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004.019 N842c 2008
AUT Norman, Kent L.
TIT Cyberpsychology : an introduction to human-computer interaction.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Importance, implications, and historical perspectives -- Fundamentals : biological and technological bases -- Theoretical approaches : models and metaphors -- Research : modes and methods -- Sensory-motor interfaces : input and output -- Learning and memory, transfer and interference -- Cognitive psychology : thinking and problem solving -- Language and programming -- Individual differences : people, performance, and personality -- Motivation and emotion at the human-computer interface -- Interpersonal relations -- Abnormal behavior and cybertherapies -- Automation and artificial intelligence -- Assistive and augmentive technologies -- Media : games, entertainment, and education -- The future : the ultimate human-computer interface.

020.285 K93w 2008
AUT Kroski, Ellyssa.
TIT Web 2.0 for librarians and information professionals.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Web 2.0 -- Blogs -- RSS and newsreaders -- Wikis -- Social bookmarking -- Photo sharing -- Social cataloging -- Video sharing -- Personalized start pages -- Social networking software -- Vertical search engines -- Social news -- Answers technology -- Virtual worlds -- Productivity tools -- Podcasting -- Mashups.

025.5 G348e 2008
AUT George, Mary W.
TIT The elements of library research : what every student needs to know.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction to research as inquiry -- From research assignment to research plan -- Strategy and tools for discovery -- The fine art of finding sources -- Insight, evaluation, argument, and beyond.

027.6251 B868s 2003
AUT Bromann, Jennifer.
TIT Storytime action! : 2000+ ideas for making 500 picture books interactive.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2003.
CON Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments: How to make any book interactive -- How to create an interactive storytime -- 2,000 + ideas for making 500 picture books interactive -- Theme index -- Title index -- About the author.

028.7 J17m 2004
AUT Jacobson, Trudi ; Xu, Lijuan.
TIT Motivating students in information literacy classes.
PUB New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2004.
SER New library series ; no. 8.

069.16 G855s 2008
AUT Griffiths, Alison.
TIT Shivers down your spine : cinema, museums, and the immersive view.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
SER Film and culture.
CON Contents: Immersive viewing and the "revered gaze" -- Spectacle and immersion in the nineteenth-century panorama -- Expanded vision IMAX style : traveling as far as the eye can see -- "A moving picture of the heavens" : immersion in the planetarium space show -- Back to the (interactive) future : the legacy of the nineteenth-century science museum -- From daguerreotype to IMAX screen : multimedia and IMAX at the Smithsonian Institution -- Film and interactive media in the museum gallery : from "roto-radio" to immersive video.

070.433 M819s 2008
AUT Moorcraft, Paul L ; Taylor, Philip M.
TIT Shooting the messenger : the political impact of war reporting. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, c2008.
CON Contents: The origins of war reporting -- The world wars -- The Cold War (of words) -- African "sideshows"? -- Europe's intra-state conflicts -- The Middle East and Afghanistan -- The long war -- The mechanics of reporting war and peace -- No more heroes?.

070.5083 M322m 2008
AUT Marcus, Leonard S.
TIT Minders of make-believe : idealists, entrepreneurs, and the shaping of American children's literature.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
CON Contents: Providence and purpose in Colonial America and the young republic -- Wonder in the wake of war : publishing for the children from the gilded age to the dawn of the new century -- Innocence lost and found : the 1920s -- Sisters in crisis and in conflict : the 1930s -- World War and mass market : the 1940s -- Fun and fear : the 1950s -- Shaken and stirred : the 1960s -- Change and more change : the 1970s -- Suits and wizards at the millennium's gate.

071.3 H417p 2008
AUT Hayes, Arthur S.
TIT Press critics are the fifth estate : media watchdogs in America.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
SER Democracy and the news. 1932-6947.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Reed Irvine's accuracy in media : barking at the "liberal media" -- 3. Let a thousand bloggers swarm -- 4. Ben H. Bagdikian : ahead of the curve -- 5. The Washington News Council : third-party intervention -- 6. FAIR : press criticism from a progressive think tank -- 7. Brill's content : "an inside-the-sausage-factory look at media for people who eat sausages, not those who make them" -- 8. Public journalism : press criticism as an ongoing experiment -- 9. Press criticism as a laughing matter -- 10. It takes a watchdog and a village : news media accountability in seven days -- 11. A prescription for effective press criticism in a democracy.

071.3 J86 2008
AUT Winfield, Betty Houchin.
TIT Journalism, 1908 : birth of a profession.
PUB Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
CON Contents: 1908: a very political year for the press / Betty Houchin Winfield -- From whiskey ads to the Reverend Jellyfish: media law in 1908 / Sandra Davidson -- Community journalism: a continuous objective / William Howard Taft -- Press clubs champion journalism education / Stephen Banning -- Philosophy at work: ideas made a difference / Hans Ibold, Lee Wilkins -- Power, irony, and contradictions: education and the news business / Fred Blevens -- The age of "glory and risk": the advertising industry finds its worth / Caryl Cooper -- Work in progress: labor and the press in 1908 / Bonnie Brennen -- Good women and bad girls: women and journalism in 1908 / Maurine H. Beasley -- Sports journalism and the new American character of energy and leisure / Tracy Everbach -- Enter, stage right: critics flex their muscles in the heyday of live performances / Scott Fosdick -- 1908: the beginnings of globalization in journalism education / John C. Merrill, Hans Ibold -- The look of 1908: newspaper design's status at a turning point in journalism education / Lora England Wegman -- Reform, consume: social tumult on the pages of progressive era magazines / Janice Hume -- Foreign voices yearning to breathe free: the early twentieth-century immigrant press in the United States / Berkley Hudson -- Forced to the margins: the early twentieth-century African American press / Earnest Perry, Aimee Edmondson.

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111.85 R185p 2006
AUT Rancière, Jacques.
TIT The politics of aesthetics : the distribution of the sensible. - Pbk. ed.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, 2006, c2004.

123.5 A678 2008
AUT Baer, John ; Kaufman, James C ; Baumeister, Roy F.
TIT Are we free? : psychology and free will.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : Psychology and free will / John Baer, James C. Kaufman, and Roy F. Baumeister -- How can psychology contribute to the free will debate? / Shaun Nichols -- Determined and free / David G. Myers -- Self-theories : the construction of free will / Carol S. Dweck and Daniel C. Molden -- Free will, consciousness, and cultural animals / Roy F. Baumeister -- Reconstrual of "free will" from the agentic perspective of social cognitive theory / Albert Bandura -- Free will is un-natural / John A. Bargh -- The automaticity juggernaut : or, are we automatons after all? / John F. Kihlstrom -- The hazards of claiming to have solved the hard problem of free will / Azim F. Shariff, Jonathan Schooler, and Kathleen D. Vohs -- Free will and the control of action / Henry L. Roediger III, Michael K. Goode, and Franklin M. Zaromb -- Self is magic / Daniel M. Wegner -- Some observations on the psychology of thinking about free will / Daniel C. Dennett -- Whose will? How free? / George S. Howard -- Free will as a proportion of variance / William R. Miller and David J. Atencio -- Willing creation : the yin and yang of the creative life / Dean Keith Simonton -- Free will requires determinism / John Baer -- The fear of determinism / Steven Pinker -- Psychology and free will : a commentary / Alfred R. Mele.

150.195 Y78a2 2008
AUT Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth.
TIT Anna Freud : a biography. - 2nd ed.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.

152.48 E61 2008
AUT Smith, Richard H.
TIT Envy : theory and research.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Series in affective science.
CON Contents: Theological, philosophical, and evolutionary foundations -- Social psychological perspectives -- Perspectives from organizational psychology, economics, consumer psychology, anthropology and neuroscience -- Envy and health.

153.132 V834 2008
AUT Luck, Steven J. ; Hollingworth, Andrew Richard.
TIT Visual memory.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York ; Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Oxford series in visual cognition.
CON Contents: Visual memory systems -- Visual sensory memory -- Visual short-term memory -- Eye movements and scene memory -- Visual memory for natural scenes -- Visual object perception and long-term memory -- Associative learning mechanisms in vision -- Neural mechanisms of visual memory : a neurocomputational perspective -- The retrieval and manipulation of visual memories : evidence from neuropsychology.

153.8 A698p 2008
AUT Ariely, Dan.
TIT Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Harper, c2008.

153.8 H236 2008
AUT Gardner, Wendi L ; Shah, James Y.
TIT Handbook of motivation science.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: PT. I. A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- [Section 1]. Different forms of motivation -- 1. Core social motivations : views from the couch, consciousness, classroom, computers, and collectives / Susan T. Fiske -- PT. II. FORMS AND SYSTEMS OF MOTIVATION -- 2. Belongingness motivation : a mainspring of social action / Mark R. Leary and Cody B. Cox -- 3. The many sides of control motivation : motives for high, low, and illusory control / Suzanne C. Thompson and Michèle M. Schlehofer -- 4. Self-enhancement and self-affirmation : the consequences of positive self-thoughts for motivation and health / Shelley E. Taylor and David K. Sherman -- 5. Cognitive dissonance theory : an update with a focus on the action-based model / Eddie Harmon-Jones and Cindy Harmon-Jones -- 6. Motivated closed-mindedness and its social consequences / Arie W. Kruglanski and Woo Young Chun -- 7. Historical perspectives and new directions in achievement goal theory : understanding the effects of mastery and performance-approach goals / Corwin Senko, Amanda M. Durik, and Judith M. Harackiewicz -- 8. A basic but uniquely human motivation : terror management / Jeff Greenberg, Sheldon Solomon, and Jamie Arndt -- 9. Prosocial motivation / C. Daniel Batson ... [et al.] -- 10. Implicit motivation : past, present, and future / Melissa J. Ferguson, Ran Hassin, and John A. Bargh -- [Section 2]. Motivational systems -- 11. Motivations for promotion and prevention / Daniel C. Molden, Angela Y. Lee, and E. Tory Higgins -- 12. The neuroevolution of motivation / Gary G. Berntson and John T. Cacioppo -- 13. Contributions of attachment theory and research to motivation science / Mario Mikulincer and Phillip R. Shaver -- 14. Structural dynamics : the challenge of change in goal systems / James Y. Shah and Arie W. Kruglanski -- PT. III. MOTIVATIONAL PROCESSES AND DIFFERENCES -- [Section 1.] Motivational processes and goal pursuits -- 15. The goal construct in psychology / Andrew J. Elliot and James W. Fryer -- 16. The impact of social comparisons on motivation / Penelope Lockwood and Rebecca T. Pinkus -- 17. Goal contagion : inferring goals from others' actions, and what leads to it / Henk Aarts, Ap Dijksterhuis, and Giel Dik -- 18. Implicit and explicit counteractive self-control / Ayelet Fishbach and Yaacov Trope -- 19. Dealing with unwanted feelings : the role of affect regulation in volitional action control / Sander L. Koole and Julius Kuhl -- 20. Feedback processes in the simultaneous regulation of action and affect / Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier -- 21. Flexible tenacity in goal pursuit / Peter M. Gollwitzer ... [et al.] -- 22. The antecedents and consequences of nonconscious goal pursuit / Tanya L. Chartrand, Amy N. Dalton, and Clara Michelle Cheng -- 23. Regulatory fit / E. Tory Higgins -- 24. Can satisfaction reinforce wanting? : a new theory about long-term changes in strength of motivation / Kathleen D. Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister -- [Section 2]. Motivational differences -- 25. T...

154.632 M169n 2008
AUT McNamara, Patrick.
TIT Nightmares : the science and solution of those frightening visions during sleep.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
SER Brain, behavior, and evolution.
CON Contents: Tables and figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Approach to the study of nightmares -- Shortcomings of the standard "take" on nightmares -- Nightmares can be functional -- Definition and diagnostic criteria for recurrent nightmares -- Syndrome of recurring nightmares -- The sharing of nightmares with others -- 2. Why do nightmares occur in children? -- Sleep in childhood -- Dreaming in childhood -- Evolution of childhood -- Cognitive and psychological growth of the child -- Development of the sense of self in children -- Impact of developmental milestones on nightmare propensity in children -- 3. Content of nightmares -- Comparing nightmare content to ordinary dreams -- Nightmare content scoring -- Word count analyses of Barb Sanders' nightmares -- Nightmares as compelling : the case of "precognitive nightmares" -- People who experience extraordinary dreams must be extraordinary people -- 4. Nightmares in premodern societies -- Nightmares as evidence of extraordinary powers in ancestral populations -- Dreams in premodern societies -- Cultural context of dreaming in premodern societies -- Nightmare sharing in premodern groups -- 5. Biology of nightmares -- Normal human sleep architecture -- Sleep rebound effects and REM-NREM imbalances in production of nightmares -- Special link between nightmares and REM sleep -- Summary of REM properties and nightmares -- Key role of the amygdale -- Selected neuropharmacological agents can induce nightmares -- Neuroanatomy and physiology of a nightmare -- 5. Personality and psychopathological correlates of nightmares -- Nightmares are not reliably associated with loss of function -- Disorders involving nightmares -- Nightmares and psychopathology -- 7. Phenomenology of the nightmare -- Basic visual features -- Emotional atmosphere -- Automaticity -- Cognitive content elicits the emotional content -- Creativity -- "Compellingness" -- Narrative form -- Self-identity -- Lack of metaphor -- Self-reflectiveness -- Mind reading -- Summary of formal features of nightmares -- 8. Theoretical accounts of the nightmare -- Facts that must serve as the basis for nightmare theory -- Proposed functional theory of nightmares -- Costly signaling theory (CST) -- Freud's view of nightmares -- Fisher's view of nightmares -- Kramer's view of nightmares -- Hartmann's view of nightmares -- Nielsen and Levin's view of nightmares -- Theory and treatment strategies -- 9. Nightmares and popular culture -- Movies, nightmares, and spirit possession -- Nightmare-related spirit possession is a universal phenomenon -- Alien abduction -- Books, nightmares, and spirit possession -- 10. Interpretation of the possession theme in nightmares -- Selection of nightmares with spirit possession themes -- Caveats in the interpretation of nightmares and standard explanations of the possession theme -- Recurring patterns in the spirit-possession theme -- 11. Conflict theory and the nightmare -- Mind is not a unity -- Paradox of mind reading in dr...

155.25 S465 2008
AUT Chang, Edward C.
TIT Self-criticism and self-enhancement : theory, research, and clinical implications. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2008.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction to self-criticism and self-enhancement : views from ancient Greece to the modern world / Edward C. Chang -- [Pt.] I. Self-enhancement as good, self-criticism as bad -- 2. On the psychological benefits of self-enhancement / Margaret A. Marshall and Jonathon D. Brown -- 3. On the physical benefits of self-enhancement / Suzanne C. Segerstrom and Abbey R. Roach -- 4. On the psychological hazards of self-criticism / Christian Holle and Rick Ingram -- 5. On self-criticism as interpersonally maladaptive / Jill M. Holm-Denoma, Ainhoa Otamendi, and Thomas E. Joiner Jr. -- [Pt.] II. Self-criticism as good, self-enhancement as bad -- 6. Defensive pessimism as a positive self-critical tool / Julie K. Norem -- 7. The role of self-criticism in self-improvement and face maintenance among Japanese / Takeshi Hamamura and Steven J. Heine -- 8. On the psychological costs of self-enhancement / C. Randall Colvin and Robert Griffo -- 9. On the physical health costs of self-enhancement / William M.P. Klein and Katrina L. Cooper -- [Pt.] III. Self-criticism and self-enhancement as both good and bad -- 10. A functional approach to explaining fluctuations in future outlooks : from self-enhancement to self-criticism / James A. Shepperd, Patrick J. Carroll, and Kate Sweeny -- 11. On when self-enhancement and self-criticism function adaptively and maladaptively / Constantine Sedikides and Michelle Luke -- [Pt.] IV. Clinical implications of self-enhancement and self-criticism -- 12. On promoting adaptive self-enhancement in psychotherapy / James L. Pretzer -- 13. On promoting adaptive self-criticism in psychotherapy / Raymond M. Bergner -- 14. Self-criticism and self-enhancement : from complexities of the present to a complex future / Edward C. Change ... [et al.].

155.3 M433 2008
AUT Geher, Glenn ; Miller, Geoffrey F.
TIT Mating intelligence : sex, relationships, and the mind's reproductive system.
PUB New York : Lawrence Erlbaum, c2008.
CON Contents: Mating intelligence : toward an evolutionarily informed construct / Glenn Geher, Geoffrey Miller, and Jeremy Murphy -- How self-assessments can guide human mating decisions / Lars Penke ... [et al.] -- Mating intelligence in personal ads / Charlotte De Backer, Johan Braeckman, and Lili Farinpour -- Intelligent priorities : adaptive long- and short-term mate preferences / Norm Li -- Personality, mating strategies, and mating intelligence / Daniel Nettle and Helen Clegg -- Deception and self-deception as strategies in short and long-term mating / Maureen O'Sullivan -- How having children affects mating psychology / Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, Judy A. Easton, and Emily A. Stone -- The role of mutations in human mating / Matthew C. Keller -- Mental disorders as catastrophic failures of mating intelligence / Andrew Shaner, Geoffrey Miller, and Jim Mintz -- The role of creativity and humor in mate selection / Scott Barry Kaufman ... [et al.] -- Emotional intelligence, relationship quality, and partner selection / James J. Casey ... [et al.] -- Mating intelligence and general intelligence as independent constructs / Satoshi Kanazawa -- Brain size, intelligence, and paleoclimatic variation / Jessica Ash and Gordon G. Gallup, Jr. -- Ecological constraints on mating tactics / Aurelio José Figueredo ... [et al.] -- Mating intelligence : frequently asked questions / Geoffrey Miller -- Mating intelligence : an integrative model and future research

155.4 P579m 1997
AUT Piaget, Jean.
TIT The moral judgment of the child. - 1st Free Press Paperbacks ed.
PUB New York : Free Press Paperbacks, 1997.

155.4 T461c6 2005
AUT Thomas, R. Murray.
TIT Comparing theories of child development. - 6th ed.
PUB Australia ; Belmont, Calif. : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2005.

155.418 H236Q 2008
AUT Quintana, Stephen M ; McKown, Clark ; Quintana, Stephen M et al.
TIT Handbook of race, racism, and the developing child.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : Race, racism, and the developing child / Stephen M. Quintana and Clark McKown -- Racial perspective taking ability : developmental, theoretical, and empirical trends / Stephen M. Quintana -- Children's developing conceptions of race / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- A social-cognitive developmental theory of prejudice / Frances E. Aboud -- Applying social identity and self-categorization theories to children's racial, ethnic, national and state identifications and attitudes / Martyn Barrett and Stephanie C. Davis -- Lay theories and intergroup relations / Sheri R. Levy and Dina M. Karafantis -- Children's perceptions of racial and ethnic discrimination : differences across children and contexts / Christia Spears Brown -- Theory, research, and models / William E. Cross and T. Binta Cross -- Everyday experiences of ethnic and racial identity among adolescents and young adults / Tiffany Yip -- Racial identification among multiracial youth : implications for adjustment / Melissa R. Herman -- How to catch a moonbeam : a mixed-methods approach to understanding ethnic socialization processes in ethnically diverse families / Diane Hughes ... [et al.] -- Racial discrimination and the mental health of African American adolescents / Shauna M. Cooper ... [et al.] -- Social identity development and children's ethnic attitudes in Australia / Drew Nesdale -- Perceived discrimination, ethnic minority identity, and self-esteem / Maykel Verkuyten -- Social influences on the ethnic achievement gap / Clark McKown and Michael J. Strambler -- The impact of race on children's occupational aspirations / Julie Milligan Hughes and Rebecca S. Bigler -- Children's and adolescents' decision-making about intergroup peer relationships / Heidi McGlothlin, Christina Edmonds, and Melanie Killen -- Acquisition and development of a shared psychological intergroup repertoire in a context of intractable conflict / Yona Teichman and Daniel Bar-Tal.

155.422 L438 2009
AUT Woodward, Amanda ; Needham, Amy.
TIT Learning and the infant mind.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
CON Contents: Learning and memory : like a horse and carriage / Patricia J. Bauer -- What can statistical learning tell us about infant learning? / Jenny R. Saffran -- Developmental origins of object perception / Scott P. Johnson -- An account of infants' physical reasoning / Renée Baillargeon ... [et al.] -- Experience primes infants to individuate objects : illuminating learning mechanisms / Teresa Wilcox and Rebecca Woods -- How infants learn categories / Lisa M. Oakes ... [et al.] -- Multiple learning mechanisms in the development of action / Karen E. Adolph and Amy S. Joh -- Learning in infants' object perception, object-directed action, and tool use / Amy Needham -- Infants' learning about intentional action / Amanda Woodward -- Early word learning and other seemingly symbolic behaviors / Laura L. Namy -- Symbol-based learning in infancy / Judy S. DeLoache and Patricia A. Ganea -- The role of learning in cognitive development : challenges and prospects / Richard N. Aslin.

155.5 G396i 2008
AUT Gevirtzman, Bruce J.
TIT An intimate understanding of America's teenagers : shaking hands with aliens.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
CON Contents: I'm, like, all-- -- The rebel paradox -- Mirror, mirror -- Lily munster-- or whatever's cool -- The anti-Midas touch -- Dumb stuff -- Athletes, arrogance, and angst -- The slime who hurt our kids -- When party became a verb -- Snitchin' ain't bitchin' -- Hard-bodied, soft-headed, and stone dead -- Sex, oral sex, and "hey, everybody's doing it!" -- Devouring junk -- They bombed Hiroshima, didn't they? -- Good and plenty -- You vil go to Ha'vid! -- You mean, when you die, you're dead? -- It's a matter of philosophy : remedies times ten -- Can't! Won't! Not! -- When all is said and done.

155.937 H236 2008
AUT Stroebe, Margaret S.
TIT Handbook of bereavement research and practice : advances in theory and intervention. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2008.

158.39 F683i 2008
AUT Fontes, Lisa Aronson.
TIT Interviewing clients across cultures : a practitioner's guide.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: A guide to interviewing across cultures -- Preparing for the interview -- Biases and boundary issues -- Setting the right tone : building rapport and conveying respect -- Beyond words : nonverbal communication in interviews -- Language competence : building bridges with people who have a different native language -- The interpreted interview -- Understanding and addressing reluctance to divulge information -- Interviewing culturally diverse children and adolescents -- Interview reports and documents -- Authority and trust issues for specific professions -- Common dilemmas and misunderstandings -- Afterword : your self as a resource.

160.8 W238i2 2008
AUT Walton, Douglas N.
TIT Informal logic : a pragmatic approach. - 2nd ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008.

170 W461w 2008
AUT Welsh, Alexander.
TIT What is honor? : a question of moral imperatives.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: On moralities of obedience and respect -- Help from anthropology and psychology -- Respect in the ethics of Aristotle -- Cicero's mediation of the same -- Shakespeare's recourse to Roman honor -- His Antony, Cleopatra, and Coriolanus -- Honor by that name in Mandeville and Montesquieu -- Leveling down in Enlightenment fiction -- Coming of age in neoclassical drama -- And how Rousseau's Emile comes of age -- Kant's engagement with honor -- Parallels to Kant's moral philosophy -- Respect and Adam Smith's impartial spectator -- Adam Smith and recent social science -- Coming to terms with honor in philosophy.

174.2 C178 2008
AUT Singer, Peter A. ; Viens, A. M.
TIT The Cambridge textbook of bioethics.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

174.28 P483s 2008
AUT Peters, Ted ; Lebacqz, Karen ; Bennett, Gaymon.
TIT Sacred cells? : why Christians should support stem cell research.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: The ethical prehistory of stem cells -- From science to ethics in a flash -- Working within the research standards framework -- Three contending frameworks for stem cell ethics -- The embryo protection framework -- The human protection framework -- The future wholeness framework -- Ethical smoke and mirrors in Washington -- The hidden theology behind the international debates -- The Vatican's strong stand -- The Vatican and embryology -- The Vatican argument in a cracked nutshell -- Leon Kass, protector of human nature -- Jewish and Muslim bioethics -- The terror of the chimera -- Justice and the patenting controversy -- The spiritual soul and human dignity -- The ethics of the ethicists -- Theologians say "yes" to regenerative medicine.

174.909 B251c 2008
AUT Barger, Robert N.
TIT Computer ethics : a case-based approach.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The computer as a humanizing agent -- Philosophic belief systems -- A philosophic inventory -- The possibility of a unifying ethical theory -- The ethical decision-making process -- Psychology and computer ethics -- The computing field as a profession -- Computer-related codes of ethics -- Computer ethics and international development -- Robotics and ethics -- Theft and piracy concerns -- Cases concerning theft and piracy -- Privacy concerns -- Cases concerning privacy -- Power concerns -- Cases concerning power -- A miscellaneous collection of cases -- Parasitic computing case.

174.957 D548b 2008
AUT Dickenson, Donna.
TIT Body shopping : the economy fuelled by flesh and blood.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Oneworld, 2008.
CON Contents: 1. Body shopping at both ends of life: babies and bones for sale -- A global market in baby-making -- Exploitation, justice and freedom of choice -- The unlovely bones -- 2. What makes you think you own your body? -- The case of John Moore -- How much work does it take to make a spleen? -- Donors or dupes? -- 3. With love at Christmas: a set of stem cells -- Totally safe and harmless?-- Benefits or risks for the baby? -- Waste not, want not -- Whose blood is it anyway? -- Cord blood, the cure-all? -- 4. Stem cells, holy grails and eggs on trees -- A piece of Science fiction -- Stem cell research: hype and reality -- A risky endeavour and A fait accompli -- To pay or not to pay: is that the question?. Contents: 5. Genomes up for grabs: or, could Dr. Frankenstein have patented his monster? -- Can you take out a patent on life? -- Invention or discovery? The case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty -- Where do we go from here? -- Resistance is not futile: the case of Tonga -- The French disconnection -- 6. The biobank that likes to say 'no' -- Possession is ten-tenths of the law: the Catalona case -- Two steps back or one step forward? -- Catalona revisited: the appeal court judgment -- 7. Buying the 'real me': shopping for a face -- Venus envy -- It may be someone else's face, but when I look in the mirror I see me -- The face: just another part of the body? -- A cautionary tale: the aftermath of the first human hand transplant -- The 'real me': what money can't buy -- 8. My body, my capital? -- Organs for sale, one careful (and unwilling) owner -- The tragedy of the genetic commons -- Why we all have female bodies now.

175 H236 2009
AUT Wilkins, Lee ; Christians, Clifford G.
TIT The handbook of mass media ethics.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2009.
CON Contents: A philosophically based inquiry into the nature of communicating humans / Wayne Woodward -- A short history of media ethics in the United States / John P. Ferré -- Essential shared values and 21st century journalism / Deni Elliott -- Moral development : a psychological approach to understanding ethical judgment / Renita Coleman and Lee Wilkins -- The search for universals / Clifford G. Christians and Thomas W. Cooper -- Truth and objectivity / Stephen J.A. Ward -- Photojournalism ethics : a 21st-century primal dance of behavior, technology, and ideology / Julianne H. Newton -- Why diversity is an ethical issue / Ginny Whitehouse -- The ethics of advocacy : moral reasoning in the practice of public relations / Sherry Baker -- The ethics of propaganda and the propaganda of ethics / Jay Black -- Perspectives on pornography demand ethical critique / Wendy Wyatt and Kris E. Bunton -- Violence / Patrick Lee Plaisance -- The eroding boundaries between news and entertainment and what they mean for democratic politics / Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini -- What can we get away with? : the ethics of art and entertainment in the neoliberal world / Angharad N. Valdivia -- Justice as a journalistic value and goal / David A. Craig -- Transparency in journalism : meanings, merits, and risks / Stephanie Craft and Kyle Heim -- Conflict of interest enters a new age / Edward Wasserman -- Digital ethics in autonomous systems / Michael Bugeja -- Peace journalism / Seow Ting Lee -- Privacy and the press / Lou Hodges -- Buddhist moral ethics : intend no harm, intend to be of benefit / S. Holly Stocking -- Communitarianism / Mark Fackler -- Freedom of expression and the liberal democratic tradition / G. Stuart Adam -- Media ownership in a corporate age / Matthew P. McAllister and Jennifer M. Proffitt -- The media in evil circumstances / Robert S. Fortner -- Ethical tensions in news making : what journalism has in common with other professions / Sandra L. Borden and Peggy Bowers -- Feminist media ethics / Linda Steiner -- Global media ecology : why there is no global media ethics standard / Mark D. Alleyne.

179.3 C142z 2008
AUT Calarco, Matthew.
TIT Zoographies : the question of the animal from Heidegger to Derrida.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Metaphysical anthropocentrism : Heidegger -- Facing the other animal : Levinas -- Jamming the anthropological machine : Agamben -- The passion of the animal : Derrida.

179.3 E39 2008
AUT Wemmer, Christen M ; Christen, Catherine A.
TIT Elephants and ethics : toward a morality of coexistence.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : Never forgetting the importance of ethical treatment of elephants / Christen Wemmer and Catherine A. Christen -- Elephants in time and space : evolution and ecology / Raman Sukumar -- Personhood, memory, and elephant management / Gary Varner -- Elephant sociality and complexity : the scientific evidence / Joyce H. Poole and Cynthia J. Moss -- Elephants, ethics, and history / Nigel Rothfels -- Pain, stress, and suffering in elephants : what is the evidence and how can we measure it? / Janine L. Brown, Nadja Wielebnowski and Jacob V. Cheeran -- Elephants and people in India : historical patterns of capture and management / Dhriti K. Lahiri Choudhury -- Carrots and sticks, people and elephants : rank, domination, and training / John Lehnhardt and Marie Galloway -- Canvas to concrete : elephants and the circus-zoo relationship / Michael D. Kreger -- Why circuses are unsuited to elephants / Lori Alward -- View from the big top : why elephants belong in North American circuses / Dennis Schmitt -- The challenges of meeting the needs of captive elephants / Jane Garrison -- Most zoos do not deserve elephants / David Hancocks -- Zoos as responsible stewards of elephants / Michael Hutchins, Brandie Smith and Mike Keele -- Can we assess the needs of elephants in zoos? Can we meet the needs of elephants in zoos? / Jill D. Mellen, Joseph C.E. Barber and Gary W. Miller -- Giants in chains : history, biology, and preservation of Asian elephants in captivity / Fred Kurt, Khyne U Mar and Marion E. Garaï -- Restoring interdependence between people and elephants : a Sri Lankan case study / Lalith Seneviratne and Greg D. Rossel -- Sumatran elephants in crisis : time for change / Susan K. Mikota, Hank Hammatt and Yudha Fahrimal -- Human-elephant conflicts in Africa : who has the right of way? / Winnie Kiiru -- Playing elephant god : ethics of managing wild African elephant populations / Ian Whyte and Richard Fayrer-Hosken -- Toward an ethic of intimacy : touring and trophy hunting for elephants in Africa / Rebecca Hardin -- The ethics of global enforcement : Zimbabwe and the politics of the ivory trade / Rosaleen Duffy.

180 H477I2 1997
AUT Inwood, Brad ; Gerson, Lloyd P.
TIT Hellenistic philosophy : introductory readings. - 2nd ed.
PUB Indianapolis, Ind. : Hackett Pub. Co., c1997.

194 H112m 2008
AUT Hass, Lawrence.
TIT Merleau-Ponty's philosophy.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2008.
SER Studies in Continental thought.
CON Contents: The sensation fallacy : toward a phenomenology of perception -- The secret life of things -- Singing the living body electric -- Elemental alterity : self and others -- Later developments : [E,ACU] cart, reversibility, and the flesh of the world -- Expression and the origin of geometry -- Behold "the speaking word" : the expressive life of language.

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200.19 A456gE 2006
AUT Alper, Matthew.
TIT The "God" part of the brain : a scientific interpretation of human spirituality and God.
PUB Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2006.
CON Contents: Book 1: Theory's evolution. Throwing rocks at God ; What is science? ; A very brief history of time, or Everything you ever wanted to know about the universe but were afraid to ask ; Kant ; God as word ; Universal behavioral patterns -- Book 2: Intro to biotheology. The "spiritual" function ; The rationale ; The "spiritual" experience ; Drug-induced God ; The "spiritual" gene ; The prayer function ; Religious conversion ; Why are there atheists? ; Near-death experiences ; Speaking in tongues ; Why is America so religious? : a bio-historical hypothesis ; The guilt and morality functions ; The logic of God : a new "spiritual" paradigm ; What, if anything, is to be gained from a scientific interpretation of human spirituality and God? -- Epilogue. Quest's end -- Addendum. Experiments that might help prove the existence of a spiritual function.

200.98 L357 2008
AUT Peterson, Anna Lisa ; Vásquez, Manuel A.
TIT Latin American religions : histories and documents in context.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introducing religion in Latin America -- Indigenous religions -- Colonial encounters -- Religions of the African diaspora -- Independence and modernity -- Protestantism in Latin America -- Postconciliar Roman Catholicism -- Contemporary religious diversity and change.

201.72 S584o 2008
AUT Silk, Mark ; Walsh, Andrew.
TIT One nation, divisible : how regional religious differences shape American politics / Mark Silk and Andrew Walsh.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2008.
CON Contents: Religion by region -- The Middle Atlantic : fount of diversity -- New England : steady habits, changing slowly -- The South : in the Evangelical mode -- The southern crossroads : showdown states -- The Pacific : fluid identities -- The Pacific Northwest : the "none" zone -- The Mountain West : sacred landscapes in tension -- The Midwest : the common denominator? -- Retelling the national story.

204.2 C766 2007
AUT Steigenga, Timothy J. ; Cleary, Edward L.
TIT Conversion of a continent : contemporary religious change in Latin America.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

204.2 O98 2008
AUT Corrigan, John.
TIT The Oxford handbook of religion and emotion.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.
SER Oxford handbooks.
CON Contents: Buddhism / Maria Heim -- Islam / Anna M. Gade -- Hinduism / June McDaniel -- Japanese religions / Gary L. Ebersole -- Judaism / Joel Gereboff -- Christianity / Andrew Tallon -- New religious movements / Douglas E. Cowan -- Ritual / Pamela E. Klassen -- Sexuality and the erotic / Jeffrey J. Kripal -- Gender / Melissa Raphael -- Music / Frank Burch Brown -- Material culture / John Kieschnick -- Ecstasy / Angelika Malinar and Helene Basu -- Terror / Harvey Whitehouse -- Hope / W. Watts Miller -- Melancholy / Julius Rubin -- Love / Nancy M. Martin and Joseph Runzo -- Religious hatred / John Corrigan -- Augustine / James Wetzel -- Medieval mysticism / Niklaus Largier -- Kierkegaard / David Kangas -- Jonathan Edwards / Michael McClymond -- William James / Jeremy Carrette -- Durkheim / W.S.F. Pickering -- Friedrich Schleiermacher and Rudolf Otto / Jacqueline Mariña -- Constructionism and its critics / John Kloos -- Emotions research and religious experience / Robert C. Roberts.

248.2 E45u 2008
AUT Ellens, J. Harold.
TIT Understanding religious experiences : what the Bible says about spirituality.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
SER Psychology, religion, and spirituality.
CON Contents: The varieties of religious experiences -- Biblical spirituality as walking with God -- Biblical spirituality as searching for God -- Biblical spirituality as celebrating God : worship -- Biblical spirituality as talking to God : prayer life -- Biblical spirituality as seeing God : epiphany -- Biblical spirituality as counting on God -- Biblical spirituality and the Holy Spirit -- Visions and visionaries in the Bible and today -- Religious conversion : its nature and sources -- Religious conversion : its import and consequences -- Modern perspectives on spirituality -- Near death experiences : their nature and significance -- A few concluding observations.

261.56 F447f 2008
AUT Fick, Gary W.
TIT Food, farming, and faith.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2008.
SER SUNY series on religion and the environment.
CON Contents: It is all about food -- The foundation of stewardship -- Ecology in the Bible -- Land and climate -- Soil and water -- Crops, seeds, and food -- Livestock and agriculture -- Farming systems and the practices of agriculture -- The culture of agriculture -- Abuse, poverty, and women -- Food, starvation, obesity, and diet -- Agricultural sustainability.

262.5 O54w 2008
AUT O'Malley, John W.
TIT What happened at Vatican II.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Big perspectives on a big meeting -- The long nineteenth century -- The council opens -- The first period (1962) : the lines are drawn -- The second period (1963) : a majority prevailing -- The third period (1964) : triumphs and tribulations -- The fourth period (1965) : brining the ship into port.

267.61 T948b 2008
AUT Turner, John G.
TIT Bill Bright & Campus Crusade for Christ : the renewal of evangelicalism in postwar America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
CON Contents: God may choose a country boy -- Campus ministry at America's "Trojan horse" -- Sibling rivalries -- The conservative impulses of the early 1960s -- The Jesus revolution from Berkeley to Dallas -- The evangelical bicentennial -- America and the world for Jesus -- Kingdoms at war.

270.089 M611 2008
AUT Espinosa, Gastón ; García, Mario T.
TIT Mexican American religions : spirituality, activism, and culture.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: History and interpretations of Mexican American religions -- History and theory in the study of Mexican American religions / Gastón Espinosa -- Pious colonialism : assessing a church paradigm for Chicano identity / Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo -- Mexican American mystics and prophets -- Sacred order, sacred space : Reies López Tijerina and the Valle de Paz community / Rudy V. Busto -- Holy activist, secular saint : religion and the social activism of César Chávez / Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett -- Religion and the Chicano movement : Católicos por la raza / Mario T. García -- Mexican American popular Catholicism -- Our Lady of Guadalupe and the politics of cultural interpretation / Socorro Castañeda-Liles -- Voces de Fe : Mexican American altaristas in Texas / Kay Turner -- Los pastores and the gendered politics of location / Richard R. Flores -- Mexican American religions and literature -- The religious vision of Gloria Anzaldúa : Borderlands/La frontera as a shamanic space / Davíd Carrasco and Roberto Lint Sagarena -- Voice and vision in Chicana religious practice : the literary re-elaborations of Mary Helen Ponce, Denise Chávez, and Sandra Cisneros / Ellen McCracken -- Mexican American religions and healing -- Brown Moses : Francisco Olazábal and Mexican American Pentecostal healing in the Borderlands / Gastón Espinosa -- Borderlands bodies and souls : Mexican religious healing practices in East L.A. / Luis D. León -- Mexican American religions and pop culture -- Luis Valdez's La pastorela: "the shepherds' play" : tradition, hybridity, and transformation / María Herrera-Sobek -- Hybrid spiritualities and Chicana altar-based art : the work of Amalia Mesa-Bains / Laura E. Pérez -- Mexican Madonna : Selena and the politics of cultural redemption / Gastón Espinosa -- Conclusion: Reflections on Mexican American religions and culture.

270.6 R332M 2007
AUT Matheson, Peter.
TIT Reformation Christianity.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c2007.
SER People's history of Christianity. ; v. 5.
CON Contents: General editor's foreword / Denis R. Janz -- Introduction: reforming from below / Peter Matheson -- The life of faith. The piety of townspeople and city folk / Raymond A. Mentzer ; Rural and village piety / Keith P. Luria ; A people's reformation? / Margo Todd -- From cradle to grave. Entering the world / David Cressy ; Baptism and childhood / Karen E. Spierling ; Women and men, together and apart / Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks ; Leaving the world / Peter Marshall -- Finding their voice. The dream of a just society / James M. Stayer ; The emergence of lay theologies / Elsie McKee ; Insiders and outsiders / Susan R. Boettcher ; The language of the common folk / Peter Matheson.

270.81 M689 2007
AUT Porterfield, Amanda.
TIT Modern Christianity to 1900.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c2007.
SER People's history of Christianity. ; v. 6.
CON Contents: Expansion and change / Amanda Porterfield -- New ways of confronting death / Carlos Eire -- Controlling and Christianizing sex / Peter Gardella -- Economic change and emotional life / John Corrigan -- Vulgar science / Ronald L. Numbers -- Tropical Christianity in Brazil / H.B. Cavalcanti -- Iconic piety in Russia / Vera Shevzov -- Religious experiences in New England / Douglas L. Winiarski -- Domestic piety in New England / Ava Chamberlain -- Gendering Christianity / Marilyn J. Westercamp -- Slave Christianity / Charles H. Lippy -- Spirituals and the quest for freedom / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan.

270.82 T971 2008
AUT Bednarowski, Mary Farrell.
TIT Twentieth-century global Christianity.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c2008.
SER People's history of Christianity. ; v. 7.
CON Contents: Introduction: Multiplicity and ambiguity / Mary Farrell Bednarowski -- The authority of new voices -- Filipino popular Christianity / Eleazar S. Fernandez -- Rural Southern Black women in the United States / Rosetta E. Ross -- African women theologians / Mercy Amba Oduyoye -- Hispanic women : being church in the U.S.A. / Ada María Isasi-Díaz -- Traditions and transformations -- Orthodoxy under communism / Paul Mojzes -- Evangelicalism in North America / Mark A. Noll and Ethan R. Sanders -- Pentecostal transformation in Latin America / Luis N. Rivera-Pagán -- Apocalypticism in the United States / Bruce David Forbes -- Catholics in China / Jean-Paul Wiest -- Existential ritualizing in postmodern Sweden / Valerie DeMarinis -- Innovation and authenticity -- Ordinary Christians and the holocaust / Victoria J. Barnett -- Ecumenism of the people / Patrick Henry -- Gender and twentieth-century Christianity / Margaret Bendroth -- Canadian workers and social justice / Oscar Cole-Arnal -- Popular Catholic sexual ethics / Cristina L.H. Traina -- Life and death in middle America / Ann M. Pederson.

277.3 H326b 2008
AUT Hart, William D.
TIT Black religion : Malcolm X, Julius Lester, and Jan Willis. - 1st ed.
PUB New York ; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
CON Contents: Afro-eccentricity and autobiography -- Jahiliyyah and Jihad -- Hijrah & Hajj -- Julius Lester: Blackness & Teshuvah -- Janice Willis: Duhkha and enlightenment -- Bluing the note -- Coda: my point of view as author.

277.3 Y81a 2008
AUT Yount, David.
TIT America's spiritual utopias : the quest for heaven on earth.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
CON Contents: The cloister : the keys of the kingdom -- The Puritans : building a city on a hill -- The Quakers : the power of friendly persuasion -- The Amish : return to paradise -- The Shakers : sharing simple gifts -- The Mormons : to the Promised Land -- The Oneida Community : love one another -- The Salvation Army : saving body, soul, and spirit -- The Catholic Worker Movement : the virtue of hospitality -- Today's utopias : a place just right.

277.5 N162e 2008
AUT Najar, Monica.
TIT Evangelizing the South : a social history of church and state in early America.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.
SER Religion in America series.
CON Contents: The manly voice of orthodoxy -- We, the male and female -- Our domestic peace -- On a scale of justice -- Unusual strugglings of mind -- Equity of hereditary slavery -- Conclusion.

282.73 D273d 2008
AUT Day, Dorothy ; Ellsberg, Robert.
TIT The duty of delight : the diaries of Dorothy Day.
PUB Milwaukee, Wis. : Marquette University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The thirties -- The forties -- The fifties -- The sixties -- The seventies -- The final diary: 1980.

287.83 N554f 2008
AUT Newman, Richard S.
TIT Freedom's prophet : Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black founding fathers.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: A Black founder's many worlds -- "For Zion's sake ... I will not rest" -- Gospel labors -- The year of the fever, part 1 : a (deceptively) simple narrative of the Black people -- The year of the fever, part 2 : Allen's antislavery appeal -- "We participate in common" : Allen's role as a Black mediator -- A liberating theology : establishing the AME Church -- Stay or go? : Allen and African colonization -- Allen challenged : shadow politics and community conflict in the 1820s -- A Black founders' expanding visions -- Last rights -- Conclusion: Richard Allen and the soul of Black reform.

289.9 H777t 2008
AUT Hood, Ralph W ; Williamson, W. Paul.
TIT Them that believe : the power and meaning of the Christian serpent-handling tradition.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: "They shall take up serpents" -- The history of Pentecostalism absent the serpent -- The media and the man : George Went Hensley -- Serpent handling endorsed by the Church of God -- The serpent : sign and symbol -- Trance states : tongues speaking and the anointing -- Extemporaneous sermons in the serpent-handling tradition -- The experience of handling serpents -- The experience of the anointing -- Near-death experience from serpent bites in religious settings -- Music among serpent-handling churches -- Serpent handling and the law : history and empirical studies.

294.392 W726m2 2009
AUT Williams, Paul.
TIT Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism : the doctrinal foundations. - 2nd ed.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
SER The library of religious beliefs and practices.

296.4 L946t 2008
AUT Lundquist, John M.
TIT The Temple of Jerusalem : past, present, and future.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The First Temple -- The world of the First Temple -- The Second Temple -- The meaning of the Temple of Jerusalem in the Jewish community following 70 C.E. -- The idea of the temple within Christianity -- The idea of the temple within Islam -- The meaning of the temple in our times -- The temple of the future: the influence of the Temple of Jerusalem on the apocalyptic ideas of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

297.095 A832 2008
AUT Esposito, John L ; Voll, John Obert ; Osman Bakar.
TIT Asian Islam in the 21st century.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

297.5 V328m 2008
AUT Vasalou, Sophia.
TIT Moral agents and their deserts : the character of Mu'tazilite ethics.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The framework : the Mu'tazilites -- Reading Mu'tazilite ethics -- Ethics as theology -- Approaches to the study of Mu'tazilite ethics -- Theology as law -- Moral values between rational knowledge and revealed law -- Rights, claims, and desert : the moral economy of \u1E25uq\u016Bq -- The Ba\u1E63ran Mu'tazilite approach to desert -- "To deserve" : groundwork -- Justifying reward and punishment : the values of deserved treatments -- Justifying punishment : the paradoxical relations of desert and goodness -- The causal efficacy of moral values : between sabab and 'illa -- The right to blame, the fact of blame : views of the person ab extra -- Moral continuity and the justification of punishment -- Time and deserving -- An eternity of punishment : the Ba\u1E63ran justification of daw\u0101m al-'iq\u0101b -- Moral identity and the resources of Ba\u1E63ran Mu'tazilite ontology -- The primacy of revealed names : al-Asm\u0101' wa'al-a\u1E25k\u0101m -- Why not Dhimma? -- The identity of beings in Ba\u1E63ran Mu'tazilite eschatology -- Resurrection and the criterion of identity -- Accidents and the formal reality of resurrected beings -- Appendix : translation from M\u0101nkd\u012Bm Sh\u0101shd\u012Bw, "The promise and the threat," in Shar\u1E25 al-u\u1E63\u016Bl al-khamsa.

299.51 O97f 2008
AUT Ownby, David.
TIT Falun Gong and the future of China.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : Qigong, Falun Gong, and the crisis of the post-Mao state -- A history for Falun Gong -- The creation and evolution of Qigong -- The life and times of Li Hongzhi in China, 1952-1995 -- Falun Gong outside of China : fieldwork among diaspora practitioners -- David meets Goliath : the conflict between Falun Gong and the Chinese State -- Conclusion: Unpacking contexts.

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300.1 M281u 2008
AUT Mann, Doug.
TIT Understanding society : a survey of modern social theory.
PUB Don Mills, Ont. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

300.72 B112p11 2007
AUT Babbie, Earl R.
TIT The practice of social research. - 11th ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson Wadsworh, c2007.
CON Contents: Includes bibliographic references and index.

300.72 B961s 2008
AUT Bryman, Alan.
TIT Social research methods. - 3rd ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Social research strategies -- Research designs -- Planning a research project and formulating research questions -- Getting started : reviewing the literature -- Ethics and politics in social research -- The nature of quantitative research -- Sampling -- Structured interviewing -- Self-completion questionnaires -- Asking questions -- Structured observation -- Content analysis -- Secondary analysis and official statistics -- Quantitative data analysis -- Using SPSS for windows -- The nature of qualitative research -- Ethnography and participant observation -- Interviewing in qualitative research -- Focus groups -- Language in qualitative research -- Documents as sources of data -- Qualitative data analysis -- Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis : using NVivo -- Breaking down the quantitative/qualitative divide -- Mixed methods research : combining quantitative and qualitative research -- E-research : using the internet as object and method of data collection -- Writing up social research.

301 H526e8 2009
AUT Henslin, James M.
TIT Essentials of sociology : a down-to-earth approach. - 8th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2009.

301 R615co2 2007
AUT Ritzer, George.
TIT Contemporary sociological theory and its classical roots : the basics. - 2nd ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c2007.

301.01 A826s6 2005
AUT Ashley, David ; Orenstein, David Michael.
TIT Sociological theory : classical statements. - 6th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Allyn and Bacon, 2005.

301.01 E23s 2005
AUT Edles, Laura Desfor ; Appelrouth, Scott.
TIT Sociological theory in the classical era : text and readings.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Karl Marx -- Émile Durkheim -- Max Weber -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Georg Simmel -- W.E.B. Du Bois -- George Herbert Mead.

301.01 F893h 2008
AUT Frey, Bruno S.
TIT Happiness : a revolution in economics.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
SER Munich lectures in economics.

301.01 P888m 2004
AUT Powers, Charles H.
TIT Making sense of social theory : a practical introduction.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2004.

301.01 T948s7 2003
AUT Turner, Jonathan H.
TIT The structure of sociological theory. - 7th ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Wadsworth Thomson Learning, c2003.

301.072 R429S2 2004
AUT Seale, Clive.
TIT Researching society and culture. - 2nd ed.
PUB London, U.K. ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2004.

301.09 T948e6 2007
AUT Turner, Jonathan H ; Beeghley, Leonard ; Powers, Charles H.
TIT The emergence of sociological theory. - 6th ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson Higher Education, c2007.

301.418 F454r 2008
AUT Fields, Jessica.
TIT Risky lessons : sex education and social inequality.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
SER Rutgers series in childhood studies.
CON Contents: Introduction: Asking more of sex education -- Differences and divisions : social inequality in sex education debates and policies -- The prophylactic of talk : sex educations's competing lessons on sexual communication -- Natural and ideological : depicting bodies in sex education -- Embattled knowledge : curiosity and understanding in sex education -- Conclusion: policy, practice, and sexuality education.

302.23 D961L 2008
AUT Durham, Meenakshi Gigi.
TIT The Lolita effect : the media sexualization of young girls and what we can do about it.
PUB Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Preface -- Introduction: Sexy girls in the media -- 1: How long has this been going on? girls and the myths of sex -- 2: First myth: If you've got it, flaunt it -- 3: Second myth: Anatomy of a sex goddess -- 4: Third myth: Pretty babies -- 5: Fourth myth: Violence is sexy -- 6: Fifth myth: What boys like -- 7: Seducers: understanding myth and spectacle in the media -- 8: Superhighway of sex: girls, media, and sexuality around the world -- 9: Confronting spectacle: strategies for resistance -- Resources -- Notes -- Index.

302.23 V858ms9 2010
AUT Vivian, John.
TIT The media of mass communication : study edition. - 9th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Allyn & Bacon, c2010.

302.2345 B587g 2008
AUT Bielby, Denise D. ; Harrington, C. Lee,
TIT Global TV : exporting television and culture in the world market.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.

302.2345 M625cR 1999
AUT Mickiewicz, Ellen Propper.
TIT Changing channels : television and the struggle for power in Russia. - Rev. and expanded ed.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999.

302.2345 S469g 2008
AUT Selznick, Barbara J.
TIT Global television : co-producing culture.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2008.
SER Emerging media.
CON Contents: Introduction : McTelevision in the global village -- History without nation : global fiction -- Clear, strong brands : British television as a marketing tool -- The three C's : children, citizenship and co-production -- Global truths : documentaries for the world -- Conclusion : tranculturation or the expansion of modern capitalism.

302.24 D569w 2008
AUT DiFonzo, Nicholas.
TIT The watercooler effect : a psychologist explores the extraordinary power of rumors.
PUB New York : Avery, c2008.
CON Contents: To rumor is human -- Swimming in rumors : the prevalence and power of hearsay -- It's clear that it's unclear : how rumors help us make sense of an uncertain world -- A family resemblance : gossip and urban legend, rumor's close cousins -- It's a small world around the watercooler : how, why, and where of rumor spread -- Believe it, or not : why we believe some rumors and not others -- Facts are stubborn things : taking stock of the word on the street -- Managing the rumor mill -- Epilogue: Doing rumor well.

302.33 L812c 2002
AUT Locher, David A.
TIT Collective behavior.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002.

302.35 E54 2008
AUT Fineman, Stephen.
TIT The emotional organization : passions and power.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: Introducing the emotional organization / Stephen Fineman -- Me, morphine and humanity : experiencing the emotional community on Ward 8 / Sharon C. Bolton -- Power, paradox, social support, and prestige : a critical approach to addressing correctional officer burnout / Sarah J. Tracy -- Rape work : emotional dilemmas in work with victims / Patricia Yancey Martin, Douglas Schrock, Margaret Leaf, & Carmen von Rohr -- In the gym : peer pressure and emotional management among co-workers / Mary Haman & Linda L. Putman -- Abuse, violence, and fear on the front line : implications for the rise of the enchanting myth of customer sovereignty / Marek Korczynski & Victoria Bishop -- Enactments of class and nationality in transnational call centres / Kiran Mirchandani -- The gendering of emotions and perceived work time : chicks and geeks at I.com / Nicole L. Kangas & Debra E. Meyerson -- Managing the emotional boundaries of telework / Gill Musson & Katy Marsh -- Management consultancy and humor in action and context / Andrew Sturdy, Timothy Clark, Robin Fincham, & Karen Handley -- Becoming a successful corporate character and the role of emotional management / Caroline Hatcher -- Gender and the emotion politics of emotional intelligence / Stephanie A. Shields & Leah R. Warner -- Feeling out of place? : towards the transnationalizations of emotions / Jeff Hearn -- It's all too beautiful : emotion and organization in the aesthetic economy / Philip Hancock & Melissa Tyler.

303.482 T192n 2006
AUT Tarrow, Sidney G.
TIT The new transnational activism.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006.
SER Cambridge studies in contentious politics.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Structure, process and actors -- Complex internationalism -- Rooted cosmopolitans and transnational activists -- The global in the local -- Global framing -- Internalizing contention -- Transitional processes -- Diffusion and modularity -- Shifting the scale of contention -- The local in the global -- Externalizing contention -- Building transnational coalitions -- Transnationalism at home and abroad -- Transnational impacts on domestic activism -- Internationalization and transnational activism -- Glossary.

303.48256 S176u 2008
AUT Salt, Jeremy.
TIT The unmaking of the Middle East : a history of Western disorder in Arab lands.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- pt. 1. "Why do they hate us?" -- Civilization and its contradictions -- Science and barbarism -- pt. 2. Sacred trusts. -- Ottoman breakdown -- Exit the Sharif -- Small wars in Iraq -- Double colonialism in Palestine -- Civil war along the Potomac -- pt. 3. The American ascendancy. -- The "tripartite aggression" -- My enemy's special friend -- LBJ's other war -- Disabling Lebanon -- pt. 4. The Bush wars. -- Into the Gulf -- George the son -- The long campaign.

303.4833 K29t 2008
AUT Kelty, Christopher M.
TIT Two bits : the cultural significance of free software.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008.
SER Experimental futures.

303.4833 M489 2008
AUT Konijn, Elly.
TIT Mediated interpersonal communication.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2008.
SER LEA's communication series.
CON Contents: Part I. Bridging the disciplines : Introduction: how technology affects human interaction / Elly A. Konijn, ... [et al.] -- Understanding social media from the media ecological perspective / Susan B. Barnes -- Machines as mediators: the challenge of technology for interpersonal communication theory and research / Melanie D. Polkosky -- Self as source: agency and customization in interactive media / S. Shyam Sundar -- Part II. Technology as relationship enabler : Transformed social interaction in mediated interpersonal communication / Jeremy N. Bailenson, ... [et al.] -- Emotions in mediated interpersonal communication: toward modeling emotion in virtual humans / Elly A. Konijn and Henriette C. Van Vugt -- Is there anybody out there? Analyzing the effects of embodiment and nonverbal behavior in avatar-mediated communication / Gary Bente, Nicole C. Krämer, and Felix Eschenburg -- Touch in computer-mediated communication / Margaret McLaughlin, ... [et al.] -- Parasocial interactions and papacommunication with new media characters / Tilo Hartmann -- Antisocial communication on electronic mail and the internet / Karen M. Douglas -- Part III. The appeal of communicating through technology : Impression formation effects in online mediated communication / Sriram Kalyanaraman and S. Shyam Sundar -- The joys of online dating / Monica Whitty -- Social identification with virtual communities / Sonja Utz -- Problems and interventions in computer-mediated virtual groups / Joseph B. Walther -- What makes the internet a place to seek social support? / Martin Tanis -- Mediated interpersonal communication in multiplayer video games: implications for entertainment and relationship management / Christoph Klimmt and Tilo Hartmann -- Flaming and blaming: the influence of mass media content on interactions in online discussions / Dirk Oegema, ... [et al.] -- Leisure boredom, sensation seeking, self-esteem, and addiction: symptoms and patterns of cell phone use / Louis Leung.

303.484 B892u 2008
AUT Bruhn, Kathleen.
TIT Urban protest in Mexico and Brazil.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Riding the tiger : popular organizations, political parties and urban protest -- Setting the stage : research design, case selection, and methods -- The limits of loyalty -- A union born out of struggles : the Union of Municipal Public Servants of São Paulo -- Partisan loyalty and corporatist control : the Unified Union of Workers of the Government of the Federal District -- Clients or citizens? : neighborhood associations in Mexico City -- Favelas and cortiços : neighborhood organizing in São Paulo -- The dynamics of protest.

303.6 G862m 2008
AUT Grimes, Tom ; Anderson, James A. ; Bergen, Lori A.
TIT Media violence and aggression : science and ideology.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2008.
CON Contents: Setting the stage -- A short history of the concept of effects -- The epistemology of media effects -- The social scientific "theory" that never quite fit -- Is it just science? / James A. Anderson and Janet W. Colvin -- The world according to causationists -- The biggest cultural variable of all : the child -- The role of psychopathology in the media violence/aggression equation -- The attempt to make an ideology a science -- To legislate or not to legislate against media violence.

303.625 B961b 2009
AUT Burleigh, Michael.
TIT Blood and rage : a cultural history of terrorism. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Harper, c2009.
CON Contents: Green : the Fenian dynamiters -- Red : Russian nihilists and revolutionaries -- Black : Anarchists and terrorism -- Death in the sun : Terror and decolonisation -- Attention-seeking : Black September and international terrorism -- Guilty white kids : the Red Brigades and the Red Army faction -- Small-nation terror -- World rage : Islamist terrorism.

303.625 R551s 2008
AUT Riedel, Bruce O.
TIT The search for al Qaeda : its leadership, ideology, and future.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The Manhattan raid -- The thinker : Zawahiri -- The knight : Osama -- The host : Mullah Omar -- The stranger : Zarqawi -- Al Qaeda's plans -- How to defeat al Qaeda.

303.66 L929c 2008
AUT Lubkemann, Stephen C.
TIT Culture in chaos : an anthropology of the social condition in war.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: The "ordering of violent things" : war and displacement -- Contending with colonialism : migration and resistance -- Other struggles : migration and the transformation of social relations -- Imposing the new Mozambique : sowing the seeds of postcolonial disillusion -- Society and the state : mutual misrecognition at the gathering of war -- Prosecuting life by other means : the social logic of violence in a fragmented war -- Terrains of displacement : war-time mobility and immobility -- Tambem aqui fazemos amor : living in war -- Postconflict displacements : the social problematics of refugee return -- Transnational contentions : the moral economy of postconflict migration -- Where to be an ancestor? : the struggle for the postconflict social imagination.

Ref 304.6 B847m 2001
AUT Brewer, Cynthia A. ; Suchan, Trudy A.
TIT Mapping Census 2000, the geography of U.S. diversity. - 1st ESRI Press ed.
PUB Redlands, Calif. : ESRI Press, c2001.

304.663 B347p 2008
AUT Baum, Steven K.
TIT The psychology of genocide : perpetrators, bystanders, and rescuers.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

304.663 E92r 2008
AUT Evans, Gareth J.
TIT The responsibility to protect : ending mass atrocity crimes once and for all.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The problem : the recurring nightmare of mass atrocities -- The solution : from "the right to intervene" to "the responsibility to protect" -- The scope and limits of the responsibility to protect -- Before the crisis : the responsibility to prevent -- During the crisis : the responsibility to react -- Responding to crises : when is it right to fight? -- After the crisis : the responsibility to rebuild -- Institutional preparedness : the actors -- Building diplomatic, civilian, and military capability -- Mobilizing political will.

304.8 F931 2008
AUT Barkan, Elliott Robert ; Diner, Hasia R ; Kraut, Alan M.
TIT From arrival to incorporation : migrants to the U.S. in a global era.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
SER Nation of newcomers.
CON Contents: America and refugees : morality, rationality, and expedience, 1939-2005 / David W. Haines -- Migration, immigration, and naturalization in America / Karen A. Woodrow-Lafield -- Immigrant enclaves, ethnic goods, and the adjustment process / Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller -- Asian Americans, religion, and race / Paul Spickard -- "Meet me at the chat/chaat corner" : the embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs / Caroline B. Brettell -- Filipino families in the land of Lincoln : immigrant incorporation in Springfield, Illinois, since 1965 / Barbara M. Posadas and Roland L. Guyotte -- Ethnic-language maintenance and social mobility : a historical look at the development of Chinese schools in the United States / Min Zhou and Xiyuan Li -- The importance of being Italian : Italian Americans in American popular culture, 1960s to 1990s / Timothy J. Meagher -- The immigrant as threat to American security : a historical perspective / Gary Gerstle -- Post-9/11 government initiatives in comparative and historical perspectives / Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Anny Bakalian -- Immigrant "transnationalism" and the presence of the past / Roger Waldinger.

305.23 T136 2007
AUT Brennan, Samantha ; Noggle, Robert.
TIT Taking responsibility for children.
PUB Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007.
SER Studies in childhood and family in Canada.
CON Contents: Taking responsibility for children / Robert Noggle, Samantha Brennan -- Raising children: who is responsible for what? / Colin M. Macleod -- Parental responsibility / Jan Narveson -- Children, caregivers, friends / Amy Mullin -- Parent licensing and the protection of children / Mark C. Vopat -- Responsibility and children's rights: the case for restricting parental smoking / Samantha Brennan, Angela White -- Political liberalism and moral education: reflections on Mozert v. Hawkins / Marc Ramsay -- Education in a liberal society: implications of Ross / Karen Wendling -- Could there be a right not to be born an octuplet? / Laura M. Purdy.

305.23021 K44 2008
AUT Brown, Brett V.
TIT Key indicators of child and youth well-being : completing the picture.
PUB New York : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2008.

305.235 S528o 1999
AUT Shandler, Sara.
TIT Ophelia speaks : adolescent girls write about their search for self. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperPerennial, c1999.
CON Contents: Body under assault. Media-fed images ; Eating disorders ; Self-inflicted wounds ; Intoxication ; Rape and sexual abuse -- Family matters. Mothers ; Fathers ; Sisters and brothers ; Disintegrating foundations ; No safe place ; Pregnancy ; Death in the family -- The best and worst of friends. With the support of friends ; Friendship lost ; When friends die -- Touched by desire. Innocent attractions ; Seduced by sex ; Diverse sexualities ; Manipulated and controlled ; Broken-hearted independence -- Overcoming obstacles and coming into our own. The academic squeeze ; Depression and therapy ; Race, identity, and prejudice ; Questions of faith ; Feminist pride.

305.242 M411p 2008
AUT Mason, Matt.
TIT The pirate's dilemma : how youth culture is reinventing capitalism. - 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Free Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Intro: Enter the lollipop -- Punk capitalism : from D.I.Y. to downloading sneakers -- The Tao of pirates : sea forts, patent trolls, and why we need piracy -- We invented the remix : cut-'n'-paste culture creates some new common ground -- The art of war : street art, branding, and the battle for public space -- Boundaries : disco nuns, the death of the record industry, and our open-source future -- Real talk : how hip-hop makes billions and could bring about world peace -- Ethernomics : pillow fights, happy slaps, and other memes that leave a mark -- Outro: The pirate's dilemma : changing the game theory.

305.242 W927 2007
TIT World youth report, 2007 : young people's transition to adulthood : progress and challenges.
PUB New York : United Nations, Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, 2007.

305.4094 A425w 2008
AUT Allen, Ann Taylor.
TIT Women in twentieth-century Europe.
PUB Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
SER Gender and history.
CON Contents: Introduction : the best of times, the worst of times -- Women and the First World War, 1914-1918 -- Women as citizens in the inter-war democracies -- Women in the authoritarian and totalitarian states of the inter-war years -- Women in the Second World War -- The best of both worlds? : women in Western Europe in the post-war era, 1945-1970 -- Too emancipated? : women in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 -- The personal and the political : women's liberation in Western Europe, 1968-1990 -- Democracy without women : the post-Communist transition, 1989-present -- From equal rights to gender mainstreaming : women in the European Union, 1980-present -- Conclusion : emancipation as myth and reality.

305.42 D264p 2008
AUT Davis, Sue.
TIT The political thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton : women's rights and the American political traditions.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the multiple traditions -- Seneca Falls and beyond : attacking the cult of domesticity with equality and inalienable rights -- The 1850s : married women's property rights, divorce, and temperance -- Gatherings of unsexed women : separate spheres and women's rights -- The Civil War years : breaking down boundaries between public and private -- The postwar years : reconstruction and positivism -- The postwar years : the new departure, the alliance with labor, and the critique of marriage -- Not the word of God but the work of man : Cady Stanton's critique of religion -- "In the long weary march, each one walks alone" : evolution and anglo-saxonism at century's end -- Multiple feminisms and multiple traditions : Elizabeth Cady Stanton in American political thought.

305.4201 B154f 2008
AUT Bailey, Alison ; Cuomo, Chris J.
TIT The feminist philosophy reader.
PUB Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill, c2008.
CON Contents: A feminist turn in philosophy -- Oppression and resistance -- Sex and gender -- Sexualities -- Race and racism -- Postcolonial and transnational feminisms -- Feminist ethical theory -- Feminist political philosophies -- Feminist epistemologies -- Feminist ontologies.

305.42097 D611 2003
AUT Inness, Sherrie A.
TIT Disco divas : women and popular culture in the 1970s.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2003.
CON Contents: "Strange feverish years": the 1970s and women's changing roles / Sherrie A. Inness -- Madison Avenue versus The feminine mystique: the advertising industry's response to the women's movement / Steve Craig -- "It's a rip-off of the women's movement": second-wave feminism and The Stepford wives / Elyce Rae Helford -- "He said, she said": popular representations of sexual harassment and second-wave feminism / Carrie N. Baker -- "Airheads, Amazons, and bitches": cheerleaders and second-wave feminists in the popular press / Molly Engelhardt -- Foxy Brown on my mind: the racialized gendered politics of representation / Stephane Dunn -- "Who's that lady?" Ebony magazine and Black professional women / Toni C. King -- "Impress a new love with your culinary prowess": gender lessons in swinging singles cookbooks / Sherrie A. Inness -- Soap spin: changing female images in American soap operas / Thomas D. Petitjean, Jr. -- Hysterical scream or rebel yell? the politics of teen-idol fandom / Ilana Nash -- Reevaluating "jiggle TV": Charlie's Angels at twenty-five / Whitney Womack -- "You probably think this song is about you": 1970s women's music from Carole King to the disco divas / Judy Kutulas.

305.55 M818 2008
AUT Mooney, Nan.
TIT (Not) keeping up with our parents : the decline of the professional middle class.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The new reality -- From the New Deal to the new economy : a short history of the American middle class -- College promises : real debt and false expectations -- Career and contribution : society or the 401(k)? -- To have or to hold : money, marriage, and children -- What were the benefits? : health care, retirement and everything else the government was supposed to help provide -- Bridging the gaps : saving, spending, and debt -- A question of equity : rent rich or house poor -- From ripples to revolution : changing the system, changing ourselves.

305.697 G685i 2008
AUT Gottschalk, Peter ; Greenberg, Gabriel.
TIT Islamophobia : making Muslims the enemy.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Overview of Western encounters with Muslims -- Symbols of Islam, symbols of difference -- Stereotyping Muslims and establishing the American norm -- Extreme Muslims and the American middle ground -- Moments.

305.8 B322w 2008
AUT Basson, Lauren L.
TIT White enough to be American? : race mixing, indigenous people, and the boundaries of state and nation.
PUB Chapel Hill, Ill. : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
CON Contents: "Mixed blood" Americans: The Jane Waldron and Barney Traversee allotment disputes -- Métis Americans: Louis Riel and the Northwest territories -- Annexed Americans: Robert Wilcox, home rule, and self-government for Hawaii -- Anarchist Americans: Lucy Parsons, foreign bodies, and American soil.

305.8 J129r 2008
AUT Jackson, John L., Jr.
TIT Racial paranoia : the unintended consequences of political correctness : the new reality of race in America.
PUB New York : Basic Civitas, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: The paranoid paradoxes of race -- What Dave Chappelle can teach us about American history -- The birth of political correctness, and the white man's newest burden -- De cardio racism : hunting for racial wolves in sheep's clothing -- Racial paranoia's canonical texts -- Peter Piper picked peppers, but Humpty Dumpty got pushed, the productively paranoid stylings of hip-hop's spirituality -- When everyday life becomes a media event.

305.8 L192d 2008
AUT Lake, Marilyn ; Reynolds, Henry.
TIT Drawing the global colour line : white men's countries and the international challenge of racial equality.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
SER Critical perspectives on empire.
CON Contents: The coming man : Chinese migration to the goldfields -- The American commonwealth and the 'negro problem' -- 'The day will come' : Charles Pearson's disturbing prophecy -- Theodore Roosevelt's re-assertion of racial vigour -- Imperial brotherhood or white? Gandhi in South Africa -- White Australia points the way -- Defending the Pacific slope -- White ties across the ocean : the Pacific tour of the US fleet -- The Union of South Africa : white men reconcile -- International conferences : cosmopolitan amity or racial enmity? -- Japanese alienation and imperial ambition -- Racial equality? The Paris Peace Conference, 1919 -- Immigration restriction in the 1920s : 'segregation on a large scale' -- Individual rights without distinction.

305.8 W235p 2008
AUT Walters, Ronald W.
TIT The price of racial reconciliation.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
SER Politics of race and ethnicity.
CON Contents: Introduction -- A grand narrative of South African racial oppression -- The persistence of memory -- Truth, reconciliation, and reparations -- A grand narrative of black American oppression -- The grand narrative and the legacy of modern subordination -- Barriers to truth and reconciliation in America -- The reparations movement : a liberatory narrative -- The globalization of African reparations -- Postscript.

305.8054 D611 2007
AUT Brower, Barbara Anne ; Johnston, Barbara Rose.
TIT Disappearing peoples? : indigenous groups and ethnic minorities in South and Central Asia.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.

306.0973 B949m 2008
AUT Burd-Sharps, Sarah ; Lewis, Kristen ; Martins, Eduardo Borges.
TIT The measure of America : American human development report, 2008-2009.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press : Social Science Research Council, c2008.
SER Columbia/SSRC book.

306.20951 B433c 2008
AUT Bell, Daniel.
TIT China's new Confucianism : politics and everyday life in a changing society.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: From communism to Confucianism : changing discourses on China's political future -- War, peace, and China's soft power -- Hierarchical rituals for egalitarian societies -- Sex, singing, and civility : the costs and benefits of the karaoke trade -- How should employers treat domestic workers? -- The politics of sports : from the 2006 World Cup to the 2008 Olympics -- A critique of critical thinking -- Teaching political theory in Beijing -- On being Confucian : why Confucians needn't be old, serious, and conservative -- Appendices : Depoliticizing the Analects ; Jiang Qing's Political Confucianism.

306.36 C456 2008
AUT Marcus-Newhall, Amy ; Halpern, Diane F ; Tan, Sherylle J.
TIT The changing realities of work and family : a multidisciplinary approach.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell Pub, 2008.
SER Claremont applied social psychology series.
CON Contents: Employment and children : how do families and employers accommodate the demands? The myths and realities of maternal employment / Sherylle J. Tan ; The upside of maternal and dual-earner employment : a focus on positive family adaptations, home environments, and child development in the Fullerton longitudinal study / Adele Eskeles Gottfried and Allen W. Gottfried ; Work-family policies and the avoidance of bias against caregiving / Robert Drago ... [et al.] -- Culture, age, and sexual orientation : how does society deal with diversity? Community : the critical missing link in work-family research / Rosalind Chait Barnett and Karen G. Gareis ; Mothers' work-life experiences : the role of cultural factors / Amy Marcus-Newhall ... [et al.] ; Age, work, and family : balancing unique challenges for the twenty-first century / Jeanette N. Cleveland ; Bringing all families to work today : equality for gay and lesbian workers and families / M. V. Lee Badgett-- Work, stress, and health linkages : how does working and caring for families affect health? California paid family leave : is it working for caregivers? / Diane F. Halpern, Sherylle J. Tan, and Melissa Carsten ; Taking the temperature of family life : preliminary results from an observational study / Darby E. Saxbe and Rena L. Repetti ; Work, family, and health : work-family balance as a protective factor against stresses of daily life / Joseph G. Grzywacz, Adam B. Butler, and David M. Almeida -- Politics, business, and the legal system : what is the effect of work-family integration? Politics, motherhood, and Madame President / Jane Swift ; Business impact of flexibility : an imperative for working families / Donna Klein ; Setting the stage : do women want it all? / V. Sue Molina ; What psychologists need to know about family responsibilities discrimination / Joan C. Williams -- Issues and trends in work-family integration / Bettina J. Casad.

306.36 C456R 2008
AUT Rudd, Elizabeth ; Descartes, Lara.
TIT The changing landscape of work and family in the American middle class : reports from the field.
PUB Lanham : Lexington Books, c2008.
CON Contents: Changing landscapes of work and family / Lara Descartes, Elizabeth Rudd -- Working selves, moral selves: crafting the good person in the northern plains / Tom Fricke -- Kitchen conferences and garage cubicles: the merger of home and work in a 24-7 global economy / Alesia F. Montgomery -- "We pass the baby off at the factory gates": work and family in the manufacturing midwest / Elizabeth Rudd, Lawrence S. Root -- The work-family divide for low-income African Americans / Alford A. Young, Jr. -- American dreaming: refugees from corporate work seek the good life / Brian A. Hoey -- Patrolling the boundaries of childhood in middle-class "Ruburbia" / Lara Descartes, Conrad P. Kottak -- Gay family values: gay co-father families in straight communities / Diana M. Pash -- Black women have always worked: is there a work-family conflict among the black middle class? / Riché Jeneen, Daniel Barnes -- "It's like arming them": African American mothers' views on racial socialization / Erin N. Winkler -- Seeing the baby in the belly: family and kinship at the ultrasound scan / Sallie Han -- Stabilizing influence: cultural expectations of fatherhood / Todd L. Goodsell -- Focused on the Chinese American family: Chinese immigrant churches and childrearing / Carolyn Chen -- Choosing chastity: redefining the sexual double standard in the language of choice / M. Eugenia Deerman -- What Is a Family? / Kathryn M. Dudley.

306.362 J82w 2007
AUT Jordan, Don ; Walsh, Michael.
TIT White cargo : the forgotten history of Britain's White slaves in America.
PUB New York : New York University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: In the shadow of the myth -- A place for the unwanted -- The judge's dream -- The merchant prince -- Children of the city -- The jagged edge -- "They are not dogs" -- The people trade -- Spirited away -- Foreigners in their own land -- Dissent in the north -- The planter from Angola -- "Barbadosed" -- The grandees -- Bacon's rebellion -- Queen Anne's golden book -- Disunity in the union -- Lost and found -- "His Majesty's seven-year passengers" -- The last hurrah.

306.4 H581s 2008
AUT Herwitz, Daniel Alan.
TIT The star as icon : celebrity in the age of mass consumption.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The candle in the wind -- There is only one star icon (except in a Warhol picture) -- Therefore not all idols are American -- A star is born -- The film aura : an intermediate case -- Stargazing and spying -- Teleaesthetics -- Diana haunted and hunted on TV -- Star aura in consumer society (and other fatalities).

306.449 K91u 2008
AUT Kraus, Peter A.
TIT A union of diversity : language, identity and polity-building in Europe.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
SER Themes in European governance.
CON Contents: Introduction: The dynamics of European integration -- The European Union's democratic deficit and the search for a European demos -- The identity of a multinational polity -- Language and politics : a challenge for Europe -- The language question in the institutional complex of the European Union -- Political communication in the transnational civil society -- Recognition, self-determination and integration in a union of diversity.

306.461 G874b2 2008
AUT Grogan, Sarah.
TIT Body image : understanding body dissatisfaction in men, women, and children. - 2nd ed.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Culture and body image -- The idealization of slenderness -- The basis of body shape ideals -- The diet industry -- Recent cultural trends -- Summary -- 3. Women and body image -- Assessment of body image -- Behavioral indicators of body dissatisfaction -- Social construction of femininity -- Summary -- 4. Men and body image -- Assessment of body image -- Behavioral indicators of body dissatisfaction -- Social construction of masculinity -- Summary -- 5. Media effects -- Surveys relating media exposure to body image -- Studies investigating direct effects of media images on body image -- Theories of media influence -- Body shape role models -- Recent developments -- Reducing the effects of media imagery -- Summary -- 6. Age, social class, ethnicity and sexuality -- Body image across the life span -- Ethnicity and body image -- Social class and body image -- Body shape, sexual attractiveness and sexuality -- Summary -- 7. Promoting positive body image -- Psychological factors predicting positive body image -- General conclusions -- Summary.

306.461 P857 2008
AUT Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio.
TIT Postcolonial disorders.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
SER [Ethnographic studies in subjectivity ; 8].
CON Contents: Postcolonial disorders : reflections on subjectivity in the contemporary world / Byron J. Good ... [et al.] -- Madness and the politically real : reflections on violence in postdictatorial Spain / Begoña Aretxaga -- Indonesia Sakit : Indonesian disorders and the subjective experience and interpretive politics of contemporary Indonesian artists / Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron J. Good -- The political dimensions of emasculation : fantasy, conspiracy, and estrangement among populist leaders in post-new order Lombok, Indonesia / John M. McDougall -- Haunting ghosts : madness, gender, and Ensekirite in Haiti in the democratic era / Erica Caple James -- Laboratory of intervention : the humanitarian governance of the postcommunist Balkan territories / Mariella Pandolfi -- Everyday AIDS practices : contestations of borders and infectious disease in southwest China / Sandra Teresa Hyde -- Of maids and prostitutes : Indonesian female migrants in the new Asian hinterlands / Johan Lindquist -- Ambivalent inquiry : dilemmas of AIDS in the Republic of Congo / David Eaton -- To live with what would otherwise be unendurable, II : caught in the borderlands of Palestine/Israel / Michael M. J. Fischer -- The Mucker War : a history of violence and silence / João Biehl -- Institutional persons and personal institutions : the asylum and marginality in rural Ireland / A. Jamie Saris -- The knot of the soul : postcolonial conundrums, madness, and the imagination / Stefania Pandolfo -- Consuming grief : infant death in the postcolonial time of intervention / Sarah Pinto -- Postcoloniality as the aftermath of terror among Vietnamese refugees / Janis H. Jenkins, Michael Hollifield -- Cross-cultural psychiatry in medical-legal documentation of suffering : human rights abuses involving transnational corporations and Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma / Kathleen Allden.

306.6 M148r5 2008
AUT McGuire, Meredith B.
TIT Religion : the social context. - 5th ed.
PUB Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, 2008, c2002.
CON Contents: The sociological perspective on religion -- The provision of meaning and belonging -- The individual's religion -- Official and nonofficial religion -- The dynamics of religious collectivities -- Religion, social cohesion, and conflict -- The impact of religion on social change -- Religion in the modern world.

306.732 D631p 2008
AUT Doan, Alesha E. ; Williams, Jean Calterone.
TIT The politics of virginity : abstinence in sex education.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
SER Reproductive rights and policy, 1558-8734.
CON Contents: Under the radar : the advent of stealth tactics in morality policy -- Tightening the sexuality noose : Title V and abstinence-only education -- "Good girls" or "dirty whores?" : images and behaviors of adolescent women -- Resurrecting the chastity belt : lessons from abstinence-only curricula -- In their own words : sexuality, knowledge, and power -- Whom and what are we "saving"? : morality, sexuality, and abstinence.

306.766 G619c 2008
AUT Goldman, Linda.
TIT Coming out, coming in : nurturing the well-being and inclusion of gay youth in mainstream society.
PUB New York : Routledge, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The world of gay youth : from exclusion to inclusion -- Dispelling old myths : creating new insights -- Coming out : finding freedom to be -- Counseling youth on LGBT issues : toward self-acceptance -- Speak up and share : self-expression and the creative arts -- The school environment : creating an oasis of safety -- Parenting LGBT children : a foundation for love and support -- "Coming in" : LGBT family life -- Community counts : a place for friends and family -- Conclusion: A last look at a new beginning -- Resources on LGBT issues for youth and adults : celebrating diversity -- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender organizations : support for all.

306.768 G528t 2008
AUT Girshick, Lori B.
TIT Transgender voices : beyond women and men.
PUB Hanover : University Press of New England, c2008.
CON Contents: The social construction of biological facts -- Self-definition : birth through adolescence -- Constructing the self : options and challenges -- Coming out to community, family, and work -- Gender policing -- Inner turmoil and moving toward acceptance -- Epilogue: Gender liberation.

320.082 P769 2008
AUT Wolbrecht, Christina ; Beckwith, Karen ; Baldez, Lisa.
TIT Political women and American democracy.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Gender as a category of political analysis in American political development / Gretchen Ritter -- Gender, public opinion, and political reasoning / Leonie Huddy, Erin Cassese, and Mary-Kate Lizotte -- Gender in the aggregate, gender in the individual, gender and political action / Nancy Burns -- What revolution? : incorporating intersectionality in women and politics / Jane Junn and Nadia Brown -- Women's movements and women in movements : influencing American democracy from the "outside"? / Lee Ann Banaszak -- Representation by gender and parties / Kira Sanbonmatsu -- Women as candidates in American politics : the continuing impact of sex and gender / Kathleen Dolan -- Women as office holders : linking descriptive and substantive representation / Beth Reingold -- Theorizing women's representation in the United States / Suzanne Dovi -- Political women in comparative democracies : a primer for Americanists / Lisa Baldez.

320.0973 R511g 2008
AUT Richard, Carl J.
TIT Greeks and Romans bearing gifts : how the ancients inspired the Founding Fathers.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: The storytellers and the founders -- Sparta and individual rights -- The Persian wars and the superiority of republican government -- Athens and the perils of democracy -- The fall of Greece and the need for a strong central government -- Early Rome and republican virtue -- The fall of the Roman republic and the need for vigilance -- The Roman emperors and the preciousness of liberty.

Ref 320.512 E56 2008
AUT Hamowy, Ronald.
TIT The encyclopedia of libertarianism.
PUB Los Angeles : SAGE, c2008.

320.5209 L991a 2009
AUT Lyons, Paul.
TIT American conservatism : thinking it, teaching it.
PUB Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2009.

320.9675 D141g 2008
AUT Daley, Patricia.
TIT Gender & genocide in Burundi : the search for spaces of peace in the Great Lakes Region. - 1st pbk. ed.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2008.
SER African issues.

320.973 T632t 2009
AUT Tocqueville, Alexis de.
TIT Tocqueville on America after 1840 : letters and other writings.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
CON Contents: 1. Letters -- Letters: 1840-1847 -- Letters: 1848-1852 -- Letters: 1853-1856 -- Letters: 1857-1859 -- Undated and partially dated letters -- Letters between Tocqueville and his French and other correspondents -- 2: Speeches, articles, and diplomatic papers -- American in the 1840s -- America and the Revolution of 1848 -- Tocqueville's contributions to the debates on the Constitution of the Second Republic -- The Poussin Affair -- Final thoughts on the American Constitution.

320.97301 P451b 2008
AUT Perlmutter, David D.
TIT Blogwars.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Beyond the blog "revolution" -- From cybercommunity to Blogland -- The ascent of blogs -- Mercuries and wisebots: external political roles of bloggers -- "My fellow blogging Americans": Internal political roles of bloggers.

320.98 V227p3 2009
AUT Vanden, Harry E ; Prevost, Gary.
TIT Politics of Latin America : the power game. - 3rd ed.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
CON Contents: 1. An introduction to twenty-first century Latin America -- 2. Early history -- 3. Democracy, dictators, and Tío Sam: a historical overview from independence to the present day -- 4. The other Americans -- 5. Society, family, and gender -- 6. Religion in Latin America -- 7. The political economy of Latin America -- 8. Democracy and authoritarianism: Latin American political culture -- 9. Politics, power, institutions, and actors -- 10. Struggling for change: revolution, social and political movements in Latin America -- 11. Guatemala / Susanne Jonas -- 12. Mexico / Nora Hamilton -- 13. Cuba / Gary Prevost -- 14. Brazil / Wilber Albert Chaffee -- 15. Argentina / Aldo C. Vacs -- 16. Chile / Eduardo Silva -- 17. Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger -- 18. Colombia / John C. Dugas -- 19. Nicaragua / Gary Prevost and Harry E. Vanden -- 20. Bolivia / Waltraud Q. Morales -- Appendix 1: Presidential elections -- Appendix 2: Recent Legislative elections.

322.10973 L237r 2008
AUT Lambert, Frank.
TIT Religion in American politics : a short history.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Providential and secular America : founding the republic -- Elusive Protestant unity : Sunday mails, Catholic immigration, and sectional division -- The "gospel of wealth" and the "social gospel" : industrialization and the rise of corporate America -- Faith and science : the modernist-fundamentalist controversy -- Religious and political liberalism : the rise of big government from the New Deal to the Cold War -- Civil rights as a religious movement : politics in the streets -- The rise of the "religious right" : the Reagan revolution and the "Moral Majority" -- Reemergence of the "religious left"? : America's culture war in the early twenty-first century.

323 W195j 2008
AUT Walldorf, C. William.
TIT Just politics : human rights and the foreign policy of great powers.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2008.
SER Cornell studies in security affairs.
CON Contents: Introduction : human rights and foreign policy -- Humanitarianism and commitment termination -- Suffering Christians in British-Ottoman relations -- Torture and summary execution in U.S.-Latin American relations -- Apartheid in U.S.-South African relations -- Human rights and vital security -- The implications of enforced humanitarian norms.

323.042 G849m 2008
AUT Griffin, John David ; Newman, Brian.
TIT Minority report : evaluating political equality in America.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
SER American politics and political economy.
CON Contents: Minority groups and political equality in America -- Which groups govern? -- Differences in political preferences and priorities -- Differences in policy representation -- Differences in legislative representation -- Pluralism and political representation -- Descriptive representation and political equality -- The rewards of voting -- Conclusion: The future of political (in)equality.

323.0973 T882w 2008
AUT Tsesis, Alexander.
TIT We shall overcome : a history of civil rights and the law.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Liberty through revolution -- Constitutional republic of equals? -- The controversy about slavery -- Sectional compromise and national conflict -- Reconstructing the American dream -- Unraveling constitutional reconstruction -- Political restrictions and developments -- Progressive transitions -- Rights in the regulatory state -- The war against tyranny -- Expanding civil rights -- The Warren court's achievements -- Sketches of the continuing legal effort.

323.1196 I89i 2008
AUT Iton, Richard.
TIT In search of the Black fantastic : politics and popular culture in the post-Civil Rights era.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Transgressing boundaries.

323.445 M383f 2008
AUT Martin, Shannon E.
TIT Freedom of information : the news the media use.
PUB New York : Peter Lang, c2008.
SER Mediating American history, 0085-2473 ; v. 1.

323.49 G492w 2008
AUT Ginbar, Yuval.
TIT Why not torture terrorists? : moral, practical, and legal aspects of the 'ticking bomb' justification for torture.
PUB Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Private morality : is it morally justifiable for an individual to torture a terrorist in order to save many innocent lives? -- Public, practical morality : is it morally justifiable for a state to torture in order to save many innocent lives? -- Legalizing torture 1- four models -- Legalizing torture 2- three issues.

323.6 S125p 2009
AUT Sadiq, Kamal.
TIT Paper citizens : how illegal immigrants acquire citizenship in developing countries.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
CON Contents: A paradox: illegal immigrants as citizens. The process ; Searching for illegal immigrants ; Networks of complicity ; Blurred membership ; Documentary citizenship -- The proof. Voters across borders ; Tough ain't enough ; After citizenship.

324.241 S534L 2007
AUT Shaw, Eric.
TIT Losing Labour's soul? : new Labour and the Blair government 1997-2007.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
CON Contents: The British social democratic tradition -- New Labour and social justice -- Equality of opportunity : the case of secondary education -- Is what matters what works? The case of the private finance initiative -- Modernisation in action : the case of NHS reform -- New Labour's representational role : the case of employment relations -- Dynamics of New Labour -- For what does New Labour stand? -- For whom does New Labour stand? -- Conclusion : losing Labour's soul?.

324.268 V242w 2007
AUT Van der Westhuizen, Christi.
TIT White power & the rise and fall of the National Party.
PUB Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2007.

324.273 R312 2008
AUT Teixeira, Ruy A.
TIT Red, blue, and purple America : the future of election demographics.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The new suburban politics : a county-based analysis of metropolitan voting trends since 2000 / Robert Lang, Thomas Sanchez, and Alan Berube -- The big sort : migration, community, and politics in the United States of "those people" / Bill Bishop and Robert Cushing -- Race, immigration, and America's changing electorate / William Frey -- The decline of the white working class and the rise of a mass upper-middle class / Alan Abramowitz and Ruy Teixeira -- Changes in family structure, family values, and politics, 1972-2006 / Tom W. Smith -- Religion and American politics : more secular, more evangelical, or both? / John Green and E.J. Dionne Jr. -- The aging of the Boomers and the rise of the Millennials / Scott Keeter.

324.66 E38 2008
AUT Alvarez, R. Michael ; Hall, Thad E. ; Hyde,Susan D.
TIT Election fraud : detecting and deterring electoral manipulation.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Corruption of the election process under U.S. federal law / Craig C. Donsanto -- International principles for election integrity / Thad E. Hall and Tova Andrea Wang -- Beyond election fraud : manipulation, violence, and foreign power intervention / Gamze Çavdar -- Measuring perceptions of election threats : survey data from voters and elites / R. Michael Alvarez and Thad E. Hall -- Caught in the act: recent federal election fraud cases / Delia Bailey -- Correlates of fraud : studying state election fraud allegations / R. Michael Alvarez and Frederick J. Boehmke -- Fraud or failure? what incident reports reveal about election anomalies and irregularities / D. Roderick Kiewiet ... [et al.] -- Identifying and preventing signature fraud on ballot measure petitions / Todd Donovan and Daniel A. Smith -- The case of the 2002 general election / R. Michael Alvarez and Jonathan N. Katz -- Election forensics : the second-digit Benford's law test and recent American presidential elections / Walter R. Mebane Jr -- On the trail of fraud : estimating the flow of votes between Russia's elections / Mikhail Myagkov, Peter C. Ordeshook, and Dimitry Shaikin -- How international election observers detect and deter fraud / Susan D. Hyde -- Unintended consequences of election monitoring / Alberto Simpser.

324.73 M235 2008
AUT Ward, Stephen.
TIT Making a difference : a comparative view of the role of the Internet in election politics.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2008.
SER Lexington studies in political communication.
CON Contents: Chile : promoting the personal connection : the Internet and presidential election campaigns / Taylor C. Boas -- Australia : potential unfulfilled? The 2004 election online / Rachel Gibson and Ian McAllister -- Singapore : elections and the Internet : online activism and offline quiescence / Randolph Kluver -- Indonesia : electoral politics and the Internet / David T. Hill -- United States : Internet and elections / Diana Owen and Richard Davis -- Canada : party websites and online campaigning during the 2004 and 2006 federal elections / Tamara A. Small, David Taras, and David Danchuk -- The United Kingdom : parties and the 2005 virtual election campaign : not quite normal? / Stephen Ward, Rachel Gibson, and Wainer Lusoli -- Spain : cyberquake in a soft democracy? The role of the Internet in the 2004 general elections / José-Luis Dader -- Belgium : websites as party campaign tools : comparing the 2000 and 2006 local election campaigns / Marc Hooghe and Sara Vissers -- Netherlands : digital campaigning in the 2002 and 2003 parliamentary elections / Gerrit Voerman and Marcel Boogers -- Italy : the evolution of e-campaigning 1996-2006 / Sara Bentivegna -- Germany : online campaign professionalism in the 2002 and 2005 national elections / Eva Johanna Schweitzer.

324.973 K21u 2008
AUT Kaufmann, Karen M. ; Petrocik, John R. ; Shaw, Daron R.
TIT Unconventional wisdom : facts and myths about American voters.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Preface -- Facts and myths about American voters : an introduction -- Americans hate to love their party, but they do! -- Are American voters polarized? -- Who swings? -- Soccer moms and other myths about the gender gap -- The young and not-so-restless voters -- The partisan bias of turnout -- Campaign effects in the twenty-first century -- Hard facts and conventional wisdom as we look to the future.

324.973 V971 2008
AUT Whitaker, Lois Duke.
TIT Voting the gender gap.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2008.

325.73 K26 2008
AUT Brotherton, David ; Kretsedemas, Philip.
TIT Keeping out the other : a critical introduction to immigration enforcement today.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

325.73 N564i 2008
AUT Newton, Lina.
TIT Illegal, alien, or immigrant : the politics of immigration reform.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : the power of a good story -- Considering unlikely outcomes : the peculiar politics of immigration -- Cases, contexts, and the puzzle of policy change -- Contesting illegalities : the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act -- Immigrants versus taxpayers : the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act -- Problem Mexicans : race, nationalism, and their limits in contemporary immigration policy -- Conclusion : power and image in immigration policymaking.

327.172 C831p 2008
AUT Cortright, David.
TIT Peace : a history of movements and ideas.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: What is peace? -- pt. I: Movements. The first peace societies -- Towards internationalism -- Facing fascism -- Debating disarmament -- Confronting the Cold War -- Banning the bomb -- Refusing war -- pt. II: Themes. Religion -- A force more powerful -- Democracy -- Social justice -- Responsibility to protect -- A moral equivalent -- Realizing disarmament -- Realistic pacifism.

327.41073 C187u 2007
AUT Campbell, Duncan Andrew.
TIT Unlikely allies : Britain, America and the Victorian origins of the special relationship.
PUB London : Hambledon Continuum, 2007.
CON Contents: The war both sides won -- Who reads an American book? -- Trade, immigration and the transfer of capital and technology -- Taking liberties and beacons of freedom -- Squabbles and squalls: the scramble for North America and the diplomatic relationship form 1815 to 1860 -- John Bull, Cousin Jonathan and Johnny Reb: Great Britain and the American Civil War, 1861-65 -- The road to rapprochement: Anglo-American diplomatic relations from 1865 to the First World War -- Arguing affinities; debating differences: British politics and the United States in the later nineteenth century -- Towards a transatlantic culture -- Conclusion: closer cousins?.

327.730172 R782a 2008
AUT Root, Hilton L.
TIT Alliance curse : how America lost the Third World.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Economic logic of the alliance curse -- Democratic paradoxes : institutional constraints on U.S. democracy promotion -- The dangers of triumphalism -- Incompatible missions and unsuitable organizations -- Social bifurcation and ultimatum bargaining : the vision gap in U.S. reconstruction efforts -- The United States and China : the power of illusion -- The United States as master builder in the Philippines -- Illegitimate offspring : South Vietnam -- Mirage of stability : the United States and the Shah of Iran -- America's moral dilemma in South Asia -- Walking with the devil : the commitment trap in U.S. foreign policy -- Redeeming democracy through the market : do open markets produce open politics? -- Linking U.S. security to Third World development -- Reframing the purpose of U.S. globalism : strategies, institutions, and beliefs.

327.73047 G734r 2008
AUT Graebner, Norman A ; Burns, Richard Dean ; Siracusa, Joseph M.
TIT Reagan, Bush, Gorbachev : revisiting the end of the Cold War.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: The Carter years -- Ronald Reagan and the second Cold War -- Reagan initiatives and Soviet turmoil -- The anti-Soviet crusade continues -- The Reagan doctrine -- The Reagan-Gorbachev détente -- The vanishing Cold War -- In retrospect.

327.7306 C785u 2007
AUT Copson, Raymond W.
TIT The United States in Africa : Bush policy and beyond.
PUB London ; New York : Zed Books ; Cape Town, South Africa : David Philip ; New York : Distributed in the USA exlusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
SER African arguments.

330.973 P561b 2008
AUT Phillips, Kevin.
TIT Bad money : reckless finance, failed politics, and the global crisis of American capitalism.
PUB New York : Viking, 2008.
CON Contents: Preface : The political economics of deception -- Introduction : the panic of August -- Finance : The new real economy? -- Bullnomics : its favoritism and fictions -- Securitization : the insecurity of it all -- Peak oil : a potential pivot of the 2010s -- The politics of evasion : debt, finance, and oil -- The global crisis of American capitalism -- Appendix: Global public opinion and the loss of respect for the United States, 2003-7.

331.252 G424w 2008
AUT Ghilarducci, Teresa.
TIT When I'm sixty-four : the plot against pensions and the plan to save them.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The attack on retirement. -- Hope for retirement's future -- The collapse of retirement income -- When bad things happen to good pensions - promises get broken -- Do-it-yourself pensions -- The future of Social Security -- pt. 2. What is good about America's retirement income security system. -- The short history of old age leisure in America -- The distribution of retirement time : who really gets to retire? -- Working : the new retirement's effect on the economy -- pt. 3. The rescue plan for retirement. -- The American labor movement : advocating retirement and obtaining pensions -- Rescue plan for American workers' retirement : averting the end of retirement.

331.252 L917w 2008
AUT Lowenstein, Roger.
TIT While America aged : how pension debts ruined General Motors, stopped the NYC subways, bankrupted San Diego, and loom as the next financial crisis.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Who owns General Motors? -- Walter Reuther and the Treaty of Detroit -- The anti-Reuther -- An entitled class -- On strike! -- Finest city -- Pension plot -- The bill comes due -- Conclusion : the way out.

331.398 M966w 2008
AUT Munnell, Alicia Haydock ; Sass, Steven A.
TIT Working longer : the solution to the retirement income challenge.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.

331.4 G325 2008
AUT Watt, Helen M. G ; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.
TIT Gender and occupational outcomes : longitudinal assessments of individual, social, and cultural influences. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2008.
CON Contents: Gender and occupational outcomes: an introduction / Helen M.G. Watt -- Mathematics as the critical filter? -- Gender, mathematics achievement, and the educational and occupational aspirations of Canadian youth / Jennifer D. Shapka, José F. Domene, and Daniel P. Keating -- Mathematics as the critical filter: curricular effects on gendered career choices / Xin Ma and Willis Johnson -- Psychological processes and gendered participation in math, science and technology-based careers -- What motivates females and males to pursue sex-stereotyped careers? / Helen M.G. Watt -- Gendered high school course selection as a precursor of gendered careers: the mediating role of self-concept and intrinsic value / Gabriel Nagy ... [et al.] -- Testing for time-invariant and time-varying predictors of self-perceived ability in math, language arts, and science: a look at the gender factor / Barbara M. Byrne -- A sociomotivational analysis of gender effects on persistence in science and technology: a 5-year longitudinal study / Simon Larose ... [et al.] -- The importance of family considerations, family, and biology in gendered career choices -- Is the desire for a family-flexible job keeping young women out of male-dominated occupations? / Pamela M. Frome ... [et al.] -- Gender-typed occupational choices: the long-term impact of parents' beliefs and expectations / Christina S. Chhin, Martha M. Bleeker, and Janis E. Jacobs -- Biological contributors to gendered occupational outcome: prenatal androgen effects on predictors of outcome / Sheri A. Berenbaum and Kristina L. Korman Bryk -- Social and institutional constraints on women's career development -- Gendered occupational outcomes from multilevel perspectives: the case of professional training and work in Turkey / Ahu Tatl\u0131, Mustafa Özbilgin, and Fatma Küskü -- Advancing women faculty in science and engineering: an effort in institutional transformation / Abigail Stewart and Danielle LaVaque-Manty -- The continuing technological revolution: a comparison of three regions' strategies for creating women-inclusive workplaces / Christina M. Vogt.

331.4133 D295 2006
AUT Blau, Francine D ; Brinton, Mary C ; Grusky, David B.
TIT The declining significance of gender?.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2006.

331.4133 G549 2009
AUT Barreto, Manuela da Costa ; Ryan, Michelle K ; Schmitt, Michael T.
TIT The glass ceiling in the 21st century : understanding barriers to gender equality. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2009.
SER Psychology of women book series.
CON Contents: Introduction: Is the glass ceiling still relevant in the 21st century? / Manuela Barreto, Michelle K. Ryan, and Michael T. Schmitt -- I: Developments in workplace gender equality. Stereotypes about women, men, and leaders: Have times changed? / Alice H. Eagly and Sabine Sczesny -- Rose-colored glasses: how tokenism and comparisons with the past reduce the visibility of gender inequality / Michael T. Schmitt, Jennifer R. Spoor, Kelly Danaher, and Nyla R. Branscombe -- Warmth, competence, and ambivalent sexism: vertical assault and collateral damage / Mina Cikara and Susan T. Fiske -- II: Responses to subtle barriers women face. The self-fulfilling effects of contemporary sexism: how it affects women's well-being and behavior / Manuela Barreto, Naomi Ellemers, Sezgin Cihangir, and Katherine Stroebe -- The effects of gender stereotypes on women's career choice: opening the glass door / Shen Zhang, Toni Schmader, and Chad Forbes -- III: Gendered experience in the workplace. The stress of working on the edge: implications of glass cliffs for both women and organizations / Michelle K. Ryan, S. Alexander Haslam, Mette D. Hersby, Clara Kulich, and M. Dana Wilson-Kovacs -- Sexual harassment and the glass ceiling / Margaret S. Stockdale and Gargi Bhattacharya -- Ceilings and walls: work-life and "family-friendly" policies / Laura Sabattini and Faye J. Crosby -- IV: Solutions: advancing women's equality in the workplace. Cross-cultural connections: leveraging social networks for women's advancement / Laurie Hunt, Gina LaRoche, Stacy Blake-Beard, Eleanor Chin, Marisol Arroyave, and Maureen Scully -- Increasing the representation and status of women in employment: the effectiveness of affirmative action / Aarti Iyer -- Managing diversity in work groups: how identity processes affect diverse work groups / Floor Rink and Naomi Ellemers.

331.88 R129 2009
AUT Lee, Frederic S. ; Bekken, Jon.
TIT Radical economics and labor : essays inspired by the IWW Centennial.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
SER Routledge advances in heterodox economics ; 3.

332.7097 B737 2008
AUT Retsinas, Nicolas Paul ; Belsky, Eric S.
TIT Borrowing to live : consumer and mortgage credit revisited.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
SER James A. Johnson metro series.
CON Contents: Introduction : borrowing to live / Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky -- Consumer and mortgage credit at the crossroads / Eric S. Belsky, Ren S. Essene, and Nicholas P. Retsinas -- Where does it go? Spending by the financially constrained / Shawn Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano -- Financial decisionmaking processes of low-income individuals / Edna R. Sawady and Jennifer Tescher -- The legal infrastructure of subprime and nontraditional home mortgages / Patricia A. McCoy and Elizabeth Renuart -- The impact of state antipredatory lending laws : policy implications and insights / Raphael W. Bostic ...[et. al.] -- Behaviorally informed home mortgage credit regulation / Michael S. Barr, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Eldar Shafir -- Interventions in mortgage default : policies and practices to prevent home loss and lower costs / Amy Crews Cutts and William A. Merrill -- Looking beyond our shores : consumer protection regulation lessons from

332.72 M971c 2008
AUT Muolo, Paul ; Padilla, Mathew.
TIT Chain of blame : how Wall Street caused the mortgage and credit crisis.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.
CON Contents: Angelo speaks, the worldwide contagion begins -- The repo man meets the bald granny: a short history of subprime -- The death of the Bailey Building and Loan, the rise of millionaire loan brokers and Countrywide -- The Beach Boys of B&C: how Roland Arnall became the Johnny Appleseed of subprime -- Angelo rising: the son of a Bronx butcher makes good -- The holy roller of REITs -- The end of the (new) century -- A conspiracy by Merrill? -- A warning from Lewie: CDOs, SIVs, and other things no one understands -- Deep in the belly of the bear -- Armageddon times: the tan man departs, bye-bye Bear -- What the hell happened? Ten bad years for housing in America -- We buried (some of) our garbage overseas.

332.72 S556s 2008
AUT Shiller, Robert J.
TIT The subprime solution : how today's global financial crisis happened and what to do about it.
PUB Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.

332.72 Z27f 2009
AUT Zandi, Mark M.
TIT Financial shock : a 360° look at the subprime mortgage implosion, and how to avoid the next financial crisis.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2009.
CON Contents: Subprime précis -- Sizing up subprime -- Everyone should own a home -- Chairman Greenspan counts on housing -- Global money men want a piece -- Bad lenders drive out the good -- Financial engineers and their creations -- Home buildings run aground -- As the regulatory cycle turns -- Boom, bubble, bust, and crash -- Credit crunch -- Timid policymakers turn bold -- Economic fallout -- Back to the future.

333.91 L322 2008
AUT Doyle, Mary, LL. B ; Drew, Cynthia A.
TIT Large-scale ecosystem restoration : five case studies from the United States.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2008.
SER Science and practice of ecological restoration.

333.95 M161w 2008
AUT Maclaurin, James ; Sterelny, Kim.
TIT What is biodiversity?.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Taxonomy red in tooth and claw -- Species: a modest proposal -- Disparity and diversity -- Morphology and morphological diversity -- Development and diversity -- Explorations in ecospace -- Conservation biology: the measurement problem -- Conservation biology: the evaluation problem -- Concluding remarks.

336.2 B218w 2008
AUT Bank, Steven A. ; Stark, Kirk J ; Thorndike, Joseph J.
TIT War and taxes.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The American Revolution and the War of 1812 -- The Civil War -- World War I -- World War II -- Korea and Vietnam -- 9/11 and the War in Iraq.

338.04 K45b 2007
AUT Khanna, Tarun.
TIT Billions of entrepreneurs : how China and India are reshaping their futures--and yours.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Reimagining China and India -- I: Foundations -- Statecraft : the art, science and illusion of governing 2.4 billion people -- Bias and noise : information accessibility in China and India -- Fiat and fairness : why China can build cities overnight and India cannot -- Manna and Miasma : meanderings through the Chinese and Indian financial firmaments -- II: Enterprise -- Infosys and TCL : unshackling indigenous enterprise -- Microsoft and metro : views from the world's corner offices -- Diaspora dividends : paragons and pariahs from the overseas Chinese and Indians -- Village engineering and reengineering : in search of rural fortunes -- Barefoot doctors and medical tourists : futile attempts to confront the Grim Reaper -- III: Future -- Old and new roads to Mandalay : hard power in Burma and beyond -- Film stars and gurus : soft power in Bollywood and beyond -- Buddha and software : old links and new -- Corporate bridges : linking China, India, and the West.

338.1 T584w 2009
AUT Timmer, C. Peter.
TIT A world without agriculture : the structural transformation in historical perspective.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2009.
SER The Henry Wendt lecture series.

338.1736 H737r 2008
AUT Hollander, Gail M.
TIT Raising cane in the 'glades : the global sugar trade and the transformation of Florida.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
CON Contents: From Everglades to sugar bowl and back again? -- The sugar question in frontier Florida -- Securing sugar, draining the 'Glades -- Wish fulfillment for Florida growers : managed market, disciplined labor, engineered landscape -- The Cold War heats up the nation's sugar bowl -- A restructured industry -- Questioning sugar in the Everglades.

338.37 D213h 2008
AUT Darby, Andrew.
TIT Harpoon : into the heart of whaling.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2008.

338.43 V541p 2008
AUT Vernon, John A ; Golec, Joseph.
TIT Pharmaceutical price regulation : public perceptions, economic realities, and empirical evidence.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2008.
CON Contents: R&D investment in new drugs : how it works, and how it is harmed by price controls -- Government price regulation and the impact on pharmaceutical R&D spending -- Government intervention and the threats to drug R&D -- Summary and conclusions : why public policy must recognize the trade-off between lower prices today and life-saving medicines tomorrow.

339.47 D514i 2008
TIT The industrious revolution : consumer behavior and the household economy, 1650 to the present.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The transformation of consumer desire in the long eighteenth century -- The origins of the industrious revolution -- The industrious revolution : the supply of labor -- The industrious revolution : consumer demand -- The breadwinner-homemaker household -- A second industrious revolution?.

340.071 M825r 2008
AUT Moore, Wendy Leo.
TIT Reproducing racism : white space, elite law schools, and racial inequality.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: White space -- The imperious law school : the deep structure of white institutional space -- Selective legal memory and the discourse of abstract individualism -- We give them the moon, but still they complain : color-blind racism in the law schools -- "Wow, you are really articulate!" : law students of color negotiating white space -- Still asking too much.

Ref 341.23 M822e 2008 v.1-2
AUT Moore, John Allphin ; Pubantz, Jerry.
TIT Encyclopedia of the United Nations. - 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2008.
SER Facts on File library of world history.

341.69 P474i 2008
AUT Peskin, Victor.
TIT International justice in Rwanda and the Balkans : virtual trials and the struggle for state cooperation.
PUB Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: International war crimes tribunals and the politics of state cooperation -- Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 and the politics of state cooperation -- International justice and Serbia's troubled democratic transition -- Franjo Tu\u0111man and the politics of international justice -- The politics of state cooperation in Croatia's democratic era -- Rwanda virtual trials, international justice, and the politics of shame -- The struggle to create the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda -- "Trials of cooperation" and the battles for Karamira and Barayagwiza -- Investigating Rwandan patriotic front atrocities and the politics of bearing witness -- Victor's justice revisited : the prosecutor vs. Kagame -- Thepresent and future of international criminal justice.

342.73 S559r 2008
AUT Shortell, Christopher.
TIT Rights, remedies, and the impact of state sovereign immunity.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2008.
SER SUNY series in American constitutionalism.

342.73 S628f 2006
AUT Skousen, W. Cleon.
TIT The 5000 year leap : the 28 great ideas that changed the world.
PUB [Washington, D.C.] : National Center for Constitutional Studies, 2007, c2006.

342.7308 A511 2009
AUT Fredericks, Carrie.
TIT Amendment XIV : due process.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, 2009.
SER Constitutional amendments : beyond the Bill of Rights.
CON Contents: Historical background on Amendment XIV -- Testing the due process clause of Amendment XIV -- Current due process issues.

342.7308 I33 2008
AUT Buff, Rachel.
TIT Immigrant rights in the shadows of citizenship.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
SER Nation of newcomers.
CON Contents: Narratives of refuge and resistance -- On being here and not here: noncitizen status in American immigration law / John S. W. Park -- Acts of resistance in asylum seekers' persecution narratives / Connie G. Oxford -- Family, unvalued: sex and security: a short history of exclusions / Scott Long, Jessica Sern, and Adam Francouer -- Primary source: Boutilier v. Immigration Service, 1967 -- Beyond the day without an immigrant: immigrant communities building a sustainable movement / Eunice Hyunhye Cho -- Primary source: National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights, statements of support, spring 2006 -- Appendix: Groups endorsing the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006 -- Ambivalent allies, reluctant rivals, and disavowed deviants -- " Pale face 'fraid you crowd him out": racializing "Indians" and "Indianizing" Chinese immigrants / Dustin Tahmakera -- Primary source: People v. Hall, 1854 -- A history of Black immigration into the United States through the lens of the African American civil and human rights struggle / The Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute: Zachery Williams, Robert Samuel Smith, Seneca Vaught, and Babacar M'Baye -- Rescuing Elián: gender and race in stories of children's migration / Isabel Guzman Molina -- The rights of respectability: ambivalent allies, reluctant rivals, and disavowed deviants / Lisa Marie Cacho -- Immigrant acts -- What explains the immigrant rights marches of 2006? xenophobia and organizing with democracy technology / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Angelica Salas -- Primary source: Shame of a Nation: a documented story of police-state terror against Mexican-Americans in the USA, 1954 / Patricia Morgan -- ¡Sí, se puede! spaces for immigrant organizing / Christine Neumann-Ortiz -- Immigrant workers take the lead: a militant humility transforms L.A. Koreatown / Glenn Omatsu -- Questions of democracy -- Who should manage immigration-Congress or the states?: an introduction to constitutional immigration law / Victor C. Romero -- The undergraduate railroad: undocumented immigrant students and public universities / Rachel Ida Buff -- Our immigrant coreligionists: the National Catholic Welfare Conference as an advocate for immigrants in the 1920s / Jeanne Petit -- Building coalitions for immigrant power / Fred Tsao -- Primary source: Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, 2006 -- Their liberties, out security / David Cole -- Primary source: the deportation terror: a weapon to gag America, 1950 / Abner Green -- Afterwords -- The Mexican-American war and Whitman's "Song of myself": a foundational borderline fantasy / Donald Pease -- Rights in a transnational era / Monisha Das Gupta.

342.73085 B596R 2008
AUT Bodenhamer, David J ; Ely, James W.
TIT The Bill of Rights in modern America. - Rev. and expanded.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Rights consciousness in American history / Daniel T. Rodgers -- The explosion and erosion of rights / Gary L. McDowell -- The First Amendment and the freedom to differ / Suzanna Sherry -- Church and state : the religion clauses / Melvin I. Urofsky -- Public safety and the right to bear arms / Robert J. Cottrol and Raymond T. Diamond -- The enigmatic place of property rights in modern constitutional thought / James W. Ely, Jr -- Reversing the revolution : rights of the accused in a conservative age / David J. Bodenhamer -- Police practices and the bill of rights / Laurence A. Benner and Michal R. Belknap -- The "cruel and unusual punishment" clause: a limit on the power to punish or constitutional rhetoric? / Joseph L. Hoffmann -- Equal protection and affirmative action / Herman Belz -- The right to privacy / Ken I. Kersch -- Second wind for the state Bill of Rights / Randall T. Shepard.

344.73 H157f 2008
AUT Halbrook, Stephen P.
TIT The founders' Second Amendment : origins of the right to bear arms.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee ; Oakland, Calif. : In association with the Independent Institute, 2008.
SER Independent studies in political economy.
CON Contents: "The inhabitants to be disarmed" -- From the tea party to the powder alarm -- The arms embargo and search and seizure at the neck -- A shot heard 'round the world and "a cruel act of perfidy" -- "Times that try men's souls" -- "That the people have a right" -- "A musket to defend these rights" -- A constitution with no bill of rights? -- The "dissent of the minority" -- Virginia tips the scales -- "A majority that is irresistible" -- Mr. Madison's amendments -- The Bill of Rights in the states -- The great militia debate -- Old founders never die, they just fade away -- What does the Second Amendment say?.

344.7304 S298u 2008
AUT Schaller, Barry R.
TIT Understanding bioethics and the law : the promises and perils of the brave new world of biotechnology.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
CON Contents: The context of bioethics, law, and society -- The legal landscape of human research litigation -- Better off dead? can judges be metaphysicians? -- Body parts : allocating organs -- Stem cells : promise and politics -- Boundaries at the end of life : the strange case of Terri Schiavo -- New frontiers.

344.7305 A511 2009
AUT Engdahl, Sylvia.
TIT Amendments XVIII and XXI : prohibition and repeal.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, 2009.
SER Constitutional amendments: beyond the Bill of Rights.
CON Contents: Historical background on Amendments XVIII and XXI -- Impact of Amendment XVIII on constitutional law -- Impact of Amendment XXI on constitutional law -- Current relevance of Amendments XVIII and XXI.

345.73 D438i 2008
AUT Dershowitz, Alan M.
TIT Is there a right to remain silent? : coercive interrogation and the Fifth Amendment after 9/11.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Inalienable rights series.
CON Contents: What is the right against self-incrimination? -- The Supreme Court's recent decision -- The limits of textual analysis in constitutional interpretation -- The limits of precedent: which way does the "immunity" analogy cut? -- The limits of historical inquiry -- The privilege over time -- The relevance of constitutional policies underlying the right -- A matter of interpretation -- Conclusion: The case for a vibrant privilege in the preventive state.

346.73016 P768b 2008
AUT Polikoff, Nancy D.
TIT Beyond (straight and gay) marriage : valuing all families under the law.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The changing meaning of marriage -- Gay rights and the conservative backlash -- Redefining family -- The right and the marriage movement -- LGBT families and the marriage equality movement -- Countries where marriage matters less -- Valuing all families -- Domestic partner benefits for all families -- Coping with illness : medical care and family and medical leave -- When a relationship ends through dissolution or death : distributing assets and providing for children -- Losing an economic provider : wrongful death, workers compensation, and social security.

346.7304 B558p 2008
AUT Bessen, James ; Meurer, Michael James.
TIT Patent failure : how judges, bureaucrats, and lawyers put innovators at risk.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The argument in brief -- Why property rights work, how property rights fail -- If you can't tell the boundaries, then it ain't property -- Survey of empirical research : do patents perform like property? -- What are U.S. patents worth to their owners? -- The cost of disputes -- How important is the failure of patent notice? -- Small inventors -- Abstract patents and software -- Making patents work as property -- Reforms to improve notice -- A glance forward.

346.763 N758 2008
AUT Nock, Steven L ; Sanchez, Laura Ann ; Wright, James D.
TIT Covenant marriage : the movement to reclaim tradition in America.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Covenant marriage and the marriage movement -- Covenant marriage in Louisiana : legal and historical background -- The implementation of covenant marriage in Louisiana -- Who wants a covenant marriage? -- The role of religion in covenant and standard marriages / with Jill A. Deines -- The ongoing marriage -- Divorce, religiosity, and counseling.

347.731 N147u 2008
AUT Nagel, Robert F.
TIT Unrestrained : judicial excess and the mind of the American lawyer.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: A ship that will not turn -- The rise of judicial power -- The consequences of excess -- Thinking like a lawyer -- Realistic legalism -- High principle and self-restraint -- The mantra of legal authority -- Political judgments -- Training, experience, and instinct.

352.23 P317t 2008
AUT Patterson, Bradley H.
TIT To serve the President : continuity and innovation in the White House staff.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The White House overall -- The contemporary White House staff -- The cost of the whole White House -- The top crosscutting leadership -- Javelin-catcher: the Chief of Staff -- The coordination center: the Staff Secretary -- The National Security Adviser -- The "just-us" department: the Counsel to the President -- The Office of Legislative Affairs -- Control all the way down: the Presidential Personnel Office -- The policy bloc -- Policymaking at the White House: domestic and economic affairs -- The Homeland Security Adviser -- Helping religion to do good: the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives -- Volunteerism and community service: the USA Freedom Corps Office -- The Cabinet Liaison Office -- The strategic initiatives and external affairs bloc -- "Strategery": the White House Political Affairs Office -- Partnership in our federal system: the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs -- Working with coalitions to push the President's agenda: the Office of Public Liaison -- The communications bloc -- "Lipstick on a pig"? The Office of Communications -- The cyber White House: Bush innovations in electronic communications -- Caught in the crossfire: the Press Secretary -- The Speechwriting Office -- Special counselors to the President -- First special counselor: the Vice President -- Second special counselor: the President's spouse -- Loyal shadow: the Presidential Aide -- The operations bloc -- Management and Administration -- The Executive Clerk -- Records Management -- The Correspondence Office -- Paving the way: the Advance Office -- Achievements versus activities: the Office of Appointments and Scheduling -- The White House Military Office -- The United States Secret Service -- The President's Commission on White House Fellowships -- The physical White House and its environment -- The Executive Residence -- The President's park and the White House Visitor Center -- The White House Historical Association: a private, independent organization -- Looking to the future -- Major long-term innovations by the Bush Administration -- The essence of White House service -- Appendix: Component offices of the contemporary White House staff.

352.53 G721 2009
AUT Freeman, Jody ; Minow, Martha.
TIT Government by contract : outsourcing and American democracy.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
CON Contents: Introduction: government by contract: outsourcing and American democracy / Jody Freeman and Martha Minow -- Recent developments -- Public-private governance: an historical introduction / William J. Novak -- The transformation of government work: causes, consequences and distortions / John Donahue -- The federal framework for competing commercial work between the public and private sectors / Matthew Blum -- Cases and critiques -- Rent-a-regulator: design and innovation in environmental decisionmaking / Miriam Seifter -- Outsourcing power: privatizing military efforts and the risks to accountability, professionalism, and democracy / Martha Minow -- How privatization thinks: the case of prisons / Sharon Dolovich -- Responses and reforms -- A. Don't increase regulation -- Achieving contracting goals and recognizing public law concerns: a contracting management perspective / Steven J. Kelman -- Federal contracting in context: what drives it, how to improve it / Stan Soloway and Alan Chvotkin -- B. Use existing tools -- Some legal reforms to increase contractor accountability / Nina A. Mendelson -- Privatization and democracy: resources in administrative law / Alfred C. Aman, Jr -- Press constitutional restrictions -- Private delegations, due process, and the duty to supervise / Gillian E. Metzger -- Outsourcing and the duty to govern / Paul R. Verkuil -- Public values/private contract / Laura A. Dickinson.

355.02 W2535 2008
AUT May, Larry ; Crookston, Emily.
TIT War : essays in political philosophy.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Historical background -- Jus ad bellum / Gregory M. Reichberg -- The jus in bello in historical and philosophical perspective / Nicholas Rengger -- The principle of just cause / Larry May -- Aggression and punishment / Jeff McMahan -- Responding to humanitarian crises / Cindy Holder -- War and democracy / James Bohman -- Proportionality and necessity / Thomas Hurka -- Collateral damage / David Lefkowitz -- Weapons of mass destruction : are they morally special? / Steven P. Lee -- Justifying torture as an act of war / Michael Davis -- On terrorism : definition, defense, and women / Marilyn Friedman -- War's aftermath : the challenges reconciliation / Trudy Govier -- Amnesties and international law / Christopher Heath Wellman -- War crimes : the law of hell / David Luban -- Revenge and demonization / Nancy Sherman.

361.1 B561s 2008
AUT Best, Joel.
TIT Social problems. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.
CON Contents: The social problems process -- Claims -- Activists as claimsmakers -- Experts as claimsmakers -- The media and claims -- Public reactions -- Policymaking -- Social problems work -- Policy outcomes -- Claims across space and time -- The uses of the constructionist stance.

361.1 E36s11 2009
AUT Eitzen, D. Stanley ; Zinn, Maxine Baca ; Smith, Kelly Eitzen.
TIT Social problems. - 11th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2009.

361.1 H526s8 2008
AUT Henslin, James M.
TIT Social problems : a down-to-earth approach. - 8th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Pearson Allyn and Bacon, c2008.
CON Contents: How sociologists view social problems : the abortion dilemm -- Interpreting social problems : aging -- Human sexual behavior -- Alcohol and other drugs -- Violence in society : rape and murder -- Crime and criminal justice -- Economic problems : wealth and poverty -- Racial-ethnic relations -- Sex discrimination -- Medical care : physical and mental illness -- The changing family -- Urban problems -- Population and food -- The environmental crisis -- War, terrorism, and the balance of power.

361.1 S587s 2008
AUT Silver, Ira.
TIT Social problems : readings. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.

362 E53c 2001
AUT Emerson, Eric.
TIT Challenging behaviour : analysis and intervention in people with severe learning disabilities. - 2nd ed.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

362.1088 C277S2 2008
AUT Sheikh, Aziz ; Gatrad, Abdul Rashid.
TIT Caring for Muslim patients. - 2nd ed.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Radcliffe, c2008.

362.10973 H131w 2008
AUT Hadler, Nortin M.
TIT Worried sick : a prescription for health in an overtreated America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2008.
SER H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
CON Contents: The Methuselah complex -- The heart of the matter -- Risky business : cholesterol, blood sugar, and blood pressure -- You are not what you eat -- Gut check -- Breast cancer prevention : screening the evidence -- The beleaguered prostate -- Disease mongering -- Creakiness -- It's in your mind -- Aging is not a disease -- Working to death -- "Alternative" therapies are not "complementary" -- Assuring health, insuring disease.

362.178 L478f 2008
AUT Lederer, Susan E.
TIT Flesh and blood : organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Living on the Island of Doctor Moreau : grafting tissues in the early twentieth century -- Miracles of resurrection : reinventing blood transfusion in the twentieth century -- Banking on the body -- Lost boundaries : race, blood, and bodies -- Are you my type? : blood groups, individuality, and difference -- Medicalizing miscegenation: transplantation and race -- Religious bodies -- Organ recital : transplantation and transfusion in historical perspective.

362.29 D794M 2006
PUB Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greehaven Press/Thomson Gale, c2006.
SER At issue.
CON Contents: Drug testing creates a better workplace environment / Norm Brodsky -- Drug testing in the workplace is counterproductive / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Workplace drug testing is cost effective / Judith A. Swartley -- Workplace drug testing has not been proven cost effective / Andy Meisler -- Drug tests are unreliable / Dana Hawkins -- Student drug testing is beneficial / Calvina L. Fay -- Student drug testing alienates students from schools / Laura L. Finley, Peter S. Finley -- Student drug testing helps prevent drug abuse / Office of National Drug Control Policy -- Student drug testing has not been proven to prevent drug abuse / Oscar G. Bukstein -- Student drug testing is an invasion of privacy / Richard Glen Boire -- Student drug testing is not an invasion of privacy / Clarence Thomas -- There are better alternatives to student drug testing / Fatema Gunja et al.

362.29 E24 2008
AUT Bachman, Jerald G.
TIT The education-drug use connection : how successes and failures in school relate to adolescent smoking, drinking, drug use, and delinquency.
PUB New York ; London : L. Erlbaum Associates, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction and overview -- Literature review: conceptual and empirical overview of issues -- Survey methods and analysis strategies -- Educational success and failure: causes and correlates -- Delinquency and other problem behaviors linked with educational success and failure -- How smoking is linked with educational success and failure -- How marijuana use is linked with educational success and failure -- How cocaine use is linked with educational success and failure -- How aolcohol use is linked with educational success and failure -- Summary, conclusions, and implications -- Appendix.

362.29 R225o 2008
AUT Rasmussen, Nicolas.
TIT On speed : the many lives of amphetamine.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The new sensation -- Benzedrine : the making of a modern medicine -- Speed and total war -- Bootleggers, beatniks, and benzedrine benders -- A bromide for the atomic age -- Amphetamine and the go-go years -- Amphetamine's decline : from mental medicine to social disease -- Fast forward : still on speed, 1971 to today.

362.29 R813d 2008
AUT Rosen, Daniel M.
TIT Dope : a history of performance enhancement in sports from the nineteenth century to today.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
CON Contents: The early history of performance enhancement drugs, 1860-1959 -- The beginnings of modern doping, 1960-1969 -- The rise of East German athletics and other tales of doping, 1970-1979 -- Blood doping, EPO, and human growth hormone, 1980-1989 -- An explosion of doping cases and the rise of custom-tailored drugs, 1990-1999 -- Is everyone doping? 2000-present -- Future perfect : genetically modified athletes?.

362.30973 M5485 2004
AUT Noll, Steven ; Trent, James W.
TIT Mental retardation in America : a historical reader.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2004.
SER The history of disability.
CON Contents: Before the Asylum -- Report Made to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1848) / Samuel G. Howe -- A Thesis on Idiocy (1879) / William B. Fish -- The Legacy of the Almshouse / Philip Ferguson -- 'Beside her sat her idiot child': Families and Developmental disability in mid-nineteenth-century America / Penny Richards -- Defining and Categorizing: Establishing "The Other" -- Report of Committee of Classification of Feeble-minded -- Mongols in our Midst: John Langdon Down and the Ethnic Classification of Idiocy, 1858-1924 / David Wright -- 'Mongolian Imbecility': Race and Its Rejection in the Understanding of a Mental Disease / Daniel Kevles -- Rearing the Child Who Never Grew: Ideologies of Parenting and Intellectual Disability in American History / Janice Brockley -- The Parable of The Kallikak Family: Explaining the Meaning of Heredity in 1912 / Leila Zenderland -- Fictional Voices and Viewpoints for the Mentally Deficient, 1929-1939 / Gerald Schmidt -- Sexuality and Story-Telling: Literary Representations of the 'Feeble-Minded' in the Age of Sterilization / Karen Keely -- The Age of Institutionalization and Sterilization -- The Eugenical Sterilization of the Feeble-Minded / Harry Laughlin -- The Criminalization of Mental Retardation / Nicole Rafter -- The State and the Multiply-Disadvantaged: The Case of Epilepsy / Ellen Dwyer. Contents: The 'Sociological Advantages' of Sterilization: Fiscal Policies and Feebleminded Women in Interwar Minnesota / Molly Ladd-Taylor -- From Top and Bottom: Parents and the State in the mid-20th Century -- Hope for Retarded Children / Eunice Kennedy Shriver -- 'Mental Deficients' Fighting Fascism: The Unplanned Normalization of World War II / Stephen A. Gelb -- Education for Children with Mental Retardation: Parent Activism, Public Policy, and Family Ideology in the 1950s / Kathleen W. Jones -- 'Nice, Average Americans': Postwar Parents' Groups and the Defense of the Normal Family / Katherine Castles -- Formal Health Care at the Community Level: The Child Development Clinics of the 1950s and 1960s / Wendy M. Nehring -- A Pivotal Place in Special Education Policy: The First Arkansas Children's Colony / Elizabeth F. Shores -- The Promise and Problems of Community Placement Back to a Beginning? -- U.S. Supreme Court decision on Capital Punishment & Mental Retardation (2002) -- Historical Social Geography / Deborah S. Metzel -- The Litigator as Reformer / David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman -- No Profits, Just a Pittance: Work, Compensation, and People Defined as Mentally Disabled in Ontario, 1964-1990 / Geoffrey Reaume -- Family Values / Michael Berube.

362.6 N444e 2008
AUT Nerenberg, Lisa.
TIT Elder abuse prevention : emerging trends and promising strategies.
PUB New York : Springer Pub., c2008.
CON Contents: Eight trends shaping practice -- Defining elder abuse: the controversies -- Service models from which we have drawn -- Factors influencing intervention needs -- Preventing and treating elder abuse -- What agencies, the justice system, and communities can do -- What states and tribes are doing -- Community outreach -- Responding to challenges -- Moving forward.

362.7083 H236L 2008
AUT LeCroy, Craig W ; Mann, Joyce Elizabeth.
TIT Handbook of prevention and intervention programs for adolescent girls.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : adolescent girls and the pathway to adulthood / Craig Winston LeCroy -- Universal prevention for adolescent girls : the Go Grrrls Program / Craig Winston LeCroy -- Developing friendships and peer relationships : building social support with the Girls Circle Program / Beth Hossfeld -- A dissonance-based intervention for the prevention of eating disorders and obesity / Heather Shaw and Eric Stice -- Preventing depression in early adolescent girls : the Penn Resiliency and Girls in Transition programs / Jane E. Gillham ... [et al.] -- Preventing HIV among African American female adolescents : development and evaluation of a gender and culturally congruent prevention intervention / Gina Wingood ... [et al.] -- Manifesting the strengths of rural Latina girls / Velia G. Leybas -- Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise and Nutrition Alternatives : harm reduction/health promotion program for female high school athletes / Diane L. Elliot and Linn Goldberg -- Teens with anorexia nervosa : a family-based approach to treatment / Daniel le Grange and James Lock -- Incarcerated female teens and substance abuse : the Holistic Enrichment for At-Risk Teens (HEART) Program / Amelia C. Roberts and Chiquitia Welch -- Empirically validated approaches to family treatment for adolescent girls / Jacqueline Corcoran and Jane Phillips -- Mentorship : the GirlPOWER! Program / David L. DuBois ... [et al.].

362.73 J67w 2004
AUT Johnson, Kay Ann.
TIT Wanting a daughter, needing a son : abandonment, adoption, and orphanage care in China.
PUB St. Paul, Minn. : Yeong & Yeong Book Co., c2004.
CON Contents: A Chinese orphanage, 1991-92 : saving China's abandoned girls -- Orphanage care in China, 1989-95 : a response to human rights watch -- The revival of infant abandonment in China, 1989-95 -- Infant abandonment and adoption in China, 1996-2000 / with Huang Banghan and Wang Liyao -- The politics of international and domestic adoption in China, 2001 -- Chaobao : the plight of Chinese adoptive parents, 2002.

362.734 R846w 2005
AUT Rothman, Barbara Katz.
TIT Weaving a family : untangling race and adoption.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press , c2005.
CON Contents: Preface : a word on theory, method, language (and source notes) -- pt. 1. Personal strands. -- Family, obviously -- Our story -- pt. 2. Motherhood, adoption, and race. -- Unraveling the pieces -- Motherhood in the marketplace -- Adoption in the age of genetics -- Talking about race -- pt. 3. What I learned at the Schomburg. -- Images -- Children of a diaspora -- Protégés -- The pet -- The trophy child -- Imagine -- pt. 4. Weaving the pieces. -- Home from the Schomburg -- Going places -- Culture : celebrating diversity -- Identity : pride and joy -- Entitlement : that can't be your baby -- Hair : braiding together culture, identity, and entitlement -- Weaving a way home.

362.76 M648g 2008
AUT Miller, Jody.
TIT Getting played : African American girls, urban inequality, and gendered violence.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
SER New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.
CON Contents: Perspectives on gender and urban violence -- Gender 'n the 'hood : neighborhood violence against women and girls -- Playin' too much : sexual harassment in school -- Respect yourself, protect yourself : sexual coercion and violence -- The playa' and the cool pose : gender and relationship violence -- Conclusions and recommendations.

362.8292 H662 2005
AUT Hines, Denise A ; Malley-Morrison, Kathleen.
TIT Family violence in the United States : defining, understanding, and combating abuse.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2005.
CON Contents: Issues in the definition of family violence and abuse -- Cultural contexts of family violence -- Cultural contexts : religion -- Child physical abuse -- Child sexual abuse -- Child neglect and psychological maltreatment -- Wife abuse -- Husband abuse -- Abuse in gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender relationships -- Elder abuse -- Hidden types of family violence : abuse of sibling, parents, and people with disabilities -- Responding effectively to family violence.

362.8292 R765d 2008
AUT Romito, Patrizia ; Eastwood, Janet.
TIT A deafening silence : hidden violence against women and children.
PUB Bristol, U.K. : Policy, 2008.
CON Contents: Violence and discrimination against women -- The theoretical context -- Tactics for hiding male violence -- Hiding strategies.

362.8292 S795c 2009
AUT Stark, Evan.
TIT Coercive control : the entrapment of women in personal life.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
SER Interpersonal violence.
CON Contents: The revolution unfolds -- The revolution stalled -- The proper measure of abuse -- The entrapment enigma -- Representing battered women -- Up to inequality -- The theory of coercive control -- The technology of coercive control -- When battered women kill -- For love or money -- The special reasonableness of battered women -- Conclusion: Freedom is not free.

362.88 G795h 2008
AUT Green, Diane L ; Roberts, Albert R.
TIT Helping victims of violent crime : assessment, treatment, and evidence-based practice.
PUB New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2008.
SER Springer series on social work.
CON Contents: Victims of violent crime: an introduction -- Grief and loss reactions and theories -- Stress and coping model for victims of crime -- Crisis intervention -- Cases of child abuse -- Intimate partner violence: overview, stages of change, crisis intervention, and time-limited treatment -- Sexual assault -- Homicide victims -- Elder abuse -- Terrorism/mass violence -- School violence: crisis intervention protocols and prevention strategies.

363.192 B644a 2008
AUT Blatt, Harvey.
TIT America's food : what you don't know about what you eat.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Old MacDonald has no farm: he dies, she dies, sold -- Soil character and plant growth: nature's magic -- Grain farming: the basic crop -- Organic food: as nature intended -- Genetically modified food: food fights among adults -- Chicken, eggs, turkey, and duck: fowl weather -- Cattle, milk, swine, and sheep: raising cholesterol -- Seafood: the killing fields -- Fruits and vegetables: plants to cherish -- Food processing: what is this stuff we're eating -- Eating poorly and too much: poor health and body bloat -- Conclusion.

363.192 C877s 2008
AUT Cox, Stan.
TIT Sick planet : corporate food and medicine.
PUB London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Health care's malignant growth -- Feeling OK? Are you sure? -- Side effects may be severe -- Swallowing the earth whole -- "Agroterrorists" can take a vacation -- Hunger for natural gas -- Down-to-a-trickle economics -- Supernatural food -- The world is your kitchen -- Political impossibility vs. biological impossibility.

363.25 F523f 2008
AUT Fisher, Jim.
TIT Forensics under fire : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice?.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Forensic pathologists from hell : bungled autopsies, bad calls, and blown cases -- A question of credibility : bad reputations and the politics of death -- The sudden infant death debate : Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen syndrome by proxy and Meadow's law -- Infants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation? -- Swollen brains and broken bones : disease or infanticide? -- Fingerprint identification : trouble in paradise -- Fingerprints never lie : except in Scotland -- Shoe print identification and foot morphology : the lay witness and the Cinderella analysis -- Bite mark identification : do teeth leave prints? -- Ear-mark identification : emerging science or bad evidence? -- Expert versus expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case -- John Mark Karr : DNA trumps the graphologists in the Ramsey case -- Hair and fiber identification : an inexact science -- DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people -- Bullet identification, FBI style : overselling the science -- The celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee.

363.254 L576p 2008
AUT Leo, Richard A.
TIT Police interrogation and American justice.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Police interrogation and the American adversary system -- The third degree -- Professionalizing police interrogation -- The structure and psychology of American police interrogation -- Constructing culpability -- False confessions -- Miscarriages of justice -- Policy directions -- Conclusion.

363.254 S455L 2004
AUT Segrave, Kerry.
TIT Lie detectors : a social history.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2004.
CON Contents: Ancient truth, the years to 1869 -- The black box takes shape, 1870-1929 -- A painless third degree, 1930-1941 -- The polygraph spreads in Cold War America, 1940s-1950s -- Government use increases, 1960s -- The PSE : a new truth machine, 1970s, part 1 -- Business embraces the truth machine, 1970s, part 2 -- The government blocks the box, 1980s -- The LD survives : new ideas surface, 1990s-2002.

363.3 C596b 2008
AUT Clark, William R.
TIT Bracing for armageddon? : the science and politics of bioterrorism in America.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Tales of a dark winter: a play in three acts -- A brief history of bioterrorism -- Agents of terror -- Genetically modified pathogens -- The ultimate bioterrorist : Mother Nature! -- Agroterrorism : the very food on your plate (and the water in your glass) -- America responds -- Political, legal, and social issues in a national health emergency -- The politics of bioterrorism in America -- Assessing the threat.

363.32 E92L 2008
AUT Evangelista, Matthew.
TIT Law, ethics, and the war on terror.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2008.
SER War and conflict in the modern world.

363.45 D295d 2008
AUT Decker, Scott H ; Chapman, Margaret Townsend.
TIT Drug smugglers on drug smuggling : lessons from the inside.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Motivation for the study -- Organization of the study -- Drug smuggling organizations -- Movement of drugs -- Roles, recruitment into, and remaining involved in the drug smuggling trade -- Balancing risk and reward -- Making sense of drug smuggling : conclusions and summary.

363.45 G784m 2009
AUT Grayson, George W.
TIT Mexico's struggle with 'drugs and thugs'.
PUB New York : Foreign Policy Association, 2009.
SER Headline series. 0017-8780 ; no. 331.

363.69 G812r3 2007
AUT Greenfield, Jeanette.
TIT The return of cultural treasures. - 3rd ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction / by Magnus Magnusson -- The Icelandic manuscripts -- The Elgin Marbles debate -- British and other European practice -- Some British cases -- American and Canadian practice -- Russia and the former Soviet Union -- The Hebrew manuscripts -- International and regional regulation -- Art theft and the art market -- Plunder -- The first people -- Ground zero -- Homecomings : real and virtual.

363.7 G277o 2008
AUT Gautier, Catherine.
TIT Oil, water and climate : an introduction.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Overview -- Carbon dioxide emissions, global warming, and water resources -- Population, environmental impacts and climate change -- Carbon cycle and the human impact -- Peak oil, energy, water, and climate -- Oil consumption and CO2 emissions from transportation -- Oil, economy, power, and conflicts -- Energy alternatives and their connection to water and climate -- The water cycle and global warming -- Fresh water availability, sanitation deficit, and water usage: connection to energy and global warming -- Rivers, lakes, aquifers, and dams: relations to energy and climate -- Water contamination, energy, and climate -- Geopolitics of water and the international situation -- Water alternatives -- Global climate change: Observations, modeling and predictions -- Energy and water challenges and solutions in a changing climate framework: commonality, differences, and connections.

363.737 J65g 2008
AUT Johansen, Bruce E.
TIT The global warming combat manual : solutions for a sustainable world.
PUB Westport, Conn : Praeger Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Foreword by James E Hansen -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Our cars are killing us: options in personal transport -- 2: Avoiding our suicide pact with aviation -- 3: Greening shelter and food -- 4: Biofuels: where the money is -- 5: Power forecast is windy -- 6: Harvesting the sun -- 7: Old wine in new bottles: nuclear power and changes in land use -- 8: Political economy of global warming -- 9: Technofixes -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

363.7387 C639 2008
AUT Campbell, Kurt M.
TIT Climatic cataclysm : the foreign policy and national security implications of climate change.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2008.

364.1323 F542e 2008
AUT Fisman, Raymond ; Miguel, Edward.
TIT Economic gangsters : corruption, violence, and the poverty of nations.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Fighting for economic development -- Suharto, Inc. -- The smuggling gap -- Nature or nurture? understanding the culture of corruption -- No water, no peace -- Death by a thousand small cuts -- The road back from war -- Learning to fight economic gangsters -- Epilogue : doing better this time.

364.15 S285t 2008
AUT Scarpa, Silvia.
TIT Trafficking in human beings : modern slavery.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Trafficking in persons as one of the XXI century's new forms of slavery -- The international abolition of slavery and the slave trade and the action against trafficking in human beings -- Trafficking victim's protection in international human rights, criminal and labour law -- The fight against trafficking in persons and victim's protection in the Council of Europe -- The European Union and trafficking in persons : from traffickers' prosecution to victims' protection?.

364.1523 O12w 2008
AUT Oberman, Michelle ; Meyer, Cheryl L.
TIT When mothers kill : interviews from prison.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The saddest stories -- She's the world to me : the mother-daughter relationships described by mothers who committed filicide -- Fighting for love : filicidal mothers and their male partners -- Mothering : hopes, expectations and realities -- Punishment, shame and guilt -- Making sense of the stories -- Interactions with the state : holes in the safety nets -- The end of the story.

364.168 C822M 2008
AUT Minkes, John ; Minkes, A. L.
TIT Corporate and white-collar crime.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE Publications, 2008.
CON Contents: Corporations and health and safety / Steve Tombs -- Corporate economic crimes / Laureen Snider -- The evolving legal test of corporate criminal liability / James Gobert -- The foundations of business ethics / Robert Elliott Allinson -- The organization did it : individuals, corporations and crime / Maurice Punch -- Organizational decision-making : economic and managerial considerations / Brian J. Lasby -- Crime and culture : corporate crime and criminal justice in a different cultural environment / Om Hatashin -- Rethinking occupational deviance and crime in the light of globalization / Gerald Mars -- Getting beyond the moral drama of crime : what we learn from studying white-collar criminal careers / David Weisburd, Elin Waring, Nicole Leeper Piquero -- Concluding comments / John Minkes, Leonard Minkes.

364.168 I615 2009
AUT Stein, Richard Joseph.
TIT Internet safety.
PUB New York : H.W. Wilson Company, 2009.
SER The reference shelf ; v. 81, no. 2.
CON Contents: Safety in numbers : an overview of Internet safety. Importance of cybersecurity increases as online attacks get more dangerous / Daniel Fowler ; Newly nasty / The Economist ; Browsers : the new threat landscape / Andrew Garcia ; WEB 2.0 security / Marji McClure ; Deleting your digital past--for good / Tracy Mayor ; Dead teen's mother : misdemeanor convictions a "stepping stone" in cyberbullying case / Kim Zetter ; Cyberspace threats and vulnerabilities, excerpted from The national strategy to secure cyberspace / U.S. Department of Homeland Security ; National policy and guiding principles, excerpted from The national strategy to secure cyberspace / U.S. Department of Homeland Security -- Viruses, spam, and netbots. Malware, spyware, spamware, beware / Yan Barcelo ; Beware the digital zombies / John Markoff ; Bugging broadband / Charles Arthur ; A slice of apple / Seth Colaner -- On-line identity theft. Online identity theft / Brigitte Acoca ; Questions about online identity theft / Reid Goldsborough ; Guard yourself against identity theft on social networks / Pamela Yip ; Swiped, stolen and sold / The New York Times ; Startup plans to solve online identity theft, but does anyone care? / Alexander Gelfand -- Internet safety for teens and children. Kids put online safety first / Marianne McGee ; When teens turn cyberbullies / Paris S. Strom and Robert D. Strom ; Patrolling Web 2.0 / Robert Losinski ; Sex predator / Asra Q. Nomani ; Survey finds teens solicit students more than adult predators / School Violence alert ; Lori Drew is a meanie / Emily Bazelon ; Decoding MySpace / Michelle Andrews ; Online photos put hazing in the spotlight / Stacy A. Teicher -- Cyberattacks. The new e-spionage threat / Brian Grow, Keith Epstein, and Chi-Chu Tschang ; When do online attacks cross the line into cyberwar? / Alex Kingsbury ; Russia accused of unleashing cyberwar to disable Estonia / Ian Traynor ; It's cyberwar! / Michael Petrou ; The flaw at the heart of the Internet / Erica Naone ; Cybercriminals can't get away with it like they used to / Jon Swartz ; Cyber-attack operations near / David A. Fulghum.Safety in numbers : an overview of Internet safety. Importance of cybersecurity increases as online attacks get more dangerous / Daniel Fowler ; Newly nasty / The Economist ; Browsers : the new threat landscape / Andrew Garcia ; WEB 2.0 security / Marji McClure ; Deleting your digital past--for good / Tracy Mayor ; Dead teen's mother : misdemeanor convictions a "stepping stone" in cyberbullying case / Kim Zetter ; Cyberspace threats and vulnerabilities, excerpted from The national strategy to secure cyberspace / U.S. Department of Homeland Security ; National policy and guiding principles, excerpted from The national strategy to secure cyberspace / U.S. Department of Homeland Security -- Viruses, spam, and netbots. Malware, spyware, spamware, beware / Yan Barcelo ; Beware the digital zombies / John Markoff ; Bugging broadband / Charles Arthur ; A slice of ap...

364.24 R132cb 2008
AUT Rafter, Nicole Hahn.
TIT The criminal brain : understanding biological theories of crime.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : crime, history, science -- Biological theories in the 19th-century -- Moral insanity and the origins of criminology -- Phrenology : the abnormal brain -- Criminal anthropology : the atavistic brain -- Evolutionary theories : the degenerate brain -- Stupidity theories : the backward brain -- Constitutional theory : bodytypes and criminality -- Criminology's darkest hour : biocriminology in Nazi Germany -- Contemporary biocriminology -- A criminology for the 21st century.

364.3 J76u 2008
AUT Jones, David W.
TIT Understanding criminal behaviour : psychosocial approaches to criminality.
PUB Cullompton, U.K. : Willan, 2008.

364.34 G112r2 2009
AUT Gabbidon, Shaun L. ; Greene, Helen Taylor.
TIT Race and crime. - 2nd ed.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage, c2009.

364.36 H329y 2008
AUT Hartjen, Clayton A.
TIT Youth, crime, and justice : a global inquiry.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
SER Critical issues in crime and society series.

364.66 V924L 2008
AUT Vollum, Scott.
TIT Last words and the death penalty : voices of the condemned and their co-victims.
PUB New York : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2008.
SER Criminal justice recent scholarship.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The human context of the death penalty -- Restorative justice and the death penalty -- Giving voice to the condemned and their victims -- Data and methodology -- Last statements of the condemned -- Co-victim statements -- Discussion and conclusion.

365.647 T468r 2008
AUT Thompson, Anthony C.
TIT Releasing prisoners, redeeming communities : reentry, race, and politics.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Reentry, race, and stigma -- Media influence on public perceptions of prison life -- Women : the afterthought in reentry planning -- Reentry and housing -- Reentry and health care -- Reentry and unemployment -- Reentry and the political process -- Reentry and parole -- Reentry courts -- Conclusion.

368 G383v 2008
AUT Gerst, Eric D.
TIT Vulture culture : dirty deals, unpaid claims, and the coming collapse of the insurance industry.
PUB New York : American Management Association, c2008.
CON Contents: The crisis : a long time coming -- How the industry got where it is : a rogues' gallery -- How the industry got where it is today : unpaid claims and the storm after Hurricane Katrina -- How the industry got where it is today : foreign takeovers, unregulated reinsurers, insurer and claimant fraud -- The view from outside : a report card on state regulation -- Trends : the next decade -- The public uproar and a crescendo of distrust -- Fifty nonuniform state fiefdoms -- Winds of change: how to improve the industry -- The solution : UFOIL : a two-step process of consumerization and federalization.

370.899 C734 2008
AUT Adams, Glenn.
TIT Commemorating Brown : the social psychology of racism and discrimination. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2008.
SER APA decade of behavior volumes.
CON Contents: Commemorating Brown: psychology as a force for liberation / Glenn Adams -- Organized psychology's efforts to influence the Supreme Court on matters of race and education / Lawrence S. Wrightsman -- Still a long way to go : American black-white relations today / Thomas F. Pettigrew -- Brown and intergroup relations : reclaiming a lost opportunity / Walter G. Stephan -- Legacies of Brown : success and failure in social science research on racism / Joe R. Feagin -- From Kansas to Michigan : the path from desegregation to diversity / Amy E. Smith and Faye J. Crosby -- Sense of commonality in values among racial-ethnic groups : an opportunity for a new conception of integration / Patricia Gurin ... [et al.] -- The American color line 50 years after Brown v. Board : many "peoples of color" or black exceptionalism? / David O. Sears -- The pernicious relationship between merit assessment and discrimination in education / Jean-Claude Croizet -- The psychology of invisibility / Stephanie A. Fryberg and Sarah S.M. Townsend -- Desegregating the self : transcending identity politics in South Africa / Elizabeth A. Self and Daniel G. Acheson-Brown -- Beyond prejudice : toward a sociocultural psychology of racism and oppression / Glenn Adams ... [et al.].

371.01 G549f 2008
AUT Glass, Gene V.
TIT Fertilizers, pills, and magnetic strips : the fate of public education in America.
PUB Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., c2008.
CON Contents: The endless narrative of education reform -- Transforming education : ordo ab chao -- Fertilizers and tractors : the rural to urban migration -- Pills-- that prevent conception or extend life -- Magnetic strips : easy credit and the American economy -- America is growing older, browner, and deeper in debt -- Robots, cars, and 4br/2.5ba -- Reforming the schools : making some cheap and others private -- Accountability and ethnicity -- What is the fate of public education in America?.

371.07 J79r 2008
AUT Jones, Steven L.
TIT Religious schooling in America : private education and public life.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
CON Contents: Public and private schooling in America -- The place of schooling in religious communities -- Religious schools and the undermining of democracy -- Religious schools and the fulfillment of democratic freedom -- Joining America's civil religion -- Islamic schooling in America -- Conclusion: moving the debate forward.

Curr 371.1024 M393c 2003
AUT Marzano, Robert J ; Marzano, Jana S ; Pickering, Debra.
TIT Classroom management that works : research-based strategies for every teacher.
PUB Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2003.
CON Contents: The critical role of classroom management -- Rules and procedures -- Disciplinary interventions -- Teacher-student relationships -- Mental set -- The student's responsibility for management -- Getting off to a good start -- Management at the school level.

Curr 371.38 B942i 2006
AUT Bunting, Camille J.
TIT Interdisciplinary teaching through outdoor education.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2006.

Curr 371.38 O94 2006
AUT Gilbertson, Ken.
TIT Outdoor education : methods and strategies.
PUB Champaign, IL : Human Kinetics, c2006.
CON Contents: Defining Outdoor Education -- Describing the Outdoor Educator -- Theories and Foundations in Outdoor Education -- Understanding Participants -- Creating the Learning Environment -- Outdoor Education Settings -- Designing Lessons -- Physical Methods -- Cognitive Methods -- Affective Methods -- Sample Lessons -- Your Future in Outdoor Education.

371.5 T461w 2008
AUT Thomas, R. Murray.
TIT What schools ban and why.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
CON Contents: 1. Forbidden environments -- The book's purpose -- A framework for interpreting bans -- Conclusion -- 2. Books -- Illustrative cases -- Who challenges books? -- Suggestions for school practice -- 3. Computers and the Internet -- Schools' computer prohibitions -- Suggestions for school practice -- 4. Movies, television, and photographs -- Typical controversies -- Suggestions for school practice -- 5. Garb -- Significant societal conditions -- Features of the garb debate -- Illustrative cases -- Suggestions for school practice -- 6. Food and drink -- The adversaries -- Illustrative cases -- Suggestions for school practice -- 7. Speech -- The evolution of speech policies -- The influence of personal values -- Word-meaning problems -- Political considerations -- Schools' speech codes -- Suggestions for school practice -- 8. Bullying and sexual annoyances -- Bullying -- Hazing -- Sexual annoyances -- Suggestions for school practice -- 9. Music -- Religious music -- Morally offensive lyrics -- Suggestions for school practice -- 10. Vandalism -- Forms of vandalism -- Treating vandals -- Suggestions for school practice -- 11. Drugs, alcohol, and tobacco -- Illegal drugs -- Prescription and over-the-counter products -- Alcohol -- Tobacco -- Suggestions for school practice -- 12. Weapons -- The Columbine effect -- New school rules -- Illustrative cases -- Controversial decisions -- Suggestions for school practice -- 13. People -- Troublesome intruders -- Troublesome staff members -- Troublesome students -- Suggestions for school practice -- 14. Ceremonies and performances -- Religious -- Profane/vulgar -- Political -- Criminal -- Suggestions for school practice -- 15. Displays -- Promoting a religion -- Fostering illegal, immoral, or antisocial behavior -- Advocating a political position -- Suggestions for school practice -- 16. A likely future -- Speculation about the years ahead.

371.716 L665s 2008
AUT Levine, Susan.
TIT School lunch politics : the surprising history of America's favorite welfare program.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
SER Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
CON Contents: Introduction. The politics of lunch -- 1. A diet for Americans -- The search for a scientific diet -- A diet for Americans -- Nutrition and malnutrition -- School lunch as public policy -- 2. Welfare for farmers and children -- School lunches for hungry children -- Eating the surplus -- The institutionalization of school lunch -- 3. Nutrition standards and standard diets -- School lunch standards -- Nutrition in the national defense -- Eating democracy -- 4. A national school lunch program -- Agriculture or education? -- The liberal compromise -- Discrimination and segregation -- 5. Ideals and realities in the lunchroom -- Nutrition and surplus commodities -- Nutrition and the food service industry -- The limits of the lunchroom -- 6. No free lunch -- Discovering hunger in America -- Agriculture or welfare? -- Food and the poverty line -- 7. A right to lunch -- The free lunch mandate -- The women's campaign -- School lunch and civil rights -- Eligibility standards and the right to lunch -- 8. Let them eat ketchup -- Who pays for free lunch? -- Combo meals and nutrition standards -- Ketchup and other vegetables -- Epilogue. Fast food and poor children.

371.826 R773e2 2009
AUT Rong, Xue Lan ; Preissle, Judith.
TIT Educating immigrant students in the 21st century : what educators need to know. - 2nd ed.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2009.
CON Contents: Immigration and U.S. schools -- Immigrant children, their families, and environments -- Learning English and maintaining heritage languages -- Educational attainment -- Immigrant children from Asia -- Black immigrant children from the Caribbean and Africa -- Immigrant children from Latin America -- Immigrant children from Middle East.

371.9 E24G 2008
AUT Grigorenko, Elena L.
TIT Educating individuals with disabilities : IDEIA 2004 and beyond.
PUB New York : Springer Pub., c2008.

371.9 F245e 2008
AUT Farrell, Michael.
TIT Educating special children : an introduction to provision for pupils with disabilities and disorders.
PUB New York ; London : Routledge, 2008.
CON Contents: Classification and provision -- Profound cognitive impairment -- Moderate and severe cognitive impairment -- Mild cognitive impairment -- Hearing impairment -- Visual impairment -- Deafblindness -- Orthopaedic impairment and motor disorders -- Health impairments -- Traumatic brain injury -- Disruptive behaviour disorders -- Anxiety disorders and depressive disorders -- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder -- Communication disorders : speech -- Communication disorders : grammar and comprehension -- Communication disorder : semantics and pragmatics -- Autism -- Developmental co-ordination disorder -- Reading disorder -- Disorder of written expression -- Mathematics disorder.

371.9 L414h 2006
AUT Lavoie, Richard D.
TIT It's so much work to be your friend : helping the child with learning disabilities find social success.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, [2006], c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : "the other sixteen hours" -- pt. 1. Why do they do the things they do? : the impact of learning disorders on the development of social skills -- 1. Children with learning disorders are wired differently : it's all in their heads -- 2. Anxiety: a cause and consequence of social isolation -- 3. Language difficulties : getting and giving the message -- 4. Paralinguistics : words carry the message, body language carries the emotion -- 5. Attention deficit disorder : the social lives of the unhappy wanderers -- pt. 2. Social skills on the homefront : dealing with parents, siblings, and other strangers -- 6. Enhancing organizational skills : bringing order and structure to the disorganized child -- 7. Siblings and other strangers -- 8. Playdates : the social coin of the realm -- pt. 3. Social skills at school : reading, 'riting, 'rithmetic, and relationships -- 9. Bullies, victims, and spectators : strategies to prevent teasing, intimidation, and harassment in school -- 10. Mastering the hidden curriculum of school : the unwritten, unspoken rules -- 11. Teacher-pleasing behaviors : polishing the apple -- pt. 4. Social skills in the community : no kid is an island -- 12. Appropriate social skills in public places -- 13. Meeting, making, and keeping friends.

371.914 M875d 2008
AUT Morris, Darrell.
TIT Diagnosis and correction of reading problems.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Administering an informal reading diagnosis -- Interpretation of reading scores -- Beyond the initial reading diagnosis -- Preventing reading problems in the early grades -- Correcting reading problems in the later grades I: basic teaching strategies -- Correcting reading problems in the later grades II: case studies -- Clinical training for teachers of reading.

Curr 372.13 W585p 2008
AUT White, Jan.
TIT Playing and learning outdoors : making provision for high-quality experiences in the outdoor environment.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
SER Nursery world/Routledge essential guides for early years practitioners.
CON Contents: Providing natural materials outdoors -- Providing experiences of the living world outdoors -- Providing for play with water outdoors -- Providing for physical play and movement outdoors -- Providing imaginative and creative play outdoors -- Providing for construction and den play outdoors.

372.4 F646 2008
AUT Kuhn, Melanie R ; Schwanenflugel, Paula J.
TIT Fluency in the classroom.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
SER Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.

Curr 372.5 P954a 2008
AUT Prince, Eileen S.
TIT Art is fundamental : teaching the elements and principles of art in elementary school.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Zephyr Press, c2008.

Curr 372.5 S119a 2007
AUT Saccardi, Marianne.
TIT Art in story : teaching art history to elementary school children. - 2nd ed.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Teacher Ideas Press, 2007.

372.6 L745c 2008
AUT Lindfors, Judith Wells.
TIT Children's language : connecting reading, writing, and talk.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, c2008.
SER Language and literacy series.
CON Contents: Authenticity -- Meaning-orientation -- Collaboration -- Apprenticeship -- Individuality.

Curr 372.65 L776 2008
AUT Barone, Diane M ; Xu, Shelley Hong.
TIT Literacy instruction for English language learners, Pre-K-2.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, 2008.
SER Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.

Curr 372.86 H798e 2005
AUT Hopple, Christine J.
TIT Elementary physical education teaching & assessment : a practical guide. - 2nd ed.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2005.
CON Contents: Introducing alternative assessment -- Scoring and creating alternative assessment tasks -- Managing the assessment process -- Using your assessment data -- Standards and curriculum -- Using standards to develop your curriculum -- Safety and participation -- Movement concepts -- Locomotor skills -- Nonlocomotor skills -- Manipulative skills -- Health, activity, and fitness.

373.136 M345p2 2003
AUT Markham, Thom ; Larmer, John ; Ravitz, Jason Louis.
TIT Project based learning handbook : a guide to standards-focused project based learning for middle and high school teachers. - 2nd ed.
PUB Novato, Calif. : Buck Institute for Education, 2003.

378.4 J33u 2008
AUT Janin, Hunt.
TIT The university in medieval life, 1179-1499.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., 2008.

379.158 A172 2009
AUT O'Brien, Patricia M.
TIT Accreditation : assuring and enhancing quality.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
SER New directions for higher education. ; no. 145.

379.158 U85 2009
AUT Gonyea, Robert M ; Kuh, George D.
TIT Using NSSE in institutional research :
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
SER New directions for institutional research ; no. 141.
CON Contents: The National Survey of Student Engagement : conceptual and empirical foundations / George D. Kuh -- The use of engagement data in accreditation, planning, and assessment / Trudy W. Banta, Gary R. Pike, Michele J. Hansen -- Analyzinf and interpreting NSSE data / Pu-Shih Daniel Chen ... [et al.] -- The role of precollege data in assessing and understanding student engagement in college / James S. Cole, Marianne Kennedy, Michael Ben-Avie -- Effectively involving faculty in the assessment of student engagement / Thomas F. Nelson Laird ... [et al.] -- Converting engagement results into action / Julian Kinzie, Barbara S. Pennipede -- Toward reflective accountability : using NSSE for accountability and transparency / Alexander C. McCormick -- NSSE, organizational intelligence, and the institutional researcher / Robert M. Gonyea, George D. Kuh.

379.263 H638 2008
AUT Wallenstein, Peter.
TIT Higher education and the civil rights movement : white supremacy, black Southerners, and college campuses.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2008.
SER Southern dissent.
CON Contents: Black southerners and nonblack universities : the process of desegregating southern higher education, 1935-1965 / Peter Wallenstein -- Four who would : Constantine v. Southwestern Louisiana Institute (1954) and the desegregation of Louisiana's state colleges / Michael G. Wade -- The long journey from Lagrange to Atlanta : Horace Ward and the desegregation of the University of Georgia / Robert A. Pratt -- Black colleges and civil rights : organizing and mobilizing in Jackson, Mississippi / Joy Ann Williamson -- Prying the door farther open : a memoir of black student protest at the University of Maryland at College Park, 1966-1970 / Hayward "Woody" Farrar -- Hold that (color) line! : black exclusion and Southeastern Conference Football / Charles H. Martin -- African American women pioneers in desegregating higher education / Marcia G. Synnott.

381.12 M682b 2006
AUT Mitchell, Stacy.
TIT Big-box swindle : the true cost of mega-retailers and the fight for America's independent businesses.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Chain store world -- Fading prosperity -- Community life -- Blighted landscape -- Sometimes low prices -- Monopolized consumers -- Uncle Sam's invisible hand -- Communities unchained -- Declaration of independents.

382.71 B575t 2008
AUT Bhagwati, Jagdish N.
TIT Termites in the trading system : how preferential agreements undermine free trade.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Proliferating preferential trade agreements -- Why has the pandemic broken out? -- Why PTAs are a pox on the world trading system -- What do we do now? -- Appendix -- Glossary.

388.4 J76m 2008
AUT Jones, David W.
TIT Mass motorization + mass transit : an American history and policy analysis.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Motorization in the United States and other industrial nations -- Transit's American history, 1880-1929 -- The Great Depression and the New Deal : a pivotal epoch in U.S. transportation history -- World War II and its immediate aftermath : the end of the streetcar era and the beginnings of the freeway era -- The interstate and pervasive motorization, 1956-'80 -- Transit's conversion to public ownership -- U.S. motorization since the OPEC embargo -- The competitive difficulties of the U.S. automakers -- Evolving challenges in an evolved environment -- The changing valance of U.S. motorization -- The road to sustainable motorization -- Motorization and sustainability : history and prospect.

391 B639g 2008
AUT Blanchard, Tamsin.
TIT Green Is the new black : how to change the world with style. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : William Morrow, c2007.
CON Contents: Foreword / Lily Cole -- Introduction : the challenges of dressing green, a closet confession and why you are what you wear -- Getting the look: the foundations of sustainable style: from eBay to jumble to haute couture -- I shop, therefore I am ethical: High street heroes, designer campaigners, and shopping without the guilt -- Occasion wear: Dressing (and undressing) for the new season: plus a green wedding that won't cost the earth -- DIY style: get creative, save cash and look cute, with DIY designs from Cast Off, Junky Styling, Antoni & Alison and many more -- Can celebrities save the world?: Red carpet, green glamour, chic versus cheap celebrity icons, and how to shine like a star -- How to paint the town green: Stella's ethical makeover, swishing with friends and an A-Z of good nights out (and in) -- Great escapes: From cool riads to hot festivals, from happy camping to 'slow and low' global travel: ten of the hippest, eco holidays -- Get a life, get a hobby: Turn off the box, go on a carbon diet, and make your own fun: from napping to knitting, from guerrilla gardening to growing your mind -- Bags and shoes: lots of lovely shoes and bags, plus the evils of plastic, advice from Mulberry, and Anya's confession -- All that glitters: Sparkle in the greenest gems: discover ethical bling without the ethnic carving, or the clunky brown, wooden beads -- Little green book: a stylish and sustainable shopping directory, green reads, and a letter (or two) to adapt and send.

391.00942 S938d 2007
AUT Styles, John.
TIT The dress of the people : everyday fashion in eighteenth-century England.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: Consuming the eighteenth century -- Travellers' tales : nation and region -- What the people wore -- Clothing biographies -- Keeping up appearances -- Changing clothes -- Fashioning time : watches -- Fashion's favourite : cotton -- Clothing provincial England : fabrics -- Clothing provincial England : garments -- Clothing the metropolis -- The view from above -- The view from below -- Budgeting for clothes -- Clothes and the lifecycle -- Involuntary consumption : objects of charity -- Involuntary consumption : parish paupers -- Involuntary consumption : servants -- Popular fashion.

391.09 G975g 2008
AUT Gundle, Stephen.
TIT Glamour : a history.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Glamour and modernity -- Urban enchantments -- The birth of sex appeal -- Wealth, style, and spectacle -- Cafe society and publicity -- The Hollywood star system -- Paris, Rome, and the Riviera -- Glamour and mass consumption -- Photography and the female image -- Style, pastiche, and excess -- Contemporary glamour.

394.12 D486j 2008
AUT Deutsch, Jonathan ; Saks, Rachel D.
TIT Jewish American food culture.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
SER Food cultures in America.
CON Contents: Historical overview -- Major foods and ingredients -- Cooking -- Typical meals -- Eating out -- Special occasions -- Diet and health.

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401.4 B265a 2008
AUT Baron, Naomi S.
TIT Always on : language in an online and mobile world.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Email to your brain: language in an online and mobile world -- Language online: the basics -- Controlling the volume: everyone a language czar -- Are instant messages speech?: the world of IM -- My best day: managing "buddies" and "friends" -- Having your say: blogs and beyond -- Going mobile: cell phones in context -- Whatever: is the Internet destroying language? -- Gresham's ghost: challenges to written culture -- The people we become: the cost of being always on.

428.407 M495 2008
AUT Conley, Mark William.
TIT Meeting the challenge of adolescent literacy : research we have, research we need.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Fluency for adolescent readers : the research we have, the research we need / Timothy Rasinski and Gay Fawcett -- Intervening when older youths struggle with reading : teach me what I need to know next / Kathleen A. Hinchman -- The literacy development of African American male adolescents : the influence of contexts and texts / Alfred W. Tatum -- Responsive literacy teaching in secondary school content areas / Elizabeth Birr Moje -- Strategies that improve adolescents' performance with content-area texts / Mark W. Conley ... [et al.] -- What is mathematical literacy? : exploring the relationship between content-area literacy and content learning in middle and high school mathematics / Jon R. Star, Sharon Strickland, and Amanda Hawkins -- Literacy in science : using agency in the material world to expand the conversation / Steven Forbes Tuckey and Charles Anderson -- Literacy coaching / Cathy M. Roller -- Concluding reflections / Mark W. Conley.

428.42 R287 2008
AUT Lenski, Susan Davis ; Lewis, Jill, Ed. D.
TIT Reading success for struggling adolescent learners.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
SER Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.
CON Contents: Introduction / Susan Lenski and Jill Lewis -- What do we know about the adolescent learner and what does it mean for literacy instruction? / Jill Lewis and Avivah Dahbany -- Struggling adolescent readers : problems and possibilities / Susan Lenski -- Nurturing resilience among adolescent readers / Alfred W. Tatum and Teresa A. Fisher -- Teaching adolescent English language learners / Fabiola P. Ehlers-Zavala -- The role of technology in supporting struggling readers / Dana L. Grisham and Thomas DeVere Wolsey -- Engaging struggling adolescent readers in conversations about texts : instructional strategies for successful experiences / Kathleen Crawford-McKinney and Kattie Hogan -- Making time for independent reading / Susan Lenski and Erexenia Lanier -- Fluency strategies for struggling adolescent readers / Gay Fawcett and Timothy Rasinski -- Comprehension strategies that make a difference for struggling readers / Micki M. Caskey -- Vocabulary strategies for struggling readers / Margaret Ann Richek and Becky McTague -- Classroom instruction for struggling writers / Leif Fearn and Nancy Farnan -- Teaching from a critical literacy perspective and encouraging social action / Susan Lenski -- Meaningful assessment of struggling adolescent readers / Peter Afflerbach -- Literacy coaching at the middle school/high school levels / Rita Bean -- Keeping parents involved in their children's education during the middle and high school years / Laurie Elish-Piper -- "But I'm not going to college!" : developing adolescents' literacy for the 21st-century workplace / Jill Lewis.

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507.85 D748o 2008
AUT Downing, Kevin F ; Holtz, Jennifer K.
TIT Online science learning : best practices and technologies.
PUB Hershey, Pa. : Information Science Pub., c2008.

Curr 510 M154m 2007
AUT McKellar, Danica.
TIT Math doesn't suck : how to survive middle school math without losing your mind or breaking a nail.
PUB New York : Hudson Street Press, c2007.

512.5 K19t 2008
AUT Katznelson, Yitzhak ; Katznelson, Yonatan R.
TIT A (terse) introduction to linear algebra.
PUB Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2008.
SER Student mathematical library. 1520-9121 ; v. 44.
CON Contents: Vector spaces -- Linear operators and matrices -- Duality of vector spaces -- Determinants -- Invariant subspaces -- Inner-product spaces -- Structure theorems / Yitzhak Katznelson and Yonatan Katznelson.

512.9 I64v 2007
AUT Iosevich, Alex.
TIT A view from the top : analysis, combinatorics and number theory.
PUB Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2007.
SER Student mathematical library. 1520-9121 ; v. 39.
CON Contents: The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality -- Projections in Rp3s - the elephant makes an appearance! -- Projections in four dimensions -- Projections and cubes -- Incidences and matrices -- Basics of grids over finite fields -- Besicovitch-Kakeya conjecture in two dimensions -- A gentle entry into higher dimensions -- Some basic counting, probability and a few twists -- A more involved taste of probability -- Oscillatory integrals and fun that lies beyond -- Integer points and a crash course in Fourier analysis -- Return of the Fourier transform -- It is time to say good.

514.09 R529e 2008
AUT Richeson, David S.
TIT Euler's gem : the polyhedron formula and the birth of topology.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Leonhard Euler and his three "great" friends -- What is a polyhedron? -- The five perfect bodies -- The Pythagorean brotherhood and Plato's atomic theory -- Euclid and his elements -- Kepler's polyhedral universe -- Euler's gem -- Platonic solids, gold balls, Fullerenes, and geodesic domes -- Scooped by Descartes? -- Legendre gets it right -- A stroll through Königsberg -- Cauchy's flattened polyhedra -- Planar graphs, geoboards, and brussels sprouts -- It's a colorful world -- New problems and new proofs -- Rubber sheets, hollow doughnuts, and crazy bottles -- Are they the same, or are they different? -- A knotty problem -- Combing the hair on a coconut -- When topology controls geometry -- The topology of curvy surfaces -- Navigating in n dimensions -- Henri Poincaré and th ascendance of topology -- The million-dollar question.

515 K11p v.1-3
AUT Kaczor, W. J. ; Nowak, M. T.
TIT Problems in mathematical analysis.
PUB Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2000-.
SER Student mathematical library. 1520-9121 ; v. 4, 12, 21.
CON Contents: 1. Real numbers, sequences, and series -- 2. Continuity and differentiation -- 3. Integration.

519.5 H148r 2008
AUT Hahn, Gerald J ; Doganaksoy, Necip.
TIT The role of statistics in business and industry.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2008.
CON Contents: PART I. SETTING THE STAGE -- Chapter 1. Statistics: an overview -- About this chapter -- What is statistics? -- Areas of application -- Statistical literacy -- Better decisions require better data -- Statistical thinking -- Related disciplines -- Major take-aways -- Discussion questions -- Chapter 2. Statistics in Business and Industry -- About this chapter -- Evolution of statistics for manufactured product applications -- Applications beyond manufactured products -- Forces impacting the use of statistics today -- Major take-aways -- Discussion questions. Contents: PART II. MANUFACTURED PRODUCT APPLICATIONS -- Chapter 3. Product Design: Concepts -- About this chapter -- The product design process -- Ensuring measurement capability -- Design and development -- Design validation -- Transition to manufacturing -- Major take-aways -- Discussion questions -- Chapter 4. Product Design: Example -- About this chapter -- Thermoplastic resin for child car seat: introduction -- Some basic elements of plastic part design and manufacture -- Setting the design goals -- Ensuring measurement capability -- Design and development -- Design validation -- Transition to manufacturing -- Major take-aways -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 5. Product Reliability Assurance -- About this chapter -- The key role of reliability -- Design for reliability: the need -- The process and the participants -- Setting reliability goals -- Reliability evaluation of a conceptual design -- Product reliability development -- Reliability validation -- Product safety -- Reliability growth analysis -- Product burn-in -- Software reliability -- Further reading -- Major take-aways -- Appendix: product life distributions and concepts -- Discussion questions -- Chapter 6. Manufacturing Quality Improvement: Concepts -- About this chapter -- The Need for manufacturing quality improvement -- Different industries -- Considerations in manufacturing quality improvement -- Disciplined approaches to manufacturing quality improvement -- Quality assessment and improvement -- Statistical monitoring -- Major take-aways -- Discussion questions -- Chapter 7. Manufacturing Quality Improvement: Example -- About this chapter -- Generator stator bar example -- Manufacturing capability and stability assessment -- Addressing measurement error -- Reducing deviations from target and variability -- Statistical monitoring -- Discussion questions -- Chapter 8. Product Manufacturing: Further Applications -- About this chapter -- Integrating engineering processs control and statistical process control -- Polymer resin example -- Materials and parts quality assurance -- Final product assessment -- Productivity improvement --Major take-aways -- Discussion Questions -- Chapter 9. Product Field Support -- About this chapter -- Reliability data tracking -- Reliability data tracking for non-repairable products -- Reliability data tracking for repairable products -- Planning the failure reporting system -- A note on product safety -- Tracking customer satisfaction -- Competitive evaluations and advertising claims -- Proactive product servicing -- Major take-aways -- Discussion questions.
CON Contents: PART III. OTHER APPLICATIONS. Chapter 10. Pharmaceutical Products -- About this chapter -- Drug development: process overview -- The role of a pharmaceutical statistician: an overview -- Pre-clinical studies -- Clinical studies -- Case study: phase 2 clinical trial -- Regulatory review -- Some other applications -- Some statistical tools used in pharmaceutical applications -- Sources of further information -- Major take-aways -- Discussion questions -- Chapter 11. Financial Services -- About this chapter -- Financial services and its uncertainties -- Credit scoring for consumer loan approval -- Credit scoring example -- Model development and implementation: some important nitty-gritties -- Modeling in credit management: a broader look -- Specific application areas -- Statisticians in financial services -- Further reading -- Major take-aways -- Discussion questions -- Chapter 12. Business Processes -- About this chapter -- Business processes -- Example: improving the loan decision process for a business equipment financing company -- Steps for process improvement -- Another example: improving the skip tracing process -- Some further concepts and methods -- Operations research and management science -- Major take-aways -- Discussion questions -- Chapter 13. Further Applications -- About this chapter -- Food, beverage and related industries -- Semiconductor industry -- Communications industry -- Statistical image analysis for medical, security and other applications -- Other application areas -- Emerging areas: a glance into the future -- Major take-away -- Discussion questions.

520.973 M174k 2008
AUT McCray, Patrick.
TIT Keep watching the skies! : the story of Operation Moonwatch & the dawn of the space age.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: "THEY said it couldn't be done!" -- Cultures of observation -- An astronomical engineer -- Wanted: satellite spotters -- Of spacehounds and lunartiks -- Seeing history through a small telescope -- Amateurs provide strength on the bench -- Moonwatch grows up -- The legacy of Moonwatch.

Folio 522.29 D511h 2008
AUT DeVorkin, David H. ; Smith, Robert W. ; Smith, Robert W.
TIT Hubble imaging space and time.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum : In association with National Geographic, c2008.
CON Contents: The most famous telescope -- The realm of the Nebulae -- Into orbit -- Observing with Hubble -- The wonder of outer space / by Elizabeth Kessler -- The harvest.

522.29 Z75u 2008
AUT Zimmerman, Robert.
TIT The universe in a mirror : the saga of the Hubble Telescope and the visionaries who built it.
PUB Princeton, N.J. ; Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Foggy vision -- Slow start -- Getting money -- Building it -- Saving it -- "New phenomena not yet imagined" -- Abandonment -- The lure of the unknown.

523.8 S291b 2008
AUT Schaaf, Fred.
TIT The brightest stars : discovering the universe through the sky's most brilliant stars.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2008.
CON Contents: Stars in the sky -- Stars in the universe -- Profiles of the brightest stars.

530.12 S964b 2008
AUT Susskind, Leonard.
TIT The black hole war : my battle with Stephen Hawking to make the world safe for quantum mechanics. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Little, Brown, 2008.
CON Contents: The gathering storm -- The first shot -- The dark star -- Not your grandfather's geometry -- "Einstein, don't tell God what to do" -- Planck invents a better yardstick -- In a Broadway bar -- Energy and entropy -- Wheeler's boys, or how much information can you stuff in a black hoe? -- Black light -- Surprise attach -- How Stephen lost his bits and didn't know where to find them -- The Dutch resistance -- Who cares? -- Stalemate -- Skirmish at Aspen -- Counterattack -- The Battle of Santa Barbara -- Wait! Reverse the rewiring -- Ahab in Cambridge -- The world as a hologram -- Closing the ring -- Weapon of mass deduction -- Alice's airplane, or the last visible propeller -- Counting black holes -- South America wins the war -- Nuclear physics? You're kidding! -- Humility.

530.8 U99n 2008
AUT Uzan, Jean-Philippe ; Leclercq, Bénédicte.
TIT The natural laws of the universe : understanding fundamental constants.
PUB Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, U.K. : Published in association with Praxis Pub., c2008.

Chem 547 M728s 2008
AUT Moloney, Mark G.
TIT Structure and reactivity in organic chemistry.
PUB Oxford ; Ames, Iowa : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: Bonding -- Structure -- Reactivity -- Intermediates -- Acidity and basicity -- Nucleophilic substitution -- Addition reactions -- Elimination reactions -- Aromatic substitution -- Sequential addition and elimination reactions -- Radical reactions -- Ligand coupling reactions -- Pericyclic reactions.

Chem 547.2 L668a 2008
AUT Levy, D. E.
TIT Arrow pushing in organic chemistry : an easy approach to understanding reaction mechanisms.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2008.

551.136 C525f 2008
AUT Chester, R.
TIT Furnace of creation, cradle of destruction : a journey to the birthplace of earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis.
PUB New York : AMACOM, c2008.
CON Contents: Setting the scene -- Beginnings -- New battles -- Toward continental drift -- On the road to explaining volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis -- Continental drift: a theory without a cause -- New horizons -- Seafloor spreading -- The plot thickens -- The cycle of birth, life, and destruction -- Plate tectonics: the earth science "theory of everything" -- Hydrothermal activity: a new ocean world -- Plate tectonics and volcanoes -- Plate tectonics and earthquakes -- Plate tectonics and tsunamis -- Predicting and mitigating against volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis.

Folio 551.46 H632 2007
AUT Theberge, Albert E ; Lautenbacher, Conrad Charles
TIT Hidden depths : atlas of the oceans.
PUB New York : Collins, 2007.

551.6 L987s 2008
AUT Lynas, Mark.
TIT Six degrees : our future on a hotter planet.
PUB Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2008.

567.9 L848f 2008
AUT Long, John A. ; Schouten, Peter.
TIT Feathered dinosaurs : the origin of birds.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Dinosaurs, Darwin and fossils -- Mighty tyrannosaurs and their humble ancestry -- Fleet-footed ostrich mimics -- Ornitholestes, compys and kin -- The monster claws -- The egg brooders -- The deadly raptors -- The little smart ones -- Bird dinosaurs and dinosaur birds.

571.95 L292m 2008
AUT Lannoo, Michael J.
TIT Malformed frogs : the collapse of aquatic ecosystems.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: What is an amphibian malformation? -- Malformed frog types -- Hotspots -- Causes -- Resolutions -- Human malformations and causes -- Solutions.

577.3 M396t 2008
AUT Maser, Chris ; Claridge, Andrew W. ; Trappe, James M.
TIT Trees, truffles, and beasts : how forests function.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The forest we see -- The unseen forest -- Trees, truffles, and beasts : coevolution in action -- Of animals and fungi -- The importance of mycophagy -- Landscape patterns and fire -- Forest succession and habitat dynamics -- Of lifestyles and shared habitats -- Lessons from the trees, the truffles, and the beasts.

577.3 P462f2 2008
AUT Perry, David A ; Oren, Ram ; Hart, Stephen C.
TIT Forest ecosystems. - 2nd ed.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Basic terminology and concepts -- Forests as part of the global ecosystem -- Major forest types and their climatic controls -- Local variation in community type: the landscape mosaic -- Change in time: an overview -- Disturbance in forest ecosystems -- Patterns and mechanisms of succession -- The structure of local ecosystems -- How biodiversity is created and maintained -- The biological web: interactions among species -- Size-density relationships in forests over time and across space -- Genetic and evolutionary aspects of species interactions -- Soil: the fundamental resource -- Primary productivity -- Forest nutrition -- Biogeochemical cycling: nutrient inputs to and losses from local ecosystems -- Biogeochemical cycling: the intrasystem cycle -- Herbivores in forest ecosystems -- Ecosystem stability I: introduction and case studies -- Ecosystem stability II: the role of biodiversity -- Ecosystem stability III: conserving species -- The future.

578.769 S562n 2008
AUT Shumway, Scott.
TIT The naturalist's guide to the Atlantic seashore : beach ecology from the Gulf of Maine to Cape Hatteras. - 1st ed.
PUB Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot Press, 2008.
SER Falcon guide.

579.17 W751b 2008
AUT Wilson, Michael.
TIT Bacteriology of humans : an ecological perspective.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: The human-microbe symbiosis -- The indigenous microbiota of the skin -- The indigenous microbiota of the eye -- The indigenous microbiota of the respiratory tract -- The indigenous microbiota of the urinary system of females -- The indigenous microbiota of the reproductive system of females -- The indigenous microbiota of the urinary and reproductive systems of males -- The indigenous microbiota of the oral cavity -- The indigenous microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract -- The future.

580 C989p 2008
AUT Cutler, D. F. ; Botha, C. E. J. ; Stevenson, Dennis Wm.
TIT Plant anatomy : an applied approach.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: 1. Morphology and tissue systems: the integrated plant body -- General background -- Adaptation to aerial growth -- The systems in detail -- 2. Meristems and meristematic growth -- Introduction -- Apical meristems -- Lateral meristems -- Practical applications and uses of meristems -- 3. The structure of xylem and phloem -- Introduction -- The xylem -- The phloem -- Structure--function relationships in primary and secondary vascular tissues -- 4. The root -- Introduction -- Epidermis -- Cortex -- Endodermis -- Pericycle -- Vascular system -- Lateral roots -- 5. The stem -- Introduction -- Stems--cross-sectional appearance -- Transport phloem within the axial system -- Transport tissue--structural components -- Concluding remarks -- 6. The leaf -- Introduction -- Leaf structure -- The epidermis -- The mesophyll -- Strengthening systems in the leaf -- The vascular system -- The phloem -- Specifics of the monocotyledonous foliage leaf -- Secretory structures -- Concluding remarks -- 7. Flowers, fruits, and seeds -- Introduction -- Vascularization -- SEM studies -- Palynology -- Embryology -- Seed and fruit histology -- 8. Adaptive features -- Introduction -- Mechanical adaptations -- Adaptations to habitat -- Xerophytes -- Mesophytes -- Hydrophytes -- Applications -- 9. Economic aspects of applied plant anatomy -- Introduction -- Identification and classification -- Taxonomic application -- Medicinal plants -- Food adulterants and contaminants -- Animal feeding habits -- Wood: present day -- Wood: in archaeology -- Forensic applications -- Palaeobotany -- Postscript -- 10. Practical microtechnique -- Safety considerations -- Materials and methods -- Microscopy -- Appendix 1. Selected study material -- Appendix 2. Practical exercises.

595.7 S459e2 2008
AUT Speight, Martin R ; Hunter, Mark D ; Watt, Allan D.
TIT Ecology of insects : concepts and applications. - 2nd ed.
PUB Oxford ; Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.

598.159 C357b2 2008
AUT Catchpole, Clive ; Slater, P. J. B.
TIT Bird song : biological themes and variations. - 2nd ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The study of bird song -- Production and perception -- How song develops -- Getting the message across -- When do birds sing? -- Recognition and territorial defence -- Sexual selection and female choice -- Themes and variations -- Variation in time and space.

599.935 D247 2008
AUT Witkowski, J. A. ; Inglis, J. R. ; Davenport, Charles Benedict.
TIT Davenport's dream : 21st century reflections on heredity and eugenics.
PUB Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2008.

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Folio 611.022 M527C3 2008
AUT Melloni, June L.
TIT Melloni's illustrated review of human anatomy. - 3rd ed.
PUB Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Arteries -- Bones -- Muscles -- Nerves -- Veins -- Ligaments.

612 M571o 2008
AUT Merrill, Gary F.
TIT Our marvelous bodies : an introduction to the physiology of human health.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The foundation -- Understanding the mammalian nervous system -- The endocrine system and physiological communication -- The cardiovascular system and the blood -- Health and the respiratory system -- Kidneys and renal physiology -- The gastrointestinal system -- The reproductive system -- The immune system -- Muscle function -- Integrated physiological responses -- For the record.

612.82 G291h 2008
AUT Gazzaniga, Michael S.
TIT Human : the science behind what makes us unique. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Ecco, c2008.
CON Contents: The basics of human life: Are human brains unique? -- Would a chimp make a good date? -- Navigating the social world: Big brains and expanding social relationships -- The moral compass within -- I feel your pain -- The glory of being human: What's up with the arts? -- We all act like dualists: the converter function -- Is anybody there? -- Beyond current constraints: Who needs flesh?.

612.82 S856f 2008
AUT Stiles, Joan.
TIT The fundamentals of brain development : integrating nature and nurture.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The central questions about psychological and biological development -- The gene: evolution of a concept -- Formation of the neural plate -- Formation of the neural tube -- Molecular patterning of the primary spatial dimensions of the embryo -- The production of brain cells: neurons and glia -- Neuronal migration and neuronal differentiation -- Shaping the emerging cortical network: the role of intrinsic and extrinsic factors -- Late prenatal and postnatal changes in human brain structure -- Plasticity and the role of experience in neocortical development -- The importance of brain development for psychology.

613.2 E16e2 2007
AUT Eberle, Suzanne Girard.
TIT Endurance sports nutrition. - 2nd ed.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2007.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Endurance-specific nutrition strategies -- Strengthening your nutritional base -- Meeting energy needs of distance demands -- Boosting your strength-to-weight ratio -- Timing fuel and fluids for optimal results -- Using supplements effectively -- Solving peak performance challenges -- Endurance eating for vegetarians -- Planning meals for endurance athletes -- pt. 2. Condition-specific nutrition plans -- Shorter-range events -- Long-distance events -- Ultraendurance events -- Multiday and multileg endurance events -- Rowing and long-distance swimming -- Extreme heat -- Extreme cold -- High altitude.

613.71 U55 2008
AUT Silver, J. K. ; Morin, Christopher.
TIT Understanding fitness : how exercise fuels health and fights disease.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
SER Praeger series on contemporary health and living, 1932-8079.

614.1 A769g 2007
AUT Aronson, Jay D.
TIT Genetic witness : science, law, and controversy in the making of DNA profiling.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Science for hire -- DNA on trial -- Challenging DNA -- Public science -- The DNA wars -- The debate in Washington -- The DNA wars are over -- The legacy of history.

614.15 E68c 2008
AUT Erickson, Patricia E. ; Erickson, Steven K.
TIT Crime, punishment, and mental illness : law and the behavioral sciences in conflict.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
SER Critical issues in crime and society.
CON Contents: The social construction of mental illness as a criminal justice problem -- Systems of social control: from asylums to prisons -- Competency to stand trial and competency to be executed -- The problems with the insanity defense: the conflict between law and psychiatry -- The "mad" or "bad" debate concerning sex offenders -- Juvenile offenders, developmental competency, and mental illness -- Criminalizing mental illness: does it matter?.

615.3234 C463d 2008
AUT Chapkis, W. ; Webb, Richard J.
TIT Dying to get high : marijuana as medicine.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.

Ref 614.403 D554P5 2008
AUT Porta, Miquel S.
TIT A dictionary of epidemiology. - 5th ed. / edited for the International Epidemiological Association by Miquel Porta ; associate editors, Sander Greenland, John M. Last.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

615.5 S617t 2008
AUT Singh, Simon ; Ernst, E.
TIT Trick or treatment : the undeniable facts about alternative medicine. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
CON Contents: How do you determine the truth? -- The truth about acupuncture -- The truth about homeopathy -- The truth about chiropractic therapy -- The truth about herbal medicine -- Does the truth matter?.

615.852 R382 2008
AUT Crawford O'Brien, Suzanne J.
TIT Religion and healing in Native America : pathways for renewal.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2008.
SER Religion, health, and healing, 1556-262X.
CON Contents: Healing the soul wounds of colonialism -- Cultural reprise, identity, and social well-being -- Native American notions of the embodied self -- Healing through narrative and storytelling.

616.8498 G799i 2008
AUT Greene, Gayle.
TIT Insomniac.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Insomnia -- Sleepstarved -- Blame the victim -- Sleepless in Seattle : the conferences -- The brain of an insomniac -- Sleep, stress, and stages of life -- Rock, hard place : the drugs -- Change your attitude, change your ways : behavioral modification -- Asleep at the switch : the clinics -- Alternatives -- Bedding down with the beast -- Making change.

616.8522 C641 2008
AUT Abramowitz, Jonathan S ; McKay, Dean ; Taylor, Steven.
TIT Clinical handbook of obsessive-compulsive disorder and related problems.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Making sense of obsessive-compulsive disorder : do subtypes exist? / Steven Taylor, Dean McKay, and Jonathan S. Abramowitz -- Fears of contamination / Dean McKay and Reuben Robbins -- Compulsive checking / Johan Rosqvist and Darcy C. Norling -- Ordering, incompleteness, and arranging / Laura J. Summerfeldt -- Unacceptable obsessional thoughts and covert rituals / Christine Purdon -- Compulsive hoarding / Randy O. Frost and David F. Tolin -- The PANDAS subgroup of obsessive-compulsive disorder / Kyle Allen Williams, Jon E. Grant, and Suck Won Kim. Contents: Obsessive-compulsive disorder with poor insight / Cheryl Carmin, Pamela S. Wiegartz, and Kevin Wu -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder and schizotypy / Dean McKay and Patricia Gruner -- Postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder / Jonathan S. Abramowitz and Nichole Fairbrother -- Scrupulosity / Jonathan S. Abramowitz -- The empirical basis of the obsessive-compulsive spectrum / Dan J. Stein and Christine Lochner -- Eating disorders / Randi E. McCabe and Michele Boivin -- Trichotillomania / Douglas W. Woods, Amanda C. Adcock, and Christine A. Conelea. Contents: Impulse-control disorders / Jon E. Grant and Patrick Marsh -- Autistic syndromes / Christopher J. McDougle ... [et al.] -- Nonparaphilic sexual disorders / Elias Aboujaoude and Lorrin M. Koran -- Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorders / Kieron P. O'Connor and Julie Leclerc -- Body dysmorphic disorder / David H. Gleaves and Suman Ambwani -- Hypochondriasis / Steven Taylor and Gordon J.G. Asmundson -- Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder / Jane L. Eisen ... [et al.].

616.8527 A281d 2008
AUT Aguirre, Blaise A.
TIT Depression.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
SER Biographies of disease, 1940-445X.
CON Contents: What is depression? -- How is depression diagnosed? -- How does someone get depression? -- Treatment of depression -- Complications of depression -- The future.

616.8527 N993u 2008
AUT Nydegger, Rudy V.
TIT Understanding and treating depression : ways to find hope and help.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2008.
SER Abnormal psychology, 1554-2238.
CON Contents: What is depression? -- Depression and the depressed : what does it feel like? -- The epidemiology and etiology of depression : who gets it and why? -- Different types and manifestations of depression -- Gender and depression -- Life cycle issues and depression -- Special groups and depression : race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation -- Treatment of depression: psychological therapies -- Treatment for depression : medical treatments and others -- Pulling it all together : what do we know?.

616.8581 B468i2 2003
AUT Benjamin, Lorna Smith.
TIT Interpersonal diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders. - 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2003.
SER Diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
CON Contents: Introduction and overview -- History and assumptions of the approach -- The harmonics of therapy -- The interviewing and treatment methods -- Borderline personality disorder -- Narcissistic personality disorder -- Histrionic personality disorder -- Antisocial personality disorder -- Dependent personality disorder -- Obsessive compulsive personality disorder -- Negativistic personality disorder (passive aggressive personality disorder) -- Avoidant personality disorder -- Paranoid personality disorder -- Schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders -- Category overlap, residual categories, and other issues -- Appendix: Summary of diagnostic and differential indicators.

616.8583 S518L2 2008
AUT Laws, D. Richard ; O'Donohue, William T.
TIT Sexual deviance : theory, assessment, and treatment.
TIT 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction / D. Richard Laws and William T. O'Donohue -- 2. An integrated theory of sexual offending / Tony Ward and Anthony R. Beech -- 3. Sexual deviance over the lifespan: reductions in deviant sexual behavior in the aging sex offender / Howard E. Barbaree and Ray Blanchard -- 4. Exhibitionism: psychopathology and theory / William D. Murphy and I. Jacqueline Page -- 5. Exhibitionism: assessment and treatment / John W. Morin and Jill S. Levenson -- 6. Fetishism: psychopathology and theory / Shauna Darcangelo -- 7. Fetishism: assessment and treatment / Shauna Darcangelo ... [et al.] -- 8. Frotteurism: psychopathology and theory / Patrick Lussier and Lyne Piché-- 9. Frotteurism: assessment and treatment / Richard B. Krueger and Meg S. Kaplan -- 10. Pedophilia: psychopathology and theory / Michael C. Seto -- 11. Pedophilia: assessment and treatment / Joseph A. Camilleri and Vernon L. Quinsey -- 12. Sexual sadism: psychopathology and theory / Pamela M. Yates, ... [et al.] -- 13. Sexual sadism: assessment and treatment / Drew A. Kingston and Pamela M. Yates -- 14. Sexual masochism: psychopathology and theory / Stephen J. Hucker -- 15. Sexual masochism: assessment and treatment / Stephen J. Hucker -- 16. Transvestic fetishism: psychopathology and theory / Jennifer Wheeler, ... [et al.] -- 17. Transvestic fetishism: assessment and treatment / Kirk A. B. Newring, ... [et al.] -- 18. Voyeurism: psychopathology and theory / Michael Lavin. Contents: 19. Voyeurism: assessment and treatment / Ruth E. Mann, ... [et al.] -- 20. Rape: psychopathology and theory / Theresa A. Gannon and Tony Ward -- 21. Rape: assessment and treatment / Jo Thakker, ... [et al.] -- 22. Paraphilia not otherwise specified: psychopathology and theory / Joel S. Milner, ... [et al.] -- 23. Paraphilia not otherwise specified: assessment and treatment / Tamara M. Penix -- 24. Online sex offending: psychopathology and theory / Ethel Quayle -- 25. Online sex offending: assessment and treatment / David L. Delmonico and Elizabeth J. Griffin -- 26. Sexual deviance in females: psychopathology and theory / Caroline Logan -- 27. Sexual deviance in females: assessment and treatment / Hannah Ford and Franca Cortoni -- 28. Multiple paraphilias: prevalence, etiology, assessment, and treatment / Peggy Heil and Dominique Simons -- 29. Sexual deviance and the law / Stephen D. Hart and P. Randall Kropp -- 30. Neurobiological processes and comorbidity in sexual deviance / Martin P. Kafka -- 31. Medical models and interventions in sexual deviance / Don Grubin -- 32. The public health approach: a way forward? / D. Richard Laws.

616.85884 D748 2002
AUT Cohen, William I ; Nadel, Lynn ; Madnick, Myra E.
TIT Down syndrome : visions for the 21st century.
PUB New York : Wiley-Liss, c2002.
CON Contents: Machine generated contents note: PREFACE, XI -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, XIII -- CONTRIBUTORS, XV -- PART I SELF-DETERMINATION -- 1 UNDERSTANDING SELF-DETERMINATION, 3 -- Thomas Nerney -- 2 ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE AND INCLUSION, 17 -- Michael Morris -- 3 PLAYING THE HOUSING "GAME": PEOPLE WITH DOWN SYNDROME -- AND THEIR FAMILIES CAN HAVE MORE CONTROL WHEN IT COMES -- TO HOUSING, 83 -- Kathleen H. McGinley, Ph.D. -- PART II SELF-ADVOCACY -- 4 HAVING A LIFE, 107 -- John Peter Illarramendi, Jeffery Mattson, and Mia Peterson -- 5 FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS, 113 -- Chris Burke -- 6 LIFE AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, 115 -- Joshua G. O'Neill -- PART III ADVOCACY -- 7 A VISION FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: -- A BLUEPRINT FOR CHANGE, 119 -- Stephanie Smith Lee -- PART IV ROLE OF THE FAMILY -- 8 THE GIFTS OF DOWN SYNDROME: SOME THOUGHTS FOR NEW PARENT, 137 -- Martha Beck, Ph.D. -- 9 A PERSONAL ACCOUNT, 149 -- Siegfried M. Pueschel, M.D., Ph.D., J.D., M.P.H. -- 10 BEING A DAD-AS I KNOW IT, 155 -- Thomas J. O'Neill -- 11 THE SIBLING RELATIONSHIP: ATTENDING TO THE NEEDS OF -- THE OTHER CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY, 163 -- Susan P. Levine, M.A., C.S.W. -- 12 THE SPECIAL NEEDS PROGRAM: ESTATE PLANNING FOR FAMILIES -- WITH CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES, 173 -- David A. Weingarten -- PART V HEALTH AND CLINICAL CARE -- 13 PEDIATRIC HEALTH UPDATE ON DOWN SYNDROME, 187 -- Len Leshin, M.D., FAAP -- 14 THE GOAL AND OPPORTUNITY OF PHYSICAL THERAPY FOR -- CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME, 203 -- Patricia C. Winders, PT -- 15 BEHAVIORAL CONCERNS IN PERSONS WITH DOWN SYNDROME, 215 -- Bonnie Patterson, M.D. -- 16 LIFE ISSUES OF ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS WITH -- DOWN SYNDROME, 221 -- Dennis E. McGuire, Ph.D., and Brian A. Chicoine, M.D. -- 17 HEALTH CARE GUIDELINES FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH -- DOWN SYNDROME-1999 REVISION. 237 -- William I. Cohen, M.D. -- PART VI RESEARCH -- 18 SEQUENCING OF CHROMOSOME 21/THE HUMAN -- GENOME PROJECT, 249 -- David Patterson, Ph.D. -- 19 NONCONVENTIONAL THERAPIES FOR DOWN SYNDROME: -- A REVIEW AND FRAMEWORK FOR DECISION MAKING, 259 -- W. Carl Cooley, M.D. -- 20 THE GENETIC ORIGINS OF COGNITION AND HEART DISEASE -- IN DOWN SYNDROME, 275 -- Julie R. Korenberg, Ph.D., M.D., Gillian Barlow, Ph.D., Lora S. Salandanan, -- B.S., Pranay Bhattacharyya, B.S., Xiao-Ning Chen, M.D., and Gary E. Lyons, -- Ph.D. -- 21 THE ORIGIN AND ETIOLOGY OF TRISOMY 21, 295 -- Terry Hassold, Ph.D., and Stephanie Sherman -- PART VII PSYCHO-SOCIAL ISSUES -- 22 BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS/SOCIAL AND SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT, 305 -- Leslie Walker-Hirsch, M.Ed. -- 23 FOOD, FEEDING, AND FAMILY: ON THE ROAD TO -- HEALTHY LIFESTYLES, 317 -- Joan E. Medlen, R.D., L.D. -- 24 DOWN SYNDROME AND AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS, 327 -- George T. Capone, M.D. -- PART VIII EDUCATION/INCLUSION -- 25 INCLUSION: WELCOMING, VALUING, AND SUPPORTING -- THE DIVERSE LEARNING NEEDS OF ALL STUDENTS IN -- SHARED GENERAL EDUCATION ENVIRONMENTS. 339 -- Richard A. Villa, Ed.D., and Jacqueline Thousand, Ph.D. -- 26 POSITIVE BEHAVIORAL SUPPORTS: CREATIVE SUPPORTI...

616.891 C641B4 2008
AUT Barlow, David H.
TIT Clinical handbook of psychological disorders : a step-by-step treatment manual.
TIT 4th ed.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Panic disorder and agoraphobia / Michelle G. Craske and David H. Barlow -- Posttraumatic stress disorder / Patricia A. Resick, Candice M. Monson, and Shireen L. Rizvi -- Social anxiety disorder / Cynthia L. Turk, Richard G. Heimberg, and Leanne Magee -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder / Martin E. Franklin and Edna B. Foa -- Emotional disorders : a unified protocol / Laura B. Allen, R. Kathryn McHugh, and David H. Barlow -- Cognitive therapy for depression / Jeffrey E. Young ... [et al.] -- Interpersonal psychotherapy for depression / Kathryn L. Bleiberg and John C. Markowitz -- Behavioral activation for depression / Sona Dimidjian ... [et al.] -- Dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder / Marsha M. Linehan and Elizabeth T. Dexter-Mazza -- Bipolar disorder / David J. Miklowitz -- Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders / Nicholas Tarrier -- Alcohol use disorders / Barbara S. McCrady -- Drug abuse and dependence / Stephen T. Higgins, Stacey C. Sigmon, and Sarah H. Heil -- Eating disorders : a transdiagnostic protocol / Christopher G. Fairburn ... [et al.] -- Sexual dysfunction / John P. Wincze, Amy K. Bach, and David H. Barlow -- Couple distress / Andrew Christensen, Jennifer G. Wheeler, and Neil S. Jacobson.

616.898 C641 2008
AUT Mueser, Kim Tornvall ; Jeste, Dilip V.
TIT Clinical handbook of schizophrenia.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: I. CORE SCIENCE AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION -- 1. History of schizophrenia as a psychiatric disorder / Helen Lavretsky -- 2. Epidemiology / David J. Castle and Vera Morgan -- 3. Biological theories / Jonathan Downar and Shitij Kapur -- 4. Brain imaging / Lisa T. Eyler -- 5. Neuropathology / Daniel G. Stewart and Kenneth L. Davis -- 6. Genetics / Stephen J. Glatt -- 7. Environmental pre- and perinatal influences / Lauren M. Ellman and Tyrone D. Cannon -- 8. Psychosocial factors / Paul Bebbington and Elizabeth Kuipers -- 9. Psychopathology / Ipsit V. Vahia and Carl I. Cohen -- 10. Cognitive functioning / Gauri N. Savla, David J. Moore, and Barton W. Palmer -- 11. Course and outcome / Heinz Häfner and Wolfram and der Heiden -- II. ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS -- 12. Diagnostic interviewing / Abraham Rudnick and David Roe -- 13. Assessment of co-occurring disorders / Karen Wohlheiter and Lisa Dixon -- 14. Assessment of psychosocial functioning / Tania Lecomte, Marc Corbière, and Catherine Briand -- 15. Treatment planning / Alexander L. Miller and Dawn I. Velligan -- III. SOMATIC TREATMENT -- 16. Antipsychotics / Eric C. Kutscher -- 17. Side effects of antipsychotics / Christian R. Dolder -- 18. Clozapine / Martha Sajatovic, Subramoniam Madhusodanan, and Matthew A. Fuller -- 19. Other medications / Britton Ashley Arey and Stephen R. Marder -- 20. Electroconvulsive therapy / Shawn M. McClintock, Najeeb Ranginwala, and Mustafa M. Husain -- IV. PSYCHOSOCIAL TREATMENT 21. Environmental supports / Dawn I. Velligan and Alexander L. Miller -- 22. Family intervention / Christine Barrowclough and Fiona Lobban -- 23. Cognitive-behavioral therapy / Anthony P. Morrison -- 24. Social skills training / Wendy N. Tenhula and Alan S. Bellack -- 25. Cognitive rehabilitation / Til Wykes -- 26. Vocational rehabilitation / Deborah R. Becker -- 27. Illness self-management training / Kim T. Mueser and Susan Gingerich -- 28. Group therapy / John R. McQuaid -- 29. Supported housing / Priscilla Ridgway -- 30. Self-help activities / Frederick J. Frese III -- V. SYSTEMS OF CARE -- 31. Clinical case management / Margaret V. Sherrer and Thomas O'Hare -- 32. Strengths-based case management / Charles A. Rapp and Richard J. Goscha-- 33. Assertive community treatment / Natalie L. DeLuca, Lorna L. Moser, and Gary R. Bond -- 34. Emergency room, inpatient, and residential treatment / Mounir Soliman, Antonio M. Santos, and James B. Lohr -- 35. Treatment in jails and prisons / Roger H. Peters, Pattie B. Sherman, and Fred C. Osher -- VI. SPECIAL POPULATIONS AND PROBLEMS -- 36. First-episode psychosis / Donald Addington and Jean Addington -- 37. Treatment of the schizophrenia prodrome / Barnaby Nelson and Alison Yung -- 38. Older individuals / Thomas W. Meeks and Dilip V. Jeste -- 39. Understanding and working with aggression, violence, and psychosis / Gillian Haddock and Jennifer J. Shaw -- 40. Housing instability and homelessness / Alan Felix, Dan Herman, and Ezra Susser -- 41. Medical comor...

618.9285 C912 2008
AUT Malchiodi, Cathy A.
TIT Creative interventions with traumatized children.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Creative interventions and childhood trauma / Cathy A. Malchiodi -- Effective practice with traumatized children : ethics, evidence, and cultural sensitivity / Cathy A. Malchiodi -- Expressive therapy for severe maltreatment and attachment disorders : a neuroscience framework / P. Gussie Klorer -- Music and grief work with children and adolescents / Russell E. Hilliard -- Grieving in the public eye : art therapy with children who lost parents in the World Trade Center attacks / Laura V. Loumeau-May -- Medical art and play therapy with accident survivors / Elizabeth Sanders Martin -- Creative approaches to minimize the traumatic impact of bullying behavior / Diane S. Safran and Elysa R. Safran -- Trauma, loss, and bibliotherapy : the healing power of stories / Cathy A. Malchiodi and Deanne Ginns-Gruenberg -- Creative crisis intervention techniques with children and families / Lennis G. Echterling and Anne Stewart -- Working creatively with children and their families after trauma : the storied life / Ann Cattanach -- Vanquishing monsters : drama therapy for treating childhood trauma in the group setting / Craig Haen -- A group art and play therapy program for children from violent homes / Cathy A. Malchiodi -- Interventions for parents of traumatized children / William Steele and Cathy A. Malchiodi -- Resilience and posttraumatic growth in traumatized children / Cathy A. Malchiodi, William Steele, and Caelan Kuban -- Ready, set, relax! : relaxation strategies with children and adolescents / Roger J. Klein.

618.9285 H236A 2008
AUT Abela, John R. Z ; Hankin, Benjamin L.
TIT Handbook of depression in children and adolescents.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.

618.9289 C536 2008
AUT Beauchaine, Theodore P ; Hinshaw, Stephen P.
TIT Child and adolescent psychopathology.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.
CON Contents: Developmental psychopathology as a scientific discipline : relevance to behavioral and emotional disorders of childhood and adolescence / Steven P. Hinshaw -- A multiple-levels-of-analysis perspective on research in development and psychopathology / Dante Cicchetti -- Genetic and environmental influences on behavior / Theodore P. Beauchaine, Steven P. Hinshaw, and Lisa Gatzke-Kopp -- Child maltreatment : a neurodevelopmental perspective on the role of trauma and neglect in psychopathology / Bruce D. Perry -- Impulsivity and vulnerability to psychopathology / Theodore P. Beauchaine and Emily Neuhaus -- Behavioral inhibition as a risk factor for psychopathology / Jerome Kagan -- Exposure to teratogenic agents as a risk factor for psychopathology / Susanna L. Fryer, Nicole A. Crocker, and Sarah N. Mattson -- Brain injury as a risk factor for psychopathology / Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp and Katherine E. Shannon -- Affective style and risk for psychopathology / James A. Coan and John J.B. Allen -- Emotion dysregulation as a risk factor for psychopathology / Pamela M. Cole and Sarah E. Hall -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder / Joel Nigg and Molly Nikolas -- Oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and juvenile delinquency / Benjamin B. Lahey -- Antisocial personality development / Kristina D. Hiatt and Thomas J. Dishion -- Prevalence of alcohol and drug involvement during childhood and adolescence / Sandra A. Brown -- Anxiety disorders / Carl Weems and Wendy Silverman -- Depressive disorders / Daniel N. Klein, Dana C. Torpey, and Sara J. Bufferd -- The development of borderline personality disorder and self-injurious behavior / Sheila E. Crowell, Theodore P. Beauchaine, and Mark F. Lenzenweger -- Bipolar disorder / Joseph C. Blader and Gabriella A. Carlson -- Autism spectrum disorders : a developmental perspective / Geraldine Dawson and Susan Faja -- Childhood schizophrenia / Robert F. Asarnow and Claudia L. Kernan -- Eating disorders / Eric Stice and Cynthia M. Bulik.

618.9289 M342 2009
AUT El-Sheikh, Mona ; Beauchaine, Theodore P ; Moore, Ginger A.
TIT Marital conflict and children's externalizing behavior : interactions between parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system activity.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
SER Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 0037-976X ; serial no. 292, vol. 74, no. 1, 2009.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Interactions among marital conflict, sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems activity in the prediction of children's externalizing problems -- Additional testing of three-way interactions in an independent sample -- Additional consideration of the role of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems activity in a sample of 6-12-year-olds. -- Discussion -- References -- Commentary: Some difficulties in interpreting psychophysiological research with children / Theodore P. Beauchaine -- When negative is positive / Ginger A. Moore.

618.9289 T784 2008
AUT Eisen, Andrew R.
TIT Treating childhood behavioral and emotional problems : a step-by-step, evidence-based approach.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Seeking safety / Andrew R. Eisen ... [et al.] -- Social anxiety / Jennifer L. Hudson, Heidi J. Lyneham, and Ronald M. Rapee -- Obsessive thoughts / Fugen Neziroglu ... [et al.] -- Inattentiveness / Linda A. Reddy and James B. Hale -- Negative affect / Kimberly D. Becker and Bruce F. Chorpita -- Moodiness / Kristen Davidson and Mary A. Fristad -- Eating problems / Megan Roehrig ... [et al.] -- Sleep problems / Brian Rabian and Steven J. Bottjer.

620.5 B162n 2007
AUT Bainbridge, William Sims.
TIT Nanoconvergence : the unity of nanoscience, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2007.
CON Contents: Convergence at the nanoscale -- Visions and illusions -- Information technology -- Biotechnology -- Cognitive technology -- Unification of science -- Unity in diversity -- The final frontier.

629.222 C338m 2008
AUT Casey, Robert.
TIT The model T : a centennial history.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Automobility in 1908 -- Creating the Model T -- Manufacturing the Model T -- Selling the Model T -- Owning & driving the Model T -- The meaning of the Model T.

629.442 C357i 2008
AUT Catchpole, John.
TIT The international space station : building for the future.
PUB Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, U.K. : In association with Praxis, c2008.
SER Springer-Praxis books in space exploration.

629.442 I93s 2008
AUT Ivanovich, Grujica S.
TIT Salyut : the first space station : triumph and tragedy.
PUB Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, U.K. : In association with Praxis, c2008.

632.96 V246c 2008
AUT Van Driesche, Roy ; Hoddle, Mark ; Center, Ted D.
TIT Control of pests and weeds by natural enemies : an introduction to biological control. - 1st ed.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., c2008.
CON Contents: Pt. 1. Scope of biological control -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types of biological control, targets, and agents -- Pt. 2. Kinds of natural enemies -- 3. Parasitoid diversity and ecology -- 4. Predator diversity and ecology -- 5. Weed biocontrol agent diversity and ecology -- 6. Arthropod pathogen diversity and ecology -- Pt. 3. Invasions : why biological control is needed -- 7. The invasion crisis -- 8. Ways to suppress invasive species -- Pt. 4. Natural enemy introductions : theory and practice -- 9. Interaction webs as the conceptual framework for classical biological control -- 10. The role of population ecology and population models in biological control / by Joseph Elkinton -- 11. Classical biological control -- 12. Weed biological control -- Pt. 5. Tools for classical biological control -- 13. Foreign exploration -- 14. Climate matching -- 15. Molecular tools / by Richard Stouthamer -- Pt. 6. Safety -- 16. Non-target impacts of biological control agents -- 17. Predicting natural enemy host ranges -- 18. Avoiding indirect non-target impacts -- Pt. 7. Measuring natural enemy impacts on pests -- 19. Field colonization of natural enemies -- 20. Natural enemy evaluation -- Pt. 8. Conserving biological control agents in crops -- 21. Protecting natural enemies from pesticides -- 22. Enhancing crops as natural enemy environments -- Pt. 9. Biopesticides -- 23. Microbial pesticides : issues and concepts -- 24. Use of arthropod pathogens as pesticides -- Pt. 10. Augmentative biological control -- 25. Biological control in greenhouses -- 26. Augmentative release of natural enemies in outdoor crops -- Pt. 11. Other targets and new directions -- 27. Vertebrate pests -- 28. Expanding the biological control horizon : new purposes and new targets -- 29. Future directions.

657.04 M916b v.1
AUT Mostyn, Gregory R.
TIT Basic accounting concepts, principles and procedures.
PUB Milpitas, Calif. : Worthy & James Pub., 2007.
CON Contents: v. 1. Building the conceptual foundation -- v. 2. Applying principles and procedures.

658 M266L 2008
AUT Lauer, Chris.
TIT The management gurus : lessons from the best management books of all time. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Portfolio, 2008.

658.3 D618 2008
AUT Brief, Arthur P.
TIT Diversity at work.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008.
SER Cambridge companions to management.
CON Contents: Introduction : Where the sweet spot is : studying diversity in organizations / Dolly Chugh and Arthur P. Brief -- Stereotypes and prejudice create workplace discrimination / Susan T. Fiske and Tiane L. Lee -- Promoting racial diversity at work : challenges and solutions / William T. Bielby -- Identity negotiation processes amidst diversity / Jeffrey T. Polzer and Heather M. Caruso -- Diversity, conflict, and their consequences / Karen A. Jehn, Lindred L. Greer, and Joyce Rupert -- Shifting frames in team-diversty research : from difference to relationships / Robin J. Ely and Laura Morgan Roberts -- Putting your own down / Naomi Ellemers and Manuela Barreto -- Diversity initiative effectiveness / Carol T. Kulik and Loriann Roberson -- 1964 was not that long ago : a story of gateways and pathways / Dolly Chugh and Arthur P. Brief.

658.304 B859w 2008
AUT Brislin, Richard W.
TIT Working with cultural differences : dealing effectively with diversity in the workplace.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
SER Contributions in psychology, 0736-2714 ; no. 51.
CON Contents: Introduction : increasing intercultural interactions -- Adjusting to other cultures -- Individualism and collectivism -- Communication : interpreting silence, quiet, and indirectness -- Communication : interpreting directness and potentially negative exchanges -- Dealing with criticisms and disagreements -- Decision making -- Interactions among males and females -- Status and power -- The number and importance of social norms -- Workplace dynamics -- Developing interpersonal relationships -- Basic psychological processes at work during intercultural interactions -- Some final pieces of advice and some concluding perspectives.

658.3124 C595e2 2008
AUT Clark, Ruth Colvin ; Mayer, Richard E.
TIT E-learning and the science of instruction : proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning. - 2nd ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Pfeiffer, c2008.
SER Pfeiffer essential resources for training and HR professionals.
CON Contents: E-learning: promise and pitfalls -- How do people learn from e-courses -- Applying the multimedia principle: use words and graphics rather than words alone -- Applying the contiguity principle: align words to corresponding graphics -- Applying the modality principle: present words as audio narration, rather than on-screen text -- Applying the redundancy principle: explain visuals with words in audio or text: not both -- Applying the coherence principle: adding interesting material can hurt learning -- Applying the personalization principle: use conversational style and virtual coaches -- Applying the segmenting and pretraining principles: managing complexity by breaking a lesson into parts -- Leveraging examples in e-learning -- Does practice make perfect? -- Learning together virtually -- Who's in control? Guidelines for e-learning navigation -- E-learning to build thinking skills -- Simulations and games in e-learning -- Applying the guidelines.

658.401 B474a 2008
AUT Bensoussan, Babette E ; Fleisher, Craig S.
TIT Analysis without paralysis : 10 tools to make better strategic decisions.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Business management and the role of analysis -- The analysis process -- BCG growth/share portfolio matrix -- Competitor analysis -- Financial ratio and statement analysis -- Five forces industry analysis -- Issue analysis -- Political risk analysis -- Scenario analysis -- Macroenvironmental (STEEP/PEST) analysis -- SWOT analysis -- Value chain analysis.

658.4012 C319b 2008
AUT Carroll, Paul ; Mui, Chunka.
TIT Billion-dollar lessons : what you can learn from the most inexcusable business failures of the last twenty-five years.
PUB New York : Portfolio, 2008.

658.5 B932 2008
AUT Burke, Ronald J ; Cooper, Cary L.
TIT Building more effective organizations : HR management and performance in practice.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Building more effective organizations : a primer / Ronald J. Burke -- Enthusiastic employees / David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind and Michael I. Meltzer -- Organizational citizenship behavior, transaction cost economics, and the flat world hypothesis / Dennis W. Organ and Jeong-Yeon Lee -- Best practices for work stress and well-being : solutions for human dilemmas in organizations / Alvin L. Gibson and James Campbell Quick -- Enhancing staff well-being for organisational effectiveness / Ivan T. Robertson, Gordon Tinline and Susannah Robertson -- Maximizing the value of leadership development : key questions (and some answers) / Steve Kerr, Steffen Landauer and Elise Lelon -- Best practices in building more effective teams / Kevin C. Stagl and Eduardo Salas -- Career development processes in organizations / Yehuda Baruch and Sherry E. Sullivan -- Fostering organizational learning : creating and maintaining a learning culture / Silvia Salas and Mary Ann Von Glinow -- Work-life balance, best practices and healthy organisations : a European perspective / Christina Purcell, Suzan Lewis, Janet Smithson and Sue Caton -- Diversity management practices in leading edge firms / Val Singh -- Making it better : achieving outstanding performance in manufacturing organizations / John Bessant and Dave Francis -- Culture change in a financial services organisation / Emma Preece -- Building the sustainable organization through adaptive, creative coherence in the HR system / Barry Colbert, Elizabeth Kurucz and David Wheeler -- Be in to win : from absence to attendance in Royal Mail Group / Stuart Kennedy and Tony McCarthy -- Transforming a company into a community / Philip Mirvis.

658.834 S958d 2007
AUT Sunderland, P. L. ; Denny, Rita Mary Taylor.
TIT Doing anthropology in consumer research.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2007.

658.834 V145hc 2008
AUT Valdés, M. Isabel.
TIT Hispanic customers for life : a fresh look at acculturation.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Paramount Market, c2008.
CON Contents: U.S. Latinos : from 15+ percent to 25+ percent -- Born/not born in the USA -- Recovering the latino soul -- Latinos in society -- Marketing today and tomorrow : the emotional-cultural paradigm -- Share of heart: the philosophy -- Revisiting the in-language approach -- The genage paradigm -- The youth segments -- The adult segments -- Making a marketing choice based on acculturation.

658.8342 H236 2008
AUT Haugtvedt, Curtis P. ; Herr, Paul ; Kardes, Frank R.
TIT Handbook of consumer psychology.
PUB New York : Psychology Press, c2008.
SER Marketing and consumer psychology series.

658.8342 M382h 2008
AUT Martin, Neale.
TIT Habit : the 95% of behavior marketers ignore.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, c2008.
CON Contents: 1. THE FORCE OF HABIT. How habits undermine marketing -- New product failure -- Loss of customers -- Dissatisfaction with customer satisfaction -- Why we're addicted to Bill Gates -- Evolution and revolution -- You are of two minds (at least) -- The executive and habitual minds in action -- You iDrive me crazy -- Your customer's two minds -- A Norman Door into the two minds of the customer -- The Limbic System: where habits form and live -- Peeking into human memory -- The PFC: home to the executive mind -- 2. HABITS: THE NEW SCIENCE OF MARKETING. Of iPods, habits, and market revolution -- How the iPod killed the CD -- Marketing from a habitual perspective -- The failure of customer satisfaction -- Becoming your customers' habit -- Habit and marketing management -- Habit and product design -- Habits and product development -- The Swiffer: designed to clean up -- Product launch: creating mental models and building habits -- Building habits -- Price conscious -- Channels of habituation -- Positioning in the retail environment -- Promoting habits -- Advertising -- Personal selling -- Sales promotion -- Public relations -- Trust the brand -- The physical brand -- Marketing research -- 3. TREAT YOUR CUSTOMERS LIKE DOGS. Of Google and cigarettes -- Behavioral thinking -- Karen Pryor shapes a generation of trainers -- Calling for reinforcements -- A matter of timing -- Conditioned reinforcers to the rescue -- Talking to the habitual mind -- Behavioral marketing: becoming your customer's habit (thru discovery, purchase, and use) -- The four steps to behavioral marketing (context, training, reinforcement, cue) -- Habit maintenance -- Schedules of reinforcement -- The force of habits: the double-edged sword.

658.872 L665g 2008
AUT Levinson, Jay Conrad ; Meyerson, Mitch ; Scarborough, Mary Eule.
TIT Guerrilla marketing on the Internet : the definitive guide from the father of guerrilla marketing.
PUB [Irvine, Calif.] : Entrepreneur Press, c2008.

664 R768t 2008
AUT Ronald, Pamela C ; Adamchak, Raoul W.
TIT Tomorrow's table : organic farming, genetics, and the future of food.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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700.455 R646i 2007
AUT Roberts, Mary.
TIT Intimate outsiders : the harem in Ottoman and Orientalist art and travel literature.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2007.
SER Objects/histories.
CON Contents: 1. John Frederick Lewis's Harem paintings -- The languid lotus-eater -- "Mr. Lewis's oriental paradises" -- 2. British women's travelogues -- Pleasures in detail -- Being seen -- Sartorial adventures and satiric narratives -- 3. Harem portraiture -- The politics of portraiture behind the veil -- Oriental dreams.

704.9497 D621d 2008
AUT Dixon, Annette ; Chapin, Mary Weaver.
TIT The dancer : Degas, Forain, Toulouse-Lautrec.
PUB Portland, Ore. : Portland Art Museum ; Seattle, Wash. : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Investigations of modernity: the dancer in the work of Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec / Annette Dixon -- In the wings: space and narrative in Degas, Forain, and Toulouse-Lautrec / Richard Kendall -- Forain at the Opéra: fascinated observer / Florence Valdès-Forain -- The dancers of Toulouse-Lautrec: public lives and private performances / Mary Weaver Chapin -- Re-presenting the dance: Degas's inheritance and legacy / Jill Devonyar.

709.04052 S664m 2008
AUT Mecklenburg, Virginia M. ; Farrell, Tiffany D.
TIT Modern masters : American abstraction at midcentury.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian American Art Museum ; London : In association with D. Giles Ltd. ; [Easthampton, Mass. : Distributed in USA and Canada by Antique Collectors' Club], 2008.
CON Contents: Foreword -- Abstract roundup : making and marketing postwar modernism -- Optics and order -- Significant gestures -- New images of man -- For further reading.

709.04062 U52d 2008
AUT Umland, Anne ; Sudhalter, Adrian.
TIT Dada in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
PUB New York : Museum of Modern Art : Distributed in the United States by D.A.P., c2008.
SER Studies in modern art. ; 9.
CON Contents: Preface / John Elderfield -- Introduction / Anne Umland and Adrian Sudhalter -- Dada in the collection: a permanent paradox / Anne Umland -- Plates. Architecture and design / Christian Larsen ; Conservation / Lee Ann Daffner, Scott Gerson, Roger Griffith, Matthew Skopek, Lynda Zycherman ; Drawings / Esther Adler, Jodi Hauptman, Alexandra K. Schwartz ; Film / Steven Higgins, Laurence Kardish ; Painting and sculpture / Adrian Sudhalter, Ann Temkin, Lilian Tone, Anne Umland ; Photography / Simon Bieling ; Prints and illustrated books / Starr Figura, Judy B. Hecker, Iris Schmeisser, Sarah Suzuki, Gretchen Wagner -- Chronology. Archives / Michelle Elligott.

709.0862 K92 2008
AUT Kriz, Kay Dian.
TIT Slavery, sugar, and the culture of refinement : picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840.
PUB New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction. Assessing the culture of refinement -- Curiosities, commodities and transplanted bodies in Hans Sloane's Voyage to ... Jamaica -- Marketing mulâtresses in Agostino Brunias's West Indian scenes -- The physiognomy and pathology of "black humor" : caricature and the West Indies on the eve of abolition -- Making a black folk : Belisario's Sketches of character -- Torrid zones and detoxified landscapes : picturing Jamaica, 1825-1840.

709.73 G643s 2008
AUT González, Jennifer A.
TIT Subject to display : reframing race in contemporary installation art.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : subject to display -- James Luna : artifacts and fictions -- Fred Wilson : material museology -- Amalia Mesa-Bains : divine allegories -- Pepón Osorio : no limits -- Renée Green : genealogies of contact.

709.96 K11p 2008
AUT Kaeppler, Adrienne Lois.
TIT The Pacific arts of Polynesia and Micronesia.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Oxford history of art.

720.973 W949u 2008
AUT Wright, Gwendolyn.
TIT USA.
PUB London : Reaktion, 2008.
SER Modern architectures in history.
CON Contents: Modern consolidation, 1865-1893 -- Progressive architectures, 1894-1918 -- Electric modernities, 1919-1932 -- Architecture, the public and the state, 1933-1945 -- The triumph of modernism, 1946-1964 -- Challenging orthodoxies, 1965-1984 -- Disjunctures and alternatives, 1985 to the present -- Epilogue.

730.924 R539gk 2007
AUT Rickey, George ; Gedeon, Lucinda H ; Fletcher, Valerie.
TIT George Rickey : kinetic sculpture : a retrospective.
PUB Vero Beach, Fla. : Vero Beach Museum of Art ; Seattle, Wash. : Distributed by the University of Washington Press, c2007.

741.5 N788L 2008
AUT Nolan, Michelle.
TIT Love on the racks : a history of American romance comics.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2008.

741.5074 K91 2008
AUT Grenville, Bruce ; Johnson, Tim ; Wright, Will.
TIT KRAZY! : the delirious world of anime + comics + video games + art.
PUB Vancouver, B.C. : Vancouver Art Gallery ; Douglas & McIntyre ; Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.

746.1408 W363 2006
AUT McLerran, Jennifer.
TIT Weaving is life : Navajo weavings from the Edwin L. & Ruth E. Kennedy Southwest Native American Collection.
PUB Athens, Ohio : Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University ; Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Textile as cultural text : contemporary Navajo weaving as autoethnographic practice / Jennifer McLerran -- "It's up to you" : individuality, community and cosmopolitanism in Navajo weaving / Janet Catherine Berlo -- Weaving is life : a Navajo weaver's perspective / D.Y. Begay -- "Where I'm from-- " / Diane Taylor Beall -- From sheep to loom : a museum educator's perspective / Sally Delgado.

746.92 T954f2 2008
AUT Tungate, Mark.
TIT Fashion brands : branding style from Armani to Zara. - 2nd ed.
PUB London ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Kogan Page, 2008.

759.13 H4975b 2008
AUT Hendricks, Barkley L. ; Schoonmaker, Trevor.
TIT Birth of the cool.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, 2008.
CON Contents: Director's foreword / Kimerly Rorschach -- Curator's acknowledgments / Trevor Schoonmaker -- Artist's acknowledgments / Barkley L. Hendricks -- Birth of the cool / Trevor Schoonmaker -- Barkley L. Hendricks, Anew / Richard J. Powell -- Conversation with Barkley Hendricks / Thelma Golden -- Barkley Hendricks: ordinary people / Franklin Sirmans -- Palette Scrapings / Barkley L. Hendricks -- Selected artist chronology / Barkley L. Hendricks.

759.4 S592c 2008
AUT Simms, Matthew Thomas ; Cézanne, Paul.
TIT Cézanne's watercolors : between drawing and painting.
PUB New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Strong sensations : Cézanne's Couillard watercolors -- Shorthand for sensation : Cézanne, watercolor, and Impressionism -- Layered sensations : watercolor, completeness, and duration -- Sensations of light and air : watercolor and the "envelope" -- Vital sensations : Cézanne's Bather watercolors.

759.951 L778n 2007
AUT Little, Stephen ; Fabian, Richard ; Barrett, J. May Lee.
TIT New songs on ancient tunes : 19th-20th century Chinese paintings and calligraphy from the Richard Fabian collection.
PUB [Honolulu] : Honolulu Academy of Arts ; Seattle, Wash. : Distributed by University of Washington Press, c2007.
CON Contents: A fine melody will sound throughout the ages making lofty words gleam beautiful as gems / Richard Fabian -- Fractured China, 1850-1950 / Jonathan Spence -- New songs on ancient tunes : 19th-20th century Chinese painting and calligraphy from the Richard Fabian collection / Stephen Little -- Open country : tradition and innovation in modern Chinese painting / Chu-Tsing Li -- Chinese calligraphy in the mid to late Qing and Republican periods (1850-1950) / Qianshen Bai -- The Richard Fabian collection. Orthodoxy in the late Qing dynasty ; Jinshi movement calligraphy ; Jiangnan regional schools ; Shanghai ; Artists active in Northern China ; Southern artists ; Transnational exchange ; Mid-century : traditional masters ; Cultural revolution : before and after ; Post-revolution monumentalism.

769.924 H721 1998
AUT White, Julia M ; Brandon, Reiko Mochinaga ; Woodson, Yoko.
TIT Hokusai and Hiroshige : great Japanese prints from the James A Michener Collection, Honolulu Academy of Arts.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Asian Art Museum of San Francisco in association with the Honolulu Academy of Arts and University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1998.
CON Contents: Hokusai and Hiroshige through the collector's eyes / Julia M. White -- Modest wear and extraordinary vision : commoners' clothing in Hokusai and Hiroshige / Reiko Mochinaga Brandon -- Hokusai and Hiroshige : landscape prints of the Ukiyo-e School / Yoko Woodson -- Hokusai -- Hiroshige.

779.092 S759d 2008
AUT Spirn, Anne Whiston ; Lange, Dorothea.
TIT Daring to look : Dorothea Lange's photographs and reports from the field.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Dorothea Lange and the art of discovery / Anne Whiston Spirm -- Photographs and reports from the field, 1939 / Dorothea Lange -- California (January to May) -- The highway -- The farm factory -- North Carolina (July) -- The farmers, black and white -- Pacific Northwest (August to October) -- The migrant life -- The government and the farmers -- The cutover land -- The irrigated desert -- Then and now / Anne Whiston Spirn.

780.7 J82a 2008
AUT Jorgensen, Estelle Ruth.
TIT The art of teaching music.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Teacher -- Value -- Disposition -- Judgment -- Leader -- Musician -- Listener -- Performer -- Composer -- Organization -- Design -- Instruction -- Imagination -- Reality.

780.973 G239s 2008
AUT Garrett, Charles Hiroshi.
TIT Struggling to define a nation : American music and the twentieth century.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press : The Roth Family Foundation Music in American Endowment imprint, c2008.
CON Contents: Charles Ives's Four ragtime dances and true American music -- Jelly Roll Morton and the Spanish tinge -- Louis Armstrong and the great migration -- Chinatown, whose Chinatown? Defining America's borders with musical orientalism -- Sounds of paradise: Hawai\u02BFi and the American musical imagination -- Conclusion: American music at the turn of a new century.

Rdg/Berks 785.066 W926v 2008
AUT Work, C. Thomas.
TIT Vision, conviction and compassion : 80 years of the Reading Musical Foundation 1926-2008.
PUB [Reading, Pa.] : Reading Musical Foundation, c2008 (Morgantown, Pa. : printed by Masthof Press).

786.74 C178 2007
AUT Collins, Nick ; Escrivan Rincón, Julio d'.
TIT The Cambridge companion to electronic music.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SER Cambridge companions to music.

791.092 B878b 2008
AUT Brown, Jayna.
TIT Babylon girls : black women performers and the shaping of the modern.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- 1. "Little Black Me" : The Touring Picaninny Choruses -- 2. Letting the Flesh Fly: Topsy, time, Torture, and Transfiguration -- 3. "Egyptian Beauties" and "Creole Queens" : The Performance of City and Empire on the Fin-de-Siécle Black Burlesque Stage -- 4. The cakewalk business -- 5. Everybody's Doing It : Social Dance, Segregation, and the New Body -- 6. Babylon Girls : Primitivist Modernism, Anti-modernism, and Black Chorus Line Dancers -- 7. Translocations : Florence Mills, Josephine Baker, and Valaida Snow -- Conclusion.

791.43 O54s 2008
AUT O'Mahony, Mike.
TIT Sergei Eisenstein.
PUB London : Reaktion Books, 2008.
SER Critical lives.

791.4301 M358g 2008
AUT Marrati, Paola.
TIT Gilles Deleuze : cinema and philosophy. - [English-language ed.].
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
SER Parallax.
CON Contents: Preface to the English-language edition -- Frequently cited texts -- Introduction -- Images in movement and movement-images -- Cinema and perception -- The montage of the whole -- Postwar cinema -- The time-image -- Images and immanence: the problem of the world -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A lost everyday: Deleuze and Cavell on Hollywood.

791.4302 B864e 2008
AUT Brody, Richard.
TIT Everything is cinema : the working life of Jean-Luc Godard. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co., 2008.
CON Contents: We do not think, we are thought -- A matter of loving or dying -- Breathless -- Le petit soldat -- A woman is a woman -- Vivre sa vie, le nouveau monde, les carabiniers -- Contempt -- Montparnasse et levallois, band of outsiders -- A married woman -- The American business -- Alphaville -- Pierrot le fou -- Masculine feminine -- Made in USA, two or three things I know about her -- La chinoise, weekend -- Revolution (1968-1972) -- Restoration (1973-1977) -- France tour détour deux enfants, et al., 1978-1979 -- Sauve qui peut (la vie) -- Passion and first name: Carmen -- Hail Mary -- Detective and soigne ta droite -- King Lear -- Histoire(s) du cinéma, part I -- Nouvelle vague -- Germany year 90 nine zero -- Hélas pour moi, JLG/JLG, histoire(s) du cinéma, parts 2 and 3 -- For ever Mozart, histoire(s) du cinéma, part 4 -- Eloge de l'amour -- Notre musique.

791.4309 G562 2008
AUT Kavoori, Anandam P ; Punathambekar, Aswin.
TIT Global Bollywood.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The "Bollywoodization" of the Indian cinema: cultural nationalism in a global arena / Ashish Rajadhyaksha -- Surviving Bollywood / M. Madhava Prasad -- Mumbai versus Bollywood: the Hindi film industry and the politics of cultural heritage in contemporary India / Tejaswini Ganti -- Hollywood, Bollywood, Tollywood: redefining the global in Indian cinema / Shanti Kumar -- The globalization of "Bollywood"-the hype and hope / Daya Kishan Thussu -- Our violence, their violence: exploring the emotional and relational matrix of terrorist cinema / Vamsee Juluri -- Exoticized, marginalized, demonized: the Muslim "other" in Indian cinema / Kalyani Chadha and Anandam P. Kavoori -- The mirror has many faces: the politics of male same-sex desire in BOMgAY and Gulabi Aaina / Parmesh Shahani -- "Bring back the old films, our culture is in disrepute": Hindi film and the construction of femininity in Guyana / Atticus Narain -- "From villain to traditional housewife!": the politics of globalization and women's sexuality in the "new" Indian media / Padma Govindan and Bisakha Dutta -- Songs from the heart: musical coding, emotional sentiment, and transnational Sonic identity in India's popular film music / Natalie Sarazzin -- Deewar/Wall (1975)-fact, fiction, and the making of a superstar / Jyotika Virdi -- The Indian film magazine, Stardust / Rachel Dwyer -- Bollyweb: search for Bollywood on the web and see what happens! / Ananda Mitra -- "We're online, not on the streets": Indian cinema, new media, and participatory culture / Aswin Punathambekar -- Afterword: fast-forwarding into the future, haunted by the past: Bollywood today / Arvind Rajagopal.

791.4309 R644g 2008
AUT Roberts, Ian.
TIT German expressionist cinema : the world of light and shadow.
PUB London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2008.
SER Short cuts series ; 40.
CON Contents: Introduction : immanence, imagination and immortality -- Origins : expressionism and Weimar film -- Authority overthrown, or, lunatics in the asylum : Robert Wiene's Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari -- Demons without and within : F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu -- Images of the past, visions of the future : Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen and Metropolis -- Virgins and vamps : G.W. Pabst's Die Buchse der Pandora -- Street life and the end of expressionism : Joe May's Asphalt -- Conclusion : Weimar cinema's flights of fantasy.

791.4365 D923b 2008
AUT Dunn, Stephane.
TIT "Baad bitches" and sassy supermamas : Black power action films.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2008.
SER The new black studies series.

791.4365 L523c 2007
AUT Lehman, Christopher P.
TIT The Colored cartoon : Black representation in American animated short films, 1907-1954.
PUB Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: The Blackness of animation -- The silent era -- The arrival of sound -- Black characterizations -- Fred "Tex" Avery and "Trickster" animation -- Black representation and World War II political concerns -- African American representation and changing race relations -- United productions and the end of animated Black representation -- Conclusion: The legacy of animated African American expression.

791.43658 S536h 2007
AUT Shaw, Tony.
TIT Hollywood's Cold War.
PUB Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2007.
SER Culture, politics, and the cold war.
CON Contents: Love and defection -- The enemy within -- Projecting a prophet for profit -- Of gods and moguls -- Negotiable dissent -- Turning a negative into a positive -- A cowboy in combats -- Secrets and lies -- The empire strikes back.

791.44 K28r 2008
AUT Keith, Michael C.
TIT Radio cultures : the sound medium in American life.
PUB New York : Peter Lang, c2008.
CON Contents: pt. I. Listening to other voices -- 1. Radio's covenant : the regulatory failure of minority ownership of broadcast radio facilities / Susan Brinson -- 2. Speaking in our own tongues : linguistic minority radio in the United States / Donald Browne -- 3. Heard it on the X : border radio as public discourse and the Latino legacy in popular music / Roberto Avant-Mier -- 4. Voices on the rez : Native American radio / Bruce Smith -- 5. Speaking for themselves : how radio brought women in to the public sphere / Donna Halper -- 6. The howl that could not be silenced : the rise of queer radio / Phylis Johnson -- 7. Underground radio : a voice from the purple haze / Larry Miller -- pt. II. Pulpits, politics, and public interests -- 8. Speaking of God, listening for grace : Christian radio and its audiences / Tona J. Hangen -- 9. Broadcasting unionism : labor and FM radio in postwar America / Elizabeth Fones-Wolf -- 10. The public's radio : all things on the dial / Corey Flintoff -- 11. Indecency and radio programming, 1927 to 2000 : a reflection of their times / Louise Benjamin -- 12. Band of hate : rancor on the radio / Robert L. Hilliard -- 13. Talk nation : turn down your radio / Peter Laufer -- 14. Political waves : radio and politics, 1920-1940 / Douglas Craig -- 15. Community renegades : micro-radio and the unlicensed radio movement / Lawrence C. Soley -- pt. III. Archives, curricula, and afterthoughts -- 16. Librarians of the airwaves : reading in the ether / Cindy Welsh -- 17. Radio and culture : the modern curriculum / Barbara Calabrese -- 18. Writing about radio : a survey of cultural studies in radio / Michael C. Keith -- 19. Slow fade? : seeking radio's future / Christopher H. Sterling.

792.01 W893n 2008
AUT Woodruff, Paul.
TIT The necessity of theater : the art of watching and being watched.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University, 2008.
CON Contents: Why we need theater -- The art of being watched -- Defining the art -- What theater makes -- Action worth watching: plot -- Staging choices -- People worth watching: characters -- Sacred space -- Mimesis -- II: The art of watching -- Emotion -- Empathy -- Laughter -- Understanding theater -- The mask of wisdom.

792.028 G646s 2008
AUT Goodall, Jane R.
TIT Stage presence.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
CON Contents: The supreme attitude -- Drawing power -- Mesmerism -- Dash and flash -- Being present.

792.028 S165i 2008
AUT Salinsky, Tom ; Frances-White, Deborah.
TIT The improv handbook : the ultimate guide to improvising in comedy, theatre, and beyond.
PUB New York : Continuum, 2008.

794.8 A887m 2008
AUT Au, Wagner James.
TIT The making of Second Life : notes from the new world. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Collins, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction : old world to new world : a brief history of the metaverse -- Touching knowledge : from virtual reality to real company -- Imagining the Net in 3-D : shunting the datastream into rivers and sky -- The engines of creation : the alchemy of user-created content -- The unwisdom of crowds : object lessons in online-world social engineering -- Self-made mankind : identity and role-playing with the digital generation -- Making love : romance and desire, digitized for your protection -- Building walls, defending territory : border disputes and culture clashing in war's shadow -- Burning down the house : democracy as a business model -- Avatar as entrepreneur : from content creator to revenue generator -- Investing in utopia : a rough explorer's guidefor corporations and organizations in the metaverse -- Law is code : crime and punishment in the Net's 3-D future -- Building a better world : research, education, and activism in an online world -- Convergence : an internet-to-online world road map for the next decade.

794.8 P724 2008
AUT Swalwell, Melanie ; Wilson, Jason.
TIT The pleasures of computer gaming : essays on cultural history, theory and aesthetics.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008.

796.01 G175s 2008
AUT Gallucci, Nicholas T.
TIT Sport psychology : performance, enhancement, performance inhibition, individuals, and teams.
PUB New York ; Hove, U.K. : Psychology Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction to Sport Psychology -- Motivation for Sport and achievement -- Optimal Levels of Anxiety, Intensity, or Arousal -- Preperformance Routines -- Mental Imagery, Self-talk, and Concentration -- Relaxation training: Calming the Physiology -- Goals -- Goal Orientation and Self-regulation -- Self-efficacy and Sport Self-confidence -- Choking Under Pressure and Performance Anxiety -- Self-handicapping -- Procrastination and Perfectionism -- Learning Helplessness -- Performance Inhibition due to Personality Factors -- Substance Abuse -- Burnout -- Sport Injuries -- Gender and Sport -- Ethnic and Cultural Differences and Sport Psychology -- Youth and Sport -- Leadership and Coaching -- Team Cohesion, Efficacy, and Goals.

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Ref 810.9868 R173e 2008
AUT Ramirez, Luz Elena.
TIT Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American literature.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2008.
SER Facts on File library of American literature. Encyclopedia of American ethnic literature.

813.52 F223c 2008
AUT Fargnoli, A. Nicholas ; Golay, Michael ; Hamblin, Robert W.
TIT Critical companion to William Faulkner : a literary reference to his life and work.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2008.
SER Facts on File library of American literature.

813.54 A652E 2006
AUT Engles, Tim ; Duvall, John N.
TIT Approaches to teaching Delillo's White noise.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2006.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature. ; 85.
CON Contents: Materials / Tim Engles and John N. Duvall -- 'White noise' and American cultural studies / Randall Fuller -- "Hijacked jet crashes into White House" : teaching 'White noise' after September 11 / Margaret Scanlan -- No one sees the camps : Hitler and humor in 'White noise' / Paul Young -- An ecocritical approach to teaching 'White noise' / Louisa Mackenzie -- Connecting 'White noise' to critical whiteness studies / Tim Engles -- Technology, rationality, modernity : an approach to 'White noise' / Timothy Melley -- 'White noise' as wake-up call : teaching DeLillo as media skeptic / Kathleen LeBesco -- 'White noise' and the web / Philipp Schweighauser -- 'White noise' and the American novel / Theron Britt -- 'White noise,' postmodernism, and postmodernity / John N. Duvall -- 'White noise,' materialism, and the American literature survey / Ted Billy -- Plot summary : motives and narrative mechanics in 'Underworld' and 'White noise' / Michael Bérubé -- Inventing hope : the question of belief in 'White noise' and 'Mao II' / Mark A. Eaton -- Loyalty to reality : 'White noise,' 'Great Jones Street,' and 'The names' / Margaret Soltan -- A Burkeian reading of 'White noise' / David Blakesley -- Homicidal men and full-figured women : gender in 'White noise' / Philip Nel -- "The natural language of culture" : exploring commodities through 'White noise' / Mark Osteen -- 'White noise' as disaster movie / Valerie Wee and John Whalen-Bridge.

813.54 A652P 2008
AUT Schaub, Thomas H.
TIT Approaches to teaching Pynchon's The crying of lot 49 and other works.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2008.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature. ; 99.
CON Contents: Part 1. Materials. Novels and short fiction ; Miscellaneous writing ; Biographical materials ; Pynchon's reception ; Book-length studies ; Essay collections ; Uncollected essays: women, gender, and other topics ; Background studies ; Science and literature ; Literary traditions ; Handbooks, reference guides, and Web sites ; Bibliography -- Part. 2. Approaches. Literary heritage influence, and context. Teaching Crying: general education, the 1960s, and Lot 49 / Robert N. Watson ; Pynchon's quest narratives and the tradition of American romance / Deborah L. Madsen ; Pynchon's library / Thomas H. Schaub ; Reading the value system of Gravity's rainbow with Marcuse, Freud, and the Yippies / Molly Hite ; "Feeling totally familied out": teaching Pynchon through families / Mark Rohland -- Teaching The crying of lot 49. Reading race: The crying of Lot 49 and early Pynchon / Steven Weisenburger ; Teaching the epochal Oedipa: The crying of lot 49 as political dialogue / Jerry Varsava ; Lot 49: science and the novel of systems / Stacey Olster ; Humor and decentered meaning in Lot 49 / Alison T.J. Preston ; Tragic satire: chasing Nazi symbols in The crying of lot 49 / Inger H. Dalsgaard -- Empire, history, and postmodern space. Teaching Pynchon's V. / David Cowart ; To historicize is to colonize: colonialism in V. and Gravity's rainbow / Michael Harris ; Antwerp and the representation of the Holocaust in Gravity's rainbow / Luc Herman ; Mediating the past: narrative, history, and teaching Vineland / Robert L. McLaughlin ; Historiographic metafiction / Metafictional historiography: The Mason & Dixon project / Hanjo Berressem and Norbert Finzsch ; Postmodern territories: teaching Mason & Dixon and the ideologies of space / Amy J. Elias -- Reading practices. Pynchon's polyvocality / Gary Thompson ; Hypertextualizing The crying of lot 49 / Todd Rohman ; Teaching Gravity's rainbow: correlation in life and reading / Alan Nadel ; Pynchon, Kant, Lyotard, and the sublime / Zofia Kolbuszewska.

813.54 A652S 2004
AUT Sarris, Greg ; Jacobs, Connie A. ; Giles, James Richard.
TIT Approaches to teaching the works of Louise Erdrich.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2004.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature. 1059-1133 ; [83].

813.54 F245c 2008
AUT Farrell, Susan Elizabeth.
TIT Critical companion to Kurt Vonnegut : a literary reference to his life and work.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2008.
SER Facts on File library of American literature.
CON Contents: Biography -- Works A-to-Z -- Related people, places, and topics -- Bibliography of Kurt Vonnegut's works -- Bibliography of secondary sources -- The works of Kilgore Trout -- Kurt Vonnegut chronology.

813.54 K39v 1972
AUT Kerouac, Jack.
TIT Visions of Cody. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : McGraw Hill, c1972.

813.54 R495i 1996
AUT Rice, Anne.
TIT Interview with the vampire. - Reset for anniversary ed.
PUB New York : Knopf, 1996.

813.54 S819a 2008 Popular reading
AUT Stein, Garth.
TIT The art of racing in the rain : a novel. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Harper, c2008.

813.6 P416r 2009 Popular reading
AUT Penny, Louise.
TIT A rule against murder. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.

817.089 C484L 2008
AUT Carpio, Glenda.
TIT Laughing fit to kill : black humor in the fictions of slavery.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- "Laffin' fit ter kill" : black humor in the fiction of William Wells Brown and Charles W. Chesnutt -- The conjurer recoils : slavery in Richard Pryor's performances and Chappelle's Show -- Conjuring the mysteries of slavery : voodoo, fetishism, and stereotype in Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada -- "A comedy of the grotesque" : Robert Colescott, Kara Walker, and the iconography of slavery -- The tragicomedy of slavery in Suzan-Lori Parks's early plays.

Ref 820.72 B168r6 2006
AUT Baker, Nancy L. ; Huling, Nancy.
TIT A research guide for undergraduate students : English and American literature. - 6th ed.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2006.

821.17 A652 2007
AUT Pugh, Tison ; Weisl, Angela Jane.
TIT Approaches to teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the shorter poems.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2007.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature.

821.9109 C178 2007
AUT Davis, Alex ; Jenkins, Lee M.
TIT The Cambridge companion to modernist poetry.
PUB Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
SER Cambridge companions to literature.
CON Contents: Pt. 1. Contexts. Modernist poetry in history / David Ayers -- Schools, movements, manifestoes / Paul Peppis -- The poetics of modernism / Peter Nicholls -- Gender, sexuality and the modernist poem / Cristanne Miller -- pt. 2. Authors and alliances. Pound or Eliot : Whose era? / Lawrence Rainey -- H. D. and revisionary myth-making / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Yeats, Ireland and modernism / Anne Fogarty -- Modernist poetry in the British Isles / Drew Milne -- US modernism I : Moore, Stevens and the modernist lyric / Bonnie Costello -- US modernism II : The other tradition -- Williams, Zukofsky and Olson / Mark Scroggins -- The poetry of the Harlem Renaissance / Sharon Lynette Jones -- Caliban's modernity : Postcolonial poetry of Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean / Jahan Ramazani -- pt. 3. Receptions. Modernist poetry and the canon / Jason Harding.

822.33 A652E 2005
AUT Erickson, Peter ; Hunt, Maurice.
TIT Approaches to teaching Shakespeare's Othello.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2005.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature. ; 88.
CON Contents: Editions -- Teaching resources -- Introduction / Peter Erickson -- Othello in the work of James R. Andreas / Peter Erickson -- Othello and race / Michael Neill -- Rememorializing Othello: teaching Othello and the cultural memory in racism / Francesca T. Royster -- "Your own for ever": revealing masculine desire in Othello / Nicholas F. Radel -- Improvisation and Othello: the play of race and gender / Emily C. Bartels -- Orders of fantasy in Othello / Cynthia Marshall -- Othello as an adventure play / Jean E. Howard -- Teaching Othello as tragedy and comedy / Douglas Bruster -- "'Tis but a man gone": teaching Othello as an (anti)revenge play / Cynthia Lewis -- Teaching the texts of Othello / Michael Warren -- Motivating Iago / Maurice Hunt -- Unhoused in Othello / Geraldo U. de Sousa -- Teaching teachers: Othello in a graduate seminar / Martha Tuck Rozett -- Teaching Richard Burbage's Othello / Virginia Mason Vaughan -- Teaching Othello through performance choices / Miranda Johnson-Haddad -- "Ocular proof": teaching Othello in performance / Samuel Crowl -- Interpreting the tragic loading of the bed in cinematic adaptations of Othello / Kathy M. Howlett -- Teaching Othello with works by Elizabeth Cary and Aphra Behn / Lisa Gim -- Tales of a fateful handkerchief: Verdi, Vogel, Cinthio, and Shakespeare present Othello / Sheila T. Cavanagh -- Paper, linen, sheet: Dinesen's "The blank page" and Desdemona's handkerchief / Janelle Jenstad -- Finding Othello's African roots through Djanet Sears's Harlem duet / Joyce Green MacDonald.

822.33 A652Kc 2002
AUT Kliman, Bernice W.
TIT Approaches to teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet. - 2nd printing, with corrections.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature.

822.33 B571si 2008
AUT Bevington, David M.
TIT Shakespeare's ideas : more things in heaven and earth.
PUB Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
SER Blackwell great minds. ; 7.
CON Contents: A natural philosopher -- Lust in action: Shakespeare's ideas on sex and gender -- What is honour?: Shakespeare's ideas on politics and political theory -- Hold the mirror up to nature: Shakespeare's ideas on writing and acting -- What form of prayer can serve my turn?: Shakespeare's ideas on religious controversy and issues of faith -- Is man no more than this?: Shakespeare's ideas on scepticism, doubt, stoicism, pessimism, misanthropy -- Here our play has ending: ideas of closure in the late plays -- Credo.

823.7 R533s 2008
AUT Richmond, Velma Bourgeois.
TIT Shakespeare as children's literature : Edwardian retellings in words and pictures.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2008.
CON Contents: Contexts for Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare -- The tradition of Charles and Mary Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare -- Lamb's Tales continued: completion, addition, and selection -- Victorian alternatives -- Edwardian elegance and exuberance: retellings large and small -- Shakespeare in schoolbooks -- Home libraries, literary histories, and pedagogical advice.

823.8 A652 2006
AUT Lonoff de Cuevas, Sue ; Hasseler, Terri A.
TIT Approaches to teaching Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2006.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature. 1059-1133.

823.912 A652D 2001
AUT Daugherty, Beth Rigel ; Pringle, Mary Beth.
TIT Approaches to teaching Woolf's To the lighthouse.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2001.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature.
CON Contents: Materials / Beth Rigel Daugherty and Mary Beth Pringle -- Introduction : how should one read 'To the lighthouse'? -- Teaching 'To the lighthouse' as a traditional novel / Janis M. Paul -- "For nothing is simply one thing" : Knowing the world in 'To the lighthouse' / Mark Hussey -- Returning to the lighthouse : a postmodern approach / Pamela L. Caughie -- The language of fabric in 'To the lighthouse / Eileen Barrett -- Reading provisionally : narrative theory and 'To the Lighthouse' / Mary Pinkerton -- "Some rope to throw to the reader" : teaching the diverse rhythms of 'To the lighthouse / Patricia Laurence -- Twenty years to the lighthouse : a teaching voyage / Annis Pratt -- Reading and writing : helping students discover meaning in 'To the lighthouse' / Laura Davis -- Look again : reading 'To the lighthouse' from an aesthetic of likeness / Toni A.H. McNaron -- What teaching 'To the lighthouse' taught me about reading Virginia Woolf / Louise DeSalvo -- Reading 'To the lighthouse' as a critique of the imperial / Jeanette McVicker -- Articulating the questions, searching for answers : how 'To the lighthouse' can help / Nancy Topping Bazin -- From the dark house to the lighthouse : the Ramsays as dysfunctional family / Gerald T. Cobb -- Transformations : teaching 'To the lighthouse' with autobiographies and family chronicles / Marcia McClintock Folsom -- 'To the lighthouse' and painting / Susan Yunis -- 'To the lighthouse' and the publishing practices of Virginia Woolf / Edward Bishop -- Teaching 'To the lighthouse' as a civilian war novel / Karen L. Levenback -- "I have had my vision" : teaching 'To the lighthouse' as Künstlerroman / Bonnie Braendlin -- Portraits of artists by Woolf and Joyce / Susan Currier -- Pear trees beyond Eden : women's knowing reconfigured in Woolf's 'To the lighthouse' and Hurston's 'Their eyes were watching God / Annette Oxindine -- Compulsory heterosexuality and the lesbian continuum in 'To the lighthouse' : a women's studies approach / Vara Neverow.

823.912 A652H 2002
AUT Hawkins, Hunt ; Shaffer, Brian W.
TIT Approaches to teaching Conrad's "Heart of darkness" and "The secret sharer".
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature.

823.912 A652W 2001
AUT Sargent, M. Elizabeth ; Watson, Garry ; Sargent, M. Elizabeth.
TIT Approaches to teaching the works of D.H. Lawrence.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2001.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature. 1059-1133.
CON Contents: Materials / M. Elizabeth Sargent and Garry Watson ; Approaches. Which Lawrence, when? / Mark Kinkead-Weekes ; Some notes toward a vindication of the rites of D.H. Lawrence / Sandra M. Gilbert ; The crisis in homosexual/heterosexual definition in the Lawrence classroom / A.A. Markley ; "Odour of chrysanthemums" and the freshman essay: teaching literature by contextual sequence / Gordon Harvey ; Lawrence in hypertext: a technology of difference for reading/writing The rainbow and "Odour of chrysanthemums" / Charles L. Ross and Donald Buckley ; Fathoming flood and father in The rainbow and The virgin and the gipsy / Luba Slabyj ; Strange bedfellows: D.H. Lawrence and feminist psychoanalytic theory in The rainbow / Jorgette Mauzerall ; The foreigner within: teaching The rainbow with the help of Cixous, Kristeva, and Irigaray / Maria Aline Seabra Ferreira ; Reading Women in love and Sons and lovers like sisters and brothers: Lawrence study in the feminist classroom / Carol Siegel ; Teaching 'woman': a cultural criticism approach to 'The woman who rode away' / Pamela L. Caughie ; Using student resistance and our own in teaching The captain's doll: toward a pedagogy of affect / Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson ; "Learning to squint": the critic as outlaw: teaching studies in classic American literature as cultural criticism / Isobel M. Findlay and Carry Watson ; The resurrection of Pan: teaching biocentric consciousness and deep ecology in Lawrence's poetry and late nonfiction / Keith Sagar ; Lawrence and rites of passage / Langdon Elsbree ; Sea and Sardinia: if you can teach only one Lawrence text / Howard Mills ; Picking up life-threads in Lawrence's Mexico: dialogism and multiculturalism in The plumed serpent / Virginia Crosswhite Hyde ; Teaching Lawrence's tortoise poems as a sequence / David Ellis ; The tuning of 'piano' / Keith Cushman ; Lawrence and Freud on dreams: loosing versus trapping The fox in the classroom / Louis K. Greiff ; Teaching The Prussian officer with the help of Daniel Stern and Jessica Benjamin / Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis ; 'I don't like England very much, but': the construction of Englishness in 'England, my England' / Tim Middleton ; Sons and lovers and book history / A.R. Atkins ; Teaching Sons and lovers in a global context in South Africa: colonialism and modernity / James M. Phelps ; Teaching the case of the subversive novel: the role of contemporary review in The rainbow trial / Wayne Templeton ; Toasting and caroling in The rainbow: dramatic rituals in the classroom / Virginia Crosswhite Hyde ; Examining the stylistic diversity of The rainbow and Women in love in an honors seminar on criticism and research methods / Jack Stewart ; More likely to be the end of experience: Women in love, Sati, and the marriage-plot tradition / Rebecca Carpenter ; Unlearning Europe: postcolonial questions for teaching The plumed serpent / Theresa Mae Thompson ; Teaching Lady Chatterley's lover / Louis L. Martz ; Team-teaching Lawrence in a culm...

823.914 C761 2008
AUT Benson, Stephen.
TIT Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2008.
SER Series in fairy-tale studies.
CON Contents: Introduction: fiction and the contemporaneity of the fairy tale / Stephen Benson -- Penetrating to the heart of The bloody chamber : Angela Carter and the fairy tale / Sarah Gamble -- Migrant fictions : Salman Rushdie and the fairy tale / Andrew Teverson -- "Ancient forms" : myth, fairy tale, and narrative in A.S. Byatt's fiction / Elizabeth Wanning Harries -- Margaret Atwood and the fairy tale : postmodern revisioning in recent texts / Sharon R. Wilson -- The late fairy tales of Robert Coover / Stephen Benson -- Theorizing fairy-tale fiction, reading Jeanette Winterson / Merja Makinen -- Extrapolating from Nalo Hopkinson's Skin folk : reflections on transformation and recent English-language fairy-tale fiction by women / Cristina Bacchilega.

823.914 L639ae 2008 Popular reading
AUT Lessing, Doris May.
TIT Alfred and Emily. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Harper, c2008.

838.91 S361n 2002
AUT Schnitzler, Arthur ; Schaefer, Margret.
TIT Night games : and other stories and novellas.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, 2002.
CON Contents: Night games -- The dead are silent -- Blind Geronimo and his brother -- A farewell -- The second -- Baron von Leisenbohg's destiny -- The widower -- Death of a bachelor -- Dream story.

841.08 F877 2008
AUT Shapiro, Norman R.
TIT French women poets of nine centuries : the distaff and the pen.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The Middle Ages and The Renaissance -- The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- The nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

843.914 A652 2007
AUT Rosen, Alan.
TIT Approaches to teaching Wiesel's Night.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, c2007.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature.
CON Contents: Night as counternarrative : the Jewish background / Nehemia Polen -- Night and the teaching of history : the trauma of transit / Simone Gigliotti -- Night and the encounter with Auschwitz / Michael Berenbaum -- Faith and God during the Holocaust : teaching Night with the later memoirs / Alan L. Berger -- The original Yiddish text and the context of Night / Jan Schwarz -- Teaching La nuit in comparative contexts / Judith Clark Schaneman -- Wiesel and Kertész : Night in the context of Hungarian Holocaust literature / Rita Horváth -- Night's literary art : a close reading of chapter 1 / Susanne Klingenstein -- Night in the contexts of Holocaust memoirs / David Patterson -- Strategies for teaching Wiesel's Night with Levi's Survival in Auschwitz / Jonathan Druker -- Seeing Atrocity : Night and the limits of witnessing / Michael Bernard-Donals -- Night and critical thinking / Paul Eisenstein -- Negotiating the distance : collaborative learning and teaching Night / Phyllis Lassner -- Interdisciplinary Night : an integrative approach / Christopher J. Frost -- Night and spiritual autobiography / Kevin Lewis -- Night and video testimony / Jan Darsa -- The real questions : using Night in teaching the Holocaust / John K. Roth.

843.914 D737e 2008
AUT Downing, Frederick L.
TIT Elie Wiesel : a religious biography. - 1st ed.
PUB Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Sighet: a small European Jerusalem -- A refuge: grandfather and his stories -- Bar Mitzvah and approaching tyranny -- The curse and the crisis -- Wrestling like Jacob -- Writing like Jeremiah: the poetics of memory and justice -- Further into darkness: a very troubled man -- Writing like Jeremiah II: evoking a new universe -- The poetics of grief: choosing between life and death -- A town beyond the walls: creating an alternative community beyond suffering and pain -- The return: re-envisioning God and faith -- Man and event: becoming a great man in Israel -- Re-envisioning faith and tradition -- A poet/prophet for the nations: the quest for a universalizing faith.

843.914 T861c 2008
AUT Trouillot, Lyonel ; Coverdale, Linda.
TIT Children of heroes.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
SER French voices.

848.5 S125c 2005
AUT Sade, marquis de ; Coward, David.
TIT The Marquis de Sade, The crimes of love : heroic and tragic tales ; preceded by an Essay on novels : a selection.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
SER Oxford world's classics.

861.1 B485c 2008
AUT Berceo, Gonzalo de ; Bartha, Jeannie K ; Cash, Annette Grant.
TIT The collected works of Gonzalo de Berceo in English translation.
PUB Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2008.
SER Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies ; v. 327.
CON Contents: Introduction / John E. Keller, Kathleen Kulp-Hill -- The miracles of our lady / Annette Grant Cash, Richard Terry Mount -- The praises or our lady / Jeannie K. Bartha -- The lamentation of the virgin / Jeannie K. Bartha -- The life of Saint Dominic of Silos / Jeannie K. Bartha -- The life of Saint Aemilianus of La Cogolla / Annette Cash Grant -- The life of Saint Oria / Richard Terry Mount -- The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence / Jeannie K. Bartha -- The sacrifice of the mass / Jeannie K. Bartha -- The signs which will appear before judgement day / Jeannie K. Bartha -- The hymns / Jeannie K. Bartha.

863.64 G216cs 1999
AUT García Márquez, Gabriel ; Rabassa, Gregory ; Bernstein, J. S.
TIT Collected stories. - 1st Perennial Classics ed.
PUB New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.
CON Contents: Eyes of a blue dog: Third resignation -- Other side of death -- Eva is inside her cat -- Bitterness for three sleepwalkers -- Dialogue with the mirror -- Eyes of a blue dog -- Woman who came at six o'clock -- Nabo, the black man who made the angels wait -- Someone has been disarranging these roses -- Night of the curlews -- Monologue of Isabel watching it rain in Macondo -- Big Mama's funeral: Tuesday siesta -- One of these days -- There are no thieves in this town -- Balthazar's marvelous afternoon -- Montiel's widow -- One day after Saturday -- Artificial roses -- Big Mama's funeral -- Incredible and sad tale of innocent Erendira and her heartless grandmother: Very old man with enormous wings -- Sea of lost time -- Handsomest drowned man in the world -- Death constant beyond love -- Last voyage of the ghost ship -- Blacaman the Good, vendor of miracles -- Incredible and sad tale of innocent Erendira and her heartless grandmother.

863.6409 O22c 2008
AUT Odartey-Wellington, Dorothy.
TIT Contemporary Spanish fiction : Generation X.
PUB Newark, Del. : University of Delware Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Consuming and communicating in the audiovisual environment : Ray Loriga's La pistola de mi hermano and José Ángel Mañas's Historias del Kronen -- Urban fictions/popular fictions : Gabriela Bustelo's Veo veo and Ismael Grasa's De Madrid al cielo -- Powerless subjects in credit card democracies : Belén Gopegui in La conquista del aire and Lo real -- Inventing the author : Antonio Orejudo Utrilla in Fabulosas narraciones por historias and Ventajas de viajar en tren.

873.1 A652 2002
AUT Anderson, William Scovil ; Quartarone, Lorina N.
TIT Approaches to teaching Vergil's Aeneid.
PUB New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2002.
SER Approaches to teaching world literature. 1059-1133 ; 74.

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904.5 F151g 2008
AUT Fagan, Brian M.
TIT The great warming : climate change and the rise and fall of civilizations. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Bloomsbury Press : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2008.
CON Contents: A time of warming -- The mantle of the poor -- The flail of god -- The golden trade of the Moors -- Inuit and Qadlunaat -- The megadrought epoch -- Acorns and pueblos -- Lords of the water mountains -- The lords of Chimor -- Bucking the trades -- The flying fish ocean -- China's sorrow -- The silent elephant.

909.098 A881 2008
AUT Falola, Toyin ; Roberts, Kevin D.
TIT The Atlantic world, 1450-2000.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2008.
SER Blacks in the diaspora.
CON Contents: The world of the Atlantic before the "Atlantic world" : Africa, Europe, and the Americas before 1450 / Patricia Pearson -- Contact and conquest in Africa and the Americas / Timothy P. Grady -- Migrations and frontiers / Alison Games -- From servitude to slavery / Michael Guasco -- The slave trade's apex in the eighteenth century / Timothy R. Buckner -- The nineteenth-century Black Atlantic / Aribidesi A. Usman -- Women in the Atlantic world / Ken Aslakson -- The Black Atlantic : theory, method, and practice / Douglas B. Chambers -- Independence movements in the new world / David Cahill -- The rise of abolition / Maurice Jackson -- African independence movements / Joel E. Tishken -- The diasporic dimensions of Caribbean nationalism, 1900-1959 / E.G. Iweriebor and Amanda Warnock -- The Cold War in the Atlantic world / Carol Anderson -- Gender and identity in the twentieth-century Atlantic world / Amanda Warnock -- Reparation and repair : reform movements in the Atlantic world / Maxim Matusevich.

909.825 D361s 2008
AUT De Groot, Gerard J.
TIT The sixties unplugged : a kaleidoscopic history of a disorderly decade.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Preludes -- Premonitions -- Hard rain -- All gone to look for America -- Call out the instigators -- Universal soldiers -- And in the streets -- Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll -- Everybody get together -- Turn, turn, turn -- Gone to graveyards -- You say you want a revolution -- Wilted flowers -- Meet the new boss -- No direction home -- Epitaph: It's life's illusions I recall.

Ref 910 E56 2008
AUT Allaby, Michael.
TIT The encyclopedia of Earth : a complete visual guide.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Birth. Earth's place in the universe -- Third planet from the sun -- The emergence of life -- Fire. Earth from the inside out -- Heat from within -- Land. Rocks -- Minerals -- Soils -- Landforms -- Biomes -- Air. Earth's atmosphere -- Wind -- Climate -- Weather -- Record-breaking weather -- Water. Oceans and seas -- The marine environment -- Rivers -- Wetlands and swamps -- Landlocked water -- Humans. A peopled planet -- Earth's resources -- Human impact -- Global conservation -- Into the future.

940.5318 R845e 2005
AUT Roth, John K.
TIT Ethics during and after the Holocaust : in the shadow of Birkenau.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
CON Contents: The philosopher's project -- Why study the Holocaust? -- Handle with care -- Raul Hilberg's ethics -- Gray zones and double-binds: Holocaust challenges to ethics -- Post-Holocaust restitution of a different kind -- Duped by morality? -- The ethics of forgiveness -- The ethics of prayer -- The Holocaust, genocide, and the "logic" of racism -- Will genocide ever end? -- The Holocaust and the common good -- Epilogue: standing here.

940.5373 C968n 2008
AUT Culpepper, Marilyn Mayer.
TIT Never will we forget : oral histories of World War II.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008.
CON Contents: And the war came -- Women serving the Armed Services and with the Red Cross -- Normandy: "Operation Overlord" -- EuoEurope The Pacific scene -- Tragedy at sea -- German POW camps -- Liberation -- Japanese POW camps -- Luck, fate, providence, and guardian angels -- The softer side of war -- The lighter side of war -- The home front -- The home front: the good and the sad -- The atom bomb and V-J Day -- Home at last -- The aftermath of war -- The later years -- A collage of memories.

942.12 N338v 2000
AUT Nead, Lynda.
TIT Victorian Babylon : people, streets and images in nineteenth-century London.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2000.

944.05 F191n 2007
AUT Falk, Avner.
TIT Napoleon against himself : a psychobiography. - 1st ed.
PUB Charlottesville, Va. : Pitchstone Pub., 2007.
CON Contents: Between Two Motherlands -- Becoming a Historical Figure -- Emperor of the French -- Self-Inflicted Downfall.

947.084 G823L 2008
AUT Gregory, Paul R.
TIT Lenin's brain and other tales from the secret Soviet archives.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2008.
SER Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 555.
CON Contents: "Scurrilous provocation": the Katyn massacre -- The four faces of Stalin -- Lenin's brain -- Marginals and former people -- The great terror: directive 00447 -- A tale of two sons: Yakov and Vasilii Dzhugashvili (Stalin) -- Relatives and falsifying death certificates -- The ship of philosophers -- Who is the prisoner here? -- Reasoning with Stalin on zero tolerance -- Bolshevik discourse: before and after -- Invading Afghanistan -- "Arbeit macht frei" Soviet style -- Vladimir Moroz: Stalin's orphans.

949.5 H567b 2008
AUT Herrin, Judith.
TIT Byzantium : the surprising life of a medieval empire.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: A different history of Byzantium -- Foundations of Byzantium. The city of Constantine ; Constantinople, the largest city in Christendom ; The East Roman Empire ; Greek Orthodoxy ; The church of Hagia Sophia ; The Ravenna Mosaics ; Roman law -- The transition from Ancient to Medieval. The bulwark against Islam ; Icons, a new Christian art form ; Iconoclasm and icon veneration ; A literate and articulate society ; Saints Cyril and Methodios, 'apostles to the Slavs' -- Byzantium becomes a Medieval state. Greek fire ; The Byzantine economy ; Eunuchs ; The imperial court ; Imperial children, 'born in the purple' ; Mount Athos ; Venice and the fork ; Basil II, 'the bulgar-slayer' ; Eleventh-century crisis ; Anna Komnene ; A cosmopolitan society -- Varieties of Byzantium. The fulcrum of the crusades ; The towers of Trebizond, Arta, Nicaea and Thessanlonike ; Rebels and patrons ; 'Better the Turkish turban than the Papal tiara' ; The siege of 1453 -- Conclusion: The greatness and legacy of Byzantium.

949.61 H314c 2007
AUT Harris, Jonathan.
TIT Constantinople : capital of Byzantium.
PUB London : Hambledon Continuum, 2007.
CON Contents: The city of wonders -- Founding fathers -- Defence -- Palaces and power -- Churches and monasteries -- 'Two thirds of the wealth of this world' -- Democracy -- The beginning of the end -- The ruin of Byzantine Constantinople -- Epilogue: Byzantine Constantinople today.

951.9042 P359t 2008
AUT Pearlman, Michael D.
TIT Truman & MacArthur : policy, politics, and the hunger for honor and renown.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2008.

955 A972h 2008
AUT Axworthy, Michael.
TIT A history of Iran : empire of the mind.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2008.
CON Contents: Origins : Zoroaster, the Achaemenids, and the Greeks -- The Iranian revival : Parthians and Sassanids -- Islam and invasions : the Arabs, Turks and Mongols-- the Iranian reconquest of Islam, the Sufis, and the poets -- Shi\u02BFism and the Safavids -- The fall of the Safavids, Nader Shah, the eighteenth-century interregnum, and the early years of the Qajar dynasty -- The crisis of the Qajar monarchy, the revolution of 1905-1911, and the accession of the Pahlavi dynasty -- The Pahlavis and the revolution of 1979 -- Iran since the revolution : Islamic revival, war, and confrontation -- From Khatami to Ahmadinejad, and the Iranian predicament.

955.05 A159h 2008
AUT Abrahamian, Ervand.
TIT A history of modern Iran.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: List of maps -- List of illustrations -- List of tables and figures -- Chronology -- Glossary -- A political who's who of modern Iran -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. 'Royal despots' : state and society under the Qajars -- 2. Reform, revolution, and the Great War -- 3. The iron fist of Reza Shah -- 4. The nationalist interregnum -- 5. Muhammad Reza Shah's White Revolution -- 6. The Islamic Republic -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Further reading -- Index.

955.05 E92a 2007
AUT Evans, Martin ; Phillips, John.
TIT Algeria : anger of the dispossessed.
PUB New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Preface : why Algeria? -- Introduction : the role of the past in Algerian history -- Dissident landscape -- Forced marriage : French Algeria 1830-1962 -- Darling of the Non-Aligned Movement, 1962-78 -- Black October -- Political Islam -- Algeria's agony -- The Algerian question -- The new imperialism and the war on terror -- Afterword : the anger that will not go away.

956.04 M235 2007
AUT Morris, Benny.
TIT Making Israel.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The new historiography: Israel confronts its past / Benny Morris -- Remembering 1948: personal recollections, collective memory, and the search for "what really happened" / Mordechai Bar-On -- The history of Zionist historiography: from apologetics to denial / Yoav Gelber -- Hirbet Hizah: between remembering and forgetting / Anita Shapira -- The debate about 1948 / Avi Shlaim -- The contribution of historical geography to the historiography of the establishment of Israel / Yossi Ben-Artzi -- "Critical" and "establishment" sociology in Israel's academic community: ideological clashes or academic discourse? / Moshe Lissak -- The future of the past in Israel: a sociology of knowledge approach / Uri Ram -- Israeli historiography and the ethnic problem / Yaron Tsur -- Dialectical versus unequivocal: Israeli historiography's treatment of the Yishuv and Zionist movement attitudes toward the Holocaust / Yechiam Weitz -- A Palestinian look at the new historians and post-Zionism in Israel / Mustafa Kabha.

956.7044 I61 2008
AUT Pfiffner, James P ; Phythian, Mark.
TIT Intelligence and national security policymaking on Iraq : British and American perspectives. - 1st North American ed.
PUB College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
SER Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes series on the presidency and leadership.
CON Contents: Introduction: policymaking and intelligence on Iraq / James P. Pfiffner and Mark Phythian -- pt. I. Intellectual antecedents of the Iraq War -- The neoconservative roots of the war in Iraq / John Dumbrell -- The origins of the British decision to go to war: Tony Blair, humanitarian intervention, and the "new doctrine of the international community" / Jim Whitman -- pt. II. The public case for war -- Did President Bush mislead the country in his arguments for war with Iraq? / James P. Pfiffner -- The British road to war: decisionmaking, intelligence, and the case for war in Iraq / Mark Phythian -- Australian use of intelligence and the case for war in Iraq / Rodney Tiffen -- The Iraq War and the management of American public opinion / John Mueller -- pt. III. Intelligence failure -- Intelligence collection and analysis on Iraq: issues for the US intelligence community / Richard Kerr ... [et al.] -- The politics and psychology of intelligence and intelligence reform / Robert Jervis -- Congress, the Iraq War, and the failures of intelligence oversight / Loch K. Johnson -- Flawed intelligence, limited oversight: official inquiries into prewar UK intelligence on Iraq / Mark Phythian -- pt. IV. Policy failure -- Decisionmaking, intelligence, and the Iraq war / James P. Pfiffner -- Intelligence, policy, and the war in Iraq / Paul R. Pillar -- pt. V. Excerpts from key speeches and documents. Contents: Appendix A. Excerpts from key US speeches before the war in Iraq -- Excerpts from President George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 29, 2002 -- Vice President Cheney's remarks at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention, August 26, 2002 -- President Bush outlines Iraq threat, remarks in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 7, 2002 -- President Bush: State of the Union address, 28 January 2003 -- Appendix B. Excerpts from key UK speeches and documents before the war in Iraq -- Tony Blair, "Doctrine of the international community" speech, Economic Club, Chicago, April 24, 1999 -- Memorandum from foreign policy adviser David Manning to the Prime Minister, March 14, 2002 -- Memorandum from British ambassador to the US, Sir Christopher Meyer, March 18, 2002 -- Minutes: Iraq--Prime Minister's meeting, July 23, 2002 -- Prime Minister's foreword to the September 2002 Downing Street dossier -- Prime Minister's Iraq statement to Parliament, September 24, 2002 -- Appendix C. October 2002 national intelligence estimate: key judgments (excerpts) Iraq's continuing programs for weapons of mass destruction -- Appendix D. Excerpts from post-war US investigations -- Appendix E. Open letter to George Tenet from US intelligence professionals, April 28, 2007.

956.94
AUT Shindler, Colin.
TIT A history of modern Israel.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008. CALL 956.94.
CON Contents: Zionism and security -- The Hebrew republic -- New immigrants and first elections -- The politics of piety -- Retaliation or self-restraint -- The rise of the Right -- The road to Beirut -- Dissent at home and abroad -- An insurrection before a handshake -- The end of ideology? -- The killing of a Prime Minister -- The magician and the bulldozer -- "He does not stop at the red light" -- An unlikely grandfather.

956.9404 C678a 2008
AUT Cohen, Hillel.
TIT Army of shadows : Palestinian collaboration with Zionism, 1917-1948.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Utopia and its collapse -- Who is a traitor? -- We, the collaborators -- Old collaborators, new traitors -- Unity ends -- The "traitors" counterattack -- World war, local calm -- Prelude to war -- Treason and defeat: the 1948 War.

966.02 A669 2007
AUT Ogundiran, Akinwumi ; Falola, Toyin.
TIT Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African diaspora.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2007.
SER Blacks in the diaspora.

972.9106 J77b 2008
AUT Jones, Howard.
TIT The Bay of Pigs.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Pivotal moments in American history.
CON Contents: Genesis -- Trinidad -- Zapata -- Politics -- D-day -- Requiem -- Inquisition.

972.982 L588h 2008
AUT Léotin, Marie-Hélène.
TIT Habiter le monde : Martinique, 1946-2006.
PUB Matoury : Ibis rouge, c2008.
SER Espace outre-mer.

973 O615v 2008
AUT Opie, John.
TIT Virtual America : sleepwalking through paradise.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Welcome to VirtuaLand : old dreamworlds and the power of a new modernity -- Antique America : searching for authenticity -- Human Kodaks in the future perfect : virtual America embodied in world's fairs -- Sleepwalking in America : a brief history -- Finding authenticity : inhabiting place in America.

973.0492 C726 2008
AUT Raphael, Marc Lee.
TIT The Columbia history of Jews and Judaism in America.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: America's earliest Jewish settlers, 1654-1820 / Eli Faber -- Expanding Jewish life in America, 1826-1901 / Dianne Ashton -- The great wave : Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States, 1880-1924 / Eric L. Goldstein -- American Judaism between the two world wars / Jeffrey S. Gurock -- Triumph, accommodation, and resistance : American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War / Riv-Ellen Prell -- Influence and affluence, 1967-2000 / Stephen J. Whitfield -- The ever dying denomination : American Jewish Orthodoxy, 1824-1965 / Kimmy Caplan -- The history of Jewish education in America, 1700-2000 / Melissa R. Klapper -- A regional context for Pacific Jewry, 1880-1930 / William Toll -- Fun and games : the American Jewish social club / Jenna Weissman Joselit -- A multithematic approach to Southern Jewish history / Mark K. Bauman -- American Jewish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust / Rafael Medoff -- Holocaust consciousness and American Jewish politics / Michael E. Staub -- What is American Jewish culture? / Jeffrey Shandler -- Rites of citizenship : Jewish celebrations of the nation / Beth S. Wenger -- A bright new constellation : feminism and American Judaism / Pamela S. Nadell -- Contemporary Jewish thought / Alan T. Levenson -- There's no space like home : the representation of Jewish American life / Linda S. Raphael.

973.099 L732a 2008
AUT Lim, Elvin T.
TIT The anti-intellectual presidency : the decline of presidential rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush.
PUB Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The problem of presidential rhetoric -- The linguistic simplification of presidential rhetoric -- The anti-intellectual speechwriters -- The substantive impoverishment of presidential rhetoric -- Institutionalizing the anti-intellectual presidency -- Indicting the anti-intellectual presidency -- Reforming the anti-intellectual presidency -- Appendix I : The General Inquirer (GI) -- Appendix II : Definitions of General Inquirer categories used -- Appendix III : Annual messages, 1790-2006 -- Appendix IV : Inaugural addresses, 1789-2005 -- Appendix V : Presidential speechwriters interviewed -- Appendix VI : The Flesch readability score.

973.22 H264p 2007
AUT Hardman Moore, Susan.
TIT Pilgrims : New World settlers & the call of home.
PUB New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Prologue: the story of Susanna Bell -- Exodus from England -- The creation of the New England way -- Unsettled spirits -- A fresh gale towards Europe -- Parting from America -- A tale of three nations -- The New England way in England -- Journey's end -- Appendix 1 Pilgrims, Puritans, Migrants -- Appendix 2 New England Settlers Who Returned home, 1640-1660 -- Appendix 3 New England's Ministers: the first generation -- Appendix 4 Preachers from New England.

973.6 H526r 2008
AUT Henshaw, John C. ; Kurutz, Gary F.
TIT Recollections of the war with Mexico.
PUB Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The march from Corpus Christi to the Río Grande, March-April 1846 -- The siege of Fort Texas, May-June 1846 -- An examination of the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma -- "A fandango in Monterrey," September 1846 -- A brief history of the towns through which the American Army passed from Matamoros to Monterrey -- The march to Tampico and the Gulf of Mexico, October 9, 1846-January 22, 1847 -- The siege of Veracruz, February 20-March 20, 1847 -- Cerro Gordo and the march to Mexico City, April 4-August 10, 1847 -- Mexico City and occupation, August 11, 1847-November 6, 1847 -- Final observations on Mexico.

973.7 G454a 2002
AUT Gienapp, William E.
TIT Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America : a biography.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

973.71 F267t 2008
AUT Faust, Drew Gilpin.
TIT This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
CON Contents: The work of death -- Dying: "to lay down my life" -- Killing: "the harder courage" -- Burying: "new lessons caring for the dead" -- Naming: "the significant word UNKNOWN" -- Realizing: civilians and the work of mourning -- Believing and doubting: "what means this carnage?" -- Accounting: "our obligations to the dead" -- Numbering: "how many? how many?" -- Epilogue: Surviving.

973.91 J17a 2008
AUT Jacoby, Susan.
TIT The age of American unreason.
PUB New York : Pantheon Books, 2008.
CON Contents: The way we live now : just us folks -- The way we lived then : intellect and ignorance in a young nation -- Social pseudoscience in the morning of America's culture wars -- Reds, pinkos, fellow travelers -- Middlebrow culture from noon to twilight -- Blaming it on the sixties -- Legacies : youth culture and celebrity culture -- The new old-time religion -- Junk thought -- The culture of distraction -- Public life : defining dumbness downward -- Conclusion: Cultural conservation.

973.922 D632o 2008
AUT Dobbs, Michael.
TIT One minute to midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
CON Contents: Americans -- Russians -- Cubans -- "Eyeball to eyeball" -- "Till hell freezes over -- Intel -- Nukes -- Strike first -- Hunt for the "Grozny" -- Shootdown -- "Some sonofabitch" -- "Run like hell" -- Cat and mouse -- "Crate and return".

973.922 K128r 2008
AUT Kaiser, David E.
TIT The road to Dallas : the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: I: Criminals, Cubans, Kennedys, and the CIA -- Organized crime in the 1950s -- Castro takes power -- The CIA enlists the mob -- The Kennedys take over -- Operation mongoose -- Crusaders and gangsters -- The mob enlists the CIA -- II: Lee Harvey Oswald -- A defector returns -- The big easy -- Oswald exposed -- The Odio incident -- Journey to Mexico -- III: Converging paths -- Making everyone unhappy about Cuba -- Turning up the heat -- Countdown to catastrophe -- Three days in November -- Keeping secrets.

973.923 M156L 2008
AUT Mackenzie, G. Calvin ; Weisbrot, Robert.
TIT The liberal hour : Washington and the politics of change in the 1960s.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
SER Penguin history of American life.
CON Contents: America in the postwar years -- Politics and the liberal arc -- The federal colossus -- Free at last -- To protect the planet -- The hour of maximum danger -- A TVA in the Mekong Valley -- The end of the liberal hour -- Conclusion: The durable decade.

973.924 N736 2008
AUT Logevall, Fredrik ; Preston, Andrew ; Logevall, Fredrik.
TIT Nixon in the world : American foreign relations, 1969-1977.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: The adventurous journey of Nixon in the world / Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston -- An elusive grand design / Jussi M. Hanhimäki -- Nixon as statesman : the failed campaign / David Greenberg -- Henry Kissinger and American grand strategy / Jeremi Suri -- Salesmanship and substance : the influence of domestic policy and Watergate / Dominic Sandbrook -- Nixon, Kissinger, and the opening to China / Margaret MacMillan -- Nuclear Nixon : ironies, puzzles, and the triumph of realpolitik / Francis J. Gavin -- The frailties of grand strategies : a comparison of détente and ostpolitik / Mary Elise Sarotte -- The United States and the making of the Helsinki Final Act / Michael Cotey Morgan -- Waging war on all fronts : Nixon, Kissinger, and the Vietnam War, 1969-1972 / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen -- The end of the Vietnam War, 1973-1976 / Robert D. Schulzinger -- The weight of conquest : Henry Kissinger and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Salim Yaqub -- The danger of geopolitical fantasies : Nixon, Kissinger, and the South Asia crisis of 1971 / Robert J. McMahon -- History from below : the United States and Latin America in the Nixon years / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- Nixon shocks Japan, Inc. / Thomas W. Zeiler -- Thanks for the fish : Nixon, Kissinger, and Canada / Robert Bothwell.

973.928 M471o 2008
AUT Maynard, Christopher.
TIT Out of the shadow : George H.W. Bush and the end of the Cold War. - 1st ed.
PUB College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.
SER Foreign relations and the presidency. ; no. 9.
CON Contents: The primacy of the National Security Council : beyond containment in Europe -- Bush and Gorbachev : the road to Malta -- Personal diplomacy : the reunification of Germany -- A glimpse of the post-Cold War world : the Persian Gulf War -- "When you lose your best enemy" : the collapse of the Soviet Union -- The prudent cold warrior : the foreign policy legacy of George Bush -- Timeline of events : George Bush and the end of the Cold War.

973.931 F931 2008
AUT Kolodziej, Edward A ; Kanet, Roger E.
TIT From superpower to besieged global power : restoring world order after the failure of the Bush doctrine.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2008.
SER Studies in security and international affairs.
CON Contents: American power and global order / Edward A. Kolodziej -- American military power and challenges to international security / Patrick M. Morgan -- China / Li Mingjiang -- Northeast Asia: South and North Korea and Japan / Davis B. Bobrow -- South Asia / Amit Das Gupta -- Southeast Asia / Joseph Chinyong Liow and See Seng Tan -- Europe / Trine Flockhart -- The Russian federation and the CIS / Maria Raquel Freire -- The Balkans to Turkey and the Northern Tier / Gülnur Aybet -- North Africa / Badredine Arfi -- Middle East / Jacob English -- Sub-Saharan Africa / Kevin C. Dunn -- Latin America / Remonda B. Kleinberg -- Brazil / Monica Hirst -- From superpower to besieged global power / Edward A. Kolodziej -- American strategy for global order / Roger E. Kanet.

974.7044 W441k 2008
AUT Welch, Richard F.
TIT King of the Bowery : Big Tim Sullivan, Tammany Hall, and New York City from the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era.
PUB Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The city and the machine -- Upward mobility -- Running the game -- Taking his opportunities as he saw them -- Extracurricular activities -- No final victories -- George and Charlie and Willie and Tim -- The progressive -- The last hurrah -- Decline and fall -- Legacies.

976.3 L265d 2008
AUT Lane, Charles.
TIT The day freedom died : the Colfax massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
CON Contents: Prologue -- "Wholesale murder" -- From plantation to parish -- Power struggle -- War -- Blood on the red -- Black-letter law -- Manhunt -- Louisiana on trial -- A justice's judgment -- "If Louisiana goes..." -- The court speaks -- Epilogue -- Appednix: How many died?.

976.4284 M383w 2009
AUT Martin, Sheila ; Wessinger, Catherine Lowman.
TIT When they were mine : memoirs of a Branch Davidian wife and mother.
PUB Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2009.

980 C489a 2008
AUT Chasteen, John Charles.
TIT Americanos : Latin America's struggle for independence.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Pivotal moments in world history.
CON Contents: Why Americanos? -- Discovering América, 1799-1805 -- Pillars of the crown, 1806-1810 -- Not-so-civil wars, 1810-1812 -- A lost cause?, 1812-1815 -- Independence won, 1816-1824 -- Nation building begins, 1825-1840 -- Epilogue : the legacy endures.

980 C737 2008
AUT Holloway, Thomas H.
TIT A companion to Latin American history.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
SER Blackwell companions to world history.
CON Contents: Early population flows in the Western Hemisphere / Tom D. Dillehay -- Mesoamerica / John Monaghan and Andrew R. Wyatt -- Tradition and change in the Central Andes / Jeffrey Quilter -- Portuguese and Spaniards in the age of European expansion / William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips -- Exploration and conquest / Patricia Seed -- Colonial Brazil (1500-1822) / Hal Langfur -- Institutions of the Spanish American empire in the Hapsburg era / Susan Elizabeth Ramírez -- Indigenous peoples in colonial Spanish American society / Kevin Terraciano -- Slavery in the Americas / Franklin W. Knight -- Religion, society and culture in the colonial era / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Imperial rivalries and reforms / John Fisher -- The process of Spanish American independence / Jaime E. Rodriguez O. -- New nations and new citizens : political culture in nineteenth-century Mexico, Peru, and Argentina / Sarah C. Chambers -- Imperial Brazil (1822-89) / Judy Bieber -- Abolition and Afro-Latin Americans / Aline Helg -- Land, labor, production, and trade : nineteenth-century economic and social patterns / Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago -- Modernization and industrialization / Colin M. Lewis -- Practical sovereignty : the Caribbean region and the rise of US empire / Mary A. Renda -- The Mexican revolution / Adrian A. Bantjes -- Populism and developmentalism / Joel Wolfe -- The Cuban revolution / Luis Martínez-Fernández -- The national security state / David R. Mares -- Central America in upheaval / Julie A. Charlip -- Culture and society : Latin America since 1900 / Robert McKee Irwin -- Environmental history of modern Latin America / Lise Sedrez -- Women, gender, and family in Latin America, 1820-2000 / Nara Milanich -- Identity, ethnicity, and race / Peter Wade -- Social and economic impact of neoliberalism / Duncan Green.

984 H996r 2007
AUT Hylton, Forrest ; Thomson, Sinclair ; Gilly, Adolfo.
TIT Revolutionary horizons : past and present in Bolivian politics.
PUB London ; New York : Verso, 2007.
CON Contents: Prologue : The spirit of revolt / Adolfo Gilly -- The plaza and the palacio -- Revolution in historical context -- Indian rule and Creole rule in the age of the revolution, 1781-1825 -- Alliance and repression in the tributary republic, 1826-1926 -- National-popular stirrings, 1927-44 -- Toward revolution and back, 1945-63 -- Dictatorship, democracy, and the national state, 1964-84 -- Neoliberal ascendance and the "war on drugs," 1985-99 -- The new revolutionary cycle, 2000-3 -- Anatomy of an uprising, 2003 -- Interregnum, 2003-5 -- Triumph and closure, December 2005-August 2006 -- Conclusion : Quip Nayr Uñtasis Sartanani.

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Software 580 C989p 2008
AUT Cutler, D. F. ; Botha, C. E. J. ; Stevenson, Dennis Wm.
TIT Plant anatomy : an applied approach.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: 1. Morphology and tissue systems: the integrated plant body -- General background -- Adaptation to aerial growth -- The systems in detail -- 2. Meristems and meristematic growth -- Introduction -- Apical meristems -- Lateral meristems -- Practical applications and uses of meristems -- 3. The structure of xylem and phloem -- Introduction -- The xylem -- The phloem -- Structure--function relationships in primary and secondary vascular tissues -- 4. The root -- Introduction -- Epidermis -- Cortex -- Endodermis -- Pericycle -- Vascular system -- Lateral roots -- 5. The stem -- Introduction -- Stems--cross-sectional appearance -- Transport phloem within the axial system -- Transport tissue--structural components -- Concluding remarks -- 6. The leaf -- Introduction -- Leaf structure -- The epidermis -- The mesophyll -- Strengthening systems in the leaf -- The vascular system -- The phloem -- Specifics of the monocotyledonous foliage leaf -- Secretory structures -- Concluding remarks -- 7. Flowers, fruits, and seeds -- Introduction -- Vascularization -- SEM studies -- Palynology -- Embryology -- Seed and fruit histology -- 8. Adaptive features -- Introduction -- Mechanical adaptations -- Adaptations to habitat -- Xerophytes -- Mesophytes -- Hydrophytes -- Applications -- 9. Economic aspects of applied plant anatomy -- Introduction -- Identification and classification -- Taxonomic application -- Medicinal plants -- Food adulterants and contaminants -- Animal feeding habits -- Wood: present day -- Wood: in archaeology -- Forensic applications -- Palaeobotany -- Postscript -- 10. Practical microtechnique -- Safety considerations -- Materials and methods -- Microscopy -- Appendix 1. Selected study material -- Appendix 2. Practical exercises.

Software 657.04 M916b v.1
AUT Mostyn, Gregory R.
TIT Basic accounting concepts, principles and procedures.
PUB Milpitas, Calif. : Worthy & James Pub., 2007.
NOT Includes index.
CON Contents: v. 1. Building the conceptual foundation -- v. 2. Applying principles and procedures.

Software 658.3124 C595e2 2008
AUT Clark, Ruth Colvin ; Mayer, Richard E.
TIT E-learning and the science of instruction : proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning. - 2nd ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Pfeiffer, c2008.
SER Pfeiffer essential resources for training and HR professionals.
CON Contents: E-learning: promise and pitfalls -- How do people learn from e-courses -- Applying the multimedia principle: use words and graphics rather than words alone -- Applying the contiguity principle: align words to corresponding graphics -- Applying the modality principle: present words as audio narration, rather than on-screen text -- Applying the redundancy principle: explain visuals with words in audio or text: not both -- Applying the coherence principle: adding interesting material can hurt learning -- Applying the personalization principle: use conversational style and virtual coaches -- Applying the segmenting and pretraining principles: managing complexity by breaking a lesson into parts -- Leveraging examples in e-learning -- Does practice make perfect? -- Learning together virtually -- Who's in control? Guidelines for e-learning navigation -- E-learning to build thinking skills -- Simulations and games in e-learning -- Applying the guidelines.

DVD 791.4372 A265
AUT Rossellini, Renzo ; Rossellini, Roberto ; Scaffa, Luciano.
TIT L'età di Cosimo de' Medici.
PUB [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2008.
SER Eclipse ; ser. 14 Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)).

DVD 791.4372 B635
AUT Rossellini, Renzo ; Rossellini, Roberto ; Mariani, Marcella.
TIT Blaise Pascal.
PUB [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2008.
SER Eclipse ; ser. 14 Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)).

DVD 791.4372 B817
AUT Maddin, Guy ; Toles, George E ; Maahs, Erik Steffen.
TIT Brand upon the brain! a remembrance in 12 chapters. - Special ed.
PUB [South Burlington, Vt.] : Criterion Collection, 2008, c2006.
SER The Criterion collection ; 440.
NOT Director-approved special edition features: narration tracks by Isabella Rossellini, Laurie Anderson, John Ashberry, Crispin Glover, Guy Maddin, Louis Negin, and Eli Wallach ; 97 percent true, a new documentary featuring interviews with the director and his collaborators ; two new short films directed by Maddin exclusively for this release: It's my mother's birthday today, and, Footsteps ; deleted scene ; trailer ; a new essay by film critic Dennis Lim.

DVD 791.4372 C325
AUT Rossellini, Renzo ; Rossellini, Roberto ; Scaffa, Luciano.
TIT Cartesius.
PUB [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2008.
SER Eclipse ; ser. 14 Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)).
NOT Title from container. - Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.

DVD 791.4372 M395
AUT Dauman, Anatole ; Godard, Jean Luc ; Goya, Chantal.
TIT Masculin féminin 15 faits précis = Maculine feminine, 15 specific items. - Special ed.; standard format (1:33:1).
PUB [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c2005.
SER Criterion Collection ; 308.
NOT Based on the short stories "La femme de Paul" and "Le signe" by Guy de Maupassant. - Originally released as a motion picture in 1966. - Special features: archival 1966 interview with Goya (5 min.); 2005 interview with Goya (15 min.); 2005 interview with Kurant (12 min.); 2005 interview with Godard collaborator Jean-Pierre Gorin (12 min.); video discussion of the film between French film scholars Freddy Buache and Dominique Païni (25 min.); 1966 Swedish television footage of Godard directing the film within the film scene (5 min.); original theatrical trailer; re-release theatrical trailer. - Guide includes an essay by film critic Adrian Martin ("The young man for all times") and an excerpted reprint of a report from the set by French journalist Philippe Labro ("On the set of Masculin-Feminin"). - "New, restored high-definition digital transfer"--Container.

DVD 791.4372 S582 pt.1-3
AUT Kitamura, Komatsu.
TIT Silent Ozu. Tokyo chorus : three family comedies.
PUB Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, [2008].
SER Eclipse ; series 10.
NOT Title from container. - Originally released as a motion picture in 1931.

DVD 791.4372 T143
AUT Powell, Michael ; Pressburger, Emeric ; Arundell, Dennis Drew.
TIT Tales of Hoffmann (Motion picture) The tales of Hoffmann a fantastic opera. - Special ed.
PUB [United States] : Criterion Collection, c2005.
SER Criterion Collection ; 317.
NOT Originally produced in 1951 at London Film Studio, Shepperton, England. - Special edition features: commentary with Martin Scorsese and Bruce Eder, interview with George A. Romero, production designer Hein Heckroth's sketches and paintings, gallery of archival production and publicity photographs, original theatrical trailer; The sorcerer's apprentice : an old tale / retold by Michael Powell (13 min. ; 1951) a short musical film directed by Michael Powell based on the Goethe story. In the booklet: a new essay by film historian Ian Christie.

DVD 791.4372 V543
AUT Lencina, Julio ; Menocki, Sasha ; Pereira, Miguel.
TIT La deuda interna Verónico Cruz.
PUB [Huntington Beach, Calif.] : Vanguard Cinema [distributor], c2002.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in Argentina in 1987. - Based on: The experiences of Fortunato Ramos.

Holocaust DVD 967.571 G646
AUT Kenyon, Linda ; Fowler, Jerry ; Dallaire, Roméo.
TIT A good man in hell General Roméo Dallaire and the Rwanda genocide.
PUB Washington, D.C. : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, c2003.
NOT Includes: A good man in hell (13 min.) and archival footage from the full interview with Ted Koppel held on June 12, 2002 at the Holocaust Memorial Museum (88 min.).

DVD 982.064 D611
AUT Sanders, Peter
TIT The disappeared.
PUB [New York] : Eight Twelve Productions, c2007.

DVD MLK 542
AUT Cohen, Bruce ; Jinks, Dan ; London, Michael.
TIT Milk (Motion picture : 2008) Milk. - Widescreen ed.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2009].
SER Focus Features four-star collection.
NOT Special features: deleted scenes; remembering Harvey; Hollywood comes to San Francisco; marching for Equality.

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J-Fic H855b
AUT Howe, Deborah ; Howe, James ; Daniel, Alan.
TIT Bunnicula : a rabbit-tale of mystery. - Rev. format ed.
PUB New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2004.