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Friday, February 26, 2010

New Titles in Biology


An orchard invisible : a natural history of seeds / Jonathan Silvertown ; with illustrations by Amy Whitesides.

Masters of disguise : a natural history of chameleons / text by James
Martin ; photographs by Art Wolfe.

Wild dogs : the wolves, coyotes, and foxes of North America / by Erwin A.
Bauer ; photographs by Erwin and Peggy Bauer ; foreword by John Madson.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

New Titles in Information Systems and Technology



Mobile design and development by Brian Fling

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript by by Robin Nixon

Windows 7 : the black book by Sean Odom

Learning Web design : a beginner's guide to (X)HTML, style sheets, and web graphics by Jennifer Niederst

Letting go of the words : writing Web content that works by Janice (Ginny) Redish

Writing space : computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print by J. David Bolter

Monday, February 22, 2010

New Titles in Sociology and Anthropology



Extraordinary anthropology : transformations in the field by Jean-Guy Goulet

Catching fire : how cooking made us human by Richard W. Wrangham

Of God and man : theology as anthropology from Irenaeus to Athanasius by Matthew C. Steenberg

Fire--the spark that ignited human evolution by Frances D. Burton

Total recall : how the E-memory revolution will change everything by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell ; foreword by Bill Gates

The philosophy of Jurgen Habermas : a critical introduction by Uwe Steinhoff ; translated by Karsten Schollner

Civil society in comparative perspective; edited by Bernard Enjolras and Karl Henrik Sivesing

Essentials of qualitative inquiry by Maria J. Mayan

Light, bright, and damned near white: biracial and triracial culture in America by Stephanie Rose Bird

Cuba in the shadow of change: daily life in the twilight of the revolution by Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb

Monday, February 15, 2010

New Titles in English


The best American poetry 2009 / David Wagoner, editor ; David Lehman, series editor.

The financier / Theodore Dreiser ; introduction by Larzer Ziff.

Shadow box : poems / Fred Chappell.

Hand of the wind : poems / Geraldine Connolly.

Friday, February 12, 2010

New Titles in Biology



Comparative biogeography : discovering and classifying biogeographical patterns of a dynamic Earth / Parenti, Lynne R.

Big bang : the origin of the universe / Singh, Simon.

The hidden life of deer : lessons from the natural world / Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall.

Biology of spiders / Rainer F. Foelix

Thursday, February 11, 2010

New Titles in Economics and Finance



Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner

Scroogenomics : why you shouldn't buy presents for the holidays by Joel Waldfogel

It takes a pillage : behind the bailouts, bonuses, and backroom deals from Washington to Wall Street by Nomi Prins

The new American economy : the failure of Reaganomics and a new way forward by Bruce Bartlett

Gravity shift : how Asia's new economic powerhouses will shape the twenty-first century by Wendy Dobson

Reacting to the spending spree : policy changes we can afford; editors, Terry L. Anderson, Richard Sousa ; contributors, Terry L. Anderson ... [et al.]

The politics of taxing and spending by Patrick Fisher

Those who work, those who don't: poverty, morality and familyu in rural America by Jennifer Sherman

The Brazilian economy: growth and development by Werner Baer

The trouble with capitalism: an enquiry into the cause of global economic failure by Harry Shutt

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

New Titles in American Studies



American passage [electronic resource] : the history of Ellis Island by Vincent J. Cannato

American heroes [electronic resource] : profiles of men and women who shaped early America by Edmund S. Morgan

Franklin's thrift : the lost history of an American virtue, edited by David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha Brophy-Warren

Buying power : a history of consumer activism in America by Lawrence B. Glickman

Freedom from religion : rights and national security by Amos N. Guiora

The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives
by Kenneth T. Jackson

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

New Titles in English


The hiding place / Trezza Azzopardi.

Annie Dunne / Sebastian Barry.

The nightwatchman's occurrence book : and other comic inventions / V.S. Naipaul.

Floricanto s*i! : a collection of Latina poetry / edited by Bryce Milligan, Mary Guerrero Milligan, Angela De Hoyos.

Friday, February 5, 2010

New Titles in Exercise Science


Exercise for older adults : ACE's guide for fitness professionals / Bryant, Cedric X.

Alive in the death zone : Mount Everest survival / Hall, Lincoln.


Dancing in the light [videorecording] / produced by Jodee Nimerichter ;
directed and written by Madison Davis Lacy ; a production of the American Dance Festival, in association with Thirteen/WNET New York.

Fonteyn and Nureyev [videorecording] : the perfect partnership / written & directed by Peter Batty ; Peter Batty Productions.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

New Titles in English


Five plays / Weller, Michael.

Jarrettsville : a novel / Nixon, Cornelia.

The book of Margery Kempe : a new translation, contexts, criticism / translated and edited by Lynn Staley.

Gerard Manley Hopkins : a life / Paul Mariani.

Monday, February 1, 2010

New Titles in Military Science

From Mercenaries to Market: the rise and regulation of private military companies by Simon Chesterman.

War, Torture and Terrorism: rethinking the rules of international security by Anthony F. Lang.

NATO, Security and Risk Management: from Kosovo to Khandahar by Michael J. Williams.

Double Trouble: Iran and North Korea as challenges to international security by Patrick M. Cronin

New Titles in Theology



Rethinking Gregory of Nyssa edited by Sarah Coakley

Mother of God : a history of the Virgin Mary by Miri Rubin

Worship and sin : an exploration of religion-related crime in the United States by Karel Kurst-Swanger

Religion and politics in Saudi Arabia : Wahhabism and the state by Mohammed Ayoob

Household and family religion in antiquity by John P. Bodel

A very brief history of eternity by Carlos M. N. Eire

Getting to the heart of interfaith : the eye-opening, hope-filled friendship of a pastor, a rabbi & a sheikh by Don Mackenzie, Ted Falcon and Jamal Rahman

Sustaining fictions : intertextuality, Midrash, translation, and the literary afterlife of the Bible by Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg

Why did they write this way? : reflections on references to written documents in the Hebrew Bible and ancient literature by Katherine M. Stott

The solution to the 'son of man' problem by Maurice Casey.