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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

New titles in Fine and Performing Arts


Desert Lake: art, science and stories from Paruku edited by Steve Morton and others


Shaping jazz: cities, labels and the global emergence of an art form by Damon J. Phillips


Irish masculinity on screen: the pugilists and peacemakers of John Ford, Jim Sheridan and Paul Greengrass by Joseph Paul Moser


The eyes have it: cinema and the reality effect by Murray Pomerance


Wagner's melodies: aesthetics and materialism in German musical identity by David Trippet


The American city in the Cinema by James A. Clapp


Spiritual American trash : portraits from the margins of art and faith by Greg Bottoms

New titles in Environmental Science

Advanced modeling and computer technologies for fluvial water quality research and control [electronic resource] by Karlos J.  Kachiashvili,

Mangroves of the South China Sea [electronic resource] : ecology and human impacts on Indonesia's forests  by Sukristijono Sukardjo

Environmental education in a high school biology class [electronic resource] : knowing and appreciating nature  by  Bianchini Bonotto, Dalva Maria

Mediterranean Sea [electronic resource] : ecosystems, economic importance and environmental threats  by Terrence B. Hughes

New titles in Native American Studies


Arapaho women's quiltwork: motion, life and creativity by Jeffrey D. Anderson

Under polaris : an Arctic quest
    Washburn, Tahoe Talbot.


An infinity of nations [electronic resource]: how the native New World shaped early North America by Michael Witgen


Native Americans, Christianity and the reshaping of the American religious landscape [electronic resource] edited by Joel W. Martin et al


Removable type [electronic resource]: histories of the book in Indian country, 1663-1880 by Phillip H. Round

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

New titles in Fine and Performing Arts


The musical legacy of wartime France by Leslie A. Sprout


Taking it to the bridge: music as performance by Nicholas Cook and Richard Pettengill, editors


Crossroads: how the blues shaped rock 'n' roll (and rock saved the blues) by John Milward

Music and modernism, c. 1849-1950 edited by Charlotte de Mille


Dreaming up: a celebration of building by Christy Hale


Genre filmmaking: a visual guide to shots and style by Danny Draven


Jazz and machine-age imperialism: music, "race," and intellectuals in France, 1918-1945 by Jeremy F. Lane

First ladies of disco: 32 starts discuss the era and their singing careers by James Arena


Shapes of Apocalypse: arts and philosophy in Slavic thought edited by Andrea Oppo



Thursday, September 12, 2013

New titles in Political Science


The emotional politics of research collaboration edited by Gabriele Griffin and others


What is your race?: the Census and our flawed efforts to classify Americans by Kenneth Prewitt


New Jersey politics and government: the suburbs come of age by Barbara G. Salmore


Government by dissent: protest, resistance, and radical democratic thought in the early American republic by Robert W.T. Martin


The sun never sets: South Asian migrants in an age of U.S. power edited by Vivek Bald and others


Nationalism and war edited by John A. Hall and Sinisa Malesevic


George W. Bush: life of privilege, leadership in crisis by Luke A. Nichter


The fate of freedom elsewhere: human rights and U.S. Cold War policy toward Argentina by William Michael Schmidli

Confessions of a government man : how to succeed in any bureaucracy by Alan L. Greenberg

New titles in History


Worlds of Arthur: facts and fictions of the dark ages by Guy Halsall

Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy


Wronged by empire: post-imperial ideology and foreign policy in India and China by Manjari Chatterjee Miller


Union heartland: the midwestern home front during the Civil War edited by Ginette Aley and J.L. Anderson


Escaping Hitler: a Jewish haven in Chile by Eva Goldschmidt Wyman


Charles I and the aristocracy, 1625-1642 by Richard Cust

Tapestry of memory: evidence and testimony in life-story narratives by Nanci Adler and Selma Leydesdorgg, editors


Intelligence and surprise attack: failure and success from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 and beyond by Erik J. Dahl


London's underground spaces: representing the Victorian city, 1840-1915 by Haewon Hwang

Family and empire : the Fernández de Córdoba and the Spanish realm by Yuen-Gen Liang

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

New titles in Information Systems


Linked data tools: connecting on the web by Karen Coyle


RFID in libraries: a step towards interoperability by Lori Bowen Ayre


Running the digital branch: guidelines for operating the library website by David Lee King

University libraries and space in the digital world edited by Graham Matthews and Graham Walton

Librarians, historians and new opportunities for discourse: a guide for Clio's helpers by Joel D. Kitchens

New titles in Environmental Science


Ecological migration : environmental policy in China by Masayashi Nakawo et al, editors


Radical human ecology: intercultural and indigenous approaches by Lewis Williams and others


Environmental regulation and compulsory public disclosure: the case of PROPER in Indonesia by Shakeb Afsah and others

Managing extreme climate risks through insurance by W.J. Wouter Botzen


Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change edited by Arjan E.J. Wals and Peter Blaze Corcoran


New Materials in Social Work





 Britain and the War on Terror : policy, strategy and operations / by Warren Chin.


Preventing the emotional abuse and neglect of people with intellectual disability : stopping insult and injury / Sally Robinson ; foreword by Hilary Brown.


Cover ArtMarikana : voicesfrom South Africa's mining massacre/Peter Alexander, Luke Sinwell, Thapelo Lekgowa, Botsang Mmope and Bongani Xezwi.
 
 




Monday, September 2, 2013

New titles in History


Unfinished utopia: Nowa Huta, Stalinism, and Polish society, 1949-56 by Kathine Lebow


Secret reports on Nazi Germany: the Frankfurt School contribution to the war effort by Franz Neumann and others


A president in Yellowstone: the F. Jay Haynes photographic album of Chester Arthur's 1883 expedition by Frank H. Goodyear III


Tales of Gotham, historical archaeology, ethnohistory and microhistory of New York City edited by Meta F. Janowitz and Diane Dallal


The archaeology of interdependence: European involvement in the development of a sovereign United States by Douglas Comer

Those angry days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's fight over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson


New titles of Native American Studies

Indianization of Lewis and Clark by William R. Swagerty

Amskapi Pikuni : the Blackfeet people by Clark Wissler

 Native footsteps : along the path of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
    Thiel, Mark G.

From homeland to new land [electronic resource]: a hjistory of the Mahican Indians, 1600-1810 by William A. Starna


Crisis of governance in Maya Guatemala [electronic resource]: indigenous responses to a failing state edited by John P. Hawkins, et al.

A gathering of statesmen [electronic resource]: records of the Choctaw council meetings, 1826-1828 by Peter Perkins Pitchlynn