Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Books: G is for--- Geography, Anthropology, Sports

Title Essential Do's and Taboos: The complete guide to International Business and Leisure Travel
Author Roger E. Axtell
Publisher Wiley
Call No.  G156.5. .B86 A98 2007
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Title The Value of the Species
Author Edward L. Mccord
Publisher Yale
Call No.  GE42.M378 2012
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Title The Environment in World History
Author Stephen Mosley
Publisher Routledge
Call No. GF13.M67 2010
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Title The Media Ecosystem
Author Antonio Lopez
Publisher Evolver Editions
Call No. GF 21.L66 2012
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Title Masters of the Planet: The search for our Human Origins
Author Ian Tattersall
Publisher Macmillan
Call No. GN281.T364 2012
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Title The Irresistible Fairy Tale
Author Jack Zipes
Publisher Princeton
Call No. GR550.Z59 2012
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Title The Rise of Gridiron University
Author Brian M. Ingrassia
Publisher Kansas
Call No. GV959.5.I64 2012
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Monday, February 18, 2013

BP - BX Other Religions & Denominations

Title Puritan Islam: The Geoexpansion of the Muslim World
Author Barry A. Vann
Publisher Prometheus Books
Call No.  BP 163.V36 2011
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Title Islamism and Islam
Author Bassam Tibi
Publisher Yale
Call No. BP 173.5.T534 2012
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Title Christianities in Asia
Author Peter C. Phan
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Call No.  BR1066.C45 2011
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Title Between Heaven and Earth: Christian Perspectives on Environmental Protection
Author Fred Van Dyke
Publisher Praeger
Call No.  BT695.5 .V35 2010
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Title The War on Heresy
Author R. I. Moore
Publisher Belknap-Harvard
Call No.  BT1319.M67 2012
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Title Center Church
Author Timothy Keller
Publisher Zondervan
Call No. BV2653.K45 2012
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Title Godly Ambition: John Stott and the Evangelical Movement
Author Alister Chapman
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  BX6199.S8344 C43 2012
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Friday, February 15, 2013

Books H-HF Business

Title Meet you in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership that Transformed America
Author  Lee Standiford
Publisher Crown
Call No.  HD9519.C2 S83 2005
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Title Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power
Author Steve Coll
Publisher Penguin Press
Call No. HD9569.E95 C65 2012
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Title  The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes
Author Margaret Mary & Carol S. Pearson
Publisher McGraw Hill
Call No.  HF5415.15.M334 2001
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Title The Workforce Scorecard
Author Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker, & Richard W. Beatty
Publisher Harvard
Call No. HF5549.5.P35 H87 2005
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Title Transferring Learning to Behavior: Using the Four Levels to Improve Performance
Author Donald L. Kirkpatrick & James D. Kirkpatrick
Publisher Barrett-Koehler Publishers
Call No. HF5549.5.T7 K572 2005
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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

D

Title Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust
Author Doreen Rappaport
Publisher Candlewick Press
Call No.  D804.6.R37 2012
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Title The Last Lion
Author William Manchester and Paul Reid
Publisher Little Brown
Call No. DA566.9.C5 M26 1983 v.3
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Title Iron Curton: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
Author Anne Applebaum
Publisher Doubleday
Call No.  DJK 45.S65 A67 2012
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Title On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War
Author Bernard Wasserstein
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Call No. DS135.E83 W36 2012
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Title On Saudi Arabia
Author Karen Elliott House
Publisher Alfred Knopf
Call No. DS215.H68 2012
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Title Kenya: A History Since Independence
Author Charles Hornsby
PublisherJ. B. Tauris
Call No. DT 433.58.H67 2012
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013

New Books: B - BF

Title Kierkegaard and Japanese Thought
Author James Giles, Ed.
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Call No. B4377.K45525 2008
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Title The Brain: Big Bangs, Behaviors and Beliefs
Author Rob DeSalle & Ian Tattersall
Publisher Yale
Call No. BF311.D466 2012
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Title Are We Getting Smarter: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century
Author James R. Flynn
Publisher Cambridge
Call No. BF431.F565 2012
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Title That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion
Author Rachel Herz
Publisher Norton
Call No. BF565.A386 H47 2012
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Title The Bully Society
Author Jessie Klein
PublisherNYU
Call No. BF637.B85.K584 2012
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

New Books HD-HM

Title The Predictable Surprise: The unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System
Author Sylveester J. Schieber
Publisher Oxford
Call No. HD7125.S327 2012
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Title Life Behind the Lobby
Author Pawan Dhingra
Publisher Stanford
Call No. HD2385.5.U6 D45 2012
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Title DevelopYour Marketing Skills
AuthorRichardson, Neil
Publisher Kogan Page
Call No. HF 5415.R5418 2011
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Title Marketing Plans: A Complete Guide in Pictures
Author Malcolm McDonald & Peter Morris
Publisher Wiley
Call No. HF5415.3.M36913 2012
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Title The Big Push: How Popular Culture is Always Selling
Author Erika Wittekind
Publisher Compass Point
Call No. HF5414.32.W58 2012
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Title Transferring Learning to Behavior
Author Donald L. Kirkpatrick and James D. Kirkpatrick
Publisher Berrett-Koehler
Call No.  HF5549.5.T7 K572 2005
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Title Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions
Author Dale Spencer; Kevin Walby; Alan Hunt
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Call No.  HM1033.E46 2012
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

New Books: Literature PR-PZ

Title The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880
Author  John Kucich & Jenny Bourne Tayloe, Eds.
Publisher Oxford
Call No. PR861.N56 2012
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Title Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures
Author Claudia L. Johnson
Publisher University of Chicago
Call No. PR 4036.J57 2012
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Title James Joyce A New Biography
Author Gordon Bowker
Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux
Call No. PR6019.O9 Z52616 2012
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Title Bring Up the Bodies
Author Hilary Mantel
Publisher Henry Holt
Call No. PR 6063.A438 B75 2012
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Title Uncertain Chainces: Science, Skepticism and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Author Maurice S. Lee
Publisher Oxford
Call No.  PS217.C46 L44 2012
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Title The Art of Robert Frost
Author Tim Kendall
Publisher Yale
Call No.  PS3511.R94 Z7585 2012
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Title The Round House
Author Louise Erdrich
Publisher Harper
Call No. PS3555.R42 R68 2012
Synopsis  National Book Award Winner 2012

Title The Best American Short Stories 2012
Author Tom Perrotta Ed.
Publisher  Houghton Mifflin
Call No. PZ 1.B446235
Synopsis - Each year a selection of published short stories are presented as examples of this genre.  The library currently has over 80 volumes.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

New Books J-L

Title Chicago Companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Author James T. Schliefer
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Call No. JK216.T648 S34 2012
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Title The TEA party: A brief history
Author Ronald P. Formisano
Publisher Johns Hopkins
Call No. JK 2391.T43 F67 2012
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Title The Everlasting Empire
Author Yuri Pines
Publisher Princeton
Call No. JQ1510.P56 2012
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Title The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know
Author James L. Gelvin
Publisher Oxford
Call No. JQ 1850.A91 G37 2012
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Title Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965
Author Juan Williams
Publisher Norton
Call No. KF4757.W53 2002
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Title Education and the Crisis of Public Values
Author Giroux, Henry A.
Publisher Peter Lang
Call No.  LA217.2.G54 2012
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Title How Children Succeed
Author Paul Tough
Publisher  HMH
Call No. :B1130/25/T68 2012
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Title Reading Poetry in the Middle Grades
Author Janeczko, Paul B.
Publisher Heinemann
Call No. LB1631.J366 2011
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Monday, February 4, 2013

New Books HV Criminal Justice

Title The Gender of Crime
Author Dana Britton
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Call No. HV6046.B825 2011
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Title:  The Finish: The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
Author: Mark Bowden
Published Atlantic Monthly Press
Call No. HV6430.B55 B69 2012
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Title The Fertile Soil of Jihad: Terrorism's Prison Connection
Author Patrick T. Dunleavy
Publisher Potomac Books
Call No.  HV6432.D86 2011
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Title Digital Piracy
Author George E. Higgins & Catherine D. Marcum
Publisher Carolina Academic Press
Call No.  HV6778.H543 2011
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Title In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process
Author Dan Simon
Publisher Harvard University Press
Call No.  HV7419.S57 2012
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