Thursday, November 29, 2012

New Books: Education and Nursing Professions

Title Homework, Organization and Planning Skills (HOPS) Interventions
Author Joshua M. Langberg
Publisher National Association of School Psychologists
Call No.  LB1601.O36 2011
Synopsis
This 94 page manual provides assistance for study skills for students with ADD.  A CD-ROM accompanies the text.

Title Leading the Common Core State Standards: From Common Sense to Common Practice
Author Cheryl A. Dunkle
Publisher Corwin
Call No.  LB3060.83.D87 2012
Synopsis

Title Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America's Schools
Author Frederick M. Hess & Andres P. Kelly, Eds.
Publisher Harvard Education
Call No.  LC89.C377 2011
Synopsis

Title Health Policy Application for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals
Author Demetrius J. Porche
Publisher Jones & Bartlett Learning
Call No.  RA394.P67 2012
Synopsis

Title Health Literacy from A to Z
Author Helen Osborne
Publisher Jones & Bartlett Learning
Call No. RA440.O825 2013
Synopsis

Title Nurse's Social Media Advantage
Author Robert Fraser
Publisher Honor Society of Nursing
Call No. RT50.3.F73 2011
Synopsis

Title The Power of Ten 2011-2013
Author
Publisher Signa Theta Tau International
Call No. RT89.P69 2011
Synopsis

Monday, November 26, 2012

New Books: More Odds and Ends

Title The Faithful Citizen
Author Kristy Maddux
Publisher Baylor University
Call No.  BV652.95.M33 2010
Synopsis

Title Never Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Author Lewis V. Baldwin
Publisher Fortress
Call No. E185.97.K5 B349 2010
Synopsis

Title Organizational Traps: Leadership, Culture, Organizational Design
Author Chris Argyris
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  HD58.7.A74 2012
Synopsis

Title Art in Anime
Author Dani Cavallaro
Publisher McFarland
Call No. NC1766.J3 C385 2012
Synopsis

Title Kindertransport [drama]
Author Diane Samuels
Publisher Nick Hern Books
Call No.  PR6069.A496 K56 2008
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Title Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Popular Media
Author Davi Johnson Thornton
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Call No. RC343.T563 2011
Synopsis

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

New Books Odds and Ends

Title Spoils of the Kingdom
Author Anson Shupe
Publisher Illinois
Call No.  BV4011.3.S55 2007
Synopsis

Title They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II
Author Kathi Jackson
Publisher Bison Books
Call No.  D807.U5 J33 2006
Synopsis

Title The Floor of Heaven:
Author Howard Blum
Publisher Broadway
Call No. F912.Y9 B58 2011
Synopsis

Title Hard Work: a Life on and off the Court
Author Roy Williams
Publisher Algonquin Paperbacks
Call No.  GV884.W58 A3 2011
Synopsis

Title Child Slavery Now: A Contemporary Reader
Author Gary Craig, Ed.
Publisher Policy Press
Call No.  HD6231.C48 2010
Synopsis

Title Pluralism and Freedom: Faith-Based Organizations in a Democratic Society
Author Stephen V. Monsma
Publisher Rowman and Littlefield
Call No. HV530.M66 2012
Synopsis

Title White Parents, Black Children
Author Darron T. Smith, Cardell K. Jacobson, Brenda G. Juarez
Publisher Roman & Littlefield
Call No.  HV875.64.S628 2011
Synopsis

Title White Space is not Your Enemy
Author Kim Golombisky & Refecca Hagen
Publisher Focal Press
Call No. NC997.G563 2010
Synopsis

Title Fire Season: Field Notes from A Wilderness Outlook
Author Philip Connors
Publisher Harper Collins
Call No.  SD421.32.N6 C66 2012
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Friday, November 16, 2012

New Books BD - BL

Title Why Truth Matters
Author Orphelia Benson & Jeremy Stangroom
Publisher Continuum
Call No.  BD171.B44 2007
Synopsis

Title Hurt Feelings
Author Luciano L'Abate
Publisher Cambridge
Call No. BF515.L32 2011
Synopsis

Title Understanding Personality Through Projective Testing
Author Steven Tuber
Publisher Jason Aronson
Call No. BF698.7.T93 2012
Synopsis

Title Social Economies of Fear and Desire: Emotional Regulation, Emotion Management, and   Embodied Autonomy
Author  Valerie de Courville Nicol
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Call No.  BF575.F2 C58 2011
Synopsis

Title The Happiness Agenda: A Modern Obsession
Author Simon Burnett
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Call No. BG575.H27 B87 2012
Synopsis

Title Dark Green Religion: Nature Spiritualty and the Planetary Future
Author  Bron Taylor
Publisher University of California
Call No.  BL65.N35 T39 2010
Synopsis

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

New Books on Disabilities

Title A History of Disability
Author Henri-Jacques Stiker
Publisher  University of Michigan Press
Call No.  HV1552.S8413 1999
Synopsis

Title The New Disability History: American Perspectives
Author Paul K. Longmore & Lauri Umansky, Eds.
Publisher New York University Press
Call No.  HV1553.N48 2001
Synopsis

Title The Body and Physical Difference: Discourses of Disability
Author David T. Mitchell & Sharon L. Snyder, Eds.
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Call No. HV1568.B63 1997
Synopsis

Title Disability and Difference in Global Contexts
Author Nirmala Erevelles
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Call No.  HV1568.E74 2011
Synopsis

Title Disability Theory
Author Tobin Siebers
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Call No.  HV1568.2.S54 2008
Synopsis

Title Disability and the Internet: Confronting a Digital Divide
Author Paul T. Jaeger
Publisher Rienner
Call No.  HV1569.5.J34 2012
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Title From Good Will to Civil Rights: Transforming Federal Disability Policy 2nd ed.
Author Richard K. Scotch
Publisher Temple
Call No.  KF480.S3 2001
Synopsis

Monday, November 12, 2012

New Books - Q-R Sciences

Title galileo goes to jail and other myths about science and religion ( the title is not in caps)
Author Ronald L. Numbers, Ed.
Publisher Harvard University Press
Call No. Q126.8 .G35 2010
Synopsis

Title Sensitive Matter : Foams, Gels, Liquid Crystals and Other Miracles
Author Michel Mitov
Publisher Harvard University Press
Call No.  QC173.A458 M5813 2012
Synopsis

Title Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The life and Work of Joseph Rotblat
Author Andrew Brown
Publisher Oxford
Call No. QC774.R67 B768 20112
Synopsis

Title Every Molecule Tells a Story
Author Simon Cotton
Publisher CRC Press
Call No.  QD461.C655 2012
Synopsis

Title The Myth of Junk DNA
Author Jonathan Wells
Publisher Discovery Institute Press
Call No. QP624.W45 2011
Synopsis

Title In Excellent Health : Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care
Author Scott W. Atlas
Publisher Hoover Institution Press
Call No. RA395.A3 A95 2011
Synopsis

Title Combat Trauma: A Personal Look at Long-Term Consequences
Author James D. Johnson
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No.  RC550.J66 2010
Synopsis

Friday, November 9, 2012

New Books in P - Literature

Title Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling
Author Martin Salisbury & Morag Styles
Publisher Laurence King
Call No. PN1009.A1 S25 2012 (Oversize)
Synopsis

Title Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice
Author Fabian Alfie
Publisher University of Toronty Press
Call No. PQ4556.T3217 A44 2011
Synopsis

Title The Fabulous Dark Cloister: Romance in England after the Reformation
Author Tiffany Jo Werth
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call No. PR428.W47 2011
Synopsis

Title Donne's Augustine: Renaissance Cultures of Interpretation
Author Katrin Ettenhuber
Publisher Oxford
Call No. PR2248.E83 2011
Synopsis

Title Melville's Mirrors: Literaru Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author
Author Brian Yothers
Publisher Camden House
Call No.  PS2387.Y68 2011
Synopsis

Title The Lord is My Shepherd (The Psalm 23 Mysteries)
Author Debbie Viguie
Publisher Abingdon Press
Call No. PS3622.L67 2010
Synopsis

Title Bumped
Author Megan McCafferty
Publisher Balzer + Bray
Call No. Curr Center PZ7.M47833742 Burn 2011
Synopsis

Title Dust Lands: Blood Red Road
Author Moira Young
Publisher McElderry Books
Call No.  Curr Center PZ7. 874 Blo 2011
Synopsis

Title Stupid Fast
Author Geoff Herbach
Publisher Sourcebook
Call No.  Curr Center PZ7.H417 St w0qq
Synopsis

Thursday, November 8, 2012

New Books : M

Title American Orchestras in the Nineteenth Century
Author John Spitzer
Publisher Chicago
Call No. ML 1211.4.A44 2012
Synopsis

Title Italian Traditions & Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera
Author Nicholaas Baragwanath
Publisher Indiana
Call No. ML1733.4.B37 2011
Synopsis

Title Bruce Springsteen, Cultural Studies and the Runaway American Dream
Author Kenneth Womack, Jerry Zolten & Mark Bernhard, Eds.
Publisher Ashgate
Call No. ML420.W66 2012
Synopsis

Title Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission
Author Rebecca Maloy
Publisher Oxford
Call No. ML3062.M36 2010
Synopsis

Title Bytes & Backbeats: Repurposing Music in the Digital Age
Author Steve Savage
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Call No.  ML3470.S32 2011
Synopsis

Title Culture on the Margins
Author Jon Cruz
Publisher Princeton
Call No. ML3556.C78 1999
Synopsis

Title I'm Feeling the Blues Right Now
Author Stephen A. King
Publisher University Press of Mississippi
Call No.ML3918.B57 K56 2011
Synopsis


Wednesday, November 7, 2012

New Library Books in Religion and Philosophy

Title Ways of Knowing: Kierkegaard's Pluralist Epistemology
Author M. G. Piety
Publisher Baylor University Press
Call No.  B4378.K56 P54 2010
Synopsis

Title Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Author Etzel Cardena & Michael Winkelman, Eds.
Publisher Praeger
Call No.  BF311.A518 2011 v.1
Synopsis

Title Mindfulness and Hypnosis
Author Michael D. Yapko
Publisher Norton
Call No. BF1158.S8 Y36 2011
Synopsis

Title  The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism
Author Catherine Wessinger, Ed.
Publisher Oxford
Call No. BL503.2.O94 2011
Synopsis

Title Were the Popes Against the Jews?
Author Justus George Lawler
Publisher Eerdmans
Call No. BM535.L348 2012
Synopsis

Title The Devil's Whore: Reason and Philosophy in the Lutheran Tradition
Author Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, Ed.
Publisher Fortress
Call No.  BR 333.5.P45 D48 2011
Synopsis

Title Inductive Bible Study
Author David R. Bauer & Robert A. Traina
Publisher Baker
Call No.  BS476.B39 2011
Synopsis

Title The Four Gospels on Sunday
Author Gordon W. Lathrop
Publisher Fortress
Call No. BS2417.W65 L38 2012
Synopsis

Title Reading the Gospels Wisely: A Narrative and Theological Introduction
Author Jonathan T. Pennington
Publisher Baker
Call No. BS2555.52.P455 2012
Synopsis

Title The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church
Author Alan Hirsch & Tim Catchim
Publisher  Jossey-Bass
Call No. BV652.24.H57 2012
Synopsis

Monday, November 5, 2012

New Books: Business, Society, & Law



Title Uncommon Service
Author Francis Frei & Anne Morriss
Publisher Harvard Business Review
Call No. HF5415.5.F728 2012
Synopsis

Title Protesting Affirmative Action
Author Dennis Deslippe
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call No. HF5549.5.A34 D327 2012
Synopsis

Title America's Sexual Transformation
Author Gary F. Kelly
Publisher Praeger
Call No. HQ18.U5 K45 2012
Synopsis

Title The Myth of Sex Addiction
Author David I. Ley
Publisher Roman & Littlefield
Call No. HQ21.L49 2012
Synopsis

Title Adult Supervision Required
Author Markella B. Rutherford
Publisher  Rutgers University Press
Call No.  HQ755.8.R88 2011
Synopsis

Title The City That Became Safe
Author Franklin E. Zimring
Publisher  Oxford
Call No.  HV7433.N49 Z56 2012
Synopsis

Title The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States
Author Derek H. Davis, Ed.
Publisher Oxford
Call No. KF4865 .O96 2010
Synopsis

Friday, November 2, 2012

New Books B - Philosophy & Psychology



Title So much, So Fast, So little Time
Author Michael St. Clair
Publisher Praeger
Call No. BD373.S7 2011
Synopsis


Title The Letters of Signmund Freud & Otto Rank: Inside Psychoanalysis
Author E. James Lieberman & Robert Kramer Eds.
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call No. BF173.F85 A4 2012
Synopsis

Title Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind
Author Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett, & Reginald B. Adams, Jr.
Publisher MIT Press
Call No. BF575.L3 H89 2011
Synopsis

Title The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Author Jonathan Haidt
Publisher Pantheon
Call No. BJ45.H25 2012
Synopsis