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005.72 H693d 2008
AUT Hoekman, Robert.
TIT Designing the moment : web interface design concepts in action.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : New Riders, c2008.

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111.85 N285 2008
AUT Carlson, Allen ; Lintott, Sheila.
TIT Nature, aesthetics, and environmentalism : from beauty to duty.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Natural aesthetic value and environmentalism -- Part 1. Historical foundations -- The historical foundations of American environmental attitudes -- The nature of beauty -- Walking -- A near view of the High Sierra -- The art of seeing things -- A taste for country: country, natural history, and the conservation esthetic -- Part 2. Nature and aesthetic value -- Leopold's land aesthetic -- Aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment -- Icebreakers: environmentalism and natural aesthetics -- Appreciating nature on its own terms -- On being moved by nature -- Scientific knowledge and the aesthetic appreciation of nature -- Part 3. Nature and positive aesthetics -- Nature and positive aesthetics -- The aesthetics of unscenic nature -- Aesthetics and the value of nature -- Valuing nature and the autonomy of natural aesthetics -- The aesthetics of nature -- Nature appreciation, science, and positive aesthetics -- Part 4. Nature, aesthetic value, and environmentalism -- From beauty to duty: aesthetics of nature and environmental ethics -- The beauty that requires health -- Cultural sustainability: aligning aesthetics and ecology -- Toward ecofriendly aesthetics -- Aesthetic character and aesthetic integrity in environmental conservation -- Objectivity in environmental aesthetics and protection of the environment.

128.092 K41w 2008
AUT Kerr, Fergus.
TIT Work on oneself : Wittgenstein's philosophical psychology.
PUB Arlington, Va. : Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press ; Washington, DC : Distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, c2008.
SER Institute for the Psychological Sciences monograph series ; v. 1.
CON Contents: Wittgenstein's philosophical psychology -- Wittgenstein and Catholicism -- Wittgenstein, psychology, and psychoanalysis -- Wittgenstein and "other minds" skepticism.

146.7 M578p 2008
AUT Mesle, C. Robert.
TIT Process-relational philosophy : an introduction to Alfred North Whitehead.
PUB West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Foundation Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Being and becoming -- A process-relational world : an adventure that matters -- Imaginative generalization : the search for a comprehensive vision -- Minds, bodies, and experience : envisioning a unified self -- Experience all the way down : seeking an imaginative leap -- Reality as relational process : substance and process -- Reality as a causal web : a constructive postmodernism -- Unilateral power : power, value, and reality -- Relational power : so what? -- Creativity, freedom, and God : what makes freedom possible? -- Looking ahead : the future of process-relational thought -- Getting technical : understanding Whitehead's language.

150.72 W814q 2007
AUT Wiseman, Richard.
TIT Quirkology : how we discover the big truths in small things.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : exploring the backwaters of the human brain -- What does your date of birth really say about you? : the new science of chronopsychology -- Trust everyone, but always cut the cards : the psychology of lying and deception -- Believing six impossible things before breakfast : psychology enters the Twilight Zone -- Making your mind up : the strange science of decision-making -- The scientific search for the world's funniest joke : explorations into the psychology of humor -- Sinner or saint? : the psychology of when we help and when we hinder -- The pace of life and other quirkological oddities : the future of quirkology Afterword : how to pep up the dullest of dinner parties.

152.4 E542W 2007
AUT Wulff, Helena.
TIT The emotions : a cultural reader. - English ed.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Berg, 2007.

155.92 S655i 2008
AUT Smith, Nick.
TIT I was wrong : the meanings of apologies.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Apologies as a source of moral meaning in modernity -- The meanings of apologies -- Elements of the categorical apology -- Corroborated factual record -- Acceptance of blame -- Distinguished from expression of sympathy -- Causation and moral responsibility -- Accidents and denials of intent -- Standing -- Identification of each harm -- Identification of the moral principles underlying each harm -- Endorsing moral principles underlying each harm -- Recognition of victim as moral interlocutor -- Categorical regret -- Performance of the apology -- Reform and redress -- Intentions for apologizing -- Emotions -- Apologies and gender -- Apologies in diverse religious and cultural traditions -- Unusual cases : apologizing to animals, infants, machines, the deceased, and -- Yourself -- The relationship between apologies and forgiveness -- Varieties of apologies -- Collective apologies -- The collective categorical apology -- The problem of consensus -- Issues specific to collective apologies -- Collectives corroborating factual records -- Collectives and blame -- Distinguished from collective expressions of sympathy -- Collective causation and collective moral responsibility -- Collective accidents and denials of intent -- Collectives, standing, and delegation -- Collectives identifying each harm -- Collectives identifying the moral principles underlying each harm -- Collectives endorsing moral principles underlying each harm -- Collectives recognizing victims as moral interlocutors -- Collectives and categorical regret -- Collectives performing apologies -- Collectives reforming and providing redress -- Collective intentions for apologizing -- Collective emotions -- Varieties of collective apologies -- Conclusion: Previewing apologies in law.

158.4 S528e 2008
AUT Shankman, Marcy Levy ; Allen, Scott J.
TIT Emotionally intelligent leadership : a guide for college students. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Environmental awareness -- Group savvy -- Emotional self-perception -- Honest self-understanding -- Healthy self-esteem -- Emotional self-control -- Authenticity -- Flexibility -- Achievement -- Optimism -- Initiative -- Empathy -- Citizenship -- Inspiration -- Influence -- Coaching -- Change agent -- Conflict management -- Developing relationships -- Teamwork -- Capitalizing on difference -- Developing emotionally intelligent leadership.

170 D667s 2007
AUT Dombrink, John ; Hillyard, Daniel.
TIT Sin no more : from abortion to stem cells, understanding crime, law, and morality in America.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Changing moralities : shifts in American attitudes and law in the moral values debate? -- Painless prosperity : the spread of legal gambling -- Abortion : contestation and ambivalence in the long era of Roe v. Wade -- Gay rights : beyond tolerance and privacy to equality -- Assisted suicide : the road to new rules of dying -- Stem cells : framing battles and the race for a cure -- Conclusion: To form a more purple union?.

172.42 E84Sy 2007
AUT Syse, Henrik ; Reichberg, Gregory M.
TIT Ethics, nationalism, and just war : medieval and contemporary perspectives.
PUB Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Thinking morally about war in the Middle Ages and today / James Turner Johnson -- Taming warriors in Classical and early Medieval political theory / John Von Heyking -- Augustine and just war : between virtue and duties / Henrik Syse -- Just war, schism, and peace in St. Augustine / Phillip W. Gray -- Is there a "presumption against war" in Aquinas's ethics? / Gregory M. Reichberg -- Poets and politics : just war in Geoffrey Chaucer and Christine de Pizan / Kate L. Forhan -- Reflections on Medieval just war theories : a commentary on part one / Gerson Moreno-Riaño -- Maintaining the protection of noncombatants / James Turner Johnson -- Protecting the natural environment in wartime : ethical considerations from the just war tradition / Gregory M. Reichberg and Henrik Syse -- U.N.-authorized interventions : a slippery slope of forcible interference? / Anne Julie Semb -- Ethical uncertainties of nationalism / Dan Smith -- The sort of nationalism and patriotism that Europe needs / Andreas Follesdal -- Defining and delivering justice : the work of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals / James Meernik -- The legitimacy of anticipatory defense and forcible regime change / Dieter Janssen -- Genocide : a case for the responsibility of the bystander / Arne Johan Vetlesen -- The ethical core of the nation-state : a postscript to part two / J. Peter Burgess.

179.1 J32e 2008
AUT Jamieson, Dale.
TIT Ethics and the environment : an introduction.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
SER Cambridge applied ethics.
CON Contents: 1. The environment as an ethical question -- 2. Human morality -- 3. Meta-ethics -- 4. Normative ethics -- 5. Humans and other animals -- 6. The value of nature -- 7. Nature's future.

179.4 C752a 2008
AUT Conn, P. Michael ; Parker, James V.
TIT The animal research war. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
CON Contents: In the crosshairs -- War stories -- The animal rights movement past and present -- Animal rights strategies -- War casualties -- War casualties : all of us -- Yes, but what about-- -- Peace at last?.

179.7 F534i 2008
AUT Fisher, Kenneth A. ; Rockwell, Lindsay E ; Scott, Missy.
TIT In defiance of death : exposing the real costs of end-of-life care.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2008.
CON Contents: Dying in America today -- Roots of the problem: the Patient Self-Determination Act, advance directives, and the Americans with Disabilities Act -- Why we need appropriate care committees -- The three most typical end-of-life populations -- Hospitals, escalating costs, and end-of-life care -- Nursing homes -- Palliative care and hospice -- A big step in the right direction: the VA transforms end-of-life care.

190 G478t 2008
AUT Gillespie, Michael Allen.
TIT The theological origins of modernity.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The nominalist revolution and the origin of modernity -- Petrarch and the invention of individuality -- Humanism and the apotheosis of man -- Luther and the storm of faith -- The contradictions of premodernity -- Descartes' path to truth -- Hobbes' fearful wisdom -- The contradictions of enlightenment and the crisis of modernity.

191 G878r 2008
AUT Gross, Neil.
TIT Richard Rorty : the making of an American philosopher.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
CON Contents: James Rorty -- Winifred Raushenbush -- The Hutchins College -- M.A. in philosophy, 1949-1952 -- Ph.D. at Yale, 1952-1956 -- Wellesley College, 1958-1961 -- Princeton University, 1961-1965 -- Princeton University, 1965-1982 -- The theory of intellectual self concept -- Rorty reexamined.

193 C616t 2008
AUT Claussen, Detlev.
TIT Theodor W. Adorno : one last genius.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Instead of an overture : no heirs -- The house in Schöne Aussicht : a Frankfurt childhood around 1910 -- From Teddie Wiesengrund to Dr. Wiesengrund-Adorno -- Adorno as "non-identical" man -- Transitions -- Bertolt Brecht : "to those who come after us" -- Theodor W. Adorno : "out of the firing-line" -- Hanns Eisler, the non-identical brother -- Fritz Lang, the American friend -- Frankfurt transfer -- Adorno as "identical" man -- The palimpsest of life.

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200.973 R382C 2008
AUT Cohen, Charles Lloyd ; Boyer, Paul S.
TIT Religion and the culture of print in modern America.
PUB Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.
SER Print culture history in modern America.

201.65 E23 2008
AUT Bentley, Alex.
TIT The edge of reason? : science and religion in modern society.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, 2008.
CON Contents: Science and religion : negotiating the 21st century rapids / Denis R. Alexander -- Why new atheist definitions of religions fail / Mark Hulsether -- Aboriginal versus Western creationism / Robert Layton -- Science versus anthropology, not religion / Simon Coleman -- Atheism and liberty / Michael Shermer -- The evolution of warfare / Herbert D.G. Maschner and Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner -- Why we are good : mirror neurons and the roots of empathy / Gordy Slack -- The evolution of religion / Lewis Wolpert -- Is religion inevitable? an archaeologist's view from the past / Steven Mithen -- Artificials, or why Darwin was wrong about humans / Timothy Taylor -- Brain science and belief / Andrew Newberg -- Why Richard Dawkins is wrong about religion / David Sloan Wilson -- Public terror versus public good / Ian Reader -- Buddhism : is there a better balance in the East? / Hiroko Kawanami -- Can scientific discovery be a religious experience? / John Hedley Brooke -- Heavens above! Old notions never die. They just incorporate / William Calvin -- Other intelligences / Seth Shostak -- Natural theology in contemporary cosmology / David Wilkinson.

202.117 I72c 2008
AUT Irwin, Lee.
TIT Coming down from above : prophecy, resistance, and renewal in Native American religions.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.
SER The civilization of the American Indian series ; v. 258.
CON Contents: Ancient visionary worlds -- The rhetoric of conquest -- The invasion of paradise -- A clashing of worldviews -- The Haudenosaunee good word -- Fighting for a way of life -- Removal and resistance -- Drum and dreamer prophets -- The ghost dance traditions -- In search of religious freedom.

203.4 H618p 2007
AUT Heyman, George.
TIT The power of sacrifice : Roman and Christian discourses in conflict.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Roman religion and sacrificial practice -- The Roman imperial cult -- The New Testament and the discourse of sacrifice -- The sacrifice of the martyr -- Conclusions.

204.22 H287m 2008
AUT Harmless, William.
TIT Mystics.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: A theology called mystical : Jean Gerson and William James -- Mystic as fire watcher : Thomas Merton -- Mystic as experienced exegete : Bernard of Clairvaux -- Mystic as multimedia artist : Hildegard of Bingen -- Mystic as cartographer : Bonaventure -- Mystic as mystagogue : Meister Eckhart -- Mystic as desert calligrapher : Evagrius Ponticus -- Mysticism and Islam : Rumi -- Mysticism and Zen Buddhism : D\u014Dgen -- Reading mystics : text, community, experience.

205.66 F866s 2008
AUT Freitas, Donna.
TIT Sex and the soul : juggling sexuality, spirituality, romance, and religion on America's college campuses.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: I: The varieties of college religious experience -- The spiritual colleges: souls adrift -- Why Catholic schools (and their students) are "spiritual but not religious" -- Evangelical extroverts: faithful and diverse -- II: The romantic ideal -- Evangelical purity culture: its princesses and warriors -- Wanted: a little romance -- III: The truth about sex on campus -- Where dating = marriage and a kiss means everything -- Hookups, ho's, and losing it -- IV: Reconciling sex and the soul (or not) on campus -- God vs. my boyfriend -- Dividing sex from the soul: why religion doesn't matter when it comes to sex -- V: Conclusions and practical implications -- Seeking a sexy spirituality for students on campus.

205.67 G618 2008
AUT Neusner, Jacob ; Chilton, Bruce.
TIT The golden rule : the ethics of reciprocity in world religions.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.

211 H453i 2008
AUT Hedges, Chris.
TIT I don't believe in atheists. - 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Free Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The God debate -- Science and religion -- The new fundamentalism -- Self-delusion -- The myth of moral progress -- Humiliation and revenge -- The illusive self.

211.092 B995k 2007
AUT Byrne, Peter.
TIT Kant on God.
PUB Aldershot ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2007.
SER Ashgate studies in the history of philosophical theology.
CON Contents: God and Kant's critical project -- Kant on natural theology I -- Kant on natural theology II -- Religious language and the boundaries of sense -- The positive case for God -- Kant on the elements of the highest good -- Kant's moral theology explored -- Kant, Christianity, and deism.

211.092 D464h 2003
AUT Desmond, William.
TIT Hegel's god : a counterfeit double?.
PUB Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2003.
SER Ashgate studies in the history of philosophical theology.
CON Contents: By way of introduction: Hegel's God, transcendence and the counterfeit double. -- Finding a way to holistic immanence: Hegel between Enlightenment, Greece and Christianity. -- Philosophy redoubling religion: intimacy, agon and counterfeit reconciliations. -- Beyond double thinking: Hegel's speculative God. -- Hegel's trinity and the erotic self-doubling God. -- Creation and the self-doubling of Hegel's trinity. -- Evil and the counterfeits of religious community. -- On the reserves of God.

221.86 M135w 2008
AUT MacDonald, Nathan.
TIT What did the ancient Israelites eat? : diet in biblical times.
PUB Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- A land flowing with milk and honey -- Reconstructing the Israelite diet -- What did the Israelites eat? -- The Mediterranean triad : bread, wine, and oil -- Vegetables, pulses, and fruit -- Meat, milk, birds, and fish -- Condiments and other foods -- How well did the Israelites eat? -- Modeling the Israelite diet -- Environment and climate -- Food shortage and famine -- The consumption of meat : archaeological evidence -- The consumption of meat : anthropological evidence -- Food distribution -- Nutritional deficiencies -- Conclusion -- The diet of the ancient Israelites -- Biblical diets.

232.96 P467 2007
AUT Joynes, Christine E ; Macky, Nancy Ann.
TIT Perspectives on the Passion : encountering the Bible through the arts.
PUB London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2007.
SER Library of New Testament studies ; 381 T & T Clark libary of biblical studies.
CON Contents: Introduction / Christine E. Joynes -- 'Effective history' and art : a hermeneutical study with examples from the Passion narrative / Ulrich Luz -- He who hesitates is human : literary portrayals of the Gethsemane 'moment' / Peter S. Hawkins -- The Transforming power of the Cross / Timothy Gorringe -- The Passion in early Christian art / Robin M. Jensen -- From Nativity to Resurrection : musical and exegetical reasonances in the Good Friday chants Domine Audiui and Qui Habitat / Emma Hornby -- In Persona Mariae : singing the Song of Songs as a Passion commentary / William T. Flynn -- Emblem and irony : Passion narrative in post-Reformation hymnody / J. R. Watson -- Christian cannibalism and human(e) sacrifice : the Passion in the conversion of the Aztecs / Jaime Lara -- The Mass and te theatre : sacrifice and murder in Othello / Regina M. Schwartz -- Bad Friday / Sara Maitland -- Afterword / Nancy Macky.

261 C556 2009
AUT Steinberg, Shirley R. ; Kincheloe, Joe.
TIT Christotainment : selling Jesus through popular culture.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c2009.

261.5 O58 2008
AUT Titus, Craig Steven.
TIT On wings of faith and reason : the Christian difference in culture and science.
PUB Arlington, Va. : Institute for the Psychological Sciences Press ; Washington, DC : Distributed by The Catholic University of America Press, c2008.
SER John Henry Cardinal Newman lectures ; v. 2.
CON Contents: Medicine and medical education in Newman's university / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Two wings : Aquinas and Aristotle / Kevin L. Flannery -- Wretched Aristotle / Jude P. Dougherty -- The Christian difference in personal relationships / Robert Sokolowski -- Newman's second spring--once again / Richard John Neuhaus -- Jesus' concept of happiness / Peter Kreeft -- Christ, the redeemer of culture / John Haas.

261.52 U55 2007
AUT Schultze, Quentin J. ; Woods, Robert.
TIT Understanding evangelical media : the changing face of Christian communication.
PUB Downers Grove, Ill. : IVP Academic, c2008.
CON Contents: Getting the conversation going about media and culture / Quentin J. Schultze and Robert H. Woods, Jr. -- Looking beyond radio for listeners / Paul A. Creasman -- Thinking outside the tribal TV box / Kathy Bruner -- Moving from film to digital movies / Terry Lindvall and Andrew Quicke -- Pursuing new periodicals in print and online / Ken Waters -- Publishing books for the tribe and beyond / Michael A. Longinow -- Practicing worship media beyond PowerPoint / Brian Fuller -- Going digital with contemporary Christian music / Stephanie Bennett -- Praising God with popular worship music / Robert H. Woods, Jr. -- Following pilgrims into cyberspace / Quentin J. Schultze -- Evangelicals in theater : inching toward center stage / Paul D. Patton -- Faith-based theme parks and museums : multidimensional media / Annalee Ward -- Merchandising Jesus products / Diane M. Badzinski -- Converting comic books into graphic novels and digital cartoons / Thomas J. Carmody -- Evangelicals' quest to find God's place in games / Kevin Schut -- Advertising : fueling a passion for consumption / Terri Lynn Cornwell -- Promoting public relations in a new-media environment / Peter A. Kerr -- Internationalizing evangelical media / Robert S. Fortner -- Energizing media ethics / Mark Fackler -- Considering a Catholic view of evangelical media / Paul A. Soukup -- Looking with a Jew at evangelical popular culture / Mark I. Pinsky -- Conclusion: Being fairly self-critical about evangelical media.

270 M388c 2007
AUT Marty, Martin E.
TIT The Christian world : a global history. - 1st ed., Modern Library ed.
PUB New York : Modern Library, 2007.
SER Modern Library chronicles. ; 29.
CON Contents: The Jewish beginnings -- The first Asian episode -- The first African episode -- The first European episode -- The second European episode -- The Latin American episode -- The North American episode -- The second African episode -- The second Asian episode -- Unfinished episodes.

277.3 H241a 2008
AUT Hankins, Barry.
TIT American evangelicals : a contemporary history of a mainstream religious movement.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
SER Critical issues in history.
CON Contents: Awakening and the beginning of American evengelicalism -- The struggle with modernism : origins of the culture wars -- Battling with science : from antievolution to the intelligent design -- Millennialism : folk religion and the career of end-times prophecy -- Considering equality : the tradition of gender, race, and gay rights -- Inspired politics : evangelical religion in the political marketplace -- Back to the academy : evangelical scholars and the American mind.

287.63 D263m 2008
AUT Davis, Morris L.
TIT The Methodist unification : Christianity and the politics of race in the Jim Crow era.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
SER Religion, race, and ethnicity.
CON Contents: Birth of a nation, birth of a church -- The Baltimore meeting : saints, cemeteries, and savages -- Race consciousness -- The Savannah meeting : "the bogey of social equality" -- The final three meetings : the problem of missions and the urgency of patriots.

289.9 N482h 2002
AUT Neufeld, K. Gordon.
TIT Heartbreak and rage : ten years under Sun Myung Moon : a cult survivor's memoir.
PUB College Station, Tex. : Virtualbookworm.com, 2002.

292.07 A552m 2008
AUT Ando, Clifford.
TIT The matter of the gods : religion and the Roman Empire.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
SER The Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature The transformation of the classical heritage ; 44.
CON Contents: Religion, law, and knowledge in classical rome -- Idols and their critics -- Interpretatio Romana -- Religion and Ius Publicum -- A religion for the empire -- Religion and imperialism at Rome -- The palladium and the Pentateuch.

297 Q7s 2008
AUT Quinn, Frederick.
TIT The sum of all heresies : the image of Islam in Western thought.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The prophet as Antichrist and Arab Lucifer (early times to 1600) -- "The time of Araby has come at last" (1600-1800) -- The prophet as hero and wise Easterner (1800-1900) -- "Nous revenons, Saladin!" (We return, Saladin!) (1900-2000) -- The summing up -- Appendix: "Am I not your Lord?" / Kenneth Cragg on Muslim-Christian dialogue.

297.092 B978w 2008
AUT Bushill-Matthews, Lucy.
TIT Welcome to Islam : a convert's tale.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, 2008.
CON Contents: Embracing faith -- Marriage ties and scarves -- On foreign soil -- In the 'real world' -- A pilgrim's progress -- Babes in arms -- Community spirit -- Fasting and feasting -- The next generation -- Epilogue.

297.122 M444s 2008
AUT Mattson, Ingrid.
TIT The story of the Qur\u02BEan : its history and place in Muslim life.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: God speaks to humanity -- The prophet conveys the message -- The voice and the pen -- Blessed words : the Qur\u02BEan and culture -- What God really means : interpreting the Qur\u02BEan -- Conclusion : listening for God.

297.2 A315q 2008
AUT Akhtar, Shabbir.
TIT The Quran and the secular mind : a philosophy of Islam.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
CON Contents: Pt. I : Quranic Islam and the secular mind -- Locating Islam in the modern world -- Human reason and divine revelation -- The moral challenge of secular humanism -- Pt. II : an Arabic Quran : assessing its authority -- The book sent down -- The book as 'the frustrater' -- The scope of the book -- The authority of the book -- Pt. III : a Quranic Lebenswelt in a secular age -- A sign is enough - for the wise -- Faith and the varieties of rejection -- Human nature and the Quran -- 'Greater is God!' -- Pt. IV : conclusions -- Preface to a philosophy of Islam.

299.93 W7253h 1999
AUT Williams, Miriam.
TIT Heaven's harlots : my fifteen years as a sacred prostitute in the Children of God cult. - 1st paperback ed.
PUB New York : Eagle Brook, 1999, c1998.

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302.2309 F211a 2008
AUT Fang, Irving E.
TIT Alphabet to Internet : mediated communication in our lives.
PUB St. Paul, Minn. : Rada Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Writing: holding thought in our hands -- Printing: reproducing information -- Extending reading -- Mail: hauling information -- Telegraph and telephone wires: removing distance -- Photography: capturing the eye -- Motion pictures: sharing emotions -- Recording: capturing the ear -- Radio: hearing voices -- Television: leaning back -- Computers and the Internet: leaning forward -- Playing video games -- Being persuasive -- Crossing boundaries -- On mediated communication.

302.231 K97g 2008
AUT Kutner, Lawrence ; Olson, Cheryl K.
TIT Grand theft childhood : the surprising truth about violent video games and what parents can do.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
CON Contents: The big fear -- Déjà vu all over again, and again -- Science, nonsense and common sense -- Grand theft childhood? -- Why kids play violent games -- Sex, hate, game addiction and other worries -- I'm from the video game industry and I'm here to help -- All politics is local -- Practical advice for parents.

302.231 P338m 2008
AUT Pavlik, John V.
TIT Media in the digital age.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Digital delivery media -- Devices to access digital media -- Audiences or users of digital media -- Producers of digital media -- Content in the digital age -- Distributors of digital media -- Financers and owners of digital media -- Regulation and law of digital media -- Production and protection of digital media -- Inventors and innovators of digital media -- Ethical considerations in the digital age -- Children and digital media.

302.35 K29f 2008
AUT Kellerman, Barbara.
TIT Followership : how followers are creating change and changing leaders.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2008.
SER Leadership for the common good.
CON Contents: Fictions -- Facts -- Relationships -- Types -- Bystanders -- Participants -- Activists -- Diehards -- Values -- Transformations.

303.4824 B254a 2007
AUT Bark, Dennis L.
TIT Americans and Europeans dancing in the dark : on our differences and affinities, our interests, and our habits of life.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2007.
SER Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 554.

303.483 P986m2 2007
AUT Pursell, Carroll W.
TIT The machine in America : a social history of technology. - 2nd ed.
PUB Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
CON Contents: I: The transit of technology -- The tools brought over -- Importing the industrial revolution -- Improving transportation -- II: The domestication of the industrial revolution -- The expansion of American manufactures -- The mechanization of farming -- III: the imprint of American technology -- Creating an urban environment -- Westward the course of industry -- Export, exploitation, and empire -- IV: Technology and hegemony -- The coming of science and systems -- The decade of prosperity and consumption -- Depression: study and subsidy -- Wars and the "American century" -- Challenge and change in a postmodern world -- V: Globalization -- Our (un)wired world -- America's global reach.

303.4833 S558h 2008
AUT Shirky, Clay.
TIT Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations.
PUB New York : Penguin Press, 2008.

Ref 303.625 A874n 2008 v.1-2
AUT Atkins, Stephen E.
TIT The 9/11 encyclopedia.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008.

304.873 B155i 2008
AUT Bailey, Rayna.
TIT Immigration and migration.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2008.
SER Global issues.

305.235 S264t 2008
AUT Savage, Jon.
TIT Teenage : the prehistory of youth culture, 1875-1945.
PUB New York : Penguin, 2008, c2007.
CON Contents: 1: 1875-1904 -- Heaven and hell / Marie Bashkirtseff and Jesse Pomeroy -- Nationalists and decadents : the European counterrevolution -- Hooligans and Apaches : juvenile delinquency and the mass media -- "A sudden vision of heaven" / L. Frank Baum and the Dreamland of Oz -- The american century / G. Stanley Hall and adolescence -- 2: 1904-1913 -- Peter Pan and the Boy Scouts / Imperial British Youth -- High school freshmen and factory fodder / American adolescence and industry -- Wandervogel and Neo-Pagans : Europe's back-to-nature movements -- Nickelodeons and animal dances : the American dream economy -- 3: 1912-1919 -- Invocation : the European generation gap -- Sacrifice : the war dead and the young against the old -- The class of 1902 : juvenile delinquency and the great war -- Jazz bands and doughboys : American youth enters Europe -- 4: 1919-1929 -- Postwar shocks : the Fascisti, the German bunde, and the woodcraft folk -- Sheiks and shebas : the American youth market -- The Cinderella complex : the problems of America's mass culture -- The pursuit of pleasure : the bright young people -- 5: 1930-1939 -- The soldiers of an idea : the Hitler youth -- The children's army and the New Deal : American adolescents in the depression -- Biff boys and the red menace : the polarization of British youth -- Jitterbugs and ickies : American swing and youth consumerism -- 6: 1939-1943 -- Conquerors and overlords : the Hitler youth at war and at home -- Reluctant conscripts and Socialist heroes : British youth at war -- Sub-Debs and GIs : American adolescents in school and in uniform -- German swing kids and French Zazous : swing in Nazi Europe -- Zoot-suiters and victory girls : American unrest in 1943 -- 7: 1942-1945 -- The peaceful invaders : American soldiers and British youth -- Helmuth Hubener, the white rose, and Anne Frank : resistance in Nazi Europe -- The arrival of the teenager : the launch of seventeen -- Year zero : the teenager triumphant.

305.235 W684w 2008
AUT Wilkins, Amy C.
TIT Wannabes, goths, and Christians : the boundaries of sex, style, and status.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: gender, race, class, and cultural projects -- From geek to freak -- So full of myself as a chick -- Just good people -- Abstinence -- Puerto Rican wannabes -- Why don't they act like who they really are? -- The gendered limits of racial crossover -- Conclusions, contradictions, and collisions.

305.489 B821d 2008
AUT Branson, Susan.
TIT Dangerous to know : women, crime, and notoriety in the early republic.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

305.8 B877r 2007
AUT Brown, David ; Webb, Clive.
TIT Race in the American South : from slavery to civil rights.
PUB Gainesville, Fla. : University Press of Florida, c2007.

305.8097 D771n 2008
AUT Dreisinger, Baz.
TIT Near Black : White-to-Black passing in American culture.
PUB Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2008.
CON Contents: White panic and white passing: slavery and reconstruction -- Dy(e)ing to be black: "Mars Jeems's nightmare," Black like me, and Watermelon man -- Black like she: Grace Halsell and the sexuality of passing -- Contagious beats: passing, autobiography, and discourses of American music -- Is passing passé in a "post-race" world? -- Epilogue: hits and misses of a racial free-for-all.

305.896 B171p 2007
AUT Balaji, Murali.
TIT The professor and the pupil : the politics of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson.
PUB New York : Nation Books, c2007.
CON Contents: The Harlem Renaissance and the birth of a friendship -- Dual epiphanies -- Du Bois, Robeson, and the Popular Front -- Stalin's purge, the Pact, and false justification -- World War II and the domestic battlefront -- Africa, Asia, and the global vision -- Convergence and divergence -- The "witch hunt" and the NAACP's betrayal -- Crash -- Bonding through disgrace -- The legacy of two fallen icons.

305.897 S963 2008
AUT Vizenor, Gerald Robert.
TIT Survivance : narratives of Native presence.
PUB Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Aesthetics of survivance: literary theory and practice / Gerald Vizenor -- Why it's a good thing Gerald Vizenor is not an Indian / Karl Kroeber -- Native survivance in the Americas: resistance and remembrance in narratives by Asturias, Tapahonso, and Vizenor / Helmbrecht Breinig -- On subjectivity and survivance: rereading trauma through the heirs of Columbus and the crown of Columbus / Deborah L. Madsen -- Playing Indian: manifest manners, simulation, and pastiche / Ying-Wen Yu -- William apess: storier of survivance / Arnold Krupat -- As long as the hair shall grow: survivance in Eric Gansworth's reservation fictions / Susan Bernardin -- The war cry of the trickster: the concept of survivance in Gerald Vizenor's Bear Island: the war at sugar point / Alan Velie -- Shifting the ground: theories of survivance in from Sand Creek and Hiroshima Bugi: Atomu 57 / Linda Lizut Helstern -- Total apocalypse, total survivance: nuclear literature and/or literary nucleus - Melville, Salinger, Vizenor / Takayuki Tatsumi -- Facing the Wiindigoo: Gerald Vizenor and Primo Levi / Joe Lockard -- Tactical mobility as survivance: Bone game and Dark river by Louis Owens / John Gamber -- Ghosts in the gaps: Diane Glancy's paradoxes of survivance / James Mackay -- The naked spot: a journey toward survivance / Diane Glancy -- Survivance in the works of Velma Wallis / James Ruppert -- Writing survivance: a conversation with Joseph Boyden / Allan J. Ryan -- A lantern to see by: survivance and a journey into the dark heart of Oklahoma / Jace Weaver -- Survivance memories: the poetry of Carter Revard / A. Robert Lee.

305.9082 D278o 2008
AUT Bauman,H-Dirksen L.
TIT Open your eyes : deaf studies talking.
PUB Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Talking culture and culture talking / Tom Humphries -- Colonialism and resistance / Paddy Ladd -- The deaf convert culture and its lessons for deaf theory / Frank Bechter -- Upon the formation of a visual variety of the human race / Benjamin Bahan -- Coequality and transnational studies / Joseph J. Murray -- Sound and belonging / Hilde Haualand -- On the disconstruction of (sign) language in the western tradition / H-Dirksen L. Bauman -- Turning literacy inside out / Marlon Kuntze -- Critical pedagogy and ASL videobooks / Lawrence Fleischer -- The decline of deaf clubs in the United States / Carol Padden -- Think-between / Brenda Jo Brueggemann -- Border crossings by hearing children of deaf parents / Robert Hoffmeister -- Dysconscious audism / Genie Gertz -- The burden of racism and audism / Lindsay Dunn -- Where is deaf HERstory? / Arlene Blumenthal Kelly -- Queer as deaf / MJ Bienvenu -- Do deaf people have a disability? / Harlan Lane -- Beyond culture / Douglas C. Baynton -- Postdeafness / Lennard J. Davis.

306.10973 T412c 2007
AUT Theroux, Louis.
TIT The call of the weird : travels in American subcultures. - 1st Da Capo Press ed., [American ed.].
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2007.

306.4 P831 1992
AUT Nachbar, John G ; Lausé, Kevin.
TIT Popular culture : an introductory text.
PUB Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University Popular Press, c1992.
CON Contents: Getting to know us: an introduction to the study of popular culture: what is this stuff that dreams are made of? -- SECTION 1: TAKING POPULAR CULTURE SERIOUSLY: Seeing what we've said; the top American box-office hits taken seriously / Kevin Lause -- How much can you swallow? / Mark Crispin Miller -- New legends for old / Jan Harold Brunvand -- The cabinet of Dr. Seuss / Alison Lurie -- SECTION 2: Songs of the unseen road: myths, beliefs, and values in popular culture -- Four morality tales / Robert Reich -- Culture and continuity: three American myths in the prints of Currier & Ives / Jack Nachbar -- The American myth of success: visions and revisions / Madonna Marsden -- Endless love will keep us together: the myth of romantic love and contemporary popular movie love themes / Crystal Kile --SECTION 3: Living in the material world: the meaning and power of popular icons -- For whom the bell tolled / Phil Patton -- The malling of America / William Severini Kowinski -- "Seen through rose-tinted glasses": the Barbie doll in American society / Marilyn Ferris Motz -- SECTION 4: Breaking the mold: the meaning and significance of stereotypes in popular culture -- The VALS typology / Arnold Mitchell -- From the plantation to Bel-Air: a brief history of Black stereotypes / Christopher D. Geist and Angela M. S. Nelson -- Yellow devil doctors and opium dens: the Yellow Peril stereotyle in mass media entertainment / Gary Hoppenstand -- One size does not fit all: being beautiful, thin and female in America / Jane Caputi with Susan Nance -- Section 5: Look! Up in the sky! (And right next door): popular heroes in America -- What makes Superman so darned American? / Gary Engle -- Henry Ford: symbol of an age / Roderick Nash -- The rap on rap / David Samuels -- The wretched of the hearth: the undainty feminism of Roseanne Arnold / Barbara Ehrenreich -- SECTION 6: All together now: popular rituals in America -- Family reunions / Jean Fields -- Game Day U.S.A. : The South / Willie Morris, The Midwest / Frank Conroy, The West / Richard Hoffer -- Halloween: rite of season, rite of passage / Jack Santino -- SECTION 7: Will you repeat that, please! : the meaningful delights of formula in the popular arts -- The Western / Thomas Schatz -- Television soap opera: "Incest, bigamy, and fatal disease" / Charles Derry -- Monster movies: a sexual theory / Walter Evans -- Magic and transformation: relationships in popular romance novels, 1950 to the 1980s / Rita C. Hubbard -- SECTION 8: Thirteenth generation born: 1961-1981 / William Strauss and Neil Howe.

306.432 W583t 2008
AUT White, Cameron ; Walker, Trenia.
TIT Tooning in : essays on popular culture and education.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
CON Contents: Tooning in -- The Spiderman curriculum -- Critical media literacy -- American idiots? -- Historical thinking -- Moral panic -- Global toppings -- Kidstory -- Digging Dead like me -- Giving a Hoot about Holes -- Films for the times -- Message in the music -- Fight Club and the Disneyfication of manhood -- Popular culture and the dark side of food -- Toys, play and learning -- Reading printed pop fiction.

306.6 S129 2007
AUT Beckford, James A.
TIT The SAGE handbook of the sociology of religion.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2007.
CON Contents: Classical tradition in sociology of religion / Randall Collins -- Assessing modernities : from 'pre-' to 'post-' to 'ultra-' / Kevin J. Christiano -- Secularization and sacralization deconstructed and reconstructed / N. J. Demerath III -- Rational choice and religious economies / Frank J. Lechner -- Globalization and glocalization / Peter Beyer-- Micro qualitative approaches to the sociology of religion : phenomenologies, interviews, narratives, and ethnographies / James V. Spickard -- Surveys of behaviour, beliefs and affiliation : micro-quantitative / David Voas -- History, methodologies, and the study of religion / John R. Hall -- Congregations resurgent / N.J. Demerath III, Arthur E. Farnsley II -- Evangelicalism and fundamentalism : the politics of global popular protestantism / Paul Freston -- From 'cults' to new religious movements : coherence, definition, and conceptual framing in the study of new religious movements / Thomas Robbins, Phillip Charles Lucas -- New age religion and irreligion / William Sims Bainbridge -- Civil religion in America and in global context / Marcela Cristi, Lorne L. Dawson -- Keepers of the tradition : religious professionals and their careers / Paula Nesbitt -- Orders and schisms on the sacred periphery / Patricia Wittberg -- Faith-based initiatives / Arthur E. Farnsley II -- Religion on the internet / Douglas E. Cowan -- Religion and the state, violence and human rights / N.J. Demerath III -- Religion and regulation / James A. Beckford, James T. Richardson -- Religion in rebellion, resistance, and social movements / Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Rhys H. Williams -- Religious affiliations, political preferences and ideological alignments / Laura R. Olson -- Cross-national comparisons of individual religiosity / Pierre Bréchon -- Rethinking the relationship between ethnicity and religion / Peter Kivisto -- Religious socialization among American youth : how faith shapes parents, children, and adolescents / John P. Bartkowski -- Age, generation, and cohort in American religion and spirituality / Michele Dillon -- Religion and identity / Arthur L. Greil, Lynn Davidman -- Gender differences in religious practice and significance / Linda Woodhead -- Embodiment, emotion and religious experience : religion, culture and the charismatic body / Philip A. Mellor -- Religion as a factor in life and death through the life-course / Stephen J. Hunt -- Oligopoly dynamics : official religions in China / Fenggang Yang -- Religious landscape of Central and Eastern Europe after communism / Irena Borowik -- Judaism in Israel : public religion, neo-traditionalism, messianism and ethno-religious conflict / Stephen Sharot -- State shinto and religion in post-war Japan / Susumu Shimazono -- Mexico : a mirror for the sociology of religion / Roberto J. Blancarte.

306.6094 B496r 2008
AUT Berger, Peter L. ; Davie, Grace ; Fokas, Effie.
TIT Religious America, secular Europe? : a theme and variations.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008.

306.6094 Z94s 2008
AUT Zuckerman, Phil.
TIT Society without God : what the least religious nations can tell us about contentment.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Society without God -- Jens, Anne, and Christian -- Fear of death and the meaning of life -- Lene, Sonny, and Gitte -- Being secular -- Why? -- Dorthe, Laura, and Johanne -- Cultural religion -- Back to the USA.

306.7082 H462v 2008
AUT Hegarty, Marilyn E.
TIT Victory girls, khaki-wackies, and patriotutes : the regulation of female sexuality during World War II.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.

306.73 B675h 2008
AUT Bogle, Kathleen A.
TIT Hooking up : sex, dating, and relationships on campus.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.

306.81 T513m 2007
AUT Thornton, Arland ; Axinn, William G ; Xie, Yu.
TIT Marriage and cohabitation.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
SER Population and development.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Historical perspectives on marriage -- Comparing marriage, cohabitation, and being single -- Entering marital and cohabiting unions -- Influence of parental youth factors before birth of study child -- Influence of parental factors during childhood and adolescence of the children -- The courtship process and union formation -- Religious affiliation and commitment -- The influence of attitudes, values, and beliefs -- Educational influences -- Work, earnings potential, and career aspiration -- Conclusions.

320.15 P976 2008
TIT The public good : knowledge as the foundation for a democratic society.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, c2008.

320.5209 R571 2008
AUT Schulman, Bruce J ; Zelizer, Julian E.
TIT Rightward bound : making America conservative in the 1970s.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Inventing family values / Matthew D. Lassiter -- The evangelical resurgence in 1970s American protestantism / Paul Boyer -- Make payroll, not war : business culture as youth culture / Bethany E. Moreton -- Gender and America's right turn / Marjorie J. Spruill -- Civil rights and the religious right / Joseph Crespino -- The decade of the neighborhood / Suleiman Osman -- Cultural politics and the singer/songwriters of the 1970s / Bradford Martin -- Financing the counterrevolution / Alice O'Connor -- The white ethnic strategy / Thomas J. Sugrue and John D. Skrentny -- The conservative struggle and the energy crisis / Meg Jacobs -- Turnabout years : public sector unionism and the fiscal crisis / Joseph A. McCartin -- Détente and its discontents / Jeremi Suri -- Carter's Nicaragua and other democratic quagmires / Derek N. Buckaloo -- Conservatives, Carter, and the politics of national security / Julian E. Zelizer.

320.54095 G465c 2007
AUT Gilbert, Martin.
TIT Churchill and the Jews : a lifelong friendship. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2007.
CON Contents: Early years : "This monstrous conspiracy" -- Supporting the Jews -- The First World War and its aftermath -- "A struggle for the soul of the Jewish people" -- Responsibility for the Jewish national home -- Pledges in Jerusalem -- Building on the Balfour declaration -- An anti-semitic libel, Palestine, and Moses -- The rise of Hitler -- Defender of zionism -- The partition debate: "a counsel of despair" -- Nazism rampant: "abominable persecution" -- Palestine the legitimate Jewish haven -- The Black Paper: "this mortal blow" -- The first nine months of war -- Prime Minister: the Palestine dimension -- "These vile crimes" -- Palestine: a vigilant eye -- Seeking to save Jews -- "If our dreams of Zionism are to end ..." -- The Saudi Arabian dimension -- From war to peace: "I shall continue to do my best" -- The King David Hotel bomb: "We are to be at war with the Jews of Palestine" -- "A senseless, squalid war with the Jews" -- The state of Israel established: "an event in world history" -- "An old Zionist like me" -- "A great nation".

320.557 C167i 2008
AUT Calvert, John, Dr.
TIT Islamism : a documentary and reference guide.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Islamist movements and thinkers -- The founding of the Muslim brotherhood -- Goals and strategies of the Muslim Brotherhood -- The need for islamic leadership -- The primacy of the shari'a -- From Arabism to Islamism -- Islamism, democracy, and the limits of freedom -- "Impious democratic dogma" -- Representative government in Islam -- An Islamist view of the media -- Women and family life in Islamist discourses -- "When Islam prohibits something, it closes all the avenues of approach to it" -- "Woman has been guaranteed complete equality with man" -- "Muslim sister-- show your pride!" -- The need for ijtihad -- Social and economic justice -- Mutual responsibility -- Our economy -- "The goal of Islam is to eliminate misery" -- "Islam distinguishes between the property of the state and collective property" -- The Iranian revolution -- "The shahid is always alive and present" -- "The awaited savior" -- "Laws and social institutions require the existence of an executor" -- Dialogue of civilizations -- "The people of the region are becoming increasingly angry" -- The near enemy -- The modern jahiliyya -- "What immorality could allow this kind of behavior?" -- The neglected duty -- "Islam needs a country that protects its creed" -- "The junta is pursuing the path of evil" -- Islamism in Saudi Arabia -- "We are calling for sweeping reform in our people's affairs" -- The betrayal of palestine -- A Saudi oppositionists view -- "The state of Saudi Arabia is facing a dire crisis" -- The liberation of Muslim lands -- "The entire Islamic land is like a single country" -- "We were looking for jihad" -- "The movement's program is Islam" -- "A ruling pertaining to the participation of Palestinians in government institutions in the occupied land" -- Global jihad -- Declaration of jihad -- Jihad against Jews and crusaders -- Knights under the prophet's banner -- "Muslims can legitimately kill disbelievers" -- "Physical fitness of the mujahid" -- "The land of those who reside in paradise" -- Zarqawi's letter.

320.9 S561p 2008
AUT Skrimshire, Stephen.
TIT Politics of fear, practices of hope.
PUB London ; New York : Continuum, c2008.
SER Continuum studies in religion and political culture.
CON Contents: Politics of fantasy -- Politics of imagination -- Experiments in hope.

320.96 P355 2008
AUT Francis, David J.
TIT Peace and conflict in Africa.
PUB London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
CON Contents: Understanding the context of peace and conflict in Africa / David J. Francis -- African indigenous and endogenous approaches to peace and conflict resolution / Tim Murithi -- Understanding peace in Africa / Isaac O. Albert -- The mainstreaming of conflict analysis in Africa / João Gomes Porto -- Understanding conflict resolution in Africa / Kenneth C. Omeje -- Context of security in Africa / Nana K. Poku -- Peace-building in Africa / Tony Karbo -- Understanding transitional justice in Africa / Jannie Malan -- Democracy and democratization in Africa / Belachew Gebrewold -- Poverty and human security in Africa / M.A. Mohamed Salih -- Africa and globalization / Jim Whitman -- Future of peace and conflict in Africa / David J. Francis.

321.07 S336p 2008
AUT Schindler, D. C.
TIT Plato's critique of impure reason : on goodness and truth in the Republic.
PUB Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2008.

321.09 B329w 2008
AUT Bates, Robert H.
TIT When things fell apart : state failure in late-century Africa.
PUB New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
SER Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
CON Contents: Introduction -- From fable to fact -- Sewing the Seeds -- Political legacies -- Policy choices -- Subnational tensions -- Things fall apart -- Conclusion.

322.1 J93g 2008
AUT Juergensmeyer, Mark.
TIT Global rebellion : religious challenges to the secular state, from Christian militias to al Qaeda.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
SER Comparative studies in religion and society. ; 16.
CON Contents: Introduction: The rise of religious rebellion -- The religious challenge to the secular state -- The loss of faith in secular nationalism -- The competition between two ideologies -- The mutual rejection of religion and secularism -- The front line of religious rebellions : the Middle East -- Egypt's origins of Muslim rebellion -- Iran's paradigmatic revolution -- Israel's militant Zionism -- Hamas : the Islamic intifada -- Insurgents in Iraq -- Other movements in the Middle East and Africa -- Political targets of rebellion : South, Central, and Southeast Asia -- Resurgent Islam in South and Central Asia -- Hindu nationalism -- Sikhism's suppressed war -- Buddhist revolts in Asia -- Religious activists in Southeast Asia -- Post-Cold War rebels : Europe, East Asia, and the United States -- The religious rejections of socialist states -- Christian and secular xenophobia in Europe -- A peaceful resolution in Northern Ireland -- Imagined armaggedon in Japan -- The militant Christian right in the United States -- Transnational networks : global Jihad -- The rise of Jihadi ideology -- Emerging networks in the Afghan-Soviet war -- Global Jihad after September 11, 2001 -- The enduring problems of violence, democracy, and human rights -- Why religious confrontations are violent -- Empowering marginal peoples -- Does religion challenge democracy? -- Minority and individual human rights -- Conclusion: Religious rebellion and global war -- What does religion have to do with it? -- The future of religious rebellions.

322.1096 I82 2007
AUT Soares, Benjamin F ; Otayek, René.
TIT Islam and Muslim politics in Africa. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : Islam and Muslim politics in Africa / Rene Otayek and Benjamin F. Soares -- Between the local and the global. Islam in Mauritania between political expansion and globalization : elites, institutions, knowledge, and networks / Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem -- Global concerns, local realities : Islam and Islamism in a Somali state under construction / Marleen Renders -- Transformations of Islam and communal relations in Wallo, Ethiopia / Jan Abbink -- Aid, umma, and politics : transnational Islamic NGOs in Chad / Mayke kaag -- New religious actors in South Africa : the example of Islamic humanitarianism / Samadia Sadouni -- The question of the state : Muslim reformists and the state in Benin / Denise Bregand -- Perceptions of marginalization : Muslims in contemporary Tanzania / Roman Loimeier -- Kenyan Muslims, the aftermath of 9/11, and the "war on terror" / Rudiger Seesemann -- Politics and Sharia in Northern Nigeria / Sanusi Lamido Sanusi -- Political Islam in Sudan : Islamists and the challenge of state power (1989-2004) / Einas Ahmed -- New ways of being Muslim : Islam in Mali in the neoliberal era / Benjamin F. Soares -- Islamic associations in Cameroon : between the umma and the state / Hamadou Adama -- Negotiating futures : Islam, youth, and the state in Niger / Adeline Masquelier.

323.1197 C819f 2008
AUT Corntassel, Jeff ; Witmer, Richard C.
TIT Forced federalism : contemporary challenges to indigenous nationhood.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.
SER American Indian law and policy series ; v. 3.
CON Contents: Contemporary challenges to indigenous nationhood -- Current social constructions of indigenous peoples -- Managing the politics of perception -- The forced federalism survey -- Negotiating compacts between indigenous nations and states -- Conclusions -- Appendix A. Indigenous nations participating in the forced federalism survey, 1994-2000 -- Appendix B. Gaming compact between the Sisseton-Wahpeto Sioux Tribe and the State of South Dakota, 2000 -- Appendix C. Treaty with the Cherokees, 1785 -- Appendix D. Top twenty indigenous populations by state, 2000 -- Appendix E. interview with Chad "Corntassel" Smith -- Appendix F. Interview with Brad Carson -- Appendix G. Indigenous government survey, 2000.

Ref 323.1197 L434h 2008
AUT Leahy, Todd ; Wilson, Raymond.
TIT Historical dictionary of Native American movements.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.
SER Historical dictionaries of religions, philosophies, and movements ; no. 88.

323.1197 S742r 2008
AUT Speed, Shannon.
TIT Rights in rebellion : indigenous struggle and human rights in Chiapas.
PUB Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Human rights and Chiapas in the neoliberal era -- Global discourses on the local terrain : grounding human rights in Chiapas -- Neither rights nor humans : the vicissitudes of local appropriation -- Dialogisms, or, on being and becoming indigenous in Nicolás Ruiz -- Gendered intersections : collective and individual rights in indigenous women's experience -- Assuming our own own defense : rights, resistance, and the law in the red de defensores comunitarios -- Improving the paths of resistance : the Juntas Buen Gobierno and rights in their exercise -- Rights in rebellion : rethinking resistance in the neoliberal global order.

324.082 F855w 2008
AUT Freeman, Jo.
TIT We will be heard : women's struggles for political power in the United States.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Prologue : the search for political woman -- The Iowa origins of organized Republican women -- "One man, one vote, one woman, one throat" : women in New York City politics, 1890-1910 -- The rise of political woman in the election of 1912 -- All the way for the ERA : winning and losing in Virginia -- The women who ran for president -- Ruth Bryan Owen : Florida's first congresswoman -- Marion Martin of Maine : a mother of Republican women -- Gender gaps in presidential elections -- Feminism and antifeminism in the Republican and Democratic Parties -- Gender representation in the Democratic and Republican Parties -- "Equality" vs. "protection" : setting the agenda after suffrage -- How "sex" got into Title VII : persistent opportunism as a maker of public policy -- Congressional passage of the Equal Rights Amendment -- Comparable worth -- Epilogue: the long road to Madame Speaker.

324.7 M666i 2008
AUT Minow, Newton N. ; LaMay, Craig L.
TIT Inside the presidential debates : their improbable past and promising future.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

324.78 L318s 2008
AUT La Raja, Raymond J.
TIT Small change : money, political parties, and campaign finance reform.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2008.

324.945 S556b 2008
AUT Shin, Michael E. ; Agnew, John A.
TIT Berlusconi's Italy : mapping contemporary Italian politics.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Temple University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Berlusconi's Italy -- The geography of the new bipolarity, 1994-2006 -- Party replacement, Italian style -- The geographical secret to Berlusconi's success -- What went up later came down -- Conclusion.

327.73 H676m 2008
AUT Hixson, Walter L.
TIT The myth of American diplomacy : national identity and U.S. foreign policy.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: The myth of America -- Birth of a nation -- The white man's continent -- Reunite and conquer -- Imperial crisis -- Choosing war -- Wars good and cold -- Militarization and countersubversion -- Neocolonial nightmares -- Patriotic revival -- September 11 and the global crusade -- Conclusion: Toward a new hegemony.

Ref 327.7304 S256h 2009
AUT Saul, Norman E.
TIT Historical dictionary of United States-Russian/Soviet relations.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. diplomacy ; 8.
CON Contents: Editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff -- Acknowledgments -- Readers' notes -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- Appendix 1 : Ministers/Ambassadors from the United States to Russia/Soviet Union -- Appendix 2 : Ministers/Ambassadors from Russia/Soviet Union to the United States -- Selected bibliography -- About the author.

328.73 A287c 2008
AUT Ahuja, Sunil.
TIT Congress behaving badly : the rise of partisanship and incivility and the death of public trust.
PUB Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
CON Contents: The problem of incivility and partisanship -- The Capitol Hill junior high school -- Changing of the guard -- What's behind partisanship and uncivil debate in Congress? -- Whither confidence and respect in the modern Congress? -- The impact of partisan warfare on the legislative process -- Democracy is a conversation.

328.7309 S915b 2009 Popular reading
AUT Street, Paul Louis.
TIT Barack Obama and the future of American politics.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2009.
CON Contents: Obama's "dollar value" -- The other hidden primary -- How "black" is Obama? Color, class, generation, and the perverse racial politics of the post-civil rights era -- How "antiwar"? Obama, Iraq, and the audacity of empire -- Obama nation: sixteen reasons -- Beyond the narrow spectrum: citizens, politicians, change, and the Obama phenomenon.

330.015 Z69c 2008
AUT Ziliak, Stephen Thomas ; McCloskey, Deirdre N.
TIT The cult of statistical significance : how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives.
PUB Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
SER Economics, cognition, and society.
CON Contents: A significant problem -- Dieting "significance" and the case of Vioxx -- The sizeless stare of statistical significance -- What the sizeless scientists say in defense -- Better practice: [beta]-importance vs. [alpha]-"significance" -- A lot can go wrong in the use of significance tests in economics -- A lot did go wrong in the American Economic Review during the 1980s -- Is economic practice improving? -- How big is big in economics? -- What the sizeless stare costs, economically speaking -- How economics stays that way: the textbooks and the referees -- The not-boring rise of significance in psychology -- Psychometrics lacks power -- The psychology of psychological significance testing -- Medicine seeks a magic pill -- Rothman's revolt -- On drugs, disability, and death -- Edgeworth's significance -- "Take 3[sigma] as definitely significant": Pearson's rule -- Who sits on the egg of calculus canorus? Not Karl Pearson -- Gosset: the fable of the bee -- Fisher: the fable of the wasp -- How the wasp stung the bee and took over some sciences -- Eighty years of trained incapacity: how such a thing could happen -- What to do.

330.019 T365n 2008
AUT Thaler, Richard H. ; Sunstein, Cass R.
TIT Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.

330.977 L859c 2008
AUT Longworth, Richard C.
TIT Caught in the middle : America's heartland in the age of globalism. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Bloomsbury ; [New York] : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
CON Contents: Caught in the middle -- The Midwest and the globe -- From rust to bust -- Unplugged -- Mega-farmers -- From hometown to slum -- The new Midwesterners -- New blood for cities -- Global Chicago and other cities -- Left behind -- Flunking out -- Betting the farm -- The blue and the red -- Global Midwest.

332.642 F842w 2008
AUT Fraser, Steve.
TIT Wall Street : America's dream palace.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.
SER [Icons of America].
CON Contents: The Aristocrat -- The confidence man -- The hero -- The Immoralist.

332.645 B724d 2007
AUT Bookstaber, Richard M.
TIT A demon of our own design : markets, hedge funds, and the perils of financial innovation.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction: the paradox of market risk -- The demons of '87 -- A new sheriff in town -- How Salomon rolled the dice and lost -- They bought Salomon, then they killed it -- Long-term capital management rides the leverage cycle to hell -- Colossus -- Complexity, tight coupling, and normal accidents -- The brave new world of hedge funds -- Cockroaches and hedge funds -- Hedge fund existential -- Conclusion : built to crash?.

333.7 O28 2008
TIT OECD environmental outlook to 2030.
PUB Paris : OECD, c2008.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Drivers of environmental change. Consumption, production and technology -- Population dynamics and demographics -- Economic development -- Globalisation -- Urbanisation -- Key variations to the standard expectation to 2030 -- pt. 2. Impacts of environmental change. Climate change -- Air pollution -- Biodiversity -- Freshwater -- Waste and material flows -- Health and environment -- Cost of policy inaction -- pt. 3. Policy responses. Sectoral developments and policies. Agriculture -- Fisheries and aquaculture -- Transport -- Energy -- Chemicals -- Selected industries -- Putting the policies together. Environmental policy packages -- INstitutions and approaches for policy implementation -- Global environmental co-operation.

333.7 S752b 2008
AUT Speth, James Gustave.
TIT The bridge at the edge of the world : capitalism, the environment, and crossing from crisis to sustainability.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Looking into the abyss -- Modern capitalism : out of control -- The limits of today's environmentalism -- The market : making it work for the environment -- Economic growth : moving to a post-growth society -- Real growth : promoting the well-being of people and nature -- Consumption : living with enough, not always more -- The corporation : changing the fundamental dynamics -- Capitalism's core : advancing beyond today's capitalism -- A new consciousness -- A new politics -- The bridge at the edge of the world.

333.7516 R696w 2007
AUT Rodrigues, Gomercindo ; Rabben, Linda.
TIT Walking the forest with Chico Mendes : struggle for justice in the Amazon. - 1st ed.
PUB Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Foreword: In the steps of the rubber tapper / by Marina Silva -- Introduction to the English edition / by Biorn Maybury-Lewis -- I was there! -- A very difficult beginning -- Rubber tappers: a century's struggle -- A genocidal occupation -- "Our victory depends on our organization and discipline" -- A little about my friend Chico Mendes -- An interview with Chico Mendes --Afterword: Chico's dream / by Linda Rabben.

338.47 M149p 2008
AUT McChesney, Robert Waterman.
TIT The political economy of media : enduring issues, emerging dilemmas.
PUB New York : Monthly Review Press, c2008.

338.6048 B261r 2008
AUT Barnett, William P.
TIT The red queen among organizations : how competitiveness evolves.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Why are some organizations more competitive than others? -- Logics of competition -- The red queen -- Empirically modeling the red queen -- Red queen competition among commercial banks -- Red queen competition among computer manufacturers -- The red queen and organizational inertia -- Some implications of red queen competition.

341.584 F663t 2008
AUT Foley, Conor.
TIT The thin blue line : how humanitarianism went to war.
PUB London ; New York : Verso, 2008.
CON Contents: 1. Human rights and humanitarianism -- 2. Humanitarian interventions -- 3. Kosovo -- 4. Afghanistan -- 5. Sri Lanka and Indonesia -- 6. A responsibility to protect -- 7. Justice and peace -- 8. Humanitarian accountability -- Conclusion. The new imperialists?.

342.73 M613L 2008
AUT Meyerson, Michael.
TIT Liberty's blueprint : how Madison and Hamilton wrote the Federalist papers, defined the constitution, and made democracy safe for the world.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2008.
CON Contents: "Testifying the esteem & regard" : an unlikely friendship -- "To cement the union" : sounding the call for a convention -- "Better than nothing" : the drafting of the constitution -- "Establishing good government from reflection and choice" : producing the Federalist -- "The head of a faction decidedly hostile to me" : the disintegration of a relationship -- "The most valuable disquisitions of government" : why and how to read the Federalist -- "The diseases most incident to Republican government" : appreciating Federalist 10 -- "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition": lessons on the separation of powers -- "A double security": lessons on federalism -- "The greatest of all reflections on human nature": lasting lessons.

342.7308 M981r 2008
AUT Murray, Bruce T.
TIT Religious liberty in America : the First Amendment in historical and contemporary perspective.
PUB Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press in association with Foundation for American Communications, c2008.
CON Contents: From revival to religious liberty -- Understanding people of faith -- With "God on our side"? : American civil religion -- Finding the common threads of religious liberty -- Religious liberty in public schools -- Transforming lives and transforming government : faith-based initiatives -- Beyond the "wall of separation" : the Supreme Court and the First Amendment.

342.73085 A511 2009
AUT Engdahl, Sylvia.
TIT Amendment XIV : equal protection.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, c2009.
SER Constitutional amendments : beyond the bill of rights.
CON Contents: Speech in the House of Representatives opposing adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment / Andrew Rogers -- Call for the House of Representatives to vote on the Fourteenth Amendment / Thaddeus Stevens -- Speech in the House of Representatives in praise of the Fourteenth Amendment / Jehu Baker -- New York Times editorial following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment / New York Times -- Speech in the House of Representatives opposing enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment / William S. Holman -- Speech in the House of Representatives opposing enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment / William S. Holman -- Speech in the Senate favoring enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment / Henry Wilson -- The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits laws that are discriminatory in effect / Stanley Matthews -- Racial segregation in public accommodations is not unconstitutional / Henry Billings Brown -- Under the constitution racial segregation cannot be tolerated / John Marshall Harlan -- Racial segregation in public education is unconstitutional / Earl Warren -- Race cannot be used as a basis for school admission, even to achieve diversity / John Roberts -- Affirmative action in school integration does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment / Stephen Breyer -- Laws that discriminate on the basis of gender are unconstitutional / Warren Burger -- Children of illegal immigrants are entitled to free schooling / William J. Brennan -- Congress, not the courts, is responsible for policies regarding illegal immigrants / Warren Burger -- Laws that discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation are unconstitutional / Anthony Kennedy -- The constitution does not require preferential treatment for gays / Antonin Scalia -- The Supreme Court's rulings on equal protection have been inconsistent / Geoffrey R. Stone -- Banning of same-sex marriage will someday be ruled unconstitutional / Kermit Roosevelt -- A constitutional amendment should be adopted to ban same-sex marriage / Richard Land -- The federal hate crimes bill would violate the concept of equal protection / Robert H. Knight -- Hate-crime laws are necessary because not all citizens are yet equal / Mel Seezholtz -- A woman is entitled to equal protection when she did not consent to pregnancy / Eileen McDonagh -- An unborn child is entitled to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment / Charles I. Lugosi.

342.73087 K59f 2008
AUT Kirkland, Anna Rutherford.
TIT Fat rights : dilemmas of difference and personhood.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: The challenge of difference -- Imagining legal protections for fatness -- Shifting the blame -- Balancing functional individuals and embedded selves -- Governing risk : medicalization and normalization -- Accomodating fatness -- Conclusion: What is worth wanting in American antidiscrimination law?.

347.731 B955f 2008
AUT Burgess, Susan.
TIT The founding fathers, pop culture, and constitutional law : who's your daddy.
PUB Aldershot, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2008.
SER Law, justice, and power.
CON Contents: A fine romance : judicial restraint as a romance novel -- Who's your daddy? : judicial activism as a soap opera -- Space aliens save country from ruin? : critical race theory as tabloid science fiction -- Did the Supreme Court come out in Bush v. Gore? : the instability of judicial identity -- The drama of contemporary constitutional discourse : Lawrence v. Texas as a makeover of Bowers v. Hardwick.

347.7326 M145L 2008
AUT McGinty, Brian.
TIT Lincoln and the Court.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: A solemn oath -- Dred Scott -- First blood -- Judges and circuits -- The prizes -- The boom of Cannon -- The old lion -- A new chief -- A law for rulers and people -- The union is unbroken -- History in marble -- The legacy.

Ref 355.03 R575h 2009
AUT Rimanelli, Marco.
TIT Historical dictionary of NATO and other international security organizations.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
SER Historical dictionaries of international organizations series ; 27.
CON Contents: Editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff -- Forward / Robert E. Hunter, U.S. Ambassador to MATO (1993-1998) -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- -- Maps and charts -- Photos of NATO Secretaries-General -- Photos of NATO Supreme Allied Commanders-Europe (SACEURs) -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- Appendixes -- I: NATO's Secretaries-General -- II: Supreme Allied Commanders-Europe (SACEURs) -- III: NATO Committees -- IV: The North Atlantic Treaty -- Bibliography -- About the author.

361.1 S741c 2001
AUT Spector, Malcolm ; Kitsuse, John I.
TIT Constructing social problems.
PUB New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2001.

362.293 S358s 2008
AUT Schneider, Eric C.
TIT Smack : heroin and the American city.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.
SER Politics and culture in modern America.
CON Contents: New York and the global market -- Jazz joints and junk -- The plague -- The panic over adolescent heroin use -- Ethnicity and the market -- The rising tide -- Dealing with dope -- Heroin suburbanizes -- The war and the war at home -- From the Golden Spike to the Glass Pipe -- Heroin markets redux.

362.88 B774r 2007
AUT Bourke, Joanna.
TIT Rape : sex, violence, history.
PUB [Emeryville, Calif.] : Shoemaker & Hoard : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Sexed bodies -- Rape myths -- 'No' means 'Yes' -- Rapacious bodies -- Brutalizing environments -- The knife (and other invasive therapies) -- The couch (and other interior therapies) -- Female perpetrators, male victims -- Exhibitionists -- Sexual psychopaths -- The home -- The prison -- The military -- Getting away with rape -- Violence, politics, erotics.

363.9 C752f 2008
AUT Connelly, Matthew James.
TIT Fatal misconception : the struggle to control world population.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

364.106 G558m 2008
AUT Glenny, Misha.
TIT McMafia : a journey through the global criminal underworld. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Knopf Books, 2008.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The fall of communism. -- Death of an American -- Bloody lucre -- The Mafiya: midwives of capitalism -- Spreading the word -- pt. 2. Gold, money, diamonds, and banks. -- Aliyah -- Xanadu I -- Xanadu II -- The theater of crime -- Black and white -- pt. 3. Drugs and cybercrime. -- Buddies -- March of fear -- Code orange -- pt. 4. The future of organized crime. -- The overunderworld -- The future of organized crime.

364.106 V677p 2007
AUT Vigil, James Diego.
TIT The projects : gang and non-gang families in East Los Angeles. - 1st ed.
PUB Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Introduction -- Rationale and methods -- A history of the Cuatro Flats barrio gang -- The gang subculture: change and continuity -- The Pico Gardens clique -- A gang life -- Cholas in the world of gangs -- Why children either avoid or affiliate with gangs -- Families not involved with gangs -- A closer look at gang-affiliated families -- Gang prevention and intervention strategies over time -- Conclusion and recommendations.

364.151 K93f 2008
AUT Kroslak, Daniela.
TIT The French betrayal of Rwanda.
PUB Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The Rwandan genocide and French responsibility -- What led to the genocide: a historical background -- The complexity of French policy in Africa -- Preparing for the unimaginable: what the French knew -- The chapitre noir of French African policy -- Prevention possible? -- 'We know but we won't tell' -- Too little too late -- What the French could have done -- Facing responsibility -- Appendix 1: Chronology -- Appendix 2: Genocide Convention.

364.1523 A211w 2007
AUT Adams, David, Ed. D.
TIT Why do they kill? : men who murder their intimate partners. - 1st ed.
PUB Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Men who kill their partners -- Recognizing abusive men -- Killer profiles -- The killers' upbringings -- Short courtships -- Child abuse -- Patterns of possession and punishment -- Victim help-seeking -- Conclusions and recommendations.

364.2 S143p 2008
AUT St. Jean, Peter K. B.
TIT Pockets of crime : broken windows, collective efficacy, and the criminal point of view.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction and overview -- Explaining crime hotspots : overview and extensions of broken windows and collective efficacy theories -- Here's the neighborhood : a video ethnographic tour of Grand Boulevard, 2000 -- Perceived sources of neighborhood disorder -- Where's the dope at? : the need to understand drug dealing from the ground up -- "I want it, I see it, I take it" : the robbery hotspots -- "That's the way we grew up" : the battery hotspots -- What this all means : summary, conclusions, and implications -- Appendix A: Methodological appendix -- Appendix B: Recent trends in research on broken windows -- Appendix C: Recent trends in research on collective efficacy.

364.36 M169L 2008
AUT McNamara, Robert Hartmann.
TIT The lost population : status offenders in America.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2008.
CON Contents: 1. The lost populations : status offenders in America -- Adolescence in the new millenium -- The history of status offenders -- Amendments to JJDPA -- The problems of treating status offenders as delinquents -- Bootstrapping -- Hidden delinquency -- Problems studying status offenders today -- Age -- Gender and race -- Adjudication -- Detention -- The variability of treating status offending -- The debate over status offenders : what to do with them? -- References -- 2. Shadow kids : runaways in the U.S. -- Definition of runaways, throwaways, and homeless youth -- A typology of runaways -- Problems in studying runaways and homeless youth -- Survival strategies : crime and sex work -- Psychological effects of runaway behavior -- Domestic violence -- Social isolation -- Runaways, foster care, and incarceration -- Why runaways leave home -- Family problems -- Economic problems -- Residential instability -- Programs for runaway, throwaway and homeless youth -- Summary -- References -- 3. Truancy -- Truancy and the criminal justice system -- Causes of truancy -- School configuration -- Personal and developmental issues -- Family issues -- Neighborhood and community factors -- The costs of truancy -- Strategies that work to reduce truancy -- Innovative ways to combat truancy -- South Carolina courts and truancy -- Delaware and truancy -- Summary -- References -- 4. Incorrigibility and curfew violations -- Historical roots of incorrigibility -- Incorrigibility and the juvenile justice system -- Curfew violations -- Historical roots of curfews -- The debate about juvenile curfews -- Proponents of curfews -- Opponents of curfews -- The weight of the empirical evidence on juvenile curfews -- The legality of curfews -- Parental responsibility and curfews -- Summary -- References -- 5. Underage drinking -- The role of the media in underage drinking -- A key element to underage drinking : parental involvement -- The impact of underage alcohol use -- Academic achievement -- Physical health issues -- Sexual behavior -- Psychological effects -- Auto accidents -- Legal variability in underage drinking laws -- Prevention and treatment on underage drinking -- Macro-level community efforts -- Micro-level efforts -- Summary -- References -- 6. Teen smoking -- Evidence of underage smoking -- The connection of tobacco use and other drugs -- The composition of a cigarette -- The effects of smoking -- Long-term effects -- The issue of secondhand smoke -- Why teens smoke -- Programs to prevent teen smoking -- American Lung Association's Not On Tobacco program -- Have media campaigns reduced teen smoking? -- Do programs really work? -- What about smoker's rights? -- Summary -- References -- 7. The future of status offenders and delinquents.

364.3609 T784 2008
AUT Hoge, Robert D. ; Guerra, Nancy ; Boxer, Paul.
TIT Treating the juvenile offender.
PUB New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
CON Contents: A portrait of juvenile offending in the United States / Kirk R. Williams, Louis Tuthill, and Shoon Lio -- Theoretical and research advances in understanding the causes of juvenile offending / Nancy G. Guerra... [et al.] -- Assessment in juvenile justice systems / Robert D. Hoge -- What works : best practices with juvenile offenders / Nancy G. Guerra, Tia E. Kim, and Paul Boxer -- Implementing treatment programs in community and institutional settings / Nancy G. Guerra and Caren Leaf -- How policy affects practice in the treatment of juvenile offenders : the California experience / Elizabeth Siggins and Amy Seidlitz -- Treatment of violent offenders / Paul Boxer and Paul J. Frick -- Treating gang-involved offenders / Robert Nash Parker... [et al.] -- Juvenile sexual offending : an evidence-based approach to assessment and intervention / Gary O'Reilly and Clodagh Ann Dowling -- Mental health, substance abuse, and trauma / Bonita M. Veysey -- Juvenile offenders with special education needs / Carolyn Eggleston -- The female juvenile offender / Robert D. Hoge and Lynda Robertson.

364.67 T712 2008
AUT Hunsinger, George.
TIT Torture is a moral issue : Christians, Jews, Muslims, and people of conscience speak out.
PUB Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: Getting away with torture / Kenneth Roth -- A survivor's view of torture / Dianna Ortiz -- Confessions of a torturer / Tony Lagouranis as told to John Conroy -- Military concerns about torture: honor, professionalism, morale / Adm. John Hutson, Gen. Richard O'Meara -- Beyond numbness: a personal meditation / Marilyn McEntyre -- Torture is the ticking time bomb: why the necessity defense fails / George Hunsinger -- Six reasons why torture is always wrong / David P. Gushee -- Torture and eucharist: a regretful update / William T. Cavanaugh -- My enemy, myself: a sermon / Fleming Rutledge -- Torture and Torah: defense of dignity and life in Jewish law / Melissa Weintraub -- Developing a Jewish theology regarding torture / Edward Feld -- These things I remember as I pour out my heart: a sermon for Kol Nidre 5766 Ellen Lippmann -- What we pray for: principles of faith / Rabbis for Human Rights -- Stopping oppression: an Islamic obligation / Ingrid Mattson -- Of torture and abuse / Taha Jabir Alalwani -- A call for dialogue: a sermon / Yahya Hendi -- Fatwa against religious extremism / Fiqh Council of North America -- Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (1981) / Islamic Council of London -- Islam and human rights today / Ann Elizabeth Mayer -- William Wilberforce: progenitor of the global human rights movement / Scott Horton -- What terrorists want: an overview / Louise Richardson -- Speaking truth to the not so powerful / Carol Wickersham -- How to end torture / George Hunsinger -- Afterword: Torture always comes home: an interview with Darius Rejali / Scott Horton -- Appendix 1: Torture is a moral issue: a statement of conscience by the National Religious Campaign against Torture -- Appendix 2: Statement on interrogation practices.

368.4 S628s 2008
AUT Skidmore, Max J.
TIT Securing America's future : a bold plan to preserve and expand social security.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The forgotten piece of national security : Franklin D. Roosevelt's economic bill of rights -- Misinformation about social security : it ain't what people don't know-- -- The gospel of wealth : amid acres of diamonds -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan and its enemies emerge -- From Miss Fuller's first check -- Frightening facts or persistent politics? -- A new plan that truly would improve social security -- The enemies regroup : rallying 'round Reagan -- Presidential attitudes toward social security : "only desperate men with their backs to the wall" -- The special problem of health care : the fortunes to be made -- Some final words to sum it all up -- Appendix A: Text of recording of "Operation coffeecup" -- Appendix B: Internet nonsense about social security -- Appendix C: Social security and Ponzi schemes.

371.0028 Z94t 2008
AUT Zucker, Andrew A.
TIT Transforming schools with technology : how smart use of digital tools helps achieve six key education goals.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Educational technology -- Key education goals -- Increasing student achievement (Goal 1) -- Making schools more engaging and relevant (Goal 2) -- Providing a high-quality education for all students (Goal 3) -- Attracting, preparing and retaining high-quality teachers (Goal 4) -- Increasing support for children outside school (Goal 5) -- Requiring accountability for results (Goal 6) -- Educational technology innovation -- Transforming schools.

371.1024 D438w 2008
AUT Derrington, Chris ; Goddard, Hilary.
TIT 'Whole-brain' behaviour management in the classroom : every piece of the puzzle.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
CON Contents: Opening the box -- Laying the pieces out -- Sorting and grouping -- Identifying the boundaries -- Seeing the whole picture -- Grouping the yellow : psychology -- Grouping the blue : knowledge -- Grouping the grey : organisation -- Grouping the green : communication -- Grouping the lilac : emotional literacy -- Grouping the pink : self-efficacy -- The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

371.26 N662c 2007
AUT Nichols, Sharon Lynn ; Berliner, David C.
TIT Collateral damage : how high-stakes testing corrupts America's schools.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, c2007.
CON Contents: A short history of high-stakes testing -- The prevalence and many forms of cheating -- Excluding students from education by design and by neglect -- States cheat too! -- What happens to validity when indicators are distorted and corrupted -- How high-stakes testing undermines public education and the teaching profession -- We conclude that high-stakes testing provides perfect conditions for Campbell's Law to operate.

371.334 W555 2007
AUT Cavanaugh, Cathy ; Blomeyer, Robert L.
TIT What works in K-12 online learning. - 1st ed.
PUB Eugene, Or. : International Society for Technology in Education, c2007.
CON Contents: Foreword / Susan Patrick -- The landscape of K-12 online learning / Cathy Cavanaugh and Tom Clark -- Developing quality virtual courses: selecting instructional models / Sharon Johnston -- Integrating online learning into elementary classrooms / Jace Hargis and Kathleen Schofield -- Teaching and learning literacy and language arts online / Richard E. Ferdig -- Teaching and learning mathematics online: how Florida virtual school builds community through established practices / Shelli Reeves, Matthew Vangalis, Laura Vevera, Vicki Jensen, and Kathy Jo Gillan -- Teaching and learning social studies online / Aaron Doering, Joan E. Hughes, and Cassandra Scharber -- Teaching and learning physical education online / Jennifer Kane and Jo Wagner -- Exceptional learners: differentiated instruction online / Christy G. Keeler, Jonathon Richter, Lynne Anderson-Inman, Mark A. Horney, and Mary Ditson -- Online discussions / Raymond Rose and Alese Smith -- Professional development for online teachers / Susan Lowes -- K-12 online learning: sustainability, success, and sensibility / Rosina Smith.

371.914 S933 2007
AUT Hargreaves, Sandra.
TIT Study skills for dyslexic students.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2007.
SER Sage study skills.
CON Contents: Managing your workload -- Understanding your preferred learning style -- Note taking and making -- Reading strategies and speed reading -- Answering essay questions -- Structuring different writing genres -- Improving your grammar, spelling and punctuation -- Improving mathematics skills and using statistics -- Examination techniques -- Using role play -- How ICT can help you.

Curr 372.1384 B864s 2007
AUT Broda, Herbert W.
TIT Schoolyard-enhanced learning : using the outdoors as an instructional tool, K-8.
PUB Portland, Me. : Stenhouse Publishers, c2007.
CON Contents: Schoolyard-enhanced learning : a change of pace and place -- Making the school grounds an outdoor classroom -- Taking your class outside : the nuts and bolts -- Schoolyard enhanced learning : developing process skills -- Teaching content area concepts outdoors -- Beyond the schoolyard.

378.111 M382r 2008
AUT Martin, Roger H.
TIT Racing Odysseus : a college president becomes a freshman again.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.

378.121 O58a 2008
AUT O'Neil, Robert M.
TIT Academic freedom in the wired world : political extremism, corporate power, and the university.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Discovering academic freedom -- Protecting academic freedom -- The Constitution and the courts -- Academic freedom in times of crisis -- The rights of academic researchers -- Intersections of academic and artistic freedom -- New technologies : academic freedom in cyberspace -- Whose academic freedom? -- Bias, balance, and beyond : new threats to academic freedom -- Academic freedom in perspective.

378.122 S464a 2009
AUT Seldin, Peter ; Miller, J. Elizabeth.
TIT The academic portfolio : a practical guide to documenting teaching, research, and service. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
SER Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
CON Contents: The academic portfolio concept -- Choosing items for the academic portfolio -- Preparing the portfolio -- Suggestions for improving the portfolio -- Evaluating the portfolio for personnel decisions -- Answers to common questions -- Sample portfolios from across disciplines.

378.125 D261t2 2009
AUT Davis, Barbara Gross.
TIT Tools for teaching. - 2nd ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
SER The Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.

378.194 A168G2 2008
AUT Gordon, Virginia N ; Habley, Wesley R ; Grites, Thomas J.
TIT Academic advising : a comprehensive handbook. - 2nd ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
CON Contents: Historical foundations of academic advising / Terry L. Kuhn -- Theoretical foundations of academic advising / Peter L. Hagen, Peggy Jordan -- Ethical foundations of academic advising / Marc Lowenstein -- Legal foundations of academic advising / Mary M. Richard -- Advising for student success / George D. Kuh -- Advising as teaching and learning / Drew C. Appleby -- Advising for career and life planning / Paul A. Gore, A.J. Metz -- The changing college student / Kirsten Kennedy, Jennifer Crissman Ishler -- Moving into college / Mary Stuart Hunter, Leah Kendall -- Moving through college / George E. Steele, Melinda L. McDonald -- Moving on from college / Jennifer Bloom -- Students with specific advising needs / Blane Harding -- Advising students of color and international students / Evette Castillo Clark, Jane Kalionzes -- Vision, mission, goals, and program objectives for academic advising programs / Susan M. Campbell -- Organization of academic advising services / Margaret C. King -- Advising delivery : faculty advising / Martha K. Hemwall -- Advising delivery : professional advisors, counselors, and other staff / Casey Self -- Advising delivery : group strategies / Nancy S. King -- Advising delivery : using technology / Michael J. Leonard.
CON Contents: Critical concepts in advisor training and development / Thomas Brown -- Tools and resources for advisors / Pat Folsom -- Delivering one-to-one advising : skills and competencies / Rusty Fox -- Assessing student learning / John H. Schuh -- Assessing advisor effectiveness / Joe Cuseo -- Assessing the effectiveness of the advising program / Wendy G. Troxel -- Recognition and reward for academic advising in theory and in practice / Jayne K. Drake -- Campus administrator perspectives on advising / James E. Bultman, Faye N. Vowell, Jocelyn Y. Harney, John Smarrelli with Susan Ames -- Advising administrator perspectives on advising / Kathy J. Davis, Dick Vallandingham, Philip D. Christman -- Perspectives on the future of academic advising / Thomas J. Grites, Virginia N. Gordon, Wesley R. Habley.

378.198 A178 2005
AUT Barefoot, Betsy O.
TIT Achieving and sustaining institutional excellence for the first year of college. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2005.
SER Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
CON Contents: On being named an institution of excellence in the first college year : the process and the places -- Research methods -- The Community College of Denver : a second family for the first-year student / Marc Cutright, Randy L. Swing -- LaGuardia Community College : a window on the world / Betsy O. Barefoot, Michael J. Siegel -- The first year at Eckerd College : responsible innovation / Stephen W. Schwartz, Michael J. Siegel -- Kalamazoo College : no stone left unturned / Stephen W. Schwartz, Randy L. Swing -- Drury University : balancing intellectual rigor with intrusive personal support in the first year / Charles C. Schroeder, Randy L. Swing -- Elon University : transforming education through a community of inquiry and engagement / Libby V. Morris, Randy L. Swing -- West Point and the plebe-year experience : the long gray line / Michael J. Siegel, John N. Gardner -- Lehman College of the City University of New York : excellence in the Bronx / John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot -- The first year at Texas A&M University--Corpus Christi : starting with a clean slate / Michael J. Siegel, Marc Cutright -- Appalachian State University : high standards for the first year in North Carolina's high country / John N. Gardner, Betsy O. Barefoot -- The story of Ball State University : "everything students need" / Randy L. Swing, Marc Cutright -- Indiana University--Purdue University, Indianapolis : success and the city / Marc Cutright, Michael J. Siegel -- University of South Carolina : creator and standard-bearer for the first-year experience / Libby V. Morris, Marc Cutright -- Findings and recommendations.

378.198 H857m2 2007
AUT Howe, Neil ; Strauss, William.
TIT Millennials go to college : strategies for a new generation on campus : recruiting and admissions, campus life, and the classroom. - 2nd ed.
PUB [Great Falls, Va.] : LifeCourse Associates, c2007.
CON Contents: 1. A new generation goes to college -- Part I. Who they are : 2. Meet the millennials -- 3. Life before college -- 4. Millennials by the numbers -- 5. Seven core traits -- Part II. What to do : 6. Special -- 7. Sheltered -- 8. Confident -- 9. Team-oriented -- 10. Conventional -- 11. Pressured -- 12. Achieving -- Part III. What comes next : 13. From boom to X: the parent transition -- 14. Graduation and beyond -- 15. The next great collegiate generation.

378.198 P278h 2005
AUT Pascarella, Ernest T ; Terenzini, Patrick T.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2005.
CON Contents: Studying college outcomes in the 1990s : overview and organization of the research -- Theories and models of student change in college -- Development of verbal, quantitative, and subject matter competence -- Cognitive skills and intellectual growth -- Psychosocial change -- Attitudes and values -- Moral development -- Educational attainment and persistence -- Career and economic impacts of college -- Quality of life after college -- How college affects students : a summary -- Implications for research, practice, and policy.

378.199 D537d3 2008
AUT Diamond, Robert M.
TIT Designing and assessing courses and curricula : a practical guide. - 3rd ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, c2008.
CON Contents: A learning-centered approach to course and curriculum design -- The expanding role of faculty in accreditation and accountability -- Staying informed -- Scholarship and faculty rewards -- An introduction to the model and its benefits -- Diagramming -- Making the decision to go ahead -- Getting started -- Linking goals, courses, and curricula -- Gathering and analyzing essential data -- Thinking in the ideal -- Adjusting from the ideal to the possible -- Clarifying instructional goals and learning outcomes -- Designing and implementing your assessment plan: overview and assessing a curriculum -- Designing and implementing your assessment plan: assessing a course -- Designing the learning experience: the research on teaching and learning -- Designing the learning experience: your instructional options -- Using technology to support learning -- Distance learning -- Meeting the needs of adult learners -- Addressing diversity -- Developing a learning-centered syllabus -- Using your data: curriculum and course revision -- Learning from experience.

378.35 B825 2008
AUT Braun, Sebastian.
TIT Buffalo Inc. : American Indians and economic development.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Cheyenne River -- The reservation -- The idea of buffalo cooperatives -- Bison management -- Pte Hca Ka, Inc. -- Reservation identities -- Pte Hca Ka, Inc. : expansion -- Honors and visions -- Buffalo ranching -- Pte Hca Ka, Inc. : reorganization -- Culture and sustainable development -- Culture, ecology, and economics -- Sovereignty, land, and development on Cheyenne River -- Making sense.

379.263 L418 2009
AUT Robinson, Mildred Wigfall ; Bonnie, Richard J.
TIT Law touched our hearts : a generation remembers Brown v. Board of Education.
PUB Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, c2009.

379.73 O12 2009
AUT Obama, Barack.
TIT The Obama education plan : an education week guide. - 1st ed.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2009.
SER Education week & editorial projects in education.

381.41 F686 2009
AUT Belasco, Warren James ; Horowitz, Roger.
TIT Food chains : from farmyard to shopping cart.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
SER Hagley perspectives on business and culture.

384.54 F654r 2008
AUT Foege, Alec.
TIT Right of the dial : the rise of clear channel and the fall of commercial radio. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Faber and Faber, 2008.
CON Contents: The controversy -- The birth of modern radio, Texas style -- Clear Channel's beginnings -- War stories -- Anarchy on the airwaves -- A brilliant idea -- Success (the new radio universe) -- Billboards and beyond -- Mergers that transformed Clear Channel -- The world's biggest radio company -- Concerts -- The backlash -- Clear Channel goes to Washington -- Payola -- Online, or on the decline? -- Tuning out.

391.00951 F514c 2008
AUT Finnane, Antonia.
TIT Changing clothes in China : fashion, history, nation.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: fashion, history, nation -- Ways of seeing -- Fashions in late imperial China -- Soldiers and citizens -- The fashion industry in Shanghai -- Qipao China -- Her brother's clothes -- The new look in the new China -- Dressed to kill in the Cultural Revolution -- Breaking with the past -- Conclusion: fashion, history, time.

394.12 E22e 2008
AUT Eden, Trudy.
TIT The early American table : food and society in the new world.
PUB DeKalb, Ill. : Northern Illinois University Press, c2008.

394.9 T782d 2008
AUT Travis-Henikoff, Carole A.
TIT Dinner with a cannibal : the complete history of mankind's oldest taboo.
PUB Santa Monica, Calif. : Santa Monica Press, c2008.

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418.02089 S458f 2006
AUT Seidman, Naomi.
TIT Faithful renderings : Jewish-Christian difference and the politics of translation.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
SER Afterlives of the Bible.
CON Contents: The translator as double agent -- Immaculate translation : sexual fidelity, textual transmission, and the virgin birth -- "The beauty of Greece in the tents of Shem" : Aquila between the camps -- False friends : conversion and translation from Jerome to Luther -- A translator culture -- The Holocaust in every tongue -- Translation and assimilation : Singer in America -- Endecktes Judenthum? : a translator's note.

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500 O98 2008
AUT Dawkins, Richard.
TIT The Oxford book of modern science writing.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: James Jeans, from The mysterious universe -- Martin Rees, from Just six numbers -- Peter Atkins, from Creation revisited -- Helena Cronin, from The ant and the peacock -- R.A. Fisher, from The genetical theory of natural selection -- Theodosius Dobzhansky, from Mankind evolving -- G.C. Williams, from Adaptation and natural selection -- Francis Crick, from Life itself -- Matt Ridley, from Genome -- 'Theoretical biology in the third millennium' / Sydney Brenner -- Steve Jones, from The language of the genes -- J.B.S. Haldane, from 'On being the right size' -- Mark Ridley, from The explanation of organic diversity -- 'The importance of the nervous system in the evolution of animal flight' / John Maynard Smith -- Fred Hoyle, from Man in the universe -- D'Arcy Thompson, from On growth and form -- G.G. Simpson, from The meaning of evolution -- Richard Fortey, from Trilobite! -- Colin Blakemore, from The mind machine -- Richard Gregory, from Mirrors in mind -- 'One self : a meditation on the unity of consciousness' / Nicholas Humphrey -- Steven Pinker, from The language instinct, and How the mind works -- Jared Diamond, from The rise and fall of the third chimpanzee -- David Lack, from The life of the robin -- Niko Tinbergen, from Curious naturalists -- Robert Trivers, from Social evolution -- Alister Hardy, from The open sea -- Rachel Carson, from The sea around us -- Loren Eiseley, from 'How flowers changed the world' -- Edward O. Wilson, from The diversity of life -- Arthur Eddington, from The expanding universe -- C.P. Snow, from the foreword to G.H. Hardy's A mathematician's apology -- Freeman Dyson, from Disturbing the universe -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, from 'War and the nations' -- 'A passion for crystals' / Max F. Perutz -- 'Said Ryle to Hoyle' / Barbara and George Gamow -- 'Cancer's a funny thing' / J.B.S. Haldane -- Jacob Bronowski, from The identity of man -- Peter Medawar, from 'Science and literature', 'Darwin's illness', 'The phenomenon of man', the postscript to 'Lucky Jim', and 'D'Arcy Thompson and growth and form' -- Jonathan Kingdon, from Self-made man -- Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin, from Origins reconsidered -- Donald C. Johanson and Maitland A. Edey, from Lucy -- 'Worm for a century, and all seasons' / Stephen Jay Gould -- John Tyler Bonner, from Life cycles -- Oliver Sacks, from Uncle Tungsten -- 'Seven wonders' / Lewis Thomas -- James Watson, from Avoid boring people -- Francis Crick, from What mad pursuit -- Lewis Wolpert, from The unnatural nature of science -- Julian Huxley, from Essays of a biologist -- 'Religion and science' / Albert Einstein -- Carl Sagan, from The demon-haunted world -- Richard Feynman, from The character of physical law -- Erwin Schrödinger, from What is life? -- Daniel Dennett, from Darwin's dangerous idea, and Consciousness explained -- Ernst Mayr, from The growth of biological thought -- Garrett Hardin, from 'The tragedy of the commons' -- W.D. Hamilton, from Geometry for the selfish herd, and Narr...

510.71 K17o 2007
AUT Kaplan, Robert.
TIT Out of the labyrinth : setting mathematics free.
PUB Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

511.3 B499i 2008
AUT Bergmann, Merrie.
TIT An introduction to many-valued and fuzzy logic : semantics, algebras, and derivation systems.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Review of classical propositional logic -- Review of classical first-order logic -- Alternative semantics for truth-values and truth-functions : numeric truth-values and abstract algebras -- Three-valued propositional logics : semantics -- Derivation systems for three-valued propositional logic -- Three-valued first-order logics : semantics -- Derivation systems for three-valued first-order logics -- Alternative semantics for three-valued logic -- The principle of charity reconsidered and a new problem of the fringe -- Fuzzy propositional logics : semantics -- Fuzzy algebras -- Derivation systems for fuzzy propositional logics -- Fuzzy first-order logics : semantics -- Derivation systems for fuzzy first-order logics -- Extensions of fuzziness -- Fuzzy membership functions.

519.2 M685d 2008
AUT Mlodinow, Leonard.
TIT The drunkard's walk : how randomness rules our lives. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Pantheon Books, c2008.
CON Contents: Peering through the eyepiece of randomness : the hidden role of chance : when human beings can be outperformed by a rat -- The laws of truths and half-truths : the basic principles of probability and how they are abused : why a good story is often less likely to be true than a flimsy explanation -- Finding your way through a space of possibilities : a framework for thinking about random situations : from a gambler in plague-ridden Italy to Let's Make a Deal -- Tracking the pathways to success : how to count the number of ways in which events can happen, and why it matters : the mathematical meaning of expectation -- The dueling laws of large and small numbers : the extent to which probabilities are reflected in the results we observe : Zeno's paradox, the concept of limits, and beating the casino at roulette -- False positives and positive fallacies : how to adjust expectations in light of past events or new knowledge : mistakes in conditional probability from medical screening to the O.J. Simpson trial and the prosecutor's fallacy -- Measurement and the law of errors : the meaning and lack of meaning in measurements : the bell curve and wine ratings, political polls, grades, and the position of planets -- The order in chaos : how large numbers can wash out the disorder of randomness : or why 200,000,000 drivers form a creature of habit -- Illusions of patterns and patterns of illusion : why we are often fooled by the regularities in chance events : can a million consecutive zeroes or the success of Wall Street gurus be random? -- The drunkard's walk : why chance is a more fundamental conception than causality : Bruce Willis, Bill Gates, and the normal accident theory of life.

519.5 T834e10m 2008
AUT Triola, Mario F.
TIT Elementary statistics with multimedia study guide. - 10th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Pearson Addison Wesley, c2008.

530 A534p 2008
AUT Anastopoulos, Charis.
TIT Particle or wave : the evolution of the concept of matter in modern physics.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.

530 K13p 2008
AUT Kaku, Michio.
TIT Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Doubleday, c2008.
CON Contents: Force fields -- Invisibility -- Phasers and death stars -- Teleportation -- Telepathy -- Psychokinesis -- Robots -- Extraterrestrials and UFOs -- Starships -- Antimatter and anti-universes -- Faster than light -- Time travel -- Parallel universes -- Perpetual motion machines -- Precognition -- Epilogue: The future of the impossible.

530.092 E35 2008
AUT Galison, Peter ; Holton, Gerald James ; Schweber, S. S.
TIT Einstein for the 21st century : his legacy in science, art, and modern culture.
PUB Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Who was Einstein? Why is he still so alive? / Gerald Holton -- A short history of Einstein's paradise beyond the personal / Lorraine Daston -- Einstein's Jewish identity / Hanoch Gutfreund -- Einstein and God / Yehuda Elkana -- Einstein's unintended legacy : the critique of common-sense realism and post-modern politics / Yaron Ezrahi -- Subversive Einstein / Susan Neiman -- Einstein and nuclear weapons / Silvan S. Schweber -- EInstein and 20th-century art : a romance of many dimensions / Linda Dalrymple Henderson -- Rendering time / Caroline A. Jones -- Into the bleed : Einstein and 21st-century art / Matthew Ritchie -- Einstein and music / Leon Botstein -- Seeing the unseen / E.L. Doctorow -- The assassin of relativity / Peter L. Galison -- Space, time, and geometry : Einstein and logical empiricism / Michael L. Friedman -- Einstein as a student / Dudley Herschbach -- Learning from Einstein : innovation in science / Jürgen Renn -- Einstein and [h with crossbar, lowercase] : advances in quantum mechanics / Jürg Fröhlich -- Einstein's unknown contribution to quantum theory / A. Douglas Stone -- Einstein and the quest for a unified theory / David Gross -- Energy in Einstein's universe / Lisa Randall.

546 B187i 2002
AUT Ball, Philip.
TIT The ingredients : a guided tour of the elements.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Ref 550.3 D544A3 2008
AUT Allaby, Michael.
TIT A dictionary of earth sciences. - 3rd ed. / edited by Michael Allaby.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Oxford paperback reference.

560.97 N964f 2008
AUT Nudds, John R ; Selden, Paul.
TIT Fossil ecosystems of North America : a guide to the sites and their extraordinary biotas.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The gunflint chert -- Mistaken point -- The burgess shale -- Beecher's trilobite bed -- The Bertie waterlime -- Gilboa -- Mazon creek -- The Chinle group -- The Morrison formation -- The Hell Creek formation -- The Green River formation -- Florissant -- Dominican amber -- Rancho la Brea -- Appendix : museums and site visits.

Ref 572.03 W676 2009 v.1-4
TIT Wiley encyclopedia of chemical biology.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.

Ref 574.03 D554O6 2008
AUT Martin, E. A. ; Hine, Robert.
TIT A dictionary of biology. - 6th ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Oxford paperback reference.

576.509 S399i 2008
AUT Schwartz, James.
TIT In pursuit of the gene : from Darwin to DNA.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Viva pangenesis -- Reversion to the mean -- Galton's disciples -- Pangenes -- Mendel -- Rediscovery -- Mendel wars -- Cell biology -- Sex chromosomes -- The fly room -- Oenothera reconsidered -- X-rays -- Triumph of the modern gene.

576.8 D311 2008
AUT Conway Morris, S.
TIT The deep structure of biology : is convergence sufficiently ubiquitous to give a directional signal?.
PUB West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Foundation Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Chance and necessity in evolution / Richard E. Lenski -- Convergent evolution : a periodic table of life? / George McGhee -- Life's evolutionary history : is it determinate or indeterminate? / Karl J. Niklas -- Evolution and convergence : some wider considerations / Simon Conway Morris -- Aspects of plant intelligence : convergence and evolution / Anthony Trewavas -- Convergent evolution, serendipity, and intelligence ofr the simple minded / Nigel R. Franks -- Canny corvids and political primates : a case for convergent evolution in intelligence / Nicola S. Clayton and Nathan J. Emery -- Social and cultural evolution in the ocean : convergences and contrasts with terrestrial systems / Hal Whitehead -- The illusion of purpose in evolution : a human evolutionary perspective / Robert A. Foley -- Purpose in a Darwinian world / Michael Ruse -- Plumbing the depths : a recovery of natural law and natural wisdom in the context of debates about evolutionary purpose / Celia Deane-Drummond -- Purpose in nature : on the possibility of a theology of evolution / John F. Haught.

576.8 R951e2 2009
AUT Ruse, Michael.
TIT The evolution wars : a guide to the debates. - 2nd ed.
PUB Millerton, N.Y. : Grey House Pub., c2009.

576.8 S416 2008
TIT Science, evolution, and creationism.
PUB Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2008.

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614.49 Y78p 2008
AUT Youngerman, Barry.
TIT Pandemics and global health.
PUB New York : Facts On File, c2008.
SER Global issues.
CON Contents: Part I: At Issue -- Introduction -- Focus on the United States -- Global perspectives -- Part II: Primary Sources -- United States documents -- International documents -- Part III: Research Tools -- How to research pandemics and global health -- Facts and figures -- Key players A to Z -- Organizations and agencies.

615.788 J94p11 2008
AUT Julien, Robert M ; Advokat, Claire D ; Comaty, Joseph E.
TIT A primer of drug action : a comprehensive guide to the actions, uses, and side effects of psychoactive drugs. - 11th ed.
PUB New York : Worth Publishers, 2008.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Introduction to psychopharmacology : how drugs interact with the body and the brain -- 1. Pharmacokinetics : how drugs are handled by the body -- Drug absorption -- Drug distribution -- Termination of drug action -- Time course of drug distribution and elimination : concept of drug half-life -- 2. Pharmacodynamics : how drugs act -- Receptors for drug action -- Dose-response relationships -- Drug safety and effectiveness -- 3. The neuron, synaptic transmission, and neurotransmitters -- Overall organization of the brain -- The neuron -- Specific neurotransmitters. Contents: pt. 2. Drugs that depress brain function : sedative-hypnotic drugs -- 4. Ethyl alcohol and the inhalants of abuse -- Ethyl alcohol -- Pharmacology of alcohol -- Tolerance and dependence -- Side effects and toxicity -- Teratogenic effects -- Alcoholism and its pharmacological treatment -- Inhalants of abuse -- Why inhalants are abused and who abuses them -- Medical consequences of inhalant abuse -- Acute intoxication and chronic effects -- Chapter 4 appendix : what is a drink? How much alcohol is in my drink? -- 5. Barbiturates, general anesthetics, gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), and antiepileptic drugs -- Historical background -- Sites and mechanisms of action -- Sedative-induced brain dysfunction -- Specific depressants -- Barbiturates -- Nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic drugs -- General anesthetics -- Gamma hydroxybutyrate -- Antiepileptic drugs -- Relationships between structure and activity -- Specific agents -- Antiepileptic drugs in pregnancy -- 6. Benzodiazepines and related anxiolytic medications -- Benzodiazepines -- Flumazenil : a benzodiazepine receptor agonist -- Benzodiazepine receptor agonist hypnotics -- Ramelteon : a selective melatonin receptor agonist -- Serotonin receptor agonists as anxiolytics -- Anticonvulsants as anxiolytics. Contents: pt. 3. Drugs that are used to treat psychological disorders -- 7. Antidepressant drugs -- Depression -- First-generation and antidepressants -- Second-generation antidepressants -- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors -- Dual-action antidepressants -- Dopamine-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor : bupropion -- Selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors -- STAR*D study -- Antidepressants of the future -- 8. Drugs used to treat bipolar disorder -- Bipolar disorder -- STEP-BD study -- Lithium -- "Neuromodulator" anticonvulsant mood stabilizers -- Other uses for anticonvulsant mood stabilizers -- Atypical antipsychotics -- Omega-3 fatty acids -- Miscellaneous agents -- Psychotherapeutic and psychosocial treatments -- 9. Antipsychotic drugs -- Schizophrenia -- Historical background and classification of antipsychotic drugs -- CATIE and CUtLASS studies -- First-generation antipsychotic drugs : phenothiazines -- Alternative first-generation antipsychotics -- Second-generation (atypical) antipsychotic drugs -- Prominent side effects of second-generation antipsychotics -- Additional applications for second-generation antipsychotics -- 10. Child and adolescent psychopharmacology -- Behavioral and aggressive disorders -- Autism spectrum disorders -- Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- Depression in children and adolescents -- Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents -- Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents -- Psychotic disorders in children and adolescents -- 11. Geriatric psychopharmacology -- Inappropriate drug use in the elderly -- Control of agitated and aggressive behaviors in the elderly -- Undertreatment of the elderly : focus on depression -- Parkinson's disease -- Alzheimer's disease -- 12. Integrating psychopharmacology and psychological therapies in patient care -- Limitations to pharmacological therapy -- Developing a plan to integrate psychopharmacology and psychological therapies -- Clinical examples -- Limitations to current practice -- Examples of areas of needed involvement -- Chapter 12 appendix : quick reference to psychotropic medication.
CON Contents: pt. 4. Drugs that stimulate brain function : psychostimulants -- 13. Cocaine, the amphetamines, and nonamphetamine behavioral stimulants -- Cocaine -- Forms of cocaine -- Pharmacokinetics -- Mechanism of action -- Pharmacological effects in human beings -- Comorbidity -- Cocaine and pregnancy -- Neurotoxicity of cocaine -- Pharmacological treatment of cocaine dependency -- Novel approaches to the treatment of cocaine addiction -- Amphetamines -- Mechanism of action -- Pharmacological effects -- Dependence and tolerance -- Methamphetamine -- Nonamphetamine behavioral stimulants -- 14. Caffeine and nicotine -- Caffeine -- Pharmacokinetics -- Pharmacological effects -- Mechanism of action -- Reproductive effects -- Tolerance and dependence -- Nicotine -- Pharmacokinetics -- Pharmacological effects -- Mechanism of action -- Tolerance and dependence -- Toxicity -- Effects of passive smoke -- Effects during pregnancy -- Therapy for nicotine dependence. Contents: pt. 5. Analgesic drugs and psychedelics -- 15. Nonnarcotic anti-inflammatory analgesics -- Nonselective cyclooxygenase inhibitors -- Selective COX-2 inhibitors -- Nonopioid analgesics of the future : nitric oxide-donating analgesics -- 16. Opioid analgesics -- History -- Terminology -- Opioid receptors -- Classification of opioid analgesics -- Morphine : a pure opioid agonist -- Other pure opioid agonists -- Partial opioid agonists -- Mixed agonist-antagonist opioids -- Pure opioid antagonists -- Opioid combinations -- Pharmacotherapy of opioid dependence -- 17. Cannabinoid agonists and antagonists -- History -- Mechanism of action : cannabinoid receptor -- Pharmacokinetics -- Pharmacological effects -- Tolerance and dependence -- Therapeutic uses of cannabinoid agonists -- Cannabinoid antagonists -- 19 Psychedelic drugs -- Scopolamine : an anticholinergic psychedelic/catecholaminelike psychedelics -- Serotoninlike psychedelics -- Glutaminergic NMDA receptor antagonists -- Salvinorin A. Contents: pt. 6. Special topics in psychopharmacology -- 19. Herbal medicines for psychological disorders -- St. John's Wort -- Ginkgo -- Kava -- Ephedrine (Ma-Huang) -- Other herbals that act on the CNS -- Conclusions -- 20. Anabolic steroids -- Mechanism of action -- Effects -- Side effects -- Physical dependence -- Abuse and treatment -- 21. Topics in drug abuse -- Historical and current perspectives -- Extent of the drug problem -- Nosology and psychopathology of substance abuse -- Drugs as behavioral reinforcers : neurobiology of drug dependence -- Drug availability -- Addiction as a chronic, relapsing illness -- Drug education -- Treatment issues -- Pharmacotherapy of substance use disorders -- Glossary.

616.001 H299c 2008
AUT Harrington, Anne.
TIT The cure within : a history of mind-body medicine. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : W.W. Norton, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: Stories, science, and culture under the skin -- The power of suggestion -- The body that speaks -- The power of positive thinking -- Broken by modern life -- Healing ties -- Eastward journeys -- Conclusion: Making sense of mind-body medicine.

616.042 C874h 2008
AUT Cowan, Ruth Schwartz.
TIT Heredity and hope : the case for genetic screening.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Beautiful inheritance : the many faces of eugenics -- A genealogical fallacy : the many faces of genetics -- The patient greatly wants to have children : the pronatalism of prenatal diagnosis -- No matter what! This has to stop! : communities that have accepted genetic screening -- Genetics and genocide : African American communities and sickle cell disease -- We have a very pragmatic church : mandating genetic screening on Cyprus.

616.86 G624a2 2001
AUT Goldstein, Avram.
TIT Addiction : from biology to drug policy. - 2nd ed.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
CON Contents: Drugs and the brain. Neurotransmitters : the brain's own drugs -- Receptors : locks for the addictive keys -- Addictive behavior -- Pain and pleasure -- The seesaw brain : "highs" and adaptations -- Are addicts born or made? The drugs and the addicts. Nicotine -- Alcohol and related drugs -- Heroin, morphine, and other opiates -- Cocaine and amphetamines -- Cannabis (Marijuana) -- Caffeine -- Hallucinogens. Drugs and society. Prevention : just say no? -- Treating addiction, preventing relapse -- Three lessons from the street -- Three lessons from abroad -- Prohibition vs. legalization : a false dichotomy -- New strategies for rational drug policy.

618.92 S552f3 2008
AUT Sheridan, Mary D. ; Sharma, Ajay ; Cockerill, Helen.
TIT From birth to five years : children's developmental progress. - 3rd ed., Rev. and updated / by Ajay Sharma and Helen Cockerill.
PUB London ; New York : Routledge, c2008.
CON Contents: General principles of assessment -- Motor development -- Visual-perceptual and fine motor development -- Communication -- Social behaviour and play -- Attention, emotions, and self-regulation -- Attachment and the development of self -- Hearing -- Vision.

636.0832 F686 2008
AUT Smith, Gary ; Kelly, Alan M.
TIT Food security in a global economy : veterinary medicine and public health.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

658 D794mMr 2008
AUT Drucker, Peter Ferdinand ; Maciariello, Joseph A.
TIT Management. - Rev. ed.
PUB New York : Collins, c2008.
CON Contents: Introduction to the revised edition of Management : tasks, responsibilities, practices -- Preface -- Introduction management and managers defined -- Management as a social function and liberal act -- The dimensions of management -- pt. 1. Management's new realities -- Knowledge is all -- New demographics -- The future of the corporation and the way ahead -- pt. 2. Business performance -- The theory of business -- The purpose and objectives of a business -- Making the future today -- Strategic planning : the entrepreneurial skill -- pt. 3. Performance in service institutions -- Managing service institutions in the society of organizations -- What successful and performing nonprofits are teaching business -- The accountable school -- Rethinking "reinventing government" -- Entrepreneurship in the public-service institution -- pt. 4. Productive work and achieving worker -- Making work productive and the worker achieving -- Managing the work and worker in manual work -- Managing the work and worker in knowledge work -- pt. 5. Social impacts and social responsibilities -- Social impacts and social responsibilities -- The new pluralism: how to balance the special purpose of the institution with the common good -- pt. 6. The manager's work and jobs -- Why managers? -- Design and content of managerial jobs -- Developing management and managers -- Management by objectives and self-control -- From middle management to information-based organizations -- The spirit of performance -- pt. 7. Managerial skills -- The elements of effective decision making -- How to make people decisions -- Managerial communications -- Controls, control, and management -- The manager and the budget -- Information tools and concepts -- pt. 8. Innovation and entrepreneurship -- The entrepreneurial business -- The new venture -- Entrepreneurial strategies -- Systematic innovation using windows of opportunity -- pt. 9. Managerial organization -- Strategies and structures -- Work- and task-focused design -- Three kinds of teams -- Result- and relation-focused design -- Alliances -- The CEO in the new millennium -- The impact of pension funds on corporate governance -- pt. 10. New demands on the individual -- Managing oneself -- Managing the boss -- Realizing oneself : seven personal experiences -- The educated person -- Conclusion: the manager of tomorrow.

658.049 R345d 2008
AUT Rehman, Aamir A.
TIT Dubai & Co. : global strategies for doing business in the Gulf states.
PUB New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

658.812 D575w 2008
AUT DiJulius, John R.
TIT What's the secret? : to providing a world-class customer experience.
PUB Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2008.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The customer service crisis -- The smoking gun : definitive proof of the return on investment in providing superior service -- The state of service : is your company part of the customer service crisis or customer service revolution? -- World-class service sins : what prevents companies from being world class? -- Service aptitude level : what level is your company? -- pt. 2. The customer service revolution -- Commandment I : service vision : a clear purpose of why the business exists -- Commandment II : creating a world-class internal culture : attract, hire, and retain only the people who have the service DNA -- Commandment III : nonnegotiable experiential standards : experience standards everyone must follow -- Commandment IV : secret service systems : utilizing customer intelligence to personalize their experience and engage and anticipate their needs -- Commandment V : training to provide a world-class customer experience : systems and processes that remove variation and provide a consistent customer experience -- Commandment VI : implementation and execution : how to go from ideas on paper to consistently executed concepts -- Commandment VII : zero risk : anticipating your service defects and having protocols in place to make it right -- Commandment VIII : creating an above-and-beyond culture : constant awareness and branding of how to be a hero -- Commandment IX : measuring your customer's experience : what gets measured gets managed -- Commandment X : world-class leadership : walking the talk.

687 K32a 2009
AUT Kemp-Gatterson, Beverly. ; Stewart, Barbara L.
TIT Apparel : concepts and practical applications.
PUB New York : Fairchild, 2009.

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700.1 C891p 1992
AUT Crane, Diana.
TIT The production of culture : media and the urban arts.
PUB Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1992.
SER Foundations of popular culture. ; vol. 1.

709.021 F663a 2008
AUT Folda, Jaroslav.
TIT Crusader art : the art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1099-1291.
PUB Aldershot, U.K. ; Burlington, Vt. : Lund Humphries, 2008.
CON Contents: "Why have an illustrated book on Crusader art?" -- "What is Crusader art?" -- Phase one of Crusader art -- The Christian Holy sites and the Crusader states in Syria-Palestine, 1099-1187 -- Phase two of Crusader art -- Crusader art in new locations and changed circumstances, 1187-1250 -- Phase three of Crusader art -- The climax of Crusader painting, 1250-1291 -- Crusader art and its impact on the West.

709.04 H436a 2008
AUT Heartney, Eleanor.
TIT Art & today.
PUB London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2008.

709.73 A7842
AUT Sollins, Susan ; Sollins, Marybeth.
TIT Art:21 : art in the twenty-first century 2.
PUB New York : Abrams, c2003.
CON Contents: Eleanor Antin -- Janine Antoni -- Charles Atlas -- Vija Celmins -- Walton Ford -- Trenton Doyle Hancock -- Tim Hawkinson -- Elizabeth Murray -- Gabriel Orozco -- Raymond Pettibon -- Paul Pfeiffer -- Martin Puryear -- Collier Schorr-- Kiki Smith -- Do-Ho Suh -- Kara Walker.

735.24 C712s 2007
AUT Collins, Judith.
TIT Sculpture today.
PUB London ; New York : Phaidon Press, 2007.
CON Contents: The figure -- The body fragmented -- Strange creatures -- Post-pop objects -- Architecture & furniture -- Cultural diversity -- Traditional materials -- Ephemeral effects -- Inspired by nature -- Colour, surface & light -- Memory -- Clothing -- Monumentality -- Installation -- Gravity -- Size & scale -- Accumulation -- Minimalism.

741.58 G449u 2008
AUT Gibson, Jon M. ; McDonnell, Chris.
TIT Unfiltered : the complete Ralph Bakshi.
PUB New York : Universe ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], 2008.

741.5952 J35 2008
AUT Macwilliams, Mark Wheeler.
TIT Japanese visual culture : explorations in the world of manga and anime.
PUB Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2008.
CON Contents: Foreword : Japan's new visual culture / Frederik L. Schodt -- Introduction / Mark W. MacWilliams -- Manga in Japanese History / Kinko Ito -- Contemporary Anime in Japanese Pop Culture / Gilles Poitras -- Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka / Susanne Phillips -- From Metropolis to Metoroporisu : The Changing Role of the Robot in Japanese and Western Cinema / Lee Makela -- Opening the Closed World of Shojo Manga / Mizuki Takahashi -- Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga : Teenage Girls, Romance Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture / Deborah Shamoon -- Intellectuals, Cartoons, and Nationalism During the Russo-Japanese War / Yulia Mikhailova -- Framing Manga: On Narratives of the Second World War in Japanese Manga, 1957-1977 / Eldad Nakar -- Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic about Manga and Anime / Rich Gardner -- Medieval Genealogies of Manga and Anime Horror / Raj Pandey -- The Utopian "Power to Live": The Significance of the Miyazaki Phenomenon / Hiroshi Yamanaka -- Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away / Shiro Yoshioka -- National History as Otaku Fantasy: Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress / Melek Ortabasi -- Considering Manga Discourse: Location, Ambiguity, Historicity / Jaqueline Berndt -- Bibliography.

741.5973 K17f 2008
AUT Kaplan, Arie.
TIT From Krakow to Krypton : Jews and comic books. - 1st ed.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : Jewish Publication Society, c2008.
CON Contents: pt. 1. The Golden Age (1933-1955) : the birth of the comics -- ch. 1. Famous funnies -- ch. 2. Leger and Reuths -- ch. 3. Supergolem -- ch. 4. Attack of the clones -- ch. 5. People of the (comic) book -- ch. 6. The spirit of the times -- ch. 7. The Leaden Age -- ch. 8. Why we fight -- ch. 9. New trends and innocent seducers -- pt. 2. The Silver Age (1956-1978): the growth and development of Jewish comics. ch. 10. Super family values -- ch. 11. Broome makes a clean sweep -- ch. 12. Stan and Jack -- ch. 13. The superhero from Queens -- ch. 14. Courting the college crowd -- ch. 15. Outsider heroes -- ch. 16. Openly Jewish, openly heroic -- ch. 17. Kirby's fourth world -- ch. 18. Notes from the underground -- ch. 19. From novel graphics to graphic novels -- pt. 3. The Bronze Age (1979-the present): comics in the modern world. ch. 20. From comix to graphix -- ch. 21. The Maus that art built -- ch. 22. A graphic approach to Jewish history -- ch. 23. The Martian Jew -- ch. 24. Children of the atom-- and Eve -- ch. 25. Vertigo visions -- ch. 26. Up, up, and away-- but where to?.

759.4 L551c 2008
AUT Le Men, Ségolène ; Courbet, Gustave.
TIT Courbet. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Abbeville Press, 2008.
CON Contents: The formative years: Courbet the Romantic -- A Bohemian in Paris -- A master on the open road -- Art, business, and naturalism -- Glory and exile.

781.65 H562s 2007
AUT Hersch, Charles.
TIT Subversive sounds : race and the birth of jazz in New Orleans.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Places -- Reaction -- Musicians -- Music -- Dissemination : Morton, La Rocca, and Armstrong.

791.4302 G664d 2008
AUT Gordon, Paul.
TIT Dial "M" for mother : a Freudian Hitchcock.
PUB Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: 1. Introduction : dial "m" for mother : a Freudian Hitchcock -- 2. Sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar : Shadow of a doubt -- 3. Cast-ration by the Rear window -- 4. NTILEVER : Vertigo -- 5. ROT in North by northwest -- 6. Disrespectful respectabilities : Psycho -- 7. The end of the world : The Birds -- 8. A mother's love : Marnie -- 9. Pota-toes : Frenzy -- 10. Afterword : other Hitchcock films.

791.4309 H251t 2008
AUT Hanson, Philip.
TIT This side of despair : how the movies and American life intersected during the Great Depression.
PUB Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: 1. Ducking prostitution -- 2. The war over World War I -- 3. Racial constructions of the thirties -- 4. U.S. foreign policy and shifting racial identity -- 5. Sexual politics and the depression -- 6. The arc of national confidence and the birth of film noir, 1929-41 -- 7. Escaping the thirties -- 8. The American contradiction.

791.43657 A416 2008
AUT Briley, Ron ; Schoenecke, Michael K. ; Carmichael, Deborah A.
TIT All-stars & movie stars : sports in film & history.
PUB Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.
SER Film & history.

791.43658 B957h 2008
AUT Burgoyne, Robert.
TIT The Hollywood historical film.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
SER New approaches to film genre. ; 3.
CON Contents: Introduction -- The cinematic writing of history : an overview -- The war film : Saving Private Ryan -- The epic film : Gladiator and Spartacus -- The biographical film : Schindler's list -- The metahistorical film : JFK -- The topical film : United 93 and World Trade Center.

792.025 M989p 2008
AUT Mussman, Amy.
TIT The prop master : a guidebook for successful theatrical prop management. - 1st ed.
PUB Colorado Springs, Colo. : Meriwether Pub., c2008.

792.028 R136t 2008
AUT Rafael, Mark.
TIT Telling stories : a grand unifying theory of acting techniques. - 1st ed.
PUB Hanover, N.H. : Smith and Kraus, 2008.
SER Career development series.
CON Contents: Telling stories -- How did we get here? -- A new paradigm arises -- How it works -- Storytelling and character. Analytic -- Textual orthodoxy -- Imaginative -- Presentational -- Observational -- The structure of the story. Action structure -- Other structures -- Techniques -- In class. Starting off -- Platform 1: Improvisation, Keith Johnstone -- Platform 2: Constantin Stanislavski -- Platform 3: Michael Chekhov -- Platform 4: Monologues -- Platform 5: Lee Strasberg -- Platform 6: Sanford Meisner -- Platform 7: Bertolt Brecht -- Platform 8: Scene work -- Platform 9: Monologue rehearsal and performance -- Other voices. Stella Adler -- F.M. Alexander -- Antonin Artaud -- Augusto Boal -- Anne Bogart -- Peter Brook -- Robert Brustein -- Jacques Copeau -- Richard Foreman -- Jerzy Grotowski -- Uta Hagen -- Rudolf Laban -- Vsevolod Meyerhold -- Viola Spolin -- Tadashi Suzuki -- Yevgeny Vakhtangov -- Commedia dell'arte -- The living theatre -- Telling classical stories. Know what you're saying -- Iambic pentameter -- Speak up -- Not all words are created equal -- Rhetoric -- Variety is the spice of life -- Breath and form -- A brief model for a Shakespeare curriculum -- Telling new stories -- Telling stories: where we are now.

Ref 792.089 H645h 2009
AUT Hill, Anthony D. ; Barnett, Douglas Q.
TIT Historical dictionary of African American theater.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
SER Historical dictionaries of literature and the arts ; no. 31.

794.8 D574 2008
AUT Corneliussen, Hilde ; Rettberg, Jill Walker.
TIT Digital culture, play, and identity : a World of Warcraft reader.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.

796.357 B299K 2008
AUT Kyle, Donald G ; Fairbanks, Robert B. ; Rader,Benjamin G.
TIT Baseball in America and America in baseball. - 1st ed.
PUB College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.
SER Walter Prescott Webb memorial lectures. ; no. 38.
CON Contents: Introduction / Richard Crepeau -- "Our players are mostly farmers" : baseball in rural California, 1850 to 1890 / David Vaught -- "Invisible baseball" : Japanese Americans and their game in the 1930s / Samuel O. Regalado -- Chasing shadows : the Baltimore Black Sox and the perils of history / Daniel A. Nathan -- The profits of Major League Baseball, 1900 to 1956 / Steven A. Riess -- Mapping an empire of baseball : American visions of national pastimes and global influence, 1919 to 1941 / Mark Dyreson -- "Matters involving honor" : region, race, and rank in the violent life of Tyrus Raymond Cobb / Benjamin G. Rader.

796.35764 K19a 2008 Popular reading
AUT Kashatus, William C.
TIT Almost a dynasty : the rise and fall of the 1980 Phillies.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

796.83 B666b 2008
AUT Boddy, Kasia.
TIT Boxing : a cultural history.
PUB London : Reaktion, c2008.
CON Contents: The classical golden age -- The English golden age -- Pugilism and style -- 'Fighting, rightly understood' -- 'Like any other profession' -- Fresh hopes -- Sport of the future -- Save me, Jack Dempsey; save me, Joe Louis -- King of the hill, and further raging bulls.

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801.95 C428m 2008
AUT Chabon, Michael.
TIT Maps and legends : reading and writing along the borderlands.
PUB San Francisco, Calif. : McSweeney's Books, c2008.

801.95 L496 1994
AUT Lee, Alvin A. ; Denham, Robert D.
TIT The legacy of Northrop Frye.
PUB Toronto : Buffalo, N.Y. : University of Toronto Press, c1994.

810.9355 C349p 2008
AUT Caster, Peter.
TIT Prisons, race, and masculinity in twentieth-century U.S. literature and film.
PUB Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
SER Black performance and cultural criticism.
CON Contents: Imprisonment in U.S. history and the cultural imagination -- Literary execution: race, crime, and punishment in three Faulkner novels -- Soul on ice, schizoanalysis, and the subject of imprisonment -- The executioner's song and the narration of history -- The contradictions of documentary realism in American history X -- "Based upon a true story": the hurricane and the problem of prison redemption -- The farm: "This is no dream or nothing made up, this is for real" -- Staging prisons and the performance of history.

810.9972 W956 2008
AUT Torres-Padilla, José L ; Rivera, Carmen Haydée.
TIT Writing off the hyphen : new critical perspectives on the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora.
PUB Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, c2008.
SER American ethnic and cultural studies.

811.0071 S823i 2008
AUT Steinman, Lisa Malinowski.
TIT Invitation to poetry : the pleasures of studying poetry and poetics.
PUB Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2008.
CON Contents: Conceptual syntax: an introduction to the way poems invite different approaches and position readers -- Speaking poetry: night pieces and intertextual conversations -- The gestures and subjects of the sonnet -- The uses of meter and rhythm in the sonnet -- The form of the voice: tone and diction -- Modes, odes, and odic gestures -- What is pastoral? -- Traditions, legacies, and individual talents -- Forests and trees, or playing with poems.

811.54 K82d 2004
AUT Kooser, Ted.
TIT Delights & shadows : poems. - 1st ed.
PUB Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c2004.
CON Contents: Walking on tiptoe -- The China painters -- Bank fishing for bluegills -- That was I.

812.6 L651a 2008
AUT Letts, Tracy.
TIT August: Osage County. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Theatre Communication Group, 2008.

813.52 F317L 2008
AUT Fellman, Anita Clair.
TIT Little house, long shadow : Laura Ingalls Wilder's impact on American culture.
PUB Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Growing up in little houses -- Creating The little house -- Revisiting The little houses -- Little house in the classroom -- The little house readers at home -- The little house books in public -- The little house in American politics.

813.52 L847r 2008
AUT London, Jack ; Raskin, Jonah
TIT The radical Jack London : writings on war and revolution.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Boy socialist, 1895-1899 -- Comrade white man, 1900-1905 -- Apostate revolutionary, 1906-1912 -- Cosmic voyager, 1913-1916.

813.54 C428y 2008
AUT Chabon, Michael.
TIT The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2007.

813.5409 T352r 2008
AUT Teuton, Sean Kicummah.
TIT Red land, red power : grounding knowledge in the American Indian novel.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, c2008.
SER New Americanists.
CON Contents: Introduction : imagining an American Indian center -- Embodying lands : somatic place in N. Scott Momaday's House made of dawn -- Placing the ancestors : historical identity in James Welch's Winter in the blood -- Learning to feel : tribal experience in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- Hearing the callout : American Indian political criticism -- Conclusion : building cultural knowledge in the contemporary Native novel.

813.6 B789t 2005
AUT Boyden, Joseph.
TIT Three day road : a novel. - 1st American ed.
PUB New York : Viking, 2005.

821.4 H684m 2008
AUT Hobson, Theo.
TIT Milton's vision : the birth of Christian liberty.
PUB London : Continuum, c2008.

823.912 J83LO 2008
AUT Lothe, Jakob ; Hawthorn, Jeremy ; Phelan, James.
TIT Joseph Conrad : voice, sequence, history, genre.
PUB Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University Press, c2008.
SER Theory and interpretation of narrative.

823.914 A876w 2008 Popular reading
AUT Atkinson, Kate.
TIT When will there be good news? : a novel. - 1st U.S. ed.
PUB New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2008.

831.91 R573stR 2008
AUT Rilke, Rainer Maria ; Ranson, Susan ; Hutchinson, Ben.
TIT Rainer Maria Rilke's The book of hours.
PUB Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2008.
SER Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture.

848.914 C211no 1951-59
AUT Camus, Albert ; Bloom, Ryan.
TIT Notebooks, 1951-1959. - 1st American ed.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, 2008.

861.6 G589m 2008
AUT Mistral, Gabriela ; Couch, Randall.
TIT Madwomen : the Locas mujeres poems of Gabriela Mistral. - A bilingual ed.
PUB Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.

861.64 S534s 2008
AUT Shaw, Donald Leslie.
TIT Spanish American poetry after 1950 : beyond the vanguard.
PUB Woodbridge, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Tamesis, 2008.
SER Colección Támesis. Serie A, Monografías ; 251.

863.01 F621 2007
AUT Edwards, Jennifer Gabrielle.
TIT The flight of the condor : stories of violence and war from Colombia.
PUB Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007.
SER The Americas.
CON Contents: Once upon a time: a short story on violence / Hugo Chaparro Valderrama -- Lather and nothing else / Hernando Téllez -- The execution / Juan Carlos Botero -- The soldiers / Álvaro Cepeda Samudio -- My father was blue / Nicolás Suescún -- The day we buried our weapons / Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza -- Prelude / Hernando Téllez -- A christmas story / Mario Mendoza Zambrano -- The new order / Arturo Echeverri Mejia -- Family birthday wishes / Germán Espinosa -- Fear / Manuel Mejia Vallejo -- The designator / Roberto Montes Mathieu -- Gelatin / Harold Kremer -- The procession of shadows / Germán Santamaria -- The aroma of death / Heriberto Fiorillo -- Bitter sorrows / Dario Ruiz Gómez -- Eme / Julio Paredes -- The feast / Policarpo Varón -- Vendors of peculiar objects / Celso Román -- Brides by night / Evelio Rosero Diago -- The sixth commandment / Juan Fernando Merino.

863.6 A694ri9 2006
AUT Arguedas, José María ; González Vigil, Ricardo.
TIT Los rios profundos. - 9. ed.
PUB Madrid : Catedra, 2006.
SER Letras hispánicas. ; 392.

873.1 V497aR 2008
AUT Virgil ; Ruden, Sarah. ; Ruden, Sarah.
TIT The Aeneid.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.

878.01 S169c 2008
AUT Woodman, A. J.
TIT Catiline's war ; The Jugurthine war ; Histories.
PUB London, U.K. : Penguin, 2007.
SER Penguin classics.

896 M879f 2007
AUT Morrison, Jago.
TIT The fiction of Chinua Achebe.
PUB Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
SER Readers' guides to essential criticism.

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909.049 G624j 2008
AUT Goldstein, D. B.
TIT Jacob's legacy : a genetic view of Jewish history.
PUB New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Keeping God's house : Y chromosomes and Old Testament priests -- Lost tribe no more? The Black Jews of South Africa -- Looking out for number two : the case of the Ashkenazi Levites -- Those Jewish mothers : the development of female-defined ethnicity in the Jewish diaspora -- Look on mine affliction : genetic diseases and Jewish history -- Jews, genes, and the future.

917.8 L675H 2007
AUT Hoxie, Frederick E. ; Nelson, Jay T.
TIT Lewis & Clark and the Indian country : the Native American perspective.
PUB Urbana. Ill. : University of Illinois Press : Published for the Newberry Library, c2007.
CON Contents: Introduction : What can we learn from a bicentennial? / Frederick E. Hoxie -- pt. 1: The Indian country. The arrival of horses accelerates trade and cultural change -- A brilliant plan for living : creators -- A brilliant plan for living : gifts -- A brilliant plan for living : men and women -- A vast network of partners -- pt. 2: Crossing the Indian country. What did the Americans know? -- Celebrating the new year and surviving the winter with the Mandans, January 1805 -- Trading for horses and finding their way, August-September 1805 -- Rescued by the Nez Perces -- New Year's Day 1806 and the Oregon winter -- Friends and trading partners on the Upper Columbia -- A confrontation in Montana -- pt. 3: A new nation comes to the Indian country. Two views of western North America -- The fur trade -- New settlers -- Miners -- Ranchers -- Missionaries and teachers -- pt. 4: The Indian country today. Salmon restoration -- Environmental protection -- Language preservation -- Education and cultural preservation -- The meaning of the Lewis and Clark bicentennial for Native Americans -- Conclusion : Lewis and Clark reconsidered : some sober second thoughts / James P. Ronda.

930.1 C973w 2008
AUT Cuno, James B.
TIT Who owns antiquity? : museums and the battle over our ancient heritage.
PUB Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire [England] : Princeton University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: The crux of the matter -- Political matters -- More political matters -- The Turkish question -- The Chinese question -- Identity matters -- Epilogue.

Ref 932 B588h2 2008
AUT Bierbrier, M. L.
TIT Historical dictionary of ancient Egypt. - 2nd ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.
SER Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras ; 22.

Ref 934 R888h 2009
AUT Roy, Kumkum.
TIT Historical dictionary of ancient India.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
SER Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras ; no. 23.

940.28 E94ha 2007
AUT Ewen, Frederic ; Wollock, Jeffrey L.
TIT A half-century of greatness : the creative imagination of Europe, 1848-1884.
PUB New York : New York University Press, c2007.
CON Contents: England at the Great Divide: 1830-1848 -- The Battle for Reform II -- The Battle for Minds and Secular Salvation "Utopia" -- "Utility" and "Happiness" -- Thomas Carlyle: Out of the "Nay" into the "Everlasting Yea" -- Charles Dickens: The Novel in "the Battle of Life" -- John Stuart Mill: The Majesty of Reason -- Russia: Dark Laughter and Siberia Nikolay Gogol and Young Dostoevsky -- The Dark Laughter of Nikolay Gogol -- Young Dostoevsky: The Road to Siberia -- Europe: Revolution 1848-1849 -- The Lighting of Ideas: Reason and Revolution 1835-1848 -- G. W. F. Hegel -- David Friedrich Strauss -- Ludwig Feuerbach -- Karl Marx -- Friedrich Engels -- Marx and Engels -- Revolution: 1848-1849 -- France -- Germany -- Austria -- Failure of Revolution -- The Lyre and the Sword: Art and Revolution -- Hungary - July 31, 1849: Sándor Petöfi - the Poet as Warrior -- Russia: Tsar and Serf - Taras Shevchenko -- Siegfried on the Barricades: Richard Wagner in Dresden, May 1849 -- Alexander Herzen and the Russian Self-Exiled -- Swan Song and elegy: Germany and the Poets -- Georg Buchner -- Georg Herwegh -- Ferdinand Freiligrath -- Georg Weerth and Adolf Glassbrenner -- Heinrich Heine -- England: Crystal Palace and Bleak House -- The March of Empire and the Victorian Conscience -- The Novel and the Crisis of Conscience: The Brontës --The Caged Rebels of Haworth -- Woman of Valor: George Eliot and the Victorians.

940.5347 B435a 2007
AUT Bellamy, Chris.
TIT Absolute war : Soviet Russia in the Second World War. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
CON Contents: Flight of the rabid wolf: the long-term impact of the war in the east -- Absolute and total war -- 'A cruel romance': the Nazi-Soviet alliance and Soviet expansion, August to November 1939 -- Further Soviet expansion and cooperation with Germany, November 1939 to June 1941 -- Who planned to attack whom, and how? -- The war's worst-kept secret -- Iron road east: the country, the forces -- Barbarossa unleashed, and the battles of the frontiers -- Kremlin at war -- Winning oneself to death -- Midnight in Moscow -- Black snow -- White night: Leningrad, September 1941 to February 1944 -- The 'Grand Alliance' -- To the edge of the abyss: the worst year - 1942 -- From defence to attack: the Caucasus, Stalingrad and Mars -- Kursk, and a new professionalism -- Destroying the Wehrmacht. Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic: reasserting Soviet control -- Victory -- New world order.

947.086 C725y 2008
AUT Colton, Timothy J.
TIT Yeltsin : a life.
PUB New York : Basic Books, c2008.
CON Contents: Self-reliance -- Scripts -- Only forward -- A boss with a difference -- Megalopolis -- The mutineer -- The Yeltsin phenomenon -- Birth of a nation -- A great leap outward -- Resistances -- Falling apart, holding together -- Boris Agonistes -- Governing the state -- Reconnecting -- Autumn of a president -- Endgame -- Aftermath -- Coda: legacies of an event-shaping man.

949.2 F828dCR 2003
AUT Hardy, H. J. ; Barnouw, David.
TIT The diary of Anne Frank : the critical edition. - Rev. Critical ed.
PUB New York : Doubleday, 2003.

951.056 C594c 2008
AUT Clark, Paul.
TIT The Chinese Cultural Revolution : a history.
PUB Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: a revolution in culture -- Modelling a new culture -- Spreading the new models -- Fixing culture on film -- Elaborating culture: dance, music, stage and fine arts -- Writing wrongs: public and private fictions and resistance -- Conclusion: forcing modernity.

951.5 A939 2008
AUT Blondeau, Anne-Marie ; Buffetrille, Katia ; Jing, Wei. Xizang bai ti wen.
TIT Authenticating Tibet : answers to China's 100 Questions.
PUB Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2008.
CON Contents: pt. 1. Historical facts -- 1. Some Tibetans in self-exile have repeatedly claimed that Tibet and China are two different countries. What does history have to say? -- The Tibetan Empire / Helga Uebach -- The Yuan dynasty / Elliot Sperling -- 2. Some Tibetans have argued that the Yuan emperor, Kublai Khan, and Pagba, a leading Tibetan lama of the Sagya sect, only established the religious relationship of "the benefactor and the lama" ; Political subordination was not involved. Is this right? / Elliot Sperling -- 3. How did the Yuan dynasty exercise its sovereignty over Tibet? / Elliot Sperling -- 4. It has been argued that the Mongolians incorporated Tibet into China by conquest in a manner not too dissimilar to Britain's occupation of India and Burma. What do you think of the claim that just as India cannot now regard Burma as part of its territory, so China cannot claim sovereignty over Tibet? / Elliot Sperling -- 5. Did the Ming and Qing dynasties continued to exercise sovereignty over Tibet established by the Yuan dynasty? -- The Ming dynasty / Elliot Sperling -- The Qing dynasty / Anne Chayet -- 6. Can you outline the origins of the Dalai Lama and the Bainqen Erdini? Did the establishment of these positions have anything to do with the Chinese central government? / Anne Chayet -- 7. Are there any historical documents which provide evidence that Tibet is part of China? / Anne Chayet -- 8. Why was the issue of "Tibetan independence" raised early in this century? / Tsering Shakya, Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 9. It has been claimed that China only has suzerainty over Tibet. Is this right? / Tsering Shakya -- 10. How did Britain and the United States interfere with China's domestic affairs with regard to Tibet in the past? / Tsering Shakya, Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 11. What are the views of foreign countries on the "independence of Tibet"? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 12. An American newspaper said that Tibet did not become part of China until 1950, and only in the late 1970s did the Carter administration officially recognize China's sovereignty over Tibet. Does this accord with history? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 13. Under what circumstances did the PLA decide to march into Tibet? / Samten Karmay -- 14. What was the content of the Agreement on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet signed between China's central government and the local government of Tibet? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 15. What was the Dalai Lama's attitude towards this agreement? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 16. Since peaceful liberation, what policies has the Chinese government pursued in Tibet? / Elliot Sperling -- 17. What caused the 1959 rebellion in Tibet? / Jampa Panglung -- 18. How did the Chinese government deal with those who participated in the March 1959 rebellion? / Elliot Sperling.
CON Contents: pt. 2. Human rights -- 19. What were the conditions regarding human rights in Tibet before democratic reform? / Robert Barnett -- 20. What rights do the Tibetan people enjoy? / Robert Barnett -- 21. Some people have said that Tibet has several hundred prisons holding many thousands of political prisoners. Others have claimed that Tibet has 73 prisons with 80,000 prisoners. What are the facts? / Robert Barnett -- 22. Some foreign newspapers have claimed that the Chinese killed more than 1 million Tibetans. Is this true? / Robert Barnett -- 23. In 1987, two men were executed in Tibet. Were they political prisoners? / Robert Barnett -- 24. What is the true story of Geshi Luosang Wangzhu, a so-called ideological criminal the U.S. Congress has asked to be released? / Robert Barnett -- 25. It has been claimed that the Chinese have tried prisoners in Tibet at mass rallies, after which they were immediately killed. Is it true? / Robert Barnett -- 26. Some people have accused China of carrying out "racial segregation" and "racial discrimination" in Tibet. What is the reality? / Robert Barnett -- 27. Some people have said that Tibetans cannot act freely in Tibet, and that Tibetan cadres and children aged under 18 cannot travel abroad. Is this true? / Robert Barnett -- 28. The Dalai Lama and others say that Tibetan children have been deprived of the right to education and that Tibet has become an area of illiteracy. Is this true? / Robert Barnett -- 29. It is reported that there are serious problems of unemployment and child labor among Tibetans. Is that true? / Robert Barnett -- 30. People at the side of the Dalai Lama also said that the hospitals in Tibet only serve the Han people. Is that true? / Robert Barnett -- 31. How long is the average life span of Tibetans living in Tibet? How is it compared with what it was before the peaceful liberation of Tibet? / Robert Barnett -- 32. Some people have claimed that China practiced forced sterilization and the killing of infants in Tibet. Is this true? / Robert Barnett. Contents: pt. 3. Policies towards the Dalai Lama -- 33. What policy has the central government adopted toward the Dalai Lama? / Per Kvaerne -- 34. If the Dalai Lama returns, can he settle in Tibet? / Per Kvaerne -- 35. What is the attitude of the Chinese government toward the Dalai Lama's visit to other countries? / Per Kvaerne -- 36. What is the basic divergence of views between the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government and people? / Per Kvaerne -- 37. What is the Chinese government's attitude towards the "five-point proposal" put forward by the Dalai Lama in the United States during September 1987? / Per Kvaerne -- 38. How does the Chinese government view the Dalai Lama's "new proposal" on Tibet he put forward in Strasbourg, France, in June 1988? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 39. How does the Chinese government value the idea of a "greater Tibetan autonomous region" suggested by some people around the Dalai Lama? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 40. Why doesn't China agree to apply the "one country, two systems" concept to Tibet? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 41. Will the Chinese government permit the Tibetans who fled abroad with the Dalai Lama and have acquired foreign citizenships to return? If so, what formalities should they go through before their homecoming visit? / Katia Buffetrille -- 42. The relations does the self-exiled Dalai Lama maintain with the Bainqen Lama? / Anne-Marie Blondeau. Contents: pt. 4. Population -- 43. Has there been a decrease in the number of Tibetans since the peaceful liberation of Tibet in 1951? / Andrew M. Fischer -- 44. Dalai and his followers claim that 7.5 million Han have been emigrated to Tibet, and that Tibetans have become a minority nationality in the region. Is that true? / Andrew M. Fischer -- 45. What is the Tibetan population? How is it distributed? / Andrew M. Fischer -- 46. How many minority nationalities are there in China? / Andrew M. Fischer -- 47. How many minority ethnic groups are there in Tibet? / Andrew M. Fischer.
CON Contents: pt. 5. Religious belief -- 48. What policies has the Chinese government adopted toward religious belief in Tibet? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 49. Some people claim that the Chinese Communist Party has eliminated religion in Tibet. is this true? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 50. Did the Chinese government appropriate money for renovating monasteries in Tibet in order to attract more foreign tourists? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 51. Are Tibetans free to take part in religious activities? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 52. How are Tibet's monasteries administered? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 53. Are there any professional schools for training religious workers in Tibet? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 54. Please give a brief account of the lamasery life. Do lamas suffer many privations? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 55. Which monasteries are famous in Tibet? And what is the situation they are in now? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 56. When did Tibetan Buddhism come into being? How many sects does it have? / Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 57. It has been reported that China will set up a "Tibetan Buddhism Guidance Committee." What will be its tasks? / Anne-Marie Blondeau. Contents: pt. 6. Right to autonomy -- 58. What policies has the Chinese government adopted in regard to minority nationalities? / Thierry Dodin -- 59. When was the Tibet Autonomous Region founded? How many autonomous regions are there in China? / Thierry Dodin -- 60. As one of the autonomous regions, what rights does Tibet have? / Thierry Dodin -- 61. How many decrees on self-government have been formulated by the Tibet Autonomous Region? / Thierry Dodin -- 62. What is the proportion of Tibetans to Han in the Tibet Autonomous Region's civil service? / Thierry Dodin -- 63. Who were the heads of all previous governments of the Tibet Autonomous Region? Were they all Tibetans? / Thierry Dodin -- 64. Who have served as the standing committee chairmen of the Tibet Autonomous Regional People's Congress? What nationality were they? / Thierry Dodin -- 65. How many counties and cities does the Tibet Autonomous Region have under its jurisdiction? What are the nationalities of the county magistrates and mayors? / Thierry Dodin -- 66. Are there any other Tibet autonomous areas in China apart from the Tibet Autonomous Region? / Thierry Dodin -- 67. Why are none of the first secretaries of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee of the Chinese Communist Party Tibetans? / Thierry Dodin. Contents: pt. 7. Culture and education -- 68. What is the policy adopted by China regarding traditional Tibetan culture? / Amy Heller, Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 69. Some foreign newspapers have claimed that China has paid no attention to Tibet's history and culture. What are the facts? / Amy Heller -- 70. What is the Chinese government's attitude towards traditional Tibetan literature and art? / Amy Heller, Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 71. What work has been done to protect cultural relics and historical sites in Tibet? / Amy Heller -- 72. What is the situation of Tibetan studies in China? / Amy Heller, Anne-Marie Blondeau -- 73. What does the China Tibetan Studies Center do? Who runs it? / Amy Heller -- 74. It is said that traditional Tibetan medical science is very special. What has China done to develop it? / Fernand Meyer -- 75. How about the use of Tibetan language? / Amy Heller, Anne-Marie Blondeau. Contents: pt. 8. Economic development -- Historical comparisons / Andrew M. Fischer -- The legacy of state intervention in the Tibetan areas over the past fifty years / Andrew M. Fischer -- 77. What policies and assistance has the central government provided in regard to economic development in Tibet? -- 76. What is the status of economic development in Tibet? -- Constraints and favorable conditions for development / Andrew M. Fischer -- 78. What advantages does Tibet have for its economic development? -- 83. What are the main problems Tibet faces in developing its economy? -- Foreign investment and trade / Andrew M. Fischer -- 79. Are there any Sino-foreign joint ventures or solely foreign-funded projects in Tibet? -- 80. How does Tibet attempt to cooperate with foreign factories? -- 81. How do foreign people invest in Tibet? -- 82. How about Tibet's tourist resources? How do foreign people travel in Tibet? / Katia Buffetrille -- 84. It is reported that China has deployed nuclear weapons and dumped nuclear waste in Tibet, damaging the environment there. Is that true? / Thierry Dodin.
CON Contents: pt. 9. Livelihood of the people -- 85. How are the living conditions in Tibet today compared with the past? / Katia Buffetrille -- 86. Why are the living standards of Tibetans lower than [those of] the Han people in other places? / Andrew M. Fischer -- 87. Do the Tibetan and Han people enjoy equal payment for same work? / Katia Buffetrille -- 88. What customs and habits are there in Tibet? / Katia Buffetrille, Janet Gyatso -- 89. What festivals are there in Tibet? / Katia Buffetrille, Janet Gyatso. Contents: pt. 10. About the riots in Lhasa -- 90. Some people have said that the demonstrations which occurred in Lhasa in 1987 and 1988, despite being peaceful, were forcibly suppressed. Is this true? / Robert Barnett -- 91. What caused the riots, and did it have anything to do with the Dalai clique? / Robert Barnett -- 92. Some people have said that in putting down the riots in Lhasa, the police arrested and beat people indiscriminately, killing quite a few. What is the truth? / Robert Barnett -- 93. Of all those arrested in the riots, how many have been set free and how many are still in prison? How well are they treated in prison? What will happen to them? How many rioters, if any, were executed? / Robert Barnett -- 94. Were any foreign tourists or reporters at the scene of the riots? If there were, were they detained, warned, or deported? / Robert Barnett -- 95. How do religious leaders and the residents of Lhasa view these riots since September 1987? / Robert Barnett -- 96. Why were foreigners not allowed to travel nor foreign reporters permitted to cover news in Tibet during riots? / Robert Barnett -- 97. After the riots in Lhasa, were any leaders of the Tibet Autonomous Region dismissed or promoted? Are more soldiers or policemen to be sent to Tibet? / Robert Barnett -- 98. What countermeasures have the Tibetan authorities taken since the riots? Are the masses allowed to hold parades and demonstrations? / Robert Barnett -- 99. What is the situation in Tibet now? / Robert Barnett -- 100. Some foreign newspapers said recently that the Tibet authorities have dispatched people to temples and monasteries to throw out those lamas and nuns who participated in the riots. Is this true? / Robert Barnett -- A comparative chronology of Tibet and China -- Glossary.

Ref 956.1 H673T3 2009
AUT Heper, Metin ; Criss, Bilge.
TIT Historical dictionary of Turkey. - 3rd ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : The Scarecrow Press, 2009.
SER Historical dictionaries of Europe. ; no. 67.

956.9405 D926p 2008
AUT Dunsky, Marda.
TIT Pens and swords : how the American mainstream media report the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
PUB New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
CON Contents: The policy mirror -- Reporting the Palestinian refugee story -- Reporting on Israeli settlements -- Apex of the spiral: reporting the violent spring of 2002 -- The war at home -- In the field -- Toward a new way of reporting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

958.104 T146 2008
AUT Crews, Robert D. ; Tarzi, Amin.
TIT The Taliban and the crisis of Afghanistan.
PUB Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

959.704 H586ve 2009
AUT Hess, Gary R.
TIT Vietnam : explaining America's lost war.
PUB Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2009.
SER Contesting the past.
CON Contents: From the streets to the books : the origins of an enduring debate -- A necessary war or a mistaken war? -- "Kennedy exceptionalism" or "missed opportunity for peace" or "lost victory?" : the movement toward war, 1961-1965 -- The revisionist critique of the "strategy for defeat" : the Clausewitzian alternative -- The revisionist critique of the "other war" : the "hearts-and-minds" prescription for victory -- The media and the war: shaping or reflecting public opinion? -- The Tet Offensive : a decisive American victory or a prolongation of stalemate? -- Nixon-Kissinger and the ending of the war: a "lost victory" or "neither peace nor honor"?.

959.704 M235 2008
AUT Bradley, Mark, ; Young, Marilyn Blatt.
TIT Making sense of the Vietnam wars : local, national, and transnational perspectives.
PUB Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
SER Reinterpreting history.
CON Contents: Pt. 1. American intervention and the Cold War consensus. Explaining the early decisions / Mark Atwood Lawrence -- "No place to fight a war" / Seth Jacobs -- Explaining the Vietnam War / Gareth Porter -- "There ain't no daylight" / Fredrik Logevall -- Pt. 2. The coming of war in Vietnam. Through a glass darkly / Sophie Quinn-Judge -- Vision, power, and agency / Edward Miller -- Taking notice of the everyday / David Hunt -- Co so cach mang and the social network of war / Heonik Kwon -- Pt. 3. War's end and endless wars. Cold War contradictions / Lien-Hang T. Nguyen -- "Help us tell the truth about Vietnam" / Michael J. Allen -- Official history, revisionist history, and wild history / David W.P. Elliott.

959.7043 K98g 2008
AUT Kwon, Heonik.
TIT Ghosts of war in Vietnam.
PUB Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
SER Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare. ; 27.
CON Contents: Ghosts of war -- Mass excavation -- Missing in action -- The phantom leg -- Death in the street -- Transforming ghosts -- Money for ghosts.

Ref 966.5 H893h4 2008
AUT Hughes, Arnold ; Perfect, David.
TIT Historical dictionary of The Gambia. - 4th ed.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.
SER Historical dictionaries of Africa. ; no. 109.
CON Contents: Acronyms and abbreviations -- Map -- Chronology -- Introduction -- The dictionary -- Appendices: A. Chief Executives, 1829-2008; B. Gambian parliamentary election results, 1960-2007; C. Gambian presidential election results, 1972-2006; D. Results of referenda; E. Gambian population statistics; F. Gambian population : ethnic distribution.

967.03 L548d 2009
AUT Lemarchand, René.
TIT The dynamics of violence in central Africa.
PUB Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.
SER National and ethnic conflict in the 21st century.
CON Contents: The regional context. The geopolitics of the Great Lakes Region ; The road to Hell -- Rwanda and Burundi: the genocidal twins. Comparative perspectives. Ethnicity as myth ; Genocide in the Great Lakes: which genocide? Whose genocide? ; Rwanda. The rationality of genocide ; Hate crimes ; The politics of memory ; Rwanda and the Holocaust reconsidered ; Burundi. Burundi 1972: a forgotten genocide ; Burundi at the crossroads ; Burundi's endangered transition -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo: from failed state to fragile transition. A blocked transition: Zaire in 1993 ; Ethnic violence, public policies, and social capital in North Kivu ; The DRC: from failure to potential reconstruction ; The tunnel at the end of the light ; From Kabila to Kabila: what else is new?.

968 F241s 2008
AUT Farley, Jonathan.
TIT Southern Africa.
PUB London : New York : Routledge, 2008.
SER Making of the contemporary world.

968.05 B594 2008
AUT Mngxitama, Andile ; Alexander, Amanda ; Gibson, Nigel C.
TIT Biko lives! : contesting the legacies of Steve Biko. - 1st ed.
PUB New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
SER Contemporary Black history.

970.004 A512N6 2008
AUT Nichols, Roger L.
TIT The American Indian : past and present. - 6th ed.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Important events in Native American history -- Invasions and colonialism -- How Indians got red / Nancy Shoemaker -- Spanish missions, cultural conflict, and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 / Henry Warner Bowden -- King Philip's herds : Indians, colonists, and the problem of livestock in early New England / Virginia DeJohn Anderson -- Change and continuity -- The rise and fall of Plains Indian horse cultures / Pekka Hämäläinen -- The Indians' New World : the Catawba experience / James H. Merrell -- The Delaware prophet Neolin : a reappraisal / Alfred A. Cave -- Facing the United States -- "We have always been the frontier" : the American Revolution in Shawnee Country / Colin G. Calloway -- Removing the heart of the Choctaw people : Indian removal from a Native perspective / Donna L. Akers -- Backdrop for disaster : causes of the Arikara War of 1823 / Roger L. Nichols -- Plains Indian women and interracial marriage in the upper Missouri trade, 1804-1868 / Michael Lansing -- Touching the pen : Plains Indian treaty councils in ethnohistorical perspective / Raymond J. DeMallie -- Reservations, resistance, and renewal -- "They mean to be Indians always" : the origins of the Columbia River Indian identity, 1860-1885 / Andrew H. Fisher -- Turning the tables on assimilation : Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889-1920 / Thomas G. Andrews -- The allotment period on the Nez Perce Reservation : encroachments, obstacles, and reactions / Elizabeth James -- Toward the mainstream -- More than a game : the Carlisle Indians take to the gridiron, 1893-1917 / David Wallace Adams -- Alcohol and the Anishinaabeg of Minnesota in the early twentieth century / Kathryn A. Abbott -- "The old system in no success" : the Blackfeet Nation's decision to adopt the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 / Paul C. Rosier -- Changing lives and federal policies -- The "making" of the Navajo worker : Navajo households, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and off-reservation wage work, 1948-1960 / Colleen O'Neill -- Termination and the Eastern Band of Cherokees / John R. Finger -- The Indian Health Service and the sterilization of Native American women / Jane Lawrence -- Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, and beyond : the Nixon and Ford administrations respond to Native American protest / Dean J. Kotlowski -- "Constructing" nations within states : the quest for federal recognition by the Catawba and Lumbee Tribes / Anne Merline McCulloch and David E. Wilkins -- Conclusion -- Study questions -- Contributors.

972.81 A257q 2007
AUT Afflitto, Frank M. ; Jesilow, Paul.
TIT The quiet revolutionaries : seeking justice in Guatemala. - 1st ed.
PUB Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Some background -- Access was not easy -- Chronic ambiguity -- Seeking justice -- The social movement to end impunity -- The movement is fragmented by the peace accords -- Identity, rule of law, and democracy.

972.94 F141 2007
AUT Popkin, Jeremy D.
TIT Facing racial revolution : eyewitness accounts of the Haitian Insurrection.
PUB Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
CON Contents: Becoming a slavemaster -- The Ogé Insurrection -- The first days of the slave insurrection -- A poet in the midst of insurrection : Amon Odyssée -- An expedition against the insurgents in November 1791 -- Inside the insurgency : Gross Historick recital -- Prisoners of the insurgents in 1792 -- Fighting and atrocities in the South Province in 1792-1793 -- Masters and their slaves during the insurrection -- The destruction of Cap Français in June 1793 -- A colonist at sea, 1793 -- Imagining the motives behind the insurrection -- A colonist among the Spanish and the British -- A white captive in the struggle against the Leclerc Expedition -- A family reunion and a religious conversion -- A woman's view of the last days of Cap Français -- A child's memories of the last days of Saint-Domingue -- A survivor of Dessalines's massacres in 1804 -- The story of the last French survivors in Saint-Domingue.

973.3 E47a 2007
AUT Ellis, Joseph J.
TIT American creation : triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic.
TIT 1st ed.
PUB New York : A. A. Knopf, 2007.

973.68 G925L 2008
AUT Guelzo, Allen C.
TIT Lincoln and Douglas : the debates that defined America. - 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
PUB New York : Simon & Schuster, 2008.
CON Contents: Introduction: From Lincoln and Douglas to Nixon and Kennedy -- The least man I ever saw -- Take care of your old Whigs -- A David greater than Goliath -- For God's sake, Linder, come up -- In the face of the nation -- The same tyrannical principle -- Epilogue: One supreme issue.

973.83 P361n 2008
AUT Pearson, J. Diane.
TIT The Nez Perces in the Indian territory : Nimiipuu survival.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.
CON Contents: Policy, politics, and administration : prologue to captivity -- Lapwai to the Bear Paw : the road to surrender -- Fifty days : the Bear Paw to Fort Leavenworth -- Survival and military jurisdiction at Fort Leavenworth -- Life in the Eeikish Pah, the hot place -- Peace chiefs and diplomats -- Removal to the Oakland subagency : new lives, demographics, and changing intertribal relationships -- Life at the Oakland subagency : challenges and change -- Federal Indian schools and Nimiipuu, Palus, and Cayuse students -- Communities of faith in the Indian territory -- Interactions and life in the Indian territory -- Leaving the Indian territory.

973.911 D718w 2007
AUT Dorsey, Leroy G.
TIT We are all Americans, pure and simple : Theodore Roosevelt and the myth of Americanism.
PUB Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Roosevelt's Americanism and the Myth of Origin -- 2. Forging Americanism on the Frontier: Immigrants and The Winning of the West -- 3. Red into White: Native Americans and Americanism -- 4. Shaping the African American Image: Americanism and the "Negro Problem" -- 5. From Hero to Traitor to Good Citizen: Americanism and the Campaign against the Hyphen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay -- Bibliography -- Index.

Ref 973.917 W988h 2008
AUT Wynn, Neil A.
TIT Historical dictionary of the Roosevelt-Truman era.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. historical eras ; 10.

Ref 973.92 K21h 2009
AUT Kaufman, Burton Ira ; Kaufman, Diane.
TIT Historical dictionary of the Eisenhower era.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.
SER Historical dictionaries of U.S. historical eras ; no. 11.

976.335 T531 2007
AUT Bates, Kristin Ann ; Swan, Richelle S.
TIT Through the eye of Katrina : social justice in the United States.
PUB Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2007.
CON Contents: Social justice in the face of the storm: when natural disasters become social disasters / Richelle S. Swan and Kristin A. Bates -- Images from the past: social justice and Hurricane Katrina in context -- Setting the stage: roots of social inequity and the human tragedy of Hurricane Katrina / DeMond S. Miller and Jason Rivera -- "Revolutions may go backwards": the persistence of voter disenfranchisement in the United States / Michelle Inderbitzin, Kelly Fawcett, Christopher Uggen and Kristin A. Bates -- Locked and loaded: the prison industrial complex and the response to Hurricane Katrina / Shana Agid -- Social justice movements: education disregarded, lessons ignored / Richelle S. Swan -- Reminders of poverty, soon forgotten / Alexander Keyssar -- Images from the disaster: reactions to Hurricane Katrina -- New song, same old tune: racial discourse in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina / Ashley "Woody" Doane -- "Reasonable racism": the "new" white supremacy and Hurricane Katrina / Dreama G. Moon and Anthony Hurst -- Katrina's Latinos: vulnerability and disasters in relief and recovery / Nicole Trujillo-Pagán -- From invisibility to hypervisibility: the complexity of race, survival, and resiliency for the Vietnamese American community in eastern New Orleans / Karen J. Leong ... [et al.] -- Disaster pornography: Hurricane Katrina, voyeurism, and the television viewer / Benjamin R. Bates and Rukhsana Ahmed -- Access to mediated emergency messages: differences in crisis knowledge across age, race, and socioeconomic status / Kenneth Lachlan, Patric R. Spence, & Christine Eith -- Discrimination, segregation, and the racialized search for housing post-Katrina / Jeannie Haubert Weil -- The voices of Katrina: ethos, race, and congressional testimonials / Terence Check -- Images of the future: policy, activism, and justice -- George Bush does not care about black people: hip hop and the struggle for Katrina justice / David J. Leonard -- Ordinary struggle and the "public good": navigating vernacular voices, state power, and the public sphere in quests for social justice / Lisa R. Foster -- Human rights in disaster policy: improving the federal response to natural disasters, disease pandemics, and terrorist attacks / Hannibal Travis -- Hurricane Katrina and the nation's obligation to black colleges / Marybeth Gasman and Noah D. Drezner -- Social justice after Katrina: the need for a revitalized public sphere / Peter G. Stillman and Adelaide H. Villmoare -- Whose city is it? Public housing, public sociology, and the struggle for social justice in New Orleans before and after Katrina / John D. Arena -- The disappearing neighborhood: an urban planner's tour of New Orleans / Kim Knowles-Yánez -- You can get there from here, but the road is long and hard: the intersection of social justice and social disasters post-Hurricane Katrina / Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. Swan.

976.6 M961s 2007
AUT Mulroy, Kevin.
TIT The Seminole freedmen : a history.
PUB Norman, Okla. : University of Oklahoma Press, c2007.
SER Race and culture in the American West ; v. 2.
CON Contents: Beginnings in Florida -- Removal to Indian territory -- Post-removal upheavals -- Seminole slave owners -- "Only slaves in name" -- The Civil War -- Reconstruction -- Intermarriage -- Language, society, and culture -- Relations with Seminoles in Oklahoma.

Ref 980 G455h 2008
AUT Giesso, Martin.
TIT Historical dictionary of ancient South America.
PUB Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.
SER Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras ; 21.

Ref 980.03 E56G2 2008 v.1-6
AUT Kinsbruner, Jay ; Langer, Erick Detlef.
TIT Encyclopedia of Latin American history and culture. - 2nd ed.
PUB Detroit, Mich. : Gale, 2008.
CON Contents: v. 1. A-B -- v. 2. C-D -- v. 3. E-I -- v. 4. J-O -- v. 5. P-S -- v. 6. T-Z.

983.03 N299c 2000
AUT Nauman, Ann K.
TIT The career of Doña Inés de Suárez : the first European woman in Chile.
PUB Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2000.
SER Latin American studies ; v. 7.

987 E47r 2008
AUT Ellner, Steve.
TIT Rethinking Venezuelan politics : class, conflict, and the Chávez phenomenon.
PUB Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner, 2008.
CON Contents: Rethinking Venezuelan politics -- From the Colonial Period to 1958 : a brief overview -- Venezuela's "model" democracy, 1958-1989 -- Neoliberal reforms and political crisis, 1989-1999 -- The four stages of the Chávez presidency -- Conflicting currents in the Chávez movement -- The Chávez movement's top-down and grassroots approaches -- The Chávez government in the international arena.

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Software 371.914 S933 2007
AUT Hargreaves, Sandra.
TIT Study skills for dyslexic students.
PUB Los Angeles, Calif. ; London : SAGE, 2007.
SER Sage study skills.
CON Contents: Managing your workload -- Understanding your preferred learning style -- Note taking and making -- Reading strategies and speed reading -- Answering essay questions -- Structuring different writing genres -- Improving your grammar, spelling and punctuation -- Improving mathematics skills and using statistics -- Examination techniques -- Using role play -- How ICT can help you.

DVD 305.31 T722
AUT Jhally, Sut ; Katz, Jackson ; Earp, Jeremy.
TIT Tough guise violence, media, and the crisis in masculinity.
PUB Northampton, Mass. : Media Education Foundation, 2002.
NOT "Full version"--Container.
CON Contents: Understanding violent masculinity -- Violent masculinity in action -- Interview with Jackson Katz.

DVD 330.954 N946 2008
AUT Brancaccio, David.
TIT NOW hosted by David Brancaccio.
PUB [New York] : JumpStart Productions, LLC ; [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video [distributor], c2008.

DVD 333.958 G218 2007
AUT Simon, Bob ; Beehler, Bruce McP ; Mihailovich, Draggan.
TIT Garden of Eden.
PUB New York : CBS Broadcasting, c2007.

DVD 364.135 I29
AUT Fitzwilliam, Helen ; Bredar, John B ; Coyote, Peter.
TIT Illicit the dark trade.
PUB [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic, c2008.
SER LANGRAN I IDS 273 2 HRS SPRING 2009 LANGRAN I POS 273 2 HRS SPRING 2009.
NOT "Based on the book Illicit by Moisés Naím.". - Originally broadcast on television as a National Geographic special in 2008. - Anamorphic widescreen format; Dolby digital. - Special feature: photo gallery.
CON Contents: Goods to sell -- Hidden networks -- What they want -- Poised to move -- Constrained by borders -- The Naples mafia -- Bottom rung -- Corruption that kills -- Perpetrator's accountability.

Pa Dutch 398.06 P415pu v.41
AUT Kriebel, David W.
TIT Powwowing among the Pennsylvania Dutch : a traditional medical practice in the modern world.
PUB University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007.
SER Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society ; v. 41. Pennsylvania German history and culture series ; no. 8.

DVD LAT 537
AUT Cox, C. Jay ; Tibbels, Kirkland ; Schaefer, Jennifer.
TIT Latter days. - Widescreen.
PUB [Philadelphia, Pa.] : TLA Releasing, 2004.
NOT Videodisc release of the 2003 motion picture. - Special features: chapter selection; trailers; music video; behind-the-scenes featurette; deleted scenes; photo gallery; "Reason thirteen" short by C. Jay Cox; commentary with C. Jay Cox, Wes Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss; information about The Trevor Project USA.

Software 519.5 T834e10m 2008
AUT Triola, Mario F.
TIT Elementary statistics with multimedia study guide. - 10th ed.
PUB Boston, Mass. : Pearson Addison Wesley, c2008.
NOT Includes index.

DVD THD 538
AUT Bernstein, Armyan ; Almond, Peter O ; Costner, Kevin.
TIT Thirteen days.
PUB [United States] : New Line Home Entertainment, [2001], c2000.
SER Infinifilm.
NOT Based on the book "The Kennedy tapes : inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis", edited by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow. - Special features: filmmaker commentary with Kevin Costner, Roger Donaldson, David Self and others, historical commentary, documentary 'Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis', documentary 'Bringing history to the silver screen', historical figures biography gallery, visual effects scene demonstrations, deleted scenes with director commentary, cast and crew filmographies, theatrical trailers; DVD-ROM content: script to screen screenplay, link to original website.

DVD 770.92 W835 2000
AUT McCullough, David G ; DeVinney, James A. ; Light, Judith.
TIT The wizard of photography.
PUB [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, c2000.
NOT Originally broadcast as a segment of the television series: The American experience.

DVD 779 D637 2007
AUT Bond, Julian ; Butler, Jeanine Isabel.
TIT Documenting the face of America Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI photographers.
PUB Columbia, S.C. : SCETV, c2007.

DVD 791.4372 A315
AUT Kurosawa, Hisao ; Inoue, Mike Y.
TIT Akira Kurosawa's dreams.
PUB Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, [2003].
NOT Originally released as a motion picture in 1990. - Special features: cast & crew, awards.
CON Contents: Sunshine through the rain -- The peach orchard --The blizzard --The tunnel -- Crows -- Mount Fuji in red --The weeping demon -- Village of the watermills.

DVD 791.4372 C539
AUT Godard, Jean Luc ; Wiazemsky, Anne ; Léaud, Jean-Pierre.
TIT La chinoise.
PUB Port Washinton, N.Y. : Distributed by Koch Entertainment, [2008].
SER JOHN A FRE 383 4 HRS SPRING 2009.
NOT Title from container. - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1967. - Special features: Godard editing table interview; Venice Film Festival press conference footage; interview with Anne Wiazemsky; intro by Colin MacCabe.

DVD 791.4372 G873 2008
AUT Guirado, Eric ; Cazalé, Nicolas ; Hesme, Clotilde.
TIT The grocer's son Le fils d'épicier.
PUB New York : Film Movement ; Prince Frederick, MD : Distributed by RB Media, [2008].
SER Film Movement series. ; v. 6, film 7.
NOT This month's short film : One weekend a month (12 min., director, Eric Escobar).

DVD 791.4375 D637 v.1-5
AUT Malle, Louis.
TIT The documentaries of Louis Malle.
PUB New York : Criterion Collection, [2007].
SER Eclipse. Series 2, The documentaries of Louis Malle.
NOT Originally released as motion pictures 1962-1985.
CON Contents: Vive le tour -- Humain, trop humain -- Place de la république -- Phantom India -- Calcutta -- God's country -- ...And the pursuit of happiness.

DVD 791.4375 P858 v.1-5
AUT Kurosawa, Akira ; Hara, Setsuko ; Fujita, Susumu.
TIT Postwar Kurosawa.
PUB New York : Criterion Collection, c2007.
SER Eclipse ; series 7.
CON Contents: v. 1. Waga seishun ni kuinashi = No regrets for our youth -- v. 2. Subarashiki nichiyobi = One Wonderful Sunday (1947) -- v. 2. Shubun = Scandal (1950) -- v. 4. Hakuchi = The Idiot (1951) -- v. 5. Ikimono no kiroku = I Live in Fear (1955).

Kit Video 791.4372 T655 Book
AUT Jacobs, Ken.
TIT Tom, Tom the piper's son.
PUB Paris : Re:Voir Video, c2002.
NOT Videocassette release of the 1969 film. - Bonus feature: A Tom Tom chaser (2002, 11 min.), Jacobs' never before seen creative riff on the transformation of his film from chemical to electronic form during the telecine process.

Kit Video 791.4372 T655 Suppl
AUT Jacobs, Ken.
TIT Tom, Tom the piper's son.
PUB Paris : Re:Voir Video, c2002.
NOT Videocassette release of the 1969 film. - Bonus feature: A Tom Tom chaser (2002, 11 min.), Jacobs' never before seen creative riff on the transformation of his film from chemical to electronic form during the telecine process.

Kit Video 791.4372 T655 Video
AUT Jacobs, Ken.
TIT Tom, Tom the piper's son.
PUB Paris : Re:Voir Video, c2002.
NOT Videocassette release of the 1969 film. - Bonus feature: A Tom Tom chaser (2002, 11 min.), Jacobs' never before seen creative riff on the transformation of his film from chemical to electronic form during the telecine process.

DVD 796.8125 S956 2003
AUT Pearlstein, Ferne ; Edwards, Robert ; Vierra, Wayne.
TIT Sumo East and West.
PUB New York : SumoFilms, c2003.

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