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GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 5-24-2021

EDUCATION Angry politics : partisan hatred and political polarization among college students / Stacy G. Ulbig.
Exploring digital technologies for art-based special education : models and methods for the inclusive K-12 classroom / edited by Rick L. Garner.
Half in shadow : the life and legacy of Nellie Y. McKay / Shanna Greene Benjamin.
Open educational resources / compiled and written by Mary Francis.
Ten days that shook the world of education : a close look at the people who facilitated educational change / Donald Parkerson and Jo Ann Parkerson.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Breasts and eggs / Mieko Kawakami ; translated from the Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd.
Greek and Latin letters in late antiquity : the Christianisation of a literary form / Pauline Allen, University of Pretoria ; Bronwen Neil, Macquarie University.
HEALTH SCIENCES Advocacy for public health policy change : an urgent imperative / Harry M. Snyder, Anthony B. Iton.
Medicare and Medicaid : a reference handbook / Greg M. Shaw.
On temperaments ; On non-uniform distemperment ; The soul’s traits depend on bodily temperament / Galen ; edited and translated by Ian Johnston.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES Airpower in the war against ISIS / Benjamin S. Lambeth.
America and Iran : a history, 1720 to the present / John Ghazvinian.
Arc of the journeyman : Afghan migrants in England / Nichola Khan.
The Bears Ears : a human history of America’s most endangered wilderness / David Roberts.
British naval intelligence through the twentieth century / Andrew Boyd, foreword by Andrew Lambert.
Carthage : a biography / Dexter Hoyos.
The cause of freedom : a concise history of African Americans / Jonathan Scott Holloway.
Committed : remembering native kinship in and beyond institutions / Susan Burch.
Convulsed states : earthquakes, prophecy, and the remaking of early America / Jonathan Todd Hancock.
Credit nation : property laws and legal institutions in early America / Claire Priest.
The crooked path to abolition : Abraham Lincoln and the antislavery Constitution / James Oakes.
The daughters of Kobani : a story of rebellion, courage, and justice / Gayle Tzemach Lemmon.
Fear in our hearts : what Islamophobia tells us about America / Caleb Iyer Elfenbein.
Fears of a setting sun : the disillusionment of America’s Founders / Dennis C. Rasmussen.
The first code talkers : Native American communicators in World War I / William C. Meadows.
Four lost cities : a secret history of the urban age / Annalee Newitz.
Himalaya : a human history / Ed Douglas.
Mars adapting : military change during war / Frank G. Hoffman.
The Oxford handbook of contemporary middle-eastern and north African history / edited by Jens Hanssen and Amal N. Ghazal.
The ravine : a family, a photograph, a Holocaust massacre revealed / Wendy Lower.
The Scholar’s Thomas Jefferson : Vital Writings of a Vital American / M. Andrew Holowchak.
Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia / Thomas Healy.
Stranger in the Shogun’s city : a Japanese woman and her world / Amy Stanley.
The stupidity of war : American foreign policy and the case for complacency / John Mueller.
The sum of us : what racism costs everyone and how we can prosper together / Heather McGhee.
Syrian requiem : the civil war and its aftermath / Itamar Rabinovich, Carmit Valensi.
Thebes : the forgotten city of ancient Greece / Paul Cartledge.
Thirteen clocks : how race united the colonies and made the Declaration of Independence / Robert G. Parkinson.
A thousand may fall : life, death, and survival in the Union Army / Brian Matthew Jordan.
Voices from Srebrenica : survivor narratives of the Bosnian Genocide / Ann Petrila and Hasan Hasanoviâc ; foreword by Emir Suljagiâc.
West of slavery : the Southern dream of a transcontinental empire / Kevin Waite.
Why those who shovel are silent : a history of local archaeological knowledge and labor / Allison Mickel.
You don’t belong here : how three women rewrote the story of war / Elizabeth Becker.
LIBRARY SCIENCE Academic library job descriptions / compiled and written by Kathleen Baril & Jennifer Donley
Approaches to liaison librarianship : innovations in organization and engagement / edited by Robin Canuel and Chad Crichton.
Developing library leaders : the impact of the library science internship / Kaye Dotson.
Information : a historical companion / edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton.
Library next : seven action steps for reinvention / Catherine Murray-Rust.
Training research consultants : a guide for academic libraries / edited by Jennifer Torreano and Mary O’Kelly.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES 2034 : a novel of the next world war / Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis.
The African novel of ideas : philosophy and individualism in the age of global writing / Jeanne-Marie Jackson.
Appropriate : a provocation / Paisley Rekdal.
The awkward black man : stories / Walter Mosley.
The committed / Viet Thanh Nguyen.
The delivery / Peter Mendelsund.
The erotics of materialism : Lucretius and early modern poetics / Jessie Hock.
A field guide to the poetry of Theodore Roethke / edited by William Barillas ; foreword by Edward Hirsch.
The Hatak witches / Devon A. Mihesuah.
In search of the color purple : the story of an American masterpiece / Salamishah Tillet.
Keats’s odes : a lover’s discourse / Anahid Nersessian.
Klara and the sun / Kazuo Ishiguro.
The liar’s dictionary : a novel / Eley Williams.
London in his own time : a biographical chronicle of his life, drawn from recollections, interviews, and memoirs by family, friends, and associates / edited by Jeanne Campbell Reesman.
Media convergence and the development strategies of radio and television in China / Peng Duan.
Media ethics : readings on critical thinking and cyber dynamics / edited by Festus Eribo.
Monsters, mushroom clouds, and the Cold War : American science fiction and the roots of postmodernism, 1946-1964 / M. Keith Booker.
Mrs. Dalloway : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Virginia Woolf ; edited by Anne E. Fernald.
Octavia E. Butler : Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories / Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl, editors.
Padoskoks : a Jacob Neptune murder mystery / Joseph Bruchac.
Places we return to : a celebration of twenty years publishing fine literature by Cavankerry Press : 2000-2020 / edited by Joan Cusack Handler & Gabriel Cleveland.
Prayer for the living : stories / Ben Okri.
The pulse in cinema : the aesthetics of horror / Sharon Jane Mee.
Remote control / Nnedi Okorafor.
Reynard the Fox / retold by Anne Louise Avery.
Shakespeare and the city / edited by Emma Smith.
Shakespeare and the cultivation of difference : race and conduct in the early modern world / Patricia Akhimie.
Staging habla de negros : radical performances of the African diaspora in early modern Spain / Nicholas R. Jones.
That old country music : stories / Kevin Barry.
Tom Stoppard : a life / Hermione Lee.
Transversal : poems / Urayo�an Noel.
Trio : a novel / William Boyd.
Ulysses by numbers / Eric Bulson.
Uncle : race, nostalgia, and the politics of loyalty / Cheryl Thompson.
The unquiet Englishman : a life of Graham Greene / Richard Greene.
What the Constitution means to me / Heidi Schreck.
Who understands comics? : questioning the universality of visual language comprehension / Neil Cohn.
Wollstonecraft : philosophy, passion, and politics / Sylvana Tomaselli.
The wrong kind of women : inside our revolution to dismantle the Gods of Hollywood / Naomi McDougall Jones.
MUSIC The Allen Vizzutti trumpet method / Allen Vizzutti.
The Cambridge companion to rhythm / edited by Russell Hartenberger, Ryan McClelland.
The Oxford book of spirituals / edited by Moses Hogan.
The sacred choral music of J.S. Bach : a handbook / edited by John Butt.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION The Black church : this is our story, this is our song / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Daemons are forever : contacts and exchanges in the Eurasian pandemonium / David Gordon White.
Respectful atheism : a perspective on belief in God and each other / Thomas B. Sheridan.
White evangelical racism : the politics of morality in America / Anthea Butler.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY The best writing on mathematics. 2020 / Mircea Pitici, editor.
Breath taking : the power, fragility, and future of our extraordinary lungs / Michael J. Stephen, MD.
The chaotic solar cycle / Arnold Hanslmeier.
Hands-on Booting : learn the boot process of Linux, Windows, and Unix / Yogesh Babar.
Independent component analysis : a tutorial introduction / James V. Stone.
Integrability, quantization, and geometry / Sergey Novikov, Igor Krichever, Oleg Ogievetsky, Senya Shlosman, editors.
Integrability, quantization, and geometry / Sergey Novikov, Igor Krichever, Oleg Ogievetsky, Senya Shlosman, editors.
The internet of materials / edited by Christos Liaskos.
An introduction to comets : post-Rosetta perspectives / Nicolas homas.
Malware analysis and detection engineering : a comprehensive approach to detect and analyze modern malware / Abhijit Mohanta, Anoop Saldanha ; foreword by Pedram Amini.
Manual of laser safety / edited by Ken Barat.
A most interesting problem : what Darwin’s Descent of man got right and wrong about human evolution / edited by Jeremy M. DeSilva ; with an introduction by Janet Browne.
The mutant project : inside the global race to genetically modify humans / Eben Kirksey.
The neutrino story : one tiny particle’s grand role in the cosmos / Rabindra N. Mohapatra.
Organic food and farming : a reference handbook / Shauna M. McIntyre.
The physics of radiation dosimetry / Jerome A. Meli.
Scorched Earth : environmental warfare as a crime against humanity and nature / Emmanuel Kreike.
What is a bird? : an exploration of anatomy, physiology, behavior, and ecology / consultant editor Tony D. Williams ; with a foreword by Dr Andy Clements.
What is life? : five great ideas in biology / from Nobel Prize winner, Paul Nurse.
SOCIAL SCIENCES The August trials : the Holocaust and postwar justice in Poland / Andrew Kornbluth.
Black women’s yoga history : memoirs of inner peace / Stephanie Y. Evans ; foreword by Jana Long.
Blood, powder, and residue : how crime labs translate evidence into proof / Beth A. Bechky.
Caf�e Europa revisited : how to survive post-communism / Slavenka Drakuli�c.
The Constitution and American racism : setting a course for lasting injustice / David P. Madden.
The dating divide : race and desire in the era of online romance / Celeste Vaughan Curington, Jennifer H. Lundquist, and Ken-Hou Lin.
Difference without domination : pursuing justice in diverse democracies / edited by Danielle Allen and Rohini Somanathan.
Divine, demonic, and disordered : women without men in Song Dynasty China / Hsiao-wen Cheng.
Drug use for grown-ups : chasing liberty in the land of fear / Dr. Carl L. Hart.
Empire of convicts : Indian penal labor in colonial Southeast Asia / Anand A Yang.
The end of adolescence : the lost art of delaying adulthood / Nancy E. Hill, Alexis Redding.
Epidemic empire : colonialism, contagion, and terror, 1817-2020 / Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb.
Finding our niche : toward a restorative human ecology / Philip A. Loring.
First amendment freedoms : a reference handbook / Michael C. LeMay.
The good girls : an ordinary killing / Sonia Faleiro.
The hidden spring : a journey to the source of consciousness / Mark Solms.
History of woman suffrage / Edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Identity capitalists : the powerful insiders who exploit diversity to maintain inequality / Nancy Leong.
Immigrant California : understanding the past, present, and future of U.S. policy / edited by David Scott FitzGerald and John D. Skrentny.
Mistrust : why losing faith in institutions provides the tools to transform them / Ethan Zuckerman.
The new climate activism : NGO authority and participation in climate change governance / Jen Iris Allan.
The new climate war : the fight to take back our planet / Michael E. Mann.
The person you mean to be : how good people fight bias / Dolly Chugh ; foreword by Laszlo Bock.
Preserving neighborhoods : how urban policy and community strategy shape Baltimore and Brooklyn / Aaron Passell.
Signs of life : a doctor’s journey to the ends of the Earth / Stephen Fabes.
The Supreme Court’s role in mass incarceration / William T. Pizzi.
This is not normal : the politics of everyday expectations / Cass R. Sunstein.
Vanguard : how Black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all / Martha S. Jones.
We are family : the modern transformation of parents and children / Susan Golombok.
What’s luck got to do with it? : how smarter government can rescue the American dream / Edward D. Kleinbard.
White freedom : the racial history of an idea / Tyler Stovall.
You’ll never believe what happened to Lacey : crazy stories about racism / Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Engaging communities through civic engagement in art museum education / Bryna Bobick, Carissa DiCindio, [editors].
The simple truth : the monochrome in modern art / Simon Morley.
Visual arts with young children : practices, pedagogies, and learning / edited by Hayon Park and Christopher M. Schulte.
Why Monet matters : meanings among the lily pads / James H. Rubin.