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April 2006

 

000's General Knowledge

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100's Psychology and Philosophy
200's Religions and Mythology
300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore
400's Languages and Grammar
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
AV Audiovisuals

 

 

 

000's General Knowledge

 

Adobe Creative Suite all-in-one desk reference for dummies / by Jennifer Smith and Jen deHaan.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Publishing, c2004.


Adobe Photoshop CS.
San Jose, CA : Adobe, c2004.


Centers for learning : writing centers and libraries in collaboration / [edited by] James K. Elmborg and Sheril Hook.
Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, 2005.


Design essentials / Luanne Seymour Cohen.
San Jose, Calif. : Adobe Press, 1999.


Explorer's guide to the Semantic Web / Thomas B. Passin.
Greenwich : Manning, c2004.


Illustrator CS bible / Ted Alspach and Jennifer Alspach.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2004.


Information literacy instruction for educators : professional knowledge for an information age / Dawn M. Shinew, Scott Walter,
[editors].
Binghamton, NY : Haworth Information Press, c2003.


Literacy & libraries : learning from case studies / GraceAnne A. DeCandido, editor.
Chicago : Office for Literacy and Outreach Services, American Library Association, 2001.


Centers for learning : writing centers and libraries in collaboration /
Imprint Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, 2005.


Photoshop and Dreamweaver integration : creating high-impact Web pages / Colin Smith.
New York : McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2005.


Photoshop CS bible / Deke McClelland.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Pub., c2004.


Reporters on the battlefield : the embedded press system in historical context / Christopher Paul, James J. Kim.
Santa Monica, CA : Rand, c2004.


Tell me no lies : investigative journalism that changed the world / edited by John Pilger.
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2005.


Tell me no lies : investigative journalism that changed the world / edited by John Pilger.
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, c2005.


The digital designer : 101 graphic design projects for print, the Web, multimedia & motion graphics / Stephen Pite.
Clifton Park, NY : Thomson/Delmar Learning, c2003.


The Photoshop 7 wow! book / Jack Davis.
Berkeley, CA : Peachpit Press, c2003.


The skeptical business searcher : the information advisor's guide to evaluating Web data, sites, and sources / by Robert
Berkman ; foreword by Reva Basch.
Medford, N.J. : Information Today, Inc., 2004.


Using Adobe InDesign CS, Photoshop CS, and Illustrator CS : design professional / Chris Botello and Elizabeth Eisner Reding.
Boston, Mass. : Thompson/Course Technology, c2005.


100's Psychology and Philosophy

 

Being hurt and hurting others : children's narrative accounts and moral judgements of their own interpersonal conflicts /
Cecilia Wainryb, Beverly A. Brehl, Sonia Matwin ; with commentary by Bryan W. Sokol, Stuart Hammond.
Maldon, MA. : Blackwell Publishers, c2005.


Beyond tears : living after losing a child / Carol Barkin ... [et al.] ; as told to Ellen Mitchell.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2004.


Case studies in biomedical research ethics / Timothy F. Murphy.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.


Kindness in a cruel world : the evolution of altruism / Barber, Nigel
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.


Ethics and librarianship / Robert Hauptman ; foreword by Peter Hernon.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2002.


Rights and liberties in the biotech age : why we need a genetic bill of rights / edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Peter Shorett.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.


Taking sides : clashing views on moral issues / selected, edited, and with introductions by Stephen Satris.
Dubuque, IA. : McGraw-Hill, c2006.


Taking sides : clashing views on psychological issues / selected, edited, and with introductions by Brent Slife.
Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill, c2006.


The ethics of assistance : morality and the distant needy / edited by Deen K. Chatterjee.
Cambridge, UK New York, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2004.



200's Religions and Mythology

 

Authentic fakes : religion and American popular culture / David Chidester.
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2005.


Blessed with tourists : the borderlands of religion and tourism in San Antonio / Thomas S. Bremer.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.


Classical Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism : comparing theologies / Bruce D. Chilton and Jacob Neusner.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2004.


La Llorona's children : religion, life, and death in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands / Luis D. Leon.
Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004.



300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore

 

Sustaining financial support for community colleges / Stephen G. Katsinas, James C. Palmer, editors.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2005.


The seven secrets of learning revealed : what your teacher never taught you, because your teacher never knew / Laurence
D. Martel.


What white looks like : African-American philosophers on the whiteness question / edited by George Yancy.
New York : Routledge, 2004.


A nation-state by construction : dynamics of modern Chinese nationalism / Suisheng Zhao.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2004.


Against the beast : a documentary history of American opposition to empire / edited by John Nichols.
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press/Nation Books ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2004.


Are we still a nation at risk two decades later? / William Hayes.
Lanham, Md. : ScarecrowEducation, 2004.


Complicity : how the North promoted, prolonged, and profited from slavery / Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank of the
Hartford Courant ; with Cheryl Magazine, images editor ; foreword by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
New York : Ballantine Books, c2005.


Controversies in science and technology : from maize to menopause / edited by Daniel Lee Kleinman, Abby J. Kinchy, and Jo
Handelsman.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005.


Globalization : what's new / edited by Michael M. Weinstein.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.


God vs. the gavel : religion and the rule of law / Marci A. Hamilton ; foreword by the Hon. Edward R. Becker.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.


Hatless Jack : the president, the fedora, and the history of an American style / Neil Steinberg.
New York : Plume, c2004.


Illicit drug markets / United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
New York : United Nations, c2006.


It's all for sale : the control of global resources / James Ridgeway.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.


Law, society, and democracy : comparative perspectives / special editor of this volume, Richard E. D. Schwartz.
Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2006.


Native American storytelling : a reader of myths and legends / edited by Karl Kroeber.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.


New perspectives on environmental justice : gender, sexuality, and activism / edited by Rachel Stein.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.


Parental support, psychological control, and behavioral control : assessing relevance across time, culture, and method / Brian
K. Barber, Heidi E. Stolz, Joseph A. Olslen ; with commentary by W. Andrews Collins and Margaret Burchinal.
Maldon, MA. : Blackwell Publishers, c2005.


Secret formula : how brilliant marketing and relentless salesmanship made Coca-Cola the best-known product in the world /
Frederick Allen.
New York, NY : HarperBusiness, c1995,1994.


Socialization to civil society : a life-history study of community leaders / Peter Robert Sawyer.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.


Survivors : Cambodian refugees in the United States / Sucheng Chan.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.


Taking sides : clashing views in criminal justice / selected, edited, and with introductions by Thomas J. Hickey.
Dubuque, IA. : McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, c2007.


Taking sides : clashing views in cultural anthropology / selected, edited, and with introductions by Robert L. Welsch and Kirk
M. Endicott.
Guilford, Conn. : McGraw-Hill, 2006.


Taking sides : clashing views on legal issues / selected, edited and with introductions by M. Ethan Katsh
Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill, c2006.


Taking sides. Clashing views in drugs and society / selected, edited, and with introductions by Raymond Goldberg.
Guilford, Conn. : McGraw-Hill, c2006.


An unnatural metropolis : wresting New Orleans from nature / Colten, Craig E.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2005.


des. Clashing views in educational psychology / selected, edited, and with introductions and postscripts by Leonard
Abbeduto.
Dubuque, IA. : McGraw-Hill, c2006.


Taking sides. Clashing views in health and society / selected, edited, and with introductions by Eileen L. Daniel.
Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill, c2006.


Taking sides. Clashing views in science, technology, and society / selected, edited and with introductions by Thomas A.
Easton.
Dubuque, IA. : McGraw-Hill , c2006.


Taking sides. Clashing views on controversial environmental issues / selected, edited, and with introductions by Thomas A.
Easton.
Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill, c2006.


Taking sides. Clashing views on economic issues / selected, edited, and with introductions by Frank J. Bonello.
Dubuque, IA. : McGraw-Hill, 2006.


Texas Gulag : the chain gang years, 1875-1925 / Gary Brown.
Plano, Tex. : Republic of Texas Press, 2002.


The birth of Head Start : preschool education policies in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations / Maris A. Vinovskis.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.


The most activist supreme court in history : the road to modern judicial conservatism / Thomas M. Keck.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.


Hilton Head Island, SC : Cameo Publications, c2005.


Toward safer food : perspectives on risk and priority setting / edited by Sandra A. Hoffmann, Michael R. Taylor.
Washington, D.C. : Resources for the Future, c2005.


400's Languages and Grammar



500's Math and Science


Freshwater microbiology : biodiversity and dynamic interactions of microorganisms in the freshwater environment / David C.
Sigee.
Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, c2005.


600's Medicine and Technology


Biomedicine and the human condition : challenges, risks, and rewards / Michael G. Sargent.
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.


Conquering your child's chronic pain : a pediatrician's guide for reclaiming a normal childhood / Lonnie K. Zeltzer and Christina
Blackett Schlank.
New York : HarperResource, c2005.


Designing borders for sun and shade / Bob Hyland, [guest editor].
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c2006.


Dr. Susan Love's breast book / Susan M. Love, with Karen Lindsey ; illustrations by Marcia Williams.
Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo, c2005.


Drugs and the human body : with implications for society / Ken Liska.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2000.


Good growing : why organic farming works / Leslie A. Duram.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.


Insights from insects : what bad bugs can teach us / Gilbert Waldbauer.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.


Kids in the syndrome mix of ADHD, LD, Asperger's, Tourette's, bipolar, and more! : the one stop guide for parents, teachers,
and other professionals / Martin Kutscher with contributions by Tony Attwood and Robert R. Wolff.
Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley, 2005.


Looking forward : an optimist's guide to retirement / Ellen Freudenheim ; illustrations by Stephen Quinlan.
New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004.


Revealing the hidden social code : social stories for people with autistic spectrum disorders / Marie Howley and Eileen Arnold
; foreword by Carol Gray.
London ; Philadelphia : J. Kingsley Publishers, 2005.


The complete academic search manual : a systematic approach to successful and inclusive hiring / Lauren A. Vicker and
Harriette J. Royer.
Sterling, VA : Stylus Pub., c2005.


The drama of the gifted child : the search for the true self / Alice Miller ; translated by Ruth Ward.
New York : Perennial, 1997.


Typographic design : form and communication / Rob Carter, Ben Day, Philip Meggs.
New York : John Wiley & Sons, c2002.


Understanding solids : the science of materials / Richard J.D. Tilley.
Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ, USA J. Wiley, c2004.


700's Arts and Recreation


Adapting buildings and cities for climate change : a 21st century survival guide / Sue Roaf, David Crichton and Fergus Nicol.
Amsterdam : Elsevier/Architechtural Press, c2005.


Bread, wine & money : the windows of the trades at Chartres Cathedral / Jane Welch Williams.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.


Cubism and its histories / David Cottington.
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.


Design through discovery : the elements and principles / Marjorie Elliott Bevlin.
Belmont, CA. : Wadsworth Group/Thomson Learning, c1994.


Encyclopedia of percussion / edited by John H. Beck.
New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 1995.


Graphic design solutions / Robin Landa.
Clifton Park, NY : Thomson Delmar Learning, c2006.


Hellenistic art : from Alexander the Great to Augustus / Lucilla Burn.
Los Angeles, CA : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004.


Jackson Pollock's Blue poles / Anthony White, editor.
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia ; London : Distributed in the United Kingdom by Thames & Hudson ; Seattle, WA. :
Distributed in the United States of America by University of Washington Press, c2002.


Joe R. Lansdale's The drive-in / Joe R. Lansdale, story ; Christopher Golden, sequential adaptation ; Andres Guinaldo, artwork
; Jacen Burrows, cover artwork ; Greg Waller, cover color.
Rantoul, IL. : Avatar Press, c2005.


Olbinski : posters for performing arts / Olbinski ; introduction, Richard Wilde.
New York : Hudson Hills Press : Nathan Editions ; [Lanham, MD.] : Distributed in the United States, its territories and
possessions, and Canada by National Book Network, c2004.


Percussionists : a biographical dictionary / Stephen L. Barnhart ; John Gillespie, advisory editor.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.


Small spirits : Native American dolls from the National Museum of the American Indian / by Mary Jane Lenz.
Washington, D.C. ; Seattle : Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in association with University of Washington
Press, c2004.


Three decades of American printmaking : the Brandywine Workshop collection / introduction by Halima Taha ; [editor, Allan
Edmunds].
New York : Hudson Hills Press, 2004.


Timpani and percussion / Jeremy Montagu.
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c2002.


800's Literature


Cosmopolitan vistas : American regionalism and literary value / Tom Lutz.
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004.


Her husband : Hughes and Plath--a marriage / Diane Middlebrook.
New York : Viking, 2003.


Teaching stories : an anthology on the power of learning and literature / selected by Robert Coles, with Trevor Hall, Ernest
Patterson, and Michael Coles.
New York : Modern Library, 2004.


The Cambridge companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe / edited by Cindy Weinstein.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.


The contemporary African American novel : its folk roots and modern literary branches / Bernard W. Bell.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.


The Prentice Hall anthology of African American women's literature / Valerie Lee, editor.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006.


900's Geography and History


A Texas patriot on trial in Mexico : José Antonio Navarro and the Texan Santa Fe Expedition / with translation, introduction &
notes by Andrés Reséndez.
Dallas, Tx. : De Golyer Library & William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, c12005.


Africa since independence : a comparative history / Paul Nugent.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.


Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 / George Reid Andrews.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Continental crossroads : remapping U.S.-Mexico borderlands history / edited by Samuel Truett and Elliott Young.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.


Japanese cultural encounters & how to handle them / Hiroko C. Kataoka with Tetsuya Kusumoto.
Lincolnwood, Ill., USA : Passport Books, c1991.


Taking sides: clashing views in world history / selected, edited, and with introductions by Joseph R. Mitchell and Helen Buss
Mitchell.
Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill, c2006.


The demise of Communist East Europe : 1989 in context / Robin Okey.
London : Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, 2004.


The Japanese way : aspects of behavior, attitudes, and customs of the Japanese / Noriko Takada, Rita L. Lampkin.
Lincolnwood, Ill. : Passport Books, c1997.


Western lives : a biographical history of the American West / edited by Richard W. Etulain. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.


Rising tide : the great Mississippi flood of 1927 and how it changed America / Barry, John M.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1998.


Biographies

 


Fiction


A fine dark line / Joe R. Lansdale.
New York : Warner Books, 2003.


High cotton : selected stories / of Joe R. Lansdale.
Urbana, IL : Golden Gryphon Press, 2000.


Jason's first day / written by Valerie Busic ; illustrated by Jeff Meyers.
[Gaithersburg, MD.] : Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation, c2004.


Pilikia is my business / Mark Troy.
Oakville, ON : LTDBooks, c2001.


The bottoms / Joe R. Lansdale.
New York : Mysterious Press, c2000.



Audiovisuals


Alex [videorecording] : the life of a child / Mandy Films ; produced by Nigel McKeand ; associate producer, John Ziffren ;
teleplay by Carol Evan McKeand & Nigel McKeand ; directed by Robert Markowitz.
Toronto : Mandy Films ; 2003, c1986.


New standards for the new student? [videorecording] / presented by Starlink and the Texas Community College Teachers
Association.
[Dallas, TX.] : Starlink, c2006.


No more baths! / produced by New Movie Corp. exclusively for Feature Films For Families ; executive producer, Forrest S.
Baker III ; written and directed by Tim Nelson ; producers, Rick B. Larsen and Jeff T. Miller ; story by Forrest S. Baker III.
Murray, UT : Feature Films for Families, c1997.


The gamble [videorecording] / Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica SRL ; screenplay, Enrico Vanzina ... [et al.] ;
producers, Mario and Vittorio Cecchi Gori ; director, Carlo Vanzina.
Quebec, Canada : Direct Source Special Products, 1999, c1988.


A world inscribed [videorecording] : the illuminated manuscript / Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
Princeton, NJ. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2004.


Aesthetics [videorecording] : philosophy of the arts / Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Princeton, NJ. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2005.


American driver improvement [Texas] / U.S. Interactive, Inc.
[Houston, TX.] : U.S. Interactive, c2004.


An introduction to the Italian Renaissance [videorecording] / Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Princeton, NJ. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2004.


Beyond the classical [videorecording] : Byzantine and later Greek art / [written and] directed by Rein Kotov and Graham
Addicott ; First Freedom Productions ; Aufilm Productions.
Princeton, NJ. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2005.


Buffy the vampire slayer, the chosen collection : guide / created by Joss Whedon ; Twentieth Century Fox Corporation ;
Mutant Enemy, Inc. ; Kuzui Enterprises ; Sandollar Television.
Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2005.

 

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