100 Philosophy, Psychology

111.85 N981a 2006
AUT Nuttall, Sarah.
TIT African and diaspora aesthetics.
PUB Durham : Duke University Press ; The Hague : Prince Claus Fund Library, 2006.
CON Contents: Rethinking beauty / Sarah Nuttall -- Picasso, Africa and the schemata of difference / Simon Gikandi -- Variations on the beautiful in Congolese worlds of sound / Achille Mbembe -- Two thoughts on drawing beauty / William Kentridge -- The place of beauty: reflections on Elaine Scarry and Zakes Mda / Rita Barnard -- Quelle Libert�: art, beauty and the grammars of resistance in Douala / Dominique Malaquais -- Fresh stories / Pippa Stein -- The love of the body: Ousmane Sow and beauty / Els van der Plas -- Inheritance / Mark Gevisser -- Let's eat: banquet aesthetics and social epicurism / C�lestin Monga -- Let's cook! / Fran�oise Verg�s -- On the slipperiness of food / Cheryl-Ann Michael -- Afro-aesthetics in Brazil / Patricia Pinho -- Yor�b� aesthetics and Trans-Atlantic imaginaries / Kamari Maxine Clarke -- Urban imaging: the Friche waiting to happen / Rodney Place -- Things ugly: Ghanaian popular painting / Michelle Gilbert -- Two stories: old man with garden at the rear end of time and the fat Indian girl / Mia Couto -- Seeing the familiar: Notes on Mia Couto / Isabel Hofmeyr.

121 F829o, 2006
AUT Frankfurt, Harry G.
TIT On truth. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Knopf, 2006.

126 S713s, 2006
AUT Sorabji, Richard.
TIT Self : ancient and modern insights about individuality, life, and death.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Existence of self and philosophical development of the idea -- Personal identity over time -- Platonism : impersonal selves, bundles, and differentiation -- Identity and persona in ethics -- Self-awareness -- Ownerless streams of consciousness rejected -- Mortality and loss of self.

152.4 C954b, 2006
AUT Crozier, W. Ray.
TIT Blushing and the social emotions : the self unmasked.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillian, 2006.

154.63 B6452w 2006
AUT Bleandonu, G�rard.
TIT What do children dream?.
PUB London : Free Association Books, c2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1: What is the function of children's dreams? Young children's dreams -- Playing, maybe dreaming -- Adolescents and dreams -- Ways of dreaming in childhood -- pt. 2: How do children dream? Dreams in the laboratory -- Can blind children dream without the use of their eyes? -- Night terrors, sleepwalking, and nightmares -- Post-traumatic dreams -- pt. 3: Dreamy child, creative child : dreams and culture. The formulation of dreams and the dreamer's mentalisation -- Foetal dreams -- From the mental image to visual thinking -- Culture inscribes dreams in myths, tales, and legends -- Dreams as a source of literary works.

Ref 155.4 H2366, 2006 v.1-4
AUT Damon, William ; Lerner, Richard M.
TIT Handbook of child psychology. - 6th ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. Theoretical models of human development / volume editor, Richard M. Lerner: Developmental science, developmental systems, and contemporary theories of human development / Richard M. Lerner -- Developmental psychology: philosophy, concepts, methodology / Willis F. Overton -- The making of developmental psychology / Robert B. Cairns and Beverley D. Cairns -- Developmental epistemology and implications for methodology / Jaan Valsiner -- The significance of biology for human development: a developmental psychobiological systems view / Gilbert Gottlieb, Douglas Wahlsten, and Robert Lickliter -- Dynamic systems theories / Esther Thelen and Linda B. Smith -- Dynamic development of action and thought / Kuri W. Fischer and Thomas R. Bidell -- The person in context: a holistic-interactionistic approach / David Magnusson and H�kan Stattin -- The developing person: an experiential perspective / Kevin Rathunde and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi -- Action perspectives on human development / Jochen Brandtst�dter -- Life span theory in developmental psychology / Paul B.Baltes, Ulman Lindenberger, and Ursula M. Staudinger -- The life course and human development / Glen H. Elder, Jr. and Michael J. Shanahan -- The cultural psychology of development: one mind, many mentalities / Richard A. Shweder ... [et. al.] -- The bioecological model of human development / Urie Bronfenbrenner and Pamela A. Morris -- Phenomenology and ecological systems theory: development of diverse groups / Margaret Beale Spencer -- Positive youth development: theory, research, and applications / Peter L. Benson ... [et. al.] -- Religious and spiritual development throughout the life span / Fritz K. Oser, W. George Scarlett, and Anton Bucher -- v. 2. Cognition, perception, and language / volume editors, Deanna Kuhn, Robert S. Siegler: SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS: Neural bases of cognitive development / Charles A. Nelson III, Kathleen M. Thomas, and Michelle de Haan -- The infant's auditory world: hearing, speech, and the beginnings of language / Jenny R. Saffran, Janet F. Werker, and Lynne A. Werner -- Infant visual perception / Philip J. Kellman and Martha E. Arterberry -- Motor development / Karen E. Adolph and Sarah E. Berger -- Infant cognition / Leslie B. Cohen and Cara H. Cashon -- SECTION TWO: COGNITION AND COMMUNICATION: Acquiring linguistic constructions / Michael Tomasello -- Early world learning / Sandra B. Waxman and Jeffrey L. Lidz -- Nonverbal communication: the hand's role in talking and thinking / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- SECTION THREE: COGNITIVE PROCESSES: Event memory / Patricia J. Bauer -- Information processing: approaches to development / Yuko Munakata -- Microgenetic analyses of learning / Robert S. Siegler -- Cognitive strategies / Michael Pressley and Katherine Hilden -- Reasoning and problem solving / Graeme S. Halford and Glenda Andrews -- Cognitive science and cognitive development / Frank Keil -- Culture and cognitive development in phylogenetic, historical, and ontoge...

155.924 M435r, 2006
AUT Matta, William J.
TIT Relationship sabotage : unconscious factors that destroy couples, marriages, and family.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
SER Sex, love, and psychology, 1554-222X.
CON Contents: 1. What people bring to counseling is often not the real problem -- 2. The unconscious mind : friend or foe? -- 3. The mixture of unconscious forces and childhood wounds can be lethal to marriage -- 4. Your family problems may have started back in medieval times -- 5. Unconscious forces can destroy not only relationships, but whole families -- 6. People who feel divorced but are still married -- 7. Games people play in relationships -- 8. Organizing problem-solving conversations -- 9. Extramarital affairs : silence, secrets, and self-disclosure / Edward Igle -- 10. Addictions : a vain attempt to make us feel whole / Daniel Hoffman -- 11. Our nervous systems and relational problems -- 12. Emotional detachment : the ultimate relationship destroyer / Tami L. Grovatt-Dawkins -- 13. So what now?.

170 C689m, 2006
AUT Cole, Phillip.
TIT The myth of evil : demonizing the enemy.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
CON Contents: Terrorism, torture, and the problems of evil -- Diabolical evil, searching for Satan -- Philosophies of evil -- Communities of fear -- The enemy within -- Bad seeds -- The character of evil -- Facing the Holocaust -- Twenty-first-century mythologies.

170 K12o, 2007
AUT Kahn, Paul W.
TIT Out of Eden : Adam and Eve and the problem of evil.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: the study of evil -- A preliminary meditation on Oedipus and Adam -- Evil and the image of the sacred -- Love and evil -- Political evil: slavery and the shame of nature -- Political evil: killing, sacrifice, and the image of god -- Conclusion: tragedy, comedy, and the banality of evil.

172.2 W182m, 2006
AUT Walker, Margaret Urban.
TIT Moral repair : reconstructing moral relations after wrongdoing.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. What is moral repair? -- 2. Hope's value -- 3. Damages to trust -- 4. Resentment and assurance -- 5. Forgiving -- 6. Making amends.

172.42 B557c, 2006
AUT Bess, Michael.
TIT Choices under fire : moral dimensions of World War II. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : A.A. Knopf, 2006.
CON Contents: A wide world of racisms -- Causes of the Pacific War : a longer view on Pearl Harbor -- Causes of the war in Europe : the paradoxical legacy of Munich -- Bystanders : how much is not enough? -- Bombing civilian populations : a case of moral slippage -- Deep evil and deep good : the concept of human nature confronts the Holocaust -- Decisions at Midway, 1942 : moral character as a factor in battle -- Tyranny triumphant : the moral awkwardness of the alliance with Stalin -- Kamikaze : wartime suicide attacks in anthropological perspective -- The decision to drop the atomic bomb : twelve questions -- Justice for the unspeakable? : the enduring legacy of the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo -- Generations under a shadow : the challenge of peace since Hiroshima -- The politics of memory : remembering and unremembering wartime -- Conclusion : what would be the opposite of Hitler's world?.

172.42 C767c, 2006
AUT Conway-Lanz, Sahr.
TIT Collateral damage : Americans, noncombatant immunity, and atrocity after World War II.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2006.
CON Contents: Modern war and mass killing -- The revolt of the admirals and the limits of mass destruction -- The hydrogen bomb and the limits of noncombatant immunity -- A limited war in Korea -- Taming the bomb -- Korean refugees and warnings -- The thermonuclear challenge -- An uneasy reconciliation.

174.28 R824c, 2006
AUT Ross, Lainie Friedman.
TIT Children in medical research : access versus protection.
PUB Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER Issues in biomedical ethics.

174.909 C886e 2006
AUT Craig, David.
TIT The ethics of the story : using narrative techniques responsibly in journalism.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction. Ethics paragraph by paragraph -- ch. 1. The power and ethics of the story -- ch. 2. Anecdotes -- ch. 3. Description and attribution -- ch. 4. Quotes and paraphrasing -- ch. 5. Word choice, labeling, and bias -- ch. 6. Interpretation and analysis -- ch. 7. Voice -- ch. 8. The big picture.

193 G988k, 2006
AUT Guyer, Paul.
TIT Kant.
PUB London : Routledge, 2006.
SER Routledge philosophers.
CON Contents: A life in work -- 1: Nature -- Kant's copernican revolution -- The critique of metaphysics -- Building upon the foundations of knowledge -- 2: Freedom -- Laws of freedom: the foundations of Kant's moral philosophy -- Freedom, immortality, and God: the presuppositions of mortality -- Kant's system of duties I: The duties of virtue -- Kant's system of duties II: duties of right -- 3: Nature and freedom -- The beautiful, the sublime, and the morally good -- Freedom and nature: Kant's revision of traditional teleology -- A history of freedom?.

194 P223f, 2006
AUT Paras, Eric.
TIT Foucault 2.0 : beyond power and knowledge.
PUB New York : Other Press, c2006.
CON Contents: I: Discourse -- Surface effects : Foucault, Sartre, and the critique of the subject -- Restructuring : Foucault and the genealogical turn -- II: Power -- Planetary forces : Foucault, Iran, and the nouveaux philosophes -- III: Subjects -- Deep subjects : Foucault and the return of the individual -- Arts of living : antiquity, modernity, and the experience of self -- Conclusion : Foucault's pendulum.

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200 Religion

200.9 O98J, 2006
AUT Juergensmeyer, Mark.
TIT The Oxford handbook of global religions.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Thinking globally about religion / Mark Juergensmeyer -- Indic cultural region. Thinking globally about Hinduism / T.N. Madan ; Traditional Brahmanical society / Joseph W. Elder ; Popular Hindu movements / David N. Lorenzen ; The Sikh community / Gurinder Singh Mann ; The Jain community / Lawrence A. Babb ; Hindu communities abroad / Vasudha Narayanan -- Buddhist/Confucian cultural region. Thinking globally about Buddhism / Gananath Obeyesekere ; Theravada Buddhist societies / Donald K. Swearer ; Tibetan Buddhist society / Jos� Ignacio Cabez�n ; Vietnamese religious society / Jayne S. Werner ; Traditional Chinese religious society / Vivian-Lee Nyitray ; Popular religion in mainland China / Christian Jochim ; Traditional Japanese religious society / Susumu Shimazono ; Japanese new religious movements / Ian Reader ; Korean religious society / Lewis Lancaster ; Buddhist communities abroad / Thomas A. Tweed -- Jewish cultural region. Thinking globally about Judaism / Harvey E. Goldberg ; Jewish communities in Israel / Roger Friedland and Richard D. Hecht ; Jewish communities in North Africa and the Middle East / Reuben Ahroni ; Jewish communities in Europe / Sergio DellaPergola ; Jewish communities in the Americas / J. Shawn Landres ; Jewish communities in Asia / Nathan Katz -- Christian cultural region. Thinking globally about Christianity / Harvey Cox ; Western European Catholic societies / Karel Dobbelaere ; Eastern European Catholic societies / Sabrina P. Ramet ; European Protestant societies / Fritz Erich Anhelm ; Orthodox Christian societies / Philip Walters ; Religious communities in Russia / Alexey D. Krindatch ; The Coptic community / Juan E. Campo, John Iskander.

201 S689a, 2005
AUT Solomon, Norman ; Harries, Richard ; Winter, T. J.
TIT Abraham's children : Jews, Christians, and Muslims in conversation. - [1st ed.].
PUB London ; New York : T&T Clark, c2005.
CON Contents: Foundations of faith -- Resources for the modern world.

211.8 D271g 2006
AUT Dawkins, Richard.
TIT The God delusion.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.
CON Contents: A deeply religious nonbeliever -- The God hypothesis -- Arguments for God's existence -- Why there almost certainly is no God -- The roots of religion -- The roots of morality : why are we good? -- The "good" book and the changing moral zeitgeist -- What's wrong with religion? : why be so hostile? -- Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion -- A much needed gap?. Contents: A deeply religious nonbeliever. -- Deserved respect -- Undeserved respect -- The God hypothesis. -- Polytheism -- Monotheism -- Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America -- The poverty of agnosticism -- NOMA -- The great prayer experiment -- The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists -- Little green men -- Arguments for God's existence. -- Thomas Aquinas' 'proofs' -- The ontological argument and other a priori arguments -- The argument from beauty -- The argument from personal 'experience' -- The argument from Scripture -- The argument from admired religious scientists -- Pascal's wager -- Bayesian arguments -- Why there almost certainly is no God. -- The ultimate Boeing 747 -- Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser -- Irreducible complexity -- The worship of gaps -- The anthropic principle: planetary version -- The anthropic principle: cosmological version -- An interlude at Cambridge -- The roots of religion. -- The Darwinian imperative -- Direct advantages of religion -- Group selection -- Religion as a by-product of something else -- Psychologically primed for religion -- Tread softly, because you tread on my memes -- Cargo cults -- The roots of morality: why are we good? -- Does our moral sense have a Darwinian origin? -- A case study in the roots of morality -- If there is no God, why be good? -- The 'good' book and the changing moral Zeitgeist. -- The Old Testament -- Is the New Testament any better? -- Love thy neighbour -- The moral Zeitgeist -- What about Hitler and Stalin?: weren't they atheists? -- What's wrong with religion?: why be so hostile? -- Fundamentalism and the subversion of science -- The dark side of absolutism -- Faith and homosexuality -- Faith and the sanctity of human life -- The great Beethoven fallacy -- How 'moderation' in faith fosters fanaticism -- Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion. -- Physical and mental abuse -- In defence of children -- An educational scandal -- Consciousness-raising again -- Religious education as a part of literary culture -- A much needed gap? -- Binker -- Consolation -- Inspiration -- The mother of all burkas.

231.765 R856e, 2006
AUT Roughgarden, Joan.
TIT Evolution and Christian faith : reflections of an evolutionary biologist.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Science with religion -- Single tree of life -- Species change -- Taking the Bible literally -- How change happens -- Random mutation -- Evolution's direction -- Roman Catholic position -- To-do list for theorists -- Intelligent design -- Gender and sexuality -- Future directions.

261.8 U93m, 2007
AUT Utter, Glenn H.
TIT Mainline Christians and U.S. public policy : a reference handbook.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.
SER Contemporary world issues.
CON Contents: Background and history : mainline denominations -- Episcopal Church -- Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (PCUSA) -- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) -- Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (CCDC) -- American Baptist Churches in the USA (ABC) -- United Church of Christ (UCC) -- Reformed Church in America (RCA) -- United Methodist Church (UMC) -- Catholic Church -- National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC) -- Renewal movements -- Mainline Christian denominations and public policy -- Problems, controversies, and solutions -- Sexuality issues within denominations -- Capital punishment -- Embryonic stem-cell research -- End-of-life decisions and the right to die -- Faith-based initiative -- Immigration -- Iraq war -- Abortion -- Values and public policy -- Worldwide perspective -- England -- France -- Germany -- Italy -- Poland -- Sweden -- Chronology -- Biographical sketches -- Daniel Berrigan -- Joan Chittister -- William Sloane Coffin, Jr. -- John Clagget Danforth -- Dorothy Day -- Robert W. (Bob) Edgar -- James A. Forbes, Jr. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick -- Wesley Granberg-Michaelson -- Wilton D. Gregory -- Frank T. Griswold -- Mark S. Hanson -- Katharine Jeffers Schori -- Elizabeth A. Johnson -- Barry W. Lynn -- Roger Michael Mahoney -- Martin E. Marty -- A. Roy Medley -- Reinhold Niebuhr -- Sean Patrick O'Malley -- Norman Vincent Peale -- George F. Regas -- Robert H. Schuller -- Fulton J. Sheen -- John Shelby Spong -- John H. Thomas -- Sharon E. Watkins -- Data and documents -- Data overview of the mainline denominations -- Religious beliefs and policy preferences -- Documents and quotations -- Equality and poverty -- Public schools -- Mainline political engagement -- Sexuality issues -- Immigration -- Faith-based initiative -- Iraq War -- Science -- Abortion -- Embryonic stem-cell research -- End-of-life decisions, the right to die, and euthanasia -- Environment -- Death penalty -- Directory of organizations -- Resources.

262.5 M167v, 2006
AUT MacMullen, Ramsay.
TIT Voting about God in early church councils.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The democratic element -- The cognitive element -- The 'supernaturalist' element -- The violent element -- Preliminaries -- Councils in action -- The stage -- Dioscorus -- Management -- Exact words.

269.2 L849b, 2006
AUT Long, Michael G.
TIT Billy Graham and the beloved community. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : "Bowed in prayer" : resurrecting the assassinated king -- "The Bible says" : heart problems and the divine cure -- "Preaching nothing but the Bible" : against a political church -- "True Christian loyalty in our hearts" : a Christian defense of American patriotism -- "He belonged to all the races" : the evolution of Graham's race ethics -- "This is freedom out of control!" : Graham's dissent from the civil rights movement -- "The tramp, tramp, tramp of the little man" : Graham's conversion to the war on poverty -- "I'm not a pacifist" : on militarists, pacifists, and Vietnam -- Conclusion : "We are now in the violent society" : a question of legacy.

270 H567i, 2006
AUT Herring, George.
TIT Introduction to the history of Christianity.
PUB Washington Square, N.Y. : New York University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 1: Christ and Caesar : Christianity c. 300-c. 500 -- Imperial Christianity -- City and desert -- The great debate -- The African pilgrim -- 2: Expansion and order : Latin Christendom c. 1050-c. 1250 -- Roads to Canossa -- Keepers of the keys -- The enthusiasts -- 3: Grace and authority : Western Christianity c. 1450-c. 1650 -- Reformations -- Diversity becomes division -- Divine winds and interest rates -- Loss and gain.

296.38 B474w, 2006
AUT Benstein, Jeremy.
TIT The way into Judaism and the environment.
PUB Woodstock, Vt. : Jewish Lights Pub., c2006.
SER The way into.

297.87 C978b 2006
AUT Curtis, Edward E.
TIT Black Muslim religion in the Nation of Islam, 1960-1975.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: What Islam has done for me : finding religion in the Nation of Islam -- Making a Muslim messenger : defending the Islamic legitimacy of Elijah Muhammad -- Black Muslim history narratives : orienting the Nation of Islam in Muslim time and space -- The ethics of the Black Muslim body -- Rituals of control and liberation -- Conclusion : becoming Muslim Again.

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302.2 R896c6, 2005
AUT Rubin, Rebecca B ; Rubin, Alan M. ; Piele, Linda J.
TIT Communication research : strategies and sources. - 6th ed.
PUB Belmont, Calif. : Thomson, Wadsworth, 2005.
SER BEKKEN J ENG 490 2 HRS RAKUS M ENG 490 2 HRS.
CON Contents: Studying communication -- Searching the communication literature -- Using computers to search electronic databases -- Using the internet for communication research -- General sources -- Access tools -- Communication periodicals -- Information compilations -- The process of communication research -- Designing the communication research project -- Preparing research projects -- Writing research papers.

303.33 C964a 2006
AUT Cudd, Ann E.
TIT Analyzing oppression.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER Studies in feminist philosophy.
CON Contents: I: A framework for analysis -- Oppression: the fundamental injustice of social institutions -- Social groups and institutional constraints -- Psychological mechanisms of oppression -- II: Forces of oppression -- Violence as a force of oppression -- Economic forces of oppression -- Psychological harms of oppression -- III: We shall overcome -- Resistance and responsibility -- Fashioning freedom.

303.38 J87m, 2006
AUT Jowell, Roger.
TIT Measuring attitudes cross-nationally : lessons from the European Social Survey.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2007.

303.483 S587c, 2006
AUT Silver, David, Ph. D ; Massanari, Adrienne.
TIT Critical cyberculture studies.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Foreword : Dreams of fields : possible trajectories of Internet studies / Steve Jones -- Introduction : Where is Internet studies? / David Silver -- The historiography of cyberculture / Jonathan Sterne -- Cultural difference, theory, and cyberculture studies : a case of mutual repulsion / Lisa Nakamura -- How we became post-digital : from cyberstudies to game studies / Espen Aarseth -- Internet studies in times of terror / David Silver and Alice Marwick -- Catching the waves : considering cyberculture, technoculture, and electronic consumption / Wendy Robinson -- Cyberculture studies : an antidisciplinary approach (version 3.0) / McKenzie Wark -- Finding the quality in qualitative research / Nancy K. Baym -- Web sphere analysis and cybercultural studies / Kirsten Foot -- Connecting the selves : computer mediated identification processes / Heidi J. Figueroa Sarriera -- The structural problems of the Internet for cultural policy / Christian Sandvig -- Cultural considerations in Internet policy and design : a case study from Central Asia / Beth E. Kolko -- Bridging cyberlife and real life : a study of online communities in Hong Kong / Anthony Fung -- Overcoming institutional marginalization / Blanca Gordo -- The vertical (layered) net : interrogating the conditions of network connectivity / Greg Elmer -- The construction of cybersocial reality / Stine Gotved -- E-scaping boundaries : bridging cyberspace and diaspora studies through nethnography / Emily Noelle Ignacio -- An interdisciplinary approach to the study of cybercultures / Madhavi Mallapragada -- An action research (AR) manifesto for cyberculture power to "marginalized" cultures of difference / Bharat Mehra -- Cyberstudies and the politics of visibility / David J. Phillips -- Disaggregation, technology, and masculinity : elements of Internet research / Frank Schaap -- Gender, technology and visual cyberculture : virtually women / Kate O'Riordan -- How digital technology found utopian ideology : lessons from the first hackers conference / Fred Turner -- Government.com : ICTs and reforming governance in Asia / Shanthi Kalathil -- Dot-coms and cyberculture studies : Amazon.com as a case study / Adrienne Massanari -- Associating independents : business relationships and the culture of independence in the dot-com era / Gina Neff.

305.5 L884p, 2007
AUT Lott, Bernice E ; Bullock, Heather E.
TIT Psychology and economic injustice : personal, professional, and political intersections. - 1st ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2007.
SER Psychology of women book series.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Growing up poor and middle class : Heather Bullock's story -- Working-class origins and class-conscious awakening : Bernice Lott's story -- Psychology, social class, and resources for human welfare -- The psychology and politics of class warfare -- Professional activism for social change and economic justice.

305.5 M621t 2006
AUT Michaels, Walter Benn.
TIT The trouble with diversity : how we learned to love identity and ignore inequality. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Metropolitan Books, 2006.

305.563 C518w 2006
AUT Chen, Guidi ; Chun, Tao.
TIT Will the boat sink the water? : the life of China's peasants. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Public Affairs, c2006.
CON Contents: The martyr -- The village tyrant -- The long and the short of the "antitax uprising" -- The long road -- A vicious circle -- The search for a way out.

305.697 L379i, 2006
AUT Laurence, Jonathan ; Va�sse, Justin.
TIT Integrating Islam : political and religious challenges in contemporary France.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Part I. Being Muslim in France. 1. The steady integration of France's most recent and largest minority ; 2. Patterns of exclusion and inclusion in French society ; 3. From religion to identity : 1,001 ways of being Muslim ; 4. Islamic organizations and leaders in France -- Part II. From Muslims into French citizens : Muslims and public policy. 5. Libert�, �galit�-- la�cit� : creation of the French Council of the Muslim Religion ; 6. Intolerance or integration? The ban on religious symbols in public schools ; 7. An assessment of French policy responses -- Part III. The Politics of Islam in France and Europe. 8. The pursuit of the Muslim vote and its impact on foreign policy ; 9. Anti-Semitism among Muslims and the rise of communautarisme ; 10. The threat of terrorism and the French response ; 11. Conclusion.

305.8 S683t, 2006
AUT Sokol, Jason.
TIT There goes my everything : white Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
CON Contents: Change seeps in -- In the wake of the war, 1945-1955 -- "Our Negroes" no more -- Daughters of Dixie, sons of the south -- Barbecue, fried chicken, and civil rights: the 1964 civil rights act -- "Softly, the unthinkable": the contours of political and economic change -- The price of liberation.

305.868 R621e, 2006
AUT Rivera, John-Michael.
TIT The emergence of Mexican America : recovering stories of Mexican peoplehood in U.S. culture.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
SER Critical America.
CON Contents: How do you make the invisible, visible? : locating stories of Mexican peoplehood -- Don Zavala goes to Washington : translating U.S. democracy -- Constituting terra incognita : the "Mexican question" in U.S. print culture -- Embodying manifest destiny : Mar�a Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the color of Mexican womanhood -- Claiming los bilitos : Miguel Antonio Otero and the fight for New Mexican manhood -- "Con su pluma en su mano" : Am�rico Paredes and the poetics of "Mexican-American" peoplehood -- Recovering la memoria : locating the recent past.

305.896 H176s, 2005
AUT Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo.
TIT Slavery and African ethnicities in the Americas : restoring the links.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.

305.896 R615g, 2006
AUT Ritterhouse, Jennifer Lynn.
TIT Growing up Jim Crow : how Black and White southern children learned race.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : forgotten alternatives -- The etiquette of race relations -- Carefully taught -- I knew then who I was -- Playing and fighting -- Adolescence -- Conclusion : children of the sun.

305.9 M326r, 2006
AUT Marfleet, Philip.
TIT Refugees in a global era.
PUB Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: Refugees: the pressing questions -- Disordered world -- Globalisation and forced migration -- Crisis of the state -- Migrants old and new -- Chain migration to forced migration -- Rights -- Refugees and rights -- Towards disaster - From ambassadors to aliens -- Legality and authenticity -- Journeys and destinations -- Displacement -- Circuits of migration -- Cultures of terror, cultures of abuse -- Racism without end?.

306.44 M996r 2005
AUT Myers, Kristen A.
TIT Racetalk : racism hiding in plain sight.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.
CON Contents: Hiding in plain sight : racetalk, the language of racism -- pt. 1. The foundations of this study. -- Revealing racetalk -- Racetalk as reproducing racism : a theoretical toolbox -- pt. 2. The structures. -- The structure of signification : whiteness -- The structure of signification : blackness -- The structure of signification : brownness -- The structure of domination : surveillance and the policing of boundaries -- The structure of legitimation : accounting for racetalk -- pt. 3. The actors. -- Bridging boundaries : counterhegemonic practices -- The accidental antiracist : research as a tool for raising consciousness -- pt. 4. The consequences. -- Dialectics revisited : racetalk and the racial regime -- Praxis : in search of a balm.

306.484 K62w, 2005
AUT Kitwana, Bakari.
TIT Why white kids love hip-hop : wankstas, wiggers, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America.
PUB New York : Basic Civitas Books, c2005.
SER GILLIAMS T ENG 235 2 HRS.
NOT Includes index.
CON Contents: Part 1. Questions. Do white boys want to be black? ; Why white kids love hip-hop ; Identity crisis? : more than acting black ; Erasing blackness : are white suburban kids really hip-hop's primary audience? -- Part 2. Answers. From W.E.B. Du Bois to Chuck D ; Wankstas, wiggers, and wannabes : hip-hop, film and white boyz in the hood ; Fear of a culture bandit : Eminem, the source and America's racial politics (old and new) ; Coalition building across race : organizing the hip-hop voting bloc.

306.77 S741p, 2006
AUT Spector, Jessica.
TIT Prostitution and pornography : philosophical debate about the sex industry.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Sex, money, and philosophy / Jessica Spector -- Critiques of the sex industry -- Duet : prostitution, racism, and feminist discourse / Vednita Carter and Evelina Giobbe -- Stripping as a system of prostitution / Christine Stark -- What's wrong with prostitution? / Carol Pateman -- Equality and speech / Catharine MacKinnon -- Split at the root : prostitution and feminist discourses of law reform / Margaret A. Baldwin -- Liberalism and prostitution -- Porn stars, radical feminists, cops and outlaw whores : the battle between feminist theory and reality, free speech and free spirits / Norma Jean Almodovar -- "Whether from reason or prejudice" : taking money for bodily services / Martha Nussbaum -- Contractarians and feminists debate prostitution / Sibyl Schwarzenbach -- Prostitution and the case for decriminalization / Laurie Shrage -- Liberalism and pornography -- Private acts versus public art : where prostitution ends and pornography begins / Theresa A. Reed -- Freedom, equality, and pornography / Joshua Cohen -- Women and pornography / Ronald Dworkin -- Desire and disgust : Hustler magazine / Laura Kipnis -- The limits of liberalism -- The name of the pose : a sex worker by any other name? / Tracy Quan -- Thinking outside the box : men in the. sex industry / Julian Marlowe -- Prostitution and sexual autonomy : making sense of the prohibition of prostitution / Scott A. Anderson -- Markets in women's sexual labor / Debra Satz -- Obscene division : feminist liberal assessments of prostitution versus feminist liberal defenses of pornography / Jessica Spector.

306.848 S675g 2006
AUT Snyder, R. Claire.
TIT Gay marriage and democracy : equality for all.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2006.
SER Polemics.
CON Contents: What does same-sex marriage have to do with democracy? -- What is marriage? -- The logic of liberalism : American political theory and the case for gay marriage -- A false consensus : Christian right politics and the attack on same-sex marriage -- Neopatriarchy and the agenda of the antigay right -- Are lesbian and gay Americans actually citizens? : the homophobic myopia of communitarianism -- Marriage equality and sexual freedom : toward a more progressive union.

306.85 F467f, 2006
AUT Fiese, Barbara H.
TIT Family routines and rituals.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
SER Current perspectives in psychology.
CON Contents: Routines of daily living and rituals in family life -- Myths and misconceptions about family routines and rituals -- Developmental life course of routines and rituals -- Cultural variations -- Family health -- Protective processes and family rituals -- Therapeutic forms of routines and rituals -- Promising prospects.

307.11 S955s, 2006
AUT Summers, John ; Texley, Juliana ; Kwan, Terry.
TIT Science safety in the community college.
PUB Arlington, Va. : NSTA Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- SciLinks -- Setting the scene : safer science in a drive-through learning community -- Communities of learners : promoting science for every citizen -- Where science happens : equip your lab for safety -- Finders keepers : essentials of safer storage -- Lively science : living organisms and more -- Modern alchemy : safer teaching with chemistry -- Striking gold : exploring earth and space sciences -- Falling for science : physics phenoms -- The great outdoors : field studies near and far -- The kitchen sink : a potpourri of teaching tips -- Live long and prosper : and remember you are responsible -- Conclusion : review the basics -- Web resources -- Glossary -- Appendix A: Chemicals to go : candidates for disposal -- Appendix B: NSTA Position Statement on Safety.

307.76 M141u 2006
AUT Macek, Steve.
TIT Urban nightmares : the media, the right, and the moral panic over the city.
PUB Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: A landscape of fear -- The origins of the crisis : race, class, and the inner city -- Inventing the savage urban other -- Catastrophe is now : the discourse on the underclass -- Crack alleys and killing zones : news coverage of the postindustrial city -- The cinema of suburban paranoia -- Wouldn't you rather be at home? : marketing middle-class agoraphobia -- Conclusion: Awakening from urban nightmares.

320.01 S435p, 2006
AUT Scruton, Roger.
TIT A political philosophy.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, 2006.
CON Contents: Conserving nations -- Conserving nature -- Eating our friends -- Dying quietly -- Meaningful marriage -- Extinguishing the light -- Religion and Enlightenment -- The totalitarian temptation -- Newspeak and Eurospeak -- The nature of evil -- Eliot and conservatism.

323.042 C187w, 2006
AUT Campbell, David E.
TIT Why we vote : how schools and communities shape our civic life.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Voting alone -- Putting Madison and Tocqueville to the test : the dual motivations theory of public engagement -- Further implications of the dual motivations theory -- Social networks -- Social environments and adolescents' public engagement -- The links between adolescents' and adults' public engagement -- Adolescents' social environments and adults' public engagements : the civic motivation model -- Conclusion : implications for theory and policy.

323.044 H737f, 2006
AUT Hollander, Paul.
TIT From the Gulag to the killing fields : personal accounts of political violence and repression in communist states. - 1st ed.
PUB Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 2006.
CON Contents: The Soviet Union -- Eastern Europe: Albania -- Bulgaria -- Czechoslovakia -- East Germany -- Hungary -- Poland -- Romania -- Yugoslavia -- China -- Cambodia -- Vietnam -- Cuba -- Nicaragua -- North Korea -- Ethiopia.

323.09 B433e, 2007
AUT Bell, Daniel ; Coicaud, Jean-Marc.
TIT Ethics in action : the ethical challenges of international human rights nongovernmental organizations.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The pornography of poverty : a cautionary fundraising tale / Bette Plewes and Rieky Stuart -- An imperfect process : funding human rights--a case study / Mona Younis -- Transformational development as the key to housing rights / Steven Weir -- Human rights INGOs, the north-south gap : the challenge of normative and empirical learning / Bonny Ibhawoh -- Dilemmas facing INGOs in coalition-occupied Iraq / Lyal Sunga -- Human rights in action : supporting human rights work in authoritarian countries / Birgit Lindsnaes, Hans-Otto Sano, and Hatla Thelle -- Driving without a map : implementing legal projects in China aimed at improving human rights / Sophia Woodman -- Normative compliance and hard bargaining : China's strategies and tactics in response to international human rights criticism / Sun Zhe -- Defending economic, social and cultural rights : practical issues faced by an international human rights organization / Kenneth Roth -- Thinking through social and economic rights / Neera Chandhoke -- Amnesty International and economic, social and cultural rights / by Curt Goering -- Moral priorities for international human rights NGOs / Thomas W. Pogge -- The problem of doing good in a world that isn't : reflections on the ethical challenges facing INGOs / Joseph H. Carens -- Conclusion: International NGOs as collective mobilization of transnational solidarity : implications for human rights work at the United Nations / Jean-Marc Coicaud.

323.173 R759c, 2006
AUT Romano, Renee Christine ; Raiford, Leigh.
TIT The Civil Rights movement in American memory.
PUB Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, c2006.

323.3 C976t 2006
AUT Currah, Paisley ; Juang, Richard M ; Minter, Shannon.
TIT Transgender rights.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.

324.7 F687w, 2006
AUT Foot, Kirsten A ; Schneider, Steven M.
TIT Web campaigning.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
SER Acting with technology.

324.7 S539f 2007
AUT Shea, Daniel M ; Green, John Clifford.
TIT Fountain of youth : strategies and tactics for mobilizing America's young voters.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
SER Campaigning American style.
CON Contents: The turned-off generation: fact and fiction? / Daniel M. Shea and John C. Green -- Throwing a better party: local political parties and the youth vote / John C. Green and Daniel M. Shea -- Tales from the trenches: party organizations that are connecting with young citizens / Daniel M. Shea and John C. Green -- Building youth party identification and revitalizing democracy / J. Cherie Strachan -- Civic knowledge, civic education, and civic engagement / William A. Galston -- Political participation and service learning: civic education as problem and solution / Melissa K. Comber -- Promoting diversity in democracy: mobilizing the hip-hop generation / Maya Rockeymoore and Mark Rockeymoore -- Youth political engagement: why Rock the Vote hits the wrong note / Michael Hoover and Susan Orr -- Mobilizing the youth vote in 2004 and beyond / Heather Smith and Ivan Frishberg -- Young voter mobilization projects in 2004 / Daniel M. Shea and John C. Green -- Faces of the future / John Kenneth White.

327.1247 K69h, 2005
AUT Knight, Amy W.
TIT How the Cold War began : the Igor Gouzenko Affair and the hunt for Soviet spies.
PUB New York : Carroll & Graf ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2005.
CON Contents: The defection -- A man called Corby -- "Primrose," Miss Corby, and the politics of espionage -- Red storm clouds -- Cold War justice -- Anti-communist agendas -- The right wing unleashed -- The south against the north -- "Elli," Philby, and the death of a diplomat -- Traitors and spies -- The naming of names.

327.73 S867h 2006
AUT Stoddard, Abby.
TIT Humanitarian alert : NGO information and its impact on US foreign policy.
PUB Bloomfield, Conn. : Kumarian Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Agents, advisors, antagonists -- Ants in the ground, gnats in the ear -- Somalia -- Bosnia -- Kosovo -- Some conclusions from the three cases -- The humanitarian alert in "forgotten emergencies".

327.73009 S355u, 2006
AUT Schmitz, David F.
TIT The United States and right-wing dictatorships, 1965-1989.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: No acceptable alternative : Mobutu in the Congo -- Degrading freedom : the Johnson administration and right-wing dictatorships -- Madmen : Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and the quest for order -- Morality and diplomacy : the Church Committee and post-Vietnam foreign policy -- A fundamental tenet of foreign policy : Jimmy Carter and human rights -- What is the alternative? : the Reagan Doctrine and authoritarian regimes.

Ref 327.73056 H148h, 2007
AUT Hahn, Peter L.
TIT Historical dictionary of United States-Middle East relations.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy. ; no. 5.
CON Contents: Editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff -- Acknowledgments -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Map -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- Appendix : U.S. presidents and secretaries of state -- Bibliography -- About the author.

Ref 327.7308 S653h, 2007
AUT Smith, Joseph.
TIT Historical dictionary of United States-Latin American relations.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy. ; no. 3.

330.94 E34e, 2007
AUT Eichengreen, Barry J.
TIT The European economy since 1945 : coordinated capitalism and beyond.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
SER Princeton economic history of the Western world.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Mainsprings of growth -- The postwar situation -- Dawn of the golden age -- Eastern Europe and the planned economy -- The integration of western Europe -- The apex of the golden age -- Mounting payments problems -- Declining growth, rising rigidities -- The collapse of central planning -- Integration and adjustment -- Europe at the turn of the twenty-first century -- The future of the European model.

330.952 T163j 2005
AUT Tandon, Rameshwar.
TIT The Japanese economy and the way forward.
PUB Houndmils, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

333.72 B344f, 2006
AUT Bauer, Joanne R.
TIT Forging environmentalism : justice, livelihood, and contested environments.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2006.
CON Contents: China : a foreword / Judith Shapiro. The politics and ethics of going green in China : air pollution control in Benxi City and wetland preservation in the Sanjiang Plain / Liu Yu ... [et al.] -- Japan : a foreword / Jeffrey Broadbent. From Kogai to Kankyo mondai : nature, development, and social conflict in Japan / Kada Yukiko ... [et al.] -- India : a foreword / Paul Greenough. Rethinking Indian environmentalism : industrial pollution in Delhi and fisheries in Kerala / Amita Baviskar, Subir Sinha, and Kavita Philip -- The United States : a foreword / Keith Kloor. Two faces of American environmentalism : the quest for justice in southern Louisiana and sustainability in the Sonoran desert / David Jenkins ... [et al.] --The value of legality in environmental action / Sheila Jasanoff -- Environmental transformations and the values of modernity / Arun Agrawal -- Evaluating environmental justice claims / Robert Melchior Figueroa -- Framing shared values : reason and trust in environmental governance / Clark A. Miller -- How shall we study environmental values? / Joanne Bauer and Anna Ray Davies.

333.79 M687e, 2007
AUT Moan, Jaina L ; Smith, Zachary A.
TIT Energy use worldwide : a reference handbook.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.
SER Contemporary world issues.

333.91 A615g, 2006
AUT Annin, Peter.
TIT The Great Lakes water wars.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Hope and hopelessness -- To have and have not -- The Aral experiment -- Rising temperatures, falling water? -- Aversion to diversion -- Battle lines and skirmishes -- Reversing a river -- Long Lac and Ogoki -- Pleasing Pleasant Prairie -- Sacrificing Lowell -- Tapping Mud Creek -- Akron gets the nod -- New rules of engagement -- The Nova group and Annex 2001 -- Marching toward a compact -- Waukesha worries -- Who will win the war?.

333.91 W324U 2006
AUT Unesco
TIT Water : a shared responsibility.
PUB Paris, France : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ; New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
SER United Nations world water development report ; 2.
CON Contents: Section 1: Changing Contexts -- 1. Living in a changing world -- 2. The challenges of water governance -- 3. Water and human settlements in an urbanizing world -- Section 2: Changing Natural Systems -- 4. The state of the resource -- 5. Coastal and freshwater ecosystems -- Section 3: Challenges for Well-being and Development -- 6. Protecting and promoting human health -- 7. Water for food, agriculture and rural livelihoods -- 8. Water and industry -- 9. Water and energy -- Section 4: Management Responses and Stewardship -- 10. Managing risks: securing the gains for development -- 11. Sharing water -- 12. Valuing and charging for water -- 13. Enhancing knowledge and capacity -- Section 5: Sharing Responsibility -- 14. Case studies: moving towards an integrated approach -- 15. Conclusions and recommendations for action.

333.95 W552E 2006
AUT Estes, J. A.
TIT Whales, whaling, and ocean ecosystems.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Whales, interaction webs, and zero sum ecology / Robert T. Paine -- Lessons from land : present and past signs of ecological decay and the overture to earth's 6th mass extinction / C. Josh Donlan, Paul S. Martin and Gary W. Roemer -- When ecological pyramids were upside down / Jeremy B.C. Jackson -- Pelagic ecosystem response to a century of commercial fishing and whaling / Timothy E. Essington -- Evidence for bottom-up control of upper trophic level marine populations : is it scale-dependent? / George L. Hunt Jr. -- Evolutionary patterns in Cetacea : fishing up prey size through deep time / David R. Lindberg and Nicholas D. Pyenson -- A taxonomy of world whaling : operations and eras / Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith -- The history of whales read from DNA / Stephen R. Palumbi and Joe Roman -- Changes in marine mammal biomass in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands region before and after the period of commercial whaling / Bete Pfister and Douglas P. DeMaster -- Industrial whaling in the North Pacific Ocean 1952-1978 : spatial patterns of harvest and decline / Eric M. Danner, Matthew J. Kauffman and Robert L. Brownell Jr. -- Worldwide distribution and abundance of killer whales / Karin A. Forney and Paul R. Wade -- The natural history and ecology of killer whales / Lance G. Barrett-Lennard and Kathy A. Heise -- Killer whales as predators of large baleen whales and sperm whales / Randall R. Reeves, Joel Berger and Phillip J. Clapham -- Physiological and ecological consequences of extreme body size in whales / Terrie M. Williams -- Ecosystem impact of the decline of large whales in the North Pacific / Donald A. Croll, Raphael Kudela and Bernie R. Tershy -- The removal of large whales from the Southern Ocean : evidence for long-term ecosystem effects? / Lisa T. Ballance ... [et al.] -- Great whales as prey : using demography and bioenergetics to infer interactions in marine mammal communities / Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams and James A. Estes -- Whales and whaling in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea : oceanographic insights and ecosystem impacts / Alan M. Springer ... [et al.] -- Legacy of industrial whaling : could killer whales be responsible for declines of sea lions, elephant seals and minke whales in the Southern Hemisphere? / Trevor A. Branch and Terrie M. Williams -- Predator diet breadth and prey population dynamics : mechanism and modeling / Marc Mangel and Nicholas Wolf -- Bigger is better : the role of whales as detritus in marine ecosystems / Craig R. Smith -- Gray whales in the Bering and Chukchi seas / Raymond C. Highsmith ... [et al.] -- Whales, whaling and ecosystems in the North Atlantic Ocean / Phillip J. Clapham and Jason S. Link -- Sperm whales in ocean ecosystems / Hal Whitehead -- Ecosystem effects of fishing and whaling in the North Pacific and Atlantic Ocean / Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze and Ransom A. Myers -- Potential influences of whaling on the status and trends of pinniped populations / Daniel P. Costa, Michae...

Ref 335.6 W927B 2006 v.1-2
AUT Blamires, Cyprian ; Jackson, Paul.
TIT World fascism : a historical encyclopedia.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. A-K -- v. 2. L-Z.

337.51 N322c, 2007
AUT Navarro, Peter.
TIT The coming China wars : where they will be fought and how they will be won.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Financial Times Press, c2007.
CON Contents: The "China price" and weapons of mass production -- China's counterfeit economy and not-so-swashbuckling pirates -- Killing us (and them) softly with their coal -- The "blood for oil" wars : the sum of all Chinese fears -- The "new imperialist" wars and weapons of mass construction -- The 21st century opium wars : the world's emperor of "precursor chemicals" -- The damnable dam wars and drums along the Mekong -- The bread and water wars : nary a (clean) drop to drink -- China's wars from within : the dragon comes apart at the seams -- Of "bloodheads," gray dragons, and other ticking time bombs -- How to fight--and win!--the coming China wars.

338.43 G773c, 2006
AUT Gratzer, David.
TIT The cure : how capitalism can save American health care. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Encounter Books, 2006.
CON Contents: Dick Cheney's heart -- Two days that changed health care -- Nixon's revenge -- The third way -- Insuring America -- Mills' revenge: Medicaid -- Mills' revenge II: Medicare -- Our drug problem -- The hip that changed history -- The three keys.

338.9 C699b, 2007
AUT Collier, Paul.
TIT The bottom billion : why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Falling behind and falling apart : the bottom billion -- The conflict trap -- The natural resource trap -- Landlocked with bad neighbors -- Bad governance in a small country -- On missing the boat : the marginalization of the bottom billion in the world economy -- Aid to the rescue? -- Military intervention -- Laws and charters -- Trade policy for reversing marginalization -- An agenda for action.

338.91 E13w, 2006
AUT Easterly, William Russell.
TIT The white man's burden : why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Planners versus searchers -- pt. 1. Why planners cannot bring prosperity. -- The legend of the big push -- You can't plan a market -- Planners and gangsters -- pt. II. Acting out the burden. -- The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats -- Bailing out the poor -- The healers: triumph and tragedy -- pt. III. The white man's army. -- From colonialism to postmodern imperialism -- Invading the poor -- pt. IV. The future. -- Homegrown development -- The future of Western assistance.

339.22 N433w 2006
AUT Gordon Nembhard, Jessica ; Chiteji, Ngina.
TIT Wealth accumulation & communities of color in the United States : current issues.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : The University of Michigan Press, c2006.

339.22 R462i, 2006
AUT Reynolds, Alan.
TIT Income and wealth.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
SER Greenwood guides to business and economics. 1559-2367.
CON Contents: Concepts and measures -- Work matters -- A vanishing middle class? -- The wage stagnation thesis -- The top 1 percent -- CEOs and celebrities -- Wealth is not distributed -- Consumption inequality, lifetime income, and mobility -- Causes and cures.

339.7 M146s 2006
AUT McGovern, Charles.
TIT Sold American : consumption and citizenship, 1890-1945.
PUB Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Advertisers and consumers, 1890-1930 -- The nationalization of consumers : the political language of American advertising, 1890-1930 -- Making consumption American : advertisers, consumers, and national identity -- Social science and the pragmatic consumer, 1890-1928 -- The science of purchasing -- Redefining consumption at consumers' research -- Consumer professionals in the Depression -- The American way of life : folklores of capitalism, 1935-1939 -- Fighting for the American way : consumption and Americanism, 1935-1945.

341.6 M696g, 2006
AUT Moghalu, Kingsley Chiedu.
TIT Global justice : the politics of war crimes trials.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, c2006.
CON Contents: War crimes justice in world politics -- Prosecute or pardon? -- The Balkans : the trial of Slobodan Milosevic -- The rise and fall of universal jurisdiction -- Sierra Leone : judging Charles Taylor -- The politics of the International Criminal Court -- Iraq : chronicle of a trial foretold -- International justice: not yet the end of history.

342.6 N157a, 2006
TIT African constitutionalism and the role of Islam.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
SER Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

345 G798L, 2006
AUT Green, Stuart P.
TIT Lying, cheating, and stealing : a moral theory of white-collar crime.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER [Oxford monographs on criminal law and justice].
CON Contents: 1. The meaning of white-collar crime -- 2. Some generalizations about the moral content of white-collar crime -- 3. A three-part framework for analysis -- 4. Cheating -- 5. Deception -- 6. Stealing -- 7. Coercion and exploitation -- 8. Disloyalty -- 9. Promise-breaking -- 10. Disobedience -- 11. A concluding thought on moral wrongfulness -- 12. Perjury -- 13. Fraud -- 14. False statements -- 15. Obstruction of justice -- 16. Bribery -- 17. Extortion and blackmail --18. Insider trading -- 19. Tax evasion -- 20. Regulatory offenses -- 21. Conclusion.

345.07 S291u, 2006
AUT Schabas, William.
TIT The UN international criminal tribunals : the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Creation of the tribunals -- The legitimacy and legality of the tribunals -- Sources of law --Territorial, personal and temporal jurisdiction -- Subject-matter jurisdiction generally -- Genocide -- Crimes against humanity -- War crimes -- General principles of law -- Investigation and pre-trial procedure -- Trial and post-trial procedure -- Evidence -- Rights of the accused -- Punishment -- Structure and administration of the tribunals.

347.731 S958a 2006
AUT Sunstein, Cass R.
TIT Are judges political? : an empirical analysis of the federal judiciary.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Studying judges with numbers -- Ideological votes and ideological panels -- Nonideological voting and entrenched views -- Explaining the data : conformity, group polarization, and the rule of law -- The case of big decisions : of segregation, abortion, and obscenity -- More conservative than thou? judicial voting across circuits, across presidents, and over time -- What should be done? of politics, judging, and diversity.

352 K87m, 2007
AUT Kotler, Philip ; Lee, Nancy.
TIT Marketing in the public sector : a roadmap for improved performance.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Wharton School Pub., c2007.

355.02 G646a 2006
AUT Goodby, James E.
TIT At the borderline of Armageddon : how American presidents managed the atom bomb.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: At the beginning : Churchill, Roosevelt and Truman -- Nuclear deterrence or preventive war? : Eisenhower's choice -- John F. Kennedy : from crisis to triumph to tragedy -- Lyndon Johnson : the offense-defense riddle -- Richard Nixon : only connect -- Gerald Ford : a time to plant -- Jimmy Carter : the limits of presidential power -- The Reagan revolution in nuclear weaponry -- George H.W. Bush : managing the Soviet succession -- Bill Clinton : facing new threats -- George W. Bush : overthrowing the old order.

355.33 W515c 2006
AUT Wessells, Michael G.
TIT Child soldiers : from violence to protection.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

355.82 Y78d, 2006
AUT Youngblood, Norman.
TIT The development of mine warfare : a most murderous and barbarous conduct.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
SER War, technology, and history, 1556-4924.
CON Contents: The origins of mine warfare -- The age of invention: from America to Russia -- The American Civil War -- The sea mine comes of age -- The Great War -- World War II-- Mine warfare since 1945 -- Appendix A Hague convention 1907 -- Appendix B Convention on the Prohibition of Anti-personnel Mines.

361.1 E26t, 2006
AUT Edy, Jill A.
TIT Troubled pasts : news and the collective memory of social unrest.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Real-time news: covering the Watts riots and the Chicago Convention -- Political officials and the public past -- Defusing controversy and paving the way for collective memory -- Building collective memory: story integration -- Using collective memory: the role of the past in the present -- Conclusions: The future of the past.

362.196 M141t4, 2006
AUT Mace, Nancy L ; Rabins, Peter V.
TIT The 36-hour day : a family guide to caring for people with Alzheimer disease, other dementias, and memory loss in later life. - 4th ed.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
SER A Johns Hopkins Press health book.
CON Contents: 1. Dementia -- What is dementia? -- The person with dementia -- Where do you go from here? -- 2. Getting medical help for the person with dementia -- The evaluation of the person with a suspected dementia -- Finding someone to do an evaluation -- The medical treatment and management of dementia -- The physician -- The nurse -- The social worker -- The geriatric care manager -- The pharmacist -- 3. Characteristic behavioral symptoms of dementia -- The brain, behavior, and personality : why people with dementia do the things they do -- Caregiving : some general suggestions -- Memory problems -- Overreacting, or catastrophic reactions -- Combativeness -- Problems with speech and communication -- Problems the person with dementia has in making himself understood -- Problems the person with dementia has in understanding others -- Loss of coordination -- Loss of sense of time -- Symptoms that are better sometimes and worse at other times -- 4. Problems in independent living -- Mild cognitive impairment -- When a person must give up a job -- When a person can no longer manage money -- When a person can no longer drive safely -- When a person can no longer live alone -- When you suspect that someone living alone is getting confused -- What you can do -- Moving to a new residence. Contents: 5. Problems arising in daily care -- Hazards to watch for -- In the house -- Outdoors -- In the car -- Highways and parking lots -- Smoking -- Hunting -- Nutrition and mealtimes -- Meal preparation -- Mealtimes -- Problem eating behaviors -- Malnutrition -- Weight loss -- Choking -- When to consider tube feeding -- Exercise -- Recreation -- Meaningful activity -- Personal hygiene -- Bathing -- Locating care supplies -- Dressing -- Grooming -- Oral hygiene -- Incontinence (wetting or soiling) -- Urinary incontinence -- Bowel incontinence -- Cleaning up -- Problems with walking and balance ; falling -- Becoming chairbound or bedbound -- Wheelchairs -- Changes you can make at home -- Should environments be cluttered or bare? -- 6. Medical problems -- Pain -- Falls and injuries -- Pressure sores -- Dehydration -- Pneumonia -- Constipation -- Medications -- Dental problems -- Vision problems -- Hearing problems -- Dizziness -- Visiting the doctor -- If the ill person must enter the hospital -- Seizures, fits, or convulsions -- Jerking movements (myoclonus) -- The death of the person with dementia -- The cause of death -- Dying at home -- Hospice -- Dying in the hospital or nursing home -- When should treatment end? -- What kind of care can be given at the end of life?. 7. Behavioral symptoms of dementia -- The six R's of behavior management -- Concealing memory loss -- Wandering -- Reasons why people wander -- The management of wandering -- Sleep disturbances and night wandering -- Worsening in the evening ("sundowning") -- Losing, hoarding, or hiding things -- Rummaging in drawers and closets -- Inappropriate sexual behavior -- Repeating the question -- Repetitious actions -- Distractibility -- Clinging or persistently following you around -- Complaints and insults -- Taking things -- Forgetting telephone calls -- Demands -- Stubbornness and uncooperativeness -- When the person with dementia insults the sitter -- Using medication to manage behavior -- 8. Symptoms that appear as changes in mood -- Depression -- Complaints about health -- Suicide -- Alcohol or drug abuse -- Apathy and listlessness -- Remembering feelings -- Anger and irritability -- Anxiety, nervousness, and restlessness -- False ideas, suspiciousness, paranoia, and hallucinations -- Misinterpretation -- Failure to recognize people or things (agnosia) -- "You are not my husband" -- "My mother is coming for me" -- Suspiciousness -- Hiding things -- Delusions and hallucinations -- Having nothing to do -- 9. Special arrangements if you become ill -- In the event of your death. Contents: 10. Getting outside help -- Help from friends and neighbors -- Finding information and services -- Kinds of services -- Having someone come into your home -- Adult day care -- Short-stay residential care -- Planning in advance for home care or day care -- When the person with dementia rejects the care -- Your own feelings about getting respite for yourself -- Locating resources -- Paying for care -- Should respite programs mix people who have different problems? -- Determining the quality of services -- Research and demonstration programs -- 11. You and the person with dementia as parts of a family -- Changes in roles -- Understanding family conflicts -- Division of responsibility -- Your marriage -- Coping with role changes and family conflict -- A family conference -- When you live out of town -- When you are not the primary caregiver, what can you do to help? -- Caregiving and your job -- Your children -- Teenagers -- 12. How caring for a person with dementia affects you -- Emotional reactions -- Anger -- Embarrassment -- Helplessness -- Guilt -- Laughter, love, and joy -- Grief -- Depression -- Isolation and feeling alone -- Worry -- Being hopeful and being realistic -- Mistreating the person with dementia -- Physical reactions -- Fatigue -- Illness -- Sexuality -- If your spouse is impaired -- If your impaired parent lives with you -- The future -- You as a spouse alone -- When the person you have cared for dies. Contents: 13. Caring for yourself -- Take time out -- Give yourself a present -- Friends -- Avoid isolation -- Find additional help if you need it -- Recognize the warning signs -- Counseling -- Joining with other families : The Alzheimer's Association -- Support groups -- Excuses -- Advocacy -- 14. For children and teenagers -- 15. Financial and legal issues -- Your Financial assessment -- Potential expenses -- Potential resources -- Where to look for the forgetful person's resources -- Legal matters -- 16. Nursing homes and other living arrangements -- Types of living arrangements -- Moving with the person with dementia -- Finding a nursing home or other residential care setting -- Paying for care -- Guidelines for selecting a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Moving to a nursing home or other residential care facility -- Adjusting to a new life -- Visiting -- Your own adjustment -- When problems occur in the nursing home or other residential care facility -- Sexual issues in nursing homes or other care facilities -- 17. Brain disorders and the causes of dementia -- Dementia -- Dementia associated with alcohol abuse -- Alzheimer disease -- Vascular (multi-infarct) dementia -- Lewy body dementia -- The frontotemporal dementias, including Pick disease -- Depression -- Binswanger disease -- HIV-AIDS -- Other brain disorders -- Delirium -- Senility, chronic organic brain syndrome, acute or reversible organic brain syndromes -- TIA -- Localized brain injuries -- Head injuries (head trauma) -- Anoxia or hypoxia -- Mild Cognitive impairment. 18. Research in dementia -- Understanding research -- Bogus cures -- Research in vascular (multi-infarct) dementia and stroke -- Research in Alzheimer disease -- Structural changes in the brain -- Brain cells -- Neurotransmitters -- Abnormal proteins -- Nerve growth factors -- Transplants of brain tissue -- Drug studies -- Metals -- Prions -- Immunological defects -- Head trauma -- Epidemiology -- Down syndrome -- Old Age -- Heredity -- Gender -- Promising clinical and research tools -- Keeping active -- The effect of acute illness on dementia -- Research into the delivery of services -- Protective factors -- Appendix 1. Using the Internet -- Appendix 2. Organizations.

362.2 F828b, 2006
AUT Frank, Richard G ; Glied, Sherry.
TIT Better but not well : mental health policy in the United States since 1950.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The population with mental illness -- The evolving technology of mental health care -- Health care financing and income support -- The supply of mental health services -- Policy making in mental health : integration, mainstreaming, and shifting institutions -- Assessing the well-being of people with mental illness -- Looking forward : improving the well-being of people with mental illness.

362.5 E93i, 2005
AUT Eversole, Robyn ; McNeish, John-Andrew ; Cimadamore, Alberto D.
TIT Indigenous peoples and poverty : an international perspective.
PUB London : Zed, 2005.
SER CROP international studies in poverty research.
CON Contents: Introduction: Indigenous peoples and poverty / John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn Eversole -- INDIGENOUS POVERTY: Overview: Patterns of indigenous disadvantage worldwide / Robyn Eversole -- The conditions of life and health for indigenous women in areas of high marginalization, Chiapas, Mexico / Hector Javier Sanchez-Perez, Guadalupe Vargas Morales and Josep Maria Jansa -- Scarred landscapes adn tattooed faces: poverty, identity and land conflicts in a Taiwanese indigenous community / Scott Simon -- Nutritional vulnerability in indigenous children of the Americas: a human rights issue / Siri Damman -- INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN NATION-STATES: RIGHTS, CITIZENSHIP AND SELF-DETERMINATION: Overview: The right to self-determination / John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn Eversole -- Poverty and international aid among Russia's indigenous peoples / Indra Overland -- Indigenous poeples of South-East Asia: poverty, identity and resistance / Don McCaskill and Jeff Rutherford -- Tackling indigenous disadvantage in the Twenty-First Century: 'social inclusion' and Maori in New Zealand -- Political participation and poverty in Colombian indigenous communities: the case of the Zenu and Mokana peoples / A. Carolina Borda and Dario J. Mejia Montalvo -- Indigenous peoples, poverty and self-determination in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States / Stephen Cornell -- INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT: Overview: Indigenous peoples' perspective on poverty and development / John-Andrew McNeish -- Ecological wealth versus social poverty: contradictions of and perspectives on indigenous development in Central American and Mexico / Pablo Alarcon-Chaires -- Indigenous anti-poverty strategies in an Australian town / Robyn Eversole, Leon Ridgeway, and David Mercer -- Sami responses to poverty in the Nordic countries / Christian Jakob Burmeister Hicks and Ande Somby -- Conclusions: Poverty, peoples and the meaning of change / John-Andrew McNeish and Robyn Eversole.

Rdg/Berks 362.71 S944L, 2007
AUT Sueck, Jerri Diane ; Link, Paul J.
TIT Letters my mother never read : an abandoned orphan's journey.
PUB [S.l.] : distributed by Xlibris Corp., c2007.

362.82 L962i, 2006
AUT Lundberg-Love, Paula K ; Marmion, Shelly L.
TIT "Intimate" violence against women : when spouses, partners, or lovers attack.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
SER Women's psychology, 1931-0021.

363 E68e, 1976
AUT Erikson, Kai.
TIT Everything in its path : destruction of community in the Buffalo Creek flood.
PUB New York : Simon and Schuster, c1976.
SER RICE T FRM 001 2 HRS KAUFFMAN S FRM 001 2 HRS.

363.31 B338c, 2007
AUT Bauder, Julia.
TIT Censorship.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER Current controversies.
CON Contents: 1. Should offensive speech be censored? -- Racist hate speech should be banned / Alexander Tsesis -- Protests a funerals should be banned / The Columbus Dispatch -- Banning the desecration of the American flag would not be censorship / Steven Lubet -- Racially and sexually offensive speech should not be banned in the workplace / David E. Bernstein -- Speech that criticizes religion should not be banned / A.C. Grayling -- Protests at funerals should not be banned / Michelle Cottle -- 2. Should high schools and universities censor? -- High schools are permitted to ban speech that attacks other students / Stephen Reinhardt -- Schools should ban sexually-harassing speech / Bernice Resnick Sandler, Harriett M. Stonehill -- School libraries should restrict students' access to controversial books / Mike Masterson -- High schools should not ban speech that offends other students / Eugene Volokh -- Universities should not institute speech codes / Greg Lukianoff -- Universities should encourage open debate / Judith Rodin -- School libraries should not restrict access to any books / Chris Crutcher -- High schools and universities should not censor student newspapers / Mike Hiestand -- 3. Should pornographic and violent material be censored? -- Censoring pornographic and violent material : an overview / Henry Cohen -- Indecent broadcasts should be censored / L. Brent Bozell III -- Internet pornography should be restricted / Phyllis Schlafly -- Virtual child pornography should be banned / Ernest E. Allen -- The government should help parents shield children from obscene and violent material / Kevin W. Saunders -- Indecent broadcasts should not be censored / Marjorie Heins -- Libraries should not use Internet filters to block pornography / Daniel H. Bromberg -- Virtual child pornography should not be banned / Ambika J. Biggs -- Parents should be responsible for monitoring their children's television viewing / Adam Thierer -- 4. Should speech that endangers national security be censored? -- The press should not publish leaked classified material / Pat Buchanan -- Supports of anti-American terrorism should be barred from entering the United States / Steve Emerson -- Scientific information that could help terrorists should be restricted / Mitchel B. Wallerstein -- Punishing reporters of leaked classified information threatens the practice of journalism / Paul K. McMasters -- Journalists have a duty to fight government secrecy / Peter Weitzel -- Organizations to contact.

363.31 B967c, 2007
AUT Burns, Kate.
TIT Censorship.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER History of issues. Opposing viewpoints series.
CON Contents: Ch. 1: Early American censorship struggles. Press censorship in the colonies / David A. Copeland -- Anthony Comstock crusades to eradicate obscenity / Mary Alden Hopkins -- A lawyer argues against Comstock censorship / Theodore Schroeder -- ch. 2: Cold War-era censorship. Government repression of dissent during the Cold War / Jerel A. Rosati -- Americans must resist Senator McCarthy's censorship / Edward R. Murrow -- A landmark case over the censorship of films / Marjorie Heins -- ch. 3: Wartime censorship. Military secrets and press censorship / C. Robert Zelnick -- Government censorship during World War I / Robert Justin Goldstein -- Censorship of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war / John Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter -- National security is more important than liberty in the war on terror / Richard A. Posner -- Freedom from censorship is crucial in the age of terrorism / Daniel P. Tokaji -- The Patriot Act violates freedom of speech / Nancy Kranich -- The Patriot Act protects national security and civil liberties / George W. Bush -- ch. 4: Censorship struggles in the modern cultural arena. Outlawing flag desecration is dangerous censorship / John S. Keating -- Protecting the flag is patriotism, not censorship / Patrick Brady -- The controversy over Internet filters in libraries / The Why Files -- Librarians organize to fight censorship / Tom Teepen -- Feminists against pornography / Susan Brownmiller -- Censorship of popular music in contemporary America / Paul D. Fischer -- Chronology -- Organizations to contact.

363.31 N163c, 2005
AUT Nakaya, Andrea C.
TIT Censorship : opposing viewpoints.
PUB Farmington Hills, Mich : Greenhaven Press, c2005.
SER Opposing viewpoints series.
CON Contents: ch. 1. Should there be limits to free speech? -- 1. Limits must be imposed on free speech / Jonah Goldberg -- 2. Free speech must be protected / American Civil Liberties Union -- 3. Censorship should be used for the protection of children / Kevin W. Saunders -- 4. Censorship is not an effective way to protect children / Charles Taylor -- 5. The press should practice self-censorship during times of crisis / Carlos A. Kelly -- 6. The press should not be censored during times of crisis / Anthony Lewis -- 7. Telemarketers should be censored / David Ebel -- 8. Censorship of telemarketers violates the First Amendment / Rodney Smolla -- ch. 2. Should the Internet be censored? -- 1. Internet filters should be used in libraries / William H. Rehnquist -- 2. Internet filters should not be used in libraries / Clarence Page -- 3. Internet pornography should be censored / J. Robert Flores -- 4. The government should not censor Internet pornography / Eugene Volokh -- 5. Regulations should be implemented to reduce spam / Charles E. Schumer -- 6. Regulations should not be implemented to reduce unwanted spam / Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. -- ch. 3. Has America's war on terrorism led to increased censorship? -- 1. The Patriot Act has led to increased censorship in the United States / Eleanor J. Bader -- 2. The Patriot Act has not led to unnecessary censorship in the United States / John Ashcroft -- 3. The right to dissent has been threatened in the war on terrorism / Simon Houpt -- 4. The right to dissent has not been threatened in the war on terrorism / Bobby Eberle -- 5. The U.S. occupation of Iraq has resulted in Iraqi media censorship / Alex Gourevitch -- 6. The U.S. occupation of Iraq has resulted in Iraqi media freedom / Ilene R. Prusher -- ch. 4. Is freedom in the United States threatened by censorship? -- 1. Government regulation of broadcasters is a threat to freedom / Adam Thierer -- 2. Government regulation of broadcasters is necessary / Jonathan S. Adelstein -- 3. Censorship by media conglomerates threatens democracy / Gene Kimmelman -- 4. Current media ownership rules promote freedom of speech / Michael K. Powell -- 5. The proposed Flag Protection Amendment is a threat to liberty in America / Gary E. May -- 6. The proposed Flag Protection Amendment is not a threat to liberty in America / Patrick H. Brady.

363.32 R112b 2006 v.1-2
AUT Rabasa, Angel.
TIT Beyond al-Qaeda.
PUB Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The global jihadist movement -- pt. 2. The outer rings of the terrorist universe.

363.33 G677d, 2006
AUT Goss, Kristin A.
TIT Disarmed : the missing movement for gun control in America.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
SER Princeton studies in American politics.
CON Contents: The gun control (participation) paradox -- A movement in theory -- Socializing costs: patronage and political participation -- Personalizing benefits: issue frames and political participation -- Changing the calculation: policy incrementalism and political participation -- Mobilizing around modest measures: three cases -- Conclusion: pluralism, participation, and public goods -- Appendixes. Gun-related trends ; Brief case studies of other social-reform movements ; Survey of Million Mom March participants.

363.738 K81f, 2006
AUT Kolbert, Elizabeth.
TIT Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Bloomsbury Pub. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
SER KAUFFMAN S FRM 001 2 HRS RICE T FRM 001 2 HRS.
CON Contents: Shishmaref, Alaska -- A warmer sky -- Under the glacier -- The butterfly and the toad -- The curse of Akkad -- Floating houses -- Business as usual -- The day after Kyoto -- Burlington, Vermont -- Man in the Anthropocene.

364.151 J76g, 2007
AUT Jones, Adam.
TIT Genocide : a comprehensive introduction.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
CON Contents: The origins of genocide -- Imperialism, war, and social revolution -- Genocide of indigenous peoples -- The Armenian genocide -- Stalin's terror -- The Jewish holocaust -- Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge -- Bosnia and Kosovo -- Holocaust in Rwanda -- Psychological perspectives -- The sociology and anthropology of genocide -- Political science and international relations -- Gendering genocide -- Memory, forgetting, and denial -- Justice, truth, and redress -- Strategies of intervention and prevention.

364.1523 R935t 2007 Popular reading
AUT Rule, Ann.
TIT Too late to say goodbye : a true story of murder and betrayal. - 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Free Press, 2007.

364.16 M621s 2006
AUT Michalowski, Raymond J ; Kramer, Ronald C.
TIT State-corporate crime : wrongdoing at the intersection of business and government.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2006.
SER Critical issues in crime and society.

364.168 M135s, 2007
AUT MacDonald, Scott B ; Hughes, Jane E.
TIT Separating fools from their money : a history of American financial scandals.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2007.

368.4 P822s, 2006
AUT Poole, Mary.
TIT The segregated origins of social security : African Americans and the welfare state.
PUB Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
CON Contents: So now Mr. President, we are looking for something : African Americans, the Social Security Act, and the Great Depression -- The not-so-solid South : southern Democrats in Congress -- Colorblind public policy : the staff of the Committee on Economic Security -- Shaky ground : Black and interracial organizations -- Gender and the white united front : the women of the Federal Children's Bureau -- Conclusion : those old discriminatory practices.

371.26 Y43 2006
AUT Yeh, Stuart S.
TIT Raising student achievement through rapid assessment and test reform.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Motivating students through rapid feedback -- Less pressure -- Less frustration -- Less narrowing -- Less failure -- The future of testing -- The policy context.

371.302 K79h, 2006
AUT Kohn, Alfie.
TIT The homework myth : why our kids get too much of a bad thing. - 1st Da Capo Press ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Life Long, 2006.

371.302 T572w, 2004
AUT Tileston, Donna Walker.
TIT What every teacher should know about instructional planning.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2004.
SER What every teacher should know about.
CON Contents: Diverse learners -- Student motivation -- Learning, memory, and the brain -- Instructional planning -- Effective teaching strategies -- Classroom management and discipline -- Student assessment -- Special learners -- Media and technology -- The profession and politics of teaching.

371.33 R755i, 2007
AUT Rolls, Albert.
TIT International perspectives on education.
PUB [Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co., 2007.
SER The reference shelf ; v. 79, no. 4.
CON Contents: Business of schooling / George Kent -- Educating Amaretch: private schools for the poor and the new frontier for investors / James Tooley -- Crowds of pupils but little else in African schools / Sharon LaFraniere -- Keeping the promise / Birger Fredriksen -- A nation with a long memory, but a truncated history / Hassan M. Fattah -- Should we teach patriotism? / Diane Ravitch -- An education in Muslim integration / Jay Tolson -- Strategies for teaching civic education: an international perspective / Kaye Pepper -- "A" is for Allah, "J" is for jihad / Craig Davis -- Preach your children well / Amanda Gefter -- New paradigms for 21st century education: an international perspective / Victor Ordo�ez and Siegfried Ramler -- College goes global / William R. Brody -- World transformed: how other countries are preparing students for the interconnected world of the 21st century / Vivien Stewart -- Rethinking education in the global era / Marcelo M. Su�rez-Orozco -- Online high-school programs that work: five common strategies for making online high school programs effective in your school district / M. D. Roblyer -- Technology in Ethiopian schools: connecting children from various cultures / Judit Szente -- Promise of open educational resources / Marshall S. Smith and Catherine M. Casserly -- Beyond the book: electronic textbooks will bring worldwide learning / Parker Rossman -- Review of two mainline e-learning projects in the European Union / H�seyin Uzunboylu -- Schools making tough choices: an international perspective / C. Rotberg -- Measure of learning / Alex Kingsbury -- If you think we have problems...Japan's inferior university system / Jane Barnes Mack-Cozzo -- Freedom of choice can only make it better / Kevin Donnelly -- Discounting education's value / Anthony P. Carnevale.

371.39 S545t 2007
AUT Shelton-Colangelo, Sharon ; Mancuso, Carolina ; Duvall, Mimi.
TIT Teaching with joy : educational practices for the twenty-first century.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.

371.4 P269c 2007
AUT Parsons, Richard D.
TIT Counseling strategies that work! : evidence-based interventions for school counselors.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2007.
CON Contents: 1: Assisting students navigate academic demands -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: interventions for student distractibility, inattentiveness, and time on task -- Disruptive behavior: tantrums, out-of-seat, and clowning -- Dishonesty: cheating and stealing -- Low self-efficacy and motivational issues -- Task completion and homework issues -- 2: Assisting students with interpersonal relationships -- Social withdrawal, shyness, and social anxiety -- Violence: aggression and bullying -- Noncompliance, defiance, and oppositional behavior -- Conduct problems and antisocial behavior -- Sexual behavior -- Prejudice and "isms" in the school -- 3: Helping students with emotional difficulties -- Anxiety: separation, social, and test -- Stress -- Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Improving and maintaining self-esteem -- Depression -- Suicidal ideation and behavior -- Trauma, loss, and the grieving process -- Eating disorders -- Substance use and abuse.

371.58 L422s2 2007
AUT Lawrence, Richard.
TIT School crime and juvenile justice. - 2nd ed.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: 1. Juvenile crime in society and in schools -- Public views of juvenile crime -- Some historical perspective -- Measures of crime -- Police measures of juvenile crime -- Juvenile court cases -- Self-report measures -- Victimization surveys -- Measuring school crime -- Measures of school crime and safety -- Victimization reports -- The effects of school crime and violence -- International measures of school crime and violence -- Summary -- 2. Justice for juveniles -- Historical overview of juvenile justice -- Juvenile justice in America -- The "child-saving" movement -- The first juvenile court -- Comparison of juvenile and criminal court -- Legal and procedural distinctions : juvenile versus criminal justice -- Challenges and changes in juvenile justice -- U.S. Supreme Court decisions -- Federal and state legislative changes -- Current juvenile justice trends and reforms -- Summary -- 3. Explaining delinquency and school crime -- Why study theories of crime and delinquency? -- Types of crime theories -- Individual explanations for delinquency -- Social structure theory -- Social process explanations -- Developmental and life-course theories -- General and integrated theories -- Social reaction theories : labeling and conflict -- Female delinquency -- Applying theories to school crime and justice -- Summary. 4. Familiy, peers, gangs, and delinquency -- The family -- Changes in family and parental roles -- The family and delinquency -- Do parents cause delinquency? -- Child abuse and neglect -- Parents, school problems, and delinquency -- Peer relationships and delinquency -- Gangs and delinquency -- Drugs and delinquency -- Summary -- 5. Dropout and delinquency -- Perspectives on truancy and dropout -- Defining and measuring dropout -- The extent of absenteeism and dropout -- Factors associated with dropping out -- Consequences of dropping out -- Truancy, dropout, and delinquency -- Policy implications of delinquency and dropout -- Truancy and dropout-prevention programs -- Summary -- 6. School environment, crime, and school safety -- School crime : community problem or school problem? -- The challenges faced by schools -- School tracking and delinquency -- School funding and educational inequality -- School reform and at-risk students -- School programs and teaching strategies -- The role of parents in school achievement -- Do schools cause failure, and delinquency? -- School climate and disorder -- Policy implications for school crime prevention -- Summary. Contents: 7. Explaining and responding to school violence -- Explaining and predicting school violence -- Identifying youth at risk of school violence -- Criminal profiling -- Warning signs -- Threat assessment -- The reliability and validity of profiles and warning signs -- A theory of school shootings -- Preventing school violence -- Summary -- 8. School law and students' rights -- Students' rights in school -- School records and privacy -- Freedom of speech and expression -- Constitutional due process -- Suspension and expulsion -- Corporal punishment -- Search and seizure -- Rulings on types of school searches -- The exclusionary rule and school searches -- Court decisions on the exclusionary rule in schools -- Safe schools : required by law? -- Summary -- 9. The police and juvenile crime -- Police roles and responsibilities -- Police officers in schools -- Police and juvenile offenders -- Police decisions and use of discretion -- Police diversion and status offenders -- Alternatives to police arrest and custody -- Police and juveniles' legal rights -- Are SRO's school officials or police officials? -- Fingerprinting, photographing, and records -- Summary. Contents: 10. The juvenile court -- History and development of the juvenile court -- Juvenile court procedures -- Juvenile transfers to adult court -- Are juveniles different from adults? -- Do juvenile transfers make a difference? -- "Blend sentencing" : an alternative to transfers -- Juvenile records -- The end of the "ultimate punishment" for juveniles -- Juvenile court trends and reforms -- Summary -- 11. Juvenile corrections -- Residential programs and institutional corrections -- History and development of juvenile corrections -- Detention centers -- Correctional institutions for juveniles -- Other community programs -- Boot camps -- Wilderness camps -- Disproportionate minority confinement -- From deinstitutionalization to "get-tough" policies -- Juvenile probation and community corrections -- Intermediate sanctions in juvenile corrections -- Reexamining community corrections models -- Effectiveness of juvenile corrections -- Limitations of juvenile corrections for delinquency prevention -- Juvenile corrections and schools -- Summary -- 12. School-based programs for delinquency prevention -- Crime control versus crime prevention -- Defining crime prevention -- Theoretical bases for school-based delinquency prevention -- Some directions for school crime prevention -- Federal government role in delinquency prevention -- School-based prevention : some model programs -- Recommendations for educators, justice officials, and policymakers -- Summary.

371.9 T572w, 2004
AUT Tileston, Donna Walker.
TIT What every teacher should know about special learners.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2004.
SER What every teacher should know about.
CON Contents: Differentiation and the brain -- Who is at risk and what can we do about it? -- Special education students in the regular classroom -- Gifted education : differentiation.

371.95 D261g, 2006
AUT Davis, Gary A.
TIT Gifted children and gifted education : a handbook for teachers and parents.
PUB Scottsdale, Ariz. : Great Potential Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Gifted students and gifted education -- Characteristics of the gifted -- Definitions, theories, and legal questions -- Identification of gifted and talented students -- Acceleration -- Enrichment -- Grouping gifted students -- Planning a gifted program -- Models that guide teaching the gifted -- Thinking skills -- Creativity and teaching for creative growth -- Problems and counseling needs.

372.41 S392r 2006
AUT Schumm, Jeanne Shay.
TIT Reading assessment and instruction for all learners.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, 2006.
SER Solving problems in the teaching of literacy.

372.83 M663t, 2006
AUT Mindes, Gayle.
TIT Teaching young children social studies.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
SER Teaching young children, 1554-6004.
CON Contents: Introduction to the power of social studies -- Moral development, character education, and the social studies -- Teaching and learning social studies in the age of state standards and head start outcomes -- The context of culture in teaching social studies: beyond the antibias curriculum / Leslie R. Williams and Gayle Mindes -- Perspectives on positive classroom practices / Linda Davey and Doris Pronin Fromberg -- Multimedia, the world, and young children -- Assessing the accomplishment of learning in the social studies -- Knitting it all together.

378.194 B954w, 2006
AUT Burgan, Mary.
TIT What ever happened to the faculty? : drift and decision in higher education.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Bricks and mortar : the American campus -- The myth of the bloviating professor : sages and guides -- Getting the "liberal" out of education : the curriculum -- Absence makes the heart grow colder : online education -- A more perfect union : college and university governance -- Rookies of the year and superstars : academic competition -- The case of the firecracker boys : academic science and academic freedom -- The disposable faculty : tenure now -- Staging a comeback : exemplary cases.

378.198 C993a, 2006
AUT Cuyjet, Michael J.
TIT African American men in college. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2006.
CON Contents: 1: Issues and ideas -- African American college men: twenty-first-century issues and concerns / Michael J. Cuyjet -- Enhancing the academic climate for African American men / Fred A. Bonner II and Kevin W. Bailey -- The impact of campus activities on African American college men / Charles Brown -- Enhancing African American male student outcomes through leadership and active involvement / Shaun R. Harper -- Developmental mentoring of African American college men / E. Michael Sutton -- The role of spirituality and religion in the experiences of African American male college students / Lemuel W. Watson -- The role of black fraternities in the African American male undergraduate experience / Shaun R. Harper and Frank Harris III -- African American male college athletes / Kenya LeNoir Messer -- African American gay men: another challenge for the academy / Jamie Washington and Vernon A. Wall -- African American men at historically black college and universities: different environments, similar challenges / Walter M. Kimbrough and Shaun R. Harper -- Meeting the challenges to African American men at community colleges / Myron L. Pope -- Helping African American men matriculate: ideas and suggestions / Michael J. Cuyjet -- 2: Profiles of some successful programs -- Student African American brotherhood / Tyrone Bledsoe and Kevin D. Rome, Sr. -- Meyerhoff scholarship program: University of Maryland, Baltimore County / Earnestine Baker -- The black man on campus (BMOC) project: Bowling Green State University, Ohio / Kevin W. Bailey -- Black men's collective: Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey / Christopher C. Catching -- Black male rap session: University of Louisville / Edward Laster -- African American men of Arizona State University (AAMASU) / Alonzo Jones and Lasana O. Hotep -- Sons of Alkebulan and the black man think tank: University of North Texas / Pamela Safisha Nzingha Hill -- It's easier than you think: Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio / Tobias Q. Brown and Amanda A. Farabee -- The Collegiate 100: an affiliate organization of the 100 Black Men of America, Inc. / Christian A. Mattingly and Carl Humphrey.

382.41 E46d 2006
AUT Elliott, Kimberly Ann.
TIT Delivering on Doha : farm trade and the poor.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Center for Global Development : Institute for International Economics, c2006.

Rdg/Berks 398.0974 A211b 1995
AUT Adams, Charles J.
TIT Berks the bizarre.
PUB Reading, Pa. : Exeter House Books, 1995.

398.22 B277a, 2001
AUT Barron, W. R. J. ; Vinaver Trust.
TIT The Arthur of the English : the Arthurian legend in medieval English life and literature. - Rev. ed. with an additional postscript, new ed.
PUB Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2001.
SER Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages ; 2.
CON Contents: The Celtic tradition / Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan -- Dynastic chronicles / W.R.J. Barron, Franise Le Saux, Lesley Johnson -- The romance tradition / Catherine Batt, Rosalind Field -- Dynastic romance / Karen Hodder ... [et al.] -- Chivalric romance / Maldwyn Mills ... [et al.] -- Folk romance / Gillian Rogers ... [et al.] -- Sir Thomas Malory's Le morte Darthur / P.J.C. Field -- The Arthurian legacy / Chris Brooks, Inga Bryden.

398.22 E26g, 2001
AUT Edwards, Elizabeth.
TIT The genesis of narrative in Malory's Morte Darthur.
PUB Cambridge ; Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 2001.
SER Arthurian studies. ; 43.

398.45 M126s, 2006
AUT McClelland, Bruce.
TIT Slayers and their vampires : a cultural history of killing the dead.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Back from the dead : monsters and violence -- Conversion in the Balkans : a thousand years of the vampire -- Scapegoats and demons : a thousand years of the vampire, continued -- Into the West : from folklore to literature -- Seers and slayers -- Seeing the dead -- The rational slayer -- From Vienna to London -- The slayer generation.

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420.9 M951o, 2006
AUT Mugglestone, Lynda.
TIT The Oxford history of English.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Preliminaries: Before English / Terry Hoad -- Beginnings and Transitions: Old English / Susan Irvine -- Contacts and Conflicts: Latin, Norse, and French / Matthew Townend -- Middle English - Dialects and Diversity / Marilyn Corrie -- From Middle to Early Modern English / Jeremy Smith -- Restructuring Renaissance English / April McMahon -- Mapping Change in Tudor English / Terttu Nevalainen -- The Babel of Renaissance English / Paula Blank -- Correctness and its Origins / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade -- English in the Nineteenth Century / Lynda Mugglestone -- Modern Regional English in the British Isles / Clive Upton -- English Among the Languages / Richard W. Bailey -- English Worldwide in the Twentieth Century / Tom McArthur -- Into the

428.4 H669k 2006
AUT Hirsch, E. D.
TIT The knowledge deficit : closing the shocking education gap for American children.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
CON Contents: The origins of the knowledge deficit -- Sounding out : just the beginning of reading -- Knowledge of language -- Knowledge of things -- Using school time productively -- Using tests productively -- Achieving commonality and fairness.

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Curr 507.1 A881p v.1-2
AUT Project 2061.
TIT Atlas of science literacy.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Association for the Advancement of Science : National Science Teachers Association, 2001-2007.

514.7 B262s, 2006
AUT Barnsley, M. F.
TIT Superfractals.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Codes, metrics and topologies -- Transformations of points, sets, pictures and measures -- Semigroups on sets, measures and pictures -- Hyperbolic IFSs, attractors and fractal tops -- Superfractals.

520.92 B632b, 2006
AUT Blackwell, Richard J. ; Inchofer, Melchior.
TIT Behind the scenes at Galileo's trial : including the first English translation of Melchior Inchofer's Tractatus syllepticus.
PUB Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The legal case at Galileo's trial : impasse and perfidy -- Melchior Inchofer's role in the Galileo affair -- The scriptural case against Copernicanism in 1633 -- Christopher Scheiner's dilemma : between Galileo and the church -- Fallibilism and religion -- Melchior Inchofer, Tractatus Syllepticus (1633) -- Jesuit Rules on theology and philosophy -- Christopher Scheiner, Prodromus pro sole mobile, (1633; pub. 1651), book 1, chapter 1.

523.18 L665c 2007
AUT Levin, F. S.
TIT Calibrating the cosmos : how cosmology explains our big bang universe.
PUB New York : Springer, c2007.
SER Astronomers' universe.

530.11 J32c, 2006
AUT Jammer, Max.
TIT Concepts of simultaneity : from antiquity to Einstein and beyond.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

535.8 B214L, 2006
AUT Band, Yehuda Benzion.
TIT Light and matter : electromagnetism, optics, spectroscopy and lasers.
PUB Chichester ; Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2006.
CON Contents: Electromagnetic radiation -- Phenomenology of light propagation in matter -- The interaction of light and matter -- Magnetic phenomena, constitutive relations and plasmas -- Quantum description of absorption, emission and light scattering -- Spectroscopy -- Lasers -- Nonlinear optics -- Quantum-optical processes -- Light propagation in optical fibers and introduction to optical communication systems.

Chem 546 K92h2, 2006
AUT Krebs, Robert E.
TIT The history and use of our earth's chemical elements : a reference guide. - 2nd ed.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2006.
CON Contents: HOW TO USE THIS BOOK -- INTRODUCTION -- A SHORT HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY -- The Beginnings of Science -- Origins of the Earth\u02BEs Chemical Elements -- Early Uses of Chemistry -- The Age of Alchemy -- The Age of Modern Chemistry -- Elements and Compounds -- ATOMIC STRUCTURE -- Early Ideas of Atomic Structure -- Some Theoretical Atomic Models -- The Nucleus and Radiation -- Chemical Bonding -- Organic Chemistry -- Fullerenes and Nanotechnology -- THE PERIODIC TABLE OF THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS -- History -- Rules for Cataloging the Elements -- Isotopes -- Radioactivity. Contents: GUIDE TO THE ELEMENTS -- Alkali metals: periods 1 to 7, Group (IA) -- Alkali earth metals: periods 2 to 7, Group 2 (IIA) -- Transition elements: metals to nonmetals -- Metallics, metalloids, semiconductors, nonmetals -- Lanthanide series (rare-earth elements): period 6 -- Actinide series (period 7) and transuranic elements -- Transactinide series: period 7 (continuation of actinide series) -- The superactinides (super heavy elements) and possible future elements.

Chem 548 T576c, 2006
AUT Tilley, R. J. D.
TIT Crystals and crystal structures.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2006.
CON Contents: Crystals and crystal structures. -- Lattices, planes and directions. -- Two-dimensional patterns and tiling. -- Symmetry in three dimensions. -- Building crystal structures from lattices and space groups. -- Diffraction and crystal structures. -- The depiction of crystal structures. -- Defects, modulated structures and quasicrystals. --Appendix 1. Vector addition and subtraction. -- Appendix 2. Data for some inorganic crystal structures. -- Appendix 3. Schoenflies symbols. -- Appendix 4. The 230 space groups. -- Appendix 5. Complex numbers. -- Appendix 6. Complex amplitudes.

550 J14c, 2006
AUT Wyse Jackson, Patrick.
TIT The chronologers' quest : episodes in the search for the age of the earth.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The ancients : early chronologies -- Biblical calculations -- Models of Aristotelian infinity and sacred theories of the Earth -- Falling stones, salty oceans, and evaporating waters : early empirical measurements of the age of the Earth -- Thinking in layers : early ideas in stratigraphy -- An infinite and cyclical Earth and religious orthodoxy -- The cooling Earth -- Stratigraphical laws, uniformitarianism and the development of the geological column -- 'Formed stones' and their subsequent role in biostratigraphy and evolutionary theory -- The hour-glass of accumulated or denuded sediments -- Thermodynamics and the cooling Earth revisited -- Oceanic salination reconsidered -- Radioactivity : invisible geochronometers -- The universal problem and duck soup.

576.8 A958o, 2007
AUT Avise, John C.
TIT On evolution.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

576.8 J24s, 2006
AUT Jakosky, Bruce M.
TIT Science, society, and the search for life in the universe.
PUB Tucson, Ariz. : University of Arizona Press, c2006.

576.8 S553w, 2006
AUT Shermer, Michael.
TIT Why Darwin matters : the case against intelligent design. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Times Books, 2006.
CON Contents: The facts of evolution -- Why people do not accept evolution -- In search of the designer -- Debating intelligent design -- Science under attack -- The real agenda -- Why science cannot contradict religion -- Why Christians and conservatives should accept evolution -- The real unsolved problems in evolution -- Epilogue : why science matters.

578.4 B716w, 2006
AUT Bonner, John Tyler.
TIT Why size matters : from bacteria to blue whales.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.

581.6 K21i, 2007
AUT Kaufman, Sylvan Ramsey ; Kaufman, Wallace.
TIT Invasive plants : a guide to identification and the impacts and control of common North American species. 1st ed.
PUB Mechanicsburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books, c2007.

582.13 C625w, 2006
AUT Clemants, Steven Earl ; Gracie, Carol.
TIT Wildflowers in the field and forest : a field guide to the northeastern United States.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER Field guide series.

591.5 L933e, 2006
AUT Lucas, Jeffrey R ; Simmons, Leigh W.
TIT Essays in Animal behaviour : celebrating 50 years of Animal behaviour.
PUB Amsterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Elsevier, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. Fifty years of animal behaviour -- 2. A textbook history of animal behavior -- 3. Behavioural ecology : natural history as science -- 4. The transformation of behaviour field studies -- 5. Too much natural history, or too little? -- 6. A history of Animal behaviour by a partial, ignorant and prejudiced ethologist -- 7. Genes and social behaviour -- 8. Control of behavioural strategies for capricious environments -- 9. Costing reproduction -- 10. The promise of behavioural biology -- 11. Theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding when animals use socially acquired information and from whom they acquire it -- 12. Behavioural processes affecting development : Tinbergen's fourth question comes of age -- 13. The case for developmental ecology -- 14. Beyond extra-pair paternity : constraints, fitness components, and social mating systems -- 15. Condition-dependent indicators in sexual selection : development of theory and tests -- 16. Indirect selection and individual selection in sociobiology : my personal views on theories of social behaviour -- 17. Honesty and deception in animal signals -- 18. Fifty years of bird song research : a case study in animal behaviour -- 19. Avian navigation : from historical to modern concepts -- 20. Animal welfare.

591.51 W322c, 2006
AUT Wasserman, Edward A ; Zentall, Thomas R.
TIT Comparative cognition : experimental explorations of animal intelligence.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Ref 599 M265W3, 2005 v.1-2
AUT Wilson, Don E ; Reeder, DeeAnn M.
TIT Mammal species of the world : a taxonomic and geographic reference. - 3rd ed.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005.

599.098 L867m, 2007
AUT Lord, Rexford D.
TIT Mammals of South America.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

599.1 R796r, 2005
AUT Rose, Kenneth David ; Archibald, J. David.
TIT The rise of placental mammals : origins and relationships of the Major Extant Clades.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: Womb with a view : the rise of placentals / J. David Archibald and Kenneth D. Rose -- Looking back at the record : George Gaylord Simpson and paleomammalogy / L�o F. Laporte -- Anatomical evidence for superordinal/ordinal eutherian taxa in the Cretaceous / John R. Wible, Guillermo W. Rougier and Michael J. Novacek -- Molecular evidence for major placental clades / Mark S. Springer ... [et al.] -- Insectivoran-grade placentals / Robert J. Asher -- Macroscelidea and Tubulidentata / Patricia A. Holroyd and Jason C. Mussell -- Paenungulata (Sirenia, Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, and relatives) / Emmanuel Gheerbrant, Daryl P. Domning and Pascal Tassy -- Xenarthra and Pholidota / Kenneth D. Rose ... [et al.] -- Euarchonta (Dermoptera, Scandentia, Primates) / Mary T. Silcox ... [et al.] -- Glires (Lagomorpha, Rodentia) / Jin Meng and Andr� R. Wyss -- Chiroptera / Nancy B. Simmons -- Carnivora / John J. Flynn and Gina D. Wesley-Hunt -- Perissodactyla / Jeremy J. Hooker -- Artiodactyla / Jessica M. Theodor, Kenneth D. Rose and J�rg Erfurt -- Cetacea / Philip D. Gingerich.

599.9 D354d, 2007
AUT Delisle, Richard G.
TIT Debating humankind's place in nature, 1860-2000 : the nature of paleoanthropology.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2007.
SER Advances in human evolution.

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609.4 W654s, 2006
AUT Wigelsworth, Jeffrey R.
TIT Science and technology in medieval European life.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
SER Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series. Science and technology in everyday life, 1080-4749.

610.73 H473m2, 2003
AUT Hek, Gill ; Judd, Maggie ; Moule, Pam.
TIT Making sense of research : an introduction for health and social care practitioners. - 2nd ed.
PUB London : Sage Publications, c2003.

613.043 B946v 2006
AUT Burbank, Patricia M.
TIT Vulnerable older adults : health care needs and interventions.
PUB New York : Springer Pub., c2006.
CON Contents: Pt. I. Frail older adults. Health issues of frail older adults / J. Stoukides ... [et al.] -- Health care strategies for frail older adults / J. Stoukides .. [et al.]. Pt. II. Aging prisoners. Health issues of aging prisoners / T. Smyer and M. Gragert -- Aging prisoners: strategies for health care / T. Smyer, M. Gragert, and D.C. Martins. Pt. III. Homeless older adults. Health issues of homeless older adults / D.C. Martins and M.A. Sullivan -- Health care strategies for homeless older adults / D.C. Martins and M.A. Sullivan. Pt. IV. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender older adults. Health issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender older adults / P. Burbank and G. Burkholder -- Health care strategies for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender older adults / P. Burbank, G. Burkholder, and P. Fournier. Pt. V. Older adults with HIV/AIDS. Health issues of older adults with HIV/AIDS / C.A. Emlet and K.M. Nokes -- Health care strategies for older adults with HIV/AIDS / K.M. Nokes and C.A. Emlet.

614.5 E57e 2006
AUT Engel, Jonathan.
TIT The epidemic : (a global history of AIDS).
PUB New York : Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. First reports -- 2. Growing panic -- 3. Race to the vector -- 4. Conservative backlash -- 5. Organizing and selling -- 6. Drugs -- 7. The shooting galleries -- 8. Who pays? -- 9. Myths -- 10. Africa -- 11. Breakthrough -- 12. Asia -- 13. Backsliding -- 14. Pandemic.

615.1 D321c 2006
AUT DeGrandpre, Richard J.
TIT The cult of pharmacology : how America became the world's most troubled drug culture.
PUB Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Mama Coca -- Cult of the SSRI -- The emperor's new smokes -- The placebo text -- America's domestic drug affair -- War -- The drug reward -- Possessed by the stimulus -- Ideology.

616.8522 B422s2, 2007
AUT Beidel, Deborah C ; Turner, Samuel M.
TIT Shy children, phobic adults : nature and treatment of social anxiety disorder. - 2nd ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, c2007.

616.8588 H236J 2007
AUT Jacobson, John W ; Mulick, James A. ; Rojahn, Johannes.
TIT Handbook of intellectual and developmental disabilities.
PUB New York : Springer, c2007.
SER Issues on clinical child psychology.
CON Contents: Epidemiology and etiology of mental retardation / Suzanne McDermott ... [et al.] -- The autism spectrum / Christopher Gillberg -- Cerebral Palsy / Sarah Winter -- Epilepsy in people with mental retardation / Shoumitro Deb -- Pediatric brain injury / Dennis C. Russo ... [et al.] -- Behavioral effects of genetic mental retardation disorders / Robert M. Hodapp and Elisabeth M. Dykens -- Social acceptance and attitude change : fifty years of research / Gary N. Siperstein, Jennifer Norins, and Amanda Mohler -- Evaluating developmental disabilities services / John W. Jacobsen -- Educational service interventions and reforms / James M. Kauffman and Timothy J. Landrum -- Psychological services for older adults with intellectual disabilities / James P. Acquilano ... [et al.] -- Residential and day services / Richard R. Saunders -- Behavioral-clinical consultation in the development disabilities : contemporary and emerging roles / Joseph N. Ricciardi and James K. Luiselli -- Advocacy and litigation in professional practice / Richard J. Landau -- Intellectual assessment and intellectual disability / John G. Borkowski ... [et al.] -- Adaptive behavior / Sharon A. Borthwick-Duffy -- Psychosocial and mental status assessment / Peter Sturmey -- Functional behavioral assessment in practice : concepts and applications / Sandra L. Harris and Beth A. Glasberg -- Psychoeducational assessment / Caroline I. Magyar, Vincent Pandolfi, and Christine R. Peterson -- Developmental and behavioral screening / Frances Page Glascoe -- Forensic and psychosexual assessment / Marc Goldman -- Family assessment and social support / Laraine Masters Glidden and Sarah A. Schoolcraft -- Science to practice in intellectual disability : the role of empirically supported treatments / Sigan L. Hartley, Sarah Voss Horrell, and William E. Maclean Jr. -- Early intervention : background, research findings, and future directions / Sharon Landesman Ramey, Craig T. Ramey, and Robin Gaines Lanzi -- The system of early intervention for children with developmental disabilities : current status and challenges for the future / Michael J. Guralnick -- Stereotypy, self-injury, and related abnormal repetitive behaviors / James W. Bodfish -- Assessment and treatment psychopathology among people with developmental delays / Johnny L. Matson and Rinita B. Laud -- Aggression in persons with intellectual disabilities and mental disorders / William I. Gardner -- Speech and language deficits in children with developmental disabilities / Joanne Gerenser and Bonnie Forman -- Functional skills training for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities / Paula K. Davis and Ruth Anne Rehfeldt -- Social skills training for children with intellectual disabilities / Denis G. Sukhodolsky and Eric M. Butter -- Vocational skills and performance / Janis G. Chadsey -- Sex offending behavior / Christine Maguth Nezu ... [et al.] -- Pharmacotherapy / Michael G. Aman and Yaser Ramadan -- Ethical issues in clinical se...

Ref 616.8917 E23S, 2006
AUT Skelton, Ross M.
TIT The Edinburgh international encyclopaedia of psychoanalysis.
PUB Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.

620.5 H941n, 2006
AUT Hunt, Geoffrey ; Mehta, Michael D.
TIT Nanotechnology : risk, ethics and law.
PUB London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan, 2006.
SER Science in society series.
CON Contents: The challenge of nanotechnologies / Geoffrey Hunt and Michael D. Mehta -- Introducing nanotechnology -- Nanotechnology: from "wow" to "yuck" ? / Kristen Kulinowski -- Nanotechnology: from Feynman to funding / K. Eric Drexler -- Microsystems and nanoscience for biomedical applications: a view to the future / Linda M. Pilarksi, Michael D. Mehta, Timothy Caulfield, Karan V.I.S. Kaler, and Christopher J. Backhouse -- Nanotechnoscience and complex systems: the case for nanology / Geoffrey Hunt -- Regional developments -- Nanotechnologies and society in Japan / Matsuda Masami, Geoffrey Hunt, and Obayashi Masayuki -- Nanotechnologies and society in the USA / Kirsty Mills -- Nanotechnologies and society in Europe / Geoffrey Hunt -- Nanotechnologies and society in Canada / Linda Goldenberg -- Benefits and risks -- From biotechnology to nanotechnology: what can we learn from earlier technologies? / Michael D. Mehta -- Getting nanotechnology right the first time / John Balbus, Richard Denison, Karen Florini, and Scott Walsh -- Risk management and regulation in an emerging technology / Roland Clift -- Nanotechnologyand nanoparticle toxicity: a case for precaution / C. Vyvyan Howard and December S.K. Ikah -- The future of nanotechnology in food science and nutrition: can science predict its safety? / Arpad Pusztai and Susan Bardocz -- Ethics and public understanding -- The global ethics of nanotechnology / Geoffrey Hunt -- Going public: risk, trust and public understanding of nanotechnologies / Julie Barnett, Anna Carr, and Roland Clift -- Dwarfing the social? nanotechnology lessons from the biotechnology front / Edna F. Einsiedel and Linda Goldenberg -- Law and regulation -- Nanotechnologies and the law of patents: a collision course / Siva Vaidhyanathan -- Nanotechnologies and civil liability / Alan Hannah and Geoffrey Hunt -- Nanotechnologies and the ethical conduct of research involving human subjects / Lorraine Sheremeta -- Nanotechnologies and corporate criminal liability / Celia Wells and Juanita Elias -- What makes nanotechnologies special? / Michael D. Mehta and Geoffrey Hunt.

629.132 L869s, 2006
AUT Lorenz, Ralph.
TIT Spinning flight : dynamics of frisbees, boomerangs, samaras, and skipping stones.
PUB New York ; London : Springer, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Aerodynamics of balls -- Bouncing balls, airbags, and tumbleweeds -- Spinning bullets, bomb, and rockets -- Satellites and spin -- Encountering asteroids and comets -- Planetary probes and spinning parachutes -- Frisbees -- Flying cylinders and rings -- Spinning aircraft and nonspinning disc aircraft -- The boomerang -- Samaras -- Skipping stones and bouncing bombs -- Conclusions.

629.28 H729p, 2007
AUT Hole, Graham.
TIT The psychology of driving.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2007.
CON Contents: Methodological issues in the study of driving -- Perceptual factors in driving -- Attentional factors in driving -- Effect of in-car distractions on driving -- Driving and the perception of risk -- Driving and fatigue -- Driving and drugs -- The effects of age on driving -- Driving and the future.

641.3 B426m, 2006
AUT Belasco, Warren James.
TIT Meals to come : a history of the future of food.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.
SER California studies in food and culture. ; 16.
CON Contents: Pt. I. Debating the future of food: the battle of the think tanks. The stakes in our steaks ; The debate: Will the world run out of food? ; The deep structure of the debate. -- Pt. II. Imagining the future of food: speculative fiction. The utopian caveat ; Dystopias. -- Pt. III. Things to come: three cornucopian futures. The classical future ; The modernist future ; The recombinant future.

646.4 L113r, 2006
AUT La Barre, Kathleen M.
TIT Reference book of women's vintage clothing, 1910-1919.
PUB Dallas, Ore. : La Barre Books, c2006.

Ref 658.049 H236 2006
TIT The handbook of country risk : a guide to international business and trade.
PUB London : Kogan Page, 2002-.

658.409 L944a, 2006
AUT Ludeman, Kate ; Erlandson, Eddie.
TIT Alpha male syndrome.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Alpha male syndrome : the good, the bad, the ugly -- The variety of alpha males : the roles they play and the masks they wear -- The alpha commander : the top dog who can be a pit bull -- The alpha visionary : the dreamer whose dreams can be impossible -- The alpha strategist : the analytic genius who can be a stubborn know-it-all -- The alpha executor : the driver who can drive you up the wall -- The alpha male team : the club where everyone wants to be in charge -- The care and feeding of the alpha male : achieving high-level health and wellness -- Coaching for alphas : making real changes, making changes real.

658.802 C132L 2006
AUT Cahill, Dennis J.
TIT Lifestyle market segmentation.
PUB New York : Haworth Press, c2006.
SER Haworth series in segmented, targeted, and customized marketing.
CON Contents: Nonlifestyle issues -- Segmentation theory -- Nonlifestyle segmentation -- Lifestyle issues--prizm, lov, and vals -- Lifestyle considerations -- Prizm -- Psychographics -- Vals and list of values -- Psychographics again -- Lifestyle targets -- The mature market -- Teens and tweens -- Ethnic marketing and marketing to the disabled -- Applications -- Applying autobiographical memory to advertising -- The tribes: a new psychographic scheme -- Single-family houses -- Used cars -- Food -- Health care -- Other considerations and decision-making overlays -- Myers-briggs type indicator -- Family considerations -- Cases and thoughts.

658.827 F631b, 2006
AUT Floor, Ko.
TIT Branding a store : how to build successful retail brands in a changing marketplace.
PUB London ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Kogan Page, 2006.

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700.458 B748a, 2006
AUT Ebony, David ; Botero, Fernando.
TIT Botero : Abu Ghraib.
PUB Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2006.

704.04 W322b 2007
AUT Wasserman, Krystyna ; Drucker, Johanna ; Niffenegger, Audrey.
TIT The book as art : artists' books from the National Museum of Women in the arts.
PUB New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2007.
CON Contents: What does it mean to make a book? / Audrey Niffenegger -- Intimate authority / Johanna Drucker -- The brightest heaven of invention / Krystyna Wasserman -- Storytellers -- Nature -- Food and the body -- Autobiographers -- Dreamers and magicians -- Historians -- Mothers, daughters, and wives -- Travelers -- Inspired by the muses.

709.46 B242R 2006
AUT Robinson, William H. ; Falg�s, Jordi ; Lord, Carmen Belen.
TIT Barcelona and modernity : Picasso, Gaud�, Mir�, Dal�.
PUB Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Rebirth: the catalan Renaixen�a -- Modernisme: painting, sculpture, graphic arts -- Modernisme: the quatre gats -- Modernisme: art and society -- Modernisme: architecture and design -- Noucentisme and the classical revival -- The age of the avant-garde -- Avant-gardes: the rational city -- Avant-gardes and Civil War.

711.558 E16s 2006
AUT Ebrahimian, Babak A.
TIT Sculpting space in the theater : conversations with the top set, light and costume designers.
PUB Burlington, Mass. : Focal Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Set design / John Lee Beatty -- Lighting design / Howell Binkley -- Set and costume design / John Conklin -- Lighting design / Beverly Emmons -- Costume design / Susan Hilferty -- Costume design / Constance Hoffman -- Set design / Ming Cho Lee -- Set design / Adrianne Lobel -- Set and costume design / Santo Loquasto -- Lighting design / Jennifer Tipton -- Set design / George Tsypin -- Set and lighting design / Robert Wilson.

741.5 B895a, 2006
AUT Brunetti, Ivan.
TIT An anthology of graphic fiction, cartoons, & true stories.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.

741.5 W177c 2002
AUT Walker, Brian.
TIT The comics since 1945.
PUB New York : Abrams, 2006.

Folio 741.5 W177c 2004
AUT Walker, Brian.
TIT The comics before 1945.
PUB New York : H.N. Abrams, 2004.
CON Contents: The turn of the century -- The teens -- The twenties -- The thirties -- The forties.

741.59 H638i, 2006
AUT Hignite, Todd.
TIT In the studio : visits with contemporary cartoonists.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Robert Crumb -- Art Spiegelman -- Gary Panter -- Charles Burns -- Jaime Hernandez -- Daniel Clowes -- Seth -- Chris Ware -- Ivan Brunetti.

741.64 K44e 2006
AUT Keyes, Roger S.
TIT Ehon : the artist and the book in Japan.
PUB [New York] : New York Public Library ; Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.

758 B739a, 2006
AUT Borzello, Frances.
TIT At home : the domestic interior in art.
PUB London : Thames & Hudson, 2006.
CON Contents: What is a domestic interior? -- Looking for the interior -- The secret life of the interior -- The unpeopled interior -- Seeing the light -- The portrait interior -- The moral interior -- The artist's own interior -- Coming of age -- What happened next?.

759.13 E13G 2006
AUT Gerdts, William H ; Solon, Deborah Epstein ; Cooper, Colin Campbell,Jr.
TIT East Coast/West Coast and beyond : Colin Campbell Cooper, American impressionist. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Hudson Hills Press : Distributed in the United States by National Book Network, c2006.

759.13 H845T 2006
AUT Terhune, Anne Gregory ; Hovenden, Thomas ; Scanlan, Patricia Smith.
TIT Thomas Hovenden : his life and art.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Becoming an artist -- From "picturesque" Brittany to Paris: painting courage and romance in history and legend -- "What shall American artists paint?" -- Painting the "Good ole times": scenes of African American life -- Images to "appeal to the national mind" -- Home life: center of "Our joys or sorrows".

759.6 V434C 2006
AUT Carr, Dawson W. ; Bray, Xavier ; Vel�zquez, Diego.
TIT Vel�zquez.
PUB London : National Gallery, 2006.
CON Contents: Appearance and reality in the Spain of Vel�zquez / John H. Elliott -- Painting and reality : the art and life of Vel�zquez / Dawson W. Carr -- Nudes and knights : a context for Venus / Javier Port�s -- Vel�zquez's painting technique / Larry Keith -- Vel�zquez and Britain / Xavier Bray -- Catalogue. Vel�zquez in Seville ; At court and in Italy : painter of faith and myth ; Portraying the court ; Vel�zquez and the hunt ; Portraying the ancients ; Portraying two courts : the return to Italy and the final years in Madrid.

781.5 M552e 2006
AUT Mera, Miguel ; Burnand, David.
TIT European film music.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2006.
SER Ashgate popular and folk music series.
CON Contents: Per aspera ad astra and back again : film music in Germany from 1927 to 1945 / Reimar Volker -- Music, people and reality : the case of Italian neo-realism / Richard Dyer -- Contemporary Spanish film music : Carlos Saura and Pedro Almod�var / Kathleen M. Vernon and Cliff Eisen -- Music as a satirical device in the Ealing comedies / Kate Daubney -- Screen playing : cinematic representations of classical music performance and European identity / Janet K. Halfyard -- Outing the synch : music and space in the French heritage film / Phil Powrie -- Se�n � Riada and Irish post-colonial film music : George Morrison's Mise �ire / David Cooper -- Angel of the air : Popol Vuh's music and Werner Herzog's films / K.J. Donnelly -- Modernity and a day : the functions of music in the films of Theo Angelopoulos / Miguel Mera -- Preisner-Kieslowski : the art of synergetic understatement in Three colours: red / Jon Paxman -- 'The rhythm of the night' : reframing silence, music and masculinity in Beau travail / Heather Laing-- Scoring This filthy earth / David Burnand.

781.62 W774t 2006
AUT Wood, Charles Roger ; Fraher, James.
TIT Texas zydeco. - 1st ed.
PUB Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2006.
SER Brad and Michele Moore roots music series.
CON Contents: Introduction : along the zydeco corridor -- Southeast Texas hotbed -- Chank-a-chank and social change : the early years -- The king and his western kingdom -- Out of the cradle, rocking -- Lone star la-la in the twenty-first century.

782.14 W864t 2006
AUT Wollman, Elizabeth L. ; MacDermot, Galt. Hair ; Trask, Stephen.
TIT The theater will rock : a history of the rock musical : from Hair to Hedwig.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The birth of the rock musical in New York City -- Interlude 1: rock "authenticity" and the reception of the staged rock musical -- Hair and its imitators -- Interlude 2 : audiences -- Rock concept albums and the fragmented musical of the 1970s -- Interlude 3 : megamusicals -- Spectacles of the 1980s -- Interlude 4 : economics and marketing -- Rock musicians in the musical theater : the 1990s -- Interlude 5 : merging aesthetics, making performances -- Rock-influenced musicals at the millennium : the dawning of the age of-- the revival.

782.42 J77s, 2006
AUT Jones, John Bush.
TIT The songs that fought the war : popular music and the home front, 1939-1945.
PUB Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press ; Hanover : University Press of New England, c2006.
CON Contents: "When this crazy world is sane again" : the setting for the songs -- "I hear America singing" : but who wrote all those songs? -- "Over here" : prewar isolationism, patriotism, and preparedness -- "Chin up! cheerio! carry on!" : the allies and us -- "G.I. jive" : the draft, enlistment, and army life -- "Johnny, get your gun again" : from national pride to axis-bashing -- "There's an F.D.R. in freedom" : the war's faces and places -- "In the army, in the navy, in the marines" : saluting the services -- "Don't forget there's a war going on" : pitching in and coping on the home front -- "Arm in arm" : wartime romance -- "A boy in khaki, a girl in lace" : the servicemen away, their girls back home -- "It's been a long, long time" : victory, homecomings, the world after the war.

782.421 C692b, 2007
AUT Coleman, Rick.
TIT Blue Monday : Fats Domino and the lost dawn of rock 'n' roll. - 1st Da Capo Press paperback ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2007.
CON Contents: "A different drummer" -- "Swanee river boogie" -- "Hideaway blues" -- "The fat man" -- "Goin' home tomorrow" -- "Going to the river" -- "Ain't that a shame" -- "My blue heaven" -- "Blue Monday" -- "I'm walkin'" -- "The big beat" -- "Be my guest" -- "Walking to New Orleans" -- "Let the four winds blow" -- "Red sails in the sunset" -- "One for the highway" -- "New Orleans ain't the same" -- "Whiskey heaven" -- "Love you 'til the day I die.".

784.092 B588i, 2006
AUT Bierley, Paul E.
TIT The incredible band of John Philip Sousa.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
SER Music in American life.
CON Contents: The legacy -- Sousa's Band, 1892-1932 -- A closer look at the band -- Stars and staff -- Sousa and recording -- Sousa and radio -- Around the world in 1911 -- Some lighter moments.

791.4302 C666d, 2006
AUT Cocks, Geoffrey ; Diedrick, James ; Perusek, Glenn W.
TIT Depth of field : Stanley Kubrick, film, and the uses of history.
PUB Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.
SER Wisconsin film studies.
CON Contents: Introduction : deep focus / Geoffrey Cocks, James Diedrick, Glenn Perusek -- The written word and the very visual Stanley Kubrick / Vincent LoBrutto -- Writing The shining / Diane Johnson -- The pumpkinification of Stanley K. / Frederic Raphael -- Kubrick's armies : strategy, hierarchy, and motive in the war films of Stanley Kubrick / Glenn Perusek -- Subjected wills : the anti-humanism of Kubrick's later films / Pat J. Gehrke and G.L. Ercolini -- 2001 : a cold descent / Mark Crispin Miller -- Deviant subjects in Foucault and A clockwork orange : criminological constructions of subjectivity / Pat J. Gehrke -- Pictures, plurality, and puns : a visual approach to Barry Lyndon / Bille Wickre -- Death by typewriter : Stanley Kubrick, the Holocaust, and The shining / Geoffrey Cocks -- Full-metal-jacketing, or masculinity in the making / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- In dreams begin responsibilities / Jonathan Rosenbaum -- Freud, Schnitzler, and Eyes wide shut / Peter Loewenberg -- Introducing sociology / Tim Kreider.

791.4302 D893f, 2006
AUT Dumont, Herv�.
TIT Frank Borzage : the life and films of a Hollywood romantic.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2006.

791.4302 S749k, 2006
AUT Sperb, Jason.
TIT The Kubrick facade : faces and voices in the films of Stanley Kubrick.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Experiencing faces and voices -- We're all islands: seeing and hearing the country of the mind in Fear and desire -- Taking life too seriously: imposing narrative authority from Killer's kiss to Lolita -- He'll see the big board: narration and the magic of words in Dr. Strangelove -- I can feel it: sounds, intensities, and subjectivities in 2001 -- A Kubrickian look: narrating in a voiceless voice-over -- Their eyes were wide shut: Bill Harford as failed narrator -- Sensing Stanly Kubrick.

791.4309 K25c, 2006
AUT Keathley, Christian.
TIT Cinephilia and history, or, The wind in the trees.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: 1. The desire for cinema -- 2. The cinephiliac moment and panoramic perception -- 3. Andr� Bazin and the revelatory potential of cinema -- 4. Cahiers du cin�ma and the way of looking -- 5. Film and the limits of history -- 6. A cinephiliac history -- 7. Five cinephiliac anecdotes.

791.4309 K51b, 1993
AUT Kinder, Marsha.
TIT Blood cinema : the reconstruction of national identity in Spain.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c1993.

791.436 B977i 2006
AUT Buscombe, Edward.
TIT 'Injuns!' : Native Americans in the movies.
PUB London : Reaktion, 2006.
SER Locations.
CON Contents: The formation of a genre -- The liberal western -- Passing as an indian -- Indians in the european western -- Indians not indians.

791.436 S472e, 2006
AUT Semmerling, Tim Jon.
TIT "Evil" Arabs in American popular film : orientalist fear. - 1st ed.
PUB Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The exorcist : assault on American confidence (1973) -- Rollover : assault on the American economy (1981) -- Black Sunday: the loss of frontier heroism (1976) -- Three kings : assault on victory culture (1999) -- Rules of engagement : attack from the multicultural front (2000) -- CNN's America remembers : the "real" attack (2002) -- The South Park lesson and orientalist fear.

791.456 B915c, 2007
AUT Bryant, J. Alison.
TIT The children's television community.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2007.
SER LEA's communication series.
CON Contents: The television tug-of-war : a brief history of children's television programming in the United States / Donna Mitroff and Rebecca Herr Stephenson -- Understanding the children's television community from an organizational network perspective / J. Alison Bryant -- The economics of children's television / Alison Alexander and James Owers -- Producing children's television / Robby London -- Peeking behind the screen : varied approaches to the production of educational television / Shalom M. Fisch -- The role of academic advisors in creating children's television : the NBC experience / Horst Stipp -- Programming children's television : the PBS model / Linda Simensky -- Programming children's television : the cable model / Terry Kalagian -- Licensing and merchandising in children's television and media / Joy Tashjian and Jamie Campbell Naidoo -- Networked kids : the digital future of children's video distribution / Steven C. Rockwell -- Kids' media policy goes digital : current developments in children's television regulation / Dale Kunkel -- Advocating children's television / Kathryn C. Montgomery -- Advocates for excellence : engaging the industry / David W. Klleeman -- Super-sized kids : obesity, children, moral panic, and the media / Rebecca Herr Stephenson and Sarah Banet-Weiser.

792.5 V931t, 2006
AUT Volpe, Joseph ; Michener, Charles.
TIT The toughest show on earth : my rise and reign at the Metropolitan Opera. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Knopf, 2006.
CON Contents: The apprentice -- "Be patient" -- Always on the go -- King Farouk -- A box at the Metropolitan -- Too many clouds -- "Can you handle the job?" -- A man of the theater -- From the water to the bridge -- Texas grit -- The turnaround man -- The Boss -- Breathing with Jimmy -- Battle hymn -- The new prima donnas -- The playground -- Siamese twins -- The trapeze artists -- No light in the tunnel -- The club -- The new class -- At home -- The angel. 792.5 V931t, 2006 1 copy (1 available)

793.9 W724g, 2006
AUT Williams, J. Patrick ; Hendricks, Sean Q ; Winkler, W. Keith.
TIT Gaming as culture : essays on reality, identity and experience in fantasy games.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: Fantasy games, gaming cultures, and social life / J. Patrick Williams, Sean Q. Hendricks, and W. Keith Winkler -- The role-playing game and the game of role-playing : the ludic self and everyday life / Dennis D. Waskul -- Incorporative discourse strategies in tabletop fantasy role-playing gaming / Sean Q. Hendricks -- Social events and roles in Magic : a semiotic analysis / Csilla Weninger -- Consumption and authenticity in the collectible strategy games subculture / J. Patrick Williams -- Desktop conquistadors : negotiating American manhood in the digital fantasy role-playing game / Kevin Schut -- Playing with identity : unconscious desire and role-playing games / Michelle Nephew -- The business and the culture of gaming / W. Keith Winkler -- Online gaming and the interactional self : identity interplay in situated practice / Florence Chee, Marcelo Vieta, and Richard Smith -- Invoking the avatar : gaming skills as cultural and out-of-game capital / Heather L. Mello -- Vicarious experience : staying there connected with and through our own and other characters / Tim Marsh.

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800 Literature

801.95 H669d, 1991
AUT Hirsch, David H.
TIT The deconstruction of literature : criticism after Auschwitz.
PUB [Providence, R.I.] : Brown University Press ; Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, c1991.

808.51 L651h 2002
AUT Letteri, Richard.
TIT A handbook of public speaking.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Allyn and Bacon, c2002.

Ref 808.882 Y17S, 2006
AUT Shapiro, Fred R.
TIT The Yale book of quotations.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Advertising slogans -- Anonymous -- Anonymous (Latin) -- Ballads -- Film lines -- Folk and anonymous songs -- Modern proverbs -- Nursery rhymes -- Political slogans -- Proverbs -- Radio catchphrases -- Sayings -- Television catchphrases.

809.892 B396b 2006
AUT Beckett, Sandra L. ; Nikolajeva, Maria ; Beckett, Sandra L.
TIT Beyond Babar : the European tradition in children's literature.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Children's Literature Association and the Scarecrow Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Earth hanging in infinity: Janusz Korczak's King Matt the First / Lilia Ratcheva-Stratieva -- The taming of the two: Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry's Little Prince / Claire Malarte-Feldman -- A misunderstood tragedy: Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking books / Maria Nikolajeva -- Creating the eternal farewell: Tove Jansson's Moomin novels / Janina Orlov -- Blue train, red flag, rainbow world: Gianni Rodari's The Befana's toyshop / Ann Lawson Lucas -- Modernism for children? Cecil B�dker's Silas and the Black Mare / Helene H�yrup -- Michel Tournier retells the Robinson Crusoe myth: Friday and Robinson: life on Speranza Island / Sandra L. Beckett -- About a factory-made boy: Christine N�stlinger's story about Conrad / Sabine Fuchs -- A neverending success story? Michael Ende's return trip to Fantastica / Dieter Petzold -- "We were a pair": Peter Pohl's Johnny, my friend / Roberta Seelinger Trites -- Philosophical homework of universal amazement? Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's world / Harald Bache-Wiig -- What do we translate when we translate children's literature? / Maria Nikolajeva.

810.935 B756s 2006
AUT Boudreau, Kristin.
TIT The spectacle of death : populist literary responses to American capital cases.
PUB Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2006.
CON Contents: Theoretical introduction to execution literature: early American criminal narratives, the power of reading, and the problem of public sentiments -- Rewriting the Fall River murder : a factory town turns to sentimental narratives -- The Haymarket Anarchist Trial of 1886 -- Wisdom, justice and moderation abandoned : the lynching of Leo Frank -- No other remedy : community awakening and the lynching of Emmett Till -- Witnesses to an execution : Norman Mailer's spectacle of death -- The sweetheart of death row : Karla Faye Tucker and the problem of public sentiments -- Artful uprisings : the campaign against capital punishment.

810.989 W799c, 2006
AUT Wirth-Nesher, Hana.
TIT Call it English : the languages of Jewish American literature.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.

810.992 G126s 2006
AUT Gadsby, Meredith.
TIT Sucking salt : Caribbean women writers, migration, and survival.
PUB Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : little salt won't kill you -- The salience of memory : the cultural and historical significance of salt in the Caribbean -- "It sweeter than meat!" : saltfish, sexual politics, and the Caribbean oral imagination -- Harvesting salt : Caribbean women writers in England and the philosophy of survival -- I suck coarse salt : Caribbean women writers in Canada--language, location, and the politics of transcendence -- Refugees of a world on fire : kitchen place and refugee space in the poetics of Paule Marshall and Edwidge Danticat.

811.38 K96c, 2006
AUT Kummings, Donald D.
TIT A companion to Walt Whitman.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., c2006.
SER Blackwell companions to literature and culture. ; 40.

811.54 M847i, 2006
AUT Morgan, Bill.
TIT I celebrate myself : the somewhat private life of Allen Ginsberg.
PUB New York : Viking, 2006.
CON Contents: 1895-1926 : before the beginning : parents -- 1926 : birth -- 1930-39 -- 1940-49 -- 1950-59 -- 1960-69 -- 1970-79 -- 1980-89 -- 1990-97.

812.5409 K89a, 2006
AUT Krasner, David.
TIT American drama 1945-2000 : an introduction.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.
SER Blackwell introductions to literature. ; 14.
CON Contents: Politics, existentialism, and American drama, 1935-1945 -- Money is life : American drama, 1945-1959 -- Reality and illusion : American drama, 1960-1975 -- Mad as hell : American drama, 1976-1989 -- The body in pain : American drama, 1990-2000.

813.009 P537r, 2005
AUT Phegley, Jennifer ; Badia, Janet.
TIT Reading women : literary figures and cultural icons from the Victorian age to the present.
PUB Toronto ; Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, c2005.
SER Studies in book and print culture.
CON Contents: Introduction: women readers as literary figures and cultural icons / Jennifer Phegley and Janet Badia -- Reading women/reading pictures: textual and visual reading in Charlotte Bront�'s fiction and nineteenth-century painting / Antonia Losano -- 'Success is sympathy': Uncle Tom's cabin and the woman reader / Elizabeth Fekete Trubey -- Reading mind, reading body: Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah and the physiology of reading / Suzanne M. Ashworth -- 'I should no more think of dictating ... what kinds of books she should read': images of women readers in Victorian family literary magazines / Jennifer Phegley -- The reading habit and 'The yellow wallpaper' / Barbara Hochman -- Social reading, social work, and the social function of literacy in Louisa May Alcott's 'May flowers" / Sarah A. Wadsworth -- 'A thought in the huge bald forehead': depictions of women in the British Museum reading room, 1857-1929 / Ruth Hoberman -- 'Luxuriat[ing] in Milton's syllables': writer as reader in Zora Neale Hurston's Dust tracks on a road / Tuire Valkeakari -- Poor Lutie's almanac: reading and social critique in Ann Petry's The street / Michele Crescenzo -- 'One of those people like Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath': the pathologized woman reader in literary and popular culture / Janet Badia -- The 'talking life' of books: women readers in Oprah's Book Club / Mary R. Lamb -- Afterword: women readers revisited / Kate Flint.

813.52 M444u, 2006
AUT Mattson, Kevin.
TIT Upton Sinclair and the other American century.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2006.
CON Contents: "A very devout and earnest little boy" : 1878-1892 -- "Would-be singer and penniless rat" : 1892-1904 -- Socialist "celebrity" : 1905-1914 -- War! -- "Prize prude of the radical movement" : 1920-1930 -- A brief intermission : Uppie goes to the movies : 1930-1934 -- I, Governor of California : 1934 -- Beyond California, toward a popular front : 1935-1939 -- Mr. Middlebrow goes to war again, hot and cold : 1940-1960 -- Socialist emeritus : 1960-1968.

813.52 R152j, 2006
AUT Railsback, Brian E ; Meyer, Michael J.
TIT A John Steinbeck encyclopedia.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.

813.54 E64e, 2006
AUT Epstein, Leslie.
TIT The eighth wonder of the world : a novel.
PUB New York : Handsel Books/Other Press, c2006.

813.54 W861s, 2007 Popular reading
AUT Wolitzer, Hilma.
TIT Summer reading : a novel. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Ballantine Books, c2007.

813.6 C712c 2006
AUT Collins, Julia C. ; Andrews, William L. ; Kachun, Mitchell A.
TIT The curse of caste, or, The slave bride : a rediscovered African American novel.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Editors\u02BE Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Editorial Note by Anne Bruder -- The Curse of Caste: or The Slave Bride, 1865 -- Two Conclusions to The Curse of Caste -- The Essays of Julia C. Collins, 1864-1865 -- Reading Group Guide.

823.809 V645H 2006
AUT Harrison, Kimberly ; Fantina, Richard.
TIT Victorian sensations : essays on a scandalous genre.
PUB Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: "Highly flavoured dishes" and "highly seasoned garbage" : sensation in The Athenaeum / Ellen Miller Casey -- "Judged by a purely literary standard" : sensation fiction, horizons of expectation, and the generic construction of Victorian realism / Richard Nemesvari -- Censoring her sensationalism : Mary Elizabeth Braddon and The doctor's wife / Catherine J. Golden -- Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the "combination novel" : the subversion of sensational expectation in Vixen / Albert C. Sears -- "Of all the horror-- the foulest and most cruel" : sensation and Dickens's Oliver Twist / Diana C. Archibald -- Naturalism in Charles Reade's experimental novel, Griffith Gaunt / Dianna Vitanza -- Swedenborg and the disintegration of language in Sheridan le Fanu's sensation fiction / Devin P. Zuber -- "That muddy, polluted flood of earthly love" : ambivalence about the body in Rhoda Broughton's Not wisely but too well / Tamar Heller -- Sensational hair : gender, genre, and fetishism in the sensational decade / Galia Ofek -- "What could I do?" : nineteenth-century psychology and the horrors of masculinity in The woman in white / Andrew Mangham -- "Chafing at the social cobwebs" : gender and transgender in the work of Charles Reade / Richard Fantina -- Women alone : Le Fanu's "Carmilla" and Rosetti's "Goblin market" / Nancy Welter -- One sister's surrender : rivalry and resistance in Rhoda Broughton's Cometh up as a flower / Lindsey Faber -- "Personal property at her disposal" : inheritance law, the single woman, and The moonstone / Jennifer Swartz -- "I will not live in poverty and neglect" : East Lynne on the East End stage / Andrew Maunder -- "The threshold of an open window" : transparency, opacity, and social boundaries in Aurora Floyd / Lillian Nayder -- Sensationalizing Victorian suburbia : Wilkie Collins's Basil / Tamara S. Wagner -- Political persuasion in Mary Braddon's The octoroon, or, The lily of Louisiana / Kimberly Harrison -- Wilkie Collins's "Secret dictate" : The moonstone as a response to imperialist panic / Vicki Corkran Willey -- Wilkie Collins's Gwilt-y conscience : gender and colonialism in Armadale / Monica M. Young-Zook.

823.914 D756se 2006 Popular reading
AUT Drabble, Margaret.
TIT The sea lady : a late romance. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB Orlando : Harcourt, c2006.

823.914 R397 2006 Popular reading
AUT Rendell, Ruth.
TIT The water's lovely : a novel. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.

839.13 H324s 2006
AUT Harshav, Benjamin ; Harshav, Barbara.
TIT Sing, stranger : a century of American Yiddish poetry : a historical anthology.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.

842.42 B798c, 2006
AUT Bradby, David ; Calder, Andrew.
TIT The Cambridge companion to Moliere.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
SER Cambridge companions to literature.
CON Contents: Chronology -- 1. The career strategy of an actor turned playwright : 'de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace' / Marie-Claude Canova-Green -- 2. The material conditions of Moli�re's stage / Jan Clarke -- 3. The master and the mirror : Scaramouche and Moli�re / Stephen Knapper -- 4. Moli�re as satirist / Larry F. Norman -- 5. How (and why) not to take Moli�re too seriously / Richard Parish -- 6. L'Avare or Harpagon's masterclass in comedy / Robert McBride -- 7. Laughter and irony in Le Misanthrope / Andrew Calder -- 8. Com�dies-ballets / Charles Mazouer -- 9. Le Bourgeois gentilhomme : Moli�re and music / John S. Powell -- 10. Medicine and entertainment in Le Malade imaginaire / Julia Prest -- 11. Moli�re and the teaching of Frenchness : Les Femmes savantes as a case study / Ralph Albanese, Jr. -- 12. L'�cole des femmes : matrimony and the laws of chance / Roxanne Lalande -- 13. Moli�re nationalised : Tartuffe on the British stage from the Restoration to the present day / No�l Peacock -- 14. Landmark twentieth-century productions of Moli�re : a transatlantic perspective on Moli�re : mise en sc�ne and its historiography / Jim Carmody -- 15. Dom Juan the directors' play / David Whitton -- 16. 'Reculer pour mieux sauter' : modern experimental theatre's debt to Moli�re / David Bradby.

843.8 V531me, 2006
AUT Verne, Jules ; Walter, Frederick Paul ; Miller, Walter James.
TIT The meteor hunt = La chasse au m�t�ore : the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
SER Bison frontiers of imagination.

843.91 S473L, 1964
AUT Sempr�n, Jorge.
TIT The long voyage.
PUB New York : Grove Press, c1964.

863.32 B214h, 2006
AUT Bandera, Ces�reo.
TIT The humble story of Don Quixote : reflections on the birth of the modern novel.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2006.
CON Contents: A story "naked and unadorned" -- The picaresque point of reference 1 : Guzm�n de Alfarache -- The picaresque point of reference 2 : the Busc�n -- Don Quixote's madness and modernity -- De te fabula narratur -- Unamuno's enthusiastic Quijotismo and the envy of Cain -- From Don Quixote's penitence to the episode of the lion -- Unamuno's story of Caine and Abel and the Curioso impertinente -- The pastoral precedent -- The desire of the obstacle -- Juan Palomeque's Inn -- Tricksters tricked.

863.64 H693s, 2006
AUT Hoeg, Jerry ; Larsen, Kevin S.
TIT Science, literature, and film in the Hispanic world. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: An introduction to sciencepoetry : a new beginning / Rafael Catala -- Three theories, three writers, one idea : science and the nation in the Brazilian literature of Joaquim de Souz�ndrade, Euclides da Cunha, and Augusto dos Anjos / Eva Paulino Bueno -- The aura of science in fantastic tales by Leopoldo Lugones, Macedonio Fern�ndez, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Jorge Luis Borges / Mar�a Cristina Boiero de De Angelo -- Jorge Luis Borges and early quantum labyrinths / Floyd Merrell -- Carlos Fuentes's evolution toward ecological awareness in his essays and narratives / Alicia Rivero -- Life signs : Ricardo Piglia's cyborgs / J. Andrew Brown -- On science and Mexican nationalism : the politics of identity in Jorge Volpi's In search of Klingsor / H�ctor Fern�ndez L'Hoeste -- Disease as a dis/organizing principle in nineteenth-century Spain : Benito P�rez Gald�s, Leopoldo Alas, and Emilia Pardo Baz�n / Anne W. Gilfoil -- Ido del Sagrario's alimentary madness / Kevin S. Larsen -- P�o Baroja's parascientific epistemology / Beatriz Rivera-Barnes -- "Aquel Madrid" : science, literature, and art in the Edad de Plata / Cecelia Cavanaugh SSJ -- Representations of humans and technology : the construction of identity in Miguel Bardem, Pedro Almod�var, and Alejandro Amen�bar / Juan Carlos Martin.

892.736 N264r, 2006
AUT Hutchins, William M.
TIT Return to Dar al-Basha : a novel. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2006.
SER Middle East literature in translation.

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900 History, Geography

909.049 P195a, 2006
AUT Panossian, Razmik.
TIT The Armenians : from kings and priests to merchants and commissars.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.

910.285 H646g 2006
AUT Hill, Linda L.
TIT Georeferencing : the geographic associations of information.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
SER Digital libraries and electronic publishing.

930.1 S628x, 2007
AUT Skowronek, Russell K ; Ewen, Charles Robin.
TIT X marks the spot : the archaeology of piracy. - 1st paperback ed.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida 2007, c2006.
SER New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology.

Folio 932 R888H, 2006
AUT Hawass, Zahi A ; Vannini, Sandro.
TIT The royal tombs of Egypt : the art of Thebes revealed.
PUB London : Thames & Hudson, 2006.

937.6 F841f, 2005
AUT Fraschetti, Augusto.
TIT The foundation of Rome.
PUB Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2005.

940.531 L473t, 2006
AUT Leder, Jane Mersky.
TIT Thanks for the memories : love, sex, and World War II.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Prologue : to my parents, Morris and Shirley Mersky -- Derailed dreams -- "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" -- "Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we may die" -- Discrimination in the ranks -- An army of service wives -- Waiting wives and home front popular culture -- "Over sexed, over fed, over paid, over there" -- "You'd be so nice to come home to" -- Babies, suburbia, and the seeds of change.

940.5318 D553g, 2001
AUT Dickinson, John K.
TIT German & Jew : the life and death of Sigmund Stein.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : I.R. Dee Publisher, c2001.

940.5318 F2983b 1999
AUT Feiner, Hertha ; Jahnke, Karl Heinz.
TIT Before deportation : letters from a mother to her daughters, January 1939-December 1942.
PUB Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1999.
SER Jewish lives.

940.5318 F794i, 1999
AUT Fox, Tamar.
TIT Inherited memories : Israeli children of Holocaust survivors.
PUB London ; New York : Cassell, 1999.

940.5318 H544j, 2006
AUT Herf, Jeffrey.
TIT The Jewish enemy : Nazi propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. The Jews, the war, and the Holocaust -- 2. Building the anti-Semitic consensus -- 3. "International Jewry" and the origins of World War II -- 4. At war against the alliance of bolshevism and plutocracy -- 5. Propaganda in the shadow of the death camps -- 6. "The Jews are guilty of everything" -- 7. "Victory or extermination" -- Conclusion.

940.5318 L852u, 2003
AUT Longerich, Peter.
TIT The unwritten order : Hitler's role in the final solution.
PUB Stroud, Gloucestershire : Tempus, 2003.

940.5318 P386s, 2004
AUT Pelle, J�nos.
TIT Sowing the seeds of hatred : anti-Jewish laws and Hungarian public opinion, 1938-1944. - 1st ed.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2004.
SER East European monographs. ; no. 638.

940.5318 W423e 2002
AUT Weiner, Anita.
TIT Expanding historical counsciousness : the development of the Holocaust Educational Foundation.
PUB Skokie, Ill. : Holocaust Educational Foundation, 2002.

940.5344 C556f, 2006
AUT Christofferson, Thomas Rodney ; Christofferson, Michael Scott.
TIT France during World War II : from defeat to liberation. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.
SER World War II-- the global, human, and ethical dimension, 1541-0293 ; no. 10.
CON Contents: Defeat of France -- National revolution -- Collaboration -- Exclusion -- Resistance -- Liberation.

940.5405 P248s 2006
AUT Parkinson, James W. ; Benson, Lee.
TIT Soldier slaves : abandoned by the White House, Courts, and Congress.
PUB Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2006.

940.5413 W542w, 2006
AUT Wette, Wolfram.
TIT The Wehrmacht : history, myth, reality.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Perceptions of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Bolshevism as enemies -- Anti-semitism in the German military -- The Wehrmacht and the murder of Jews -- Generals and enlisted men -- The legend of the Wehrmacht's "clean hands" -- A taboo shatters.

941 L187a 2006
AUT Laing, Lloyd Robert ; Laing, Lloyd Robert. Archaeology of late Celtic Britain and Ireland, c. AD 400-1200 ; Laing, Lloyd Robert.
TIT The archaeology of Celtic Britain and Ireland, c. AD 400-1200.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction. Who were the Celts? -- 1. The Celtic world -- 2. Settlements -- 3. Farming -- 4. Everyday objects and equipment -- 5. Industry and technology -- 6. Trade and communications -- 7. Clothes and jewelry -- 8. Art and ornament -- 9. The church -- 10. South-western Britain -- 11. Wales -- 12. Ireland and the Isle of Man -- 13. Southern Scotland and northern England -- 14. Northern Scotland -- Epilogue. The end of Celtic Britain and Ireland.

941.508 W985r, 2006
AUT Wyndham, Andrew Higgins.
TIT Re-imagining Ireland.
PUB Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

942.0164 H818k, 2006
AUT Horspool, David.
TIT King Alfred : burnt cakes and other legends.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.

943 B589g, 2006
AUT Biesinger, Joseph A.
TIT Germany : a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2006.
SER European nations. Facts on File library of world history.

Holocaust 943.515 H447i, 1999
AUT Hecht, Ingeborg English. [Als unsichtbare Mauern wuchsen] ; Hecht, Ingeborg.
TIT Invisible walls : a German family under the Nuremberg laws.
PUB Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1999.
SER Jewish lives.

944.0816 V782u, 2006
AUT Vinen, Richard.
TIT The unfree French : life under the occupation.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.

944.36 H341p, 2003
AUT Harvey, David.
TIT Paris, capital of modernity.
PUB New York Routledge, 2003.

944.36 H638p, 2002
AUT Higonnet, Patrice L. R.
TIT Paris : capital of the world.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.

946.08 T789g, 2007
AUT Tremlett, Giles.
TIT Ghosts of Spain : travels through Spain and its silent past. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2007.

Ref 951.0503 S949h2, 2007
AUT Sullivan, Lawrence R.
TIT Historical dictionary of the People's Republic of China. - 2nd ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
SER Historical dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East. ; 63.

954.9 M697p, 2007
AUT Mohiuddin, Yasmeen Niaz.
TIT Pakistan : a global studies handbook.
PUB Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.
SER Global studies. Asia.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Narrative section -- 1. Geography and history of Pakistan -- Physical and human geography -- Regional division -- The Northern and Western mountains -- The Balochistan Plateau -- The Indus River Plain -- Deserts -- High mountain valleys -- Climate and rainfall -- Population -- Distribution, density, and growth -- Age-sex composition and dependency ratio -- Religious-ethnic composition -- Population planning -- Internal and foreign migration -- Afghan refugees -- Migration to the Middle East -- Growth of major cities and urbanization -- History -- Prehistoric cultures -- Indus Valley civilization -- Invasions and empires -- The arrival of Islam in India -- The Delhi Sultanate -- The Mughal Period -- Babur -- Humayun -- Akbar -- Jahangir -- Shah Jahan -- Aurangzeb -- Company rule, colonialism, and British Raj -- Independence movements and the rise of the Muslim League -- Sir Syed Ahmad Khan -- Founding of the Muslim League -- Jinnah and the Lucknow Pact -- The Khilafat Movement -- The Montague-Chelmsford Reforms -- The Nehru Report and the Calcutta Convention -- Sir Muhammad Iqbal -- The 1937 elections -- The Lahore Resolution -- World War II -- The elections of 1946 -- Interim government and Direct Action Day -- Creation of Pakistan and partition. 2. The economy of Pakistan -- Overview of economic performance -- The early years and the ISI (Import-Substituting Industrialization) strategy : 1947-1958 -- Ayub Khan's decade of development : 1958-1969 -- Nationalization and authoritarian populism under Bhutto : 1971-1977 -- Islamization and liberalization of the economy under the military government of Ziaul Haq : 1977-1988 -- Structural adjustment, return to democracy, corruption, and mismanagement : 1988-1999 -- Liberalization and IMF conditionality under Pervez Musharraf : 1999-present -- Some key economic sectors -- Agriculture -- Land use and irrigation -- Landownership and farm size -- Major crops and other subsectors -- Land reforms -- Industry -- Services -- Conclusion : challenges and future prospects. Contents: 3. Political development since 1947 -- Political instability of the early years : 1947-1958 -- Ayub Khan : first military rule, decade of development, and civil war : 1958-1969 -- Nationalization and authoritarian populism under Bhutto : 1971-1977 -- The military government of Ziaul Haq : self-preservation, the Afghan War, and Islamization : 1977-1988 -- The first phase : 1977-1979 -- The second phase : 1979-1983 -- The third phase : 1983-1988 -- Return to democracy, instability, corruption, and mismanagement : Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif : 1988-1999 -- First Benazir Bhutto government (1988-1990) -- Caretaker government of 1990 -- First Nawaz Sharif government (1990-1993) -- Caretaker government of Moeen Qureshi (1993) -- Second Benazir Bhutto government (1993-1996) -- Second Nawaz Sharif government (1997-1999) -- Accountability, war on terrorism, development, and stability under Pervez Musharraf : 1999-present -- Conclusion : challenges and future prospects. Contents: 4. Pakistani institutions and contemporary culture -- Religion and society -- Language and ethnic groups -- Punjabis -- Sindhis -- Muhajirs -- Pakhtuns -- Balochi -- Others -- Family and kinship -- Status of women -- Women's work in rural and urban areas -- Pay equity and occupational segregation -- Education. Contents: pt. 2. Reference section -- Key events in Pakistani history -- Significant people, places, and events -- Pakistani language, food, and etiquette -- Language -- Food and beverages -- Common Pakistani dishes -- Common Pakistani beverages -- Etiquette -- Pakistan-related organizations -- Business and economics -- Culture, education, and exchange -- Pakistan's government representatives in the United States -- International development agencies and NGOs in Pakistan -- Tourism -- National nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- Annotated bibliography of recommended works on Pakistan.

956 S645s, 2006
AUT Smith, Dan.
TIT The state of the middle east : an atlas of conflict and resolution.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2006.

956.7044 A388c, 2006
AUT Alfonsi, Christian.
TIT Circle in the sand : why we went back to Iraq. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Doubleday, c2006.
CON Contents: The woolly mammoth -- "Saddam has blinked" -- "We are dealing with a madman who has shown he will kill" -- The fifth objective -- Victory fatigue -- "Why won't he help us?" -- A grinding irritant -- "We cannot let this crazy man thumb his nose at the world" -- "Saddam Hussein is winning the peace" -- The old guard dies, but does not surrender -- Speaking with two voices -- Unfinished business.

956.7044 I81h, 2006
AUT Isikoff, Michael ; Corn, David.
TIT Hubris : the inside story of spin, scandal, and the selling of the Iraq War. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.

958.103 K13p, 2006
AUT Kakar, M. Hasan.
TIT A political and diplomatic history of Afghanistan, 1863-1901.
PUB Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, c2006.
SER Brill's Inner Asian library. 1566-7162 ; v. 17.
CON Contents: I: Political history -- The reign of Amir Sher 'Ali Khan -- The British Afghan war and the accession of Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan -- The Afghan victory at Maiwand and the reunification of Afghanistan -- The pacification of Eastern Afghanistan -- The great Ghilzay uprising and its suppression -- The revolt of Sardar Mohammad Ishaq and its suppression -- The pacification of border principalities in northern Afghanistan -- The pacification of the Hazaras -- The conquest of former Kafiristan -- II: External relations -- Relations with the British government of India and the Durand agreement -- Relations with Russia and the Russian occupation of Panjdeh -- Relations with Persia and the Ottoman Turkey.

959.704 M938t, 2006
AUT Moyar, Mark.
TIT Triumph forsaken : the Vietnam war, 1954-1965.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

967.571 S912o, 2006
AUT Straus, Scott.
TIT The order of genocide : race, power, and war in Rwanda.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Background to the genocide -- Genocide at the national and regional levels -- Local dynamics -- The g�nocidaires -- Why perpetrators say they committed genocide -- The logic of genocide -- Historical patterns of violence -- Rwanda's leviathan.

972.91 C649h, 2007
AUT Cluster, Dick ; Hern�ndez, Rafael.
TIT The history of Havana / by Dick Cluster and Rafael Hern�ndez. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
SER Palgrave essential histories.

973.01 M322s 2006
AUT Marcus, Greil.
TIT The shape of things to come : prophecy and the American voice. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
CON Contents: Prologue. New York, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania ; Massachusetts, Washington, D.C. -- New Jersey, California, Washington, Ohio. Philip Roth and the lost republic ; American berserk: Bill Pullman's face ; American pastoral: Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer ; Crank prophet bestride America, grinning: David Thomas. -- Epilogue. Kansas.

973.0497 M649n, 2006
AUT Miller, Robert J.
TIT Native America, discovered and conquered : Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.
SER Native America, 1552-8022.
CON Contents: The doctrine of discovery -- The doctrine of discovery in America -- Thomas Jefferson and the doctrine of discovery -- Thomas Jefferson, Manifest Destiny, and the Indian nations -- Lewis and Clark and discovery -- Manifest Destiny and discovery -- The United States' exercise of discovery against the Indian nations,1774-2005.

973.088 M127t 2006
AUT McCloud, Aminah Beverly.
TIT Transnational Muslims in American society.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction to immigrant American Muslims -- A nation of immigrants, stereotypes, imaginations -- Brief introduction to Islam -- South Asian history in overview -- South Asian culture -- Islam and the Arabs -- Arab Muslims in the United States -- Iranian Muslim immigrants : the philosopher poets -- Living on the margins : Chinese and Somali American Muslims -- Global Islam in America : the mix and the challenges.

973.16 S359b, 2006
AUT Schneider, Paul.
TIT Brutal journey : the epic story of the first crossing of North America. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : H. Holt, 2006.

973.26 C163s, 2006
AUT Calloway, Colin G.
TIT The scratch of a pen : 1763 and the transformation of North America.
PUB Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
SER Pivotal moments in American history.
CON Contents: America and Americans in 1763 -- Contested Lands -- The First War of Independence -- Setting Boundaries -- Endings and Endurance in French America -- Louisiana Transfer and Mississippi Frontier -- Exiles and Expulsions.

973.308 G549f, 2006
AUT Glatthaar, Joseph T. ; Martin, James Kirby.
TIT Forgotten allies : the Oneida Indians and the American revolution. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Hill and Wang, 2006.
CON Contents: Prologue: The revolution's jubilee, the Marquis de Lafayette, and selective historical memory -- The people of the standing stone -- European intruders and consequences -- Changes in the Oneida landscape -- Into the vortex of rebellion -- Struggling to preserve neutrality -- Tightening bonds with the rebels -- Defending the oneida homeland -- Allied with the rebels -- Assisting continental forces at valley forge -- The enemy of old friends -- Warfare by devastation -- Vengeance and victory -- Forgotten allies -- Epilogue: From jubilee to centennial celebrations and beyond : toward the restoration of historical memory -- Afterword: New beginnings amid revived memories.

973.309 W875r, 2006
AUT Wood, Gordon S.
TIT Revolutionary characters : what made the founders different.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: The founders and the Enlightenment -- The greatness of George Washington -- The invention of Benjamin Franklin -- The trials and tribulations of Thomas Jefferson -- Alexander Hamilton and the making of a fiscal-military state -- Is there a "James Madison problem"? -- The relevance and irrelevance of John Adams -- Thomas Paine, America's first public intellectual -- The real treason of Aaron Burr -- The founders and the creation of modern public opinion.

973.7 H558h, 2006
AUT Herndon, William Henry ; Weik, Jesse William ; Wilson, Douglas L.
TIT Herndon's Lincoln.
PUB [Galesburg, Ill.?] : Knox College Lincoln Studies Center ; Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
SER The Knox College Lincoln Studies Center series.

973.7349 B734g, 2006
AUT Boritt, G. S.
TIT The Gettysburg gospel : the Lincoln speech that nobody knows.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
CON Contents: After battle -- Rebirth -- Lincoln comes to Gettysburg -- Carousing crowds -- The Gettysburg gospel -- Echoes -- Gloria -- Coda -- Appendix A. The program at the Soldiers' National Cemetery, November 19, 1863 -- Appendix B. A beautiful hand: facsimiles of the five versions of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's hand -- Appendix C. Parsing Lincoln -- Appendix D. Dollar signs.

Ref 973.81 Z94e, 2006 v.1-2
AUT Zuczek, Richard.
TIT Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction era.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
SER Greenwood milestones in African American history.
CON Contents: v. 1. A-L -- v. 2. M-Z and primary documents.

973.91 K23g, 2007
AUT Kazin, Michael.
TIT A godly hero : the life of William Jennings Bryan. - 1st Anchor Books ed.
PUB New York : Anchor Books, 2007, c2006.
CON Contents: The romance of Jefferson and Jesus -- Education of a hero, 1860-1890 -- Speaker in the house, 1891-1894 -- In the armor of a righteous cause, 1895-1896 -- A republic, not an empire, 1897-1900 -- I have kept the faith, 1901-1904 -- Prophet on the road -- The ordeal of reform, 1906-1908 -- Conscience of the party, 1909-1912 -- Bryan's people -- Moralist at state, 1913-1915 -- Moralist in retreat, 1916-1919 -- Save the children, 1920-1925 -- The fate of a Christian liberal.

973.917 A466d, 2006
AUT Alter, Jonathan.
TIT The defining moment : FDR's hundred days and the triumph of hope.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.
CON Contents: Prologue: Sunday, March 5, 1933 -- pt. 1: Lightweight steel. Security ; "My boy Franklin" ; "Miss Nancy" ; Eleanor and Sara ; Dilettante ; "The medieval gnome" ; The operator ; The "ghastly affliction" -- Warm Springs dress rehearsal ; "I've got to be it myself" -- pt. 2: The ascent: 1932. "Brother, can you spare a dime?" ; "This doesn't go for above the neck" ; "Try something" for "the forgotten man" ; The Brain Trust ; The hair-splitter ; The "corkscrew candidate" ; Off the reservation ; Flight to Chicago ; The Bonus Army ; The trial of Jimmy Walker ; "Hang Hoover!" -- pt. 3: The crisis: winter 1933. The perfect foil ; Under the mattress ; "Wooden roof" and other cabinetry ; Nearly martyred in Miami ; "Damn the secretary" ; "Gabriel over the White House" ; The hairy hand ; Reluctant First Lady ; "Like hell I will!" -- pt. 4: The Hundred Days. "Fear itself" ; The consecration ; "An injection of adrenalin" ; "Action now" ; That temperament ; Holiday spirit ; "Surpassing charm" ; That voice ; "The chief croupier" ; Roosevelt's "tree army" ; The blue eagle ; Social Security ; "Dr. New Deal" -- Appendix: Inaugural address, March 4, 1933 ; First Fireside Chat, March 12, 1933.

973.924 K48n, 2006
AUT Killen, Andreas.
TIT 1973 nervous breakdown : Watergate, Warhol, and the birth of post-sixties America. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2006.
CON Contents: Fear of flying -- Reality programming -- Operation homecoming -- Personality crisis -- Warholism -- Reinventing the fifties -- Power shift -- Conspiracy nation.

973.931 B658h, 2006
AUT Blumenthal, Sidney.
TIT How Bush rules : chronicles of a radical regime.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: The radical president. -- Pt. 1. Hubris ("Mission accomplished": from the victory in Iraq to the defeat of John Kerry) The intelligence wars ; Bush and Blair: lessons in leadership ; How George transformed Tony's world ; The good soldier ; An unlikely dissent ; The hunt for WMD ; The Madrid Express: 3/11 meets 9/11 ; The counterterrorism czar comes in from the cold ; The White House has the last laugh ; The road map to nowhere ; The president goes blank ; The silence of Colin Powell ; Pulp fictions ; The secrets of Abu Ghraib ; The American military coup of 2012 ; The holy warrior ; Riding the Trojan horse ; The specter of Vietnam ; The Reagan legacy ; Reagan's funeral and Clinton's portrait ; Cheney's mask slips ; The Senate's Da Vinci code ; Code orange ; The oath of true believers ; The rule of chaos ; Shock and awe: the Republican National Convention, day one ; Fear and narcissism: the Republican National Convention, day two ; None dare call it treason: the Republican National Convention, day three ; "A certain swagger": the Republican National Convention, day four ; Staring at defeat ; Falls the shadow ; "The right God" ; "The lowest grade of ignorance" ; Colin Powell's final days ; Dedication day. Contents: Pt. 2. Nemesis I ("Catastrophic success": from the death of Terry Schiavo to the vigil of Cindy Sheehan) Mission misconceived ; All hail Caligula's horse! ; Medals of failure ; Purging poppy ; Metrics ; Regime change ; "A broken force" ; The march of folly ; Spending political capital ; A hireling, a fraud, and a prostitute ; The plot against the New Deal ; Orwell's clock ; The brilliant career of Jack Abramoff ; A confederacy of shamans ; The passion of the culture war ; Politics under the red robes ; The keys of the kingdom ; "Serial abuser" ; The good soldier's revenge ; The incredible shrinking president ; Damage ; Guant�namo ; The truth about torture ; Deep throat's lessons ; A broken body ; Blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel ; "The last throes" ; The supreme chance of a lifetime ; Rowe's war ; Tunnel vision ; "The meaning of words" ; Above the rule of law ; The informer ; Unhappy holiday ; Question time. Pt. 3. Nemesis II ("Heck of a job": from the landfall of Hurricane Katrina to the revolt of the generals) Hurricane Katrina ; "What didn't go right?" ; "Heck of a job" ; From gulf to shining gulf ; Karen Hughes takes a tour ; Twenty-first-century Republicanism ; Judy d'Arc ; The conservative revolt ; The indictment of Scooter Libby ; Cheney's trial ; Stab in the back ; The long march of Dick Cheney ; Bob Woodward's cover-up ; Condi's tortuous trail ; "The law is king" ; Annus horribilis ; Bush's war on professionals ; Meek, mild, and menacing ; The Republican system ; The proconsul's apologia ; Bush's Brezhnev period ; The client ; The rules of the game ; Cheney's coup ; A Lincoln portrait ; Once more unto the breach ; Sex police chief arrested ; Blood and sand ; The love song of Francis Fukuyama ; Apocalypse now ; Card shuffle ; I, DeLay ; Tethered goats ; The president of truth ; The decider. -- Epilogue: The passion of George W. Bush.

973.931 W951L, 2006
AUT Wright, Lawrence.
TIT The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Knopf, 2006.
CON Contents: The martyr -- The sporting club -- The founder -- Change -- The miracles -- The base -- Return of the hero -- Paradise -- The Silicon Valley -- Paradise lost -- The prince of darkness -- The boy spies -- Hijira -- Going operational -- Bread and water -- "Now it begins" -- The new millennium -- Boom -- The big wedding -- Revelations.

974 E26h, 2006
AUT Edwards, Grace Toney ; Asbury, JoAnn Aust ; Cox, Ricky L.
TIT A handbook to Appalachia : an introduction to the region. - 1st ed.
PUB Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Appalachian history / Richard Straw -- Peoples of Appalachia: cultural diversity within the mountain region / Stevan R. Jackson -- Natural resources and environment of Appalachia / David L. Rouse and L. Sue Greer-Pitt -- The economy of Appalachia / Thomas R. Shannon -- The politics of change in Appalachia / Stephen L. Fisher ... [et al.] -- Health care in Appalachia / Anne B. Blakeney -- Education in Appalachia / Sharon Teets -- Appalachian folklife / Deborah Thompson and Irene Moser -- Appalachian music: examining popular assumptions / Ted Olson and Ajay Kalra -- Religion in Appalachia / Melinda Bollar Wagner -- Appalachian literature / Danny Miller ... [et al.] -- Visual arts in Appalachia / M. Anna Fariello -- Appalachians outside the region / Phillip J. Obermiller, Michael E. Maloney, and Pauletta Hansel.

974.877 M133j2, 1968
AUT McCullough, David G.
TIT The Johnstown flood.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, [2004?].
SER RICE T FRM 001 2 HRS KAUFFMAN S FRM 001 2 HRS.

975.004 S649L, 2006
AUT Smith, Heather A ; Furuseth, Owen J.
TIT Latinos in the new South : transformations of place.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2006.

976.04 H333t, 2006
AUT Hartman, Chester W ; Squires, Gregory D.
TIT There is no such thing as a natural disaster : race, class, and Hurricane Katrina.
PUB New York : Routledge, 2006.
SER KAUFFMAN S FRM 001 2 HRS RICE T FRM 001 2 HRS.
CON Contents: Pre-Katrina, post-Katrina / Chester Hartman and Gregory D. Squires -- A matter of choice: historical lessons for disaster recovery / Michael P. Powers -- Oral history, folklore, and Katrina / Alan H. Stein and Gene B. Preuss -- Towards a transformative view of race: the crisis and opportunity of Katrina / John A. Powell ... [et al.] -- Abandoned before the storms: the glaring disaster of gender, race, and class disparities in the Gulf / Avis W. Jones-DeWeever and Heidi Hartmann -- Katrina and the politics of later life / Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- Where is home? Housing for low-income people after the 2005 hurricanes / Sheila Crowley -- Reclaiming New Orleans' working-class communities / Robert O. Zdenek ... [et al.] -- A new kind of medical disaster in the United States / Evangeline (Vangy) Franklin -- Double jeopardy: public education in New Orleans before and after the storm / Michael Casserly -- An old economy for the "new" New Orleans? Post-Hurricane Katrina economic development efforts / Robert K. Whelan -- From poverty to prosperity: the critical role of financial institutions / John Taylor and Josh Silver -- The role of local organizing: house-to-house with boots on the ground / Wade Rathke and Beulah Laboistrie -- Rebuilding a tortured past or creating a model future: the limits and potentials of planning / Peter Marcuse.

978.004 B827c, 2006
AUT Bray, Kingsley M.
TIT Crazy Horse : a Lakota life.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma, c2006.
SER The civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 254.
CON Contents: Curly hair -- The light-haired boy -- Year of the big giveaway -- Becoming hunka -- First to make the ground bloody -- Thunder dreamer-- Crying for a vision -- Crazy Horse -- Fighting the Crow people -- Till the road was opened -- Shirt wearer -- Fighting for the road -- Closing the road -- Shirt of honor -- Staying single -- War chief -- Up against it -- Iron road -- Thieves' road -- Days of the whirlwind -- I give you these because they have no eats -- A good day to die -- Walking the Black Road -- All the rivers lie across my road -- To keep my country -- I cherish the land -- I came here for peace -- Moon of making fat -- Buys a bad woman -- Many bad talks -- Putting blood on our faces -- Moving across the creek -- They refused to follow -- Bad winds blowing -- This day is mine -- Owning a ghost.

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NonPrint/Media Materials

Video 200.82 W872W
AUT Williams, Eugene ; Mundschenk, Paul ; Simmons, John.
TIT Women in religion introduction.
PUB New York : Insight Media, [1994], c1990.

DVD 297.082 W341w
AUT LeJeune, Ray ; Watson, Mary Ann, Ph. D.
TIT Wearing hijab uncovering the myths of Islam in the United States.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004.

Software 333.91 W324U 2006
TIT Water : a shared responsibility.
PUB Paris, France : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ; New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
SER United Nations world water development report ; 2.
CON Contents: Section 1: Changing Contexts -- 1. Living in a changing world -- 2. The challenges of water governance -- 3. Water and human settlements in an urbanizing world -- Section 2: Changing Natural Systems -- 4. The state of the resource -- 5. Coastal and freshwater ecosystems -- Section 3: Challenges for Well-being and Development -- 6. Protecting and promoting human health -- 7. Water for food, agriculture and rural livelihoods -- 8. Water and industry -- 9. Water and energy -- Section 4: Management Responses and Stewardship -- 10. Managing risks: securing the gains for development -- 11. Sharing water -- 12. Valuing and charging for water -- 13. Enhancing knowledge and capacity -- Section 5: Sharing Responsibility -- 14. Case studies: moving towards an integrated approach -- 15. Conclusions and recommendations for action.

DVD 347.73 S959W v.1-4
AUT Strathairn, David ; Zwonitzer, Mark ; Lennon, Thomas.
TIT The Supreme Court.
PUB New York : Thirteen/WNET New York : Distributed by Ambrose Video Pub., c2007.
NOT Title from containers. - Companion publication: The Supreme Court : the personalities and rivalries that defined America / Jeffrey Rosen. New York : Times Books, 2007, c2006. - Originally broadcast on PBS on Jan. 31st and Feb. 7th, 2007. - DVD extras include manuscripts, photo galleries, Dred Scott documents, charts and maps.
CON Contents: v. 1. One nation under law -- v. 2. A new kind of justice -- v. 3. A nation of liberties -- v. 4. The Rehnquist revolution.

DVD 381.149 W216, 2005
AUT Greenwald, Robert ; Gilliam, Jim ; Smith, Devin.
TIT Wal*Mart the high cost of low price. - Widescreen.
PUB New York : Retail Project L.L.C. , 2005.

DVD 551.21 I35, 2006
AUT Whittlesey, Rob ; Buckner, Noel ; Holbrook, Hal.
TIT In the path of a killer volcano.
PUB [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Boston Video, 2006.
NOT Documentary. - Special features: access to the NOVA web site.

DVD 551.22 K48, 2006
AUT Dean, Robert ; Keach, Stacy l.
TIT Killer quake!.
PUB [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Boston Video, 2006.
NOT Documentary. - Title from container.

DVD 551.47 T882, 2005
AUT Williams, Martin ; Acaster, Lara.
TIT Wave that shook the world.
PUB [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH, 2005.
NOT Special features: DVD-ROM access to PDF teaching materials, and NOVA

DVD 791.43 S782, 2006
AUT Wilder, Billy ; Holden, William ; Taylor, Don.
TIT Stalag 17. - Special collector's ed.
PUB Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, 2006.
NOT Title from container. - Originally released as a motion picture in 1953. - Special features: Special commentary by Peter Graves; commentary by actors Richard Erdman and Gil Stratton and co-playwright Donald Bevan; "'Stalag 17': from reality to screen" featurette; "The real heroes of Stalag XVIIB" featurette; photo gallery.

DVD 791.437 B753
AUT Chabrol, Claude ; Audran, St�phane ; Yanne, Jean.
TIT Le boucher.
PUB Santa Monica, Calif. : Pathfinder Home Entertainment, c2003.
SER Baruch video. ; DVD 65.
NOT "Directed and written by Claude Chabrol"--Container for videocassette. - Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.

DVD 791.437 G786, 1998
AUT McQueen, Steve ; Garner, James ; Attenborough, Richard.
TIT The great escape. - Widescreen version.
PUB Santa Monica, Calif. : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. : Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment, 2005.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 1963. - For specific features see interactive menu. - "Based upon the book by Paul Brickhill"--Container.

DVD 791.437 I39, 2007
AUT Br�hat, Jean ; Bouchareb, Rachid ; Lorelle, Olivier.
TIT Indig�nes Days of glory.
PUB [New York] : Weinstein Company, [2007].
NOT Title from container.

DVD 791.4372 C357 2001
AUT Nichols, Mike ; Calley, John ; Ransohoff, Martin.
TIT Catch-22.
PUB Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount, c2001.
NOT Based on the novel by Joseph Heller. - Originally released as a motion picture in 1970. - Special features: Interactive menus ; scene selection ; theatrical trailer ; photo gallery ; commentary by Mike Nichols and Steven Soderbergh.

DVD 791.4372 L117
AUT Toro, Guillermo del ; Navarro, Bertha ; Gil, Ariadna.
TIT Laberinto del fauno (Motion picture) El laberinto del fauno.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : New Line Home Entertainment, [2007].
SER New Line 2-disc platinum series.
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. - Special features: disc. 1. video prologue; audio commentary by director Guillermo Del Toro; marketing campaign; sneak peeks; DVD-ROM features. disc 2. Featurettes (approx. 24 min. ): "The power of myth", "Pan and the Fairies = El fauno y las hadas", "The color and the shape", "The lullaby"); director's notebook (notes & sketches, storyboard/thumbnail comparisions; galleries); "The Charlie Rose Show" with Guillermo Del Toro, Alfonso Cuar�n & Alejandro Gonz�lez I��rritu (approx. 50 min.); DVD comics; DVD-ROM features.

DVD 796.522 E93, 1999
AUT Breashears, David ; Clark, Liesl ; Foster, Jodie.
TIT Everest the death zone.
PUB Boston, Mass. : WGBH Boston Video, c1999.
NOT For specific features see interactive menu.

Video 818.52 G384A
AUT Adato, Perry Miller.
TIT Gertrude Stein when this you see, remember me.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : Meridian Video Corp. [distributor], 1995, c1970.
NOT Adapted from the works of Gertrude Stein, including the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.

DVD 863.64 C928, 2004
AUT Torrent, Ana ; P�rez, Conchi ; S�nchez, Maite.
TIT Cria cuervos. - Widescreen ed.
PUB [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2007.
NOT Special features: Disc 2: Portrait of Carlos Saura, a documentary on the life and career of the Spanish auteur ; new interviews with actress Geraldine Chaplin and Ana Torrent. Accompanying booklet features a new essay by film scholar Paul Julian Smith.
CON Contents: Disc 1: The film -- Disc 2: The supplements.

DVD 941.508 W985r, 2006
AUT Wyndham, Andrew Higgins.
TIT Re-imagining Ireland.
PUB Charlottesville, Va. : University of Virginia Press, 2006.
NOT "Published in association with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities"--Jacket.

DVD 946.081 S735, 2001
AUT Kultur Video.
TIT The Spanish Civil War.
PUB West Long Branch, N.J. : Kultur, [2001].
NOT Title from disc surface. - "Brother against brother". - "The war that changed the course of Spanish history"--Container.

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