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GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 2-22-2021

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Diners, dudes, and diets : how gender and power collide in food media and culture / Emily J.H. Contois.
Gender and leadership / Gary N. Powell.
Waste management : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.
EDUCATION Digital divisions : how schools create inequality in the tech era / Matthew H. Rafalow.
On teacher neutrality : praxis, politics, and performativity / edited by Daniel P. Richards.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES The art of teaching Russian / Evgeny Dengub, Irina Dubinina and Jason Merrill, editors.
Literate community in early imperial China : the northwestern frontier in Han times / Charles Sanft.
Olav Audunss²n. I, Vows / Sigrid Undset ; translated by Tiina Nunnally.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES After the coup : the National Council for Peace and Order era and the future of Thailand / edited by Michael J. Montesano, Terence Chong, Mark Heng.
Airpower over Gallipoli, 1915-1916 / Sterling Michael Pavelec.
America in the world : a definitive history of U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy / Robert B. Zoellick.
Battling over the Balkans : historiographical questions and controversies / edited by John R. Lampe and Constantin Iordachi.
Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land / Toni Jensen.
Changed forever : American Indian boarding-school literature / Arnold Krupat.
Children of ash and elm : a history of the Vikings / Neil Price.
China as a twenty-first-century naval power : theory, practice, and implications / Michael A. McDevitt.
Coalition management and escalation control in a multinuclear world / Jacquelyn K. Davis and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr ; foreword by Adm. James G. Stavridis, USN (Ret.).
Collateral damage : Britain, America, and Europe in the age of Trump / Kim Darroch.
Dewey defeats Truman : the 1948 election and the battle for America’s soul / A. J. Baime.
Donald Trump v. the United States : inside the struggle to stop a President / Michael S. Schmidt.
Forging the trident : Theodore Roosevelt and the United States Navy / edited by John B. Hattendorf and William P. Leeman.
Ghost flames : life and death in a hidden war, Korea 1950-1953 / Charles J. Hanley.
Good enough for government work : the public reputation crisis in America (and what we can do to fix it) / Amy E. Lerman.
Haldane : the forgotten statesman who shaped Britain and Canada / John Campbell ; in collaboration with Richard McLauchlan.
Henry Kissinger and American power : a political biography / Thomas A. Schwartz.
How the streets were made : housing segregation and Black life in America / Yelena Bailey.
Human shields : a history of people in the line of fire / Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini.
The iconoclast : Shinzåo Abe and the new Japan / Tobias S. Harris.
Isolationism : a history of America’s efforts to shield itself from the world / Charles A. Kupchan.
King of the world : the life of Louis XIV / Philip Mansel.
Language in the Trump era : scandals and emergencies / edited by Janet McIntosh, Norma Mendoza-Denton.
Lethal provocation : the Constantine murders and the politics of French Algeria / Joshua Cole.
Monarchy, print culture, and reverence in early modern England : picturing royal subjects / Stephanie E. Koscak.
Nigeria and the nation-state : rethinking diplomacy with the postcolonial world / John Campbell.
The poetics of processing : memory formation, identity, and the handling of the dead / edited by Anna J. Osterholtz.
The scholar and the struggle : Lawrence Reddick’s crusade for black history and black power / David A. Varel.
Selling Schweinfurt : targeting, assessment, and marketing in the air campaign against German industry / Brian D. Vlaun.
Shipwrecked : coastal disasters and the making of the American beach / Jamin Wells.
The Spartans / Andrew J. Bayliss.
Talking until nightfall : remembering Jewish Salonica, 1941-44 / Isaac Matarasso ; translated and introduced by Pauline Matarasso ; with contributions by Robert Matarasso and Franðcois Matarasso.
Tribute to a generation : Haydn Williams and the building of the World War II Memorial / David F. Winkler ; foreword by Ambassador F. Haydn Williams.
War : how conflict shaped us / Margaret MacMillan.
A world beneath the sands : the golden age of Egyptology / Toby Wilkinson.
The zealot and the emancipator : John Brown, Abraham Lincoln and the struggle for American freedom / H. W. Brands.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES The air year / Caroline Bird.
All about the story : news, power, politics, and the Washington Post / Leonard Downie, Jr.
The best American poetry.
Bradbury beyond Apollo / Jonathan R Eller.
The Cambridge companion to Nineteen eighty-four / edited by Nathan Waddell.
Exiles of Eden / Ladan Osman.
The first quarto of the Merry wives of Windsor / edited by David Lindley.
Ideal minds : raising consciousness in the antisocial seventies / Michael Trask.
Intimations : six essays / Zadie Smith.
King Solomon’s mines / H. Rider Haggard ; illustrations by Walter Paget ; afterword by Robert E. Mosberger.
Let’s talk : how English conversation works / David Crystal.
Lyrical strains : liberalism and women’s poetry in nineteenth-century America / Elissa Zellinger.
The mystery of Charles Dickens / A.N. Wilson.
New blood in contemporary cinema : women directors and the poetics of horror / Patricia Pisters.
Shuggie Bain / Douglas Stuart.
The silence : a novel / Don DeLillo.
A tall history of sugar / by Curdella Forbes.
This is one way to dance : essays / Sejal Shah.
What are you going through / Sigrid Nunez.
Writing Kit Carson : fallen heroes in a changing West / Susan Lee Johnson.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION African origins of monotheism : challenging the Eurocentric interpretation of God concepts on the continent and in diaspora / Gwinyai H. Muzorewa ; [foreword by Ralph C. Watkins].
The cross of Christ : Islamic perspectives / W. Richard Oakes Jr.
The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X / Les Payne and Tamara Payne.
Morality : restoring the common good in divided times / Jonathan Sacks.
Religious conflict in Brazil : Protestants, Catholics, and the rise of religious pluralism in the early twentieth century / Erika Helgen.
The spiritual danger of Donald Trump : 30 evangelical Christians on justice, truth, and moral integrity / edited by Ronald J. Sider.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Bedeviled : a shadow history of demons in science / Jimena Canales.
Combinatorics : the art of counting / Bruce E. Sagan.
The contamination of the earth : a history of pollutions in the industrial age / Franðcois Jarrige and Thomas Le Roux ; translated by Janice Egan and Michael Egan.
The genesis quest : the geniuses and eccentrics on a journey to uncover the origin of life on Earth / Michael Marshall.
A life on our planet : my witness statement and a vision for the future / David Attenborough ; with Jonnie Hughes ; illustrations and graphics by Lizzie Harper and Meghan Spetch.
A natural history of color : the science behind what we see and how we see it / Rob DeSalle and Hans Bachor.
The transmutations of chymistry : Wilhelm Homberg and the Acadâemie royale des sciences / Lawrence M. Principe.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Beer and racism : how beer became White, why it matters, and the movements to change it / Nathaniel G. Champman and David L. Brunsma ; foreword by Anthony Kwame Harrison.
Corruption in the Americas / edited by Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna S. Kassab.
Feminist connections : rhetoric and activism across time, space, and place / edited by Katherine Fredlund, Kerri Hauman, and Jessica Ouellette.
Infamous bodies : early Black women’s celebrity and the afterlives of rights / Samantha Pinto.
Jumping the broom : the surprising multicultural origins of a black wedding ritual / Tyler D. Parry.
Losing to win : why Congressional majorities play politics instead of make laws / Jeremy Gelman.
Mapping an Atlantic world, circa 1500 / Alida C. Metcalf.
Neanderthal language : demystifying the linguistic powers of our extinct cousins / Rudolf Botha.
Neighbours and strangers : local societies in early medieval Europe / Bernhard Zeller [and nine others].
Policing and public trust : exposing the inner uniform / Eccy de Jonge.
Power on the inside : a global history of prison gangs / Mitchel P. Roth.
A queer New York : geographies of lesbians, dykes, and queers / Jen Jack Gieseking.
Recasting the vote : how women of color transformed the suffrage movement / Cathleen D. Cahill.
Recovering histories : life and labor after heroin in reform-era China / Nicholas Bartlett.
Reframing Syrian refugee insecurity through a feminist lens : the case of Lebanon / Jessy Abouarab.
Social work, criminal justice, and the death penalty / edited by Lauren A. Ricciardelli, PhD, LMSW ; with foreword by Ed Risler, Emeritus Professor.
Suffragette fascists : Emmeline Pankhurst and her right-wing followers / Simon Webb.
We have been harmonized : life in China’s surveillance state / Kai Strittmatter.
Work mate marry love : how machines shape our human destiny / Debora L. Spar.
Workers against the city : the fight for free speech in Hague v. CIO / Donald W. Rogers.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Dead or alive! : tracing the animation of matter in art and visual culture / edited by Gunhild Borggreen, Maria Fabricius Hansen, Rosanna Tindbµk.
A history of contemporary Chinese art   : 1949 to present / Yan Zhou.
What can a body do? : how we meet the built world / Sara Hendren.