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Friday Oct 23, 2009

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New Books in Language & Literature

Fifty key figures in science fiction

The SAGE handbook of media processes and effects

The gift of Scruffy : a novel

Twilight director's notebook : the story of how we made the movie based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer

The best laid schemes : selected poetry and prose of Robert Burns

Haunted images : film, ethics, testimony and the Holocaust

Milton: Man and Thinker

Godard : a portrait of the artist at seventy

Hunger

The best short stories of Dostoevsky

Basketball Jones

Writing in a visual age

Seer

Vampire game

Writing toward home : tales and lessons to find your way

Cat on a blue Monday

The dark interval : towards a theology of story

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New Books in History

General History

A concise history of modern Korea : from the late nineteenth century to the present

China's last empire : the great Qing

Elizabeth of York

The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650 : the structure of power

France and its spaces of war : experience, memory, image

My China diary, 1956-88

Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland

The Afghanistan wars

Culture, polity, and economy

Roman pottery : fine-ware imports

The Gyanendra Pandey omnibus.

A history of dentistry in the US Army to World War II

Cities of light [videorecording] : the rise and fall of Islamic Spain

Preddy, the mustang ace [videorecording]

American History

Family sentence : the search for my Cuban-revolutionary, prison-yard, mythic-hero, deadbeat dad

African women immigrants in the United States : crossing transnational borders

Dancing in the dark : a cultural history of the Great Depression

Judging Bush

Racial justice in the age of Obama

Zamumo's gifts : Indian-European exchange in the colonial Southeast

Lift every voice : the NAACP and the making of the civil rights movement

Chicano studies : the genesis of a discipline

Bluejackets and contrabands : African Americans and the Union Navy

Four centuries of Dutch-American relations, 1609-2009

Open wound : the long view of race in America

Howard L. Bingham's Black Panthers, 1968.

Family affair : what It means to be African American today

NAACP : celebrating a century : 100 years in pictures

Yaqui women : contemporary life histories

Slavery in the cities : the South, 1820-1860

Local History

The classic Maya

Why New Orleans matters

Letters from New Orleans

My grampa's woods : the Adirondacks

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Thursday Oct 22, 2009

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New Books in Political Science

Accountable : making America as good as its promise

Democratization by elections : a new mode of transition

Attack politics : negativity in presidential campaigns since 1960

Nations have the right to kill : Hitler, the Holocaust, and war

Usable theory : analytic tools for social and political research

Embodiments : from the body to the body politic

Reserved! : how parliament debated reservations 1995-2007

Local citizenship in recent countries of immigration : Japan in comparative perspective

Practical ethics in public administration

American democracy in peril : eight challenges to America's future

Unmasking administrative evil

Non-state actors and international law

Engines of democracy : politics and policymaking in state legislatures

Sources : American government

Public administration : understanding management, politics, and law in the public sector

Women in peace politics

Democratic laboratories : policy diffusion among the American states

European immigration : a sourcebook

Democracy in America

Party politics in America

Understanding American poliltics and government

Government and politics in South Asia

The interest group society

The rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000 : a brief history with documents

Congress and its members

The American democracy

Strategies for research in constructivist international relations

Democracy in America

On liberty

American government : brief version

Imagined communities : reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

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New Books in Social Sciences

The market revolution in America : liberty, ambition, and the eclipse of the common good

Social change 2.0 : a blueprint for reinventing our world

Modeling and analysis of enterprise and information systems : from requirements to realization

Tilling the hateful earth : agricultural production and trade in the late antique East

Innovation policies and international trade rules : the textile and clothing industry in developing countries

The best kept secret : single black fathers

Why we cooperate

Creating an opportunity society

Oil 101

Questioning the veil : open letters to Muslim women

A guide to lean six sigma management skills

Democracy in social movements

After America's midlife crisis

Designing management information systems

From the ground up : translating geography into community through neighbor networks

Mastering fashion marketing

The spinning world : a global history of cotton textiles, 1200-1850

How to set up & run a fashion label

Hong Kong mobile : making a global population

Start your own fashion accessories business : your step-by-step guide to success

Now or never : why we must act now to end climate change and create a sustainable future

The conversation : how Black men and women can build loving, trusting relationships

Civic engagement in the wake of Katrina

Education, participatory action research, and social change : international perspectives

Leading the lean enterprise transformation

Social theory : roots and branches : readings

Population : an introduction to concepts and issues

Classic readings in sociology

The sociological imagination

Do it right the second time : benchmarking best practices in the quality change process

To protect and to serve [electronic resource] : policing in an age of terrorism

Supply chain management with APO [electronic resource] : structures, modelling approaches and implementation of SAP SCM 2008

An introduction to mathematical analysis for economic theory and econometrics

Business information systems

Six sigma for the new millennium : a CSSBB guidebook

In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic

Solidarity divided : the crisis in organized labor and a new path toward social justice

Surviving the new economy

Outlearning the wolves : surviving and thriving in a learning organization

More than just race : being black and poor in the inner city

What social classes owe to each other

Why David sometimes wins : leadership, organization, and strategy in the California farm worker movement

Living the body : embodiment, womanhood and identity in contemporary India

Stealing empire : P2P, intellectual property and hip-hop subversion

GAAS Guide 2009 A Comprehensive Restatement of Standards for Auditing, Attestation, Compilation, and Review.

Analyzing new profit opportunities : a guide to making business projects financially successful

Understanding capitalism : competition, command, and change

Executive EQ : emotional intelligence in leadership and organizations

Powershift : knowledge, wealth, and violence at the edge of the 21st century

Who rules America? : challenges to corporate and class dominance

America's kingdom : mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier

Toward a sustainable and secure water future : a leadership role for the U.S. Geological Survey

Essentials of strategic management

Microeconomics

Reviving Ophelia : saving the selves of adolescent girls

Composing a life

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New Books in Psychology, Philosophy, and Religion

The psychology of happiness : a good human life

Ethics and experience : life beyond moral theory

Philosophical logic

$Personal identity and fractured selves : perspectives from philosophy, ethics, and neuroscience$

The Cambridge dictionary of psychology

How modernity forgets

Jewish ethics as dialogue : using spiritual language to re-imagine a better world

The civility solution : what to do when people are rude

African religions : symbol, ritual, and community

Ecotheology : voices from South and North

India analysed

The etiquette of to-day.

Wondrous healing : shamanism, human evolution, and the origin of religion

Fundamentalisms and society : reclaiming the sciences, the family, and education

Creators on creating : awakening and cultivating the imaginative mind

The boundless circle : caring for creatures and creation

Magic at work : Camelot, creative leadership, and everyday miracles

Vanishing boundaries : the religion of mainline Protestant baby boomers

Social consequences of religious belief

The future of religion : secularization, revival and cult formation

Stretching lessons : the daring that starts from within

Life work transitions.com : putting your spirit online

The stories we live by : personal myths and the making of the self

Individual charts : plain & simple : learning and application guide.

Jubilee time : celebrating women, spirit, and the advent of age

Women and creativity

The creative process : a symposium

Walking on water : reflections on faith & art

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