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GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 8-16-2021

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Handbook of research on employee voice / edited by Adrian Wilkinson
Oil palm : a global history / Jonathan E. Robins.
Revolutionary routines : the habits of social transformation / Carolyn Pedwell.
EDUCATION Improving adolescent literacy : content area strategies at work / Douglas Fisher, San Diego State University, Nancy Frey, San Diego State University.
Planning programs for adult learners : a practical guide / Sandra Ratcliff Daffron, Rosemary S. Caffarella.
School, not jail : how educators can disrupt school pushout and mass incarceration / edited by Peter Williamson, Deborah Appleman ; foreword by H. Samy Alim.
The young crusaders : the untold story of the children and teenagers who galvanized the civil rights movement / V. P. Franklin.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES My heart became a bomb : poems / by Ramy Al-Asheq ; translated from the Arabic by Dina Aboul Hosn, Nida Awine and Levi Thompson ; edited by Levi Thompson.
The mysterious correspondent : new stories / Marcel Proust ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.
HEALTH SCIENCES Pregnancy and birth : a reference handbook / Keisha L. Goode and Barbara Katz Rothman.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIES 1945 : the year that made modern Canada / Ken Cuthbertson.
Americanon : an unexpected U.S. history in thirteen bestselling books / Jess McHugh.
The archaeology of island colonization : global approaches to initial human settlement / edited by Matthew F. Napolitano, Jessica H. Stone, and Robert J. DiNapoli ; foreword by Victor D. Thompson.
Army Nurse Corps voices from the Vietnam War : eight women, one war / Janet D. Tanner.
Bioarchaeology and dietary reconstruction across late antiquity and the Middle Ages in Tuscany, Central Italy / Giulia Riccomi.
Black heroes of the wild west / a toon graphic by James Otis Smith, introduction by Kadir Nelson ; [editorial director and books designer, Franðcoise Mouly ; colors by Frank Reynoso].
Carolingian civilization : a reader / edited by Paul Edward Dutton.
The city on the Thames : the creation of a world capital : a history of London / Simon Jenkins.
The Company : the rise and fall of the Hudson’s Bay empire / Stephen R. Bown.
The Eagles of Heart Mountain : a true story of football, incarceration, and resistance in World War II America / Bradford Pearson.
Environmental humanities : a rethinking of landscape archaeology? : interdisciplinary academic research related to different perspectives of landscapes / editors Sjoerd Kluiving, Kerstin Liden & Christina Fredengren.
From a whisper to a rallying cry : the killing of Vincent Chin and the trial that galvanized the Asian American movement / Paula Yoo.
Genesis of the Grand Fleet : the Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 / Christopher M. Buckey.
Home waters : a chronicle of family and a river / John N. Maclean ; wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates.
Justice rising : Robert Kennedy’s America in black and white / Patricia Sullivan.
The last embassy : the Dutch mission of 1795 and the forgotten history of western encounters with China / Tonio Andrade.
The ledger and the chain : how domestic slave traders shaped America / Joshua D. Rothman.
Liburnians and Illyrian lembs : iron age ships of the eastern Adriatic / Luka Borésiâc, Danijel Dézino and Irena Radiâc Rossi.
Lincoln and citizenship / Mark E. Steiner.
Midnight’s borders : a people’s history of modern India / Suchitra Vijayan.
Millenarian dreams and racial nightmares : the American Civil War as an apocalyptic conflict / John H. Matsui.
Most wanted : the revolutionary partnership of John Hancock & Samuel Adams / by Sarah Jane Marsh ; illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham.
The nine : the true story of a band of women who survived the worst of Nazi Germany / Gwen Strauss.
Nonviolence before King : the politics of being and the Black freedom struggle / Anthony C. Siracusa.
The resistance network : the Armenian genocide and humanitarianism in Ottoman Syria, 1915-1918 / Khatchig Mouradian.
Revisiting the Falklands-Malvinas question : transnational and interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Guillermo Mira and Fernando Pedrosa.
Rich thanks to racism : how the ultra-wealthy profit from racial injustice / Jim Freeman.
Rock me on the water : 1974 : the year Los Angeles transformed movies, music, television, and politics / Ronald Brownstein.
Scientific history : experiments in history and politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the end of the Cold War / Elena Aronova.
Space-time colonialism : Alaska’s indigenous and Asian entanglements / Juliana Hu Pegues.
Stalin’s war : a new history of World War II / Sean McMeekin.
Strategy shelved : the collapse of Cold War naval strategic planning / Steven T. Wills.
The United States Army and the making of America : from confederation to empire, 1775-1903 / Robert Wooster.
The United States Congress and national defense, 1915-1939 / Henry C. Ferrell, Jr. ; with a foreword by Roger Biles.
William Still : The Underground Railroad and the angel at Philadelphia / William C. Kashatus.
Winning independence : the decisive years of the Revolutionary War, 1778-1781 / John Ferling.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIES Beowulf & beyond : classic Anglo-Saxon poems, stories, sayings, spells, and riddles / Dan Veach.
Four Shakespearean period pieces / Margreta de Grazia.
Funeral diva / Pamela Sneed.
The hard crowd : essays 2000-2020 / Rachel Kushner.
How the Just So Stories were made : the brilliance and tragedy behind Kipling’s celebrated tales for little children / John Batchelor.
Jean Stafford : complete stories & other writings / Kathryn Davis, editor.
John Derricke’s The image of Irelande, with a discoverie of Woodkarne : essays on text and context / edited by Thomas Herron, Denna J. Iammarino and Maryclaire Moroney.
Kamloopa : an Indigenous matriarch story / play by Kim Senklip Harvey ; with the Fire Company (Cris Derksen
The life she wished to live : a biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The yearling / Ann McCutchan.
Machines of the mind : personification in medieval literature / Katharine Breen.
The modern myths : adventures in the machinery of the popular imagination / Philip Ball.
No one is talking about this / Patricia Lockwood.
Norma Jeane Baker of Troy : a version of Euripides’s Helen / Anne Carson.
Saving Savannah / Tonya Bolden.
Silverbelly / S.J. Dahlstrom ; illustrations by Cliff Wilke.
A sitting in St. James / Rita Williams-Garcia.
The smash-up : a novel / Ali Benjamin.
Sorrowland / Rivers Solomon.
Speak up / written by Miranda Paul ; illustrated by Ebony Glenn.
Suppressed : confessions of a former New York Times Washington correspondent / Robert M. Smith.
This is a seahorse / by: Cassandra Federman.
This red line goes straight to your heart : a memoir in halves / Madhur Anand.
A treatise on stars / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
Under the wave at Waimea / Paul Theroux.
Unfixable forms : disability, performance, and the early modern English theater / Katherine Schaap Williams.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGION Beyond : how humankind thinks about heaven / Catherine Wolff.
Jesus and John Wayne : how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation / Kristin Kobes Du Mez.
Return of the God hypothesis : three scientific discoveries that reveal the mind behind the universe / Stephen C. Meyer.
The uncomfortable pew : Christianity and the new left in Toronto / Bruce Douville.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY American hotel : the Waldorf-Astoria and the making of a century / David Freeland.
Atlas of the central nervous system in man / [by] Richard A. Miller [and] Ethel Burack.
Chance, logic and intuition : an introduction to the counter-intuitive logic of chance / Steven Tijms.
The code breaker : Jennifer Doudna, gene editing, and the future of the human race / Walter Isaacson.
Franchise : the golden arches in Black America / Marcia Chatelain.
Futureproof : 9 rules for humans in the age of automation / Kevin Roose.
A history of data visualization and graphic communication / Michael Friendly, Howard Wainer.
Holding back the river : the struggle against nature on America’s waterways / Tyler J. Kelley.
Introduction to contextual maths in chemistry / by Fiona Dickinson and Andrew McKinley.
The new breed : what our history with animals reveals about our future with robots / Kate Darling.
The secret history of home economics : how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live / Danielle Dreilinger.
Shape : the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else / Jordan Ellenberg.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Antiblackness / edited by Moon-Kie Jung and Joäao H. Costa Vargas.
Case study research and applications : design and methods / Robert K. Yin, COSMOS Corporation.
Cold war frequencies : CIA clandestine radio broadcasting to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe / Richard H. Cummings.
Disability in Africa : inclusion, care, and the ethics of humanity / edited by Toyin Falola and Nic Hamel.
Earth politics and intangible heritage : three case studies in the Americas / Jessica Joyce Christie ; foreword by Paul A. Shackel.
The European Union : politics and policies / Jonathan Olsen.
Fans : how watching sports makes us happier, healthier, and more understanding / Larry Olmsted.
First steps : how upright walking made us human / Jeremy DeSilva.
Freedom’s ring : literatures of liberation from civil rights to the second wave / Jacqueline Foertsch.
Hate in precarious times : mobilizing anxiety from the Alt-Right to Brexit / Neal Curtis.
He probably won’t shoot you : memoir of an adult protective services case manager / Mark Mehler ; foreword by Kathleen Quinn.
Intentions in great power politics : uncertainty and the roots of conflict / Sebastian Rosato.
The invention of miracles : language, power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s quest to end deafness / Katie Booth.
Kingship and law in the Middle Ages. I. The divine right of kings and the right of resistance in the early Middle Ages. II. Law and constitution in the Middle Ages. Translated with an introd. by S.B. Chrimes.
Microintervention strategies : what you can do to disarm and dismantle individual and systemic racism and bias / Derald Wing Sue [and four others].
Nature’s diplomats : science, internationalism, and preservation, 1920-1960 / Raf de Bont.
Potter’s historical introduction to English law and its institutions.
Psychological roots of the climate crisis : neoliberal exceptionalism and the culture of uncare / Sally Weintrobe.
Radical belonging : how to survive and thrive in an unjust world (while transforming it for the better) / Lindo Bacon, PhD.
There’s a revolution outside, my love : letters from a crisis / edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman.
To her credit : women, finance, and the law in eighteenth-century New England cities / Sara T. Damiano.
Urban Communication Reader IV : Cities as Communicative Change Agents / edited by erin daina mcclellan, Yongjun Shin, and Curry Chandler; [series editor,  Gary Gumpert].
We are power : how nonviolent activism changes the world / Todd Hasak-Lowy.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN Languages of trauma : history, memory, and media / edited by Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Kèohne, and Jason Crouthamel.
Nippon no katagami zukan = A guide to Japanese katagami designs / Kamo Mizuho.
Not your mother’s mammy : the Black domestic worker in transatlantic women’s media / Tracey L. Walters.
Returning Southeast Asia’s past : objects, museums, and restitution / edited by Louise Tythacott and Panggah Ardiyansyah.
Women artists, their patrons, and their publics in early modern Bologna / Babette Bohn.