of spiritual modeling in health / Doug Oman and Carl E. Thoresen -- Meditation : exploring the farther reaches / Shauna L. Shapiro and Roger Walsh -- The eight-point program of passage meditation : health effects of a comprehensive program / Tim Flinders, Doug Oman, and Carol Lee Flinders -- Mantram or holy name repetition : health benefits from a portable spiritual practice / Jill E. Bormann and Doug Oman -- Compassion and health / Amy B. Wachholtz and Michelle Pearce -- The calling protocol : promoting greater health, joy, and purpose in life / Diane E. Dreher and Thomas G. Plante -- Religion/spirituality and health in adolescents / Sian Cotton, Daniel H. Grossoehme, and Joel Tsevat -- Spirituality and cancer / Allen C. Sherman and Stephanie Simonton -- Spirituality and HIV/AIDS / Heidemarie Kremer and Gail Ironson -- Spirituality at the end of life : issues and guidelines for care / Kathryn Z. McNichols and David B. Feldman -- Spirituality, religion, and health : ethical issues to consider / Thomas G. Plante.

261.709 H449c 2007
AUT Heclo, Hugh ; Bane, Mary Jo ; Kazin, Michael.
TIT Christianity and American democracy.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
SER Alexis de Tocqueville lectures on American politics.

282.09 B813v 2000
AUT Braham, Randolph L.
TIT The Vatican and the Holocaust : the Catholic Church and the Jews during the Nazi era.
PUB [New York] : Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies Graduate Center/City University of New York ; Boulder : Social Science Monographs ; [New York] : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2000.
SER East European monographs. ; no. 550 Holocaust studies series.
CON Contents: Origins of anti-semitism / Hyam Maccoby -- The Vatican : remembering and forgetting ; The Catholic Church and the Jews during the Nazi era / Randolph L. Braham -- Reaction of a Catholic theologian to the Vatican's We remember document / John F. Morley -- Reaction of a Protestant theologian to the Vatican's We remember document / Franklin H. Littell -- Reaction of a Jewish theologian to the Vatican's We remember document / A. James Rudin -- Appendixes. Letter of Pope John Paul II (March 12, 1998) and We remember : a reflection on the Shoah (March 16, 1998) -- Ecumenical Council Vatican II. Nostra Aetate (no. 4) (October 28, 1965) -- Guidelines and suggestions for implementing the conciliar declaration Nostra Aetate (no. 4) (December 1, 1974) -- Notes on the correct way to present the Jews and Judaism in preaching and catechesis in the Roman Catholic Church (June 24, 1985).

286.09 J76b 2008
AUT Jonas, William Glenn.
TIT The Baptist river : essays on many tributaries of a diverse tradition.
PUB Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2008.
SER Baptists.
CON Contents: Defining a tradition: a river runs through it / Glenn Jonas -- American Baptists / Deborah Van Broekhoven -- Southern Baptists / C. Douglas Weaver -- National Baptists / Sandy D. Martin -- Independent Baptists / Jerry L. Faught -- The National Association of Free Will Baptists / William F. Davidson -- The Primitive or Old School Baptists / John G. Crowley -- The North American Baptist Conference / Philip E. Thompson -- Baptists in Canada / William H. Brackney -- Seventh Day Baptists / Don A. Sanford -- The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship / Walter B. Shurden -- Baptist Americanus / Lydia Huffman Hoyle.

291.03 O13a 2007
AUT O'Brien, Joanne ; Palmer, Martin ; Barrett, David B.
TIT The atlas of religion.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Pt.1 Beginnings : Popular religions -- Arrivals -- Roots and branches. Contents: Pt.2 Beliefs : Christianity -- Islam -- Hinduism -- Buddhism -- Judaism -- Sikhism -- Traditional beliefs -- Catholicism -- New religious movements -- New departures -- Non-believers. Contents: Pt.3 Structures : State attitudes to religion -- Christian finance -- Religious education -- Christian missionaries -- The word -- Christian broadcasting -- Aid and development -- Islamic law. Contents: Pt.4 Conflicts and tensions : Faultlines -- Emerging from persecution. Contents: Pt.5 Contemporary challenges : Shared world -- Equal rites -- Environmental protection -- Ethical investment -- The future. Contents: Pt.6 The heartlands : Origins -- Holy natural -- Fundamentals of the faiths. Contents: Pt.7 Social context.

291.9 S819c 2003
AUT Stein, Stephen J.
TIT Communities of dissent : a history of alternative religions in America.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
CON Contents: Talking about religious outsiders -- Early dissenters and popular religion -- Peace movements in colonial America -- Communitarians living on the margins -- Apocalyptic traditions: watching and waiting for the end -- Healers and occultists: women of spiritual means -- Sectarians in the city -- Twentieth-century sects and cults.

294.5211 K92 2007
AUT Bryant, Edwin F.
TIT Krishna : a sourcebook.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Krishna in the Mahabharata: the death of Karna / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita / Robert N. Minor -- Harivamsa: the dynasty of Krishna / Ekkehard Lorenz -- Krishna in the tenth book of the Bhagavata Purana / Edwin F. Bryant -- Orissa: Shri Krishna Jagannath: the Mushali-parva from Sarala's Mahabharata / Bijoy M. Misra -- Assam: Shankaradeva's Parijata Harana Nata / William L. Smith -- Tamil Nadu: weaving garlands in Tamil: the poetry of the Alvars / Vasudha Narayanan -- Maharashtra: games with God: Sakhya-bhakti in Marathi Sant poetry / Vidyut Aklujkar -- Braj: fishing in Sur's Ocean / John Stratton Hawley -- Rajasthan: Mirabai and her poetry / Nancy M. Martin -- Gujarat: Krishna-Lila in the songs of Narasinha Mehta / Neelima Shukla-Bhatt -- Sanskrit from Tamil Nadu: at play in the forests of the Lord: the Gopalavimshati of Vedantadeshika / Steven P. Hopkins. Contents: Krishna in Advaita Vedanta: the supreme Brahman in human form / Lance E. Nelson -- Ramanuja and the meaning of Krishna's descent and embodiment on this earth / Francis X. Clooney, S.J. -- Madhva Vedanta and Krishna / Deepak Sharma -- The six Sandarbhas of Jiva Gosvami / Satyanarayana Dasa -- A selection from the Bhaktirasamritasindhu of Rupa Gosvamin: the foundational emotions (sthayi-bhavas) / David Haberman -- The divine feminine in the theology of Krishna / Graham M. Schweig -- Kumbhandas: the devotee as salt of the earth / Richard Barz -- The Bade Shikshapatra: a Vallabhite guide to the worship of Krishna's divine images / Paul Arney -- Vaishnava pilgrimage: select Puranic texts / Paul H. Sherbow -- Chaitanya Vaishnavism and the holy names / Neal Delmonico.

294.55 D993h 2007
AUT Dwyer, Graham ; Cole, Richard J.
TIT The Hare Krishna movement : forty years of chant and change.
PUB London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: List of plates -- Introduction -- PART 1. ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENTS AND ORGANISATIONAL PATTERNS. 1965 was a very good year and 2005 is better still -- Forty years of chanting: a study of the Hare Krishna movement from its foundation to the present day -- (Comment on) Moving into phase three: an analysis of ISKCON membership in the UK -- PART 2. DREAMS AND DEVOTION. Dreams of Prabhupada and devotional life the in the Hare Krishna movement -- The consciousness of surrender and the surrendered consciousness: ecstatic dreams of Lord Krishna -- PART 3. TRADITION AND MODERNITY. Bringing the Lord's song to a strange land: Srila Prabhupada's strategy of "cultural conquest" and its prospects -- Spiritual solutions to material problems: ISKCON and the modern world -- For love of Krishna: forty years of chanting -- PART 4. IDENTITY AND PERCEPTION. ISKCON's search for self-identity: reflections by a historian of religions -- Thealogising Radha: the feminine and feminist dimensions of deity -- Notes and references -- Notes on contributors -- Appendix -- Glossary of Sanskrit terms -- Index.

294.5512 R678h 2007
AUT Rochford, E. Burke.
TIT Hare Krishna transformed.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007.
SER New and alternative religions series.

297.0973 B274a 2007
AUT Barrett, Paul.
TIT American Islam : the struggle for the soul of a religion. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

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301.01 N348t 2003
AUT Nealon, Jeffrey T. ; Giroux, Susan Searls.
TIT The theory toolbox : critical concepts for the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.
SER Culture and politics series.

301.01 S359t 2006
AUT Schneider, Mark A.
TIT The theory primer : a sociological guide.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: Theories and theorizing. A definition of theory ; Theory and explanation ; Theorizing as a process ; Theories, causal narratives, and descriptive narratives ; Theories and paradigms -- Karl Marx and capitalism. Capitalism as a problem ; Creating a theory to explain the change ; Evaluating Marx's theory -- Historical materialism and its legacy. The paradigm of historical materialism ; The legacy of Marx -- Max Weber and capitalism. Weber's program : theoretical modesty and use of analytic typologies ; Weber's Protestant ethic account of capitalism ; Evaluating the Protestant ethic thesis ; Weber and historic idealism ; Weber and verstehen -- Max Weber and analytic typologies. What is an analytic typology? ; What makes for a good typology? ; Weber's typologies ; Charismatic authority and the sociology of charisma ; Bureaucratic authority and the sociology of bureaucracies ; Rationalization and historical change ; Stratification and conflict -- Émile Durkheim on the division of labor and suicide. The division of labor ; Durkheim on suicide ; Evaluating Durkheim's theory of suicide -- Émile Durkheim and functionalism. The social function of crime ; Functionalism as a paradigm ; Structuralism : Durkheim on the origins of religion -- G. H. Mead and symbolic interaction. Mead and social behaviorism ; Erving Goffman and symbolic interaction ; The affect control subparadigm.

302.23 G475g 2007
AUT Gill, Rosalind.
TIT Gender and the media.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2007.
CON Contents: Gender and the media -- Analysing gender in media texts -- Advertising and postfeminism -- News, gender, and journalism -- Talk shows : feminism on TV? -- Gender in magazines : from Cosmopolitan to Loaded -- Postfeminist romance -- Postfeminist media culture?.

302.23 I58g 2007
AUT Inness, Sherrie A.
TIT Geek chic : smart women in popular culture. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: Who remembers Sabrina? Intelligence, gender, and the media / Sherrie A. Inness -- Beauty and the geek: changing gender stereotypes on the Gilmore girls / Karin E. Westman -- Lab coats and lipstick: smart women reshape science on television / Lorna Jowett -- "You can see things that other people can't:" changing images of the girl with glasses, from Gidget to Daria / Cindy Conaway -- "Pretty smart": subversive intelligence in girl power cartoons / Rebecca C. Hains -- Super slacker girls: dropping out but divinely inspired / Michele Paule -- Back to the future: the brilliant witches in Bewitched / Linda Baughman, Allison Burr-Miller, and Linda Manning -- Dangerous minds: the woman professor on television / Leigh H. Edwards -- Raising the bar: brilliant women lawyers from Ann Kelsey to Miranda Hobbes / Sharon Sutherland and Sarah Swan -- Savvy women, old boys' school politics, and The west wing / Beth Berila -- Heckling Hillary: jokes, late-night television, and Hillary Rodham Clinton / Jeannie Banks Thomas.

302.23 L574r 2007
AUT Lenthall, Bruce.
TIT Radio's America : the Great Depression and the rise of modern mass culture.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

302.23 S819s 2008
AUT Stein, Laura Lynn.
TIT Speech rights in America : the First Amendment, democracy, and the media. - First Illinois paperback ed.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2008.
SER History of communication.
CON Contents: The First Amendment and communication in democratic societies -- Rethinking speech rights -- Social mediation in print and broadcast media -- The right to public space -- Democratic speech rights on the Internet -- The future of democratic communication.

303.484
AUT Snow, David A ; Soule, Sarah Anne ; Kriesi, Hanspeter.
TIT The Blackwell companion to social movements.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Blackwell, 2007.
SER Blackwell companions to sociology.

303.484 M113c 1996
AUT McAdam, Doug ; McCarthy, John D. ; Zald, Mayer N.
TIT Comparative perspectives on social movements : political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and cultural framings.
PUB Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
SER Cambridge studies in comparative politics.

303.484 M875f 1992
AUT Morris, Aldon D ; Mueller, Carol McClurg.
TIT Frontiers in social movement theory.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c1992.
CON Contents: Building social movement theory / Carol McClurg Mueller -- The political context of rationality / Myra Marx Ferree -- The social psychology of collective action / William A. Gamson -- The social construction of protest and multiorganizational fields / Bert Klandermans -- Collective identity in social movement communities : lesbian feminist mobilization / Verta Taylor and Nancy E. Whittier -- Master frames and cycles of protest / David A. Snow and Robert D. Benford -- Collective identity and activism / Debra Friedman and Doug McAdam -- Mentalities, political cultures, and collective action frames / Sidney Tarrow -- Resource mobilization versus the mobilization of people : why consensus movements cannot be instruments of social change / Michael Schwartz and Shuva Paul -- Communities of challengers in social movement theory / Clarence Y.H. Lo -- Mobilizing technologies for collective action / Pamela E. Oliver and Gerald Marwell -- Consensus movements, conflict movements, and the cooptation of civic and state infrastructures / John D. McCarthy and Mark Wolfson -- Normalizing collective protest / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward -- Looking backward to look forward / Mayer N. Zald -- Political consciousness and collective action / Aldon D. Morris.

303.625 C312i 2007
AUT Carr, Matthew.
TIT The infernal machine : a history of terrorism.
PUB New York : New Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Beginnings -- The hero takes the stage -- Anarchists and dynamitards -- Terror and resistance -- Freedom fighters -- Savages -- The romance of the urban guerrilla -- The revolutionary festival -- Patriots -- The terrorist decades -- The dawn of international terrorism -- The first war on terror -- The armies of God -- Waiting for catastrophe -- A raid on the path: 9/11 and the war on terror -- Epilogue: In a time of terror.

304.8 M919a 2007
AUT Motomura, Hiroshi.
TIT Americans in waiting : the lost story of immigration and citizenship in the United States.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: immigrants in America -- Contract and classical immigration law -- Promises, promises -- All persons within the territorial jurisdiction -- Alienage and the ties that bind -- The most tender connections -- The lost story of Americans-in-waiting -- Transition at a crossroads -- The meaning of transition -- Race, belonging, and transition -- Taking transition seriously -- Conclusion : the idea of Americans-in-waiting -- Notes.

304.873 M416n 2008
AUT Massey, Douglas S.
TIT New faces in new places : the changing geography of American immigration.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2008.
CON Contents: Places and peoples : the new American mosaic / Charles Hirschman and Douglas S. Massey -- The geographic diversification of American immigration / Douglas S. Massey and Chiara Capoferro -- The structure and dynamics of Mexican migration to new destinations in the United States / Mark A. Leach and Frank D. Bean -- Changing faces, changing places : the emergence of new nonmetropolitan immigrant gateways / Katharine M. Donato ... [et al.] -- New Hispanic migrant destinations : a tale of two industries / Emilio A. Parrado and William Kandel -- The origins of employer demand for immigrants in a new destination : the salience of soft skills in a volatile economy / Katharine M. Donato and Carl L. Bankston III -- Prejudice toward immigrants in the Midwest / Katherine Fennelly -- New midwesterners, new southerners : immigration experiences in four rural American settings / David Griffith -- Hispanic immigration, Black population size, and intergroup relations in the rural and small-town South / Helen B. Marrow -- Nashville's new "Sonido" : Latino migration and the changing politics of race / Jamie Winders -- The ambivalent welcome : Cinco de Mayo and the symbolic expression of local identity and ethnic relations / Debra Lattanzi Shutika -- Race to the top? the politics of immigrant education in suburbia / Michael Jones-Correa -- Assimilation in a new geography / Douglas S. Massey.

305.23 S399m 1999
AUT Schwartz, Eugene.
TIT Millennial child.
PUB Great Barrington, Mass. : Anthroposophic Press, c1999.

305.31 M398c 2006
AUT Mason, Christopher P.
TIT Crossing into manhood : a men's studies curriculum.
PUB Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Masculine biology -- Masculine development through the life cycle -- Uniquely masculine issues: masculine initiation -- Uniquely masculine issues: finding the father -- Archetypes of a mature masculine identity -- Encountering the feminine: sexuality and relationships -- Matters of health and spirituality -- Matters of masculine diversity -- The boarding school as an initiatory experiences -- Summary and discussion.

305.396 H292r 2007
AUT Harold, Claudrena N.
TIT The rise and fall of the Garvey movement in the urban South, 1918-1942.
PUB New York : Routledge, c2007.
SER Studies in African American history and culture.
CON Contents: Garveyism and the rise of new Negro politics in the Jim Crow South -- "We are constantly on the firing line": the Garvey Movement in New Orleans, 1920-1935 -- "I am a stranger here": Bahamians and the Garvey Movement in Miami, Florida, 1920-1933 -- Virginian Garveyism, 1918-1942 -- Life after the Garvey Movement.

305.4 R588f 2002
AUT Ripa, Yannick.
TIT Les femmes, actrices de l'histoire : France, 1789-1945.
PUB Paris : A. Colin, c2002.
SER Campus. Histoire.

305.488 M682w 2007
AUT Mitchell, S. E. ; Schell, Patience A.
TIT The women's revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2007.
SER Latin American silhouettes.
CON Contents: The faces of rebellion: from revolutionaries to Veterans in nationalist Mexico / Martha Eva Rocha -- Educating the mothers of the nation: the project of revolutionary education in Yucatán / Stephanie J. Smith -- Challenging legal and gender constraints in Mexico: Sofía Villa de Buentello's criticism of family legislation, 1917-1927 / Carmen Ramos Escandón -- The meaning of the women's vote in Mexico, 1917-1953 / Sarah A. Buck -- Of the sublime mission of mothers of families: the union of Mexican Catholic ladies in Revolutionary Mexico / Patience A. Schell -- Theater of operations: reform politics and the battle for prostitutes' redemption at revolutionary Mexico City's syphilis hospital / Katherine Elaine Bliss -- "The proletarian women will make the social revolution": female participation in the Veracruz rent strike, 1922-1927 / Andrew Grant Wood -- Por la liberatión de la mujer: women and the anti-alcohol campaign / Stephanie Mitchell -- Improving mothers: poverty, the family, and "modern" social assistance in Mexico, 1937-1950 / Nichole Sanders.

305.4889 B599i 2007
AUT Billson, Janet Mancini ; Mancini, Kyra.
TIT Inuit women : their powerful spirit in a century of change.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.

305.8 B449o 2005
AUT Bell-Villada, Gene H.
TIT Overseas American : growing up gringo in the tropics. - 1st ed.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2005.
SER Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.

305.8 H567s 2004
AUT Herring, Cedric ; Keith, Verna ; Horton, Hayward Derrick.
TIT Skin deep : how race and complexion matter in the "color-blind" era.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press : Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2004.
CON Contents: Skin deep: race and complexion in the "color-blind" era / Cedric Herring -- Light, bright, and almost white: the advantages and disadvantages of light skin / Margaret Hunter -- Copper brown and blue black: colorism and self evaluation / Maxine S. Thompson and Verna M. Keith -- For richer, for poorer, whether dark or light: skin tone, marital status, and spouse's earnings / Korie Edwards, Katrina Carter-Tellison, and Cedric Herring -- "Mama, are you brown?": multiracial families and the color line / Heather M. Dalmadge -- Beyond Black?: the reflexivity of appearances in racial identification among black/white biracials / Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David L. Brunsma -- Skin tone, class, and racial attitudes among African Americans / Phillip J. Bowman, Ray Muhammad, and Mosi Ifatunji -- Toward a critical demography of neo-Mulattoes: structural change and diversity within the black population / Hayward Derrick Horton and Lori Latrice Sykes -- Demystifying color-blind ideology: denying race, ignoring racial inequalities / Kimberly L. Ebert -- Race south of the equator: reexamining the intersection of color and class in Brazil / V\u0144ia Penha-Lopes -- From biracial to tri-racial: the emergence of a new racial stratification system in the United States / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva.

305.8 R328s 2007
AUT Rees, Richard W.
TIT Shades of difference : a history of ethnicity in America.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
SER Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
CON Contents: Introduction : the invention of (the concept of) ethnicity -- From the invention of race to the rise of the inbetween people, 1840-1924 -- Whiteness and the limits of the new environmentalism in the social sciences, 1895-1921 -- Inventing ethnicity in the context of race and caste, 1930-1945 -- Black ethnicity and the transformation of a concept, 1962-1972 -- Conclusion : toward a hybrid discourse of ethnicity.

305.892 K195s 2007
AUT Katz, Steven T.
TIT The shtetl : new evaluations.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007.
SER Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies series.
CON Contents: Introduction / Samuel Kassow -- The importance of demography and patterns of settlement for an understanding of the Jewish experience in East-Central Europe / Gershon David Hundert -- A shtetl with a yeshiva : the case of Volozhin / Immanuel Etkes -- Rebbetzins, wonder-children, and the emergence of the dynastic principle in Hasidism / Nehemia Polen -- Two Jews, three opinions: politics in the shtetl at the turn of the twentieth century / Henry Abramson -- The shtetl in Poland, 1914-1918 / Konrad Zieli\u0144ski -- The shtetl in interwar Poland / Samuel Kassow -- Looking at the Yiddish landscape : representation in nineteenth-century Hasidic and Maskilic literature / Jeremy Dauber -- Imagined geography : the shtetl, myth, and reality / Israel Bartal -- Gender and the disintegration of the shtetl in modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature / Naomi Seidman -- Rediscovering the shtetl as a new reality : David Bergelson and Itsik Kipnis / Mikhail Krutikov -- Agnon's synthetic shtetl / Arnold J. Band -- The image of the shtetl in contemporary Polish fiction / Katarzyna Wiec\u0142awska -- Sarny and Rokitno in the Holocaust : a case study of two townships in Wolyn (Volhynia) / Yehuda Bauer -- The world of the shtetl / Elie Wiesel.

305.896 T274g 2007
AUT Telles, Edward Eric ; Ortiz, Vilma.
TIT Generations of exclusion : Mexican Americans, assimilation, and race.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2008.

305.897 P495b 2007
AUT Petrillo, Larissa ; Trejo, Melda ; Trejo, Lupe.
TIT Being Lakota : identity and tradition on Pine Ridge Reservation.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.

306 B632J 2005
AUT Jacobs, Mark D. ; Hanrahan, Nancy Weiss.
TIT The Blackwell companion to the sociology of culture.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
SER Blackwell companions to sociology. ; 12.
CON Contents: PT. 1. PROBLEMS OF THEORY AND METHOD. Structure, culture and agency / Margaret S. Archer -- Culture and cognition / Albert J. Bergesen -- Difference and cultural systems: dissonance in three parts / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan -- PT. 2. CULTURAL SYSTEMS. Culture in global knowledge societies: knowledge cultures and epistemic cultures / Karin Knorr Cetina -- Media culture(s) and public life / Ronald N. Jacobs -- "Religion as a cultural system": theoretical and empirical developments since Geertz / Rhys H. Williams -- Aesthetic uncertainty: the new canon? / Vera L. Zolberg -- Pragmatics of taste / Antoine Hennion -- PT. 3. EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEANING. Music and social experience / Tia DeNora -- Consumer culture / Daniel Thomas Cook -- Fame and everyday life: the "lottery celebrities" of reality TV / Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams -- Labor for love: rethinking class and culture in the case of single motherhood / Maria Kefalas -- PT. 4. IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE. New developments in class and culture / David Halle and L. Frank Weyher -- Sexuality and religion: negotiating identity differences / Michele Dillon -- Race after the cultural turn / Orville Lee -- PT. 5. COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND CULTURAL AMNESIA. Collective memory: why culture matters / Barry Schwartz, Kazuya Fukuoka, and Sachiko Takita-Ishii -- Counter-memories of terrorism: the public inscription of a dramatic past / Anna Lisa Tota -- Museums and the constitution of culture / Jan Marontate -- Dilemmas of the witness / Robin Wagner-Pacifici -- PT. 6. THE CULTURE OF INSTITUTIONS. Professions as disciplinary cultures / Magali Sarfatti Larson -- Everyday life and the constitution of reality / Susan S. Silbey -- The discourses of welfare and welfare reform / John W. Mohr -- The culture of savings and loan scandal in the no-fault society / Mark D. Jacobs -- PT. 7. THE CULTURE OF CITIZENSHIP: LOCAL, NATIONAL, GLOBAL. Civic culture at the grass roots / Paul Lichterman -- Public vocabularies of religious belief: explicit and implicit religious discourse in the American public sphere / John H. Evans -- Democracy and globalization in the global economy / Diana Crane -- The autonomy of culture and the invention of the politics of small things: 1968 revisited / Jeffrey C. Goldfarb -- Toward a nonculturalist sociology of culture: on class and status in globalizing capitalism / Nancy Fraser.

306.0973 B328n 2007
AUT Batchelor, Bob ; Stoddart, Scott.
TIT The 1980s.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Timeline of Popular Culture Events -- Everyday America -- World of Youth -- Advertising -- Architecture and Design -- Fashion -- Food -- Leisure Activities -- Literature -- Music -- Performing Arts -- Travel and Recreation -- Visual Arts -- Cost of Products in the 1980s -- Works Cited -- Index.

306.0973 S129n 2007
AUT Sagert, Kelly Boyer.
TIT The 1970s.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
SER American popular culture through history.
CON Contents: Timeline of the 1970s -- Everyday America -- World of youth -- Advertising -- Architecture -- Fashion -- Food and the environment -- Leisure activities -- Literature -- Music -- Performing arts -- Travel -- Visual arts -- Cost of products in the 1970s.

306.36 J33d 2003
AUT Jankowiak, William R ; Bradburd, Daniel.
TIT Drugs, labor, and colonial expansion.
PUB Tucson, Az. : University of Arizona Press, c2003.
CON Contents: Drugs, desire, and European economic expansion / Daniel Bradburd and William Jankowiak -- Mutual exploitation? : Aboriginal Australian encounters with Europeans, Southeast Asians, and tobacco / Maggie Brady and Jeremy Long -- "They are beginning to learn the use of tobacco" : cultural context and the creation of a passion in colonial Papua New Guinea / Terence E. Hays-- Alcohol and the slave trade in West Africa, 1400-1850 / Charles Ambler -- Alcohol and the fur trade in New France and English America, 1600-1800 / Peter C. Mancall -- Rum and ganja : indenture, drug foods, labor motivation, and the evolution of the modern sugar industry in Trinidad / Michael V. Angrosino -- Inside the Windhoek lager : liquor and lust in Namibia / Robert Gordon -- Alcohol as a direct and indirect labor enhancer in the mixed economy of the BaTswana, 1800-1900 / David N. Suggs and Stacy A. Lewis -- Coca as symbol and labor enhancer in the Andes : a historical overview / Vicki Cassman, Larry Cartmell, and Eliana Belmonte -- Caffeine and culture / E.N. Anderson -- Drugs in work and trade : new directions for the study of drug use / Daniel Bradburd and William Jankowiak.

306.362 P962M 2007
AUT Mintz, Steven ; Stauffer, John.
TIT The problem of evil : slavery, freedom, and the ambiguities of American reform.
PUB Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Slavery and freedom as moral problems -- The antislavery impulse -- Imagining emancipation -- Post-emancipation America.

306.461 C666m10 2007
AUT Cockerham, William C.
TIT Medical sociology. - 10th ed.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
CON Contents: Medical sociology -- Epidemiology -- The social demography of health -- Social stress and health -- Health behavior and lifestyles -- Illness behavior -- The sick role -- Healing options -- Physicians -- Doctor-patient interaction. Contents: The physician in a changing society -- Nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and midwives -- The hospital in society -- Health care delivery and social policy in the United States -- Health care in developed countries -- Health care in former socialist, socialist, and developing countries.

306.461 W184s 2007
AUT Walker, Susannah.
TIT Style & status : selling beauty to African American women, 1920-1975.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : Why hair is political -- The beauty industry is ours : developing African American consumer citizenship in the 1920s and 1930s --Everyone admires the woman who has beautiful hair : mediating African American neauty standards in the 1920s and 1930s -- An export market at home : expanding African American consumer culture in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s -- Beauty services offered from head to toe : promoting beauty to African American women in the 1940s and 1950s -- All hair is good hair : integrating beauty in the 1950s and 1960s -- Black is beautiful : redefining Beauty in the 1960s and 1970s -- Conclusion : why African American beauty culture is still contested.

306.483 F727h 2007
AUT Forney, Craig A.
TIT The holy trinity of American sports : civil religion in football, baseball, and basketball. - 1st ed.
PUB Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2007.
SER Sports and religion.
CON Contents: The sports of American civil religion -- Holy rites of football, baseball, and basketball -- Football : American myth of history -- Baseball : sacred story of American aspirations -- Basketball : American story of irreversible progress -- Doctrines of the sports trinity -- The ethical dimension of football, baseball, and basketball -- Social tenets of the sports trinity -- Experience of football, baseball, and basketball -- Revelations of the sports trinity.

306.6 F334b 2003
AUT Fenn, Richard K.
TIT The Blackwell companion to sociology of religion.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2003.
SER Blackwell companions to religion. ; 2.
CON Contents: Personal reflections in the mirror of Hal\u02B9evy and Weber / David Martin -- Salvation, secularization, and de-moralization / Bryan Wilson -- The Pentecostal gender paradox: a cautionary tale for the sociology of religion / Bernice Martin -- Feminism and the sociology of religion: from gender-blindness to gendered difference / Linda Woodhead -- Melancholia, utopia, and the psychoanalysis of dreams / Donald Capps -- Georg Simmel: American sociology chooses the stone the builders refused / Victoria Lee Erickson -- Transformations of society and the sacred in Durkheim's religious sociology / Donald A. Nielsen -- Classics in the sociology of religion: an ambiguous legacy / Roger O'Toole -- Individualism, the validation of faith, and the social nature of religion in modernity / Danièle Hervieu-L\u02B9eger -- The origins of religion / Richard K. Fenn -- Secularization extended: from religious "myth" to cultural commonplace / Nicholas J. Demerath III -- Social movements as free-floating religious phenomena / James A. Beckford -- The social process of secularization / Steve Bruce -- Patterns of religion in Western Europe: an exceptional case / Grace Davie -- The future of religious participation and belief in Britain and beyond / Robin Gill -- Religion as diffusion of values. "Diffused Religion" in the context of a dominant religious institution: the Italian case / Roberto Cipriani -- Spirituality and spiritual practice / Robert Wuthnow -- The Renaissance of community economic development among African-American churches in the 1990s / Katherine Day -- Hell as a residual category: possibilities excluded from the social system / Richard K. Fenn and Marianne Delaporte. Contents: Acting ritually: evidence from the social life of Chinese rites / Catherine Bell -- Moralizing sermons, then and now / Thomas Luckmann -- Health, morality and sacrifice: the sociology of disasters / Douglas J. Davies -- Contemporary social theory as it applies to the understanding of religion in cross-cultural perspective / Peter Beyer -- The return of theology: sociology's distant relative / Kieran Flanagan -- Epilogue: toward a secular view of the individual / Richard K. Fenn.

306.7098 F877g 2007
AUT French, William E. ; Bliss, Katherine Elaine.
TIT Gender, sexuality, and power in Latin America since independence.
PUB Lanham Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
SER Jaguar books on Latin America series.
CON Contents: Vicenta Ochoa, dead many times: gender, politics, and a death sentence in early republican Caracas, Venezuela / Arlene J. Díaz -- Madame Durocher's performance: cross-dressing, midwifery, and authority in nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Erica M. Windler -- Mismeasured women: gender and social science on the eve of female suffrage in Cuba / Alejandra Bronfman -- "Such a strong need": sexuality and violence in Belem prison / Pablo Piccato -- "Gentlemanly responsibility" and "insults of woman": dueling and the unwritten rules of public life in Uruguay, 1860-1920 / David S. Parker -- Work, sex, and power in a central American export economy at the turn of the twentieth century / Lara E. Putnam -- Dangerous driving: adolescence, sex, and the gendered experience of public space in early-twentieth-century Mexico City / Katherine Elaine Bliss, Ann S. Blum -- Doctoring the national body: gender, race, eugenics, and the "invert" in urban Brazil, ca. 1920-1945 / James N. Green -- Masculinity, primitivism, and power: gaucho, tango, and the shaping of Argentine national identity / Eduardo P. Archetti -- Gender, sexuality, and revolution: making histories and cultural politics in Nicaragua, 1979-2001 / Cymene Howe -- Gendering the space of death: memory, democratization, and the domestic / Lessie Jo Frazier.

306.85094 M934f 2007
AUT Mouton, Michelle.
TIT From nurturing the nation to purifying the Volk : Weimar and Nazi family policy, 1918-1945.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SER Publications of the German Historical Institute.
CON Contents: Marriage policy in turmoil: stabilizing society, re-ordering gender roles, and guaranteeing the future -- Divorce: balancing individual freedom and the 'public good' -- From Mother's Day to forced sterilization motherhood as antidote to national health -- Alleviating the burdens of motherhood -- Morality versus mortality: negotiating policy toward single mothers and illegitimate children -- Forming families beyond blood ties: foster care and adoption.

307.7 R588f 2007
AUT Ripa, Yannick.
TIT Les femmes en France : de 1880 à nos jours.
PUB Paris : Chêne, c2007.

320.092 T164L 2007
AUT Tanguay, Daniel.
TIT Leo Strauss : an intellectual biography. - 1st English ed.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Translator's note -- Introduction -- Zionism, orthodoxy, and Spinoza's critique of religion -- Prophet and philosopher -- The theologico-political problem in relation to ancient and modern natural right -- The conflict between Jerusalem and Athens -- Conclusion.

320.512 D655r 2007
AUT Doherty, Brian.
TIT Radicals for capitalism : a freewheeling history of the modern American libertarian movement.
PUB New York : PublicAffairs, c2007.
CON Contents: Patriots, unterrified Jeffersonians, and superfluous men -- Austrian roadblocks on the road to serfdom -- The three furies of libertarianism -- Fighting for the freedom philosophy -- Objectivism, anarcho-capitalism, and the effects of psychedelics on faith and freedom -- The Goldwater movement, the objectivist crackup, and the hippies of the right -- Libertarian Zionism, the Koch Bubble, and America's third largest political party -- A mainstreamed radicalism -- The twilight of the libertarian gods.

320.52 D923f 2007
AUT Dunn, Charles W.
TIT The future of conservatism : conflict and consensus in the post-Reagan era. - 1st ed.
PUB Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2007.
SER Religion and contemporary culture series.
CON Contents: Introduction. Conservatism on center stage / Charles W. Dunn -- 1. The uneasy future of American conservatism / George H. Nash -- 2. Four heads and one heart : the modern conservative movement / James W. Ceaser -- 3. The irony of conservative success / George W. Carey -- 4. A plea for constitutional conservatism / Harvey C. Mansfield -- 5. The electoral future of conservatism / Michael Barone -- 6. Conservatism, democracy, and foreign policy / Daniel J. Mahoney -- 7. Add, don't subtract : how Christian conservatives should engage American culture / Marvin Olasky -- 8. From Reagan democrats to social conservatives : hard choices facing the pro-family cause / Allan C. Carlson -- 9. Stuck-with-virtue conservatism / Peter Augustine Lawler -- Epilogue. The enduring Reagan / William Kristol.

320.54 S524g 2003
AUT Shabazz, Ilyasah ; McLarin, Kim.
TIT Growing up X. - 1st trade pbk. ed.
PUB New York : One World/Ballantine Books, 2003.
CON Contents: Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- Prologue: Aftermath -- Alone -- Lessons -- Camp Betsey Cox -- Mommy's home -- Played -- Hustle queen -- Roots -- Boys -- College -- Daddy's home -- Growing up X -- Recovery -- Reunited.

322.4 S921a 2007
AUT Strolovitch, Dara Z.
TIT Affirmative advocacy : race, class, and gender in interest group politics.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Closer to a pluralist heaven? -- Intersectionality and representation -- Trickle-down representation? -- Tyranny of the minority? institutional targets and advocacy strategies -- Coalition and collaboration among advocacy organizations -- Conclusion : affirmative advocacy -- Appendix A. Study design : methodology and data collection -- Appendix B. Survey script -- Appendix C. Interview protocol.

324.256 T158h 2007
AUT Tamimi, Azzam.
TIT Hamas : a history from within.
PUB Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2007.

324.62 P356d 2008
AUT Peacock, Anthony A.
TIT Deconstructing the republic : voting rights, the Supreme Court, and the founders' republicanism reconsidered.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2008.

325.44 L675b 2007
AUT Lewis, Mary Dewhurst.
TIT The boundaries of the republic : migrant rights and the limits of universalism in France, 1918-1940.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Workers of the World Claim Rights: The Origins and Limitations of France's Guest-Worker Regime -- From Labor Contract to Social Contract: The Impact of the Depression on Migrant Rights in Lyon -- Working the "Marseille System": The Politics of Survival in the Port City -- Privilege and Prejudice: The Invention of a New Immigration Regime in the Mid-1930s -- Refuge or Refusal? The Vicissitudes of Refugee Rights between the Wars -- Subjects, Not Citizens: North African Migrants and the Paradoxes of Republican Imperialism -- The Insecurity State: Migrant Rights and the Threat of War -- Conclusion: Republican France, One and Divisible?.

325.73 L549g 2006
AUT LeMay, Michael C.
TIT Guarding the gates : immigration and national security.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.

327.172 C938L 2007
AUT Crocker, Chester A ; Hampson, Fen Osler ; Aall, Pamela R.
TIT Leashing the dogs of war : conflict management in a divided world.
PUB Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Leashing the dogs of war / Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall -- Sources of conflict and challenges to global security -- International sources of interstate and intrastate war / Jack S. Levy -- New global dangers / Michael E. Brown -- Arms acquisition and violence : are weapons or people the cause of conflict? / Geoffrey Kemp -- Terrorism and global security / Martha Crenshaw -- The challenge of weak, failing and collapsed states / Robert I. Rotberg -- State making, state breaking, and state failure / Mohammed Ayoob -- Power, social violence, and civil wars / Charles King -- Minorities, nationalists, and islamists : managing communal conflict in the twenty-first century / Ted Robert Gurr -- Turbulent transitions : why emerging democracies go to war / Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder -- Environmental change, security, and conflict / Nils Petter Gleditsch -- Economic causes of civil conflict and their implications for policy / Paul Collier -- Economic causes of conflict : an overview and some policy implications / Frances Stewart and Graham Brown -- Uses and limits of force in conflict management -- Using force for peace in the age of terror / Lawrence Freedman -- Limits on the use of force / Brian Urquhart -- Yet again : humanitarian intervention and the challenges of "never again" / Bruce W. Jentleson -- Coercive diplomacy, Robert J. Art and Patrick M. Cronin -- Expanding global military capacity to save lives with force / Michael O'Hanlon -- Economic sanctions international peace and security / Chantal de Jonge Oudraat -- Uses and limits of statecraft, diplomacy and soft power in conflict management -- The place of grand strategy, statecraft and power in conflict management / Chester A. Crocker -- Usip framework for success in international intervention / Daniel Serwer and Patricia Thomson -- The place of soft power in state-based conflict management / Joseph S. Nye, jr -- Rule of law in conflict management / Neil Kritz -- Rethinking the "war on terror" : new approaches to conflict prevention and management in the post-9/11 world / Paul B. Stares and Mona Yocoubian -- International mediation / I. William Zartman and Saadia Touval -- Contemporary conflict resolution applications / Louis Kriesberg -- The power of non-official actors in conflict management / Pamela Aall -- Uses and limits of institutions in conflict management -- An institutional architecture for peace / Brian Job -- The United Nations and conflict management : relevant or irrelevant? / Karen A. Mingst and Margaret P. Karns -- Successes and challenges in conflict management / Andrew Mack -- New roles for regional organizations / Paul F. Diehl -- Capacity and limits of NGOs as conflict managers / Diana Chigas -- The role of norms, standards, and regimes / Ruth Wedgwood -- The uses and limits of governance in conflict management -- The challenges of imposed democracy / Marina Ottaway -- Peace enforcement or liberal imperialism? / Kimberly Marten -- Economic...

327.58 R936c 2007
AUT Rumer, Eugene B. ; Trenin, Dmitri ; Zhao, Huasheng.
TIT Central Asia : views from Washington, Moscow, and Beijing.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: Central Asia in the twenty-first century / Rajan Menon -- The United States and Central Asia : in search of a strategy / Eugene Rumer -- Russia and Central Asia : interests, policies, and prospects / Dmitri Trenin -- Central Asia in China's diplomacy / Huasheng Zhao.

327.73 M678f 2007
AUT Miscamble, Wilson D.
TIT From Roosevelt to Truman : Potsdam, Hiroshima, and the Cold War.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Preparation : the making of an (American) internationalist -- Inheritance : Franklin Roosevelt's uncertain legacy -- Initiation : tactical reversal, strategic continuity -- Instruction : Truman's advisers and their conflicting advice -- Negotiation : Truman and Byrnes at Potsdam -- Intimidation : Hiroshima, the Japanese and the Soviets -- Indecision : floundering between collaboration and confrontation -- Transformation : Truman's foreign policy.

327.73 R823s 2007
AUT Ross, Dennis.
TIT Statecraft : and how to restore America's standing in the world. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.

327.73009 K21i 2007
AUT Kaufman, Robert Gordon.
TIT In defense of the Bush doctrine.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
CON Contents: The imprudence of isolationism -- The perils of neorealism -- The unrealistic realism of classical realists -- The perils of liberal multilateralism -- Moral democratic realism -- Moral democratic realism and the endgame of the Cold War -- The Bush doctrine and Iraq : a sound application of a sound doctrine -- Conclusion : beyond the War on Terror.

330.9 W927Ur 2007
TIT World economic and social survey 2007.
PUB New York : United Nations, 2007.
SER World economic and social survey. ; 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- An ageing world population -- Older persons in a changing society -- Economic consequences of population ageing -- Old-age income security -- Health and long-term care systems for ageing societies -- Statistical annex.

330.9174 N789a 2007
AUT Noland, Marcus ; Pack, Howard.
TIT The Arab economies in a changing world.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2007.
CON Contents: Dimensions of the challenge. Addressing the challenge -- Growth, productivity, and welfare. Identifying the comparators. Natural resources and physical capital. Human capital. Relative international performance. Domestic growth over time. Investment and growth. Sources of differences in growth rates -- Welfare, happiness, and discontent. Social indicators. Happiness. Discontent -- Dimensions of the challenge. What are the perceived problems? Demographic changes. Employment generation and productivity growth. International trade performance. Dimensions of the problem. Foreign direct investment and financial inflows. Oil rents, aid, and remittances. Financial market development. Explanations of limited globalization. Some effects of lack of globalization -- Obstacles to, and enablers of, development. Institutions and the influence of Islam. Religious affiliation and growth across countries. Religion and institutions. legal systems and growth. Corruption and growth. Evolving understanding of development policy. Policies and their effects. An alternate view of the determinants of productivity growth -- Policy levers and constraints. Internal constraints to reform. The external policy dimension. The role of preferential agreements. Intra-Arab agreements. Club Med. Preferential agreements with the US -- Risk, credibility, and supply response. Domestic entrepreneurship. Reversing the brain drain. Arabs in North America. Arabs in Europe. The role of foreign investment. Asian experiences with diaspora and foreign entrepreneurs. Affinity, democracy, and risk -- Authoritarianism, uncertainty, and prospects for change. The political economy of reform. Implications for international exchange. Prospects for change -- Conclusions -- Defining the problem. Designing solutions. The political economy of reform.

330.952 B942e 2007
AUT Bunker, Stephen G. ; Ciccantell, Paul S.
TIT East Asia and the global economy : Japan's ascent, with implications for China's future.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
SER Johns Hopkins studies in globalization.
CON Contents: Growth and crisis in the Japanese economy -- Economic ascent and hegemony in the capitalist world-economy -- The MIDAs-steel-ships nexus -- Creating Japan's coal-exporting peripheries -- Replicating Japan's new model in iron ore -- Transporting coal and iron ore -- The restructuring of global markets and the future of the capitalist world-economy.

331.892 H772g 2007
AUT Honey, Michael K.
TIT Going down Jericho Road : the Memphis strike, Martin Luther King's last campaign. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
CON Contents: Labor and civil rights -- A plantation in the city -- Dr. King, labor, and the civil rights movement -- Struggles of the working poor -- Standing at the crossroads -- On strike for respect -- Hambone's meditations : the failure of community -- Testing the social gospel -- Fighting for the working poor -- Minister to the valley : the poor people's campaign -- Baptism by fire -- Ministers and manhood -- Convergence -- Escalation : the youth movement -- "All labor has dignity" -- "Something dreadful" -- Jericho Road is a dangerous road -- Chaos in the bluff city -- "The movement lives or dies in Memphis" -- State of siege -- Shattered dreams and promised lands -- "A crucifixion event" -- Reckonings -- "We have got the victory" -- Epilogue : how we remember King.

332.72 G745s 2007
AUT Gramlich, Edward M.
TIT Subprime mortgages : America's latest boom and bust.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The new mortgage market -- The evolution of this market -- Rental housing -- Benefits, costs, and risks for the new homeowners -- Policy changes.

333.7 F453e4 2006
AUT Field, Barry C ; Field, Martha K.
TIT Environmental economics : an introduction. - 4th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill Irwin, c2006.

333.7 M158a 2008
AUT McKibben, Bill ; Gore, Albert.
TIT American Earth : environmental writing since Thoreau.
PUB New York : Literary Classics of the United States, c2008.
SER Library of America.

335.4 S491c 2007
AUT Service, Robert.
TIT Comrades! : a history of world communism.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Pt. 1 Origins to 1917. Communism before Marxism ; Marx and Engels ; Communism in Europe ; Russian Variations ; The October Revolution ; The first Communist state -- Pt 2. Experiment: 1917-1929. European revolutions ; Communism and its discontents ; The Communist International ; Probing America ; Making sense of Communism ; The USSR in torment ; The Soviet model -- Pt. 3. Development: 1929-1947. World strategy ; Stalinist ideology ; Inside the parties ; Friends and foes ; Communism in the World War ; Forcing the peace -- Pt. 4. Reproduction: 1947-1957. The Cold War and the Soviet Bloc ; The Yugoslav road ; Western Europe ; Warring propaganda ; The Chinese Revolution ; Organising Communism ; Against and for reform -- Pt. 5. Mutation: 1957-1979. Détente and expansion ; China convulsed ; Revolutionary Cuba ; Communist order ; Rethinking Communism ; Europe East and West ; Reduced expectations ; Last of the Communist Revolutions -- Pt. 6. Endings: From 1980. Roads from Communism ; Anti-Communism in Eastern Europe ; China's capitalist Communism ; Perestroika ; The comrades depart ; Accounting for Communism.

338.4778 B531g 2007
AUT Bernstein, Arthur ; Sekine, Naoki ; Weissman, Dick.
TIT The global music industry : three perspectives.
PUB New York : Routledge, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The music business in the United States -- The music business in Canada -- The music business in Latin America and the Caribbean -- The music business in Africa -- The music business in Europe -- The music business in Asia -- Conclusion : loose ends, final thoughts, and the future.

338.6041 L234f 2007
AUT Lamoreaux, Naomi R ; Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee.
TIT Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : the organization and finance of innovation in American history / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Financing invention during the Second Industrial Revolution : Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920 / Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- The organizing and financing of innovative companies in the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry / Steven Klepper -- Why did finance capitalism and the Second Industrial Revolution arise in the 1890s? / Larry Neal, Lance E. Davis -- Funding new industries : a historical perspective on the financing role of the U.S. stock market in the twentieth century / Mary A. O'Sullivan -- Stock market swings and the value of innovation, 1908-1929 / Tom Nicholas -- Financing fiber : Corning's invasion of the telecommunications market / Margaret B. W. Graham -- The federal role in financing major innovations : information technology during the postwar period / Kira R. Fabrizio, David C. Mowery -- Learning the hard way : IBM and the sources of innovation in early computing / Steven W. Usselman -- Trading knowledge : an exploration of patent protection and other determinants of market transactions in technology and R&D / Ashish Arora, Marco Ceccagnoli, Wesley M. Cohen -- The governance of new firms : a functional perspective / Josh Lerner -- Real effects of knowledge capital on going public and market valuation / Michael R. Darby, Lynne G. Zucker.

339 M913c 2007
AUT Moss, David A.
TIT A concise guide to macroeconomics : what managers, executives, and students need to know.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.

339.46 K18p 2007
AUT Karelis, Charles.
TIT The persistence of poverty : why the economics of the well-off can't help the poor.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: What poverty is -- Behavioral factors in poverty -- Some theories -- A closer look at the inefficiency argument -- Appendix. Using indifference curves to identify utility-maximizing allocations -- A new way to rationalize the conduct that prolongs and worsens poverty -- Appendix. Further exploration through graphical analysis -- Responses to challenges and questions -- Appendix. The case of Alfred Marshall -- Policy: what should we do differently if we believe that marginal utility is increasing amid scarcity? -- Economic justice reconsidered.

341.48 P887c 2008
AUT Power, Samantha.
TIT Chasing the flame : Sergio Vieira de Mello and the fight to save the world.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2008.

342.73 W584h 2007
AUT White, G. Edward.
TIT History and the constitution : collected essays.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The historical turn in American constitutional jurisprudence -- The arrival of history in constitutional scholarship -- The constitutional journey of Marbury v. Madison -- Historicizing judicial scrutiny -- History and the reception of international law in America -- The transformation of the constitutional regime of foreign relations : the old regime under stress -- The triumph of executive discretion in the constitutional regime of foreign relations -- A customary international law of torts -- History and the Rehnquist court -- Unpacking the judicial center -- The internal powers of the chief justice : the nineteenth century legacy -- The jurisprudence of the Rehnquist court.

342.7308 B883r 2007
AUT Browne-Marshall, Gloria J.
TIT Race, law, and American society : 1607 to present.
PUB New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, c2007.
SER Criminology and justice studies.
CON Contents: Overview of race and the law in America -- Race and the struggle for education in American schools -- Property rights and ownership -- Civil liberties and racial justice -- Voting rights and restrictions -- Race and the military -- Race, crime, and injustice -- Race and Internationalism.

344.73 T462g 2007
AUT Thomas, R. Murray.
TIT God in the classroom : religion and America's public schools.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2007.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction : as seen from here -- Illustrative conflicts over religion in schools -- State, religion, secular public, and schools -- Belief constituencies -- Traditions and critical events -- Conclusion -- 2. From then to now -- A background sketch -- Trends of the times, 1600-2007 -- Summary -- 3. God and Darwin -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 4. Curricula and text materials -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 5. Prayer and scripture reading -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 6. Holidays and celebrations -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 7. Financial support -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 8. The pledge of allegiance -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 9. Released time and clubs -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 10. Symbols and maxims -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 11. Sexual matters -- How the controversy developed -- Guidelines for educators -- 12. State/church/secularists/schools -- The state -- The church -- The concerned secular public -- The public schools -- Conclusion.

345.73 F353t 2007
AUT Ferguson, Robert A.
TIT The trial in American life.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

345.73 P133m 2007
AUT Page, William H. ; Lopatka, John E.
TIT The Microsoft case : antitrust, high technology, and consumer welfare.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Origins -- Ideological sources of antimonopolization law -- Microsoft's predecessors : the public monopolization case -- Microsoft's beginnings : a post-Chicago convergence -- Decisions -- Chronology -- The liability decisions -- The remedial decisions -- The follow-on private litigation -- The European Commission decision -- Markets -- Two systems of belief about operating systems and middleware -- Network effects and related economic concepts -- Defining software markets -- Practices I : integration -- A preliminary skirmish -- Integration on trial -- Rethinking and redefining integration under Sherman Act standards -- Practices II : the market division proposal, exclusive contracts, and Java -- The market division proposal -- The exclusive contracts -- Java -- Remedies -- The goals of antitrust remedies -- Structural remedies -- Conduct remedies -- Damage remedies.

347.732 G214n 2007
AUT Garbus, Martin.
TIT The next 25 years : the new Supreme Court and what it means for Americans.
PUB New York : Seven Stories Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The President against the people -- The states against the federal government -- The federal government against the people -- State religion against the people.

361.32 C777c3 2008
AUT Cooper, Marlene G. ; Lesser, Joan Granucci.
TIT Clinical social work practice : an integrated approach. - 3rd ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : A&B/Pearson, c2008.

362.1 S253m 2006
AUT Satcher, David ; Pamies, Rubens J ; Woelfl, Nancy N.
TIT Multicultural medicine and health disparities.
PUB New York : McGraw-Hill, c2006.
CON Contents: Sect. I. Health-care disparities across the life span. Health disparities in the United States: a continuing challenge / Hani K. Atrash, Melissa D. Hunter -- Geographic studies of black-white mortality / Robert S. Levine ... [et al.] -- Pregnancy and women's health / Kimberly D. Gregory, Magda G. Peck, Ezra C. Davidson, Jr. -- Health disparities in children / Frances J. Dunston -- Health-care access for children of immigrants / Nicole Prudent ... [et al.] -- Geriatrics and end-of-life care / Jamehl L. Demons, Ramon Velez -- Sect. II. The disparate burden of disease. Cardiovascular disease and hypertension / Charlotte Jones-Burton, Elijah Saunders -- Diabetes / Samuel Dagogo-Jack, James R. Gavin III -- Oncology / Otis W. Brawley, Susan G. Moore -- Transplantation and organ donation / Clive O. Callender, Gwendolyn D. Maddox, Patrice Miles. Contents: Immunization and preentive care / Walter W. Williams ... [et al.] -- Obesity and nutrition / David Satcher, Kathi A. Earles -- HIV infection and AIDS / Eric P. Goosby -- Sickle cell disease and hemoglobinopathies / Kristy F. Woods, Samir K. Ballas -- Mental health / Henry W. Dove, Tanya R. Anderson, Carl C. Bell -- Dentistry and oral health / Jeanne Craig Sinkford, John W. Reinhardt -- Tobacco, Alcohol, and drugs / Beny J. Primm ... [et al.] -- Injury and violence prevention / Christine M. Branche, Alex E. Crosby -- Assessing and managing pain / Carmen Renee' Green -- Case studies in multicultural medicine and health disparities / Wally R. Smith ... [et al.] -- Sect. III. Issues in health-care policy and delivery. Cultural competency / Ana Núñez, Candace Robertson. Contents: Case studies in cultural competency / Oladipo Kukoyi ... [et al.] -- Diversity and the health-care workforce / Rubens J. Pamies ... [et al.] -- Diversity management in nursing / Colleen Conway-Welch ... [et al.] -- Trust, medical care, and racial and ethnic minorities / Vanessa Northington Gamble -- Participation of minorities in research and clinical trials / David Grandison -- Disparities in patient safety / Harvey J. Murff, Daniel J. France, Robert S. Dittus -- Health-care disparities in medical genetics / G. Bradley Schaefer, Georgia M. Dunston -- Community health centers / Margaret K. Hargreaves, Carolyn W. Arnold, William J. Blot -- Faith-based initiatives / Gregory Strayhorn -- Complementary and alternative medicine / Michael D. Floyd -- Bioterrorism preparedness: the challenge of disparate populations / Adam M. Kingston, Marsha Morien, Steven H. Hinrichs -- The benefits of affirmative action in higher education / Jordan J. Cohen -- the role of government in minority health: a surgeon general's perspective / David Satcher.

362.104 C775r 2005
AUT Coombs, Jan.
TIT The rise and fall of HMOs : an American health care revolution.
PUB Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.
CON Contents: American health care insurance prior to 1970 -- Dreams of a medical utopia -- The HMO Act and its aftermath -- Health care in rural America -- Affiliated providers and necessary compromises -- Emerging problems with Medicare and Medicaid -- Entering a management revolution -- Assessing HMO quality and consumer satisfaction in the 1980s -- Idealism confronts realities -- Competing values doom a partnership -- The perils of antitrust in the health care marketplace -- HMOs and public programs in the 1990s -- Private sector HMO enrollment growth in the 1990s -- Demands for accountability -- Critics and would-be reformers -- Conclusion: lessons from Marshfield.

362.1068 P847m 2007
AUT Porter-O'Grady, Timothy ; Malloch, Kathy.
TIT Managing for success in health care.
PUB St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby, c2007.
CON Contents: UNIT 1: TEAM DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP: Effective teams -- Conflict management -- Team performance: evaluating results -- Transformation and transitions -- Transforming teams for decisions -- UNIT 2: BUILDING DECISION-MAKING SKILLS: Making effective decisions -- Leading the adult-to-adult workplace: who am I leading? -- Creating a context for empowerment: structuring for shared decision making -- Engaging decision makers: empowering others to lead -- The person of the leader: how do I lead? -- UNIT 3: ACCOUNTABILITY: Performance accountability: competence for the work -- Role accountability: the ownership of work -- Accountability and excellence -- Accountability and evidence -- UNIT 4: STRUCTURING FOR EXCELLENCE: BUILDING A CONTEXT FOR RETENTION: Structuring for excellence: what is structure? -- Supporting the structure --Staff leadership -- Advancing the practice of nursing -- Sustaining excellence -- UNIT 5: SEARCHING FOR EXCELLENCE: RECRUITING THE BEST: Assessing the workplace -- Market realities of recruiting -- Selling your organization -- Interviewing for excellence -- Socializing new employees -- UNIT 6: BUILDING THE FUTURE OF EXCELLENCE: MENTORING, LEARNING, AND LIVING LEADERSHIP: Synthesis: the new role of the leader -- Modeling and mentoring leadership -- Managing risk and vulnerability -- Practice in a world of uncertain expectations -- Building relationships in the new age of work.

362.10972 H669h 2007
AUT Hirschfeld, Katherine.
TIT Health, politics, and revolution in Cuba since 1898.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2007.
CON Contents: The ethnographic encounter -- Fieldwork -- Doing research, not doing research -- Dengue fever: an abrupt change of perspective -- Fearful interlude -- History revisited -- Reframing history -- Imperialism and health in the Spanish-Cuban-American War, 1897-1902 -- Caudillismo, imperialism and health, 1902-1909 -- Caudillismo, instability and health trends in the Platt Era, 1909-1933 -- Health and disease in the gangster state, 1934-1959 -- Revolutionaries in power 1959-- .

362.16 E92c3 2005
AUT Evashwick, Connie.
TIT The continuum of long-term care. - 3rd ed.
PUB New York : Thomson/Delmar Learning, c2005.
SER Delmar series in health services administration.
CON Contents: Definition of the continuum of care / Connie J. Evashwick -- Clients of the continuum / Laurence G. Branch, Connie J. Evashwick, and Jung Kwak -- Informal caregiving / Linda S. Noelker and Carol J. Whitlatch -- Hospitals / Deborah L. Paone and Deborah M. Mullen -- Nursing homes / Edward J.J. Olson -- Home health / Susan L. Hughes and Megan Renehan -- Hospice / Stephen R. Connor and Galen Miller -- Adult day services / Nancy J. Cox -- Housing / Jon Pynoos and Christy M. Nishita -- Wellness / Marcia Ory, Amber Schickedanz, and Roberta M. Suber -- Organization and management / Thomas G. Rundall and Connie J. Evashwick -- Case management / Monika White -- Integrated information systems / Lisa R. Shugarman and Rick Zawadski. Contents: Financing / William E. Aronson -- Public policy / Richard H. Fortinsky -- Ethical considerations / Leslie A. Curry and Terrie Wetle -- Disability / Kathleen Tschantz Unroe and Ann Scheck McAlearney -- The aging network / Alek A. Sripipatana -- HIV/AIDS / Marie Denis ... [et al.] -- Mental heath and mental retardation services / Ruth b. Pickard and James H. Swan -- The Department of Veterans Affairs / Mark R. Levinstein -- Rehabilitation / Debra J. Sheets and Louis Rubino -- Services for children with special health care needs / Janice E. Frates and Judith Connell.

362.29 E42i 2007
AUT Eliason, Michele J.
TIT Improving substance abuse treatment : an introduction to the evidence-based practice movement.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage, c2007.
SER Sage sourcebooks for the human services series.
CON Contents: Introduction -- What are evidence-based practices? -- Determining what is evidence-based -- Adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices -- Evaluation of evidence-based practices -- A research primer : overview, hypotheses, and variables -- Research methods -- Data analysis and interpretation -- Qualitative research, dissemination, and funding -- Conclusions and future directions.

362.29 L799i 2004
AUT Lobo, Ingrid A.
TIT Inhalants.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: An overview: what are inhalants? -- History of inhalant use -- Properties of inhalants -- How do inhalants act? -- Abuse of inhalants -- Consequences of inhalant abuse -- Trends and use of inhalants -- Treatment and prevention.

362.29 O48d 2004
AUT Olive, M. Foster.
TIT Designer drugs.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: Designer drugs and the brain -- Methamphetamine -- Ecstasy -- GHB -- Rohypnol -- Ketamine.

362.29 S234b 2005
AUT Santella, Thomas M.
TIT Body enhancement products.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2005.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: The history of body enhancement products -- Enhancement drug classes -- Building muscle mass and strength -- Increasing oxygen -- Stimulants, relaxants, weight control, and pain -- Nutritional supplements -- Drug testing -- Teenage trends and attitudes -- Enhancement, ethics, and the law.

362.292 S462c 1985
AUT Seixas, Judith S ; Youcha, Geraldine.
TIT Children of alcoholism : a survivor's manual.
PUB New York : Quill, 2002, c1985.
CON Contents: Living in chaos -- The terrible family secret -- Fantasyland : surving in the family -- Merry Christmas and other disasters -- Hangovers from childhood -- Who are you now? -- You and your drinking -- Marriage and closeness : for better or for worse -- You and your children -- You and your parents now -- Climbing out of the trap -- How did it happen? -- Coping and changing -- Getting help.

362.293 B981m 2006
AUT Busse, Gregory D ; Triggle, D. J.
TIT Morphine.
PUB New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: The history of opium and morphine -- The movement of morphine through the body -- Morphine's effect on the nervous system -- Morphine and pain -- Alternatives to morphine in managing pain -- Morphine addiction and dependence -- Heroin abuse -- Treatment of opiate addiction and dependence -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Further reading.

362.58 A581p 2006
AUT Angel, Ronald ; Lein, Laura ; Henrici, Jane.
TIT Poor families in America's health care crisis.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. The unrealized hope of welfare reform : implications for health care -- 2. The health care welfare state in America -- 3. The tattered health care safety net for poor Americans -- 4. State differences in health care policies and coverage -- 5. Work and health insurance : a tenuous tie for the working poor -- 6. Confronting the system : minority group identity and powerlessness -- 7. The nonexistent safety net for parents -- 8. Health care for all Americans.

362.88 K28d 2004
AUT Kehner, George B.
TIT Date rape drugs.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: Use and abuse of drugs -- Introduction -- Rohyponl -- Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) -- Ketamine -- Legal considerations associated with abuse of date rape drugs -- References -- Bibliography -- Further reading -- Index.

363.32 C842t 2007
AUT Costigan, Sean S ; Gold, David.
TIT Terrornomics.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2007.
CON Contents: The evolution of terrorist financing since 9/11 : how the new generation of jihadists fund themselves / Loretta Napoleoni -- Funding evil : how terrorism is financed and the nexus of terrorist and criminal organizations / Rachel Ehrenfeld -- Substantiating the nexus between diaspora groups and the financing of terrorism / Michel Hess -- An analysis of the role of Iranian diaspora in the financial support system of the Mujahedin-e Khalq / Mark Edmond Clark -- Arms and terrorism : tracing the links / William D. Hartung, Frida Berrigan -- The United states, small arms, and terrorism / Rachel Stohl -- Terrorists and the Internet : crashing or cashing in? / Sean S. Costigan -- Preventing terrorist best practices from going mass market : a case study of suicide attacks "crossing the chasm" / Rockford Weitz, Stacy Reiter Neal -- Free trade and terrorism / Katherine Barbieri, Swapna Pathak -- Institutionalized responses to 9/11 / Rico Carisch -- Using sanctions to fight terrorism / Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Thomas Moll -- The brittle superpower / Steven E. Flynn .

364.132 S645c 2007
AUT Smith, Daniel Jordan.
TIT A culture of corruption : everyday deception and popular discontent in Nigeria.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: "Urgent business relationship" : Nigerian e-mail scams -- From favoritism to 419 : corruption in everyday life -- Development scams : donors, dollars, and NGO entrepreneurs -- "Fair play even among robbers" : democracy, politics, and corruption -- Rumors, riots, and diabolical rituals -- "They became the criminals they were supposed to fight" : crime, corruption, and vigilante justice -- Anticorruption aspirations : Biafrans and born-again Christians.

364.152 M632r 2004
AUT Miethe, Terance D ; Regoeczi, Wendy C. ; Drass, Kriss A.
TIT Rethinking homicide : exploring the structure and process underlying deadly situations.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
SER Cambridge studies in criminology.
CON Contents: Introduction: studying homicide situations -- Theoretical development -- Data and methodology for studying homicide situations -- The empirical distribution of homicide -- Instrumental and expressive motives in homicide situations -- Gender differences in the structure of homicide situations -- Change and stability in the structure of youth homicide -- Racial differences in homicide situations -- Victim/offender relationships -- Conclusions and implications.

368.42 G653L 2004
AUT Goodman, John C ; Musgrave, Gerald L ; Herrick, Devon M.
TIT Lives at risk : single-payer national health insurance around the world.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2004.
CON Contents: Rights -- Equality -- Needs -- Outcomes -- Technology -- Quality -- Costs -- Efficiency -- Unnecessary care -- Administrative costs -- Priorities -- Prevention -- Managed care -- International competitiveness -- The elderly -- Minorities -- Rural areas -- Prescription drugs -- Public opinion -- Reform -- The politics of medicine -- Is managed competition the answer? -- Designing an ideal health care system -- Designing ideal health insurance.

371.33 W353i 2007
AUT Watts-Taffe, Susan M ; Gwinn, Carolyn B.
TIT Integrating literacy and technology : effective practice for grades K-6.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2007.
SER Tools for teaching literacy.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The learning environment for effective literacy-technology integration -- Learning about effective technology integration : a guide for teachers -- Planning for literacy-technology integration -- Teaching effectively with technology -- Using assessment to inform decision making in the technology-enriched learning environment -- The teacher as change agent in the literacy-technology learning environment -- The impact of technology on our journey as teachers : looking back, looking forward -- A glossary of terms : new words associated with new technologies -- Appendices : tools for thinking about technology integration.

373.11 N761c 2006
AUT Noddings, Nel.
TIT Critical lessons : what our schools should teach. - 1st pbk.ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

378.12 E68t 2006
AUT Erickson, Bette LaSere ; Peters, Calvin B ; Strommer, Diane Weltner, 1935- et al.
TIT Teaching first-year college students. - Rev. and expanded ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2006.
SER Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
CON Contents: First-year students in perspective -- Intellectual development in college -- Learning styles -- Knowing, understanding, thinking, and learning how to learn : the goals of first-year instruction -- Preparing a syllabus and meeting the first class -- Presenting and explaining -- Creating involvement in the classroom -- Encouraging active reading -- Supporting active study practices -- Trying transformed teaching -- Evaluating student learning -- Grading -- Creating inclusion in first-year classroom and curricula -- Teaching large classes -- Sustaining engagement outside class : office hours, advising, and first-year seminars -- Strengthening commitment to first-year instruction.

394.26 E33d 2007
AUT Ehrenreich, Barbara.
TIT Dancing in the streets : a history of collective joy. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Metropolitan Books, 2007.
CON Contents: The Archaic roots of ecstasy -- Civilization and backlash -- Jesus and Dionysus -- From the churches to the streets: the creation of carnival -- Killing carnival: reformation and repression -- A note on puritanism and military re form -- An epidemic of melancholy -- Guns against drums: imperialism encounters ecstasy -- Fascist spectacles -- The rock of rebellion -- Carnivalizing sports -- The possibility of revival.

394.266 B817s 2006
AUT Brandes, Stanley H.
TIT Skulls to the living, bread to the dead : [the day of the dead in Mexico and beyond].
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
CON Contents: The Day of the Dead, problems and paradoxes -- The sweetness of death -- Skulls and skeletons -- Tourism and the state -- The poetics of death -- The Day of the Dead and Halloween -- Teaching the Day of the Dead -- Creativity and community -- Mexican views of death.

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428.4 P935s 2007
AUT Pressley, Michael.
TIT Shaping literacy achievement : research we have, research we need.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2007

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512.32 B572g 2006
AUT Bewersdorff, Jörg.
TIT Galois theory for beginners : a historical perspective.
PUB Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2006.
SER Student mathematical library. 1520-9121 ; v. 35.
CON Contents: Cubic equations -- Casus irreducibilis : The birth of the complex numbers -- Biquadratic equations -- Equations of degree n and their properties -- The search for additional solution formulas -- Equations that can be reduced in degree -- The construction of regular polygons -- The solution of equations of the fifth degree -- The Galois group of an equation -- Algebraic structures and Galois Theory.

515 B821f 2006
AUT Brannan, D. A.
TIT A first course in mathematical analysis.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press : Open University, 2006.
CON Contents: Numbers -- Sequences -- Series -- Continuity -- Limits and continuity -- Differentiation -- Integration -- Power series.

515 S597c 2007
AUT Simmons, George Finlay.
TIT Calculus gems : brief lives and memorable mathematics.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, c2007.

515.352 S977c 2007
AUT Swift, Randall J ; Wirkus, Stephen Allen.
TIT A course in ordinary differential equations.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2007.

523 D553n4 2006
AUT Dickinson, Terence.
TIT NightWatch : a practical guide to viewing the universe. - 4th ed.
PUB Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2006.

523.1 H785d 2006
AUT Hooper, Dan.
TIT Dark cosmos : in search of our universe's missing mass and energy.
PUB New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2006.
CON Contents: Our dark universe -- Dead stars, black holes, planets, and baseballs -- Darkness from the quantum world -- A dark animal in the quantum zoo -- A grand symmetry -- The hunt -- Gravity, strings, and other dimensions of space -- In the beginning -- The weight of emptiness -- An unlikely universe? -- Cosmic offspring -- The skeptics -- Visions of the future.

523.112 K62g 2007
AUT Kitchin, C. R.
TIT Galaxies in turmoil : the active and starburst galaxies and the black holes that drive them.
PUB London : Springer, c2007.

523.12 D257c 2007
AUT Davies, P. C. W.
TIT Cosmic jackpot : why our universe is just right for life.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
CON Contents: The big questions -- The universe explained -- How the universe began -- What the universe is made of and how it all holds together -- The lure of complete unification -- Dark forces of the cosmos -- A universe fit for life -- Does a multiverse solve the Goldilocks enigma? -- Intelligent and not-so-intelligent design -- How come existence? -- Afterword: ultimate explanations.

523.2 C797L 2007
AUT Corfield, R. M.
TIT Lives of the planets : a natural history of the solar system.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2007.

530.092 R878e 2007
AUT Rowe, David E. ; Schulmann, Robert J.
TIT Einstein on politics : his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, Zionism, war, peace, and the bomb.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The first world war and its impact, 1914-1921 -- Science meets politics : the relativity revolution, 1918-1923 -- Anti-semitism and Zionism, 1919-1930 -- Internationalism and European security, 1922-1932 -- Articles of faith, 1930-1933 -- Hitler's Germany and the threat to European Jewry, 1933-1938 -- The fate of the Jews, 1939-1949 -- The Second World War, nuclear weapons, and world peace, 1939-1950 -- Soviet Russia, political economy, and socialism, 1918-1952 -- Political freedom and the threat of nuclear war, 1931-1955.

530.11 F376e 2007
AUT Ferraro, Rafael.
TIT Einstein's space-time : an introduction to special and general relativity.
PUB New York : Springer, 2007.
CON Contents: Space and Time before Einstein -- In search of the Ether -- Space and Time in Special Relativity -- Geometric Structure of Space-Time -- Transformation of the Electromagnetic Field -- Energy and Momentum -- Covariant Formulation -- Inertia and Gravity -- Results and General Relativity -- Appendix.

530.11 M476m 2007
AUT Mazur, Joseph.
TIT The motion paradox : the 2,500-year-old puzzle behind all the mysteries of time and space.
PUB New York : Dutton, c2007.
CON Contents: Part 1: A commotion of absurdities -- Preamble to the Paradoxes of Motion -- Zeno's visit to Athens -- The world through Aristotle's eyes -- Part 2: Zeno survives the Renaissance -- Speed becomes a quantity -- Galileo Galilei, the Father of Modern Science --

Chem 541.37 H198e2 2007
AUT Hamann, Carl H ; Hamnett, A ; Vielstich, Wolf.
TIT Electrochemistry. - 2nd, completely rev. and updated ed.
PUB Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2007.

Chem 541.372 W952i 2007
AUT Wright, Margaret Robson.
TIT An introduction to aqueous electrolyte solutions.
PUB Chichester, England ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2007.
CON Contents: Concepts and ideas : setting the stage -- The concept of chemical equilibrium : an introduction -- Acids and bases : a first approach -- Equilibrium calculations for acids and bases -- Equilibrium calculations for salts and buffers -- Neutralisation and pH titration curves -- Ion pairing, complex formation and solubilities -- Practical applications of thermodynamics for electrolyte solutions -- Electrochemical cells and EMFs -- Concepts and theory of non-ideality -- Conductance : the ideal case -- Theories of conductance : the non-ideal case for symmetrical electrolytes -- Solvation.

530.9 C593f 2007
AUT Clark, Gregory.
TIT A farewell to alms : a brief economic history of the world.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
SER Princeton economic history of the Western world.
CON Contents: Introduction : the sixteen-page economic history of the world -- The logic of the Malthusian economy -- Material living standards -- Fertility -- Life expectancy -- Malthus and Darwin : survival of the richest -- Technological advance -- Institutions and growth -- The emergence of modern man -- Modern growth : the wealth of nations -- The puzzle of the industrial revolution -- The industrial revolution in England -- Why England? Why not China, Japan or India? -- Social consequences -- World growth since 1800 -- The proximate sources of divergence -- Why isn't the whole world developed? -- Conclusion : strange new world.

551.6 A671g 2007
AUT Archer, David.
TIT Global warming : understanding the forecast.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., c2007.
CON Contents: 1. Humankind and climate -- Pt. 1. The greenhouse effect -- 2. Blackbody radiation -- 3. The layer model -- 4. Greenhouse gases -- 5. The temperature structure of the atmosphere -- 6. Heat, winds, and currents -- 7. Feedbacks -- Pt. 2. The carbon cycle -- 8. Carbon on Earth -- 9. Fossil fuels and energy -- 10. The perturbed carbon cycle -- Pt. 3. The forecast -- 11. Is it reliable? -- 12. The forecast -- 13. Decisions, decisions.

551.6 C851h2 2007
AUT Cotton, William R. ; Pielke, Roger A.
TIT Human impacts on weather and climate. - 2nd ed.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The rise and fall of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding. The rise of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding -- The glory years of weather modification -- The fall of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding -- pt. 2. Inadvertent human impacts on regional weather and climate. Anthropogenic emissions of aerosols and gases -- Urban-induced changes in precipitation and weather -- Other land-use/land-cover changes -- pt. 3. Human impacts on global climate. Overview of global climate forcings and feedbacks -- Climatic effects of anthropogenic aerosols -- Nuclear winter -- Global effects of land-use/land-cover change and vegetation dynamics.

572.8 L987o 2007
AUT Lynch, Michael.
TIT The origins of genome architecture.
PUB Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates, c2007.
CON Contents: The origin of eukaryotes -- Genome size and organismal complexity -- The human genome -- Why population size matters -- Three keys to chromosomal integrity -- The nucleotide composition landscape -- Mobile genetic elements -- Genomic expansion by gene duplication -- Genes in pieces -- Transcript production -- Expansion and contraction of organelle genomes -- Sex chromosomes -- Genomfart.

576.8 A648d3 2001
AUT Appleman, Philip.
TIT Darwin : texts commentary. - 3rd ed.
PUB New York : Norton, c2001.
SER A Norton critical edition.

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611.018 G244c3 2007
AUT Gartner, Leslie P. ; Hiatt, James L.
TIT Color textbook of histology. - 3rd ed.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Saunders/Elsevier, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction to histology and basic histological techniques - Cytoplasm -- Nucleus -- Extracellular matrix -- Epithelium and glands -- Connective tissue -- Cartilage and bone -- Muscle -- Nervous tissue -- Blood and hemopoiesis -- Circulatory system -- Lymphoid (immune) system -- Endocrine system -- Integument -- Respiratory system -- Digestive system: oral cavity -- Digestive system: alimentary canal -- Digestive system: glands -- Urinary system -- Female reproductive system -- Male reproductive system -- Special senses.

613 G546h3 2002
AUT Glanz, Karen ; Rimer, Barbara K ; Lewis, Frances Marcus.
TIT Health behavior and health education : theory, research, and practice. - 3rd ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2002.
CON Contents: The scope of health behavior and health education / The Editors -- Theory, research, and practice in health behavior and health education / The Editors -- The health belief model / Nancy K. Janz, Victoria L. Champion, and Victor J. Strecher -- The theory of reasoned action and the theory of planned behavior / Daniel E. Montaño and Danuta Kasprzyk -- The transtheoretical model and stages of change / James O. Prochaska, Colleen A. Redding, and Kerry E. Evers -- The precaution adoption process model / Neil D. Weinstein and Peter M. Sandman -- Perspectives on intrapersonal theories of health behavior / Barbara K. Rimer -- How individuals, environments, and health behavior interact: sccial cognitive theory / Tom Baranowski, Cheryl L. Perry, and Guy S. Parcel -- Social networks and social support / Catherine A. Heaney and Barbara A. Israel -- Stress, coping, and health behavior / Lari Wenzel, Karen Glanz, and Caryn Lerman -- Social influence and interpersonal communication in health behavior / Megan A. Lewis, Brenda M. DeVellis, and Betsy Sleath / Perspectives on models of interpersonal health behavior / Frances Marcus Lewis / Improving health through community organization and community building / Meredith Minkler and Nina B. Wallerstein / Diffusion of innovations / Brian Oldenburg and Guy S. Parcel -- Mobilizing organizations for health ethancement: Theories of. Contents: organizational change / Allan Steckler, Robert M. Goodman, and Michelle Crozier Kegler -- Communication theory and health behavior change: the media studies framework / John R. Finnegan Jr. and K. Viswanath -- Perspectives on group, organization, and community interventions / Karen Glanz -- Using the PRECEDE-PROCEED planning model to apply health behavior theories / Andrea Carlson Gielen and Eileen M. McDonald -- Social marketing / Edward W. Maibach, Michael L. Rothschild, and William D. Novelli -- Ecological models of health behavior / James F. Sallis and Neville Owen -- Applying theory to culturally diverse and unique populations / Ken Resnicow ... [et al.] -- Communication technology and health behavior change / Neville Owen, Michael J. Fotheringham, and Bess H. Marcus -- Evaluation of theory-based interventions: the RE-AIM Model / Russell E. Glasgow -- Perspectives on using theory: past, present, and future / Karen Glanz.

613.41 S662c 2007
AUT Smith, Virginia.
TIT Clean : a history of personal hygiene and purity.
PUB Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Bio-physicality -- The cosmetic toilette -- Greek hygiene -- Roman baths -- Asceticism -- Medieval morals -- Protestant regimens -- Civil cleanliness -- Health crusaders -- The body beautiful.

613.94 Z87b 2006
AUT Zonderman, Jon ; Shader, Laurel.
TIT Birth control pills.
PUB New York : Chelsea House, c2006.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.

Chem 615.19 S589o2 2004
AUT Silverman, Richard B.
TIT The organic chemistry of drug design and drug action. - 2nd ed.
PUB Amsterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Drug discovery, design, and development -- Receptors -- Enzymes -- Enzyme inhibition and inactivation -- DNA-interactive agents -- Drug metabolism -- Prodrugs and drug delivery systems. Dance of the Planets -- Part 3: Zeno in the Sands of Time -- A step back for Time -- Descartes and the Magic of x and y -- The arrow's trajectory -- Falling toward the Enlightenment -- Part 4: A commotion of absurdities, revisited -- The Speed of Light -- The Space-time Revolution -- Oops, things get grainy again -- There's no next, but what's next? -- The one stream.

615.7 I32 1995
AUT Reis, Donald J ; Bousquet, Pascal ; Parini, Angelo.
TIT The imidazoline receptor : pharmacology, functions, ligands, and relevance to biology and medicine.
PUB New York : New York Academy of Sciences, 1995.
SER Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 0077-8923 ; v. 763.
CON Contents: Imidazoline and alpha-2 adrenergic receptors -- Imidazoline receptors, structure, pharmacology, and regulation -- Imidazoline receptor distribution -- Signal transduction -- Endogenous ligands -- Cellular actions, kidney, pancreas, adipocytes, trachea -- Cellular actions, CNS and autonomic nervous system -- Cardiovascular system and hypertension.

615.78 H515b 2007
AUT Henn, Debra ; DeEugenio, Deborah.
TIT Barbiturates.
PUB New York : Chelsea House, 2007.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: Prescription drug abuse and misuse: a global perspective -- Effect of barbiturates on the body -- History of medical uses of barbiturates -- Current medical uses of barbiturates -- Illegal use of barbiturates -- Identification and prevention -- Treatment -- The future -- References -- Bibliography -- Further reading -- Index.

615.78 H515d 2005
AUT Henn, Debra ; DeEugenio, Deborah.
TIT Diet pills.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2005.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: The obesity epidemic -- Causes of obesity -- How diet pills work -- Diet pills: the past -- Diet pills and the fda -- Dietary supplements for weight loss -- Diet pill abuse -- Healthy ways to lose weight and maintain weight loss -- Diet pills: the future.

615.78 K16c 2007
AUT Kane, Brigid M.
TIT Codeine.
PUB New York : Chelsea House, c2007.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: Medicinal and cultural history -- Current medical use -- Medicinal chemistry and pharmacology -- Toxicology -- Psychopharmacology -- Controlled substances -- Complementary and alternative medicine.

615.78 O48p 2005
AUT Olive, M. Foster.
TIT Prescription pain relievers.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, 2005.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: How pain works -- Over-the-counter pain relievers -- Morphine and other opiate pain relievers -- Antidepressants, anticonvulsants, muscle relaxants, and migraine medications -- Local anesthetics and steroids -- Herbal remedies.

615.78 S234o 2007
AUT Santella, Thomas M.
TIT Opium.
PUB New York : Chelsea House, c2007.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: Use and abuse of drugs -- Brief history of opium -- Opium: from poppy plant to heroin -- Economics of opium: trade, consumption, and war -- Chemical and addictive properties of opium -- "Food's own medicine" or drowsy demon? -- Advance of heroin -- Opium comes to America -- Modern opiate-based medicines -- Opium trade today -- Teenage trends and attitudes -- Opium and the law -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Further reading -- Web sites -- About the author.

615.782 O48s 2006
AUT Olive, M. Foster.
TIT Sleep aids.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: What is this thing we call "sleep?" -- Sleep disorders -- Over-the-counter sleep aids -- Melatonin -- Over-the-counter stimulants -- Prescription sleep aids and stimulants -- Other drugs and medications -- Appendix: tips for getting a good night's sleep -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further reading and websites -- Index.

615.788 O48p 2007
AUT Olive, M. Foster.
TIT Peyote and mescaline.
PUB New York : Chelsea House, c2007.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: The use and abuse of drugs / David J. Triggle -- 1. Hallucinogens : an overview -- 2. What are peyote and mescaline? -- 3. History of peyote and mescaline use, ancient and modern -- 4. The chemistry and pharmacology of mescaline -- 5. Psychological effects of peyote and mescaline -- 6. Medicinal uses of peyote -- 7. Problems associated with the use of peyote and mescaline -- Appendix 1. Drug Enforcement Administration classification of controlled substances -- Appendix 2. List of chemicals found in the peyote cactus -- Appendix 3. Native American names for peyote.

615.788 S381e 2004
AUT Schroeder, Brock E ; Triggle, D. J.
TIT Ecstasy.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: The history of ecstasy -- The neurobiology of ecstasy -- Ecstasy's long term effects -- Other serious health effects -- Teenage trends and attitudes -- Legal issues and the fight against MDMA smugglers -- Treatment and prevention.

615.788 T722a 2006
AUT Toufexis, Donna ; Hammack, Sayamwong Emwill ; Triggle, D. J.
TIT Anti-anxiety drugs.
PUB New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Fear and anxiety -- Review of the nervous system -- Animal models of anxiety disorders -- Benzodiazepines -- Antidepressants: MAOIs and tricyclics -- Alternative therapies for anxiety disorders -- Teenagers and anti-anxiety drugs.

615.8 C899t 2003
AUT Crawford, Jacqueline J. ; Pomerinke, Karen A.
TIT Therapy pets : the animal-human healing partnership.
PUB Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003.

616.042 S836d 2007
AUT Stephenson, Frank Harold.
TIT DNA : how the biotech revolution is changing the way we fight disease.
PUB Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c2007.
CON Contents: War! -- DNA -- From DNA to protein -- Recombinant DNA -- Collaboration -- The human genome project -- Tracking down the genome -- Immunity -- Immunity-Recognizing the enemy- Interferon -- Monoclonal antibodies -- Vaccines -- Antibiotics -- Bacteriophage as antibiotics -- Knockouts -- Antisense -- RNA interference -- Gene therapy -- Cloning -- Nuculear transfer and Dolly -- Stem cells -- Aging -- AIDS -- Alzheimer's Disease -- Asthma -- Atherosclerosis -- Bioterrorism -- Cancer -- Cancer prevention and treatment -- Cancer and angiogenesis inhibitors -- Using bacteria and viruses to treat cancer -- Breast cancer -- Cystic fibrosis -- Diabetes -- Erectile dysfunction -- Malaria -- Emerging diseases -- Obesity -- Future battlefields.

616.2 M648b 2007
AUT Mitman, Gregg.
TIT Breathing space : how allergies shape our lives and landscapes.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Hay Fever Holiday -- When Pollen Became Poison -- The Last Resorts -- Choking Cities -- On the Home Front -- An Inhaler in Every Pocket.

616.8 T828a 2006
AUT Borda, Cynthia ; Triggle, D. J.
TIT Alzheimer's disease and memory drugs.
PUB New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: Defining Alzheimer's disease -- An overview of brain function -- Causes of Alzheimer's disease -- Features and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease -- Cholinesterase inhibitors -- Novel therapies -- Adjunctive treatments.

616.852 M681a 2004
AUT Mitchell, E. Siobhan ; Triggle, D. J.
TIT Antidepressants.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: Introduction, history and brain basics -- Older antidepressants: tricyclics and monoamine oxidase inhibitors -- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors -- Second generation antidepressants -- Lithium, a medication for bipolar depression -- Antidepressant alternatives -- Teens and antidepressants: trends and attitudes.

616.864 M498m 2008
AUT Mehling, Randi.
TIT Methamphetamine.
PUB New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c2008.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: The history of methamphetamine -- The hazards of making methamphetamine -- The properties of methamphetamine -- Methemphetamine and the brain's pleasure center -- The long-term health effects of methamphetamine -- Teenage trends and attitudes -- Addiction and recovery -- Methamphetamine and the law.

616.9 E53L 2007
AUT Lashley, Felissa R. ; Durham, Jerry D ; Lashley, Felissa R.
TIT Emerging infectious diseases : trends and issues. - 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2007.

616.951 A659b 2007
AUT Aral, Sevgi O ; Douglas, John M., Jr ; Lipshutz, Judith A.
TIT Behavioral interventions for prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases.
PUB New York ; Springer, c2007.

616.994 M433c 2007
AUT Matray-Devoti, Judith.
TIT Cancer drugs.
PUB New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c2007.
SER Drugs : the straight facts.

617.95 P462s 2007
AUT Perry, Arthur W.
TIT Straight talk about cosmetic surgery.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.
SER Yale University Press health & wellness.
CON Contents: I. Cosmetic surgery -- 1. An overview -- 2. The cosmetic surgery consultation -- 3. The risks -- 4. Computer imaging -- 5. Aging -- II. Facial surgery -- 6. Skin care : the foundation for a healthy appearance -- 7. Growths on the face -- 8. Tackling wrinkles -- 9. Filling wrinkles -- 10. Peeling and lasering wrinkles -- 11. Botox -- 12. Eyelid lifts -- 13. Brow-lifts -- 14. Face-lifts and lifting with stitches -- 15. Fat grafting -- 16. Liposuction of the neck and jowls -- 17. Rhinoplasty : nasal reshaping -- 18. Chin and cheek implants -- 19. Lip augmentations -- 20. Ear reshaping -- 21. Hair restoration -- 22. Cosmetic dentistry -- III. Lasers -- 23. Laser hair removal -- 24. Tattoo removal -- 25. Laser removal of red and brown marks -- 26. New lasers and intense pulsed light -- IV. Body contouring -- 27. Liposuction -- 28. Tummy tucks and body contouring -- 29. Breast enlargement -- 30. Breast reductions and lifts -- 31. Male breast reduction -- 32. Calf, buttock, and pectoral implants -- 33. Weight loss and cosmetic surgery -- 34. Spider veins -- V. Procedures that don't work -- 35. Fraud in cosmetic surgery -- 36. Endermologie and the quest to cure cellulite -- 37. Mesotherapy -- 38. Cool lasers and other less invasive treatments -- 39. Microdermabrasion -- 40. "Anti-aging" medicine -- Epilogue. The future of plastic surgery -- Appendix A. Fees for typical procedures -- Appendix B. National rankings of cosmetic procedures -- Appendix C. Age distribution of cosmetic procedures.

618.92 F383r 2004
AUT Ferreiro, Carmen.
TIT Ritalin and other methylphenidate-containing drugs.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
SER Drugs, the straight facts.
CON Contents: Methylphenidate: miracle pill or legal speed? -- Ritalin and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Ritalin and the human brain -- Trends in ritalin use -- Ritalin abuse -- Ritalin in the United States.

618.928 C573m 2007
AUT Cimera, Robert E.
TIT Making autism a gift : inspiring children to believe in themselves and lead happy, fulfilling lives.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education Book : Distributed by National Book Network, c2007.
CON Contents: "Well, I do like to draw!" : the art of defining autism -- "But he is too active to have autism!" : characteristics of autism -- "Funny, I don't feel sick!" : diagnosing autism -- "Of course, it could also be--" : conditions associated with autism -- "Maybe you need to be modified!" : strategies for addressing general behavioral issues -- "Why is everything that I like to do wrong?" : strategies for addressing self-stimulation -- "Attack me with this banana!" : strategies for addressing temper tantrums and aggression -- "What we have here is a failure to communicate" : strategies for addressing social and communication skills -- "Ten minutes to Wapner!" : strategies for addressing fears, fixations, and routines -- "One must be a student before one can be a teacher" : general strategies and philosophies for teaching your child -- "Okay! I am the quarterback!" : working collaboratively with special educators -- "Someday you are going to die" : life after school and you -- Final thoughts.

Ref 628.03 W984f3 2007
AUT Wyman, Bruce C ; Stevenson, L. Harold.
TIT The facts on file dictionary of environmental science. - 3rd ed.
PUB New York : Facts on File, c2007.
SER Facts on File science library.

629.44 M433L 2007
AUT Matloff, Gregory L ; Johnson, Les ; Bangs, Constance.
TIT Living off the land in space : green roads to the cosmos.
PUB New York : Copernicus Books in association with Praxis Publishing, c2007.

629.45 H465o 2007
AUT Heiken, Grant ; Jones, Eric.
TIT On the moon : the Apollo journals.
PUB Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, U.K. : published in association with Praxis Pub., c2007.
SER Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.
CON Contents: Adapting to a new world -- Pinpoint landing, great science, and a lot of fun -- A damned hard walk followed by a little golf -- The lunar dune buggy -- Drilling troubles -- The Descartes Highlands - high land but no volcanoes -- The volcanoes of Taurus-Littrow - explosive Volcanism on the Moon -- Boulder rolling - the last Apollo EVA -- Lessons from Apollo for future operations on the Moon -- Afterword - The spirit of exploration.

639.28 D664L 2007
AUT Dolin, Eric Jay.
TIT Leviathan : the history of whaling in America. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2007.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Arrival and ascent, 1614-1774. John Smith goes whaling -- "The king of waters, the sea-shouldering whale" -- All along the coast -- Nantucket, the "faraway land" -- The whale's whale -- Into "ye deep" -- Candle wars -- Glory days -- pt. 2. Tragedy and triumph, 1775-1860. On the eve of revolution -- Ruin -- Up from the ashes -- Knockdown -- The golden age -- "An enormous, filthy humbug" -- Stories, songs, sex, and scrimshaw -- Mutinies, murders, mayhem, and malevolent whales -- pt. 3. Disaster and decay, 1861-1924. Stones in the harbor and fire on the water -- From the earth -- Ice crush -- Fading away.

641.3 K57m 2007
AUT Kiple, Kenneth F.
TIT A movable feast : ten millennia of food globalization.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: From foraging to farming -- Last hunters, first farmers -- Building the barnyard -- Promiscuous plants of the northern fertile crescent -- Peripatetic plants of Eastern Asia -- Fecund fringes of the northern fertile crescent -- Consequences of the neolithic -- Enterprise and empires -- Faith and foodstuffs -- Empires in the rubble of Rome -- Medieval progress and poverty -- Spain's new world, the northern hemisphere -- New world, new foods -- New foods in the southern new world -- The Columbian exchange and the old worlds -- The Columbian exchange and new worlds -- Sugar and new beverages -- Kitchen hispanization -- Producing plenty in paradise -- The frontiers of foreign foods -- Capitalism, colonialism, and cuisine -- Homemade food homogeneity -- Notions of nutrients and nutriments -- The perils of plenty -- The globalization of plenty -- Fast food, a hymn to cellulite -- Parlous plenty into the twenty-first century -- People and plenty in the twenty-first century.

658 S326o10 2007
AUT Schermerhorn, John R ; Hunt, James G.- ; Osborn, Richard.
TIT Organizational behavior. - 10th ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2008.

658.409 L434V 2007
AUT Vecchio, Robert P.
TIT Leadership : understanding the dynamics of power and influence in organizations. 2nd ed.
PUB Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.
CON Contents: I. Introduction and overview. Concepts of leadership / Bernard M. Bass -- What leaders really do / John P. Kotter -- The manager's job : folklore and fact / Henry Mintzberg -- Crucibles of leadership / Warren G. Bennis and Robert J. Thomas -- Can leadership be taught? / Robert P. Vecchio -- II. Power and influence. Power, politics, and influence / Robert P. Vecchio -- Managing your boss / John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter -- Effective followership : leadership turned upside down / Robert P. Vecchio -- Intraorganizational influence tactics : explorations in getting one's way / David Kipnis, Stuart M. Schmidt, and Ian Wilkinson -- A social influence interpretation of worker motivation / Mario Sussmann and Robert P. Vecchio -- III. Dysfunctional aspects of leadership. Groupthink / Irving L. Janis -- The power of leader expectations : self-fulfilling prophecies in organizations / Robert P. Vecchio -- The long-term organizational impact of destructively narcissistic managers / Roy Lubit -- The dark side of leadership / Jay A. Conger -- Leaders who self-destruct : the causes and cures / Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries -- On the folly of rewarding A, while hoping for B / Steven Kerr -- IV. Models of leadership. Path-goal theory of leadership / Robert J. House and Terence R. Mitchell -- Are you in or out with your boss? / Robert P. Vecchio -- Can leaders learn to lead? / Victor H. Vroom -- WICS : a model of leadership in organizations / Robert J. Sternberg -- From transactional to transformational leadership : learning to share the vision / Bernard M. Bass -- Situational leadership theory : an examination of a prescriptive theory / Robert P. Vecchio -- The contingency model of leadership effectiveness : its levels of analysis / Roya Ayman, Martin M. Chemers, and Fred Fiedler -- V. Alternative views of leadership. Substitutes for leadership : effective alternatives to ineffective leadership / John P. Howell ... [et al.] -- SuperLeadership : beyond the myth of heroic leadership / Charles C. Manz and Henry P. Sims, Jr. -- Level 5 leadership : the triumph of humility and fierce resolve / Jim Collins -- The servant as leader / Robert K. Greenleaf -- The case of a servant leader : John F. Donnelly, Sr. / Robert J. Doyle -- A man of transactions / Terrence Rafferty -- Entrepreneurship and leadership : common trends and common threads / Robert P. Vecchio -- VI. Emerging issues. Cultural constraints in management theories / Geert Hofstede -- Organizational culture and strategic leadership : issues in the management of strategic change / Clayton G. Smith and Robert P. Vecchio -- Challenges to leadership in the implementation of technological change / Mary D. Zalesny and Robert P. Vecchio -- Leadership and gender advantage / Robert P. Vecchio -- It's not easy being green : jealousy and envy in the workplace / Robert P. Vecchio.

658.47 P259s 2007
AUT Parrett, William G.
TIT The sentinel CEO : perspectives on security, risk, and leadership in a post-9/11 world.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2007.
CON Contents: Preface: the lessons of 1993 -- CEO reflections from the front: integrated security and risk management -- A framework for managing security and risk -- The chief security officer -- Opportunity and risk: China and India in comparative and historical perspective -- Reputation at risk: managing America's brand and image -- Imagining the unimaginable: Avian Flu -- An unintended consequence: security, immigration, and education -- Lessons learned: the importance of fundamentals -- Sustainable leadership: imperatives for a new century.

658.872 W375m 2007
AUT Weber, Larry.
TIT Marketing to the social web : how digital customer communities build your business.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.
CON Contents: The web is not a channel (and you're an aggregator, not a broadcaster) -- Community and content : the marketer's new job (or how to cut your marketing budget and reach more people) -- Making the transition to the social web (first change your marketing mindset) -- How to let customers say what they really think (and keep your job) -- Step one : observe and create a customer map (otherwise, you can't get there from here) -- Step two: recruit community members (with a new toolbox and your own marketing skills) -- Step three : evaluate online conduit strategies (and don't forget search) -- Step four : engage communities in conversation (to generate word of mouse) -- Step five : measure the community's involvement (who, what, where, when, why, and how) -- Step six : promote your community to the world (get 'em talking and clicking) -- Step seven : improve the community's benefits (don't just set it and forget it) -- The reputation aggregator strategy (we're number one!) -- The blog strategy (everybody's talking at me) -- The e-community strategy (go to their party or throw your own) -- The social networks strategy (connecting with a click) -- Living and working in Web 4.0 (it's right around the corner).

659.108 C444m 2008
AUT Chambers, Jason.
TIT Madison Avenue and the color line : African Americans in the advertising industry.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The rise of Black consumer marketing -- The Jackie Robinsons of advertising and selling -- Civil rights and the advertising industry -- Affirmative action and the search for white collars -- The golden age.

677.028 M787t 2007
AUT Montgomery, Florence M.
TIT Textiles in America, 1650-1870 : a dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchant's papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth.
PUB New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2007.
CON Contents: Furnishing practices in England and America -- Bed hangings -- Window curtains -- Upholstery -- Textiles for the period room in America -- Dictionary: Introduction to the dictionary; The entries; The plates.

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700.1 I95a 2008
AUT Ivey, Bill J.
TIT Arts, Inc. : how greed and neglect have destroyed our cultural rights.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The Cultural Bill of Rights -- Preface -- Introduction -- Heritage -- Artists -- A creative life -- America, art, and the world -- Art of lasting value -- Strong, responsible institutions -- The failure of government -- Conclusion: bridging the cultural divide.

700.88 G539p 2007
AUT Givens, Terryl.
TIT People of paradox : a history of Mormon culture.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Foundations and paradoxes in Mormon cultural origins -- The varieties of Mormon cultural expression.

702.8 F957a 2006
AUT Fuga, Antonella.
TIT Artists' techniques and materials.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2006.
SER Guide to imagery.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Drawing -- Printmaking -- Painting -- Sculpture -- Mosaic and intarsia -- Ceramic -- Glass -- Metalwork and jewelry -- Contemporary techniques.

709.04 A691 2006
AUT Terraroli, Valerio.
TIT Cultura artistica tra le due guerre, 1920-1945 . English. 1920-1945 : the artistic culture between the wars. - 1st ed.
PUB [Milan] : Skira ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor] ; New York, NY : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, c2006.
SER The art of the 20th century.
CON Contents: American art between tradition and avant-garde -- Artists' writings and critical debates, 1920-45 / Charles Harrison -- Crisis of the avant-gardes and the return to order -- Aspects of dance in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century / Patrizia Veroli -- American art between the two wars -- Photography and art between the wars / Maria Gough -- Neue Sachlichkeit (New objectivity) and magic realism) -- The art of propaganda (1920-45) / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- From the novecento italiano to the second generatiohn of futurism -- Films and arts from futurism to neorealism / Gian Piero Brunetta -- The international abstract front -- Decorative arts and decoration / Valerio Terraroli -- Surrealism -- Surrealism in America and the advent of abstract expressionism.

709.2 C626w 2007
AUT Clemente, Francesco ; Ammann, Jean Christophe.
TIT Francesco Clemente : works 1971-1979.
PUB New York : Deitch Projects ; Milan : Distributed by Edizioni Charta, c2007.

709.2 P465s 2000
AUT Perry, Victor.
TIT Stolen art.
PUB Jerusalem ; Hewlett, NY : Gefen, c2000.

Ref 709.73 O99M 2007
AUT Morgan, Ann Lee.
TIT The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

730.92 P986m 2007
AUT Puryear, Martin ; Elderfield, John.
TIT Martin Puryear.
PUB New York : Museum of Modern Art, c2007.

738.5 B468t 2006
AUT Ben Khader, Aïcha Ben Abed.
TIT Tunisian mosaics : treasures from Roman Africa.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Conservation Institute, c2006.
SER Conservation and cultural heritage.
CON Contents: An ancient art -- Ancient Tunisia -- The development of mosaic art -- Mosaics in their original settings -- Splendors of the Bardo -- Mosaic treasures throughout Tunisia -- Preserving the mosaic heritage.

759.9492 F827w 2006
AUT Franits, Wayne E ; Hooch, Pieter de.
TIT Pieter de Hooch : A woman preparing bread and butter for a boy.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2006.
SER Getty Museum studies on art.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Pieter de Hooch: his life and development as an artist -- Pieter de Hooch and the representation of domesticity in Dutch art -- Pieter de Hooch and the marketing of domestic imagery in the Dutch Republic -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments.

760 G249f 2007
AUT Gasquet, Vasco.
TIT 500 affiches de mai 68.
PUB Bruxelles : Aden, 2007.

760.092 D695f 2007
AUT Doré, Gustave ; Zafran, Eric ; Rosenblum, Robert.
TIT Fantasy and faith : the art of Gustave Doré.
PUB New York : Dahesh Museum of Art ; New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Chronology -- Resurrecting Gustave Doré -- L'année terrible and political imagery -- Doré's subjects -- "A strange genius:" appreciating Gustave Doré in America -- Checklist of Doré's work in North American collections. Contents: Essays -- Resurrecting Gustave Doré -- Gustave Doré and l'année terrible -- "A strange genius:" appreciating Gustave Doré in America -- Catalogue section -- Doré paintings, drawings, and sculpture in North American collections.

Ref 770.3 F6524 2007
AUT Peres, Michael R.
TIT The Focal encyclopedia of photography : digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science. - 4th ed.
PUB Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Focal Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Timelines -- History and the evolution of photography / Mark Osterman and Grant B. Romer -- Major themes and photographers of the 20th century / Nancy M. Stuart -- Photographic companies and applications / Michael R. Peres -- Digital photography / Franziska S. Frey -- Contemporary issues / J. Thomas Lopez -- Scientific photography: expanded vision / David Malin -- Human vision / Krystel R. Huxlin -- 20th century materials and process essentials / Scott Williams.

778.9 M345u 2007
AUT Mark, Mary Ellen.
TIT Undrabörn : ljósmyndir.
PUB [Reykjavík] : Þjóðminjasafn Íslands = The National Museum of Iceland, c2007.

781.1 H282m 2006
AUT Harkleroad, Leon.
TIT The math behind the music.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
SER Outlooks.

781.642 R813m 2007
AUT Rosenberg, Neil V ; Wolfe, Charles K.
TIT The music of Bill Monroe.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
SER Music in American life.
CON Contents: "What would you give in exchange for your soul?" : 1936-38 -- "Mule Skinner blues" : 1939-41 -- "True life blues" : 1942-45 -- "Heavy traffic ahead" : 1946-49 -- "Uncle Pen" : 1950-56 -- "Gotta travel on" : 1957-62 -- "Devil's dream" : 1963-72 -- "Jerusalem Ridge" : 1973-80 -- "My last days on earth" : 1981-96.

788.92 C771i 2007
AUT Cook, Richard.
TIT It's about that time : Miles Davis on and off record.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : Hello, Miles -- Birth of the cool : 1926-52 -- Steamin' : 1952-6 -- Like nobody else : 1956-7 -- Scales and tones : 1957-8 -- So what? : 1958-9 -- I'm going out to hear Miles : 1959-62 -- All the rockets taking off : 1963-6 -- A fine madness : 1966-7 -- A portion of the music inadvertently gets repeated : 1967-9 -- He didn't erase anything : 1969-70 -- Dark, dark : 1970-75 -- Tais-toi some of this! : 1975-85 -- White, yellow, orange, red ... : 1985-8 -- They offered me a lot of money : 1989-91 -- Outro : Goodbye, Miles : 1991.

791.43 F911a 2007
AUT Friedman, Lester D.
TIT American cinema of the 1970s : themes and variations.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
SER Screen decades.
CON Contents: 1970 : Movies and the movement / Mimi White -- 1971 : Movies and the exploitation of excess / Mia Mask -- 1972 : Movies and confession / Michael DeAngelis -- 1973 : Movies and the legacies of war and corruption / Frances Gateward -- 1974 : Movies and political trauma / David Cook -- 1975 : Movies and conflicting ideologies / Glenn Man -- 1976 : Movies and cultural contradictions / Frank P. Tomasulo -- 1977 : Movies and a nation in transformation / Paula J. Massood -- 1978 : Movies and changing times / Charles J. Maland -- 1979 : Movies and the end of an era / Peter Lev -- Select Academy Awards, 1970-1979.

791.43 K66f3 1994-2004
AUT McCluskey, Audrey T.
TIT Frame by frame III : a filmography of the African diasporan image, 1994-2004.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2007.

791.43 T831L 2007
AUT Trimborn, Jürgen.
TIT Leni Riefenstahl : a life. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Faber and Faber, 2007.

791.4302 C483c 2007
AUT Charney, Maurice.
TIT The comic world of the Marx Brothers' movies : "anything further father?".
PUB Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Cranbury, N.J. : Associated University Presses, c2007.
CON Contents: The Marx Brothers and comic form -- Three celebrated scenes: gag analysis -- How the Marx Brothers developed their movie characters -- The Marx Brothers movies: The Cocoanuts -- Animal Crackers -- Monkey Business -- Horse Feathers -- Duck Soup -- A Night at the Opera -- A Day at the Races -- Room Service -- At the Circus -- Go West -- The Big Store -- A Night in Casablanca -- The last movies -- The Marx Brothers' movies in context.

791.4302 E77d 1994
AUT España, Rafael de.
TIT Directory of Spanish and Portuguese film-makers and films.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.

791.4302 S452s 2007
AUT Seely, Peter ; Pieper, Gail W.
TIT Stoogeology : essays on the Three Stooges.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.
CON Contents: Casting asparagus, Tunis sandwiches, and moidering the king's English: puns, wordplay, and malapropisms in the Three Stooges films / Peter Seely -- Surrealistic Stooges: the supernatural and the extraordinary in slapstick comedy / Peter Seely -- Discovered treasures: the Three Stooges' missing scenes / Brent Seguine -- A comedy of errors: mistakes and the humorous results in the Three Stooges films / Peter Seely -- Hail, Columbia! a deconstruction of the Columbia Studios' style in the Three Stooges and other comedy shorts / Peter Seely -- Deconstructing the Three Stooges: Freud's concept of the id, ego, and superego / Tim Snyder -- You gotta have heart: the pathos of slapstick and the Three Stooges / Peter Seely -- Much ado about nothing: violence in the Three Stooges comedies / Don Morlan -- A pie in the face: the Three Stooges' antiaristocracy theme in depression-era American film / Don Morlan -- Slap-shtik: the Three Stooges in the context of Jewish humor and vaudeville / Faye Ringel -- Larry-the existential Stooge / Ted Levitt -- The Three Stooges' contribution to World War II propaganda: Moe Hailstone and Adenoid Hynkel's race to the screen / Don Morlan -- "Hang Hitler!" the Three Stooges take potshots at Nazis / Lynn Rapaport -- Slapstick satire: the Three Stooges' portrayals of the Japanese in World War II comedies / Don Morlan -- The image of the negro in the Three Stooges shorts / Peter Seely -- Hassan Ben Sober: images of American Indians, Latinos, and Arabs in the short films of the Three Stooges / Peter Seely -- Europeans and the Stooges: the other "other" / Peter Seely -- "Hiya, toots": women and gender in the Three Stooges / Kathleen Chamberlain -- Dames, babes, battleaxes, and tomatoes: women and the Three Stooges / Peter Seely.

791.4309 B724p 2007
AUT Booker, M. Keith.
TIT Postmodern Hollywood : what's new in film and why it makes us feel so strange.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.

791.4309 C978p 2007
AUT Curtin, Michael.
TIT Playing to the world's biggest audience : the globalization of Chinese film and TV.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The Pan-Chinese studio system and capitalist paternalism -- Independent studios and the golden age of Hong Kong cinema -- Hyperproduction erodes overseas circulation -- Hollywood takes charge in Taiwan -- The globalization of Hong Kong television -- Strange bedfellows in cross-strait drama production -- Market niches and expanding aspirations in Taiwan -- Singapore : from state paternalism to regional media hub -- Reterritorializing star TV in the PRC -- Global satellites pursuing local audiences and panregional efficiencies -- The promise of broadband and the problem of content -- From movies to multimedia : connecting infrastructure and content.

791.4375 B259s 1996
AUT Barnard, Tim ; Rist, Peter.
TIT South American cinema : a critical filmography, 1915-1994.
PUB New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
SER Garland reference library of the humanities. ; v. 1077.

792.02 S648s 2007
AUT Smith, Glenn D.
TIT "Something on my own" : Gertrude Berg and American broadcasting, 1929-1956. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.
SER Television series.

792.8 J94j 2007
AUT Jules-Rosette, Bennetta.
TIT Josephine Baker in art and life : the icon and the image.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Creating the image -- Touring with Baker's image -- Opening nights -- Celluloid projections -- Living the dream -- Dress rehearsals -- Baker's scripts -- Hues of the rainbow in a global village -- Changing the world -- Legendary legionnaire -- Echoes and influences -- Eternal comeback.

796.092 O94 2006
AUT Wiggins, David Kenneth.
TIT Out of the shadows : a biographical history of African American athletes.
PUB Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Jimmy Winkfield : the "Black maestro" of the racetrack / Susan Hamburger -- Marshall "Major" Taylor : the fastest bicycle rider in the world / Andrew Ritchie -- The strange career of William Henry Lewis / Gregory Bond -- Jack Johnson and the quest for racial respect / Gerald R. Gems -- Ora Washington : the first Black female athletic star / Pamela Grundy -- Satchel Paige's struggle for selfhood in the era of Jim Crow / Donald Spivey -- Jesse Owens : leading man in modern American tales of racial progress and limits / Mark Dyreson -- Joe Louis, boxing, and American culture / Anthony O. Edmonds -- Alice Coachman : quiet champion of the 1940s / Jennifer H. Lansbury -- Jackie Robinson : racial pioneer and athlete extraordinaire in an era of change / Michael E. Lomax -- "Jackie Robinson without the charm" : the challenges of being Althea Gibson / Mary Jo Festle -- Wilma Rudolph : the making of an Olympic icon / Wayne Wilson -- Bill Russell : pioneer and champion of the sixties / Maureen M. Smith -- Jim Brown : superlative athlete, screen star, social activist / J. Thomas Jable -- Muhammad Ali : flawed rebel with a cause / Gerald Early -- "The quiet militant" : Arthur Ashe and Black athletic activism / Damion Thomas -- Bound by blackness or above it? Michael Jordan and the paradoxes of post-civil rights American race relations / Douglas Hartmann -- "Race," family, and nation : the significance of Tiger Woods in American culture / S.W. Pope -- "Ghetto Cinderellas" : Venus and Serena Williams and the discourse of racism / R. Pierre Rodgers and Ellen B. Drogin Rodgers.

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808.81 M594b 2007
AUT Metres, Philip.
TIT Behind the lines : war resistance poetry on the American homefront since 1941.
PUB Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press, c2007.
SER Contemporary North American poetry series.
CON Contents: Part 1. World War II: the poetics of conscientious objection -- Robert Lowell's refusals: memories of war resistance in prison -- William Stafford's lost landmarks: the poetics of Pacifism and the limits of lyric -- William Everson and the Fine Arts Camp: from Utopian hopes to a chronicle of division -- Part 2. Vietnam: the war on the homefront -- Bringing it all back home: from anthology to action -- Denise Levertov's distant witness: the politics of identification -- Part 3. The Persian Gulf War: protest and the postmodern -- The Gump War: lyric resistance poetry in crisis -- June Jordan's righteous certainty: poetic address in resistance poetry -- Barrett Watten's bad history: a counter-epic of the Gulf War -- Coda. Proliferations: sites of resistance since September 11, 2001.

808.82 B561 2005-06
AUT Jenkins, Jeffrey Eric.
TIT Best plays theater yearbook 2005-2006.
PUB New York : Limelight, 2007.

808.82 B863 2003 v.1-2
AUT Wise, Jennifer ; Walker, Craig Stewart.
TIT The Broadview anthology of drama : plays from the Western theatre.
PUB Peterborough, Ont. ; Orchard Park, N.Y. : Broadview Press, c2003.
CON Contents: v. 1. From antiquity through the eighteenth century -- v. 2. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Contents: Vol. 1: Ancient theatre: Oresteia / Aeschylus; Oedipus tyrannos / Sophocles; Hippolytus / Euripedes; Frogs / Aristophanes; Miles gloriosus / Plautus -- Medieval drama: Conversion of Thais the whore / Hroswitha of Gandersheim; Play of the virtues / Hildegard of Bingen; Second shepherds/ play / Anonymous; Farce of Master Pierre Pathelin / Anonymous; Everyman / Anonymous -- Renaissance: Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe; Hamlet / William Shakespeare; Tempest/ William Shakespeare; Fuenteovejuna / Lope de Vega; Tartuffe / Moliere; Phedre / Jean-Baptiste Facine -- Enlightenment stage: Rover / Aphra Behn; Country wife / William Wycherley; Way of the world / William Congreve; Bold stroke ofr a wife / Susannah Centlivre; Turandot / Carlo Gozzi; Marrriage of Figaro / Beaumarchais; Robbers / Friedrich Schiller -- Glossary. Contents: Vol. 2: The nineteenth century: Woyzeck / Georg Buchner ; Uncle Tom's cabin / Harriet Beecher Stowe ; Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen ; The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde ; King Ubu / Alfred Jarry -- The twentieth century, modernism and after: The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov ; Major Barbara / Bernard Shaw ; The ghost sonata / August Strindberg ; Native son / Paul Green & Richard Wright ; The Caucasian chalk circle / Bertolt Brecht ; Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams ; Play / Samuel Beckett ; Les belles soeurs / Michel Tremblay ; Aunt Dan and Lemon / Wallace Shawn ; The rez sisters / Tomson Highway ; Our country's good / Timberlake Wertenbaker ; Mad forest / Caryl Churchill ; The monument / Colleen Wagner.

811.54 S847s 2008
AUT Stevenson, Anne ; Motion, Andrew.
TIT Selected poems.
PUB New York : Library Of America, 2008.
SER American poets project. ; 26.
CON Contents: Selected shorter poems -- Correspondences: a family history in letters.

811.54 W727c 2007
AUT Williams, Tennessee ; Roessel, David E ; Moschovakis, Nicholas Rand.
TIT The collected poems of Tennessee Williams.
PUB New York : New Directions Pub., [2007], c2002.
SER New Directions paperbook ; 1065.
CON Contents: In the winter of cities -- In jack-o'-lantern's weather -- The summer Belvedere -- The jockey's at Hialeah -- Hoofprints of a little horse -- Androgyne, mon amour -- Uncollected and posthumously pubished poems -- Verse from fiction, films, and plays -- Poems published under the name Thomas Lanier Williams -- Juvenilia.

813.54 P9465L 2008 Popular reading
AUT Price, Richard.
TIT Lush life. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, c2008.

813.54 V947go 2006
AUT Vonnegut, Kurt.
TIT God bless you, Mr. Rosewater: or, Pearls before swine.
PUB New York : Dial Press, 2006, c1965.

823.914 M465e 2008
AUT Maxwell, William ; Carduff, Christopher.
TIT Early novels and stories.
PUB New York : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the United States by Penguin Putnam, c2008.
SER Library of America. ; 179.

843.8 V531k 2007
AUT Verne, Jules ; Luce, Stanford ; Evans, Arthur.
TIT The Kip brothers.
PUB Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2007.
SER Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
CON Contents: The Kip brothers / Jules Verne -- I: Tavern of the Three magpies -- The Brig James Cook -- Vin mod at work -- At Wellington -- A few days at sea -- In sight of Norfolk Island -- The two brothers -- The Coral Sea -- Crossing the Louisiade -- Heading north -- Port Praslin -- Three weeks in the Archipelago -- The murder -- Incidents -- II: Hobart Town -- Future projects -- Last maneuver -- Before Maritime Court -- The follow-up -- The verdict -- Awaiting execution -- Port Arthur -- Together -- The Fenians -- The note -- Saint James Point -- Escape -- Mr. Hawkins follows up -- The new fact -- Conclusion.

860.93 L226u 2007
AUT Lambright, Anne ; Guerrero, Elisabeth.
TIT Unfolding the city : women write the city in Latin America.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

860.98 S798s 2003
AUT Stavans, Ilan.
TIT The scroll and the cross : 1,000 years of Jewish-Hispanic literature.
PUB New York, NY ; London : Routledge, 2003.
CON Contents: Samuel Hanagid -- Solomon ben Gabirol -- Moisés ben Ezra -- Yehuda Halevi -- Benjamin of Tudela -- Yehuda ben Tibbon -- Maimonides -- Gonzalo de Berceo -- Nahmanides -- Alfonso X the Wise -- Moisés de León -- Ferdinand and Isabella -- Fray Luis de León -- Luis de Carvajal the Younger -- Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas -- Miguel Leví de Barrios -- Miguel de Unamuno -- Rubén Darío -- Alberto Gerchunoff -- Américo Castro. Contents: Samuel Eichelbaum -- Federico García Lorca -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Pinkhes Berniker -- Julio Cortázar -- Jacobo Timerman -- Salomón Isacovici -- Marshall T. Meyer -- Mario Vargas Llosa -- Angelina Muníz-Huberman -- Rosa Nissán -- Alicia Freilich -- Homero Aridjis -- Ariel Dorfman -- Isaac Goldemberg -- Tino Villanueva -- Alcina Lubitch Domecq -- Marjorie Agostín -- Ruth Behar -- Ilan Stavans.

860.99 F222e 1993
AUT Fares, Gustavo C. ; Hermann, Eliana.
TIT Escritoras argentinas contemporáneas.
PUB New York : P. Lang, c1993.
SER University of Texas studies in contemporary Spanish-American fiction, 0888-8787 ; vol. 8.

861.08 P977 2007
AUT Márquez, Robert.
TIT Puerto Rican poetry : a selection from aboriginal to contemporary times.
PUB Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Book one: Before Columbus and after, 1400-1820 -- Book two: The Creole matrix: notions of nation, 1821-1950s -- Book three: Critique, revolt, and renewal -- Book four: Of diasporas, syncretisms, border crossings, and transnationalizations: an AmeRican Sancocho.

863.01 M764s 1998
AUT Montañez, Carmen L.
TIT Subversión y creatividad : el personaje femenino en la cuentística de varias escritoras puertorriqueñas.
PUB New York : P. Lang, c1998.

863.64 S385e 2007
AUT Schuessler, Michael Karl.
TIT Elena Poniatowska : an intimate biography.
PUB Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : "I am moved by desire" -- To live a fairy tale -- University of the street -- "Elenita" : the young writer -- The adobe princess -- Unknown Mexico -- 1968 : the year of Tlatelolco -- Disaster's widow -- From earth to heaven -- Elena : an international treasure (a conclusion of sorts).

863.64 T662L 2006
AUT Tompkins, Cynthia.
TIT Latin American postmodernisms : women writers and experimentation.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2006.
CON Contents: Latin American postmodernisms and Latin American literary postmodernisms -- Julieta Campos (Cuba and Mexico, b. 1932) -- Alicia Steimberg (Argentina, b. 1933) -- Luisa Valenzuela (Argentina, b. 1938) -- Albalucia Ángel (Colombia, b. 1939) -- Brianda Domecq (United States and Mexico, b. 1942) -- Ana Teresa Torres (Venezuela, b. 1945) -- Alicia Borinsky (Argentina, b. 1946) -- Diamela Eltit (Chile, b. 1949) -- Carmen Boullosa (Mexico, b. 1954).

868.62 S252b 2007
AUT Sasson-Henry, Perla.
TIT Borges 2.0 : from text to virtual worlds.
PUB New York : Peter Lang, c2007.
CON Contents: Computers, hypermedia, and the humanities -- Jorge Luis Borges : a forerunner of the technology of the new millennium--links and forking paths -- The significance of the theories of Deleuze, Guattari, and Eco to understanding Borges's work and hyperfiction -- "The library of Babel," "The garden of forking paths," and the World Wide Web as rhizomatic and hypertextual environments -- "The library of Babel, " "The garden of forking paths," and the World Wide Web : worlds as mazes and labyrinthine nets -- Towards the future : bridging the gap between literature, science, and technology -- Chaosmic libraries : Jorge Luis Borges's "The library of Babel" and Stuart Moulthrop's cybertext "Reagan library" -- North meets South : Jorge Louis Borges's "The interloper" and Natalie Bookchin's media experiment The intruder -- Epilogue : back to the future.

868.64 S912n 2002
AUT Strausfeld, Michi.
TIT Nuevos narradores cubanos.
PUB [Madrid] : Siruela Ediciones, c2002.

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933 S528r 1992
AUT Shanks, Hershel.
TIT The rise of ancient Israel.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Biblical Archaeology Society, c1992.
CON Contents: Defining the problems : where we are in the debate / Hershel Shanks -- How to tell a Canaanite from an Israelite / William G. Dever -- Responses / Israel Finkelstein, Norman Gottwald, Adam Zertal -- Reply / William G. Dever -- The Exodus from Egypt : myth or reality? / Baruch Halpern -- The origins of Israelite religion / P. Kyle McCarter, Jr.

940.5315 A512a
AUT Améry, Jean.
TIT At the mind's limits : contemplations by a survivor on Auschwitz and its realities.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press : published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, c1980.

Holocaust 940.5315 A512a
AUT Améry, Jean.
TIT At the mind's limits : contemplations by a survivor on Auschwitz and its realities.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press : published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, c1980.
NOT Translation of Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne.

Holocaust DVD 940.5315 S559
AUT Lanzmann, Claude.
TIT Shoah (Motion picture) Shoah.
PUB Hollywood, Calif. : New Yorker Video, c2003.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 1985. - For specific features see interactive menu.
CON Contents: Disc. one 1st era, 1st part -- Disc 2. 1st era, 2nd part -- Disc three. 2nd era, 1st part -- Disc four. 2nd era, 2nd part.

940.5318 F911p 1992
AUT Friedländer, Saul.
TIT Probing the limits of representation : Nazism and the "final solution".
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1992.
CON Contents: German memory, judicial interrogation, and historical reconstruction : writing perpetrator history from postwar testimony / Christopher R. Browning -- Historical emplotment and the problem of truth / Hayden White -- On emplotment : two kinds of ruin / Perry Anderson -- History, counterhistory, and narrative / Amos Funkenstein -- Just one witness / Carlo Ginzburg -- Of plots, witnesses, and judgments / Martin Jay -- Representing the Holocaust : reflections on the historians' debate / Dominick LaCapra -- Historical understanding and counterrationality : the Judenrat as epistemological vantage / Dan Diner -- History beyond the pleasure principle : some thoughts on the representation of trauma / Eric L. Santner -- Habermas, enlightenment, and antisemitism / Vincent P. Pecora -- Between image and phrase : progressive history and the "final solution" as dispossession / Sande Cohen. Contents: Science, modernity, and the "final solution" / Mario Biagioli -- Holocaust and the end of history : postmodern historiography in cinema / Anton Kaes -- Whose story is it, anyway? : ideology and psychology in the representation of the Shoah in Israeli literature / Yael S. Feldman -- Translating Paul Celan's "Todesfuge" : rhythm and repetition as metaphor / John Felstiner -- "The grave in the air" : unbound metaphors in post-Holocaust poetry / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi -- The dialectics of unspeakability : language, silence, and the narratives of desubjectification / Peter Haidu -- The representation of limits / Berel Lang -- The book of the destruction / Geoffrey H. Hartman.

940.5318 M261m 1993
AUT Maltiel-Gerstenfeld, Jacob.
TIT My private war : one man's struggle to survive the Soviets and the Nazis.
PUB London, England ; Portland, Or. : Vallentine Mitchell, 1993.
SER Library of Holocaust testimonies.

940.5318 M528f 2000
AUT Melson, Robert.
TIT False papers : deception and survival in the Holocaust.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2000.

940.5318 P384f 1993
AUT Pelican, Fred.
TIT From Dachau to Dunkirk.
PUB London, England ; Portland, Or. : Vallentine Mitchell, 1993.
SER Library of Holocaust testimonies.

940.5318 T936i 1995
AUT Turgel, Gena ; Groocock, Veronica.
TIT I light a candle.
PUB London, [England] ; Portland, Or.: V. Mitchell, c1995.
SER Library of Holocaust testimonies.

940.5318 W489b 1993
AUT Wermuth, Henry.
TIT Breathe deeply, my son.
PUB Portland, Or. : Vallentine Mitchell, c1993.
SER Library of Holocaust testimonies.

940.5318 W6495d2 1990
AUT Wiesel, Elie ; Lefkovitz, Elliot.
TIT Dimensions of the Holocaust : lectures at Northwestern University. - 2nd ed.
PUB Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1990.
CON Contents: The Holocaust as literary inspiration / by Elie Wiesel -- The Holocaust as historical record / by Lucy S. Dawidowicz -- The Holocaust as living memory / by Dorothy Rabinowitz -- The Holocaust as a problem in moral choice / by Robert McAfee Brown.

940.5421 D288f 2006
AUT De Bruhl, Marshall.
TIT Firestorm : Allied airpower and the destruction of Dresden. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2006.

940.5472 S473w 1982
AUT Semprún, Jorge.
TIT What a beautiful Sunday!. - 1st ed.
PUB San Diego, Calif. : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1982.

942.081 C949s 1976
AUT Crosby, Travis L.
TIT Sir Robert Peel's administration, 1841-1846.
PUB Newton Abbot [Eng.] : David & Charles ; Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books, 1976.

943.086 D887s 2007
AUT Dumbach, Annette E. ; Newborn, Jud.
TIT Sophie Scholl and the White Rose. - New ed.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Oneworld, 2007.

944 S625 2008
AUT Artières, Philippe ; Zancarini-Fournel, Michelle.
TIT 68, une histoire collective : 1962-1981.
PUB Paris : Découverte, 2008.

944.36 S298h 2007
AUT Schall, Rebecca.
TIT Historic photos of Paris.
PUB Nashville, Tenn. Turner Pub Co 2007.

946.081 D959s 2007
AUT Durgan, Andrew.
TIT The Spanish Civil War.
PUB Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
SER Studies in European history.
CON Contents: Towards war -- The course of the war -- Foreign intervention -- Politics and society in the Republican zone -- Politics and society in the Nationalist zone -- Conclusion.

947.004 B171w 2000
AUT Balas, Egon.
TIT Will to freedom : a perilous journey through fascism and communism. - 1st ed.
PUB [Syracuse, N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, c2000.
SER Modern Jewish history.

947.7 Y43u 2007
AUT Yekelchyk, Serhy.
TIT Ukraine : birth of a modern nation.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: 1. The historical roots of modern Ukraine -- 2. Imperial bureaucrats and nation builders -- 3. Ukraine enters the age of mass politics -- 4. The Ukrainian revolution -- 5. Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s : the Ukrainization drive -- 6. Stalinism : famine and terror -- 7. Western Ukrainian lands between the wars : the birth of radical nationalism -- 8. Nazi occupation and the Soviet victory -- 9. Ukraine under Stalin's heirs -- 10. From Chernobyl to the Soviet collapse -- 11. Independent Ukraine.

953.3 Y44 2007
AUT Mahdi, Kamil A ; Würth, Anna ; Lackner, Helen.
TIT Yemen into the twenty-first century : continuity and change. - 1st ed.
PUB Reading, U.K. : Ithaca Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction / Kamil Mahdi, Anna Würth and Helen Lackner -- Structural adjustment versus human development in Yemen / Nader Fergany -- Politics and economy in Yemen : lessons from the past / Charles Schmitz -- Political and economic realities of labour migration in Yemen / Nora Ann Colton -- The Republic of Yemen : the economic situation and the manufacturing sector / Yahya Y. Almutawakel -- The judicial system : framework, institutions and traditions / Nageeb A. R. Shamiry -- Commercial litigation and arbitration / Hussein Al-Hubaishi -- Yemeni judicial history as political history, 1970-97 / Anna Würth -- Practical responses to extreme groundwater overdraft in Yemen / Christopher Ward -- Land tenure and resource management in the Yemeni Highlands / M. Mosleh Al-Sanabani -- Land tenure, social structure and the state in the Southern Governorates in the mid-1990s / Helen Lackner -- Research agenda for sustainable agricultural growth and natural resource management in Yemen / Richard N. Tutwiler -- Poverty reduction in Yemen : a social exclusion perspective / Mouna H. Hashem -- Women's health and politics in Yemen / Ilse Worm -- Lack of treatment capacity, lack of trust : Yemenis' medical treatment abroad / Beth Kangas -- Islam, custom and revolution in Aden : reconsidering the background to the changes of the early 1990s / Susanne Dahlgren -- Land distribution after unification and its consequences for urban development in Hadhramawt / Thomas Pritzkat -- Housing and health care in the city of Hodeidah / Marina de Regt and Ali M. Ghailan -- The education sector in Yemen : challenges and policy options / Mutahar A. Al-Abbasi -- Text of address by His Excellency Dr Abdul-Kareem Al-Iryani on the role of the State in a traditional society, delivered to the University of Exeter conference on : 'Yemen : the challenge of social, economic and democratic development', Exeter, 1-4 April 1998.

954.05 L935i 2007
AUT Luce, Edward.
TIT In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Doubleday, c2007.
CON Contents: Global and medieval : India's schizophrenic economy -- The Burra Sahibs : the long tentacles of India's state -- Battles of the righteous : the rise of India's lower castes -- The imaginary horse : the continuing threat of Hindu nationalism -- Long live the sycophants! : The Congress Party's continuing love affairs with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty -- Many crescents : South Asia's divided Muslims -- A triangular dance : why India's relations with the United States and China will shape the world in the 21st century -- New India, old India : the many-layered character of Indian modernity -- Hers to lose : India's huge opportunities and challenges in the 21st century.

956.704 R225b 2007
AUT Rasor, Dina ; Bauman, Robert.
TIT Betraying our troops : the destructive results of privatizing war. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

956.92 T176h 2007
AUT Carbuls, Fawwz.
TIT A history of modern Lebanon.
PUB London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto, 2007.
CON Contents: Pt. I. Ottoman Lebanon. The Emirate of Mount Lebanon (1523-1842) ; The bloody death of the Muqata`ji System (1842-1861) ; Grandeur and misery of the Mutasarrifiya (1861-1915) ; Beirut, capital of trade and culture (1820-1918) -- Pt. II. State and society. Greater Lebanon : the dialectics of attachment and detachment (1915-1920) ; From mandate to independence (1920-1943) ; The merchant republic (1943-1952) ; The pro-Western authoritarianism of Kamil Sham`un (1952-1958) ; Shihabism and the difficult autonomy of the state (1958-1970) ; From social crisis to civil war (1968-1975) -- Pt. III. The wars of Lebanon. Reform by arms (1975-1976) ; The longest coup d'etat (1977-1982) ; The war order (1983-1990) -- Postscript : ambiguities and contradictions of the Tif Agreement.

966.4 S849b 2007
AUT Stewart, Gary ; Amman, John.
TIT Black man's grave : letters from Sierra Leone. - 1st Cold Run ed.
PUB Berkeley Springs, W.V. : Cold Run Books, 2007.

973.072 A213e 2007
AUT Adams, Henry ; Chalfant, Edward ; Wright, Conrad Edick.
TIT The education of Henry Adams : a centennial version.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Massachusetts Historical Society ; Charlottesville, Va. : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2007.

973.54 F694m 2007
AUT Forbes, Robert Pierce.
TIT The Missouri Compromise and its aftermath : slavery & the meaning of America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Monroe takes charge -- Missouri -- Compromise -- Silence -- Discord -- Beneficence -- Democracy -- Force -- Kansas.

973.8 F554s 2007
AUT Fitzgerald, Michael W.
TIT Splendid failure : postwar Reconstruction in the American South.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, c2007.
SER American ways series.
CON Contents: To Civil War : what slavery did -- National politics : Andrew Johnson and the lost compromise -- Emancipation and terror in the plantation South -- Establishing the Reconstruction governments -- Railroads, development, and reconstructing society -- Race, faction, and grant -- Gender, race, and civil society in the Reconstruction South -- The politics of slaughter : depression and reaction -- Endgame in South Carolina : 1877 and after.

979.4 P523d 2007
AUT Pfaelzer, Jean.
TIT Driven out : the forgotten war against Chinese Americans. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2007.

982 S681f 1982
AUT Sofer, Eugene F.
TIT From pale to pampa : a social history of the Jews of Buenos Aires.
PUB New York : Holmes & Meier, 1982.

982.06 A943r 2007
AUT Auyero, Javier.
TIT Routine politics and violence in Argentina : the gray zone of state power.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SER Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
CON Contents: The gray zone -- Party politics and everyday life -- Food lootings -- Moreno and La Matanza lootings -- Making sense of collective violence.

985.02 G912f 2006
AUT Guamán Poma de Ayala, Felipe ; Frye, David L.
TIT The first new chronicle and good government, abridged.
PUB Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett Pub. Co., c2006.
CON Contents: The ages of the world -- The pontiff's throne -- The ages of the Indians -- The fifth age of Indians : the Incas -- The conquest of this kingdom -- Good government -- Conquest society in the Andes -- Andean society under Spanish rule.

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Software 304.60972 G897
TIT Guadalajara census project.
PUB [Tallahassee, Fla.] : Dept. of History, Florida State University, [2006]-.
CON Contents: v. 1. The Guadalajara censuses of 1821 and 1822.

DVD 333.95 G577
AUT Hart, Emily ; Witkowsky, Kathy.
TIT The God squad and the case of the Northern Spotted Owl.
PUB Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c2001.

DVD 364.132 C244
AUT Moyers, Bill D ; Frank, Thomas ; Ornstein, Norman J.
TIT Capitol crimes.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.

DVD 591.53 W186
AUT Underwood, Caroline ; Suzuki, David T.
TIT Walking with ghosts.
PUB Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, Inc., c2004.
NOT Title from screen; Copyright date from DVD case. - Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Nature of things.

DVD 591.7786 C883
AUT Smith, Mitchell D ; Githens, David G ; Moran, Tom.
TIT The crabs, the birds, the bay.
PUB Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c1997.

DVD 599.88 D611
AUT Smits, Willie ; Russon, Anne E ; Siegel, Sarita.
TIT The disenchanted forest.
PUB Oley, Pa. : Bullfrog Films, c2001.
NOT Dr. Willie Smits directs the Wanariset Orangutan Reintroduction Project. Dr. Anne Russon, a primate psychologist, is broaching to understand oranguta intelligence and psychology.

Software 611.018 G244c3 2007
AUT Gartner, Leslie P. ; Hiatt, James L.
TIT Color textbook of histology. - 3rd ed.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Saunders/Elsevier, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction to histology and basic histological techniques - Cytoplasm -- Nucleus -- Extracellular matrix -- Epithelium and glands -- Connective tissue -- Cartilage and bone -- Muscle -- Nervous tissue -- Blood and hemopoiesis -- Circulatory system -- Lymphoid (immune) system -- Endocrine system -- Integument -- Respiratory system -- Digestive system: oral cavity -- Digestive system: alimentary canal -- Digestive system: glands -- Urinary system -- Female reproductive system -- Male reproductive system -- Special senses.

Software 770.3 F6524 2007
AUT Peres, Michael R.
TIT The Focal encyclopedia of photography : digital imaging, theory and applications, history, and science. - 4th ed.
PUB Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Focal Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Timelines -- History and the evolution of photography / Mark Osterman and Grant B. Romer -- Major themes and photographers of the 20th century / Nancy M. Stuart -- Photographic companies and applications / Michael R. Peres -- Digital photography / Franziska S. Frey -- Contemporary issues / J. Thomas Lopez -- Scientific photography: expanded vision / David Malin -- Human vision / Krystel R. Huxlin -- 20th century materials and process essentials / Scott Williams.

CD 781.1 H282m 2006
AUT Harkleroad, Leon.
TIT The math behind the music.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Video 791.437 N739C
AUT Sánchez, Salvador ; Camacho, Ahui ; Sade, Ana de.
TIT No oyes ladrar los perros?.
PUB Encino, Calif. : Compañia Oxxo ; [Madera, Calif. : Distributed by Madera CineVideo, [2000?].
NOT Based on a short story by Juan Rulfo. - "OX-251"--Spine. - Film originally released in 1975.

DVD 791.437 S518
AUT Soderbergh, Steven ; Newmyer, Robert ; Hardy, John.
TIT Sex, lies, and videotape.
PUB [Burbank, Calif.] : Outlaw Productions ; Culver City, Calif. : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c1989.
NOT Originally produced as a US motion picture in 1989. - Special features: Filmmaker's commentary [audio feature]; Theatrical trailer ( min.).
CON Contents: Start -- Little secret -- Why Ann's angry -- Cooling it -- Graham arrives -- Table talk -- Month-to-month -- Her sister's bed -- Something personal -- Night watch -- Questions -- Graham's project -- Cynthia meets Graham -- Interviewing Cynthia -- Playback -- Reporting to Ann -- Present for Mom -- Making a big deal -- Earring -- "Let's make a video." -- "I want out." -- Playing the tape -- Why Graham's impotent -- Resolution -- Cured -- Project's end -- Business setbacks -- At the Bayou.

DVD 791.4372 B627
AUT Powell, Michael ; Pressburger, Emeric ; Kerr, Deborah.
TIT Black narcissus (Motion picture : 1947) Black narcissus.
PUB [Irvington, N.Y.?] : Criterion Collection, c2000.
NOT Adapted from the novel by Rumer Godden. - Originally produced as motion picture in 1947.

DVD 791.4372 S913
AUT Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás ; Tabío, Juan Carlos ; Paz, Senel.
TIT Fresa y chocolate Strawberry and chocolate.
PUB [United States] : Miramax ; Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc., 2003.
NOT Based on the story by Senel Paz: El lobo, el bosque y el hombre nuevo. - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993.

DVD 792.025 K29L2 2006
AUT Keller, Max ; Weiss, Johannes.
TIT Light fantastic : the art and design of stage lighting. - 2nd rev. and updated ed.
PUB Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel Verlag, c2006.

CD 811.54 W727c 2007
AUT Williams, Tennessee ; Roessel, David E. ; Moschovakis, Nicholas Rand.
TIT The collected poems of Tennessee Williams.
PUB New York : New Directions Pub., [2007], c2002.
NOT Includes index. - "The Collected poems of Tennessee Williams is published by arrangements with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee"--T.p. verso. - "New Directions paperbook ; NDP1065"--P. 4 of cover. - "With a CD of the author reading"--Cover. Contents: In the winter of cities -- In jack-o'-lantern's weather -- The summer Belvedere -- The jockey's at Hialeah -- Hoofprints of a little horse -- Androgyne, mon amour -- Uncollected and posthumously pubished poems -- Verse from fiction, films, and plays -- Poems published under the name Thomas Lanier Williams -- Juvenilia.

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J 812.6 S344g 2007
AUT Schlitz, Laura Amy ; Byrd, Robert.
TIT Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village. - 1st ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Hugo, the Lord's nephew -- Taggot, the blacksmith's daughter -- Will, the plowboy -- Alice, the shepherdess -- Thomas, the doctor's son -- Constance, the pilgrim -- Mogg, the villein's daughter -- Otho, the miller's son -- Jack, the half-wit -- Simon, the knight's son -- Edgar, the falconer's son -- Isobel, the lord's daughter -- Barbary, the mud slinger -- Jacob Ben Salomon, the moneylender's son and Petronella, the merchant's daughter -- Lowdy, the varlet's child -- Pask, the runaway -- Piers, the glassblower's apprentice -- Mariot and Maud, the glassblower's daughters -- Nelly, the sniggler -- Drogo, the tanner's apprentice -- Giles, the beggar.