128.1 R363s, 2006
AUT Reimers, Adrian J.
TIT The soul of the person : a contemporary philosophical psychology.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 2006.

149.6 D562p, 2006
AUT Dienstag, Joshua Foa.
TIT Pessimism : philosophy, ethic, spirit.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The anatomy of pessimism -- "A philosophy that is grievous but true": cultural pessimism in Rousseau and Leopardi -- "The evils of the world honestly admitted": metaphysical pessimism in Schopenhauer and Freud -- "Consciousness is a disease": existential pessimism in Camus, Unamuno, and Cioran -- Nietzsche's Dionysian pessimism -- Cervantes as educator: Don Quixote and the practice of pessimism -- Aphorisms and pessimisms -- Pessimism and freedom (the pessimist speaks).

150 F495m, 2006
AUT Fine, Cordelia.
TIT A mind of its own : how your brain distorts and deceives. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: The vain brain : for a softer, kinder reality -- The emotional brain : sweaty fingers in all the pies -- The immoral brain : the terrible toddler within -- The deluded brain : a slapdash approach to the truth -- The pigheaded brain : loyalty a step too far -- The secretive brain : exposing the guile of the mental butler -- The weak-willed brain : the prima donna within -- The bigoted brain : "Thug-- tart-- slob-- nerd-- airhead" -- Epilogue: the vulnerable brain.

Ref 150.3 A524V, 2007
AUT VandenBos, Gary R.
TIT APA dictionary of psychology. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2007.
CON Contents: Guide to the dictionary -- Quick guide to format -- APA dictionary of psychology -- Appendixes -- Biographical entries -- Institutional and organizational entries -- Psychological tests and assessment instrument entries -- Psychotherapy and psychotherapeutic approach entries.

155.3 E37w, 2004
AUT Eldredge, Niles.
TIT Why we do it : rethinking sex and the selfish gene. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Norton, c2004.
CON Contents: The duality of life -- Obsessed with genes -- Chickens and eggs : the two sides of life -- The natural economy -- The consequences of baby making -- Economics + babies + time = evolution -- Clones, colonies, and social life -- Human singularities -- Naught so queere as folke : the strange biology of modern humans -- The human triangle -- Sex decoupled -- Up close and personal : sex, power, money, and babies -- Sex, economics, and babies in social systems -- A moral to the story.

155.413 C552c, 2007
AUT Chouinard, Michelle M. ; Harris, Paul L ; Maratsos, Michael P.
TIT Children's questions : a mechanism for cognitive development.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
SER Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 0037-976X ; serial no. 286, vol. 72, no. 1, 2007.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Analysis of the CHILDES database -- 3. Diary study of children's questions -- 4. Children's questions about animals -- 5. Do children's questions change their knowledge state? -- 6. General discussion -- Commentary : time for questions / Paul L. Harris -- Commentary / Michael P. Maratsos.

155.418 S617p, 2006
AUT Singer, Dorothy G ; Golinkoff, Roberta M ; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy et al.
TIT Play=learning : how play motivates and enhances children's cognitive and social-emotional growth.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

174.2 D585L, 2006
AUT Dinkins, Christine Sorrell ; Sorrell, Jeanne Merkle.
TIT Listening to the whispers : re-thinking ethics in healthcare.
PUB Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.
SER Interpretive studies in healthcare and the human sciences ; v. 5.
CON Contents: A whispered story / Nancy J. Moules -- Corporatization and the institutional aspects of morality in home care / Tobie H. Olsan -- Ethics of articulation: constituting organizational identity in a Catholic hospital system / Simon J. Craddock Lee -- Teleology, the modern moral dichotomy, and postmodern bioethics in the 21st century / John Paul Slosar -- Reflections of moral dilemmas and patterns of ethical decision making in five clinical physical therapists / Bruce H. Greenfield -- Beyond the individual: healthcare ethics in diverse societies / Kathryn H. Kavanagh -- An ethics of diversity: listening in thin places / Jeanne M. Sorrell and Christine S. Dinkins.

174.95 G964h, 2006
AUT Guinn, David E.
TIT Handbook of bioethics and religion.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: A history of religion and bioethics / Albert R. Jonsen -- Theology's role in public bioethics / Lisa Sowle Cahill -- Who legitimately speaks for religion in public bioethics? / John H. Evans -- Bioethics, religion, and linguistic capital / Tod Chambers -- And power corrupts-- : religion and the disciplinary matrix of bioethics / M. Therese Lysaught -- Religion, public reason, and embryonic stem cell research / Cynthia B. Cohen -- "These and those are the words of the living god" : Talmudi sound and fury in shaping national policy / Elliot N. Dorf -- Public discourse and reasonable pluralims : rethinking the requirements of neurtality / H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr -- Law and bioethics in Rodriquez v. Canada / David E. Guinn, Edward W. Keyserlingk, and Wendy Morton -- The NBAC report on cloning : a case study in religion, public policy and bioethics / M. Cathleen Kaveny -- Philosophy, theology, and the claims of justice / Karen Lebacqz -- "No harm, no harrassment" : major principles of health care ethics in Islam / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Ethics of ambiguity : a Buddhist reflection on the Japanese organ transplant law / Ronald Y. Nakasone -- "On one path or the other" : cloning, religion and the making of U.S. biopolicy / Nigel M. de S. Cameron -- Apples and oranges : a critique of current trends in the study of religion, spirituality, and health / Gail Gaisin Glicksman and Allen Glicksman -- The heart of the matter : religion and spirituality at the end of life / David E. Guinn -- Bioethical entanglements of race, religion, and AIDS / Michele Goodwin -- The delivery of controversial services : reproductive health and the ethical and religious directives / Maura A. Ryan -- Catholic health care in the public square : tension on the frontier / Clarke E. Cochran.

174.96 F559e, 2006
AUT Fitzpatrick, Kathy ; Bronstein, Carolyn.
TIT Ethics in public relations : responsible advocacy.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2006.
CON Contents: Baselines for ethical advocacy in the "marketplace of ideas" / Kathy Fitzpatrick -- Responsibility and accountability / Thomas H. Bivins -- The ethics of communicating with and about difference in a changing society / Larissa A. Grunig and Elizabeth L. Toth -- Negotiating relationships with activist publics / Linda Hon -- Responsible advocacy for nonprofit organizations / Carolyn Bronstein -- Truth and transparency / Karla Gower -- Responsible online communication / Kirk Hallahan -- Responsible advocacy through strategic risk communication / Michael J. Palenchar and Robert L. Heath -- The ethics of public diplomacy / Philip Seib -- Ethics across borders / Donald Wright.

178 S617w, 2006
AUT Singer, Peter ; Mason, Jim.
TIT The way we eat : why our food choices matter.
PUB [Emmaus, Pa.] : Rodale ; [New York] : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Jake and Lee -- The hidden cost of cheap chicken -- Behind the label: "animal care certified" eggs -- Meat and milk factories -- Can bigger get better? -- Jim and Mary Ann -- Behind the label: Niman ranch bacon -- Behind the label: "organic" and "certified humane" eggs -- Seafood -- Eating locally -- Trade, fair trade, and workers' rights -- Eating out and eating in, ethically -- JoAnn and Joe -- Going organic -- Is it unethical to raise children vegan? -- Are vegans better for the environment? -- The ethics of eating meat -- What should we eat?.

179.3 B415f, 2006
AUT Beers, Diane L.
TIT For the prevention of cruelty : the history and legacy of animal rights activism in the United States.
PUB Athens, Ohio : Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Resurrecting the voice : animal advocacy in history -- A movement takes shape : the origins of animal advocacy -- Leaders and followers : the new humanitarians -- "The voice of the voiceless" : early campaigns, 1866-1915 -- Reaching out to the mainstream : animal advocacy evolves, 1915-45 -- "Our most strenuous protest" : antivivisection before 1945 -- The road to liberation : the rise of the postwar movement and the era of legislation, 1945-75 -- Epilogue.

179.8 T241d, 2006
AUT Taylor, Gabriele.
TIT Deadly vices.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Vices and virtue-theory -- 'Deadly sins' -- Envy and covetousness -- Self and self-consciousness -- Pride and anger -- Interconnections -- 'Capital vices' -- Countervailing virtues.

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204 K86s, 2006
AUT Koss-Chioino, Joan ; Hefner, Philip J.
TIT Spiritual transformation and healing : anthropological, theological, neuroscientific, and clinical perspectives.
PUB Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Finding our way through new terrain -- Exploring spiritual transformation and healing : fundamental issues / Philip Hefner and Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- The meaning of spiritual transformation / Kenneth I. Pargament -- The spirit of spiritual healing in the United States / David J. Hufford and Mary Ann Bucklin -- Traditional and indigenous healing systems : anthropological perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and radical empathy in ritual healing and therapeutic relationships / Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- Radical empathy, gender, and shamanic healing : examples from Peru / Bonnie Glass-Coffin -- Sustainable faith? : reconfiguring shamanic healing in Siberia / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- The making of a shaman : a comparative study of Inuit, African, and Nepalese shaman initiation / Edith L.B. Turner -- Spiritual transformation and healing from religious perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and healing : an encounter with the sacred / Philip Hefner -- Spiritual transformation and healing in light of an evolutionary theology / Karl E. Peters -- Personal transformation : perspectives from psychology and Christianity / Fraser Watts -- Spiritual growth, cognition, and complexity : faith as a dynamic process / Carol Rausch Albright -- Neuroscientific perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- The neurobiology of spiritual transformation / Andrew Newberg -- Narrative in holistic healing : empathy, sympathy, and simulation theory / Michael L. Spezio -- Healing of the self-in-context : memory, plasticity, and spiritual practice / David Allen Hogue -- Clinical perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- Spirituality, spiritual experiences, and spiritual transformations in the face of HIV / Gail Ironson, Heidemarie Kremer, and Dale S. Ironson -- Spiritual engagement and transformation in cancer patients : the experience of the patient, the role of the physician / Jean L. Kristeller and Leonard M. Hummel. Finding our way through new terrain -- Exploring spiritual transformation and healing : fundamental issues / Philip Hefner and Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- The meaning of spiritual transformation / Kenneth I. Pargament -- The spirit of spiritual healing in the United States / David Hufford and Mary Ann Bucklin -- Traditional and indigenous healing systems : anthropological perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and radical empathy in ritual healing and therapeutic relationships / Joan D. Koss-Chioino -- Radical empathy, gender, and shamanic healing : examples from Peru / Bonnie Glass-Coffin -- Sustainable faith? : reconfiguring shamanic healing in Siberia / Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer -- The making of a shaman : a comparative study of inupiat, African, and Nepalese shaman initiation / Edith Turner -- Spiritual transformation and healing from religious perspectives -- Spiritual transformation and healing--an encounter with the sacred / Philip Hefner -- Spiritual transformation and healing in light of an evolutionary theology / Karl E. Peters -- Personal transformation : perspectives from psychology and Christianity / Fraser Watts -- Spiritual growth, cognition, and complexity : faith as a dynamic process / Carol Rausch Albright -- Neuroscientific perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- The neurobiology of spiritual transformation / Andrew Newberg -- Narrative in holistic healing : empathy, sympathy, and simulation theory / Michael L. Spezio -- Healing of the self-in-context : memory, plasticity, and spiritual practice / David Hogue -- Clinical perspectives on spiritual transformation and healing -- Spirituality, spiritual experiences, and spiritual transformations in the face of HIV / Gail Ironson, Heidemarie Kremer, and Dale Ironson -- Spiritual engagement and transformation in cancer patients : the experience of the patient, the role of the physician / Jean L. Kristeller and Leonard Hummel.

214 V258p, 2006
AUT Van Inwagen, Peter.
TIT The problem of evil : the Gifford lectures delivered in the University of St. Andrews in 2003.
PUB Oxford, U.K. : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The problem of evil and the argument from evil -- The idea of God -- Philosophical failure -- The global argument from evil -- The global argument continued -- The local argument from evil -- The sufferings of beasts -- The hiddenness of God.

231.765 S425n, 2006
AUT Scott, Eugenie Carol ; Branch, Glenn.
TIT Not in our classrooms : why intelligent design is wrong for our schools.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The once and future intelligent design / Eugenie C. Scott -- Analyzing critical analysis: the fallback antievolutionist strategy / Nicholas J. Matzke and Paul R. Gross -- Theology, religion, and intelligent design / Martinez Hewlett and Ted Peters -- From the classroom to the courtroom : intelligent design and the constitution / Jay D. Wexler -- Evolution in the classroom / Brian Alters -- Defending the teaching of evolution: strategies and tactics for activists / Glenn Branch. Contents: The once and future intelligent design / Eugenie C. Scott -- Analyzing critical analysis / Nicholas J. Matzke and Paul R. Gross -- Theology, religion, and intelligent design / Martinez Hewlett, and Ted Peters -- From the classroom to the courtroom : intelligent design and the constitution / Jay D. Wexler -- When the classroom door closes, who teaches evolution? / Brian Alters -- Defending the teaching of evolution / Glenn Branch and the staff of the National Center For Science Education.

232 K21j, 2006
AUT Kaufman, Gordon D.
TIT Jesus and creativity.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Reconceiving the Jesus-trajectory -- Christology : Jesus as norm -- Humans as biohistorical beings : historicity, creativity, freedom -- Creativity is good news!.

274.95 K94b, 2006
AUT Krueger, Derek.
TIT Byzantine Christianity.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c2006.
SER A people's history of Christianity ; v. 3.
CON Contents: Introduction: the practice of Christianity in Byzantium / Derek Krueger -- Lay piety in the sermons of John Chrysostom / Jaclyn Maxwell -- The cult of the martyrs and the Cappadocian fathers / Vasiliki Limberis -- Romanos and the night vigil in the sixth century / Georgia Frank -- Shrines, festivals, and the "undistinguished mob" / James C. Skedros -- The layperson in church / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- Death and dying in Byzantium / Nicholas Constas -- Icons, prayer, and vision in the eleventh century / Charles Barber -- Objects of devotion and protection / Brigitte Pitarakis -- The religious lives of children and adolescents / Peter Hatlie -- The devotional life of laywomen / Alice-Mary Talbot.

277.3 G794t, 2006
AUT Greeley, Andrew M. ; Hout, Michael.
TIT The truth about conservative Christians : what they think and what they believe.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The religion of conservative Christians: a return to the reformation? -- Conservative Christians in American politics -- The politics of conservative Christianity in black and white -- Freedom, inequality, and conservative Christianity -- A social portrait of conservative Christians -- Conservative Christian growth: membership begins at home -- Conservative Christians in the "sexual revolution" -- The conservative Christian family and the "feminist revolution" -- Happiness and lifestyle among conservative Christians -- The Pentecostals: ultimate conservative Christians -- Conservative Christians and Catholics: too estranged for alliance -- Conclusions.

280.4097 M187p, 2006
AUT Maffly-Kipp, Laurie F. ; Schmidt, Leigh Eric ; Valeri, Mark R.
TIT Practicing protestants : histories of Christian life in America, 1630-1965.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
SER Lived religions.

Ref 296.03 E562, 2007 v.1-22
AUT Skolnik, Fred ; Berenbaum, Michael.
TIT Encyclopaedia Judaica. - 2nd ed.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA in association with the Keter Pub. House, c2007.
CON Contents: v. 1. Aa-Alp -- v. 2. Alr-Az -- v. 3. Ba-Blo -- v. 4. Blu-Cof -- v. 5. Coh-Doz -- v. 6. Dr-Feu -- v. 7. Fey-Gor -- v. 8. Gos-Hep -- v. 9. Her-Int -- v. 10. Inz-Iz -- v. 11. Ja-Kas -- v. 12. Kat-Lie -- v. 13. Lif-Mek -- v. 14. Mel-Nas -- v. 15. Nat-Per -- v. 16. Pes-Qu -- v. 17 Ra-Sam -- v. 18. San-Sol -- v. 19. Som-Tn -- v. 20. To-Wei -- v. 21. Wei-Zy -- v. 22. Thematic outline and index.

297.82 N264s, 2006
AUT Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza.
TIT The Shia revival : how conflicts within Islam will shape the future. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Norton, c2006.
CON Contents: The other Islam : who are the Shia? -- The making of Shia politics -- The fading promise of nationalism -- Khomeini's moment -- The battle of Islamic fundamentalisms -- The tide turns -- Iraq : the first Arab Shia state -- The rise of Iran -- The battle for the Middle East.

299.94 C639h, 2006
AUT Clifton, Chas.
TIT Her hidden children : the rise of Wicca and paganism in America.
PUB Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2006.
SER The Pagan studies series.
CON Contents: Introduction: the island that burst from the sea -- How the ravens came to the lake: Wicca's birth and Atlantic passage -- Calling it "nature religion" -- The rhetoric of Wicca -- The playboy and the witch: Wicca and popular culture -- West Coast Wicca, self-invention, and the "Gardnerian magnet" -- A search for paradise: other new pagan religions -- Final thoughts.

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301.092 E52m, 2006
AUT Elwell, Frank W.
TIT Macrosociology : four modern theorists.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Prologue: The past -- The sociology of C. Wright Mills -- Marvin Harris's cultural materialism -- Wallerstein's world-systems analysis -- Gerhard Lenski's ecological-evolutionary theory -- Meta-analysis.

301.092 S316g, 2006
AUT Scheff, Thomas J.
TIT Goffman unbound! : a new paradigm for social science.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2006.
SER Advancing the sociological imagination.
CON Contents: Introduction: The life and work of genius -- The Goffman style: deconstructing society and social science -- Looking-glass self : Goffman as symbolic interactionist -- Goffman's world of emotions -- The structure of context : deciphering Frame analysis -- Building an onion : alternatives to biopsychiatry -- What is this thing called love? : the three A's : attachment, attunement, and attraction -- Hatred as shame and rage? -- Human bonds : love, pride, and shame -- Masculinity and emotions : the silence/violence pattern -- A theory of runaway nationalism -- Conclusion.

302.23 M636r, 2006
AUT Miklitsch, Robert.
TIT Roll over Adorno : critical theory, popular culture, audiovisual media.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.
SER SUNY series in postmodern culture.

302.5 S678H, 2006
TIT Social change in America : the historical handbook.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Bernan Press, c2006.

303.4093 S399a, 2006
AUT Schwartz, Glenn M ; Nichols, John J.
TIT After collapse : the regeneration of complex societies.
PUB Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2006.
CON Contents: From collapse to regeneration / Glenn M. Schwartz -- The demise and regeneration of Bronze Age urban centers in the Euphrates Valley of Syria / Lisa Cooper -- Amorites, onagers, and social reorganization in Middle Bronze Age Syria / John J. Nichols and Jill A. Weber -- "Lo, nobles lament, the poor rejoice" : state formation in the wake of social flux / Ellen Morris -- The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 bc / Ian Morris -- Inca state origins : collapse and regeneration in the southern Peruvian Andes / Gordon F. McEwan -- Regeneration as transformation : postcollapse society in Nasca, Peru / Christina A. Conlee -- After state collapse : how Tumilaca communities developed in the upper Moquegua Valley, Peru / Kenny Sims -- Patterns of political regeneration in Southeast and East Asia / Bennet Bronson -- From funan to angkor : collapse and regeneration in ancient Cambodia / Miriam T. Stark -- Framing the Maya collapse : continuity, discontinuity, method, and practice in the classic to postclassic southern Maya lowlands / Diane Z. Chase and Arlen F. Chase -- Postclassic Maya society regenerated at Mayap�n / Marilyn A. Masson, Timothy S. Hare, and Carlos Peraza Lope -- Before and after collapse : reflections on the regeneration of social complexity / Alan L. Kolata -- Notes on regeneration / Norman Yoffee.

303.48 G624w, 2006
AUT Goldsmith, Jack L ; Wu, Tim.
TIT Who controls the Internet? : illusions of a borderless world.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Yahoo! -- Visions of a post-territorial order -- The god of the Internet -- Why geography matters -- How governments rule the Net -- China -- The filesharing movement -- Virtues and vices of government control -- Consequences of borders -- Global laws -- Conclusion: Globalization meets governmental coercion.

303.483 K21c, 2006
AUT Kavoori, Anandam P ; Arceneaux, Noah.
TIT The cell phone reader : essays in social transformation.
PUB New York : Peter Lang, c2006.
SER Digital formations, 1526-3169 ; v. 34.
CON Contents: Introduction / Anandam Kavoori and Noah Arceneaux -- Theorizing cell phones -- The little big blender: how the cellphone integrates the digital and the physical everywhere / Paul Levinson -- Interfaces of hybrid spaces / Adriana de Souza e Silva -- The cell phone: an artifact of popular culture and a tool of the public sphere / Janey Gordon -- Life in the nomos: stress, emotional maintenance and coordination via the mobile telephone in intact families / Rich Ling -- Robinson piece - Tsunami mobilizations : considering the role of mobile and digital communications devices, citizen journalism, and the mass media / Wendy Robinson and David Robison -- Identity politics and/of/ in the cell phone -- cstng a pwr4l spll: d evolshn f sms / Collette Snowden -- Can you fear me now?: cell phones and the American horror film / Allison Whitney -- Texting the faith: religious users and cell phone culture / Heidi Campbell -- Disabling cell phones / Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell -- Do you know the importance of a skypager?: telecommunications, African Americans and popular culture / Davin Heckman -- International perspectives -- Mobile sociality in urban Morocco / Bahiyyih Maroon -- Culture, organization, and contradiction in the social construction of technology: Adoption and use of the cell phone across three cultures / Paul Leonardi, Marianne E. Leonardi, and Elizabeth Hudson -- The cell phone as a cultural technology: lessons from the Indian case / Anandam Kavoori and Kalyani Chadha.

303.484 P662a, 2006
AUT Piott, Steven L.
TIT American reformers, 1870-1920 : progressives in word and deed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Lester Frank Ward and reform Darwinism -- Henry George's democratic economics -- Charles W. Macune's cooperative vision -- Ida B. Well's crusade against racism -- Walter Rauschenbusch and the social gospel -- Jane Addams and the settlement house idea -- Florence Kelley's quest for humane labor legislation -- Louis Brandeis, the law, and social change -- Lincoln Steffens muckrakes the business of politics -- Harvey W. Wiley and the ethics of pure food and drugs -- John Randolph Haynes and direct democracy -- Alice Paul and the campaign for human rights.

304.2 M179s, 2006
AUT Maddox, Gregory.
TIT Sub-Saharan Africa : an environmental history.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2006.
SER Nature and human societies.
CON Contents: African environments and the origins of humanity -- African environments and the development of food production systems -- African environments and the development of complex societies -- African environments and the era of the Columbian Exchange -- African environments and the reorganization of space under colonial rule -- African environments in the age of conservation and development -- Case Studies -- Case study 1. The first frontier : the Sahara Desert -- Case study 2. Death and life on the Serengeti : wilderness in Africa as managed landscape -- Case study 3. Transforming the landscape : food production and agriculture in Eastern, Central and Southern Africa.

304.2 N134e, 2006
AUT Nadeau, Robert.
TIT The environmental endgame : mainstream economics, ecological disaster, and human survival.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The making of the godgame -- Godgames at the Pentagon -- A new view of nature -- The amazing gift of language -- The gods of the soulless machine -- The god with the invisible hand -- A green thumb on the invisible hand -- An unnatural religion -- The endgame.

304.8 H366g, 2005
AUT Hatton, T. J ; Williamson, Jeffrey G.
TIT Global migration and the world economy : two centuries of policy and performance.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.
CON Contents: 1. Goals and guidelines -- 2. Evolving world migrations since Columbus -- 3. The transition to mass migration : how it all began -- 4. What drove European mass emigration? -- 5. Emigrant origins and immigrant outcomes -- 6. The impact of mass migration on convergence and inequality -- 7. Mass migrations in the poor periphery -- 8. Political debate and policy backlash -- 9. The demise of mass migration and its impact -- 10. Resurrection : world migration since World War II -- 11. World migration under policy constraints -- 12. Where are all the Africans? -- 13. The rise (and fall?) of asylum seeking -- 14. The labor market and fiscal impact of immigration -- 15. Migrant selection, immigrant assimilation, and emigrant brain drain -- 16. Policy and prejudice -- 17. Policy and performance -- 18. World mass migration : past, present, and future.

305.4209 J83i, 2006
AUT Joshi, S. T.
TIT In her place : a documentary history of prejudice against women.
PUB Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Some overviews -- 1. Woman's rights (1867) / John Todd -- 2. Evils of woman's revolt against the old standards (1927) / Hugh L. McMenamin -- 3. The entrenchment of the American witch (1962) / George Frazier -- pt. 2. Woman's "place" -- 4. Woman, in her social and domestic character (1831) / Elizabeth Sandford -- 5. The curse of Eve (1903) / Margaret Bisland -- 6. The home builder (1908) / Lyman Abbott -- 7. The normal American woman (1908) / Charles W. Eliot -- pt. 3. Scientists on women -- 8. Woman : physiologically considered (1843) / Alexander Walker -- 9. Sex and character (1903) / Otto Weininger -- 10. The inevitability of patriarchy (1973) / Steven Goldberg -- pt. 4. Women and intellect -- 11. Mental differences between men and women (1887) / George J. Romanes -- 12. On the absence of the creative faculty in women (1891) / Molly Elliot Seawell -- 13. The weaker sex : a scientific ramble (1926) / James H. Leuba -- pt. 5. Women and education -- 14. Sex in education ; or, A fair chance for the girls (1873) / Edward H. Clarke -- 15. Higher education of women and race suicide (1905) / A. Lapthorn Smith -- 16. Womanly education for women (1915) / John M. McBryde Jr. Contents: pt. 6. Women and work -- 17. Women's mistakes about work (1879) / Anonymous -- 18. The education and efficiency of women (1910) / Emily Greene Balch -- 19. The psychology of supervising the working woman (1942) / Donald A. Laird, Eleanor C. Laird -- 20. Memo to the American woman (1966) / Patricia Coffin -- pt. 7. Women and sex -- 21. Feminism : its fallacies and follies (1916) / John Martin -- 22. Female sexuality (1931) / Sigmund Freud -- 23. How to get and keep a husband (1957) / Kate Constance -- pt. 8. Women and marriage -- 24. Commentaries on the laws of England (1765-1769) / William Blackstone -- 25. The young wife (1837) / William A. Alcott -- 26. These women (1925) / William Johnson -- 27. Men and marriage (1986) / George Gilder -- pt. 9. Women and religion -- 28. Female influence, and the true Christian mode of its exercise (1837) / Jonathan F. Stearns -- 29. Woman's profession as mother and educator (1872) / Catharine E. Beecher -- 30. "The war of the sexes" (1896) / John Paul MacCorrie -- 31. The influence of women and its cure (1936) / John Erskine -- 32. The decline of femininity (1945) / Joseph H. Fichter, SJ. pt. 10. Women and suffrage -- 33. The woman question (1869) / Orestes Augustus Brownson -- 34. Woman suffrage : the reform against nature (1869) / Horace Bushnell -- 35. The blank-cartridge ballot (1896) / Rossiter Johnson -- 36. The wrong and peril of woman suffrage (1909) / James Monroe Buckley -- 37. Woman adrift : the menace of suffragism (1912) / Harold Owen -- 38. Socialism, feminism, and suffragism : the terrible triplets (1915) / Benjamin Vestal Hubbard -- 39. The fundamental error of woman suffrage (1915) / William Parker -- pt. 11. Women hating women -- 40. Discontented women (1896) / Amelia E. Barr -- 41. The abdication of man (1898) / Elizabeth Bisland -- 42. The business of being a woman (1912) / Ida M. Tarbell -- pt. 12. Backlash : men fight back -- 43. For maids and mothers : the woman of to-day, and of to-morrow (1899) / Harry Thurston Peck -- 44. Equal rights for men (1937) / Harry Hibschman -- 45. So why do rapes occur? (1979) / Roy U. Schenk.

305.562 M134w, 2006
AUT McDermott, Monica.
TIT Working-class white : the making and unmaking of race relations.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The cities and the sites : "The Crescent" in Atlanta and "Greenfield" in Boston -- Experiences of white racial identity -- Situational contexts and perceptions of prejudice -- The implications of diversity among Blacks for white attitudes -- Race, crime, and violence -- Race, gender, and sexuality.

305.569 G578r, 2006
AUT Godden, Richard ; Crawford, Martin.
TIT Reading southern poverty between the wars, 1918-1939.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Three agrarianisms and the idea of a South without poverty / Ted Ownby -- Dissonant encounters : FSA photographers and the southern underclass, 1935-1943 / Stuart Kidd -- Not readily visualized by industrial workers and urban dwellers : published images of rural women from the FSA collection, 1935-1937 / Siobhan Davis -- Murder, "convict flogging affairs," and debt peonage: the roaring twenties in the American South / Vivien M.L. Miller -- "Ain't worth a damn for nothin'" : the New Deal and child labor in southern textiles / Clive Webb -- From Memphis to Bandung : the political uses of hunger in Richard Wright's Black boy / Andrew Warnes -- "All manner of defeated, shiftless, shifty, pathetic, and interesting good people" : autobiographical encounters with southern poverty / John C. Inscoe -- Creating "Nate Shaw" : the making and remaking of All God's dangers / James C. Giesen -- A southern writer and class war in the mountains : Grace Lumpkin's To make my bread / Richard Gray -- Rural poverty and the heroics of farming : Elizabeth Madox Roberts's The time of man and Ellen Glasgow's Barren ground / Peter Nicolaisen -- Trashing modernism : Erskine Caldwell on the southern poor / John T. Matthews -- Marginalization and mobility : segregation and the representation of southern poor whites / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.

305.892 G878f, 2006
AUT Gross, Jan Tomasz.
TIT Fear : anti-semitism in Poland after Auschwitz : an essay in historical interpretation. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2006.

305.892 L317c, 2006
AUT Laqueur, Walter.
TIT The changing face of antisemitism : from ancient times to the present day.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The new antisemitism -- Interpretations of antisemitism -- Ancient and medieval anti-Judaism -- Enlightenment and after -- Racialism and Jewish conspiracies -- Towards the Holocaust -- Contemporary antisemitism -- Assimilation and its discontents -- Antisemitism and the left -- Antisemitism and the Muslim world.

305.896 C712f, 2006
AUT Hill Collins, Patricia.
TIT From Black power to hip hop : racism, nationalism, and feminism.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2006.
SER Politics, history, and social change.
CON Contents: Introduction : from Black power to hip hop -- I: Race, family, and the U.S. nation-state. Like one of the family : race, ethnicity, and the paradox of American national identity -- Will the "real" mother please stand up? : race, class, and American national family planning -- II: Ethnicity, culture, and Black nationalist politics. Black nationalism and African American ethnicity : Afrocentrism as civil religion -- When fighting words are not enough : the gendered content of Afrocentrism -- III: Feminism, nationalism, and African American women. Why collective identity politics matter : feminism, nationalism, and Black women's community work -- Is the personal still political? : the women's movement, feminism, and Black women in the hip-hop generation.

305.906 B419g, 2006
AUT Behera, Navnita Chadha.
TIT Gender, conflict and migration.
PUB New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London : SAGE Publications, 2006.
SER Women and migration in Asia ; v. 3.

306.098 W732L, 2006
AUT Williamson, Robert Clifford.
TIT Latin America : cultures in conflict.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: Latin America: change and diversity -- Geography: barriers and challenges -- An unfolding heritage -- Society, economy, and government -- Identity, modernity, and the arts -- Gender, socialization, and women's roles -- Marriage and the family -- Religion at the crossroads -- Education: a continuing challenge -- Communication, science, and technology -- Social structure and change: Latin America and the world.

306.342 B886j, 2006
AUT Brubaker, Pamela ; Peters, Rebecca Todd ; Stivers, Laura A.
TIT Justice in a global economy : strategies for home, community, and world. 1st ed.
PUB Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Household strategies. Supporting community farming / Rebecca Todd Peters ; Relating to household labor justly / W. Anne Joh ; Consuming responsibly / Marcia Allen Owens ; Eating intentionally / Shannon Jung -- Community strategies. Holding corporations accountable / Laura Stivers ; Engaging environmental justice / Carlton Waterhouse ; Revitalizing local communities / Wylin Dassie ; Creating the commons / Larry L. Rasmussen -- Public policy strategies. Promoting solidarity with migrants / Daisy L. Machado ; Reforming global economic policies / Pamela K. Brubaker ; Ensuring sustainability / John B. Cobb Jr. ; Challenging our assumptions / Mary Elizabeth Hobgood.

306.362 H823s, 2006
AUT Horton, James Oliver ; Horton, Lois E.
TIT Slavery and public history : the tough stuff of American memory.
PUB New York : New Press : Distributed by Norton, c2006.
CON Contents: Coming to terms with slavery in twenty-first-century America / Ira Berlin -- If you don't tell it like it was, it can never be as it ought to be / David W. Blight -- Slavery in American history: an uncomfortable national dialogue / James Oliver Horton -- The last great taboo subject: exhibiting slavery at the Library of Congress / John Michael Vlach -- For whom will the Liberty Bell toll? From controversy to cooperation / Gary B. Nash -- Recovering (from) slavery: four struggles to tell the truth / Joanne Melish -- Avoiding history: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the uncomfortable public conversation on slavery / Lois E. Horton -- Southern comfort levels: race, heritage tourism, and the Civil War in Richmond / Marie Tyler-McGraw -- "A cosmic threat": the National Park Service addresses the causes of the American Civil War / Dwight T. Pitcaithley -- In search of a usable past: neo-Confederates and black Confederates / Bruce Levine -- Epilogue: Reflections / Edward T. Linenthal.

306.4 B242n, 2004
AUT Barcan, Ruth.
TIT Nudity : a cultural anatomy.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Berg, 2004.
SER Dress, body, culture.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The nudity/clothing dialectic -- The metaphor of nudity -- Unnatural nature : mess, savagery, perversion, crime -- The nude republic : celebrity, "ordinariness" and identity -- Conclusion.

306.461 S531s, 2006
AUT Sharp, Lesley Alexandra.
TIT Strange harvest : organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: We are the dead men -- Memory work -- Public encounters as subversive acts -- Human hybridity.

306.483 P942L, 2006
AUT Prettyman, Sandra Spickard ; Lampman, Brian.
TIT Learning culture through sports : exploring the role of sports in society.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Why Study Sport? / Sandra Spickard Prettyman -- Sect. I: Youth Participation and Sport -- Organized Sports for Young People: A Twentieth Century Invention / Jay Coakley -- An Open Letter to Communities: What Community Leaders Can Do to Improve Youth Sports / Bob Bigelow, Bruce Savre, Richard Irving, Steve Fisher, Doug Abrams -- Time Out! For Better Sports for Kids / Fred Engh -- Motivation and Outcomes of Youth Participation in Sport / Peggy McCann, Martha Ewing -- Sect. II: Gender and Sexuality in Sport -- Title IX: Past, Present, and Future / Margaret Duncan -- Liberties and Lipstick: The Paradox of Cheerleading as Sport / Natalie Guice Adams, Pam Bettis -- If You Beat Him, You Own Him, He's Your Bitch: Coaches, Language, and Power / Sandra Spickard Prettyman --Sect. III: Race and Ethnicity in Sport -- -- The New Racial Stereotypes / Richard Lapchick -- Exploring Race with Secondary Students: Developing Critical Media Literacy / Brian Lampman -- Unexpected, Undeserved, Unrewarded...And Undeniable: Sport and Transformation / Bill Curry -- Making Sense of the American Indian Mascot Issue / Ellen Staurowsky --Sect. IV: Sport and the Media -- Songs Sung Red, White, and Blue: Music, Sports, and the Rhetoric of Patriotism / Stephen Mosher -- Reconsidering Girl Power: Examining Media Images of Female Athletes / Maureen Smith -- Why Be A 'Jackass'?: Media Images of Young White Men In and Out of Sport in New Millennium America / Kyle Kusz -- Education, Sport, and Hip Hop through the "Mic" of Stuart Scott / Keith Harrison, Qualyan Allen -- Sect. V: Sport and Violence -- -- In the Name of Obedience: Overcoming the Damaging Myths about Hazing / Joe Gervais -- Athletes, Role Models, and Criminals: What Do We Make of This Tripartite Mess? / Earl Smith, Angela Hattery -- Pitching for Equality: Gay Athletes and Homphobia / Eric Anderson -- Sect. VI: Sports and Schools -- -- The Scholar-Baller Approach: A Cultural Map for Academic Success in America / Keith Harrison, Eddie Comeaux, Jean Boyd, Cliff Parks, David Heikkenin -- Rethinking the Role of Sports in Our Schools / John Gerdy -- The Meaning of Success in Academics and Athletics / Rob Renes -- Conclusion: Sport, Society, and Social Justice / Brian Lampman.

306.766 C653g, 2006
AUT Cobb, Michael L.
TIT God hates fags : the rhetorics of religious violence.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
SER Sexual cultures.
CON Contents: Introduction : the last safe group to hate -- The language of national security : a queer theory of religious language -- James Baldwin and his queer, religious words -- Like a prayer -- Rights as wrongs -- Conclusion : our aberrant future.

306.848 E75g, 2006
AUT Eskridge, William N ; Spedale, Darren R.
TIT Gay marriage : for better or for worse? : what we've learned from the evidence.
PUB Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The evolving same-sex marriage debate in the United States -- The same-sex marriage debate in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe -- A new look for legal unions : sixteen years of Scandinavian partnerships and the changing conception of family -- The benefits of same-sex marriage : lessons from Scandinavia -- Modern Scandinavian families and the defense-of-marriage argument -- Drawing lines : Scandinavian lessons for the American marriage debate.

306.874 K95n, 2006
AUT Kuba, Cheryl A.
TIT Navigating the journey of aging parents : what care receivers want.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2006.
CON Contents: Care receivers : an intimate profile -- Start the conversation -- Take care of yourself first -- Growing old and feeling ill : a permanent condition? -- Getting up close and personal -- Driving through the fog -- "Give me the keys" -- Leaving home -- Destination : your house -- A million miles away : receiving care from a distance -- Circling the wagons -- Where is the love? -- What about God? : is he still listening to me at this age? -- The end of the road : death as life's final chapter.

307.76 F623t, 2006
AUT Flint, Anthony.
TIT This land : the battle over sprawl and the future of America.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : developing America -- Grids and greenfields -- Suburbia's promise, and curse -- New paradigm : new urbanism -- The smart growth revolution -- Walk daily, buy local, build green -- Hands off my land -- Dream defenders and Sprawl Inc. -- Pitched battles -- The density dilemma -- Smart, and fair -- Planning and disaster -- Conclusion: Six healthy habits for sensible growth.

320.092 Z94t, 2006
AUT Zuckert, Catherine H. ; Zuckert, Michael P.
TIT The truth about Leo Strauss : political philosophy and American democracy.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction. Mr. Strauss goes to Washington? -- ch. 1. The return of the ancients : an overview of the Straussian project -- ch. 2. Strauss, modernity, America -- ch. 3. Leo Strauss as a postmodern political thinker -- ch. 4. The man who gave away the secrets : on esotericism -- ch. 5. Leo Strauss, teacher of evil? -- ch. 6. The emergence of the Straussian study of America -- ch. 7. Straussian geography.

320.973 D993i, 2006
AUT Dworkin, R. M.
TIT Is democracy possible here? : principles for a new political debate.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Preface -- Common ground -- Terrorism and human rights -- Religion and dignity -- Taxes and legitimacy -- Is democracy possible? -- Epilogue.

320.973 M123p, 2006
AUT McCarty, Nolan M ; Poole, Keith T ; Rosenthal, Howard.
TIT Polarized America : the dance of ideology and unequal riches.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
SER The Walras-Pareto lectures.
CON Contents: The choreography of American politics -- Polarized politicians -- Income polarization and the electorate -- Immigration, income, and the voter's incentive to redistribute -- Campaign finance and polarization -- Polarization and public policy -- Where have you gone, Mr. Sam.

320.973 W899c, 2007
AUT Woodward, Gary C.
TIT Center stage : media and the performance of American politics.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
SER Communication, media, and politics.
CON Contents: Prologue : News, politics, and the public interest on September 10, 2001 -- Frames of reference in an era of casual spectatorship -- Forces shaping the news business -- Discovery and discourse in the new media -- The staging of the contemporary presidency -- Congress and the courtroom -- Nationalism, foreign news, and war reporting -- Art, entertainment, and politics.

322.1 P967n, 2006
AUT Prothero, Stephen R.
TIT A nation of religions : the politics of pluralism in multireligious America.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction / Stephen Prothero -- Isolate, insulate, assimilate : attitudes of mosque leaders toward America / Ihsan Bagby -- Progressive Islam in America / Omid Safi -- From Pearl Harbor to 9/11 : lessons from the internment of Japanese American Buddhists / Duncan Ry�ken Williams -- Reproducing Vietnam in America : San Jose's perfect harmony temple / Hien Duc Do -- Tibetan Buddhism in America : reinforcing the pluralism of the sacred canopy / Robert A.F. Thurman -- Mr. President, why do you exclude us from your prayers? : Hindus challenge American pluralism / Prema A. Kurien -- Sacred land, sacred service : Hindu adaptations to the American landscape / Vasudha Narayanan -- Making home abroad : Sikhs in the United States / Gurinder Singh Mann -- From alleged Buddhists to unreasonable Hindus : First Amendment jurisprudence after 1965 / Courtney Bender and Jennifer Snow -- Agonistic federalism : the Alabama Ten commandments controversy / Stephen Dawson -- The de-Europeanization of American Christianity / R. Stephen Warner -- Religious pluralism and civil society / James Davison Hunter and David Franz.

323 D131o, 2006
AUT Dahl, Robert Alan.
TIT On political equality.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Is political equality a reasonable goal? -- Is political equality achievable? -- A respectable role for emotions -- Political equality, human nature, and society -- Will political inequality increase in the United States? -- Why political inequality may decline.

323.0975 A816f, 2006
AUT Arsenault, Raymond.
TIT Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER Pivotal moments in American history.
CON Contents: You don't have to ride Jim Crow -- Beside the weary road -- Hallelujah! I'm a-travelin' -- Alabama bound -- Get on board, little children -- If you miss me from the back of the bus -- Freedom's coming and it won't be long -- Make me a captive, Lord -- Ain't gonna let no jail house turn me 'round -- Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom -- Oh, freedom -- Epilogue : glory bound -- Appendix : roster of freedom riders.

323.6 B652b, 2006
AUT Bloemraad, Irene.
TIT Becoming a citizen : incorporating immigrants and refugees in the United States and Canada.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: the challenge of immigrant political incorporation -- Diverging trajectories of political incorporation -- The social nature of citizenship and participation -- Structured mobilization: the role of government -- The meaning of citizenship -- Community organizations and political mobilization -- Learning to lead and winning political office -- Conclusion: multicultural citizenship.

324.6 M135m, 2006
AUT McDonald, Michael ; Samples, John Curtis.
TIT The marketplace of democracy : electoral competition and American politics.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.

324.78 M195f, 2006
AUT Magleby, David B ; Corrado, Anthony ; Patterson, Kelly D.
TIT Financing the 2004 election.
PUB Washington D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.

324.973 M195d, 2007
AUT Magleby, David B ; Monson, J. Quin ; Patterson, Kelly D.
TIT Dancing without partners : how candidates, parties, and interest groups interact in the presidential campaign.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
SER Campaigning American style.
CON Contents: Introduction / David B. Magleby, J. Quin Monson, and Kelly D. Patterson -- Something to prove: the Florida presidential campaign of 2004 / Robert E. Crew, Terri Susan Fine, and Susan A. MacManus -- The impact of BCRA on the presidential nomination process: the 2004 Iowa caucuses / Arthur Sanders -- Taking it to the streets: the Iowa presidential campaign of 2004 / Arthur Sanders -- The candidates depart but the dance goes on: the 2004 presidential race in Missouri / E. Terrence Jones ... [et al.] -- The battle for five electoral votes: the New Mexico presidential campaign of 2004 / Lonna Rae Atkeson, Nancy Carrillo, and Mekoce Walker -- The battle for Ohio: the 2004 presidential campaign / Stephen T. Mockabee ... [et al.] -- The morning after: the lingering effects of a night spent dancing / David B. Magleby, J. Quin Monson, and Kelly D. Patterson.

324.973 W721i, 2006
AUT Williams, Andrew Paul ; Tedesco, John C.
TIT The Internet election : perspectives on the Web in campaign 2004.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
SER Communication, media, and politics.
CON Contents: Campaign finance reform and the Internet : regulating Web messages in the 2004 election and beyond / Clifford A. Jones -- Web campaigning by U.S. presidential primary candidates in 2000 and 2004 / Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot -- Webstyles in 2004 : the gendering of candidates on campaign Web sites? / Mary Christine Banwart -- Online organization : Dean, Kerry, and Internet politicking in the 2004 Iowa caucus / Christopher C. Hull -- Political Web wars : the use of the Internet for political advertising / Lynda Lee Kaid -- Self-referential and opponent-based framing : candidate e-mail strategies in campaign 2004 / Andrew Paul Williams -- The role of campaign Web sites in promoting candidates and attracting campaign resources / Monica Postelnicu, Justin D. Martin, and Kristen D. Landreville -- Joy and sorrow of interactivity on the campaign trail : blogs in the primary campaign of Howard Dean / Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Andrea B. Baker -- The blogging of the president / Kaye D. Trammell -- The age of reasons : motives for using different components of the Internet for political information / Barbara K. Kaye and Thomas J. Johnson -- Discrediting Teresa wounded by whispers on the Web / Ashli Quesinberry Stokes -- Web interactivity and young adult political efficacy / John C. Tedesco.

325.32 G753e, 2006
AUT Grandin, Greg.
TIT Empire's workshop : Latin America, the United States, and the rise of the new imperialism. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Metropolitan Books, 2006.
SER American empire project.
CON Contents: The camel not in the Koran -- How Latin America saved the United States from itself -- The most important place in the world: toward a new imperialism -- Going primitive: the violence of the new imperialism -- Bringing it all back home: the politics of the new imperialism -- The third conquest of Latin America: the economics of the new imperialism -- Globalization's showpiece: The failure of the new imperialism -- Iraq is not Arabic for Latin America.

327.101 L747m, 2006
AUT Lindner, Evelin.
TIT Making enemies : humiliation and international conflict.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
SER Contemporary psychology, 1546-668X.
CON Contents: Foreword by Morton Deutsch -- Preface -- Humiliation at work in the mind -- The mental landscape -- Once the cure, now the disease -- Globalization and egalization -- Humiliation at work in the world -- Humiliation and misunderstanding -- Humiliation and conflict -- Humiliation and terrorism -- Why humiliation does not work -- The humiliation addiction -- The humiliation antidote -- The future of humiliation.

327.14 F971a, 2006
AUT Fullerton, Jami A. ; Kendrick, Alice.
TIT Advertising's war on terrorism : the story of the U.S. State Department's Shared Values Initiative.
PUB Spokane, Wash. : Marquette Books, c2006.
CON Contents: A brief history of the Shared Values Initiative -- The Shared Values Initiative : propaganda or public diplomacy? -- New approaches to public diplomacy -- Reactions to the Shared Values Initiative -- Did Shared Values work? : the post-campaign study -- Did Shared Values work? : results of experiments and diagnostic copy tests -- Advertising : a weapon for the War on Terrorism?.

327.172 W555A, 2006
AUT Allan, Pierre ; Keller, Alexis.
TIT What is a just peace?.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: rethinking peace and justice conceptually / Pierre Allan and Alexis Keller -- Peace and justice: a prologue / Stanley Hoffmann -- Justice, peace, and history: a reappraisal / Alexis Keller -- Just peace: a cause worth fighting for / Sir Adam Roberts -- Measuring international ethics: a moral scale of war, peace, justice, and global care / Pierre Allan -- Just peace: a dangerous objective / Yossi Beilin -- Peace, justice, and religion / David Little -- A method for thinking about just peace / Edward W. Said -- The concept of a just peace, or achieving peace through recognition, renouncement, and rule / Pierre Allan and Alexis Keller.

327.174 R528s, 2006
AUT Richelson, Jeffrey.
TIT Spying on the bomb : American nuclear intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Norton, c2006.

327.46 S877s, 2005
AUT Stone, Glyn.
TIT Spain, Portugal and the Great Powers, 1931-1941.
PUB Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
SER The making of the 20th century.

327.519 K49t, 2006
AUT Kim, Samuel S.
TIT The two Koreas and the great powers.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : Korea and the great powers in a changing world -- China and the two Koreas -- Russia and the two Koreas -- Japan and the two Koreas -- The United States and the two Koreas -- The future of the two Koreas.

327.5694 M296d, 2006
AUT Maoz, Zeev.
TIT Defending the Holy Land : a critical analysis of Israel's security & foreign policy.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The Israeli security puzzle : conceptions, approaches, paradoxes -- The Sinai war : the making of the second round -- The Six Day War : playing with fire -- The War of Attrition : the first payment for arrogance -- The Yom Kippur war : the war that shouldn't have been -- The Lebanese swamp, 1981-2000 -- The unlimited use of the limited use of force : Israel and low-intensity warfare -- The mixed blessing of Israel's nuclear policy -- Israeli intervention in intra-Arab affairs -- Never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity : the Israeli nonpolicy of peace in the Middle East -- The structure and process of national security and foreign policy in Israel -- Principal findings and lessons -- If so bad, why so good? : explaining the paradox of the Israeli success story -- Paths to the future : scenarios and prescriptions.

Ref 327.7305 V276h, 2007
AUT Van Sant, John E. ; Mauch, Peter ; Sugita, Yoneyuki.
TIT Historical dictionary of United States-Japan relations.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy ; 4.

327.73009 G227a, 2005
AUT Gardner, Hall.
TIT American global strategy and the "War on Terrorism".
PUB Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2005.
CON Contents: Introduction: Labors of Hercules without end in sight -- Reflections upon the 11 September attacks and "pre-emptive" war in Iraq -- The roots of American neo-conservatism : neo-timocrats or moralizing politicians? -- The question of state and anti-state "terrorism" : who is terrorizing whom? -- The risks of nuclear proliferation -- Manipulating US global power : Pakistan, "war on terrorism" and strategic leveraging -- The global ramifications of American military expansionism -- "Clash of democracies"? or new global concert? -- Transcending the international disequilibrium.

327.73056 R116s, 2006
AUT Rabil, Robert G.
TIT Syria, the United States, and the war on terror in the Middle East.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
CON Contents: Cradle of Arab nationalism: the fatherland, the Ba'th and modern Syria under Asad -- The beginning of U.S.-Syrian relations : between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Cold War --The emergence of US-Syrian ambivalent relationship -- The fulcrum of elusive peace -- A new cold war? -- The new struggle for Lebanon: democracy and Syria's withdrawal -- Syria post-withdrawal: reform or dictatorship? -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Index. Contents: Cradle of arab nationalism: the fatherland, the Ba'th and modern Syria under Asad -- The emergence of Arab nationalism and the concept of greater Syria -- Syria: the hub of nationalist development -- The Ba'th party and Syrian leadership -- The state under Asad -- The beginning of US-Syrian relations: between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Cold War -- Recognition and neutrality (1944-1953) -- The "new look" and Baghdad Pact -- The Soviet insertion in the Middle East -- The Eisenhower doctrine and the Middle East -- A try at evenhandedness -- Turning points (1967-1979) -- Kissinger's realpolitik -- A foretaste of Middle Eat diplomacy: the May 1974 dsengagement agreement -- A new beginning? -- The emergence of US-Syrian ambivalent relationship -- The implications of fighting evil for the Middle East -- The brink of war -- The irony of fighting terrorism -- The emergence of Hizbollah -- Support for Israel -- Rewarding Syria -- The fulcrum of elusive peace -- The Bush years: priorities reordered -- Breaking the ice: the Madrid peace conference -- The Clinton years: cooperation versus limits -- Toward the brink of peace -- The last encounter -- A new regional order? -- The unholy relationship -- Shebaa Farms: the powder keg of the Middle East -- Transfer of power -- A new American outlook -- Put on notice -- A de facto member of the "axis of evil" -- A new cold war? -- Punishing Syria -- Wishful versus realpolitik thinking -- Domestic considerations: reform and the Kurdish question -- Dynamics of confrontation -- Digging in -- Toward the brink? -- The new struggle for Lebanon: democracy and Syria's withdrawal -- Pressuring Syria: Washington and the Lebanese-American lobby -- Breaking the last straw: Hariri's assassination -- The swift collapse of the Syrian order in Lebanon -- Lebanon: the new republic -- The dynamics of the Lebanon-Syria-US triangular relationship -- Syria post-withdrawal: reform or dictatorship? -- Closing ranks: reform versus clan control -- Changing guards: from "old" to "new" hardliners -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography.

327.73087 G626c, 2006
AUT Golinger, Eva.
TIT The Chavez code : cracking U.S. intervention in Venezuela. - 1st ed.
PUB Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Nicaragua and Chile : the coup cookbook -- A president denied a U.S. visa -- From Vargas to pre-coup premonitions -- IRI gives birth to primero justicia -- Decoding Venezuela -- A coup by any other name -- An office for a transitional government -- Paro petrolero : an oil industry sabotage -- Electoral intervention : the U.S.'s last hope -- Up the sleeve strategies and threats.

330.9485 T364s, 2003
AUT Thakur, Subhash Madhav.
TIT Sweden's welfare state : can the bumblebee keep flying?.
PUB Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, c2003.

330.973 H837d, 2006
AUT Higgs, Robert.
TIT Depression, war, and cold war : studies in political economy.
PUB Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute ; Oxford [Eng.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Regime uncertainty : why the great depression lasted so long and why prosperity resumed after the war -- Private profit, public risk : institutional antecedents of the modern military procurement system in the rearmament program of 1940-1941 -- Wartime prosperity? a reassessment of the U.S. economy in the 1940s -- Wartime socialization of investment : a reassessment of U.S. capital formation in the 1940s -- From central planning to the market : the American transition, 1945-1947 -- The cold war economy : opportunity costs, ideology, and the politics of crisis -- Hard coals make bad law : congressional parochialism versus national defense -- Airplanes the Pentagon didn't want, but Congress did -- Profits of U.S. defense contractors -- Public opinion : a powerful predictor of U.S. defense spending.

331.48 Z75g, 2006
AUT Zimmerman, Mary K ; Litt, Jacquelyn S. ; Bose, Christine E.
TIT Global dimensions of gender and carework.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Social Sciences, 2006.
CON Contents: I: Globalization and multiple crises of care -- Global cities and survival circuits / Saskia Sassen -- Disposable domestics: immigrant women workers in the global economy / Grace Chang -- Migrant Filipina domestic workers and the international division of reproductive labor / Rhacel Salazar Parre�as -- Labor recruitment and the lure of the capital: central American migrants in Washington, DC / Terry A. Repak -- Multilateral organizations and early child care and education policies for developing countries / F�lvia Rosemberg -- Globalization, work hours, and the care deficit among stockbrokers / Mary Blair-Loy and Jerry A. Jacobs -- II: Transnational migration: influences on citizenship, social control, and carework -- "Just like one of the family": domestic servants in world politics / Cynthia Enloe -- From unequal freedom: how race and gender shaped American citizenship and labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Rethinking the globalization of domestic service: foreign domestics, state control, and the politics of identity in Taiwan / Shu-Ju Ada Cheng -- International migration, domestic work, and care work: undocumented Latina migrants in Israel / Rebecca Raijman, Silvina Schammah-Gesser, and Adriana Kemp -- "Forced" into unpaid carework: international student's wives in the United States / Minjeong Kim -- Caregiving in transnational context: "my wings have been cut; where can I fly?" / Denise Spitzer, Anne Neufeld, Margaret Harrison, Karen Hughes, and Miriam Stewart -- III: Motherhood, domestic work, and childcare in global perspective -- The invisible heart / Nancy Folbre -- Making care work: employed mothers in the new childcare market / Lynet Uttal -- Doing the dirty work? the global politics of domestic labour / Bridget Anderson -- Unraveling privilege: workers' children and the hidden coasts of paid childcare / Mary Romero -- "I'm here, but I'm there": the meanings of Latina transnational motherhood / Pierrette Hondagneu-Solelo and Ernestive Avila -- Maid or madam? Filipina migrant workers and the continuity of domestic labor / Pei-Chia Lan -- "Women have no tribe": connecting carework, gender, and migration in an era of HIV/AIDS in Botswana / Rebecca Upton -- IV: Valuing carework through policy and culture: communities, states, and supranational institutions -- After the family wage: a postindustrial thought experiment / Nancy Fraser -- Woman-friendly states and a public culture of care / Helga Maria Hernes -- Women and the restructuring of care work: cross-national variations and trends in ten OECD countries / Susan Chrisopherson -- Care work: invisible civic engagement / Pamela Herd and Madonna Harrington Meyer -- Acid violence and medical care in Bangladesh: women's activism as carework / Afoza Anwary -- Women's empowering carework in post-soviet Azerbaijan / Mehrangiz Najafizadeh -- Central state child care policies in post-authoritarian Spain: implications for gender and carework arrangements / Celia Valiente.

331.88 M644L, 2006
AUT Milkman, Ruth.
TIT L.A. story : immigrant workers and the future of the U.S. Labor Movement.
PUB New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2006.
CON Contents: The "Wicked City": labor and Los Angeles exceptionalism -- Turning the clock back: anti-union reaction, the return of the sweatshop, and the new immigration -- Organizing the "Unorganizable": immigrant unionization and labor revitalization in the 1990s -- "Si, Se Puede": union organizing strategies and immigrant workers / with Kent Wong.

331.88 P968c, 2006
AUT Prouty, Marco G.
TIT C�sar Ch�vez, the Catholic bishops, and the farmworkers' struggle for social justice.
PUB Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Roots of the conflict -- Ch�vez and the bishops' ad hoc committee -- Hasta la victoria, onward to victory.

332.09 M678n, 2006
AUT Mishkin, Frederic S.
TIT The next great globalization : how disadvantaged nations can harness their financial systems to get rich.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.

332.62 R845s, 2006
AUT Roth, Louise Marie.
TIT Selling women short : gender inequality on Wall Street.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The playing field: Wall Street in the 1990s -- Pay for performance: Wall Street's bonus system -- A woman's worth: gender differences in compensation -- Making the team: managers, peers, and subordinates -- Bringing clients back in: the impact of client relationships -- Having it all? workplace culture and work-family conflict -- Window-dressing: workplace policies and Wall Street culture -- Beating the odds: the most successful women -- Belief in meritocracy: gender and performance-based pay.

332.63 T481a, 2007
AUT Thomsett, Michael C.
TIT Annual reports 101 : [what the numbers and the fine print can reveal about the true health of a company].
PUB New York : American Management Association, c2007.
CON Contents: The accounting dilemma: the gap in GAAP -- The basic financial statements: what your Mama didn't tell you about the balance sheet -- Essential ratios: rolling up your numerical sleeves -- What statements do not reveal: dirty little accounting secrets -- Footnotes, part one: an overview of the real disclosures -- Footnotes, part two: red flags you can find on your own -- Structure of the annual report: a public relations document -- The auditing role: accounting culture and the audit mentality -- How the numbers are manipulated: accounting shell games -- Sources of free information: you don't need to pay for help -- Modifying your game plan: a new form of portfolio management.

332.6327 W214c, 2007
AUT Wallison, Peter J ; Litan, Robert E.
TIT Competitive equity : developing a lower cost alternative to mutual funds.
PUB Washington, D.C. : AEI Press, 2007.
CON Contents: A new look at mutual funds -- A brief history of mutual fund regulation : the conflict between the required structure of investment companies and the economics of collective investment -- The growth of the mutual fund industry and its competitors -- The paradox of mutual fund fees -- The managed investment trust option.

333.709 M211e, 2006
AUT Magoc, Chris J.
TIT Environmental issues in American history : a reference guide with primary documents.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
SER Major issues in American history. 1535-3192.
CON Contents: Nature as a commodity : Native Americans, white settlers, and the Land Ordinance of 1785 -- Controlling water in the early industrialization of New England -- Scientific forestry and the emergence of conservation -- Property rights, technology, and environmental protection : hydraulic gold miners v. farmers in California -- Wildlife conservation : the slaughter and salvation of the bison -- "Reclaiming" the arid West -- Preservation vs. conservation : the epic fight over Yosemite's Hetch-Hetchy Valley -- Progressive women and "municipal housekeeping" : Caroline Bartlett Crane's fight for improved meat inspection -- Getting the lead out : public health and the debate over tetraethyl leaded gasoline -- Causes and consequences of the dust bowl -- The Donora disaster and the problem of air pollution -- Rachel Carson, Cesar Chavez, and the pesticide debate -- Love Canal and the grassroots movement against toxic waste -- The Endangered Species Act : the rights of nature? -- Three Mile Island and the search for a national energy policy.

333.72 C752s, 2007
AUT Conkin, Paul Keith.
TIT The state of the Earth : environmental challenges on the road to 2100.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2007.
CON Contents: Our green planet -- Population, consumption, and the environment -- Soil, vegetation, and food -- Water and energy : will there be enough? -- Pollution, waste, and the ozone layer -- The extinction crisis -- Climate change in a glacial epoch -- Greenhouse gases and the climate change -- Reform environmentalists and American environmental policy -- Passionate environmentalism.

333.793 G648b, 2006
AUT Goodell, Jeff.
TIT Big coal : the dirty secret behind America's energy future.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
CON Contents: The dig -- The Saudi Arabia of coal -- Coal colonies -- Dogholes -- The carbon express -- The burn -- Infinite needs -- The big dirty -- "A citizen wherever we serve" -- The heat -- Reversal of fortune-- The coal rush -- The frontier -- An empire of denial.

333.917 V172g, 2006
AUT Valiela, Ivan.
TIT Global coastal change.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
CON Contents: The global context of coastal change -- Atmospheric-driven changes -- Sea level rise -- Alteration of freshwater discharges -- Alteration of sediment transport -- Loss of coastal habitats -- Petroleum hydrocarbons -- Chlorinated hydrocarbons -- Metals -- Introduction of exotic species -- Harvest of fin and shellfish -- Eutrophication -- Other agents of coastal change -- Summing up.

333.95 W747c, 2006
AUT Wilson, Edward O.
TIT The creation : an appeal to save life on earth. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Norton, c2006.
CON Contents: The creation -- Letter to a Southern Baptist Pastor: Salutation -- Ascending to nature -- What is nature? -- Why care? -- Alien invaders from Planet Earth -- Two magnificent animals -- Wild nature and human nature -- Decline and redemption -- The pauperization of earth -- Denial and its risks -- End game -- What science has learned -- Biology is the study of nature -- The fundamental laws of biology -- Exploration of a little-known planet -- Teaching the creation -- How to learn biology and how to teach it -- How to raise a naturalist -- Citizen science -- Reaching across -- An alliance for life.

337 S855m, 2006
AUT Stiglitz, Joseph E.
TIT Making globalization work. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: Another world is possible -- The promise of development -- Making trade fair -- Patents, profits, and people -- Lifting the resource curse -- Saving the planet -- The multinational corporation -- The burden of debt -- Reforming the global reserve system -- Democratizing globalization.

338.88 P631i, 2006
AUT Piggott, Judith ; Cook, Mark.
TIT International business economics : a European perspective.
PUB Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

338.9 B814t, 2006
AUT Brainard, Lael.
TIT Transforming the development landscape : the role of the private sector.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The private sector in the fight against global poverty / Lael Brainard and Vinca LaFleur -- Unleashing entrepreneurship / Warrick Smith -- Leveraging the development impact of business in the fight against global poverty / Jane Nelson -- Blended value investment and a living return / Timothy Freundlich -- Should governments and aid agencies subsidize small firms? / Ross Levine -- Venture capital for development / Alan J. Patricof and Julie E. Sunderland -- Innovative financing options and the fight against global poverty : what's new and what next? / David de Ferranti -- 2 + 2 = 5 : a pragmatic view of partnerships between official donors and multinational corporations / Larry Cooley -- Financing for global health / Rajiv Shah and Sylvia Mathews.

338.97295 E19C, 2006
AUT Collins, Susan Margaret ; Bosworth, Barry ; Soto-Class, Miguel A.
TIT The economy of Puerto Rico : restoring growth.
PUB San Juan, P.R. : Center for the New Economy ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction and summary / Susan M. Collins, Barry P. Bosworth, and Miguel A. Soto-Class -- Economic growth / Barry P. Bosworth and Susan M. Collins -- Labor supply and public transfers / Gary Burtless and Orlando Sotomayer -- Why don't more Puerto Rican men work? : the rich Uncle (Sam) hypothesis / Maria E. Enchautegui and Richard B. Freeman -- Education and economic development / Helen F. Ladd and Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz -- The climate for business development and employment growth / Steven J. Davis and Luis A. Rivera-Batiz-- Assessing Puerto Rico's fiscal policies / James Alm -- Financing economic development / Rita Maldonado-Bear and Ingo Walter -- Trade performance and industrial policy / Robert Z. Lawrence and Juan Lara -- Restoring growth : the policy options / Barry P. Bosworth and Susan M. Collins.

340.072 E42L13, 2005
AUT Elias, Stephen ; Levinkind, Susan, 1942- ; Stim, Richard et al.
TIT Legal research : how to find & understand the law. - 13th ed.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : Nolo, 2005.

340.11 C324r7, 2007
AUT Carter, Lief H ; Burke, Thomas Frederick.
TIT Reason in law. - [Updated] 7th ed.
PUB New York : Pearson Longman, 2007.
SER Longman classics in political science.

341.23 K36p, 2006
AUT Kennedy, Paul M.
TIT The parliament of man : the past, present, and future of the United Nations. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The origins. -- The troubled advance to a New World Order, 1815-1945 -- pt. 2. The evolution of the many UNs since 1954. -- The conundrum of the Security Council -- Peacekeeping and warmaking -- Economic agendas, north and south -- The softer face of the UN's mission -- Advancing international human rights -- "We the peoples": democracy, governments, and nongovernmental actors -- pt. 3. The present and the future. -- The promise and the peril of the twenty-first century -- Appendix: Charter of the United Nations. .

342.73 A534r, 2006
AUT Anastaplo, George.
TIT Reflections on constitutional law.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.
CON Contents: An introduction to constitutionalism -- Magna Carta (1215) -- The Declaration of Independence (1776) -- The Articles of Confederation (1776-1789); the Northwest Ordinance (1787) -- Emergence of the constitution (1786-1791) -- Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- Swift v. Tyson (1842); Erie Railroad Company v. Tompkins (1938) -- Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816); M'culloch v. Maryland (1819) -- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) -- Burdens on interstate commerce (1905-1981) -- Missouri v. Holland (1920); Wickard v. Filburn (1942) -- The presidency and the constitution -- A government of enumerated powers? -- Realism and the study of constitutional law -- The challenges of skepticism for the constitutionalist -- Constitutionalism and the common law: the Erie problem reconsidered -- The Confederate Constitution (1861-1865) -- The Japanese relocation cases (1943,1944) -- Calder v. Bull (1798); Barron v. Baltimore (1833) -- Corfield v. Coryell (1823) and the privileges and immunities puzzles -- The slaughter-house cases (1872): a false start? -- The civil rights cases (1883); Plessey v. Ferguson (1896): more false starts? -- Shelley v. Kraemer (1948); Brown v. Board of Education (1954, 1955) -- Affirmative action and the Fourteenth Amendment -- San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) -- Whose votes count for what--and when?.

342.73 R951L, 2004
AUT Ruschmann, Paul.
TIT Legalizing marijuana.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.
SER Point/counterpoint.
CON Contents: Marijuana and prohibition -- Marijuana is too dangerous to be legal -- The dangers of marijuana are exaggerated -- Enforcement of marijuana laws is uneven, ineffective, and wasteful -- Marijuana laws must be strictly enforced -- Relaxing marijuana laws would be good for society -- Relaxing marijuana laws would lead to too many problems -- The future of marijuana policy in the United States.

342.7308 B574hr, 2006
AUT Bezanson, Randall P.
TIT How free can religion be?.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Stage one. The old time religion : separation of church and state -- God's law or Caesar's? The free exercise of religion -- The wall of separation : "No law respecting an establishment of religion-- " -- Stage two. The time of testing -- The Amish conundrum : the conflict between free exercise and non-establishment -- Darwin versus Genesis -- School prayer -- Stage three. The new awakening -- Peyote : God versus Caesar, revisited -- Non-establishment as nondiscrimination -- Equality as a sword : the ghost of Everson.

344.73 A613r3 2004
AUT Annas, George J.
TIT The rights of patients : the authoritative ACLU guide to the rights of patients. - 3rd ed.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2004.
SER An American Civil Liberties Union handbook.
CON Contents: Patient rights -- The patient rights advocate -- Reforming American medicine -- Hospitals -- Emergency medicine -- Informed choice -- Choices about surgery and children's care -- Reproductive health -- Research -- Medical records -- Privacy and confidentiality -- Care of the dying -- Suffering, pain, and suicide -- Death, organ donation, and autopsy -- Patient safety and medical malpractice.

345.73 T825L, 2000
AUT Trienens, Howard J.
TIT Landscape with smokestacks : the case of the allegedly plundered Degas.
PUB Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2000.
CON Contents: 1. Edgar Degas creates Landscape with smokestacks -- 2. Dan Searle buys the landscape -- 3. The Goodmans claim the landscape -- 4. The Goodmans sue Searle -- 5. What happened to the landscape? -- 6. The postwar search -- 7. Pretrial legal issues -- 8. The settlement -- 9. Postmortem.

346.7304 S399i, 2007
AUT Schwabach, Aaron.
TIT Intellectual property : a reference handbook.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, Inc., c2007.
SER Contemporary world issues.
CON Contents: Background and history -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Worldwide perspective -- Chronology -- People and organizations -- Data and documents -- Directory of organizations -- Resources.

352.11 F826u, 2006
AUT Franda, Marcus F.
TIT The United Nations in the twenty-first century : management and reform processes in a troubled organization.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & LIttlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: UN organizational realities and reform -- The Office of Secretary-General and reform, 1946-1981 -- The Office of the Secretary-General as a leader of reform, 1981-2006 -- The General Assembly as reform instrument and target -- Reform processes and the Security Council -- The Economic and Social Council -- UN secretariats and financial structures -- Reform processes and the future of the UN.

355.02 R421w, 2006
AUT Renshon, Jonathan.
TIT Why leaders choose war : the psychology of prevention.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
CON Contents: Preventive war : an introduction -- Preventing what? the Suez Canal crisis -- Israel's preventive strike against Iraq -- How real was "Dr. Strangelove?" American preventive war thinking post-WWII -- To the brink-- India and Pakistan's nuclear standoff -- Preventive war as a grand strategy? George W. Bush and "Operation Iraqi Freedom" -- Conclusion : preventive war in perspective.

355.031 R946n, 2006
AUT Rupp, Richard E.
TIT NATO after 9/11 : an alliance in continuing decline.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

355.4 M271m, 2006
AUT Mandel, Robert.
TIT The meaning of military victory.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : military victory and strategic victory -- Modern victory in historical context -- Morality and victory -- Misconceptions surrounding victory -- Victory in recent wars? -- Victory challenges in contemporary warfare -- Special victory challenges in unconventional wars -- Conclusion : managing strategic victory.

362.196 P316p, 2006
AUT Patterson, Amy S.
TIT The politics of AIDS in Africa.
PUB Boulder, Colo : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006.
SER Challenge and change in African politics.
CON Contents: Why study the politics of AIDS? -- The African state and the AIDS pandemic -- Democratic transitions: a new opportunity to fight AIDS? -- Civil society's influence on the politics of AIDS -- External donors and political commitments -- Beyond politics as usual: institutionalizing the AIDS struggle.

362.29 L693L, 2006
AUT Li, Jie Jack.
TIT Laughing gas, Viagra, and Lipitor : the human stories behind the drugs we use.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Cancer drugs: from nitrogen mustards to Gleevec -- Drugs to kill germs -- Cardiovascular drugs: from nitroglycerin to Lipitor -- Sex and drugs -- Drugs of the mind -- Diabetes drugs -- Anesthetics -- Anti-inflammatory drugs -- Reflections.

362.292 T772u, 2006
AUT Transchel, Kate.
TIT Under the influence : working-class drinking, temperance, and cultural revolution in Russia, 1895-1932.
PUB Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2006.
SER Series in Russian and East European studies.
CON Contents: "Drinking ... we cannot do without it" -- Swimming in a drunken sea -- Tippling and temperance : constructing the drink problem in Russia -- Sobering up the revolution -- Demon vodka : anti-alcohol propaganda and cultural revolution -- Liquid assets : the working classes and vodka -- Giddy with success : the end of alcoholism in the Soviet Union.

362.83 P263f, 2006
AUT Parrot, Andrea ; Cummings, Nina.
TIT Forsaken females : the global brutalization of women.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Perspectives on violence against women -- The sociopolitical conditions that predispose women to violence -- Femicide -- Female genital cutting -- Sexual violence -- Sexual slavery -- Trafficking in women -- Intimate partner violence -- Honor killing -- The impact of violence against women -- Working toward a world without violence against women.

363.0972 P343t, 2006
AUT Payan, Tony.
TIT The three U.S.-Mexico border wars : drugs, immigration, and Homeland Security.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
CON Contents: The three border wars -- A tale with two sides -- The meaning of the border -- The frontier era -- The customs era -- The law enforcement era -- The national security border -- The closing of the border -- Our lives in the hands of others -- A democratic deficit -- Conflating the issues -- Planning to secure the border: same old, same old -- Are the three border wars justified? -- The scope of the book -- The drug war on the border -- A bird's eye view -- Economics and geography -- It's economics -- The explanatory power of a standard map -- The beginning of the war -- Between business and war -- Bureaucrats versus drug cartels: unequal enemies -- Modus smugglandi -- The port of entry versus the non-port of entry axis -- The people versus the vehicles axis -- The NAFTA connection -- The C-TPAT -- The narco-tunnels -- Corrupting the warriors -- The protective shield of the border police -- Victimizing the criminals with bribes -- Violence and the drug trafficking business -- Competition: violence between cartels -- Competition: intra-cartel violence -- Taking sides: the Mexican government -- Plata o plomo: silver or lead -- Disciplining the workforce -- Random violence: the exception to the rule -- The Sicarios -- Handling the disloyal -- Money and drugs: north and south -- The media and the drug war -- The wealth of drugs: on narco mansions and narco juniors -- The big cartels versus the small time players -- The border geographic of the drug war -- Conclusion -- Immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border -- The scene at the border -- The beginning -- The breaking point: 1986 -- A failed logic for a failed war -- The balloon effect -- The dead -- Build it and they will come -- The backside of economic development -- It's economics, stupid! -- The legal side -- Mothers and their babies -- How they come -- The old crossers: how times change -- Humpty dumpty and the border -- The more things change, the more they stay the same -- Operation hold the line -- Good fences make good neighbors -- Empowering the coyotes -- The crossing card trick -- NAFTA and undocumented immigration -- OTM: other than Mexicans -- Other modus operandi -- The militarization of the border -- Law enforcement and escalation -- Deterrence and escalation -- The illegal document industry -- The attrition argument -- The U.S. military and the border -- All the border's a stage -- The American public -- The minutemen -- Border political grandstanding -- A new approach is needed -- Homeland Security and the border -- The war on terror comes to the border -- The border and the immediate aftermath of September 11 -- Diagnosing the failure of September 11 -- Immigration failure -- Economic integration, trade and border security -- Arizona and New Mexico -- Damn those bureaucrats! -- Intelligence failure and the border -- Conflating the issues -- Reorganizing for border security -- A nagging question -- New immigration procedures -- Consequences of the new immigration procedures -- New t...

363.1196 H332d, 2006
AUT Hartley, Robert E ; Kenney, David.
TIT Death underground : the Centralia and West Frankfort mine disasters.
PUB Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c2006.

363.192 P185t, 2006
AUT Pampel, Fred C.
TIT Threats to food safety.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2006.
SER Library in a book.
CON Contents: pt. I: Overview of the topic. Introduction to threats to food safety -- The law and threats to food safety -- Chronology -- Biographical listing -- Glossary -- pt. II: Guide to further research. How to research threats to food safety -- Annotated bibliography -- Organizations and agencies -- pt. III: Appendices. Appendix A. Food additives (1992) -- Appendix B. Food allergies: rare but risky (1994) -- Appendix C. Assessing health risks from pesticides (1999) -- Appendix D. Food irradiation: a safe measure (2000) -- Appendix E. Statement by Joseph A. Levitt, Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (2000) -- Appendix F. Food safety in the kitchen: a "HACCP" approach (2002) -- Appendix G. HHS issues new rules to enhance security of the U.S. food supply (2003) -- Appendix H. Expanded "Mad Cow" safeguards announced to strengthen existing firewalls against BSE transmission (2004).

363.192 R318f2, 2007
AUT Redman, Nina.
TIT Food safety : a reference handbook. - 2nd ed.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : Contemporary World Issues, 2007.

363.2 W436r, 2006
AUT Weitzer, Ronald John ; Tuch, Steven A.
TIT Race and policing in America : conflict and reform.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
SER Cambridge studies in criminology.
CON Contents: Police-minority relations in America -- Police misconduct -- Racially biased policing -- Reforming the police -- Conclusion: The continuing racial divide.

363.25 H835f, 2006
AUT Houck, Max M ; Siegel, Jay A.
TIT Fundamentals of forensic science.
PUB Amsterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Crime scene investigation -- The nature of evidence -- Microscopy -- Spectroscopic techniques -- Separation methods in forensic science -- Pathology -- Anthropology and odontology -- Entomology -- Serology and bloodstain pattern analysis -- DNA analysis -- Forensic hair examinations -- Illicit drugs -- Forensic toxicology -- Textile fibers -- Paint analysis -- Soil and glass -- Fires and explosions -- Friction ridge examination -- Questioned documents -- Firearms and tool marks -- Impression evidence -- Legal aspects of forensic science.

363.32 R523r, 2006
AUT Richardson, Louise.
TIT The roots of terrorism.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2006.
SER Democracy and terrorism series ; v. 1.

363.32 W422t, 2006
AUT Weimann, Gabriel.
TIT Terror on the Internet : the new arena, the new challenges.
PUB Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006.
CON Contents: New terrorism, new media -- The war over minds : the psychology of terrorism -- Communicative uses of the Internet for terrorism -- Instrumental uses of the Internet for terrorism -- Cyberterrorism : how real is the threat? -- Fighting back : responses to terrorism on the Internet, and their cost -- Balancing security and civil liberties.

363.33 W748g, 2007
AUT Wilson, Harry L.
TIT Guns, gun control, and elections : the politics and policy of firearms.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Guns and the Constitution -- Statistics and firearms -- Gun policies -- Public opinion -- Interest groups, gun control, and elections -- Guns in the media -- A view from a state : gun policy in Virginia -- Politics and gun control policy-present and future.

363.9 B892b, 2006
AUT Bruinius, Harry.
TIT Better for all the world : the secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Knopf, 2006.
CON Contents: bk. 1. Introduction -- I. Prologue : a simple and painless procedure -- II. An epic quest in the modern world -- bk. 2. Three generations of imbeciles -- III. The purity of our women -- IV. A forgotten gravestone -- bk. 3. The sins of the fathers -- V. Hottentots in Kantsaywhere -- VI. A city upon a hill -- VII. The hideous serpent of hopelessly vicious protoplasm -- VIII. But, oh, alas for youthful pride -- IX. Oh, the bliss of being a mother! -- X. Citizens of the wrong type -- XI. Catechisms old and new -- XII. The making of a master race -- XIII. Neighborly love and beyond -- XIV. Harry's secret -- bk. 4. Generations lost -- XV. The palace of justice -- XVI. "What they did to me was sexual murder" -- XVII. Epilogue : the apex of civilization.

364.3 L844c, 2006
AUT Lombroso, Cesare ; Gibson, Mary- ; Rafter, Nicole Hahn.
TIT Criminal man.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Criminal craniums (sixty-six skulls) -- Anthropometry and physiognomy of 832 criminals -- Tattoos -- Emotions of criminals -- Criminals and religion -- Intelligence and education of criminals -- Jargon -- Criminal literature -- Insanity and crime -- Organized crime -- Atavism and punishment -- Suicide among criminals --Criminals of passion -- Recidivism, morality, and remorse -- Handwriting of criminals -- Etiology of crime : weather and race -- Etiology of crime : civilization, alcohol, and heredity -- Etiology of crime : age, sex, moral education, genitals, and imitation -- Prevention of crime -- Penal policy -- Crime and inferior organisms -- Crime and prostitution among savages -- Origins of punishment -- Moral insanity and crime among children -- Anomalies of the brain and internal organs -- Photographs of born criminals -- Sensitivity and blushing in criminals -- Moral insanity and born criminality -- Summary of edition 3 -- Metabolism, menstruation, and fertility -- Criminal communication -- Art and industry among criminals -- The epileptic criminal -- Epileptics and born criminals -- Physiology and etiology of epilepsy -- The insane criminal -- Biology and psychology of insane criminals -- The alcoholic criminal -- The hysterical criminal -- The mattoid -- The occasional criminal -- Criminal craniums (689 skulls) -- Anthropometry and physiognomy of 6,608 criminals -- Political criminals -- Etiology of crime : urban density, alcoholism, wealth, and religion -- Etiology of crime : heredity, sex, and politics -- Prevention of crime --Synthesis and penal applications. Cesare Lombroso is widely considered the founder of criminology. His theory of the "born" criminal dominated European and American thinking about the causes of criminal behavior during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth. This volume offers English-language readers the first critical, scholarly translation of Lombroso's Criminal man, one of the most famous criminological treatises ever written. The text laid the groundwork for subsequent biological theories of crime, including contemporary genetic explanations--Cover.

364.66 A182w, 2006
AUT Acker, James R. ; Karp, David R.
TIT Wounds that do not bind : victim-based perspectives on the death penalty.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction / James R. Acker, David R. Karp -- pt. I: Personal accounts: the experiences of co-victims of murder, other crime victims, and victim advocates. Matters of life or death / Charisse Coleman -- Feelings from the heart / Dan Levey -- A tiger by the tail : the mother of a murder victim grapples with the death penalty / Linda L. White -- The death sentence : for criminals or victims? / Shane Wagner -- Building a bridge / David Kaczynski, Gary Wright -- Accidental death is fate, murder is pure evil / Stanley and Phyllis Rosenbluth -- Finding hope : one family's journey / Roberta Roper -- My journey and the riddle / Marsha Kimble -- pt. II: Legal perspectives. Causing death and sustaining life : the law, capital punishment, and criminal homicide victims' survivors / James R. Acker, Jeanna Marie Mastrocinque -- Victims, survivors, and the decisions to seek and impose death / Wayne A. Logan -- Extinguishing the victims' Payne or acquiescing to the "demon of error" : confronting the role of victims in capital clemency proceedings / Charles S. Lanier, Beau Breslin -- Putting a square peg in a round hole : victims, retribution, and George Ryan's clemency / Austin Sarat -- pt. III: Research perspectives. The death penalty and the families of victims : an overview of research issues / Margaret Vandiver -- Secondary victimization among families of homicide victims : the impact of the justice process on co-victims' psychological adjustment and service utilization / Mark D. Reed, Brenda Sims Blackwell -- Their day in court : the role of murder victims' families in capital juror decision making / David R. Karp, Jarrett B. Warshaw -- Victim characteristics and victim impact evidence in South Carolina capital cases / Theodore Eisenberg, Stephen P. Garvey, Martin T. Wells -- Is restitution possible for murder? : surviving family members speak / Judith W. Kay -- Facilitated dialogue on death row : family members of murder victims and inmates share their experiences / Mark S. Umbreit, Betty Vos, Robert B. Coates, Katherine A. Brown -- pt. IV: Policy implications: capital punishment, criminal justice practices, and victim services. Reaching out to the other side : defense-based victim outreach in capital cases / Tammy Krause -- Learning from homicide co-victims : a university-based project / Michael L. Radelet, Dawn Stanley -- The process of healing and the trial as product : incompatibility, courts, and murder victim family members / Peter Loge -- The impact of the death penalty on crime victims and those who serve them / Carroll Ann Ellis, Karin Ho, Anne Seymour.

364.968 G662t, 2006
AUT Gordon, Diana R.
TIT Transformation & trouble : crime, justice, and participation in democratic South Africa.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : two paradigms and a program -- Pre-apartheid justice : versatile instrument of repression -- Apartheid justice : a contradiction in terms -- Bitter fruit from poison seeds -- Elements of liberal justice in a new democracy -- Protection, integrity, and rights : South Africa's achievements -- Public-empowering justice : resource for a new democracy -- Participation thwarted : South African failures -- Wielding the big stick -- Democratic justice and the competent citizen.

364.973 P485m, 2006
AUT Peterson, Ruth D ; Krivo, Lauren Joy ; Hagan, John, 1946- et al.
TIT The many colors of crime : inequalities of race, ethnicity, and crime in America.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
SER New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.
CON Contents: Introduction: Inequalities of race, ethnicity, and crime in America / Ruth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo, and John Hagan -- Cultural mechanisms and killing fields : a revised theory of community-level racial inequality / Robert J. Sampson and Lydia Bean -- Conceptualizing race and ethnicity in studies of crime and criminal justice / Marjorie S. Zatz and Nancy Rodriguez -- Demythologizing the "criminalblackman" : the carnival mirror / Vernetta Young -- Race and the justice workforce : toward a system perspective / Geoff K. Ward -- Toward an understanding of the lower rates of homicide in Latino versus Black neighborhoods : a look at Chicago / Mar�a B. V�lez -- Extending ethnicity and violence research in a multiethnic city : Haitian, African American, and Latino nonlethal violence / Ramiro Martinez, Jr. and Amie L. Nielsen -- Crime and deviance in the "black belt" : African American youth in rural and nonrural developmental contexts / Alexander T. Vazsonyi and Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo -- Crime at the intersections : race, class, gender, and violent offending / Stacy De Coster and Karen Heimer -- Race, inequality, and gender violence : a contextual examination / Toya Z. Like and Jody Miller -- Is the gap between Black and white arrest rates narrowing? : national trends for personal contact crimes, 1960 to 2002 / Gary LaFree, Robert O'Brien, and Eric Baumer -- Race, labor markets, and neighborhood violence / Robert D. Crutchfield, Ross L. Matsueda, and Kevin Drakulich -- Drug markets in minority communities : consequences for Mexican American youth gangs / Avelardo Valdez -- Perceptions of crime and safety in racially and economically distinct neighborhoods / Lauren J. Krivo, Ruth D. Peterson, and Diana L. Karafin -- Neighborhood, race, and the economic consequences of incarceration in New York City, 1985-1996 / Alex R. Piquero ... [et al.] -- Creating racial disadvantage : the case of crack cocaine / Doris Marie Provine -- Transforming communities : formal and informal mechanisms of social control / Wenona Rymond-Richmond -- Toward a developmental and comparative conflict theory of race, ethnicity, and perceptions of criminal injustice / Carla Shedd and John Hagan -- Race and neighborhood codes of violence / Ross L. Matsueda, Kevin Drakulich, and Charis E. Kubrin -- Conclusion: A deeper understanding of race, ethnicity, crime, and criminal justice / Ruth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo, and John Hagan.

365.973 W527p, 2006
AUT Western, Bruce.
TIT Punishment and inequality in America.
PUB New York : Russell Sage, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- pt. I: The scope and causes of the prison boom. Mass imprisonment / with Becky Petit -- Inequality, crime, and the prison boom -- The politics and economics of punitive criminal justice -- pt. II: The consequences of mass imprisonment. Invisible inequality -- The labor market after prison -- Incarceration, marriage, and family life / with Leonard Lopoo -- Did the prison boom cause the crime drop? -- Conclusions.

368.42 M818m, 2006
AUT Moon, Marilyn.
TIT Medicare : a policy primer.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The beneficiary's perspective -- Medicare in the "big picture" -- How Medicare has changed : coverage and benefit payments -- How Medicare has changed : benefits -- Are private plans the answer for Medicare? -- How could the benefit structure be improved? -- Who should pay? -- How should Medicare change?.

369.25 S592h, 2006
AUT Simmons, Erica B.
TIT Hadassah and the Zionist project.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : American maternalists in Palestine and Israel -- "The healing of the daughter of my people" : Henrietta Szold and the creation of Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America -- "A joyful mother of children" : child welfare in the Yishuv -- "A new type of woman" : the struggle for women's equality in the Yishuv -- "Persecuted, uprooted" : Youth Aliyah and the rescue of European Jewish children -- "Future builders of the state" : Youth Aliyah and the rescue of Oriental Jewish children.

370.11 V951w, 2005
AUT Voorhees, Richard A ; Harvey, Lee.
TIT Workforce development and higher education : a strategic role for institutional research.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2005.
SER New directions for institutional research. 0271-0579 ; no. 128.
CON Contents: Higher education and workforce development: a strategic role for institutional research / Richard A. Voorhees, Lee Harvey -- Embedding and integrating employability / Lee Harvey -- Institutional research and new program development / Richard A. Voorhees -- Graduate attributes and their development / Mantz Yorke, Lee Harvey -- Accountability measures in workforce training / Kent A. Philippe -- Working with business and industry to enhance curriculum development and student employability / Sven Junghagen -- Engaging institutions in workforce development: career pathways for disadvantaged adults / Julian L. Alssid, David Gruber, Davis Jenkins, Christopher Mazzeo, Brandon Roberts, Regina Stanback-Stroud -- An action agenda for institutional researchers / Lee Harvey, Richard A. Voorhees.

370.114 K96g, 2006
AUT Kunzman, Robert.
TIT Grappling with the good : talking about religion and morality in public schools.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.
SER Suny series, the philosophy of education.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Evading the ethical : how we got here -- 3. Why religion belongs in ethical dialogue -- 4. Imaginative engagement with ethical difference -- 5. Grappling in the classroom I : civic deliberation -- 6. Grappling in the classroom II : the role of religion -- 7. Preparing teachers for ethical dialogue -- 8. Conclusion.

370.7 L157e, 2006
AUT Ladson-Billings, Gloria ; Tate, William F.
TIT Education research in the public interest : social justice, action, and policy.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, c2006.
SER Multicultural education series.

371.334 H749e, 2006
AUT Holmes, Bryn ; Gardner, John.
TIT E-learning : concepts and practice.
PUB London, U.K. ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2006.

371.829 L839t, 2006
AUT Lomawaima, K. Tsianina ; McCarty, T. L.
TIT "To remain an Indian" : lessons in democracy from a century of Native American education.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, c2006.
SER Multicultural education series.
CON Contents: Overview of the Book -- Where Do We Stand? -- 1 Choice and Self-Determination: Central Lessons from American Indian Education -- Schools as "Civilizing" and Homogenizing Institutions -- Safety Zone Theory: Explaining Policy Development over Time -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Methodological and Theoretical Approaches -- 2 The Strengths of Indigenous Education: Overturning Myths About Indian Learners -- Indigenous Education Versus American Schooling -- How-and Why-Do Stereotypes Endure? -- What Is Education? -- Native Voices Teach Lessons of Shared Humanity -- Indigenous Knowledge Guides Human Societies -- Carefully Designed Educational Systems -- Language-Rich Contexts for Education -- Learning by Doing -- A Return to Choice and Local Control -- 3 Women's Arts and Children's Songs: Domesticating Indian Culture, 1900-1928 -- Indians as Children: "Insensible Wards" -- Boarding Schools Versus Day Schools -- A Political Economy of School Practices: The "Dignity of Labor" -- Jobs Not Available Outside the Schools -- Race and the Safety Zone: Finding the Right Level -- A Place for Native Songs: "Innocent in Themselves" -- A Place for Native Women's Arts: "Most Attractive Jardinieres" -- Attempts to Domesticate Difference -- An Unprecedented Possibility: "To Remain an Indian" -- Conclusion. -- 4 How to "Remain an Indian"?: Power Struggles in the Safety Zone, 1928-1940 -- The "New" Vocational Education -- Indian History and Lore Courses -- Native Teachers in the Federal Schools -- The Revival of Arts and Crafts Instruction -- The Keystone of Control: Reforms Versus Business as Usual -- Conclusion -- 5 Control of Culture: Federally Produced Bilingual Materials, 1936-1954 -- Willard Walcott Beatty and Ann Nolan Clark -- Pueblo Life Readers -- Sioux Life Readers -- Navajo Life Readers -- Native Translators and Interpreters -- Legacies of the First Translators -- New Developments in Bilingual Materials -- 6 Indigenous Bilingual/Bicultural Education: Challenging the Safety Zone -- Seeds of Transformation -- A "Window of Opportunity" -- The Rise of Indigenous Community-Controlled Schools -- Taking up the Challenge: "Why Not?" -- Lessons Learned -- Confounding Federal Forces -- 7 "The New American Revolution": Indigenous Language Survival and Linguistic Human Rights -- Indigenous Languages in and Outside the Safety Zone -- Hawaiian Immersion: "I Think They Thought We'd Give Up" -- Navajo Immersion: "Bucking the Tide" -- Keres Immersion: "The Community Must Defend Their Rights" -- Native Youth Language Attitudes and Ideologies -- Creating New Indigenous-Language Safety Zones. Contents: -- 8 Testing Tribal Sovereignty: Self-Determination and High-Stakes Tests -- Race and Intelligence Testing in American Education -- The Present Standards Movement -- Consequences of the Standards Movement for Indigenous Students and Schools -- The Larger Context: Standards and Dangerous Diversity -- Reasserting Local Control: A Native Charter School Example -- Accountable to Whom? Alaska Native Standards for Culturally Responsive and Responsible Schooling -- Concluding Thoughts: Beyond the Safe Versus Dangerous Divide -- Coda: Consummating the Democratic Ideal -- A Vision of the Future.

371.9 T253M, 2006
AUT Montague, Marjorie ; Jitendra, Asha K.
TIT Teaching mathematics to middle school students with learning difficulties.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2006.
SER What works for special-needs learners.

371.9 W776a4, 2005
AUT Winnick, Joseph P.
TIT Adapted physical education and sport. - 4th ed.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2005.
CON Contents: pt. I. Foundational topics in adapted physical education and sport -- 1. Introduction to adapted physical education and sport / Joseph P. Winnick -- The meaning of adapted physical education -- Adapted sport -- Planning : purposes, aims, goals, and objectives -- Service providers -- Brief history of adapted physical education -- The inclusion movement -- Litigation -- Laws important to adapted physical education and sport -- History of adapted sport -- Periodicals -- Organizations -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 2. Program organization and management / Joseph P. Winnick -- Program and curriculum planning -- Administrative areas related to program organization and management -- Human resources -- General program evaluation -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 3. Adapted sport / Michael J. Paciorek -- Integration continuum -- Sport organizations -- The Olympic and Amateur Sports Act and the role of the USOC -- U.S. Paralympics -- The role of national governing bodies -- Paralympic games -- Classification -- School and local community-based adapted sports programming -- Regular sport participation -- Transition services -- Role of the physical educator in adapted sport -- And what about Jeffrey Kling's case? -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 4. Measurement, assessment, and program evaluation / Francis X. Short -- Measurement and assessment strategies -- Measurement and assessment in adapted physical education -- Tests and measures for use in adapted physical education -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 5. Individualized education programs / Francis X. Short -- Overview of individualized programs -- The student with a disability -- Components of the IEP -- Development of the IEP -- The role of the physical educator -- Section 504 and the accommodation plan -- The student without disabilities with unique needs -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 6. Behavior management / E. Michael Loovis -- Behavior modification -- Types of reinforcers -- Schedules of reinforcement -- Procedures for increasing behavior -- Procedures to decrease behavior -- Implementing a behavior modification program -- Uses of behavior modification in physical education and sport -- Example of behavior analysis -- Other approaches -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 7. Instructional strategies for adapted physical education / Douglas H. Collier -- Philosophical approaches to adapted physical education and sport -- Systematic teaching : how to facilitate motor learning -- Meeting individual differences -- Prescriptive planning and instructional models -- Summary -- References -- Resources. pt. II. Individuals with unique needs -- 8. Intellectual disabilities / Patricia L. Krebs -- Definition, classification, and incidence -- Causes of intellectual disabilities -- Cognitive development -- Characteristics of individuals with intellectual disabilities -- Down syndrome -- Assessment -- Organizational and instructional methods -- Activities -- Strategies for inclusion -- Special Olympics -- Paralympic games for individuals with an intellectual disability -- Safe participation -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 9. Behavioral disabilities / E. Michael Loovis -- Nature of emotional and behavioral disorders -- Causes of behavioral disorders -- General implications for physical education and sport -- Specific approaches for physical education and sport -- Positive behavioral support systems -- Inclusion -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 10. Pervasive developmental disorders / Cathy Houston-Wilson -- History of autism and Asperger syndrome -- Pervasive developmental disorders -- Etiology -- Incidence -- Physical and motor characteristics -- Treatment approaches -- Implications for teaching physical education -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 11. Specific learning disabilities / Barry W. Lavay -- What is a specific learning disability? -- Characteristics present unique challenges -- General educational approaches -- Recommendations for teaching physical education and sport -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 12. Visual impairments / Lauren J. Lieberman -- Definition of visual impairment -- Causes of vision loss -- Characteristics of individuals with visual impairments -- Inclusion : teaching students with visual impairments in physical education -- Sports for athletes with visual impairments -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 13. Deafness and deafblindness / Lauren J. Lieberman -- Definitions of hearing losses -- Types and causes of hearing loss -- Characteristics of deaf students -- General considerations for teaching physical education to deaf or hard-of-hearing students -- Teaching considerations for students with cochlear implants -- Inclusion strategies for teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing students -- Sport opportunities -- Deafblindness -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 14. Cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, and stroke / David L. Porretta -- Cerebral palsy -- Traumatic brain injury -- Stroke -- Program implications -- Inclusion -- Adapted sports -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 15. Amputations, dwarfism, and les autres / David L. Porretta -- Amputations -- Dwarfism -- Les autres -- Program implications -- Inclusion -- Adapted sports -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 16. Spinal cord disabilities / Luke E. Kelly -- Classifications -- Spinal cord injuries -- Spinal column deviations -- Implications for physical education -- Inclusion -- Orthotic devices -- Adapted sport activities -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 17. Other health-impaired students / Francis M. Kozub -- Di... Contents: pt. III. Developmental considerations -- 19. Motor Development / John C. Ozmun, David L. Gallahue -- Motor development defined -- Categories of movement -- Motor development as a dynamic system -- The phases of motor development -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 20. Perceptual-motor development / Joseph P. Winnick, Barry W. Lavay -- Overview of the perceptual-motor process -- Sensory systems -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 21. Infants and toddlers / Cathy Houston-Wilson -- Legislation -- The role of teachers of early childhood adapted physical education -- Assessment -- Goals and objectives in motor programs for infants and toddlers -- Goals and objectives in motor programs for infants and toddlers with unique needs -- Developmentally appropriate interactions with infants and toddlers -- Interacting with families -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 22. Early childhood adapted physical education / Lauriece L. Zittel -- Identifying young children with developmental delays -- Assessment of performance -- Objectives of early childhood programs -- Planning for instruction -- Developmentally appropriate teaching approaches -- Activities -- Summary -- References -- Resources. pt. IV. Activities for individuals with unique needs -- 23. Health-related physical fitness and physical activity / Francis X. Short -- Definitions -- Physical fitness and health -- Physical activity and health-related physical fitness -- Physical activity and health -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 24. Rhythmic movement and dance / Boni B. Boswell -- Teaching dance : what is it? -- Teaching dance : what is it not? -- Selection of age-appropriate content -- Rhythmic movements -- Creative educational dance -- Structured dance -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 25. Aquatics / Monica Lepore -- Benefits of adapted aquatics -- General teaching suggestions -- Aquatic assessment -- Adapting swimming skills -- Orientation to water -- Facility and equipment considerations -- Meeting unique needs of participants -- Swimming as a competitive sport -- Other aquatic activities -- Inclusion in aquatic activities -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 26. Team sports / David L. Porretta -- Getting involved -- Basketball -- Floor hockey -- Football -- Soccer -- Softball -- Volleyball -- Goal ball -- Quad rugby -- Inclusion -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 27. Individual, dual, and adventure sports and activities / E. Michael Loovis -- Tennis -- Table tennis -- Angling -- Archery -- Badminton -- Bowling -- Fencing -- Horseback riding -- Gymnastics -- Wrestling -- Track and field -- Golf -- Power lifting -- Cycling -- Bocce -- Adventure activities -- Inclusion -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 28. Winter sport activities / Luke E. Kelly -- Value of winter sports -- Alpine skiing -- Snowboarding -- Cross-country skiing -- Competitive skiing for individuals with disabilities -- Ice skating -- Sledding and tobogganing -- Hockey -- Curling -- Inclusion -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 29. Enhancing wheelchair sport performance / Abu B. Yilla -- The athlete and the wheelchair : a system approach -- The system approach : combining the athlete and the wheelchair -- Facilities -- The future -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- Appendix A. Definitions associated with the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) -- Appendix B. Adapted physical education and sport addresses -- Appendix C. Brockport physical fitness test -- Appendix D. Rating scale for adapted physical education.

372.13 P778d, 2006
AUT Polsky, Milton E ; Schindel, Dorothy Napp ; Tabone, Carmine.
TIT Drama activities for K-6 students : creating classroom spirit.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006.

372.21 G873e, 2007
AUT Groark, Christina J.
TIT Evidence-based practices and programs for early childhood care and education.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Evidence-Based Practices -- School Readiness: Definitions, Best Practices, Assessments, and Cost / Kelly E. Mehaffie and Jeffery Fraser -- Early Intervention Practices for Children With and At Risk for Delays / Louise Kaczmarek and Christina J. Groark -- Best Practices for Transitions into Kindergarten / Kelly E. Mehaffie and Mary Wolfson -- Evidence-Based Programs -- Publicly-Funded Programs and Their Benefits for Children / Wendy M. Barnard -- Demonstration Programs and Successful Outcomes / Wendy M. Barnard and Christina J. Groark -- Home-Based and Family Child Care Programs: Characteristics and Quality Issues / Richard Fiene and Martha Woodward Isler -- School-Age Services: Programs that Extend the Benefits of Early Care and Education Services / Suh-Ruu Ou and Arthur J. Reynolds -- Out-of-School Time Programs that Promote Academic and Behavioral Achievement for Children Ages 6 to 8 / Anne E. Farber -- The Future of the Field -- Professional Development and Higher Education Systems to Develop Qualified Early Childhood Educators / Gwen Morgan and Jeffery Fraser.

372.6 J52o, 2006
AUT Jenkins, Carol Brennan ; Earle, Alice Altfillisch.
TIT Once upon a fact : helping children write nonfiction.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, c2006.
SER Language and literacy series.
CON Contents: Writing workshop: are children choosing to write nonfiction? -- Patterns of intertextuality in nonfiction reports -- Strategic nonfiction writers: Caitlyn and Colin -- Experience-only nonfiction writers: Vanessa and Kristin -- Text-bound nonfiction writers: Kyle and Patrick -- Teaching nonfiction report writing: lessons learned.

378.072 S779u, 2007
AUT Stage, Frances K.
TIT Using quantitative data to answer critical questions.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2007.
SER New directions for institutional research. 0271-0579 ; no. 133.

378.1543 T747c, 2007
AUT Townsend, Barbara K ; Twombly, Susan B.
TIT Community college faculty : overlooked and undervalued.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2007.
SER ASHE higher education report. 1551-6970 ; v. 32, no. 6.
CON Contents: Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- A profile of the community college today -- Faculty work in the context of the community college -- Dimensions of the community college faculty career -- Institutional factors affecting community college faculty work life -- Looking to the future: the status of community college teaching as a profession -- A fresh look at community college faculty.

381.0973 H527f, 2006
AUT Henthorn, Cynthia Lee.
TIT From submarines to suburbs : selling a better America, 1939-1959.
PUB Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : legacy of the postwar commercial fallout -- Weapons of mass disorder : impediments to mobilization -- Weapons of mass persuasion : mobilization through symbol management -- Positioning machine age heroes and wartime types -- Glimpses into a "better America" -- Home front war : the campaign to save the American way -- Hygienic solutions for the "house of tomorrow" -- Postwar progress : myth or reality? -- Wartime skeptics and the "world of tomorrow" -- What did happen to the dreamworld? realities of the postwar commercial fallout -- The cold war's commercial fallout -- Afterword : the "better America" today.

384.55 E13m5, 2006
AUT Eastman, Susan Tyler ; Ferguson, Douglas A ; Klein, Robert A.
TIT Media promotion and marketing for broadcasting, cable, and the Internet. - 5th ed.
PUB Amsterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Elsevier/Focal Press, c2006.

385.0973 R943a, 2006
AUT Runte, Alfred.
TIT Allies of the earth : railroads and the soul of preservation.
PUB Kirksville, Mo. : Truman State University Press, c2006.

398.2 M135t, 2006
AUT MacDonald, Margaret Read.
TIT Ten traditional tellers.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

398.3 C196o, 2005
AUT Campion-Vincent, V�ronique.
TIT Organ theft legends. - 1st English ed.
PUB Jackson, Miss. : University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
CON Contents: Narratives and the legend -- Facts and the legend -- Exploitation of the legend -- Analysis of the legend -- Conclusion -- Afterword to the American edition, 2005 : organ theft narratives in the early 2000s -- Appendix : description of the accusatory documentaries.

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428.07 C392g2, 1999
AUT Celce-Murcia, Marianne ; Larsen-Freeman, Diane ; Williams, Howard Alan.
TIT The grammar book : an ESL/EFL teacher's course. - 2nd ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Heinle & Heinle, c1999.

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500 K47e, 2006
AUT Kiernan, Vincent.
TIT Embargoed science.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
CON Contents: An overview of news about science and medicine -- A brief history of embargoes in science journalism -- Accuracy in science journalism -- Costs of the embargo -- The embargo should go.

510.9 A189a, 2006
AUT Aczel, Amir D.
TIT The artist and the mathematician : the story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed.
PUB New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2006.

514.3 S439m, 2006
AUT � Searc�id, M�che�l.
TIT Metric spaces.
PUB London, U.K. : Springer, c2006.
SER Springer undergraduate mathematics series.

519.2 B422st, 2006
AUT Beichelt, Frank.
TIT Stochastic processes in science, engineering, and finance.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006.

523.1 G738e, 2006
AUT Graham, Daniel W.
TIT Explaining the cosmos : the Ionian tradition of scientific philosophy.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The Ionian program -- Anaximander's principles -- Anaximenes' theory of change -- The generating substance theory as an explanatory hypothesis -- Heraclitus's criticism of Ionian philosophy -- Parmenides' criticism of Ionian philosophy -- Anaxagoras and Empedocles : Eleatic pluralists -- The elemental substance theory as an explanatory hypothesis -- The atomist reform -- Diogenes of Apollonia and material monism -- The Ionian legacy.

539.721 D639i3, 2006
AUT Coughlan, G. D ; Dodd, J. E. ; Gripaios, Ben.
TIT The ideas of particle physics : an introduction for scientists. - 3rd ed. / Guy D. Coughlan, James Dodd, Ben Gripaios.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Chem 547.7 C454i, 2006
AUT Chanda, Manas.
TIT Introduction to polymer science and chemistry : a problem solving approach.
PUB Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006.

551.57 P942c, 2006
AUT Pretor-Pinney, Gavin ; Sanderson, Bill.
TIT The cloudspotter's guide : the science, history, and culture of clouds. - Perigee hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Berkley Pub. Group, 2006.

553.28 M449a, 2006
AUT Maugeri, Leonardo.
TIT The age of oil : the mythology, history, and future of the world's most controversial resource.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
CON Contents: John D. Rockefeller's cursed legacy -- The age of gasoline and oil imperialism -- The carve-up of Arabia's oil -- The oil glut of the 1930s -- Cold War fears and the U.S.-Arabian link -- The Iran tragedy and the "seven sisters" cartel -- The golden age of oil and its limits -- Oil and the explosion of Arab nationalism -- The first oil shock -- The second oil shock -- The countershock -- A storm in the desert : the first gulf crisis -- The Soviet implosion and the troubled Caspian El Dorado -- The collapse of oil prices and industry megamergers -- The first oil crisis of the twenty-first century -- Are we running out of oil? -- The inner secrets of oil -- The puzzle of oil reserves and production, and the quest for their control -- The problems with oil quality, price, and consumption trends -- Flawed forecasts, foggy alternatives to oil -- Arabs, Islam, and the myth of oil security -- Appendixes. 1. Proven reserves, production, and reserves life index of the first twenty oil countries in the world and world totals (2004) ; 2. Consumption trends of the first twenty countries in the world (1980-2004) ; 3. Main features of some qualities of crude oil ; 4. The largest national oil companies ; 5. The largest international oil companies.

571.2 H796i3, 2004
AUT Hopkins, William G ; H�ner, Norman P. A.
TIT Introduction to plant physiology. - 3rd ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2004.

571.2 P713D3, 2004
AUT Davies, Peter J.
TIT Plant hormones : biosythesis, signal transduction, action!. - 3rd ed.
PUB Dordrecht, The Netherlands ; Boston, Mass. : Kluwer Academic, 2004.

571.6 R278i2, 2003
AUT Razdan, M. K.
TIT Introduction to plant tissue culture. - 2nd ed.
PUB Enfield, N.H. : Science Publishers, c2003.

572 C319m, 2006
AUT Carroll, Sean B.
TIT The making of the fittest : DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: Beyond any reasonable doubt -- The bloodless fish of Bouvet Island -- The everyday math of evolution: chance, selection, and time -- Immortal genes: running in place for eons -- Making the new from the old -- Fossil genes: broken pieces of yesterday's life -- D�j� vu: how and why evolution repeats itself -- Our flesh and blood: arms races, the human race, and natural selection -- The making and evolution of complexity -- Seeing and believing -- The palm trees of Wyoming.

572.4 E64m2, 2005
AUT Epstein, Emanuel ; Bloom, Arnold J.
TIT Mineral nutrition of plants : principles and perspectives. - 2nd ed.
PUB Sunderland, Mass. : Sinauer Associates,Publishers, c2005.
SER Visual read less, learn more.
CON Contents: Taking inventory of your PC -- Reclaiming disk drive space -- Optimizing hard drive performance and memory -- Making your PC start faster -- Improving Internet performance -- Optimizing the Windows registry -- Updating and optimizing your software -- Optimizing your PC's display -- Protecting your PC from viruses and crackers -- Returning your PC to pristine condition.

581.4 E74p3, 2006
AUT Evert, Ray Franklin ; Esau, Katherine.
TIT Esau's Plant anatomy : meristems, cells, and tissues of the plant body : their structure, function, and development. - 3rd ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2006.
CON Contents: Ch. 1. Structure and development of a plant : an overview -- ch. 2. The protoplast : plasma membrane, nucleus, and cytoplasmic organelles -- ch. 3. The protoplast : endomembrane system, secretory pathways, cytoskeleton, and stored compounds -- ch. 4. Cell wall -- ch. 5. Meristems and differentiation -- ch. 6. Apical meristems -- ch. 7. Parenchyma and collenchyma -- ch. 8. Sclerenchyma -- ch. 9. Epidermis -- ch. 10. Xylem : cell types and developmental aspects -- ch. 11. Xylem : secondary xylem and variations in wood structure -- ch. 12. Vascular cambium -- ch. 13. Phloem : cell types and developmental aspects -- ch. 14. Phloem : secondary phloem and variations in its structure -- ch. 15. Periderm -- ch. 16. External secretory structures -- ch. 17. Internal secretory structures.

592 D252b, 2006
AUT Davidson, Elizabeth W.
TIT Big fleas have little fleas : how discoveries of invertebrate diseases are advancing modern science.
PUB Tucson, Az. : University of Arizona Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Pasteur, silkworms, and the germ theory of disease -- Of caterpillars and crystals : bacterial toxins as insecticides -- Out of Africa : bacteria against mosquitoes and blackflies -- The virus that cures : the baculovirus gene expression system -- Scourge of the South Pacific : the rhinoceros beetle -- Bug against bug : invertebrate antibiotics -- Saved by a crab : Limulus amoebocyte lysate assay -- Sea sickness : diseases of edible shellfish -- Deadly hitchhikers : crustaceans and cholera -- Cloak and dagger : nematodes aginst insect pests -- Bad news for the good guys : diseases and parasites of bees -- The mysterious reappearing fungus : gypsy moth pathogen -- The sixth plague of Egypt : fungus and the desert locust -- Ad infinitum : insect symbiotic organisms -- Postscript : landmarks that tie our stories together.

598.9 B595m, 2006
AUT Bildstein, Keith L.
TIT Migrating raptors of the world : their ecology & conservation.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Comstock Pub. Associates, 2006.
CON Contents: The phenomenon of raptor migration -- Origins and evolution of raptor migration -- History of raptor-migration studies -- Flight strategies -- Orientation and navigation -- The ecology of migratory raptors -- Migration geography -- Migration life histories -- Great hawkwatches -- Protecting migratory raptors.

599.5 S558w, 2006
AUT Shirihai, Hadoram ; Jarrett, Brett ; Kirwan, Guy M.
TIT Whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals of the world.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2006.
SER Princeton field guides.

599.9 G441f, 2007
AUT Gibbons, Ann.
TIT The first human : the race to discover our earliest ancestors. - 1st Anchor Books ed.
PUB New York : Anchor Books, 2007, c2006.
CON Contents: Map: the cradle of humanity -- "First Human" fossil finds by year -- Time line: the human family -- The fossil hunters -- African trailblazers -- Continental divide -- The early ancestor -- Drawing bloodlines -- Lucy, the late ancestor -- Defining humans -- Banishment -- The lady of the lake -- A view from afar -- The root ape -- West side story -- Turf wars -- Toeing the line -- Millennium man -- Toumai -- Bones of contention -- Habitat for humanity.

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614.47 C695s, 2006
AUT Colgrove, James Keith.
TIT State of immunity : the politics of vaccination in twentieth-century America.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund, c2006.
SER California/Milbank books on health and the public. ; 16.
CON Contents: Between persuasion and compulsion : vaccination at the turn of the twentieth century -- Science in a democracy : smallpox vaccination in the progressive era and the 1920s -- Diphtheria immunization : the power, and the limits, of persuasion -- Hard cores and soft spots : selling the polio vaccine -- Eradicationism and its discontents -- Consent, compulsion, and compensation : vaccination programs in crisis -- Expansion and backlash : vaccination at the turn of the twenty-first century.

615.788 D578L, 2006
AUT Diller, Lawrence H.
TIT The last normal child : essays on the intersection of kids, culture, and psychiatric drugs.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
SER Childhood in America.
CON Contents: The influence of science, politics, money, and culture on psychiatric diagnosis and treatment of children in America -- One pill makes you larger : stories from the real world of families coping with children's behavior and psychiatric drugs -- Drug companies, academic medicine, and the way we treat children's problems in America today.

615.82 A5122, 2003
TIT ACSM's exercise management for persons with chronic diseases and disabilities. - 2nd ed.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2003.
CON Contents: section I. Framework / J. Larry Durstine -- 1. Introduction / Geoffrey E. Moore, J. Larry Durstine -- 2. Framework / Geoffrey E. Moore, J. Larry Durstine, Anthony P. Marsh -- 3. Considerations regarding physical activity for children and youth / William F. Riner, Richard J. Sabath -- section II. Cardiovascular diseases / Scott O. Roberts, Peter H. Brubaker -- 4. Myocardial infarction / Barry A. Franklin -- 5. Coronary artery bypass graft surgery and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty / Barry A. Franklin -- 6. Angina and silent ischemia / Adam Gitkin, Martha Canulette, Daniel Freidman -- 7. Atrial fibrillation / J. Edwin Atwood, Jonathan N. Myers -- 8. Pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators / Michael West, Scott O. Roberts -- 9. Valvular heart disease / Martha Canulette, Adam Gitkin, Daniel Freidman -- 10. Chronic heart failure / Jonathan N. Myers, Peter H. Brubaker -- 11. Cardiac transplant / Steven J. Keteyian, Clinton Brawner -- 12. Hypertension / Neil F. Gordon -- 13. Peripheral arterial disease / Christopher J. Womack, Andrew W. Gardner -- 14. Aneurysms / Geoffrey E. Moore, Peter H. Brubaker. section III. Pulmonary diseases / Christopher H. Cooper -- 15. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease / Christopher H. Cooper -- 16. Chronic restrictive pulmonary disease / Connie C.W. Hsia -- 17. Asthma / Christopher J. Clark -- 18. Cystic fibrosis / Patrician A. Nixon -- 19. Lung and heart-lung transplantation / David J. Ross -- section IV. Metabolic diseases / Patricia L. Painter, J. Larry Durstine -- 20. End-stage metabolic disease : renal failure and liver failure / Patricia L. Painter, Joanne B. Krasnoff -- 21. Diabetes / W. Guyton Hornsby, Jr., Ann L. Albright -- 22. Hyperlipidemia / J. Larry Durstine, Geoffrey E. Moore, Paul D. Thompson -- 23. Obesity / Janet P. Wallace -- 24. Frailty / Connie Bayles -- section V. Immunological/hematological disorders / Geoffrey E. Moore, J. Larry Durstine -- 25. Cancer / Anna L. Schwartz -- 26. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) / Arlette C. Perry, Arthur LaPerriere, Nancy Klimas -- 27. Abdominal organ transplant (kidney, liver, pancreas) / Patricia L. Painter, Joanne B. Krasnoff -- 28. Chronic fatigue syndrome / Stephen P. Bailey -- 29. Fibromyalgia / Barbara Meyer, Kathy Lemley -- 30. Anemia / Kristen L. Johansen -- 31. Bleeding and clotting disorders / Geoffrey E. Moore, Peter H. Brubaker. Contents: section VI. Orthopedic diseases and disabilities / Kenneth H. Pitetti -- 32. Arthritis / Marian A. Minor, Donald R. Kays -- 33. Lower back pain syndrome / Maureen J. Simmonds, Thomas E. Dreisinger -- 34. Osteoporosis / Susan A. Bloomfield, Susan S. Smith -- 35. Lower-limb amputation / Kenneth H. Pitetti, Mark H. Pedrotty -- section VII. Neuromuscular disorders / Stephen F. Figoni -- 36. Stroke and brain injury / Karen Palmer-McLean, Kimberly B. Harbst -- 37. Spinal cord disabilities : paraplegia and tetraplegia / Stephen F. Figoni -- 38. Muscular dystrophy / Mark A. Tarnopolsky -- 39. Epilepsy / Lorraine E. Colson Bloomquist -- 40. Multiple sclerosis / Janet A. Mulcare -- 41. Polio and post-polio syndrome / Thomas J. Birk -- 42. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis / Karen Lo Nau White -- 43. Cerebral palsy / James L. Laskin -- 44. Parkinson's disease / Elizabeth J. Protas, Rhonda K. Stanley -- section VIII. Cognitive, psychological, and sensory disorders / Lorraine E. Colson Bloomquist -- 45. Mental retardation / Bo Fernhall -- 46. Alzheimer's disease / James H. Rimmer -- 47. Mental illness / Gary S. Skrinar -- 48. Deaf and hard of hearing / Lorraine E. Colson Bloomquist -- 49. Visual impairment / Lorraine E. Colson Bloomquist. Contents: Appendix A. Generic and brand names of commonly used drugs by class -- Appendix B. Effects of medications on heart rate, blood pressure, the electrocardiogram (ECG), and exercise capacity -- Appendix C. Effects of non-cardiovascular and non-respiratory drugs on exercise capacity -- Appendix D. Web sites for additional resources on chronic diseases and disabilities.

616 G242h2, 2003
AUT Garrison, Susan J.
TIT Handbook of physical medicine and rehabilitation : the basics. - 2nd ed.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2003.

616.027 B446s, 2006
AUT Bellomo, Michael.
TIT The stem cell divide : the facts, the fiction, and the fear driving the greatest scientific, political, and religious debate of our time.
PUB New York : American Management Association, c2006.
CON Contents: Discovery of the stem cell's unique abilities -- Morning on the devil's highway -- Head of the hydra -- The furnace of creation -- The ugliest thing in medicine -- The starter culture -- The race to harness the power of life -- California dreaming -- Investing in hope and hype -- From Roe to Dickey -- Division on the hill -- Stem cell superpowers -- The rise and fall of South Korea's cloning king -- Stem cell cures and curses -- Therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine -- Resolving the debate: adult vs. embryonic stem cells -- Germ of an idea -- Needles and haystacks -- Banking on cord blood -- So close and yet so far -- A future built on the smallest piece of life -- The mitochondrial barrier -- Cautionary tales: the coming stem cell decade -- Epilogue: the coming stem cell century.

616.044 M845c, 2006
AUT Morewitz, Stephen John.
TIT Chronic diseases and health care : new trends in diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, fibromyalgia, low back pain, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
PUB New York : Springer, c2006.

616.85 K16p, 2006
AUT Kantor, Martin.
TIT The psychopathy of everyday life : how antisocial personality disorder affects all of us.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
CON Contents: The psychopathy of everyday life -- Behavioral manifestations -- Some psychopaths of everyday life -- A few cases -- The core personality structure -- Differential diagnosis: associated and overlapping disorders -- Social issues -- Successful psychopaths -- Cause -- Course and prognosis -- Therapy of the mild psychopath -- Coping with the psychopaths of everyday life.

616.8527 B644e, 2004
AUT Blatt, Sidney J.
TIT Experiences of depression : theoretical, clinical, and research perspectives. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2004.
CON Contents: Theoretical formulations and clinical examples of anaclitic and introjective depression -- Assessment of anaclitic and introjective depression and of mental representation -- Expressions of anaclitic and introjective depression and their distal and proximal antecedents.

616.8588 S979w, 2006
AUT Switzky, Harvey N ; Greenspan, Stephen.
TIT What is mental retardation? : ideas for an evolving disability in the 21st century. - Rev. and updated ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Association on Mental Retardation, 2006.
CON Contents: Forty-four years of AAMR manuals -- On the 2002 AAMR definition of mental retardation -- An update on label and definitional asynchrony: the missing mental and retardation in mental retardation -- Quo vadis mental retardation?: definition by aggregation versus the hope for individual futures -- On being labeled with mental retardation -- How we eradicated familial (hereditary) mental retardation-updated -- Mental retardation: confusing sentiment with science -- Neighbors and friends: social implications of intellectual disability -- Look before you leap: implications of the 1992 and 2002 definitions of mental retardation -- Defining and assessing spirituality and spiritual supports: moving from benediction to invocation -- Mental retardation in the real world: why the AAMR definition is not there yet -- Ten years later: two AAMR tales of a condition -- Children with mild mental retardation: a challenge for classification practices-revised. Contents: Adaptation, remission, and growth: conceptual challenges to the definition of mental retardation-medical implications and applications -- Scientific and judgmental issues involved in defining mental retardation -- The concept and classification of mental retardation -- The importance of cognitive-motivational variables in understanding mental retardation in the 21st century -- Lessons from the Atkins decision for the next AAMR manual -- The relationship between the WHO-ICF (international classification of functioning, disability, and health) and the AAMR 2002 system -- Focusing comprehensive functional assessment: a case formulation of dual diagnosis treatment priorities using ICF (ICIDH-2) -- Summary and conclusions: can so many diverse ideas be integrated: multiparadigmatic models of understanding mental retardation in the 21st century.

616.89 K89b, 2006
AUT Kraly, F. Scott.
TIT Brain science and psychological disorders : therapy, psychotropic drugs, and the brain. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
CON Contents: Pt. I. Treatment of behavioral and brain disorders. How do disorders develop? -- What treatments are likely to be effective? -- Integration of pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy -- Brain theories of behavioral disorders -- Pt. II. Fundamental principles of the brain and behavior. Organizational aspects of the brain relevant to psychology and behavior -- Neuronal processes relevant to psychology and behavior -- Discovering the relation between brain and behavior -- Principles of pharmacology relevant to pharmacotherapy -- Pt. III. Dysfunctional behaviors and brain processes. Depression and mania -- Anxiety disorders -- Substance use disorders -- Overeating -- Bulimia and anorexia -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- Schizophrenia -- Pt. IV. Concluding perspective. Probing a frontier.

618.92 W839p, 2006
AUT Wodrich, David L. ; Schmitt, Ara J.
TIT Patterns of learning disorders : working systematically from assessment to intervention.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2006.
SER The Guilford school practitioner series.
CON Contents: Overview of the system and reasons for assessing -- IQ-related conditions -- Information-processing-related conditions -- Performance-related conditions -- How to use the system through case examples -- Suggestions for implementing the classification and intervention planning system.

629.892 S626r, 2006
AUT Skaar, Steven B. ; Del Castillo, Guillermo.
TIT Revisualizing robotics : new DNA for surviving a world of cheap labor. - 1st ed.
PUB Eagleville, Pa. : DNA Press, c2006.

631.8 B316p, 2000
AUT Basra, Amarjit S.
TIT Plant growth regulators in agriculture and horticulture : their role and commercial uses.
PUB New York : Food Products Press, c2000.

632 M742t, 2007
AUT Money, Nicholas P.
TIT The triumph of the fungi : a rotten history.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Landscape architect -- A farewell to Elms -- The decaffeinator -- Chocaholic mushroom -- Rubber eraser -- Cereal killers -- Potato Soup -- Blights, rusts, and rots never sleep: a look at forestry and agriculture, biological warfare, and the global impact of fungal disease.

635.9 A732a, 2006
AUT Armitage, A. M.
TIT Armitage's native plants for North American gardens.
PUB Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2006.

641.5 O58a, 2007
AUT O'Neill, Molly.
TIT American food writing : an anthology with classic recipes.
PUB New York : Library of America, c2007.

641.8 P885i, 2006
AUT Powell, Marilyn.
TIT Ice cream : the delicious history. - 1st ed.
PUB Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2006, c2005.
CON Contents: A taste for cold -- Milk from which all blessings flow -- An inquiry into the nature of ice cream -- Kings, commoners, and cones -- Show business.

658.3 R573d, 2006
AUT Riley, Charles A.
TIT Disability and business : best practices and strategies for inclusion.
PUB Lebanon, N.H. : University Press of New England, c2006.
CON Contents: Handshakes, not handouts : building the business case for inclusion -- Playing by the rules : disability for the legal department -- The way in : human resources -- Show me the money : marketing with the disability community -- Start spreading the news : tips for public relations strategists -- Diversity by design : perfecting the accessible workplace -- Culture club : managing for productive change.

658.408 E784g, 2006
AUT Esty, Daniel C ; Winston, Andrew S.
TIT Green to gold : how smart companies use environmental strategy to innovate, create value, and build competitive advantage.
PUB New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : The environmental lens -- pt. 1. Preparing for a new world -- 1. Eco-Advantage : issues and opportunities for business in an environmentally sensitive world -- 2. Natural drivers of the Green Wave : environmental problems and how they shape markets -- 3. Who's behind the Green Wave? : stakeholders and the power they wield -- pt. 2. Strategies for building Eco-Advantage -- 4. Managing the downside : green-to-gold plays to reduce cost and risk -- 5. Building the upside : green-to-gold plays to drive revenues and create intangible value -- pt. 3. What WaveRiders do -- 6. The Eco-Advantage mindset : looking through an environmental lens -- 7. Eco-tracking : understanding your company's environmental "footprint" -- 8. Redesigning your world : designing for the environment and "greening" the supply chain -- 9. Inspiring an Eco-Advantage culture : creating an organizational focus on environmental stewardship -- pt. 4. Putting it all together -- 10. Why environmental initiatives fail : pitfalls to avoid on the way to Eco-Advantage -- 11. Taking action : execution for sustained competitive advantage -- 12. Eco-Advantage strategy : key Eco-Advantage plays, tools, and plans -- Appendix 1. Additional resources -- Appendix 2. Methodological overview -- Appendix 3. Most relevant tools for each green-to-gold play.

658.408 H393c, 2006
AUT Hawkins, David E.
TIT Corporate social responsibility : balancing tomorrow's sustainability and today's profitability.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

658.42 C226e, 2006
AUT Cannon, J. Thomas.
TIT The entrepreneur's strategy guide : ten keys for achieving marketplace leadership and operational excellence.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Part A. Consumers and competitors : your strategic foundations -- Key one : end-user benefits for growing niche markets -- Key two : Pricing that pleases two masters -- Key three : infotech-strengthened channels and supply chains -- Key four : a targeted and frugal sales and marketing mix -- Key five : customer services that generate repeat business -- Part B. Profit-producing managerial and operational strategies -- Key six : dynamic, "no-gaps" business planning -- Key seven : people power through teaming and empowerment -- Key eight : leveraged development, production, and outsourcing -- Key nine : problem solving and "do-your-own" turnarounds -- Key ten : linking growth strategies with profit plans.

658.473 P184u, 2006
AUT Paludi, Michele Antoinette ; Nydegger, Rudy V.
TIT Understanding workplace violence : a guide for managers and employees.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
CON Contents: Understanding workplace violence: myths and realities -- What is workplace violence? -- Incidence of workplace violence and impact on employees and organizations -- Factors contributing to workplace violence -- Workplace sexual harassment -- Intimate partner violence as a workplace concern -- Managing violence, aggression, and other abusive behaviors in the workplace.

658.8 M981m, 2006
AUT Murray, Chris.
TIT The marketing gurus : lessons from the best marketing books of all time.
PUB New York : Portfolio, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. Differentiate or die / Jack Trout with Steve Rivkin -- 2. Lateral marketing / Philip Kotler and Fernando Trias de Bes -- 3. The Popcorn report / Faith Popcorn -- 4. Relationship marketing / Regis McKenna -- 5. Networking with the affluent / Thomas Stanley -- 6. Relentless / Johny K. Johansson and Ikujiro Nonaka -- 7. The one to one future / Don Peppers and Martha Rogers -- 8. Up the loyalty ladder / Murray Raphel and Neil Raphel -- 9. Scoring points / Clive Humby and Terry Hunt with Tim Phillips -- 10. How to drive your competition crazy / Guy Kawasaki -- 11. Crossing the chasm / Geoffrey A. Moore -- 12. Unleashing the killer app / Larry Downes and Chunka Mui -- 13. The anatomy of buzz / Emanuel Rosen -- 14. Purple cow / Seth Godin -- 15. Don't think pink / Lisa Johnson and Andrea Learned -- 16. The discipline of market leaders / Michael Treacy and Fred Wierserna -- 17. Renovate before you innovate / Sergio Zyman.

658.8 W821b, 2006
AUT Witeck, Robert ; Combs, Wesley.
TIT Business inside out : capturing millions of brand-loyal gay consumers.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Kaplan Pub., c2006.
CON Contents: The background -- Why reputation matters -- Evolution of gay consumers -- The essential role of research -- Counting gays -- The opportunity -- Gay buying power -- Corporate reputation and brand loyalty -- Gay media, connections, and community -- The strategy -- Steps for success: strategies in the real world -- Out for a test drive -- Understanding and managing backlash -- Resources.

658.83 G883h, 2006
AUT Grover, Rajiv ; Vriens, Marco.
TIT The handbook of marketing research : uses, misuses, and future advances.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2006.
CON Contents: Inroduction: The changing world of marketing research / Rajiv Grover -- PART I: FUNDAMENTAL DESIGN: Trusted adviser: how it helps lay the foundations for insights / Rajiv Grover and Marco Vriens -- Structuring market research departments and processes for optimal impact / Marco Vriens and Rajiv Grover -- What do "Really Good" managers and "Really Good" researchers want of one another? / Lindsay Zaliman and Gerald Zaltman -- PART II: DATA COLLECTION: Deep engagement with consumer experience: listening and learning with qualitative data / Eric J. Arnould and Amber Epp -- Questionnaire design and scale development / Naresh K. Malhotra -- Response biases in marketing research / Hans Boumgartner and Jan-Benedict E. M. Steenkamp -- Online marketing research / Jeff Miller -- Advanced techniques and technologies in online research / Scott M. Smith, Jared Smith, and Chad R. Allred -- Sampling and weighting / Dan Mallett -- Dealing with missing data in surveys and databases / Marco Vriens and Sandip Sinharay -- PART III: ANALYSIS AND MODELING: Basic data analysis / Scott M. Smith and Gerald S. Albaum -- Marketing decison support models: the marketing engineering approach / Gary L. Lilien and Arvind Rangaswamy -- Using regression to answer "what if" / Donald R. Lehmann -- Advanced regression models / Raghuram Iyengar and Sunil Gupta -- Conjoint analysis: understanding consumer decision making / David Bakken and Curtis L. Frazier -- Construction of efficient designs for discrete choice experiments / Warren F. Kuhfield -- Structural equation modeling / Victoria Savalei and Peter M. Bentler -- Cluster analysis and factor analysis / Subhash Sharma and Ajith Kumar -- Latent structure regression / Wayne S. DeSarbo, Wagner A. Kamakura, and Michel Wedel -- Hierachical Bayes models / Greg M. Allenby and Peer E. Rossi -- Hazard/survival models in marketing / Pradeep K. Chintagunta and Xiaojing Dong -- An introduction to data mining / Christopher R. Stephens and R. Sukumar -- PART IV: CONCEPTUAL APPLICATIONS: Ad testing / Allen L. Ballinger and William A. Cook -- Modeling marketing mix / Gerard J. Tellis -- A guide to the design and execution of segmentation studies / William R. Dillon and Soumen Mukherjee -- Measuring brand equity / Kevin Lane Keller -- Consumer satisfaction research / Richard L. Oliver -- Measuring customer equity and calculating marketing ROI / Roland T. Rust, Katherine N. Lemon, and Valarie A. Zeithaml -- Customer lifetime value / V. Kumar -- International marketing research / V. Kumar -- Marketing management support systems and their implication for marketing research / Gerritt H. Van Bruggen and Berend Wierenga.

658.834 B879b, 2006
AUT Brown, Mary ; Orsborn, Carol.
TIT Boom : marketing to the ultimate power consumer--the baby boomer woman.
PUB New York : American Management Association, c2006.

658.834 M624a, 2006
AUT Michman, Ronald D ; Mazze, Edward M.
TIT The affluent consumer : marketing and selling the luxury lifestyle.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
CON Contents: Wealth in America -- Bridging the gap -- When good is not good enough -- Changing economic dimensions -- The affluent all-American consumer -- Affluent groups and aspirations -- Segmenting the affluent market -- Upscale strategies are not a panacea -- Redefining affluent consumer lifestyles -- Myths, realities and predictions.

658.834 T956n, 2006
AUT Turow, Joseph.
TIT Niche envy : marketing discrimination in the digital age.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
CON Contents: A major transformation -- Confronting new worries -- Drawing on the past -- The Internet as test bed -- Rethinking television -- The customized store -- Issues of trust -- Envy, suspicion, and the public sphere.

658.8342 J67m, 2006
AUT Johnson, Lisa ; Hanson, Cheri.
TIT Mind your x's and y's : satisfying the 10 cravings of a new generation of consumers.
PUB New York : Free Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : the rise of the connected generation -- Shine the spotlight : extreme personalization gives marketing a new face -- Raise my pulse : adventure takes its place as the new social currency -- Make loose connections : the new shape of "families" and social networks -- Give me brand candy : everyday objects get sharp, delicious, intuitive design -- Sift through the clutter : editors and filters gain new prominence -- Keep it underground : the rejection of push advertising and the rising influence of peer-to-peer networks -- Build it together : connected citizens explore their creative power and influence change -- Bring it to life : everyday activities are orchestrated to deliver a dramatic sense of theater -- Go inward : spiritual hunger and modern media find common ground -- Give back : redefining volunteerism and the meaning of contribution -- Conclusion : the new players you need to know.

687.1 S949j, 2006
AUT Sullivan, James.
TIT Jeans : a cultural history of an American icon.
PUB New York : Gotham Books, c2006.
CON Contents: The perfect fit -- The sans-culottes: before the blue jean -- Tug-of-war: "those pants of Levi's," and the competition -- Dudes: selling the western frontier -- Modern pioneers: at work and play -- "A Hollywood-style tough": the 1950s and the fabrication f the teenager -- Classlessness: the politics of fashion -- After the gold rush: stylizing denim -- The diffusion of glamour: designers in the mass market -- "Thought abhors tights": sex in advertising -- Hand-me-downs: vintage and reproduction -- Wrapped in the flag: "America's gift" in the global era -- Bottoms up: blue jeans at a premium -- The process.

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700.1 S132o, 2006
AUT Said, Edward W.
TIT On late style : music and literature against the grain. 1st ed.
PUB New York : Pantheon Books, c2006.
CON Contents: Timeliness and lateness -- Return to the eighteenth century -- Cos� fan tutte at the limits -- On Jean Genet -- A lingering old order -- The virtuoso as intellectual -- Glimpses of late style.

700.411 T323n, 2006
AUT Terraroli, Valerio ; Avanguardie storiche.
TIT Avanguardie storiche, 1900-1919. English 1900-1919 : the avant-garde movements. - 1st ed.
PUB Milano : Skira ; New York : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International, 2006.
SER Art of the twentieth century.
CON Contents: Aesthetic experimentation and transformation of artistic language at the dawn of the twentieth century -- Protagonists of the modern techniques and materials used in new art / Heinz Alth�fer -- The eccentric vision of modernism - Barcelona - Russia -- The rigorous and geometrical line of modernist culture - Munich - Prague - Vienna -- Artists' writings and critical debates 1900-1920 / Charles Harrison -- Art nouveau and the Parisian crucible of the avant-gardes - Brussels - Paris 1900-1910 - The meteor of fauvism - The poetic of Cubism -- Fashion and anti-fashion at the turn of the twentieth century / Radu Stern -- From secessions to expressionism - German experssionism -- Artistic creativity and idea of the city 1900-1914 - The case of Munich / Marco Pogacnik -- From Scapigliatura to futurism - Milan - Florence - Rome -- Art and cinema 1900-1920 / Antonio Costa -- The fusion of the new languages - Russian art between Cubo-futurism and suprematism -- The utopia of total art / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- The experiences of abstraction - De Stijl -- The semantic revolution of the avant-gardes - metaphysics - Paris 1910-1919 -- The end of the artistic object - The Dada revolution.

709.24 C466m, 2006
AUT Chapman, Hugo ; Michelangelo Buonarroti.
TIT Michelangelo.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2006.

709.45 C6892s, 2006
AUT Cole, Michael Wayne.
TIT Sixteenth-century Italian art.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
SER Blackwell anthologies in art history ; 3.
CON Contents: Pagan mysteries -- Raphael's tomb / Tilmann Buddensieg -- St. Peter's as ruins: on some vedute by Heemskerck / Christof Thoenes -- Virtue reconciled with pleasure / Edgar Wind -- Love's sweet poison: a new reading of Bronzino's London Allegory / Robert W. Gaston -- Nature and artifice -- Science and the poetic impulse / Martin J. Kemp -- Manneerist Grottos in sixteenth-century Italy / Philippe Morel -- Imitation, innovation, and renovation in the counter-reformation: landscapes all'antica in the Vatican Tower of the Winds / Nicola Courtright -- Landscapes and still lifes / Pamela M. Jones -- Figures and bodies -- Preparing to finish: portraits by Pontormo and Bronzino around 1530 / Elisabeth Cropper -- The mistress in the masterpiece / Nancy J. Vickers -- Michelangelo's Florentine Piet�: the missing leg / Leo Steinberg -- Reclining bodies: figural ornament in Renissance architecture / Alina Payne -- The artist -- The new professionalism in the Renaissance / Catherine Wilkinson -- On some engravings by Giorgio Ghisi Commonly called "Reproductive" / Michael Bury -- The historian and the technique: on he role of Goldsmithery in Vasari's Lives / Marco Collareta -- Reformations -- Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna / Charles de Tolnay -- Gifts for Michelangelo and Vittoria Colonna / Alexander Nagel -- The Ges� in the light of contemporary church design / James S. Ackerman -- The Carracci and the devout style in Emilia / Charles Dempsey -- Theory and practice -- Leonardo's color and Chiaroscuro / John Shearman -- The subject of Savoldo's Magdalene / Mary Pardo -- Figure come fratelli: a transformation of symmetry in Renaissance painting / David Summers -- Raphael, Angelo Colocci, and the genesis of the architectural orders / Ingrid D. Rowland.

709.46 G794s, 2006
AUT Greeley, Robin Ad�le.
TIT Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Pictures and battefields -- Nationalism, civil war, and painting: Joan Mir� and political agency in the pictorial realm -- Dal�, fascism, and the "ruin oif Surrealism" -- Surrealism's public awakening in Spain: politics and pictures in Republican and Fascist Spain -- The Barcelona Ac�pale: Spain and the politics of violence in the work of Andr� Masson -- The body as political metaphor: Picasso and the performance of Guernica -- Of apples and guns.

739.27 P558b, 2006
AUT Phillips, Clare.
TIT Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press in association with the Gilbert Collection Trust and Tiffany & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: From fancy goods to a palace of jewels: the early decades of Tiffany & Co. / Clare Phillips -- Tiffany and Paris 1850-1910 / Katherine Purcell -- A gold standard for the gilded age / Ulysses Grant Dietz -- Nature studies: the art jewellery of Louis Comfort Tiffany / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- The Tiffany names: Tiffany and the cult of the individual designer-jeweller / Vivienne Becker -- The glamour of Tiffany / John Loring -- The rise of an American institution -- Tiffany, a 'temple of fancy' -- 'Such stuff as dreams are made on': diamonds, pearls and a rainbow of jewels -- Opulent accessories -- Nature -- G. Paulding Farnham and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 -- Louis Comfort Tiffany -- Art deco -- The New York World's Fair and the 1940s -- The return to the designer.

746.14 E92a, 2005
AUT Evans, Miriama ; Ngarimu, Ranui.
TIT The art of Maori weaving : the eternal thread.
PUB Wellington, N.Z. : Huia Publishers, 2005.
CON Contents: Foreword / Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu -- Acknowledgements -- A note on terminology -- Nau Mai e Hine / Derek Lardelli -- Introduction -- Nga Taonga Mai i a Tane / Tepene Mamaku -- Whatu - Maori weaving -- Te Maona Whiritoi / Derek Lardelli -- Raranga - Maori Plaiting -- Artists and artworks.

759.5 M692mm, 2006
AUT Modigliani, Amedeo ; Fraquelli, Simonetta ; Rosenthal, Norman.
TIT Modigliani and his models.
PUB London, U.K. : Royal Academy of Arts, c2006.
CON Contents: 'Too many last words!': the myth of Modigliani / Kenneth E. Silver -- A personal universe: Modigliani's portraits and figure paintings / Simonetta Fraquelli -- Carnal knowledge / Emily Braun -- Modigliani and England / Kenneth Wayne -- Catalogue plates -- Chronology / Kathleen Brunner -- Biographies of Modigliani's models / Kathleen Brunner.

759.9492 B695a, 2006
AUT Bomford, David.
TIT Rembrandt. - New ed. / David Bomford ... [et al.].
PUB London : National Gallery, 2006.
SER Art in the making.
CON Contents: Essays: Studio practice and the training of artists / Jo Kirby -- Rembrandt's materials and technique -- The ground layer: function and type / Ashok Roy -- The paint layers / David Bomford -- Rembrandt's palette / Ashok Roy and Jo Kirby -- Rembrandt's paint medium / Raymond White, with assistance from Catherine Higgitt -- Catalogue / David Bamford, Ashok Roy and Axel R�ger -- Works by Rembrandt -- Works by followers of Rembrandt.

759.9494 K63k, 2006
AUT Klee, Paul ; Helfenstein, Josef ; Turner, Elizabeth Hutton.
TIT Klee and America.
PUB Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz ; Houston, Tex. : Menil Collection, 2006.

781.66 B376b, 2006
AUT Beaujon, Andrew.
TIT Body piercing saved my life : inside the phenomenon of Christian rock. - 1st Da Capo Press ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2006.
CON Contents: I swear -- No more LSD for me (I met the man from Galilee) -- Christian rock lifers #1: Doug Van Pelt -- More than just a song -- The baffled king composing hallelujah -- Christian rock lifers #2 : Steve Taylor -- Clarity -- Drinking blood out of skulls, living high in the kingdom of death, and a new way to be Christian -- Christian rock lifers #3 : Jay Swartzendruber -- Salt and Light, Inc. -- If we are the body -- Christian rock lifers #4 : Bill Hearn -- Black and white in a gray world -- Christian rock lifers #5 : Mark Salomon -- To be mad for my king -- Just like heaven. I swear -- No more LSD for me (I met the man from Galilee) -- Christian rock lifers #1: Doug Van Pelt -- More than just a song -- The baffled king composing hallelujah -- Christian rock lifers #2 : Steve Taylor -- Clarity -- Drinking blood out of skulls, living high in the kingdom of death, and a new way to be Christian -- Christian rock lifers #3 : Jay Swartzendruber -- Salt and Life, Inc. -- If we are the body -- Christian rock lifers #4 : Bill Hearn -- Black and white in a grey world -- Christian rock lifers #5 : Mark Salomon -- To be mad for my king -- Just like heaven.

782.421 G496w, 2006
AUT Gioia, Ted.
TIT Work songs.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2006.

791.4302 C377a, 2006
AUT Cavallaro, Dani.
TIT The anim� art of Hayao Miyazaki.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.

791.4302 D626p, 2006
AUT D'Lugo, Marvin.
TIT Pedro Almod�var.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
SER Contemporary film directors.
CON Contents: Low level melodrama -- Pepi, Luci, Bom, and other friends of Pedro -- Migration and melodrama -- Thrillers -- Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown -- Transnational repositioning after Women on the verge -- The Flower of my secret -- Live flesh -- All about my mother -- Talk to her and Bad education -- Interview with Pedro Almod�var -- Self-interview.

791.4302 F911cS, 2006
AUT Friedman, Lester D.
TIT Citizen Spielberg.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The elephant in the center of the room -- "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about the world": Spielberg's science-fiction and fantasy films -- "They don't know what they've got there": Spielberg's action/adventure melodramas -- "Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear": Spielberg's monster movies -- "The world has taken a turn for the surreal": Spielberg's World War II combat films -- "Whoever tells the best story wins": Spielberg's social problem/ethnic minority films -- "Control is power": imagining the Holocaust.

791.436 C554p, 2005
AUT Christensen, Terry ; Haas, Peter J.
TIT Projecting politics : political messages in American film.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2005.

792.023 S779H, 2006
AUT Hart, Sarah.
TIT Stage directors handbook : opportunities for directors and choreographers. - 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Director-training programs -- Career development opportunities -- Regional theater opportunities -- Grants, fellowships and awards -- Service organizations and unions -- Agents and attorneys -- Working abroad -- Books and resources.

792.025 J22d, 2006
AUT Jaen, Rafael.
TIT Developing and maintaining a design-tech portfolio : a guide for theatre, film, and TV.
PUB Amsterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Focal Press, c2006.

796.62 T469t, 2006
AUT Thompson, Christopher S.
TIT The Tour de France : a cultural history.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: La grande boucle : cycling, progress, and modernity -- Itineraries, narratives, and identities -- The g�ants de la route : gender and heroism -- L'auto's ouvriers de la p�dale : work, class, and the Tour de France, 1903-1939 -- The for�ats de la route : exploits, exploitation, and the politics of athletic excess, 1903-1939 -- What price heroism? work, sport, and drugs in postwar France.

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800 Literature

808.5 K18h, 2006
AUT Karpf, Anne.
TIT The human voice : how this extraordinary instrument reveals essential clues about who we are. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Bloomsbury Pub. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2006.
CON Contents: What the voice can tell us -- How the voice achieves its range and power -- How we colour our voices with pitch, volume, and tempo -- What makes the voice distinctly human -- The impact of the mother's voice (even in the womb) -- Mothertalk: the melody of intimacy -- The emergence of the baby's voice -- Do I really sound like that? -- How our emotions shape the sounds we make (and other people hear them) -- Male and female voices: stereotyped or different? -- How men and women's voices are changing (and why) -- Cultural differences in the voice -- From oral to literate society -- The public voice -- How technology has transformed the voice -- Voiceprints and voice theft -- How people and corporations are trying to change the voice.

808.824 S625o, 2006 v.1-3
AUT Capecci, John ; Aston, Irene Ziegler, 1955- ; Capecci, John et al.
TIT 60 seconds to shine. - 1st ed.
PUB Hanover, NH : Smith and Kraus, 2006.
SER Monologue audition series. 1067-134X.
CON Contents: v.1 : 221 one-minute monologues for men -- v. 2. : 221 one-minute monologues for women -- v. 3. : 101 original one-minute monologues.

809.933 C771e, 2006
AUT Cook, Eleanor.
TIT Enigmas and riddles in literature.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

811.009 B967t, 2002
AUT Burns, Allan.
TIT Thematic guide to American poetry.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.
CON Contents: Art and Beauty -- Civilization -- Family Relations -- Freedom and Slavery -- The Individual and Society -- Innocence and Experience -- Life and Death -- Loss -- Love and Sex -- Memory -- Nature -- Obligations and Choices -- Poetry -- The Self -- Skepticism and Belief -- Suffering and Joy -- Thought and Perception -- Time and Change -- Tradition and Heritage -- Truth and Appearances -- War.

811.34 I69L, 2006
AUT Irmscher, Christoph.
TIT Longfellow redux.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Strangers as friends : Longfellow and his readers -- How marbles are made : fatherhood and authorship -- Mad for travel : Enrico abroad -- "It whirls me away" : Longfellow and translation.

811.54 N666L, 2002
AUT Niedecker, Lorine ; Penberthy, Jenny Lynn.
TIT Lorine Niedecker collected works.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2002.

Ref 813.003 W489f 2006 v.1-3
AUT Werlock, Abby H. P ; Facts on File, Inc ; Werlock, Abby H. P et al.
TIT The Facts on File companion to the American novel.
PUB New York : Facts on File, c2006.
SER Facts on File library of American literature.

813.509 C874t, 2006
AUT Cowart, David.
TIT Trailing clouds : immigrant fiction in contemporary America.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
SER Cornell paperbacks.
CON Contents: Introduction : the new immigrant writing -- Slavs of New York : Being there, Mr. Sammler's planet -- Immigration and primal scene : Alvarez's How the Garc�a girls lost their accents -- Survival on the tangled bank : Hegi's The vision of Emma Blau and Mukherjee's Jasmine -- Language, dreams, and art in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban -- Korean connection : Chang-rae Lee and company -- Haitian Persephone : Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- Assimilation and adolescence : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Lan Cao's Monkey bridge -- Ethnicity as pentimento : Myl�ne Dressler's The deadwood beetle -- Immigration as Bardo : Wendy Law-Yone's The coffin tree -- Closet and mask : Junot D�az's Drown -- Conclusion : we, them, us.

813.52 H976i, 2006
AUT Hutchinson, George.
TIT In search of Nella Larsen : a biography of the color line.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

813.52 J27n, 2006
AUT James, C. L. R. ; Webb, Constance.
TIT The Nobbie stories for children and adults.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

813.54 A887mo, 2006 Popular reading
AUT Atwood, Margaret Eleanor.
TIT Moral disorder : stories. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Nan A. Talese, c2006.

813.54 C594i, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Clark, Mary Higgins.
TIT I heard that song before. - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007.

813.54 J68L, 2006
AUT Johnson, Rob.
TIT The lost years of William S. Burroughs : beats in South Texas. - 1st ed.
PUB College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2006.
SER Tarleton State University southwestern studies in the humanities. ; no. 21.
CON Contents: "The beatest state in the union": William S. Burroughs in Texas -- The south Texas beats -- Tiger in the valley -- The wetback deal -- Willy El Puto -- The Texas oilman routine -- The wrath of God and the liberal imagination -- The wild west -- On the road in south Texas -- Asustado: the death of Joan Burroughs.

813.54 K283o, 2007
AUT Kellerman, Jonathan.
TIT Obsession : an Alex Delaware novel. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Ballantine Books, c2007.

813.54 P242h, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Parker, Robert B.
TIT High profile.
PUB New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2007.
SER The Jesse Stone novels.

813.54 P317st, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Patterson, James ; Ledwidge, Michael.
TIT Step on a crack : a novel. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007.

813.54 P599n, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Picoult, Jodi.
TIT Nineteen minutes : a novel. - 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Atria Books, 2007.

813.54 P997a, 2006 Popular reading
AUT Pynchon, Thomas.
TIT Against the day : [a novel].
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2006.

813.6 B534a, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Berry, Steve.
TIT The Alexandria link : a novel.
PUB New York : Ballantine Books c2007.

818.54 L966L, 2006
AUT Lupton, Mary Jane.
TIT Lucille Clifton : her life and letters.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
SER Women writers of color, 1559-7172.
CON Contents: An early dreamer -- Children and other good news -- Teaching, politics, and so on -- Generations coming and going -- Keeping the story alive -- Fallen body, rising star -- Her lasting gift.

821.8 H859c, 2006
AUT Howes, Marjorie Elizabeth ; Kelly, John S.
TIT The Cambridge companion to W.B. Yeats.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
SER Cambridge companions to literature.

823.914 B612w, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Binchy, Maeve.
TIT Whitethorn Woods. - 1st United States ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

828.912 C456h, 2006
AUT Chaney, Lisa.
TIT Hide-and-seek with angels : a life of J.M. Barrie. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 'It's no' him, it's just me...' -- The happiest years of his life -- 'Literature was my game...' -- 'To be forever known...' -- A serious purpose -- 'Genius in him...' -- Mary -- 'You must decide...' -- Dreams and reality -- American and fame -- Sylvia -- The boy castaways -- A second chance -- Origins -- Making a masterpiece -- 'I'm youth I'm joy...' -- Disquiet -- 'The saddest most terrible night...' -- The end of a marriage -- A kind of family -- War -- 'Something in ourselves...' -- Cynthia and Michael -- Beyond the reach of time -- Release.

839.13 L257B, 2006
AUT Berkowitz, Joel ; Dauber, Jeremy Asher.
TIT Landmark Yiddish plays : a critical anthology.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York, c2006.
SER SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
CON Contents: Silliness and sanctimony / Aaron Halle Wolfssohn -- Serkele, or, in mourning for a brother / Shloyme Ettinger -- The two kuni-lemls / Avrom Goldfaden -- Miriam / Peretz Hirschbein -- The duke / Alter Kacyzne.

843.4 V131h, 2006
AUT Vairasse, Denis ; Laursen, John Christian ; Masroori, Cyrus.
TIT The history of the Sevarambians : a utopian novel.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.

883.1 D137r, 2006
AUT Dalby, Andrew.
TIT Rediscovering Homer : inside the origins of the epic. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton, c2006.
CON Contents: 1: The poems -- Oral poetry in early Greece -- The Iliad and history -- The Odyssey and society -- 2: The making of the Iliad -- From Iliad to Odyssey -- Identifying the poet -- 3: From oral epic to written classic -- The rediscovery of orality -- Reading the Iliad and the Odyssey afresh.

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900 History, Geography

909.07 T979g, 2006
AUT Tyerman, Christopher.
TIT God's war : a new history of the Crusades.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The First Crusade. The origins of Christian holy war -- The summons to Jerusalem -- The march to Constantinople -- The road to the Holy Sepulchre -- Frankish Outremer. The foundation of Christian Outremer -- The Latin states -- East is east and east is west: Outremer in the twelfth century -- The Second Crusade. A new path to salvation? Western Christendom and holy war, 1100-1145 -- God's bargain: summoning the Second Crusade -- 'The spirit of the pilgrim God': fighting the Second Crusade -- The Third Crusade. 'A great cause for mourning': the revival of crusading and the Third Crusade -- The call of the Cross -- To the siege of Acre -- The Palestine War, 1191-2 -- The Fourth Crusade. 'Ehud's sharpened sword' -- The Fourth Crusade: preparations -- The Fourth Crusade: diversion -- The expansion of crusading. The Albigensian Crusades, 1209-29 -- The Fifth Crusade, 1213-21 -- Frontier crusades 1: conquest in Spain -- Frontier crusades 2: the Baltic and the North -- The defence of Outremer. Survival and decline: the Frankish Holy Land in the thirteenth century -- The defence of the Holy Land, 1221-44 -- Louis IX and the fall of mainland Outremer, 1244-91 -- The later crusades. The eastern crusades in the later Middle Ages -- The crusade and Christian society in the later Middle Ages.

920.009 M648r, 2000
AUT Miller, John ; Kenedi, Aaron.
TIT Revolution : faces of change.
PUB New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2000.
CON Contents: Che Guevara / Fidel Castro -- Malcolm X / Alex Haley -- Eva Per�n / V.S. Naipaul -- Sitting Bull / Geoffrey C. Ward -- The Dalai Lama / Pico Iyer -- Aung San Suu Kyi / Anna Husarska -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn / Nina Khrushcheva -- Pancho Villa / Friedrich Katz -- Nelson Mandela / Andr� Brink -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Bruce Miroff -- Ho Chi Minh / David Halberstam -- V�clav Havel / Peter C. Newman -- Cesar Chavez / Peter Matthiessen -- Rosa Luxemburg / Stephen Eric Bronner -- Michael Collins / Tim Pat Coogan -- Federico Garc�a Lorca / Roberto Gonz�lez Echeverr�a -- Harriet Tubman / Andrew Porter -- Fidel Castro / Gabriel Garc�a M�rquez -- Salvador Allende / Ariel Dorfman -- Lech Walesa / Neal Ascherson -- John Brown / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Subcommandante Marcos / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Elie Wiesel / Stefan Kanfer -- Angela Y. Davis / Joy James -- Mohandas K. Gandhi / Thomas Merton.

940.5318 L716c, 2007
AUT Liebman, Stuart.
TIT Claude Lanzmann's Shoah : key essays.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

940.5318 P155r, 2007
AUT Paldiel, Mordecai.
TIT The righteous among the nations.
PUB Jerusalem, Israel : Yad Vashem ; New York : HarperCollins, c2007.

940.5318 V978i, 2002
AUT Vrba, Rudolf.
TIT I escaped from Auschwitz.
PUB Fort Lee, N.J. : Barricade Books, c2002.

940.5373 C772a, 2006
AUT Cooke, Alistair.
TIT The American home front, 1941-1942. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2006.

940.5405 K96a, 2006
AUT Kurtz, Michael J.
TIT America and the return of Nazi contraband : the recovery of Europe's cultural treasures.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

940.542 B542w, 2006
AUT Berthon, Simon ; Potts, Joanna.
TIT Warlords : an extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin. 1st Da Capo Press ed.
PUB [Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, 2006.
CON Contents: May 13-July 31, 1940 -- August 1, 1940-March 26, 1941 -- March 27-June 21, 1941 -- June 22-August 8, 1941 -- August 9-December 7, 1941 -- December 7-January 16, 1942 -- January 17-June 21, 1942 -- June 22-August 19, 1942 -- August 19-April 9, 1943 -- April 13-September 7, 1943 -- September 8-November 28, 1943 -- November 28, 1943-June 5, 1944 -- June 6-August 24, 1944 -- August 24, 1944-February 3, 1945 -- February 3-April 11, 1945.

940.5421 L954j, 2006
AUT Lukacs, John.
TIT June 1941 : Hitler and Stalin.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.

940.5449 G783a, 2006
AUT Grayling, A. C.
TIT Among the dead cities : the history and moral legacy of the WWII bombing of civilians in Germany and Japan. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Was it a crime? -- The bomber war -- The experience of the bombed -- The mind of the bomber -- Voice of conscience -- The case against the bombing -- The defence of area bombing -- Judgement.

941.508 T753e, 2006
AUT Townshend, Charles.
TIT Easter 1916 : the Irish rebellion.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, 2006.

942.05 L911b, 2005
AUT Lovell, Mary S.
TIT Bess of Hardwick : empire builder. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Norton, 2006.
CON Contents: Merrie England 1520-40 -- Child bride, child widow 1540-7 -- Lady Cavendish 1547 -- Family matters 1547-51 -- Dangerous times 1552-6 -- 'Your poor friend' 1556-8 -- Sir William St Loe 1518-58 -- 'My own sweet Bess' 1559-61 -- Lady St Loe in trouble 1561-5 -- A very eligible widow 1565-9 -- A difficult guest 1569-73 -- A dangerous match 1574-5 -- Raising Arbella 1576-8 -- Enough to alienate the heart 1578-81 -- Discord 1582-4 -- No winners 1585-6 -- Death of a queen 1586-90 -- The Dowager Countess 1590-2 -- More window than wall 1592-9 -- 'In perfect health and good memory' 1600-02 -- Sharper than a serpent's tooth 1602-03 -- End of an era 1603-08 -- A long arm-- 1608 et seq.

943.905 G261f, 2006
AUT Gati, Charles.
TIT Failed illusions : Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian revolt.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2006.
SER Cold War International History Project series.
CON Contents: Introduction to the argument -- The inadvertent revolutionary -- Washington and Budapest before the explosion -- Moscow and Budapest before the explosion -- The revolt that failed -- The revolt that did not have to fail -- Epilogue: memories repressed and recovered.

949.2 H669i, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Hirsi Ali, Ayaan.
TIT Infidel.
PUB New York : Free Press, c2007.

949.6 L237b, 2006
AUT Lampe, John R.
TIT Balkans into southeastern Europe : a century of war and transition.
PUB Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

951.05 E75c, 2006
AUT Esherick, Joseph ; Pickowicz, Paul ; Walder, Andrew G.
TIT The Chinese cultural revolution as history.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
SER Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
CON Contents: The Chinese Cultural Revolution as history: an introduction / Joseph W. Esherick, Paul G. Pickowicz, Andrew G. Walder -- Passion, reflection and survival: political choices of Red Guards at Qinghua University, June 1966-July 1968 / Xiaowei Zheng -- To protect and preserve: resisting the Destroy the four olds campaign, 1966-1967 / Dahpon David Ho -- Mass killings in the Cultural Revolution: a study of three provinces / Yang Su -- The death of a landlord: moral predicament in rural China, 1968-1969 / Jiangsui He -- Staging xiaojinzhuang: the city in the countryside, 1974-1976 / Jeremy Brown -- Labor created humanity: Cultural Revolution science on its own terms / Sigrid Schmalzer -- To be somebody: Li Qinglin, run-of-the-mill Cultural Revolution showstopper / Elya J. Zhang -- The sublime and the profane: a comparative analysis of two fictional narratives about sent-down youth / Liyan Qin.

951.9 P915e, 2006
AUT Pratt, Keith L.
TIT Everlasting flower : a history of Korea.
PUB London : Reaktion, 2006.
CON Contents: Maps: Early kingdoms on the Korean Peninsula modern Korea -- Chronology of Korean history -- The creation of state identity -- From earliest times to AD 668: cultural patterns in flux -- Unified Silla, AD 668-936: the building of confidence -- Koryo, 918-1392: the struggle for independence -- Early to mid-Chosonn, 1392-1800: the search for an acceptable orthodoxy -- A century of insecurity -- The Hermit kingdom, 1800-64: tradition at work -- Incursion, modernization and reform, 1864-1905: tradition at bay -- A century of suffering -- Culture under threat, 1905-45: the colonial era -- Partition and war, 1945-53: return to disunity -- Post-war Korea: tradition and change.

Folio 953.8 C592L, 2006
AUT Clark, Arthur P ; Tahlawi, Muhammad A ; Facey, William.
TIT A land transformed : the Arabian Peninsula, Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Aramco.
PUB Dhahran, Saudi Arabia : Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) ; Houston, Tex. : Aramco Services Co., c2006.
CON Contents: A land transformed -- Arabia before Islam -- The revelation and the Ummah -- Arabia since the revelation -- The emergence of the Saudi state, 1700-1932 -- Tradition and modernization, 1932-present -- Wildlife and conservation -- Tapping the treasure.

Ref 954.91 H673B3, 2006
AUT Burki, Shahid Javed.
TIT Historical dictionary of Pakistan. - 3rd ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
SER Historical dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East. ; 61].

956.0049 M158k, 2006
AUT McKiernan, Kevin.
TIT The Kurds : a people in search of their homeland. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The stage is set -- Viva la Fiesta -- 1991: Secret nation or forgotten enclave? -- A second visit to Kurdistan -- Atrocities -- The leadership -- Illusory borders, part 1 -- Illusory borders, part 11 -- War in Turkey -- Passing down revolution -- Turkey, 1993 -- Turkey, 1995, ground level -- The business of killing -- 60 Minutes -- PKK visit, 1996 -- Well-founded fear of persecution -- War in Iraq -- 2002: Northern Iraq -- Stranger in my cab -- Fall 2002: six months before the war -- Suly: October 2002 -- A sheikh in a suit -- Ansar al-Islam -- Palace Hotel -- Al-Qaeda in Kurdistan? -- WMD and tipsters -- Ashti Hotel -- Abducted scientists -- Kurds reign in the press -- End game -- Friendly fire on an April morning -- The war in Kurdistan -- Road to Tikrit and home -- Victory -- One year later: return to Iraq -- Karzan at home -- Kirkuk and Civil War -- Spies and Blame -- The dodger -- After Halabja.

956.05 L812v, 2005
AUT Lochery, Neill.
TIT The view from the fence : the Arab-Israeli conflict from the present to its roots.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, c2005.
CON Contents: Understanding the present: good fences make good neighbors. -- Where to start? The origins of the conflict. -- Paths not taken: searching for the peacemakers and peacekeepers. -- Reading the signals: defining strong and weak in the new Middle East. -- The Intifada: the rise and fall of the PLO, and Israeli responses. -- Rabin's choice: the PLO versus the unknown: an outsider's narrative of the Oslo era. -- Fences and separation: an outsider's view of the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

956.91 G646s, 2006
AUT Goodarzi, Jubin M.
TIT Syria and Iran : diplomatic alliance and power politics in the Middle East.
PUB London ; New York : Tauris Academic Studies, 2006.
SER Library of international relations ; 23 [sic].
CON Contents: The emergence of the Syrian-Iranian axis, 1979-82 -- The achievements and limits of Syrian-Iranian power, 1982-85 -- Intra-alliance tensions and the consolidation of the Syrian-Iranian axis, 1985-88 -- Into the twenty-first century : the Syrian-Iranian nexus endures.

959.6 M165c, 2006
AUT MacLeod, Lisa A. Hall.
TIT Constructing peace : lessons from UN peacebuilding operations in El Salvador and Cambodia.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2006.
CON Contents: UN peacebuilding and civil conflict -- Ending civil war -- Constructing democratic political norms -- El Salvador -- Articulating democratic norms of political legitimacy -- The road to Chapultepec -- Implementing the Chapultepec accords -- El Salvador after the 1994 election -- Constructing peace in El Salvador -- Cambodia -- The Cambodian problem -- Implementation -- Post-election Cambodia -- Cambodia under the new constitution -- The 1997 coup -- The international response -- Peacebuilding without constructing democratic norms -- Constructing peace -- El Salvador -- Cambodia -- Conclusion.

959.87 T169m, 2006
AUT Tanter, Richard ; Klinken, Geert Arend van ; Ball, Desmond.
TIT Masters of terror : Indonesia's military and violence in East Timor.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
SER World social change.
CON Contents: Masters of terror : the Indonesian findings / Hamish McDonald -- Full report of the Investigative Commission into Human Rights Violations in East Timor / KPP HAM -- The key suspects : an introduction / Gerry van Klinken, David Bourchier, and Douglas Kammen -- Crimes against humanity in East Timor in 1999 : the key suspects / Gerry van Klinken and David Bourchier -- Practical justice in Doe v. Lumintang : the successful use of civil remedies against "an enemy of all mankind" / Richard Tanter -- Silent witness : Australian intelligence and East Timor / Desmond Ball.

961.2 V244h, 2006
AUT Vandewalle, Dirk J.
TIT A history of modern Libya.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Folio 966 S465a, 2006
AUT Seligman, Thomas K ; Loughran, Kristyne ; Bernus, Edmond.
TIT Art of being Tuareg : Sahara nomads in a modern world.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, c2006.
CON Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Notes to the reader -- An introduction to the Tuareg / Thomas K. Seligman -- The Sahara / Thomas K. Seligman -- Poetry as a reflection of Tuareg cultural values and identity / Gian Carlo Castelli Gattinara -- Tifinar / Kristyne Loughran -- The Inadan, makers of Amazigh identity : the case of the A�r region / Mohamed ag Ewangaye -- Indigenous beliefs and Islam / Thomas K. Seligman -- The Tuareg artisan : from technician to mediator / Edmond Bernus -- The stuff of life : tent, food, weapons / Kristyne Loughran -- Tuareg music : from acoustic to electric / Fran�ois Borel -- Tea / Thomas K. Seligman -- Dress, identity, and gender in Tuareg culture and society / Susan Rasmussen -- Personal beautification and grooming / Kristyne Loughran -- Tuareg women and their jewelry / Kristyne Loughran -- Does it have to be beautiful to empower? / Kristyne Loughran -- Tuareg jewelry / Kristyne Loughran -- The art of being Tuareg / Thomas K. Seligman -- Upon request: commissions with Saidi Oumba and Andi Ouhoulou / Thomas K. Seligman -- The cross of Agadez (Tenaghalt tan Agadez) / Kristyne Loughran and Thomas K. Seligman -- African symbols in the larger world / Thomas K. Seligman -- A l'atelier / Jean-Yves Brizot.

966.4 B365L, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Beah, Ishmael.
TIT A long way gone : memoirs of a boy soldier. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

971.309 T258p, 2006
AUT Teel, Leonard Ray.
TIT The public press, 1900-1945 : the history of American journalism.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
SER The history of American journalism, 1074-4193 ; no. 5.
CON Contents: Emergence of a public press -- Journalism in transition -- The war over there -- Mobilizing public opinion -- Rise of professionalism -- Reprogramming the media market -- Focus on big government -- The debatable peace -- News of total war.

972 M158e3, 2004
AUT MacLachlan, Colin M ; Beezley, William H.
TIT El Gran Pueblo : a history of greater Mexico. - 3rd ed.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2004.

972.04 C454j, 2006
AUT Chance, Joseph E.
TIT Jose Mar�a de Jes�s Carvajal : the life and times of a Mexican revolutionary.
PUB San Antonio, Tex. : Trinity University Press, c2006.

972.9 H593c, 2006
AUT Heuman, Gad J.
TIT The Caribbean.
PUB London : Hodder Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER Brief histories.
CON Contents: The Amerindians and European patterns of settlement -- Sugar and slavery -- Slavery, work and the slaves' economy -- Neither black nor white -- The world the planters made -- Slave resistance: Africans, maroons and women -- The Haitian revolution -- The abolition debates -- Race, racism and equality -- From slavery to freedom -- Riots and resistance in the aftermath of emancipation -- The Africanization of the Caribbean -- The American century -- Labour protests and the 1930s -- The revolutionary Caribbean -- Contemporary themes -- The cultures of the Caribbean.

973 T894s, 2006
AUT Tucker, Susan ; Ott, Katherine ; Buckler, Patricia.
TIT The scrapbook in American life.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: An introduction to the history of scrapbooks / Katherine Ott, Susan Tucker, and Patricia P. Buckler -- Between person and profession : the scrapbooks of nineteenth-century medical practitioners / Katherine Ott -- Daily life on a South Carolina plantation, 1855-1983 : a scrapbook memory from three generations of women / Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClerq -- Letters, scrapbooks, and history books : a personalized version of the Mexican War, 1846-48 / Patricia P. Buckler -- History in the making : a Columbian exposition scrapbook / Jennifer A. Jolly -- Scrapbook, wishbook, prayerbook : trade-card scrapbooks and the missionary work of advertising / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Scrapbook houses for paper dolls : creative expression, aesthetic elaboration, and bonding in the female world / Beverly Gordon -- Souvenirs of Amerika : Hannah H�ch's Weimar-era mass-media scrapbook / Melissa A. Johnson -- The secret scrapbook of a "soiled dove" / Carol Bowers -- Inviting narratives : Willa Cather's childhood scrapbook and My �ntonia / Jennifer L. Bradley -- In the hands of children : a photographic essay of images from children's scrapbooks / Meredith Eliassen -- Picturing love and friendship : photograph albums and networks of affection in the 1860s / Sarah McNair Vosmeier -- Telling particular stories : two African American memory books / Susan Tucker -- Maternal records and male modernist identities : the family albums of Ernest Hemingway and Christopher Isherwood / James Kelley -- "Miss Domestic" and "Miss Enterprise" : or, how to keep a photograph album / Elizabeth E. Siegel -- Horizons : the scrapbooks of a small-town, Depression-era preteen / L. Rebecca Johnson Melvin.

973.0492 G553d, 1998
AUT Glazier, Jack.
TIT Dispersing the ghetto : the relocation of Jewish immigrants across America.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.

973.0495 I16b, 2006
AUT Ichioka, Yuji ; Chang, Gordon H ; Azuma, Eiichiro.
TIT Before internment : essays in prewar Japanese American history.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2006.
SER Asian America.
CON Contents: 1: Dai Nisei Mondai: changing Japanese immigrant conceptions of the second-generation problem, 1902-1941 -- Kengakudan: the origin of Nisei study tours of Japan -- Kokugo Gakko: the debate over the role of Japanese-language schools -- A study in dualism: James Yoshinori Sakamoto and the Japanese American courier, 1928-1942 -- 2: "Unity within diversity": Louis Adamic and Japanese Americans -- The meaning of loyalty: The case of Kasumaro buddy uno -- Japanese immigrant nationalism: the Issei and the Sino-Japanese war, 1937-1941 -- National security on the eve of Pearl Harbor: the 1941 Tachibana espionage case and implicated Issei leaders -- "Attorney for the defense": Yamato Ichihashi and Japanese immigration -- The death of Dr. Honda Rikita: a tragic wartime story -- 3: The future of Japanese American studies: prospect of comparative historical perspectives on Nikkei in north and south America -- A historian by Happenstance -- Remembering Yuji.

Curr 973.071 W575w, 2006
AUT Whipple, Scott.
TIT Writing strategies for U.S. history classes : a guide for teachers.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006.
CON Contents: Activity lists : alphabetical listing of activities -- When to use the activities : a listing of suggestions for opening and closing activities, in-class activities, homework tasks, unit projects, and semester projects -- U.S. history thematic units : listing of thematic units with corresponding dates and a unit-by-unit plan featuring a variety of writing activities for each unit -- Activity descriptions : alphabetical listing with accompanying definition, explanation, and suggested topics -- Student examples.

973.713 E34d, 2006
AUT Eicher, David J.
TIT Dixie betrayed : how the South really lost the Civil War. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Little, Brown, 2006.
CON Contents: Birth of a nation -- Portrait of a president -- The war department -- A curious cabinet -- The military high command -- State rightisms -- Richmond, the capital -- The rise of Lee and Bragg -- An uneasy brotherhood -- Jockeying for position -- Politics spinning out of control -- Can't we all get along? -- Soiled reputations -- The president versus the congress -- Military highs and lows -- Slaves as soldiers? -- Peace proposals -- Epilogue : despair.

973.91 R496w, 2006
AUT Rice, Linda J.
TIT What was it like? : teaching history and culture through young adult literature.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, Columbia University, c2006.
SER Language and literacy series.
CON Contents: 1. Active learning in theory and practice -- 2. Overcoming economic hardship and physical disability during the Great depression (1929-1939) -- 3. Hunger of body, hunger of heart : Mexican American young adult authors portray migrant farm experiences (1940s-1960s) -- 4. Bearing witness to the horror of the Holocaust (1939-1945) : children who suffered and survived -- 5. Deterioration of family and culture : the impact of Japanese internment (1941-1945) -- 6. Korean perserverance during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945) -- 7. Literature of the civil rights movement (1950s-1960s) : snapshots, speeches, and travels that challenged young adults and changed them forever -- 8. The plight of the American soldier and children left behind in Vietnam (1959-1975).

973.92 B967r, 2006
AUT Burns, James MacGregor.
TIT Running alone : presidential leadership--JFK to Bush II : why it has failed and how we can fix it.
PUB New York : Basic Books, 2006.
CON Contents: "I think you underestimate him" -- The tribal thrust -- Pushing and shoving -- The power broker -- JFK and LBJ: governing together -- Nixon-Reagan: the grand new party -- The Carter-Clinton connection -- The Bushes: standing together alone -- Needed: party polarization -- Empowering followers.

973.923 W696L, 2006
AUT Woods, Randall Bennett.
TIT LBJ : architect of American ambition.
PUB New York : Free Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Roots -- Growing up -- College -- The secretary -- Lady Bird and the NYA -- Congress -- Pappy -- War -- Truman and the coming of the cold war -- Coke -- A populist gentlemen's club -- Leader -- Passing the Lord's prayer -- Back from the edge -- Containing the red-hots: from Dulles to the Dixie Association -- Lost in space -- 1960 -- Camelot meets Mr. Cornpone -- Hanging on -- Interregnum: death and resurrection -- "Kennedy was too conservative for me" -- Free at last -- Containment at home and abroad -- "The countryside of the world" -- Bobby -- Barry -- A new bill of rights -- The crux of the matter -- Daunted courage -- Castro's and Kennedy's shadows -- A city on the hill -- Balancing act -- Divisions -- Civil war -- Battling Dr. Strangelove -- The holy land -- Backlash -- Of hawks and doves, vultures and chickens -- Tet -- A midsummer nightmare -- Touching the void.

973.931 B811n, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Bradley, Bill.
TIT The new American story. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2007.
CON Contents: The story we're told -- Heritage -- America's role in the world -- The economy -- Oil and the environment -- Pensions -- Health care -- Education -- Politics -- Why Republicans can't -- Why Democrats don't -- Why the new story is good politics -- What citizens can do.

973.931 M311s, 2006
AUT Maranto, Robert ; Brattebo, Douglas M ; Lansford, Tom.
TIT The second term of George W. Bush : prospects and perils. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
SER The evolving American presidency series.
CON Contents: Are second terms second best? Why George W. Bush might (or might not) beat the expectations / Jeremy Johnson ... [et al.] -- Public opinion, presidential campaigns, and presidential governance / Roger H. Davidson -- The Bush White House staff in the second term : new structures? New faces? New processes? / Bradley H. Patterson -- Choices for the president : structuring the second-term cabinet of President George W. Bush / Shirley Anne Warshaw -- George W. Bush and Congress in the second term : new problems, same results? / Andrew Rudalevige -- Crusade : the rhetorical presidency of George Bush / John Robert Greene -- Judges, courts, and policy in President George W. Bush's second term / Amy Steigerwalt and Lori A. Johnson -- Domestic policy in the second Bush term : the un-hidden hand leadership of a conviction president / Michael A. Genovese -- Economic policy : responsibility but with limited authority / Jeffrey E. Cohen -- Homeland (in) security / Anne M. Khademian -- The best defense? Iraq and beyond / Tom Lansford and Jack Covarrubias -- Problematic policies toward the Middle East / Ann M. Lesch -- George W. Bush : a transformational leader at midterm / Stanley A. Renshon.

Folio 974.71 M613a, 2006
AUT Meyerowitz, Joel.
TIT Aftermath.
PUB New York : Phaidon Press, c2006.

976.24 R727L, 2006
AUT Rogers, Kim Lacy.
TIT Life and death in the Delta : African American narratives of violence, resilience, and social change.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
SER Palgrave studies in oral history.
CON Contents: Conditions of life and death -- Changes and movement among the poor -- Achieving in the rural: independence and leadership in Bolivar County -- The wilderness of social change: the movement and Head Start -- The limits of political power.

981 M158h, 2003
AUT MacLachlan, Colin M.
TIT A history of modern Brazil : the past against the future.
PUB Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, c2003.
CON Contents: The imperial experience -- Ascendant republic -- Republican complexity -- The Vargas regime and its legacy -- Under Army command -- Resurrection -- Brazil in the new century -- The historical trajectory.

986.1 H996e, 2006
AUT Hylton, Forrest.
TIT Evil hour in Colombia.
PUB London, U.K. ; New York : Verso, 2006.
CON Contents: Radical-popular republicanism, 1848-80 -- From reaction to rebellion, 1880-1930 -- The liberal pause, 1930-46 -- La violencia, 1946-57 -- The national front: political lockout, 1957-82 -- Negotiating the dirty war, 1982-90 -- Fragmented peace, parcellized sovereignty, 1990-98 -- Involution, 1998-2002 -- The edge of the precipice, 2002-5 -- War as peace, 2005-6.

994 W461a, 2006
AUT Welsh, Frank.
TIT Australia : a new history of the great southern land.
PUB Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2006.

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NonPrint/Media Materials

Software 025.17 C287o2, 2004
AUT Carmicheal, David W.
TIT Organizing archival records : a practical method of arrangement and description for small archives. - 2nd ed.
PUB Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2004.
SER American Association for State and Local History book series.
CON Contents: 1. Purpose of organization -- 2. Levels of organization -- 3. Steps of organization.

Holocaust DVD 261.26 S623
AUT Jacoby, Oren.
TIT Sister Rose's passion.
PUB [Flemington, N.J.] : New Jersey Studios, c2004.

DVD 294.5 S722
AUT Mitchell, George J. ; Silver, Steven ; Rubin, Jamie.
TIT Soul of India.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.
NOT Additional resources available on the PBS Television series Wide angle homepage.

DVD 297.09 S948
AUT Goldvicht, Israel ; Roberts, Tom ; Sanders, Jay O.
TIT Suicide bombers.
PUB Princeton, N.J.. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences c2006.

DVD 330.951 T627
AUT Barshefsky, Charlene ; Alpert, Jon ; O'Neill, Matthew.
TIT To have and have not.
PUB New York, N.Y. : WNET : Distributed by Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2003.
NOT Documentary. - Title from container. - Videodisc release of program 5 from the first season of the PBS Television series Wide angle. - Copyright date from container label.

DVD 330.982 E55
AUT Macqueen, Angus ; Stiglitz, Joseph E ; Rubin, Jamie.
TIT The empty ATM.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.
NOT DVD version of an episode of the PBS television series Wide angle first broadcast in 2002. - "10-30-06"--Disc label.

DVD 331.792 O58
AUT Cater, Anna ; Uberoi, Safina ; Moyers, Bill D.
TIT 1-800-INDIA.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.

DVD 371.9 W776a4, 2005
AUT Winnick, Joseph P.
TIT Adapted physical education and sport. - 4th ed.
PUB Champaign, Ill. : Human Kinetics, c2005.
NOT DVD version of the Brockport Physical Fitness Test Video accompanies textbook.
CON Contents: pt. I. Foundational topics in adapted physical education and sport -- 1. Introduction to adapted physical education and sport / Joseph P. Winnick -- The meaning of adapted physical education -- Adapted sport -- Planning : purposes, aims, goals, and objectives -- Service providers -- Brief history of adapted physical education -- The inclusion movement -- Litigation -- Laws important to adapted physical education and sport -- History of adapted sport -- Periodicals -- Organizations -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 2. Program organization and management / Joseph P. Winnick -- Program and curriculum planning -- Administrative areas related to program organization and management -- Human resources -- General program evaluation -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 3. Adapted sport / Michael J. Paciorek -- Integration continuum -- Sport organizations -- The Olympic and Amateur Sports Act and the role of the USOC -- U.S. Paralympics -- The role of national governing bodies -- Paralympic games -- Classification -- School and local community-based adapted sports programming -- Regular sport participation -- Transition services -- Role of the physical educator in adapted sport -- And what about Jeffrey Kling's case? -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 4. Measurement, assessment, and program evaluation / Francis X. Short -- Measurement and assessment strategies -- Measurement and assessment in adapted physical education -- Tests and measures for use in adapted physical education -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 5. Individualized education programs / Francis X. Short -- Overview of individualized programs -- The student with a disability -- Components of the IEP -- Development of the IEP -- The role of the physical educator -- Section 504 and the accommodation plan -- The student without disabilities with unique needs -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 6. Behavior management / E. Michael Loovis -- Behavior modification -- Types of reinforcers -- Schedules of reinforcement -- Procedures for increasing behavior -- Procedures to decrease behavior -- Implementing a behavior modification program -- Uses of behavior modification in physical education and sport -- Example of behavior analysis -- Other approaches -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 7. Instructional strategies for adapted physical education / Douglas H. Collier -- Philosophical approaches to adapted physical education and sport -- Systematic teaching : how to facilitate motor learning -- Meeting individual differences -- Prescriptive planning and instructional models -- Summary -- References -- Resources. pt. II. Individuals with unique needs -- 8. Intellectual disabilities / Patricia L. Krebs -- Definition, classification, and incidence -- Causes of intellectual disabilities -- Cognitive development -- Characteristics of individuals with intellectual disabilities -- Down syndrome -- Assessment -- Organizational and instructional methods -- Activities -- Strategies for inclusion -- Special Olympics -- Paralympic games for individuals with an intellectual disability -- Safe participation -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 9. Behavioral disabilities / E. Michael Loovis -- Nature of emotional and behavioral disorders -- Causes of behavioral disorders -- General implications for physical education and sport -- Specific approaches for physical education and sport -- Positive behavioral support systems -- Inclusion -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 10. Pervasive developmental disorders / Cathy Houston-Wilson -- History of autism and Asperger syndrome -- Pervasive developmental disorders -- Etiology -- Incidence -- Physical and motor characteristics -- Treatment approaches -- Implications for teaching physical education -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 11. Specific learning disabilities / Barry W. Lavay -- What is a specific learning disability? -- Characteristics present unique challenges -- General educational approaches -- Recommendations for teaching physical education and sport -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 12. Visual impairments / Lauren J. Lieberman -- Definition of visual impairment -- Causes of vision loss -- Characteristics of individuals with visual impairments -- Inclusion : teaching students with visual impairments in physical education -- Sports for athletes with visual impairments -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 13. Deafness and deafblindness / Lauren J. Lieberman -- Definitions of hearing losses -- Types and causes of hearing loss -- Characteristics of deaf students -- General considerations for teaching physical education to deaf or hard-of-hearing students -- Teaching considerations for students with cochlear implants -- Inclusion strategies for teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing students -- Sport opportunities -- Deafblindness -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 14. Cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury, and stroke / David L. Porretta -- Cerebral palsy -- Traumatic brain injury -- Stroke -- Program implications -- Inclusion -- Adapted sports -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 15. Amputations, dwarfism, and les autres / David L. Porretta -- Amputations -- Dwarfism -- Les autres -- Program implications -- Inclusion -- Adapted sports -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 16. Spinal cord disabilities / Luke E. Kelly -- Classifications -- Spinal cord injuries -- Spinal column deviations -- Implications for physical education -- Inclusion -- Orthotic devices -- Adapted sport activities -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 17. Other health-impaired students / Francis M. Kozub -- Di... Contents: pt. III. Developmental considerations -- 19. Motor Development / John C. Ozmun, David L. Gallahue -- Motor development defined -- Categories of movement -- Motor development as a dynamic system -- The phases of motor development -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 20. Perceptual-motor development / Joseph P. Winnick, Barry W. Lavay -- Overview of the perceptual-motor process -- Sensory systems -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 21. Infants and toddlers / Cathy Houston-Wilson -- Legislation -- The role of teachers of early childhood adapted physical education -- Assessment -- Goals and objectives in motor programs for infants and toddlers -- Goals and objectives in motor programs for infants and toddlers with unique needs -- Developmentally appropriate interactions with infants and toddlers -- Interacting with families -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 22. Early childhood adapted physical education / Lauriece L. Zittel -- Identifying young children with developmental delays -- Assessment of performance -- Objectives of early childhood programs -- Planning for instruction -- Developmentally appropriate teaching approaches -- Activities -- Summary -- References -- Resources. pt. IV. Activities for individuals with unique needs -- 23. Health-related physical fitness and physical activity / Francis X. Short -- Definitions -- Physical fitness and health -- Physical activity and health-related physical fitness -- Physical activity and health -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 24. Rhythmic movement and dance / Boni B. Boswell -- Teaching dance : what is it? -- Teaching dance : what is it not? -- Selection of age-appropriate content -- Rhythmic movements -- Creative educational dance -- Structured dance -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 25. Aquatics / Monica Lepore -- Benefits of adapted aquatics -- General teaching suggestions -- Aquatic assessment -- Adapting swimming skills -- Orientation to water -- Facility and equipment considerations -- Meeting unique needs of participants -- Swimming as a competitive sport -- Other aquatic activities -- Inclusion in aquatic activities -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 26. Team sports / David L. Porretta -- Getting involved -- Basketball -- Floor hockey -- Football -- Soccer -- Softball -- Volleyball -- Goal ball -- Quad rugby -- Inclusion -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 27. Individual, dual, and adventure sports and activities / E. Michael Loovis -- Tennis -- Table tennis -- Angling -- Archery -- Badminton -- Bowling -- Fencing -- Horseback riding -- Gymnastics -- Wrestling -- Track and field -- Golf -- Power lifting -- Cycling -- Bocce -- Adventure activities -- Inclusion -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 28. Winter sport activities / Luke E. Kelly -- Value of winter sports -- Alpine skiing -- Snowboarding -- Cross-country skiing -- Competitive skiing for individuals with disabilities -- Ice skating -- Sledding and tobogganing -- Hockey -- Curling -- Inclusion -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- 29. Enhancing wheelchair sport performance / Abu B. Yilla -- The athlete and the wheelchair : a system approach -- The system approach : combining the athlete and the wheelchair -- Facilities -- The future -- Summary -- References -- Resources -- Appendix A. Definitions associated with the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) -- Appendix B. Adapted physical education and sport addresses -- Appendix C. Brockport physical fitness test -- Appendix D. Rating scale for adapted physical education.

DVD 616.9 A288
AUT Fink, Micah ; Young, Andrew ; Sanders, Jay O.
TIT AIDS warriors.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2006.
NOT Widescreen format. - Videodisc release of a program broadcast July 24, 2003 on the PBS television series Wide angle. - "Wide angle #203.".

Holocaust VR 791.437 H648F
AUT Frye, Peter ; Kolitz, Zvi ; Dickinson, Thorold.
TIT Hill 24 doesn't answer.
PUB Teaneck, N.J. : Ergo Media, c1987.
SER Israeli cinema.
NOT From the stories of Zvi Kolitz. - Released in 1955 as a motion picture. - "A lens on Israel. The War of Liberation: a country at war."--Container.

Holocaust DVD 791.4372 B515
AUT Gitai, Amos ; Lawaetz, Gudie ; Kreuzer, Lisa.
TIT Berlin Jerusalem.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, c2003.
SER Amos Gitai: Exile.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 1989. - Features interviews with Laurent Truchot and Bernard Eisenschitz.

Holocaust DVD 791.4372 K57
AUT Propper, Michel ; Gitai, Amos ; Sanselme, Marie-Jose.
TIT Kippur.
PUB New York : Kino Video, [2001].
NOT Originally released as motion picture in 2000. - Special features: theatrical trailer.

DVD 796.092 S797G
AUT Gordon, Daniel ; Armstrong, Charles K ; Sanders, Jay O.
TIT A state of mind.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.
NOT "Additional material @2004 Educational Broadcasting Corporation"--Closing frames. - DVD release of a program rebroadcast August 5, 2004 on the PBS television series Wide angle.

DVD 947.5 G816M
AUT Pifer, Stephen ; Dhaliwal, Daljit ; Rubin, Jamie.
TIT Greetings from Grozny.
PUB New York : WNET : distributed by Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2007, c2002.
NOT Videodisc release of program 1 from the first season of the PBS Television series Wide angle, with additional material. - Wide angle produced by WNET.

DVD 949.71 M489
AUT Woodhead, Leslie ; Rubin, Jamie ; Dhaliwal, Daljit.
TIT Media by Milosevic how Serbia's dictator wielded power.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006 ; [London] : Antelope (UK) Ltd. ; [New York] : Educational Broadcasting Corp., c2002.
NOT Videodisc release of the one-hour program from the first season of the PBS Television series Wide angle.

DVD 953.8 S255
AUT Makin, Anthony ; Sanders, Jay O. ; Marin, Carol.
TIT The Saudi question what fate awaits the world's top oil exporter?.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities, p2006.
NOT Videodisc release of a program broadcast on the PBS television series Wide angle on October 7, 2004.

DVD 956.92 F996
AUT Sanders, Jay O. ; Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana ; Moyers, Bill D.
TIT Future for Lebanon politics after the Cedar Revolution.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2005.
NOT Videodisc release of a program broadcast on the PBS television series Wide angle on July 19, 2005.

Holocaust DVD 956.94 F453
AUT Gitai, Amos ; Aviv, Nurith ; Gurvich, Jorge.
TIT Field diary Arena of murder.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, [2006].
SER Amos Gitai: territories.
NOT Title from container. - "Field diary" originally released in 1982 ; "Arena of murder" originally released in 1996.

Holocaust DVD 956.94 H842
AUT Gitai, Amos ; Aldama, Emanuel ; Aviv, Nurith.
TIT House.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, c2006.
SER Amos Gitai: Territories.
NOT House originally produced in 1979, A house in Jerusalem originally produced in 1998.

Holocaust Kit 956.94 P641
AUT Losin, Yigal ; Eisenman, Ya'akov ; McKellen, Ian.
TIT Amud ha-esh. English Pillar of fire a television history of Israel's rebirth.
PUB Jerusalem : Israel Broadcast Authority, 2005.
NOT Videodisc release of the 1986 English language version.
CON Contents: DVD 1. Episode 1. The Jew returns, the Arab awakens (1895-1920). Episode 2. The Dream (1914-1929). Episode 3. The Rise and fall of German Jews (1914-1937) -- DVD 2. Episode 4. Who's afraid of a Jewish state (1937-1939). Episode 5. Holocaust (1939-1945). Episode 6. Exodus (1945-1947). -- DVD 3. Episode 7. A nation reborn (1947-1948).

Holocaust DVD 956.94 W122
AUT Gitai, Amos.
TIT Wadi 1981-1991.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Facets Video, c2006.
SER Amos Gitai : territories.
NOT Title from container. - Videodisc release of films produced in 1991 (1st work) and 2001 (2nd work).

Holocaust DVD 962.7 W825
TIT Witnessing Darfur.
PUB Washington, D.C. : United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, [2005].
CON Contents: Darfur eyewitness -- Staring genocide in the face -- Additional resources available online.

DVD 972.08 C374K
AUT Krauze, Enrique ; Yates, Pamela ; Thompson, Ginger.
TIT Cause for murder fighting corruption in Mexico.
PUB New York : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.
NOT A production of Thirteen / WNET New York by the New York Times Company / Granada Factual USA.

DVD 972.84 E34
AUT Pollack, Ricardo ; Sanders, Jay O.
TIT 18 with a bullet.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c2006.
NOT Originally produced as an episode of the television program Wide angle.

DVD 972.94 U56
AUT Dow, Whitney ; Morel, Daniel ; Regan, Jane.
TIT Unfinished country.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.

DVD BLO 367
AUT DiCaprio, Leonardo ; Gorfil, Gillian ; Herskovitz, Marshall.
TIT Blood diamond. - Full screen ed.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2007.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. - Special features: Commentary with director Edward Zwick; theatrical trailer.

DVD BOR 357
AUT Baron Cohen, Sacha ; Roach, Jay ; Hines, Ant.
TIT Borat cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan. - Widescreen.
PUB Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2007.
NOT Container slipcase in Cyrillic. - Special features: Kazakhstan "Bay Watch" spoof; 5 deleted scenes; "The best of" other deleted scenes compilation; Rodeo News report; world promotions tour featurette; Borat soundtrack informercial; Hebrew language button.

DVD BRE 358
AUT Reed, Peyton ; Vaughn, Vince ; Aniston, Jennifer.
TIT The break-up. - Widescreen ed.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : Universal Pictures, c2006.
NOT Title from container. - Special features: Alternate ending; Deleted scenes; Extended scenes; Outtakes; Improv with Vince Vaughn and John Favreau; "In perfect harmony": The Tone Rangers; The making of 'The break-up'; "Three brothers: a tour of Chicago"; Commentary with Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston; Commentary with director Peyton Reed.

DVD CHM 359
AUT Owen, Clive ; Cuar�n, Alfonso ; Moore, Julianne et al.
TIT Children of men.
PUB Universal City, Calif. : Universal Pictures, [2007].
NOT Based on the novel by P.D. James. - Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. - Special features: Deleted scenes; featurettes.

DVD CSI 368 pt.1-6
AUT Cannon, Danny ; Chvatal, Cynthia ; Berman, Josh.
TIT CSI: crime scene investigation.
PUB Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, [2003], c2000. DESC 6 videodiscs (1025 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
NOT Based on the characters created by Anthony E. Zuiker. - Originally broadcast by CBS 2000-2001. - Special features: On disc 6: character profiles; CSI music video "Who are you?"; CSI featurette "People lie ... but the evidence never does. Disc 1 (Episodes 100-104): Pilot; Cool change; Crate and burial; Pledging Mr. Johnson -- Disc 2 (Episodes 105-108): Friends and lovers; Who are you?; Blood drops; Anonymous -- Disc 3 (Episodes 109-111): Unfriendly skies; Sex, lies and larvae; I-15 murders; Fahrenheit 932 -- Disc 4 (Episodes 112-115): Boom; To halve and to hold; Table stakes; Too tough to die -- Disc 5 (Episodes 116-119): Face lift; $35K OBO; Gentle gentle; Sounds of silence -- Disc 6 (Episodes 120-122): Justice is served; Evaluation day; Strip strangler.

DVD DRE 278
AUT Foxx, Jamie ; Mark, Laurence ; Condon, Bill.
TIT Dreamgirls.
PUB Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, 2007.
NOT Based on the book by Tom Eyen. - Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. - Special features: 12 extended and alternate scenes; music video "Listen" by Beyonce Knowles; never-before-seen Jenifer Hudson performance.

DVD ENT 360 pt.1
AUT Frankel, David ; Connolly, Kevin ; Grenier, Adrian.
TIT Entourage.
PUB [United States] : HBO Video, [2005].
NOT Title from container. - Originally broadcast on television in 2004. - Created by Doug Ellin. - Special features: revealing behind-the-scenes interviews with cast and crew; audio commentaries with creator/executive producer Doug Ellian and executive producer Larry Charles.

DVD GAN 362 pt.1
AUT Dempsey, Patrick ; Washington, Isaiah ; Knight, T. R.
TIT Grey's anatomy (Television program) Grey's anatomy.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2006.
NOT Title from container. - Originally broadcast on television during the 2005 season. - Special features: "Anatomy of a pilot": the toughest cuts from the pilot episode; "Dissecting 'Grey's anatomy': exclusive unaired scenes"; behind the scenes of 'Grey's anatomy'; avant-garde trailer; cast and creator audio commentaries.

DVD LIT 364
AUT Kinnear, Greg ; Collette, Toni ; Carell, Steve.
TIT Little Miss Sunshine. - Widescreen and full screen.
PUB Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox, 2006.
NOT Side A: full screen ; Side B: widescreen.

DVD PDM 365
AUT Verbinski, Gore ; Depp, Johnny ; Bloom, Orlando.
TIT Pirates of the Caribbean (Motion picture) Pirates of the Caribbean dead man's chest.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c2006.
NOT Title from container. - Based on the characters created by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert. - Special features: Hilarious bonus "Bloopers of the Caribbean"; two commentaries by the writers.

DVD STR 366
AUT Ferrell, Will ; Gyllenhaal, Maggie ; Hoffman, Dustin.
TIT Stranger than fiction (Motion picture) Stranger than fiction.
PUB Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007].

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