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004.68 O41i
AUT Okin, J. R.
TIT The information revolution : the not-for-dummies guide to the history,
technology, and use of the World Wide Web. - 1st Ironbound Press ed.
PUB Winter Harbor, Maine : Ironbound Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The pre-Web Internet and information management. Waiting for
the Web's arrival ; The history of hypertext ; Information management
and the Internet. -- The Web is born. A working definition of the Web ;
Tim Berners-Lee and a short history of the Web ; Web history details ;
The Web is formed ; The Web is discovered ; The Web spins threads of
control. -- The mechanics of the Web. The building blocks of the Web ;
The applications of the Web. -- The information Web. Finding
information ; Storing and representing information ; Automating the
discovery and protection of information. -- The multimedia Web.
Publications ; Audio ; Video ; Multimedia built for the Web: Applets,
Flash, and 3D. -- The business Web. Web business successes ; Web
business failures ; Businesses that build and support the Web. -- The
people Web. There is no place like home: Web home pages ; In search of
publicity: public people on the Web ; In search of work: job hunting ;
In search of love: Web dating ; In search of family: Web genealogy ;
The quest for self expression: blogs and blogging. -- The shadow Web.
Web banners: advertisements that track our movements ; Web logs: files
that record our movements ; Web bugs: code that captures our actions ;
Affiliate management: organizations that live off our movements ; Data
mining: operations that turn our data into gold. -- The semantic Web.
Representing information: metadata, RDF, and XML ; Discovering
information: navigating the semantic Web ; Trusting information: the
Web of trust ; The big (semantic Web) picture. -- Appendix A:
Milestones, netiquette, and jargon. World Wide Web milestones ;
Netiquette ; Common Internet jargon.
005.8 F385c2
AUT Ferrera, Gerald R.
TIT Cyberlaw : text and cases. - 2nd ed.
PUB Mason, Ohio : Thomson/South-Western/West, c2004.
CON Contents: Introduction to cyberlaw. Technology and cyberlaw --
Jurisdiction. Intellectual property issues in cyberspace. Trademarks --
Copyrights. Business and finance issues in cyberspace. Online
contracting -- Sales Tax in E-commerce -- Online securities offerings
and Transactions. Social issues in cyberspace. Privacy -- Obscenity --
Defamation -- Internet and information security -- Internet and
computer crime.
006.7 R755n
AUT Rolls, Albert.
TIT New media.
PUB Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson, c2006.
SER Reference shelf. ; . 78, no. 2.
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Ref 016.32 I43G5, 2005
AUT Green, Stephen W ; Ernest, Douglas ; Holler, Frederick L.
TIT Information sources of political science. - 5th ed.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2005.
025.04 B534u2
AUT Berry, Michael W ; Browne, Murray.
TIT Understanding search engines : mathematical modeling and text
retrieval. - 2nd ed.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : SIAM, Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics, c2005.
Ref 025.523 C927c2, 2006
AUT Crews, Kenneth D ; Buttler, Dwayne K.
TIT Copyright law for librarians and educators : creative strategies and
practical solutions. - 2nd ed.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : American Library Association, 2006.
CON Contents: The reach of copyright -- The scope of protectable works --
Works without copyright protection -- Rights of ownership -- Duration
and formalities: how long do copyrights last? -- Who owns the
copyright? -- The rights of copyright owners -- Exceptions to the
rights of owners -- Working with fair use -- Fair use: getting started
-- Fair use: understanding the four factors -- Getting comfortable with
fair use: applying the four factors -- The meaning of fair-use
guidelines -- Focus on education and libraries -- Distance education
and the TEACH Act -- Libraries and the special provisions of Section
108 -- Responsibilities, liabilities, and doing the right thing --
Special features -- Music and copyright -- The digital millennium
copyright act -- Copyright and unpublished materials -- Permission from
copyright owners.
034 B653e
AUT Blom, Philipp.
TIT Enlightening the world : Encyclopédie, the book that changed the course
of history. - 1st Palgrave Macmillan ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
051 K62p
AUT Kitch, Carolyn L.
TIT Pages from the past : history and memory in American magazines.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
CON Contents: How we lived -- A working-class hero is something to be -- A
news of feeling as well as fact -- The voices of the past speak to us,
calling us by name -- The celebrated tribe -- Once upon a time in
America -- Snapshots in a family album.
070.92 W819m
AUT Witcover, Jules.
TIT The making of an ink-stained wretch : half a century pounding the
political beat.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: An unlikely beginning -- Destination Washington -- Covering
the center ring -- Politics at last -- Nixon and me -- Reserved seat on
the bus -- Getting to know Bobby -- Surviving 1968, and branching out
-- Escape to the L.A. Times -- Dirty tricks and disappointments -- The
Post: Watergate and Agnew -- Lust and other bumps in the road -- The
Star: Good Cop, Bad Cop -- Time marches in-and out -- New Home, at the
Evening Sun -- Tracking Quayle and Clinton -- The Sun: Endings and
beginnings -- On my own again -- One more campaign -- The way we were,
and are.
071.3 W187n
AUT Wallace, Aurora.
TIT Newspapers and the making of modern America : a history.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
CON Contents: 1. Newspapers and their cities, towns, and villages -- 2.
Tabloids and the city : the New York Daily News, the New York Daily
Mirror, and the New York Evening Graphic -- 3. Small town reform
newspapers : the Des Moines Register, and Emporia Gazette, and the
Anniston Star -- 3. The Black press goes to war : the Chicago Defender,
the Pittsburgh Courier, and the Baltimore Afro-American -- 4. Postwar
newspapers, suburbanization, and land development : the Los Angeles
Times and the Long Island Newsday -- 5. Florida in chains : the Miami
Herald and the Tampa Tribune -- 6. The community newspaper : from the
Village Voice, the East Village Other, and the Chicago Seed to CNHI and
the Hazard Herald -- 7. National newspapers and the nation : the New
York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and USA
Today.
070.5 H582h
AUT Herzstein, Robert Edwin.
TIT Henry R. Luce, Time, and the American crusade
in Asia.
PUB Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University
Press, 2005.
CON Contents: From the American century to the
Cold War -- Henry Luce and China : prelude to an American crusade
-- Learning to market Chiang's China -- Bitter victory -- China
on the brink : what role for America? -- Luce and the "loss" of
China -- Cold war strategy : allies and enemies in the battle for
China -- Losing China : the hunt for culprits intensifies -- Anti-communist
allies in Asia : MacArthur and Rhee -- McCarthy and Korea : crises
and opportunities -- The campaign for a wider war in Asia -- Electing
Eisenhower while fighting McCarthy -- Time Inc., Eisenhower, and
Asian policy, 1952-1959 -- Unwelcome moderation : Eisenhower's caution
in East Asia -- Keeping the pressure on Mao and Ho -- Time, Luce,
and the looming disaster in Vietnam, 1960-1967 -- Time Inc. and
nation-making in Vietnam : from Kennedy to Johnson -- Troubled crusade
in Vietnam -- The final years of Henry Luce's mission to Asia.
100 Philosophy, Psychology
100 L418p
AUT Lawless, Andrew.
TIT Plato's sun : an introduction to philosophy.
PUB Toronto, Can. ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, c2005.
CON Contents: What is philosophy? -- Metaphysics: the search for the God's
eye view -- Wittgenstein's ladder: the modern reaction to metaphysics
-- Epistemology: the ghost in the metaphysical machine? -- Logic and
its place in the universe -- Ethics: The good, the bad, and the
beautiful -- Philosophy and language: the house of being.
Ref 128.2 O98, 2004
AUT Gregory, R. L.
TIT The Oxford companion to the mind. - 2nd ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
142 G373
AUT Schirmacher, Wolfgang.
TIT German 20th century philosophy : the Frankfurt school.
PUB New York : Continuum, 2000.
SER German library. ; v. 78.
CON Contents: On the concept of philosophy / Max Horkheimer -- On Theodor
W. Adorno. No right to be a self: counterthinking / by Martin Hielscher
; translated by Daniel Theisen -- On the concept of enlightenment / Max
Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno ; translated by John Cumming -- Theses
on the philosophy of history / Walter Benjamin ; translated by Harry
Zohn -- Terror's atomization of man / Leo Löwenthal -- On hedonism ;
Solidarity ; The catastrophe of liberation / Herbert Marcuse ;
translated by Jeremy J. Shapiro -- The civilization process:
introduction / Norbert Elias -- Adorno: the primal history of
subjectivity ; Benjamin: consciousness-raising or rescuing critique ;
Marcuse: Psychic thermidor and the rebirth of rebellious subjectivity /
Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Frederick G. Lawrence.
144.3 C111
AUT Murphey, Murray G.
TIT C.I. Lewis : the last great pragmatist.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2005.
SER SUNY series in philosophy.
CON Contents: Biographical note I. Early years -- Idealism and epistemology
-- Berkeley -- Logic -- Biographical note II. Harvard -- Pragmatism --
Mind and the world order -- Biographical note III. Middle years --
Logic II -- Positivism and the theory of knowledge -- Biographical note
IV. War years -- The AKV -- Biographical note V. Retirement -- After
AKV -- Ethics -- Biographical note VI. Final years.
150.72 S387h
AUT Schultz, William Todd.
TIT Handbook of psychobiography.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Ref 153.03 D554H 2000
AUT Houdé, Olivier.
TIT Vocabulaire de sciences cognitives. English. Dictionary of cognitive
science : neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence,
linguistics, and philosophy.
PUB New York : Psychology Press, 2004.
155.418 L154c
AUT Ladd, Gary W.
TIT Children's peer relations and social competence : a century of
progress.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.
SER Current perspectives in psychology.
CON Contents: Introduction: are peers an essential resource for children's
development? -- The founding of the peer relations discipline : early
agendas and research endeavors -- The emergence of peer interaction and
sociability -- Defining and describing children's peer relationships --
Making friends and becoming accepted in peer groups : the processes of
relationship formation -- Social competence and the search for its
origins -- Contributions of peer relationships to children's
development and adjustment -- New evidence about children's peer
relationships and the processes of relationship formation, maintenance,
and change -- The search for the origins of social competence revisited
-- New directions in research on the contributions of peer
relationships to children's development and adjustment -- Peer
victimization is investigated as another aspect of children's peer
relations -- The role of gender, emotion, and culture in children's
social competence and peer relationships -- Conclusion: appraising the
scientific study of children's peer relations and social competence.
155.8 S697o
AUT Sommers, Christina Hoff ; Satel, Sally L.
TIT One nation under therapy : how the helping culture is eroding
self-reliance. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : St. Martin's Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The myth of the fragile child -- Esteem thyself -- Sin to
syndrome -- Emotional correctness -- From pathos to pathology --
September 11, 2001 : the mental health crisis that wasn't --
Conclusion: Therapism and the nation's future.
155.93 B627s
AUT Black, Helen K.
TIT Soul pain : the meaning of suffering in later life.
PUB Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub. Co., c2006.
SER Society and aging series.
158.2 M476b
AUT Mazur, Allan.
TIT Biosociology of dominance and deference.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.
CON Contents: Fish -- And People -- Evolution -- Soft Parts and Behavior --
Primates -- Status Signs -- Allocating Ranks -- Conversation --
tosterone -- Violence -- Take a Chimp, Add Language, Melt the Glaciers.
170 K24q
AUT Kearney, Richard ; Dooley, Mark.
TIT Questioning ethics : contemporary debates in philosophy.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
CON Contents: Memory and forgetting / Paul Ricoeur -- Imagination,
testimony and trust: a dialogue with Paul Ricoeur -- Narrative and the
ethics of remembrance / Richard Kearney -- The politics of memory:
reflections on practical wisdom and political identity / Jeffrey Barash
-- Ethics and lifeworlds / Jean Greisch -- Hospitality, justice and
responsibility: a dialogue with Jacques Derrida -- Reason, history, and
a little madness: towards an ethics of the kingdom / John D. Caputo --
The experience of the ethical / David Wood -- The ethics of exclusion:
incorporating the Continent / Simon Glendinning -- Three normative
models of democracy: liberal, republican, procedural / Jürgen Habermas
-- The problem of justice in a multicultural society: the response of
discourse ethics / Karl-Otto Apel -- Enlightenment and the idea of
public reason / Thomas McCarthy -- Paradigms of public reason:
reflections on ethics and democracy / David M. Rasmussen -- In the
name-of-the-Father: the Law? / William J. Richardson -- Revolt today? /
Julia Kristeva -- The original traumatism: Levinas and psychoanalysis /
Simon Critchley -- Some enlightenment projects reconsidered / Alasdair
MacIntyre -- Questioning autonomy: the feminist challenge and the
challenge for feminism / Maeve Cooke -- From ethics to bioethics /
Peter Kemp.
174.2 J81b
AUT Jonsen, Albert R.
TIT Bioethics beyond the headlines : who lives? who dies? who decides?.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.
CON Contents: Who lives? Who dies? Who decides? : an essay on ethics and
bioethics -- When is a benefit not beneficial : defining death --
Foregoing life support : quality of life -- Autonomy of the patient --
Euthanasia -- Transplantation -- Assisted reproduction -- Abortion --
Research with humans -- Genetics -- Neuroscience -- Cloning and stem
cells -- Health care access -- Cultural bioethics -- Research with
animals -- Environmental ethics -- Appendix I: Precis of moral
philosophy -- Appendix II: Precis of history of medical ethics --
Appendix III: The Frankenstein analogy.
174.25 R754s
AUT Rollin, Bernard E.
TIT Science and ethics.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The waxing and waning of faith
in science -- Scientific ideology and "value free" science -- What is
ethics? -- Ethics and research on human beings -- Animal research --
Biotechnology and ethics I: is genetic engineering intrinsically wrong?
-- Biotechnology and ethics II: rampaging monsters and suffering
animals -- Biotechnology and ethics III: cloning, xenotransplantation
and stem cells -- Pain and ethics -- Ethics in science.
174.93 D341c5
AUT Delattre, Edwin J.
TIT Character and cops : ethics in policing. - 5th ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, c2006.
179.3 H642a, 2004
AUT Hile, Kevin.
TIT Animal rights.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2004.
SER Point-counterpoint.
CON Contents: The debate over animal rights -- Animals are worthy of
certain rights -- Animals are not worthy of rights like those of humans
-- Animals should not be used in medical research -- Animals serve a
useful purpose in medical research -- Animals should not be used for
food and clothing -- Animals should be used for food and clothing --
Animals should not be used for entertainment -- No harm is done when
animals are used for entertainment -- The debate continues.
179.7 M393p
AUT Marzilli, Alan.
TIT Physician-assisted suicide.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Death by prescription -- People should have the right to
determine when and how they die -- States should protect people from
choosing suicide -- People should not have to make end-of-life
decisions without medical advice -- Widespread legalization would have
devastating effects on medical practice and research -- Modern medicine
has increased the need for physician-assisted suicide -- Nothing
justifies taking a human life -- The future of physician-assisted
suicide.
184.1 R813p
AUT Rosen, Stanley.
TIT Plato's Republic : a study.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Cephalus and Polemarchus -- Thrasymachus -- Glaucon and
Adeimantus -- Paideia I: the luxurious city -- Paideia II: the purged
city -- Justice -- The female drama -- Possibility -- The philosophical
nature -- The good, the divided line, and the cave: the education of
the philosopher -- Political decay -- Happiness and pleasure -- The
quarrel between philosophy and poetry -- The immortal soul.
193 H361n
AUT Hatab, Lawrence J.
TIT Nietzsche's life sentence : coming to terms with eternal recurrence.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2005.
194 D348p
AUT Deleuze, Gilles ; Boyman, Anne.
TIT Pure immanence : essays on a life.
PUB New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT
Press, 2001.
CON Contents: Immanence: a life -- Hume -- Nietzsche.
194 S587ß
AUT Silverman, Hugh J.
TIT Lyotard : philosophy, politics, and the sublime.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2002.
SER Continental philosophy. ; 8.
194.9 B499k
AUT Bergson, Henri ; Ansell-Pearson, Keith ; Mullarkey, John.
TIT Key writings.
PUB New York : Continuum, 2002.
199.8 M645r
AUT Millán-Zaibert, Elizabeth ; Salles, Arleen L. F.
TIT The role of history in Latin American philosophy : contemporary
perspectives.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2005.
SER SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
CON Contents: The history of philosophy and Latin American philosophy /
Jorge J.E. Gracia -- Explanatory and "argumentative" history of
philosophy / Carlos Pareda -- History and philosophy in the Latin
American setting: some disturbing comments / Eduardo Rabossi --
Breaking with the past: philosophy and its history in Latin America --
The study of philosophy's history in Mexico as a foundation for doing
Mexican philosophy / Mauricio Beuchot -- Philosophical genealogies and
feminism in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz / María Luisa Femenías -- A
philosophical debate concerning traditional ethnic groups in Latin
America and the history of philosophy / León Olivé -- How and why to
foster the history of philosophy in postcolonial contexts / Horacio
Cerutti-Guldberg.
200 Religion
200 I33L
AUT Leonard, Karen Isaksen.
TIT Immigrant faiths : transforming religious life in America.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2005.
CON Contents: God is apparently not dead : the obvious, the emergent, and
the unknown in immigration and religion / Alex Stepick -- "Brought
together upon our own continent" : race, religion, and evangelical
nationalism in American Baptist home missions, 1865-1900 / Derek Chang
-- Daddy Grace : an immigrant's story / Danielle Brune Sigler -- Ritual
transformations in Okinawan immigrant communities / Ronald Nakasone and
Susan Sered -- Religion and the maintenance of ethnicity among
immigrants : a comparison of Indian Hindus and Korean Protestants /
Pyong Gap Min -- Changing religious practices among Cambodian
immigrants in Long Beach and Seattle / Thomas J. Douglas -- Religion
and transnational migration in the new Chinatown / Kenneth J. Guest --
The Protestant ethic and the dis-spirit of vodou / Karen Richman --
Structural and cultural hybrids : religious congregational life and
public participation of Mexicans in the new South / Marie Friedmann
Marquardt -- Historicizing and materializing the study of religion :
the contribution of migration studies / Manuel A. Vásquez.
200 I33L
AUT Leonard, Karen Isaksen.
TIT Immigrant faiths : transforming religious life in America.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2005.
CON Contents: God is apparently not dead : the obvious, the emergent, and
the unknown in immigration and religion / Alex Stepick -- "Brought
together upon our own continent" : race, religion, and evangelical
nationalism in American Baptist home missions, 1865-1900 / Derek Chang
-- Daddy Grace : an immigrant's story / Danielle Brune Sigler -- Ritual
transformations in Okinawan immigrant communities / Ronald Nakasone and
Susan Sered -- Religion and the maintenance of ethnicity among
immigrants : a comparison of Indian Hindus and Korean Protestants /
Pyong Gap Min -- Changing religious practices among Cambodian
immigrants in Long Beach and Seattle / Thomas J. Douglas -- Religion
and transnational migration in the new Chinatown / Kenneth J. Guest --
The Protestant ethic and the dis-spirit of vodou / Karen Richman --
Structural and cultural hybrids : religious congregational life and
public participation of Mexicans in the new South / Marie Friedmann
Marquardt -- Historicizing and materializing the study of religion :
the contribution of migration studies / Manuel A. Vásquez.
201.7 K78f
AUT Koenig, Harold George.
TIT Faith and mental health : religious resources for healing.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Templeton Foundation Press, c2005.
CON Contents: People and communities of faith -- History of mental health
care -- Religion, coping, and positive emotions -- Religion,
psychiatric symptoms, and disorders -- Religion and severe, persistent
mental illness -- Integrating religion into mental health treatments --
Caring for the emotionally and mentally ill -- Local religious
congregations (FBO category A) -- Networking and advocacy organizations
(FBO category B) -- Mission-driven faith-based services (FBO category
C) -- Faith-integrated counseling (FBO categories D and E) --
Non-Christian faith-based services -- Barriers to research and
implementation -- Identifying possible solutions.
204 S353r
AUT Schmidt, Leigh Eric.
TIT Restless souls : the making of American spirituality. - 1st ed.
PUB [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, c2005.
221.95 S736a
AUT Sparks, Kenton L.
TIT Ancient texts for the study of the Hebrew Bible : a guide to the
background literature.
PUB Peabody, Mass. : Hendrickson Publishers, c2005.
222.53 B889i
AUT Brueggemann, Walter.
TIT Solomon : Israel's ironic icon of human achievement.
PUB Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina, c2005.
SER Studies on personalities of the Old Testament.
CON Contents: Beginning points : history and canonicity -- The larger
narrative in which Solomon is embedded -- The beloved son amid
rough-and-tumble power -- How a modest Solomon became a large narrative
Solomon : 1 Kings 3:11 -- Solomon as temple builder -- Solomon as wise
king -- Solomon as economic genius -- The deuteronomic proviso : the
voice of ironic criticism -- Chronicles : Solomon glorious,
one-dimensional, minus irony -- Solomon as durable teacher : Proverbs
-- Solomon in canonical extrapolation : Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs
-- Solomon among the praises of Israel -- Solomon in four belated
refractions -- Postscript : Solomon in New Testament perspective.
230.089 H793b
AUT Hopkins, Dwight N.
TIT Being human : race, culture, and religion.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Contemporary models of theological anthropology -- Culture :
labor, aesthetic, and spirit -- Selves and the self : I am because we
are -- Race : nature and nurture -- Conclusion as introduction.
232.91 G282p
AUT Gaventa, Beverly Roberts ; Rigby, Cynthia L ; Gaventa, Beverly Roberts
et al.
TIT Blessed one : Protestant perspectives on Mary. - 1st ed.
PUB Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2002.
CON Contents: Pt. 1. Encountering Mary. Blessed is she who believed : Mary,
curious exemplar in Luke's narrative / Joel B. Green -- Tamar, Rahab,
Ruth, and the wife of Uriah : the company Mary keeps in Matthew's
Gospel / Katherine Doob Sakenfeld -- "Who is my mother?" : family
values in the Gospel of Mark / E. Elizabeth Johnson -- "Standing near
the cross" : Mary and the crucifixion of Jesus / Beverly Roberts
Gaventa -- pt. 2. Living Mary. Mary, the servant of the Lord :
Christian vocation at the manger and the cross / Nancy J. Duff -- Proud
Mary : contextual construction of a divine diva / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
-- Ignored virgin or unaware women : a Mexican-American Protestant
reflections on the Virgin of Guadalupe / Nora O. Lozano-Díaz --
"Pondering all these things" : Mary and motherhood / Bonnie J.
Miller-McLemore -- pt. 3. Bearing Mary. Woman of faith : toward a
reformed understanding of Mary / Daniel L. Migliore -- What Mary has to
say about God's bare goodness / Lois Malcolm -- Mary and the artistry
of God / Cynthia L. Rigby.
241.6 F157w
AUT Fahey, Joseph.
TIT War and the Christian conscience : where do you stand?.
PUB Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2005.
CON Contents: Nicole's conscience -- Varieties of conscience -- Pacifism --
Just war -- Total war -- World community.
248.4 T367ß
AUT Thatcher, Adrian.
TIT Living together and Christian ethics.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
SER New studies in Christian ethics. ; 21.
270.2 G475a
AUT Gill, Meredith Jane.
TIT Augustine in the Italian Renaissance : art and philosophy from Petrarch
to Michelangelo.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
273.6 W777t
AUT Winship, Michael P.
TIT The times and trials of Anne Hutchinson : Puritans divided.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2005.
SER Landmark law cases & American society.
CON Contents: The making of a prophet -- Disciplinarians : Massachusetts,
1630-1636 -- Secret quarrels : spring--fall 1636 -- Antichristian
spirits and soul robbers : fall--winter, 1636-1637 -- A combustion in
the commonwealth : spring 1637 -- The churches on fire : summer 1637 --
Bottomless revelations : fall 1637 -- A notorious imposter : winter
1637-1638 -- All one Indian.
274.06 R896r
AUT Rublack, Ulinka.
TIT Reformation Europe.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005.
SER New approaches to European history. ; 28.
CON Contents: Prologue. Prophecy -- Martin Luther's truth -- The age of
heterodoxy -- Calvinism -- Truths of everyday life -- Epilogue. Towards
a cultural history of the Reformation.
Ref 280.973 M479h 2005
AUT Mead, Frank Spencer ; Hill, Samuel S ; Atwood, Craig D.
TIT Handbook of denominations in the United States.
PUB New York : Abingdon Press, 1951-.
291.2 Z82o
AUT Diek, Slavoj.
TIT On belief.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
SER Thinking in action.
294.392 D253t
AUT Davidson, Ronald M.
TIT Tibetan renaissance : Tantric Buddhism in the rebirth of Tibetan
culture.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.
296.097 C178
AUT Kaplan, Dana.
TIT The Cambridge companion to American Judaism.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
SER Cambridge companions to religion.
CON Contents: Preservation to innovation : Judaism in America, 1654-1880 /
Eli Faber -- American Judaism, 1880-1945 / Lloyd P. Gartner -- Trends
in American Judaism from 1945 to the present / Dana Evan Kaplan --
Jewish religious denominations / Lawrence Grossman -- Patterns of
American Jewish religious behavior / Chaim Waxman -- Thinking Judaism
through : Jewish theology in America / Byron L. Sherwin -- The essence
of American Judaism / Charles Liebman -- Contemporary Jewish education
/ Isa Aron, Michael Zeldin, and Sara S. Lee -- The place of Judaism in
American Jewish identity / Debra Renee Kaufman -- The Holocaust in
Jewish American life / Lynn Rapaport -- Long distance nationalism :
American Jews, Zionism, and Israel / Steven T. Rosenthal -- Life cycle
rituals : rites of passage in American Judaism / Rela Mintz Geffen --
Choosing lives : evolving gender roles in American Jewish families /
Sylvia Barack Fishman -- The body and sexuality in American Jewish
culture / David Biale -- The American Jewish urban experience / Nathan
Glazer -- "Sacred survival" revisited : American Jewish civil religion
in the new millennium / Jonathan Woocher -- Judaism and democracy in
America / Alan Mittleman -- The economics of American Judaism / Carmel
U. Chiswick -- American Judaism and interfaith dialogue / Yaakov Ariel
-- American midrash : urban Jewish writing & the reclaiming of Judaism
/ Murray Baumgarten -- Recent trends in new American Jewish music /
Mark Kligman -- The visual arts in the American Jewish experience /
Matthew Baigell -- American Judaism in the twenty-first century / Bruce
Phillips.
296.4 M968q
AUT Munro-Hay, S. C.
TIT The quest for the Ark of the Covenant : the true history of the tablets
of Moses.
PUB London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed by Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Historical outline -- The great myth :
Solomon and Sheba -- The Tabot and the Ark : the mysterious altars of
Ethiopia -- The Ark and the tablets : from King Solomon to Queen Gudit
-- The Ark of Zion : the coming of the Ark -- Mary of Zion : the
dwelling place of the Ark -- The 'Ark' at Aksum Seyon? : conclusion.
297.7 C771u
AUT Cook, David.
TIT Understanding Jihad.
PUB Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Quran and conquest -- The "greater
Jihad" and the "lesser Jihad" -- The crystallization of Jihad theory
: crusade and counter-crusade -- Jihad during the nineteenth century
: resistance and renewal -- Radical Islam and contemporary Jihad
theory -- Globalist radical Islam and martyrdom operations.
297.9 G233b
AUT Garlington, William.
TIT The Baha'i Faith in America.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.
CON Contents: Origins and historical development -- Beliefs and principles
-- Aspects of Baha'i community life -- The Baha'i administrative order
-- Phase I (1892-1921) -- Phase II (1922-1957) -- Phase III (1958-2000)
-- Priorities and issues in the modern American Baha'i community --
Anti-Baha'i polemic and Baha'i responses.
300 Sociology, Economics, Politics, Law, Education
302.23 F288C, 2005
AUT Cole, Ellen ; Daniel, Jessica Henderson.
TIT Featuring females : feminist analyses of media. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2005.
SER Psychology of women book series.
CON Contents: The impact of media use on girls' beliefs about gender roles,
their bodies, and sexual relationships / L. Monique Ward & Kristen
Harrison -- "He left her for the alien" / C. Lynn Sorsoli, Michelle V.
Porche, & Deborah L. Tolman -- The media's role in body image and
eating disorders / Stefanie C. Gilbert, Helene Keery, & J. Kevin
Thompson -- Clash of cultures / Diana Zuckerman & Nikki Dubowitz --
Outcast, outlast, out-flirt? The women of reality TV / Laura S. Brown
-- Narratives of gender in computer advertising / Laura J.
Burlingame-Lee & Silvia Sara Canetto -- Hollywood's portrayal of
psychologists and psychiatrists / Harriet T. Schultz -- Violence, sex,
race, and age in popular video games / Karen E. Dill ... [et al.] --
Mama bears, bitches, and monsters / Lynn Edith Paulson -- Violence and
women / Elizabeth K. Carll -- Gender and the portrayal of direct and
indirect aggression on television / Norma D. Feshbach --
African-American women in search of scripts / Thema Bryant-Davis --
Reflection and distortion / Janis Sanchez-Hucles, Patrick S. Hudgins, &
Kimberly Gamble -- Aging to perfection or perfectly aged? the image of
women growing older on television / Kim S. Kjaersgaard.
302.23 R951m, 2006
AUT Ruschmann, Paul.
TIT Media bias.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Fairness, politics, and American media -- Journalists are out
of touch with America / Journalists' views do not affect their
reporting -- The media have a liberal bias / Claims of "biased media'
are exaggerated -- Concentrated media ownership harms the public / The
media are healthier than ever -- Reforming the media.
303.4 K92r, 2002
AUT Kristeva, Julia ; Petit, Philippe.
TIT Revolt, she said.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Semiotext(e), c2002.
SER Semiotext(e) foreign agents series.
303.625 R951w 2005
AUT Ruschmann, Paul.
TIT The war on terror.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: September 11, terrorism, and war -- The United States must
act decisively to defend itself -- Unilateralism and preemptive war do
more harm than good -- Military justice is an appropriate way to deal
with terrorists -- The war on terror violates human rights -- New laws
are needed to fight terrorism -- Antiterror laws are ineffective and
dangerous -- The future of the war against terror.
304.8 B218i, 2006 v.1, 2
AUT Bankston, Carl L. ; Hidalgo, Danielle Antoinette.
TIT Immigration in U.S. history.
PUB Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2006.
SER Magill's choice.
305.23 C761S, 2006 v.1, 2
AUT Steinberg, Shirley R. ; Parmar, Priya ; Richard, Birgit.
TIT Contemporary youth culture : an international encyclopedia.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
305.23 K17c, 2005
AUT Kapur, Jyotsna.
TIT Coining for capital : movies, marketing, and the transformation of
childhood.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction: Without Training Wheels: The Ride into Another
Century of Capital -- From the Cradle to the Grave: Children's
Marketing and the Deconstruction of Childhood -- Lost Kingdoms: Little
Girls, Empire, and the Uses of Nostalgia -- Of Cowboys and Indians:
Hollywood's Games with History and Childhood -- Obsolescence and Other
Playroom Anxieties: Toy Stories Over a Century of Capital -- The
Children Who Need No Parents -- The Burdens of Time in the Bourgeois
Playroom -- Free Market, Branded Imagination: Harry Potter and the
Commercialization of Children's Culture -- Conclusion: All That is
Solid Melts into the Air.
305.23 K89m, 2005
AUT Kramer, Karen.
TIT Maya children : helpers at the farm.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Ref 305.26 E56S, 2006 v.1, 2
AUT Schulz, Richard.
TIT The encyclopedia of aging : a comprehensive resource in gerontology and
geriatrics. - 4th ed. / Richard Schulz, editor-in-chief ... [et al.].
PUB New York : Springer Pub. Co., c2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. A-K -- v. 2. L-Z.
305.3 B985b, 1993
AUT Butler, Judith.
TIT Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex".
PUB New York : Routledge, 1993.
305.3 B985u, 2004
AUT Butler, Judith.
TIT Undoing gender.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2004.
CON Contents: Introduction : acting in concert -- Beside oneself : on the
limits of sexual autonomy -- Gender regulations -- Doing justice to
someone : sex reassignment and allegories of transsexuality --
Undiagnosing gender -- Is kinship always already heterosexual? --
Longing for recognition -- Quandaries of the incest taboo -- Bodily
confessions -- The end of sexual difference? -- The question of social
transformation -- Can the "other" of philosophy speak?.
305.3097 D745a, 2005 Popular Reading
AUT Dowd, Maureen.
TIT Are men necessary? : when sexes collide.
PUB New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2005.
305.4201 H784f, 2000
AUT Hooks, Bell.
TIT Feminism is for everybody : passionate politics.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2000.
CON Contents: Come closer to feminism -- Feminist politics: Where we stand
-- Consciousness-raising: A constant change of heart -- Sisterhood is
still powerful -- Feminist education for critical consciousness -- Our
bodies, ourselves : Reproductive rights -- Beauty within and without --
Feminist class struggle -- Global feminism -- Women at work -- Race and
gender -- Ending violence -- Feminist masculinity -- Feminist parenting
-- Liberating marriage and partnership -- A feminist sexual politic: An
ethics of mutual freedom -- Total bliss: Lesbianism and feminism -- To
love again: The heart of feminism -- Feminist spirituality -- Visionary
feminism.
305.4201 W872M, 2005
AUT Meagher, Sharon M ; DiQuinzio, Patrice.
TIT Women and children first : feminism, rhetoric, and public policy.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2005.
SER SUNY series in gender theory.
CON Contents: Introduction: women and children first / Patrice DiQuinzio
and Sharon M. Meagher -- Homeland security and the co-optation of
feminist discourse / Elizabeth F. Randol -- Unsanctioned (bedroom)
commitments: the 2000 U.S. Census discourse around cohabitation and
single-motherhood / Kirsten Isgro -- Enemies of the state: poor white
mothers and the discourse of universal human rights / Jennifer A. Reich
-- Fixing sex: medical discourse and the management of intersex / Ellen
K. Feder -- Social melancholy, shame, and sublimation / Kelly Oliver --
Predators and protectors: the rhetoric of school violence / Sharon M.
Meagher -- Battered Woman Syndrome: locating the subject amidst the
advocacy / Sally J. Scholz -- Bad mothers as "brown" mothers in western
Canadian policy discourse: substance-abusing mothers and sexually
exploited girls / Norma L. Buydens -- Behind bars or up on a pedestal:
motherhood and fetal harm / Tricha Shivas and Sonya Charles --
(M)others, biopolitics, and the Gulf War / Tina Managhan -- Love and
reason in the public sphere: maternalist civic engagement and the
dilemma of difference / Patrice DiQuinzio.
305.4889 L583c, 2005
AUT Leong, Karen J.
TIT The China mystique : Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and
the transformation of American Orientalism.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Gendering American Orientalism -- Pearl Sydenstricker Buck --
Anna May Wong -- Mayling Soong -- Transforming American national
identity : the China mystique.
305.5 F754c, 2005
AUT Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey.
TIT Class-passing : social mobility in film and popular culture.
PUB Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Class-passing and the American dream -- Class-passing,
consumerism, and gender -- Class-passing and negotiations of
masculinity -- Celebrity fantasies: marriage and class mobility -- Live
in your world, class-pass in ours -- Classing the body: cash-passing
and class "mashup".
305.697 G633b, 2005
AUT Gomez, Michael Angelo.
TIT Black crescent : the experience and legacy of African Muslims in the
Americas.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Ladinos, Gelofes, and Mandingas -- Caribbean crescent --
Brazilian sambas -- Muslims in New York -- Founding mothers and fathers
of a different sort : African Muslims in the early North American South
-- Breaking away : Noble Drew Ali and the foundations of contemporary
Islam in African America -- The nation -- Malcolm.
305.8 M262b, 2005
AUT Maly, Michael T.
TIT Beyond segregation : multiracial and multiethnic neighborhoods in the
United States.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2005.
305.897 Z47m, 2005
AUT Zeisberger, David.
TIT The Moravian mission diaries of David Zeisberger, 1771-1781.
PUB University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2005.
SER Max Kade German-American Research Institute series.
305.908 J22u, 2005
AUT Jaeger, Paul T. ; Bowman, Cynthia Ann.
TIT Understanding disability : inclusion, access, diversity, and civil
rights.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : the goals of this book -- The roles of
disability in society -- Social classifications of and reactions to
disability -- Disability discrimination and the evolution of civil
rights in democratic societies -- Trying to come to America : a
historical illustration of the classifications of disability in U.S.
immigration law and policy -- Physical access, intellectual access, and
access in society -- Access and classifications of disability in legal
discourse -- Accessibility and technology in application : unequal
access online -- The social significance of the representation of
disability across media -- "Nothing about us without us" -- Future
social issues for persons with disabilities -- Disability culture in a
nondisabled society.
306 B583g, 2006
AUT Bicchieri, Cristina.
TIT The grammar of society : the nature and dynamics of social norms.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The rules we live by -- Habits of the mind -- A taste for
fairness -- Covenants without sword -- Informational cascades and
unpopular norms -- The evolution of a fairness norm.
306.4 G879s, 1995
AUT Grosz, E. A.
TIT Space, time, and perversion : essays on the politics of bodies.
PUB New York : Routledge, 1995.
306.4 K22r, 2005
AUT Kawano, Satsuki.
TIT Ritual practice in modern Japan : ordering place, people, and action.
PUB Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Kami, Buddhas, and ancestors -- Embodying moral order :
acting bodies and the power of ritual -- Emplacing moral order : ritual
and everyday environments -- Constructing Kamakura in everyday life and
city festivals -- The Sakae festival -- Reconsidering ritual.
306.6 E23r, 2006
AUT Edgell, Penny.
TIT Religion and family in a changing society.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
SER Princeton studies in cultural sociology.
306.766 H885g, 2005
AUT Hudson, David L.
TIT Gay rights.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2005.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Point : same-sex couples have a fundamental right to marry --
Counterpoint : marriage is between a man and a woman -- Point : gays
and lesbians should not face discrimination as parents -- Counterpoint
: states have the power to protect children by giving preference to
heterosexual parents -- Point : employers should not be able to
discriminate against gays and lesbians -- Counterpoint : gays and
lesbians don't need special treatment in the workforce -- Point : the
military should end its discriminatory policy toward gays and lesbians
-- Counterpoint : the military can prohibit homosexual conduct in the
military.
307.14 G468p, 2005
AUT Gilderbloom, John Ingram ; Mullins, R. L.
TIT Promise and betrayal : universities and the battle for sustainable
urban neighborhoods.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Promise of university community partners -- Universities
providing human services -- Universities helping rebuild neighborhoods
-- Urban revitalization partnerships : perceptions of the university's
role -- The urban university in the community : the role of boards and
presidents -- A model for university-community partnerships -- Betrayal
by the universities.
307.762 W432j, 2005
AUT Weissbach, Lee Shai.
TIT Jewish life in small-town America : a history.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction: Searching the patterns. -- Patterns of
evidence: identifying small communities. -- Patterns of settlement: the
early years. -- Patterns of settlement: the era of mass migration. --
Patterns of stability and mobility. -- Patterns of livelihood and
class. -- Patterns of family life. -- Patterns of congregational
organization. -- Patterns of synagogue history. -- Patterns of
religious leadership. -- Patterns of culture: the German Jews. --
Patterns of culture: the East Europeans. -- Patterns of prejudice and
of transformation. -- Epilogue: Patterns of endurance and decline. --
Reading the manuscript census.
307.764 R314K v.1, 2
AUT Katz, Bruce ; Lang, Robert.
TIT Redefining urban and suburban America : evidence from Census 2000.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003-.
CON Contents: v. 1. City growth : which places grew and why / Edward L.
Glaeser and Jesse M. Shapiro -- Gaining but losing ground : population
change in large cities and their suburbs / Alan Berube -- The urban
turnaround / Patrick A. Simmons and Robert E. Lang -- Downtown rebound
/ Rebecca R. Sohmer and Robert E. Lang -- Patchwork cities : patterns
of urban population growth in the 1990s / Alan Berube and Benjamin
Forman -- "Boomburbs" : the emergence of large, fast-growing suburban
cities / Robert E. Lang and Patrick A. Simmons -- Suburbs : patterns of
growth and decline / William H. Lucy and David L. Phillips --Racial and
ethnic change in the nation's largest cities / Alan Berube -- Melting
pot suburbs : a study of suburban diversity / William H. Frey --
Changing patterns of Latino growth in metropolitan America / Roberto
Suro and Aubrey Singer -- Racial segregation : promising news / Edward
L. Glaeser and Jacob L. Vigdor -- Ethnic diversity grows, neighborhood
integration lags / John R. Logan -- City families and suburban singles
: an emerging household story / William H. Frey and Alan Berube.
Contents: v. 2. Metropolitan magnets for international and domestic
migrants / William H. Frey -- The rise of new immigrant gateways :
historical flows, recent settlement trends / Audrey Singer -- The new
Great Migration : Black Americans' return to the South, 1965-2000 /
William H. Frey -- A decade of mixed blessings : urban and suburban
poverty in Census 2000 / Alan Berube and William H. Frey -- Stunning
progress, hidden problems : the dramatic decline of concentrated
poverty in the 1990s / Paul A. Jargowsky -- The trajectory of poor
neighborhoods in Southern California, 1970-2000 / Shannon McConville
and Paul Ong -- The shape of the curve : household income distributions
in U.S. cities, 1979-99 / Alan Berube and Thacher Tiffany --
Homeownership and younger households : progress among African Americans
and Latinos / Dowell Myers and Gary Painter -- Rising affordability
problems among homeowners / Patrick A. Simmons -- The sheltered
homeless in metropolitan neighborhoods : evidence from the 1990 and
2000 censuses / Barrett A. Lee and Chad R. Farrell -- Patterns and
trends in overcrowded housing : results from Census 2000 / Patrick A.
Simmons. Contents: v. 3. Demographic change in medium-sized cities /
Jennifer S. Vey and Benjamin Forman -- Who lives downtown? / Eugenie L.
Birch -- Growth : home to America's new suburban metropolis / Robert E.
Land and Meghan Zimmerman Gough -- Are the boomburbs still booming? /
Robert E. Lang -- Living together : a new look at racial and ethnic
integration in metropolitan neighborhood, 1990-2000 / David Fasenfest,
Jason Booza, and Kurt Metzger -- Modest progress : the narrowing
spatial mismatch between blacks and jobs in the 1990s / Steven Raphael
and Michael A. Stoll -- Pulling apart : economic segregation in suburbs
and central cities in major metropolitan areas, 1980-2000 / Todd
Swanstrom, Peter Dreier, Colleen Casey, and Robert Flack -- Vacating
the city : an analysis of new home construction and household growth /
Thomas Bier and Charlie Post -- Tracking American trends into the
twenty-first century : a field guide to the new metropolitan and
micropolitan definitions / William H. Frey, Jill H. Wilson, Alan
Berube, and Audrey Singer -- Micropolitan American : a brand new
geography / Robert E. Lang and Dawn Dhavale.
320.082 L418i, 2005
AUT Lawless, Jennifer L. ; Fox, Richard Logan.
TIT It takes a candidate : why women don't run for office.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: 1. Electoral politics : still a man's world? --
Representation, equality, and the study of gender in electoral politics
-- Traditional gender socialization in the context of U.S. politics :
the central argument and its implications -- Traditional family role
orientations -- Masculinized ethos -- Gendered psyche -- Organization
of the book -- 2. Explaining women's emergence in the political arena
-- Women and elective politics : the numbers -- Existing explanations
for women's underrepresentation -- Societal rejection and cultural
evolution : the discrimination explanation -- Institutional inertia :
the incumbency explanation -- The candidate eligibility pool : the
pipeline explanation -- The missing piece : developing a theory of
gender and political ambition -- The citizen political ambition study
-- 3. The gender gap in political ambition -- Very much the same :
gender, political participation, and political interest -- Very much
different : gender and political ambition -- Stage one : considering a
candidacy -- Stage two : deciding to enter the first race -- The
"winnowing effect" -- The gender gap in elective office preferences --
Conclusion -- 4. Barefoot, pregnant, and holding a law degree : family
dynamics and running for office -- Raised to be a candidate? --
Eligible candidates' family structure and roles -- Wife, mother, and
candidate? : family roles as impediments to political ambition -- Are
times changing? : generational differences in political ambition --
Conclusion -- 5. Gender, party, and political recruitment -- Eligible
candidates' political attitudes and partisanship -- Who gets asked to
run for office? -- Political recruitment and considering a candidacy --
Conclusion -- 6. "I'm just not qualified" : gendered self-perceptions
of candidate viability -- The impact of self-perceived qualifications
on political ambition -- Explanations for the gender gap in
self-perceived qualifications -- The sexist environment -- Gender
differences in defining political qualifications -- Different
yardsticks for gauging political qualifications -- Conclusion -- 7.
Taking the plunge : deciding to run for office -- Why would anyone run
for office? : negative perceptions of the electoral environment and
campaign process -- Gender and the decision to enter a race -- A side
note on political culture and "structural" factors -- Prospective
interest in running for office -- Conclusion -- 8. Gender and the
future of electoral politics -- Summarizing the findings and
forecasting women's representation -- Recasting the study of gender and
elections -- Appendix A. The citizen political ambition study sample
design and data collection -- Appendix B. The survey -- Appendix C. The
interview questionnaire -- Appendix D. Variable coding.
320.54 K45p, 2005
AUT Khan, Adeel.
TIT Politics of identity : ethnic nationalism and the state in Pakistan.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; New Delhi : Sage Publications, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction: Crude Thinking -- Ethnicity, Nationalism and
the Modern State -- Colonial State and Colonial Difference in India --
Nationalisation of the Colonial State in Pakistan -- Pukhtun Ethnic
Nationalism: From Separatism to Integrationism -- Baloch Ethnic
Nationalism: From Guerrilla War to Nowhere? -- Sindhi Ethnic
Nationalism: Migration and Marginalisation --- Mohajir Ethnic
Nationalism: El Dorado Gone Sour -- At a Crossroads as Ever Before! --
Appendix A: The MQM's Charter of Resolutions and Revised List of
Demands -- Appendix B: List of Interviews and Informal Conversations
(1997, 1998).
320.651 G619f, 2005
AUT Goldman, Merle.
TIT From comrade to citizen : struggle for political rights in China.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : from comrades to citizens in the post-Mao era
-- Democracy wall : the first assertion of political rights in the
post-Mao era -- The establishment of an independent political
organization in the 1980s : Beijing Social and Economic Sciences
Research Institute -- The emergence of unofficial political movements
in the 1990s -- Ideological diversity challenges the party -- The
flowering of liberalism, 1997-1998 -- The establishment of an
alternative political party : the China Democracy Party -- Citizenship
extends into cyberspace despite repression -- The expansion of rights
consciousness -- Epilogue : redefinition of Chinese citizenship on the
eve of the twenty-first century.
320.973 C156f, 2005
AUT Callaghan, Karen ; Schnell, Frauke.
TIT Framing American politics.
PUB Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005.
320.9795 C649o, 2005
AUT Clucas, Richard A ; Henkels, Mark ; Steel, Bren.
TIT Oregon politics and government : progressives versus conservative
populists.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.
SER Politics and governments of the American states.
CON Contents: A state divided / Richard A. Clucas and Mark Henkels --
Place, people / Joe Bowersox -- Oregon in the nation and the world /
Richard A. Clucas and Melody Rose -- Parties and elections / E.D. Dover
-- Direct democracy / Richard J. Ellis -- Interest groups / Russ
Dondero and William Lunch -- Media / Russ Dondero, William Lunch, and
Jim Moore -- The legislature / Richard A. Clucas -- Governor / Jerry F.
Medler -- Bureaucracy / Douglas F. Moran -- Judiciary / James C. Foster
-- Local government / Alana S. Jeydel -- Fiscal policy / Mark Henkels
-- Environmental policy / Brent S. Steel and Denise Lach -- Health
policy / William Lunch -- Social issues / Melody Rose -- Education
policy / Brent S. Steel and William Lunch -- Oregon in perspective /
Mark Henkels and Richard A. Clucas.
320.98 S656d, 2005
AUT Smith, Peter H.
TIT Democracy in Latin America : change in comparative perspective.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Part 1. Historical perspectives, 1900-2000. Cycles of
electoral democracy -- Transitions and continuities -- The military :
heading for the exits? -- Global contexts, international forces -- Part
2. The electoral arena. Exploring institutional alternatives --
Varieties of presidentialism -- Elections : voters, winners, and losers
-- Part 3. Qualities of democracy. State capacity and policy
performance -- The politics of social equity -- Freedoms, rights, and
illiberal democracy -- The people's verdict -- Part 4. Democracy
considered. The taming of democracy -- Epilogue : the future of
democracy. Appendix 1. Classification of electoral regimes, 1900-2000
-- Appendix 2. Military coups in Latin America, 1900-2000 -- Appendix
3. Key variables in statistical analysis.
322.1097 W425e, 2005
AUT Weir, David A.
TIT Early New England : a covenanted society.
PUB Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2005.
SER Emory University studies in law and religion.
CON Contents: The European background -- The colonial charters of early New
England -- The civil covenants of early New England -- The church
covenants of early New England I: The standing order -- The church
covenants of early New England II: The dissenters -- The covenantal
confessions of early New England: The seeds of diversity -- Conclusion
-- Appendix 1. A listing of Seventeenth-Century towns, churches, and
Native American praying places in or related to New England, including
a checklist of covenant and foundational activity, 1620-1708 --
Appendix 2. Typology of early New England local civil covenants,
arranged chronologically.
323.093 A512I, 2005
AUT Ignatieff, Michael.
TIT American exceptionalism and human rights.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
323.44 B851r 2003
AUT Bridegam, Martha Ann.
TIT The right to privacy.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Defining and valuing the rignt to privacy -- Unfortunately,
everyone cannot be trusted to behave well if let alone -- Too much
official invasion of privacy harms the public interest -- Civilized
life requires the exchange of information -- Institutions and
businesses are exploiting personal information to unfair advantage -- A
free society depends on the right to learn and share information
without undue secrecy -- Ther[e] are thing[s] nobody else has a right
to learn from a person who wishes to keep them private -- Drawing
lines.
323.443 A441f, 2003
AUT Allport, Alan.
TIT Freedom of speech.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.
SER Point-counterpoint.
CON Contents: Free speech and the First Amendment -- Some ideas are
dangerous enough to merit restriction -- Banning dangerous speech won't
solve the problem -- Obscene expression should not be protected --
Government should not decide what is obscene -- The "freedom of the
press" should be restricted -- Freedom of the press is vital to a
healthy democracy -- The current challenges to free speech.
323.448 H885o, 2005
AUT Hudson, David L.
TIT Open government : an American tradition faces national security,
privacy, and other challenges.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2005.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Point: Privacy rights often must trump the free flow of
information -- Counterpoint: Freedom of information is a paramount
value serving a powerful public interest -- Point: Public information
concerns must give way to security in a post-9/11 world --
Counterpoint: The government must not lose its democratic nature in the
face of terrorist threats -- Point: The military's interest in national
security trumps the press's First Amendment rights -- Counterpoint: The
press and the public deserve information about military matters --
Point: Cameras distort trial proceedings and should be prohibited --
Counterpoint: Cameras in the courtroom enhance public knowledge of and
give greater credibility to our judicial system.
324.56 N277 2000
AUT Congressional Quarterly, inc.
TIT National party conventions.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, 1976-.
Ref 324.56 N277 2004
AUT Congressional Quarterly, inc.
TIT National party conventions.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, 1976-.
324.78 M393e, 2004
AUT Marzilli, Alan.
TIT Election reform.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Voting : the cornerstone of democracy? -- Point : voter
rights laws should be strengthened to ensure that each citizen has a
meaningful vote -- Counterpoint : measures are needed to prevent
manipulation of elections and voter fraud -- Point : money is
corrupting American democracy -- Counterpoint : campaign contributions
are a vital part of the democratic process -- Point : the government
should regulate television advertisements and campaign coverage --
Counterpoint : government restrictions on television advertisements and
programming are unconstitutional and undemocratic -- The future of
American democracy.
324.973 D313C, 2005
AUT Crotty, William J.
TIT A defining moment : the presidential election of 2004.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005.
CON Contents: The Bush presidency : establishing the agenda for the
campaign / William Crotty -- Constituencies and the consequences of the
presidential vote / Richard J. Powell and Mark D. Brewer -- Political
participation in the 2004 presidential election : turnout and policy
consequences / M. Margaret Conway -- The inevitable unanticipated
consequences of political reform : the 2004 presidential nomination
process / Christine L. Day, Charles D. Hadley, and Harold W. Stanley --
Financing the 2004 presidential election / William Crotty -- The
presidential race of 2004 : strategy, outcome, and mandate / Patricia
Conley -- Incumbency, politics, and policy : detour or new direction? /
Jerome M. Mileur -- The 2004 congressional races / John S. Jackson III
-- Holy owned subsidiary : globalization, religion, and politics in the
2004 election / Thomas Ferguson -- The armageddon election / John
Kenneth White -- Armageddon, just another campaign, or something
in-between? The meaning and consequences of the 2004 election / William
Crotty.
325.3 S251c, 2001
AUT Sartre, Jean Paul.
TIT Colonialism and neocolonialism.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
325.73 A441i, 2005
AUT Allport, Alan.
TIT Immigration policy.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2005.
SER Point/counterpoint.
ISBN 0791079236 (hardcover).
CON Contents: Point : The United States should crack down harder on illegal
immigrants -- Counterpoint : The key to stopping illegal immigration is
to reform the law, not to punish people -- Point : Too much legal
immigration is damaging America's economy and society -- Counterpoint :
Immigrants are a vital economic and social asset to the United States
-- Point : English should be the official language of the United States
-- Counterpoint : It is unnecessary to have an official language --
Conclusion.
327.101 J87e, 2002
AUT Joxe, Alain ; Lotringer, Sylvère.
TIT Empire of disorder.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Semiotext(e) , c2002.
327.1247 U84e, 2005
AUT Usdin, Steven T.
TIT Engineering communism : how two Americans spied for Stalin and founded
the Soviet Silicon Valley.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Initiation -- Washington, spring 1940 -- Fort Monmouth,
1940-1942 -- Western Electric, 1942-1945 -- Sperry Gyroscope, 1946-1948
-- Prague, 1950-1955 -- Special laboratory 11, 1956-1962 -- Zelenograd,
the Soviet Silicon Valley, 1962-1965 -- Leningrad Design Bureau,
1965-1973 -- The minifab, 1975-1990 -- The strange case of Iozef
(Josef) Berg AKA Joel Barr, 1990-1998.
327.1273 B274c, 2005
AUT Barrett, David M.
TIT The CIA & Congress : the untold story from Truman to Kennedy.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2005.
CON Contents: Pt. 1. The Truman era, 1947-1952. No "American Gestapo," but
"No more Pearl Harbors"-- Initial oversight: budgets and covert action
-- "A South American Pearl Harbor" -- "This Is an Espionage Bill" --
The Soviet A-bomb: "We apparently don't have the remotest idea" --
Communists and "perverts" in the CIA -- Korea: "No better today than on
December 7, 1941" -- A new DCI -- The "dirty business" -- Portraits --
CIA subcommittees, intelligence roles, and budgets -- "We don't let
just anybody look at our files" -- "There will be no changes" -- Pt. 2.
The Eisenhower era, 1953-1960. Meddling? -- Getting "Taberized" --
Guatemala: sterilizing a "red infection" -- Mr. Mansfield goes to the
Senate -- Joseph McCarthy: the CIA's other would-be overseer -- "You,
who championed our cause" -- Barons restored -- "Dodging dead cats" --
"They have to have a building" -- The new Mansfield resolution: two
surprises -- "We have a history of underestimation" -- Hungary and the
Suez: "We had a very good idea, Senator" -- Sputnik -- An early "year
of intelligence"? -- "I cannot always predict when there is going to be
a riot" -- Iraq: "Our intelligence was just plain lousy" -- Return to
Missile Gap -- From the Pforzheimer era to the Warner era --
Subordinating intelligence? -- In and out of hearing rooms -- "Who are
our liquidators?" -- "I'd like to tell him to his face what I think
about him" -- U-2: "We have felt these operations were appropriate" --
Pouring oil on fire -- "Their answer to that demand": Congressional
paternity? -- "My opinion of the CIA went skyrocketing" -- Pt. 3. Cuba,
the CIA, and Congress: 1960-1961. Castro: "This fellow is bad and ought
to go" -- "What is the rationale behind that?" -- "I agree that you had
to replace Dulles" -- Afterword: alarms.
327.1273 K26c, 2005
AUT Keefe, Patrick Radden.
TIT Chatter : dispatches from the secret world of global eavesdropping. -
1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2005.
CON Contents: Radomes in the desert, radomes on the moor: the invisible
architecture of echelon -- The leak was me: listening to diplomats --
Footprints of freedom: a constellation of bases -- Black phone/gray
phone: the hazards of secrecy -- Goliath protests: making sense of
signals -- Rogue elephant on a rampage: privacy on the line -- Voices
in the dark: muckrakers, whistleblowers -- Toothless talking shop: the
European Parliament investigates -- The jihad phone: listening to
terrorists.
327.5491 P966D, 2005
AUT Dossani, Rafiq ; Rowen, Henry S.
TIT Prospects for peace in South Asia.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
SER Studies of the Asia-Pacific Research Center (Stanford University).
CON Contents: Pakistan : politics and Kashmir. Islamic extremism and
regional conflict in South Asia / Vali Nasr ; Constitutional and
political change in Pakistan : the military-governance paradigm /
Charles H. Kennedy ; The practice of Islam in Pakistan and the
influence of Islam on Pakistani politics / C. Christine Fair and
Karthik Vaidyanathan ; Pakistan's relations with Azad Kashmir and the
impact on Indo-Pakistani relations / Rifaat Hussain -- India : politics
and Kashmir. Who speaks for India? The role of civil society in
defining Indian nationalism / Ainslie T. Embree ; Hindu nationalism and
the BJP : transforming religion and politics in India / Robert L.
Hardgrave, Jr. ; Hindu ethnonationalism, Muslim jihad, and secularism :
Muslims in the political life of the republic of India / Barbara D.
Metcalf ; Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian union : the politics of
autonomy / Chandrashekhar Dasgupta -- India's and Pakistan's nuclear
doctrines and U.S. concerns. The stability-instability paradox,
misperception, and escalation-control in South Asia / Michael Krepon ;
Pakistan's nuclear doctrine / Peter R. Lavoy ; Coercive diplomacy in a
nuclear environment : the December 13 crisis / Rajesh M. Basrur ; U.S.
interests in South Asia / Howard B. Schaffer.
327.73 L716a, 2005
AUT Lieber, Robert J.
TIT The American era : power and strategy for the 21st century.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Caveat empire: how to think about American power -- New (and
old) grand strategy -- Europe: symbolic reactions and common threats --
Globalization, culture and identities in crisis -- Iraq and the Middle
East: dilemmas of U.S. power -- Asia's American pacifier -- Why they
hate us and why they love us.
327.73009 M573s, 2005
AUT Merry, Robert W.
TIT Sands of empire : missionary zeal, American foreign policy, and the
hazards of global ambition.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.
CON Contents: Idea of progress -- Cycles of history -- Globalization and
the end of history -- Clash of civilizations -- Isolation and
intervention -- Triumph of Wilsonism -- Balkan ghosts -- Balkan tragedy
-- Neoconservatives -- World of Islam -- War -- Ghosts of Mithridates
-- Conservative interventionism.
327.8073 R273t, 2005
AUT Raymont, Henry.
TIT Troubled neighbors : the story of U.S.-Latin American relations, from
FDR to the present.
PUB [Cambridge, Mass.] : The Century Foundation, c2005.
CON Contents: The past as prologue : the old world's vision of the new --
Convergence : the Roosevelt era -- Transition : Harry S. Truman -- The
Eisenhower era -- John F. Kennedy -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- Richard
Milhous Nixon -- Gerald Ford -- Jimmy Carter -- The Reagan era : a
chronicle of an administration foretold -- George H.W. Bush : return to
pragmatism -- Bill Clinton and the politics of trade.
328.73 M883b, 2005
AUT Morrow, Lance.
TIT The best year of their lives : Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon in 1948,
learning the secrets of power.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2005.
CON Contents: Three crises -- The anxiety of the overdog -- Annus mirabilis
-- 1: Three young men -- Jack's favorite movie -- The transformation of
a quaker boy -- Johnson at bay -- Interlude: the American scene --
Washington -- Brumidi's frescoes and film noir -- Ellis Island, the
frontier, and the Taft-Hartley Act -- 2: Families -- The Johnsons of
Texas -- The Kennedy's: John Buchan and a strange Irish anglophilia --
The Nixons of California -- Interlude: the world scene -- From society
of necessity to society of choice -- Marshall -- Science and
discoveries -- 3: Early 1948 -- Lyndon for sale -- Young, obscure and
orthogonian -- Jack and Kick: May 1948 -- Interlude: questions of
character -- The sinking of PT-109 -- The Caracas thesis -- LBJ's
silver star -- 4: Late summer -- The Hiss case -- Lyndon vs. Coke.
330.122 A512L, 2006
AUT Lichtenstein, Nelson.
TIT American capitalism : social thought and political economy in the
twentieth century.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
330.9729 M578c, 2005
AUT Mesa-Lago, Carmelo ; Pérez-López, Jorge F.
TIT Cuba's aborted reform : socioeconomic effects, international
comparisons, and transition policies.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida c2005.
331.133 M393a, 2004
AUT Marzilli, Alan.
TIT Affirmative action.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Introduction: Affirmative action and the University of
Michigan cases -- Affirmative action is no longer justified as a remedy
for racism -- Racism still pervades society -- Efforts to promote
"diversity" harm society -- Promoting diversity helps education,
business, and democracy -- Preferences are harmful to recipients and
"nonfavored" minorities -- Affirmative action policies help people for
whom the playing field is not level -- Conclusion: The future of
affirmative action.
332.3 K18s, 2005
AUT Karger, Howard Jacob.
TIT Shortchanged : life and debt in the fringe economy. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler ; Berkeley, Calif. : Publishers
Group West [distributor], c2005.
CON Contents: pt. I. Overview of the fringe economy -- 1. America's
changing fringe economy -- 2. Why the fringe economy is growing -- 3.
Debt and the functionally poor middle class -- pt. II. The fringe
sectors -- 4. The credit card industry -- 5. Storefront loans :
pawnshops, payday loans, and tax refund lenders -- 6. Alternative
services : check-cashers, the rent-to-own industry, and
telecommunications -- 7. Fringe housing -- 8. Real estate speculation
and foreclosure -- 9. The fringe auto industry -- 10. The
getting-out-of-debt industry -- pt. III. Looking forward -- 11. What
can be done to control the fringe economy? -- Glossary.
332.494 H826e, 2005
AUT Hösli, Madeleine.
TIT The euro : a concise introduction to European monetary integration.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : L. Rienner Publishers, 2005.
CON Contents: The snake and the European Monetary System -- Toward the
creation of European Monetary Union -- The structure of the European
central bank system -- Exchange rates, monetary policy, and fiscal
stability -- The euro and the international monetary system.
333.72 D853n, 2005
AUT Duerksen, Christopher J. ; Snyder, Cara.
TIT Nature-friendly communities : habitat protection and land use.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The Benefits of Nature Protection -- Tools to Protect Nature
-- Austin, Texas: Two for the Price of One--Protecting Water Quality
and Habitat through Land Acquisition -- Baltimore County Maryland:
Using the Entire Toolkit for Habitat Protection -- Dane County,
Wisconsin: Stopping Sprawl and Promoting Infill -- Eugene, Oregon:
Shining Star of Wetlands Preservation -- Fort Collins and Larimer
County, Colorado: A Tale of Two Jurisdictions -- Pima County, Arizona:
Planning for and Investing in Habitat Protection -- Placer County,
California: Leaving a Legacy -- Sanibel, Florida: Do Enjoy, Don't
Destroy -- Twin Cities Region, Minnesota: Towards Regional Habitat
Conservation -- Bath Township, Ohio: Riparian Overlay District --
Charlotte Harbor, Florida: Ambitious Critical Area Protection Program
-- Chicago Wilderness: Biodiversity Recovery Plan -- Dekalb County,
Georgia: Greenspace Program -- Farmington Valley, Connecticut: A
Valley's Biodiversity Project -- King County, Washington: Benchmark
Program -- Pittsford, New York: Greenprint for a Town's Future --
Powell County, Montana: Rural County Wildlife -- Teton County, Wyoming:
Natural Resource Overlay District -- Traverse Bay Area, Michigan: New
Designs for Growth -- Loudoun County, Virginia: The Pendulum Swings.
333.72 M651j, 2005
AUT Miller, Sally M. ; Morrison, Daryl.
TIT John Muir : family, friends, and adventures.
PUB Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : Meeting John Muir's family, friends, and
adventures : between the Calypso borealis and the Araucaria imbricata /
Bonnie Johanna Gisel -- John Muir and the John Swett family / Ruth E.
Sutter -- John Muir and the bairns : Muir and his relationship with
children / Daryl Morrison -- California's kindred spirits : John Muir
and William Keigh / Ronald H. Limbaugh -- Pride, prejudice, and
patrimony : the dispute between George Wharton James and the family and
friends of John Muir / Ronald H. Limbaugh -- "Wealth and beauty" : John
Muir and forest conservation / Ronald Eber -- With friends like these :
John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the drama of environmental politics /
Char Miller -- Domesticity, tourism, and the national parks in John
Muir's late writings / Daniel J. Philippon -- If trees are us : a
relativity theory showing the genius of John Muir's domestic vision of
nature for public policy and the national ethos / Barbara Mossberg --
Near and far : Burroughs and Muir on the Harriman Alaska expedition /
James Perrin Warren -- "Those who walk apart but ever together are true
companions" : Jeanne Carr and John Muir in the high Sierra / Bonnie
Johanna Gisel -- Meeting Muir's mountains / Corey Lewis -- John Muir's
travels to South America and Africa / Michael P. Branch.
333.75 M289f, 2005
AUT Mansourian, Stephanie ; Vallauri, Daniel ; Dudley, Nigel.
TIT Forest restoration in landscapes : beyond planting trees.
PUB New York : Springer, c2005.
CON Contents: Forest landscape restoration in context / Nigel Dudley,
Stephanie Mansourian, and Daniel Vallauri -- Overview of forest
restoration strategies and terms / Stephanie Mansourian -- Impact of
forest loss and degradation on biodiversity / Nigel Dudley -- The
impacts of degradation and forest loss on human well-being and its
social and political relevance for restoration / Mary Hobley --
Restoring forest landscapes in the face of climate change / Jennifer
Biringer and Lara J. Hansen -- Restoration as a strategy to contribute
to ecoregion visions / John Morrison, Jeffrey Sayer, and Colby Loucks
-- Why do we need to consider restoration in a landscape context? /
Nigel Dudley ... [et al.] -- Addressing trade-offs in forest landscape
restoration / Katrina Brown -- An attempt to develop a framework for
restoration planning / Daniel Vallauri, James Aronson, and Nigel Dudley
-- Assessing and addressing threats in restoration programmes / Doreen
Robinson -- Perverse policy incentives / Kirsten Schuyt -- Land
ownership and forest restoration / Gonzalo Oviedo -- Challenges for
forest landscape restoration based on WWF's experience to date /
Stephanie Mansourian and Nigel Dudley -- Goals and targets of forest
landscape restoration / Jeffrey Sayer -- Identifying and using
reference landscapes for restoration / Nigel Dudley -- Mapping and
modelling as tools to set targets, identify opportunities, and measure
progress / Thomas F. Allnutt -- Policy interventions for forest
landscape restoration / Nigel Dudley -- Negotiations and conflict
management / Scott Jones and Nigel Dudley -- Practical interventions
that will support restoration in broad-scale conservation based on WWF
experiences / Stephanie Mansourian -- Monitoring forest restoration
projects in the context of an adaptive management cycle / Sheila
O'Connor, Nick Salafsky, and Dan Salzer -- Monitoring and evaluating
forest restoration success / Daniel Vallauri ... [et al.]. Contents:
Opportunities for long-term financing of forest restoration in
landscapes ; Payment for environmental services and restoration /
Kirsten Schuyt -- Carbon knowledge projects and forest landscape
restoration / Jessica Orrego -- Marketing and communications
opportunities : how to promote and market forest landscape restoration
/ Soh Koon Chng -- Restoring quality in existing native forest
landscapes / Nigel Dudley -- Restoring soil and ecosystem processes /
Lawrence R. Walker -- Active restoration of boreal forest habitats for
target species / Harri Karjalainen -- Restoration of deadwood as a
critical microhabitat in forest landscapes / Nigel Dudley and Daniel
Vallauri -- Restoration of protected area values / Nigel Dudley --
Using nontimber forest products for restoring environmental, social,
and economic functions / Pedro Regato and Nora Berrahmouni -- An
historical account of fuelwood restoration efforts / Don Gilmour --
Restoring water quality and quantity / Nigel Dudley and Sue Stolton --
Restoring landscapes for traditional cultural values / Gladwin Joseph
and Stephanie Mansourian -- Overview of technical approaches to
restoring tree cover at the site level / Stephanie Mansourian, David
Lamb, and Don Gilmour -- Stimulating natural regeneration / Silvia Holz
and Guillermo Placci -- Managing and directing natural succession /
Steve Whisenant -- Selecting tree species for plantation / Florencia
Montagnini -- Developing firebreaks / Eduard Plana, Rufí Cerdan, and
Marc Castellnou -- Agroforestry as a tool for forest landscape
restoration / Thomas K. Erdmann -- Restoring dry tropical forests /
James Aronson ... [et al.] -- Restoring tropical moist broad-leaf
forests / David Lamb -- Restoring tropical montane forests / Manuel R.
Guariguata -- Restoring floodplain forests / Simon Dufour and Hervé
Piégay -- Restoring Mediterranean forests / Ramon Vallejo -- Restoring
temperate forests / Adrian Newton and Alan Watson Featherstone.
Forest landscape restoration after fires / Peter Moore --
Restoring forests after violent storms / Daniel Vallauri -- Managing
the risk of invasive alien species in restoration / Jeffrey A. McNeely
-- First steps in erosion control / Steve Whisenant -- Restoring
forests after land abandonment / José M. Rey Benayas -- Restoring
overlogged tropical forests / Cesar Sabogal and Robert Nasi -- Opencast
mining reclamation / José Manuel Nicolau Ibarra and Mariano Moreno de
las Heras -- The role of commercial plantations in forest landscape
restoration / Jeffrey Sayer and Chris Elliot -- Attempting to restore
biodiversity in even-aged plantations / Florencia Montagnini -- Best
practices for industrial plantations ; What has WWF learned about
restoration at an ecoregional scale? / Nigel Dudley -- Local
participation, livelihood needs, and institutional arrangements : three
keys to sustainable rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest lands /
Unna Chokkalingam ... [et al.] -- A way forward : working together
toward a vision for restored forest landscapes / Stephanie Mansourian,
Mark Aldrich, and Nigel Dudley -- Appendix. A selection of identified
ecological research needs relating to forest restoration.
333.75 R915t, 2005
AUT Rudel, Thomas K.
TIT Tropical forests : regional paths of destruction and regeneration in
the late twentieth century.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.
333.956 M338, 2005
AUT Norse, Elliott A ; Crowder, Larry B.
TIT Marine conservation biology : the science of maintaining the sea's
biodiversity.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Why marine conservation biology? / Elliott A. Norse and Larry
B. Crowder -- Back to the future in marine conservation / Larry B.
Crowder -- pt. 1. Marine populations : the basics / Larry B. Crowder
and Elliott A. Norse. The life of the sea : implications of marine
population biology to conservation policy / Stephen R. Palumbi and
Dennis Hedgecock ; The Allee effect in the sea / Don R. Levitan and
Tamara M. McGovern ; Extinction risk in marine species / Ransom A.
Meyers and C. Andrea Ottensmeyer ; Behavioral approaches to marine
conservation / Julia K. Parrish -- pt. 2. Threats to marine biological
diversity / Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder. The potential for
nutrient overenrichment to diminish marine biodiversity / Nancy N.
Rabalais ; The magnitude and consequences of bioinvasions in marine
ecosystems : implications for conservation biology / James T. Carlton
and Gregory M. Ruiz ; Diseases and the conservation of marine
biodiversity / Kiho Kim ... [et al.] ; Multiple stessors in marine
systems / Denise L. Breitburg and Gerhardt F. Riedel -- pt. 3. The
greatest threat : fisheries / Larry B. Crowder and Elliott A. Norse.
Global fisheries and marine conservation : is coexistence possible? /
Dave Preikshot and Daniel Pauly ; The global destruction of bottom
habitats by mobile fishing gear / Les Watling ; Effects of fishing on
long-lived marine organisms / Selina S. Heppell ... [et al.] ;
Evolutionary impacts of fishing on target populations / Richard Law and
Kevin Stokes ; Are sustainable fisheries achievable? / Ray Hilborn --
pt. 4. Place-based management of marine ecosystems / Larry B. Crowder
and Elliott A. Norse. Marine protected areas and biodiversity
conservation/ Callum M. Roberts ; Marine reserve function and design
for fisheries management / Joshua Sladek Nowlis and Alan Friedlander ;
Placed-based ecosystem management in the open ocean / Elliott A. Norse
... [et al.] ; Metapopulation structure and marine reserves / Romuald
N. Lipcius, Larry B. Crowder, and Lance E. Morgan -- pt. 5. Human
dimensions / Elliott A. Norse and Larry B. Crowder. Developing rules to
manage fisheries : a cross-cultural perspective / James M. Acheson ;
The role of legal regimes in marine conservation / Alison Rieser,
Charlotte Gray Hudson, and Stephen E. Roady ; Uncertainty in marine
management / Louis W. Botsford and Ana M. Parma ; Recovering
populations and restoring ecosystems : restoration of coral reefs and
related marine communities / Robert H. Richmond ; Toward a sea ethic /
Dorinda G. Dallmeyer ; Ending the range wars on the last frontier :
zoning the sea / Elliott A. Norse.
335.43 N386n, 2004
AUT Negri, Antonio ; Dufourmantelle, Anne.
TIT Negri on Negri.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2004.
336.34 C641u, 2005
AUT Cline, William R.
TIT The United States as a debtor nation.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Institute for International Economics : Center for
Global Development, 2005.
337.3 B575t, 2005
AUT Bhattacharyya, Gargi.
TIT Traffick : the illicit movement of people and things.
PUB London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto, 2005.
CON Contents: How did we get here? -- Underbelly of the global -- Winning
the cold war: the power of organised crime in the global economy --
Drugs, territory and transnational networks -- Nuclear holocaust or
drive-by shooting? Arms in the new world economy -- Circulating bodies
in the global marketplace -- Conclusion: violent endings and new
beginnings.
337.561 A975p, 2005
AUT Aydn, Zülküf.
TIT The political economy of Turkey.
PUB London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2005.
338.4779 H236F, 2006
AUT Fizel, John.
TIT Handbook of sports economics research.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2006.
CON Contents: Handbook of sports economics research : an overview / John
Fizel -- Sports economics : the state of the discipline / R. Todd
Jewell -- National Basketball Association / David J. Berri -- National
Hockey League / John C. Leadley and Zenon X. Zygmont -- Major league
baseball / John Fizel and Lawrence Hadley -- European football (soccer)
/ Victor A. Matheson -- Female intercollegiate athletes and women's
athletics / Brad R. Humphreys -- The economics of individual sports :
golf, tennis, track and NASCAR / Peter von Allmen -- Appendix : The
National Football League conundrum / John Fizel.
339.47 M132c, 2005
AUT McCracken, Grant David.
TIT Culture and consumption II : markets, meaning, and brand management.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Living in the material world -- On Oprah -- The Drew Bledsoe
paradox: the mysterious home economics of Homo econmicus -- Homeyness:
a cultural account of one constellation of consumer goods and meanings
-- Calling grease -- When cars could fly: Raymond Loewy, John Kenneth
Galbraith, and 1954 Buick -- Marilyn Monroe, inventor of blondness --
Who is the celebrity endorser? cultural foundation of the endorsement
process -- The strange power of Uncle Meyer's wallet -- Culture and
culture at the Royal Ontario Museum -- Taking Madison avenue by storm
-- Advertising : meaning versus information -- Sarah Zupko, meet Mrs.
Woolworth -- Meaning-management : an anthropological approach to the
creation of value.
340.11 P436p, 2005
AUT Pereira, Anthony W.
TIT Political (in)justice : authoritarianism and the rule of law in Brazil,
Chile, and Argentina.
PUB Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Repression, legality, and authoritarian regimes -- National
security legality in Brazil and the Southern Cone in comparative
perspective -- The evolution of national security legality in Brazil
and the southern cone -- Political trials in Brazil : the continuation
of a conservative tradition -- "Wartime" legality and radical
adaptation in Chile -- Antilegalism in Argentina -- Defense lawyers in
Brazil's military courts : redefining free speech, subversion,
terrorism, and crime -- Transitional justice and the legacies of
authoritarian legality -- The sword and the robe : military-judicial
relations in authoritarian and democratic regimes -- The puzzle of
authoritarian legality.
341.23 G229u, 2005
AUT Gareis, Sven ; Varwick, Johannes.
TIT The United Nations : an introduction.
PUB Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
c2005.
341.6 S889w, 2005
AUT Stover, Eric.
TIT The witnesses : war crimes and the promise of justice in The Hague.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The pursuit of justice -- Witnesses in the system -- The
tribunal -- Crimes and consequences -- Bearing witness -- Returning
home -- Justice and reconciliation.
342.7308 M393f, 2006
AUT Marzilli, Alan.
TIT Fetal rights.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Introduction : a fetus with no rights or an unborn child with
legal rights? -- Point : an embryo or fetus does not deserve legal
recognition as a person -- Counterpoint : an unborn child is a person
who deserves equal protection under the law -- Point : fetal homicide
laws threaten women's rights -- Counterpoint : laws must protect every
unborn child from violence -- Point : laws that regulate the conduct of
pregnant women invade their privacy -- Counterpoint : in some cases,
the law must protect unborn children from their mothers' behavior --
Conclusion : the rise of fetal rights and its impact on bioethics and
the abortion debate.
342.7308 N431b, 2005
AUT Nelson, Samuel Peter.
TIT Beyond the First Amendment : the politics of free speech and pluralism.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The First Amendment framework -- Public debate and the
libertarian justification -- Self-realization and the expressivist
justification -- Equality and the egalitarian justification -- A model
of free speech justifications -- Speech acts -- The pluralist framework
for freedom of speech -- Free speech claims under the pluralist
framework.
342.7308 U78m, 2005
AUT Urofsky, Melvin I.
TIT Money and free speech : campaign finance reform and the courts.
PUB Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2005.
CON Contents: Campaign Finance Reform -- Campaign Finance Reform before
1971 -- Reform and Response: The Federal Election Campaign Act and
Buckley -- The Failure of Campaign Finance Reform after 1976 -- The
Road to McCain-Feingold -- The Courts and the First Amendment -- The
Supreme Court and Elections: From Buckley to McConnell -- Getting the
Ducks in a Row: Briefing the District Court -- Interlude: Confusion in
the District Court -- The Supreme Court Decides -- Epilogue:
McCain-Feingold-Requiescat in Pace.
343.74 R951f, 2005
AUT Ruschmann, Paul.
TIT The FCC and regulating indecency.
PUB Philaldelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Introduction : free speech, the media, and indecency -- Point
: government should protect young people from indecent broadcasts --
Counterpoint : the broadcast indecency rule is arbitrary and unjust --
Point : the broadcast indecency rule should apply to all media --
Counterpoint : indecency standards should be abolished for all media --
Point : government should encourage the rating and filtering of content
-- Counterpoint : rating and filtering are dangerous -- Conclusion :
the future of indecency regulation.
344.044 M393m, 2003
AUT Marzilli, Alan.
TIT Mental health reform.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, 2003.
SER Point-counterpoint.
CON Contents: Defining mental illness -- Point: inpatient and outpatient
commitment laws are not strong enough -- Counterpoint: inpatient and
outpatient commitment laws violate rights -- Point: doctors, hospitals,
and family members need more control over the treatment of people with
mental illness -- Counterpoint: people with mental illness need more
control over their own treatment -- Point: society cannot afford to
treat mental illness -- Counterpoint: society cannot afford not to
treat mental illness -- The future of mental health rights.
344.73 L764c, 2005
AUT Lipinski, Tomas A.
TIT Copyright law and the distance education classroom.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.
CON Contents: pt. I: Understanding the limitations on exclusive rights for
educators. Performance and display rights in the live classroom and the
remote classroom : the need for reform -- pt. II: Understanding the new
TEACH distance education law. The scope of the privilege for educators
: excluded materials -- New rights and limitations regarding use of
copyrighted material : Section 110(2) and Subsections (A), (B), and (C)
-- New responsibilities for the institution : Section 110(2)(D) --
Summary of part II : the Section 110(2) requirements in a nutshell --
pt. III: Completing the TEACH puzzle. The ephemeral recording privilege
in distance education : the old and the new -- Fair use of copyrighted
material in the distance education classroom -- Appendix A. A TEACH Q &
A compliance audit -- Appendix B. Model distance education copyright
policy -- Appendix C. Copyright statute sections (selected).
344.73 M152i, 2005
AUT Macintosh, Kerry Lynn.
TIT Illegal beings : human clones and the law.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
345 U58M, 2004
AUT Macedo, Stephen.
TIT Universal jurisdiction : national courts and the prosecution of serious
crimes under international law.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.
CON Contents: The history of universal jurisdiction and its place in
international law / M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Comment : the quest for
clarity / Stephen A. Oxman -- The growing support for universal
jurisdiction in national legislation / A. Hays Butler -- The Adolf
Eichmann case : universal and national jurisdiction / Gary J. Bass --
Comment : connecting the threads in the fabric of international law /
Lori F. Damrosch -- Assessing the Pinochet litigation : whither
universal jurisdiction / Richard A. Falk -- Comment : universal
jurisdiction and transitions to democracy / Pablo De Greiff -- The
Hissee Habré case : the law and politics of universal jurisdiction /
Stephen P. Marks -- Defining the limits : universal jurisdiction and
national courts / Ann-Marie Slaughter -- Universal jurisdiction,
national amnesties, and truth commission : reconciling the
irreconcilable / Leila Nadya Sadat -- The future of universal
jurisdiction in the new architecture of transnational justice / Diane
F. Orentlicher -- Universal jurisdiction and judicial reluctance : a
new fourteen points / Michael Kirby -- Afterword : the politics of
advancing international criminal justice / Lloyd Axworthy.
345.73 B851s 2005
AUT Bridegam, Martha Ann.
TIT Search and seizure.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Introduction : search and seizure : a brief review -- Point :
"technicalities" in criminal trials : protect everybody's freedoms --
Counterpoint : too much concern for formal rights interferes with crime
fighting -- Point : "profiling" makes prejudice official --
Counterpoint : profiling and prejudice are different -- Point :
existing legal protections are not stopping unfair policing --
Counterpoint : restricting search and seizure power too much hurts
public safety -- Conclusion : lonely detective, thin blue lines, or
what?.
346.03 R951t 2006
AUT Ruschmann, Paul.
TIT Tort reform.
PUB Philadelphi, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Justice and tort law -- The steps in a civil case -- Point :
America is experiencing a "litigation explosion" -- Counterpoint :
litigation is not a serious problem -- Point : lawsuits are unfair to
both businesses and consumers -- On balance, lawsuits benefit society
-- Point : it is too easy to abuse the legal system -- Counterpoint :
baseless lawsuits are the exception, not the rule -- The future of tort
reform.
346.7303 L998s, 2005
AUT Lytton, Timothy, D.
TIT Suing the gun industry : a battle at the crossroads of gun control and
mass torts.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2005.
CON Contents: A public health perspective on gun violence prevention /
Julie Samia Mair, Stephen Teret, & Shannon Frattaroli -- The limited
importance of gun control from a criminological perspective / Don B.
Kates -- The American gun industry : designing and marketing
increasingly lethal weapons / Tom Diaz -- A cultural critique of gun
litigation / Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, and John Gastil -- Private
lawyers, public lawsuits : plaintiffs' attorneys in municipal gun
litigation / Howard M. Erichson -- The NRA, the Brady campaign, and the
politics of gun litigation / Timothy D. Lytton -- Gun litigation in the
mass tort context / Richard A. Nagareda -- Comparing tobacco and gun
litigation / Stephen D. Sugarman -- Why regulating guns through
litigation won't work / Peter H. Schuck -- The complementary role of
tort litigation in regulating the gun industry / Timothy D. Lytton --
Stubborn information problems and the regulatory benefits of gun
litigation / Wendy Wagner -- Liability insurance and the regulation of
firearms / Tom Baker and Thomas 0. Farrish -- Gun litigation and the
constitution / Brannon P. Denning.
346.7304 H885p
AUT Hudson, David L.
TIT Protecting ideas.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Point : copyright legislation furthers the fundamental
purposes of the copyright clause -- Counterpoint : recent copyright
legislation threatens the public domain -- Point : internet music
piracy threatens copyright and requires greater protections form
congress -- Counterpoint : peer-to-peer technology is valuable -- Point
: it is necessary to protect tradmarks in a online world --
Counterpoint : trademark laws should not prevent consumer commentary --
Point : the right of publicity is needed to defend intellectual
property -- Counterpoint : the right of publicity threatens free
expression values.
347.73 S454s, 2005
AUT Segal, Jeffrey Allan ; Spaeth, Harold J ; Benesh, Sara Catherine.
TIT The Supreme Court in the American legal system.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Judicial policy making -- Approaches to judicial decision
making -- The Supreme Court in American legal history -- Civil
procedure -- Evidence -- Criminal procedure -- State courts -- The U.S.
District Courts -- The U.S. Courts of Appeals -- Staffing the court --
Getting into court -- Supreme Court decision making -- Opinions and
assignments -- The impact of judicial decisions.
347.732 Y26d, 2005
AUT Yarbrough, Tinsley E. ; Souter, David H.
TIT David Hackett Souter : traditional Republican on the Rehnquist court. -
1st cloth ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: New England yankee -- New Hampshire judge -- "Stealth
candidate" -- Common law justice -- Constitutional nationalist --
Traditional Republican.
352.3 J76p, 2005
AUT Jones, Bryan D ; Baumgartner, Frank R.
TIT The politics of attention : how government prioritizes problems.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Information and choice -- Information processing and policy
punctuations -- Signal detection and the inefficiencies of agenda
setting.
355.033 A441a, 2004
AUT Allport, Alan ; Marzilli, Alan.
TIT American military policy.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
355.22 R951m, 2004
AUT Ruschmann, Paul.
TIT Mandatory military service.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Point-counterpoint.
CON Contents: History of the draft -- Point: an all-volunteer military
service endangers national security -- Counterpoint: the United States
can meet its military commitments without a draft -- Point: reviving
the draft would benefit society -- Counterpoint: reviving the draft
would do more harm than good -- Point: even without a draft, a national
service requirement would benefit society -- Counterpoint: a national
service requirement is unnecessary and unfair -- The future of
mandatory service.
355.825 B414s, 2006
AUT Bee, Ronald J.
TIT Seven minutes to midnight : nuclear weapons after 9/11.
PUB New York : Foreign Policy Association, 2006.
SER Headline series. ; no. 328/329.
CON Contents: Four fearful nuclear races -- The axis of upheaval: Iraq,
Iran and North Korea -- 9/11 as watershed-nonproliferation as
continuity.
358.3 B368e, 2005
AUT Beason, Doug.
TIT The E-bomb : how America's new directed energy weapons will change the
way future wars will be fought. - 1st Da Capo Press ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Directed energy milestones -- Prelude : a world-changing,
disruptive technology -- The promise of directed energy -- What exactly
is directed energy? -- The military effectiveness of directed energy --
The problem with directed energy -- The difference between lasers and
high-power microwaves -- Prophets of the revolution : high-energy laser
weapons -- The Department of Defense wakes up -- Prophets of the
revolution : high-power microwaves -- The world's first force field :
the Active Denial System -- The birth of the airborne laser -- ABL :
the airborne laser -- Making high-energy lasers a global weapon --
Other major DE weapons programs -- The day after tomorrow -- The next
generation : fibers, phasing, and terahertz -- This is the end --
Appendix: Types of lasers.
362.1 G976u, 2005
AUT Gunn, S. William.
TIT Understanding the global dimensions of health.
PUB New York : Springer, c2005.
362.104 F981c, 2005
AUT Funigiello, Philip J.
TIT Chronic politics : health care security from FDR to George W. Bush.
PUB [Lawrence, Kan.] : University Press of Kansas, c2005.
362.29 H885s 2004
AUT Hudson, David L.
TIT Smoking bans.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Introduction -- History of tobacco and its regulation --
Point : smoking bans protect public health -- Counterpoint : smoking
bans infringe on smokers' individual rights -- Point : suits against
big tobacco are legitimate cases against wealthy defendants selling
harmful products -- Counterpoint : suits against big tobacco ignore
personal responsibility and unfairly demonize a legal activity -- Point
: advertising restrictions against tobacco products help protect
children and are constitutional -- Counterpoint : tobacco advertising
is a form of protected speech -- Conclusion.
362.58 F157w 2005
AUT Faherty, Sara.
TIT Welfare reform.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Introduction: Welfare and welfare reform -- Point : public
assistance to poor people is damaging because it encourages dependence
and impairs self-sufficiency -- Counterpoint : society has an
obligation to take care of its poorest members -- Point : recipients of
public assistance should be asked to work for their benefits --
Counterpoint : it is unfair to require recipients of public assistance
to work for their benefits -- Point : a family needs public financial
support and guidance on how to become self-sufficient -- Counterpoint :
government should not interfere in the private lives of welfare
recipients -- Conclusion: A look to the future.
362.58 W132p, 2005
AUT Wagner, David.
TIT The poorhouse : America's forgotten institution.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
CON Contents: Poorhouse, almshouse, poor farm -- Scenes from the poorhouse
-- What the forefathers had in mind : the purpose and contradictions of
the poorhouse -- Undermining the poorhouse : long and short-term
inmates in the late nineteenth century -- Inmates, overseers, and the
politics of the poorhouse -- The long end : inmates in the twentieth
century poorhouse -- Matrons, doctors, staff and the end of the
poorhouse -- The ironies of history : the return of the poorhouse.
362.6 N532H, 2005
AUT Hudson, Robert B.
TIT The new politics of old age policy.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Contemporary challenges to age-based policy / Robert B.
Hudson -- A normative defense of universal age-based public policy /
Martha B. Holstein -- What justice requires : a normative foundation
for U.S. pension reform / John Myles -- Decreasing welfare, increasing
old age inequality : whose responsibility is it? / Madonna Harrington
Meyer -- Social Security and the paradoxes of welfare state
conservatism / Steven M. Teles -- When old age begins : implications
for health, work, and retirement / Angela M. O'Rand -- Minority workers
and pathways to retirement / Chenoa A. Flippen -- The oldest old and a
long-lived society : challenges for public policy / Judith G. Gonyea --
Reframing Social Security : cures worse than the disease / Pamela Herd
and Eric R. Kingson -- Sustaining Medicare as an age-related program /
Marilyn Moon -- The politics of aging within Medicaid / Colleen M.
Grogan -- The changing face of senior housing / Jon Pynoos and Christy
M. Nishita -- The contemporary politics of old age policies / Robert H.
Binstock -- Using local tax levies to fund programs for older people :
good politics and good policy? / Robert Applebaum ... [et al.].
362.7 G686f, 2005
AUT Gottlieb, Robert.
TIT Forcing the spring : the transformation of the American environmental
movement. - Rev. and updated ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Resources and recreation: the limits of the traditional
debate -- Urban and industrial roots: seeking to reform the system --
The sixties rebellion: The search for a new politics --
Professionalization and institutionalization: The mainstream groups --
Grassroots and direct action: alternative movements -- Gender and
place: women and environmentalism -- Ethnicity as a factor: the quest
for environmental justice -- A question of class: the workplace
experience.
362.7083 H236D, 2005
AUT DuBois, David L ; Karcher, Michael J.
TIT Handbook of youth mentoring.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2005.
CON Contents: PART I. INTRODUCTION: Youth Mentoring: Theory, Research, and
Practice / David L. DuBois and Michael J. Karcher. PART II. CONCEPTS,
FRAMEWORKS, AND FOUNDATIONS: Mentoring in Historical Perspective /
David B. Baker and Colleen P. Maguire -- A Model of Youth Mentoring /
Jean E. Rhodes -- Research Methodology / David L. DuBois and Naida
Silverthorn -- Toward a Typology of Mentoring / Cynthia L. Sipe. PART
III. MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS: The Stages and Development of Mentoring
Relationships / Thomas E. Keller -- Assessment of Mentoring
Relationships / Michael J. Nakkula and John T. Harris -- A
Psychotherapy/Counseling Perspective on Mentoring Relationships / Renée
Spencer and Jean E. Rhodes -- Mentoring Relationships and Social
Support / Manuel Barrera, Jr., and Darya D. Bonds -- Natural Mentoring
Relationships / Marc A. Zimmerman, Jeffrey B. Bingenheimer, and Diana
E. Behrendt. PART IV. DEVELOPMENTAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES:
Mentoring Children / Timothy A. Cavell and Anne-Marie Smith --
Mentoring Adolescents / Nancy Darling -- Race and Ethnicity in
Mentoring Relationships / Bernadette S nchez and Yarí Colón -- Gender
in Mentoring Relationships / G. Anne Bogat and Belle Liang. PART V.
FORMAL MENTORING PROGRAMS: Developing a Mentoring Program / Susan G.
Weinberger -- Recruiting and Sustaining Volunteer Mentors / Arthur A.
Stukas and Chris Tanti -- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mentoring
Programs / Jean B. Grossman -- Cross-Age Peer Mentoring / Michael J.
Karcher -- Intergenerational Mentoring / Andrea S. Taylor, Leonard
LoSciuto, and Lorraine Porcellini -- E-Mentoring / Hugh Miller and Mark
Griffiths -- Integration of Mentoring With Other Programs and Services
/ Gabriel P. Kuperminc, James G. Emshoff, Michele N. Reiner, Laura A.
Secrest, Phyllis Holditch Niolon, and Jennifer D. Foster. PART VI.
CONTEXTS OF MENTORING: Schools / Sharon G. Portwood and Penny M. Ayers
-- Work and Service-Learning / Mary Agnes Hamilton and Stephen F.
Hamilton -- After-School Programs / Barton J. Hirsch and Vivian Wong --
Religious Organizations / Kenneth I. Maton, Mariano R. Sto. Domingo,
and Jacqueline King -- International: U.K. and Europe / Kristin Liabo,
Patricia Lucas, and Helen Roberts -- International: Australia and New
Zealand / Ian M. Evans, Anna Jory, and Narelle Dawson. PART VII.
SPECIAL POPULATIONS: Talented and Gifted / Carolyn M. Callahan and
Robin M. Kyburg -- Academically At-Risk Students / Simon Larose and
George M. Tarabulsy -- Juvenile Offenders / Elaine A. Blechman and
Jedediah Bopp -- Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents / Lynn Blinn-Pike
-- Abused and Neglected Youth / Preston A. Britner and Lisa
Kraimer-Rickaby -- Youth With Disabilities / Katherine McDonald,
Fabricio Balcazar, and Christopher Keys. PART VIII. POLICY ISSUES :
Youth Mentoring and Public Policy / Gary Walker -- Cost-Benefit and
Cost-Effectiveness Analyses / Brian T. Yates -- Mentoring for Results:
Accountability at Individual, Program, Community, and Policy Levels /
Shawn M. Coyne, J...
362.734 P974B, 2005
AUT Brodzinsky, David ; Palacios, Jesús.
TIT Psychological issues in adoption : research and practice.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.
SER Advances in applied developmental psychology ; v. 24.
CON Contents: Contemporary adoption in the United States : implications for
the next wave of adoption theory, research, and practice / Devon
Brooks, Cassandra Simmel, Leslie Wind, and Richard P. Barth -- Changing
attitudes of adoptive parents in Northern European countries / Rene
Hoksbergen and Jan ter Laak -- Prenatal and postnatal risks to
neurobiological development in internationally adopted children / Megan
R. Gunnar and Darlene A. Ketes -- Adverse pre-adoption experiences and
psychological outcomes / Michael Rutter -- Change and continuity in
mental representations of attachment after adoption / Jill Hodges,
Miriam Steele, Saul Hillman, Kay Henderson, and Jeanne Kaniuk -- Beyond
adopted/non-adopted comparisons / Jesus Palacios and Yolanda
Sanchez-Sandoval -- Reconceptualizing openness in adoption :
implications for theory, research, and practice / David M. Brodzinsky
-- Openness in adoption : outcomes for adolescents with the adoptive
kinship networks / Harold D. Grotevant, Yvette V. Perry, and Ruth G.
McRoy -- The construction of adoptive parenthood and filiation in
Italian families with adolescents : a family perspective / Rosa Rosnati
-- International adoptions in Scandinavia / Monica Dalen --
Methodological issues in using large-scale survey data for adoption
research / Brent C. Miller, Xitao Fan, and Harold D. Grotevant --
Recent and future directions for adoption research / Jesus Palacios and
David M. Brodzinsky.
363.179 S651c, 2005
AUT Smith, Jim T., 1966- ; Beresford, Nicholas A.
TIT Chernobyl : catastrophe and consequences.
PUB Berlin ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, U.K. : Published in
association with Praxis Pub., c2005.
SER Springer-Praxis books in environmental sciences.
363.2 G798c, 2005
AUT Greenberg, Martin Alan.
TIT Citizens defending America : from colonial times to the age of
terrorism.
PUB Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Unraveling the concept of volunteer policing
-- The lay justice era : from 1607 to 1800 -- The vigilant era : from
1800 to the 1880s -- The spy era : from the 1880s to 1920 -- The
transformation era : from 1920 to 1941 -- The assimilation era : from
1941 to the present -- Potential roles for volunteer police service --
The role of volunteer police in terrorism prevention.
363.33 V145g, 2003
AUT Valdez, Angela.
TIT Gun control.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: The politics of gun control -- The Second Amendment
guarantees the right to bear arms -- Gun activists misconstrue the
Second Amendment -- Gun control laws reduce violence -- Gun control
does not prevent crime -- Gun manufacturers should be held financially
responsible for gun-related deaths -- Gun manufacturers are not
responsible for gun-related deaths -- The future of gun control in the
United States.
363.738 S745g, 2005
AUT Spence, Christopher.
TIT Global warming : personal solutions for a healthy planet.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
CON Contents: Five major myths, five key facts -- Introduction. A hot topic
-- 1. What is global warming? -- 2. What is global warming doing to our
weather? -- 3. What is global warming doing to my world? -- 4. How will
global warming affect me? -- 5. What is being done to tackle the
problem? -- 6. What government and big business should be doing-- and
why some vested interests don't what it to happen -- 7. What can I do?
-- The end ... or the beginning?.
363.8 K37f, 2005
AUT Kent, George.
TIT Freedom from want : the human right to adequate food.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2005.
SER Advancing human rights series.
CON Contents: Food and nutrition -- The international human rights system
-- Adequate food is a human right -- Human rights, governance, and law
-- Rights/entitlements -- Obligations/commitments -- Accountability
mechanisms -- India -- Brazil -- The United States -- Feeding infants
-- Feeding infants of HIV-positive mothers -- Water -- Trade --
Refugees -- International humanitarian assistance.
Ref 363.92 E58e, 2005
AUT Engs, Ruth C.
TIT The eugenics movement : an encyclopedia.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
364.1 H968ß, 2005
AUT Husak, Douglas N. ; De Marneffe, Peter.
TIT The legalization of drugs.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
SER For and against.
CON Contents: The meaning of drug decriminalization -- How should we
evaluate alternative drug policies? -- Reasons to criminalize drug use
-- Reasons to decriminalize -- Drug legalization : production and sale
-- An argument for drug prohibition -- Drug prohibition and liberalism
-- Alcohol and other drugs -- Epistemic concerns.
364.151 M957c, 2005
AUT Mulisch, Harry.
TIT Criminal case 40/61, the trial of Adolf Eichmann : an eyewitness
account.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.
SER Personal takes.
364.1523 S348n, 2005
AUT Schmid, David.
TIT Natural born celebrities : serial killers in American culture.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The Victorian killer as media star : Jack the Ripper and H.H.
Holmes -- Defining the enemy within : the FBI and serial murder --
Natural born celebrities : serial killers and the Hollywood star system
-- Out of this world : aliens, devils, and serial killers in television
crime drama -- Next door monsters : the dialectic of normality and
monstrosity in true-crime narratives -- The unbearable straightness of
violence : queering serial murder in true crime.
364.254 S613c, 2004
AUT Simpson, Brian.
TIT Children and television.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, 2004.
364.36 H644t 2003
AUT Hile, Kevin.
TIT Trial of juveniles as adults.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.
SER Point-counterpoint.
CON Contents: Addressing the problem of juvenile crime -- Point: juveniles
should be no less accountable than adults -- Counterpoint: juveniles
differ from adults in more than just age -- Point: trying and
sentencing juveniles as adults can protect society -- Counterpoint:
treating juveniles as adults does not deter crime -- Point: prosecuting
juveniles as adults violates their constitutional rights --
Counterpoint: prosecuting juveniles as adults does not violate their
rights -- The future of the juvenile justice system.
364.6 J17d, 2005
AUT Jacobson, Michael.
TIT Downsizing prisons : how to reduce crime and end mass incarceration.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : bloated prisons -- Mass incarceration --
Unintended consequences -- A new reality for prison systems -- Why
prison growth does not reduce crime -- Why parole and probation
policies need to change -- Success stories -- Downsizing prisons.
364.66 C968S, 2005
AUT Sarat, Austin ; Boulanger, Christian.
TIT The cultural lives of capital punishment : comparative perspectives.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
364.66 H237d, 2005
AUT Haney, Craig.
TIT Death by design : capital punishment as social psychological system.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
SER American psychology-law society series.
CON Contents: Blinded by the death penalty : the Supreme Court and the
social realities of capital punishment -- Frameworks of
misunderstanding : capital punishment and the American media --
Constructing capital crimes and defendants : death penalty
case-specific biases and their effects -- The fragile consensus :
public opinion and death penalty policy -- A tribunal organized to
convict and execute? : on the nature of jury selection in capital cases
-- Preparing for the death penalty in advance of trial : process
effects in death-qualifying capital juries -- Structural aggravation :
moral disengagement in the capital trial process -- Misguided
discretion : instructional incomprehension in the system of death
sentencing -- Condemning the other : race, mitigation, and the
"empathetic divide" -- No longer tinkering with the machinery of death
: proposals for systemic reform -- Concluding thoughts : death is
different.
364.66 M393c, 2003
AUT Marzilli, Alan.
TIT Capital punishment.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.
SER Point-counterpoint.
CON Contents: What is capital punishment? -- Death penalty is an effective
deterrent to crime -- Streamlining capital punishment would make it
more effective -- It is already too easy to convict and execute people
-- Capital punishment is a just process -- Capital punishment is
applied unfairly -- Future of capital punishment in American.
Ref 364.973 R813h, 2005
AUT Rosen, Fred.
TIT The historical atlas of American crime.
PUB New York : Facts on File, c2005.
SER Facts on File crime library.
370.1 C548c, 2000
AUT Chomsky, Noam ; Macedo, Donaldo P.
TIT Chomsky on miseducation.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers , c2000.
CON Contents: Introduction / Donaldo Macedo -- Beyond a domesticating
education: a dialogue -- Democracy and education -- The craft of
"historical engineering" -- Market democracy in a neoliberal order:
doctrines and reality -- Unmasking a pedagogy of lies: a debate with
John Silber.
Ref 370.9173 P897K, 2006 v.1, 2
AUT Kincheloe, Joe L.
TIT The Praeger handbook of urban education.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
371.01 W627c, 2005
AUT Whittle, Chris.
TIT Crash course : imagining a better future for public education.
PUB New York: Riverhead Books, 2005.
Ref 371.903 S439y, 2005 v.1, 2
AUT Sears, James T.
TIT Youth, education, and sexualities : an international encyclopedia.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
371.909 S399i, 2005
AUT Schwartz, Diane.
TIT Including children with special needs : a handbook for educators and
parents.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
SER Handbooks for educators and parents.
378.103 U58P, 2005
AUT Perry, David C ; Wiewel, Wim.
TIT The university as urban developer : case studies and analysis.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy ; Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe, c2005.
CON Contents: From campus to city : the university as developer / David C.
Perry and Wim Wiewel -- The University of Pittsburgh and the Oakland
neighborhood : from conflict to cooperation, or how the 800-pound
gorilla learned to sit with-and not on-its neighbors / Sabina Deitrick
and Tracy Soska -- Columbia University's heights : an ivory tower and
its communities / Peter Marcuse and Cuz Potter -- The University of
Chicago and its neighbors : a case study in community development /
Henry S. Webber -- The urban university as a vehicle for inner-city
renewal : the University of Washington, Tacoma / Brian Coffey and Yonn
Dierwechter -- Auraria higher education center and Denver inner-city
development / Robert Kronewitter -- The political strategies behind
university-based development : two Philadelphia cases / Elizabeth Strom
-- The university as an engine for downtown renewal in Atlanta /
Lawrence R. Kelley and Carl V. Patton -- University involvement in
downtown revitalization : managing political and financial risks /
Scott Cummings ... [et al.] -- Ryerson University and Toronto's Dundas
Square metropolis project / David Amborski -- An overview of university
real estate investment practices / Ziona Austrian and Jill S. Norton --
Leasing for profit and control : the case of Victoria University at the
University of Toronto / Larry R. Kurtz -- The little fish swallows the
big fish : financing the DePaul Center in Chicago / Kenneth McHugh --
No such thing as vacant land : Northeastern University and Davenport
Commons / Allegra Calder, Gabriel Grant, and Holly Hart Muson -- Campus
partners and the Ohio State University : a case study in enlightened
self-interest / David Dixon and Peter J. Roche -- Private choices and
public obligations : the ethics of university real estate development /
Rachel Weber, Nik Theodore, and Charles Hoch -- Ivory towers no more :
academic bricks and sticks / Wim Wiewel and David C. Perry.
379.111 C832s, 2005
AUT Corwin, Ronald G ; Schneider, Joe.
TIT The school choice hoax : fixing America's schools.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.
CON Contents: The school choice quagmire : anomalies within the movement
and the models -- Claims for charter schools and school vouchers : an
assessment -- How to improve charter schools : clues from open
enrollment plans, school-based management, the coalition of essential
schools, and small schools initiatives -- Why choice schools should be
specialized : charter schools and voucher schools within a planned
division of labor -- Plight of the poor and minority student in an
uncaring society : using district-operated charter schools to improve
poverty schools.
379.1473 H885r 2004
AUT Hudson, David L.
TIT Rights of students.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Students and the Bill of Rights : constitutional rights in
school -- Point : zero tolerance policies instill discipline and
increase safety in schools -- Counterpoint : zero tolerance policies
are unfair and deprive students of due process -- Point : safety
concerns must trump Fourth Amendment rights in public schools --
Counterpoint : students must not lose their Fourth Amendment
protections and privacy rights -- Point : school uniforms and dress
codes are a constitutional way to improve education -- Counterpoint :
mandatory uniform and dress code policies are unconstitutional
restrictions on individual liberty -- The future of student rights.
379.2 M393r 2004
AUT Marzilli, Alan.
TIT Religion in public schools.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Religion in public schools : historical roots and current
controversies -- Point. Prayer should be allowed to return to public
schools -- Counterpoint. Prayer does not belong in public classrooms --
Point. Religious clubs in public schools should be treated more fairly
-- Counterpoint. Religious clubs in public schools have unfair
advantages -- Point. Schools should teach theories other than evolution
-- Counterpoint. Schools should treat evolution as definitive -- A look
to the future.
379.263 C145f, 2005
AUT Caldas, Stephen J. ; Bankston, Carl L.
TIT Forced to fail : the paradox of school desegregation.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.
379.263 C646a, 2004
AUT Clotfelter, Charles T.
TIT After Brown : the rise and retreat of school desegregation.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2004.
CON Contents: Walls came tumbling down -- The legacies of Brown and
Milliken -- Residential segregation and "white flight" -- The private
school option -- Inside schools : classrooms and school activities --
Higher learning and the color line -- So what?.
381.45 M938s, 2005
AUT Moynihan, Ray ; Cassels, Alan.
TIT Selling sickness : how the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies are
turning us all into patients.
PUB New York : Nation Books, c2005.
CON Contents: Prologue: selling sickness -- Selling to everyone : high
cholesterol -- Doughnuts for the doctors : depression -- Working with
celebrities : menopause -- Partnering with patients : attention deficit
disorder -- Making risks into medical conditions : high blood pressure
-- Advertising disease : premenstrual dysphoric disorder -- Shaping
public perceptions : social anxiety disorder -- Testing the markets :
osteoporosis -- Taming the watchdogs : irritable bowel syndrome --
Subverting the selling : female sexual dysfunction -- Epilogue : What
can we do?.
Ref 382.03 G647d4, 2003
AUT Goode, Walter.
TIT Dictionary of trade policy terms. - 4th ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : New York : Cambridge University Press, c2003.
CON Contents: The Dictionary [A - Z] -- Appendix 1: Marrakesh Agreement
establishing the World Trade Organization: a synopsis -- Appendix 2:
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: a synopsis -- Appendix 3:
The General Agreement on Trade in Services: a synopsis -- Appendix 4:
Acronyms used in international trade relations.
382.45 R626t, 2005
AUT Rivoli, Pietra.
TIT The travels of a t-shirt in the global economy : an economist examines
the markets, power and politics of world trade.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2005.
CON Contents: pt. 1. King cotton -- 1. Reinsch cotton farm, Smyer, Texas --
2. The history of American cotton -- 3. Back at the Reinsch farm -- pt.
II. Made in China -- 4. Cotton comes to China -- 5. The long race to
the bottom -- 6. Sisters in time -- pt. III. Trouble at the border --
7. Dogs snarling together -- 8. Perverse effects and unintended
consequences of T-shirt trade policy -- 9. 40 years of "temporary"
protectionism ends in 2005--and China takes all -- pt. IV. My T-shirt
finally encounters a free market -- 10. Where T-shirts go after the
Salvation Army bin -- 10. How small entrepreneurs clothe East Africa
with old American T-shirts.
382.917 H889n, 2005
AUT Hufbauer, Gary Clyde ; Schott, Jeffrey J.
TIT NAFTA revisited : achievements and challenges.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Institute for International Economics, 2005.
CON Contents: 1. Overview -- NAFTA in historical context -- Assessing NAFTA
-- The bottom line -- References -- Appendix 1A. NAFTA and trade
generation : review of the literature -- Appendix 1B. Trends in Mexican
imports since 2000 -- 2. Labor -- Facts about fears -- NAFTA's labor
provisions -- Labor adjustment programs in North America -- Conclusion
and recommendations -- References -- Appendix 2A -- 3. Environment --
NAFTA's environmental provisions -- Environmental policy trends in
North America -- The US-Mexico border -- Conclusions and
recommendations -- References -- Appendix 3A -- 4. Dispute settlement
systems -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 --
NAFTA and WTO dispute settlement mechanisms compared -- Outcome of
dispute settlement cases -- Conclusion and recommendations --
References -- Appendix 4A -- 5. Agriculture -- Overview of agricultural
trade in NAFTA -- US-Canada wheat dispute -- The sugar saga -- The corn
saga -- Conclusions and recommendations -- References -- Appendix 5A --
6. The automotive sector -- Policy in the auto sector -- North American
auto trends -- Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 6A -- 7. Energy --
Energy policies in North America -- Medium-term energy outlook -- NAFTA
and energy trade -- Recommendations -- References -- 8. Mexico-US
migration -- Postwar migration policy -- The Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1986 -- Mexican immigrants and current trends -- NAFTA
and the migration hump -- Formal-sector jobs and migration -- Managing
Mexico-US migration -- Conclusions and recommendations -- References --
9. Recommendations for North American economic integration --
Post-September 11 challenges -- Upgrading NAFTA -- Deepening the trade
bargain -- Going with the energy flow -- Controls on coming and going
-- Where the buck stops -- Updating environment and labor provisions --
Strengthening NAFTA's institutions -- Conclusion -- References --
Acronyms -- Additional readings.
384.3 B863A, 2005
AUT Austin, Robert D. ; Bradley, Stephen P..
TIT The broadband explosion : leading thinkers on the promise of a truly
interactive world.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2005.
385.0978 O76s, 2005
AUT Orsi, Richard J.
TIT Sunset limited : the Southern Pacific Railroad and the development of
the American West, 1850-1930.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Foundations: "These mountains look too ugly and I see too
much work ahead": building the Southern Pacific Company, 1850/1930; Men
of vision: Southern Pacific leaders, land, agriculture, and the
development of California and the West -- Land settlement: "Stand on
the rights of the Company and make a square fight of it": land-grant
myths, conflicts with government, and squatterism; The Mussel Slough
affair; A land of "well-tilled little farms": land-grant development;
Promoting the far West: 1860s-1900s -- Water: "The satisfactory supply
is yet undiscovered": the Southern Pacific as a pioneer water
developer; "A great encouragement for others": private irrigation;
"This splendid country is to be reclaimed": public irrigation; "The
government is hard to deal with": federal reclamation -- Agriculture:
"Evangel train": scientific agriculture; "The damndest railroading you
ever heard of": marketing the produce of western farms -- Conservation:
"Shall this destruction proceed?": wilderness preservation; "Putting
our properties on the most conservative and scientific basis": resource
conservation -- Epilogue -- A note on Southern Pacific Company
manuscript sources.
391.009 H6731, 2005, v.1-8
AUT Bingham, Jane.
TIT A history of fashion and costume.
PUB New York : Facts on File, 2005.
Ref 391.03 C143f3, 2003
AUT Calasibetta, Charlotte Mankey ; Tortora, Phyllis G.
TIT The Fairchild dictionary of fashion. - 3rd ed.
PUB New York : Fairchild Publications, c2003.
391.2 S427f
AUT Scott, Linda M.
TIT Fresh lipstick : redressing fashion and feminism.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : tossing down the glove
-- The natural fallacy -- Dress reform and domination -- Making
the myth -- Reading the popular image -- The power of fashion --
Sex, soap, and Cinderella -- Rethinking necessities -- Freudian
feminism and commercial conspiracy -- Something different -- Style
and substance in the Second Wave -- Exclusive rights -- Fresh lipstick.
400 Languages
420.9 B346h5
AUT Baugh, Albert Croll ; Cable, Thomas.
TIT A history of the English language. - 5th ed.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2002.
Ref 423.12 M528t, 2005
AUT Meltzer, Peter E.
TIT The thinker's thesaurus : sophisticated alternatives to common words.
PUB Oak Park, Ill. : Marion Street Press, c2005.
427.08 C188g
AUT Campbell, Kermit Ernest.
TIT Gettin' our groove on : rhetoric, language, and literacy for the hip
hop generation.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2005.
SER African American life series.
CON Contents: Who you callin' "igno"? : in defense of the Black vernacular
voice -- Representin' rhetoric in the vernacular : professing the power
of the rap -- Can't knock the hustle? : the gangsta ethos from
Stag-o-Lee to Snoop D-O-double-G -- The player's (book) club : ghetto
realistic fiction from "His last day" to "Pimpology" -- They got game :
African American students, hip hop, and literacy in the zone.
428.407 S785
AUT International Reading Association.
TIT Standards for middle and high school literacy coaches.
PUB Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c2006.
CON Contents: Acknowledgments -- About the collaborators -- Introduction --
Leadership standards -- Content area literacy standards: English
language arts; Mathematics; Science; Social Studies -- What do we know
and what do we need to know about literacy coaches in middle and high
schools? : a research synthesis and proposed research agenda --
References.
500 Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics
510 B954c, 2005
AUT Burger, Edward B. ; Starbird, Michael P.
TIT Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty
ideas. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
CON Contents: Understanding uncertainty : coincidences -- Chaos, and
confusion -- Unbridled coincidences : likelihood, lady luck, and lady
love -- Chaos reigns : why we can't predict the future -- Digesting
life's data : statistical surprises -- Embracing figures: sensing
secrecy -- Magnificent magnitudes, and nature's numbers -- Secrets
held, secrets revealed : cryptography decrypted -- Sizing up numbers :
how many? how big? how quick? -- A synergy between nature and number :
a search for -- Pattern -- Exploring aesthetics: sexy rectangles --
Fiery fractals, and contortions of space -- From precise beauty to pure
chaos: picturing aesthetics -- Through the lens of mathematics --
Origami for the origamically challenged: from paper folding -- To
computers and fiery fractals -- A twisted turn in an amorphous
universe: an exploration of -- An elasticized world -- transcending
reality: the fourth -- Dimension and infinity -- The universe next
door: the magic of the fourth dimension -- Moving beyond the confines
of our nutshell: a journey into -- Infinity -- In search of something
still larger: a journey beyond -- Infinity.
510.73 G984r, 2005
AUT Gutstein, Eric ; Peterson, Bob.
TIT Rethinking mathematics : teaching social justice by the numbers.
PUB Milwaukee, Wis. Rethinking Schools, Ltd., c2005.
CON Contents: Part one : viewing math broadly -- Teaching math across the
curriculum -- Reading the world with math -- Race, retrenchment, and
the reform of school mathematics -- Historical, cultural, and social
implications of mathematics ; Part two : infusing social justice into
math classes -- "Home buying while brown or black" -- Sweatshop
accounting -- Chicanos have math in their blood -- Understanding large
numbers -- "With math, it's like you have more defense" -- Radical
equations : a review of the book by Bob Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr.
-- The geometry of inequality -- Integrals and equity -- Math, maps,
and misrepresentation -- Multicultural math ; Part three : infusing
social justice math into other curricular areas -- Ten chairs of
inequality -- Write the truth : presidents and slaves -- The
transnational capital auction ; Part four: resources for rethinking
mathematics -- Websites, math curriculum and pedagogy, books with
theoretical/academic perspectives, curriculum guides/resources,
children's books, sources for maps, and more.
510.9 H689h, 2005
AUT Hodgkin, Luke Howard.
TIT A history of mathematics : from Mesopotamia to modernity.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Babylonian mathematics -- Greeks and 'origins' -- Greeks,
practical and theoretical -- Chinese mathematics -- Islam, neglect and
discovery -- Understanding the 'scientific revolution' -- The calculus
-- Geometries and space -- Modernity and its anxieties -- A chaotic
end?.
511.3 F837g, 2005
AUT Franzén, Torkel.
TIT Gödel's theorem : an incomplete guide to its use and abuse.
PUB Wellesley, Mass. : A K Peters, c2005.
CON Contents: The incompleteness theorem: an overview -- Computability,
formal systems, and incompleteness -- Incompleteness everywhere --
Skepticism and confidence -- Gödel, minds, and computers -- Gödel's
completeness theorem -- Incompleteness, complexity, and infinity.
514 R941t, 2005
AUT Runde, Volker.
TIT A taste of topology.
PUB New York ; London : Springer, 2005.
CON Contents: Set theory -- Metric spaces -- Set-theoretic topology --
Systems of continuous functions -- Basic algebraic topology.
515.35 L831f, 2006
AUT Logan, J. David.
TIT A first course in differential equations.
PUB New York : Springer, c2006.
SER Undergraduate texts in mathematics.
515.353 P647i, 2005
AUT Pinchover, Yehuda ; Rubinstein, Jacob.
TIT Introduction to partial differential equations.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
515.8 T396K, 2006
AUT Kilbas, A. A. ; Srivastava, H. M ; Trujillo, Juan J.
TIT Theory and applications of fractional differential equations. - 1st ed.
PUB Amsterdam [Netherlands] ; Boston, Mass. : Elsevier, 2006.
SER North-Holland mathematics studies. ; 204.
519.5 B788s, 2005
AUT Box, George E. P ; Hunter, J. Stuart ; Hunter, William Gordon.
TIT Statistics for experimenters : design, innovation, and discovery. - 2nd
ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2005.
SER Wiley series in probability and statistics.
520.92 G822f, 2005
AUT Gregory, Jane.
TIT Fred Hoyle's universe.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Coming to light -- Hut no. 2 -- Into the limelight -- New
world -- Under fire -- New genesis -- Eclipsed -- Fighting for space --
Storm clouds -- 'Dear Mr. Hogg' -- His institute -- The end of the
beginning -- The astronomer Hoyle -- The beginning of the end -- On the
loose -- Apocalyptic visions -- Evolution on trial -- A new cosmology.
520.92 W417p, 2005
AUT Weidhorn, Manfred.
TIT The person of the millennium : the unique impact of Galileo on world
history.
PUB New York ; Lincoln, Neb. : iUniverse, c2005.
530.01 R188w, 2005
AUT Randall, Lisa.
TIT Warped passages : unraveling the mysteries of the Universe's hidden
dimensions. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Ecco, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Entryway passages : demystifying dimensions
-- Restricted passages : rolled-up extra dimensions -- Exclusive
passages : branes, braneworlds, and the bulk -- Approaches to
theoretical physics -- Relativity : the evolution of Einstein's gravity
-- Quantum mechanics : principled uncertainty, the principal
uncertainties, and the uncertainty principle -- The standard model of
particle physics : matter's most basic known structure -- Experimental
interlude : verifying the standard model -- Symmetry : the essential
organizing principle -- The origin of elementary particle masses :
spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Higgs mechanism -- Scaling and
grand unification : relating interactions at different lengths and
energies -- The hierarchy problem : the only effective trickle-down
theory -- Supersymmetry : a leap beyond the standard model -- Allegro
(ma non troppo) passage for strings -- Supporting passages : brane
development -- Bustling passages : braneworlds -- Sparsely populated
passages : multiverses and sequestering -- Leaky passages :
fingerprints of extra dimensions -- Voluminous passages : large extra
dimensions -- Warped passage : a solution to the hierarchy problem --
The warped annotated "Alice" -- Profound passage : an infinite extra
dimension -- A reflective and expansive passage -- Extra dimensions :
are you in or out? -- (In)conclusion.
530.092 J56e, 2005
AUT Jerome, Fred ; Taylor, Rodger.
TIT Einstein on race and racism.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: pt. I. Einstein and Robeson on Witherspoon Street -- 1.
Escape from Berlin -- 2. "Paradise" -- 3. The other Princeton -- 4.
Witherspoon Street -- 5. Einstein and Robeson, I -- 6. "Wall of fame"
-- 7. The home front -- 8. Civil rights activist -- 9. From World War
to Cold War -- 10. Einstein and Robeson, II -- 11. "My friend, Doctor
Einstein" -- pt. II. Documents -- 1. Einstein's statements on race and
racism -- A. "To American Negroes," The Crisis, February 1932 -- B.
Address at the inauguration of the "Wall of fame" at the World's Fair
in New York, 1940 -- C. "The Negro Question," Pageant, January 1946 --
D. Speech to Lincoln University [Pennsylvania] students and faculty,
May 3, 1946 -- E. Letter to President Harry S. Truman on antilynching
law, September 1946 -- F. Message to the National Urban League,
September 16, 1946 -- G. On Walter White, October 1947 -- H. Interview
with the Cheney Record, October 1948 -- I. Message to the Southwide
Conference on discrimination in higher education, sponsored by the
Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), Atlanta University, 1950
-- J. Interview with Peter A. Bucky -- K. Correspondence from W.E.B. Du
Bois, 1951 -- 2. From Einstein's FBI file : on civil rights.
Ref 535.03 O62B, 2004 v.1, 2, 3, 4, 5
AUT Brown, Thomas G.
TIT The optics encyclopedia : basic foundations and practical applications.
PUB Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, c2004.
539.72 O29t, 2006
AUT Oerter, Robert.
TIT The theory of almost everything : the Standard Model, the unsung
triumph of modern physics.
PUB New York : Pi, 2006.
CON Contents: The first unifications -- Einstein's relativity and Noether's
theorem -- The end of the world as we know it -- (Im) probabilities --
The bizarre reality of QED -- Feynman's particles, Schwinger's fields
-- Welcome to the subatomic zoo -- The color of quarks -- The weakest
link -- The standard model, at last -- The edge of physics -- New
dimensions -- Appendix A: -- Quarks and the eightfold way -- Appendix
B: Asymptotic freedom -- Appendix C: Interactions of the standard
model.
Chem 540.7 B187e, 2005
AUT Ball, Philip.
TIT Elegant solutions : ten beautiful experiments in chemistry.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : Royal Society of Chemistry, c2005.
CON Contents: What is an experiment? What is beauty? -- Asking questions of
nature -- How does your garden grow? -- An element compounded -- New
light -- Radiation explained -- The elements came in one by one -- The
chemical theatre -- Posing new questions -- Molecules take shape --
Myths and romances -- Life and how to make it -- Not so noble -- The
art of making things -- Nature rebuilt -- Plato's molecules -- Chemical
aesthetics.
540.92 C475m, 2005
AUT Charles, Daniel.
TIT Master mind : the rise and fall of Fritz Haber, a Nobel laureate who
launched the age of chemical warfare. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Ecco, c2005.
CON Contents: Young Fritz -- Diversions and conversion -- Ambition -- Clara
-- Enthusiast -- Fixation -- Myths and miracles -- Empire Calls --
"Greatest period of his life" -- Like fire in the hands of children --
Dispossession.
541.224 W423v, 2005
AUT Weinhold, Frank ; Landis, Clark R.
TIT Valency and bonding : a natural bond orbital donor-acceptor
perspective.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction and theoretical background. -- Electrostatic and
ionic bonding. -- Molecular bonding in s/p-block elements. -- Molecular
bonding in the d-block elements. -- Supramolecular bonding. -- Appendix
A. Methods and basis sets. -- Appendix B. Chemical periodicity. --
Appendix C. Units.
Chem 541.0421 S636s3, 2005
AUT Smart, Lesley ; Moore, Elaine.
TIT Solid state chemistry : an introduction. - 3rd ed.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2005.
Chem 547.84 C456i, 2004
AUT Chandrasekhar, Vadapalli.
TIT Inorganic and organometallic polymers.
PUB Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2005.
Ref 551.5 E57c, 1997 v.1, 2, 3, 4
AUT Engelbert, Phillis.
TIT The complete weather resource.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : UXL, c1997-c2000.
CON Contents: v. 1. Understanding weather -- v. 2. Weather phenomena -- v.
3. Forecasting and climate -- v. 4. Recent developments in world
weather.
551.6 T241e, 2005
AUT Taylor, F. W.
TIT Elementary climate physics.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The climate system -- Solar radiation and the energy budget
of the earth -- Atmosphere and climate -- Clouds and aerosols -- Ocean
and climate -- Radiative transfer -- Earth's energy budget: the
'greenhouse' effect -- The ozone layer -- Climate observations by
remote sensing -- Climate sensitivity and change -- Climate models and
predictions -- Climate on other planets.
569.9 G975f, 2005
AUT Gundling, Tom.
TIT First in line : tracing our ape ancestry.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The great chain legacy -- Putting the chain in motion --
Finding missing links -- The southern ape -- Darwin redux.
577.18 L537a, 2005
AUT Leland, John.
TIT Aliens in the backyard : plant and animal imports into America.
PUB Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2005.
CON Contents: As American as Apple Pie: An Introduction to Weeds -- Out of
Africa: How Slavery Transformed the American Landscape and Diet -- A
Green Nightmare: The Un-American Lawn -- A Sow's Ear from a Silk Purse:
The Legacy of Sericulture -- Psychedelic Gardens: What Grandmother Grew
in Her Backyard -- Bad Air and Worse Science: Malaria's Gifts to
America -- Bioterror: Older Than You Think -- Cowboys: And Their Alien
Habits -- ... and Indians: Less Native Than You Think -- An Entangled
Bank: Roadside Weeds -- House Pests: Some of Those Who Share Your
Quarters -- It Seemed a Good Idea at the Time: The Well-intentioned
Ecological Disaster -- Misplaced Americans: As Rootless as the Humans
Who Invited Them In -- Gone Fishin': An Unnatural Pastime.
589.2 F981D, 2005
AUT Dighton, J. ; White, James F. ; Oudemans, Peter.
TIT The Fungal community : its organization and role in the ecosystem. -
3rd ed.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : Taylor & Francis, 2005.
SER Mycology series ; 23.
591.59 S439e, 2005
AUT Searcy, William A. ; Nowicki, Stephen.
TIT The evolution of animal communication : reliability and deception in
signaling systems.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
SER Monographs in behavior and ecology. Princeton paperbacks.
CON Contents: Signaling when interests overlap -- Signaling when interests
diverge -- Signaling when interests oppose -- Honesty and deception in
communication networks -- Conclusions.
591.7 N254s, 2005
AUT Naskrecki, Piotr.
TIT The smaller majority : the hidden world of the animals that dominate
the tropics.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
591.71 L322R, 2005
AUT Ray, Justina C.
TIT Large carnivores and the conservation of biodiversity.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2005.
595.7 I59D, 2006
AUT Drosopoulos, Sakis ; Claridge, Michael F ; Drosopoulos, Sakis.
TIT Insect sounds and communication : physiology, behaviour, ecology, and
evolution.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : Taylor & Francis, 2006.
SER Contemporary topics in entomology series.
CON Contents: Sound and techniques in sound analysis / Elias Eliopoulos --
The auditory-vibratory sensory system in bushcrickets / Wolfgang
Rössler, Martin Jatho and Klaus Kalmring -- Sense organs involved in
the vibratory communication of bugs / Andrej \u010Cokl, Meta
Virant-Doberlet and Maja Zorovi\u0107 -- Use of substrate vibrations
for orientation : from behaviour to physiology / Meta Virant-Doberlet,
Andrej \u010Cokl and Maja Zorovi\u0107 -- Size-frequency relationships
in insect vibratory signals / Reginald B. Cocroft and Paul De Luca --
Acoustic signals and temperature / Allen F. Sanborn -- Insect songs -
the evolution of signal complexity / Winston J. Bailey -- Song
evolution and speciation in bushcrickets / K.-G. Heller -- Acoustic
communication in neuropterid insects / Charles S. Henry -- Inheritance
of male sound characteristics in Drosophila species / Anneli Hoikkala
-- Vibratory communication and mate searching behaviour in stoneflies /
Kenneth W. Stewart and John B. Sandberg -- Communication by
substrate-borne vibrations in cave planthoppers / Hannelore Hoch and
Andreas Wessel -- Partitioning of acoustic transmission channels in
grasshopper communities / Maria Bukhvalova -- Insect species and their
songs / Jérôme Sueur -- Is migration responsible for the peculiar
geographical distribution and speciation based on acoustic divergence
of two cicadas in the Aegean Archipelago? / Sakis Drosopoulos, Elias
Eliopoulos and Penelope Tsakalou -- Acoustic evolutionary divergence in
cicadas : the species of Cicada L. in southern Europe / José A. Quartau
and Paula C. Simões -- Acoustic communication, mating behaviour and
hybridisation in closely related, pseudogamic and parthenogenetic
species of planthoppers / Sakis Drosopoulos -- Photoperiodism,
morphology and acoustic behaviour in the leafhopper genus, Euscelis /
Hildegard Strübing and Sakis Drosopoulos -- Mutual eavesdropping
through vibrations in a host-parasitoid interaction : from plant
biomechanics to behavioural ecology / Jérôme Casas and Christelle Magal
-- Vibratory signals produced by Heteroptera - Pentatomorpha and
Cimicomorpha / Matija Gogala -- Vibratory communication in Triatominae
(Heteroptera) / Claudio R. Lazzari, Gabriel Manrique and Pabla E.
Schilman -- Vibratory communication in treehoppers (Hemiptera:
Membracidae) / Reginald B. Cocraft and Gabriel D. McNett -- Acoustic
characters in the classification of higher taxa of Auchenorrhyncha
(Hemiptera) / D. Yu. Tishechkin -- Acoustic signals, diversity and
behaviour of cicadas (Cicadidae, Hemiptera) / Michel Boulard --
Vibratory communication and mating behaviour in the European lantern
fly, Dictyophara europea (Dictyopharidae, Hemiptera) / Hildegard
Strübing -- Vibratory communication in Psylloidea (Hemiptera) / D. Yu.
Tishechkin -- Mating behaviour and vibratory signals in whiteflies
(Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) / K. Kanmiya -- Communication by vibratory
signals in Diptera / K. Kanmiya -- Stridulation in the Coleoptera - an
overview / Andrea...
598.94 L727h, 2005
AUT Liguori, Jerry.
TIT Hawks from every angle : how to identify raptors in flight.
PUB Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Accipiters -- Northern harrier -- Buteos --
Falcons -- Vultures, osprey, eagles.
600 Applied Science, Business
Chem 604.7 B571h2, 2006
AUT Bevelacqua, Armando S.
TIT Hazardous materials chemistry. - 2nd ed.
PUB Clifton Park, N.Y. : Thomson Delmar Learning, c2006.
CON Contents: Chemical structure and physical effects -- Inorganic
compounds -- Organic compounds I : organic structure -- Organic
compounds II : nonpolar compounds -- Organic compounds III: polar
compounds -- Science officer's reference guide -- The the art of
infrared spectroscopy.
614.1 M393d, 2005
AUT Marzilli, Alan.
TIT DNA evidence.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Using DNA to solve crimes -- Point : prosecutors overstate
the reliability of DNA evidence -- Counterpoint : DNA evidence provides
a reliable basis for convictions -- Point : collecting DNA samples
threatens privacy -- Counterpoint : DNA profiling has the sole purpose
of solving actual crimes -- Point : DNA banks are growing too rapidly
-- Counterpoint : comprehensive DNA data banks are necessary for law
enforcement -- Point : the most pressing use for DNA evidence is
freeing the wrongly convicted -- Counterpoint : the most pressing use
for DNA evidence is solving cold cases -- The future of DNA evidence.
616.042 A176h, 2005
AUT Acharya, Tara ; Sankaran, Neeraja.
TIT The human genome sourcebook.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
616.85 B915t, 2005
AUT Bryant-Davis, Thema.
TIT Thriving in the wake of trauma : a multicultural guide.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.
SER Contributions in psychology. 0736-2714 ; no. 49.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Safety -- Self care -- Trust -- Shame and
self blame -- Memories -- Mourning the losses -- Anger -- Body image --
Sexuality -- Coping strategies -- Thriving.
616.89 B8141s, 2005
AUT Brainerd, Charles J ; Reyna, Valerie F.
TIT The science of false memory.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
SER Oxford psychology series. ; no. 38.
CON Contents: Your ancients -- Varieties of false memory : a modern
taxonomy -- Theoretical explanations of false memory -- Controlling
false memories with opponent processes : laboratory research with
adults -- Controlling false memories with opponent processes :
developmental research with children and adolescents -- False memory in
criminal investigation : adult interviewing and eyewitness
identification -- False memory in criminal investigation : child
interviewing and testimony -- False memory in psychotherapy -- Some
growing tips.
616.89 C324h, 2005 v.1, 2
AUT Carter, Robert T.
TIT Handbook of racial-cultural psychology and counseling.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2004-c2005.
CON Contents: v. 1. Theory and research -- v. 2. Training and practice.
616.89 H236G, 2005
AUT Gullotta, Thomas ; Adams, Gerald R. ; Ramos, Jessica.
TIT Handbook of adolescent behavioral problems : evidence-based approaches
to prevention and treatment.
PUB New York : Springer, c2005.
CON Contents: SECTION I. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW: Adolescent development
/ Gerald R. Adams -- Understanding primary prevention / Thomas P.
Gullotta -- Family influences on adolescent development / Gary W.
Peterson -- Community influences on adolescent development / Jill
Antonishak, Erin L. Sutfin, N. Dickon Reppucci -- Understanding
treatment: principles and approaches / Ronald Jay Werner-Wilson,
Kathleen M. Morrissey -- Evidence-based practices / Thomas L. Sexton,
Lynn Gilman, Christine Johnson-Erickson. SECTION II. DISORDERS: Anxiety
disorders in children and adolescents: theory, treatment, and
prevention / Patricia A. Graczyk, Sucheta D. Connolly, Feyza Corapci --
Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder / Melinda Corwin, Kirti N.
Kanitkar, Adam Schwebach, Miriam Mulsow -- Pediatric bipolar disorder /
Mani N. Pavuluri, Michael W. Naylor, John A. Sweeney -- Depression /
Clare Roberts, Brian Bishop -- Suicide / John Kalafat --
Obsessive-compulsive disorder / Andre P. Bessette -- Oppositional
defiant disorder and conduct disorder / Deboral M. Capaldi, J. Mark
Eddy -- Pervasive developmental delay / Raymond W. DuCharme, Kathleen
A. McGrady -- Prevention and treatment of post-traumatic stress
disorder in adolescents / Theresa Kruczek, Jill R. Salsman, Stephanie
Vitanza -- Schizophrenia / Judy A. McCown -- Eating disorders / Michael
P. Levine, Niva Piran -- Obesity / Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Cassandra Fink,
Christina Paxson. SECTION III. PROBLEM BEHAVIORS: Adolescent
delinquency and violent behavior / Daniel J. Flannery, David Hussey,
Eric Jefferis -- Substance misuse and abuse / Carl G. Leukefeld, Hope
M. Smiley McDonald, William W. Stoops, LaDonya Reed, Catherine Martin
-- Gambling / Tobias Hayer, Mark Griffiths, Gerhard Meyer -- Adolescent
sex offenders / Christina M. Camp, Laura F. Salazar, Ralph J.
DiClemente, Gina M. Wingood -- Sibling incest offenders / Laura F.
Salazar, Christina M. Camp, Ralph J. DiClemente, Gina M. Wingood --
Treatment of gangs / gang behavior in adolescence / Mark B. Borg, Jr.,
Michael R. Dalla -- Homicide / Michael J. Furlong, Vanessa M. Nyborg,
Jill D. Sharkey -- Adolescent pregnancy / Brent C. Miller, Rayna Sage,
Bryan Winward -- School failure / Peter W. Dowrick, Natalie Crespo --
Religious cults / Joseph L. Calles, Jr., Maritza Lagos, Tatyana Kharit,
Ahsan Nazeer, Jody Reed, Suhail Sheikh -- Epilogue / Thomas P.
Gullotta, Gerald R. Adams.
616.89 I68t, 2002
AUT Irigaray, Luce.
TIT To speak is never neutral.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2002.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Linguistic and specular communication --
Negation and negative transformations in the language of schizophrenics
-- Towards a grammar of enunciation for hysterics and obsessives -- On
phantasm and the verb -- Linguistic structures of kinship and their
perturbations in schizophrenia -- Sentence production among
schizophrenics and senile dementia patients -- The utterance in
analysis -- Class language, unconscious language -- The rape of the
letter -- Sex as sign -- Idiolect or other logic -- Does schizophrenic
discourse exist? -- Schizophrenics, or the refusal of schiz -- The
setting in psychoanalysis -- The poverty of psychoanalysis -- The
language of man -- The limits of transference -- In science, is the
subject sexed?.
616.8917 S518O, 2006
AUT Omoto, Allen Martin ; Kurtzman, Howard S.
TIT Sexual orientation and mental health : examining identity and
development in lesbian, gay, and bisexual people. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2006.
SER Contemporary perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual psychology.
616.994 M718P, 2006
AUT Pelengaris, Stella ; Khan, Michael ; Blasco, Maria.
TIT The molecular biology of cancer.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction / Stella Pelengaris, Mike Khan -- The burden of
cancer / William Steward, Anne Thomas -- Nature and nurture in
oncogenesis / Stella Pelengaris, Mike Khan -- DNA replication and the
cell cycle / Stella Pelengaris, Mike Khan -- Regulation of growth :
growth factors, receptors and signaling pathways / Stella Pelengaris,
Mike Khan -- Oncogenes / Stella Pelengaris, Mike Khan -- Tumour
suppressor genes / Martine Roussel -- Apoptosis / Stella Pelengaris,
Mike Khan -- Telomeres and senescence / Maria Blasco, Mike Khan.
Contents: Genetic instability, chromosomes and repair / Stella
Pelengaris, Mike Khan -- Cancer is more than a genetic condition /
Stella Pelengaris, Mike Khan -- Cell-matrix adhesion, cell-cell
interactions and metastases / Charles Streuli -- Tumor immunity and
immunotherapy / Cassian Yee -- Angiogenesis / David T. Shima,
Christiana Ruhrberg -- Diagnosis of cancer / Anne Thomas, William
Steward -- Treatment of cancer : chemotherapy and radiotherapy / A.L.
Thomas, R.A. Sharma, W.P. Steward -- Caring for the cancer patient /
Nicky Rudd, Esther Waterhouse -- Genomics and proteomics in cancer
research and diagnosis / Norbert C.J. de Witt.
628.11 C462w, 2005
AUT Chapelle, Frank.
TIT Wellsprings : a natural history of bottled spring waters.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: I: A history of bottled water -- water from the heart: Why
Americans drink bottled water -- Myths and mysteries: the geology of
springs -- Medicines and miracles: the chemistry of spring waters --
The urns of Cana: evolution of the bottle -- Hidden life, hidden death:
the microbiology of bottled water -- II: The business of bottled water
-- The winds of fashion: a history of drinking water -- Paying dues:
the bottled water business -- The battle of ice mountain: bottled water
and the law -- III: An endless sea -- An endless sea: regional geology
and the variety of spring waters -- Granites and glaciers: the
northeast -- The land of springs: Florida -- Desert crossings: the
southwest -- Silver clouds below: California and the Pacific northwest
-- Zen and the art of water quality: what makes "good" water good?.
635.09152 J12e v.1, 2
AUT Jacke, Dave ; Toensmeier, Eric.
TIT Edible forest gardens.
PUB White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub. Co., c2005-.
CON Contents: v. 1. Ecological vision and theory for temperate climate
permaculture -- v. 2. Ecological design and practice for temperate
climate permaculture.
646.78 P223i, 1999
AUT Parasuraman, Saroj ; Greenhaus, Jeffrey H.
TIT Integrating work and family : challenges and choices for a changing
world.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c1999.
CON Contents: The changing world of work and family / Saroj Parasuraman and
Jeffrey H. Greenhaus -- A panoramic view of work and family / Faith
Wohl -- Toward a comprehensive work/life strategy / Perry M.
Christensen -- The work-family issue from a consultant's perspective /
Tyler Phillips -- The role of a juggler / Susan Miller -- Managing
work-family tensions : a counseling perspective / Marianne O'Hare -- A
research perspective on work-family issues / Marcia Brumit Kropf --
Services and work-and-family life / Barbara A. Gutek -- An
international perspective on work-family issues / Suzan Lewis -- The
work-family interface in India / Meera Komarraju -- Cultural diversity
in organizations : implications for work-family initiatives / Donna
Klein -- A legal perspective on work-family issues / Eileen Drake --
Telecommuting as a response to helping people balance work and family /
Francine Riley and Donna Weaver McCloskey -- Family, sex, and career
advancement / Jeanne M. Brett -- Gaining legitimacy for flexible work
arrangements and career paths : the business case for public accounting
and professional services firms / Monique Connor, Karen Hooks, and
Terry McGuire -- The sex difference in employee inclinations regarding
work-family programs : why does it exist, should we care, and what
should be done about it (if anything)? / Gary N. Powell -- Visioning
the future / Ellen C. Bankert and Sharon A. Lobel -- Moving from
programs to culture change : the next stage for the corporate
work-family agenda / Dana E. Friedman and Arlene A. Johnson -- The
impact of corporate culture on work-family integration / Lotte Bailyn
-- Shared responsibility for managing work and family relationships : a
community perspective / Bradley K. Googins -- The integration of work
and family life : barriers and solutions / Jeffrey H. Greenhaus and
Saroj Parasuraman.
649.1 V511p, 2005
AUT Verhaagen, David Allan.
TIT Parenting the millennial generation : guiding our children born between
1982 and 2000.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.
CON Contents: Who is this millennial generation? -- A whole new world --
What, me worry? -- 10 traits of good parents -- Kids with a hope and a
future -- Risk factors --Introduction to protective factors --
Emotional protective factors -- Cognitive protective factors --
Academic protective factors -- Personality protective factors -- Social
protective factors -- Family protective factors.
Ref 650.03 F671u2, 2005
AUT Folsom, W. Davis.
TIT Understanding American business jargon : a dictionary. - 2nd ed.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2005.
658.3 D247t, 2005
AUT Davenport, Thomas H.
TIT Thinking for a living : how to get better performance and results from
knowledge workers.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2005.
CON Contents: What's a knowledge worker, anyway? -- How knowledge workers
differ, and the difference it makes -- Interventions, measures, and
experiments in knowledge work -- Knowledge work processes --
Organizational technology for knowledge workers -- Getting personal :
developing individual knowledge worker capabilities -- Investing in
knowledge workers' networks and learning -- The physical work
environment and knowledge worker performance -- Managing knowledge
workers.
658.3 H453a, 2006
AUT Hedge, Jerry W ; Borman, Walter C ; Lammlein, Steven E.
TIT The aging workforce : realities, myths, and implications for
organizations.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2006.
658.408 A167m, 2005
AUT Aburdene, Patricia.
TIT Megatrends 2010 : the rise of conscious capitalism.
PUB Charlottesville, Va. : Hampton Roads Pub. Co., c2005.
CON Contents: The power of spirituality-from personal to organizational --
The dawn of conscious capitalism -- Leading from the middle --
Spirituality in business -- The values-driven consumer -- The wave of
conscious solutions -- The "socially responsible" investment boom --
Conclusion: The spiritual transformation of capitalism.
658.47 M829s, 2006
AUT Moran, Mike ; Hunt, Bill.
TIT Search engine marketing, Inc. : driving search traffic to your
company's web site.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : IBM Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1: The basics of search marketing -- Why search marketing is
important...and difficult -- How search engines work -- How search
marketing works -- How searchers work -- 2: Develop your search
marketing program -- Identify your Web site's goals -- Measure your Web
site's success -- Measure your search marketing success -- Define your
search marketing strategy -- Sell your search marketing proposal -- 3:
Execute your search marketing program -- Get your site indexed --
Choose your target keywords -- Optimize your content -- Attract links
to your site -- Optimize your paid search program -- Make search
marketing operational -- What's next?.
658.87 S425c, 2005
AUT Scott, David Meerman.
TIT Cashing in with content : how innovative marketers use digital
information to turn browsers into buyers.
PUB Medford, N.J. : Information Today/CyberAge Books, 2005.
700 Art, Music, Sports
704.948 G498a
AUT Giorgi, Rosa ; Zuffi, Stefano.
TIT Angels and demons in art.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005.
SER Guide to imagery.
CON Contents: Creation and the geography of the next world -- The path of
evil -- The path of salvation -- The last days: judgment and reality --
The infernal cohorts -- The angelic cohorts.
720.973 C325i
AUT Carter, Thomas ; Cromley, Elizabeth C.
TIT Invitation to vernacular architecture : a guide to the study of
ordinary buildings and landscapes. - 1st ed.
PUB Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press, c2005.
SER Vernacular architecture studies.
CON Contents: Definitions -- Architectural investigations -- A framework
for analysis -- Vernacular architecture studies : interpreting the data
-- Invitation to the house on Richmond Avenue in Buffalo.
748.2 L888J
AUT Johnson, Marilynn ; Burlingham, Michael John ; Kahn, Michèle.
TIT Louis Comfort Tiffany : artist for the ages.
PUB London : Scala, 2005.
CON Contents: Louis Comfort Tiffany: a nineteenth-century artist / Marilynn
A. Johnson -- Tiffany's contemporaries: the evolution of the American
interior decorator / Nina Gray -- Tiffany in Europe: the view from
abroad / Rüdiger Joppien -- Iridescent Phoenix: the Tiffany revival /
Martin Filler -- Louis Comfort Tiffany: artist for the ages / Marilynn
A. Johnson.
759.13 F9114c
AUT Friedman, Martin L.
TIT Close reading : Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait.
PUB New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2005.
CON Contents: Portrait of the portraitist -- The day of infamy --
Beginnings -- SoHo immersion -- The chosen ones: Close's models --
Photographs into paintings -- Back to the studio -- The power grid --
The magic mark-marker -- Looking into himself: the self-portraits --
Revelations -- The first big one: the 1968 big self-portrait -- The
hairy revolutionary: the descendents of a 1975 photograph -- Mid-'70s
meditations -- Dotted faces: 1986 and 1987 -- Posthospital mirrorings
and phantoms: 1991-95 -- Color close-ups: 1996 and 1997 -- A Jovian
close: 2000-01 -- Back to raw basics: black-and-white masks, 2002-03 --
Simplifying the syntax: 2004-05 -- Behind his faces -- Close's artist
models -- Artists painting artists -- Richard Artschwager -- Francesco
Clemente -- Lyle Ashton Harris -- Jasper Johns -- Alex Katz -- Robert
Rauschenberg -- Lucas Samaras -- Cindy Sherman -- Kiki Smith -- William
Wegman.
759.9493 J23r
AUT Jaffé, David ; McGrath, Elizabeth ; Bradley, Amanda.
TIT Rubens : a master in the making.
PUB London : National Gallery Co. ; [New Haven, Conn.] : Distributed by
Yale University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Rubens: a master in the making / David Jaffe and Minna Moore
Ede -- Ruben's 'pocketbook': an introduction to the creative process /
David Jaffe with Amanda Bradley -- Words and thoughts in Ruben's early
drawings / Elizabeth McGrath -- The catalogue / David Jaffe -- 1. Early
ambitions as a battle painter -- 2. Rubens on the move -- 3. The
reworking of Rome -- 4. Rubens, the religious painter -- 5. Sequences:
building a composition -- 6. Back to Antwerp.
781.5 G619t
AUT Goldmark, Daniel.
TIT Tunes for 'toons : music and the Hollywood cartoon.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Carl Stalling and popular music in the Warner Bros. cartoons
-- "You really do beat the shit out of that cat" : Scott Bradley's
(violent) music for M-G-M -- Jungle jive : animation, jazz music, and
swing culture -- Corny concertos and silly symphonies : classical music
and cartoons -- What's opera, doc? and cartoon opera.
781.62 W433w
AUT Weissman, Dick.
TIT Which side are you on? : an inside story of the folk music revival in
America.
PUB New York : Continuum, c2005.
CON Contents: Guardians of the folk : the folklorists and folk song
collectors -- Protest music before the folk revival of the sixties --
People's artists, the Weavers, the blacklist, and the beginning of the
folk-pop revival, 1949-52 -- The pop-folk revival, 1955-64 -- The urban
revivalists : the New York scene, 1950-65 -- The revival outside the
Big Apple, 1950-65 -- Music, the civil rights movement, and the folk
"superstars" -- Folk-rock, country rock, and the singer-songwriters --
The seventies : singer-songwriters and women's music : the revival
transformed -- Roots and branches -- Roots and branches, part two :
ethnicity -- The folk music business -- Up to now -- Today and tomorrow
: what's going on.
Ref 781.65 B596D, 2005
AUT Drozdowski, Ted ; Mandel, Howard ; Scofield, John.
TIT The Billboard illustrated encyclopedia of jazz & blues.
PUB New York : Billboard Books, 2005.
785.42 L763b
AUT Lion, Jean Pierre.
TIT Bix : the definitive biography of a jazz legend : Leon "Bix"
Beiderbecke (1903-1931).
PUB New York : Continuum, 2005.
CON Contents: Origins -- 1921: At school in Chicago -- 1922: Music above
all else -- 1923: Birth of the wolverines -- 1924: In the studio-and in
New York -- 1925: Frank Trumbauer -- 1926: The happy year -- 1927:
"Singin' the Blues," the consecration -- 1928: The crack-up -- 1929:
Toward the fall -- 1930: Final recordings -- 1931: A rotten summer.
791.4302 H947t Popular Reading
AUT Hunter, Tab ; Muller, Eddie.
TIT Tab Hunter confidential : the making of a movie star. - 1st ed.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005.
791.4302 M167f
AUT McMahan, Alison.
TIT The films of Tim Burton : animating live action in contemporary
Hollywood.
PUB New York : Continuum, 2005.
CON Contents: Burton does 2-D: from animation to machinima -- Burton and
narrative: from his television work to Big fish -- Burton does 3-D:
Hollywood's transition to CGI -- Burton's Batmans: myth, marketing, and
merchandising -- Burton's reimaginings: Ed Wood, Planet of the apes,
and Charlie and the chocolate factory -- The music of Danny Elfman --
Other pataphysical directors.
791.4302 M873j
AUT Morrey, Douglas.
TIT Jean-Luc Godard.
PUB Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York :
Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2005.
SER French film directors.
CON Contents: Necessity or contingency: Godard as film critic, 1950-59 --
Scenes from domestic life: 1960-65 -- Outside: 1960-62 -- End of the
beginning/beginning of the end: 1966-67 -- Schooling: 1968-72 -- Home
movies: 1974-78 -- Love and work: 1979-84 -- Smiling with regret:
1984-90 -- The sense of an ending: 1991-96 -- Old man river: 1998- .
791.4309 B534s
AUT Berry, Michael.
TIT Speaking in images : interviews with contemporary Chinese filmmakers.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.
SER Global Chinese culture.
CON Contents: Xie Jin: six decades of cinematic innovation -- Tian
Zhuangzhuang: stealing horses and flying kites -- Chen Kaige:
historical revolution and cinematic rebellion -- Zhang Yimou: flying
colors -- Zhang Yuan: working up a sweat in a celluloid sauna -- Wang
Xiaoshuai: banned in China -- Jia Zhangke: capturing a transforming
reality -- Li Yang: the future of Chinese cinema? -- Hou Hsiao-hsien
with Chu T'ien-wen: words and images -- Edward Yang: luckily unlucky --
Wu Nien-jen: writing Taiwan in the shadows of cultural colonialism --
Ang Lee: freedom in film -- Tsai Ming-liang: trapped in the past --
Chang Tso-chi: shooting from the margins -- Ann Hui: living through
films -- Stanley Kwan: from spectral nostalgia to corporeal desire --
Fruit Chan: Hong Kong independent -- Peter Ho-sun Chan: pioneering
pan-Asian cinema -- Evans Chan: the last of the Chinese.
791.4309 K52a
AUT King, Geoff.
TIT American independent cinema.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction: How independent? -- Industry. -- Narrative. --
Form. -- Genre. -- Alternative visions: social, political and
ideological dimensions of independent cinema. -- Coda: Merging with the
mainstream, or staying indie?.
791.436 W724e
AUT Williams, Linda Ruth.
TIT The erotic thriller in contemporary cinema.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Carnal crimes: The erotic thriller from noir to the 1990s --
Blockbuster thrills: erotic noir in the mainstream -- Definitions and
precursors -- Femme fatales, fall-guys and paranoid women: sexual and
narrative blueprints -- 'Meisters of porno-noir' - key players in the
cinematic erotic thriller -- Suspense in suspenders: the direct -to
video erotic thriller -- Softcore on the sofa -- The bad and the
beautiful: key players in the direct-to-video erotic thriller --
Uncovered and undercover: issues in the direct-to-video erotic thriller
-- The erotic thriller's hybrid children.
791.437 P467
TIT Perspectives on The Passion of the Christ : religious thinkers and
writers explore the issues raised by the controversial movie. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Miramax Books, [2004].
791.4372 J58C
AUT Corley, Kathleen E. ; Webb, Robert L.
TIT Jesus and Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ : the film, the
gospels and the claims of history.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, 2004.
CON Contents: Introduction : The passion, the gospels and the claims of
history / Robert L. Webb and Kathleen E. Corley -- pt. 1. The passion
as a film-viewing experience : responding to thefilm as a whole. Hymn
to a savage god / John Dominic Crossan -- The power of The passion :
reacting and over-reacting to Gibson's artistic vision / Mark Goodacre
-- pt. 2. The passion as story : evaluating the film's characterization
and plot. The flashbacks in The passion : story and discourse as a
means of explanation / Robert L. Webb -- The betrayal of Jesus and the
death of Judas / Scot McKnight -- Satan and the demons / Mark Allan
Powell -- Mary and the other women characters / Kathleen E. Corley --
The Jewish leaders / Alan F. Segal -- Pilate and the Romans / Helen K.
Bond -- The trials of Jesus / Glenna S. Jackson -- The procession and
the crucifixion / Craig A. Evans -- pt. 3. The passion as art :
considering the film's artistic influences. The passion in the History
of Jesus films / W. Barnes Tatum -- The passion, classical art and
re-presentation / David J. Goa -- The passion and the influence of
Emmerich's The dolorous passion of our Lord Jesus Christ / Robert L.
Webb -- Conclusion : The passion, the gospels and the claims of history
/ Kathleen E. Corley and Robert L. Webb.
791.456 A559r
AUT Andrejevic, Mark.
TIT Reality TV : the work of being watched.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004.
SER Critical media studies.
791.456 H645r
AUT Hill, Annette.
TIT Reality TV : audiences and popular factual television.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
CON Contents: Understanding reality TV -- The rise of reality TV -- The
reality genre -- Performance and authenticity -- The idea of learning
-- Ethics of care -- Pet deaths -- Story of change.
791.456 S623D
AUT Dalton, Mary M. ; Linder, Laura R.
TIT The sitcom reader : America viewed and scewed [sic].
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Origins of the genre : in search of the radio sitcom / David
Marc -- Breaking and entering : transgressive comedy on television /
Michael V. Tueth -- American situation comedies and the modern comedy
of manners / David Pierson -- Who rules the roost? Sitcom family
dynamics from the Cleavers to the Osbournes / Judy Kutulas -- From
Ozzie to Ozzy : the reassuring nonevolution of the sitcom family /
Laura R. Linder -- Against the organization man : The Andy Griffith
show and the small-town family ideal / John O'Leary and Rick Worland --
I love Lucy : television and gender in postwar domestic ideology / Lori
Landay -- Our Miss Brooks : situating gender in teacher sitcoms / Mary
M. Dalton -- Talking sex : comparison shopping through female
conversation in HBO's Sex and the city / Sharon Marie Ross -- The
hidden truths in Black sitcoms / Robin R. Means Coleman and Charlton D.
McIlwain -- Segregated sitcoms : institutional causes of disparity
among Black and white comedy images and audiences / Amanda Dyanne Lotz
-- Negotiated boundaries : production practices and the making of
representation in Julia / Demetria Rougeaux Shabazz -- Ellen : coming
out and disappearing / Valerie V. Peterson -- Sealed with a kiss :
heteronormative strategies in NBC's Will & Grace / Denis M. Provencher
-- Poofs--cheesy and other : identity politics as commodity in South
Park / Karen Anijar, Hsueh-hua Vivian Chen, and Thomas E. Walker --
Women, love, and work : The Doris Day show as cultural dialogue /
Phyllis Scrocco Zrzavy -- Liberated women and new sensitive men :
reconstructing gender in the 1970s workplace comedies / Judy Kutulas --
"Who's in charge here?" : views of media ownership in situation
comedies / Paul R. Kohl -- Sex and the sitcom : gender and genre in
millennial television / Christine Scodari -- Cheers : searching for the
ideal public sphere in the ideal public house / Robert S. Brown --
"It's just a bunch of stuff that happened" : the Simpsons and the
possibility of postmodern comedy / H. Peter Steeves.
791.456 S744w
AUT Spence, Louise.
TIT Watching daytime soap operas : the power of pleasure.
PUB Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2005.
791.8 M168c Popular Reading
AUT McMurtry, Larry.
TIT The colonel and Little Missie : Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the
beginnings of superstardom in America.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.
CON Contents: The tropes -- The troupes -- Annie -- Grandmother England --
Western heroes, heroines, and villains.
792.0973 D921h
AUT Dunlap, William ; Miller, Tice L.
TIT A history of the American theatre from its origins to 1832.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2005.
796.04 M393a
AUT Marzilli, Alan.
TIT Amateur athletics.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Amateur athletics versus economic reality --
High-profile athletic programs benefit universities -- The
commercialization of athletics harms universities -- College athletics
provide opportunities for students -- Athletic programs exploit young
people, especially minorities -- Athletes deserve a share of the money
in big-time sports -- Student-athletes should not be allowed to profit
from college sports -- Requiring equality between men's and women's
athletics is impractical -- Fairness requires universities to spend
equally on men's and women's athletics -- The future of college
athletics.
800 Literature
801.93 S559M
AUT Massumi, Brian.
TIT A shock to thought : expression after Deleuze and Guattari.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
808.066 M648c
AUT Miller, Jane E.
TIT The Chicago guide to writing about multivariate analysis.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Principles -- Seven basic principles -- Causality,
statistical significance, and substantive significance -- Five more
technical principles -- Tools -- Creating effective tables -- Creating
effective charts -- Choosing effective examples and analogies -- Basic
types of quantitative comparisons -- Quantitative comparisons for
multivariate models -- Choosing how to present statistical test results
-- Pulling it all together -- Writing introductions, conclusions, and
abstracts -- Writing about data and methods -- Writing about
distributions and associations -- Writing about multivariate models --
Speaking about multivariate analyses -- Writing for applied audiences.
808.3 C737
AUT Seed, David.
TIT A companion to science fiction.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
SER Blackwell companions to literature and culture. ; 34.
CON Contents: Introduction : Approaching science fiction -- pt. I.
Surveying the field. Hard reading : the hard reading : the challenges
of science fiction / Tom Shippey -- The origins of science fiction /
George Slusser -- Science fiction/criticism / Istvan Csicsery-Ronay,
Jr. -- Science-fiction magazines : the crucibles of change / MIke
Ashley -- pt. II. Topics and debates. Utopia / Phillip E. Wegner --
Science, fiction and religion / Stephen R.L. Clark -- "Monsters of the
imagination" : Gothic,science, fiction / Fred Botting -- Science
fiction and ecology / Brian Stableford -- Feminist fabulation / Marleen
S. Barr -- Time and identity in feminist science fiction / Jenny
Wolmark -- Science fiction and the Cold War / M. Keith Booker -- pt.
III. Genres and movements. Hard science fiction / Gary Westfahl -- The
new wave / Rob Latham -- Cyberpunk / Mark Bould -- Science fiction and
postmodernism / Veronica Hollinger -- The renewal of "hard" science
fiction / Donald M. Hassler -- pt. IV. Science fiction film. American
science fiction film : an overview / Vivian Sobchack -- Figurations of
the cyborg in contemporary science fiction novels and fiction /
Christine Cornea -- British television science fiction / Peter Wright
-- pt. V. The international scene. Canadian science fiction / Douglas
Barbour -- Japanese and Asian science fiction / Takayuki Tatsumi --
Australian science fiction / Van Ikin and Sean McMullen.
pt. VI. Key writers. The grandeur of H.G. Wells / Robert
Crossley -- Isaac Asimov / John Clute -- John Wyndham : the facts of
life sextet / David Ketterer -- Philip Dick / Christopher Palmer --
Samuel Delaney : a biographical and critical overview / Carl Freedman
-- Ursula K. Le Guin / Warren G. Rochelle -- Gwyneth Jones
anxietiesanxities of science fiction / Andy Sawyer -- Arthur C. Clarke
/ Edward James -- Greg Egan / Russell Blackford -- pt. VII. Readings.
Mary Shelley : Frankenstein : or, the modern Prometheus / Susan E.
Lederer and Richard M. Ratzan -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman : Herland /
Jill Rudd -- Aldous Huxley : Brave new world / David Seed -- Ray
Bradbury : Fahrenheit 451 / Brian Baker -- Joanna Russ : The female man
/ Jeanne Cortiel -- J.G. Ballard : Crash / Roger Luckhurst -- Margaret
Atwood : The handmaid's tale / Faye Hammill -- William Gibson :
Neuromancer / Andrew M. Butler -- Kim Stanley Robinson : Mars trilogy /
Carol Franko -- Iain M. Banks : Excession / Farah Mendlesohn.
808.82 P723B
AUT Brockett, Oscar Gross ; Ball, Robert J.
TIT Plays for the theatre : a drama anthology. - 8th ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2004.
SER Wadsworth series in theatre.
CON Contents: Oedipus Rex / Sophocles -- Noah and his sons / Anonymous --
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark / William Shakespeare -- The servant of two
masters / Carlo Goldoni -- Tartuffe / Moliere -- A doll's house /
Henrik Ibsen -- "The hairy ape" / Eugene O'Neill -- The good woman of
Setzuan / Bertolt Brecht, revised by Eric Bentley -- Cat on a hot tin
roof / Tennessee Williams -- Happy days / Samuel Beckett -- Ma Rainey's
Black Bottom / August Wilson -- Roosters / Milcha Sanchez-Scott -- How
I learned to drive / Paula Vogel -- The shrine in the fields /
attributed to Zeami Motokiyo -- The strong breed / Wole Soyinka.
Ref 809.89 O98Z, 2006 v.1, 2, 3, 4
AUT Zipes, Jack David.
TIT The Oxford encyclopedia of children's literature.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. Aamu-Duan -- v. 2. Dubo-Lowr -- v. 3. Luca-Slot -- v.
4. Smad-Zwer, index.
Ref 810.9896 B878e, 2006
AUT Brown, Lois.
TIT The encyclopedia of the Harlem literary renaissance.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2006.
810.9897 C178
AUT Porter, Joy ; Roemer, Kenneth M.
TIT The Cambridge companion to Native American literature.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
811.09 A512B
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT American women poets, 1650-1950.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002.
SER Modern critical views.
CON Contents: Anne Bradstreet: "No rhet'ric we expect": argumentation in
Bradstreet's "The prologue" / Jane Donahue Eberwein -- Emily Dickinson:
Emily Dickinson: a voice of war / Shira Wolosky -- "Ransom in a voice":
language as defense in Dickinson's poetry / Joanne Feit Diehl -- Et in
Arcadia ego: representation, death, and the problem of boundary in
Emily Dickinson / Sharon Cameron -- Gertrude Stein: Two types of
obscurity in the writings of Gertrude Stein / Randa K. Dubnick -- H.D.
(Hilda Doolitle): The concept of projection: H.D.'s visionary powers /
Adalaide Morris -- Marianne Moore: The "feminine" language of Marianne
Moore / Bonnie Costello -- Emphatic reticence in Marianne Moore's poems
/ David Bromwich -- Louise Bogan: The problem of the woman artist:
Louise Bogan, "The alchemist" / Diane Wood Middlebrook -- "The
repressed becomes the poem": landscape and quest in two poems by Louise
Bogan / Sandra Cookson.
811.52 R641
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Robert Hayden.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Image and idea in the poetry
of Robert Hayden / Constance J. Post -- Angle of ascent : the poetry of
Robert Hayden / Lewis Turco -- "Middle passage" : Robert Hayden's
anti-epic / Fred M. Fetrow -- After modernism, after hibernation :
Michael Harper, Robert Hayden, and Jay Wright / Robert B. Stepto --
Covenant of timelessness and time : symbolism and history in Robert
Hayden's Angle of ascent / Wilburn Williams, Jr -- Robert Hayden's use
of history / Charles T. Davis -- Robert Hayden's meditation on art :
the final sequence of Words in the mourning time / Fritz Oehlschlaeger
-- Changing permanences : historical and literary revisionism in Robert
Hayden's "Middle passage" / Vera M. Kutzinski -- A ballad of
rememberance (1962) / Pontheolla T. Williams -- Answering The waste
land : Robert Hayden and the rise of the African-American poetic
sequence / Brian Conniff -- Robert Hayden's Detroit blues elegies /
Frank Rashid -- Something patterned, wild, and free : Robert Hayden's
Angles of descent and the democratic unconscious / Edward M. Pavlic --
Chronology.
811.54 J42
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Jay Wright.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2004.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
812.52 B824a
AUT Brater, Enoch.
TIT Arthur Miller : a playwright's life and works : with 70 black and white
illustrations.
PUB London : Thames & Hudson, 2005.
812.54 C178E
AUT Bottoms, Stephen J.
TIT The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
SER Cambridge companions to literature.
812.54 D249B
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT David Mamet.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, 2004.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Sexual perversity in Chicago / Anne Dean -- David Mamet and
Ben Jonson : city comedy past and present / Douglas Bruster -- Jewish
aporia : the rhythm of talking in Mamet / Toby Silverman Zinman -- Man
among men : David Mamet's homosocial order / David Radavich -- David
Mamet / Edward J. Esche -- Anti-theatricality and American ideology :
Mamet's performative realism / Michael L. Quinn -- Plato in Hollywood :
David Mamet and the power of illusions / Howard Pearce -- Gathering
sparks / Leslie Kane -- David Mamet : all true stories / C.W.E. Bigsby
-- Oleanna and The children's hour : misreading sexuality on the
post/modern realistic stage / David Kennedy Sauer -- Prophecy and
parody in Edmond / Richard Brucher -- Reinscribing the "Fairy" : the
knife and the mystification of male mythology in the Cryptogram / Linda
Dorff.
812.54 P166g
AUT Paller, Michael.
TIT Gentlemen callers : Tennessee Williams, homosexuality, and
mid-twentieth century Broadway drama.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
CON Contents: The signs are interior -- Blue as my first lover's eyes --
The time and world that I live in -- Something kept on ice -- A true
story of our time -- Almost willfully out of contact with the world --
"Before my clean heart has grown dirty.".
812.54 T667
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Tony Kushner.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Communism is dead : long live
the king! / Mark Steyn -- Ambivalence, Utopia, and a queer sort of
materialism : how Angels in America reconstructs the nation / David
Savran -- Angels in America : Tony Kushner's theses on the philosophy
of history / Charles McNulty -- Notes on Angels in America as American
epic theater / Janelle Reinelt -- Alla, Angli, and Angels in America /
Allen J. Frantzen -- Angels, monsters, and Jews : intersections of
Queer and Jewish identity in Kushner's Angels in America / Jonathan
Freedman -- Angels in America as medieval mystery / Benilde Montgomery
-- The progress of death in the land of pure delight : Hydriotaphia, or
The death of Dr. Browne / James Fisher -- A prophet in his time :
premonition and reality in Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul / James
Reston, Jr. -- Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul : staging history in a
post-colonial world / Framji Minwalla.
813.3 M495u
AUT Meer, Sarah.
TIT Uncle Tom mania : slavery, minstrelsy, and transatlantic culture in the
1850s.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Topsy and the end man: blackface in Uncle Tom's Cabin --
Minstrel variations: uncle toms in the minstrel show -- Copycat
critics: the anti-tom novel and the fugitive slave -- Minstrelsy,
melodrama, and reform drama: Uncle Tom plays in New York -- Uncle Tom
in London: British dramatizations -- Tom mania in Britain: the Stafford
House address and "real uncle toms" -- Foreign manners and memories:
Tom mania and transatlantic literature -- Answering the "answers": Tom
mania and Stowe's Dred.
813.509 H772e
AUT Honeyman, Susan.
TIT Elusive childhood : impossible representations in modern fiction.
PUB Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: A childhood studies primer -- Refocusing representations --
Childhood bound -- Reversing development -- Disrupting discourse -- The
possibilities of unknowing.
813.52 B344w
AUT Bauer, Margaret Donovan.
TIT William Faulkner's legacy : "what shadow, what stain, what mark".
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, 2005.
CON Contents: Crossing the tracks of the Dixie limited: overcoming anxiety
of influence and filling in the blanks -- Cross-country corpses in
Faulkner, Barthelme, and McMurtry -- Miss Jane is still not in the
history books: gender, race, and class discrimination in the fiction of
Faulkner and Gaines -- The sterile new south: Hurston's contemporaneous
deconstruction of the paradigm -- Resounding truths in Absalom Absalom!
and Song of Solomon: exploring epistemology with Faulkner and Morrison
-- No mere endurance here: the prevailing woman's voice in Lee Smith's
Oral history -- Rape fantasies vs. rape realities: more skeletons
coming out of southern closets -- Don't just sit there; do something:
frustration with Faulkner from Glasgow to Gautreaux.
813.52 T623a
AUT Titus, Mary.
TIT The ambivalent art of Katherine Anne Porter.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The princess of art -- Fairy tales and foreigners --
Beautiful objects -- Seeking the mother tongue -- A little stolen
holiday -- Rumors and representations -- Romantic love -- Gender and
costume -- Southern belle, southern lady -- No safe harbor.
813.52 U58k
AUT Unrue, Darlene Harbour.
TIT Katherine Anne Porter : the life of an artist. - 1st ed.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
SER Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
CON Contents: Indian creek (1890-1892) -- Catharine Ann Skaggs Porter
(1892) -- The fiery furnace (Autumn 1892-Autumn 1902) -- Adolescence
(Autumn 1902-Spring 1906) -- Marriage (Spring 1906-February 1914) --
The wild dash for Texas (February 1914-May 1918) -- Apocalypse in
Denver (May 1918-October 1919) -- Greenwich Village (October
1919-October 1920) -- Revolutionary Mexico (October-December 1920) --
Adventure and betrayal in Mexico (January-August 1921) -- Mexican
bounty: the end of an apprenticeship (August 1921-September 1923) --
Friends and lovers in New York and Connecticut (September 1923-April
1927) -- Boston and Salem: witch-hunts and ancestors (April 1927-August
1928) -- Escape to Bermuda (August 1928-Spring 1930) -- Relinquishing
Mexico (Spring 1930-August 1931) -- The German interval (August
1931-January 1932) -- Paris, Madrid, Basel (February-December 1932) --
Paris (December 1932-January 1936) -- Going home (January 1936-April
1938) -- Transition from marriage to independence (April 1938-December
1941) -- "Ah, the house...the house" (January 1941-August 1942) --
South hill and Washington, D.C. (August 1942-January 1945) --
California (January 1945-September 1949) -- New York City and France:
the end of something (September 1949-September 1952) -- Michigan and
Belgium (September 1952-February 1955) -- Ship of fools: the end of a
long voyage (February 1955-September 1961) -- Success and failure in
the aftermath of a novel (September 1961-December 1966) -- Spring
Valley and College Park (January 1967-December 1971) -- Return to Texas
(January 1972-May 1976) -- The last candles (May 1976-September 1980).
813.54 P324
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Paul Auster.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: The bureau of missing persons : notes on Paul Auster's
fiction / Charles Baxter -- "How to get out of the room that is the
book?" Paul Auster and the consequences of confinement / Stephen
Fredman -- Paul Auster, or the heir intestate / Pascal Bruckner -- Paul
Auster's The invention of solitude : glimmers in a reach to
authenticity / William Dow -- The revenge of the author : Paul Auster's
challenge to theory / John Zilcosky -- The novel of critical engagement
: Paul Auster's City of glass / William Lavender -- Deconstructing The
New York trilogy: Paul Auster's anti-detective fiction / Alison Russell
-- Chance in contemporary narrative : the example of Paul Auster /
Steven E. Alford -- "Looking for signs in the air" : urban space and
the postmodern in In the country of last things -- Tim Woods -- The end
is only imaginary -- Padgett Powell -- A book at the end of the world :
Paul Auster's In the country of last things -- Katharine washburn --
Inside Moon palace / Steven Weisenburger -- Doubles and more doubles /
Bruce Bawer -- Exploding fictions / Aliki Varvogli -- From metonymy to
metaphor : Paul Auster's Leviathan / Linda L. Fleck -- Austerity
measures : Paul Auster goes to the dogs / Steven G. Kellman.
813.54 P966c
AUT Prose, Francine.
TIT A changed man : a novel. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
813.54 P966g
AUT Prose, Francine.
TIT Guided tours of hell : novellas. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 1997.
CON Contents: Guided tours of hell -- Three pigs in five days.
813.54 T665B2
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Toni Morrison.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Lady no longer sings the blues : rape, madness, and silence
in The bluest eye / Madonne M. Miner -- Like an eagle in the air : Toni
Morrison / Melvin Dixon -- The self and the other : reading Toni
Morrison's Sula and the black female text / Deborah E. McDowell -- A
different remembering : memory, history and meaning in Toni Morrison's
Beloved / Marilyn Sanders Mobley -- Sula : within and beyond the
African-American folk tradition / Trudier Harris -- Putting it all
together : attempted unification in Song of solomon / Philip Page --
Speaking the unspeakable : shame, trauma, and Morrison's fiction / J.
Brooks Bouson -- Contentions in The house of Chloe : Morrison's tar
baby / Maria DiBattista -- Sensations of loss / Michael Wood -- Missing
peace in Toni Morrison's Sula and Beloved / Rachel C. Lee.
813.54 W717
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT William Gaddis.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
813.6 C952c
AUT Crouse, David.
TIT Copy cats : stories.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2005.
SER Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
CON Contents: Kopy kats -- Morte infinita -- Click -- Crybaby -- Swimming
in the dark -- Code -- The ugliest boy -- Retreat.
814.36 E53sßB
AUT Emerson, Ralph Waldo ; Bosco, Ronald A ; Myerson, Joel.
TIT The selected lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The uses of natural history (1833-1835) -- Humanity of
science (1836-1848) -- Ethics (1837-1840) -- An address delivered at
Providence, Rhode Island, on the occasion of the opening of the Greene
Street School (10 June 1837) -- Human culture : introductory lecture
read at the Masonic Temple in Boston (1837-1838) -- Genius (1839) --
The poet (1841-1842) -- New England : genius, manners, and customs
(1843-1844) -- The spirit of the times (1848-1856) -- The tendencies
and duties of men of thought (1848-1850) -- England (1848-1852) --
Address to the citizens of Concord on the fugitive slave law (1851) --
The Anglo-American (1852-1855) -- Poetry and English poetry (1854) --
Address at the woman's rights convention (1855) -- Country life,
Concord (1857) -- Powers of the mind (1858) -- Morals (1859) -- Reform
(1860) -- Essential principles of religion (1862) -- Perpetual forces
(1862-1863) -- The scholar (1863) -- Fortune of the republic
(1863-1864) -- Resources (1864-1871) -- The rule of life (1867-1871).
818.52 D114e
AUT Dabney, Lewis M.
TIT Edmund Wilson : a life in literature. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005.
CON Contents: Edmund Wilson, Jr. -- The twenties -- On the left -- "E. W.
and M. McC." -- A second flowering -- "My books live, I am ceasing to
live.".
820.8 R156m
AUT Rainey, Lawrence S.
TIT Modernism : an anthology.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2005.
SER Blackwell anthologies.
paper).
822.33 W719B
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT William Shakespeare.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Masterpieces / Frank O'Connor -- The Invention of Richard of
Gloucester in 3 Henry VI and Richard III / E. Pearlman -- Shakespeare:
Errors and Er\u014Ds / Erich Segal -- Romantic Comedy and Farce: The
Taming of the Shrew / Harold Bloom -- Love's Labour's Lost: The Grace
of Society / Thomas M. Greene -- The Meaning of Shakespeare: Romeo and
Juliet / Harold C. Goddard -- A Midsummer Night?s Dream / G.K.
Chesteron -- The Bolingbroke Plays / Northrop Frye -- The Rejection of
Falstaff / A.C. Bradley -- The Merchant of Venice: Merging with a
Perfect World / Joseph Westlund -- Much Ado About Nothing: the
unsociable comedy / Barbara Everett -- Shakespeare's Characters: Henry
V and Coriolanus / William Hazlitt -- "Alexander the Pig": Shakespeare
on History and Poetry / David Quint -- Julius Caesar / Lawrence Danson
-- As You Like It and the Containment of Comical Satire / James P.
Bednarz -- Twelfth Night and the Morality of Indulgence / John
Hollander -- Superposed Plays: Hamlet / Richard A. Lanham -- Dilation
and Inflation: Shakespearean Increase in All's Well That Ends Well and
Troilus and Cressida / Patricia Parker -- Measure for Measure: The
Flesh Made Word / Ronald R. Macdonald -- Dramatic Intentions in Othello
/ Graham Bradshaw -- Nothing Begets Nothing: King Lear / Harold Bloom
-- Macbeth / William Empson -- Nature's Piece 'gainst Fancy: Poetry and
the Structure of Belief in Antony and Cleopatra / Janet Adelman -- The
Poetics of Incomphrensibility: The Winter's Tale / Stephen Orgel -- Two
Concepts of Allegory in The Tempest / A.D. Nuttall.
823.89 R641
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Robert Louis Stevenson.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: The Style of Stevenson / G.K. Chesterton -- R.L.S. Revisited
/ Leslie A. Fiedler -- The Aesthetics of Adventure / Robert Kiely --
The House of God / Edwin M. Eigner -- Stevenson and Scottish Fiction:
The Importance of The Master of Ballantrae / Douglas Gifford -- Author
and Narrator in Weir of Hermiston / K.G. Simpson -- Children of the
Night: Stevenson and Patriarchy / William Veeder -- James and
Stevenson: The Mixed Current of Realism and Romance / George Dekker --
The Sedulous Ape: Atavism, Professionalism, and Stevenson's Jekyll and
Hyde / Stephen Arata -- Treasure Island: The Parrot's Tale / Alan
Sandison -- On A Child's Garden of Verses / John Hollander -- Piracy
and Exchange: Stevenson's Pacific Fiction / Vanessa Smith.
823.89 S848d
AUT Stevenson, Robert Louis.
TIT Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde : with other great tales of mystery and
adventure.
PUB New York : Platt & Munk, c1965.
SER The great writers collection.
CON Contents: Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- The Sire de
Malétroit's door -- Markheim -- The bottle imp -- The merry men -- A
lodging for the night -- The body snatcher -- The beach of Falesá --
Young man with the cream tarts -- The adventure of the hansom cab --
The isle of voices.
823.912 H111
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT H.G. Wells.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, 2004.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: H.G. Wells and the scientific imagination / W. Warren Wagar
-- Charles Kingsley, H.G. Wells, and the machine in Victorian fiction /
Colin Manlove -- Eat or be eaten: H.G. Wells's Time machine / Kathryn
Hume -- The de-forming in-struction of Wells's The wonderful visit and
The sea lady / William J. Scheick -- H.G. Wells: problems of an amorous
utopian / John Huntington -- The conception of science in Wells's The
invisible man / Robert Sirabian -- The invisible man and the invisible
hand: H.G. Wells's critique of capitalism / Paul A. Cantor -- The
grotesque in Wells's The invisible man / Bruce Beiderwell -- Wifely
silence and speech in three marriage novels by H.G. Wells / Janice H.
Harris -- Wasted value: the serial logic of H.G. Wells's Tono-Bungay /
William Kupinse -- H.G. Wells's "liberal fascism" / Philip Coupland --
Heart of darkness and the early novels of H.G. Wells: evolution,
anarchy, entropy / Patrick A. McCarthy.
824.91 G111
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT G.K. Chesterton.
PUB New York : Chelsea House Publishers, c2006.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
832.62 J65
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Goethe the novelist / Hans Rudolph Vaget -- Revolutionary
realism in Goethe's Wanderjahre / Ehrhard Bahr -- Wilhelm Meisters
Lehrjahre and the poetic unity of the novel in early German Romanticism
/ Ernst Behler -- Goethe's Iphigenie / Wolfgang Wittkowski -- Thoas and
Iphigenie / Donna Dietrich and Harry Marshall -- Goethe's Torquato
Tasso / Hans Reiss -- Faust II and the Darwinian revolution / John
Gearey -- The Werther effect / Tobin Siebers -- The "other subject" of
history / Sigrid Lange -- Faust's forgetting / Harald Weinrich --
Rights and wrongs in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandschaften / David
Constantine -- Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers / Ilona Klein --
The material image in Goethe's Wahlverwandschaften / Brigitte Peucker
-- Westöstlicher Divan and other late poetry / Irmgard Wagner.
839.11 G548p
AUT Glaser, Amelia ; Weintraub, David ; Craft, Dana.
TIT Proletpen : America's rebel Yiddish poets.
PUB Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ; [Coral Gables, Fla.] :
Dora Teitelboim Center for Yiddish Culture, c2005.
CON Contents: The days of proletpen in American Yiddish poetry / Dovid Katz
-- Urban landscape -- Being a "greener" -- Sons of the shop -- Speaking
of Scottsboro -- Encounters with the elements -- United in struggle --
Matters of the heart -- The poet on poetry -- Wars to end all wars --
Matters of life and death.
839.81 H249
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Hans Christian Andersen.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2005.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Introduction to Hans Christian
Andersen / Elias Brendsdorff -- Fairy tale of Andersen's life /
Wolfgang Lederer -- Andersen's literary work / Wolfgang Lederer --
Andersen's heroes and heroines: relinquishing the reward / Celia
Catlett Anderson -- Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales and stories:
secrets, swans, and shadows / Jon Cech -- Nemesis of mimesis: problem
of representation in H.C. Andersen's psychen / Karin Sanders -- Hans
Christian Andersen- journey to his life / Hans Christian Andersen --
War / Alison Prince -- Hans Christian Andersen and the European literay
tradition / Niels Kofoed -- Heroes in Hans Christian Andersen's
writings / Aage Forgensen -- Kiss of the muse: 1860-1865 / Jackie
Wullschlager -- Counteracting the fall: "Sneedronningen" and
"Iisjomfruen": problem of adult sexuality in fairytale and story /
Jorgen Dines Johansen -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Bibliography --
Acknowledgements -- Index.
840.8 E19S
AUT Sourieau, Marie-Agnès ; Balutansky, Kathleen M.
TIT Ecrire en pays assiégé : Haïti = Writing under siege.
PUB Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.
SER Francopolyphonies ; 1.
840.81 P362v
AUT Pearson, Roger.
TIT Voltaire almighty : a life in pursuit of freedom. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2005.
CON Contents: Beginnings (1694-1733): From cradle to champagne -- Middles
(1733-1749): My wife Emile -- Late middles (1749-1768): A kingdom of
one's own -- Endings (1768-1778): From garden to grave .
840.9 H673P v.1, 2, 3
TIT Histoire de la France littéraire. - 1re éd.
PUB Paris : Presses universitaires de France, c2006.
SER Quadrige. Dicos poche.
CON Contents: t. 1. Naissances, Renaissances, Moyen Âge-XVIe siècle --
dirigé par Frank Lestringant, Michel Zink -- t. 2. Classicismes,
XVIIe-XVIIIe sile -- dirigé par Jean-Charles Darmon, Michel Delon -- t.
3. Modernités, XIXe-XXe siècle -- dirigé par Patrick Berthier, Michel
Jarrety.
842.42 M721BM
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Molière.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002.
SER Modern critical views.
CON Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Mise en scène and the classic
text / Jim Carmody -- The comic at its limits / Gérard Defaux --
Molière, La Fontaine, and authority / James F. Gaines -- "Introduction"
in Molière : a collection of critical essays / Jacques Guicharnaud --
Mime / W.G. Moore -- Dom Juan's equal opportunity rivalry / Michael S.
Koppisch -- Dom Juan / Robert McBride -- Rehearsal and reversal in Le
Bourgeois gentilhomme / Ronald W. Tobin -- Parody in L'Ecole des femmes
/ H. Gaston Hall -- Restructuring a comic hero of Molière : Le médecin
malgré lui / Joseph I. Donohue, Jr. -- Le Misanthrope : philosophical
implications / Peter H. Nurse -- Legal elements in Le Misanthrope /
David Shaw -- Love in Tartuffe, Tartuffe in love / Jules Brody -- Le
Tartuffe / Andrew Calder.
843 E53
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Emile Zola.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House, c2004.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
843.73 H774
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Honoré de Balzac.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Fool's gold : the beginning of
Balzac's Illusions perdues / Lawrence R. Schehr -- Systematic realism /
William W. Stowe -- Victor Marchand : the narrator as story seller
Balzac's "El Verdugo" / Janet L. Beizer -- Reflections on Balzacian
models of representation / Roland Le Huenen and Paul Perron -- Balzac's
illusions lost and found / D.A. Miller -- Epigrams and ministerial
eloquence : the war of words in Balzac's La Peau de chagrin / David F.
Bell -- Discourse, power, and necessity : contextualizing Le Cousin
Pons / Jane A. Nicholson -- Eugénie Grandet's career as heavenly exile
/ Alexander Fischler -- Cousin Bette : Balzac and the historiography of
difference / Scott McCracken -- The framed image : the chain of
metaphors in Balzac's Le Père Goriot / Leslie Anne Boldt -- The
feminine conspiracy in Balzac's La Cousine Bette / James R. McGuire --
Structures : organizing a fictional universe/ Martin Kanes -- The
crisis of narrative doubling : Balzac's La Comédie humaine / Beatrice
Guenther -- Balzac's allegories of energy in La Comédie humaine /
Christine Raffini.
843.91 M314
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Marcel Proust. - [Rev. ed.].
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
863.32 M636
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Miguel de Cervantes.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Knighthood compromised /
Howard Mancing -- Madness and mystery : the exemplarity of Cervantes's
Novelas ejemplares / Alban K. Forcione -- Ideals and illusions / E.C.
Riley -- Don Quixote, Ulysses, and the idea of realism / Terrence Doody
-- Cervantes and the novelization of drama : tradition and innovation
in the Entremeses / Cory A. Reed -- Plot and agency / Diana de Armas
Wilson -- Poetry as autobiography / Nicholas Spadaccini and Jenaro
Talens -- The Galatea / Dominick Finello -- Don Quixote of La Mancha /
Ian Watt -- The two projects of the Quixote and the grotesque as mode /
Henry W. Sullivan -- Picaresque elements in Cervantes's works / Manuel
Duran -- Introduction to Don Quixote / Roberto González Echevarría --
Cervantes's method and meaning / David Quint.
863.6 J94
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT Julio Cortázar.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
CON Contents: Toward the last square of the hopscotch / Jaime Alazraki --
Los reyes : Cortázar's mythology of writing / Roberto González
Echevarría -- Libro de Manuel / Steven Boldy -- Woman as Circe the
Magician / Ana Hernández del Castillo -- An interpretation of Rayuela
based on the character web / Gordana Yovanovich -- Grammar trouble :
Cortázar's critique of competence / Doris Sommer -- Cortázar on critics
and interpretation / Isabel Alvarez Borland -- Justice to Julio
Cortázar / Ilan Stavans -- The trumpet of deyá / Mario Vargas Llosa --
Betwixt reading and repetition (apropos of Cortázar's 62, a model kit)
/ Lucille Kerr -- "Press clippings" and Cortázar's ethics of writing /
Aníbal González.
869.3 J83
AUT Bloom, Harold.
TIT José Saramago.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.
SER Bloom's modern critical views.
892.43 O99ta
AUT Oz, Amos.
TIT A tale of love and darkness. - First Harvest ed.
PUB Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, 2005.
892.43 S625A
AUT Shaked, Gershon ; Bilu, Dalya ; Simpson, Philip.
TIT Six Israeli novellas. - 1st ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : D.R. Godine, 1999.
SER Verba Mundi.
CON Contents: Shrinking / Ruth Almog -- Yani on the mountain / David
Grossman -- Uncle Peretz takes flight / Yaakov Shabtai -- Small change
/ Yehudit Hendel -- My brother / Benjamin Tammuz -- In the Isles of St.
George / Aharon Appelfeld.
892.43 Y43ßo
AUT Yehoshua, Abraham B.
TIT The lover. - 1st ed.
PUB Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1978, c1977.
892.435 L538e
AUT Lelchuk, Alan ; Shaked, Gershon.
TIT Eight great Hebrew short novels.
PUB New York : New American Library, 1983.
CON Contents: Sideways / by Uri Nisan Gnessin -- Nerves / by Yosef Chaim
Brenner -- The vengeance of the fathers / by Yitzhak Shami -- In the
prime of her life / by S.Y. Agnon -- Facing the sea / by David Fogel --
The hill of evil counsel / by Amos Oz -- Musical moment / by Joshua
Knaz -- A poet's continuing silence / by A.B. Yehoshua.
895.64 C726R v.1
AUT Rimer, J. Thomas ; Gessel, Van C.
TIT The Columbia anthology of modern Japanese literature.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2005-.
CON Contents: v. 1. From restoration to occupation, 1868-1945.
900 History, Geography
909.049 R715j
AUT Roemer, Nils H.
TIT Jewish scholarship and culture in nineteenth-century Germany : between
history and faith.
PUB Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.
SER Studies in German Jewish cultural history and literature.
909.82 L954re
AUT Lukacs, John ; Malvasi, Mark G. ; Nelson, Jeffrey O.
TIT Remembered past : John Lukacs on history, historians, and historical
knowledge : a reader.
PUB Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, c2005.
915.6 H474m4
AUT Held, Colbert C.
TIT Middle East patterns : places, peoples, and politics. - 4th ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Physical and cultural geography -- Tricontinental junction :
an introduction -- Middle East preview -- The Middle East : definition
-- Regional unity of empires -- Aims and concepts : a glance -- The
face of the earth -- Patterns of time : historical-geographical
foundations -- Patterns of peoples, cultures, and settlements -- The
desert and the sown : land use -- Riches beneath the earth --
Manufacturing and transportation -- The earth and the state :
geopolitics -- Syria : Middle East heartland -- Lebanon and Cyprus : a
mountain and an island -- Jordan : the land beyond and between --
Israel, "Palestine," and the disputed territories -- Iraq : modern
Mesopotamia -- Saudi Arabia : development in the desert -- The Gulf and
its oil states : an overview -- Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab
Emirates -- Oman and Yemen : the southern fringe -- Egypt : a river and
a people -- A view of Egypt -- Turkey : bridgeland in Anatolia between
Europe and the Middle East -- Iran : complex republic on the plateau --
Young state, ancient land.
939.2 B197g
AUT Balter, Michael.
TIT The goddess and the bull.
PUB New York : Free Press, c2005.
CON Contents: "It's Neolithic!" -- A prehistoric art gallery -- The Dorak
affair -- Ian Hodder -- Return to Çatalhöyük -- On the surface -- At
the trowel's edge -- Dear diary -- The Neolithic revolution -- The
domesticated human -- Fault lines and homecomings -- Burning down the
house -- "Always momentary, fluid and flexible" -- The long season --
Till death us do part -- Taming the wild -- The goddess and the bull.
940.1 F944d
AUT Frugoni, Chiara- ; Frugoni, Arsenio.
TIT A day in a medieval city.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
CON Contents: The time of labor, the time of memory -- The road that leads
to the city -- Inside the city -- The lives of children -- Childhood
learning -- Adult reading -- Indoors.
Ref 940.2 P773a, 2000
AUT Polley, Martin.
TIT A-Z of modern Europe since 1789.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
940.253 B366e
AUT Beales, Derek Edward Dawson.
TIT Enlightenment and reform in 18th-century Europe.
PUB London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
SER International library of historical studies. ; 29.
940.3 W784gr
AUT Winter, J. M ; Prost, Antoine.
TIT The Great War in history : debates and controversies, 1914 to the
present.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
SER Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. ; no. 21.
CON Contents: Three historiographical configurations -- Politicians and
diplomats: why war and for what aims? -- Generals and ministers: who
commanded and how? -- Soldiers: how did they wage war? -- Businessmen,
industrialists, and bankers: how was the economic war waged? --
Workers: did war prevent or provoke revolution? -- Civilians: how did
they make war and survive it? -- Agents of memory: how did people live
between remembrance and forgetting? -- The great war in history.
940.5318 A259r
AUT Agamben, Giorgio.
TIT Remnants of Auschwitz : the witness and the archive.
PUB New York : Zone Books, 2002.
940.5324 H346r
AUT Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi.
TIT Racing the enemy : Stalin, Truman, and the surrender of Japan.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Triangular relations and the Pacific War -- Stalin, Truman
and Hirohito face new challenges -- Decisions for war and peace --
Potsdam: the turning point -- The atomic bombs and Soviet entry into
the war -- Japan accepts unconditional surrender -- August Storm: the
Soviet-Japanese War and the United States -- Assessing the roads not
taken.
940.5403 M821f
AUT Moore, Christopher.
TIT Fighting for America : Black soldiers-- the unsung heroes of World War
II. - Presidio Press trade pbk. ed.
PUB New York : Presidio Press/Ballantine Books 2006.
CON Contents: Two Americas? [1776 to 1941] -- Pearl Harbor [1941-1942] --
America's secret weapon [1942] -- Alaska to Guadalcanal [1942] -- The
Atlantic War [1942] -- Ready for combat [1942] -- The road to Burma
[1942] -- Black women at war [1942-43] -- FDR to Africa [1943] -- The
Fighting 99th -- The long, hot summer [1943] -- Fighters over Anzio
[1944] -- D-Day [1944] -- Red Ball Express [1944] -- Sound-off! [1944]
-- Port Chicago Mutiny [1944] -- Two trials and two generals [1944] --
Island to island [1945] -- Battle of the Bulge: Hitler's last charge
[1944-45] -- The forgotten front: return of the Buffalo Soldiers
[1944-45] -- Captives of war [1945] -- WACs overseas [1945] -- The
Holocaust [1945] -- Victory [1945] -- Epilogue.
940.5472 H198o
AUT Hamann, Jack.
TIT On American soil : how justice became a casualty of World War II. - 1st
ed.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2005.
941.102 O63d
AUT Oram, Richard D.
TIT David I : the king who made Scotland.
PUB Stroud, Gloucestershie : Tempus, 2004.
SER Tempus Scottish monarchs.
942.03 R896h
AUT Rubin, Miri.
TIT The hollow crown : a history of Britain in the late Middle Ages.
PUB London : Penguin, 2006.
CON Contents: Famine and deposition, 1307-1330 -- Plague and war, 1330-1377
-- An empty land and its king, 1377-1399 -- Usurpation and the
challenges to order, 1399-1422 -- 'For the world was that time so
strange', 1422-1461 -- Little England and a little peace, 1462-1485.
944.083 B433f
AUT Bell, David Scott.
TIT François Mitterrand : a political biography.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2005.
SER Political profiles.
CON Contents: 1916-1944 -- The fourth republic -- De Gaulle's republic --
The common programme -- Alliance problems: 1978-1981 -- The first
socialist governments: 1981-1985 -- "Cohabitation': 1986-1988 -- The
second term: 1988-1992 -- The last years: 1991-1996 -- 'A character
from a novel'.
947.5 S158c
AUT Sakwa, Richard.
TIT Chechnya : from past to future.
PUB London : Anthem Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Introduction: Why Chechnya? / Richard Sakwa -- Chechnya in
Russia and Russia in Chechnya / Dzhabrail Gakaev -- Chechnya and
Tatarstan: Differences in Search of an Explanation / Valentin Mikhailov
-- The Chechen War in the Context of Contemporary Russian Politics /
Emil Pain -- A Multitude of Evils: Mythology and Political Failure in
Chechnya / Robert Bruce Ware -- Chechnya and the Russian Military: A
War Too Far? / Pavel Baev -- The Chechen Wars and the Struggle for
Human Rights / Alexander Cherkasov and Dmitry Grushkin -- Dynamics of a
Society at War: Ethnographical Aspects / Valery Tishkov -- Chechnya:
The Breaking Point / Tom de Waal -- Globalisation, 'New Wars', and the
War in Chechnya / Peter Shearman and Matthew Sussex -- Western Views of
the Chechen Conflict / Mike Bowker -- A War by Any Other Name:
Chechnya, 11 September and the War Against Terrorism / John Russell --
The Peace Process in Chechnya / James Hughes.
949.501 C178M
AUT Maas, Michael.
TIT The Cambridge companion to the Age of Justinian.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Roman questions, Byzantine answers: contours of the age of
Justinian / Michael Maas -- Economy and administration: how did the
empire work? / John F. Haldon -- Justinian's Constantinople / Brian
Croke -- The classical city in the sixth century: survival and
transformation / Kenneth G. Holum -- The empire at war / A. D. Lee --
Mediterranean plague in the age of Justinian / Peregrine Horden -- Law
and legal practice in the age of Justinian / Caroline Humfress --
Justinianic ideology and the power of the past / Charles Pazdernik --
The legacy of Chalcedon: Christological problems and their significance
/ Patrick T. R. Gray -- Society and community in the Christian east /
Lucas van Rompay -- Emperors and popes in the sixth century: the
western view / Claire Sotinel -- Christian piety and practice in the
sixth century / Derek Krueger -- Philosophy in the age of Justinian /
Christian Wildberg -- Art and architecture in the age of Justinian /
Joseph D. Alchermes -- Literary culture under Justinian / Claudia Rapp
-- Jews in the age of Justinian / Nicholas De Lange -- The age of
Justinian: gender and society / Leslie Brubaker -- Justinian and the
barbarian kingdom / Walter Pohl -- Byzantium and the east in the sixth
century / Geoffrey Greatrex -- The background to Islam / Fred M.
Donner.
949.702 B957e
AUT Burgwyn, H. James.
TIT Empire on the Adriatic : Mussolini's conquest of Yugoslavia 1941-1943.
PUB New York : Enigma, c2005.
953.5 D252u
AUT Davidson, Christopher M.
TIT The United Arab Emirates : a study in survival.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.
SER The Middle East in the international system.
CON Contents: The historical background -- The survival of monarchy --
Socioeconomic development and the diversification effort -- Domestic
pathologies and the political process -- Globalization and the
prospects for civil society -- Conclusion.
954.96 W567h
AUT Whelpton, John.
TIT A history of Nepal.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
956 C737
AUT Choueiri, Youssef M.
TIT A companion to the history of the Middle East.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub. Ltd, 2005.
SER Blackwell companions to world history.
CON Contents: Introduction / Youseff M. Choueiri -- The formative period of
Islam -- The rise of Islam / Gerald R. Hawting -- The Islamic conquests
/ Fred M. Donner -- The caliphate / Hugh Kennedy -- Cultural traditions
and social structure -- The \u02BFulama function and status / Zouhair
Ghazzal -- Sh\u012B\u02BFism / Robert Gleave -- Historiography of Sufi
studies in the West / Alexander Knysh -- Imperial structures and
dynastic rule -- Military patronage states and the political economy of
the frontier, 1000-1250 / Michael Chamberlain -- The Mamluk institution
/ P.M. Holt -- State and society in North Africa / Michael Brett -- A
new Middle Eastern system -- Ottomans and Safavids: states, statecraft,
and societies, 1500-1800 / Metin Kunt -- Urban life and Middle Eastern
cities: the traditional Arab city / André Raymond (translated James
McDougall) -- The Middle East and the new world order -- A different
balance of power: European expansionism and the Middle East in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Abdul-Karim Rafeq -- Colonialism,
the Qajars and the struggle for independence: the Arab world, Turkey,
and Iran / Peter Sluglett -- Independence and nation building --
Zionism and the Palestine question / Emma C. Murphy -- Nationalisms in
the Middle East: the case of Pan-Arabism / Youssef M. Choueiri --
Turkish and Iranian nationalisms / Ioannis N. Grigoriadis and Ali M.
Ansari -- Political parties and trade unions / Raymond Hinnebusch --
Political life and the military / Gareth Stansfield -- Political
economy: from modernisation to globalisation / Simon Murden -- Modern
issues and contemporary challenges -- Islamic urbanism, urbanites, and
the Middle Eastern city / Michael E. Bonine -- Oil and development /
Paul Stevens -- Modernizing women in the Middle East / Valentine M.
Moghadam -- Politics and religion / Beverley Milton-Edwards --
Ethno-national minorities in the Middle East: Berbers, Kurds, and
Palestinians / Lise Storm -- Civil society in the Middle East / Tim
Niblock -- The states-system in the Middle East: origins, developments,
and prospects / Simon Bromley.
956.05 M627 2000
AUT Congressional Quarterly, inc.
TIT The Middle East.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Ref 956.05 M627 2005
AUT Congressional Quarterly, inc.
TIT The Middle East.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
956.05 Y19c
AUT Yambert, Karl.
TIT The contemporary Middle East : a Westview reader.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The Middle East / David L. Long, Bernard Reich -- Peoples and
cultures of the Middle East / Colbert C. Held -- The roots of Arab
bitterness / Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., Lawrence Davidson -- The
Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty / David W. Lesch -- The Palestinians /
Ann Mosely Lesch -- The United States and Israel / Bernard Reich --
Israeli-Palestinian relations since the Gulf War / William L. Cleveland
-- Ethnicity and nation-building in the state of Israel / Calvin
Goldscheider -- Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? / Samih K.
Farsoun -- The land and people of modern Iraq / Phebe Marr -- The
Iranian revolution / David W. Lesch -- The Iranian revolution and the
rebirth of political Islam / Anthony Shadid -- The US occupation of
Iraq / David L. Phillips -- The role of the Persian Gulf region /
Shibley Telhami -- The kingdom of Saudi Arabia / David E. Long --
Fissures in the facade of amity between the United States and Saudi
Arabia / Thomas W. Lippman -- Egypt under Mubarak / Arthur Goldschmidt,
Jr. -- Egypt : the community of Muslims / Mark Huband -- Islamist
perceptions of US policy in the Middle East / Yvonne Haddad -- American
power and the Middle East / Mark Huband -- The contemporary Middle East
: some questions, some answers / Shibley Telhami.
956.94 H288p
AUT Harms, Gregory ; Ferry, Todd M.
TIT The Palestine-Israel conflict : a basic introduction.
PUB London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto, 2005.
CON Contents: Ancient history : Canaan-Palestine from the first foot falls
to Rome / by Todd M. Ferry -- Muhammad, Islam, and the Arab empire --
The Crusades and the Ottoman empire -- Jewish persecution and Zionism
-- Palestine -- World War I to World War II : the genesis of conflict
-- 1947-1967 : conflict : partition, Israeli statehood, and the Six-Day
War -- The 1970s to Lebanon 1982 : the continuation of the Arab-Israeli
conflict -- The Intifada and the peace process -- Current history :
Camp David II to the Road Map -- Appendices. Chronology ; Israel's
prime ministers ; Israel, Palestine : data.
956.9403 N625g
AUT Nicholson, Helen J. ; Nicolle, David.
TIT God's warriors : crusaders, saracens and the battle for Jerusalem.
PUB Oxford : Osprey, 2005.
959.7 R167s
AUT Rambo, A. Terry.
TIT Searching for Vietnam : selected writings on Vietnamese culture and
society.
PUB Kyoto, Japan : Kyoto University Press ; Melbourne, Vic., Australia :
Trans Pacific Press, 2005.
959.704 S244vp4
AUT SarDesai, D. R.
TIT Vietnam, past and present. - 4th ed.
PUB [Boulder, Colo.] : Westview Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Ethnicity, geography, and early history -- A millennium of
freedom -- The French conquest of Vietnam -- The nationalist movement
-- Roots of the Second Indochina war -- The Indochina imbroglio -- The
new Vietnam -- Vietnam and its immediate neighbors -- Vietnam's
relations with China, the Soviet Union and ASEAN -- U.S.-Vietnam
relations and Vietnamese Americans.
960.32 L321b
AUT Laremont, Ricardo René.
TIT Borders, nationalism, and the African state.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005.
CON Contents: Borders, states, and nationalism / Ricardo René Larémont --
Sudan's turbulent road to nationhood / Francis M. Deng -- Making and
remaking state and nation in Ethiopia / Edmond J. Keller -- The
enduring idea of the Congo / Herbert F. Weiss and Tatiana Carayannis --
Ethnicity and national identity in Sierra Leone / Jimmy D. Kandeh,
Ricardo René Larémont, and Rachel Cremona -- Ethnic grievance or
material greed? / Ricardo René Larémont and Robert L. Ostergard -- The
world economy and the African state / William G. Martin -- Conclusion /
Ricardo René Larémont.
960.32 M559f
AUT Meredith, Martin.
TIT The fate of Africa : from the hopes of freedom to the heart of despair
: a history of fifty years of independence. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Public Affairs, c2005.
CON Contents: The Gold Coast experiment -- Revolt on the Nile -- Land of
the setting sun -- L'Afrique Noire -- Winds of change -- Heart of
darkness -- The white South -- The birth of nations -- The first dance
of freedom -- Feet of clay -- A house divided -- Death of an emperor --
The coming of tyrants -- In search of Ujamaa -- The passing of the old
guard -- The slippery slope -- The great plunderer -- White dominoes --
Red tears -- Fault lines -- The scourge of Aids -- The lost decade --
The struggle for democracy -- A time of triumph -- In the name of the
prophet -- Black hawk down -- The graves are not yet full -- Where
vultures fly -- Blood diamonds -- No condition is permanent -- The
honour of living -- Black Gold -- A degree in violence -- Somewhere
over the rainbow -- Out of Africa.
962.404 P972d
AUT Prunier, Gérard.
TIT Darfur : the ambiguous genocide.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
967.571 H367m
AUT Hatzfeld, Jean.
TIT Machete season : the killers in Rwanda speak : a report. - 1st American
ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
CON Contents: Early morning -- How it was organized -- The three hills --
The first time -- A gang -- Apprenticeship -- Group spirit -- Taste and
distaste -- Going into action -- Field work -- A neighborhood genocide
-- Punishment -- Some thoughts on corrugated metal -- Looting -- A
sealed chamber -- Rejoicing in the village -- The disappearance of
escape networks -- Women -- In search of the just -- Acquaintances --
Penitentiary walls -- Suffering -- Guys in good shape -- And God in all
this? -- In the shade of an acacia -- Remorse and regrets --
Joseph-Désiré Bitero -- The organizers -- Behind the mudugudus -- Life
goes on -- Bargaining for forgiveness -- Pardons -- A noble bearing --
Hatred of the Tutsis -- An unnatural slaughter -- Words to avoid saying
it -- Death in the eye of a killer.
972.982 A555d
AUT André-Jaccoulet, Marie-Alice.
TIT De solitude à Mélodie : histoire de femmes de Martinique : 1771-2004,
témoignage.
PUB Matoury : Ibis rouge, c2005.
973.26 F789e
AUT Fowler, William M.
TIT Empires at war : the French and Indian War and the struggle for North
America, 1754-1763.
PUB New York : Walker & Co., 2005.
CON Contents: Lining up allies -- George Washington helps start a war --
Braddock's march -- French victory, English defeat -- Montcalm and
Loudoun -- A failure and a "massacre" -- Ticonderoga -- Duquesne and
Louisbourg -- Quebec besieged -- The fall of Quebec -- The year of
great victories -- Pitt departs, the war expands -- The end, the
beginning.
973.309 L668f
AUT Levy, Andrew.
TIT The first emancipator : the forgotten story of Robert Carter, the
founding father who freed his slaves. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2005.
CON Contents: Celebrated -- I: Revelation -- King of America (1728-1768) --
Dance or die (1768-1774) -- Heavenly confusion (1774-1778) -- II:
Revolution -- Inglorious connexions (1778-1789) -- Deed of gift
(1789-1804) -- Plans and advice.
973.5 W676r
AUT Wilentz, Sean.
TIT The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Norton, c2005.
CON Contents: I: The crisis of the new order. American democracy in a
revolutionary age ; The Republican interest and the self-created
democracy ; The making of Jeffersonian democracy ; Jefferson's two
presidencies ; Nationalism and the War of 1812 -- II: Democracy
ascendant. The era of bad feelings ; Slavery, compromise, and
democratic politics ; The politics of moral improvement ; The
aristocracy and democracy of America ; The Jackson era: uneasy
beginnings ; Radical democracies ; 1832: Jackson's crucial year ;
Banks, abolitionists, and the equal rights democracy ; "The republic
has degenerated into a democracy" ; The politics of hard times ; Whigs,
Democrats, and democracy -- III: Slavery and the crisis of American
democracy. Whig debacle, Democratic confusion ; Antislavery,
annexation, and the advent of young Hickory ; The bitter fruits of
Manifest Destiny ; War, slavery, and the American 1848 ; Political
truce, uneasy consequences ; The truce collapses ; A nightmare broods
over society ; The faith that right makes might ; The Iliad of all our
woes.
973.51 W741h
AUT Wills, Garry.
TIT Henry Adams and the making of America.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
CON Contents: 1: The making of an historian -- Grandmother Louisa and the
south -- Boston historians -- Civil war politics -- Postwar politics --
Historical method -- Historical artistry -- 2: The making of a nation
-- I: Jefferson's two terms -- A people's history: the history, volume
one -- Jefferson's success: the history, volume one -- Reaching out:
the history, volume two -- Three foes: the history, volume three --
Anything but war: the history, volume four -- II: Madison's two terms
-- False dawn: the history, volume five -- War: the history, volume six
-- Naval history: the history, volume six -- The war's second year: the
history, volume seven -- The war's third year: the history, volume
eight -- Shame and glory: the history, volume eight -- Peace and
nationalism: the history, volume nine -- Nation-making: the history,
volume nine.
973.7 S582d
AUT Silber, Nina.
TIT Daughters of the Union : northern women fight the Civil War.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
CON Contents: Summoned to War, Charged to Patriotism -- Loyalties in
Conflict -- The Economic Battlefront -- Domesticity under Siege -- From
Patriots to Partisans, and Back Again -- Aiding the Cause, Serving the
State -- Saving the Sick, Healing the Nation -- Wartime Emancipation --
American Women and the Enduring Power of the State -- An Ambiguous
Legacy.
973.7 W499s
AUT Wert, Jeffry D.
TIT The sword of Lincoln : the Army of the Potomac.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.
CON Contents: "Things look very mutch like war" -- Bloody Sabbath at Bull
Run -- An Army born -- To the Peninsula -- Along the Chickahominy --
"If we were defeated, the Army and the country would be lost" --
"McClellan has the Army with him" -- "Behold, a pale horse" -- The
Army's "Saddest Hour" -- Winter of transition -- "God almighty could
not prevent me from winning a victory" -- "Big fight some wears ahead"
-- "An Army of lions" -- Virginia interlude -- "This war is horrid" --
"A sit down before the wall of Petersburg" -- "I never seen a crazier
set of fellows.".
Ref 973.924 S497S, 2006 v.1, 2, 3
AUT Super, John C. ; Irons-Georges, Tracy.
TIT The seventies in America.
PUB Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2006.
973.925 M631g
AUT Mieczkowski, Yanek.
TIT Gerald Ford and the challenges of the 1970s.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2005.
CON Contents: The leadership challenge -- Hungering for heroes -- The
congenial Presidency -- Gerald Ford and the Ninety-fourth Congress --
Ford's vision for America -- The economic challenge -- The great
inflation of the 1970s -- Taking aim at inflation -- Teetering on a
knife's edge -- Rallying the nation to fight inflation -- The great
recession of the 1970s -- Ford's 1975 State of the Union Program --
Economic initiatives, 1975-76 -- The energy challenge -- The energy
crisis of the 1970s -- A new energy program -- The energy stalemate --
Breaking the energy logjam -- Diplomatic and political challenges --
Gerald Ford's internationalism -- Thunder from the right -- Back from
the brink.
974.402 P982s
AUT Pulsipher, Jenny Hale.
TIT Subjects unto the same king : Indians, English, and the contest for
authority in colonial New England.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005.
SER Early American studies.
CON Contents: Models of authority -- Massachusetts under fire -- Years of
uncertainty -- Allies fall away -- The "Narragansett war" -- A perilous
middle ground -- Massachusetts's authority undermined -- A crisis of
spirit -- Massachusetts fights alone -- Surrendering authority.
974.403 M369p
AUT Marshall, Megan.
TIT The Peabody sisters : three women who ignited American romanticism.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
CON Contents: Origins, 1746-1803 -- The family school, 1804-1820 --
Elizabeth, 1821-1824 -- Mary and Elizabeth, 1825-1828 -- Sophia,
1829-1832 -- Somerset Court and La Recompensa -- "Before the age in
Salem," 1836-1839 -- 13 West Street, Boston, 1840-1842.
975.537 C444m
AUT Chambers, Douglas B.
TIT Murder at Montpelier : Igbo Africans in Virginia.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, c2005.
CON Contents: Igbo Africans -- Atlantic Africans and the Charter Event of
Montpelier -- Out of Calabar: The Igbo Hinterland -- Village-Level
Society in "Eboan Africa" -- The Significance of Poison-- In Virginia
--The Seating of Mt. Pleasant and the Development of a Regional
Community -- The Madisons' Slave Community: The Charter Generation -- A
Montpelier Community of Slaves: The Creolizing Generation -- The Creole
Generations: Peak and Decline -- A Long Memory -- Historical
Creolization in Virginia -- Conclusion: A Thread of Evidence --
Appendixes: A. New Virginia Slave Trade Statistics, 16761775 -- B.
Madison Family Slave Population, 17201850 -- C. Census of Madison
Family Slaves, 17321868 -- D. Selected Orange County Tithables,
17381782 -- E. Dispersal of Madison Family Slaves, 1770s1850s -- F.
Account of Montpelier Plantation, ca. 1795.
976.305 D265p
AUT Davis, William C.
TIT The pirates Laffite : the treacherous world of the corsairs of the
Gulf. - 1st ed.
PUB Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, c2005.
CON Contents: Vintage Bordeaux, 1770-1803 -- New men in a new world,
1803-1806 -- Brothers united, 1806-1809 -- Brothers in business,
1809-1811 -- Dawn of the Corsairs, 1810-1811 -- Origins of the Laffite
Fleet, 1811-1813 -- Lords of Barataria, 1813-1814 -- The rise of the
Filibusters, 1814 -- Patriots for a price, 1814 -- The end of
Barataria, 1814 -- The fight for New Orleans, 1814-1815 -- Spies for
Spain, 1815-1816 -- A career of betrayals, 1815-1816 -- Distant
horizons, 1816 -- The birth of Galveston, 1816-1817 -- A season of
treachery, 1817 -- Deadly friends, 1817-1818 -- Winds of change, 1818
-- The dying dream, 1819 -- Farewell to Galveston, 1820 -- The last
voyage, 1820-1823 -- The legend of the Laffites.
977.311 S466b
AUT Seligman, Amanda I.
TIT Block by block : neighborhoods and public policy on Chicago's West
Side.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction : block by block -- Chicago's West Side --
Housing codes -- Conservation and urban renewal -- A Chicago campus for
the University of Illinois -- Public schools -- Blockbusting -- Keeping
African Americans out -- Keeping whites in -- Epilogue : reconsidering
white flight.
979.494 B412f
AUT García Bedolla, Lisa.
TIT Fluid borders : Latino power, identity, and politics in Los Angeles.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Latino political engagement: the intersection of power,
identity(ies), and place -- Legacies of conquest: Latinos in California
and Los Angeles -- A thin line between love and hate: language, social
stigma, and intragroup relations -- Why vote? Race, identity(ies), and
politics -- Community problems, collective solutions: Latinos and
nonelectoral participation -- Fluid borders: Latinos, race, and
American politics.
985.06 C743f
AUT Conaghan, Catherine M.
TIT Fujimori's Peru : deception in the public sphere.
PUB Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2005.
Juvenile Materials
J-Fic M827
AUT Mora, Pat ; Colón, Raúl.
TIT Doña Flor : a tall tale about a giant woman with a great big heart.
PUB New York : Knopf, 2005.
Non Print/Media Materials
DVD BOU 144 Popular Collection
AUT Chamberlain, Richard ; Smith, Jaclyn ; Quayle, Anthony.
TIT The Bourne identity. - Widescreen version.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2002, c1988.
NOT Based on the novel by Robert Ludlum. - Special features: interactive
menus; scene access.
DVD FIN 128 Popular Collection
AUT Forster, Marc ; Depp, Johnny ; Winslet, Kate.
TIT Finding Neverland (Motion picture) Finding Neverland. - Widescreen.
PUB [United States] : Miramax Home Entertainment ; Burbank, Calif. :
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2005].
NOT Title from container. - Originally released as a motion picture in
2004. - Based on the play "The man who was Peter Pan" by Allan Knee. -
Special features: Deleted scenes with optional commentary by director
Marc Forster, producer Richard N. Gladstein and writer David Magee;
outtakes; journey to 'Finding Neverland'; creating Neverland'; on the
red carpet.
DVD IRO 129 Popular Collection
AUT Proyas, Alex ; Smith, Will ; Moynahan, Bridget.
TIT I, robot (Motion picture : 2004) I, robot. - [Widescreen ed.].
PUB Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2004.
NOT Title from container. - Based on the idea suggesed in a book by Isaac
Asimov. - Special features: commentary by director Alex Proyas and
screenwriter Akiva Goldsman; the making-of 'I, robot'; still gallery;
Fox's inside look: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, robots, and Elektra.
DVD KNG 130 pt.1, 2 Popular Collection
AUT DeMille, Cecil B. ; Warner, H. B. ; Schildkraut, Joseph.
TIT The king of kings. - Special ed.
PUB [United States] : Home Vision Entertainment, [2004].
NOT Title from disc surface. - Includes two versions: 1927 silent film, 155
min., premiere version; 1928 silent film, 112 min., general release
version. - Special features: New, restored digital transfers of both
versions; new scores for each and original score for 1928 version;
behind-the-scenes footage from the making of "The king of kings"; cast
portraits by W.M. Mortensen; production and costume sketches by Dan
Sayre Groesbeck; stills gallery of rare production and publicity
photos; original illustrated program and press book featuring
photographs from the film's gala premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theatre
and studio correspondence from DeMille; original theatrical trailers;
booklet featuring a 1927 essay by DeMille, an excerpt from Robert S.
Birchard's new book "Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood", production notes,
and a new essay by Peter Matthews.
DVD LEA 132 Popular Collection
AUT Hanks, Tom ; Davis, Geena ; Madonna.
TIT League of their own (Motion picture) A league of their own. - Deluxe
widescreen presentation.
PUB Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Tristar Home Video, [1997?].
NOT "Aspect ratio 2.35:1"--Container. - Videodisc release of 1992 motion
picture.
ISBN 0800177258.
DVD LIO 133 Popular Collection
AUT O'Toole, Peter ; Hepburn, Katharine ; Hopkins, Anthony.
TIT The lion in winter. - Widescreen ed.
PUB Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, 2001.
NOT Special features: audio commentary by the director, original theatrical
trailer, french & spanish language subtitles. - DVD release of the 1968
motion picture.
DVD MEE 134 Popular Collection
AUT Roach, Jay ; De Niro, Robert ; Stiller, Ben.
TIT Meet the Fockers. - Widescreen.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2005.
NOT Based on characters created by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke. -
Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. - Special features:
Theatrical film; extended movie; bloopers and deleted scenes; Fockers'
family portrait; Inside the litter box: behind-the-scenes with Jinx the
cat; The manary gland; The adventures of a baby wrangler; feature
commentary with director Jay Roach and editor/co-producer Jon Poll.
DVD MYB 145 Popular Collection
AUT Wilson, Rita ; Hanks, Tom ; Goetzman, Gary.
TIT My big fat Greek wedding.
PUB New York : HBO Home Video, [2003], c2002.
NOT Special features: widescreen (1.85:1) and full screen (1.33:1)
presentations; audio commentary by stars Nia Vardalos, John Corbett and
director Jeol Zwick; cast and crew biographies.
DVD PRI 135 Popular Collection
AUT Anderson, Gillian ; Crudup, Billy ; Danes, Claire.
TIT Mononoke hime. Princess Mononoke.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : distributed by Buena
Vista Home Entertainment, [2000].
NOT Title from disc label. - Originally produced as a motion picture in
1997. - Special features: featurette; theatrical trailer.
DVD RAY 136 pt.1, 2 Popular Collection
AUT Foxx, Jamie ; Hackford, Taylor ; White, James L.
TIT Ray.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios, c2005.
NOT Recorded in Dolby digital 5.1. Widescreen (1.85:1) presentation. - Videodisc release of a 2004 motion
picture. - Special features include: theatrical version; extended
version; deleted scenes; complete uncut music performances from the
movie; Walking in his shoes, a revealing look at Jamie Foxx's
incredible transformation into Ray Charles; Ray remembered, friends and
fellow musicians remember Ray Charles; feature commentary with director
Taylor Hackford; original and new recordings by Ray Charles.
DVD RIN 138 Popular Collection
AUT Parkes, Walter F ; MacDonald, Laurie ; Kruger, Ehren.
TIT Ring (Motion picture : 2002) The ring. - Widescreen version.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, [2003], c2002.
NOT Originally produced as a motion picture in 2002. - Based on the novel
by Koji Suzuki and the movie "The ring" by The Ring/The Spiral
Production Group.
DVD SHA 146 Popular Collection
AUT Madden, John ; Paltrow, Gwyneth ; Fiennes, Joseph.
TIT Shakespeare in love (Motion picture) Shakespeare in love.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena
Vista Home Entertainment, 1998.
NOT Originally produced as motion picture. - Enhanced for 16 x 9
televisions.
DVD SHR 139 Popular Collection
AUT Adamson, Andrew ; Asbury, Kelly ; Vernon, Conrad.
TIT Shrek 2 (Motion picture) Shrek 2. - Full screen.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, c2004.
NOT Title from container. - Bonus features: hilarious technical goofs; meet
Puss-in-Boots - there's more to this feline ogre-killer than just a
furry face; filmmakers' commentary; the tech of 'Shrek 2'; a sneak peek
from DreamWorks animation; DreamWorks Kids - this way to play! - over
20 games and activites including "Save Fiona!" and "Find
Puss-in-Boots"; Shrek's music room: Counting Crows music video;
sing-along with the Fairy Godmother.
DVD UND 140 Popular Collection
AUT Sternberg, Tom ; Wells, Audrey ; Lane, Diane.
TIT Under the Tuscan sun (Motion picture) Under the Tuscan sun. -
[Widescreen ed.].
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena
Vista Home Entertainment, [2004].
NOT Based on the book Under the Tuscan sun by Frances Mayes.
DVD VIL 141 Popular Collection
AUT Shyamalan, M. Night ; Rudin, Scott ; Mercer, Sam.
TIT Village (Motion picture) The village. - [Widescreen ed.].
PUB [Burbank, Calif.] : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by
Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2005].
NOT "This motion picture was created by Covington Woods Pictures, Inc. for
purposes of copyright law in the United Kingdom"--End credits. -
Originally released as a motion picture in 2004. - Special features:
deleted scenes introduced by the director M. Night Shyamalan;
Deconstructing 'The village': the making-of the movie; Bryce's diary ;
M. Night home movie; production photo gallery.
DVD YTU 142 Popular Collection
AUT Vergara, Jorge ; Cuarón, Alfonso ; Cuarón, Carlos.
TIT Y tu mamá también. - [Unrated theatrical version].
PUB Santa Monica, Calif. : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, c2002.
NOT Special features: "Me la debes", a short film by Carlos Cuarón; deleted
scenes; making-of featurette; audio commentary with the cast; TV spot;
original theatrical trailer.
DVD YUG 143 Popular Collection
AUT Drdek, Matthew ; Tsuji, Hatsuki ; Takahashi, Kazuki.
TIT Yu-Gi-Oh! the movie : pyramid of light. - Standard version.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, [2004].
NOT DVD release of the 1996 motion picture. - "This film has been ...
formatted to fit your screen.". - Special features: Yu-Gi-Oh Monster
Challenge; music videos from the Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie soundtrack;
theatrical trailer.
DVD ZAR 147 Popular Collection
AUT Boorman, John ; Connery, Sean ; Rampling, Charlotte.
TIT Zardoz. - Widescreen version.
PUB Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2000].
NOT Originally issued as a motion picture in 1974. - For special features
see interactive menu. - "Cat No. 2001305"--Container..
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