Wednesday, May 23, 2012

New Books at the Golisano Library

Title Brandwashed:  Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
Author Martin Lindstrom
Publisher Crown
Call No. HF5415.32.L557 2011
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Title Nobody's Burden: Lessons From the Great Depression on the Struggle for Old-Age Security
Author Ruth E. Ray & Toni Calasanti, Eds.
Publisher Lexington Books
Call No. HV1461.N63 2011
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Title Servant Leadership for Higher Education: Principles and Practices
Author Daniel Wheeler
Publisher Jossey-Bass
Call No.LB2341.W464 2012
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Title  The Great Builders
Author Kenneth Powell, Ed.
Publisher Thames & Hudson
Call No. NA40.G74 2011
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Title How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks about Being Sick in America
Author Otis Webb Brawley with Paul Goldbert
Publisher St. Martin's Press
Call No. RA395.A3 B72 2012
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Title Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism
Author Arthur Fleischmann with Carly Fleischmann
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Call No. RJ506.A9 F587 2012
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

New Library Books to Fit the A-Z Challenge # 1

Looking for a book to read?  Don't want fiction?  Try these  which fit the letters A-D
It's not to late to start!

Title:  Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy
Author: Saul Austerlitz
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Call No. : PN1995.9.C55 A97 2010

These are easy to read chapters about various comedians incuding Harold Lloyd, Jean Author, and Albert Brooks. You don't have to read in page order to enjoy this work.

Title:  Beethoven in America
Author: Michael Broyles
Publisher Indiana University Press
Call No.: ML410.B4 B869 2011

The book examines the ways Beethoven and his music have influenced American culture.

Title:  Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes
Author: Roger E. Backhouse & Bradkley W. Bateman
Publisher:  Harvard University
Call No.: HB103.K47 B25 2011

At less than 200 pages, this work focuses on a narrow but important part of Keyne's life.

Title:  Disposable People: New Slavery in the Golbal Economy
Author:  Kevin Bales
Publisher California
Call No.  HT867.B35 2004

This revised edition looks at the growth of slavery in Thailand, Brazil, Pakistan, and India and offers suggestions to end the practise.

Friday, April 27, 2012

We have a Q title!

This will be the last new book announcement for a few weeks.  However, if you are interested in participating in the A-Z Summer Reading Challenge, we will be sending out information very soon and supplying you with hard to find titles starting with certain letters, such as this

Title Queen of Hearts.
Author Martha Brooks
Publisher Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Call No.  Curr Center PZ7.B7976 Que 2011
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On the prairies of Canada during World War II, a girl and her two young siblings begin a war of their own. Stricken with tuberculosis, they are admitted to a nearby sanatorium. Teenager Marie Claire is headstrong, angry, and full of stubborn pride. In a new strange land of TB exiles she must “chase the cure,” seek privacy where there is none, and witness the slow wasting decline of others. But in this moving novel about fighting a way back to normal life, it is the thing that sets back Marie Claire the most—the demise of her little brother—that also connects her with the person who will be instrumental in helping her recover.

Even though this blog will be on a short hiatus, the new book display will continue showing books we receive as they are finished with processing.  Stop over, browse, and check them out.  Have a great summer.

Thursday, April 26, 2012

New Library Books

Title The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive
Author Brian Christian
Publisher Doubleday
Call No. BD450.C5356
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Title Mary I: England's Catholic Queen
Author John Edwards
Publisher Yale
Call No. DA347.E39 2011
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Title Fed Up With Lunch: How One Anonymous Teacher Revealed the Truth about School Lunches...
Author Sarah Wu
Publisher Chronicle Books
Call No. LB3479.U6 W8 2011
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Title Jane Austen's Letters  4th ed.
Author Collected and Edited by Dierdre Le Faye
Publisher Oxford
Call No. PR4036.A4 2011
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Title The Story of Charlotte's Web: E.B. White's Eccentric Life In Nature and the Birth of an American Classic
Author Michael Sims
Publisher Walker
Call No.PS3545.H5187. Z925
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Title A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty
Author Dave Goldberg & Jeff Blomquist
PublisherWiley
Call No.QC24.5.G65 2010
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

New Library Books about Teaching and Learning...Sort of

More often than not, topics are interdisciplinary.  Here is one such group:

Title Teaching about Religions: A Democratic Approach for Public Schools
Author Emile Lester
Publisher  University of Michigan
Call No. BL41.L47 2011
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Title What I Didn't Learn in Business Schiool: How Strategy Works in the Real World
Author Jay B. Barney & Trish Gorman Clifford
Publisher Harvard Business Review Press
Call No. HD30.28.B36835 2010
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Title Color in the Classroom: How American Schools Taught Race, 1900-1954
Author Zoe Burkholder
Publisher Oxford
Call No. HT1507.B87 2011
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Title Teaching and its Predicaments
Author David K. Cohen
Publisher Harvard University Press
Call No. LB1025.34.C635 2011
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Title  "Multiplication is for White People" Raising Expectations for Other People's Children
Author Lisa Delpit
Publisher The New Press
Call No. LC213.2.D45 2011
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

New Library books in Reading, Science, Mathematics, Medicine & Photography

Title When I was a Child I Read Books: Essays
Author Marilynne Robinson
Publisher  Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Call Number PS3568.O3125 W47 2012
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Title Stem the Tide: Reforming Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education in America
Author David E. Drew
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call Number Q183.3.A1 D734 2011
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Title Figuring it out: Entertaining Encounters in Everyday Math
Author Nuno Crato
Publisher Springer
Call Number QA93.C7313 2010
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Title Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings
Author Gary L. Wenk
Publisher Oxford
Call Number  RM315.W46 2010
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Title Becoming Dr. Q : My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Author Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
Publisher University of California
Call Number RD592.9.!46 2011
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Title Doctored: The Medicine of Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
Author Tanya Sheehan
Publisher Penn State Press
Call Number TR708.S535 2011
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Monday, April 23, 2012

New Library Books in American History

Title An American Betrayal: Cherokee Patriots ant the Trail of Tears
Author Daniel Blake Smith
Publisher Henry Holt
Call Number E99.C5 S632 2011
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Title The Killing of Crazy Horse
Author Thomas Powers
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
Call Number E99.O3 C7255 2010
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This book was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Title Sword of the Spirit, shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy
Author Andrew Preston
Publisher Knopf
Call Number E183.7.P74 2010
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Title The Iron Way: Railroads, the Civil War and the Making of Modern America
AuthorWilliam G. Thomas
Publisher Yale
Call Number E491.T53 2011
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Title The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality
Author Thomas Borstelmann
Publisher Princeton
Call Number E839.B59 2012
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Title Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock
Author David Margolick
Publisher Yale
Call Number F419.L7 M37 2011
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Title Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
Author Michael Vinson Williams
Publisher University of Arkansas Press
Call Number F349.J13 W55 2011
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