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GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 8-31-2020

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Career opportunities in advertising and public relations / Shelly Field ; foreword by Howard J. Rubenstein.
Sexual harassment : a reference handbook / Merril D. Smith.
Wilted : pathogens, chemicals, and the fragile future of the strawberry industry / Julie Guthman.
EDUCATION The eco-certified child : citizenship and education for sustainability and environment / Malin Ideland.
Implementing integrated performance assessment / Bonnie Adair-Hauck, Eileen W. Glisan, Francis J. Troyan.
Learning theory and online technologies / Linda Harasim.
A pledge with purpose : Black sororities and fraternities and the fight for equality / Gregory S. Parks, Matthew W. Hughey.
The Toni Morrison book club / Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Cassandra Jackson, and Piper Kendrix Williams.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Capital letters : Hugo, Baudelaire, Camus, and the death penalty / áEve Morisi.
Like flies from afar / K. Ferrari ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.
My wild garden : notes from a writer’s eden / Meir Shalev ; translated from the Hebrew by Joanna Chen ; illustrated by Refaella Shir.
Relatos marranos : antologâia.
Scale, space, and canon in ancient literary culture / Reviel Netz.
The society of reluctant dreamers / Josâe Eduardo Agualusa ; translated from the Portuguese by Daniel Hahn.
HEALTH SCIENCES The health consequences of using smokeless tobacco : a report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General.
Nightmare factories : the asylum in the American imagination / Troy Rondinone.
The undying : pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care / Anne Boyer.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Mosby’s Command / Hugh C. Keen, Horace Mewborn.
African American relationships, marriages, and families : an introduction / Patricia Dixon.
Afropessimism / Frank B. Wilderson III.
The art of resistance : my four years in the French underground : a memoir / Justus Rosenberg.
At the crossroads of Greco-Roman history, culture, and religion : papers in memory of Carin M. C. Green / Sinclair W. Bell; Lora L. Holland.
Becoming human again : an oral history of the Rwanda genocide against the Tutsi / Donald E. Miller ; with Lorna Touryan Miller and Arpi Misha Miller.
The Bible and Crusade narrative in the twelfth century / Katherine Allen Smith.
Bioarchaeology and identity revisited / edited by Kelly J. Knudson and Christopher M. Stojanowski.
Black beach white beach / Kelly Entertainment Productions presents ; produced by Ricky Kelly, Cherie Kelly, David Iversen ; directed by Ricky Kelly.
A Black women’s history of the United States / Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross.
Breakaway Americas : the unmanifest future of the Jacksonian United States / Thomas Richards, Jr.
Civil War manuscripts : a guide to collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress / compiled by John R. Sellers.
The cost of loyalty : dishonesty, hubris, and failure in the U.S. military / Tim Bakken.
Cry havoc : Charlottesville and American democracy under siege / Michael Signer.
The cultural capital of Asian American studies : autonomy and representation in the university / Mark Chiang.
Dear Mr. Lincoln : letters to the president / compiled and edited by Harold Holzer.
Department of Defense dictionary of military and associated terms / Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Development and employment of fixed-wing gunships, 1962-1972 / by Jack S. Ballard.
The Eighty Years War : from revolt to regular war, 1568-1648 / Petra Groen, editor, Olaf van Nimwegen, Ronald Prud’homme van Reine, Louis Sicking, Adri van Vliet ; translated by Andy Brown, Helen Bannatyne & Annette Mills.
Going home : a walk through fifty years of occupation / Raja Shehadeh.
Jewish Morocco : a history from pre-Islamic to postcolonial times / Emily Gottreich.
Just like us : the American struggle to understand foreigners / Thomas Borstelmann.
The last voyage of the whaling bark Progress : New Bedford, Chicago and the twilight of an industry / Daniel Gifford.
Lincoln on the verge : thirteen days to Washington / Ted Widmer.
Maps for time travelers : how archaeologists use technology to bring us closer to the past / Mark D. McCoy.
Military strategy : a global history / Jeremy Black.
Modern Brazil : a social history / Herbert S. Klein, Francisco Vidal Luna.
My war criminal : personal encounters with an architect of genocide / Jessica Stern.
Naoroji : pioneer of Indian nationalism / Dinyar Patel.
The Napoleonic Wars : a global history / Alexander Mikaberidze.
Native Americans of New England / Christoph Strobel.
Operation Rising Sun : The Sinking of Japan’s Secret Submarine I-52 / David W. Jourdan ; foreword by James P. Delgado.
Perspectives on early Andean civilization in Peru : interaction, authority, and socioeconomic organization during the first and second millennia BC / edited by Richard L. Burger, Lucy C. Salazar,Yuji Seki.
Redress : the inside story of the successful campaign for Japanese American reparations / John Tateishi.
Stone motel : memoirs of a Cajun boy / Morris Ardoin.
The sword and the shield : the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. / Peniel E. Joseph.
Theodore Roosevelt, naturalist in the arena / edited by Char Miller and Clay S. Jenkinson.
Unsettling spirit : a journey into decolonization / Denise M. Nadeau ; foreword by Deanna Reder.
Unworthy republic : the dispossession of Native Americans and the road to Indian territory / Claudio Saunt.
Whose Middle Ages? : teachable moments for an ill-used past / Andrew Albin, Mary C. Erler, Thomas O’Donnell, Nicholas L. Paul, Nina Rowe, editors ; introduction by David Perry ; afterword by Geraldine Heng.
LIBRARY SCIENCE 60 ready-to-use coding projects / edited by Ellyssa Kroski.
Content-area collaborations for secondary grades / Liz Deskins.
Demystifying online instruction in libraries : people, process, and tools / Dominique Turnbow, Amanda Roth.
Design thinking / Rachel Ivy Clarke.
Inquire / Lori E. Donovan.
Law librarianship in the age of AI / edited by Ellyssa Kroski.
Neal-Schuman library technology companion : a basic guide for library staff / John J. Burke.
Rainy day ready : financial literacy programs and tools / edited by Melanie Welch and Patrick Hogan.
Supporting today’s students in the library : strategies for retaining and graduating international, transfer, first-generation, and re-entry students / editors, Ngoc-Yen Tran and Silke Higgins.
Supporting trans people in libraries / Stephen G. Krueger.
The sustainable library’s cookbook / edited by Raymond Pun and Gary L. Shaffer.
53 ready-to-use kawaii craft projects / edited by Ellyssa Kroski.
The 360 librarian : a framework for integrating mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and critical reflection in the workplace / Tammi M. Owens and Carol A. Daul-Elhindi.
Cultivating civility : practical ways to improve a dysfunctional library / Jo Henry, Joe Eshleman, and Richard Moniz.
Gather ’round the table : food literacy programs, resources, and ideas for libraries / Hillary Dodge.
Inspired thinking : big ideas to enrich yourself and your community / Dorothy Stoltz with Morgan Miller, Lisa Picker, Joseph Thompson, and Carrie Willson.
Management basics for information professionals / G. Edward Evans, Stacey Greenwell.
Teaching banned books : 32 guides for children and teens / Pat R. Scales ; foreword by Judy Blume from the best-selling first edition.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES After Callimachus : poems / Stephanie Burt; foreword by Mark Payne.
Allegories of the Anthropocene / Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey.
Approaches to teaching Gaines’s the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and other works / edited by John Wharton Lowe and Herman Beavers.
Bad news : why we fall for fake news / Rob Brotherton.
Children of the land / Marcelo Hernandez Castillo.
Choice words : writers on abortion / edited by Annie Finch.
Conclusions / John Boorman.
Dailiness : essays on poetry / Mark Jarman.
The death of Sitting Bear : new and selected poems / N. Scott Momaday.
Demo : poems / Charlie Smith.
Dog soldiers ; A flag for sunrise ; Outerbridge reach / Robert Stone ; Madison Smartt Bell, editor.
Dunce / Mary Ruefle.
Folktales and legends of the Middle West / Edward McClelland ; with illustrations by David Wilson.
The glass hotel / Emily St. John Mandel.
How to watch television / edited by Ethan Thompson and Jason Mittell.
If it bleeds / Stephen King.
Instructions for seeing a ghost / Steve Bellin-Oka.
Jojo Rabbit / Fox Searchlight Pictures presents ; in association with TSG Entertainment ; a Defender and Piki Films production ; screenplay by Taika Waititi ; directed by Taika Waititi ; a Taika Waititi film ; produced by Carthew Neal
Le jeune Ahmed / Les Films du Fleuve
The mirror & the light / Hilary Mantel.
My dark Vanessa : a novel / Kate Elizabeth Russell.
New selected poems / Elizabeth Jennings ; edited by Rebecca Watts.
Portrait of a lady on fire / Neon and Lilies Films present ; in association with Arte France Cinâema and Hold-Up Films & Productions ; with the participation of CNC ; with the support of La Râegion ãIle-de-France ; with the participation of Canal+
Postcolonial disaster : narrating catastrophe in the twenty-first century / Pallavi Rastogi.
The Routledge reader of African American rhetoric : the Longue Durâee of Black voices / edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson.
Sea monsters : a novel / Chloe Aridjis.
The short stories of Frank Yerby / edited by Veronica T. Watson.
Simon the fiddler : a novel / Paulette Jiles.
Something of themselves : Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War / Sarah Lefanu.
Sovereignty & sustainability : indigenous literary stewardship in New England / Siobhan Senier.
Still life / Ciaran Carson.
Stoking the fire : nationhood in Cherokee writing, 1907-1970 / Kirby Brown.
Why writing matters / Nicholas Delbanco.
Wuthering Heights : the 1847 text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / Emily Brontèe ; edited by Alexandra Lewis.
MUSIC The 100 most important people in musical theatre / Andy Propst.
Arnold Schoenberg / Mark Berry.
Arnold Schoenberg’s journey from tone poems to kaleidoscopic sound colors / by Siglind Bruhn.
Auditioning for musical theatre / Denny Berry and additional musical material contributed by Alex von Marshall.
Bach and Mozart : essays on the enigma of genius / Robert L. Marshall.
Baudelaire in song : 1880-1930 / Helen Abbott.
Beethoven 1806 / Mark Ferraguto.
Brahms and his poets : a handbook / Natasha Loges ; foreword by Graham Johnson.
Brahms and the German spirit / Daniel Beller-McKenna.
Byrd / Kerry McCarthy.
The Cambridge companion to Gershwin / edited by Anna Harwell Celenza.
The Cambridge companion to operetta / edited by Anastasia Belina, Derek B. Scott.
Camille Saint-Saèens and his world / edited by Jann Pasler.
The century of Bach and Mozart : perspectives on historiography, composition, theory, and performance / edited by Sean Gallagher, Thomas Forrest Kelly.
A critical companion to medieval motets / edited by Jared C. Hartt.
Dance and drama in French baroque opera / Rebecca Harris-Warrick.
Experiencing Carl Maria von Weber : a listener’s companion / Joseph E. Morgan.
Experiencing Debussy : a listener’s companion / Teresa Davidian.
Experiencing Mahler : a listener’s companion / Arved Ashby.
Experiencing Schumann : a listener’s companion / Donald Sanders.
Experiencing Tchaikovsky : a listener’s companion / David Schroeder.
Experiencing the violin concerto : a listener’s companion / Franco Sciannameo.
Frauenliebe und Leben : Chamisso’s poems and Schumann’s songs / Rufus Hallmark.
French music since Berlioz / edited by Richard Langham Smith and Caroline Potter.
Georges Bizet : a biography / Christoph Schwandt ; translated by Cynthia Klohr.
Harmony in Chopin / David Damschroder, the University of Minnesota.
Harmony in Mendelssohn and Schumann / David Damschroder.
Intimacy, performance, and the lied in the early nineteenth century / Jennifer Ronyak.
The invention of Beethoven and Rossini : historiography, analysis, criticism / edited by Nicholas Mathew and Benjamin Walton.
Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of his time / Siegfried Kracauer ; translated by Gwenda David and Eric Mosbacher ; foreword by Gertrud Koch.
Liszt’s Chopin : a new edition / translated from the French, edited and with a preface by Meirion Hughes.
MacDowell / E. Douglas Bomberger.
Marginalized voices in music education / [editor] Brent C. Talbot.
Music in early Lutheranism : shaping the tradition (1524-1672) / Carl Schalk.
Music lessons : the Colláege de France lectures / Pierre Boulez ; edited and translated by Jonathan Dunsby, Jonathan Goldman and Arnold Whittall.
The musical voyager : Berlioz in Europe / David Charlton, Katharine Ellis (eds.).
Not Russian enough? : nationalism and cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century Russian opera / Rutger Helmers.
Of poetry and song : approaches to the nineteenth-century lied / essays by Ann C. Fehn, Rufus Hallmark, Harry E. Seelig, and Jèurgen Thym ; edited by Jèurgen Thym.
The opera singer’s acting toolkit : an essential guide to creating a role / Martin Constantine.
The Oxford handbook of music psychology / edited by Susan Hallam, Ian Cross, and Michael Thaut.
The pathetick musician : moving an audience in the Age of Eloquence / Bruce Haynes and Geoffrey Burgess.
Paul Dukas : composer and critic / Laura Watson.
The psychology of music / Susan Hallam.
Rave on : global adventures in electronic dance music / Matthew Collin.
Reflections : the piano music of Maurice Ravel / Paul Roberts.
Rimsky-Korsakov and his world / edited by Marina Frolova-Walker.
The rival sirens : performance and identity on Handel’s operatic stage / Suzanne Aspden.
The romantic overture and musical form from Rossini to Wagner / Steven Vande Moortele.
Schubert in the European imagination. Vol. 2, Fin-de-Siáecle Vienna / Scott Messing.
Schubert’s Beethoven project / by John M. Gingerich.
Shakespeare’s serial history plays / Nicholas Grene.
Voice and speech for musical theatre : a practical guide / Chris Palmer.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Essays on extinction. Vol. 1, Death of the posthuman / Claire Colebrook.
Fictions of certitude : science, faith, and the search for meaning, 1840-1920 / John S. Haller Jr.
Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief / Lawrence Wright.
Jesuit Kaddish : Jesuits, Jews, and Holocaust remembrance / James Bernauer, SJ.
Nature and value / edited by Akeel Bilgrami.
Our moral fate : evolution and the escape from tribalism / Allen Buchanan.
Speaking with the dead in early America / Erik R. Seeman.
Studying the New Testament through inscriptions: an introduction.
Theory of the gimmick : aesthetic judgment and capitalist form / Sianne Ngai.
Treatises on Noah and David / St. Ambrose ; translated by Brian P. Dunkle, SJ, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY The alchemy of us : how humans and matter transformed one another / Ainissa Ramirez.
Becoming wild : how animal cultures raise families, create beauty, and achieve peace / Carl Safina.
The better half : on the genetic superiority of women / Sharon Moalem, MD, PhD.
The bird way : a new look at how birds talk, work, play, parent, and think / Jennifer Ackerman.
The coevolution : the entwined futures of humans and machines / Edward Ashford Lee.
Effective TypeScript : 62 specific ways to improve your TypeScript / Dan Vanderkam.
Extrinsic geometric flows / Ben Andrews, Bennett Chow, Christine Guenther, Mat Langford.
Human flourishing in an age of gene editing / edited by Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston.
The invertebrate tree of life  / Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory D. Edgecombe.
Invitation to partial differential equations / Mikhail Shubin ; edited by Maxim Braverman, Robert McOwen, Peter Topalov.
Lean project delivery and integrated practices in modern construction / Lincoln H. Forbes and Syed M. Ahmed.
Mastering Spark with R : the complete guide to large-scale analysis and modeling / Javier Luraschi, Kevin Kuo, and Edgar Ruiz.
A practical approach to VLSI System on Chip (SoC) design : a comprehensive guide / Veena S. Chakravarthi.
Probabilistic graphical models for computer vision / Qiang Ji.
Science & engineering indicators.
Smithsonian year : annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year ended Sept. 30 …
Too near for dreams : the story of Cleveland Abbe, America’s first weather forecaster / Sean Potter.
Tree story : the history of the world written in rings / Valerie Trouet.
Virusphere : from common colds to Ebola epidemics / Frank Ryan.
Whaling captains of color : America’s first meritocracy / Skip Finley.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Ballad of the bullet : gangs, drill music, and the power of online infamy / Forrest Stuart.
Beyond progress in the prison classroom : options and opportunities / Anna Plemons, Washington State University.
Carbon criminals, climate crimes / Ronald C. Kramer.
Constitutional revolution / Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn and Yaniv Roznai.
Creative Commons for educators and librarians / Creative Commons.
Crisis on the border : an eyewitness account of illegal aliens, violent crime, and cartels / Matt C. Pinsker, United States Federal Special Prosecutor.
Dressed : a philosophy of clothes / Shahidha Bari.
Extreme privacy : what it takes to disappear in America / Michael Bazzell
Female husbands : a trans history / Jen Manion.
Feminist trouble : intersectional politics in postsecular times / âElâeonore Lâepinard.
Free thinker : sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener / Kimberly A. Hamlin.
The golden era : the extraordinary two decades when Australians ruled the tennis world / Rod Laver ; with Larry Writer, foreword by Roger Federer.
Governing the social in neoliberal times / edited by Deborah R. Brock.
How the South won the Civil War : oligarchy, democracy, and the continuing fight for the soul of America / Heather Cox Richardson.
Human diversity : the biology of gender, race, and class / Charles Murray.
In the shadow of justice : postwar liberalism and the remaking of political philosophy / Katrina Forrester.
Island on fire : the revolt that ended slavery in the British Empire / Tom Zoellner.
Katrina : a history, 1915-2015 / Andy Horowitz.
Macquarie atlas of Indigenous Australia / general editors, Bill Arthur & Francis Morphy ; [foreword by Patrick Dodson].
On diversity : the eclipse of the individual in a global era / Russell Jacoby.
Peace on our terms : the global battle for women’s rights after the First World War / Mona L. Siegel.
People’s Revolt : Texas Populists and the roots of American liberalism / Gregg Cantrell.
Policing the womb : invisible women and the criminalization of motherhood / Michele Goodwin, University of California, Irvine.
Stealing home : Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the lives caught in between / Eric Nusbaum.
This is all I got : a new mother’s search for home / Lauren Sandler.
Transcendence : how humans evolved through fire, language, beauty, and time / Gaia Vince.
Walling in and walling out : why are we building new barriers to divide us? / edited by Laura McAtackney and Randall H. McGuire.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Africa state of mind : contemporary photography reimagines a continent / Ekow Eshun.
Art in flight : the sculpture of John Safer / by Walter J. Boyne ; introduction by Douglas Lewis ; photographs by David Finn.
Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976 / Jed Perl.
Children’s picturebooks : the art of visual storytelling / Martin Salisbury with Morag Styles.
An illustrated guide to 50 masterpieces of Chinese paintings / by Huang Kunfeng ; translated by Shelly Bryant.
Marking time : art in the age of mass incarceration / Nicole R. Fleetwood.
Tassels : the fanciful embellishment / Nancy Welch.