New History Books in the B. Thomas Golisano Library

Title: The Templars: the History & the Myth
Author: Michael Haag
Publisher: Harper
Call Number: CR4743.H32 2009
Synopsis from the Publisher:
The first history of the legendary knights since the Vatican momentously released the records of their trial and exoneration

Title: Paris in the Middle Ages
Author: Simone Roux
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania
Call Number: DC707.R67513 2009
Synopsis from the Publisher:
Paris in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from the encompassing wall, it was Europe's largest, most cosmopolitan city. Simone Roux chronicles the lives of Parisians over the course of a dozen generations as Paris grew from a military stronghold after the Battle of Bouvines in 1214 to a city recovering from the Black Death of the 1390s.

Title: Prokopios: The Secret History with Related Texts
Author: Anthony Kaldellis (Ed. and Trans.)
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Call Number: DF572.P813 2010
Table of Contents:
Glossary of offices and administrative terms
Genealogy of the family of Justinian
Genealogy of the family of Theodora
Map of the eastern Mediterranean in the reign of Justinian
Map of the environs of Constantinople in the reign of Justinian
Map of Constantinople
A guide to the main sources
A guide to scholarship in English
The secret history

Title: The Great Brain Suck and Other American Epiphanies
Author: Eugene Halton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Call Number: E196.1.H225 2008
Table of contents:
The great brain suck; Out of the fifties;Interlude : go man go; The hunter-gatherers' world's fair;Life, literature, and sociology in turn-of-the century Chicago; Communicating democracy : or shine, perishing republic;Lem's master's voice ;An American epiphany in Nashville;The house on Mount Misery ;The art and craft of home ;Europiphanies; The last days of Lewis Mumford ;Teleparodies ;His one leg.