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Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion

BF176.T43 2008
Tests: a comprehensive reference for assessments in psychology, education, and business Taddy Maddox.

BF697.5.S426F56 2006
A mind of its own: how your brain distorts and deceives Cordelia Fine.

BF717.P578 2006
Play=learning: how play motivates and enhances children's cognitive and social-emotional growth Dorothy G. Singer, Roberta M. Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek.

BJ1853.P6 2004
Emily Post's Etiquette Peggy Post and Emily Post.

BL42.5.U5P76 2007
Religious literacy: what every American needs to know-- and doesn't Stephen R. Prothero.

BL51.W21 2007
Is religion dangerous? Keith Ward.

BL263.N68 2006
Not in our classrooms: why intelligent design is wrong for our schools Eugenie Carol Scott and Glenn Branch.

BX1378.6.A25 2007
The essential Pope Benedict XVI: his central writings and speeches Benedict, John F. Thornton and Susan B. Varenne.

History: General and Old World

D383.L96 2006
Post-revolutionary Europe, 1815-1856 Martyn Lyons.

DA30.H86 2006
The human tradition in modern Britain C. J. Litzenberger and Eileen Groth Lyon.

DE86.G74 2007
The Hellenistic age: a short history Peter Green.

DA207.F57 2006
Richard the Lionheart: king and knight Jean Flori.

DF802.G35 2001
Modern Greece Thomas W. Gallant.

DG571.B715 2006
Mussolini's Italy: life under the fascist dictatorship, 1915-1945 R. J. B. Bosworth.

DS79.76.W47 2007
What was asked of us: an oral history of the Iraq War by the soldiers who fought it Trish Wood.

DS559.8.M44H53 2006
Who the hell are we fighting?: the story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam intelligence wars C. Michael Hiam.

DT450.435.H3914 2005
Machete season: the killers in Rwanda speak: a report Jean Hatzfeld.

History: United States

E184.A1M136 2006
Working-class white: the making and unmaking of race relations Monica McDermott.

E312.H54 2006
Realistic visionary: a portrait of George Washington Peter R. Henriques.

E315.H64 2006
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the frontier rebels who challenged America's newfound sovereignty William Hogeland.

E354.L34 2006
Union 1812: the Americans who fought the Second War of Independence A. J. Langguth.

E468.9.F385 2008
This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War Drew Gilpin Faust.

E471.M37 2006
Mr. Lincoln goes to war William Marvel.

E742.B76 2006
Twelve great clashes that shaped modern America: from Geronimo to George W. Bush John J. Broesamle and Anthony Arthur.

E757.D67 2007
We are all Americans, pure and simple: Theodore Roosevelt and the myth of Americanism Leroy G. Dorsey.

E766.H34 2007
Savage peace: hope and fear in America, 1919 Ann Hagedorn.

History: U.S. State and Local, Canada, South and Central America

F69.R53 2003
Shays's Rebellion: the American Revolution's final battle Leonard L. Richards.

F106.H23 2006
A handbook to Appalachia: an introduction to the region Grace Toney Edwards, JoAnn Aust Asbury and Ricky L. Cox.

F217.A65F37 2007
My Appalachia: a memoir Sidney Saylor Farr.

F249.C4D74 2004
Red, white, black & blue: a dual memoir of race and class in Appalachia William M. Drennen, Kojo Jones and Dolores Johnson.

F865.S93H87 2006
John Sutter: a life on the North American frontier Albert L. Hurtado.

F1523.8.W46 2008
Culture and customs of Nicaragua Steven F. White and Esthela Calderon.

F1923.T69B45 2007
Toussaint Louverture: a biography Madison Smartt Bell.

Geography, Anthropology and Recreation

GA201.K54 2006
The power of projections: how maps reflect global politics and history Arthur Jay Klinghoffer.

GF503.D4 2005
Why geography matters: three challenges facing America: climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism Harm J. De Blij.

GR111.A47H35 1995
Her stories: African American folktales, fairy tales, and true tales Virginia Hamilton, Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon.

GR111.G47M55 2007
Signs, cures, & witchery: German Appalachian folklore Gerald Milnes.

GV709.2.G55 2006
Whose game is it, anyway?: a guide to helping your child get the most from sports, organized by age and stage Richard D. Ginsburg, Stephen Durant and Amy Baltzell.

GV992.D53 2006
Blacks at the net: Black achievement in the history of tennis Sundiata A. Djata.

GV1049.2.T68T56 2006
The Tour de France: a cultural history Christopher S. Thompson.

GV1588.5.H36 2006
Dancing for health: conquering and preventing stress Judith Lynne Hanna and Judith Lynne Hanna.

Social Sciences and Business

H1.R41 v.80 no.1
Celebrity culture in the United States Terence J. Fitzgerald.

HB3505.K58 2004
A population history of the United States Herbert S. Klein.

HD5708.55.U62A558 2004
To move a mountain: fighting the global economy in Appalachia Eve S. Weinbaum.

HD5715.2.N32 2007
Tough choices or tough times: the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce National Center on Education and the Economy (U.S.).New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce.

HD9969.S6R58 2006
The travels of a T-shirt in the global economy: an economist examines the markets, power, and politics of world trade Pietra Rivoli.

HE6371.H46 2006
The postal age: the emergence of modern communications in nineteenth-century America David M. Henkin.

HE9713.H365 2007
247: how cell phones and the Internet change the way we live, work, and play Jarice Hanson.

HN79.T22E35 1997
Two worlds in the Tennessee mountains: exploring the origins of Appalachian stereotypes David C. Hsiung.

HQ1058.5.K4M88 2007
Worries of the heart: widows, family, and community in Kenya Kenda Beatrice Mutongi.

HQ1410.B76 2006
Her best shot: women and guns in America Laura Browder.

HQ27.5.W65 1997
Promiscuities: the secret struggle for womanhood Naomi Wolf.

HV9304.P23 2007
Marked: race, crime, and finding work in an era of mass incarceration Devah Pager.

Political Science

JC143.M146M1469 2007
The essential writings of Machiavelli Niccola Machiavelli and Peter Constantine.

JK271K535 2006c
Politics lost: from RFK to W: how politicians have become less courageous and more interested in keeping power than in doing what's right for America Joe Klein.

Law

KF228.B733L64 2007
Moving mountains: how one woman and her community won justice from big coal Penny Loeb.

KF4749.L32 2006
James Madison and the struggle for the Bill of Rights Richard E. Labunski.

KF8745.T48A3 2007
My grandfather's son: a memoir Clarence Thomas.

KF9351.F73 2006
Trust and honesty: America's business culture at a crossroad Tamar Frankel.

Education

LB2367.75.P737 2007
Praxis Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions.


Music

ML410.B4S58 2006
Beethoven: his life & music Jeremy Siepmann.
Visual Arts

NX512.3.A35P65 2006
Post-bellum, pre-Harlem: African American literature and culture, 1877-1919 Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard.

Languages and Literature

PK6413.5.W65K47 2007
Jasmine and stars: reading more than Lolita in Tehran Fatemeh Keshavarz.

PN1995.9.H5S57 2006
Reconstructing American historical cinema: from Cimarron to Citizen Kane J. E. Smyth.

PN1995.9.S45P665 2006
Pornography: film and culture Peter Lehman.

PN1998.3.N325M85 2006
Mercy in her eyes: the films of Mira Nair John Kenneth Muir.

PN2067.B53 2006
The handbook of stage costume Tina Bicât.

PN3171.P57 2006
Drama activities for K-6 students: creating classroom spirit Milton E. Polsky, Dorothy Napp Schindel and Carmine Tabone.

PN6101.A46 2000
Americans' favorite poems: the Favorite Poem Project anthology Robert Pinsky, Maggie Dietz and Favorite Poem Project.

PN6101.I56 2004
An invitation to poetry: a new Favorite Poem Project anthology Robert Pinsky, Maggie Dietz, Rosemarie Ellis and Favorite Poem Project

PN6101.P497 2002
Poems to read: a new favorite poem project anthology Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz.

PN6110.R47O6 2007
On retirement: 75 poems Robin S. Chapman and Judith Strasser.

PQ2191.Z5B39713 2006
The writer of modern life: essays on Charles Baudelaire Walter Benjamin and Michael William Jennings.

PQ2469.Z5B879 2006
Jules Verne: the definitive biography William Butcher.

PQ7297.P285A29 1987
The collected poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger.

PR4189.A1 1993
Sonnets from the Portuguese and other love poems Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Margaret Armstrong.

PR42022003
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poems and letters Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

PR4741.W37 1995
Poems Thomas Hardy and Peter Washington.

PR4753.T56 2007
Thomas Hardy Claire Tomalin.

PR55511993
Selected poems Alfred Tennyson Tennyson.

PR6001.U4 2007
Collected poems W. H. Auden and Edward Mendelson.

PR6023.A66A17 2004
Collected poems Philip Larkin and Anthony Thwaite.

PR6039.H52A17 2003
The poems of Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas and Daniel Jones.

PR9199.3.A8M66 2008
Moral disorder: and other stories Margaret Atwood.

PS153.N5J68 2002
Rereading the Harlem renaissance: race, class, and gender in the fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West Sharon L. Jones.

PS591.H58W56 2007
The wind shifts: new Latino poetry Francisco Aragón.

PS711.A1 2005
The works of Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet and Jeannine Hensley.

PS1541.A1 1997b
The complete poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson and Thomas Herbert Johnson.

PS1541.A17 1976
The complete poems of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson and Thomas Herbert Johnson.

PS1624.A1 1994
Collected poems and translations Ralph Waldo Emerson.

PS225.P26 2006
The Paris review: interviews Philip Gourevitch.

PS2600.G02
The complete tales & poems of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe and Wilbur S. Scott.

PS32012005b
Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass Walt Whitman and David S. Reynolds.

PS3503.R7244A6 2005
The essential Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks and Elizabeth Alexander.

PS3503.R7244I48 2003
In Montgomery, and other poems Gwendolyn Brooks.

PS3509.L43A17 1963
Collected poems, 1909-1962 T. S. Eliot.

PS3511.R94A6 2006
The notebooks of Robert Frost Robert Frost and Robert Faggen.

PS3515.A9363A17 1996
Robert Hayden: collected poems Robert Earl Hayden and Frederick Glaysher.

PS3515.U274 2001 v.15
The short stories Langston Hughes and R. Baxter Miller.

PS3515.U274 2001, v.4
The novels: Not without laughter, and, Tambourines to glory Langston Hughes and Dolan Hubbard.

PS3521.U638A6 1997
Selected poems, 1960-1990 Maxine Kumin.

PS3521.U638S75 2007
Still to mow: poems Maxine Kumin.

PS3521.U7A17 2000
The collected poems Stanley Kunitz.

PS3535.O25Z645 2007
Edwin Arlington Robinson: a poet's life Scott Donaldson.

PS3551 .I2D74 2003
Dread Ai.

PS3551.I2G74 1994
Greed Ai.

PS3551.I2V53 1999
Vice: new and selected poems Ai.

PS3552.R6229A6 2000
Collected poems in English Joseph Brodsky and Ann Kjellberg.

PS3552.U827K5 2003
Kindred Octavia E. Butler.

PS3553.L45B64 2000
Blessing the boats: new and selected poems, 1988-2000 Lucille Clifton.

PS3553.L45N48 1987
Next: new poems Lucille Clifton.

PS3554.O884Z85 2006
Understanding Rita Dove Pat Righelato.

PS3555.L625Z8725 2007
Ralph Ellison: a biography Arnold Rampersad.

PS3557.O354K58 2007
The kitchen sink: new and selected poems, 1972-2007 Albert Goldbarth.

PS3558.A4428W44 2006
When Madeline was young: a novel Jane Hamilton.

PS3558.A725T56 2007
Time and materials: poems, 1997-2005 Robert Hass.

PS3558.E28A6 2005
Collected later poems Anthony Hecht.

PS3561.O6B58 2006
The blizzard voices Ted Kooser.

PS3561.O6D45 2004
Delights & shadows: poems Ted Kooser.

PS3562.E9A6 1992
New selected poems Philip Levine.

PS3562.E9B73 2006
Breath: poems Philip Levine.

PS3565.A8Z465 2006
Joyce Carol Oates: conversations, 1970-2006 Joyce Carol Oates and Greg Johnson.

PS3565.L5T55 2006
Thirst: poems Mary Oliver.

PS3566.I54F54 1997b
The figured wheel: new and collected poems, 1966-1996 Robert Pinsky.

PS3566.L27A17 1981b
The collected poems Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

PS3569.A468H64 2007
Homegirls & handgrenades Sonia Sanchez and White Pine Press.

PS3569.T69A6 2007
New selected poems Mark Strand.

PS3569.T69M36 2006
Man and camel: poems Mark Strand.

PZ7.C962Mi 1995
The midwife's apprentice Karen Cushman.

PZ7.G48148Hal 2007
Half a world away Libby Gleeson and Freya Blackwood.

PZ7.M478693Por 2006
Porch lies: tales of slicksters, tricksters, and other wily characters Pat McKissack and André Carrilho.

PZ7.S269Ro 1986
Roller skates Ruth Sawyer and Valenti Angelo.

Sciences: Life, Physical, Math, and Computers

QA76.73.C153H36 2002
Essential C++ for engineers and scientists Jeri R. Hanly.

QA76.73.J38L48845 2008
Java foundations: introduction to program design & data structures John Lewis, Peter J. DePasquale and Joseph Chase.

QA76.73.J39P65 2004
JavaScript: a beginner's guide John Pollock.

QA76.76.O63P3352 2007
Guide to operating systems Michael J. Palmer and Michael Walters.

QA76.P356 2008
New perspectives [on] computer concepts June Jamrich Parsons and Dan Oja.

QH366.2.S494 2006
Why Darwin matters: the case against intelligent design Michael Shermer.

QK475.T83 2006
The tree: a natural history of what trees are, how they live, and why they matter Colin Tudge.

QL713.2.S557 2006
Whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals of the world Hadoram Shirihai and Brett Jarrett.

Sciences: Medical, Health, and Nursing R853.H8W37 2006
Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present Harriet A. Washington.

RC182.R6W35 2008
Rocky Mountain spotted fever David H. Walker and David L. Heymann.

RC555.K36 2006
The psychopathy of everyday life: how antisocial personality disorder affects all of us Martin Kantor.

RC555.P776 2007
The psychopath: theory, research, and practice Hugues Hervé and John C. Yuille.

RD120.7.P46 2006
Organ transplantation David Petechuk.

RD120.7.S49 2006
Strange harvest: organ transplants, denatured bodies, and the transformed self Lesley Alexandra Sharp.

RJ387.A25T442 2006
Teenagers, HIV, and AIDS: insights from youths living with the virus Maureen E. Lyon and Lawrence J. D'Angelo.

RT1.N77 v.43 no.1
Biology, psychology, and behavior in cardiovascular and pulmonary disease Susan K. Frazier, Terry A. Lennie and Debra K. Moser.

SB119.S59 2007
The plant propagator's bible Miranda Smith.

SF507.S49 2006
The turkey: an American story Andrew F. Smith.

Technology, Home Economics, and PhotographyTA23.B48 2006
Power, speed, and form: engineers and the making of the twentieth century David P. Billington and David P. Billington.

TK5105.8885.D74B579 2008
The Web collection standard edition: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Flash CS3 and Fireworks CS3 revealed Sherry Bishop, James E. Shuman and Barbara Waxer.

TX353.B455 2006
Meals to come: a history of the future of food Warren James Belasco.

 
 

 

   

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