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GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 7-19-2021

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS The open organization : igniting passion and performance / Jim Whitehurst, CEO, Red Hat, with a foreword by Gary Hamel.
The swamp peddlers : how lot sellers, land scammers, and retirees built modern Florida and transformed the American dream / Jason Vuic.
EDUCATION Children under fire : an American crisis / John Woodrow Cox.
Fugitive pedagogy : Carter G. Woodson and the art of Black teaching / Jarvis R. Givens.
The head of year’s handbook : driving student well-being and engagement / Michael Power.
Knowledge worlds : media, materiality, and the making of the modern university / Reinhold Martin.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES Petrarch : a humanist among princes : an anthology of Petrarch’s letters and of selections from his other works / edited and in part translated by David Thompson.
The three crowns of Florence : humanist assessments of Dante, Petrarca and Boccaccio / edited and translated by David Thompson and Alan F. Nagel.
HEALTH SCIENCES HESI admission assessment exam review / editors, Tina Cuellar, Samantha Dalton ; contributing authors, Mark Basi [and 5 others].
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES The 1921 Tulsa race massacre : a photographic history / Karlos K. Hill ; foreword by Kevin Matthews.
The age of acrimony : how Americans fought to fix their democracy, 1865-1915 / Jon Grinspan.
The age of chivalry; manners and morals, 1000-1450 [by] Charles T. Wood.
The agitators : three friends who fought for abolition and women’s rights / Dorothy Wickenden.
Beyond the boundaries of childhood : African American children in the antebellum North / Crystal Lynn Webster.
Blessed are the peacemakers : small histories during World War II, letter writing, and family history methodology / Suzanne Kesler Rumsey.
Bridge, church, and palace in old London / John E.N. Hearsey.
China coup : the great leap to freedom / Roger Garside.
Domesday re-bound.
Du Bois : a critical introduction / Reiland Rabaka.
Except for Palestine : the limits of progressive politics / Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick.
The hardest place : the American military adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley / Wesley Morgan.
The later Middle Ages in England, 1216-1485 / by B. Wilkinson.
Latin thought during the middle ages, by Cesare Foligno.
The lines that make us : stories from Nathan’s bus / Nathan Vass ; Introduction by Paul Constant.
Making the world over : confronting racism, misogyny, and xenophobia in U.S. history / R. Marie Griffith.
Men of Dunwich : the story of a vanished town / Rowland Parker.
The moundbuilders : ancient societies of eastern North America / George R. Milner.
Nuclear folly : a history of the Cuban Missile Crisis / Serhii Plokhy.
Portraits from the Quattrocento. Translated by Victor A. and Elizabeth Velen.
Pursuit of power : Venetian ambassadors’ reports on Spain, Turkey, and France in the age of Philip II, 1560-1600 / edited and translated by James C. Davis.
Refuge must be given : Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish plight, and the founding of Israel / John F. Sears.
Richard the Third. Kendall, Paul Murray.
Russia’s hero cities : from postwar ruins to the Soviet heroarchy / Ivo Mijnssen.
The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries / by James J. Walsh.
Toxic : a history of nerve agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin’s Russia / Dan Kaszeta.
Twelfth-century Europe and the foundations of modern society; proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Division of Humanities of the University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. November 12-14
We are the land : a history of Native California / Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer, Jr.
Whale snow : Iänupiat, climate change, and multispecies resilience in arctic Alaska / Chie Sakakibara.
LIBRARY SCIENCE 32 virtual, augmented, & mixed reality programs for libraries / edited by Ellyssa Kroski.
Advancing a culture of creativity in libraries : programming and engagement / Megan Lotts.
Cataloging correctly for kids : an introduction to the tools and practices / edited by Michele Zwierski, Joanna F. Fountain, and Marilyn McCroskey.
Ideas and opinions : based on Mein Weltbild / edited by Carl Seelig, and other sources ; new translations and revisions by Sonja Bargmann.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES Antiquities / Cynthia Ozick.
Foregone : a novel / Russell Banks.
In the lateness of the world / Carolyn Forchâe.
Infinite country : a novel / Patricia Engel.
The Jewish decadence : Jews and the aesthetics of modernity / Jonathan Freedman.
Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century / edited by Jenny Minton Quigley.
Magnum Opus : The Cycle Plays of Eugene O’Neill / Zander Brietzke.
Making the miscellany : poetry, print, and the history of the book in early modern England / Megan Heffernan.
The man who lived underground : a novel / Richard Wright ; afterword by Malcolm Wright.
Perigee / Diane Kerr.
Poetics of breathing : modern literature’s syncope / Stephanie Heine.
Studies on Chaucer and his audience.
A visual guide to Shakespeare’s life and times / by Louis B. Wright and Elaine W. Fowler ; with the editorial assistance of Educational Direction, inc.
Who will pay reparations on my soul? : essays / Jesse McCarthy.
Why didn’t you just do what you were told? : essays / Jenny Diski ; [introduction by Mary-Kay Wilmers].
Wonderworks : the 25 most powerful inventions in the history of literature / Angus Fletcher.
You made me love you : selected stories, 1981-2018 / John Edgar Wideman.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Christianity through the thirteenth century / edited by Marshall W. Baldwin.
Hugh the chantor : the history of the church of York 1066-1127 / Hugh the chantor ; translated from the Latin and with introduction by Charles Johnson.
La lupa roja : ensayos sobre hermenâeutica y marxismo / Blanca Fernâandez Garcâia, Antonio Gâomez L-Quiänones (editores)
The making of biblical womanhood : how the subjugation of women became gospel truth / Beth Allison Barr.
The spirit of French capitalism : economic theology in the age of Enlightenment / Charly Coleman.
The spiritual Franciscans, by David Saville Muzzey, PH. D.
This suffering is my joy : the underground church in eighteenth-century China / D. E. Mungello.
Why we are restless : on the modern quest for contentment / Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Animals’ best friends : putting compassion to work for animals in captivity and in the wild / Barbara J. King.
Complete CompTIA A+ guide to PCs / Cheryl A. Schmidt, Florida State College at Jacksonville.
CompTIA security+ SY0-401 : authorized cert guide / David L. Prowse.
Einstein’s fridge : how the difference between hot and cold explains the universe / Paul Sen.
GMO food : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.
Minerva’s French sisters : women of science in enlightenment France / Nina Rattner Gelbart.
On the fringe : where science meets pseudoscience / Michael D. Gordin.
On time and water / Andri Snµr Magnason ; translated by Lytton Smith.
Principles of statistics for engineers and scientists / William Navidi.
Safe enough? : a history of nuclear power and accident risk / Thomas R. Wellock.
The self-assembling brain : how neural networks grow smarter / Peter Robin Hiesinger.
The spike : an epic journey through the brain in 2.1 seconds / Mark Humphries.
Vaccine hesitancy : public trust, expertise, and the war on science / Maya J. Goldenberg.
Your computer is on fire / edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks, and Kavita Philip.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Against sex : identities of sexual restraint in early America / Kara M. French.
Apostles of change : Latino radical politics, church occupations, and the fight to save the barrio / Felipe Hinojosa.
Breaking the social media prism : how to make our platforms less polarizing / Chris Bail.
Civil resistance : what everyone needs to know / Erica Chenoweth.
Democracy by petition : popular politics in transformation, 1790-1870 / Daniel Carpenter.
The disabled contract : severe intellectual disability, justice and morality / Jonas-Sâebastien Beaudry, McGill University.
Dividing paradise : rural inequality and the diminishing American dream / Jennifer Sherman.
Driving while brown : sheriff Joe Arpaio versus the Latino resistance / Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block.
The Eurosceptic challenge : national implementation and interpretation of EU law / edited by Clara Rauchegger and Anna Wallerman.
Federal historic preservation laws : the official compilation of U.S. cultural heritage statutes.
A feminist theory of refusal / Bonnie Honig.
The gun, the ship, and the pen : warfare, constitutions, and the making of the modern world / Linda Colley.
Homegrown hate : why White nationalists and militant Islamists are waging war against the United States / Sara Kamali.
The inglorious years : the collapse of the industrial order and the rise of digital society / Daniel Cohen ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
Knowing about genocide : Armenian suffering and epistemic struggles / Joachim J. Savelsberg.
The male chauvinist pig : a history / Julie Willett.
Pipe dreams : the urgent global quest to transform the toilet / Chelsea Wald.
Policing Black bodies : how Black lives are surveilled and how to work for change / Angela J. Hattery and Earl Smith.
Prisons make us safer : and 20 other myths about mass incarceration / Victoria Law.
Religious tourism in northern Thailand : encounters with Buddhist monks / Brooke Schedneck.
Select documents of English constitutional history, 1307-1485. Ed. by S.B. Chrimes and A.L. Brown.
Subtract : the untapped science of less / Leidy Klotz.
What we owe each other : a new social contract for a better society / Minouche Shafik.
You are your best thing : vulnerability, shame resilience, and the Black experience — an anthology  / edited by Tarana Burke and Brenâe Brown.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Bound by creativity : how contemporary art is created and judged / Hannah Wohl.
Francis Bacon : revelations / Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan.
Future cities : a visual guide / Nick Dunn and Paul Cureton.
How photography became contemporary art : inside an artistic revolution from pop to the digital age / Andy Grundberg.
Queering the subversive stitch : men and the culture of needlework / Joseph McBrinn.
Ralph Steadman : a life in ink / all original artwork and photography by Ralph Steadman ; edited by Steve Crist and Sadie Steadman Williams.
Universal principles of design : 125 ways to enhance usability, influence perception, increase appeal, make better design decisions, and teach through design / William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler ; [foreword by Kimberly Elam].