GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 08-06-2018

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FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Eulogy for the living : taking flight / Christa Wolf ; with an afterword by Gerhard Wolf ; translated by Katy Derbyshire.
Father’s on the phone with the flies : a selection / Herta Mèuller ; translated by Thomas Cooper.
Great fall : a story / Peter Handke ; translated by Krishna Winston.
A history of Russian literature / Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, Stephanie Sandler.
Mèarzgefallene : Gereon Raths fèunfter Fall / Volker Kutscher.
Neruda : the poet’s calling / Mark Eisner.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES Air Officer commanding : Hugh Dowding, architect of the Battle of Britain / John T. LaSaine, Jr.
Barons of the sea : and their race to build the world’s fastest clipper ship / Steven Ujifusa.
Blackbeard’s sunken prize : the 300-year voyage of Queen Anne’s Revenge / Mark U. Wilde-Ramsing and Linda F. Carnes-McNaughton.
China, Russia, and twenty-first century global geopolitics / Paul J. Bolt and Sharyl N. Cross.
Coastal Ecosystems and Economic Strategies at Cerro Azul, Peru : the Study of a Late Intermediate Kingdom / edited by Joyce Marcus.
Colonial al-Andalus : Spain and the making of modern Moroccan culture / Eric Calderwood.
The doomsday machine : confessions of a nuclear war planner / Daniel Ellsberg.
Edmund : in search of England’s lost king / Francis Young.
Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan / Ruby Lal.
Facing otherness in early modern Sweden : travel, migration and material transformations, 1500-1800 / edited by Magdalena Naum and Fredrik Ekengren.
The girl from Kathmandu : twelve dead men and a woman’s quest for justice / Cam Simpson.
A history of Russia / Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg.
The Kremlinologist : Llewellyn E Thompson : America’s man in Cold War Moscow / Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson.
Mixing it : diversity in World War Two Britain / Wendy Webster.
The moralist : Woodrow Wilson and the world he made / Patricia O’Toole.
More than a doctrine : the Eisenhower era in the Middle East / Randall Fowler ; foreword by Martin J. Medhurst.
Multiculturalism in Turkey : the Kurds and the state / Durukan Kuzu, Coventry University.
My country, my life : fighting for Israel, searching for peace / Ehud Barak.
New South Indians : tribal economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the twentieth century / Christopher Arris Oakley.
Remembering cold days : the 1942 massacre of Novi Sad, Hungarian politics, & society, 1942-1989 / âArpâad von Klimâo.
Thunder in the Argonne : a new history of America’s greatest battle / Douglas V. Mastriano.
The tragedy of Benedict Arnold : an American life / Joyce Lee Malcolm.
Traumatic defeat : POWs, MIAs, and national mythmaking / Patrick Gallagher.
The urban graveyard : archaeological perspectives / edited by R.M.R. van Oosten, R. Schats, K. Fast, N. Arts & H.M.P. Bouwmeester.
LIBRARY SCIENCE Profiles of academic library inter-library loan efforts / by Rachel Gordon.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES Covering America : a narrative history of a nation’s journalism / Christopher B. Daly.
Darwin’s ghosts : a novel / Ariel Dorfman.
Guidebook to relative strangers : journeys into race, motherhood, and history / Camille T. Dungy.
Heads of the colored people : stories / Nafissa Thompson-Spires.
Making Oscar Wilde / Micháele Mendelssohn.
More than true : the wisdom of fairy tales / Robert Bly.
Networks of modernism : reorganizing American narrative / Wesley Beal.
Nobody’s girl Friday : the women who ran Hollywood / J.E. Smyth.
Reporter : a memoir / Seymour M. Hersh.
Robin / Dave Itzkoff.
Rock/salt/stone / Rosamond S. King.
Though I get home / YZ Chin.
Varina : a novel / Charles Frazier.
A view of the empire at sunset / Caryl Phillips.
You think it, I’ll say it : stories / Curtis Sittenfeld.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Hasidism : key questions / Marcin Wodziânski.
Studies on Montesquieu : mapping political diversity / Rolando Minuti.
Vernacular Bible and religious reform in the Middle Ages and early modern era / edited by Wim Franðcois, August den Hollander ; with the collaboration of Els Agten.
Walking guide to the Camino de Santiago : history, culture, architecture / Gerald Kelly.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Chasing new horizons : inside the epic first mission to Pluto / Alan Stern and David Grinspoon.
Neurophysiological basis of normal and abnormal motor activities
Pattern recognition and machine learning / Christopher M. Bishop.
Rocket men : the daring odyssey of Apollo 8 and the astronauts who made man’s first journey to the Moon / Robert Kurson.
Superminds : the surprising power of people and computers thinking together / Thomas W. Malone.
Tesla : inventor of the modern / Richard Munson.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Broken lives : how ordinary Germans experienced the twentieth century / Konrad H. Jarausch.
Demystifying the big house : exploring prison experience and media representations / edited by Katherine A. Foss.
Embattled river : the Hudson and modern American environmentalism / David Schuyler.
Facts and fears : hard truths from a life in intelligence / James R. Clapper with Trey Brown.
Failures of American methods of lawmaking in historical and comparative perspectives / James R. Maxeiner ; with a foreword by Philip K. Howard.
First in line : presidents, vice presidents, and the pursuit of power / Kate Andersen Brower.
The free sea : the American fight for freedom of navigation / James Krask and Raul Pedrozo.
Genetics in the madhouse : the unknown history of human heredity / Theodore M. Porter .
Healthy conflict in contemporary American society : from enemy to adversary / Jason A. Springs.
Homeland security : a reference handbook / Michael C. LeMay.
Latino placemaking and planning : cultural resilience and strategies for reurbanization / Jesus J. Lara.
Myth and materiality / John Waddell.
Of friends and foes : reputation and learning in international politics / Mark J.C. Crescenzi.
People with disabilities : face to face / written and edited by Daniel J. Boudah, East Carolina University.
Perfect me! : beauty as an ethical ideal / Heather Widdows.
A village goes mobile : telephony, mediation, and social change in rural India / Sirpa Tenhunen.
Women and genocide : survivors, victims, perpetrators / edited by Elissa Bemporad and Joyce W. Warren.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Berenice Abbott : a life in photography / Julia Van Haaften.
Frank Furness : architecture in the age of the great machines / George E. Thomas ; foreword by Alan Hess.
Leonardo : a restless genius / Antonio Forcellino ; translated by Lucinda Byatt.