Recent Acquisitions

Posted April 20, 2010

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  • Koterski, Joseph W.   An introduction to medieval philosophy : basic concepts. Chichester, [England] ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.
    General Collection    B 721 .K67

  • Handbook of attachment : theory, research, and clinical applications .  New York : Guilford Press, c2008.
    General Collection  BF 575 .A86 H36 2008

  • Frey, Bruno S.   Happiness : a revolution in economics. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008 .
    General Collection  BF 575 .H27 F74

  • Phillips, Adam.   On kindness . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
    General Collection  BJ 1533 .K5 P45

  • War : from ancient Egypt to Iraq . New York : DK Publishing, 2009.
    Reference   D 25 .A2 W374 2009

  • Not your father's antisemitism : hatred of the Jews in the twenty-first century. St. Paul, Minn. : Paragon House, 2008.
    General Collection  DS 145 .N68

  • Lawrence, Mark Atwood.  The Vietnam War : a concise international history . New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
    General Collection   DS 557.7 .L387

  • Scarpaci, Joseph L.   Cuban landscapes : heritage, memory, and place.  New York : Guilford Press, c2009.
    General Collection  F 1760.9 .S33

  • Smil, Vaclav.   Global catastrophes and trends : the next 50 years. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
    General Collection   GB 5014 .S644

  • Book of peoples of the world : a guide to cultures . Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2007.
    Reference  GN 378 .P46 2007

  • DeMello, Margo.   Encyclopedia of body adornment . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
    Reference  GN 419.15 .D45 2007

  • Encyclopedia of play in today's society . Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2009..
    Reference   GV 11 .E555 2009 V.1-2

  • Lumpkin, Angela.   Modern sports ethics : a reference handbook . Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2009 .
    General Collection  GV 706.3 .L846

  • Handbook of the arts in qualitative research : perspectives, methodologies, examples, and issues . Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2008 .
    General Collection  H 62 .H255

  • Ubel, Peter A.   Free market madness : why human nature is at odds with economics--and why it matters. Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2009 .
    General Collection  HB 95 .U334

  • Patel, Raj.   The value of nothing : why everything costs so much more than we think. Toronto : HarperCollins Canada, c2009 .
    General Collection  HB 221 .P37

  • Pimpare, Stephen.  A people's history of poverty in America. New York : New Press, c2008.
    General Collection  HC 110 .P6 P556

  • Epping, Randy Charles.   The 21st century economy : a beginner's guide : with 101 easy-to-learn tools for surviving and thriving in the new global marketplace . New York : Vintage Books, c2009 .
    General Collection  HG 3881 .E664

  • Best, Joel.   Stat-spotting : a field guide to identifying dubious data. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008.
    General Collection  HM 535 .B4777

  • Chayko, Mary.   Portable communities : the social dynamics of online and mobile connectedness. Albany, N.Y. : SUNY Press, c2008 .
    General Collection  HM 1166 .C43

  • Ormand, Kirk.   Controlling desires : sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome . Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
    General Collection  HQ 13 .O753

  • Landry, Nicole E. R.   The mean girl motive : negotiating power and femininity. Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., c2008 .
    General Collection  HQ 1206 .L37

  • Shepard, Judy.   The meaning of Matthew : my son's murder in Laramie, and a world transformed. New York : Hudson Street Press, c2009 .
    General Collection  HV 6250.4 .H66 S536

  • Kinnear, Karen L.  Gangs : a reference handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2009.
    General Collection  HV 6439 .U5 K555 2009

  • Organized crime : from trafficking to terrorism . Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.
    Reference  HV 6441 .O745 2008 v.1-2

  • Hartjen, Clayton A.   Youth, crime, and justice : a global inquiry . New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008 .
    General Collection  HV 9069 .H324

  • Adolescents at school : perspectives on youth, identity, and education. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Education Press, c2008 .
    General Collection   LA 229 .A36 2008

  • Koretz, Daniel M.  Measuring up : what educational testing really tells us . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008 .
    General Collection  LB 3051 .K67

  • Negus, Keith.   Bob Dylan . Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008 .
    General Collection   ML 420 .D98 N44

  • Bradley, Adam.   Book of rhymes : the poetics of hip hop . New York : Basic Civitas, 2009 .
    General Collection  ML 3531 .B733

  • Giroire, Cécile.  Roman art from the Louvre. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2007.
    General Collection  N 5760 .G57

  • Ross, Leslie.  Art and architecture of the world's religions . Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO, c2009.
    Reference  N 7790 .R67 2009 v.1-2

  • Lehman, Christopher P.   The Colored cartoon : Black representation in American animated short films, 1907-1954 . Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2007 .
    General Collection  NC 1766 .U5 L442

  • Winslow, Valerie L.   Classic human anatomy : the artist's guide to form, function, and movement . New York : Watson-Guptill, c2009 .
    General Collection  NC 760 .W567

  • Rey, Alain.  L'amour du français : contre les puristes et autres censeurs de la langue . [Paris, France] : Denoël, c2007 .
    General Collection  PC 2075 .R47

  • Rey, Alain.   Le français : une langue qui défie les siècles . Paris, [France] : Gallimard, c2008 .
    General Collection  PC 2095 .R48

  •  Directors & designers . Bristol, [England] : Intellect ; Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
    General Collection  PN 2091 .S8 D57

  • Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret).   Molière . Charleston, S.C. : Bibliobazaar, [2008].
    General Collection   PQ1852 .O44 2008

  • Fava, Antonio .   The comic mask in the commedia dell'arte : actor training, improvisation, and the poetics of survival.  Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, c2007.
    General Collection  PQ 4155 .F3813

  • Contemporary fiction and the fairy tale . Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2008 .
    General Collection   PR 888 .F27 C66

  • Reaney, James.   The Donnellys. Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2008 .
    General Collection  PS 8535 .E3 D6 2008

  • MacIntyre, Linden.   The bishop's man : a novel. Toronto : Random House Canada, 2009 .
    General Collection  PS 8575 .I655 B57

  • McNamara, Geoff.   Clocks in the sky : the story of pulsars. Berlin, [Germany] ; New York : Springer ; Chichester, U.K. : Published in association with Praxis, c2008.
    General Collection  QB 843 .P8 M363

  •  Stem cells, human embryos and ethics : interdisciplinary perspectives. [New York] : Springer, c2008.
    General Collection  QH 588 .S83 S7486

  • Munson, Ronald. The woman who decided to die : challenges and choices at the edges of medicine . New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 .
    General Collection  R 724 .M867

  • Boychuk, Gerard William.  National health insurance in the United States and Canada : race, territory, and the roots of difference. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2008.
    General Collection  RA 412.2 .B68

  • Smith, Rick .   Slow death by rubber duck : how the toxic chemistry of everyday life affects our health . Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, c2009 .
    General Collection  RA 1213 .S65

  • Brown, Ian.   The boy in the moon : a father's search for his disabled son. Toronto : Random House Canada, c2009 .
    General Collection  RB 155.5 .B76

  • Jarvis, Carolyn.   L'examen clinique et l'évaluation de la santé . Montréal : Beauchemin/Chenelière Éducation, 2009 .
    General Collection  RC 76 .J37814

  •   Guide to the code of ethics for nurses : interpretation and application. Silver Spring, Md. : American Nurses Association, 2008.
    General Collection   RT 85 .G843

  • Steuer, Sharon.   The Adobe Illustrator CS4 wow! book : tips, tricks, and techniques from 100 top illustrator artists. Berkeley, Calif. : Peachpit Press, c2009 .
    General Collection  T 385 .S757 2009

  • Close, Susan.   Framing identity : social practices of photography in Canada (1880-1920). Winnipeg : Arbeiter Ring Pub., 2007 .
    General Collection  TR 26 .C56

  • Mulligan, Steve.   Understanding composition : the complete photographer's guide. Lewes, [England] : Photographers' Institute Press, 2008 .
    General Collection  TR 179 .M84

  • Cleghorn, Mark. The complete guide to light. Lewes, [England] : Photographers' Institute Press, c2008.
    General Collection   TR 590 .C53

  • Krause, Dorothy Simpson.   Book + art : handcrafting artists' books . Cincinnati, Ohio : North Light Books, c2009.
    General Collection   Z 271 .K73

  • Lih, Andrew.   The Wikipedia revolution : how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia . New York : Hyperion, c2009. .
    General Collection  ZA 4482 .L53




New Videos


  • Milk.  Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2009] . 
    Circulation   DVD 944

    Based on the inspiring true story of Harvey Milk. He was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977, making him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, he and mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White.

  • Art:21 . [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video, c2007.. 
    Circulation   DVD 958 - 960

    This series spotlights contemporary artists working in the United States today, and invites viewers behind the scenes to see artists at work in their homes, communities,to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative processes, and sources of inspiration.

  • The hurt locker. [Santa Monica, Calif.] : Summit Entertainment, [2010] . 
    Circulation    DVD 921

    Based on journalist Mark Boal's experiences in Iraq, this movie portrays the dangerous job of bomb dismantling done by an elite Army Explosive Ordinance Disposal team.

  • Un barrage contre le Pacifique = The Sea Wall. [Toronto] : Mongrel Media, 2009. 
    Circulation    DVD 913

    The Sea Wall is a beautifully shot story set in 1930s French Indochina (now Cambodia). Mrs. Dufresne is the matriarch of a small land-owning family who try to survive by working on rice fields located dangerously close to the ocean. Driven to fight against both nature and corrupt bureaucrats, she devises an imaginative scheme to build a dam against the sea with the help of the villagers.

  • Let the right one in . Los Angeles : Magnolia Home Entertainment, 2009. 
    Circulation   DVD 916

    12-year-old Oscar is a fragile and bullied boy who finds love and revenge when he meets Eli. Eli is a beautiful but peculiar girl he befriends. She has moved into his building. Oscar does not know that she and her father are vampires. When strange disappearances and murders start happening in the town, suspicions mount from her neighbors and police. Eli must move on to stay alive or stay to help Oscar the only way she knows how.

  • Gomorrah.  New York, NY : Criterion Collection, 2009. 
    Circulation   DVD 914

    Five disparate tales of Naples' mafia underworld (known as the Camorra), where men and children are caught up in a corrupt system that extends from the housing projects to the world of haute couture. Adapted from the best-selling exposé by undercover Italian reporter, Roberto Saviano.

If these items are not on the shelves, don't forget to check the "NEW BOOKS" shelf (6C).


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