GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 03-07-2016

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS A budgeting guide for local government / Robert L. Bland.
Capitalism and democracy : a fragile alliance / Theo van de Klundert.
Contagious : why things catch on / Jonah Berger.
Glass ceilings and dirt floors : women, work, and the global economy / Christine Firer Hinze.
A global monetary plague : asset price inflation and Federal Reserve quantitative easing / Brendan Brown.
The political economy of microfinance : financializing poverty / Philip Mader.
The political economy of sustainable development : valuation, distribution, governance / Dirk Jacob Wolfson.
Poverty : global challenges, role of inequality and reduction strategies / editor, Chukwuma Agu.
Restless continent : wealth, rivalry and Asia’s new geopolitics / Michael Wesley.
The return of ordinary capitalism : neoliberalism, precarity, occupy / Sanford F. Schram.
The rise and fall of urban economies : lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles / Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Philip Makarem, and Taner Osman.
Russia’s coercive diplomacy : energy, cyber, and maritime policy as new sources of power / Ryan C. Maness, Brandon Valeriano.
Selfishness, greed and capitalism : debunking myths about the free market / Christopher Snowdon.
The state of social safety nets 2015 / The World Bank Group.
Strategic leadership development : building world-class performance / Colin Carnall and Chris Roebuck.
Strategic planning : an interactive process for leaders / Dan R. Ebener and Frederick L. Smith.
Street smart : the rise of cities and the fall of cars / Samuel I. Schwartz with William Rosen.
Struggle in a time of crisis / edited by Nicolas Pons-Vignon and Mbuso Nkosi.
Sustainability : key issues / edited by Helen Kopnina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet.
When corporations rule the world / David C. Korten.
World hunger : 10 myths / Frances Moore Lappâe and Jospeh Collins.
EDUCATION Aspects of primary education / edited by Maurice Chazan.
Footsteps toward the future : implementing a real-world curriculum for students with developmental disabilities / Emily C. Bouck, Teresa Taber-Doughty, and Melissa N. Savage.
Identity, social activism, and the pursuit of higher education : the journey stories of undocumented and unafraid community activists / Susana M. Muänoz.
Improving school board effectiveness : a balanced governance approach / Thomas L. Alsbury, Phil Gore, editors.
Psychology in the schoolroom / by T.F.G. Dexter and A.H. Garlick.
The real college debt crisis : how student borrowing threatens financial well-being and erodes the American dream / William Elliott III with Melinda K. Lewis.
Teaching science for understanding in elementary and middle schools / Wynne Harlen; foreword by Page Keeley.
Thinking collaboratively : learning in a community of inquiry / by D. Randy Garrison.
Undisciplining knowledge : interdisciplinarity in the twentieth century / Harvey J. Graff.
Unique challenges in urban schools : the involvement of African American parents / Eric Jackson, Carolyn Turner, and Dorothy E. Battle.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Cervantes’s eight interludes / Miguel de Cervantes ; edited and translated by Charles Patterson.
Death by water : a novel / Kenzaburo Oe ; translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm.
The first night / Marc Levy ; translated from the French by Lakshmi Ramakrishnan Iyer and Kate Bignold.
The Meursault investigation / Kamel Daoud ; translated from the French by John Cullen.
Numero zero / Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.
The prophets of Eternal Fjord / Kim Leine ; translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken.
Roland Barthes / Andy Stafford.
Selected stories from Gujarat.
HEALTH SCIENCES An introduction to drug synthesis / Graham L. Patrick.
Inside views from the dissociated worlds of extreme violence : human beings as merchandise / Gaby Breitenbach ; translated by Mary Jo Rabe.
Psychological trauma and feelings of dirtiness / Ryotaro Ishikawa.
Substance abuse : prevalence, genetic and environmental risk factors and prevention / Jeffrey Raines, editor.
Treatment strategies for substance and process addictions / [edited by] Robert L. Smith.
Understanding trauma and resilience / Louise Harms.
The well-tuned brain : neuroscience and the life well lived / Peter C. Whybrow, MD.
Whole : rethinking the science of nutrition / T. Colin Campbell.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES Air warfare : history, theory and practice / Peter Gray.
America’s political dynasties from Adams to Clinton / Stephen Hess.
Archaeological resource management : an international perspective / John Carman (Dr. John Carman, senior lecturer in heritage valuation, Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage,
Base nation : how U.S. military bases abroad harm America and the world / David Vine.
Buckland’s book of Gypsy magic : travelers stories, spells, and healings / Raymond Buckland.
The changing maritime scene in Asia : rising tensions and future strategic stability / edited by Geoffrey Till.
Chasing Ghosts : A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War / Louise DeSalvo.
China and Taiwan / Steven M. Goldstein.
China’s military transformation : politics and war preparation / You Ji.
Citizen sailors : becoming American in the age of revolution / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory / edited and with an introduction by Bradley R. Clampitt.
Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill / Sonia Purnell.
Crouching Tiger : What China’s Militarism Means for the World / Peter Navarro ; Foreword by Gordon G. Chang.
Death by drone : civilian harm caused by U.S. targeting killings in Yemen / Amrit Singh.
Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush / Jon Meacham.
Drones / Louise Gerdes, book editor.
Drones and the ethics of targeted killing / Kenneth R. Himes, OFM.
Emigration and the sea : an alternative history of Portugal and the Portuguese / Malyn Newitt.
The empire builders / by Jim Hicks and the editors of Time-Life Books.
Excommunicated from the Union : how the Civil War created a separate Catholic America / William B. Kurtz.
Floating palaces of the Great Lakes : a history of passenger steamships on the inland seas / Joel Stone.
Foreign affairs, 1919-1937 / by E. L. Hasluck, M.A.
The founding fathers : a very short introduction / R.B. Bernstein.
From shipmates to soldiers : emerging Black identities in the Râio de la Plata / Alex Borucki.
From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan : General Curtis E. LeMay’s letters to his wife Helen, 1941-1945 / Benjamin Paul Hegi ; edited by Alfred F. Hurley ; with a foreword by John K. Hurley.
The future of land warfare / Michael E. O’Hanlon.
Future war / Christopher Coker.
Germany : Memories of a Nation / Neil MacGregor.
The grand strategy of classical Sparta : the Persian challenge / Paul A. Rahe.
India at war : the subcontinent and the Second World War / Yasmin Khan.
Indian foreign policy, 1947-1954 ; a study of relations with the western bloc.
Jacques de Coutre’s Singapore and Johor 1594-c.1625 / edited, annotated, and introduced by Peter Borschberg.
Japan : the precarious future / edited by Frank Baldwin, Anne Allison.
Let freedom ring / [by] Hilda Phelps Hammond.
A little America in Western Australia : the US naval communication station at North West Cape and the founding of Exmouth / Anthony J. Barker, Michael L. Ondaatje.
Masters of Empire : Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America / Michael A. McDonnell.
Mediterranean wooden shipbuilding : economy, technology and institutions in Syros in the nineteenth century / by Apostolos Delis.
Military ethics / George Lucas ; foreword by General John R. Allen, U.S.M.C.
Multicultural resources on the Internet. The United States and Canada / Vicki L. Gregory, Marilyn H. Karrenbrock Stauffer, Thomas W. Keene, Jr.
Myths of the Rune Stone : Viking Martyrs and the Birthplace of America / David M. Krueger.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization : the enduring alliance / Julian Lindley-French.
Orchestrating the instruments of power : a critical examination of the U.S. national security system / D. Robert Worley.
Outsourcing security : private military contractors and U.S. foreign policy / Bruce E. Stanley.
PLA influence on China’s national security policy-making / edited by Phillip C. Saunders and Andrew Scobell.
Privateers of the Americas : Spanish American privateering from the United States and the influence of geopolitics in the early republic / David Head.
Relentless strike : the secret history of Joint Special Operations Command / Sean Naylor.
The Roman army in the east / edited by David L. Kennedy ; with contributions by D. Braund [and others].
Science of diving : concepts and applications / Bruce Wienke.
Soviet leaders and intelligence : assessing the American adversary during the Cold War / Raymond L. Garthoff.
Stigma and culture : last-place anxiety in Black America / J. Lorand Matory ; with a foreword by Thomas P. Gibson.
Storming the city : U.S. military performance in urban warfare from World War II to Vietnam / Alec Wahlman.
Strangers on a bridge : the case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers / James B. Donovan ; foreword by Jason Matthews.
Thinking about national security : strategy, policy, and issues / Donald M. Snow.
This gulf of fire : the destruction of Lisbon, or apocalypse in the age of science and reason / Mark Molesky.
To hell and back : Europe, 1914-1949 / Ian Kershaw.
Transnational Indians in the North American West / edited by Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak, and Laura Tuennerman ; foreword by Sterling Evans.
The U.S. Naval Institute on naval strategy / edited by Thomas J. Cutler.
Understanding the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan / edited by Beth Bailey and Richard H. Immerman.
Unmanned : drones, data, and the illusion of perfect warfare / William M. Arkin.
We kill because we can : from soldiering to assassination in the drone age / Laurie Calhoun.
Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies / Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort.
The world the Civil War made / edited by Gregory P. Downs and Kate Masur.
LIBRARY SCIENCE Bookdesign : [a comprehensive guide] / Andrew Haslam.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES Argumentation, communication, and fallacies : a pragma-dialectical perspective / Frans H. van Eemeren, Rob Grootendorst.
Assorted chocolates / by Octavus Roy Cohen … ; frontispiece by J.J. Gould.
Behind the beautiful forevers : a play / by David Hare.
The best American science and nature writing 2015 / edited and with an introduction by Rebecca Skloot ; Tim Folger, series editor.
Between Riverside and crazy / Stephen Adly Guirgis.
Black Hollywood unchained : commentary on the state of Black Hollywood / edited by Ishmael Reed.
The blue touch paper : a memoir / David Hare.
The Cambridge companion to The waste land / edited by Gabrielle McIntire, Queen’s University, Canada.
Charles Williams : the third Inkling / Grevel Lindop.
Deported to paradise : selected essays / Edgar Nkosi White.
Diary : how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) / John Cage ; edited by Joe Biel and Richard Kraft.
Dickens, religion, and society / Robert Butterworth.
Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany / edited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy.
Excursions with Thoreau : philosophy, poetry, religion / Edward F. Mooney.
Eyes : novellas and short stories / William H. Gass.
The familiar / Mark Z. Danielewski.
Fools and jesters in literature, art, and history : a bio-bibliographical sourcebook / edited by Vicki K. Janik.
Four novels of the 1920s : The glimpses of the moon ; A son at the front ; Twilight sleep ; The children / Edith Wharton ; Hermione Lee, editor.
The heart goes last / Margaret Atwood.
Insomnia : poems / Linda Pastan.
John Le Carrâe : the biography / Adam Sisman.
Killing and dying / six stories by Adrian Tomine.
Lady Byron & her daughters / Julia Markus.
Later novels / James Baldwin ; Darryl Pinckney, editor.
Literary originals of Sussex / by G. Thurston Hopkins and R. Thurston Hopkins.
Mark Z. Danielewski’s Only revolutions.
‘Membering / Austin Clarke.
The Oberon book of modern monologues for men. 2 / chosen and edited by Catherine Weate.
The origin of the theater : an essay.
Reading C.S. Lewis : a commentary / Wesley A. Kort.
S. / conceived by J.J. Abrams ; written by Doug Dorst.
The secret chord / Geraldine Brooks.
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, and civic life : the boundaries of civic space / edited by Silvia Bigliazzi and Lisanna Calvi.
Sidney J. Furie : life and films / Daniel Kremer.
Stage makeup / Richard Corson, Beverly Gore Norcross, James Glavan.
Step aside, Pops : a Hark! A vagrant collection / Kate Beaton.
Sweet caress : the many lives of Amory Clay / William Boyd.
Ted Hughes : the unauthorised life / Jonathan Bate.
Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire : made in Mexborough / Steve Ely.
Who can afford to improvise? : James Baldwin and black music, the lyric and the listeners / Ed Pavliâc.
A wild swan : and other tales / Michael Cunningham ; illustrated by Yuko Shimizu.
William Cowper ; nature poet / by Roderick Huang.
Women and images of men in cinema : gender construction in La bete et la bãete by Jean Cocteau / edited by Andreas Hamburger.
Writing the Okanagan / George Bowering.
MUSIC Beethoven’s symphonies : an artistic vision / Lewis Lockwood.
Music for the high school chorus / James F. Niblock [and] Jere T. Hutcheson.
Ten Italian violin concertos from Fonds Blancheton / edited by Jehoash Hirshberg.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Adorno’s modernism : art, experience, and catastrophe / Espen Hammer.
Dialectic of enlightenment as sport : the barbaric urge within sports, religion , and capitalism / Tom Donovan.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Batteries for electric vehicles : materials and electrochemistry / Helena Berg.
Coastal and beach erosion : processes, adaptation strategies and environmental impacts / Dianna Barnes, editor.
Discovering computer science : interdisciplinary problems, principles, and Python programming / author, Jessen Havill.
The early earth : accretion and differentiation / James Badro, Michael Walter, editors.
The gas liquid chromatography of steroids : proceedings of a symposium held at the University of Glasgow, on 4th to 6 April 1966 / edited on behalf of the Society for Endocrinology by J. K. Grant.
Invisible : the dangerous allure of the unseen / Philip Ball.
Java : an introduction to problem solving & programming / Walter Savitch, University of California, San   Diego ; contributor Kenrick Mock, University of Alaska Anchorage.
A key to the British freshwater cyclopid and calanoid copepods : with ecological notes / by J. P. Harding and W. A. Smith.
Molecules : the elements and the architecture of everything / Theodore Gray ; photographs by Nick Mann.
Operating systems ; proceedings of an international symposium held at Rocquencourt, April 23-25, 1974 / Edited by E. Gelenbe and C. Kaiser.
Principles of neural science / edited by Eric R. Kandel [and four others] ; art editor, Sarah Mack.
Reactive free radicals / [by] J. M. Hay.
Reconnaissance of the Tertiary sedimentary rocks in western Utah / by E. B. Heylmun.
Rivers and canals : with statistics of the traffic on inland waterways / Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt.
Thunder & lightning : weather past, present, future / Lauren Redniss.
SOCIAL SCIENCES The al-Qaeda franchise : the expansion of al-Qaeda and its consequences / Barak Mendelsohn.
Battling the gods : atheism in the ancient world / Tim Whitmarsh.
Blood of the Celts : the new ancestral story / Jean Manco.
Child forensic psychology : victim and eyewitness memory / edited by Robyn E. Holliday and Tammy A. Marche.
Criminals and folk heroes : gangsters and the FBI in the 1930s / Robert Underhill.
Energy essentials for witches and spellcasters / Mya Om.
Essentials of counterterrorism / James J.F. Forest, editor.
Farewell to the world : a history of suicide / Marzio Barbagli ; translated by Lucinda Byatt.
Food, eating and identity in early Medieval England / Allen J. Frantzen.
Freedom regained : the possibility of free will / Julian Baggini.
The Gospel according to John / Commentary by A. M. Hunter.
The ISIS apocalypse : the history, strategy, and doomsday vision of the Islamic State / William McCants.
Magna Carta : the birth of liberty / Dan Jones.
Management of adolescent drug misuse: clinical, psychological, and legal perspectives ; proceedings of the second annual symposium of the Student Association for the Study of Hallucinogens / Edited by James R. Gamage.
The marriage motive : a price theory of marriage : how marriage markets affect employment, consumption, and savings / Shoshana Grossbard.
The mystery of the lone wolf killer : Anders Behring Breivik and the threat of terror in plain sight / Unni Turrettini ; foreword by Kathleen M. Puckett.
The nature of legal argument.
Over our dead bodies : Port Arthur and Australia’s fight for gun control / Simon Chapman.
Perspectives on the restoration of the Mississippi Delta : the once and future delta / John W. Day, G. Paul Kemp, Angelina M. Freeman, David P. Muth, editors.
Promoting psychological well-being in children and families / edited by Bruce Kirkcaldy, Director, International Centre for the Study of Occupational and Mental Health, Dèusseldorf, Germany.
The psychology of compassion and cruelty : understanding the emotional, spiritual, and religious influences / Thomas G. Plante, editor.
Psychology of impulsivity : new research / editors: Mary C. Olmstead (Department of Psychology, Dept. of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen’s University, London, ON, Canada).
Psychology of prejudice : new research / Travis Draper editor.
A public empire : property and the quest for the common good in imperial Russia / Ekaterina Pravilova.
The risk of a lifetime : how, when, and why procreation may be permissible / Rivka Weinberg.
Russkie. : Istoriko-çetnograficheskiæi atlas: Zemledelie, krest§ëiìanskoe zhilishche, krest§ëiìanskaëiìa odezhda. (Seredina XIX-nachalo XX veka) / Otv. red. P. I. Kushner.
Self-esteem and beyond / Neil J. MacKinnon.
Sonic virtuality : sound as emergent perception / Mark Grimshaw & Tom Garner.
Southern European welfare states : problems, challenges and prospects / George Katrougalos and Gabriella Lazaridis.
The storm of creativity / Kyna Leski ; foreword by John Maeda.
Understanding social movements / Greg Martin.
Vision and the visual system / Peter H. Schiller and Edward J. Tehovnik.
What is Islam? : the importance of being Islamic / Shahab Ahmed.
What the eye hears : a history of tap dancing / Brian Seibert.
The work of the dead : a cultural history of mortal remains / Thomas W. Laqueur.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Across the ravaged land / Nick Brandt.
American chronicles : the art of Norman Rockwell / edited by Danilo Eccher and Stephanie Haboush Plunkett ; exhibition organized by Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA and Fondazione Roma-Arte-Musei.
American studio ceramics : innovation and identity, 1940 to 1979 / Martha Drexler Lynn.
Brushstroke and emergence : Courbet, impressionism, Picasso / James D. Herbert.
Goya : the portraits / Xavier Bray ; editorial consultant: Juliet Wilson-Bareau ; with contributions by Manuela B. Mena Marquâes, Thomas Gayford and Allison Goudie.
Henri Cartier-Bresson : here and now / Clâement Châeroux [author, exhibition curator, general editor] ; [translated from the French by David H. Wilson and Ruth Sharman].
On this earth, a shadow falls / Nick Brandt ; introductions by Jane Goodall, Alice Sebold, Vicki Goldberg, Peter Singer, Nick Brandt.
Palladio virtuel / Peter Eisenman with Matt Roman.
The urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright / Neil Levine.