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Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion

B72.K44 2006
An illustrated brief history of western philosophy Anthony John Patrick Kenny.

B945.J24R53 2006
William James: in the maelstrom of American modernism: a biography Robert D. Richardson.

B1296.W66 2007
Locke: a biography R. S. Woolhouse.

B1873.G7 2006
Descartes: the life and times of a genius A. C. Grayling.

BF441.K45 2006
Don't believe everything you think: the 6 basic mistakes we make in thinking Thomas E. Kida.

BF637.N66P43 2006
The definitive book of body language Allan Pease and Barbara Pease.

BL65.C45B35 2006
Literature suppressed on religious grounds Margaret Bald.

BL65.M4S56 2006
Blind faith: the unholy alliance of religion and medicine Richard P. Sloan.

BL689.R46 2006
Religious foundations of Western civilization: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam Jacob Neusner.

BL2760.H86 2006
Atheists: a groundbreaking study of America's nonbelievers Bruce Hunsberger and Bob Altemeyer.

BM503.5.N4945 2006
The Talmud: what it is and what it says Jacob Neusner.

BR145.3.H37 2006
Introduction to the history of Christianity George Herring.

BR145.3.H37 2006
Introduction to the history of Christianity George Herring.

BR516.A46 2006
Moral minority: our skeptical Founding Fathers Brooke Allen.

BR1642.U5E42 2006
God and country: how Evangelicals have become America's new mainstream Monique El-Faizy.

BS455.K73 2006
Choosing a Bible: for worship, teaching, study, preaching, and prayer Donald Kraus

BS659.R68 2006
Evolution and Christian faith: reflections of an evolutionary biologist Joan Roughgarden.

BS1225.52.R63 2006
Essential Torah: a complete guide to the five books of Moses George Robinson.

BT1390.S57 2006
Forbidden faith: the Gnostic legacy from the gospels to the Da Vinci Code Richard Smoley.

BX7260.B3A67 2006b
The most famous man in America: the biography of Henry Ward Beecher Debby Applegate.

History of Civilization, Archaeology and Biology

CT275.O24A3 2001
At home in the heart of Appalachia John O'Brien.

History: General and Old World

D16.2.K59 2000

Knowing, teaching, and learning history: national and international perspectives Peter N. Stearns, Peter C. Seixas and Samuel S. Wineburg.

D770.W44 2006
Bitter ocean: the Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945 David Fairbank White.

DA415.P87 2006
The English Civil War: Papists, gentlewomen, soldiers, and witchfinders in the birth of modern Britain Diane Purkiss.

DC707.J66 2006
Paris: biography of a city Colin Jones.

DF229.B34 2006
The Peloponnesian War: Athens, Sparta, and the struggle for Greece Nigel Bagnall.

DS62.8.V57 2006
Storm from the East: the struggle between the Arab world and the Christian west Milton Viorst.

DS63.2.U5O54 2007
Power, faith, and fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the present Michael B. Oren.

DS119.76.R794 2003
The Palestinians: in search of a just peace Cheryl Rubenberg.

DS135.G3315G55 2006
Kristallnacht: prelude to destruction Martin Gilbert.

DS145.L325 2006
The changing face of antisemitism: from ancient times to the present day Walter Laqueur.

DS328.2.E94 2007
Everyday life in Central Asia: past and present Jeff Sahadeo and Russell G. Zanca.

DS480.84.G74 2007
India after Gandhi: the history of the world's largest democracy Ramachandra Guha.

DS518.8.A69 2006
Chasing the sun: rethinking East Asian policy Morton Abramowitz and Stephen W. Bosworth.

DS557.8.T4W54 2007
The Tet Offensive: a concise history James H. Willbanks.

DS779.23.W38 2007
China's brave new world: and other tales for global times Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom.

DS79.76.B74 2006
Is Iraq another Vietnam? Robert K. Brigham.

DS79.76.I7292 2006
The Iraq war: causes and consequences Rick Fawn and Raymond A. Hinnebusch.

DT450.435.M875 2006
Rwanda means the universe: a native's memoir of blood and bloodlines Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer.

History: United States

E58.M43 1979

Prehistoric America: an ecological perspective Betty Jane Meggers.

E99.A34L5213 1996
Essays on the ethnography of the Aleuts: at the end of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century R. G. Lïapunova.

E99.B8G76 2001
Lakota of the Rosebud: a contemporary ethnography Elizabeth S. Grobsmith.

E99.H26M57 2004
Han, people of the river: Hän hwÃ"ch'in: an ethnography and ethnohistory Craig Mishler and William E. Simeone.

E125.V5F47 2007
Amerigo: the man who gave his name to America Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

E169.1.A8525 2006
With amusement for all: a history of American popular culture since 1830 LeRoy Ashby.

E169.1.R563 2004
The battle for the American mind: a brief history of a nation's thought Carl J. Richard.

E169.12.K59 2006
America against the world: how we are different and why we are disliked Andrew Kohut and Bruce Stokes.

E178.B428 2006
A nation among nations: America's place in world history Thomas Bender.

E184.A1W83 2006
Not quite white: white trash and the boundaries of whiteness Matt Wray.

E185.61.H693 2007
Many minds, one heart: SNCC's dream for a new America Wesley C. Hogan.

E185.615.W49155 2006
Enough: the phony leaders, dead-end movements, and culture of failure that are undermining Black America-- and what we can do about it Juan Williams.

E185.86.D943 2007
Debating race with Michael Eric Dyson Michael Eric Dyson.

E302.6.A2P85 2006
Samuel Adams: father of the American Revolution Mark Puls.

E387.S64 2002
Martin Van Buren and the emergence of American popular politics Joel H. Silbey.

E464.E93 2006
Eyewitness to the Civil War: the complete history from secession to Reconstruction Neil Kagan and Stephen G. Hyslop.

E672.L86 2006
General Ulysses S. Grant: the soldier and the man Edward G. Longacre.

E745.L49 2007
The American culture of war: the history of U.S. military force from World War II to Operation Iraqi Freedom Adrian R. Lewis.

E840.P64D49 2006
Soldier: the life of Colin Powell Karen DeYoung.

E872.K38 2006
The presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. Burton Ira Kaufman and Scott Kaufman.

E876.C635 2007
Transforming America: politics and culture in the Reagan years Robert M. Collins.

E877.D54 2007
Ronald Reagan: fate, freedom, and the making of history John P. Diggins.

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

F68.H69 2006
A great & godly adventure: the Pilgrims & the myth of the first Thanksgiving Godfrey Hodgson.

F220.A1S65 2007
There goes my everything: white Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975 Jason Sokol.

F292.R3F713 2006
The Foxfire 40th anniversary book: faith, family, and the land Angie Cheek, Lacy Hunter Nix and Foxfire Fund.

F317.E9G78 2007
The swamp: the Everglades, Florida, and the politics of paradise Michael Grunwald.

F596.2.V36 2002
Americanizing the West: race, immigrants, and citizenship, 1890-1930 Frank Van Nuys.

F627.M2H75 2007
A good day's work: an Iowa farm in the Great Depression Dwight W. Hoover.

F1465.2.K5W57 1995
Maya resurgence in Guatemala Richard Wilson.

F2269.1.C93R36 1994
Cumbe reborn: an Andean ethnography of history Joanne Rappaport.

F2380.1.W25M46 2005
Of passionate curves and desirable cadences: themes on Waiwai social being George P. Mentore.

F3429.3.Q6S35 2004
The cord keepers: khipus and cultural life in a Peruvian village Frank Salomon.

Geography, Anthropology and Recreation

G200.D46 2005
Explorers: the most exciting voyages of discovery, from the African expeditions to the lunar landing Andrea De Porti.

GN671.T5M67 1996
Becoming Tongan: an ethnography of childhood Helen Morton.

GV583.W547 2006
The strange career of the Black athlete: African Americans and sports Russell Thomas Wigginton.

GV850.4.H56 2006
Figure skating: a history James R. Hines and World Figure Skating Museum and Hall of Fame.

GV863.A1V43 2006
Baseball: a history of America's favorite game George Vecsey.

GV1317.S44 2006
The immortal game: a history of chess or how 32 carved pieces on a board illuminated our understanding of war, art, science, and the human brain David Shenk.

GV1785.R52V35 2006
Somewhere: the life of Jerome Robbins Amanda Vaill.

Social Sciences and Business

HB95.L68 2007

Freedomnomics: why the free market works and other half- baked theories don't John R. Lott.

HB97.7.B373 2004
Radical political economy: a concise introduction Charles A. Barone.

HB103.S6B83 2006
The authentic Adam Smith: his life and ideas James Buchan and James Buchan.

HB501.A57 2006
American capitalism: social thought and political economy in the twentieth century Nelson Lichtenstein.

HC79.P6C634 2007
The bottom billion: why the poorest countries are failing and what can be done about it Paul Collier.

HC427.95.R54 2007
How China grows: investment, finance, and reform James Riedel, Jing Jin and Qian Gao.

HD30.28.G733 2005
Competition demystified: a radically simplified approach to business strategy Bruce C. N. Greenwald and Judd Kahn.

HD2321.S74 2007
The industrial revolution in world history Peter N. Stearns.

HD6250.A352K54 2006
Children at work: child labor practices in Africa Anne Kielland and Maurizia C. Tovo.

HD6285.W56 2005
Straight talk about gays in the workplace: creating an inclusive, productive environment for everyone in your organization Liz Winfeld.

HD9135.B72 2007
The cigarette century: the rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America Allan M. Brandt.

HF1359.S75 2007
Making globalization work Joseph E. Stiglitz.

HF1413.S85 2005
Fair trade for all: how trade can promote development Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton.

HF5386.H249 2007
Break from the pack: how to compete in a copycat economy Oren Harari.

HF5415.M85 2006
The marketing gurus: lessons from the best marketing books of all time Chris Murray.

HF5429.215.U6V43 2006
The Wal-Mart revolution: how big-box stores benefit consumers, workers, and the economy Richard K. Vedder and Wendell Cox.

HG336.U5M54 2007
A nation of counterfeiters: capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States Stephen Mihm.

HJ2051.N237 2005
National deficit and debt: where to next? James B. Lucas.

HM626.S494 2006
How society makes itself: the evolution of political and economic institutions Howard J. Sherman.

HQ1155.H57 2006
Get to work: a manifesto for women of the world Linda R. Hirshman.

HQ1170.G438 2006
The face behind the veil: the extraordinary lives of Muslim women in America Donna Gehrke-White.

HQ1421.G43 2007
Geek chic: smart women in popular culture Sherrie A. Inness.

HV636 2005.N4H66 2006
Breach of faith: Hurricane Katrina and the near death of a great American city Jed Horne.

HV4764.B44 2006
For the prevention of cruelty: the history and legacy of animal rights activism in the United States Diane L. Beers.

HV5831.M46M67 2006
The reaper's line: life and death on the Mexican border Lee Morgan.

HV6432.B44 2006
Enemy combatant: my imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram, and Kandahar Moazzam Begg and Victoria Brittain.

HV6710.S38 2006
Roll the bones: the history of gambling David G. Schwartz.

Political Science

JC75.D36R33 2007
Origins of democracy in ancient Greece Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober and Robert W. Wallace.

JC229.T8B685 2007
Alexis de Tocqueville: a life Hugh Brogan.

JK468.I6W44 2007
Legacy of ashes: the history of the CIA Tim Weiner.

JK1319.R46 2007
The House: the history of the House of Representatives Robert Vincent Remini, Smithsonian Books and Library of Congress .

JK1764.D88 2006
Is democracy possible here?: principles for a new political debate R. M. Dworkin.

JK2281.B46 2007
Communication in political campaigns William L. Benoit.

JZ1480.F85 2007
America at the crossroads: democracy, power, and the neoconservative legacy Francis Fukuyama.

JZ1480.H64 2006
Chaos and violence: what globalization, failed states, and terrorism mean for U.S. foreign policy Stanley Hoffmann.

Law

KF363.G66M56 2006
The President's counselor: the rise to power of Alberto Gonzales Bill Minutaglio.

KF385.A4U152 2003
U.S. laws, acts, and treaties Timothy L. Hall.

KF5060.M373 2007
Guantánamo and the abuse of presidential power Joseph Margulies.

KF5130.R67 2006
The most democratic branch: how the courts serve America Jeffrey Rosen.

KF8742.U5 2007
U.S. Supreme Court Thomas T. Lewis.

Education

LB1050.H567 2006
The knowledge deficit: closing the shocking education gap for American children E. D. Hirsch.

LB1057.J46 2006
Enriching the brain: how to maximize every learner's potential Eric Jensen.

LB2369.T8 2007
A manual for writers of research papers, theses, and dissertations: Chicago style for students and researchers Kate L. Turabian.

LC1756.P47 2006
College girls: bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now Lynn Peril.

Music

ML160.G823 2006

A concise history of western music Paul Griffiths.

ML394.L37 2006
Rock en Espanol: the Latin alternative rock explosion Ernesto Lechner.

ML410.G288P65 2006
George Gershwin: his life and work Howard Pollack.

ML410.M9S497 2006
Mozart: his life & music Jeremy Siepmann.

ML419.K495S313 2006
Chicken with plums Marjane Satrapi.

MT582.F49 2006
The complete guitar course: learn to play in 20 easy-to- follow lessons Tom Fleming.

N6370.W65 2007
Making Renaissance art Kim Woods.

N6853.P57A4 2005
Camille Pissarro Terence Maloon, Art Gallery of New South Wales and National Gallery of Victoria.

Visual Arts

N7380.5.A783 2005

Arts of Africa: 7000 years of African art Ezio Bassani and Grimaldi Forum.

NA200.C493 2007
A global history of architecture Frank Ching, Mark Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash.

NC1766.U52D5375 2007
Walt Disney: The triumph of the American imagination Neal Gabler.

ND547.5.I4R64 2006
The private lives of the impressionists Sue Roe.

Languages and Literature

P90.T864 2008
The media were American: U.S. mass media in decline Jeremy Tunstall.

P118.Y359 2006
The infinite gift: how children learn and unlearn the languages of the world Charles D. Yang.

P121.B695 2007
How language works: how babies babble, words change meaning, and languages live or die David Crystal.

P301.5.P67W37 2007
Rhetoric online: persuasion and politics on the World Wide Web Barbara Warnick.

PA3975.A1 2005
The complete plays Euripides and Carl Richard Mueller.

PA3975.A2 2006
Grief lessons: four plays by Euripides Euripides and Anne Carson.

PE1450.L85 2006
A dash of style: the art and mastery of punctuation Noah Lukeman.

PJ5129.S49Z8313 2006
Isaac B. Singer: a life Florence Noiville.

PL856.U673A23 2007
Blind willow, sleeping woman: twenty-four stories Haruki Murakami, J. Philip Gabriel and Jay Rubin.

PN56.E7S68 2006
Literature suppressed on sexual grounds Dawn B. Sova.

PN1059.A9F79 2006
The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within Stephen Fry.

PN6710.G738 2005
Graphic novels: everything you need to know Paul Gravett.


PN6727.F483M66 2006
Mom's cancer Brian Fies.

PN6727.V36K56 2006
Kings in disguise James Vance and Dan Burr.

PN6727.V38P75 2006
Pride of Baghdad Brian K. Vaughan, Niko Henrichon and Todd Klein.

PQ2627.E4Z9513 2007
Irene Nemirovsky: her life and works Jonathan M. Weiss.

PQ6267.E3G76 2006
The Golden Age: poems of the Spanish Renaissance Edith Grossman.


PQ7288.M49 2006
Mexico: a traveler's literary companion C. M. Mayo.

PR1109.E63 2006
The English reader: what every literate person needs to know Diane Ravitch and Michael Ravitch.

PR5397.F73H66 2007
The monsters: Mary Shelley and the curse of Frankenstein Dorothy Hoobler and Thomas Hoobler.

PR6031.O72Z62 2007
Beatrix Potter, a life in nature Linda J. Lear.


PR9369.4.G54S97 2007
The syringa tree: a novel Pamela Gien.

PS153.I52T74 2006
Native American fiction: a user's manual David Treuer.

PS153.N5H267 2007
Harlem speaks: a living history of the Harlem Renaissance Cary D. Wintz.

PS508.I69L48 2006
Let me tell you where I've been: new writing by women of the Iranian diaspora Persis M. Karim and Iran Heritage Foundation.

PS595.W36A46 2006
American war poetry: an anthology Lorrie Goldensohn.

PS3513.I74Z46 2006
The book of martyrdom and artifice: first journals and poems, 1937-1952 Allen Ginsberg, Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan.

PS3545.H5187Z48 2006
Letters of E.B. White E. B. White, Dorothy Lobrano Guth and Martha White.

PS3552.A3997D66 2006
Dominion Calvin Baker.

PS3554.I33W3 2006
We tell ourselves stories in order to live: collected nonfiction Joan Didion.

PS3556.O713L39 2006
The lay of the land Richard Ford.

PS3558.E47916A6 2007
The collected stories of Amy Hempel Amy Hempel.

PS3560.O4813K58 2003
The known world Edward P. Jones.

PS3560.O73A17 2005
Directed by desire: the collected poems of June Jordan June Jordan, Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles.

PS3564.O79G73 2006
Grave of light: new and selected poems, 1970-2005 Alice Notley.

PS3566.R36B36 2006
Behold the bold umbrellaphant: and other poems Jack Prelutsky and Carin Berger.

PS3575.O798F67 2007
For the Confederate dead Kevin Young.

PS3601.R345C46 2007
Cellophane: a novel Marie Arana.

PS3614.A96A97 2006
Awake in the dark: stories Shira Nayman.

PZ7.C5296Se6
Secret of the Andes Ann Nolan Clark and Jean Charlot.

PZ7.C81634Ch 1997
The chocolate war Robert Cormier.

PZ7.H312Dar 1996
The dark frigate Charles Boardman Hawes.

PZ7.M992Fal 1988
Fallen angels Walter Dean Myers.

PZ7.W6367Fl 2006
Flotsam David Wiesner.

PZ8.3.A775Mam 2006
Mama's day Linda Ashman and Jan Ormerod.

Sciences: Life, Physical, Math, and Computers

QA29.B692A29 2006
The artist and the mathematician: the story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed Amir D. Aczel.

QA76.76.D47V857 2002
Building secure software: how to avoid security problems the right way John Viega and Gary McGraw.

QA76.9.A25R87 2006
Computer security basics Rick Lehtinen, Deborah Russell, G. T. Gangemi and Deborah Russell.


QA269.S574 2006
A beautiful math: John Nash, game theory, and the modern quest for a code of nature Tom Siegfried.

QB982.H66 2006
Dark cosmos: in search of our universe's missing mass and energy Dan Hooper.

QC16.E5I76 2007
Einstein: his life and universe Walter Isaacson.

QC16.O62P35 2006
J. Robert Oppenheimer: a life Abraham Pais and Robert P. Crease.

QC794.6.S85W65 2006
Not even wrong: the failure of string theory and the search for unity in physical law Peter Woit.

QC981.8.G56G67 2006
An inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it Albert Gore and Melcher Media.

QH325.B365 2006
Darwin's black box: the biochemical challenge to evolution Michael J. Behe.

QH588.S83F69 2007
Cell of cells: the global race to capture and control the stem cell Cynthia Fox.

QL31.A9A34 2006
The Audubon reader John James Audubon and Richard Rhodes.

QL568.F7W63 2006
Nature revealed: selected writings, 1949-2006 Edward O. Wilson.

QL673.B96 2006
Birds: a visual guide Joanna Burger.

QP263.K57 2006
Capitalizing on the curse: the business of menstruation Elizabeth Arveda Kissling.

QP624.C37 2006
The making of the fittest: DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution Sean B. Carroll.

QR31.S25K58 2006
Splendid solution: Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio Jeffrey Kluger.

Sciences: Medical, Health, and Nursing

R726.D688 2005
A concise history of euthanasia: life, death, God, and medicine Ian Robert Dowbiggin.

R733.W495 2002
Nature cures: the history of alternative medicine in America James C. Whorton.

RA1213.B53 2007
How everyday products make people sick: toxins at home and in the workplace Paul D. Blanc.

RA448.5.N4H364 2004
Praeger handbook of Black American health: policies and issues behind disparities in health Ivor Lensworth Livingston.

RA644.I6C76 2003
America's forgotten pandemic: the influenza of 1918 Alfred W. Crosby.

RA645.A44J32 2006
Allergy: the history of a modern malady Mark Jackson.

RA777.3.A43 2006
Mindful eating 101: a guide to healthy eating in college and beyond Susan Albers.

RA777.3.S63 2006
The smart student's guide to healthy living: how to survive stress, late nights, & the college cafeteria M. J. Smith and Fred Smith.

RA781.6.G72 2007
The biggest loser fitness program: fast, safe, and effective workouts to target and tone your trouble spots- adapted from NBC's hit show Maggie Greenwood-Robinson.

RA781.P67 2007
Get fit, stay fit William E. Prentice.

RA781.S527 2007
Fitness & health Brian J. Sharkey, Steven E. Gaskill and Brian J. Sharkey.

RC108.S39 2007
Sexuality and chronic illness: assessment and interventions Margaret C. Wilmoth and Suzanne S. Prevost.

RC480.6.C744 2005
Crisis intervention handbook: assessment, treatment, and research Albert R. Roberts.

RC553.A88A8255 2007
The complete guide to Asperger's syndrome Tony Attwood.

RC584.B75 2007
Action plan for allergies William Briner.

RJ506.A9.S767 2006
Does my child have autism?: a parent's guide to early detection and intervention in autism spectrum disorders Wendy L. Stone and Theresa Foy DiGeronimo.


RJ506.A9G74 2006
Engaging autism: using the floortime approach to help children relate, communicate, and think Stanley I. Greenspan and Serena Wieder.

RT71.T335 2006
Teaching evidence-based practice in nursing: a guide for academic and clinical settings Rona F. Levin and Harriet R. Feldman.

RT90.N68 2006
A nuts-and-bolts approach to teaching nursing Jeanne Novotny, Mary T. Quinn Griffin and Victoria Schoolcraft.

Technology, Home Economics, and Photography

T15.L485 2006
How invention begins: echoes of old voices in the rise of new machines John H. Lienhard.

T173.8.S6155 2006
Transforming the twentieth century: technical innovations and their consequences Vaclav Smil.

TJ211.H66 2006
Loving the machine: the art and science of Japanese robots Timothy N. Hornyak.

Military Science

UB270.C76 2006
The enemy within: a history of espionage Terry Crowdy.

Publishing, Library Science, and Word Processing

Z246.W63 2007
Robin Williams design workshop Robin Williams and John Tollett.

Z658.U5K37 2006
Literature suppressed on political grounds Nicholas J. Karolides.

Z658.U5S69 2006
Literature suppressed on social grounds Dawn B. Sova.

Z680.3.S38 2006
Blogging and RSS: a librarian's guide Michael P. Sauers.

Z711.92.P5I47 2006
Improving the quality of library services for students with disabilities Peter Hernon and Philip J. Calvert.

Z718.1.S85 2003
Connecting boys with books: what libraries can do Michael Sullivan.

 
 

 

   

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