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GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 02-29-2016

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS America’s bank : the epic struggle to create the Federal Reserve / Roger Lowenstein.
Budget tools : financial methods in the public sector / Greg G. Chen, CUNY-Baruch College, Lynne A. Weikart, James Madison University, Daniel W. Williams, CUNY-Baruch College.
Chiaraijima village: land tenure, taxation, and local trade, 1818-1884.
The courage to act : a memoir of a crisis and its aftermath / Ben S. Bernanke.
Epistemics of development economics : toward a methodological critique and unity / Kofi Kissi Dompere and Manzur Ejaz; foreword by Mark Perlman.
French beans and food scares : culture and commerce in an anxious age / Susanne Freidberg.
Hamburgers in paradise : the stories behind the food we eat / Louise O. Fresco ; translated by Liz Waters.
Leading business change : a practical guide to transforming your organization / Karin Stumpf.
Management / James A.F. Stoner, R. Edward Freeman.
Overcoming workplace pathologies : principles of spirit-based leadership / Gilbert W. Fairholm.
The psychology of innovation in organizations / David H. Cropley, Arthur J. Cropley.
State capitalism’s uncertain future / Scott B. MacDonald and Jonathan Lemco.
Tranformational governance : how boards achieve extraordinary change / Beth Gazley and Katha Kissman.
Transportation : a global supply chain perspective / John J. Coyle, The Pennsylvania State University, Robert A. Novack, The Pennsylvania State University, Brian J. Gibson, Auburn University.
Unintended consequences : why everything you’ve been told about the economy is wrong / Ed Conard.
Value in capitalist society : rethinking Marx’s criticism of capitalism / by Paul Cobben.
Wall Streeters : the creators and corruptors of American finance / Edward Morris.
Why Minsky matters : an introduction to the work of a maverick economist / L. Randall Wray.
EDUCATION Financement des âequipements âeducatifs et dâecentralisation = Decentralisation and the financing of educational facilities.
Identity work in the classroom : successful learning in urban schools / Cheryl Jones-Walker ; foreword by Theresa Perry.
Observing young children : the role of observation and assessment in early childhood settings / Sandra Smidt.
On the high wire : education professors walk between work and parenting / edited by George Theoharis and Sharon Dotger.
Partnering with students : building ownership of learning / Mary Jane O’Connell, Kara Vandas.
Stop, think, act : integrating self-regulation in the early childhood classroom / Megan M. McClelland and Shauna L. Tominey.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES After the circus / a novel by Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.
The big green tent / Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon.
Inventaire de la correspondance de Johannes Fredericus Gronovius, 1631-1671 / par P. Dibon, H. Bots, et E. Bots-Estourgie.
Jean Giraudoux / [par] V.H. Debidour.
La senda / Jorge Guillermo Borges ; introducciâon y notas Daniel Balderston y Sarah Roger ; transcripciâon y ediciâon Marâia Julia Rossi.
Letters to Vâera / Vladimir Nabokov ; edited and translated by Olga Voronina and Brian Boyd.
On exile / Francesco Filelfo ; edited by Jeroen de Keyser ; translated by W. Scott Blanchard.
Paris nocturne / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Phoebe Weston-Evans.
Primera muerte de Marâia / Jorge Eduardo Eielson.
Proust : the search / Benjamin Taylor.
Reading The tale of Genji : sources from the first millennium / edited by Thomas Harper and Haruo Shirane ; translations and introductions by Patrick Caddeau, Lewis Cook, Wiebke Denecke, Michael Emmerich,
A strangeness in my mind : a novel / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap.
Submission / Michel Houellebecq ; translated from the French by Lorin Stein.
HEALTH SCIENCES The fight for public health : principles and practice of media advocacy / Simon Chapman, Deborah Lupton.
Social networks and popular understanding of science and health : sharing disparities / Brian G. Southwell.
Treating chronically traumatized children : don’t let sleeping dogs lie! / Arianne Struik.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES 1946 : the making of the modern world / Victor Sebestyen.
The American slave coast : a history of the slave-breeding industry / Ned and Constance Sublette.
The art of memoir / Mary Karr.
Assessing war : the challenge of measuring success and failure / Leo J. Blanken, Hy Rothstein, Jason J. Lepore, editors ; foreword by Gen. George W. Casey Jr.
Black earth : the Holocaust as history and warning / Timothy Snyder.
Carnage and connectivity : landmarks in the decline of conventional military power / David Betz.
Child soldiers in the Western imagination : from patriots to victims / David M. Rosen.
China and the West : hope and fear in the age of Asia / Fokke Obbema.
Cicero and the rise of deification at Rome / Spencer Cole.
Clean bombs and dirty wars : air power in Kosovo and Libya / Robert H. Gregory Jr.
Confederate cities : the urban South during the Civil War era / edited by Andrew L. Slap and Frank Towers ; with a foreword by David Goldfield.
The conflict in Ukraine : what everyone needs to know / Serhy Yekelchyk.
The End of the Cold War, 1985-1991 / Robert Service.
The English and their history / by Robert Tombs.
Ensuring inequality : the structural transformation of the African-American family / Donna L. Franklin and Angela James.
Ethnicities, nationalities, and cross-cultural representations in Africa and the diaspora / edited by Gloria Chuku.
Exploring Southeastern Archaeology / edited by Patricia Galloway and Evan Peacock ; foreword by Jeffrey P. Brain.
Finding solutions for protecting and sharing archaeological heritage resources / Anne P. Underhill, Lucy C. Salazar, editors.
Friended at the front : social media in the American war zone / Lisa Ellen Silvestri.
Frontline : combat and cohesion in twenty-first century / edited by Anthony King.
The future of extended deterrence : the United States, NATO, and beyond / Stâefanie von Hlatky and Andreas Wenger, editors.
Global heritage : a reader / edited by Lynn Meskell.
Gold and freedom : the political economy of Reconstruction / Nicolas Barreyre ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Hamilton versus Jefferson in the Washington administration : completing the founding or betraying the founding? / Carson Holloway.
A history of Shropshire. Volume VI, part 1, Shrewsbury : general history and topography / edited by W.A. Champion & A.T.T. Thacker.
Hubris : the tragedy of war in the twentieth century / Alistair Horne.
India’s Naval Strategy and Asian Security / Edited by Anit Mukherjee and C. Raja Mohan.
Kissinger. Volume I, 1923-1968: the idealist / Niall Ferguson.
The knowledge wars / Peter Doherty.
Machines of loving grace : the quest for common ground between humans and robots / John Markoff.
Now and at the hour of our death / Susana Moreira Marques ; translated by Julia Sanches.
The Pakistan paradox : instability and resilience / Christophe Jaffrelot ; translated by Cynthia Schoch.
The past is a foreign country – revisited / David Lowenthal.
Peace without money, war without Americans : can European strategy cope? / Sven Biscop.
Piety and nationalism : lay voluntary associations and the creation of an Irish-Catholic community in Toronto, 1850-1895 / Brian P. Clarke.
Recapturing the Oval Office : new historical approaches to the American presidency / edited by Brian Balogh and Bruce J. Schulman.
The rise of the military welfare state / Jennifer Mittelstadt.
The sacred routes of Uyghur history / Rian Thum.
The Saltwater frontier : Indians and the contest for the American coast / Andrew Lipman.
Scotland’s splendour / as seen by George Blake [and others].
Soldiers on the home front : the domestic role of the American military / William C. Banks and Stephen Dycus.
Sparing civilians / Seth Lazar.
Theodore Roosevelt in the field : / Michael R. Canfield.
The US NATO debate : from Libya to Ukraine / Magnus Petersson.
Waging war : a new philosophical introduction / Ian Clark.
Waging war : conflict, culture, and innovation in world history / Wayne E. Lee.
A world of paper : Louis XIV, Colbert de Torcy, and the rise of the information state / John C. Rule and Ben S. Trotter.
The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s / Catherine Baker.
LIBRARY SCIENCE Acquisitions from the third world : papers of the Ligue des bibliotháeques europâeennes de recherche seminar 17-19 September 1973 / edited by D. A. Clarke.
Censorship and exile / Johanna Hartmann, Hubert Zapf (eds.)
Meeting the needs of student users in academic libraries : reaching across the great divide / Michele J. Crump and LeiLani S. Freund ; with contributions from Steven Carrico [and others].
Vandercook presses : maintenance, history and resources / Paul Moxon.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES About women : conversations between a writer and a painter / Lisa Alther and Franðcoise Gilot.
The annotated Little Women / Louisa May Alcott ; edited with an introduction and notes by John Matteson.
The ants’ nest / by Muriel Daly.
Approaches to teaching Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and other works / edited by Leslie A. Donovan.
Beatlebone : a novel / Kevin Barry.
Beckett’s art of mismaking / Leland de la Durantaye.
The best American comics 2015 / edited and introduced by Jonathan Lethem ; Bill Kartalopoulos, series editor.
Beyond reformation? : an essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the end of Constantinian Christianity / David Aers.
Black River : a novel / S.M. Hulse.
Brooklyn : a personal memoir : with the lost photographs of David Attie / Truman Capote ; photographs by David Attie ; introduction by George Plimpton ; afterword by Eli Attie.
The Cambridge companion to John Ruskin / edited by Francis O’Gorman.
Cast of characters : Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and the golden age of the New Yorker / Thomas Vinciguerra.
China doll : a play / by David Mamet.
Clayfeld holds on / Robert Pack.
Collected stories / John Barth.
Conrad’s popular fictions : secret histories and sensational novels / Andrew Glazzard.
Conversations with James Salter / edited by Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais.
The critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014 : shaping an American literary icon / Laurence W. Mazzeno.
Dark corners : a novel / Ruth Rendell.
Dietrich & Riefenstahl : Hollywood, Berlin, and a century in two lives / Karin Wieland ; translated by Shelley Frisch.
The drama of memory in Shakespeare’s history plays / Isabel Karremann.
The early stories of Truman Capote / Truman Capote ; foreword by Hilton Als.
The ecological Eugene O’Neill : nature’s veiled purpose in the plays / Robert Baker-White.
The emperor of water clocks : poems / Yusef Komunyakaa.
Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal / Jay Parini.
Essentials of period style : a sourcebook for stage and production designers / Hal Tinâe.
Felicity / Mary Oliver.
Gertrude Stein in Europe : reconfigurations across media, disciplines and traditions / edited by Sarah Posman, Laura Luise Schultz.
Golden age : a novel / Jane Smiley.
Hemingway in love : his own story : a memoir / A.E. Hotchner.
Hemingway, style, and the art of emotion / David Wyatt.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland : the fireside poet of Maine / John William Babin and Allan M. Levinsky ; foreword by Herb Adams.
A house in St John’s Wood : in search of my parents / Matthew Spender.
How Robert Frost made realism matter / Jonathan N. Barron.
J.M. Coetzee and the life of writing : face-to-face with time / David Attwell.
Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage / Philip Weinstein.
Joyce’s ghosts : Ireland, modernism, and memory / Luke Gibbons.
Keeping an eye open : essays on art / Julian Barnes.
Kipling and war : from ‘Tommy’ and ‘My boy Jack’ / Rudyard Kipling ; introduced and edited by Andrew Lycett.
The life and times of Mickey Rooney / William Birnes and Richard Lertzman.
Loop of jade / Sarah Howe.
Lost lake : a play / by David Auburn.
Maya Angelou : adventurous spirit / Linda Wagner-Martin.
Media, revolution and politics in Egypt : the story of an uprising / Abdalla F. Hassan.
Mendocino fire : stories / Elizabeth Tallent.
Nora Ephron : everything is copy / Liz Dance.
On Susan Glaspell’s Trifles and “A jury of her peers” : centennial essays, interviews and adaptations / edited by Martha C. Carpentier and Emeline Jouve.
The Oppens remembered : poetry, politics, and friendship / edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis.
The philosopher’s English king : Shakespeare’s Henriad as political philosophy / Leon Harold Craig.
Portraits of Shakespeare / Katherine Duncan-Jones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson : the major poetry / edited, with introduction and commentary by Albert J. von Frank.
Seamus Heaney and the adequacy of poetry / John Dennison.
The selected poems of Donald Hall.
The sellout : a novel / Paul Beatty.
The Shakespeare circle : an alternative biography / edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells.
Shaping Shakespeare for performance : the bear stage / edited by Catherine Loomis and Sid Ray.
So they want us to learn French : promoting and opposing bilingualism in English-speaking Canada / Matthew Hayday.
Some Australian poets.
Staging China : new theatres in the twenty-first century / edited by Li Ruru.
Thirteen ways of looking : fiction / Colum McCann.
This is the life : a novel / Alex Shearer.
Twain & Stanley enter paradise : a novel / Oscar Hijuelos.
Virginia Woolf’s influential forebears : Julia Margaret Cameron, Anny Thackeray Ritchie and Julia Prinsep Stephen / Marion Dell.
Woody / David Evanier.
Woody Allen : a retrospective / by Tom Shone.
Workshops of empire : Stegner, Engle, and American creative writing during the Cold War / Eric Bennett.
Wuthering Heights on film and television : a journey across time and cultures / by Valâerie V. Hazette.
You come too : my journey with Robert Frost / Lesley Lee Francis.
Young Orson : the years of luck and genius on the path to Citizen Kane / Patrick McGilligan.
MUSIC Addressing wonder : for piano, viola, and cello / Edward Jacobs.
Arias for Stefano Mandini : Mozart’s first Count Almaviva / edited by Dorothea Link.
At recess, we play / Edward Jacobs.
Blurring the margins : for chamber ensemble / Edward Jacobs.
Clear lake : tuba + piano / Stephen Oberheu.
The efficacy of pre-1965 and post-1965 musical aptitude and achievement tests for use with diverse groups / by George M. DeGraffenreid.
A handbook of church music / edited by Carl Halter and Carl Schalk.
Incidental music. Part 1, Plays A-F / John Eccles ; edited by Amanda Eubanks Winkler.
Just another carnival : for tuba and piano / Tom McCaslin.
Madrigali a cinque voci di Gio. Maria Nanino et di Annibal Stabile (1581) ; and, Madrigals published only in anthologies, 1574-1586 / edited by Christina Boenicke and Anthony Newcomb.
The song machine : inside the hit factory / John Seabrook.
Vespers for the feast of the Assumption : a reconstruction of the 1744 service at the Ospedaletto in Venice / Nicola Porpora ; edited by Kurt Markstrom.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Bird relics : grief and vitalism in Thoreau / Branka Arsiâc.
Luis de Molina : the life and theology of the founder of middle knowledge / Kirk R. MacGregor.
The ontology of the analytic tradition and its origins : realism and identity in Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Quine / Jan Dejnoézka.
Soul machine : the invention of the modern mind / George Makari.
The study Quran : a new translation and commentary / Seyyed Hossein Nasr, editor-in-chief ; Caner K. Dagli, Maria Massi Dakake, Joseph E. B. Lumbard, general editors ; Mohammed Rustom, assistant editor.
Surfing uncertainty : prediction, action, and the embodied mind / Andy Clark.
Thomas More : why patron of statesmen? / edited by Travis Curtright.
The works of John Wesley / edited by Albert C. Outler [and others].
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Alfred Wegener : science, exploration, and the theory of continental drift / Mott T. Greene.
BIM management : template and family creation / ASCENT Center for Technical Knowledge autodesk authorized author, R. A. Chin.
A certain uncertainty : nature’s random ways / Mark P. Silverman, Trinity College, Connecticut.
Computing the continuous discretely : integer-point enumeration in polyhedra / Matthias Beck, Sinai Robins.
Conservation biology : the theory and practice of nature conservation, preservation, and management / Peggy L. Fiedler and Subodh K. Jain, editors.
Estuarine ecohydrology : an introduction / Eric Wolanski, Michael Elliott.
For the love of rivers : a scientist’s journey / Kurt D. Fausch ; illustrations by Kristine A. Mackessy and Shigeru Nakano.
GeoENV IV : geostatistics for environmental applications : proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Applications held in Barcelona,
Geological maps ; the determination of structural detail.
Good and cheap : eat well on $4/day / Leanne Brown.
Human reliability in quality control : [papers] / edited by C. G. Drury and J. G. Fox.
The interstellar age : inside the forty-year Voyager mission / Jim Bell.
Introduction to solid modeling using SolidWorks … .
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics / M.G. Calkin.
The leatherback turtle : biology and conservation / edited by James R. Spotila and Pilar Santidriâan Tomillo.
Magnetic observations in South Dakota / by Bruno C. Petsch and Loyd A. Carlson.
Manufacturing engineering handbook / Hwaiyu Geng, editor in chief.
Microprobe techniques in the earth sciences / edited by Philip J. Potts [and others].
My sixty years with rural youth / by T.A. Erickson ; with the assistance of Anna North Coit.
Operations management : a systems approach through text and cases / C. J. Constable and C. C. New.
Spark joy : an illustrated master class on the art of organizing and tidying up / Marie Kondo ; translated from the Japanese by Cathy Hirano.
Strategic hospitality human resources management / Dori Finley Dennison, Melvin R. Weber.
Tensor calculus for physics : a concise guide / Dwight E. Neuenschwander.
The untold story of the Spirit of St. Louis / Ev Cassagneres.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Animal maltreatment : forensic mental health issues and evaluations / edited by Lacey Levitt, Gary Patronek, and Thomas Grisso.
Anthropological ethics in context : an ongoing dialogue / edited by Dena Plemmons and Alex W. Barker.
The Ashgate research companion to anthropology / edited by Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern.
Black flags : the rise of ISIS / Joby Warrick.
City of change and challenge : urban planning and regeneration in Liverpool / Chris Couch.
Coastal and marine hazards, risks, and disasters / volume editors, Jean T. Ellis, Douglas J. Sherman.
Coastal and ocean management law in a nutshell / by Donna R. Christie, Elizabeth C. & Clyde W. Atkinson Professor of Law, Florida State University, College of Law; Richard G. Hildreth, Frank E. Nash Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law.
Coastal zones : solutions for the 21st century / [edited by] Juan Baztan [and five others].
Coin-operated Americans : rebooting boyhood at the video game arcade / Carly A. Kocurek.
The domesticated penis : how womanhood has shaped manhood / Loretta A. Cormier & Sharyn R. Jones.
Eating soup without a spoon : anthropological theory and method in the real world / Jeffrey H. Cohen.
Exposed : desire and disobedience in the digital age / Bernard E. Harcourt.
Feminist criminology through a biosocial lens / Anthony Walsh, Professor, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Boise State University and Jamie C. Vaske, Associate Professor, Dept. of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Western Carolina University.
The good divorce : a psychoanalytic exploration of separation, divorce, and childcare / Arthur Leonoff.
In search of the broad spectrum revolution in paleolithic Southwest Europe / Emily Lena Jones.
Juvenile justice : a reference handbook / Donald J. Shoemaker, Timothy W. Wolfe.
The last taboo : saying no to motherhood / Rosemary Agonito.
Memento mori : the dead among us / Paul Koudounaris.
Personal and organizational excellence through servant leadership : learning to serve, serving to lead, leading to transform / Sen Sendjaya.
The politics of sexual violence : rape, identity and feminism / Alison Healicon.
The power of ideals : the real story of moral choice / William Damon and Anne Colby.
Psychology, law, and the wellbeing of children / edited by Monica K. Miller, Jared C. Chamberlain, Twila Wingrove.
Raising the world : child welfare in the American century / Sara Fieldston.
Sex in China / Elaine Jeffreys with Haiqing Yu.
Sexual attraction : the psychology of allure / James Giles.
Slouching toward tyranny : mass incarceration, death sentences and racism / Joseph B. Ingle.
Thomas Hobbes / Otfried Hèoffe ; translated by Nicholas Walker.
Trends in biological anthropology / edited by Karina Gerdau-Radonic, Kathleen McSweeney.
Trust in a complex world : enriching community / Charles Heckscher.
Wars of terror / by Gabriele Marranci.
Wedlocked : the perils of marriage equality : how African Americans and gays mistakenly thought the right to marry would set them free / Katherine Franke.
What is genocide? / Martin Shaw.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Abstract bodies : sixties sculpture in the expanded field of gender / David J. Getsy.
Architectural presentation in opaque watercolor : theory and technique.
Art in Britain, 1660-1815 / David H. Solkin.
The art of Gerhard Richter : hermeneutics, images, meaning / Christian Lotz.
Becoming van Gogh / edited by Timothy Standring, Louis van Tilborgh ; with essays by Simon Kelly [and seven others] ; with a contribution by Alisia Robin Coon.
Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry / Paul Goldberger.
Famous Works of Art– And How They Got That Way / John B. Nici.
Figures in the fourth dimension : mechanical movement for puppets and automata / Ellen S. Rixford.
Frank Stella : a retrospective / Michael Auping ; with essays by Jordan Kantor and Adam D. Weinberg, and an interview with Frank Stella by Laura Owens.
Graphic passion : Matisse and the book arts / John Bidwell ; with contributions by Michael M. Baylson, Frances Batzer Baylson, Sheelagh Bevan, and Jay McKean Fisher.
A handbook of Muhammadan art.
Houses for a new world : builders and buyers in American suburbs, 1945-1965 / Barbara Miller Lane.
Journal starters : sampler volume 1 : photographs, prompts and gallery to jump-start your journaling / Kim Rae Nugent.
Mark Rothko : from the inside out / Christopher Rothko.
Monet’s trees : paintings and drawings by Claude Monet / Ralph Skea.
Mumbling beauty : Louise Bourgeois / Alex Van Gelder.
Picture titles : how and why Western paintings acquired their names / Ruth Bernard Yeazell.
Piet Mondrian : the studios: Amsterdam, Laren, Paris, London, New York / with text by Marty Bax [and four others] ; edited by Cees W. de Jong.
The spectacle of skill : selected writings of Robert Hughes / Robert Hughes.
Strange tools : art and human nature / Alva Noèe.
Susie Cooper productions : an exhibition of the work of Susie Cooper / organised by the Ceramics Department, Victoria and Albert Museum ; by Ann Eatwell.
Thomas Hart Benton : discoveries and interpretations / Henry Adams.
Tony Cragg : sculpture and drawings / Patrick Elliott.
Treasures from Korea : arts and culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910 / edited by Hyunsoo Woo ; essays by Insoo Cho [and six others] ; chronology by Rose E. Lee.
Wyeth : Andrew & Jamie in the studio / Timothy J. Standring.