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GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 12-3-2018

EDUCATION All children read : teaching for literacy in today’s diverse classrooms / Charles Temple
An architecture of education : African American women design the new South / Angel David Nieves.
Assessing and correcting reading and writing difficulties / Thomas G. Gunning, Professor Emeritus, Southern Connecticut State University.
Developing reading and writing in second-language learners : lessons from the report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth / edited by Diane August, Timothy Shanahan.
The fluent reader : oral & silent reading strategies for building fluency, word recognition & comprehension / Timothy V. Rasinski ; [foreword by D. Ray Reutzel].
Illuminating comprehension and close reading / Isabel L. Beck, Cheryl Sandora.
Inside information : developing powerful readers and writers of informational text through project-based instruction / Nell K. Duke ; foreword by Ellin Oliver Keene.
Miseducating for the global economy : how corporate power damages education and subverts students’ futures / by Gerald Coles.
Multisensory teaching of basic language skills / edited by Judith R. Birsh.
Phonics and word study for the teacher of reading : programmed for self-instruction / Barbara J. Fox.
Speech to print : language essentials for teachers / by Louisa Cook Moats.
Teaching reading sourcebook / Bill Honig, Linda Diamond, Linda Gutlohn ; contributing authors, Carrie L. Cole [and five others].
Teaching struggling and at-risk readers : a direct instruction approach / Douglas W. Carnine [and others].
Text-dependent questions, grades K-5 : pathways to close and critical reading / Douglas Fisher & Nancy Frey with Heather Anderson & Marisol Thayre.
Using technology to enhance reading : innovative approaches to literacy instruction / edited by Timothy V. Rasinski, Kristine E. Pytash, and Richard E. Ferdig ; Contributors, Diane Barone [and others].
The vocabulary book : learning and instruction / Michael F. Graves.
Words their way : word study for phonics
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES The bear and the paving stone / Toshiyuki Horie ; translated by Geraint Howells.
The great flowing river : a memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan / Chi Pang-yuan ; edited and translated by John Balcom ; with an introduction by David Der-wei Wang.
The pen confronts the sword : exiled German scholars challenge Nazism / Avihu Zakai.
Sentimental tales / Mikhail Zoshchenko ; translated by Boris Dralyuk.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES 1968 : radical protest and its enemies / Richard Vinen.
Annals of Native America : how the Nahuas of colonial Mexico kept their history alive / Camilla Townsend.
Asian cultural traditions / Carolyn Brown Heinz, Jeremy A. Murray.
The Battle of Arnhem : the deadliest airborne operation of World War II / Antony Beevor.
The Browns of California : the family dynasty that transformed a state and shaped a nation / Miriam Pawel.
California at war : the state and the people during World War I / Diane M.T. North.
The contest : the 1968 election and the war for America’s soul / Michael Schumacher.
Exile in the Maghreb : Jews under Islam, sources and documents, 997-1912 / Paul B. Fenton and David G. Littman.
The fall of Wisconsin : the conservative conquest of a progressive bastion and the future of American politics / Dan Kaufman.
The grand strategy of the Habsburg Empire / A. Wess Mitchell.
Haunted by chaos : China’s grand strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping / Sulmaan Wasif Khan.
Incidental archaeologists : French officers and the rediscovery of Roman North Africa / Bonnie Effros.
Indianapolis : the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man / Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic.
Indians in the United States and Canada : a comparative history, second edition / Roger L. Nichols.
Interrupted odyssey : Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians / Mary Stockwell.
Jefferson on display : attire, etiquette, and the art of presentation / G. S. Wilson.
Korea : where the American century began / Michael Pembroke.
Mixing it up : a south-watcher’s miscellany / John Shelton Reed.
Radicalized loyalties : becoming Muslim in the West / Fabien Truong ; translated by Seth Ackerman and supervised by Fabien Truong.
Remaking the modern world 1900-2015 : global connections and comparisons / C.A. Bayly.
Rojava : revolution, war and the future of Syria’s Kurds / Thomas Schmidinger ; translated by Michael Schiffmann.
The Roman street : urban life and society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome / Jeremy Hartnett, Wabash College.
Sugar, cigars, and revolution : the making of Cuban New York / Lisandro Pâerez.
Summer of hate : Charlottesville, USA / Hawes Spencer.
Sword and scimitar : fourteen centuries of war between Islam and the West / Raymond Ibrahim ; with a foreword by Victor Davis Hanson.
True to their salt : indigenous personnel in Western armed forces / Robert Johnson.
Unrequited toil : a history of United States slavery / Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University.
LIBRARY SCIENCE What to read and why / Francine Prose.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES 100 plays for the first hundred days / Suzan-Lori Parks.
A carnival of losses : notes nearing ninety / Donald Hall.
Angry public rhetorics : global relations and emotion in the wake of 9/11 / Celeste Michelle Condit.
Angry rain : a brief memoir / Maurice Kenny ; edited and with an introduction by Derek C. Maus.
Battle lines : Canadian poetry in English and the First World War / Joel Baetz.
A carnival of losses : notes nearing ninety / Donald Hall.
Cecil B. DeMille, classical Hollywood, and modern American mass culture, 1910-1960. / David Blanke.
The children’s war / C.P. Boyko.
Clock dance / Anne Tyler.
Everyday people : the color of life–a short story anthology / edited by Jennifer Baker.
The fall of Gondolin / by J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Christopher Tolkien ; with illustrations by Alan Lee.
The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers / Maxwell King.
In pieces : a memoir / Sally Field.
Letters from Max : a book of friendship / Sarah Ruhl & Mark Ritvo.
Mark Twain among the Indians and other indigenous peoples / Kerry Driscoll.
The mere wife / Maria Dahvana Headley.
Now you’re talking : human conversation from the Neanderthals to artificial intelligence / Trevor Cox.
Phillis Wheatley chooses freedom : history, poetry, and the ideals of the American Revolution / G.J. Barker-Benfield.
Plastic Indian : a collection of stories and other writings / Robert J. Conley ; edited by Evelyn L. Conley ; foreword by Geary Hobson.
Reading, writing, and learning in ESL : a resource book for teaching K-12 English learners / Suzanne F. Peregoy, San Francisco State University, Owen F. Boyle, San Jose State University.
The red word / Sarah Henstra.
Samuel Johnson / edited by David Womersley.
The secrets between us : a novel / Thrity Umrigar.
Selected poems, 1950-2012 / Adrienne Rich ; edited and with an introduction by Albert Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi, and Brett C. Millier.
The silence of the girls : a novel / Pat Barker.
Subjective geography : a poet’s thoughts on life and craft / Madeline DeFrees ; edited by Anne McDuffe.
Ted Hughes in context / edited by Terry Gifford.
Thinking through poetry : field reports on Romantic lyric / Marjorie Levinson.
Thomas Wolfe remembered / edited by Mark Canada and Nami Montgomery.
Tolkien : maker of middle-earth / Catherine McIlwaine.
Tristram Shandy : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Laurence Sterne ; edited by Judith Hawley.
The unpunished vice : a life of reading / Edmund White.
William Blake and the myth of America : from the Abolitionists to the counterculture / Linda Freedman.
Wonderful design : glamour in the Hollywood musical / Lloyd Whitesell.
MUSIC Concert and contest collection for trombone : with piano accompaniment / compiled and edited by H. Voxman.
Critical issues in music education : contemporary theory and practice / [edited by] Harold F. Abeles, Lori A. Custodero.
Four early 20th century piano suites by black composers / edited by Joseph Smith.
The Oxford handbook of music education / edited by Gary E. McPherson and Graham F. Welch.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Beyond vision : going blind, inner seeing, and the nature of the self / Allan Jones.
Father Luis Olivares, a biography : faith politics and the origins of the sanctuary movement in Los Angeles / Mario T. Garcâia.
Logos : the mystery of how we make sense of the world / Raymond Tallis.
On truth / Simon Blackburn.
The reformation of England’s past : John Foxe and the revision of history in the late sixteenth century / Matthew Phillpott.
Religion and technology into the future : from Adam to tomorrow’s Eve / Sam Gill.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY A bite-sized history of France : gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment / Stâephane Hâenaut and Jeni Mitchell.
The age of innocence : nuclear physics between the first and second world wars / Roger H. Stuewer.
Autonomy : the quest to build the driverless car– and how it will reshape our world / Lawrence D. Burns with Christopher Shulgan.
A bite-sized history of France : gastronomic tales of revolution, war, and enlightenment / Stâephane Hâenaut and Jeni Mitchell.
City unseen : new visions of an urban planet / Karen C. Seto and Meredith Reba.
Climate in motion : science, empire, and the problem of scale / Deborah R. Coen.
From taverns to gastropubs : food, drink, and sociality in England / Christel Lane.
The great silence : science and philosophy of Fermi’s paradox / Milan M. âCirkoviâc.
The heart of the brain : the hypothalamus and its hormones / Gareth Leng.
Henry Smeathman, the flycatcher : natural history, slavery and empire in the late eighteenth century / Deirdre Coleman.
Molecular machines : a materials science approach / Giovanni Zocchi.
Panda nation : the construction and conservation of China’s modern icon / E. Elena Songster.
Photons : the history and mental models of light quanta / Klaus Hentschel.
Power button : a history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing / Rachel Plotnick.
The scientific journal : authorship and the politics of knowledge in the nineteenth century / Alex Csiszar.
The tangled tree : a radical new history of life / David Quammen.
Volcanic and igneous plumbing systems : understanding magma transport, storage, and evolution in the earth’s crust / edited by Steffi Burchardt.
The wonderful Mr Willughby : the first true ornithologist / Tim Birkhead.
SOCIAL SCIENCES After the party : a manifesto for queer of color life / Joshua Chambers-Letson.
American prison : a reporter’s undercover journey into the business of punishment / Shane Bauer.
America’s game : a history of major league baseball through World War II / Bryan Soderholm-Difatte.
Bedroom : an intimate history / Michelle Perrot ; translated by Lauren Elken.
Beyond birds & bees : bringing home a new message to our kids about sex, love, and equality / Bonnie J. Rough.
Catch-67 : the left, the right, and the legacy of the Six-Day War / Micah Goodman ; translated by Eylon Levy.
Conservatism : an invitation to the great tradition / Roger Scruton.
The darker the night, the brighter the stars : a neuropsychologist’s odyssey through consciousness / Paul Broks ; with drawigs by Garry Kennard.
The ethnobotany of Eden : rethinking the jungle medicine narrative / Robert A. Voeks.
The future of terrorism : ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the alt-right / Walter Laqueur and Christopher Wall.
How fascism works : the politics of us and them / Jason Stanley.
Making a 21st century constitution : playing fair in modern democracies / Frank Vibert (Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, London School of Economics, UK).
Modern psychometrics : the science of psychological assessment / John Rust and Susan Golombok.
The monarchy of fear : a philosopher looks at our political crisis / Martha C. Nussbaum.
Outnumbered : from Facebook and Google to fake news and filter-bubbles–the algorithms that control our lives / David Sumpter.
The personality brokers : the strange history of Myers-Briggs and the birth of personality testing / Merve Emre.
The recovery myth : the plans and situated realities of post-disaster response / Lucy Easthope.
Resistance : reclaiming an American tradition / Jeff Biggers.
Responsible parties : saving democracy from itself / Frances McCall Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro.
Ten arguments for deleting your social media accounts right now / Jaron Lanier.
Where are we heading? : the evolution of humans and things / Ian Hodder.
White fragility : why it’s so hard for White people to talk about racism / Robin DiAngelo.
Why good people do bad environmental things / Elizabeth R. DeSombre.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN An American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden / Mary Schmidt Campbell.
The art of reading : an illustrated history of books in paint / Jamie Camplin, Maria Ranauro.
Elegy landscapes : Constable and Turner and the intimate sublime / Stanley Plumly.
Exhibit A : exhibitions that transformed architecture, 1948-2000 / Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen ; with contributions by Ljiljana Blagojeviâc [and ten others].
How do we look : the body, the divine, and the question of civilisation / Mary Beard.
Judenmord : art and the Holocaust in post-war Germany / Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius with Sigrid Philipps.