Thursday, July 26, 2012

New Library Books for July 26

Title  Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability  of Performance
Author Boris Groysberg
Publisher  Princeton
Call Number HG4928.5.G76 2010
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Title The Material Child: Growing Up in Consumer Culture
Author David Buckingham
Publisher Polity
Call Number HF5145.332.C45 B83 2011
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Title The Girl with the Crooked Nose: A Tale of Murder, Obsession, and Forensic Artistry
Author Ted Botha
Publisher Berkley
Call Number HV8073.4.B67 2012
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Title Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
Author Jennifer Burns
Publisher Oxford
Call Number PS3535.A547 Z587 2011
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Title The Soul of Medicine: Spiritual Perspectives and Clinical Practice
Author  John R. Peteet and Michael N.D/Ambra, Eds.
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call Number R708.S68 2011
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

New Library Books for July 17

Title Minor Prophets II (Understanding the Bible Commentary Series)
Author John Goldingay & Pamela J. Scalise
Publisher Baker Books
Call number BS 1560.G65 2012
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Title God in a Brothel
Author Daniel Walker
Publisher IVP
Call number HQ291.W34 2011
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Title Pop Song Piracy
Author Barry Kernfeld
Publisher  Chicago
Call number ML3790.K448 2011
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Title The Profitable Artist: A Handbook for All Artists in the Performing, Literary, and Visual Arts
Publisher Artspire
Call number N8600.P745 2011
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Title Wrong Medicine 2nd ed.
Author Lawrence J. Schneiderman and Nancy S. Jecker
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call number R724.S3936 2011
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

New Library Books This Week

Title Bibles:  An Illustrated History from Papyrus to Print
Author  Christopher de Hamel
Publisher Bodleian Library
Call No.: BS445. D435 2011
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Title Before Roe v. Wade: Voices That Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court's Ruling
Author Linda Greenhouse & Reva B. Siegel
Publisher Kaplan
Call No.:  KF3771.B44 2010
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Title Styles, Schools, and Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art
Author Amy Dempsey
Publisher  Thames & Hudson
Call No.: Oversize N6490.D45 2010
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Title Every Thing On It: Poems and Drawings
Author Shel Silverstein
Publisher Harper
Call No.: Curriculum Center PS3569.I47224 E94 2011
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Title Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?
Author Nancy Leys Stepan
Publisher Cornell University Press
Call No.: RA643.S76 2011
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Saturday, July 7, 2012

A Sampling of new library books on display

These are listed in call number order as that is the order on the display shelves.

Title More than Good Intentions: How A New Economics is Hleing to Solve Global Poverty
Author Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel
Publisher Dutton
Call No. HC79.P6 K374 2011
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Title The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa
Author Deborah Brautibam
Publisher Oxford
Call No. HC800.B715 2009
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Title Exceptional People:  How Migration Shaped our World and Will Define our Future
Author Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron, and Meera Balarajan
Publisher Princeton
Call No. JV6035.G65 2011
Table of Contents:  -- no link to Google Books provided.
Migration from prehistory to Columbus
Global migrations: toward a world economy
"Managed" migration in the twentieth century (1914-1973)
Leaving home: migration decisions and processes
Immigration and border control
The impacts of migration
The future of migration
A global migration agenda.


Title Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
Author Stephen Hebron & Elizabeth C. Denlinger
Publisher Bodlean Library
Call No.PR5433.H43 2010
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Title The Art of Black and White Photography:  Techniques for Creating Superb Images in a Digital Workflow
Author Torsten Andreas Hoffman
Publisher RockyNook
Call No. TR267.H654413 2012
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New Library Books

Title Liberal Arts at the Brink
Author Victor E. Ferrall, Jr.
Publisher Harvard University Press
Call number  LC1011.F47 2011
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Title  The Last Dropout: Stop the epidemic!
Author  Bill Milliken
Publisher  Hay House
Call number  LC221.M553 2007
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Title  Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics
Author  William Theodore deBary
Publisher Columbia
Call number  PL493.F56 2011
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Title  Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Protrait in Black & White
Author Emily Bernard
Publisher Yale
Call number PS3543.A653 Z59 2012
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Title Ordinary Geniuses: Max Delbruck, George Gamow & the Origins of Genomics and Big Bang Cosmology
Author Gino Segre
Publisher Viking
Call number  QH31.D434 S44 2011
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