GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 11-14-2016

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FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES The Kukotsky enigma : a novel / Ludmila Ulitskaya ; translated from the Russian by Diane Nemec Ignashev.
The street kids / Pier Paolo Pasolini ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Two she-bears / Meir Shalev ; translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES The book : a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time / Keith Houston.
Churchill on Europe : the untold story of Churchill’s European project / Felix Klos.
Congress buys a Navy : politics, economics, and the rise of American naval power, 1881-1921 / Paul Pedisich.
Contesting the Yellow Dragon : ethnicity, religion, and the state in the Sino-Tibetan borderland / by Xiaofei Kang and Donald S. Sutton.
From reconciliation to revolution : how the Student Interracial Ministry took up the cause of civil rights / David P. Cline.
Historical thinking and other unnatural acts : charting the future of teaching the past / Sam Wineburg.
Holocaust heroes : resistance to Hitler’s ‘final solution’ / Mark Felton.
Making black Los Angeles : class, gender, and community, 1850-1917 / Marne L. Campbell.
The six : the lives of the Mitford sisters / Laura Thompson.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES The Cambridge companion to Frankenstein / edited by Andrew Smith.
The complete Orsinia : Malafrena stories and songs / Ursula K. Le Guin ; Brian Attebery, editor.
Cousin Joseph : a graphic novel / Jules Feiffer.
Fascist directive : Ezra Pound and Italian cultural nationalism / Catherine E. Paul.
Leslie Marmon Silko’s Storyteller : new perspectives / edited by Catherine Rainwater.
Moggerhanger : a novel / Alan Sillitoe ; with a preface by Ruth Fainlight.
Perfume river : a novel / Robert Olen Butler.
The pigeon tunnel : stories from my life / John Le Carrâe.
Rosalind : a biography of Shakespeare’s immortal heroine / Angela Thirlwell.
Susan Sontag : the making of an icon / Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock.
Tennessee Williams / Paul Ibell.
MUSIC Depression folk : grassroots music and left-wing politics in 1930s America / Ronald D. Cohen.
Olivier Messiaen : texts, contexts, and intertexts (1937-1948) / Richard D E Burton ; edited by Roger Nichols.
Orpheus-quadrille : op. 236 / Johann Strauss (Sohn) ; [edited by] Wolfgang Dèorner.
Teaching music through performance in jazz. Volume 2 / selected by Ronald Carter ; compiled and edited by Richard Miles
Twelve quartettes / A. J. Artot. Arr. by A. E. Harris.
Violetta : polka franðcaise, op. 404 / Johann Strauss (Sohn) ; [edited by] Wolfgang Dèorner.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION As wide as the world is wise : reinventing philosophical anthropology / Michael Jackson.
A beginner’s missionary training manual : developing ministries to restore missionaries of all denominations / by Dr. Bobbie-Ann Staten Valentine, DMin.
The dream of enlightenment : the rise of modern philosophy / Anthony Gottlieb.
Heidegger : his life & his philosophy / Alain Badiou & Barbara Cassin ; translated by Susan Spitzer ; introduction by Kenneth Reinhard.
Heidegger, philosophy, and politics : the Heidelberg Conference / Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe ; edited by Mireille Calle-Gruber ; translated by Jeff Fort.
Kierkegaard : a single life / Stephen Backhouse.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Cognitive computing : theory and applications / edited by Venkat N. Gudivada (East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, United States) [and three others].
John Stewart Bell and twentieth century physics : vision and integrity / Andrew Whitaker, Department of Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland).
The age of deference : the Supreme Court, national security, and the constitutional order / David Rudenstine.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Defectives in the land : disability and immigration in the age of eugenics / Douglas C. Baynton.
Homo juridicus : culture as a normative order / Isaak I. Dore.
Ignorance of law : a philosophical inquiry / Douglas Husak.
Lacan, psychoanalysis, and comedy / [edited by] Patricia Gherovici, Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic Association New York, Manya Steinkoler, Manhattan College, New York.
Same-sex marriage : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN The art of rivalry : four friendships, betrayals, and breakthroughs in modern art / Sebastian Smee.
The face of Britain : a history of the nation through its portraits / Simon Schama.
Reductionism in art and brain science : bridging the two cultures / Eric R. Kandel.