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August New Books and eBooks in Arts & Sciences

2012 September 4
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Philosophy

B187.5 .M35 2010. PHILOSOPHY BEFORE SOCRATES : AN INTRODUCTION WITH TEXTS AND COMMENTARY / RICHARD D. MCKIRAHAN, JR.

B3376.W564 T42 2011. STARTING WITH WITTGENSTEIN / CHON TEJEDOR.

Psychology

BD431 .T28 2012. The brain and the meaning of life / Paul Thagard.

BF76 .M675 2012.  YOU’VE EARNED YOUR DOCTORATE IN PSYCHOLOGY– NOW WHAT? : SECURING A JOB AS AN ACADEMIC OR PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST / ELIZABETH M. MORGAN AND R. ERIC LANDRUM.

BF175.5.L68 I44 2012. WHY LOVE HURTS : A SOCIOLOGICAL EXPLANATION / EVA ILLOUZ.

BF636.7.G76 E35 2012. Groups in practice: a school counselor’s collection / Debra Madaris Efird. [ebook]

BF637.I48 M39 2012. The dynamics of conflict : a guide to engagement and intervention / Bernard Mayer  [ebook]

BF637.T5 T56 2012. Personal productivity secrets : do what you never thought possible with your time and attention … and regain control of your life / Maura Nevel Thomas.

BJ1481 .B64 2010.  EXPLORING HAPPINESS : FROM ARISTOTLE TO BRAIN SCIENCE / SISSELA BOK.

RC451.4.A5 H358 2010. Handbook of assessment in clinical gerontology / [edited by] Peter A. Lichtenberg. [ebook]

RC503 .A38 2012. After Freud left : a century of psychoanalysis in America / edited by John Burnham.  [ebook]

RC521 .K97 2012. Physical comorbidities of dementia.  [ebook]

RC550 .S35 2012. Veterans on trial [electronic resource] : the coming court battles over PTSD / Barry R. Schaller ; foreword by Todd Brewster.

RC953 .G34 2006. Handbook of geriatric assessment / edited by Joseph J. Gallo … [et al.]. [ebook]

Religion

BL2525 .P88 2012. AMERICAN GRACE : HOW RELIGION DIVIDES AND UNITES US / ROBERT D. PUTNAM, DAVID E. CAMPBELL, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF SHAYLYN ROMNEY GARRETT.

BL2525 .S325 2012.  PLACES OF FAITH : A ROAD TRIP ACROSS AMERICA’S RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE / CHRISTOPHER P. SCHEITLE AND ROGER FINKE.

BR1065 .C45 2011. CHRISTIANITIES IN ASIA / EDITED BY PETER C. PHAN.

History

DK266.45 .H37 2011. RUSSIA’S COLD WAR : FROM THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION TO THE FALL OF THE WALL /
JONATHAN HASLAM.

DU110 .K46 2009.  AUSTRALIANS / THOMAS KENEALLY.

E183.8.I55 C75 2012. The twilight war : the secret history of America’s thirty-year conflict with Iran / David Crist.

E185.615 .T387 2011.  BLACK NATIONALISM IN THE UNITED STATES : FROM MALCOLM X TO BARACK OBAMA / JAMES LANCE TAYLOR.

F864 .F59 2011. With Anza to California, 1775-1776 : the journal of Pedro Font, O.F.M. / translated and edited by Alan K. Brown.

F866.2 .F725 2011. The left coast : California on the edge / photos by Alex Fradkin + text by Philip L. Fradkin.

Geography

GA201 .M365 2007. MAPS : FINDING OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD / EDITED BY JAMES R. AKERMAN AND ROBERT W. KARROW, JR.

Anthropology

GN281.4 .C43 2011.  HARNESSED : HOW LANGUAGE AND MUSIC MIMICKED NATURE AND TRANSFORMED APE TO MAN / MARK CHANGIZI.

GN307.7 .H69 2012.  HOW TO GET PUBLISHED IN ANTHROPOLOGY : A GUIDE FOR STUDENTS AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS / EDITED BY JASON E. MILLER AND OONA SCHMID.

GN484.35 .A33 2011. NARRATING THE CLOSET : AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF SAME-SEX ATTRACTION / TONY E. ADAMS.

GR524 .W55 2012. The trickster brain : neuroscience, evolution, and narrative / David Williams. [ebook]

GT2853.U5 A74 2012. TACO USA : HOW MEXICAN FOOD CONQUERED AMERICA / GUSTAVO ARELLANO.

Sociology/Criminology

HM586 .B43 2010. THE PROMISE OF SOCIOLOGY : THE CLASSICAL TRADITION AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THINKING / ROB BEAMISH.

HM881 .T374 2012. STRANGERS AT THE GATES : MOVEMENTS AND STATES IN CONTENTIOUS POLITICS / SIDNEY TARROW.

HM886 .C4314 2012. Manhunts  : a philosophical history / Grégoire Chamayou ; translated by Steven Rendall. [ebook]

HQ12 .B47 2012. Sex and punishment : four thousand years of judging desire / Eric Berkowitz.

HQ796 .E5393 2011. Encyclopedia of adolescence / editors-in-chief, B. Bradford Brown, Mitchell J. Prinstein.[ebook]

HQ1033 .C675 2012. Debating same-sex marriage / John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher.

HQ1061 .R437 2012. Representing ageing: images and identities / edited By Virpi Ylänne. [ebook]

HQ1507 .E875 2012. Women in Cuba : the making of a revolution within the revolution / Vilma Espín, Asela de los Santos, Yolanda Ferrer.

HQ1061 .W34 2012. A ROLLER-COASTER RIDE : THOUGHTS ON AGING / NAOMI BETH WAKAN.

HV1451 .C42 2013.  Changing aging, changing family therapy  : practicing with 21st century realities / edited by Paul R. Peluso, Richard E. Watts, Mindy Parsons.[ebook]

HV1481.G72 L59 2012. Health and care in ageing societies [electronic resource] : a new international approach / Liz Lloyd. [ebook]

HV6049 .E38 2012. Education-based incarceration and recidivism : the ultimate social justice crime-fighting tool / edited by Brian D. Fitch, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Inmate Services Bureau, and Anthony H. Normore, California State University Dominguez Hills.

HV6692.M33 L495 2012. Con game : Bernard Madoff and his victims / Lionel S. Lewis. [ebook]

HV6710 .D47 2012.  Teen gambling: understanding a growing epidemic / Jeffrey L. Derevensky.[ebook]

HV7903 .H57 2012. A HISTORY OF POLICE AND MASCULINITIES, 1700-2010 / EDITED BY DAVID G. BARRIE AND SUSAN BROOMHALL.

HV8078 .B86 2012. THE TRUTH MACHINE : A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE LIE DETECTOR / GEOFFREY C. BUNN.

Political Science

JK468.P64 G55 2012.  Affluence and influence  : economic inequality and political power in America / Martin Gilens.[ebook]

Music

ML3508 .S27 2010. WHERE THE DARK AND THE LIGHT FOLKS MEET : RACE AND THE MYTHOLOGY, POLITICS, AND BUSINESS OF JAZZ / RANDALL SANDKE.

ML3531 .R23 2011.  Hip hop’s inheritance : from the Harlem renaissance to the hip hop feminist movement / Reiland Rabaka.  [ebook]

Art

N6555.5.S8 I5 2012. IN WONDERLAND : THE SURREALIST ADVENTURES OF WOMEN ARTISTS IN MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES / EDITED BY ILENE SUSAN FORT, TERE ARCQ WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY DAWN ADES

NA2545.A3 D46 2012. Design for aging [electronic resource] : international case studies of building and program / Jeffrey Anderzhon … [et al.].

NX456.5.P66 L37 2012. Where the heart beats : John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the inner life of artists /Kay Larson.

Literature

P93.7 .R83 2009. Communication Research Measures II [electronic resource] : a sourcebook / Rebecca B. Rubin

PN56.T7 W535 2011. TRAVEL : A LITERARY HISTORY / PETER WHITFIELD.

PN1998.3.E327 R46 2012. RULE OF THUMB : EBERT AT THE MOVIES / TODD RENDLEMAN.

PN1999.R3 J46 2012. RKO Radio Pictures : a titan is born / Richard B. Jewell.

PN4874.B6615 H56 2012. Yours in truth : a personal portrait of Ben Bradlee / Jeff Himmelman.

PN6714 .S255 2012. COMIC-CON AND THE BUSINESS OF POP CULTURE : WHAT THE WORLD’S WILDEST TRADE SHOW CAN TELL US ABOUT THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT / ROB SALKOWITZ.

PN6790.K63 K48713 2009. THE COLOR OF EARTH / KIM DONG HWA ; TRANSLATION FROM THE KOREAN BY LAUREN NA ; [AFTERWORD BY HWANG MIN-HO ; AFTERWORD TRANSLATION BY ALEXIS SIEGEL].

PN6790.K63 K487513 2009.  THE COLOR OF WATER / KIM DONG HWA ; TRANSLATED FROM THE KOREAN BY LAUREN NA.

PQ2469.S64 E5 2012. The sphinx of the ice realm : the first complete English translation with the complete text of the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe / Jules Verne ; translated and edited by Frederick Paul Walter.

PQ2677.U486 O6313 2011. THE ROVING SHADOWS / PASCAL QUIGNARD ; TRANSLATED BY CHRIS TURNER.

PQ3919.B6 .M2513 2012. Mai at the predators’ ball / Marie-Claire Blais ; translated by Nigel Spencer.

PQ7297.F793 V5313 2012. Vlad / Carlos Fuentes ; translated by E. Shaskan Bumas and Alejandro Branger.

PR328 .A76 2012. AN INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH ARTHURIAN NARRATIVE / SUSAN ARONSTEIN ; FOREWORD BY R. BARTON PALMER AND TISON PUGH.

PR2363 .H22 2012. Edmund Spenser : a life / Andrew Hadfield.

PR3105 .V38 2012. SHAKESPEARE IN AMERICA / ALDEN T. VAUGHAN AND VIRGINIA MASON VAUGHAN.

PR6056.R3 S55 2012. SKIOS : A NOVEL / MICHAEL FRAYN.

PR6063.I3564 P87 2012.  PURE / ANDREW MILLER.

PR6108.A55 O97 2012. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti / Mohammed Hanif.

PR9199.3.L387 T47 2012. TESTAMENT / DENNIS LEE.

PR9199.3.M3145 W43 2012. WHAT’S THE SCORE? / DAVID W. MCFADDEN.

PR9199.3.W39 D57 2012. Dirty snow / Tom Wayman.

PR9379.9.A35 D57 2012. DIPLOMATIC POUNDS & OTHER STORIES / AMA ATA AIDOO.

PR9387.9.C67 O64 2012. Open city : a novel / Teju Cole.

PR9619.3.C36 C44 2012. The chemistry of tears / by Peter Carey.

PS2954.U6 R39 2012.  MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD : UNCLE TOM’S CABIN AND THE BATTLE FOR AMERICA / DAVID S. REYNOLDS.

PS3507.U629 Z72 2012. Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus : a biography /Lisa Jarnot ; foreword by Michael Davidson. [ebook]

PS3557.R214 P53 2012. PLACE / JORIE GRAHAM.

PS3557.R294 Q83 2012. THE QUEEN’S LOVER / FRANCINE DU PLESSIX GRAY.

PS3558.A62423 Z46 2012. Crazy brave : a memoir / Joy Harjo.

PS3559.R8 I5 2012. In one person : a novel / John Irving.

PS3561.O83 T57 2011. THREE POEMS : BASSACKSENGLISH, MONOPOEMS, COMING(S) TOGETHER / RICHARD KOSTELANETZ.

PS3563.A326 A6 2012. CERTAIN UNCOLLECTED POEMS / SANDRA MCPHERSON.

PS3570.H4 L69 2012. The lower river / Paul Theroux. [ebook]

PS3573.I4665 W47 2012. WHO WILL HEAR YOUR SECRETS? : STORIES / BY ROBLEY WILSON.

PS3605.G48 H65 2012. A hologram for the king : a novel / Dave Eggers. [ebook]

PS3619.M5955 L54 2011. Life on Mars : poems / Tracy K. Smith.

Sciences

QA248 .S778 2010. ROADS TO INFINITY : THE MATHEMATICS OF TRUTH AND PROOF / JOHN STILLWELL.

QC773.A1 B24 2011. THE FIRST WAR OF PHYSICS : THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ATOM BOMB, 1939-1949 / JIM BAGGOTT.

QC903 .M34 2012. Waking the giant : how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes.  [ebook]

QP141 .S534 2012. The nature of nutrition: a unifying framework from animal adaptation to human obesity / Stephen J. Simpson and David Raubenheimer.  [ebook]

QP401 .L56 2012. THE COMPASS OF PLEASURE : HOW OUR BRAINS MAKE FATTY FOODS, ORGASM, EXERCISE,
MARIJUANA, GENEROSITY, VODKA, LEARNING, AND GAMBLING FEEL SO GOOD
/ DAVID J. LINDEN.

QP431 .B59 2012. Introduction to the senses [electronic resource] : from biology to computer science.

RA643.86.A25 T75 2012. Religion and AIDS in Africa / Jenny Trinitapoli and Alexander Weinreb.[ebook]

Sport Sciences

RC1206 .E53 2011eb. Encyclopedia of sports medicine  / Lyle J. Micheli, editor

 

 

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