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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

New Titles in Atmospheric Sciences


The end of the long summer : why we must remake our civilization to survive on a volatile Earth by Dianne Dumanoski

Fire, ice, and paradise by H. Leighton Steward

The infinite cosmos [electronic resource] : questions from the frontiers
of cosmology / Joseph Silk.

Atmospheric science research progress / Yang, Chih-Hao.

Friday, September 25, 2009

Springer ebook trial


Take a look at ebooks from Springer. The library currently has a trial for Springer books published between 2005 and 2009. The trial ends October 31st. There are 3,206 titles in the subject area of Biomedical and Life Sciences, 2,117 titles in Physics, and 5,517 titles in Computer Science. Tell us what you think.

New Titles in Native American Studies



The Yale Indian : the education of Henry Roe Cloud / Joel Pfister.

Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux / as told through John G. Neihardt (Flaming Rainbow) ; annotated by Raymond J. DeMallie ; with illustrations by Standing Bear.

Uncommon threads : Wabanaki textiles, clothing, and costume / Bourque, Bruce J. (Bruce Joseph)

Guardians of the valley : Chickasaws in colonial South Carolina and Georgia / Cashin, Edward J.

White mother to a dark race : settler colonialism, maternalism, and the removal of indigenous children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 Jacobs, Margaret D.

Waterlily / Ella Cara Deloria ; biographical sketch of the author by Agnes Picotte ; afterword by Raymond J. DeMallie ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Susan Gardner.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

New Print and Electronic Titles in Environmental Sciences


Natural resources [electronic resource] : neither curse nor destiny / edited by Daniel Lederman, William F. Maloney

At loggerheads? [electronic resource] : agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in the tropical forests / Kenneth M. Chomitz et al

The end of the long summer : why we must remake our civilization to survive on a volatile Earth by Dianne Dumanoski

Greenhouse of the dinosaurs : evolution, extinction, and the future of our planet by Donald R. Prothero

Fire, ice, and paradise by H. Leighton Steward

Monday, September 21, 2009

Friday, September 18, 2009

New Titles in Theology


The examen prayer : Ignatian wisdom for our lives today / Timothy M. Gallagher ; with a foreword by George Aschenbrenner

Benedict XVI, Pope, 1927- Prayers / Benedict XVI

Resting on the heart of Christ : the vocation and spirituality of the seminary theologian by James Keating

Franz Jägerstätter [videorecording] : a man of conscience by Jason A. Schmidt

Pride [electronic resource] : the seven deadly sins / Michael Eric Dyson.

Simply surrender / Thérèse, de Lisieux, Saint

Monday, September 14, 2009

New Electronic Titles in Economics and Finance

Mining royalties [electronic resource] : a global study of their impact on investors, government, and civil society by James Otto

A reader in international corporate finance [electronic resource] / edited by Stijn Claessens and Luc Laeven

Reforming collateral laws to expand access to finance [electronic resource] / Heywood Fleisig, Mehnaz Safavian, Nuria de la Pe*na

Transforming microfinance institutions [electronic resource] : providing full financial services to the poor / Joanna Ledgerwood and Victoria White ; with contributions from Monica Brand ... [et al.]

Doing business 2007 [electronic resource] : how to reform : comparing regulation in 175 economies

The Polish fixed-income securities market [electronic resource] : recent
developments and selected policy challenges / Michel Noel, Noritaka

Friday, September 11, 2009

John Haught Lecture September 24th

Theologian and author John Haught will speak on “Faith, Science and the New Atheism” Thursday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Rigge Science Building Lecture Hall. He is the author of several books which are available in the library.

God after Darwin : a theology of evolution

God and the new atheism : a critical response to Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens

Christianity and science : toward a theology of nature

Is nature enough? : meaning and truth in the age of science

Deeper than Darwin : the prospect for religion in the age of evolution

Responses to 101 questions on God and evolution

Science and religion in search of cosmic purpose

Science and religion : from conflict to conversation

Mystery and promise : a theology of revelation

What is religion? : an introduction

What is God? : how to think about the divine

Religion and self-acceptance

New Titles in Language and Literature

First Italian reader : a dual-language book / edited and translated by Stanley Appelbaum.

Dictionary of Italian slang and colloquial expressions / [edited by] Daniela Gobetti.

First French reader : a beginner's dual-language book / edited and translated by Stanley Appelbaum.

First Spanish reader : with grammatical and conversational exercises / by
Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa ; [with drawings by Florence Pretz Smalley.

Spanglish / edited by Ilan Stavans.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

New Electronic Titles in Communication Studies

Individuals in time [electronic resource] : tense, aspect and the individual/stage distinction by Mar*ia J. Arche

The minimalist syntax of defective domains [electronic resource] : gerunds and infinitives by Acrisio Pires

Grammar from the human perspective [electronic resource] : case, space and person in Finnish / edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Lyle Campbell

Competing models of linguistic change [electronic resource] : evolution and beyond / edited by Ole Nedergaard Thomsen

Creative compounding in English [electronic resource] : the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun-noun combinations / R*eka Benczes

Comparative studies in Germanic syntax [electronic resource] : from A(frikaans) to Z(urich German) / edited by Jutta M. Hartmann, L*aszl*oMoln*arfi

Thursday, September 3, 2009

New Titles in Psychology

Memory, metaphors, and meaning : reading literary texts by Nicolae Babuts

The descriptive phenomenological method in psychology : a modified Husserlian approach by Amedeo Giorgi

Freud's foes : psychoanalysis, science, and resistance by Kurt Jacobsen

You are here : why we can find our way to the Moon but get lost in the mall by Colin Ellard

Relational being : beyond self and community by Kenneth J. Gergen