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GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 10-5-2020

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS New frontiers of the automobile industry : exploring geographies, technology, and institutional challenges / Alex Covarrubias V., Sigfrido M. Ramâirez Perez, editors.
The politics of humiliation : a modern history / Ute Frevert ; translated by Adam Bresnahan.
EDUCATION Cambodia and Kent State : in the aftermath of Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War / James A. Tyner and Mindy Farmer.
The merit myth : how our colleges favor the rich and divide America / Anthony P. Carnevale, Peter Schmidt, Jeff Strohl.
The scandal of standardized tests : why we need to drop the SAT and ACT / edited by Joseph A. Soares.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES The disoriented / Amin Maalouf ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
The sixth sense of the avant-garde : dance, kinaesthesia and the arts in revolutionary Russia / Irina Sirotkina and Roger Smith.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES The betrayal of the Duchess : the scandal that unmade the Bourbon monarchy and made France modern / Maurice Samuels.
The black cabinet : the untold story of African Americans and politics during the age of Roosevelt / Jill Watts.
The broken heart of America : St. Louis and the violent history of the United States / Walter Johnson.
The Chinese Atlantic : seascapes and the theatricality of globalization / Sean Metzger.
The education of John Adams / R.B. Bernstein.
Exercise of power : American failures, successes, and a new path forward in the post-Cold War world / Robert M. Gates.
The golden thirteen : how Black men won the right to wear Navy gold / Dan C. Goldberg.
Heiau, °åaina, lani : the Hawaiian temple system in ancient Kahikinui and Kaupåo, Maui / Patrick Vinton Kirch and Clive Ruggles ; with the collaboration of Andrew Smith.
The inevitability of tragedy : Henry Kissinger and his world / Barry Gewen.
James Monroe : a life / Tim McGrath.
The last president of Europe : Emmanuel Macron’s race to revive France and save the world / William Drozdiak.
Laughter after : humor and the Holocaust / edited by David Slucki, Gabriel N. Finder, and Avinoam Patt.
The Lincoln conspiracy : the secret plot to kill America’s 16th president–and why it failed / Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch.
The new Zionists : young American Jews, Jewish national identity, and Israel / David L. Graizbord.
No man’s land : the trailblazing women who ran Britain’s most extraordinary military hospital during World War I / Wendy Moore.
Not even past : how the United States ends wars / edited by David Fitzgerald, David Ryan, and John M. Thompson.
Today sardines are not for sale : a street protest in occupied Paris / Paula Schwartz.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES Broadway and the blacklist / K. Kevyne Baar.
Conversations with John Banville / edited by Earl G. Ingersoll and John Cusatis.
Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / Nicholas A. Basbanes.
Dictionary poetics : toward a radical lexicography / Craig Dworkin.
The end of October / Lawrence Wright.
He’s got rhythm : the life and career of Gene Kelly / Cynthia Brideson & Sara Brideson.
How much of these hills is gold / C Pam Zhang.
Lessons from Walden : Thoreau and the crisis of American democracy / Bob Pepperman Taylor.
Little family / Ishmael Beah.
The moment of tenderness / Madeleine L’Engle ; with an introduction by Charlotte Jones Voiklis.
New playwriting at Shakespeare’s globe / Vera Cantoni.
Radical ambivalence : race in Flannery O’Connor / Angela Alaimo O’Donnell.
Ray Bolger : more than a scarecrow / Holly Van Leuven.
Rise up! : Broadway and American society from Angels in America to Hamilton / Chris Jones.
We want our bodies back : poems / Jessica Care Moore.
What is the grass : Walt Whitman in my life / Mark Doty.
The worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien : the places that inspired Middle-Earth / John Garth.
Year of the dog : poems / Deborah Paredez.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION American aesthetics : theory and practice / edited by Walter B. Gulick and Gary Slater.
Lost in thought : the hidden pleasures of an intellectual life / Zena Hitz.
Satanic feminism : Lucifer as the liberator of woman in nineteenth-century culture / Per Faxneld.
Think for yourself : restoring common sense in an age of experts and artificial intelligence / Vikram Mansharamani.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY The age of algorithms / Serge Abiteboul, Aachen University of Technology, Gilles Dowek, Ecole Normale Supâerieure, Saclay.
Celestial mirror : the astronomical observatories of Jai Singh II / Barry Perlus.
Cryptography : the key to digital security, how it works, and why it matters / Keith Martin.
Einstein on Einstein : autobiographical notes and scientific reflections / Hanoch Gutfreund & Jèurgen Renn.
Flights of passage : an illustrated natural history of bird migration / Mike Unwin and David Tipling.
Galileo and the science deniers / Mario Livio.
The gardener’s botanical: an encyclopedia of latin plant names / Ross Bayton.
Introductory physics for biological scientists / Christof M. Aegerter, University of Zurich.
Machine learning with R : expert techniques for predictive modeling / Brett Lantz.
On the prowl : in search of big cat origins / Mark Hallett and John M. Harris.
Organized collapse : an introduction to discrete Morse theory / Dmitry N. Kozlov.
The secret formula : how a mathematical duel inflamed Renaissance Italy and uncovered the cubic equation / Fabio Toscano ; translated by Arturo Sangalli.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Anger : the conflicted history of an emotion / Barbara H. Rosenwein.
Ballet class : an American history / Melissa R. Klapper.
Billion dollar burger : inside big tech’s race for the future of food / Chase Purdy.
Dance me a song : Astaire, Balanchine, Kelly, and the American film musical / Beth Gennâe.
Dance, modernism, and modernity / Ramsay Burt and Michael Huxley.
Dancing man : a Broadway choreographer’s journey / Bob Avian with Tom Santopietro.
Decline and rise of democracy : a global history from antiquity to today / David Stasavage.
The economic case for LGBT equality : why fair and equal treatment benefits us all / M.V. Lee Badgett.
The equivalents : a story of art, female friendship, and liberation in the 1960s / Maggie Doherty.
Evaluating police uses of force / Seth W. Stoughton, Jeffrey J. Noble, Geoffrey P. Alpert.
Five days : the fiery reckoning of an American city / Wes Moore with Erica L. Green.
The hardest job in the world : the American presidency / John Dickerson.
Injury impoverished : workplace accidents, capitalism, and law in the progressive era / Nate Holdren, Drake University, Iowa.
Introduction to contemporary geography / James M. Rubenstein, William H. Renwick, Carl T. Dahlman.
Isadora Duncan in the 21st century : capturing the art and spirit of the dancer’s legacy / Andrea Mantell Seidel.
Marius Petipa : the emperor’s ballet master / Nadine Meisner.
Perspectives on hate : how it originates, develops, manifests, and spreads / edited by Robert J. Sternberg.
Pleasure activism : the politics of feeling good / written and gathered by adrienne maree brown.
Politics for everybody : reading Hannah Arendt in uncertain times / Ned O’Gorman.
Reflect & relate : an introduction to interpersonal communication / Steven McCornack.
Rivers of power : how a natural force raised kingdoms, destroyed civilizations, and shapes our world / Laurence C Smith.
The sentient archive : bodies, performance, and memory / edited by Bill Bissell and Linda Caruso Haviland.
Singing the trail : the story of mapping Aotearoa New Zealand / John McCrystal.
Surviving Becky(s) : pedagogies for deconstructing whiteness and gender / edited by Cheryl E. Matias.
Ted Shawn : his life, writings, and dances / Paul A. Scolieri.
What we don’t talk about when we talk about #MeToo : essays on sex, authority & the mess of life / JoAnn Wypijewski.
Wilde times : Patricia Wilde, George Balanchine, and the rise of New York City Ballet / Joel Lobenthal.
Women rapping revolution : hip hop and community building in Detroit / Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay ; forewords by Piper Carter and Mahogany Jones.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Becoming Philadelphia : how an old American city made itself new again / Inga Saffron.
Bob Timberlake’s letter to home / Bob Timberlake and T. Edward NIckens.
Home stories : 100 years, 20 visionary interiors / editors, Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand.
Location and postproduction sound for low budget filmmakers / Michael Tierno.
The Louvre : the many lives of the world’s most famous museum / James Gardner.
Modern art of Southeast Asia : introductions from A to Z / Roger Nelson.
Rembrandt and the inspiration of India / edited by Stephanie Schrader, with contributions by Catherine Glynn, Yael Rice, and William W. Robinson.
Scandinavian design and the United States