GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 11-09-2015

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Currency power : understanding monetary rivalry / Benjamin J. Cohen.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Albert Camus / Edward J. Hughes.
The cherry orchard : a comedy in four acts / Anton Chekhov ; translated from the Russian by Richard Nelson, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.
The defence of a madman / by August Strindberg ; translated from the French with a translators’ afterword by Carol Sanders and Janet Garton ; introduction by Anna Westerstêahl Stenport.
The festival of insignificance : a novel / Milan Kundera; translated from the French by Linda Asher.
The journey / Sergio Pitol ; translated from the Spanish by George Henson ; introduction by âAlvaro Enrigue.
Lovers on All Saints’ Day : stories / Juan Gabriel Vâasque ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
The necklace and other stories : Maupassant for modern times / Guy de Maupassant ; translated by Sandra Smith.
Pedigree : a memoir / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.
The Pope’s daughter / Dario Fo ; translated from the Italian by Antony Shugaar.
The prank : the best of young Chekhov / Anton Chekhov ; Translated from the Russian and with an introduction by Maria Bloshteyn ; illustrated by Nikolay Chekhov.
Quixote : the novel and the world / Ilan Stavans.
The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu ; translated by Dennis Washburn.
Wind/Pinball : two novels / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Ted Goossen.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES The bridge to airpower : logistics support for Royal Flying Corps operations on the Western Front, 1914-18 / Peter Dye.
The conquering tide : war in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 / Ian W. Toll.
Drawing meaning into history : student imagery and philosophies of history, 1984-2014 / Kenneth Wilburn, Department of History, East Carolina University.
Empire & revolution : the political life of Edmund Burke / Richard Bourke.
The end of Tsarist Russia : the march to World War I and revolution / Dominic Lieven.
From Versailles to Mers el-Kâebir : the promise of Anglo-French naval cooperation, 1919-40 / George E. Melton.
Genghis Khan : his conquests, his empire, his legacy / Frank McLynn.
Hirohito’s war : the Pacific war, 1941-1945 / Francis Pike.
The Hundred Years War / Jonathan Sumption.
The making of Asian America : a history / Erika Lee.
Nagasaki : life after nuclear war / Susan Southard.
The new abolition : W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black social gospel / Gary Dorrien.
The Nixon tapes : 1973 / Edited and annotated by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter.
Perilous partners : the benefits and pitfalls of America’s alliances with authoritarian regimes / Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent.
Rethinking the Weimar Republic : authority and authoritarianism, 1916-1936 / Anthony McElligott.
The scholar denied : W.E.B. Du Bois and the birth of modern sociology / Aldon D. Morris.
The short life of free Georgia : class and slavery in the colonial South / Noeleen McIlvenna.
Sicily : an island at the crossroads of history / John Julius Norwich.
Spain : the centre of the world 1519-1682 / Robert Goodwin.
W.E.B. Du Bois : an American intellectual and activist / Shawn Leigh Alexander.
World without end : Spain, Philip II, and the first global empire / Hugh Thomas.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES Audre Lorde’s transnational legacies / edited by Stella Bolaki and Sabine Broeck.
The blue guitar / John Banville.
Charlie Martz and other stories : the unpublished stories / Elmore Leonard.
Companion to James Welch’s The heartsong of Charging Elk / edited by Arnold Krupat.
Dome of the hidden pavilion : new poems / James Tate.
The double life of Liliane : a novel / Lily Tuck.
Edward Thomas : from Adlestrop to Arras : a biography / Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Flood of fire : a novel / Amitav Ghosh.
Fortune smiles : stories / Adam Johnson.
Impossible bottle : poems / Claudia Emerson.
John Ruskin / Andrew Ballantyne.
The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion / Tracy Daugherty.
Latest readings / Clive James.
Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings / Shirley Jackson ; edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman and Sarah Hyman DeWitt ; foreword by Ruth Franklin.
Meanwhile there are letters : the correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald / edited and with an introduction by Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan.
My generation : collected nonfiction / William Styron ; edited by James L. W. West III.
The pawnbroker’s daughter : a memoir / Maxine Kumin.
The poetry and poetics of Michael Heller : a nomad memory / edited by Jon Curley and Burt Kimmelman.
Purity / Jonathan Franzen.
A real American character : the life of Walter Brennan / Carl Rollyson.
The road not taken : finding America in the poem everyone loves and almost everyone gets wrong / David Orr.
The state we’re in : Maine stories / Ann Beattie.
Studio : a novel / by Thomas Maremaa.
Telling in Henry James : the web of experience and the forms of reality / Lynda Zwinger.
Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights : a novel / Salman Rushdie.
Undoing time : the life and work of Samuel Beckett / Jennifer Birkett.
The visiting privilege : new and collected stories / Joy Williams.
The world, I guess : poems / George Bowering.
Writing across the landscape : travel journals 1960-2010 / Lawrence Ferlinghetti ; edited by Giada Diano and Matthew Gleeson.
MUSIC Anthology of Italian opera : baritone / edited by Paolo Toscano ; assistant editor, J. Mark Baker.
Anthology of Italian opera : bass / edited by Paolo Toscano ; assistant editor, J. Mark Baker.
Anthology of Italian opera : mezzo-soprano / edited by Paolo Toscano ; assistant editor, J. Mark Baker.
Attila / dramma lirico in un prologo e tre atti di Temistocle Solera e Francesco Maria Piave = in a prologue and three acts by Temistocle Solera and Francesco Maria Piave ; Giuseppe Verdi.
Collected songs : 44 songs, including 7 cycles or sets / Gerald Finzi.
Collected songs : 54 songs, including 8 cycles or sets / Gerald Finzi.
Concerto for tuba and orchestra : “Wars and rumors of war” / Barbara York.
English church music. Part I / William Byrd ; editorial committee, P.C. Buck . [and others].
Gradualia : books I and II / William Byrd ; editorial committee, P.C. Buck [and others].
Lieder. Band 15 : Register / vorgelegt von Walther Dèurr ; unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Eckstein.
Liriche : canto e pianoforte = Art songs : voice and piano / Giuseppe Verdi.
Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625 / editorial committee, P.C. Buck [and others].
Rhapsody for alto saxophone and orchestra or piano / Andrâe Waignein.
Robert White, d. 1574 / editorial committee, P.C. Buck [and others].
The saint of Bleecker Street : musical drama in three acts (five scenes) / words and music by Gian-Carlo Menotti.
The saint of Bleecker Street : musical drama in three acts (five scenes) : stage material with English and German text / words and music by Gian Carlo Menotti ; [German translation by Karlheinz Gutheim and Wilhelm Reinking] ; vocal score.
Sea dreams : tuba solo and piano / Barbara York.
Services. Part I / Thomas Tomkins ; editorial committee, P.C. Buck, E.H. Fellowes, A. Ramsbotham, S. Townsend Warner.
Sonata no. 2 : tasting love / Barbara York.
Thomas Tallis, c. 1505-1585 / editorial committee, P.C. Buck [and others].
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Ethical loneliness : the injustice of not being heard / Jill Stauffer.
How the French think : an affectionate portrait of an intellectual people / Sudhir Hazareesingh.
John Henry Newman : man of letters / Mary Katherine Tillman.
A political history of the Bible in America / Paul D. Hanson.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Big science : Ernest Lawrence, the cyclotron, and the birth of the military-industrial complex / Michael Hiltzik.
Cloning : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.
Ions in solution and their solvation / Yizhak Marcus.
Life’s greatest secret : the race to crack the genetic code / Matthew Cobb.
Neuroimmunity : a new science that will revolutionize how we keep our brains healthy and young / Michal Schwartz with Anat London ; with a foreword by Olle Lindvall.
Puberty in crisis : the sociology of early sexual development / Celia Roberts.
The runes of evolution : how the universe became self-aware / Simon Conway Morris.
Search and foraging : individual motion and swarm dynamics / Eugene Kagan (Ariel University and the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel), Irad Ben-Gal (Tel Aviv University, Israel).
The vital question : energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life / Nick Lane.
SOCIAL SCIENCES The court and the world : American law and the new global realities / Stephen Breyer.
The gay revolution : the story of the struggle / Lillian Faderman.
Hate crimes : a reference handbook / Donald Altschiller.
Humankind : how biology and geography shape human diversity / Alexander H. Harcourt.
The Oxford handbook of the U.S. Constitution / edited by Mark Tushnet, Mark A. Graber, and Sanford Levinson.
Pivotal Tuesdays : four elections that shaped the twentieth century / Margaret O’Mara.
Polarization and the politics of personal responsibility / Mark D. Brewer and Jeffrey M. Stonecash.
Sin city north : sex, drugs, and citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor borderland / Holly M. Karibo.
Sisters in law : how Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world / Linda Hirshman.
Thomas De Quincey and the Cognitive Unconscious / Markus Iseli.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Kandinsky and Klee in Tunisia / Roger Benjamin with Cristina Ashjian.
Paul Klee : the visible and the legible / Annie Bourneuf.
Peggy Guggenheim : the shock of the modern / Francine Prose.
The strait gate : thresholds and power in Western history / Daniel Jèutte.
Van Gogh and nature / Richard Kendall, Sjraar van Heugten, Chris Stolwijk.