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Friday, April 30, 2010

New Titles in Sociology and Anthropology



The bone readers: science and politics in human origins research by Claudio Tuniz, Richard Gillespie and Cheryl Jones

People unlike us by Jeremy J. Millett

Banquet at Delmonico's: great minds, the Gilded Age, and the triumph of evolution in America by Barry Werth

CauseWired: plugging in, getting involved, changing the world by Tom Watson

You are not a gadget: a manifesto by Jaron Lanier

Sociobiology of communication: an interdisciplinary perspective; edited by Patrizia d'Ettorre and David P. Hughes

The wayfinders: why ancient wisdom matters in the modern world by Wade Davis

Power and empowerment by Neil Thompson

Dismantling social Europe: the political economy of social policy in the European Union by Daniel V. Preece

Belonging: a culture of place by Bell Hooks

Thursday, April 29, 2010

New electronic titles in History


Winston Churchill: man of the century [electronic resource] by John Ramsden

Hope from within: reform in the Islamic Republic and Ayatollah Montazeri's mission to fulfill the promises of the Iranian revolution [electronic resource] by Thomas Keith Wilson

Roman portraits in context [electronic resource] by Jane Fejfer

Cadbury's purple reign: the story behind chocolate's best-loved brand [electronic resource] by John Bradley

The world that made New Orleans: from Spanish silver to Congo Square [electronic resource] by Ned Sublette

Lion in the White House: a life of Theodore Roosevelt [electronic resource] by Aida D. Donald

George Washington on leadership [electronic resource] by Richard Brookhiser

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

New titles in Mathematics



A day's adventure in math wonderland [electronic resource] by Jin Akiyama, Mari-Jo Ruiz

Mathematical modelling for earth sciences [electronic resource] by Xin-She Yang

Advances in mathematical modeling for reliability [electronic resource] edited by Tim Bedford ... [et al.]

Mathematical programming and game theory for decision making [electronic
resource]; editors, S.K. Neogy ... [et al.]

The great number rumble: [a story of math in surprising places] by Cora Lee

Tools of the trade:
introduction to advanced mathematics by Paul Sally

Monday, April 26, 2010

New Titles in Social Work


At the death house door [videorecording] / the Independent Film Channel
presents in association with the Chicago Tribune Company a Kartemquim
Films production ; directed and produced by Steve James, Peter Gilbert

Radical, religious, and violent : the new economics of terrorism / Eli Berman.

Caught in the storm : navigating policy and practice in the welfare reform
era / Miguel Ferguson, Heather Neuroth-Gatlin, Stacey Borasky.

A paradise built in hell : the extraordinary communities that arise in disaster / Rebecca Solnit.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

New titles in Information Systems & Technology


Grace Hopper and the invention of the information age by Kurt Beyer

Techniques and applications for advanced information privacy and security: emerging organizational, ethical and human issues by Hamid R. Nemati

Social web evolution:
integrating semantic applications and Web 2.0 technologies by Miltiadis D. Lytras

Open information management: applications of interconnectivity and collaboration by Samuli Niiranen

Saturday, April 24, 2010

New titles in Accounting


Quicken 2009 for dummies [electronic resource] by Stephen L. Nelson

Accounting for dummies [electronic resource] by John A. Tracy

Accounting for derivatives [electronic resource] : advanced hedging under IFRS by Juan Ramirez

The complete CFO handbook: from accounting to accountability [electronic resource] by Frank J. Fabozzi

Accounting and finance policies and procedures [electronic resource] by Rose Hightower

Thursday, April 22, 2010

New titles in Fine and Performing Arts


Guernico's Paintings and his patron's politics in early modern Italy by Daniel M. Unger

The screenwriter's handbook 2010 by Barry Turner

Holiness and the feminine spirit : the art of Janet McKenzie by Susan Perry

The reinvention of religious music : Olivier Messiaen's breakthrough toward the beyond by Sander van Maas

Historical dictionary of modern Japanese literature and theater by J. Scott Miller

The Italian legacy in Washington, D.C. : architecture, design, art and culture by Luca Molinari

Screen education: from film appreciation to media studies [electronic resource] by Terry Bolas

Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema by Gina Moliterno

The 'hood comes first : race, space, and place in rap and hip-hop by Murray Forman

Issues in curating contemporary art and performance [electronic resource] edited by Judith Rugg and Michele Sedgwick

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

New Titles in Women and Gender Studies



Almost Madam President : why Hillary Clinton "won" in 2008 by Nichola D. Gutgold

No shortcuts to power : African women in politics and policy making by Anne Marie Goetz

Eminent maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and me by Jaime Manrique

Ouida the phenomenon : evolving social, political, and gender concerns in her fiction by Natalie Schroeder

Voices of African Women
: women's rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania by Johanna Bond

The theatre of Garcia Lorca: text, performance, psychoanalysis by Paul Julian Smith

Poor women in rich countries : the feminization of poverty over the life course by Gertrude S. Goldberg

And they were wonderful teachers : Florida's purge of gay and lesbian teachers by Karen Graves

Thirty ways of looking at Hillary: reflections by women writers; edited by Susan Morrison

Gender and political communication in America: rhetoric, representation, and display Janis L. Edwards

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

New Titles in African Studies


Conflict & collusion in Sierra Leone / Keen, David.

The land beyond the mists : essays on identity and authority in precolonial Congo and Rwanda / Newbury, David S.

Pray the devil back to Hell [videorecording] / Disney, Abigail E.

Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya : counterinsurgency, civil war, and
decolonization / Branch, Daniel.

Theology brewed in an African pot / Orobator, A. E. (Agbonkhianmeghe E.)

Monday, April 19, 2010

New Titles in Chemistry



Chemical Communication among bacteria by Stephen Carlyle Winans

Organic Reactions by Roger Adams

Enzymes: molecular machines involved in protein transport across cellular membranes

Schaum's outlines : biochemistry 3rd ed. by Philip W. Kuchel

Advanced structural inorganic chemistry by Wai-Kee Li

Organic synthesis : the disconnection approach by Stuart G. Warren

Modern molecular photochemistry of organic molecules by Nicholas J. Turro

Techniques in organic chemistry: miniscale, standard taper microscale, and Williamson microscale by Jerry R. Mohrig

Analytical chemistry and quantitative analysis by David S. Hage

Thursday, April 15, 2010

New Titles in Theology



Jesus and justice : Evangelicals, race, and American politics by Peter Heltzel

Who would Jesus kill? : war, peace, and the Christian tradition by Mark Allman

Aliens and sojourners : self as other in early Christianity by Benjamin H. Dunning

The future of secularism by T. N. Srinivasan

Jewish and Christian scripture as artifact and canon; edited by Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias

The genesis enigma: why the Bible is scientifically accurate by Andrew Parker

The ethics of citizenship: liberal democracy and religious convictions edited by J. Caleb Clanton

Gifts of the prophets: from Abraham to Muhammad by William Assad

Political Islam in Southeast Asia by Gordon P. Means

Texts to praxis: hermeneutics and homiletics in dialogue by Abraham Kuruvilla

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

New titles in American Studies


Sojourner Truth's America by Margaret Washington

War and empire : the American way of life by Paul L. Atwood

Deliver us from evil by Lacy K. Ford

The myth of the missing black father by Roberta L. Coles

The missing founding fathers: the need to teach the role of the antifederalists in the adoption of the bill of rights [electronic resource] by Brooks Humphreys

From out of the shadows: Mexican women in twentieth-century America [electronic resource] by Vicki L. Ruiz

Johnny Cash and the paradox of American identity [electronic resource] by Leigh H. Edwards

The fattening of America: how the economy makes us fat...[electronic resource] by Eric A. Finkelstein

New Titles in Medicine


Public speaking anxiety : how to face the fear / Thomas, L. Todd.

Developmental profiles : pre-birth through twelve / K. Eileen Allen, Lynn R. Marotz.

Clinical activities to accompany Therapeutic modalities, the art and science / Kenneth L. Knight, David O. Draper.

Coaching psychology manual / Margaret Moore.

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

New titles in Physics



Questioning the universe : concepts in physics by Ahren Sadoff

Biotechnology procedures and experiments handbook by S. Harisha

Food Microbiology Research Trends by Nova Science

Two-dimensional x-ray diffraction by Bob B. He

Einstein's telescope : the hunt for dark matter and dark energy in the universe by Evalyn Gates

Atomic America by Todd Tucker

Head first physics: a learner's companion to mechanics and practical physics by Heather Lang

Force and motion: an illustrated guide to Newton's laws by Jason Zimba

Why does E=mc²?: (and why should we care?) by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

What color is the sacred? by Michael Taussig

Saturday, April 10, 2010

New Electronic Titles in American Studies

Skilled immigrant and native workers in the United States [electronic resource]: the economic competition debate and beyond by Jeanne Batalova

Jamaican immigrants in the United States and Canada [electronic resource]: race, transationalism, and social capital by Terry-Ann Jones


The history of Ethiopian immigrants and refugees in America,
1900-2000 [electronic resource]" patterns of migration, survival and adjustment by Solomon Addis Getahun

Migrant death [electronic resource]: border safety and situational crime prevention on the U.S.-Mexico divide by Rob T. Guerette

Nativism and immigration [electronic resource]: regulating the American dream by Brian N. Fry

Thursday, April 8, 2010

New Titles in Fine and Performing Arts



The Art of Ancient Egypt by Gay Robins

Crusader art : the art of the Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1099-1291 by Jaroslav Folda

The State Hermitage Museum catalogue of Flemish painting : 17th-18th centuries by Natalia Ivanovna Gritsai

Rome and the barbarians : the birth of a new world by Jean-Jacques Aillagon

Collected Writings on Velazquez by Jonathan Brown

Defaced : the visual culture of violence in the late Middle Ages by Valentin Groebner

How to read buildings : a crash course in architectural styles by Carol Davidson Cragoe

Niagara by Alec Soth

Suburban world : the Norling photos by Brad Zellar

Fantastic tales : the photography of Nan Goldin by Nan Goldin

Friday, April 2, 2010