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April 2005

 

000's General Knowledge

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2005: March

100's Psychology and Philosophy
200's Religions and Mythology
300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore
500's Math and Science
600's Medicine and Technology
700's Arts and Recreation
800's Literature
900's Geography and History
B Biographies
F Fiction
JUV Juvenile Literature
VT Audiovisuals

 

 

 


000's General Knowledge

 

Foundation actionscript for Macromedia Flash MX 2004 / Sham Bhangal.
Birmingham : Friends of ED, c2004.


Geographic information : how to find it, how to use it / Jenny Marie Johnson.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.


Guide to reference and information sources in the zoological sciences / Diane Schmidt.
Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2003.


Teaching information literacy : 35 practical, standards-based exercises for college students / Joanna M. Burkhardt, Mary C.
MacDonald, Andree J. Rathemacher.
Chicago : American Library Association, 2003.


The art of the book proposal : from focused idea to finished proposal / Eric Maisel.
New York : J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2004.




100's Psychology and Philosophy


Descartes's theory of mind / Desmond M. Clarke.
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.


The 8th habit : from effectiveness to greatness / Stephen R. Covey.
New York : Free Press, 2004.


200's Religions and Mythology

 

Faith and feminism : a holy alliance / Helen LaKelly Hunt.
New York : Atria Books, 2004.


On the reliability of the Old Testament / K.A. Kitchen.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c2003.


The faiths of our fathers : what America's founders really believed / Alf Mapp, Jr.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.


Tree of souls : the mythology of Judaism / Howard Schwartz.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Without a doubt : answering the 20 toughest faith questions / Kenneth Richard Samples.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Books, c2004.


300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore

 

Collaborative learning techniques : a handbook for college faculty / Elizabeth F. Barkley, K. Patricia Cross, and Claire Howell
Major.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2005.


Take back higher education : race, youth, and the crisis of democracy in the post-Civil Rights Era / by Henry A. Giroux and
Susan Searls Giroux.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.


Letters to a teacher / Sam Pickering.
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2004.


Are you there alone?" : the unspeakable crime of Andrea Yates / Suzanne O'Malley.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.

50 years of Dissent / edited by Nicolaus Mills and Michael Walzer ; with an introduction by Michael Cohen.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


A revolution in favor of government : origins of the U.S. Constitution and the making of the American state / Max M. Edling.
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.


A woman in the great outdoors : adventures in the National Park Service / Melody Webb.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2003.


American gulag : inside U.S. immigration prisons / Mark Dow.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.


An expensive way to make bad people worse : an essay on prison reform from an insider's perspective / by Jens Soering.
New York, N.Y. : Lantern Books, 2004.


Black ice : the invisible threat of cyber-terrorism / Dan Verton.
New York : McGraw-Hill/Osborne, c2003.


Civil rights chronicle : the African-American struggle for freedom / primary consultant, Clayborne Carson ; writers, Mark
Bauerlein ... [et al.] ; foreword, Myrlie Evers-Williams, ; introduction, Clayborne Carson.
Lincolnwood, Ill. : Legacy, c2003.


Energy at the crossroads : global perspectives and uncertainties / Vaclav Smil.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.


Folk and fairy tales : a handbook / D.L. Ashliman.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.


For better and for worse : welfare reform and the well-being of children and families / Greg J. Duncan, P. Lindsay
Chase-Lansdale, editors.
New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2001.


Forensic science : an illustrated dictionary / John C. Brenner.
Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2004.


How to talk to a liberal (if you must) : the world according to Ann Coulter / Ann Coulter.
New York : Crown Forum, c2004.


Inventing beauty : a history of the innovations that have made us beautiful / Teresa Riordan.
New York : Broadway Books, 2004.


Invisible Texans : women and minorities in Texas history / edited by Donald Willett, Stephen Curley.
Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2005.


It's not the media : the truth about pop culture's influence on children / Karen Sternheimer.
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2003.

Just work / Russell Muirhead.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.


Pay it down : from debt to wealth on $10 a day / Jean Chatzky.
New York : Portfolio, 2004.


Power to the people : how the coming energy revolution will transform an industry, change our lives, and maybe even save
the planet / Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.


Rapunzel's daughters : what women's hair tells us about women's lives / Rose Weitz.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.


Red sky at morning : America and the crisis of the global environment / James Gustave Speth.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


Religion on trial : a handbook with cases, laws, and documents / James John Jurinski.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c2004.


Survey of historic costume : a history of Western dress / Phyllis G. Tortora, Keith Eubank.
New York : Fairchild Publications, c1998.


The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America / Erik Larson.
New York : Random House, c2004.


The digital person : technology and privacy in the information age / Daniel J. Solove.
New York : New York University Press, c2004.


The mind at work : valuing the intelligence of the American worker / Mike Rose.
New York : Viking, 2004.


The second bill of rights : FDR's unfinished revolution and why we need it more than ever / Cass R. Sunstein.
New York : Basic Books, c2004.


The whole equation : a history of Hollywood / David Thomson.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.


TMI 25 years later : the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident and its impact / Bonnie A. Osif, Anthony J. Baratta,
Thomas W. Conkling.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2004.


We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda / Philip Gourevitch.
New York : Picador : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c1998.


What would Jefferson do? : a return to democracy / Thom Hartmann.
New York : Harmony Books, c2004.


Why the electoral college is bad for America / George C. Edwards, III ; foreword by Neal R. Peirce.
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2004.


500's Math and Science

 

Biomes of earth : terrestrial, aquatic, and human-dominated / Susan L. Woodward.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.


Cats : Smithsonian answer book / John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin ; photographs by Art Wolfe.
Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books, c2004.

Conserving words : how American nature writers shaped the environmental movement / Daniel J. Philippon.
Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2004.


Cosmic adventure : other secrets beyond the night sky / Bob Berman ; illustrations by Alan McKnight.
New York : HarperCollins, c2000.


Deserts : the living drylands / Sara Oldfield ; photography by Bruce Coleman Collection ; foreword by Mark Rose.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.


Everything's relative : and other fables from science and technology / Tony Rothman.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2003.


Frozen earth : the once and future story of ice ages / Doug Macdougall.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.


J. Robert Oppenheimer and the American century / David C. Cassidy.
New York, N.Y. : PI Press, c2005.


Key to the angiosperm flora of Brazos and surrounding counties : key to genera / Monique Dubrule Reed.
College Station, Tex. : Copy Corner, 2005.


Life at the zoo : behind the scenes with the animal doctors / Phillip T. Robinson.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.


New worlds in the cosmos : the discovery of exoplanets / Michel Mayor and Pierre-Yves Frei.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.


Vanity, vitality, and virility : the science behind the products you love to buy / John Emsley.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


600's Medicine and Technology

 

Basic animal nutrition and feeding / W.G. Pond ... [et al.].
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2004.


Get me out of here : my recovery from borderline personality disorder / Rachel Reiland.
Center City, MN : Hazelden, 2004.


Hallelujah! the welcome table / by Maya Angelou.
New York : Random House, c2004.


Hope in hell : inside the the world of Doctors Without Borders / Dan Bortolotti.
Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2004.


How to build animal housing / Carol Ekarius.
North Adams, MA : Storey Pub., 2004.


Leave the office earlier : the productivity pro shows you how to do more in less time-- and feel great about it / Laura Stack.
New York : Broadway Books, 2004.


Making the system work for your child with ADHD / Peter S. Jensen.
New York : Guilford Press, c2004.


Sojourner : an insider's view of the Mars Pathfinder mission / Andrew Mishkin.
New York : Berkeley Books, 2003.


Splendid solution : Jonas Salk and the conquest of polio / Jeffrey Kluger.
New York : G.P. Putnam's sons, c2004.


Storey's guide to raising sheep / Paula Simmons & Carol Ekarius.
Pownal, Vt. : Storey Books, c2001.


Stress & health : biological and psychological interactions / William R. Lovallo.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2005.


The Edison gene : ADHD and the gift of the hunter child / Thom Hartmann.
Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, c2003.


The educated parent : recent trends in raising children / Joseph D. Sclafani.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Pub., 2004.


The encyclopedia of Parkinson's disease / Anthony D. Mosley and Deborah S. Romaine.
New York : Facts on File, c2004.


Yoga body, Buddha mind / Cyndi Lee.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2004.


700's Arts and Recreation

 

A basic history of western art / H.W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Education, 2006.


Action! cartooning / written and illustrated by Ben Caldwell.
New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c2004.


Animation : the whole story / Howard Beckerman.
New York : Allworth Press, c2003.


Blackout : the untold story of Jackie Robinson's first spring training / Chris Lamb.
Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.


Capturing sound : how technology has changed music / Mark Katz.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.


Encyclopedia of American folk art / Gerard C. Wertkin, editor ; Lee Kogan, associate editor ; in association with the American
Folk Art Museum.
New York : Routledge, 2004.


South of the Sahara : selected works of African art / Constantine Petridis.
[Cleveland] : Cleveland Museum of Art ; [Seattle, WA : Distributed by the University of Washington Press], 2003.


Sport as symbol : images of the athlete in art, literature and song / Mari Womack.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2003.


Striptease : the untold history of the girlie show / Rachel Shteir.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


The drama of opera : exotic and irrational entertainment / Myer Fredman ; with a foreword by Dame Joan Sutherland and
Maestro Richard Bonynge.
Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, c2003.


The Oxford dictionary of art / edited by Ian Chilvers.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.



800's Literature

 

A handbook of critical approaches to literature / Wilfred L. Guerin ... [et al.].
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


All things Shakespeare : an encyclopedia of Shakespeare's world / Kirstin Olsen.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2002.


Alone in a room : secrets of successful screenwriters / John Scott Lewinski.
Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, c2004.


Collected poems / Donald Justice.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.

Encyclopedia of literary modernism / edited by Paul Poplawski.
Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2003.


Fortune's wheel : Dickens and the iconography of women's time / Elizabeth A. Campbell.
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2003.


Narratives of Greater Mexico : essays on Chicano literary history, genre, and borders / Hector Calderon.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2004.


Natural life : Thoreau's worldly transcendentalism / David M. Robinson.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.


Real time : accelerating narrative from Balzac to Zola / David F. Bell.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.


The age of Milton : an encyclopedia of major 17th-century British and American authors / edited by Alan Hager.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.


The collected writings of Ambrose Bierce, with an introduction by Clifton Fadiman.
Bridgewater, New Jersey, Replica Books 1999.


Wakeful anguish : a literary biography of William Humphrey / Ashby Bland Crowder.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2004.


900's Geography and History

 

A journey through Texas; or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier / by Frederick Law Olmsted ; edited by Randolph B.
Campbell.
Dallas, Tex. : DeGolyer Library and William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2004.


African-American political leaders / Charles W. Carey, Jr.
New York : Facts on File, c2004.


Bushworld : enter at your own risk / Maureen Dowd.
New York : G.P. Putnam's sons, 2004.


Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940 : how Americans lived through the "Roaring Twenties" and the Great Depression /
David E. Kyvig.
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, c2004.


Founding myths : stories that hide our patriotic past / Ray Raphael.
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2004.


Imperial reckoning : the untold story of the end of empire in Kenya / Caroline Elkins.
New York : H. Holt, 2005.


Man of the century : Winston Churchill and his legend since 1945 / John Ramsden.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.


Osama : the making of a terrorist / Jonathan Randal.
New York : Knopf ; Distributed by Random House, 2004.


The battle for the American mind : a brief history of a nation's thought / Carl J. Richard.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2004.


The closing of the Western mind : the rise of faith and the fall of reason / Charles Freeman.
New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.


The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution : the bloodiest decade, 1910-1920 / Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c2004.


Two of the old three hundred : early Austin colonists William Gates and Micajah Byrd / by Richard G. Lee.
[sl. : sn.], c2005.


Biographies

 

E.E. Cummings : a biography / by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno.
Naperville, Ill. : Sourcebooks, c2004.


Ramblin' man : the life and times of Woody Guthrie / Ed Cray.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2004.


Juvenile Literature

 

In my family / paintings and stories by Carmen Lomas Garza ; as told to Harriet Rohmer ; edited by David Schecter ; Spanish
translation by Francisco X. Alarcon = En mi familia / cuadros y relatos de Carmen Lomas Garza ; contados a Harriet Rohmer ;
editado
San Francisco, Calif. : Children's Book Press/Libros Para NiSnos, c1996.


Mediopollito = Half-Chicken / Alma Flor Ada ; ilustrado por / illustrated by Kim Howard ; traducido por / translated by Rosalma
Zubizarreta.
New York : Random House, 1995.


Tortillitas para mama and other nursery rhymes : Spanish and English / selected and translated by Margot C. Griego ... [et al.] ;
illustrated by Barbara Cooney.
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1981.


Uncle Nacho's hat = El sombrero del Tio Nacho / adapted by Harriet Rohmer ; illustrations by Veg Reisberg ; Spanish version,
Rosalma Zubizarreta.
Emeryville, CA : Children's Book Press ; [S.l.] : Distributed to the book trade by the Talman Co., c1989.


Making magic windows : creating papel picado/cut-paper artwith Carmen Lomas Garza / Carmen Lomas Garza
San Francisco, Calif. : Children's Book Press/Libros Para Ninos, c1999.


Prietita and the ghost woman / story by Gloria Anzaldua ; pictures by Cristina Gonzalez = Prietita y la llorona / escrito por
Gloria Anzaldua ; ilustrado por Christina Gonzalez.
San Francisco, Calif. : Children's Book Press, c1995.


My diary from here to there / story, Amada Irma Perez ; illustration, Maya Christina Gonzalez = Mi diario de aqui hasta alla /
cuento, Amada Irma Perez ; ilustraciones, Maya Christina Gonzalez.
San Francisco : Children's Book Press, 2002.


Gathering the sun : an alphabet in Spanish and English / Alma Flor Ada ; illustrated by Simon Silva ; english translation by Rosa
Zubizarreta.
New York : HarperCollins, c1995.


Calling the doves = El canto de las palomas / story by Juan Felipe Herrera ; pictures by Elly Simmons.
San Francisco : Children's Book Press, c1995.


Fiction


Chocolat : a novel / Joanne Harris.
New York : Doubleday, 2000.


Granada : a novel / Radwa Ashour ; translated from the Arabic by William Granara ; with a foreword by Maria Rosa Menocal.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003.


Outlander / Diana Gabaldon.
New York, N.Y. : Dell, 1992.


The hours / Michael Cunningham.
New York : Picador USA : Distributed by Holtzbrinck Publishers, [2002].


The librarian / Larry Beinhart.
New York : Nation Books, c2004.


The narrows : a novel / by Michael Connelly.
New York : Little, Brown, c2004.


To the last man : a novel of the First World War / Jeff Shaara.
New York : Ballantine Books, 2004.


Villages / John Updike.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.


Waking Raphael / Leslie Forbes.
New York : Bantam Books, 2004.


Audiovisuals

 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy [videorecording] : a celebration of his life and times / Reader's Digest Video original Production ;
Reader's Digest Home Entertainment in association with CEL Communications, Inc. ; series producer: Maurice Paleau ; written
by Ves
Pleasantville, NY : Reader's Digest Home Entertainment Division, c1988.


A brilliant madness [videorecording] / produced by Randall MacLowry ; directed by Marc Samels ; written by Marc Samels and
Randall MacLowry.
Alexandria, VA : PBS Home Video, 2002.


Reconstruction [videorecording] : the second Civil War / WGBH Boston ; original concept developed by Paul Taylor.
Alexandria, Va. : PBS Home Video, c2004,c2003.


Return with honor [videorecording] / American Film Foundation produced and directed by Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders
; written by Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders and Christine Wiser.
[Alexandria, VA] : PBS Home Video ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2004.


RFK [videorecording] / written and directed by David Grubin ; produced by David Grubin & Sarah Colt.
Hollywood, CA : Paramount, 2004.


The Battle of the Bulge [videorecording] : the deadliest battle of World War II / produced by Lennon Documentary Group.
Boston, Mass. : WGBH, 2004.


The Donner party [videorecording] / produced by Lisa Ades and Ric Burns ; written and directed by Ric Burns.
Alexandria, Va. : PBS Home Video, 2004.


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