GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 08-23-2017

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EDUCATION For the common good : a new history of higher education in America / Charles Dorn.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Ancestral tales : reading the Buczacz stories of S. Y. Agnon / Alan Mintz.
Beasts head for home : a novel / Abe Kåobåo ; translated by Richard F. Calichman.
Devils in daylight / Junichiro Tanizaki ; translated by J. Keith Vincent.
Flaubert in the ruins of Paris : the story of a friendship, a novel, and a terrible year / Peter Brooks.
Investigations of a dog, and other creatures / Franz Kafka ; in a new translation by Michael Hofmann.
The maids / Junichiro Tanizaki ; translated by Michael P. Cronin
Proust & his banker : in search of time squandered / Gian Balsamo.
HEALTH SCIENCES Three sixteenth-century dietaries / edited by Joan Fitzpatrick.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES An awkward truth : the bombing of Darwin February 1942 / Peter Grose.
Benjamin Franklin, natural right, and the art of virtue / Kevin Slack.
Central Europe (re-)visited : a multi-perspective approach to a region / edited by Marija Wakounig and Ferdinand Kèuhnel.
Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom / Thomas E. Ricks.
The color of law : a forgotten history of how our government segregated America / Richard Rothstein.
The Holocaust : a new history / Laurence Rees.
Implacable foes : war in the Pacific, 1944-1945 / Waldo Heinrichs and Marc Gallicchio.
Kierkegaard’s muse : the mystery of Regine Olsen / Joakim Garff ; translated by Alastair Hannay.
Medieval Jerusalem : forging an Islamic city in spaces sacred to Christians and Jews / Jacob Lassner.
Reagan and the world : leadership and national security, 1981-1989 / edited by Bradley Lynn Coleman and Kyle Longley ; foreword by Jack Matlock Jr.
The Russian Revolution : a new history / Sean McMeekin.
Scars of independence : America’s violent birth / Holger Hoock.
Visions of empire : how five imperial regimes shaped the world / Krishan Kumar.
LIBRARY SCIENCE Getting started in service design : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians / Joe J. Marquez and Annie Downey.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES The accomplished guest : stories / Ann Beattie.
The ambulance drivers : Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a friendship made and lost in war / James McGrath Morris.
Anything is possible / Elizabeth Strout.
Between them : remembering my parents / Richard Ford.
The big picture : contemporary art in 10 works by 10 artists / Matthew Israel.
Cockfosters : stories / Helen Simpson.
Ernest Hemingway : a biography / Mary V. Dearborn.
The great society / Robert Schenkkan.
Hamlet / by William Shakespeare ; adapted by Mark Norfolk ; directed by Jeffery Kissoon ; preface by David Linton.
Harry Langdon : king of silent comedy / Gabriella Oldham and Mabel Langdon.
Henry David Thoreau in context / edited by James S. Finley.
A house among the trees / Julia Glass.
Housman country : into the heart of England / Peter Parker.
Island home : a landscape memoir / Tim Winton.
Jane Austen, the secret radical / Helena Kelly.
Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world : a story of love, work, friendship, and marriage / Kathy Chamberlain.
John Hay, friend of giants : the man and life connecting Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Henry James, and Theodore Roosevelt / Philip McFarland.
The making of Jane Austen / Devoney Looser.
Marble goddesses + mortal flesh : four novellas / David Madden.
Mark Twain & France : the making of a new American identity / Paula Harrington, Ronald Jenn.
The ministry of utmost happiness / Arundhati Roy.
Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee / Wayne Flynt.
Mother Land / Paul Theroux.
Nabokov and his books : between late modernism and the literary marketplace / Duncan White.
Night thoughts / Wallace Shawn.
The Olson codex : projective verse and the problem of Mayan glyphs / Dennis Tedlock.
Ralph Ellison’s invisible theology / M. Cooper Harriss.
The secret history of Jane Eyre : how Charlotte Brontèe wrote her masterpiece / John Pfordresher.
Scribbled in the dark : poems / Charles Simic.
Shakespeare’s tragedies : a very short introduction / Stanley Wells.
The songs we know best : John Ashbery’s early life / Karin Roffman.
Sonia Sanchez’s poetic spirit through haiku / edited by John Zheng.
Strange vernaculars : how eighteenth-century slang, cant, provincial languages, and nautical jargon became English / Janet Sorensen.
A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks / Angela Jackson.
The Tempest and late romances / edited by Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin.
There your heart lies / Mary Gordon.
Trajectory / Richard Russo.
The transferred life of George Eliot : the biography of a novelist / Philip Davis.
Virginia Woolf and the power of story : a literary Darwinist reading of six novels / Linda Nicole Blair.
Whitman’s drift : imagining literary distribution / Matt Cohen.
Will West / by Paul C. Metcalf.
MUSIC Complete preparation : a guide to auditioning for opera / Joan Dornemann with Maria Ciaccia ; introduction by Sherrill & Nancy Milnes.
Waitress : the irresistible new Broadway musical / words and music by Sara Bareilles.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION The church, authority, and Foucault : imagining the church as an open space of freedom / Steven G. Ogden.
Confessions / Augustine ; a new translation by Sarah Ruden.
The Evangelicals : the struggle to shape America / Frances FitzGerald.
The happiness philosophers : the lives and works of the great utilitarians / Bart Schultz.
Jefferson’s body : a corporeal biography / Maurizio Valsania.
Martin Luther : rebel in an age of upheaval / Heinz Schilling ; translated by Rona Johnston.
The Oxford history of Anglicanism. Volume III, Partisan Anglicanism and its global expansion, 1829-c.1914 / edited by Rowan Strong.
Paranoid science : the Christian Right’s war on reality / Antony Alumkal.
Sexuality, religion, and the sacred : bisexual, pansexual, and polysexual perspectives / edited by Loraine Hutchins and H. Sharif Williams.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Apollo 8 : the thrilling story of the first mission to the Moon / Jeffrey Kluger.
Bayesian data analysis / Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, David B. Dunson, Aki Vehtari, Donald B. Rubin.
Bayesian reasoning and machine learning / David Barber.
Behave : the biology of humans at our best and worst / Robert M. Sapolsky.
Bird migration across the Himalayas : wetland functioning amidst mountains and glaciers / edited by Herbert Prins
Dielectrophoresis : theory, methodology and biological applications / Ronald Pethig.
Doing Bayesian data analysis : a tutorial with R, JAGS, and Stan / John K. Kruschke.
Footprints in micrometeorology and ecology / Monique Y. Leclerc, Thomas Foken ; with contributions by M.J. Savage and M. Gèockede.
Introduction to probability / Joseph K. Blitzstein, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Jessica Hwang, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Kin : how we came to know our microbe relatives / John L. Ingraham.
Making sense of genes / Kostas Kampourakis, University of Geneva.
Not a scientist : how politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science / Dave Levitan.
Other minds : the octopus, the sea, and the deep origins of consciousness / Peter Godfrey-Smith.
Philosophy of mathematics / ¢ystein Linnebo.
Statistical rethinking : a Bayesian course with examples in R and Stan / Richard McElreath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Statistics and probabilitiy with applications  / Daren Starnes, Josh Tabor.
Surveys on recent developments in algebraic geometry : bootcamp for the Summer Research Institute on Algebraic Geometry, July 6-10, 2015, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah / Izzet Coskun, Tommaso de Fernex, Angela Gibney, editors.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Atrocity speech law : foundation, fragmentation, fruition / Gregory S. Gordon ; foreword by Benjamin B. Ferencz.
Children of austerity : impact of the Great Recession on child poverty in rich countries / edited by Bea Cantillon, Yekaterana Chzhen, Sudhanshu Handa, and Brian Nolan.
The death penalty : a reference handbook / Joseph A. Melusky and Keith A. Pesto.
Defiant Earth : the fate of humans in the Anthropocene / Clive Hamilton.
Democracy to come : politics as relational praxis / Fred Dallmayr.
Exonerated : a history of the innocence movement / Robert J. Norris.
Frailty, suffering, and vice : flourishing in the face of human limitations / Blaine J. Fowers, Frank C. Richardson, and Brent D. Slife.
Heading out : a history of American camping / Terence Young.
How America got its guns : a history of the gun violence crisis / William Briggs.
Leadership in leisure services : making a difference / Debra J. Jordan, East Carolina University ; Ronald Ramsing, Western Kentucky University.
The long reach of the Sixties : LBJ, Nixon, and the making of the contemporary Supreme Court / Laura Kalman.
Rethinking race : the case for deflationary realism / Michael O. Hardimon.
The scaffolding of sovereignty : global and aesthetic perspectives on the history of a concept / edited by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Nicole Jerr.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN The American idea of home : conversations about architecture and design / Bernard Friedman ; foreword by Meghan Daum.
Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci / Mike Lankford.
Women photographers and feminist aesthetics / Claire Raymond.