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000 General, Computer, Libraries

005.44 T981f 2007
AUT Tyler, Chris.
TIT Fedora Linux.
PUB Farnham : O'Reilly, 2007.

006.7 V246d2 2007
AUT Van Duyne, Douglas K. ; Landay, James A. ; Hong, Jason I.
TIT The design of sites : patterns for creating winning web sites. - 2nd ed.
PUB Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2007.

025.04 H668u 2005
AUT Hiraoka, Leslie S.
TIT Underwriting the internet : how technical advances, financial engineering, and entrepreneurial genius are building the information highway.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, Inc., c2005.

025.04 W829w 2007
AUT Witten, I. H. ; Gori, Marco ; Numerico, Teresa.
TIT Web dragons : inside the myths of search engine technology.
PUB Amsterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Morgan Kaufmann, c2007.
SER Morgan Kaufmann a series in multimedia and information systems.

028.7 T246o 2007
AUT Taylor, Terry ; Arth, Joan ; Solomon, Amy.
TIT 100% information literacy success.
PUB Clifton Park, N.Y. : Thomson Delmar Learning, c2007.

071.3 L973f 2006
AUT Lutes, Jean Marie.
TIT Front page girls : women journalists in American culture and fiction, 1880-1930.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Into the madhouse with girl stunt reporters -- The African American newswoman as national icon -- The original sob sisters : writers on trial -- A reporter-heroine's evolution -- From news to novels -- Epilogue : girl reporters on film.

098.12 D754b 2007
AUT Doyle, Robert P.
TIT Banned books : 2007 resource book.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : American Library Association, c2007.

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174.28 L287s 2007
AUT Langwith, Jacqueline.
TIT Stem cells.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2007.
SER Opposing viewpoints series.
CON Contents: ch. 1. Will stem cells cure disease? -- 1. Stem cells will soon provide cures for many diseases / Stem Cell Research Foundation -- 2. The promise of stem cells is exaggerated / Peter Aldhous -- 3. Embryonic stem cell research is necessary to find a diabetes cure / Robert Goldstein -- 4. Nonembryonic stem cell research can find a diabetes cure / Dave Andrusko -- 5. Embryonic stem cell research may one day cure Alzheimer's disease / Sharon Begley -- 6. Embryonic stem cell research is unlikely to cure Alzheimer's disease / Rick Weiss -- ch. 2. What ethical and moral questions surround stem cell research? -- 1. Destroying embryos in order to obtain stem cells is immoral / William Cheshire -- 2. Destroying embryos in order to obtain stem cells is not immoral / Jonathon D. Moreno, Sam Berger -- 3. Therapeutic cloning to obtain embryonic stem cells is immoral / David A. Prentice, William Saunders -- 4. Therapeutic cloning to obtain embryonic stem cells is not immoral / Michael J. Sandel -- 5. Stem cell treatments threaten human morality / Paul Lauritzen -- 6. Stem cell treatments do not threaten human morality / Susan Squier, Catherine Waldby, Anita Silvers -- 7. Altered nuclear transfer is a moral way to obtain embryonic stem cells / E. Christian Brugger -- ch. 3. What role should the government play in stem cell research? -- 1. U.S. stem cell policy is moral / George W. Bush -- 2. U.S. stem cell policy is morally inconsistent / Arthur Caplan -- 3. The current number of federally approved stem cell lines is inadequate / Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International -- 4. The number of federally approved stem cell lines should not be increased / Eric Cohen -- 5. Americans favor government support of human embryonic stem cell research / Civil Society Institute/Results for America -- 6. Americans do not favor government support of human embryonic stem cell research / United States Conference of Catholic Bishops -- 7. U.S. policy is hurting stem cell research in the United States / Gareth Cook -- 8. U.S Policy is not hurting stem cell research in the United States / Do No Harm : The Coalition of Americans for Research Ethics -- ch. 4. Are there alternatives to embryonic stem cells? -- 1. Adult stem cells are more promising than embryonic stem cells / Jean Peduzzi-Nelson -- 2. Adult stem cells are not more promising than embryonic stem cells / William B. Neaves -- 3. Fetal stem cells are a promising alternative to embryonic stem cells / Business Week -- 4. Stem cells should not be harvested from artificially grown fetuses / Robert P. George -- 5. Umbilical cord stem cells are more beneficial than embryonic stem cells / Peter Hollands, interviewed by Peter J. Smith -- 6. Umbilical cord stem cells cannot replace embryonic stem cells / K. Welte, World Marrow Donor Association -- 7. Amniotic fluid stem cells may replace embryonic stem cells / Mary Carmichael.

174.28 W318m 2006
AUT Washington, Harriet A.
TIT Medical apartheid : the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Doubleday, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: The American janus of medicine and race -- pt. 1. A troubling tradition -- Southern discomfort: medical exploitation on the plantation -- Profitable wonders: antebellum medical experimentation with slaves and freedmen -- Circus Africanus: the popular display of Black bodies -- The surgical theater: Black bodies in the antebellum clinic -- The restless dead: anatomical dissection and display -- Diagnosis: freedom: the Civil War, Emancipation, and Fin de Si�cle medical research -- "A notoriously syphilis-soaked race": what really happened at Tuskegee? -- pt. 2. The usual subjects -- The black stork: the eugenic control of African American reproduction -- Nuclear winter: radiation experiments on African Americans -- Caged subjects: research on Black prisoners -- The children's crusade: research targets young African Americans -- pt. 3. Race, technology, and medicine -- Genetic perdition: the rise of molecular bias -- Infection and inequity: illness as crime -- The machine age: African American martyrs to surgical technology -- Aberrant wars: American bioterrorism targets Blacks -- Epilogue: Medical research with blacks today.

193 B374d 2006
AUT Beaufret, Jean.
TIT Dialogue with Heidegger : Greek philosophy.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2006.
SER Studies in Continental thought.
CON Contents: Letter to Martin Heidegger for his eightieth birthday -- The birth of philosophy -- Heraclitus and Parmenides -- Reading Parmenides -- Zeno -- A note on Plato and Aristotle -- Energeia and Actus -- The enigma of Z -- Aristotle and tragedy.

193 S648m 2007
AUT Smith, Gregory B.
TIT Martin Heidegger : paths taken, paths opened.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
SER 20th century political thinkers.

194 M467p 2006
AUT May, Todd.
TIT The philosophy of Foucault.
PUB Montreal, Can. ; Ithaca, N.Y. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.
SER Continental European philosophy.
CON Contents: Introduction: who are we? -- Genealogical histories of who we are -- Genealogical histories of who we are -- Who we are and who we might be -- Coda: Foucault's own straying afield -- Are we still who Foucault says we are?.

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200 Religion

201 K18p 2007
AUT Karabell, Zachary.
TIT Peace be upon you : the story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish coexistence. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- In the name of the Lord -- At the court of the caliph -- The sacrifice of Isaac -- The crusades -- Saladin's jihad? -- The philosopher's dream -- The lord of two lands -- The tide begins to turn -- Brave new worlds -- The age of reform -- Hope and despair -- In an otherwise turbulent world -- Coda : is Dubai the future? Maps -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

226.06 B337j 2006
AUT Bauckham, Richard.
TIT Jesus and the eyewitnesses : the Gospels as eyewitness testimony.
PUB Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2006.

231.765 G976i 2006
AUT Gunn, Angus M.
TIT Intelligent design and fundamentalist opposition to evolution.
PUB Jefferson, N.C : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Understanding the theory of evolution -- Identifying American Christian fundamentalism today -- Opposing biblical criticism, 1865 to 1900 -- Circling the wagons, 1910 to 1915 -- Attacking evolution in new ways after 1960 -- Interpreting the Bible -- Using biological research findings for human welfare -- Appendix A : preface and tables of contents for the fundamentals : a testimony to the truth, volumes one to twelve -- Appendix B : medical breakthroughs over 100 years -- Appendix C : extracts from the judgment of United States District Court, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, December 20, 2005, regarding the Dover area school district.

261.57 J73r2 2006
AUT Johnston, Robert K.
TIT Reel spirituality : theology and film in dialogue. - 2nd ed., Rev. and expanded.
PUB Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2006.
SER Engaging culture.
CON Contents: The power of film -- A brief history of the church and Hollywood -- Theological approaches to film criticism -- Why look at film?: a theological perspective -- Are movies art? -- In film, story reigns supreme -- Image and music -- Becoming a film critic -- Responding to film ethically: moving beyond the rating system -- Responding to movies theologically -- An exercise in dialogue: the movies of Peter Weir.

282.092 G481p 2006
AUT Gillis, Chester.
TIT The political papacy : John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and their influence.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: The political legacy of Pope John Paul II / Jo Renee Formicola -- Who is Joseph Ratzinger? / John L. Allen Jr. -- Was God at work in the fall of communism? / John Paul II -- John Paul II and the fall of communism / Carl Bernstein -- Observations : the Vatican and Castro's Cuba / Ernest Evans -- War service and imprisonment / Joseph Ratzinger -- Address to the fiftieth General Assembly of the United Nations Organization / John Paul II -- John Paul II and participation in international politics / Derek S. Jeffreys -- View from the Vatican / Ren� Coste and Rosemary A. Peters -- Solidarity is essential in the fight on world hunger / John Paul II -- Private property and the universal destination of moral goods / John Paul II -- The role of religion in a uniting of Europe / John Paul II -- Message to Archbishop Alberto Giraldo Jaramillo of Medell�n, president of Bishops' Conference of Colombia / John Paul II -- Address to the delegates of other churches and ecclesial communities and of other religious traditions / Benedict XVI -- Address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See / Benedict XVI -- Address to Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, president of the Italian Republic / Benedict XVI -- Pope John Paul II's Holy Land pilgrimage : a Jewish appraisal / Yehezkel Landau -- World Youth Day address to the Jewish community / Benedict XVI -- Fundamental agreement between the Holy See and the state of Israel -- John Paul II and Islam / Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi -- World Youth Day address to the Muslim community / Benedict XVI -- Introduction to The gospel of life / John Paul II -- Recognize identity of human embryo / John Paul II -- After Iraq : Holy See supports UN / Angelo Sodano -- The Roman Catholic hierarchy : putting the squeeze on politicians / Robert Grant -- Human sexuality in God's original plan / John Paul II -- Address to the participants in the Ecclesial Diocesan Convention of Rome / Benedict XVI -- Abstentions scuttle drive to liberalize Italy's embryo laws / Gretchen Vogel -- New Pope Benedict XVI a strong critic of war / Michael Griffin.

294.3 N576m 1987
AUT Nhat Hunh, Th�ch ; Vo, Dinh Mai.
TIT The miracle of mindfulness : an introduction to the practice of meditation.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c1987.

296.082 P715c 2005
AUT Plaskow, Judith ; Berman, Donna.
TIT The coming of Lilith : essays on feminism, Judaism, and sexual ethics, 1972-2003.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The coming of Lilith : toward a feminist theology (1972) -- The Jewish feminist : conflict in identities (1973) -- Male theology and women's experience (1978) -- The right question is theological (1982) -- Jewish theology in feminist perspective (1994) -- Lilith revisited (1995) -- Christian feminism and anti-Judaism (1978) -- Anti-semitism : the unacknowledged racism (1984) -- Feminist anti-Judaism and the Christian God (1990) -- Jewish anti-paganism (1991) -- Dealing with the hard stuff (1994) -- God : some feminist questions (1987) -- "It is not in heaven" : feminism and religious authority (1990) -- Beyond egalitarianism (1990) -- Facing the ambiguity of God (1991) -- What's wrong with hierarchy? (1992) -- About men (1992) -- The year of the agunah (1993) -- Preaching against the text (1997) -- Expanding the Jewish feminist agenda (2000) -- The continuing value of separatism (2003) -- Sexuality and teshuva : Leviticus 18 (1997) -- Sexual orientation and human rights : a progressive Jewish perspective (1998) -- Authority, resistance, and transformation : Jewish feminist reflections on good sex (2000) -- Speaking of sex : authority and the denominational documents (2003).

299.93 A326r 2007
AUT Albanese, Catherine L.
TIT A republic of mind and spirit : a cultural history of American metaphysical religion.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2007.

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Ref 302.2 A748e 2007 v.1-2
AUT Arnett, Jeffrey Jensen.
TIT Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media.
PUB Thousand Oaks, CAlif. : Sage Publications, c2007.
CON Contents: Editorial board -- list of entries -- Reader's guide -- About the editor -- About the associate editors -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Volume 1. A-K -- Volume 2. L-Z -- Index.

302.23 E26g 2006
AUT Edwards, David ; Cromwell, David.
TIT Guardians of power : the myth of the liberal media.
PUB London ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : Pluto Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The mass media : neutral, honest, psychopathic -- Iraq : the sanctions of mass destruction -- Iraq disarmed : burying the 1991-98 weapons inspections -- Iraq : gunning for war and burying the dead -- Afghanistan : let them eat grass -- Kosovo : real bombs, fictional genocide -- East Timor : the practical limits of crusading humanitarianism -- Haiti : the hidden logic of exploitation -- Idolatory link : Reagan, the 'cheerful conservative' and 'Chubby Bubba' Clinton -- Climate change : the ultimate media betrayal -- Disciplined media : professional conformity to power -- Towards a compassionate media -- Full human dissent.

302.23 H682r 2007
AUT Hobbs, Ren�e.
TIT Reading the media : media literacy in high school English.
PUB New York : Teachers College Press ; Newark, DE : International Reading Association, c2007.
SER Language and literacy series.

302.23 J52c 2006
AUT Jenkins, Henry.
TIT Convergence culture : where old and new media collide.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: "Worship at the Altar of Convergence": A New Paradigm for Understanding Media Change -- Spoiling Survivor: The Anatomy of a Knowledge Community -- Buying into American Idol: How We are Being Sold on Reality TV -- Searching for the Origami Unicorn: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling -- Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: Grassroots Creativity Meets the Media Industry -- Why Heather Can Write: Media Literacy and the Harry Potter Wars -- Photoshop for Democracy: The New Relationship Between Politics and Popular Culture -- Conclusion Democratizing Television?: The Politics of Participation.

302.23 N793e 2007
AUT Noll, A. Michael.
TIT The evolution of media.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.

302.234 H477g 2006
AUT Heller, Dana A.
TIT The great American makeover : television, history, nation. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

302.234 L232c 2007
AUT Lamish, Dafnah.
TIT Children and television : a global perspective.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
CON Contents: The home of television viewing -- Television and individual development -- Television and the behavior of children -- Television and the social construction of reality -- Television and learning -- Implications for education and policy -- Conclusion: growing up in a global screen culture.

303.482 E48c 2006
AUT El-Ojeili, Chamsy ; Hayden, Patrick.
TIT Critical theories of globalization.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

303.483 B468w 2006
AUT Benkler, Yochai.
TIT The wealth of networks : how social production transforms markets and freedom.
PUB New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: a moment of opportunity and challenge -- The networked information economy -- Some basic economics of information production and innovation -- Peer production and sharing -- The economics of social production -- The political economy of property and commons -- Individual freedom: autonomy, information, and law -- Political freedom part 1: the trouble with mass media -- Political freedom part 2: emergence of the networked public sphere -- Cultural freedom: a culture both plastic and critical -- Justice and development -- Social ties: networking together -- Policies of freedom at a moment of transformation -- The battle over the institutional ecology of the digital environment -- Conclusion: the stakes of information law and policy.

303.483 C136d 2001
AUT Cairncross, Frances.
TIT The death of distance : how the communications revolution is changing our lives. - Completely new ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2001.
CON Contents: The trendspotter's guide to new communications -- Changing the world -- The third transport revolution -- Voice, video, data -- The internet -- Consumers and electronic commerce -- Corporate commerce and company structure -- Reinventing government, redefining the nation state -- A new economy -- The five P problems: policing the electronic world -- Knowledge and the new monopolists -- Society, culture, and the individual.

303.483 C348m 2007
AUT Castells, Manuel.
TIT Mobile communication and society : a global perspective : a project of the Annenberg Research Network on international communication.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.
SER Information revolution & global politics.
CON Contents: The diffusion of wireless communication in the world -- The social differentiation of wireless communication users: age, gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status -- Communication and mobility in everyday life -- The mobile youth culture -- The space of flows, timeless time, and mobile networks -- The language of wireless communication -- The mobile civil society: social movements, political power, and communication networks -- Wireless communication and global development: new issues, new strategies -- The mobile network society.

303.483 H851s 2004
AUT Howard, Philip N ; Jones, Steve.
TIT Society online : the Internet in context.
PUB Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, c2004.
CON Contents: Embedded media : who we know, what we know, and society online / Philip N. Howard and Steven Jones -- The bridging and bonding role of online communities / Pippa Norris -- Deeper understanding, deeper ties : taking faith online / Elena Larsen -- Bending gender into the net : feminizing content, corporate interests, and research strategy / Leslie Regan Shade -- Interrogating the digital divide : the political economy of race and commerce in new media / Lisa Nakamura -- Will Internet voting increase turnout? / Jennifer Stromer-Galley -- The Internet and political involvement in 1996 and 2000 / Ronald E. Rice and James E. Katz -- New media, Internet news and the news habit / Carin Dessauer -- Crisis communication and new media : the Web after September 11 / Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot -- 'Shop online!' : advertising female teen cyberculture / David Silver and Philip Garland -- Permanently beta : responsive organization in the Internet era / Gina Neff and David Stark -- Art versus code : the gendered evolution of web design skills / Nalini P. Kotamraju -- Wired and well-read / Wendy Griswold and Nathan Wright -- The disembodied muse : music in the Internet age / Richard A. Peterson and John Ryan -- Technology & tolerance : public opinion differences among Internet users and non-users / John P. Robinson, Alan Neustadtl, and Meyer Kestnbaum -- Informed web surfing : the social context of user sophistication / Eszter Hargittai -- U.S. American Internet users and privacy : a safe harbor of their own? / Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Dan L. Burk, and Laura J. Gurak -- Sited materials with a global span / Saskia Sassen -- The future of Internet : cultural and individual conceptions / William Sims Bainbridge -- Conclusion : contexting the network / Steve Jones.

303.483 N994t 2006
AUT Nye, David E.
TIT Technology matters : questions to live with.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Can we define "technology?" -- Does technology control us? -- Is technology predictable? -- How do historians understand technology? -- Cultural uniformity, or diversity? -- Sustainable abundance, or ecological crisis? -- Work : more, or less? Better, or worse? -- Should "the market" select technologies? -- More security, or escalating dangers? -- Expanding consciousness, or encapsulation? -- Not just one future.

303.484 T843a 2006
AUT Trodd, Zoe.
TIT American protest literature.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
SER John Harvard library.
CON Contents: Declaring independence : The American revolution -- Unvanishing the Indian : Native American rights -- Little books that started a big war : Abolition and antislavery -- This land is herland : Women's rights and suffragism -- Capitalism's discontents : Socialism and industry -- Strange fruit : Against lynching -- Dust tracks on the road : The Great depression -- The dungeon shook : Civil rights and Black liberation -- A problem that had no name : Second-wave feminism -- The word is out : Gay liberation -- From Saigon to Baghdad : The Vietnam war and beyond.

303.49 N158m 2006
AUT Naisbitt, John.
TIT Mind set! : reset your thinking and see the future. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Collins, c2006.
CON Contents: I: Mindsets -- While many things change, most things remain constant -- The future is embedded in the present -- Focus on the score of the game -- Understanding how powerful it is not to have to be right -- See the future as a picture puzzle -- Don't get so far ahead of the parade that people don't know you're in it -- Resistance to change falls if benefits are real -- Things that we expect to happen always happen more slowly -- You don't get results by solving problems but by exploiting opportunities -- Don't add unless you subtract -- Don't forget the ecology of technology -- II: Pictures of the future -- Culture: a visual culture is taking over the world -- Economics: from nation-states to economic domains -- China: the periphery is the center -- Europe: mutually assured decline -- Our evolutionary era: reservoir of innovation.

304.2 M829p 2006
AUT Moran, Emilio F.
TIT People and nature : an introduction to human ecological relations.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
SER Blackwell primers in anthropology. ; 1.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Can one conceive of ecosystems without human agents? -- Human agency : individuals making a difference -- Overwhelming evidence for concern with the condition of the earth system -- Looking back and looking forward -- The study of human ecological relations -- The contemporary study of environmental issues -- The evolution of human-environment interactions -- Hunter-gatherers : setting our preferences -- How did we decide to become farmers? -- Herding and farming : an uneasy relationship -- More food for the masses -- Earth transformations in prehistory -- The archeology of environmental change -- The urban-industrial revolution and the unleashing of Prometheus -- The contemporary situation : human-dominated ecosystems -- The web of life and trophic relations : thinking ecologically -- Ecosystem productivity and net primary production -- Land use and long term disturbance -- Learning, adaptation, and information -- Mitigation and the cautionary principle -- Transforming the face of the earth : making better decisions -- Population and the environment -- Community in human evolution -- What is sacred in human evolution? -- Tragedies of the commons -- Institutions and self-organization -- Bioregionalism, deep ecology, and embedding people in nature -- Material boys and material girls -- Patterns of consumption in developed countries -- Patterns of consumption in developing countries -- A feeding frenzy and a crisis in public health -- Burning fossils fuels instead of calories -- Do we have enough material goods now? -- Resource abundance versus resource scarcity -- When less is more -- The scale of the problem and the scale of the solution -- Restoring our balance : valuing community and trust, rather than more "stuff" -- Are we happier when we have more?.

305.235 R329g 2006
AUT Reese, Dagmar.
TIT Growing up female in Nazi Germany.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
SER Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
CON Contents: "The path of the German girl" -- A thumbnail sketch of the history of the League of German Girls -- Ideology and practice of organizing girls in the League of German Girls -- A study in local history: minden in Westphalia -- A study in local history: wedding.

305.235 S839k 2006
AUT Sternheimer, Karen.
TIT Kids these days : facts and fictions about today's youth.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction : kids these days -- Kidnapped! -- Greedy gluttons -- School house shock -- Hazed and confused -- Jackasses and copycats -- Hell on wheels -- Conclusion : the business of youth phobia.

305.4209 B835t 2006
AUT Breines, Wini.
TIT The trouble between us : an uneasy history of white and Black women in the feminist movement.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Together and apart: women and SNCC -- Hope and anger: Black women and Black power -- Learning about racism: white socialist feminism and bread and roses -- Alone: Black socialist feminism and the Combahee River Collective -- Apart and together: Boston, race, and feminism in the 1970s and early 1980s.

305.8099 M165m 2006
AUT MacLeod, Celeste Lipow.
TIT Multiethnic Australia : its history and future.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: Before the British -- Convicts and colonists -- Class conflicts with unexpected outcomes -- Spreading across the land -- Dispossessed : the indigenous people -- A place in two cultures -- Immigrants and "White Australia" -- A multiethnic nation -- Diversity and dissent -- Embedded legacies -- Turbulent times -- Asian connections -- Which way ahead?.

305.892 V921g 2006
AUT Volkov, Shulamit.
TIT Germans, Jews, and antisemites : trials in emancipation.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. Views from East and West -- 2. Excursus on self-hatred and self-criticism -- 3. Past shadows, present needs -- 4. Antisemitism old and new -- 5. Functions and meaning -- 6. Norms and codes -- 7. Comparing Germany with the French Republic -- 8. Excursus on minorities in the nation-state -- 9. Climbing up the social ladder -- 10. Paradoxes of becoming alike -- 11. Jewish success in science-- 12. The ambivalence of bildung -- 13. Forces of dissimilation -- 14. Inventing tradition.

305.896 E92s 2006
AUT Evans, Tammy.
TIT The silencing of Ruby McCollum : race, class, and gender in the South.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2006.
CON Contents: "Words and doing": the politics of silence in southern rhetoric -- "It was all routine": the trial(s) of Ruby McCollum -- Discourses of contention: punctuating McCollum's sentence(s) of silence.

305.897 J75c 2006
AUT Joliv�tte, Andrew.
TIT Cultural representation in Native America.
PUB Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, c2006.
SER Contemporary Native American communities.

306.84 P651a 2006
AUT Pinello, Daniel R.
TIT America's struggle for same-sex marriage.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction -- Craig and Greg -- Peg and Spence -- Gordon and Jeff -- Aftermath -- New Mexico as introduction -- 2. Overview and background -- Hats -- Early stirrings -- The mastermind -- Political science themes -- 3. Massachusetts -- Massachusetts before Goodridge -- Goodridge -- The 2004 Constitutional Convention -- The legislative debates -- Aftermath -- 4. California -- Mayor Newsom -- The winter of love -- Flowers from the heartland -- The nullification -- Future court action -- Backlash -- Proposition 22 and a future same-sex marriage ballot measure -- 5. Oregon -- Prologue -- Multnomah County -- The defense of marriage coalition -- Measure 36 -- The Measure 36 campaign -- Aftermath -- 6. New York -- The business of same-sex marriage -- Public education -- 7. Conclusion -- Procreation and child rearing -- Are civil unions/domestic partnerships/reciprocal benefits adequate? -- Acceptance or bigotry? -- The roles of courts and legislatures -- Judicial efficacy -- Appendix. Methods.

307.34 B617r 2006
AUT Birch, Eugenie Ladner ; Wachter, Susan M.
TIT Rebuilding urban places after disaster : lessons from Hurricane Katrina.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
SER The city in the twenty-first century.

307.76 H249p 2006
AUT Hansen, Mogens Herman.
TIT Polis : an introduction to the ancient Greek city-state.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: I: City-states in world history -- Cities, states, city-states and city-state cultures -- A sketch of the thirty-seven identified city-state cultures -- 'Country-states' versus city-state cultures -- II: The city-state culture in ancient Greece -- The unity of the city-state culture of ancient Greece -- The rise of the ancient Greek city-state culture -- The end of the city-state culture in ancient Greece -- How Poleis arose and disappeared -- What is a Polis? An investigation of the concept of 'Polis' -- The 'Polis' as city and state -- Polis as city -- The settlement pattern of the ancient Greek city-states -- The size and population of the cities -- The demography of the Greek city-state culture -- The economy of the cities: Max Weber's 'ideal type' -- Polis as city in the Archaic Period -- The Greek conception of Polis as a city with a hinterland -- Polis as state.

320.01 R261L 2007
AUT Rawls, John ; Freeman, Samuel Richard.
TIT Lectures on the history of political philosophy.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Remarks on political philosophy -- Lectures on Hobbes -- Lectures on Locke -- Lectures on Hume -- Lectures on Rousseau -- Lectures on Mill -- Lectures on Marx.

320.092 G558L 2006
AUT Glendinning, Victoria.
TIT Leonard Woolf : a biography.
PUB New York : Free Press, c2006.

320.441 J95g 2006
AUT Jupp, Peter.
TIT The governing of Britain, 1688-1848 : the executive, Parliament, and the people.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

320.956 J77n 2006
AUT Jones, Jeremy.
TIT Negotiating change : the new politics of the Middle East.
PUB London : I. B. Tauris, 2007.
SER Library of modern Middle East studies. ; 58.
CON Contents: Egypt: Mosque and state -- Iran: innovation impeded -- Palestine: democracy under occupation -- Syria and Lebanon: party problems -- Jordan and Morocco: the authority of the legitimate king -- Oman: tradition and change -- Dubai: the airport state -- Turkey: Islamists in power -- Iraq: democracy under occupation, revisited.

322.42 N565k 2007
AUT Newton, Michael.
TIT The Ku Klux Klan : history, organization, language, influence and activities of America's most notorious secret society.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2007.
CON Contents: A brief history of the Ku Klux Klan -- Klanspeak -- The Klan kreed -- Who's who in the invisible empire -- A gathering of Klans -- Komrades in arms -- Mapping the empire -- Friends and foes of the Klan in politics -- Reign of terror -- Policing vigilantes -- Covering the Klan.

323.1196 H835r 2006
AUT Houck, Davis W ; Dixon, David E.
TIT Rhetoric, religion and the civil rights movement, 1954-1965.
PUB Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2006.
SER Studies in rhetoric and religion ; 1.
CON Contents: Emancipation Day address / Mordecai Johnson -- A cool head and a warm heart / Charles P. Bowles -- The Supreme Court decision / A. Powell Davies -- Speech to Council of Christian Relations / Frank P. Graham -- Full integration--America's newest challenge / Mary McLeod Bethune -- The church amidst ethnic and racial tensions / Benjamin E. Mays -- The disturbing Christ / J. R. Brokhoff -- The challenge of integration / William Lloyd Imes -- Speech to Calvary Christian Church / Sarah Patton Boyle -- Speech to Covington Ministerial Association / Sarah Patton Boyle -- Abraham then, and now / William Lloyd Imes -- Toward world brotherhood / James Hudson -- Spiritual rearmament / Mary McLeod Bethune -- Address at memorial meeting for Rev. George W. Lee / Roy Wilkins -- Do we still need do-gooders? / Albert D'Orlando -- Terror reigns in Mississippi / T. R. M. Howard -- I want you to know what they did to my boy / Mamie Till-Bradley -- I'm glad I was born white / Robbins Ralph -- Feed my sheep / Sarah Patton Boyle -- One Hundred Percent Wrong Club / Branch Rickey -- Drifting is dangerous / Paul N. Carnes -- A lesson on tolerance / J. R. Brokhoff -- A cigarette for Johnnie Birchfield / Horace Mann Bond -- Where to look for victory / James Hudson -- Mississippi's challenge in this grave hour / T. R. M. Howard -- Speech to National Baptist Convention, Denver / Roy Wilkins -- Christians and desegregation / D. Perry Ginn -- The South, collectively, is a patient most ill / P. D. East -- The role of the church / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Report of the interracial leadership conference / James A. Pike -- Address / Mordecai Wyatt Johnson -- Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom / Adam Clayton Powell -- Address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom / A. Philip Randolph -- A faith for difficult and critical times / Fred L. Shuttlesworth -- Address to the 48th annual NAACP convention / Channing H. Tobias -- Walk to freedom / Shad Polier -- The crucial test of Christian citizenship / Marion A. Boggs -- The meaning of Little Rock / A. Powell Davies -- Integration and public morals / Marion A. Wright. Contents: [cont.] The ministry of reconciliation / James R. Bullock -- Life's inevitables : three things you cannot stop / J. R. Brokhoff -- Meeting of the Fair Share Organization / Fred L. Shuttlesworth -- A fresh look at race relations / Chester Bowles -- Address at the 50th anniversary of the NAACP -- The ministry of reconciliation / Colbert S. Cartwright -- Of this gospel I was made a minister / Carlos E. Martin -- Christianity and racial tensions / Edward Hughes Pruden -- To the people of Florida on race relations / LeRoy Collins -- Speech at Shaw University / James Lawson -- Segregation and the Ten Commandments / Everett Tilson -- Challenge to overcome / Benjamin E. Mays -- Students "standing up" for the American dream / Frank P. Graham -- Behaving like ordinary men / Edler Garnet Hawkins -- Witnessing / Will D. Campbell -- Speech to the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai Brith / LeRoy Collins -- This I believe / Haywood N. Hill -- Some stern words of Jesus / Colbert S. Cartwright -- Mistakes I have made in race relations / William O. Byrd -- The Christian way in race relations / Robert J. McCracken -- The untold story of the sit-ins / Duncan Howlett -- Trying to get home without Jesus / Ralph David Abernathy -- The minister as citizen / Marion A. Wright -- Who speaks for the South? / James McBride Dabbs -- Hidden persuaders in human relations / Heslip "Happy" Lee -- Call for reason / Fred L. Shuttlesworth -- Not race but grace / Robert H. Walkup -- Speech at the University of Mississippi / Robert H. Walkup -- Love disqualified / Charles L. Stanford, Jr. -- Paranoia, guilt, and atonement / Duncan M. Gray, Jr. -- The worship God wants / George A. Chauncey -- The moving finger writes in Mississippi / James McBride Dabbs -- To define our love / James McBride Dabbs -- Reflections on the death of a child / Marion King -- The Christian faith and race / J. Claude Evans -- Speech at a church and race relations conference / James A. Pike -- This is the mood and this is the time / Edler Garnet Hawkins -- Broadcast on KPFA, Los Angeles, May 28, 1963 / Wyatt Tee Walker -- The testing of our faith / J. V. Cosby Summerell -- Speech at the Flamingo Club / James Bevel -- Untitled sermon / Bruce William Klunder -- Law and order and Christian duty / Eugene Carson Blake -- On loving one's neighbor as oneself / Francis Gerald Ensley -- Late we come / Eugene Carson Blake -- Invocation / Patrick O'Boyle -- Speech at the march on Washington / John Lewis -- Who is guilty in Birmingham? / Charles Morgan Jr. -- Some important differences / George H. Woodard -- Speech at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church / Dick Gregory -- Let's face the world / Arthur E. Shelton -- Golgotha 1964 / Frank T. Wilson -- Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally / Dave Dennis -- A modern day Moses / Dave Dennis -- Speech at the Freedom Vote Rally / Aaron Henry. The myth, the movement / James McBride Dabbs -- The two way barrier / Duncan Howlett -- As if in a foreign country / David G. Colwell -- Division of home missions / Robert W. Spike -- Danville Christian Progressive Association / Lawrence Campbell -- Address at the Hattiesburg Freedom Day Rally / Ella Josephine Baker -- A Methodist pastor and race relations / Edward W. Harris -- Countdown on human worth / L. Wilson Kilgore -- Report from the South / Duncan Howlett -- Christian response to racial revolution / James McBride Dabbs -- Deep are the roots / Mildred Bell Johnson -- Love and race relations / Ralph David Abernathy -- The national civil rights crises / Fred L. Shuttlesworth -- Some points / Thomas Merton -- Address to the 55th annual NAACP convention / Robert W. Spike -- The long, hot summer / Albert D'Orlando -- Address at Medgar Evers memorial service / Fred L. Shuttlesworth -- Sermon at Deering Community Church / Robert W. Spike -- Funeral service for James Chaney / Dave Dennis and Edwin King -- Untitled speech / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Moral dimensions / Theodore M. Hesburgh -- Civil rights and Christian duties / Robert J. McCracken --The misfits / Kelly Miller Smith -- Religious panel, February 20, 1965 / Civil Rights Hearings -- Jews, justice and liberalism / Charles F. Wittenstein -- Report from Alabama and Mississippi / Duncan Howlett -- In memoriam : James Reeb / Albert D'Orlando -- Eulogy at memorial service for James Reeb / Roy Wilkins -- To be a man / Robert A. Reed -- The moral stature of the civil rights movement / Duncan Howlett -- Address / Morris B. Abram -- Untitled paper read posthumously / Jonathan Daniels -- Dear friends in Christ / Daniel Berrigan -- A Christian movement in a revolutionary age / Ralph David Abernathy -- Trek toward the dawn / Kelly Miller Smith -- Some comments on race hate / Gardner C. Taylor -- Civil rights from a Christian point of view / Theodore Parker Ferris.

324.2 C293c 2006
AUT Carothers, Thomas.
TIT Confronting the weakest link : aiding political parties in new democracies.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The standard lament -- The condition of parties -- A quick global tour -- Diagnosing the condition -- The assistance response -- The world of party aid -- The standard method and beyond -- Interests and partisanship -- The question of effects -- Party system aid -- Conclusions -- Going deeper.

324.273 F264r 2007
AUT Fauntroy, Michael K.
TIT Republicans and the Black vote.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
CON Contents: Afros and elephants: an introduction to a political paradox -- The GOP's early lock on Black votes -- The Republicans fall out of favor -- Efforts to regain and retain African American support -- Public policies speak louder than words -- GOP political symbolism angers African Americans -- An ongoing quest for Black votes?.

Folio 324.73 D253L 2006
AUT Davidson, Russ ; Craven, David.
TIT Latin American posters : public aesthetics and mass politics.
PUB Santa Fe, N.M. : Museum of New Mexico Press, in association with University of New Mexico Center for Regional Studies, UNM University Libraries, and National Hispanic Cultural Center, c2006.
CON Contents: Images of protest in Latin America: the Sam L. Slick collection / Russ Davidson -- Latin American posters: public aesthetics and mass politics -- The art of the ephemeral / Ilan Stavans -- The Latin American poster: image, message, and means / Teresa Eckmann -- �Presente! Chicano posters and Latin American politics / Tere Romo -- Latin American posters.

324.96 L742d 2006
AUT Lindberg, Staffan I.
TIT Democracy and elections in Africa.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction. The role of elections ; Why Africa? ; On regimes ; On elections and democracy ; Preindependence and postindependence elections in African nations ; Contemporary Africa's track record ; Outline of the book -- On democracy and elections. Making a conceptual choice ; Defining democracy ; Operationalizing democratic qualities of elections ; Data collection and processing -- Elections in Africa over time. Frequency and number of elections ; The democratic qualities, on average ; Democratic qualities of elections over time ; Conclusions -- The self-reinforcing power of elections. Going from bad to worse ; First, second, third, fourth and later elections ; A panel-group comparison ; Conclusions -- The causal effects of elections. Democratic qualities in society ; A missing factor of democratization ; Hypotheses and causal links -- Democratization by elections? Elections are associated with civil liberties ; Analyzing by countries ; Conclusions -- Comparative perspectives and reflections. The transition paradigm ; Corruption and democratization ; Stateness and social citizenship ; Lessons on consolidation ; Policy implications ; The power of elections in unfavorable conditions.

324.973 S628m 2007
AUT Skinner, Richard M.
TIT More than money : interest group action in congressional elections.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007.
SER Campaigning American style.

325.73 H663de 2006
AUT Hing, Bill Ong.
TIT Deporting our souls : values, morality, and immigration policy.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Hysteria and shame -- Illegal immigration : give them a parade -- Deporting our souls -- Promoting family values and immigration -- Misusing immigration policies in the name of homeland security -- A welcome wagon for new Americans -- Epilogue: a policy of humanity.

327.7305 M167n 2007
AUT MacMillan, Margaret.
TIT Nixon and Mao : the week that changed the world. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Random House, c2007.
CON Contents: Setting out -- Arrival -- Chou En-Lai -- At the Diaoyutai -- Meeting with Mao -- Mao Tse-Tung -- The long freeze -- Breaking the pattern -- The polar bear -- The opening banquet -- Opening moves -- The secret visit -- Getting ready -- Getting down to business -- The irritant: Taiwan -- Indochina -- Haldeman's masterpiece -- Audience reactions -- The Shanghai communiqu�.

330 K36n2 2004
AUT Kennett, David.
TIT A new view of comparative economics. - 2nd ed.
PUB Mason, Ohio : Thomson/South-Western, c2004.

330.092 S193i 2007
AUT Samuelson, Paul Anthony ; Barnett, William A.
TIT Inside the economist's mind : conversations with eminent economists.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
CON Contents: Coeditor's foreword : Reflections on how biographies of individual scholars can relate to a science's biography / Paul Samuelson -- Coeditor's preface : An overview of the objectives and contents of the volume / William A. Barnett -- History of thought introduction : economists talking with economists, an historian's perspective / E. Roy Weintraub -- An interview with Wassily Leontief / Duncan K. Foley -- An interview with David Cass / Steven E. Spear, Randall Wright -- An interview with Robert E. Lucas, Jr. / Bennett T. McCallum -- An interview with J�nos Kornai / Olivier Blanchard -- An interview with Franco Modigliani / William A. Barnett, Robert Solow -- An interview with Milton Friedman / John B. Taylor -- An interview with Paul A. Samuelson / William A. Barnett -- An interview with Paul A. Volcker / Perry Mehrling -- An interview with Martin Feldstein / James M. Poterba -- An interview with Christopher A. Sims / Lars Peter Hansen -- An interview with Robert J. Shiller / John Y. Campbell -- An interview with Stanley Fischer / Olivier Blanchard -- An interview with Jacques Dr�ze / Pierre Dehez, Omar Licandro -- An interview with Thomas J. Sargent / George W. Evans, Seppo Honkapohja -- An interview with Robert Aumann / Sergiu Hart -- Conversations with James Tobin and Robert J. Shiller on the Yale tradition in macroeconomics / David Colander.

330.94 B488e 2006
AUT Berend, T. Iv�n.
TIT An economic history of twentieth-century Europe : economic regimes from laissez-faire to globalization.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Europe's laissez-faire system and its impact before World War I. The rise of Britain and the laissez-faire system ; Rising modern sectors ; Europe's position in the world ; Rising disparity within Europe ; The beginning of Scandinavia's catching-up ; The Southern and Eastern peripheries remaining behind ; The challenge of globalized laissez-faire -- Decline of laissez-faire and the rise of the regulated market system. The turning point : war economy 1914-18, postwar chaos, and the agony of laissez-faire ; Failed attempts to return to "normalcy" ; The death of laissez-faire, and extreme state regulations during the Great Depression ; The theory of regulated market ; War economy, 1939-45 ; The impact of the regulated market economy : European economic performance ; Europe's deteriorating role in the world -- Economic dirigisme in authoritarian-fascist regimes. The origins and characteristics of economic dirigisme ; Functions and programs of the state ; Self-sufficiency, planning and the populist welfare system ; Dictated regional economic integration ; Economic results -- The centrally planned economic system. Marxist theoretical legacy, Lenin, and the Bolshevik program ; Forced industrialization and central planning : "socialism in one country" ; From an isolated Soviet system to the Soviet bloc ; The characteristics of the centrally planned economic system ; Safeguarding and attempts to legitimize the regime ; Regional integration system of planned economies ; The goal and balance sheet of the centrally planned economy ; Rapid growth and industrialization : reproduced backwardness ; Reform attempts that failed ; Crisis and collapse -- Mixed economy and welfare state in an integrated post-World War II Western Europe. Postwar international regulations ; Economic integration and the rise of the European Union ; The emergence of Sozialpartnerschaft and the mixed economy ; Planning in mixed economies ; The rise of the welfare state ; Educational revolution ; Economic growth and structural changes -- Globalization : return to laissez-faire? Globalization and its characteristics ; Globalization of the laissez-faire ideology and system ; The impact of globalization on Europe ; The challenge of mixed economy and welfare state ; Globalization and inequality ; Rising global environmental considerations and regulations ; Europe : a rising economic superpower.

331.4 K42g 2007
AUT Kessler-Harris, Alice.
TIT Gendering labor history.
PUB Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
SER Working class in American history.
CON Contents: Where are the organized women workers? -- Organizing the unorganizable : three Jewish women and their union -- Problems of coalition building : women and trade unions in the 1920s -- Rose Schneiderman and the limits of women's trade unionism -- Stratifying by sex : notes on the history of working women -- Independence and virtue in the lives of wage-earning women in the United States, 1870-1930 -- A new agenda for American labor history : a gendered analysis and the question of class -- Treating the male as "other" : redefining the parameters of labor history -- Reconfiguring the private in the context of the public -- The just price, the free market, and the value of women -- The debate over equity for women in the workplace : recognizing differences -- Gendered interventions : exploring the historical roots of U.S. social policy -- The paradox of motherhood : night-work restrictions in the United States -- Measures for masculinity : the American labor movement and welfare-state policy during the Great Depression -- In pursuit of economic citizenship -- Reframing the history of women's wage labor : challenges of a global perspective -- History is public or nothing : learning how to keep illusions in our future.

332.092 B819m 2006
AUT Brands, H. W.
TIT The money men : capitalism, democracy, and the hundred years' war over the American dollar. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
SER Enterprise.
CON Contents: The aristocracy of capital -- The bank war -- The bonds of union -- The great gold conspiracy -- The transit of Jupiter.

332.109 D596p 2006
AUT Dowla, Asif ; Barua, Dipal.
TIT The poor always pay back : the Grameen II story.
PUB Bloomfield, Conn. : Kumarian Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Classical Grameen and its impacts -- Loan products under Grameen II -- Savings mobilization : from one taka to 3000 billion taka -- Archeology of Grameen II -- Staff incentives and implementation of Grameen II -- The education loan and a program for the poorest -- Conclusion.

332.11 G815a 2007 Popular reading
AUT Greenspan, Alan.
TIT The age of turbulence : adventures in a new world.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
CON Contents: City kid -- The making of an economist -- Economics meets politics -- Private citizen -- Black Monday -- The fall of the wall -- A Democrat's agenda -- Irrational exuberance -- Millennium fever -- Downturn -- The nation challenged -- The universals of economic growth -- The modes of capitalism -- The choices that await China -- The tigers and the elephant -- Russia's sharp elbows -- Latin America and populism -- Current accounts and debt -- Globalization and regulation -- The "conundrum" -- Education and income inequality -- The world retires. But can it afford to? -- Corporate governance -- The long-term energy squeeze -- The Delphic future.

332.15 C345c 2006
AUT Cassis, Youssef.
TIT Capitals of capital : a history of international financial centres, 1780-2005.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: The age of private bankers, 1780-1840 -- The concentration of capital, 1840-1875 -- A globalised world, 1875-1914 -- Wars and depression, 1914-1945 -- Growth and regulation, 1945-1980 -- Globalisation and financial innovation, 1980-2005.

332.152 S187i 2007
AUT Samans, Richard ; Uzan, Marc ; L�pez-Claros, Augusto.
TIT The international monetary system, the IMF, and the G-20 : a great transformation in the making?.
PUB Basingstoke, U.K. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

332.642 H138s 2007
AUT Hafer, R. W. ; Hein, Scott E.
TIT The stock market.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
SER Greenwood guides to business and economics. 1559-2367.
CON Contents: A brief history of the U.S. stock market -- Stocks in today's economy -- Today's stock market in action -- Recent innovations in stocks and stock markets -- Regulation of the stock market -- Stock markets abroad -- Summing it up -- Companies listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

333.75 S741a 2006
AUT Speakman, Joseph M.
TIT At work in Penn's Woods : the Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania.
PUB University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: The first year of the CCC in Pennsylvania -- Enrolling Pennsylvania men for the CCC -- The CCC in Penn's Woods -- African-Americans in Penn's Woods -- Farewell to the woods.

333.79 S594a 2007
AUT Simon, Christopher A.
TIT Alternative energy : political, economic, and social feasibility.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.
CON Contents: Why alternative energy and fuels? -- Studying public policy and alternative energy/fuels -- Overview of alternative energy and fuels and their uses -- Alternative energy/fuels as a public policy innovation -- Solar energy -- Wind energy -- Geothermal energy -- New century fuels and their uses -- Historical precedents: alternative energy/fuels and legitimacy issues -- Public policy, institutional developments, and policy interests -- Practical demonstration of the economics of alternative energy -- Conclusion: the future of alternative energy.

338.762 S587s 2006
AUT Silverman, Miriam D.
TIT Stopping the plant : the St. Lawrence Cement controversy and the battle for quality of life in the Hudson Valley.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.
SER Suny series, an American region: studies in the Hudson Valley.

338.9173 B814s 2007
AUT Brainard, Lael.
TIT Security by other means : foreign assistance, global poverty, and American leadership.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Foreword / Strobe Talbott and John Hamre -- A unified framework for U.S. foreign assistance / Lael Brainard -- Organizing U.S. foreign assistance to meet twenty-first century challenges / Lael Brainard -- What role for U.S. assistance in the fight against global HIC/AIDS? / J. Stephen Morrison -- Strengthening U.S. development assistance / Steven Radelet -- Humanitarian assistance expands in scale and scope / Steven Hansch -- Development in the shadow of conflict / Patrick Cronin -- The changing complexion of security and strategic assistance in the twenty-first century / Patrick Cronin and Tarek Ghani -- Removing impediments to an effective partnership with Congress / Charles Flickner -- Foreign aid reform commissions, task forces, and initiatives : from Kennedy to the present / Larry Nowels -- Reforming development assistance : lessons from the U.K. experience / Owen Barder -- Conclusion and recommendations / Lael Brainard -- Appendixes. A. Contributors to the Brookings-CSIS Task Force on Transforming Foreign Assistance in the 21st Century -- B. List of legislation, strategic objectives, and organizations involved with foreign assistance.

338.96 M913a 2007
AUT Moss, Todd J.
TIT African development : making sense of the issues and actors.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The complexities and uncertainties of development -- The domestic context -- History and the legacy of colonialism -- Big men, personal rule and patronage politics -- Violent conflict and civil war -- Political change and democratization -- Core development questions -- Africa's slow-growth puzzle -- Economic reform and the politics of adjustment -- The international aid system -- Debt burdens and debt relief -- Poverty and human development -- Regionalism and globalization -- Regional institutions and NEPAD -- Africa and world trade -- Private investment and the business environment -- Conclusion.

341.23 T364u 2006
AUT Thakur, Ramesh Chandra.
TIT The United Nations, peace and security : from collective security to the responsibility to protect.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: PART I. AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR KEEPING THE PEACE. -- Pacific settlement, collective security and international peacekeeping -- Peace operations and the UN-US relationship -- PART II. SOFT SECURITY PERSPECTIVES. -- Human security -- Human rights: civil society and the United Nations -- International criminal justice -- International sanctions -- PART III. HARD SECURITY ISSUES. -- The nuclear threat -- International terrorism -- Kosovo 1999 -- Iraq's challenge to world order -- The responsibility to protect -- Developing countries and the eroding non-intervention norm -- PART IV. INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS. -- Reforming the United Nations -- The political role of the United Nations Secretary-General -- Conclusion: At the crossroads of ideals and reality.

341.58 S623u 2006
AUT Sitkowski, Andrzej.
TIT UN peacekeeping : myth and reality.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2006.
CON Contents: Script -- Main actors -- Betrayal in Palestine and its legacy (Middle East) -- Stumbling into war (the Congo) -- Mission accomplished (Namibia) -- The failed authority (Cambodia) -- Defeated by warlords (Somalia) -- Witnesses to genocide (Rwanda) -- The predictable disaster (ex-Yugoslavia) -- Prospects.

344.73 C321L 2007
AUT Carson, Bryan M.
TIT The law of libraries and archives.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Libraries and the U.S. legal system -- Contracts : a meeting of the minds -- Copyright and patent law -- Fair use and intellectual property rights : the basics of using information legally -- Copyright and education -- Trademark and trade secret law -- Licensing of intellectual property -- Information malpractice, professionalism, and the unauthorized practice of law and medicine -- Search warrants, investigations, library records, and privacy -- Internet use policies and the filtering debate -- Employment and workplace law -- Forming a nonprofit organization.

346.7304 F537p3 2006
AUT Fishman, Stephen.
TIT The public domain : how to find & use copyright-free writings, music, art & more. - 3rd ed.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : Nolo, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction to the public domain -- The use and abuse of copyright -- Writings -- Music -- Art. Original works of art ; Art reproductions -- Photography -- Movies and television. Films ; Television programs ; Sources of public domain films and TV programs -- Computer software -- Architecture -- Maps -- Choreography -- Databases and collections. Databases ; Collections of public domain works -- Titles -- Public domain elements in copyrighted writings -- Copyrights restored from the public domain -- The public domain outside the United States -- The Internet and the public domain -- Copyright protection: how long does it last? -- Copyright notice requirements -- Traps for the unwary: trademark and publicity rights -- Researching copyright office records -- What if a work is not in the public domain? -- Help beyond this book.

355.032 F163f 2006
AUT Fair, C. Christine ; Chalk, Peter.
TIT Fortifying Pakistan : the role of U.S. internal security assistance.
PUB Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2006.
SER Perspectives series.

355.033 M911c 2006
AUT Mosier, John.
TIT Cross of iron : the rise and fall of the German war machine, 1918-1945. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: truth and error -- The German army in 1918: secrets of success -- The army before Hitler: hollow victories, shattered illusions -- Breaking out of the cave: Hitler and the Wehrmacht's Jewish problem -- Planes, personalities, and conflict in the Luftwaffe -- Paper tigers: Hitler's tanks -- Bloodless victories, or nearly so: toward a greater Germany, 1935-39 -- The fall of the West, September 1939-June 1940 -- A few distractions on the Road to Armageddon -- The Soviet collapse -- The death ride: Russia, December 1941-December 1944 -- Failure and philosophy: the end of the war -- The criminals -- Conclusion: Myths, realities, and achievements.

362.104 M987e 2006
AUT Musgrave, Frank W.
TIT The economics of U.S. health care policy : the role of market forces.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: health care choices, trade-offs, and ownership of health care resources -- The mix of health services: more market and more government? -- The pricing of drugs: who benefits and who pays? -- Managed care: revolution, evolution, or devolution? -- The four "Cs" of the uninsured: causes, characteristics, consequences, and corrections/choices -- Medical and health savings accounts: schemes that you can love! -- The medicare reform school: who pays for the rehabilitation? -- Conclusions and policy implications.

362.196 C724s 2006
AUT Colten, Harvey R ; Altevogt, Bruce M.
TIT Sleep disorders and sleep deprivation : an unmet public health problem.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Institute of Medicine : National Academies Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Sleep physiology -- Extent and health consequences of chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders -- Functional and economic impact of sleep loss and sleep-related disorders -- Improving awareness, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders -- Ensuring adequate diagnosis and treatment : access, capacity, and technology development -- Opportunities to improve career development in somnology -- Bolstering somnology and sleep disorders research programs -- Building sleep programs in academic health centers.

362.198 A161c 2006
AUT Abramson, Rachel ; Breedlove, Ginger K ; Isaacs, Beth.
TIT The community-based doula : supporting families before, during, and after childbirth.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Zero to Three, c2006.
CON Contents: Doulas and the evidence base for birthing support -- Community-based work : doulas in context -- The community-based doula model -- The Chicago doula project -- Nurturing the nurturers : doula recruitment, education, and support -- The doula's experience of the work -- Listening to the voices of young mothers : women's experience of doula support -- Replication of the Chicago Health Connection model -- Social forces affecting community-based doula practice -- Move to action -- Appendix A: Findings from studies of labor support.

362.5 G382h 2007
AUT Gerson, Jill.
TIT Hope springs maternal : homeless mothers talk about making sense of adversity. - Rev. and updated ed.
PUB New York : Gordian Knot Books, c2007.
CON Contents: 1. Profiles of the mothers -- 2. The mothers' past lives : understanding pathways to the shelter -- 3. The mothers' present lives : making sense of adversity while living in the shelter -- 4. The mothers' future lives : making sense of hope -- 5. Hope springs maternal : considerations and questions about the future of mothers without homes -- Appendix. Table of mothers' characteristics.

362.58 H351w 2006
AUT Haskins, Ron.
TIT Work over welfare : the inside story of the 1996 welfare reform law.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Building the American welfare state -- Laying the groundwork -- House Republicans unite behind radical reforms -- The contract with America -- The House initiates the revolution -- The battle in the House, Part I: hearings -- The battle in the House, Part II: Markups -- The battle in the House, Part III: the floor -- The Senate joins the revolution -- Budget issues trump welfare reform -- Clinton vetoes welfare reform, again -- The Governors revive the revolution -- The revolution threatened -- Triumph: Clinton signs -- Ten years later: the triumph of work -- Appendix: The welfare reform law that reshaped American social policy.

363.25 M132u 2005 Leisure Area Author Shelf
AUT McCrary, Gregg O. ; Ramsland, Katherine M.
TIT The unknown darkness : profiling the predators among us. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Morrow, c2003.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Scarborough rapist -- Fitting the profile -- Who would do this? -- Kidnapping of Kristen French -- Buddhist temple massacre -- Duping delight -- Negotiating with God -- Poet's shadow -- Preponderance of evidence -- Future.

363.259 S587f2 2007
AUT Silverstone, Howard ; Sheetz, Michael.
TIT Forensic accounting and fraud investigation for non-experts. - 2nd ed.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2007.
CON Contents: Fraud and forensic accounting overview. Fraud in society -- Understanding the basics of financial accounting -- The entities -- Fundamental principles of analysis -- The role of the accounting professional ; Financial crime investigation. Business as a victim -- Business villains -- The investigative process -- Interviewing financially sophisticated witnesses -- Proving cases through documentary evidence -- Analysis tools for investigators -- Inferential analysis -- Documenting and presenting the case.

363.31 P831D 2006
AUT Drewett, Michael ; Cloonan, Martin.
TIT Popular music censorship in Africa.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2006.
SER Ashgate popular and folk music series.
CON Contents: Popular music censorship in Africa : an overview / Martin Cloonan -- The cultural boycott against apartheid South Africa : a case of defensible censorship? / Michael Drewett -- Vocal killers, silent killers : popular media, genocide, and the call for benevolent censorship in Rwanda / Dylan Craig and Nomalanga Mkhize -- Racist hate speech in South Africa's fragile democracy : the case of Ngema's 'AmaNdiya' / Gary Baines -- Zvakwana! Enough! : media control and unofficial censorship of music in Zimbabwe / Diane Thram -- And the beat goes on? : message music, political repression and the power of hip-hop in Nigeria / Wilson Akpan -- Traditional and popular music, hegemonic power and censorship in Malawi : 1964-1994 / Reuben M Chirambo -- Why don't you sing about the leaves and the dreams? : reflecting on music censorship in apartheid South Africa / Johnny Clegg and Michael Drewett -- Popular music censorship in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew and John F. Kitime -- Silencing musical expression in colonial and post-colonial Kenya / Peter Muhoro Mwangi -- One hundred years of censorship in Ghanaian popular music performance / John Collins -- Where the shoe pinches : the imprisonment of Franco Luambo Makiadi as a curious example of music censorship in Za�re / Graeme Ewens -- For a song : censure in Algerian rai music / Malika Mehdid -- Concluding comments on the censorship of popular music in Africa / Martin Cloonan and Michael Drewett.

363.33 B946g 2006
AUT Burbick, Joan.
TIT Gun show nation : gun culture and American democracy.
PUB New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006.
CON Contents: Buffalo Bill at the gun show -- Rebirth of a nation -- The rifle fraternity -- Start shooting -- Reading American Rifleman -- Uncivil rights -- Riding the Reagan highway -- Deterrents -- Purchasing power -- Gun-grabbing wives -- Arming God's nation -- Global gun grabbers.

363.34 H711s 2006
AUT Hoffman, Peter J. ; Weiss, Thomas George.
TIT Sword & salve : confronting new wars and humanitarian crises.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
SER New millennium books in international studies.
CON Contents: Concepts and connections of war and humanitarianism -- The lexicon -- War's impact on humanitarianism : triggering crises and eliciting responses -- Humanitarianism's influence on war : inspiring norms and altering outcomes -- Change and continuity in war and humanitarianism -- Putting the lenses together -- Foundations -- The rise of interstate war -- The birth of the international humanitarian system -- The founding era in historical perspective -- "New wars"? -- So, what's new? -- Fragmented authority and meaningless borders : a new locus -- The proliferation of nonstate actors : new agents -- Illegal economies, plunder, and aid : new economies -- The prevalence of civilian casualties: new targets and victims -- The revolution in military affairs : new technologies -- Windows on war : new media power -- "New wars" in historical perspective -- "New humanitarianisms" -- So, what's new? -- Creating space and access -- Engagement dilemmas : negotiating access with agents -- Economies of war, economies of aid -- The responsibility to protect war victims and aid personnel-- Taming deadly technologies -- Maximizing media attention to humanitarian crises -- "New humanitarianisms" in historical perspective -- Humanitarianism and collective action -- The panacea of "coordination" -- Three threads of collective action: cooperation, centralization, and integration -- Divergent perceptions of needs, priorities, and sequences -- Differences in tactical engagements -- The value of independent and diverse operations -- The blowback from insecurity -- Institutional rivalries -- Collective pursuits and "atomized" action -- Making sense of Afghanistan and Iraq -- So, what's really new? -- Humanitarian crises in Afghanistan and Iraq -- Hybrid wars on terrorism and for empire -- Al Qaeda as spoiler and hostile aid recipients -- Big business in oil, war, and reconstruction -- Conspicuous economic interests in relief and protection -- Acute security threats to aid personnel and journalists -- High technology versus high-enough technology -- The international spotlight -- The collective and cumulative challenges of turf wars -- Humanitarian strategic thinking-- and doing -- Assessing change in humanitarianism : the case for strategic thinking and doing -- Learning cultures and adaptation : military institutions versus humanitarian agencies -- Strategic review : humanitarian power and position -- Sharpening strategies and crafting capacities -- Soothing tomorrow's wars with stronger salves?.

363.45 F533r 2006
AUT Fisher, Gary L.
TIT Rethinking our war on drugs : candid talk about controversial issues.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The national drug control strategy, 1996-2005 -- Legalization, decriminalization, harm reduction -- How dangerous is marijuana? -- Why doesn't the NDCS focus on underage drinking? -- Does prevention work? -- Controversial issues in treatment -- Can the supply ever be stopped -- A new model for a national drug control strategy.

363.46 F264h 2006
AUT Fa�ndes, An�bal ; Barzelatto, J.
TIT The human drama of abortion : seeking a global consensus. - 1st ed.
PUB Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: pt. I. The human drama of abortion -- 1. Listening to women : why they have abortions -- The story of a peasant -- A middle-class urban woman -- A young, idealistic career woman -- A mature, well-to-do physician -- A working-class teenager -- 2. The meaning of words -- The need to define terms related to abortion -- The reproductive process -- From embryo to newborn baby -- The beginning of pregnancy and of a new individual -- Ectopic pregnancy -- Defining induced abortion -- Safe and unsafe abortion -- Methods of pregnancy termination -- "Partial-birth" abortion -- Menstrual regulation -- 3. The magnitude of induced abortion -- Worldwide estimations -- Regional differences in induced abortions -- Regional differences in unsafe abortions -- 4. Consequences of unsafe abortion -- Maternal mortality -- Physical complications -- Psychological consequences -- Social consequences -- Economic consequences -- Factors that influence the severity of the consequences of abortion -- 5. Why women get pregnant when they do not want to -- Lack of knowledge of contraceptive methods -- Lack of access to contraceptive methods -- Failure of contraceptive methods -- Lack of control in sexual relationships -- 6. Why is a pregnancy so unwanted that it ends in abortion? -- The absence of the father -- Financial constraints -- The inability to provide good parenting/interference with life prospects -- Conflict with prevailing social norms -- Health concerns -- Lack of social support. Contents: pt. II. Values -- 7. Conflicting values encountered health professionals -- Health professionals and the value of life -- Obstetricians and the fetus -- Medical technology and the presence of the fetus -- Technology and the acceptance of abortion -- Obstetricians and unwanted pregnancies -- Cultural pressures -- Public condemnation and private acceptance -- From accepting the exception to understanding the rule -- 8. Religious values -- The historical context of Christian perspectives -- Christian values about abortion -- The current position of the Catholic Church -- Protestant perspectives on abortion -- Jewish perspectives on abortion -- Muslim perspectives on abortion -- Hindu perspectives on abortion -- Buddhist perspectives on abortion -- Chinese perspectives on abortion -- Is a religious consensus possible? -- 9. Ethical values -- Our understanding of ethics -- The four principles of bioethics -- The bioethical principles applied to abortion -- The ethical dilemma for gynecologists/obstetricians -- Our reflections on ethical values concerning abortion -- 10. Values as reflected in the law -- Legal systems -- Legal systems and abortion -- The legality of abortion around the world -- Human rights declarations and conventions -- Abortion laws and human rights -- General conclusion on abortion and the law. Contents: pt. III. Improving the situation -- 11. How to decrease the number of abortions -- Legal and moral prohibition -- Prevention of unwanted pregnancies -- Contraceptive services and the reduction of unwanted pregnancies -- Increase women's power -- Social support for motherhood -- 12. How to reduce the human, social, and economic costs of abortion -- Improving women's status in society -- Decriminalizing or extending legal grounds for abortion -- Improving access to legal abortion -- A fairer, more liberal interpretation of the law -- Access to high quality post-abortion care -- A more positive attitude among health care workers -- 13. The paradox : rejecting abortion and opposing the prevention of unwanted pregnancies -- Opposition to "artificial" contraceptive methods -- Opposition to contraceptive methods under the allegation that they induce abortions -- Opposition to sex education -- Abortion-promoting effects of "anti-abortion" politics. Seeking a consensus -- 14. How to reach a consensus on abortion -- The social need for an "overlapping consensus" -- Is an "overlapping consensus" on abortion possible? -- The basis for an "overlapping consensus" on abortion -- Some reflections on the process for achieving consensus.

363.8 W927S 2007
AUT Stanford,Claire.
TIT World hunger.
PUB Bronx, N.Y. : H.W. Wilson Company, 2007.
SER Reference shelf. ; v. 79, no. 5.
CON Contents: I. The slow and silent killer : what causes famine? -- Starved for attention / Susan Sechler -- How the world is getting hungrier each year / Paul Vallely -- From credit to crops / Stijn Claessens and Erik Feijen -- Africa needs democracy as much as debt relief / Steve Karlen -- Why democracies don't have famines / Miren Gutierrez -- Freedom is not enough / Joshua Hammer -- II. Famines in the world today -- Millions in Niger facing food shortages once again / Samuel Loewenberg -- Season of many hungers / The Nation -- Who caused the Malawi famine / Kwesi Owusu and Francis Ng'ambi -- Letter from Zimbabwe / Gabrielle Menezes -- Glimpses of a hermit nation : trading ideals for sustenance / Barbara Demick -- III. Relief efforts : aid versus development -- Fighting world hunger : U.S. food aid policy and the Food for Peace program / Ryan Swanson -- Food sovereignty : ending world hunger in our time / Frederic Mousseau and Anuradha Mittal -- Starving for the cameras / The Economist -- Vast lands, epic journeys, terrible sights / James R. Peipert -- The problem with predicting famine / Miren Gutierrez -- IV. Women and children : greatest victims, greatest hope -- Do-it-yourself famine fight / Kirsten Scharnberg -- Malnutrition is cheating its survivors, and Africa's future / Michael Wines -- Famine in East Africa : littlest victims of drought, poverty / Anna Badkhen -- Hunger stalks Niger / Kirsten Scharnberg -- The opposite of obesity : undernutrition overwhelms the world's children / Carol Potera -- V. Promising solution or risky experiment? : the biotechnology debate -- So shall we reap / Peter Pringle -- Debate grows over biotech food / Justin Gillis -- Genetic engineering is not the answer / Sean McDonagh -- Feed starving masses, not irrational fears / USA Today -- VI. Food stamps and farm subsidies : hunger in America -- Hungry in America / Trudy Lieberman -- America's hunger epidemic / Anna Quindlen -- Cost of hunger calculated at $90 billion / Cheryl Wetzstein -- No longer hungry, just folks of "low food security" / Marie Cocco -- Lawmaker cuts budget to $3 a day / Bella English -- Appendix. United Nations Millennium Declaration / United Nations General Assembly.

364.168 L437d 2007
AUT Leap, Terry L.
TIT Dishonest dollars : the dynamics of white-collar crime.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : the big picture -- What influences organizational crime and corruption? -- The many facets of white-collar crime -- White-collar criminals : risks and rationalizations -- The elusive impact of white-collar crime -- Responses to white-collar crime -- Conclusion and future directions -- Appendixes : A model of organizational crime and corruption -- Selected theories on the causes of criminal behavior -- Federal laws affecting white-collar crime.

364.37 F374n 2006
AUT Ferraro, Kathleen J.
TIT Neither angels nor demons : women, crime, and victimization.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, c2006.
SER Northeastern series on gender, crime, and law.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Blurred boundaries and the complexities of experience -- Irreconcilable differences : women's encounters with the criminal processing system -- Negotiating surreality -- The social reproduction of women's pain -- Demonic angels? : violence against abusers -- Angelic demons? : crimes of complicity -- Epilogue.

Curr 371.26 B872f 2006
AUT Brookhart, Susan M.
TIT Formative assessment strategies for every classroom : an ASCD action tool.
PUB Alexandria, Va : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2006.

371.26 T165t 2007
AUT Tankersley, Karen.
TIT Tests that teach : using standardized tests to improve instruction.
PUB Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2007.
CON Contents: Constructed response : connecting performance and assessment -- Classrooms that create deep thinkers -- Language arts -- Science -- Social studies -- Math -- Building and supporting student achievement.

371.9 F613L 2007
AUT Fletcher, Jack M.
TIT Learning disabilities : from identification to intervention.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- History of the field -- Classification, definition, and identification of learning disabilities -- Assessment of learning disabilities -- Reading disabilities: word recognition -- Reading disabilities: fluency -- Reading disabilities: comprehension -- Mathematics disabilities -- Written expression disabilities -- Conclusions and future directions -- References -- Index.

371.9 F635s 2007
AUT Florian, Lani.
TIT The Sage handbook of special education.
PUB London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2007.

372.61 S781t 2006
AUT Stahl, Steven A ; Nagy, William E.
TIT Teaching word meanings.
PUB Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
SER Literacy teaching series.
CON Contents: Pt. I: The Lay of the land. The importance of vocabulary ; Vocabulary knowledge, reading comprehension, and readability ; Problems and complexities ; A comprehensive approach to vocabulary learning -- Pt. II: Teaching specific words. Teaching words for ownership ; Teaching concepts ; Teaching high-frequency words ; Talking about words -- Pt. III: Independent word learning. Exposure to rich language ; Promoting word consciousness ; Teaching word learning strategies: Word parts ; Teaching word learning strategies: Context ; Teaching word learning strategies: Definitions ; Conclusion: Matching instructional approaches to students and words.

378.196 V141s 2007
AUT Valcik, Nicolas A.
TIT Space : the final frontier for institutional research.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2007.
SER New directions for institutional research. 0271-0579 ; no. 135.

378.198 P444c 2006
AUT Peril, Lynn.
TIT College girls : bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: from bluestockings to sex kittens -- The birth of the college girl -- New girl on campus -- The collegiate look -- In loco parentis and other campus rules -- Book smart or house wise? What to study -- Fit in mind and body -- Sex ed and husband hunting -- Graduation and after -- Epilogue: since then.

379.11 E58L 2006
AUT Enlow, Robert C ; Ealy, Lenore T.
TIT Liberty & learning : Milton Friedman's voucher idea at fifty.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Cato Institute, c2006.
CON Contents: Prologue : a personal retrospective / Milton Friedman -- Introduction / Robert C. Enlow and Lenore T. Ealy -- The role of government in education : enduring principles, new circumstances, and the question of "shelf life" / Gilbert C. Hentschke -- Choice, religion, community and educational quality / John E. Brandl -- A culture of choice / Abigail Thernstrom -- Milton Friedman, vouchers, and civic values / Jay P. Green -- Give us liberty and give us depth / John E. Coons -- Is there hope for expanded school choice? / Eric A. Hanushek -- Free-market strategy and tactics in K-12 education / Myron Lieberman -- A critique of pure Friedman : an empirical reassessment of "The role of government in education" / Andrew Coulson -- Discipline is the key to Milton Friedman's gold standard for education reform / John Merrifield -- From universal to targeted vouchers : the relevance of the Friedmans' proposals for developing countries / James Tooley -- Epilogue : school vouchers turn 50, but the fight is just beginning / Milton Friedman.

379.263 H711r 2006
AUT Hoffschwelle, Mary S.
TIT The Rosenwald Schools of the American South.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2006.
SER New perspectives on the history of the South.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The Rosenwald school-building program -- pt. 2. Rosenwald schools and public education in southern states -- pt. 3. Rosenwald schools in African American communities.

384.8 K49d 2006
AUT Kimmel, Daniel M.
TIT The dream team : the rise and fall of Dreamworks : lessons from the new Hollywood.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, 2006.

384.8 W262h 2005
AUT Ward, Richard Lewis.
TIT A history of the Hal Roach Studios.
PUB Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c2005.
CON Contents: The Rolin Film Company, 1914 -- Lonesome Luke and the glasses character, 1915-19 -- Path�comedies, 1919-27 -- Roach-MGM short features, 1927-33 -- The demise of the short subject, 1933-38 -- From "A" pictures to streamliners, 1938-42 -- Fort Roach, 1943-48 -- The man who bet on television, 1949-60.

391.2 W283w 2006
AUT Warner, Patricia Campbell.
TIT When the girls came out to play : the birth of American sportswear.
PUB Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Factors of change -- Women move out-of-doors : croquet and skating -- Taking up tennis -- Bathing and swimming : seeking a "sensible costume" -- Women enter the Olympics : a sleeker swimsuit -- Bicycling and the bloomer -- Trouser wearing : early influences -- The rise of interest in exercise for women -- Innovation at Wellesley : a uniform for crew -- The debut of the gym suit -- Taking exercise clothes to new places : women biologists at Woods Hole -- The merging of public and private : sportswear and the American style.

392.5 H852b 2006
AUT Howard, Vicki.
TIT Brides, Inc. : American weddings and the business of tradition.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- 1. The evil of elaborate and showy weddings -- 2. Rings and the birth of a tradition -- 3. Bridal magazines and the creation of a market -- 4. Department stores and consumer rites -- 5. Bridal consultants, the fashion industry, and the business of tradition -- 6. Catering to the bride : the rise of commercial wedding venues -- Epilogue. Wedding tradition at the turn of the twenty-first century.

395 S284e 2007
AUT Scapp, Ron ; Seitz, Brian.
TIT Etiquette : reflections on contemporary comportment.
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2007.
SER SUNY series, hot topics.
CON Contents: Introduction: on being becoming / Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz -- Aristotle's aesthetiquette / Nicholas Pappas -- The art of the dis: hip-hop's battle royale / Lynne d Johnson -- Gay etiquette: a brief consideration / Jeff Weinstein -- The breathing breach of etiquette / Kenneth J. Saltman -- The etiquette of adoption / Michael D. Colberg -- Impolitics: toward a resistant comportment / Trent H. Hamann -- Coldness and civility / Alison Leigh Brown -- Eating dogs and women: abject rules of etiquette in 301/302 / Tina Chanter -- The taciturn tongue: on silence / Brian Schroeder -- Handy etiquette / David Farrell Krell -- Murder so bland: the implosion of disetiquette / Mark S. Roberts -- Branded from the start: the paradox of (the) American (novel of) manners / Hildegard Hoeller -- "Make yourself useful" / Shannon Winnubst -- The American guest / Kevin McDonald -- A place where the soul can rest / bell hooks -- Slurping soda, twirling spaghetti: etiquette, fascism, and pleasure / Don Handon Johnson -- Make it look easy: thoughts on social grace / Karmen MacKendrick -- Etiquette and missile defense / Robin Truth Goodman -- Odysseus lies / Thomas Thorp -- Take clothes, for example / Hazel E. Barnes.

398.208 F666N 2006 v.1-2
AUT Ben-Amos, Dan ; Noy, Dov ; Frankel, Ellen.
TIT Folktales of the Jews. - 1st ed.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Jewish Publication Society, 2006-.
CON Contents: 1. Tales from the Sephardic dispersion -- 2. Tales from Eastern Europe.

398.22 H241s 2000
AUT Hanks, Dorrel Thomas ; Brogdon, Jessica Gentry.
TIT The social and literary contexts of Malory's Morte Darthur.
PUB Rochester, N.Y. : D.S. Brewer, 2000.
SER Arthurian studies. 0261-9814 ; 42.

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401.9 Y22i 2006
AUT Yang, Charles D.
TIT The infinite gift : how children learn and unlearn the languages of the world.
PUB New York : Scribner, c2006.
CON Contents: The Greatest Intellectual Feat -- Mission Improbable -- Silent Rehearsals -- Wuckoo -- Word Factory -- Colorless Green Ideas -- Twenty Questions -- The Superiority of the German Language.

420.9 S968e 2006
AUT Svartvik, Jan ; Leech, Geoffrey N. [Engelska] ; Leech, Geoffrey N.
TIT English : one tongue, many voices.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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507.1 B466c 2006
AUT Ben-Hur, Meir.
TIT Concept-rich mathematics instruction : building a strong foundation for reasoning and problem solving.
PUB Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2006.
CON Contents: Conceptual understanding -- Concept-rich instruction -- Misconceptions -- Solving problems mathematically -- Assessment.

510.7 K36L 2005
AUT Kenney, Joan M.
TIT Literacy strategies for improving mathematics instruction.
PUB Alexandria, Va. : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2005.
CON Contents: Mathematics as language / by Joan M. Kenney -- Reading in the mathematics classroom / by Diana Metsisto -- Writing in the mathematics classroom / by Cynthia L. Tuttle -- Graphic representation in the mathematics classroom / by Loretta Heuer -- Discourse in the mathematics classroom / by Euthecia Hancewicz -- Creating mathematical metis / by Joan M. Kenney.

516.13 T461L 2006
AUT Thomas, Rekha R.
TIT Lectures in geometric combinatorics.
PUB Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society ; [Princeton, N.J.] : Institute for Advanced Study, c2006.
SER Student mathematical library, 1520-9121 ; v. 33. IAS/Park City mathematical subseries.

516.35 K19e 2006
AUT Katz, Sheldon.
TIT Enumerative geometry and string theory.
PUB Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2006.
SER Student mathematical library. IAS/Park city mathematical subseries. ; v. 32.

519.2 O52p 2007
AUT Olofsson, Peter.
TIT Probabilities : the little numbers that rule our lives.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2007.
CON Contents: Computing probabilities : right ways and wrong ways -- Surprising probabilities : when intuition struggles -- Tiny probabilities : why are they so hard to escape? -- Backward probabilities : the Reverend Bayes to our rescue -- Beyond probabilities : what to expect -- Inevitable probabilities : two fascinating mathematical results -- Gambling probabilities : why Donald

523.1 E11o 2007
AUT Eales, Stephen.
TIT Origins : how the planets, stars, galaxies, and the universe began.
PUB London : Springer, c2007.
SER Astronomers' universe.

Ref 523.203 E56M2 2007
AUT McFadden, Lucy-Ann Adams ; Weissman, Paul Robert ; Johnson, T. V.
TIT Encyclopedia of the solar system. - 2nd ed.
PUB Amsterdam ; Boston, Mass. : Academic Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The solar system and its place in the galaxy -- The origin of the solar system -- A history of solar system studies -- The Sun -- The solar wind -- Mercury -- Venus: atmosphere -- Venus: surface and interior -- Earth as a planet: atmosphere and oceans -- Earth as a planet: surface and interior -- The Sun-Earth connection -- The Moon -- Meteorites -- Near-Earth objects -- Mars atmosphere: history and surface interactions -- Mars: surface and interior -- Mars: landing site geology, mineralogy and geochemistry -- Main-belt asteroids -- Planetary satellites -- Atmospheres of the giant planets -- Interiors of the giant planets -- Io: the volcanic moon -- Europa -- Ganymede and Callisto -- Titan -- Triton -- Planetary rings -- Planetary magnetospheres -- Pluto -- Physics and chemistry of comets -- Comet populations and cometary dynamics -- Kuiper Belt: dynamics -- Kuiper Belt objects: physical studies -- Solar system dust -- X-rays in the solar system -- The solar system at ultraviolet wavelengths -- Infrared views of the solar system from space -- The solar system at radio wavelengths -- New generation ground-based optical/infrared telescopes -- Planetary radar -- Remote chemical sensing using nuclear spectroscopy -- Solar system dynamics: regular and chaotic motion -- Planetary impacts -- Planetary volcanism -- Astrobiology -- Planetary exploration missions -- Extrasolar planets.

523.4 W424i 2007
AUT Weintraub, David A.
TIT Is Pluto a planet? : a historical journey through the solar system.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: 1. What is a planet? -- 2. Seven perfect planets made of aether -- 3. The Earth becomes a planet -- 4. Sixteen planets -- 5. Not everything that orbits the Sun is a planet -- 6. Uranus! -- 7. The celestial police -- 8. Neptune, the thirteenth planet -- 9. Easy come, easy go -- 10. Pluto, the fourth ninth planet -- 11. Hidden secrets of the outer solar system -- 12. The plutinos -- 13. Is Pluto a planet? -- 14. Goldilocks -- Postscript. Current thoughts by other astronomers -- Appendix. What we know about Pluto.

536 B658c 2006
AUT Blundell, Stephen ; Blundell, Katherine M.
TIT Concepts in thermal physics.
PUB Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Preliminaries -- Kinetic theory of gases -- Transport and thermal diffusion -- The first law -- The second law -- Thermodynamics in action -- Statistical mechanics -- Beyond the ideal gas -- Special topics.

568 C532g 2007
AUT Chiappe, Luis M.
TIT Glorified dinosaurs : the origin and early evolution of birds.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, 2007.
CON Contents: Mesozoic birds and their world -- The ancestry of birds and the origin of flight -- The bizarre Mononykus and its kin : an evolutionary experiment -- Archaeopteryx : the earliest bird -- Rahonavis and other long-tailed birds -- The first short-tailed birds -- The great Mesozoic radiation : the flying Enantiornithes -- Early predecessors of modern birds -- Hesperornis and its relatives : divers of the cretaceous seas -- The beginnings of modern birds.

576.8 K62L 2007
AUT Kitcher, Philip.
TIT Living with Darwin : evolution, design, and the future of faith.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
SER Philosophy in action.
CON Contents: Disinterring Darwin -- Goodbye to Genesis -- One tree of life -- At the mercy of chance? -- A mess of pottage.

576.82 Q1r 2006
AUT Quammen, David.
TIT The reluctant Mr. Darwin : an intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Atlas Books/Norton, c2006.
SER Great discoveries.
CON Contents: Home and dry: an introduction -- The fabric falls: 1837-1839 -- The kiwi's egg: 1842-1844 -- Point of attachment: 1846-1851 -- A duck for Mr. Darwin: 1848-1857 -- His abominable volume: 1858-1859 -- The fittest idea: 1860 to the future -- The last beetle: 1876-1882.

578 L464t 2006
AUT Lecointre, Guillaume ; Le Guyader, Herv�.
TIT The tree of life : a phylogenetic classification.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Life -- Eubacteria -- Archaea -- Eukaryotes -- Chlorobionta -- Embryophyta -- Metazoa -- Protostomia -- Mollusca -- Euarthropoda -- Deuterostomia -- Sarcopterygii -- Mammalia -- Primates -- Actinopterygii.

595.705 C837o 2006
AUT Costa, James T.
TIT The other insect societies.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Foreword / by Bert H�lldobler -- Commentary / by Edward O. Wilson -- Introduction: what's in a name? -- The ecology of social evolution -- Dermaptera: earwig mothers -- Orthoptera: hopper herds and cricket families -- Embiidina: the web spinners -- Mantodea and Phasmatodea: mantids and walkingsticks -- Blattodea: cockroaches that care -- Psocoptera and Zoraptera: barklice and angel insects -- Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aphidoidea: samurai aphids -- Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: treehopper herds -- Hemiptera: Heteroptera 1, Terrestrial bugs -- Hemiptera: Heteroptera 2, Aquatic bugs -- Thysanoptera: communes and family fortresses -- Coleoptera: beetle societies 1, Dung, rove, and carrion beetles and their allies -- Coleoptera: beetle societies 2, Bark and ambrosia beetles and other weevils -- Coleoptera: beetle societies 3, Leaf, fungus, carrion, darkling, and whirligig beetles and their allies -- Lepidoptera: social caterpillars 1, Moths -- Lepidoptera: social caterpillars 2, More moths, and social butterflies -- Hymenoptera, Symphyta: sawfliy societies -- Other social arthropods: arachnids, centipedes, millipedes, and crustaceans -- Coda: sociality in an Appalachian spring.

599.8 C187p 2007
AUT Campbell, Christina J.
TIT Primates in perspective.
PUB New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: A brief history of primate field studies / Robert W. Sussman -- Primate evolution / Walter Hartwig -- The lorisiform primates of Asia and mainland Africa : diversity shrouded in darkness / Anna Nekaris and Simon K. Bearder -- Lemuriformes / Lisa Gould and Michelle Sauther -- Tarsiiformes / Sharon Gursky -- Callitrichines : the role of competition in cooperatively breeding species / Leslie J. Digby, Stephen F. Ferrari and Wendy Saltzman -- The cebines : toward an explanation of variable social structure / Katharine M. Jack -- Sakis, uakaris, and titi monkeys : behavioral diversity in a radiation of primate seed predators / Marilyn A. Norconk -- Aotinae : social monogamy in the only nocturnal haplorhines / Eduardo Fernandez-Duque -- The atelines : variation in ecology, behavior, and social organization / Anthony Di Fiore and Christina J. Campbell -- The Asian colobines : diversity among leaf-eating monkeys / R. Craig Kirkpatrick -- African colobine monkeys : patterns of between-group interaction / Peter J. Fashing -- The macaques : a double-layered social organization / Bernard Thierry -- Baboons, mandrills, and mangabeys : Afro-papionin socioecology in a phylogenetic perspective / Clifford J. Jolly -- The guenons (genus Cercopithecus) and their allies : behavioral ecology of polyspecific associations, Karin L. Enstam and Lynne A. Isbell -- The Hylobatidae : small apes of Asia / Thad Q. Bartlett -- Orangutans in perspective : forced copulations and female mating resistance / Cheryl D. Knott and Sonya M. Kahlenberg -- Gorillas : diversity in ecology and behavior / Martha M. Robbins -- Chimpanzees and bonobos : diversity within and between species / Rebecca Stumpf -- Research questions / Elsworth Ray -- Advances in the understanding of primate reproductive endocrinology / Bill L. Lasley and Anne Savage -- Molecular primatology / Anthony Di Fiore and Pascal Gagneux -- Life history / Steven R. Leigh and Gregory E. Blomquist -- Primate growth and development : a functional and evolutionary approach / Debra Bolter and Adrienne Zihlman -- Primate sexuality and reproduction / Christina J. Campbell -- Reproductive cessation in female primates : comparisons of Japanese macaques and humans / Linda Marie Fedigan and Mary S.M. Pavelka -- Mate choice / Joseph H. Manson -- The new era of primate socioecology : ecology and intersexual conflict / Deborah Overdorff and Joyce Parga -- Primate nutritional ecology : feeding biology and diet at ecological and evolutionary scales / Joanna E. Lambert -- Conservation / Karen B. Strier -- Primate seed dispersal : linking behavioral ecology with forest community structure / Colin A. Chapman and Sabrina E. Russo -- Predation on primates : past studies, current challenges, and directions for the future / Lynne E. Miller and Adrian Treves -- Primate locomotor behavior and ecology / Paul A. Garber -- Social mechanisms in the control of primate aggression / Irwin S. Bernstein -- Social beginnings : the tapestry of infant and a...

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614.57 E18p 2007
AUT Echenberg, Myron J.
TIT Plague ports : the global urban impact of bubonic plague,1894-1901.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007.

616.8 C487s 2006
AUT Chase, Victor D.
TIT Shattered nerves : how science is solving modern medicine's most perplexing problem.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: 1. Learning to listen all over again -- 2. The body electric -- 3. Of frogs' legs and transistors -- 4. The grandfather of neural prostheses -- 5. Accidental pioneers -- 6. Giving a hand -- 7. Looking back at an empty wheelchair -- 8. The dirty little secret -- 9. Sound in the brain -- 10. In the eye of the beholder -- 11. Nerves of platinum and iridium -- 12. Pins and needles in the brain -- 13. From the inside out -- 14. Reaching the depth of depression -- 15. A hole in the center of the brain -- 16. The ethics -- 17. Biomimetic and superhuman.

616.8521 P332h 2007
AUT Paulson, Daryl S. ; Krippner, Stanley.
TIT Haunted by combat : understanding PTSD in war veterans including women, reservists, and those coming back from Iraq.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2007.
CON Contents: An overview of trauma and the mind/body -- History of the diagnosis and treatment of PTSD -- The phenomenology of PTSD -- The experiences of reserve soldiers -- Coming home from the war -- Preparing for what is to come -- Civilians at risk -- Treatment approaches to traumatic disorders -- Keys to treating trauma -- Alternative approaches to treating PTSD -- Remembrance -- Gold along the path.

616.8582 P713b 2007
AUT Plante, Lori G.
TIT Bleeding to ease the pain : cutting, self-injury, and the adolescent search for self.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.
SER Abnormal psychology, 1554-2238.
CON Contents: 1. Self-injury on the rampage -- 2. Special populations, special concerns : teenagers most at risk -- 3. Developmental challenges in adolescence : the agony, the ecstasy, the cell phone, and the Internet -- 4. Why teens self-injure : doing all the wrong things for the right reasons -- 5. Laying the foundation for intervention : composure, compassion, and comprehension -- 6. Professional treatment of self-injury : understanding the therapeutic process -- 7. Specialized approaches and adjuncts in treating self-injury -- 8. The brain as an attitude pharmacy : neurochemical roles and remedies in self-injury -- 9. Intervention in action : how it works -- 10. Stepping up to the plate : how parents can help -- 11. Health and happiness are verbs : the responsibilities of the adolescent in treatment -- 12. Depathologizing adolescent self-injury : cutting on a continuum -- Conclusions : reconceptualizing cutting.

616.8909 N275d 2007
AUT Nathiel, Susan.
TIT Daughters of madness : growing up and older with a mentally ill mother.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
SER Women's psychology.

618.9289 V919h3 2005 v.1-2
AUT Volkmar, Fred R.
TIT Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders. - 3rd ed.
PUB Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2005.
CON Contents: v. 1. Diagnosis, development, neurobiology, and behavior -- v. 2. Assessment, interventions, and policy.

629.43 V273s 2007
AUT Van Pelt, Michel.
TIT Space invaders : how robotic spacecraft explore the solar system.
PUB New York : Copernicus Books, c2007.

630.973 H758f 2006
AUT Holthaus, Gary H.
TIT From the farm to the table : what all Americans need to know about agriculture.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2006.
SER Culture of the land: a series in the new agrarianism.
CON Contents: In the beginning. Fundamentals ; Histories -- Farmers talking about farming. Two views, one farm: Vance and Bonnie Haugen ; Farming is a spiritual responsibility: Mike Rupprecht ; Timelines: Ron Scherbring ; The absolute last thing I ever dreamed I'd be doing: Lonny and Sandy Dietz ; I felt it was just the right thing to do: Dennis Rabe -- Farming in America : who cares? They say that eating is a moral issue: Bill McMillin ; Farming connects us all -- It all works together, or it doesn't work at all. Agriculture and community culture ; Farming in developing countries ; The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, and the FTAA -- Alternative visions, hopeful futures. Healthy food, healthy economics ; Alternatives for agriculture and the whole culture -- An ecology of hope. Ours for a short time: Peggy Thomas ; An ecology of hope.

631.5 K92o 2006
AUT Kristiansen, Paul ; Taji, Acram M ; Reganold, John P.
TIT Organic agriculture : a global perspective.
PUB Ithaca, New York : Comstock Pub. Associates, 2006.

634.9 H425w 2007
AUT Hays, Samuel P.
TIT Wars in the woods : the rise of ecological forestry in America. - 1st ed.
PUB Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2007.
CON Contents: New and old forestry: a confrontation in the making -- Shaping an ecological forestry program -- The national response to ecological forestry -- Ecological forestry in the states -- The Pennsylvania story: missed opportunities -- The skirmishes become a full-scale war -- In search of the future forest.

641.3 W727f 2006
AUT Williams, Susan.
TIT Food in the United States, 1820s-1890.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
SER Food in American history, 1552-8200.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Foodstuffs -- Food preparation and cookery -- Regional foodways in Victorian America -- Eating habits -- Concepts of diet and nutrition.

650.1 G624w 2007
AUT Goldsmith, Marshall ; Reiter, Mark.
TIT What got you here won't get you there : how successful people become even more successful. 1st ed.
PUB New York : Hyperion, 2007.
CON Contents: The trouble with success. You are here ; Enough about you ; The success delusion, or why we resist change -- The twenty habits that hold you back from the top. The twenty habits ; The twenty-first habit : goal obsession -- How we can change for the better. Feedback ; Apologizing ; Telling the world, or advertising ; Listening ; Thanking ; Following up ; Practicing feedforward -- Pulling out the stops. Changing : the rules ; Special challenges for people in charge ; Coda : you are here now.

658 E22d 2007
AUT Edersheim, Elizabeth Haas ; Drucker, Peter Ferdinand.
TIT The definitive Drucker.
PUB New York : McGraw-Hill, c2007.
CON Contents: Doing business in the Lego world -- The customer : joined at the hip -- Innovation and abandonment -- Collaboration and orchestration -- People and knowledge -- Decision making : the chassis that holds the whole together -- The twenty-first-century CEO.

658.11 P655c 2007
AUT Pinkett, Randal.
TIT Campus CEO : the student entrepreneur's guide to launching a multimillion-dollar business.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Kaplan Pub., c2007.
CON Contents: Starting your business. All campuses are not created equal : weighing your options ; What business should you launch, and when? ; Put it on paper : creating a powerful business plan ; Structure supports success : laying a strong foundation ; High tech and low cost : gaining the technology edge -- Financing your business. Show me the money : raising capital ; Financial statements 101 : understanding the basics of business finance ; Follow the rules : managing risk and playing it safe -- Balancing business and education. Build a winning team : tapping a brilliant workforce ; Take it, it's yours : leveraging campus resources ; "Type A" : maintaining good grades and a healthy focus ; Networking works : profiting from professors and mentors -- Growing your business. Why you must tell everybody : marketing and public relations ; Take it to the next level : expanding beyond your own campus ; Ten mistakes every campus CEO makes, and how to avoid them ; Final advice : seven universal lessons for every entrepreneur.

658.87 T464r 2006
AUT Thomassen, Lars ; Lincoln, Keith ; Aconis, Anthony et al.
TIT Retailization : brand survival in the age of retailer power.
PUB London ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Kogan Page, 2006.

Ref 659.1 E56R v.1-2
AUT Riggs, Thomas.
TIT Encyclopedia of major marketing campaigns.
PUB Detroit : Gale Group, 1999-.

660.6 G729b2 2006
AUT Grace, Eric S.
TIT Biotechnology unzipped : promises and realities. - Rev. 2nd ed.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2006.
CON Contents: How biotechnology came about -- Tools in the genetic engineering workshop -- Biotechnology and the body -- Biotechnology on the farm -- Biotechnology and the environment -- Biotechnology in seas and trees -- Ethical issues.

660.6 S558b 2006
AUT Shmaefsky, Brian.
TIT Biotechnology 101.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006.
SER Science 101, 1931-3950.
CON Contents: 1. The definition of biotechnology -- Introduction -- Contemporary definitions of biotechnology -- Categories of biotechnology -- 2. Basic science of biotechnology -- Chemistry and physics of biotechnology -- Basic biology of biotechnology -- 3. The tools of biotechnology -- Introduction -- The tools -- Amino acid analyzers -- Amino acid sequencers -- Balance -- Bioreactor -- Blotting apparatus -- Centrifuge -- Chromatography -- Chromatogram scanner/densitometer -- Cryopreservation equipment -- Cytometer -- DNA sequencer -- Electrophoresis -- Electroporation instrument -- Filtration apparatus -- Gel reader -- Gene gun -- Incubator -- Isoelectric focusing apparatus -- LIMS -- Lyophilizer -- Microarray technology -- Microplate reader -- Microscope -- Microtome -- Mixer -- Nanotechnology -- Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging instrument -- Particle sizer -- pH meter -- Pipette -- Polarimeter -- Rheometer -- Spectrophotometer -- Thermocycler -- Thermometer probes -- Water bath -- Water titrator -- 4. Biotechnology innovations -- The creation of innovations -- History of biotechnology innovations -- Biotechnology innovations -- Genomic analysis techniques -- Genomic expression techniques -- Proteomics techniques -- Metabolomics -- Production of genetically modified organisms -- Cloning -- 5. Principal people of biotechnology -- Introduction -- Contributors to biotechnology -- Al-Kindi -- W. French Anderson -- Werner Arber -- Oswald T. Avery -- David Baltimore -- George W. Beadle -- William James Beal -- Paul Berg -- Herbert Boyer -- Sydney Brenner -- Pat Brown -- George Washington Carver -- Erwin Chargaff -- Martha Chase -- Stanley Cohen -- Stanley N. Cohen -- Francis S. Collins -- Gerty and Carl Cori -- Francis Crick -- Charles Darwin -- F�lix d'Herelle -- Max Delbr�ck -- Hugo de Vries -- Renato Dulbecco -- Paul Ehrlich -- Alexander Fleming -- Rosalind Franklin -- Galen -- Archibald Garrod -- Walter Gilbert -- Frederick Griffith -- Henry Harris -- Alfred Hershey -- David Ho -- Leroy Hood -- Robert Hooke -- John Hunter -- Fran�ois Jacob -- Zacharias Janssen -- Alec Jeffreys -- Edward Jenner -- Ernest Everett Just -- Har Gobind Khorana -- Shibasaburo Kitasato -- Robert Koch -- Arthur Kornberg -- Philip Leder -- Joshua Lederberg -- Antony van Leeuwenhoek -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Salvador Luria -- Andr� Lwoff -- Barbara McClintock -- Ilya Mechnikov -- Gregor Mendel -- Johann Friedrich Miescher -- C�sar Milstein -- Jacques Monod -- Thomas Morgan -- Hermann Muller -- Kary Mullis -- Daniel Nathans -- Marshall Nirenberg -- Severo Ochoa -- Reiji and Tsuneko Okazaki -- Richard Palmiter -- Louis Pasteur -- Linus Pauling -- Max Perutz -- Stanley Prusiner -- Steven Rosenberg -- Pierre Paul Emile Roux -- Robert Rushmer -- Frederick Sanger -- Matthias Schleiden -- Theodor Schwann -- Maxine Singer -- Lazzaro Spallanzani -- Hermann Staudinger -- Nettie Stevens -- Alfred Henry Sturtevant -- Walter Sutton -- Waclaw Szybalski -- Howard Temin -- Arne Tiselius

668.54 S467c2 2006
AUT Sell, Charles.
TIT The chemistry of fragrances : from perfumer to consumer. - 2nd ed.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : RSC Publishing, c2006.

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709.04062 K95d 2008
AUT Kuenzli, Rudolf E.
TIT Dada.
PUB London : Phaidon Press Ltd. ; New York : Phaidon Press Inc., 2006.
SER Themes and movements.

709.8 A792R 2006
AUT Rishel, Joseph J ; Stratton, Suzanne.
TIT The arts in Latin America, 1492-1820.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Mexico City : Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso ; [Los Angeles] : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.
SER Philadelphia Museum of Art series.
CON Contents: Art in colonial Latin America: a brief critical review / Joseph J. Rishel -- Colonial foundations: points of contact and compatibility / Elizabeth Hill Boone and Thomas B.F. Cummins -- Spanish American colonial city: its origins, development, and functions / Alfonso Ortiz Crespo -- Black hand: notes on the African presence in the visual arts of Brazil and the Caribbean / Edward J. Sullivan -- Asia in the arts of colonial Latin America / Gauvin Alexander Bailey -- Parallel course of Latin American and European art in the viceregal era / Marcus Burke -- Artisans and artists in Ibero-America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / M. Concepci�n Garc�a S�iz -- Decorative arts in Latin America, 1492-1820 / Mitchell A. Codding -- Textiles in colonial Latin America / Dilys E. Blum -- Dressing colonial, dressing diaspora / Gridley McKim-Smith -- Silver and silverwork, wealth and art in viceregal America / Cristina Esteras Mart�n -- Art of silver in colonial Brazil / Nuno Senos -- Exotic devotion: sculpture in viceregal America and Brazil, 1520-1820 / Marjorie Trusted -- Changing faces: the re-emergence of a sacred landscape in colonial Mexico and Peru / Adrian Locke -- Painting in colonial Latin America / Clara Bargellini -- Stars in the sea of the church: the Indian in eighteenth-century new Spanish painting / Ilona Katzew -- Observations on the origin, development, and manufacture of Latin American furniture / Jorge F. Rivas P.

711.57 M572f 2007
AUT Merritt, Karen ; Lawrence, Jane Fiori.
TIT From rangeland to research university : the birth of the University of California, Merced.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2007.
SER New directions for higher education. 0271-0560 ; no. 139.

720.973 S112e 2006
AUT Saarinen, Eero ; Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa ; Albrecht, Donald.
TIT Eero Saarinen : shaping the future.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press ; New York : In association with The Finnish Cultural Institute in New York ; Helsinki : The Museum of Finnish Architecture ; Washington, D.C. : The National Building Museum ; New Haven : Yale University School of Architecture, c2006.

725 T871n 2007
AUT Trumpbour, Robert C.
TIT The new cathedrals : politics and media in the history of stadium construction. - 1st ed.
PUB Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2007.
SER Sports and entertainment.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Stadium history: religious roots and the transition to secularism -- Stadium economics: separating myth from reality -- The media and stadium construction -- Cincinnati: let's build two -- Pittsburgh: power politics and steely persistence -- Boston: history, mystery, and political football -- New york, part one: stadium origins to the modern era -- New york, part two: the olympics, the jets, and Manhattan -- The new cathedrals as a reflection of our broader culture.

751.73 S495i 2006
AUT Seth, Mira.
TIT Indian painting : the great mural tradition.
PUB New York : Abrams, 2006.

757 M959p 2006
AUT Mullins, Charlotte.
TIT Painting people : figure painting today.
PUB New York : D.A.P./Distributed Art Pubs., 2006.
CON Contents: 1. The figure unravelled -- Chuck Close -- Yi Chen -- Mika Kato -- Philip Akkerman -- Margherita Manzelli -- Jenny Saville -- Cicily Brown -- Lucian Freud -- Lisa Yuskavage -- Chantal Joffe -- Nicola Tyson -- Marlene Dumas -- Yan Pei-Ming -- Mari Sunna -- Barnaby Furnas -- Rezi Van Lankveld -- 2. The urban condition -- Thomas Eggerer -- Jules de Balincourt -- Geraint Evans -- Martin Maloney -- James Rielly -- Mathew Cerletty -- Eric Fischl -- Dawn Mellor -- Elizabeth Peyton -- Muntean and Rosenblum -- Jun Hasegawa -- Djamel Tatah -- 3. Other worlds -- Rui Matsunaga -- Henning Kles -- Peter Doig -- Andrew Guenther -- Daniel Richter -- Hernan Bas -- Kaye Donachie -- Mamma Andersson -- Milena Dragicevic -- Inka Essenhigh -- Aya Takano -- Raqib Shaw -- Wangechi Mutu -- Chris Ofili -- 4. Folk tales -- Christoph Ruckh�berle -- Jocelyn Hobbie -- Brian Calvin -- Ridley Howard -- Holly Coulis -- Dana Schutz -- George Condo -- Amy Cutler -- Ch�ri Samba -- Laylah Ali -- Marcel Dzama -- Neo Rauch -- Norbert Bisky -- J�rg Lozek -- 5. The past deconstructed -- Luc Tuymans -- Wilhelm Sasnal -- Eberhard Havekost -- Neal Tait -- Micha�l Borremans -- Zhang Xiaogang -- Anna Bjerger -- Glenn Brown -- Mathew Weir -- John Currin -- Richard Wathen -- B�n�dicte Peyrat -- Rosson Crow -- Artists' biographies -- Select bibliography -- List of illustrations -- Index.

759 H383j 2006
AUT Havard, James ; Addison, Laura ; Sasse, Julie.
TIT James Havard. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Hudson Hills Press, c2006.

759.9492 S967j 2006
AUT Sutton, Peter C.
TIT Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712).
PUB Greenwich, Conn. : Bruce Museum ; Amsterdam : Rijksmuseum ; New Haven : In association with Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Jan van der Heyden: 1. A life in full: artistry, invention, and patronage -- 2. The art of Jan van der Heyden -- 3. Perspective, visual aids, and the camera obscura -- 4. Jan van der Heyden's inventions / Peter C. Sutton -- The town bookkeeper and fellow Mennonites: notes on some of the original owners of van der Heyden's paintings / Jonathan Bikker -- Refined technique or special tricks: painting methods of Jan van der Heyden / Arie Wallert -- Catalogue of paintings -- Catalogue of drawings -- A historical anthology of author's biographies and comments about Jan van der Heyden.

770.9 B942i 2006
AUT Bunnell, Peter C.
TIT Inside the photograph : writings on twentieth-century photography. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Aperture Foundation : Available in North America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, c2006.
CON Contents: Photographers: Alfred Stieglitz and Camera work -- Observations on the Herbert Small collection of Stieglitz's early New York photographs -- Three by Stieglitz -- Clarence H. White: the reverence for beauty -- Gertrude K�sebier -- Edward Weston on photography -- Ruth Bernhard -- Barbara Morgan -- Aaron Siskind: the bond and the free -- Minor White's photographic sequence "rural cathedrals": a reading -- Harry Callahan -- Walter Chappell: time lived -- Walker Evans: an introduction to his work and his recollections -- Wright Morris -- Robert Frank's Fourth of July--Jay, New York -- Lisette Model -- Diane Arbus -- Elliott Erwitt -- Eikoh Hosoe -- Tokio Ito -- Michiko Kon -- Jerry N. Uelsmann -- Jerry N. Uelsmann: silver meditations -- Jerry N. Uelsmann: museum studies -- John Pfahl: altered landscapes -- Ray K. Metzker -- Paul Caponigro -- Emmett Gowin -- Edward Ranney: the character of the place -- Thomas Joshua Cooper: the temperaments -- Michael Kenna: a twenty-year retrospective -- Galleries: Helen Gee: remembering the limelight -- The Witkin Gallery -- Light gallery.

780.65 H978r 2006
AUT Hutchison, Thomas W. ; Macy, Amy ; Allen, Paul.
TIT Record label marketing.
PUB Burlington, Mass. : Focal Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Marketing concepts and definitions -- Markets, market segmentation and consumer behavior -- The U.S. industry numbers -- Record label operations -- The profit and loss statement -- SoundScan and the music business -- How radio works -- Charts, airplay and promotion -- Publicity of recorded music -- Advertising in the recording industry -- Distribution -- The music retail environment -- Grassroots marketing -- Internet marketing -- Music videos -- The international recording industry -- Tour support and promotional touring -- Special products and special markets -- Marketing research -- The recording industry of the future -- The marketing plan -- DeMand de world over.

781.644 D186p 2006
AUT Danielsen, Anne.
TIT Presence and pleasure : the funk grooves of James Brown and Parliament.
PUB Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2006.
SER Music/culture.

782.1092 B837r 2006
AUT Brener, Milton E.
TIT Richard Wagner and the Jews.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: Zurich. The Asyl ; The fugitive ; Minna ; The Paris Jews ; The essay ; Tausig -- Paris and Vienna. The break with Minna -- Tristan und Isolde -- Tannh�user in Paris ; Vienna ; Penury ; Biebrich on the Rhine ; The Vienna Jews ; Flight from creditors -- Munich. King Ludwig ; Cosima ; The first Tristan ; Exile from Munich -- Lucerne. Triebschen ; Die Meistersinger ; Cosima's diaries ; "Judaism in music" : the second publication ; Das Rheingold brouhaha ; The turn of Die Walk�re ; Wagner and the French ; Death of Tausig -- Bayreuth I : the first festival ; Rubinstein and preparations for The Ring ; The scapegoats ; The first festival ; Neumann -- Bayreuth II : Levi and Neumann. The young Hermann Levi ; The Brahms-Levi friendship ; The breach with Brahms ; A study in malice ; Declining health : worsening temperament ; The strangest synagogue ; Distance from Porges, closeness to Rubinstein ; Neumann and the Berlin Ring ; Neumann and the traveling Wagner Opera Company -- Bayreuth III : the second festival. Levi and Parsifal ; Lichtenberg and the Knieses ; Wagnerphobia ; Glimpses of the other side ; The final days.

791.4301 F813f 2006
AUT Frampton, Daniel.
TIT Filmosophy.
PUB London ; New York : Wallflower, 2006.
CON Contents: Film minds -- Film-beings -- Film phenomenology -- Film neominds -- Filmind -- Film narration -- Film-thinking -- Filmgoer -- Film writing -- Filmosophy.

791.436 R371j 2007
AUT Reinhartz, Adele.
TIT Jesus of Hollywood.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The genre : Jesus movies as biopics -- From Holy Scripture to silver screen -- History and anti-history -- The subject : Jesus of Nazareth -- The story : Jesus' family -- Mary -- Joseph -- God -- Jesus' friends -- Mary Magdalene -- Judas -- Jesus' foes -- Satan -- Pharisees -- Caiaphas -- Pilate -- Afterword: Jesus of Hollywood.

791.436 S667r 2006
AUT Smyth, J. E.
TIT Reconstructing American historical cinema : from Cimarron to Citizen Kane.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2006.

791.436 S871n 2006
AUT Stoehr, Kevin L.
TIT Nihilism in film and television : a critical overview, Citizen Kane to The Sopranos.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2006.
CON Contents: Nietzsche, nihilism, and existentialism -- The nihilistic vision of film noir and The Sopranos -- "The on-going Wow": tuning in to dreams of Waking life -- The ambiguity of horizons: on the nihilism and perspectivism of Citizen Kane -- Through the glass wall: welcoming the stranger in Neil Jordan's The crying game -- When the legends die: John Ford and the Fading of traditions and heroes -- Kubrick's nihilistic clockwork -- Nihilism ad detached existence.

792.028 B644i 2007
AUT Blatner, Adam ; Wiener, Daniel J.
TIT Interactive and improvisational drama : varieties of applied theatre and performance.
PUB New York : iUniverse, c2007.

792.028 T768B 2006
AUT Bartow, Arthur.
TIT Training of the American actor. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Theatre Communications Group, 2006.
CON Contents: Strasberg's method and the ascendancy of American acting / Louis Scheeder -- Lee Strasberg technique / Anna Strasberg -- Stella Adler technique / Tom Oppenheim -- Meisner technique: Teaching the work of Sanford Meisner / Victoria Hart -- Beyond Michael Chekhov technique: Continuing the exploration through the mask / Per Brahe -- Uta Hagen's technique / Carol Rosenfeld -- Acting with the wisdom of our bodies: A physical approach to acting inspired by Jerzy Grotowski / Stephen Wangh -- The six viewpoints / Mary Overlie -- Practical aesthetics: An overview / Robert Bella -- Interdisciplinary training: Directing for actors / Fritz Ertl -- Neo-classical training / Louis Scheeder.

792.6 S839m 2006
AUT Sternfeld, Jessica.
TIT The megamusical.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2006.
SER Profiles in popular music.
CON Contents: "Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?" : Jesus Christ Superstar -- "Humming the scenery" : the megamusical ascending -- "Well, the theatre is certainly not what it was" : Cats -- "To love another person is to see the face of God" : Les mis�rables -- "The angel of music sings songs in my head" : The phantom of the Opera -- "A model of decorum and tranquility" : other megamusicals in the 1980s -- "New music" : the megamusical in the 1990s -- "Everything is show biz" : the megamusical and Broadway in the twenty-first century.

795.5 B873g 2006
AUT Brooks, Julian ; Silver, Nathaniel E.
TIT Guercino : mind to paper.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2006.
CON Contents: Guercino's life -- The Casa Gennari and the provenance of Sir Robert Witt's drawings -- Characterizing Guercino's draftsmanship -- Inventiveness and process -- Energy and spontaneity -- Texture, shadow, light, and space -- Humor and humanity -- Catalogue.

796.0973 G323a 2006
AUT Gems, Gerald R.
TIT The athletic crusade : sport and American cultural imperialism.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Race, religion, and manifest destiny -- China and the rejection of Christianity -- Baseball and bushido in Japan -- Sport and colonialism in the Philippines -- Hawaii as a cultural crossroads of sport -- Cuba and the rehabilitative qualities of sport -- Sport and the restoration of pride in Puerto Rico -- Sport and economic retaliation in the Dominican Republic -- The outposts of empire -- The globalization of sport.

796.357 J17c 2007
AUT Jacobson, Steve.
TIT Carrying Jackie's torch : the players who integrated baseball-- and America. - 1st ed.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2007.
CON Contents: Equal but separate : before Jackie changed everything -- He made his own history : Monte Irvin might have been first -- Second, and second to none : Larry Doby bears the burden with grace -- A closed world opens up : Ed Charles finds there is a chance -- Worse than you imagine : Mudcat Grant dodged the bullets -- Looking back with regret : Ernie Banks was playing baseball -- The pinstripes go black and white : Elston Howard hid the pain -- You know you go in the back door : Alvin Jackson reports to spring training -- I'm no Jackie Robinson : too much bigotry for Charlie Murray -- Recognition 50 years later : Chuck Harmon gets his own street -- Sometimes people live and learn : Maury Wills finds a white ally -- Forever is not too long to wait : Emmett Ashford umpires alone -- Most valuable attitude : Frank Robinson made them better -- The best of them don't always understand : Tommy Davis reminds the Dodgers of their heritage -- Living up to his own image : Bob Gibson overcomes the stereotype -- Joan of Arc of baseball : Curt Flood sacrifices his career -- Breaking that record and bigoted hearts : Henry Aaron sets the record -- What would Jackie do : Dusty Baker finds his answers -- Coping with the ever-present danger : Lou Brock outsmarted the threats -- The only Black in the room : Bob Watson wears a necktie -- Epilogue : We integrated baseball and America followed.

796.48 H656h 2006
AUT Hilton, Christopher.
TIT Hitler's Olympics : the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games.
PUB Stroud, U.K. : Sutton, 2006.

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800 Literature

Ref 803 B847d17 2005
AUT Ayto, John ; Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham.
TIT Brewer's dictionary of phrase & fable. - 17th ed. / rev. by John Ayto.
PUB New York : Collins, 2005.

808.0669 M112w 2007
AUT Mabbett, Ian W.
TIT Writing history essays : a student's guide.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

808.81 B868a 2007
AUT Bromwich, David.
TIT American sonnets : an anthology.
PUB New York : Library of America c2007.
SER American poets project. ; 25.

808.84 L716Wth 2007
AUT Wilson, Edmund.
TIT Literary essays and reviews of the 1930s & 40s.
PUB New York : Library of America, 2007.
SER Library of America. ; 177.
CON Contents: The triple thinkers -- The wound and the bow -- Classics and commercials -- Uncollected reviews.

808.84 L716Wtw 2007
AUT Wilson, Edmund ; Dabney, Lewis M.
TIT Literary essays and reviews of the 1920s & 30s.
PUB New York : Library of America, 2007.
SER Library of America. ; 176.
CON Contents: The shores of light -- Axel's castle -- Uncollected reviews.

809.393 A484i 2006
AUT Amann, Elizabeth.
TIT Importing Madame Bovary : the politics of adultery. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

809.89 G871f 2006
AUT Griswold, Jerome.
TIT Feeling like a kid : childhood and children's literature.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Snugness -- Scariness -- Smallness -- Lightness -- Aliveness.

809.933 L431t 2007
AUT Lazar, Mary.
TIT Through Kosinski's lenses : identity, sex, and violence.
PUB Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2007.

810.986 W794h 2007
AUT Wintz, Cary D.
TIT Harlem speaks : a living history of the Harlem Renaissance.
PUB Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2007.
CON Contents: Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance -- To make a poet black: literature of the Harlem Renaissance -- The Jazz age: music and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance -- Art and image in the Harlem Renaissance: the visual and performing arts -- Art and politics: the Renaissance men of the Harlem Renaissance -- The new Negro: politics and criticism in the Harlem Renaissance.

811.54 G493b 2006
AUT Ginsberg, Allen ; Lieberman-Plimpton, Juanita ; Morgan,Bill.
TIT The book of martyrdom and artifice : first journals and poems, 1937-1952. - 1st Da Capo Press ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Childhood in New Jersey -- Columbia College -- Appendix: first poems of Allen Ginsberg.

811.54 M875p 2006
AUT Morris, Daniel.
TIT The poetry of Louise Gl�ck : a thematic introduction.
PUB Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

813.54 A473d 2007
AUT Alvarez, Julia ; Guhl, Mercedes.
TIT De c�mo las muchachas Garc�a perdieron el acento. 1st ed.
PUB Nueva York : Vintage Espa�ol, 2007.

813.54 P119s 2007 Popular reading
AUT Packer, Ann.
TIT Songs without words. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

813.54 P855p 2006
AUT Posnock, Ross.
TIT Philip Roth's rude truth : the art of immaturity.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2006.

813.5409 F559a 2006
AUT Fitzpatrick, Kathleen.
TIT The anxiety of obsolescence : the American novel in the age of television. - 1st ed.
PUB Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.

820.8 R256e 2006
AUT Ravitch, Diane ; Ravitch, Michael.
TIT The English reader : what every literate person needs to know.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -- Scarborough Fair -- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) -- Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) -- Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) -- Greensleeves -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- John Donne (1572 - 1631) -- Ben Jonson (1573 - 1637) -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) -- King James Bible (1611) -- Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674) -- George Herbert (1593 - 1633) -- Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) -- Barbara Allen -- John Milton (1608 - 1674) -- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667) -- The two brothers -- Richard Lovelace (1618-1657) -- Andrew Marvell (1621 - 1678) -- John Bunyan (1628-1688) -- Lord Randal -- John Dryden (1631 - 1700) -- John Locke (1632 - 1704) -- The girl I left behind me -- Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) -- O God, our help in ages past -- Joy to the world -- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) -- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) -- Rule, Britannia -- John Wesley (1703 - 1791) -- Jesus, lover of my soul -- William Pitt (1708 - 1778) -- Heart of Oak -- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) -- Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771) -- Adam Smith (1723 - 1790) -- God save the king -- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) -- Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) -- William Cowper (1731 - 1800) -- William Blake (1757 - 1827) -- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) -- Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) -- Auld lang syne -- William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) -- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) -- Amazing Grace -- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) -- Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) -- Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864) -- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830) -- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824) -- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) -- John Clare (1793 - 1864) -- Felicia Hemans (1793 - 1835) -- John Keats (1795 - 1821) -- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) -- Thomas Hood (1799-1845) -- John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890) -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) -- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) -- Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892) -- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882) -- Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) -- Robert Browning (1812 - 1889) -- Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) -- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900) -- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888) -- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825 - 1895) -- I know where I'm going -- Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877) -- Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) -- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898) -- William Morris (1834 - 1896) -- Walter Pater (1839 - 1894) -- Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) -- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 - 1909) -- Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889) -- W. E. Henley (1849 - 1903) -- The Major General's song -- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) -- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928) -- A. E. Houseman (1859 - 1936) -- David Lloyd George (1863 - 1945) -- There'll always be an England -- Roger Casement (1864 - 1916) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) -- William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) -- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936) -- Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917) -- E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970) -- Virginia Woolf (18...

820.992 B881m 2006
AUT Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth.
TIT Middle passages and the healing place of history : migration and identity in Black women's literature.
PUB Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Conflicting identities in the women of Ama Ata Aidoo's drama and fiction / Violet Harrington Bryan -- Coming to voice: navigating the interstices in plays by Winsome Pinnock / DeLinda Marzette -- Migration, transformation, and identity formation in Buchi Emecheta's In the ditch and Kehinde / Romanus Muoneke -- Gloria Naylor's north/south dichotomy and the reversal of the middle passage : juxtaposed migrations within Mama Day / Kathryn M. Paterson -- Reconfiguring self: a matter of place in selected novels by Paule Marshall / Marie Foster Gnage -- "What a history you have": ancestral memory, cultural history, migration patterns, and the quest for autonomy in the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid / Julia De Foor Jay -- "Tee,", "Cyn-Cyn," "Cynthia," "Dou-dou": remembering and forgetting the "true-true name" in Merle Hodge's Crick crack, monkey / Joyce Zonana -- Place and displacement in Djanet Sears's Harlem duet and The adventures of a black girl in search of god / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory -- Recovering the past: transatlantic migration, hybrid identities, and healing in Tess Onwueme's The missing face / Juluette Bartlett-Pack.

821.77 C178M 2006
AUT Morton, Timothy.
TIT The Cambridge companion to Shelley.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
SER Cambridge companions to literature.
CON Contents: Life and biographies / Theresa Kelley -- Receptions / Timothy Morton -- The lyricist / Karen Weisman -- The dramatist / Jeffrey N. Cox -- The storyteller / Jack Donovan -- The translator / Jeffrey C. Robinson -- The political poet / William Keach -- Language and form / Jerrold E. Hogle -- Literature and philosophy / Paul Hamilton -- Nature and culture / Timothy Morton.

822.3 W855L 2007
AUT Wolfe, Heather.
TIT The literary career and legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

822.33 T253s 2006
AUT Teague, Frances N.
TIT Shakespeare and the American popular stage.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Pilgrims, pioneers, and parlors. Shakespeare and the spirit of '76 -- In the pioneer's hut -- Shakespeare makes scoundrels -- Treason, stratagems, and spoils -- How many ages hence... -- pt. 2. The Shakespearean Broadway musical. Blackface, blue shows, and beards -- Mr. Hamlet of Broadway -- A hit and a flop -- Brush up your Shakespeare -- Swingin' out of the twentieth century.

823.087 G449d 2006
AUT Gibson, Matthew.
TIT Dracula and the Eastern question : British and French vampire narratives of the nineteenth-century Near East.
PUB Basingstoke, U.K. ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Polidori's The vampyre and the dangers of philhellenism to Italian liberation -- J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla and the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich (1867) -- Bram Stoker's Dracula and the Treaty of Berlin (1878) -- Bram Stoker's The lady of the shroud and the Bosnia crisis (1908-09) -- The vampires of Illyria : Nodier, M�rim�e, and the French occupation of the Dalmatian coast -- Jules Verne's Le ch�teau des Carpathes (1892) and the Romans of Transylvania -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Translations from M�rim�e's La Guzla -- Short chronology of relevant events.

823.8 R326t 2006
AUT Reed, Thomas L.
TIT The transforming draught : Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Victorian alcohol debate.
PUB Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2006.
CON Contents: Jekyll the addict -- Alcohol in the text: the letter -- Alcohol in the text: the spirit -- RLS and the drinking world -- The literary contexts of Stevenson's tale of alcohol -- "Self" and "the other fellow" -- The temperance agenda -- Dream scenes: neighborhoods of nightmare -- "Street crime" -- Jekyll and Hyde: beginnings and endings -- Stevenson's "allegory" and its reception -- Conclusion: finding the balance -- Appendix: the language of the times.

839.13 N784i 2006
AUT Noiville, Florence.
TIT Isaac B. Singer : a life. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

860.99 O77t 2006
AUT Ortega, Julio.
TIT Transatlantic translations : dialogues in Latin American literature.
PUB London : Reaktion, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: the subject of abundance -- Speaking: Caliban -- Reading: the children of the letter -- Writing: the alphabet of abundance -- Translating: the transatlantic subject -- Drawing: the wonders of the Caribbean -- Representing: the language of national formation -- Judging: the paternal desert -- Interpreting: the authority of reading.

891.72 C515cS 2006
AUT Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich ; Senelick, Laurence.
TIT The complete plays. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Norton, c2006.
CON Contents: Early experiments -- Untitled play (without patrimony [disinherited] or Platonov) -- Variants -- Along the highway -- Collaboration -- The power of hypnotism by Anton Chekhov and Ivan Shcheglov -- Humorous dialogues and parodies -- The fool, or, The retired captain -- A young man -- Unclean tragedians and leprous playwrights -- An ideal examination -- "Chaos-vile in Rome" -- A mouth as big as all outdoors -- Honorable townsfolk -- At the sickbed -- The case of the year 1884 -- A drama -- Before the eclipse -- The sudden death of a steed, or, The magnanimity of the Russian people! -- Swan song (calchas) -- Variants -- The evils of tobacco, first version -- Ivanov, first version -- Variants -- The bear -- Variants -- The proposal -- Variants -- Ivanov, final version -- Variants -- Tatyana Repina -- An involuntary tragedian (from the life of vacationers) -- Variant -- The wedding -- Variants -- The wood goblin -- Variants -- The celebration -- Variants -- The eve of the trial -- Variants -- The seagull -- Variants -- Uncle Vanya -- Variant -- Sisters -- Variants -- The evils of tobacco, final version -- The cherry orchard -- Variants -- Appendix: lost and unwritten plays.

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900 History, Geography

909.82 B634s 2006
AUT Blainey, Geoffrey.
TIT A short history of the 20th century.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : I.R. Dee, c2006.

917.287 F363w 2006
AUT Fern�ndez de Oviedo y Vald�s, Gonzalo.
TIT Writing from the edge of the world : the memoirs of Dari�n, 1514-1527.
PUB Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2006.

930.1 E93U 2007
AUT Ungar, Peter S.
TIT Evolution of the human diet : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
SER Human evolution series.

940.5318 P317o 2006
AUT Patterson, David.
TIT Open wounds : the crisis of Jewish thought in the aftermath of Auschwitz.
PUB Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, c2006.
SER Pastora Goldner series in post-Holocaust studies.
CON Contents: Introduction : the open wounds of Jewish thought -- The bankruptcy of modern and postmodern thought -- Ethical monotheism and Jewish thought -- The Holocaust and the Holy Tongue -- The sifrei kodesh and the Holocaust -- The Muselmann and the matter of the human being -- Jewish thought and a post-Holocaust tikkun haolam -- Mystical dimensions of post-Holocaust Jewish thought -- Though the Messiah may tarry -- Conclusion : no closure.

947 C178 2006 v.1-3
AUT Perrie, Maureen.
TIT The Cambridge history of Russia.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: v. 1. From early Rus' to 1689 / edited by Maureen Perrie -- Russia's geographical environment / Denis J.B. Shaw -- The origins of Rus' (c.900-1015) / Jonathan Shepard -- Kievan Rus' (1015-1125) / Simon Franklin -- The Rus' principalities (1125-1246) / Martin Dimnik -- North-eastern Russia and the Golden Horde (1246-1359) / Janet Martin -- The emergence of Moscow (1359-1462) / Janet Martin -- Medieval Novgorod / V.L. Ianin -- The growth of Muscovy (1462-1533) / Donald Ostrowski -- Ivan IV (1533-1584) / Sergei Bogatyrev -- Fedor Ivanovich and Boris Godunov (1584-1605) / A.P. Pavlov -- The peasantry / Richard Hellie -- Towns and commerce / Denis J.B. Shaw -- The non-Christian peoples on the Muscovite frontiers / Michael Khodarkovsky -- The Orthodox Church / David B. Miller -- The law / Richard Hellie -- Political ideas and rituals / Michael S. Flier -- The Time of Troubles (1603-1613) / Maureen Perrie -- The central government and its institutions / Marshall Poe -- Local government and administration / Brian Davies -- Muscovy at war and peace / Brian Davies -- Non-Russian subjects / Michael Khodarkovsky -- The economy, trade and serfdom / Richard Hellie -- Law and society / Nancy Shields Kollmann -- Urban developments / Denis J.B. Shaw -- Popular revolts / Maureen Perrie -- The Orthodox Church and the schism / Robert O. Crummey -- Cultural and intellectual life / Lindsey Hughes. v. 2. Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 / edited by Dominic Lieven -- Russia as empire and periphery / Dominic Lieven -- Managing empire : tsarist nationalities policy / Theodore R. Weeks -- Geographies of imperial identity / Mark Bassin -- Russian culture in the eighteenth century / Lindsey Hughes -- Russian culture : 1801-1917 / Rosamund Bartlett -- Russian political thought : 1700-1917 / Gary M. Hamburg -- Russia and the legacy of 1812 / Alexander M. Martin -- Ukrainians and Poles / Timothy Snyder -- Jews / Benjamin Nathans -- Islam in the Russian Empire / Vladimir Bobrovnikov -- The elites / Dominic Lieven -- The groups between : raznochintsy, intelligentsia, professionals / Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter -- Nizhnii Novgorod in the nineteenth century : portrait of a city / Catherine Evtuhov -- Russian Orthodoxy : Church, people and politics in Imperial Russia / Gregory L. Freeze -- Women, the family and public life / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Gender and the legal order in Imperial Russia / Michelle Lamarche Marrese -- Law, the judicial system and the legal profession / Jorg Baberowski -- Peasants and agriculture / David Moon -- The Russian economy and banking system / Boris Ananich -- Central government / Zhand P. Shakibi -- Provincial and local government / Janet M. Hartley -- State finances / Peter Waldron -- Peter the Great and the Northern War / Paul Bushkovitch -- Russian foreign policy, 1725-1815 / Hugh Ragsdale -- The imperial army / William C. Fuller, Jr. -- Russian foreign policy, 1815-1917 / David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye -- The navy in 1900 : imperialism, technology and class war / Nikolai Afonin -- The reign of Alexander II : a watershed? / Larisa Zakharova -- Russian workers and revolution / Reginald E. Zelnik -- Police and revolutionaries / Jonathan W. Daly -- War and revolution, 1914-1917 / Eric Lohr. Contents: v. 3. The twentieth century / edited by Ronald Grigor Suny -- Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century : how the 'West' wrote its history of the USSR / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Russia's fin de siecle, 1900-1914 / Mark D. Steinberg -- The First World War, 1914-1918 / Mark von Hagen -- The revolutions of 1917-1918 / S.A. Smith -- The Russian civil war, 1917-1922 / Donald J. Raleigh -- Building a new state and society : NEP, 1921-1928 / Alan Ball -- Stalinism, 1928-1940 / David R. Shearer -- Patriotic war, 1941-1945 / John Barber and Mark Harrison -- Stalin and his circle / Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk -- The Khrushchev period, 1953-1964 / William Taubman -- The Brezhnev era / Stephen E. Hanson -- The Gorbachev era / Archie Brown -- The Russian Federation / Michael McFaul -- Economic and demographic change : Russia's age of economic extremes / Peter Gatrell -- Transforming peasants in the twentieth century : dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development / Esther Kingston-Mann -- Workers and industrialisation / Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- Women and the state / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after / Jeremy Smith -- The western republics : Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Baltics / Serhy Yekelchyk -- Science, technology and modernity / David Holloway -- Culture, 1900-1945 / James von Geldern -- The politics of culture, 1945-2000 / Josephine Woll -- Comintern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919-1941 / Jonathan Haslam -- Moscow's foreign policy, 1945-2000 : identities, institutions and interests / Ted Hopf -- The Soviet Union and the road to communism / Lars T. Lih.

947.084 S971t 2006
AUT Swain, Geoff.
TIT Trotsky. - 1st ed.
PUB Harlow, England ; New York : Longman/Pearson, 2006.
SER Profiles in power.

949.71 K53p 2006
AUT King, Iain ; Mason, Whit.
TIT Peace at any price : how the world failed Kosovo.
PUB Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
SER Crises in world politics.

949.803 D347h 2006
AUT Deletant, Dennis.
TIT Hitler's forgotten ally : Ion Antonescu and his regime, Romania 1940-44.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

951.042 L461c 2006
AUT Leck, Greg.
TIT Captives of empire : the Japanese internment of allied civilians in China, 1941-1945.
PUB [Bangor, Pa.] : Shandy Press, c2006.

956.0049 A135k 2006
AUT Abd al-Jabb, Fiu ; Dawod, Hosham.
TIT The Kurds : nationalism and politics.
PUB London : Saqi, c2006.

959.704 F946d 2006
AUT Fry, Joseph A.
TIT Debating Vietnam : Fulbright, Stennis, and their Senate hearings.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006.
SER Vietnam--America in the war years.
CON Contents: Fulbright, Stennis, and their hearings -- Fulbright and the SFRC challenge Johnson -- The SFRC interrogates Taylor and Rusk -- Stennis and the SPIS challenge Johnson -- The SPIS interrogates McNamara -- Fulbright, Stennis, and the end of the war.

959.704 R646b 2006
AUT Roberts, Priscilla Mary.
TIT Behind the bamboo curtain : China, Vietnam, and the world beyond Asia.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2006.
SER Cold War International History Project series.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The beginning : From colonial rule to escalation. Mao Zedong and the Indochina wars / Yang Kuisong -- Forging a new relationship : The Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1955 / Mari Olsen -- Opportunities lost? Kennedy, China, and Vietnam / Noam Kochavi -- The French recognition of China and its implications for the Vietnam War / Fredrik Logevall -- The economic and political impact of the Vietnam war on China in 1964 / Li Xiangqian -- pt. 2. The widening war. Informing the enemy : Sino-American "signaling" and the Vietnam War, 1965 / James G. Hershberg and Chen Jian -- Beijing's aid to Hanoi and the United States-China confrontations, 1964-1968 / Shu Guang Zhang -- The Sino-Soviet dispute over assistance for Vietnam's anti-American war, 1965-1972 / Li Danhui -- The background to the shift in Chinese policy toward the United States in the late 1960s / Niu Jun -- Sino-U.S. reconciliation and China's Vietnam policy / Shen Zhihua -- China and the Cambodian conflict, 1970-1975 / Zhai Qiang -- The Soviet-Chinese-Vietnamese triangle in the 1970's : The view from Moscow / Stephen Morris -- Commentary : A Vietnamese scholar's perspective on the Communist big powers and Vietnam / Luu Doan Huynh -- pt. 3. Documents. Le Duan and the break with China / Stein T�nnesson and Christopher E. Goscha -- Selected conversations of Asian Communist leaders on Indochina.

973.0495 C454v 2006
AUT Chan, Sucheng.
TIT The Vietnamese American 1.5 generation : stories of war, revolution, flight, and new beginnings.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2006.
SER Asian American history and culture series.

973.099 G983p 2006
AUT Gutgold, Nichola D.
TIT Paving the way for Madam President.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2006.
SER Lexington studies in political communication ; 2.
CON Contents: Margaret Chase Smith: "A quiet woman" -- Shirley Chisholm: "Ms. Chis" -- Patricia Scott Schroeder: "Rendezvous with reality" -- Elizabeth Hanford Dole: "It's her turn" -- Carol Moseley Braun: "A fiscal hawk and a peace dove" -- Continuing on the trail.

973.3092 W585o 2006
AUT White, K. ; Fisher, Elizabeth Munro.
TIT The other daughters of the Revolution : The narrative of K. White (1809) and The memoirs of Elizabeth Fisher (1810).
PUB Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Narrative of the life, occurrences, vicissitudes and present situation of K. White / K. White (1809) -- Memoirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Fisher / Elizabeth Munro Fisher (1810).

973.741 L849g 2006
AUT Longacre, Edward G.
TIT General Ulysses S. Grant : the soldier and the man. - 1st Da Capo Press ed.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2006.
CON Contents: That Boy Will Make a General -- A Most Remarkable and Valuable Young Soldier -- Union and Separation -- Hardscrabble Years -- Trial and Error -- A Hero in Disgrace -- I Can't Lose This Man -- The Sword of Damocles -- A Degree of Relief Scarcely Ever Equaled -- The Idol of the Hour -- No Turning Back -- Additional and Magnificent Successes.

973.918 B423d 2006
AUT Beisner, Robert L.
TIT Dean Acheson : a life in the Cold War.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
CON Contents: Introduction: "The shiniest fish that ever came out of the sea" -- Rare meat: adding reach to power. -- Patterns of peril: joining the cold warriors. -- Rome and Carthage: the Truman Doctrine. -- The Marshall Plan and return to private life. -- The inner and outer Acheson. -- Acheson, the president and the State Department. -- Keeping the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down, 1949. -- Strategy in Europe: backing the West, probing the East. -- Looking for chances in China, 1949. -- Neither wood nor ivory: checkmated in China, 1949-1950. -- Other early encounters with Asia and the Middle East. -- Weapons: the H-bomb. -- Words: NSC-68, public opinion, and total diplomacy. -- Real diplomacy, in Europe, 1949-1950. -- Plunge into the unknown: the United States, Indochina, and China on the eve of the Korean War. -- Friends in place: Acheson and Alger Hiss. -- Evil days.

973.927 L856d 2007
AUT Longley, Kyle.
TIT Deconstructing Reagan : conservative mythology and America's fortieth president.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2007.
CON Contents: Reagan and the Cold War / Michael Schaller -- The economic costs of Reagan mythology / John W. Sloan -- Reagan and race : prophet of colorblindness, baiter of the backlash / Jeremy Mayer -- When character was king? Ronald Reagan and the issues of ethics and morality / Kyle Longley -- Epilogue : Contemporary politics and the myths of Reagan.

974.8004 K91h 2006
AUT Kraybill, Donald B ; Hurd, James P.
TIT Horse-and-buggy Mennonites : hoofbeats of humility in a postmodern world.
PUB University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006.
SER Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; v. 40. Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 7.
CON Contents: Who are the Wenger Mennonites? -- The fabric of faith and culture -- Mobility and identity -- The architecture of community -- The rhythm of sacred ritual -- Passages from birth to death -- Making a living together -- Technology and social change -- Pilgrims in a postmodern world.

976.004 J82i 2006
AUT Jordan, Chris ; McKibben, Bill ; Zakin, Susan.
TIT In Katrina's wake : portraits of loss from an unnatural disaster.
PUB New York : Princeton Architectural Press, c2006.

977.311 H885c 2006
AUT Hudson, John C.
TIT Chicago : a geography of the city and its region. - 1st ed.
PUB Santa Fe, N.M. : Center for American Places ; Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
SER Center books on Chicago and environs. ; v. 10.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Physical geography -- pt. 3. Historical patterns -- pt. 4. The growing city -- pt. 5. The changing city -- pt. 6. Current trends -- pt. 7. Conclusion -- Chicago portfolio: Where geography and photography meet.

980.02 L987si 2006
AUT Lynch, John.
TIT Sim�n Bol�var : a life.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.
CON Contents: Out of a Spanish colony -- Lessons from the Age of Reason -- Creole revolution -- War to the death -- Touchstone of the revolution -- New strategy, new front -- Society according to Bol�var -- War and love in the Andes -- The man of problems -- The magic of his prestige -- Journey of disillusion -- The legacy.

987.06 E47v 2007
AUT Ellner, Steve ; Tinker Salas, Miguel.
TIT Venezuela : Hugo Ch�vez and the decline of an "exceptional democracy".
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub., c2007.
SER Latin American perspectives in the classroom.
CON Contents: Introduction : new perspectives and the Chavez phenomenon / Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas -- The Venezuelan exceptionalism thesis : separating myth from reality / Steve Ellner and Miguel Tinker Salas -- Venezuelan social conflict in a global context / Edgardo Lander -- U.S. oil companies in Venezuela : the forging of an enduring alliance / Miguel Tinker Salas -- Ch�vez and the search for an alternative to neoliberalism / Dick Parker -- Trade union autonomy and the emergence of a new labor movement in Venezuela / Steve Ellner -- Ethnicity and revolution : the political economy of racism in Venezuela / Jes�s Mar�a Herrera Salas -- Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution : who are the Chavistas? / Crist�bal Valencia Ram�rez -- Social movements in a polarized setting : myths of Venezuelan civil society / Mar�a Pilar Garc�a-Guadilla -- When "no" means "yes to revolution" : electoral politics in Bolivarian Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger -- Confronting Hugo Chavez : U.S. "democracy promotion" in Latin America / Christopher I. Clement.

999 M622c 2007
AUT Michaud, Michael A. G.
TIT Contact with alien civilizations : our hopes and fears about encountering extraterrestrials.
PUB New York : Springer, c2007.
CON Contents: A belief in other minds -- A new era -- Searching for intelligence -- Sending our own signals -- Probabilities -- Probabilities : the astronomical factors -- Probabilities : life -- Probabilities : intelligence -- Probabilities : civilization, technology, and science -- Probabilities : longevity -- The Drake equation, take two -- Should we continue the search? -- Direct contact -- The UFO controversy -- The Drake equation, take three -- Why don't we see them? -- Reformulating the problem -- Thinking outside the box -- SETI and religion -- The consequences of contact -- Hopes -- Fears -- Dangers -- Mixed emotions --Some assumptions examined -- Before contact -- Assumptions : after contact -- The Drake equation, take four -- What is missing -- Some conclusions drawn -- Paradigm shifts -- The human role -- Annex : preparing.

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NonPrint/Media Materials

DVD 372.21 D618 1996
AUT Gonzalez-Mena, Janet ; Herzog, Shanta ; Herzog, Milan.
TIT Diversity, independence, and individuality.
PUB Barrington, Ill. : Magna Systems Inc., c1996.
SER Early childhood training series. Diversity ; module #1.

DVD 791.4372 A258
AUT O'Connor, T. Michael ; Myers, Paul Eric ; Stevens, David.
TIT After shock earthquake in New York.
PUB [New York] : Hallmark Home Entertainment ; Santa Monica, Calif. : Distributed by Artisan Entertainment, c2000.
NOT Based on the novel by Chuck Scarborough. - Videodisc release of the 1999 motion picture. - Fullscreen version. - Special features included.

DVD 791.4372 D275A
AUT Emmerich, Roland ; Gordon, Mark ; Nachmanoff, Jeffrey.
TIT Day after tomorrow (Motion picture) The day after tomorrow. - Widescreen ed.
PUB [United States] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2004.
NOT Special features include: commentary by director Roland Emmerich and producer Mark Gordon; commentary by writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff, cinematographer Ueli Steiger, editor David Brenner, and production designer Barry Chusid; deleted scenes; interactive audio demo; DVD-ROM link to hour-long exclusive material.

DVD 791.4372 D311
AUT Leder, Mimi ; Freeman, Morgan ; Leoni, T�a.
TIT Deep impact. - Special collector's ed.
PUB [United States] : Paramount, 2004.
NOT Originally issued as a motion picture in 1998. - Special features: available commentary with director Mimi Leder and visual effects supervisor, Scott Farrar, preparing for the end, making an impact, creating the perfect traffic jam, parting thoughts, photo gallery, trailer.

DVD 791.4372 F631
AUT Pittman, Bruce ; Thomas, Richard ; Vernon, Kate.
TIT Flood a river's rampage.
PUB Santa Monica, Calif. : Hallmark Home Entertainment ; [S.l.] : Distributed by Artisan Home Entertainment, c2002.
NOT Rated PG. - Videodisc release of the 1997 made-for-TV movie.

DVD 791.4372 K483
AUT Campbell, Doug ; Beckwith, Peter ; Peters, David.
TIT Killer flood the day the dam broke.
PUB [Chicago, Ill.] : Questar, c2004.

DVD 791.4372 T289
AUT Pearl, Gary ; Richardson, Lisa, producer ; Canaan, Christopher.
TIT 10.5.
PUB [United States] : Hallmark Entertainment ; Marina Del Rey, Calif. : Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment, c2004.
NOT Title from container.

DVD 791.4372 V911
AUT Jones, Tommy Lee ; Heche, Anne ; Hoffmann, Gaby.
TIT Volcano. - Widescreen ed.
PUB [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c1997.
NOT Rated PG-13. - Features include interactive menus ; scene selection ; original theatrical trailer.

CD 810.986 W794h 2007
AUT Wintz, Cary D.
TIT Harlem speaks : a living history of the Harlem Renaissance.
PUB Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2007.
CON Contents: Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance -- To make a poet black: literature of the Harlem Renaissance -- The Jazz age: music and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance -- Art and image in the Harlem Renaissance: the visual and performing arts -- Art and politics: the Renaissance men of the Harlem Renaissance -- The new Negro: politics and criticism in the Harlem Renaissance.

DVD 959.704 R444
AUT Le, Tam, filmmaker.
TIT A reunion of soldiers a Vietnam War reflection : a documentary.
PUB Birmingham, Ala. : Tam Le, c2005.

DVD 968.83 B728 2005
AUT Moyers, Bill D ; Hutchens, Peter ; Hill, Ryan.
TIT Border jumpers a better life in Botswana?.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2005.

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