GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 12-05-2016

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Capital without borders : wealth managers and the one percent / Brooke Harrington.
The market as god / Harvey Cox.
Payoff : the hidden logic that shapes our motivations / Dan Ariely ; illustrations by Matt R. Trower.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES The Acacia Gardens / Marie-Claire Blais ; translated by Nigel Spencer.
Jean cocteau.
A man called Ove : a novel / Fredrik Backman.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES ¥thelred the Unready / Levi Roach.
American enlightenments : pursuing happiness in the Age of Reason / Caroline Winterer.
Au fil de l’os : âeconomie et sociâetâe chez les Ráemes et les Suessions par le prisme de l’archâeozoologie / Pierre-Emmanuel Paris.
The cold world they made : the strategic legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter / Ron Robin.
Damn Yankees! : demonization & defiance in the Confederate South / George C. Rable.
Elvis’s army : Cold War GIs and the atomic battlefield / Brian McAllister Linn.
Henry the Young King, 1155-1183 / Matthew Strickland.
Jews and the American religious landscape / Uzi Rebhun.
Liberty roads : the American logistics in France and in Germany, 1944-45 / by Nicolas Aubin ; translated from the French by Lawrence Brown.
Roman Power : A Thousand Years of Empire / W.V. Harris.
The Spartan regime : its character, origins, and grand strategy / Paul A. Rahe.
Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga / Pamela Newkirk.
Trotsky in New York, 1917 : a radical on the eve of revolution / Kenneth D. Ackerman.
A world we have lost : Saskatchewan before 1905 / Bill Waiser.
The Yankee plague : escaped Union prisoners and the collapse of the Confederacy / Lorien Foote.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES A.E. Housman : a single life / Martin Blocksidge.
Allen Tate : the modern mind and the discovery of enduring love / John V. Glass III.
Doppelgèanger dilemmas : Anglo-Dutch relations in early modern English literature and culture / Marjorie Rubright.
Elizabeth Bishop at work / Eleanor Cook.
English – one tongue, many voices.
The female body in the looking-glass : contemporary art, aesthetics and genderland / Basia Sliwinska.
Gloria / by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.
Hemingway’s geographies : intimacy, materiality, and memory / Laura Gruber Godfrey.
How to be drawn / Terrance Hayes.
Hunter S. Thompson : fear, loathing, and the birth of Gonzo / Kevin T. McEneaney.
Impossible modernism : T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin, and the critique of historical reason / Robert S. Lehman.
In the archive of longing : Susan Sontag’s critical modernism / Mena Mitrano.
Maurice Gee : life and work / Rachel Barrowman.
Modernity and its discontents : making and unmaking the bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow / Steven B. Smith.
Old angel midnight / Jack Kerouac ; edited by Donald Allen ; prefaces by Ann Charters & Michael McClure.
The poem is you : sixty contemporary American poems and how to read them / Stephen Burt.
Psychology, art, and antifascism : Ernst Kris, E.H. Gombrich, and the politics of caricature / Louis Rose.
Shakespeare’s creative legacies : artists, writers, performers, readers / edited by Paul Edmondson and Peter Holbrook.
This is Frank Lloyd Wright / Ian Volner ; illustrations by Michael Kirkham.
Understanding Edward P. Jones / James W. Coleman.
MUSIC Mlada (1872) : scenes from a collaborative opera-ballet / by Câesar Cui, Modest Musorgskii, Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov, and Aleksandr Borodin ; edited by Albrecht Gaub.
Sextet for percussion and keyboards [(1985)] / Steve Reich.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Charter, customs, and constitutions of the Cistercians : initiation into the monastic tradition 7 / by Thomas Merton ; edited with an introduction by Patrick F. O’Connell ; preface by John Eudes Bamberger, OCSO.
Coexistentialism and the unbearable intimacy of ecological emergency / Sam Mickey.
Existentialism and excess : the life and times of Jean-Paul Sartre / by Gary Cox.
Foucault’s critical ethics / Richard A. Lynch.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Basic physics of functionalized graphite / Pablo D. Esquinazi, editor.
Body messages : the quest for the proteins of cellular communication / Giamila Fantuzzi.
The demons of science : what they can and cannot tell us about our world / Friedel Weinert.
The early period of the calculus of variations / Paolo Freguglia, Mariano Giaquinta.
Energy and vision / by S.P. Langley.
Energy from the nucleus : the science and engineering of fission and fusion / [edited by] Gerard M Crawley.
Getting it right in science and medicine : can science progress through errors? : fallacies and facts / Hans R. Kricheldorf.
Organic chemistry : study guide and solutions manual / Paula Yurkanis Bruice, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Prelude to the Dust Bowl : drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains / Kevin Z. Sweeney.
The progressive environmental Prometheans : left-wing heralds of a “good anthropocene” / William B. Meyer.
Snow leopards / series editor
SOCIAL SCIENCES Carceral fantasies : cinema and prison in early twentieth-century America / Alison Griffiths.
Contracultura : alternative arts and social transformation in authoritarian Brazil / Christopher Dunn.
The Dutch criminal justice system / [P.J.P. Tak].
Gratian’s Tractatus de penitentia : a new Latin edition with English translation / edited and translated by Atria A. Larson.
Karl Marx : greatness and illusion / Gareth Stedman Jones.
Law’s political foundations : rivers, rifles, rice, and religion / John O. Haley, William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
Levinas, ethics and law / Matthew Stone.
Qualitative research & evaluation methods : integrating theory and practice / Michael Quinn Patton.
Strangers in their own land : anger and mourning on the American right / Arlie Russell Hochschild.
Thomas More’s Utopia : arguing for social justice / Lawrence Wilde.
To kill a people : genocide in the twentieth century / John Cox.
When two worlds collide / Yachaywasi Films presents ; in association with Ford Foundation/Just Films ;  a film directed by Heidi Brandenburg Sierralta, Mathew Orzel ; producer, Taira Akbar.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN John Singer Sargent and the art of allusion / Bruce Redford.
The painted book in Renaissance Italy : 1450-1600 / Jonathan J.G. Alexander.