GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 05-31-2016

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Blood oil : tyrants, violence, and the rules that run the world / Leif Wenar.
The capitalist and the critic : J.P. Morgan, Roger Fry, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Charles Molesworth.
The dysfunctional workplace : theory, stories, and practice / Seth Allcorn and Howard F. Stein.
The euro experiment / Paul Wallace.
Throwing rocks at the Google bus : how growth became the enemy of prosperity / Douglas Rushkoff.
EDUCATION The importance of being little : what preschoolers really need from grownups / Erika Christakis.
Passing on the right : conservative professors in the progressive university / Jon A. Shields, Joshua M. Dunn Sr.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Bright scythe / selected poems by Tomas Transtrèomer ; translated by Patty Crane ; introduction by David Wojahn.
The business affairs of Mr Julius Caesar / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Charles Osborne ; edited by Anthony Phelan and Tom Kuhn with assistance from Charlotte Ryland.
The Essential Goethe / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; edited and introduced by Matthew Bell.
Franðcois Mauriac on race, war, politics, and religion : the Great War through the 1960s / translated and edited by Nathan Bracher.
Goethe : a very short introduction / Ritchie Robertson.
Graveyard clay = Crâe na cille : a narrative in ten interludes / Mâairtâin âO Cadhain ; translated by Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson.
The happy marriage : a novel / Tahar Ben Jelloun ; translated by Andrâe Naffis-Sahely.
The man who invented fiction : how Cervantes ushered in the modern world / William Egginton.
Primo Levi’s resistance : rebels and collaborators in occupied Italy / Sergio Luzzatto ; translated by Frederika Randall.
Selected poems / Guillaume Apollinaire ; translated with an introduction and notes by Martin Sorrell.
The shameful state : a novel / Sony Labou Tansi ; Translated by Dominic Thomas ; Foreword by Alain Mabanckou.
Slow boat to China and other stories / Ng Kim Chew ; translated and edited by Carlos Rojas.
HEALTH SCIENCES A practical guide to implementing school-based interventions for adolescents with ADHD / Brandon K. Schultz, Steven W. Evans.
Surviving sexual violence : a guide to recovery and empowerment / [edited by] Thema Bryant-Davis.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES 1916 : a global history / Keith Jeffery.
âEamon de Valera : a will to power / Ronan Fanning.
The age of genius : the seventeenth century and the birth of the modern mind / A.C. Grayling.
Archaeology of East Asian shipbuilding / Jun Kimura.
Arthur Griffith / Owen McGee.
Barbarossa 1941 : reframing Hitler’s invasion of Stalin’s Soviet empire / Frank Ellis.
Benjamin Franklin in London : the British life of America’s founding father / George Goodwin.
Children of paradise : the struggle for the soul of Iran / Laura Secor.
Custer’s trials : a life on the frontier of a new America / T.J. Stiles.
Democracy in Black : How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul / Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
The desperate diplomat : Saburo Kurusu’s memoir of the weeks before Pearl Harbor / edited by J. Garry Clifford and Masako R. Okura.
Documentary history of the modern civil rights movement / edited by Peter B. Levy.
The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice / Patricia Bell-Scott.
George Washington’s journey : the president forges a new nation / T.H. Breen.
Here be dragons : science, technology and the future of humanity / Olle Hèaggstrèom.        .
Holy foolery in the life of Japan : a historical overview / Higuchi Kazunori ; translated by Waku Miller.
Japan’s Asian diplomacy : a legacy of two millennia / Ogura Kazuo ; translated by David Noble.
John F. Kennedy : the winds of change / editor, David Coleman ; general editors Timothy Naftali and Philip Zelikow.
Ladies night at the Dreamland / Sonja Livingston.
The last armada : Queen Elizabeth, Juan del âAguila, and Hugh O’Neill : the story of the 100-day Spanish invasion / Des Ekin.
The Lives of Frederick Douglass / Robert S. Levine.
Margaret Thatcher : the authorized biography / Charles Moore.
Mourning Lincoln / Martha Hodes
The Nazi Titanic : the incredible untold story of a doomed ship in World War II / Robert P. Watson.
Richard III : a ruler and his reputation / David Horspool.
Scanning the pharaohs : CT imaging of the New Kingdom royal mummies / Zahi A. Hawass, Sahar Saleem ; edited by Sue D’Auria.
The Silk Roads : a new history of the world / Peter Frankopan.
Slavery and the democratic conscience : political life in Jeffersonian America / Padraig Riley.
The slave’s cause : a history of abolition / Manisha Sinha.
The transformation and decline of the British Empire : decolonisation after the First World War / Spencer Mawby.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES All the poems of Stevie Smith / [Stevie Smith] ; edited and introduced by Will May.
The ancient minstrel : novellas / Jim Harrison.
Anniversary essays on Alexander Pope’s The rape of the lock / edited by Donald W. Nichol.
August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle : critical perspectives on the plays / edited by Sandra G. Shannon.
Available light : Philip Booth and the gift of place / Jeanne Braham.
The book of grace / Suzan-Lori Parks.
Borges’s Poe : the influence and reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America / Emron Esplin.
The cosmopolitans / Sarah Schulman.
Dead man’s float / Jim Harrison.
The defender : how the legendary Black newspaper changed America : from the age of the Pullman porters to the age of Obama / Ethan Michaeli.
The edge of evolution : animality, inhumanity, and Doctor Moreau / Ronald Edwards.
English for academic purposes : approaches and implications / edited by Paul Thompson and Giuliana Diani.
Everything to nothing : the poetry of the Great War, revolution and the transformation of Europe / Geert Buelens ; translated by David McKay.
Graham Greene : political writer / Michael G. Brennan, Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Leeds, UK.
The high mountains of Portugal : a novel / Yann Martel.
Letters from Langston : from the Harlem Renaissance to the Red Scare and beyond / edited by Evelyn Louise Crawford and MaryLouise Patterson ; with a foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley.
A loaded gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st century / Jerome Charyn.
Maggie Smith : a biography / Michael Coveney.
The man without a shadow : a novel / Joyce Carol Oates.
Middlebrow Wodehouse : P.G. Wodehouse’s work in context / edited by Ann Rea.
Moss Park ; and Tough! : the Bobby and Tina plays / George F. Walker ; introduction by Patrick McDonald.
My name is Lucy Barton : a novel / Elizabeth Strout.
The poems of T. S. Eliot / edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue.
The poems of T. S. Eliot / edited by Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue.
The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All / C.D. Wright.
Robert Lowell in love / Jeffrey Meyers.
Romeo and Juliet : a critical reader / [edited by] Julia Reinhard Lupton.
Sailor and fiddler : reflections of a 100-year-old author / Herman Wouk.
Scarpia / Piers Paul Read.
Shakespeare and early modern drama : text and performance / Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens.
Shylock is my name : The merchant of Venice retold / Howard Jacobson.
Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson / Juan F. Thompson.
Thoreau’s wildflowers / Henry David Thoreau ; illustrated by Barry Moser ; edited by Geoff Wisner.
Wait till I’m dead : uncollected poems / Allen Ginsberg ; edited by Bill Morgan ; with a foreword by Rachel Zucker.
We need silence to find out what we think : selected essays / Shirley Hazzard ; edited with an introduction by Brigitta Olubas.
Why only us : language and evolution / Robert C. Berwick, Noam Chomsky.
Wilde’s women : how Oscar Wilde was shaped by the women he knew / Eleanor Fitzsimons.
Woody Allen : interviews / edited by Robert E. Kapsis.
Worldly Shakespeare : the theatre of our good will / Richard Wilson.
MUSIC 44 exercices op. 50 / Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti.
The complete works for organ. Vol. V / Franz Liszt ; herausgegeben von Martin Haselbèock.
Concertante pour deux guitares op. 22 / Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti ; edited by Matthias Henke & Johannes Jansen ; reconstructed and revised by Johannes Jansen.
Concerto : Nuit de Walpurgis de l’opâera Faust (WoO) / Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti.
Divertissement sur trois romances anglaises : op. 8 / Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti.
Fantaisie variâee : op. 7 : sur la romance d’Otello (Assisa appiáe [sic] d’un salice) / [Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti].
Fantaisie variâee sur l’air “Wann [i.e. Wan] i in der frèuh auf steh” : op. 1 / Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti.
Fantasia on Greensleeves : adapted from the opera Sir John in love / R. Vaughan Williams ; arranged for two pianos by Hubert J. Foss.
Handel on the stage / David Kimbell.
Huit caprices op. 11 / [Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti].
Huit piáeces faciles tirâees de La muette de Portici / M.A. Zani de Ferranti ; edited by Matthias Henke and Johannes Jansen.
Introduction and rondo capriccioso : opus 28 / Saint-Saèens ; transcribed for two pianos, four hands by Claude Debussy ; [edited by] Victor Babin.
Italienisches Konzert, BWV 971 : nach den Originalausgaben mit Berèucksichtigung der handschriftlichen èUberlieferung / Joh. Seb. Bach ; hrsg. von Rudolf Steglich ; fingersatz von Hans-Martin Theopold.
La ronde des fâees / [Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti].
Les Troyens : opera in five acts / by Hector Berlioz ; English translation by David Cairns.
Liber secundus Diversarum modulationum : singulis, binis, ternis, quaternisque vocibus (1627) / Girolamo Frescobaldi ; edizione critica e ricostruzione della parte mancante a cura di Marco Della Sciucca e Marina Toffetti.
The lives of George Frideric Handel / David Hunter.
Lulu : opera in 3 acts (7 scenes) / [by] Alban Berg, after “Erdgeist” und “Bèuchse der Pandora” by Frank Wedekind ; English translation by Arthur Jacobs.
Manon : opera in five acts / music by Jules Massenet ; libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, after the novel by the Abbâe Prâevost ; English translation by George and Phyllis Mead.
Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti : guitarist, 1801-1878 / by Simon Wynberg.
The Miles Davis Lost Quintet : and other revolutionary ensembles / Bob Gluck.
Nocturne sur la derniáere pensâee de Weber : op. 9 / Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti.
Parsifal : music drama in three acts / by Richard Wagner ; English version by Stewart Robb.
Polonaise concertante : pour trois guitares op. 27 / Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti ; edited by Matthias Henke & Johannes Jansen.
Praeludium, Aria und Finale : fèur Klavier zu 2 Hèanden / Cesar Franck ; herausgegeben von Emil von Sauer.
The Prussian sonatas, for piano solo, nos. 1-[6].
Sèamtliche Orgelwerke. Bd. VI = The complete works for organ. Vol. VI / Franz Liszt ; herausgegeben von Martin Haselbèock.
Sensing sound : singing & listening as vibrational practice / Nina Sun Eidsheim.
Six mâelodies nocturnes bibliques [i.e. originales] : op. 4(a) / [Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti].
Six nocturnes bibliques : op. 3 / [Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti].
Six string quartets, op. 16 / Emanuel Aloys Fèorster ; edited by Nancy November.
Studien und Skizzen : Studien- und Skizzenbuch III = Studies and sketches : study and sketch notebook III / [Robert Schumann] ; herausgeben von Matthias Wendt unter Mitarbeit von Kazuko Ozawa.
Three movements from Petrouchka. Petrouchka / Igor Stravinsky ; arranged for two pianos, four hands by Victor Babin.
Three movements from Petrouchka. Russian dance / Igor Strawinsky ; arranged for two pianos, four hands by Victor Babin.
Three movements from Petrouchka. The shrove-tide fair / Igor Strawinsky ; arranged for two pianos, four hands by Victor Babin.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Artful immorality – variants of cynicism : Machiavelli, Graciâan, Diderot, Nietzsche / by D.S. Mayfield.
Cavendish / David Cunning.
Coming to our senses : affect and an order of things for global culture / Dierdra Reber.
Desire in ashes : deconstruction, psychoanalysis, philosophy / edited by Simon Morgan Wortham and Chiara Alfano.
Gadamer and the question of understanding : between Heidegger and Derrida / Adrian Costache.
Gods of medieval Japan / Bernard Faure.
Gods of medieval Japan / Bernard Faure.
Healing the schism : Barth, Rosenzweig, and the new Jewish-Christian encounter / Jennifer M. Rosner.
Heidegger and the myth of a Jewish world conspiracy / Peter Trawny ; translated by Andrew J. Mitchell.
Islamism : what it means for the Middle East and the world / Tarek Osman.
Jonathan Edwards among the theologians / Oliver D. Crisp.
Miseducation : a history of ignorance-making in America and abroad / edited by A.J. Angulo.
The Samaritans : a profile / Reinhard Pummer.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY The art of computer programming / Donald E. Knuth.
The best writing on mathematics.
Cosmosapiens : human evolution from the origin of the universe / John Hands.
Electrochemical strategies in detection science / edited by Damien W. M. Arrigan.
Half-earth : our planet’s fight for life / Edward O. Wilson.
Innovative vaulting in the architecture of the Roman Empire : 1st to 4th centuries CE / Lynne C. Lancaster, Ohio University.
Inventing atmospheric science : Bjerknes, Rossby, Wexler, and the foundations of modern meteorology / James Rodger Fleming.
Inventology : how we dream up things that change the world / Pagan Kennedy.
Mathematics in ancient Egypt : a contextual history / Annette Imhausen.
The mysterious world of the human genome / Frank Ryan.
Principles of radiation interaction in matter and detection / Claude Leroy, Universitâe de Montrâeal, Canada, Pier-Giorgio Rancoita, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Milan, Italy.
Probability and statistical physics in St. Petersburg : St. Petersburg School, Probability and Statistical Physics : June 18-29, 2012 : St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia / V. Sidoravicius, S. Smirnov, editors.
Restless creatures : the story of life in ten movements / Matt Wilkinson.
The wheel : inventions & reinventions / Richard W. Bulliet.
You belong to the universe : Buckminster Fuller and the future / Jonathan Keats.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Barbarian days : a surfing life / William Finnegan.
Building a business of politics : the rise of political consulting and the transformation of American democracy / Adam Sheingate.
City of thorns : nine lives in the world’s largest refugee camp / Ben Rawlence.
The conceit of humanitarian intervention / Rajan Menon.
Conflict in the academy : a study in the sociology of intellectuals / Marcus Morgan and Patrick Baert.
Conflict in the city : contested urban spaces and local democracy / edited by Enrico Gualini, Joäao Morais Mourato, Marco Allegra.
Contextual approaches in sociology / Adela Elena Popa, Hasan Arslan, Mehmet Ali Icbay, Tomas Butvilas (eds.).
Dark money : the hidden history of the billionaires behind the rise of the radical right / Jane Mayer.
Democracy : a life / Paul Cartledge.
Empire of fear : inside the Islamic state / Andrew Hosken.
Excellent daughters : the secret lives of young women who are transforming the Arab world / Katherine Zoepf.
The fight to vote / Michael Waldman.
The First Congress : how James Madison, George Washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government / Fergus M. Bordewich.
Geographical information systems theory, applications and management : first International Conference, GISTAM 2015, Barcelona, Spain, April 28-30, 2015 : revised selected papers / Câedric Grueau, Jorge Gustavo Rocha (eds.).
Governing urban sustainability : comparing cities in the USA and Germany / Lisa Pettibone.
Green voices : defending nature and the environment in American civic discourse / edited by Richard D. Besel and Bernard K. Duffy.
Imbeciles : the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck / Adam Cohen.
Incarceration nations : a journey to justice in prisons around the world / Baz Dreisinger.
Liberty and coercion : the paradox of American government from the founding to the present / Gary Gerstle.
The limits of knowledge : generating pragmatist feminist cases for situated knowing / Nancy Arden McHugh.
Narconomics : how to run a drug cartel / Tom Wainwright.
Natural interests : the contest over environment in modern France / Caroline Ford.
No culture, no Europe : on the foundation of politics / Pascal Gielen (ed.) ; contributors: Rosi Braidotti [and 11 others] ; translation: Leo Reijnen [and 3 others].
On being human : why mind matters / Jerome Kagan.
Out of eden : the surprising consequences of polygamy / David P. Barash.
Parenting and theory of mind / Scott A. Miller.
Politics against domination / Ian Shapiro.
Prairie Crossing : creating an American conservation community / John Scott Watson.
Rethinking terrorism / Colin Wight.
Site formation processes of submerged shipwrecks / edited by Matthew E. Keith.
Social advantage and disadvantage / edited by Hartley Dean and Lucinda Platt.
The South China Sea and Asian regionalism : a critical realist perspective / Thanh-Dam Truong, Karim Knio.
The stone soup experiment : why cultural boundaries persist / Deborah Downing Wilson.
Talcott Parsons : despair and modernity / Shaun Best.
This is an uprising : how nonviolent revolt is shaping the twenty-first century / Mark Engler and Paul Engler.
We are all cannibals and other essays / Claude Lâevi-Strauss ; with a foreword by Maurice Olender ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
When true love came to China / Lynn Pan.
Why America misunderstands the world : national experience and roots of misperception / Paul R. Pillar.
Why the right went wrong : Conservatism– from Goldwater to the Tea Party and beyond / E.J. Dionne, Jr.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN The Akita Ranga School and the cultural context in Edo Japan / Imahashi Riko ; translated by Ruth S. McCreery.
Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology / Keith Evan Green.
Boutiques and other retail spaces : the architecture of seduction / edited by David Vernet and Leontine de Wit.
The early American daguerreotype : cross-currents in art and technology / Sarah Kate Gillespie.
Mathematics + art : a cultural history / Lynn Gamwell ; foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Willem de Kooning nonstop : cherchez la femme / Rosalind E. Krauss.