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Monday, August 30, 2010

New titles in History




Post Black: how a generation is redefining African American identity by Ytasha Womack

Occupation and insurgency: a selective examination of the Hage and Geneva Conventions on the Eastern Front, 1939-1945 by Colin D. Heaton

Muslims of Europe: the 'other' Europeans by H.A. Hellyer

The secrets of Rome: love & death in the eternal city by Corrado Augias

After the Reich: the brutal history of the Allied occupation by Giles MacDonogh

Pharaoh's Boat by David Weitzman

Saturday, August 28, 2010

New Electronic Titles in Sociology and Anthropology


Digital citizenship [electronic resource] :the internet, society, and participation /Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Ramona S. McNeal.

Careers in child care[electronic resource] /Marjorie Eberts and Margaret Gisler.

Handbook of paleoanthropology [electronic resource] / Winfried Henke, Ian Tattersall (eds.) ; in collaboration with Thorolf Hardt.

On the frontier of adulthood[electronic resource] :theory, research, and public policy /Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Rub{acute}en G. Rumbaut, editors.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

New titles in International Relations


A new deal for the world : America's vision for human rights by Elizabeth Borgwardt

Peace agreements and civil wars in Africa : insurgent motivations, state responses, and third-party peacemaking in Liberia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone By Julius Mutwol

Muslims in the West after 9/11: religion, politics, and law by Jocelyne Cesari

Comparative Latin American politics by Ronald M. Schneider

When China rules the world: the end of the western world and the birth of a new global order by Martin Jacques

Governance and democracy in Asia by Takashi Inoguchi

The evolution of arms control : from antiquity to the nuclear age by Richard Dean Burns

Human rights and social movements by Neil Stammers

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

New Electronic Titles in Modern Languages


Chinese Mandarin. Level 1 [electronic resource] / Fairfield Language Technologies (Firm)

Rosetta Stone. Italiano. Level 1, 2, & 3 [electronic resource].

Florentine drama for convent and festival[electronic resource] :seven sacred plays /Antonia Pulci ; annotated and translated by James Wyatt Cook ; edited by James Wyatt Cook and Barbara Collier Cook

One must also be Hungarian[electronic resource] /Adam Biro ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi.

New titles in American Studies



You and me and home sweet home by George Ella Lyon

Homeland insecurity: the Arab American and Muslim American experience after 9/11 by Louise Cainkar

Rave culture : the alteration and decline of a Philadelphia music scene Tammy L. Anderson

Journalism in the Civil War Era by David W. Bulla

Monday, August 23, 2010

New titles in Theology


The turn to transcendence : the role of religion in the twenty-first century by Gleen W. Olsen

Blackwell Companion to New Testament by David Edward Aune

The spirit level : why greater equality makes societies stronger by Richard G. Wilkinson

Contemporary christologies : a Fortress introduction by Don Schweitzer

Augustine and History by Christopher T. Daly

Augustine and Philosophy by Philip Cary

Friday, August 20, 2010

New Titles in Philosophy


Scientific understanding : philosophical perspectives / Regt, Henk W. de.

The guide to unconditional personal freedom : a concise description of existence / Jack Trefaine.

The fragments of Parmenides : a critical text with introduction and translation, the ancient Testimonia and a commentary / Parmenides.

The correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes[electronic resource] /Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Rene Descartes ; edited and translated by Lisa Shapiro.





















Breaking and remaking : aesthetic practice in England, 1700-1820 / Ronald Paulson.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

New titles in Military Science


Treachery, betrayals, blunders and cover-ups: six decades of espionage against America and Great Britain by Chapman Pincher

Spies in the Vatican: the Soviet Union's cold war against the Catholic Church by John O. Koehler

Ask not [videorecording] directed by Johnny Symons

Engineering security: the Corps of Engineers and Third Systems defense policy 1815-1861 by Mark A. Smith

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

New titles in Women and Gender Studies


A Victorian woman's place [electronic resource]:public culture in the nineteenth century by Simon Morgan

Living gender after communism [electronic resource], edited by Janet Elise Johnson and Jean C. Robinson

Gay and lesbian historical fiction [electronic resource]: sexual mystery and post-secular narrative by Norman W. Jones

Modern Jewish women writers in America [electronic resource], edited with an introduction by Evelyn Avery

The literary subversions of medieval women [electronic resource] by Jane Chance

Third wave feminism and television [electronic resource]: Jane puts it in a box, edited by Merri Lisa Johnson

The new paradox for Japanese women: greater choice, greater inequality by Tachinbanaki Toshiaki; translated by Mary E. Foster

Women's rights and transatlantic antislavery in the era of emancipation [electronic resource], edited by Kathryn Kish Sklar and James Brewer Stewart

Women writers and public debate in 17th-century Britain [electronic resource] by Catharine Gray

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

New titles in Physics


Cracking the Einstein code : relativity and the birth of black hole physics by Fulvio Melia

Gamma-ray bursts : the brightest explosions in the universe by G. Vedrenne

A brilliant darkness
: the extraordinary life and disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the troubled genius of the nuclear age by João Magueijo

A primer in applied radiation physics by F. A. Smith

Monday, August 16, 2010

New Titles in Social Work


Deadly force : firearms and American law enforcement : from the Wild West to the streets of today / Chris McNab.

Jewish terrorism in Israel / Ami Pedahzur & Arie Perliger.

The historiography of genocide / edited by Dan Stone.

Police practices in global perspective / Eterno, John,

Saturday, August 14, 2010

New titles in American Studies


Encountering American faultlines : race, class, and the Dominican experience in Providence by José Itzigsohn

Barney Frank : the story of America's only left-handed, gay, Jewish congressman by Stuart E. Weisberg

Iconic America : a roller-coaster ride through the eye-popping panorama of American pop culture by Tommy Hilfiger

Wounded Knee : party politics and the road to an American massacre by Heather Cox Richardson

The totem pole : an intercultural history by Aldona Jonaitis

Friday, August 13, 2010

New titles in Military Science


Shield of dreams: missile defense and U.S.-Russian nuclear strategy by Stephen J. Cimbala

Russian civil-military relations and the origins of the second Chechen war by Lajos F. Szaszdi

Kiowa military societies : ethnohistory and ritual by William C. Meadows

The American Civil War : a military history by John Keegan

Out of business and on budget [electronic resource] : the challenge of military financing in Indonesia by Lex Rieffel, Jaleswari Pramodhawardani

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

New titles in Physics


J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the atomic West by Jon Hunner

Patterns of light: chasing the spectrum from Aristotle to LEDs by Steven Beeson

Entanglement, information, and the interpretation of quantum mechanics
by Gregg Jaeger

A nuclear winter's tale: science and poltiics in the 1980s by Lawrence Badash

Good vibrations: the physics of music by Barry R. Parker

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

New titles in Mathematics



The manga guide to calculus by Hiroyuki Kojima

A mathematical nature walk
by John A. Adam
Mind and nature: selected writings on philosophy, mathematics and physics by Hermann Weyl

Explorations in Monte Carlo methods by Ronald W. Shonkwiler

Bioinformatics by T. Charlie Hodgman

Advanced and multivariate statistical methods for social science research with a complete SPSS guide by Soleman H. Abu-Bader

Friday, August 6, 2010

New Titles in Native American Studies


Pipestone : my life in an Indian boarding school / Adam Fortunate Eagle

Empire of the summer moon : Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history / Gwynne, S. C. (Samuel C.)

The Columbia guide to American Indians of the Southwest / Griffin-Pierce, Trudy

People of the land : legends of the four host First Nations ; Lil'wat, Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh

Thursday, August 5, 2010

New titles in Physics


Lectures on quantum mechanics for mathematical students by L.D. Faddeev

Solitons, instantons and twistors by Maciej Dunajski

Advanced modern physics : theoretical foundations by John Dirk Walecka

Fundamentals of nuclear models: foundational models by D.J. Rowe

Our undiscovered universe: introducing null physics: the science of uniform and unconditional reality by Terence Witt

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

New titles in Military Science


Blank spots on the map: the dark geography of the Pentagon's secret world by Trevor Paglen

Ranger dawn: the American ranger from the colonial era to the Mexican War by Robert W. Black

Russian military reform: a failed exercise in defence decision making by Carolina Vendil Pallin

Master of war: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the business of war by Suzanne Simons

Monday, August 2, 2010

New Titles in Philosophy


Leibniz : a guide for the perplexed / Franklin Perkins.

Kant : a guide for the perplexed / T.K. Seung.

Hegel : a guide for the perplexed / David James.

Adorno : a guide for the perplexed / Alex Thomson.

Husserl : a guide for the perplexed / Matheson Russell.

Nietzsche : a guide for the perplexed / R. Kevin Hill.

Kierkegaard : a guide for the perplexed / Clare Carlisle.

Un-forgetting : re-calling time lost / Stephen David Ross.

Surviving death / Mark Johnston.

New titles in Journalism



Us against them: the political culture of talk radio by William R. Bobbitt

Environmental reporters in the 21st century by David B. Sachsman

Getting it wrong: ten of the greatest misreported stories in American journalism by W. Joseph Campbell

Toxic talk: how the radical right has poisoned America's airwaves by Bill Press

Sunday, August 1, 2010

New titles by Creighton authors


Beyond redistribution: White supremacy and racial justice by Kevin M. Graham

Mystics by William Harmless

The union of minds and hearts : celebrating the spiritual roots of Creighton University : an introduction for newcomers


The New Testament world: insights from cultural anthropology by Bruce J. Malina