GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 08-20-2018

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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS The new Enlightenment : a twenty-first century, peaceful American revolution / Robert Bivona.
Vanishing frontiers : the forces driving Mexico and the United States together / Andrew Selee.
EDUCATION A girl stands at the door : the generation of young women who desegregated America’s schools / Rachel Devlin.
A manual for writers of research papers
What school could be : insights and inspiration from teachers across America / Ted Dintersmith.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Proust’s duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siáecle Paris / Caroline Weber.
Wandering mind and metaphysical thoughts / Gao Xingjian ; translated by Gilbert C.F. Fong.
Woman of the ashes / Mia Couto ; translated from the Portuguese by David Brookshaw.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES 1968 : the rise and fall of the new American Revolution / Robert C. Cottrell and Blaine T. Browne.
The age of Eisenhower : America and the world in the 1950s / William I. Hitchcock.
Alienation and freedom / Frantz Fanon ; edited by Jean Khalfa and Robert J.C. Young ; translated by Steven Corcoran.
American discontent : the rise of Donald Trump and decline of the golden age / John L. Campbell.
Atlas of a lost world : travels in ice age America / Craig Childs ; illustrations by Sarah Gilman.
Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great / Richard A. Billows.
A blueprint for war : FDR and the hundred days that mobilized America / Susan Dunn.
British battleships of the Victorian era / Norman Friedman.
Brush, seal and abacus : troubled vitality in late Ming China’s economic heartland, 1500-1644 / Jie Zhao.
Delta epiphany : Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi / Ellen B. Meacham.
Frontiers of science : imperialism and natural knowledge in the Gulf South borderlands, 1500-1850 / Cameron B. Strang.
Know thyself : Western identity from classical Greece to the Renaissance / Ingrid Rossellini.
Making the Arab world : Nasser, Qutb, and the clash that shaped the Middle East / Fawaz A. Gerges.
Messing with the enemy : surviving in a social media world of hackers, terrorists, Russians, and fake news / Clint Watts.
A past that won’t rest : images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi / photographs by Jim Lucas ; edited by Jane Hearn ; foreword by Charles l. Overby ; with contributions by Howard Ball
President Carter : the White House years / Stuart E. Eizenstat.
The price of greatness : Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the creation of American oligarchy / Jay Cost.
Republic of Islamophobia : the rise of respectable racism in France / Jim Wolfreys.
Rethinking America : from empire to republic / John M. Murrin ; with an introduction by Andrew Shankman.
Richard III : England’s most controversial king / by Chris Skidmore.
Rwanda : from genocide to precarious peace / Susan Thomson.
Scale & the Incas / Andrew James Hamilton.
The siege of Acre, 1189-1191 : Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the battle that decided the third crusade / Hohn D. Hosler.
The soul of America : the battle for our better angels / Jon Meacham.
A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean / Roland Philipps.
Swindler sachem : the American indian who sold his birthright, dropped out of Harvard, and conned the king of England / Jenny Hale Pulsipher.
To the promised land : Martin Luther King and the fight for economic justice / Michael K. Honey.
Visualizing cityscapes of Classical antiquity : from early modern reconstruction drawings to digital 3D models : with a case study from the ancient town of Koroneia, in Boeotia, Greece / Chiara Piccoli.
World civilizations / Philip Adler, East Carolina University, Emeritus; Randall L. Pouwels, University of Central Arkansas, Emeritus.
World War II at sea : a global history / Craig L. Symonds.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES Adjustment Day / Chuck Palahniuk.
Air traffic : a memoir of ambition and manhood in America / Gregory Pardlo.
All that is left is all that matters : stories / Mark Slouka.
American histories : stories / John Edgar Wideman.
Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon / Joseph Crespino.
Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse / Andrea Di Robilant.
Beasts at bedtime : revealing the environmental wisdom in children’s literature / Liam Heneghan.
Circe / Madeline Miller.
A distant center / Ha Jin.
Free woman : life, liberation and Doris Lessing / Lara Feigel.
Hope lies in the proles : George Orwell and the left / John Newsinger.
The house of broken angels : a novel / Luis Alberto Urrea.
J.D. Salinger’s The catcher in the rye : a cultural history / Josef Benson.
John Banville / Neil Murphy.
Kerouac on record : a literary soundtrack / edited by Simon Warner and Jim Sampas.
Kudos / Rachel Cusk.
Last stories / William Trevor.
Learning from Thoreau / Andrew Menard.
Life in the garden / Penelope Lively.
Me and my house : James Baldwin’s last decade in France / Magdalena J. Zaborowska.
The melody : a novel / Jim Crace.
Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.
My exaggerated life / Pat Conroy ; as told to Katherine Clark.
Night hawks : stories / Charles Johnson.
Night school / Carl Dennis.
Night-gaunts : and other tales of suspense / Joyce Carol Oates.
The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.
The Oxford companion to the Brontèes / [edited by] Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith ; preface by Claire Harman.
Pablo! : a novel / John Rechy.
Plenty / David Hare.
The president is missing : a novel / Bill Clinton, James Patterson.
The rise of Silas Lapham : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / W. D. Howells ; edited by Paul R. Petrie.
Shakespeare in the theatre : Patrice Châereau / Dominique Goy-Blanquet.
The sparsholt affair / Alan Hollinghurst.
The theatre of August Wilson / Alan Nadel.
There there / Tommy Orange.
The traveling feast : on the road and at the table with my heroes / Rick Bass.
Twain at sea : the maritime writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens / edited by Eric Paul Roorda.
Warlight / Michael Ondaatje.
Westerns / Elmore Leonard ; Terrence Rafferty, editor.
The world-ending fire : the essential Wendell Berry / selected and with an introduction by Paul Kingsnorth.
MUSIC Concerto for oboe and strings, op. 39 / Malcolm Arnold.
Ideas, strategies, and scenarios in music information literacy / edited by Kathleen A. Abromeit.
Little red schoolhouse : suite : for concert band / William Grant Still.
L’orgue mystique : Cycle de Pãaques, no. 20 : S. Joseph Sponsi B.M.V. (Saint Joseph) : op. 56 / Charles Tournemire.
Music by the numbers : from Pythagoras to Schoenberg / Eli Maor.
VIII. symfonie G dur = Symphony no. 8 in G major = Symphonie Nr. 8 in G, op. 88 / Dvoérâak ; k vydâanâi péripravil = edited by = herausgegeben von Jonathan Del Mar.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Christians, Muslims, and Mary : a history / Rita George-Tvrtkovic.
Divine currency : the theological power of money in the West / Devin Singh.
Food, farming and religion : emerging ethical perspectives / Gretel Van Wieren.
Illustrated myths & legends of China : the ages of chaos and heroes./ by Huang Dehai, xiang Jing and Zhang Dinhao ; translated by Tony Blishen.
Jewish radical feminism : voices from the women’s liberation movement / Joyce Antler.
Latino and Muslim in America : race, religion, and the making of a new minority / Harold D. Morales.
Religion : material dynamics / David Chidester.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AIQ : how people and machines are smarter together / Nick Polson and James Scott.
Artificial unintelligence : how computers misunderstand the world / Meredith Broussard.
Ascent of John Tyndall : Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual / Roland Jackson.
Atoms, mechanics, and probability : Ludwig Boltzmann’s statistico-mechanical writings : an exegesis / Olivier Darrigol.
Best before : the evolution and future of processed food / Nicola Temple.
Blossoms : and the genes that make them / Maxine F. Singer.
The consciousness instinct : unraveling the mystery of how the brain makes the mind / Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Energy : a human history / Richard Rhodes.
The equations of life : how physics shapes evolution / Charles S. Cockell.
The hidden life of life : a walk through the reaches of time / Elizabeth Marshall Thomas.
Introduction to solid modeling using SolidWorks 2018 / William E. Howard, East Carolina University, Joseph C. Musto, Milwaukee School of Engineering.
Luminous creatures : the history and science of light production in living organisms / Michel Anctil.
Neurotheology : how science can enlighten us about spirituality / Andrew Newberg.
On gravity : a brief tour of a weighty subject / A. Zee.
Skeletons : the frame of life / Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams.
Think tank : forty neuroscientists explore the biological roots of human experience / edited by David J. Linden.
Who we are and how we got here : ancient DNA and the new science of the human past / David Reich.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Antisocial media : how Facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy / Siva Vaidhyanathan.
Breakpoint : reckoning with America’s environmental crises / Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Steve Chapple.
Bring the war home : the white power movement and paramilitary America / Kathleen Belew.
A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA’s secret war / Monte Reel.
California greenin’ : how the Golden State became an environmental leader / David Vogel.
Citizenship, inequality, and difference : historical perspectives / Frederick Cooper.
Copycats & contrarians : why we follow others… and when we don’t / Michelle Baddeley.
Cultural evolution : people’s motivations are changing, and reshaping the world / Ronald F. Inglehart, University of Michigan.
Culture and the course of human evolution / Gary Tomlinson.
The culture of surveillance : watching as a way of life / David Lyon.
Custodians of the internet : platforms, content moderation, and the hidden decisions that shape social media / Tarleton Gillespie.
The defiant : protest movements in post-liberal America / Dawson Barrett.
Deport, deprive, extradite : 21st century state extremism / Nisha Kapoor.
Digital Demagogue : Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter / Christian Fuchs.
The displaced : refugee writers on refugee lives / edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Gendered vulnerability : how women work harder to stay in office / Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt.
Global gay : how gay culture is changing the world / Frâedâeric Martel ; foreword by Michael Bronski ; translated by Patsy Baudoin.
Has the gay movement failed? / Martin Duberman.
A higher loyalty : truth, lies, and leadership / James Comey.
How democracy ends / David Runciman.
Immigration law and society / John S.W. Park.
Insane : America’s criminal treatment of mental illness / Alisa Roth.
Invisible countries : journeys to the edge of nationhood / Joshua Keating ; maps by Bill Nelson.
Is the cemetery dead? / David Charles Sloane.
The known citizen : a history of privacy in modern America / Sarah E. Igo.
Land bridges : ancient environments, plant migrations, and New World connections / Alan Graham.
Letters to the contrary : a curated history of the UNESCO human rights survey / edited and introduced by Mark Goodale.
The lost black scholar : resurrecting Allison Davis in American social thought / David A. Varel.
Minds make societies : how cognition explains the world humans create / Pascal Boyer.
No ashes in the fire : coming of age black & free in America / Darnell L. Moore.
On color / David Scott Kastan, with Stephen Farthing.
The opposite of hate : a field guide to repairing our humanity / Sally Kohn.
The path to gay rights : how activism and coming out changed public opinion / Jeremiah J. Garretson.
Playing fair : political obligation and the problems of punishment / Richard Dagger.
Principled spying : the ethics of secret intelligence / David Omand and Mark Phythian.
Protean power : exploring the uncertain and unexpected in world politics / edited by Peter J. Katzenstein, Lucia A. Seybert.
Rape and resistance : understanding the complexities of sexual violation / Linda Martâin Alcoff.
Rooted cosmopolitans : Jews and human rights in the twentieth century / by James Loeffler.
Soul of a Democrat : the seven core ideals that made our party–and our country–great / Thomas B. Reston.
Tailspin : the people and forces behind America’s fifty-year fall–and those fighting to reverse it / Steven Brill.
This radical land : a natural history of American dissent / Daegan Miller.
Tourism policy and planning : yesterday, today, and tomorrow / David L. Edgell, Sr. and Jason R. Swanson.
The trans generation : how trans kids (and their parents) are creating a gender revolution / Ann Travers.
Translating happiness : a cross-cultural lexicon of well-being / Tim Lomas.
War on peace : the end of diplomacy and the decline of American influence / Ronan Farrow.
A world of empires : the Russian voyage of the frigate Pallada / Edyta M. Bojanowska.
Yield for oncoming greatness : capping capitalism  / by Matt N. Tabrizi.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Architecture and urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire : state, Church, and society, 1604-1830 / Gauvin Alexander Bailey.
Classical art : a life history from antiquity to the present / Caroline Vout.
Cultivating citizens : the regional work of art in the New Deal era / Lauren Kroiz.
Double vision : the unerring eye of art world avatars Dominique and John de Menil / William Middleton.
Eastern spirit Western world : a profile of Diana Kan / produced and directed by Daria Sommers.
The lives of the surrealists / Desmond Morris.
The look of love : eye miniatures from the Skier collection / edited by Graham C. Boettcher ; contributions by Elle Shushan, Graham C. Boettcher, and Jo Manning.
Luxury and modernism : architecture and the object in Germany, 1900-1933 / Robin Schuldenfrei.
Modernists & mavericks : Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London painters / Martin Gayford.
New media futures : the rise of women in the digital arts / edited by Donna J. Cox, Ellen Sandor, and Janine Fron ; forewords by Lisa Wainwright, Anne Balsamo, and Judy Malloy.