GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 06-15-2015

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Collaborative communication processes and decision making in organizations / Ephraim Nikoi, University of Wisconsin, Superior, USA ; Kwasi Boateng, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA, editors.
Electric city : General Electric in Schenectady / Julia Kirk Blackwelder.
Regional economic outlook. Asia and Pacific.
The Oxford handbook of the economics of poverty / edited by Philip N. Jefferson.
EDUCATION Locus of authority : the evolution of faculty roles in the governance of higher education / William G. Bowen and Eugene M. Tobin.
Re-envisioning higher education : embodied pathways to wisdom and social transformation / edited by Jing Lin, Rebecca L. Oxford, Edward J. Brantmeier.
The other school reformers : conservative activism in American education / Adam Laats.
Who’s afraid of academic freedom? / edited by Akeel Bilgrami & Jonathan R. Cole.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Frog / Mo Yan ; translated from the original Chinese edition by Howard Goldblatt.
Hidden pleasures in Borges’s fiction / Evelyn Fishburn.
I am the beggar of the world : landays from contemporary Afghanistan / translated and presented by Eliza Griswold ; photographs by Seamus Murphy.
Mayakovsky : a biography / Bengt Jangfeldt ; translated by Harry D. Watson.
Notes from a dead house / Fyodor Dostoevsky ; translated by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky.
Simone de Beauvoir : feminist writings / edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann ; foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir.
The discreet hero / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
The four books / Yan Lianke ; translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas.
The Greek Anthology / translated by W.R. Paton.
Zorba the Greek : the saint’s life of Zorba / by Nikos Kazantzakis ; newly translated by Peter Bien.
HEALTH SCIENCES Healthcare reform in America : a reference handbook / Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and Michael Kronenfeld.
Neurotechnology in national security and defense : practical considerations, neuroethical concerns / edited by James Giordano, PhD, Neuroethics Studies Program, Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethic
Rhetoric of a global epidemic : transcultural communication about SARS / Huiling Ding.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES British pirates and society, 1680-1730 / Margarette Lincoln.
Fighting over the founders : how we remember the American Revolution / Andrew M. Schocket.
Glories of Srivijaya in Indonesia’s history / Dr. Md. Sayeed Alam.
Hell and good company : the Spanish Civil War and the world it made / Richard Rhodes.
Hi Hitler! : how the Nazi past is being normalized in contemporary culture / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld.
Native American whalemen and the world : the contingency of race / Nancy Shoemaker.
Roosevelt and Stalin : the war years / Susan Butler.
Taiwan Straits : crisis in Asia and the role of the U.S. Navy / Bruce A. Elleman.
The Burma spring : Aung San Suu Kyi and the new struggle for the soul of a nation / Rena Pederson ; foreword by Laura Bush.
The politics of deception : JFK’s secret decisions on Vietnam, civil rights, and Cuba / Patrick J. Sloyan.
The radical King / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; edited and introduced by Cornel West.
The transatlantic Hispanic Baroque : complex identities in the Atlantic world / edited by Harald E. Braun and Jesâus Pâerez-Magallâon.
The Viking age : a reader / edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald.
The young T.E. Lawrence / Anthony Sattin.
Warship 2014 / edited by John Jordan ; assisted by Stephen Dent.
LIBRARY SCIENCE Guide to reference in genealogy and biography / Mary K. Mannix, Fred Burchsted, and Jo Bell Whitlatch, Editors.
Intellectual freedom manual / compiled by the Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association ; Trina Magi, editor ; Martin Garnar, assistant editor .
Libraries and the Affordable Care Act : helping the community understand health-care options / Francisca Goldsmith.
Meaningful metrics : a 21st century librarian’s guide to bibliometrics, altmetrics, and research impact / [edited by] Robin Chin Roemer & Rachel Borchardt.
New routes to library success : 100+ ideas from outside the stacks / Elisabeth Doucett.
Technology disaster response and recovery planning : a LITA guide / edited by Mary Mallery.
Teen services 101 : a practical guide for busy library staff / Megan P. Fink.
The essential lapsit guide : a multimedia how-to-do-it manual and programming guide for stimulating literacy development from 12 to 24 months / Linda L. Ernst.
The Living Library : an intellectual ecosystem / Patricia Steele, David Cronrath, Sandra Parsons Vicchio, Nancy Fried Foster.
The Newbery & Caldecott Awards : a guide to the medal and honor books / Association for Library Service to Children.
The purpose-based library : finding your path to survival, success, and growth / John Huber, Steven V. Potter.
The readers’ advisory guide to historical fiction / Jennifer S. Baker.
Usability and the mobile web : a LITA guide / Junior Tidal.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES A spool of blue thread / Anne Tyler.
American vandal : Mark Twain abroad / Roy Morris, Jr.
Citizen : an American lyric / Claudia Rankine.
Compass Rose / Arthur Sze.
Crow fair : stories / Thomas McGuane.
Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters / Jane Dunn.
Digest / Gregory Pardlo.
Follies of God : Tennessee Williams and the Women of the Fog / James Grissom.
Funny girl : a novel / Nick Hornby.
Honeydew : stories / Edith Pearlman.
Huck Finn’s America : Mark Twain and the era that shaped his masterpiece / Andrew Levy.
In Walt We Trust : How a Queer Socialist Poet Can Save America From Itself / John Marsh.
Itself / Rae Armantrout.
Mark Twain on potholes and politics : letters to the editor / edited by Gary Scharnhorst.
On multimodality : new media in composition studies / Jonathan Alexander, University of California, Irvine ; Jacqueline Rhodes, California State University, San Bernardino.
Outline / Rachel Cusk.
Plays one / April de Angelis.
Reel to reel / Alan Shapiro.
Robert Frost’s political body / Grzegorz Kosc.
S O S : poems 1961-2013 / Amiri Baraka ; selected by Paul Vangelisti.
Selected poems, 1988-2013 / Seamus Heaney.
Shame and the captives : a novel / Thomas Keneally.
Sympathy for the devil : four decades of friendship with Gore Vidal / Michael Mewshaw.
The American lover : and other stories / Rose Tremain.
The buried giant / Kazuo Ishiguro.
The last word : a novel / Hanif Kureishi.
The lost child / Caryl Phillips.
The sacrifice : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.
Wanderlust.
West of sunset : a novel / Stewart O’Nan.
Wil Usdi : thoughts from the asylum, a Cherokee novella / Robert J. Conley ; foreword by Luther Wilson ; with a tribute by Michell Hicks.
MUSIC Concerto for clarinet : “Landscapes with blues” / Stephen Hartke ; solo clarinet edited by Richard Stoltzman ; piano reduction by Sarah Gibson.
Counterpoints on the cantus firmi of solemn Masses / Francesco Corteccia ; editit David J. Burn and Frank A. D’Accone.
Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Musique de table : Ausfèuhrungen zu Band LXI und LXII der Denkmèaler deutscher Tonkunst, erste Folge / Max Seiffert.
Grande sâerâenade en potpourri : serenata seconda, op. 66, for piano, violin, guitar/viola, clarinet/flute, bassoon/violoncello / Johann Nepomuk Hummel.
Hymnary according to the use of the Roman Church and the Florentine / Francesco Corteccia ; edited by Frank A. D’Accone.
Hypermnestra / Ignaz Holzbauer ; verèoffentlicht von Lawrence Bennett = edited by Lawrence Bennett.
Il primo libro de la musica sopra di alcune canzoni del Petrarca / Matteo Rampollini ; edited by Frank A. D’Accone.
Music for the Triduum Sacrum / Francesco Corteccia ; edited by Frank A. D’Accone.
Octeto en cuatro tiempos : for clarinet, bassoon, horn & string quintet / Roberto Sierra.
Octeto en cuatro tiempos : for clarinet, bassoon, horn & string quintet / Roberto Sierra.
Polonaise brillante : (Polonaise de concert) : no. 1 in D major, for violin and piano, op. 4 / Henryk Wieniawski ; edited by Endre Granat.
Prayers and remembrances : for mixed chorus and orchestra / Stephen Paulus.
Preludes / Chopin ; edited by Brian Ganz.
Sacra corona : Venice, 1656 / edited by Paolo Alberto Rismondo.
Sacri concentus : fèur vier bis zwèolf Stimmen / Hans Leo Hassler ; herausgegeben von Joseph Auer.
Sacri concentus : fèur vier bis zwèolf Stimmen / Hans Leo Hassler ; herausgegeben von Joseph Auer.
Secunda pars Centuriae : octonum et septenum vocum : Stetini 1608 / Philippus Dulichius ; herausgegeben von Rudolf Schwartz.
Shorter works for piano. Vol. 1, Piano marches / Charles Ives ; edited by Donald Berman and Kenneth Singleton.
Sonaten fèur grèossere Besetzungen / Johann Joseph Fux ; vorgelegt von Guido Erdmann.
String quartet no. 4, 2014 / John Melby.
Suite bergamasque : Prelude, Menuet, Clair de lune, Passepied / Debussy ; edited and recorded by Christopher Harding.
Teaching music through performance in middle school band / Gary Barton ; Erin Cole ; Chip De Stefano ; Charles R. Jackson ; Susan Taylor ; Scott Tomlison ; Marguerite Wilder ; foreword by Larry R. Blocher ; compiled and edited by Richard Miles.
The partnership : Brecht, Weill, three women, and Germany on the brink / Pamela Katz.
Times like these : for B-flat clarinet and piano / James Primosch.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION How to be alone / Sara Maitland.
Hymns on faith / St. Ephrem the Syrian ; translated by Jeffrey T. Wickes, Saint Louis University.
On Dionysius the Areopagite / Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen.
On Dionysius the Areopagite / Marsilio Ficino ; edited and translated by Michael J.B. Allen.
One nation, under gods : a new American history / Peter Manseau.
Seeing things as they are : a theory of perception / John R. Searle.
The future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis / Garry Wills.
The Letters of Thomas Merton and Victor and Carolyn Hammer : Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam / edited by F. Douglas Scutchfield and Paul Evans Holbrook Jr. ; with the editorial assistance of Leah Casanave ; foreword by Paul M. Pearson.
The moral arc : how science and reason lead humanity toward truth, justice, and freedom / Michael Shermer.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A new history of life : the radical new discoveries about the origins and evolution of life on earth / Peter Ward and Joe Kirschvink.
Design, when everybody designs : an introduction to design for social innovation / Ezio Manzini ; translated by Rachel Coad.
Early responses to the periodic system / edited by Masanori Kaji, Helge Kragh, and Gâabor Pallâo.
Elements of electromagnetics / Matthew N.O. Sadiku, Prairie View A&M University.
Eternal ephemera : adaptation and the origin of species, from the nineteenth century through punctuated equilibria and beyond / Niles Eldredge.
Fracking : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.
Fractional Sobolev inequalities : symmetrization, isoperimetry and interpolation / Joaquim Martâin, Mario Milman.
Great principles of computing / Peter J. Denning and Craig H. Martell.
How the Earth turned green : a brief 3.8-billion-year history of plants / Joseph E. Armstrong.
Local collapsing, orbifolds, and geometrization / Bruce Kleiner, John Lott.
Math for life : crucial ideas you didn’t learn in school / Jeffrey Bennett.
Producing power : the pre-Chernobyl history of the Soviet nuclear industry / Sonja D. Schmid.
Science policy up close / John H. Marburger III ; edited by Robert P. Crease.
The 2011 Mineral, Virginia, earthquake, and its significance for seismic hazards in eastern North America / edited by J. Wright Horton, Jr. (U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia), Martin C. Chapman
The innovators : how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution / Walter Isaacson.
To explain the world : the discovery of modern science / Steven Weinberg.
White magic : the age of paper / Lothar Mèuller ; translated by Jessica Spengler.
SOCIAL SCIENCES A history of their own : women in Europe from prehistory to the present / Bonnie S. Anderson, Judith P. Zinsser.
A history of their own : women in Europe from prehistory to the present / Bonnie S. Anderson, Judith P. Zinsser.
A terrorist’s call to global Jihad : deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri’s Islamic Jihad manifesto / edited by Jim Lacey.
Adoption, race, & identity : from infancy to young adulthood / Rita J. Simon, Howard Altstein ; with a new preface and concluding chapter by the authors.
Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present / James H.S. McGregor.
Constitutional calculus : the math of justice and the myth of common sense / Jeff Suzuki.
Don’t blame us : suburban liberals and the transformation of the Democratic Party / Lily Geismer.
Forensic evidence field guide : a collection of best practices / Peter W. Pfefferli.
Intercountry adoption : policies, practices, and outcomes / edited by Judith L. Gibbons and Karen Smith Rotabi.
Marxism : the inner dialogues / edited by Michael Curtis.
Ocean worlds : the story of seas on earth and other planets / Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams.
Origins of terrorism : psychologies, ideologies, theologies, states of mind / edited by Walter Reich.
Our kids : the American Dream in crisis / Robert D. Putnam.
Our only world : ten essays / Wendell Berry.
Path of blood : the story of Al Qaeda’s war on the House of Saud / Thomas Small and Jonathan Hacker.
Policing the inner city in France, Britain, and the US / Sophie Body-Gendrot, Catherine Wihtol de Wenden.
Right of boom : the aftermath of nuclear terrorism / Benjamin E. Schwartz.
Sex versus survival : the life and ideas of Sabina Spielrein / John Launer.
Social crime prevention in the developing world : exploring the role of police in crime prevention / Heath Grant.
Social networking and contact : how social workers can help adoptive families / Eileen Fursland.
Socialism since 1889 : a biographical history / James D. Young.
The death penalty : a worldwide perspective / Roger Hood and Carolyn Hoyle.
The eternal criminal record / James B. Jacobs.
The ethics of transracial adoption / Hawley Fogg-Davis.
The expressive powers of law : theories and limits / Richard H. McAdams.
The history of cartography / edited by J.B. Harley and David Woodward.
The history of cartography / edited by J.B. Harley and David Woodward.
The hungry mind : the origins of curiosity in childhood / Susan Engel.
The syntax of American Sign Language : functional categories and hierarchical structure / Carol Neidle [and others].
Toxic terror : assessing terrorist use of chemical and biological weapons / editor, Jonathan B. Tucker.
Unrequited : women and romantic obsession / Lisa A. Phillips.
We should all be feminists / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Women after all : sex, evolution, and the end of male supremacy / Melvin Konner, M.D.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Allegories of time and space : Japanese identity in photography and architecture / Jonathan M. Reynolds.
Design inside : Apartments and lofts = Departamentos y lofts = Appartements et lofts = Appartements und lofts / [Fernando de Haro & Omar Fuentes].
Eye of the beholder : Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the reinvention of seeing / Laura J. Snyder.
Klee’s mirror / John Sallis in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee.
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the art of the figure / Michael W. Cole.
Local architecture : building place, craft, and community / [foreword by] Brian MacKay-Lyons ; edited by Robert McCarter.
Mark Rothko : toward the light in the chapel / Annie Cohen-Solal.
Plotting gothic / Stephen Murray.
Robert A. M. Stern Architects : buildings and projects, 2010-2014 / edited by Peter Morris Dixon and Jonathan Grzywacz.
Silent dialogues : Diane Arbus & Howard Nemerov / Alexander Nemerov.
The China collectors : America’s century-long hunt for Asian art treasures / Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac.
The miracle of analogy, or, The history of photography / Kaja Silverman.