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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Friday, August 28, 2009

New Titles in Classics


Motivation and narrative in Herodotus by Emily Baragwanath

Horace : a Legamus transitional reader edited by Ronnie Ancona & David J. Murphy

The Iliad of Homer as Translated by Alexander Pope; with an introduction and extensive footnotes by Theodore alois Buckley

In the valley of the kings : Howard Carter and the mystery of King Tutankhamun's tomb by Daniel Meyerson



Daphnis and Chloe / Longus. Anthia and Habrocomes / Xenophon, of Ephesus ; edited and translated by Jeffrey Henderson



Rhetoric and centers of power in the Greco-Roman world : from Homer to the fall of Rome by John E. Tapia

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

New Electronic Titles in History


American confluence [electronic resource] : the Missouri frontier from borderland to border state by Stephen Aron

Power and passion in Egypt [electronic resource] : a life of Sir Eldon Gorst 1861-1911 by Archie Hunter

Authors of their lives [electronic resource] : the personal correspondence of British immigrants to North America in the nineteenth century by David A. Gerber

The rabbi's wife [electronic resource] : the rebbetzin in American Jewish life by Shuly Rubin Schwartz

Time restored [electronic resource] : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything by Johnathan Betts

Squires in the slums [electronic resource] : settlements and missions in late-Victorian London by Nigel Scotland

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

JSTOR Update

The following titles have been added to the JSTOR archive:

College Teaching (1956-2003)
Current Directions in Psychological Science (1992-2003)
Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies (2006-2007)
European Journal of Population (1985-2005)
Health and History (1998-2007)
International History Review (1979-2005)
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (1978-2005)
Journal of Educational Research (1920-2003)
Journal of Experimental Education (1932-2003)
Population and Environment (1978-2005)
Psychological Science (1990-2003)
Social Indicators Research (1974-2005)

New Titles in Education



Sowing the seeds of character : the moral education of adolescents in public and private schools by Judd Kruger Levingston

Videoconferencing for K-12 classrooms : a program development guide by Camille Cole, Kecia Ray, Jan Zanetis

Rethinking homework : best practices that support diverse needs by Cathy Vatterott

Vocabulary their way : word study with middle and secondary students by Shane Templeton

Understanding and engaging adolescents by Jeffrey Miller, Peter Desberg

Improving standards-based learning : a process guide for educational leaders by Judy F. Carr, Doug Harris

The principal's field manual : the school principal as the organizational leader by Michael B. Ayers, William A. Sommers

Preventing violence and crime in America's schools : from put-downs to lock-downs by William L. Lassiter and Danya C. Perry

Monday, August 24, 2009

New Electronic Titles in Psychology


The architecture of the mind [electronic resource] : massive modularity and the flexibility of thought by Peter Carruthers

Exploring the psychology of interest [electronic resource] by Paul J. Silvia

From morality to mental health [electronic resource] : virtue and vice in a therapeutic culture by Mike W. Martin

Parenting by men who batter [electronic resource] : new directions for assessment and intervention edited by Jeffrey L. Edleson, Oliver J. Williams

Bioethics and the brain [electronic resource] by Walter Glannon

Intellectual disability [electronic resource] : understanding its development, causes, classification, evaluation, and treatment by James C. Harris

On desire [electronic resource] : why we want what we want byWilliam Braxton Irvine

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

New Electronic Titles in Environmental Sciences


Discovering evolutionary ecology [electronic resource] : bringing together ecology and evolution by Peter J. Mayhew

Life in the valley of death [electronic resource] : the fight to save tigers in a land of guns, gold, and greed by Alan Rabinowitz

Conservation of rare or little-known species [electronic resource] : biological, social, and conomic considerations edited by Raphel G. Martin, Randy Molina ; foreword by Nancy Molina

The green building revolution [electronic resource] by Jerry Yudelson

Mountain goats [electronic resource] : ecology, behavior, and conservation of an alpine ungulate by Marco Festa-Bianchet

Old fields [electronic resource] : dynamics and restoration of abandoned farmland edited by Viki A. Cramer and Richard J. Hobbs

Saturday, August 1, 2009

New Titles in Chemistry

Chemistry basics [electronic resource] by William C. Robertson

Molecular theory of solutions [electronic resource] by Arieh Ben-Naim

Basics of CMOS cell design [electronic resource] by Etienne Sicard, Sonia Delmas Bendhia

Estimating mortality risk reduction and economic benefits from controlling
ozone air pollution
[electronic resource] by the Committee on Estimating Mortality Risk Reduction Benefits from Decreasing Tropospheric Ozone Exposure, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studes, National Research Council of the National Academies