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GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 3-11-2019

EDCUATION Let her fly : a father’s journey / Ziauddin Yousafzai with Louise Carpenter ; foreword by Malala Yousafzai.
Toxic ivory towers : the consequences of work stress on underrepresented minority faculty / Ruth Enid Zambrana.
The truth about student success : myths, realities, and 30 practices that are working / author, Sara Lipka.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES The April 3rd incident : stories / Yu Hua ; translated from the Chinese by Allan H. Barr.
The book / Stâephane Mallarmâe ; translated & with an introduction by Sylvia Gorelick.
Farewell, my orange / Iwaki Kei ; translated from the Japanese by Meredith McKinney.
Hesse : the wanderer and his shadow / Gunnar Decker ; translated by Peter Lewis.
The milk bowl of feathers : essential surrealist writings / edited, with an introduction, by Mary Ann Caws.
Omer Pasha Latas / Ivo Andriâc ; translated from the Serbo-Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth ; introduction by William T. Vollmann.
The order of the day / âEric Vuillard ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.
Pan Tadeusz, or, The last foray in Lithuania : a story of the gentry from 1811 and 1812 : comprising twelve books in verse / Adam Mickiewicz ; translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston.
Representing mental illness in late medieval France : machines, madness, metaphor / Julie Singer.
Seventeen / Hideo Yokoyama ; translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai.
Speechless / Tom Lanoye ; translated from the Dutch by Paul Vincent.
Tenants and cobwebs / Samir Naqqash ; translated from the Arabic by Sadok Masliyah ; with a foreword by Nancy E. Berg.
Unbinding The Pillow Book : the many lives of a Japanese classic / Gergana Ivanova.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES American dialogue : the founders and us / Joseph J. Ellis.
Beautiful country burn again : democracy, rebellion, and revolution / by Ben Fountain.
Becoming / Michelle Obama.
Black flags, blue waters : the epic history of America’s most notorious pirates / Eric Jay Dolin.
Bourbon and bullets : true stories of whiskey, war, and military service / John C. Tramazzo ; foreword by Fred Minnick.
Churchill : walking with destiny / Andrew Roberts.
The common freedom of the people : John Lilburne & the English revolution / Michael Braddick.
Dublin’s great wars : the First World War, the Easter Rising and the Irish Revolution / Richard S. Grayson.
Fear : Trump in the White House / Bob Woodward.
The field of blood : violence in Congress and the road to civil war / Joanne B. Freeman.
Fierce enigmas : a history of the United States in South Asia / Srinath Raghavan.
The final act : the Helsinki Accords and the transformation of the Cold War / Michael Cotey Morgan.
France and the American Civil War : a diplomatic history / Stáeve Sainlaude ; translated by Jessica Edwards ; foreword by Don H. Doyle.
Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom / David W. Blight.
The future of the Middle East : faith, force, and finance / Monte Palmer.
Gandhi : the years that changed the world, 1914-1948 / Ramachandra Guha.
Ganges : the many pasts of an Indian River / Sudipta Sen.
Heirs of the founders : the epic rivalry of Henry Clay, John Calhoun and Daniel Webster, the second generation of American giants / H.W. Brands.
The Hell of good intentions : America’s foreign policy elite and the decline of U.S. primacy / Stephen M. Walt.
The history of the future in colonial Mexico / Matthew D. O’Hara.
How Churchill waged war : the most challenging decisions of the Second World War / Allen Packwood.
How does it feel to be unwanted? : stories of resistance and resilience from Mexicans living in the United States / Eileen Truax ; translated by Diane Stockwell.
Indigenous peoples and the Second World War : the politics, experiences and legacies of war in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand / R. Scott Sheffield, Noah Riseman.
The jungle grows back : America and our imperiled world / Robert Kagan.
My darling Winston : the letters between Winston Churchill and his mother / edited by David Lough ; foreword by Randolph Churchill.
Napoleon : a life / Adam Zamoyski.
Paris on the brink : the 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvador Dalâi, Simone de Beauvoir, Andrâe Gide, Sylvia Beach, Lâeon Blum, and their friends / Mary McAuliffe.
Peace at last : a portrait of Armistice Day, 11 November 1918 / Guy Cuthbertson.
Presidents of War / Michael Beschloss.
Privileged minorities : Syrian Christianity, gender, and minority rights in postcolonial India / Sonja Thomas.
Provocations : collected essays / Camille Paglia.
The reputational imperative : Nehru’s India in territorial conflict / Mahesh Shankar.
Rush : revolution, madness, and the visionary doctor who became a founding father / Stephen Fried.
Seapower states : maritime culture, continental empires and the conflict that made the modern world / Andrew Lambert.
Sentinel : the unlikely origins of the Statue of Liberty / Francesca Lidia Viano.
The sky is falling : how vampires, zombies, androids, and superheroes made America great for extremism / Peter Biskind.
The souls of yellow folk : essays / Wesley Yang.
Thomas Cromwell : a revolutionary life / Diarmaid MacCulloch.
To see Paris and die : the Soviet lives of western culture / Eleonory Gilburd.
Upon the fields of battle : essays on the military history of America’s Civil War / edited by Andrew S. Bledsoe and Andrew F. Lang ; foreword by Gary W. Gallagher.
The warm south : how the Mediterranean shaped the British imagination / Robert Holland.
Where we go from here : two years in the resistance / Bernie Sanders.
William Penn : a life / Andrew R. Murphy.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America’s greatest poet / Julie Dobrow.
Banthology : stories from banned nations / edited by Sarah Cleave.
Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey / Mark Dery.
Brother Bullet : poems / Casandra Lopez.
The cause of humanity and other stories : uncollected prose fictions / Rudyard Kipling ; edited by Thomas C. Pinney.
Christina Rossetti : poetry in art / edited by Susan Owens and Nicholas Tromans.
Come with me : a novel / Helen Schulman.
The correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau / edited by Robert N. Hudspeth.
Dead man’s float / Jim Harrison.
Designs on the past : how Hollywood created the ancient world / Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones.
Don’t skip out on me : a novel / Willy Vlautin.
Elevation / Stephen King ; [illustrations by Mark Edward Geyer].
Evening in paradise : more stories / Lucia Berlin.
Everything under : a novel / Daisy Johnson.
The Feral Detective : a novel / Jonathan Lethem.
Friday black / Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
A furnace / Roy Fisher ; edited by Peter Robinson.
Hazards of time travel / Joyce Carol Oates.
Howard Zinn’s Southern diary : sit-ins, civil rights, and black women’s student activism / Robert Cohen ; foreword by Alice Walker.
In Byron’s wake : the turbulent lives of Byron’s wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace / Miranda Seymour.
In extremis : the life and death of the war correspondent Marie Colvin / Lindsey Hilsum.
In praise of disobedience : the soul of man under socialism and other writings / Oscar Wilde ; with an introduction by Neil Bartlett ; selected and annotated by Mark Martin.
Inventing Edward Lear / Sara Lodge.
John Updike : novels, 1959-1965 : The Poorhouse Fair; Rabbit, Run; The Centaur; Of the Farm / Christopher Carduff, editor.
The Kairos novels / Madeleine L’Engle ; Leonard S. Marcus, editor.
The Kairos novels / Madeleine L’Engle ; Leonard S. Marcus, editor.
The lake on fire / Rosellen Brown.
The letters of Sylvia Plath / edited by Peter K. Steinberg and Karen V. Kukil.
The life of Saul Bellow : love and strife, 1965-2005 / Zachary Leader.
Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry / Imani Perry.
Mad, bad, dangerous to know : the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce / Colm Tâoibâin.
The O. Henry prize stories.
People in a magazine : the selected letters of S. N. Behrman and his editors at The New Yorker / edited and annotated by Joseph Goodrich ; foreword by Thomas Vinciguerra.
The point of it all : a lifetime of great loves and endeavors / Charles Krauthammer ; edited by Daniel Krauthammer.
Pushcart prize XLIII, 2019 : best of the small presses / edited by Bill Henderson ; with the Pushcart prize editors.
Ralph breaks the internet / Disney [presents] ; [a] Walt Disney Animation Studios [production] ; directed by Rich Moore, Phil Johnston ; produced by Clark Spencer ; screenplay by Phil Johnston, Pamela Ribon.
Retablos : stories from a life lived along the border / Octavio Solis.
Rufus : James Agee in Tennessee / Paul F. Brown.
Shakespeare survey.
So far so good : final poems: 2014-2018 / Ursula K. Le Guin.
A star is born / Warner Bros. Pictures presents ; in association with Live Nation Productions ; in association with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures ; a Jon Peters/Bill Gerber/Joint Effort production ; directed by Bradley Cooper ; screenplay by
Talk on the wild side : why language can’t be tamed / Lane Greene.
Three poems / Hannah Sullivan.
To kill a mockingbird : a graphic novel / Harper Lee ; adapted and illustrated by Fred Fordham.
Trinity : a novel / Louisa Hall.
Unsheltered : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
The vampire : a new history / Nick Groom.
We begin in gladness : how poets progress : essays / Craig Morgan Teicher.
The western wind / Samantha Harvey.
Why journalism still matters / Michael Schudson.
The William H. Gass reader / [William H. Gass].
William S. Burroughs’ “The Revised Boy Scout Manual” : an electronic revolution / William S. Burroughs ; edited and with prefaces by Geoffrey D. Smith & John M. Bennett ; with a foreword by Antonio Bonome and an afterword by V. Vale.
MUSIC Block scheduling : implications for music education / Richard B. Miles, Larry R. Blocher.
Clavier- und Orgelwerke abschriftlicher èUberlieferung. Partiten und Partitensèatze. Teil 1b = Keyboard and organ works from copied sources. Partitas and partita movements. Part 1b / [Froberger] ; im Auftrag der Gesellschaft fèur Musikgeschichte
Collected works. I, Liber primus missarum / Carolus Luython; edidit Carmelo Peter Comberiati, Nicholas Johnson.
Complete sonatas / William McGibbon ; edited by Elizabeth C. Ford.
Concerta commode tractabilia : op. 3 : Violinkonzerte und ein Konzert fèur zwei Litui/Tubae (Hèorner oder Trompeten) ; Concerti aus den Missae neo-editae : op. 1 / Johann Jakob Schnell, (1687-1754) ; herausgegeben von Alexander Heinzel.
Constructing a personal orientation to music teaching / Mark Robin Campbell, Linda K. Thompson, Janet R. Barrett.
Di goldene kale / Joseph Rumshinsky ; edited by Michael Ochs.
Die Harmonie der Sphèaren / Anton Reicha ; edited by Daniel Obluda.
Diluvium universale : (Dialogo del Noèe) / Giacomo Carissimi ; a cura di Gianluca Capuano.
Grand Mass : in E-flat major, opus 5 / Amy Beach ; edited by Matthew Phelps.
Great singers on the art of singing / Harriette Brower and James Francis Cooke.
A history of music education in the United States / James A. Keene.
Il secondo libro delli concerti : (Milan, 1627) / Andrea Cima ; edited by Christine Suzanne Getz.
Instrumental music pedagogy : teaching techniques for school band and orchestra directors / Daniel L. Kohut.
Intelligent music teaching : essays on the core principles of effective instruction / Robert A. Duke.
The international book of Christmas carols / musical arrangements by Walter Ehret ; translations and notes by George K. Evans ; ill. by Don Martinetti ; foreword by Norman Luboff.
The judgment of Paris / John Eccles ; edited by Eric J. Harbeson.
Le cantate su testo di Sebastiano Baldini / Giacomo Carissimi ; a cura di Teresa M. Gialdroni e Francesca Muccioli.
The lost child : orchestral version / Otto Dresel ; edited by David Francis Urrows ; text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Masses. Part 2 / Gaspar van Weerbeke ; edited by Paul Kolb, in collaboration with Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl.
Motetten. IX, Magnum opus musicum. Teil IX, Motetten fèur 6 stimmen / Orlando Di Lasso ; neu herausgegeben von Bernhold Schmid ; Redaktionelle Mitarbeit, Christian Berktold und Ludwig Zacherl.
Music for the Pauline Chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore / Alessandro Melani ; edited by Luca Della Libera.
Music of the twentieth century / William R. Martin and Julius Drossin.
Music teaching style : moving beyond tradition / Alan Gumm.
The Nativity : opus 39 / John Knowles Paine ; edited by John C. Schmidt.
The padrone / George Whitefield Chadwick ; edited by Marianne Betz.
Playing changes : jazz for the new century / Nate Chinen.
The singing cure : an introduction to voice movement therapy / Paul Newham ; foreword by Andrew Samuels.
Singing in musical theatre : the training of singers and actors / Joan Melton ; [foreword by Angela Punch McGregor].
Six settings of “Ave regina coelorum” (ZWV 128) / Jan Dismas Zelenka ; edited by Frederic Kiernan.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Contextualizing the faith : a holistic approach / A. Scott Moreau.
Exemplary ethics in ancient Rome / Rebecca Langlands.
Feeding the roots of self-expression and freedom / Jimmy Santiago Baca with Kym Sheehan and Denise VanBriggle.
God in the Qur’an / Jack Miles.
Living with the gods : on beliefs and peoples / Neil MacGregor.
Ludwig Wittgenstein / Miles Hollingworth.
Oscar Romero’s theological vision : liberation and the transfiguration of the poor / Edgardo Antonio Colâon-Emeric.
Out of many faiths : religious diversity and the American promise / Eboo Patel.
Pantheologies : gods, worlds, monsters / Mary-Jane Rubenstein.
Responsible brain : neuroscience, law and human culpability / William Hirstein, Katrina L. Sifferd, and Tyler K. Fagan.
Seven types of atheism / John Gray.
The spirit, indigenous peoples and social change : Måaori and a Pentecostal theology of social engagement / by Michael J. Frost.
Thinking off your feet : how empirical psychology vindicates armchair philosophy / Michael Strevens.
To cast the first stone : the transmission of a Gospel story / Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman.
What is philosophy for? / by Mary Midgley.
Where are the women? : why expanding the archive makes philosophy better / Sarah Tyson.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 5G NR : the next generation wireless access technology / Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, Johan Skèold.
The art of logic in an illogical world / Eugenia Cheng.
The best American science and nature writing.
Brief answers to the big questions / Stephen Hawking.
The deep learning revolution / Terrence J. Sejnowski.
Gene machine : the race to decipher the secrets of the ribosome / Venki Ramakrishnan.
The honey factory : inside the ingenious world of bees / Jèurgen Tautz & Diedrich Steen ; English translation by Dr. David C. Sandeman.
The Minard system : the complete statistical graphics of Charles-Joseph Minard / by Sandra Rendgen.
On the future : prospects for humanity / Martin Rees.
Photosynthesis : solar energy for life / by Dmitry Shevela (Umeêa University, Sweden), Lars Olof Bjèorn (Lund University, Sweden), Govindjee (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA).
The poison squad : one chemist’s single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the twentieth century / Deborah Blum.
Ramanujan’s lost notebook / George E. Andrews, Bruce C. Berndt.
Seafood : ocean to the plate / Richard Wilk and Shingo Hamada.
Solid state insurrection : how the science of substance made American physics matter / Joseph D. Martin.
Solomon’s code : humanity in a world of thinking machines / Olaf Groth and Mark Nitzberg ; with Dan Zehr.
Technology and mathematics : philosophical and historical investigations / Sven Ove Hansson, editor.
Technology in America : a history of individuals and ideas / edited by Carroll Pursell.
Unsavory truth : how food companies skew the science of what we eat / Marion Nestle.
You : a natural history / William B. Irvine.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Balanchine and Kirstein’s American enterprise / James Steichen.
Becoming property : art, theory and law in early modern France / Katie Scott.
Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time / Ian O’Connor.
Can democracy work? : a short history of a radical idea, from ancient Athens to our world / James Miller.
Can we all be feminists? : new writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 others on intersectionality, identity, and the way forward for feminism / edited by June Eric-Udorie.
Culture still matters : notes from the field / by Daniel Martin Varisco.
Cyberwar : how Russian hackers and trolls helped elect a president : what we don’t, can’t, and do know / Kathleen Hall Jamieson.
Delayed response : the art of waiting from the ancient to the instant world / Jason Farman.
Empire of enchantment : the story of Indian magic / John Zubrzycki.
Fidel Castro and baseball : the untold story / Peter C. Bjarkman.
Freak kingdom : Hunter S. Thompson’s manic ten-year crusade against American fascism / Timothy Denevi.
The free speech century / edited by Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone.
Frenemies : how social media polarizes America / Jaime E. Settle.
Gringolandia : lifestyle migration under late capitalism / Matthew Hayes.
A history of Chinese martial arts / Fan Hong and Fuhua Huang.
Identity : the demand for dignity and the politics of resentment / Francis Fukuyama.
Impeachment : an American history / Jeffrey A. Engel, Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker.
John Marshall : the man who made the Supreme Court / Richard Brookhiser.
Late-life love : a memoir / Susan Gubar.
Let the people see : the story of Emmett Till / Elliott J. Gorn.
The long term : resisting life sentences, working toward freedom / edited by Alice Kim, Erica R. Meiners, Audrey Petty, Jill Petty, Beth E. Richie, and Sarah Ross.
The lost history of liberalism : from ancient Rome to the twenty-first century / Helena Rosenblatt.
Man out : men on the sidelines of American life / Andrew L. Yarrow.
My butch career : a memoir / Esther Newton.
A new foreign policy : beyond American exceptionalism / Jeffrey D. Sachs.
On infertile ground : population control and women’s rights in the era of climate change / Jade S. Sasser.
One person, no vote : how voter suppression is destroying our democracy / Carol Anderson ; foreword by Senator Dick Durbin.
Policing Los Angeles : race, resistance, and the rise of the LAPD / Max Felker-Kantor.
The politics of authenticity : counter-cultures and radical movements across the Iron Curtain (1968-1989) / edited by Joachim C. Haberlen, Mark Keck-Szajbel, and Kate Mahoney.
The politics of petulance : America in an age of immaturity / Alan Wolfe.
The power of ritual in prehistory : secret societies and origins of social complexity / Brian Hayden, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia.
The problem of war : Darwinism, Christianity, and their battle to understand human conflict / Michael Ruse.
Red light labour : sex work regulation, agency, and resistance / edited by Elya M. Durisin, Emily van der Meulen, and Chris Bruckert.
The Republican reversal : conservatives and the environment from Nixon to Trump / James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life / Jane Sherron de Hart.
Small cities, big issues : reconceiving community in a neoliberal era / edited by Christopher Walmsley and Terry Kading.
Social DNA : rethinking our evolutionary past / M. Kay Martin.
Social progress in Britain / Anthony F. Heath ; with Elisabeth Garratt [and 3 others].
Spontaneous venturing : an entrepreneurial approach to alleviating suffering in the aftermath of a disaster / Dean A. Shepherd and Trenton A. Williams.
Taking turns with the Earth : phenomenology, deconstruction, and intergenerational justice / Matthias Fritsch.
Wages for housework : a history of an international feminist movement, 1972-77 / Louise Toupin ; translated by Kèathe Roth.
Waste : a new media primer / Roberto Simanowski ; translated by Amanda DeMarco and Susan H. Gillespie.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Andy Warhol, publisher / Lucy Mulroney.
Art in Chicago : a history from the fire to now / edited by Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino ; Judith Russi Kirshner, consulting editor ; Erin Hogan, sidebar editor.
Carleton Watkins : making the West American / Tyler Green.
Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly / Joshua Rivkin.
The collector : the story of Sergei Shchukin and his lost masterpieces / Natalia Semenova with Andrâe-Marc Delocque-Fourcaud ; translated by Anthony Roberts.
Designs of destruction : the making of monuments in the twentieth century / Lucia Allais.
Essential modernism : design between the world wars / Dominic Bradbury.
Forms of enchantment : writings on art & artists / Marina Warner.
Heaven on earth : Painting and the life to come / T. J. Clark.
How art works : a psychological exploration / Ellen Winner.
Learning from madness : Brazilian modernism and global contemporary art / Kaira M. Cabaänas.
Making dystopia: : the strange rise and survival of architectural barbarism / James Stevens Curl with a Prolegomenon by Timothy Brittain-Catlin.
The man in the Glass House : Philip Johnson, architect of the modern century / Mark Lamster.
Matisse and decoration / John Klein.
Moved to tears : rethinking the art of the sentimental in the United States / Rebecca Bedell.
Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art / Mary Gabriel.
Picturing science and engineering / Felice C. Frankel.
Stripped bare : the art of animal anatomy / David Bainbridge.
Walls turned sideways : artists confront the justice system / curated and edited by Risa Puleo