GENERAL COLLECTIONS, WEEK OF 12-12-2022

EDUCATIONAfter the ivory tower falls : how college broke the American dream and blew up our politics– and how to fix it / Will Bunch.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES & LITERATURESWild grass ; and, Morning blossoms gathered at dusk / Lu Xun ; translated by Eileen J. Cheng, edited by Theodore Huters.
HISTORY & MARITIME STUDIESBlack snow : Curtis LeMay, the firebombing of Tokyo, and the road to the atomic bomb / James M. Scott.
Danger zone : the coming conflict with China / Hal Brands and Michael Beckley.
Empires of the Normans : conquerors of Europe / Levi Roach.
Healing a divided nation : how the American Civil War revolutionized Western medicine / Carole Adrienne.
Hurricane Jim Crow : how the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 shaped the Lowcountry South / Caroline Grego.
Looking for an enemy : 8 essays on antisemitism / edited by Jo Glanville.
Lyman Trumbull and the second founding of the United States / Paul M. Rego.
The many lives of the first emperor of China / Anthony J. Barbieri-Low.
A murderous midsummer : the western rising of 1549 / Mark Stoyle.
The nature of slavery : environment and plantation labor in the Anglo-Atlantic world / Katherine Johnston.
On posthuman war : computation and military violence / Mike Hill.
Our kind of historian : the work and activism of Lerone Bennett Jr. / E. James West.
Partisans : the conservative revolutionaries who remade American politics in the 1990s / Nicole Hemmer.
Putin / Philip Short.
Racial innocence : unmasking Latino anti-Black bias and the struggle for equality / Tanya Katerâi Hernâandez.
Scotland : the global history, 1603 to the present / Murray Pittock.
Terrortimes, terrorscapes : continuities of space, time, and memory in twentieth-century war and genocide.
LITERATURE & LITERARY STUDIESBabysitter / Joyce Carol Oates.
Black folk could fly : selected writings / Randall Kenan.
Calling for a blanket dance : a novel / by Oscar Hokeah.
Certain concealments : Poe, Hawthorne, and early nineteenth-century abortion / Dana Medoro.
Cotton candy : poems dipped out of the air / Ted Kooser.
Eliot after The waste land / Robert Crawford.
Elizabeth Finch : a novel / Julian Barnes.
Groundglass / Kathryn Savage.
The life of crime : detecting the history of mysteries and their creators / Martin Edwards.
Making our future : visionary folklore and everyday culture in Appalachia / Emily Hilliard.
The marriage portrait / Maggie O’Farrell.
Selected books of the beloved / Gregory Orr.
Soul culture : Black poets, books, and questions that grew me up / Remica Bingham-Risher.
Trash talk : anti-Obama lore and race in the twenty-first century / Patricia A. Turner.
Turn up the ocean : poems / Tony Hoagland.
PHILOSOPHY & RELIGIONAfro-Atlantic Catholics : America’s first Black Christians / Jeroen Dewulf.
Agrarian spirit : cultivating faith, community, and the land / Norman Wirzba.
Divine institutions : religions and community in the Middle Roman Republic / Dan-El Padilla Peralta.
Mesopotamian civilization and the origins of the New Testament / Robin Baker, University of Winchester.
Stealing my religion : not just any cultural appropriation / Liz Bucar.
What we owe the future / William MacAskill.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGYBefore the big bang : the origin of the universe and what lies beyond / Laura Mersini-Houghton.
Charged : a history of batteries and lessons for a clean energy future / James Morton Turner ; foreword by Paul S. Sutter.
Fantastic numbers and where to find them : a cosmic quest from zero to infinity / Antonio Padilla.
Pentagons and pentagrams : an illustrated history / text by Eli Maor ; illustrations by Eugen Jost.
Proving ground : the untold story of the six women who programmed the world’s first modern computer / Kathy Kleiman.
Tales from a robotic world : how intelligent machines will shape our future / Dario Floreano and Nicola Nosengo.
Transformer : the deep chemistry of life and death / Nick Lane.
SOCIAL SCIENCESAnarchist prophets : disappointing vision and the power of collective sight / James R. Martel.
Animal crisis : a new critical theory / Alice Crary and Lori Gruen.
Borderland circuitry : immigration surveillance in the United States and beyond / Ana Muäniz.
Cloud empires : how digital platforms are overtaking the state and how we can regain control / Vili Lehdonvirta.
Curious minds : the power of connection / Perry Zurn and Danielle S. Bassett.
Electable : why America hasn’t put a woman in the White House…yet / Ali Vitali.
HMS Terror : the design, fitting and voyages of the polar discovery ship / Matthew Betts ; foreword by John Moore & Ryan Harris.
Nomad century : how climate migration will reshape our world / Gaia Vince.
Proving pregnancy : gender, law, and medical knowledge in nineteenth-century America / Felicity M. Turner.
The spiritual significance of overload boredom / Sharday C. Mosurinjohn.
State of disaster : the failure of U.S. migration policy in an age of climate change / Maria Cristina Garcia.
Status and culture : how our desire for social rank creates taste, identity, art, fashion, and constant change / W. David Marx.
Two cheers for politics : why democracy is flawed, frightening–and our best hope / Jedediah Purdy.
We are still here : Afghan women on courage, freedom, and the fight to be heard / edited by Nahid Shahalimi ; foreword by Margaret Atwood.
Wounded country : the Murray-Darling Basin : a contested history / Quentin Beresford.
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGNArchitecture and objects / Graham Harman.
The only woman / Immy Humes.