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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

 

A critical bibliography of Shirley Jackson, American writer (1919-1965) : reviews, criticism, adaptations / Paul N. Reinsch.
Lewiston, N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, c2001.


HTML for the World Wide Web visual quickstart guide : with XHTML and CSS / by Elizabeth Castro.
Berkeley, CA : Peachpit Press, c2003.


The Linux cookbook : tips and techniques for everyday use / Michael Stutz.
San Francisco : No Starch Press, c2004.


The Web library : building a world class personal library with free Web resources / Nicholas G. Tomaiuolo ; edited by Barbara
Quint.
Medford, N.J. : Information Today, 2004.


Understanding information systems : what they do and why we need them / Lee Ratzan.
Chicago : American Library Association, 2004.


 

100's Psychology and Philosophy



Coping with anxiety : 10 simple ways to relieve anxiety, fear & worry / Edmund Bourne & Lorna Garano.
Oakland, CA : New Harbinger, c2003.


Ethics in public relations : a guide to best practice / Patricia J. Parsons.
London ; Sterling, VA : Kogan Page, 2004.


Exuberance : the passion for life / by Kay Redfield Jamison.
New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004.


Moral courage / Rushworth M. Kidder.
New York : W. Morrow, c2005.


The child's right to play : a global approach / edited by Rhonda L. Clements and Leah Fiorentino.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.


200's Religions and Mythology

 

Human rights and the world's major religions.
Westport, CT : Praeger, 2005.


Ishmael instructs Isaac : an introduction to the Quran for Bible readers / John Kaltner.
Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical press, c1999.


Islamic societies in practice / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.


The Buddhist experience in America / Diane Morgan.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.



300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore



Aligning for learning : strategies for teaching effectiveness / Donald H. Wulff, editor ; Wayne H. Jacobson ... [et al.], associate
editors.
Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub. Co., c2005.


Bridging the gap : leadership, technology, and organizational change for university deans and chairpersons / edited by
Michael E. Johnson, Donald E. Hanna, Don Olcott, Jr.
Madison, Wis. : Atwood Pub., c2003.


Tuned in and fired up : how teaching can inspire real learning in the classroom / Sam M. Intrator.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.


The Queen of Education : rules for making school work / LouAnne Johnson.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2004.

The red pencil : convictions from experience in education / Theodore R. Sizer.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


From neurons to neighborhoods : the science of early childhood development / Committee on Integrating the Science of Early
Childhood Development ; Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah A. Phillips, editors.
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c2000.


Leave no child behind : preparing today's youth for tomorrow's world / James P. Comer ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


Good citizenship in America / David M. Ricci.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.


Greed and good : understanding and overcoming the inequality that limits our lives / Sam Pizzigati.
New York : Apex Press, c2004.


Contemporary theories and practice in education / by Yves Bertrand.
Madison, Wis. : Atwood Pub., c2003.


Preschool classroom management : 150 teacher-tested techniques / Laverne Warner and Sharon Anne Lynch.
Beltsville, MD : Gryphon House, c2004.


Same, different, equal : rethinking single-sex schooling / Rosemary C. Salomone.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.


SAT vocabulary for dummies / by Suzee Vlk.
New York : Wiley Pub., c2003.


Presidential campaigns : from George Washington to George W. Bush / Paul F. Boller, Jr.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.Privilege : Harvard and the education of the ruling class / Ross Gregory Douthat.
New York : Hyperion, c2005.


Return of the "L" word : a liberal vision for the new century / Douglas S. Massey.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.


Return to greatness : how America lost its sense of purpose and what it needs to do to recover it / Alan Wolfe.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.


An empire of wealth : the epic history of American economic power / John Steele Gordon.
New York : HarperCollins, c2004.


Beyond the enlightenment : lives and thoughts of social theorists / Roger A. Salerno.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.


Business confronts terrorism : risks and responses / Dean C. Alexander.
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press/Terrace Books, c2004.


Can gun control work? / James B. Jacobs.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.


Conspiracy of fools : a true story / Kurt Eichenwald.
New York : Broadway Books, c2005.


CQ's state fact finder : rankings across America.
Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly Inc., c2005--


Crimes against nature : how George W. Bush and his corporate pals are plundering the country and high-jacking our
democracy / Robert F. Kennedy.
New York : HarperCollins, c2004.


Criminal investigation / Michael J. Palmiotto.
Dallas, TX : Iniversity Press of American, Inc., 2004.


Does God belong in public schools? / Kent Greenawalt.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2004.


Famous American crimes and trials / edited by Frankie Y. Bailey and Steven Chermak.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.


First blue : the story of World War II Ace Butch Voris and the creation of the Blue Angels / Robert K. Wilcox ; foreword by
James Lovell.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, c2004.


First, do no harm : the cure for medical malpractice / Ira E. Williams.
Greenville, S.C. : Quality Books, 2004.


Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything / Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
New York : William Morrow, c2005.


Global perspectives on social issues : juvenile justice systems / by Paola Zalkind and Rita J. Simon.
Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2004.


Global warming : the complete briefing / John T. Houghton.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University, 2004.


Gun violence : the real costs / Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

Halting the sexual predators among us : preventing attack, rape, and lust homicide / Duane L. Dobbert.
Westport, Conn. : Prager, 2004.


Helping schoolchildren with chronic health conditions : a practical guide / Daniel L. Clay.
New York : Guilford Press, c2004.


Illegal drugs, economy and society in the Andes / Francisco E. Thoumi.
Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Baltimore : [Distributed by] Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.


In praise of black women / Simone Schwarz-Bart, with Andre Schwarz-Bart ; translated by Rose-Myriam Rejouis, [Stephanie
K. Daval], and Val Vinokurov ; with a foreword by Howard Dodson.
[Madison, WI] : The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001-<2003


Inside the minds of mass murderers : why they kill / Katherine Ramsland.
Westport, CT : Praeger Publishers, 2005.


Judgment days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America / Nick Kotz.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.


Juvenile drug courts and teen substance abuse / [edited by Jeffrey A. Butts and John Roman].
Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2004.

Juvenile justice in the making / David S. Tanenhaus.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Juvenile justice sourcebook : past, present, and future / [edited by] Albert R. Roberts.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.


Keeping us safe : secret intelligence and homeland security / Arthur S. Hulnick.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.


Law and bioethics : an introduction / Jerry Menikoff.
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2001.


Legalizing marijuana : drug policy reform and prohibition politics / Rudolph J. Gerber ; foreword by John Sperling.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.


Lipstick jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran / Azadeh Moaveni.
New York : Public Affairs, 2005.


Mediated : how the media shapes your world and the way you live in it / Thomas de Zengotita.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2004.


Perfect madness : motherhood in the age of anxiety / Judith Warner.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2005.


Politics and passion : toward a more egalitarian liberalism / Michael Walzer.
New Haven : Yale University, c2004.

 


Saving the Big Thicket : from exploration to preservation, 1685-2003 / James J. Cozine, Jr. ; foreword and afterword by Pete
A.Y. Gunter.
Denton : Big Thicket Association/University of North Texas Press, c2004.


Shooters : myths and realities of America's gun cultures / by Abigail A. Kohn.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Social ethics : sociology and the future of society / Charlotte Perkins Gilman ; edited, with an introduction by Michael R. Hill and
Mary Jo Deegan.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.


The autonomy myth : a theory of dependency / Martha Albertson Fineman.
New York : New Press, c2004.


The contradictions of American capital punishment / Franklin E. Zimring.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


The death of innocents : an eyewitness account of wrongful executions / Helen Prejean.
New York : Random House, c2005.


The dynamic constitution : an introduction to American constitutional law / Richard H. Fallon, Jr.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.


The future of imprisonment / edited by Michael Tonry.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

The glass castle : a memoir / Jeannette Walls.
New York : Scribner, c2005.


The golden spruce : a true story of myth, madness, and greed / John Vaillant.
New York : W.W. Norton, 2005.


The hydrogen economy : opportunities, costs, barriers, and R&D needs / Committee on Alternatives and Strategies for Future
Hydrogen Production and Use, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,
National Rese
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2004.


The power of many : how the living Web is transforming politics, business, and everyday life / Christian Crumlish.
San Francisco : SYBEX, c2004.


The price of government : getting the results we need in an age of permanent fiscal crisis / David Osborne and Peter
Hutchinson.
New York : Basic Books, c2004.


The pursuit of fairness : a history of affirmative action / Terry H. Anderson.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


The sheriff : America's defense of the new world order / Colin S. Gray.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2004.


The USA Patriot Act of 2001 : balancing civil liberties and national security : a reference handbook / Howard Ball.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c2004.


The varieties of political experience in eighteenth-century America / Richard R. Beeman.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004.


To the flag : the unlikely history of the pledge of allegiance / Richard J. Ellis.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2004.


U.S. Navy Seabees since Pearl Harbor / [Jay Kimmel].
Portland, OR : Corey/Stevens Pub., c2005.


When America was great : the fighting faith of postwar liberalism / Kevin Mattson.
New York : Routledge, 2004.


World poverty : a reference handbook / Geoffrey Gilbert.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c2004.


2002 census of agriculture. volume 1, geographic area series, part 43, Texas, state and county data.
Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 2004


400's Languages and Grammar


Poetic logic : the role of metaphor in thought, language, and culture / by Marcel Danesi.
Madison, WI : Atwood Pub., c2004.


The Oxford American writer's thesaurus / compiled by Christine A. Lindberg.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Vocabulary for dummies / Laurie E. Rozakis.
New York : Hungry Minds, c2002.


500's Math and Science


A mathematician reads the newspaper / John Allen Paulos.
New York : Anchor Books, 1996.


Birding the Southwestern national parks / Roland H. Wauer ; drawings by Mimi Hoppe Wolf.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2004.


Earth : an intimate history / Richard Fortey.
New York : Knopf, 2004.


Euclid in the rainforest : discovering universal truth in logic and math / Joseph Mazur.
New York, N.Y. : PI Press, c 2005.


The Rarest of the rare : stories behind the treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History / Nancy Pick ; introduction by
Edward O. Wison ; photographs by Mark Sloan.
New York : HarperResource , 2004.


The universal book of mathematics : from Abracadabra to Zeno's paradoxes / David Darling.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2004.



600's Medicine and Technolog



Adolescents, alcohol, and substance abuse : reaching teens through brief interventions / edited by Peter M. Monti, Suzanne
M. Colby, Tracy A. O'Leary ; foreword by William R. Miller.
New York : Guilford Press, c2001.


America's founding food : the story of New England cooking / Keith Stavely & Kathleen Fitzgerald.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.


Bicycle : the history / David V. Herlihy.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


Clearing the hurdles : women building high-growth businesses / Candida G. Brush ... [et al.].
Upper Saddle River, NJ : FT/Prentice Hall, c2004.


Controlling your drinking : tools to make moderation work for you / William R. Miller, Ricardo F. Munoz.
New York : Guilford Press, c2005.


Creative sparks / Jim Krause.
Cincinnati, Ohio : How Design Books, c2003.


Eating disorders and obesity : a comprehensive handbook / edited by Christopher G. Fairburn, Kelly D. Brownell.
New York : Guilford Press, c2002.


Health literacy : a prescription to end confusion / Lynn Nielsen-Bohlman, Allison M. Panzer, David A. Kindig, editors ;
Committee on Health Literacy, Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health, Institute of Medicine.
Washington, D.C. : The National Academies Press, c2004.


Help your teenager beat an eating disorder / James Lock, Daniel Le Grange.
New York, NY : Guilford Press, c2005.


How to raise capital : techniques and strategies for financing and valuing your small business / Jeffry A. Timmons, Stephen
Spinelli, and Andrew Zacharakis.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2005.


Innovation, the missing dimension / Richard K. Lester & Michael J. Piore.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.


Kidney for sale by owner : human organs, transplantation, and the market / Mark J. Cherry.
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2005.


La cocina de mama : the great home cooking of Spain / Penelope Casas ; color photography by Shimon and Tammar ;
additional photography by Luis Casas.
New York : Broadway Books, 2005.


Living through breast cancer : what a Harvard doctor and survivor wants you to know about getting the best care while
preserving your self-image / Carolyn M. Kaelin with Francesca Coltrera.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2005.


Moving mountains : the race to treat global AIDS / Anne-Christine D'Adesky.
London ; New York : Verso, 2004.


Parenting your Asperger child / Alan T. Sohn and Cathy Grayson.
New York : A Perigee Book/Berkley Publishing Group, 2004.


Pharmacology made insanely easy / Loretta Manning, Sylvia Rayfield.
Bossier City, LA : I Can Publishing, Inc., c2005.


The ABC and XYZ of bee culture : an encyclopedia pertaining to scientific and practical culture of bees / by A.I. Root ; revised
by E.R. Root ... [et al.].
Medina, Ohio, U.S.A. : A.I. Root Co., c1990.

 

The autism encyclopedia / edited by John T. Neisworth and Pamela S. Wolfe.
Baltimore : Paul H. Brookes Pub. Co., c2005.


The encyclopedia of the digestive system and digestive disorders / Anil Minocha, Christine Adamec.
New York, NY : Facts on File, c2004.


The fluoride deception / Christopher Bryson.
New York : Seven Stories Press, c2004.


The life and death of smallpox / Ian and Jenifer Glynn.
New York, NY : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.


The origin of brands : discover the natural laws of product innovation and business survival / Al Ries and Laura Ries.
New York : HarperCollins, 2004.


Young children and trauma : intervention and treatment / edited by Joy D. Osofsky ; foreword by Kyle D. Pruett.
New York : Guilford Press, c2004.


You're in charge, now what? : the 8 point plan / Thomas J. Neff & James M. Citrin, with Catherine Fredman.
New York : Crown Business, c2005.


700's Arts and Recreation

 

A place on the team : the triumph and tragedy of Title IX / Welch Suggs.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.

Acting that matters / Barry Pineo.
New York : Allworth Press, c2004.


Cards that pop up, flip & slide / Michael Jacobs.
Cincinnati, OH : North Light Books, 2005.


Electronic and computer music / Peter Manning.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Exhibition, the film reader / edited by Ina Rae Hark.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.


For all who love the game : lessons and teachings for women / Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake ; introductions by Betsy
Rawls, Kathy Whitworth, and Sandra Palmer.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.


Hagia Sophia : architecture, structure, and liturgy of Justinian's great church / Rowland J. Mainstone.
New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, 1997.


Masters of deception : Escher, Dali & the artists of optical illusion / Al Seckel ; foreword by Douglas R. Hofstadter.
New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c2004.


Mis-directing the play : an argument against contemporary theatre / Terry McCabe.
Chicago : I.R. Dee, c2001.

New historical anthology of music by women / edited by James R. Briscoe.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004.


Richard Wagner, the last of the titans / Joachim Kohler ; translated by Stewart Spencer.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


Screen world presents the encyclopedia of Hollywood film actors / Barry Monush.
New York : Applause Theatre and Cinema Books ; Milwaukee : Sales and distribution by Hal Leonard, c2003-


Sports : the first five millennia / Allen Guttmann.
Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004.


The arts and the creation of mind / Elliot W. Eisner.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.


The audience & the playwright : how to get the most out of live theatre / Mayo Simon.
New York : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books ; Milwaukee, WI : Sales & distribution, North America : Hal Leonard Corp.,
c2003.


The Billboard encyclopedia of classical music / general editor, Stanley Sadie ; foreword by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
New York : Billboard Books, 2004.


The complete Phantom of the Opera / George Perry ; research by Jane Rice ; special photography by Clive Barda.
New York : H. Holt, 1988, c1987.


The game for a lifetime : more lessons and teachings / Harvey Penick with Bud Shrake.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996.


The intent to live : achieving your true potential as an actor / Larry Moss.
New York : Bantam Books, 2005.


The Oxford dictionary of dance / Debra Craine, Judith Mackrell.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.


The rise of the sixties : American and European art in the era of dissent / Thomas Crow.
New Haven, CT. : Yale Univ. Press, 2004.


The wisdom of Harvey Penick : lessons and thoughts from the collected writings of golf's best-loved teacher / Harvey Penick
with Bud Shrake.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c1997.


Whitetail strategies. Vol. II : straightforward tactics on tracking, moon phase, calling, the rut, and much more / Peter J. Fiduccia.
Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, c2005.



800's Literature


A historical guide to Emily Dickinson / edited by Vivian R. Pollak.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.


A historical guide to F. Scott Fitzgerald / edited by Kirk Curnutt.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


A historical guide to Herman Melville / edited by Giles Gunn.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


A historical guide to Ralph Ellison / edited by Steven C. Tracy.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2004.


Aesthetic approaches to children's literature : an introduction / Maria Nikolajeva.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, c2005.


American culture, canons, and the case of Elizabeth Stoddard / edited by Robert McClure Smith and Ellen Weinauer.
Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2003.


Beyond the gray flannel suit : books from the 1950s that made American culture / David Castronovo.
New York : Continuum, 2004.


Burnin' down the house : home in African American literature / Valerie Sweeney Prince.
New York : Columbia University Press, 2005.


Censored books II : critical viewpoints, 1985-2000 / edited by Nicholas J. Karolides.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2002.


Don't panic : Douglas Adams & the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy / Neil Gaiman.
London : Titan, 2003.


Edith Wharton's The house of mirth : a casebook / edited by Carol J. Singley.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.


How to enjoy Shakespeare / Robert Thomas Fallon.
Chicago : I.R. Dee, 2005.


Is he dead? : a comedy in three acts / Mark Twain ; edited with foreword, afterword, and notes by Shelley Fisher Fishkin ;
text established by the Mark Twain Project, the Bancroft Library ; illustrations by Barry Moser.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.


Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002.


Larry L. King : a writer's life in letters, or, reflections in a bloodshot eye / edited by Richard A. Holland.
Fort Worth : TCU Press, c1999.


Living with a writer / edited by Dale Salwak.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.


Meaning by metaphor : an exploration of metaphor with a metaphoric reading of two short stories by Stephen Crane / Gunnar
Backman.
Uppsala : Ubsaliensis Academiae, 1991.


Pax atomica : poems / Cambell McGrath.
New York : Ecco, c2004.


Poems / Anna Akhmatova ; selected and translated by Lyn Coffin ; introduction by Joseph Brodsky.
New York : W.W. Norton, c1983.


Seamus Heaney : the crisis of identity / Floyd Collins.
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2003.


Technique and sensibility in the fiction and poetry of Raymond Carver / Arthur F. Bethea.
New York : Routledge, 2001.


Texas literary outlaws : six writers in the sixties and beyond / Steven L. Davis.
Fort Worth, Tex. : TCU Press, c2004.


The future of ice : a journey into cold / Gretel Ehrlich.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2004.


The Gunter Grass reader / edited by Helmut Frielinghaus.
Orlando : Harcourt, c2004.


The kingfish : a one-man play loosely depicting the life and times of the late Huey P. Long of Louisiana / Larry L. King & Ben Z.
Grant.
Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, 1992.


William Trevor : re-imagining Ireland / Mary Fitzgerald-Hoyt.
Dublin : Liffey Press, c2003.


Women in literature : reading through the lens of gender / edited by Jerilyn Fisher and Ellen S. Silber ; foreword by David
Sadker.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2003.



900's Geography and History

 

Can do! : the story of the Seabees / William Bradford Huie.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, 1997.


Contending visions of the Middle East : the history and politics of Orientalism / Zachary Lockman.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.


Dear senator : a memoir by the daughter of Strom Thurmond / Essie Mae Washington-Williams and William Stadiem.
New York : Regan Books, c2005.


Downtown : my Manhattan / Pete Hamill.
New York : Little, Brown, 2004.


Helsinki : a cultural and literary history / Neil Kent.
New York : Interlink Books, 2005.


History on trial : my day in court with David Irving / Deborah E. Lipstadt.
New York : Ecco, c2005.


Indian country : travels in the American Southwest, 1840-1935 / Martin Padget.
Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2004.


Iron tears : America's battle for freedom, Britain's quagmire, 1775-1783 / Stanley Weintraub.
New York : Free Press, c2005.


On to Mars : colonizing a new world / compiled and edited by Robert Zubrin and Frank Crossman.
Burlington, Ont. : Apogee Books, c2002.


Parks directory of the United States / Darren L. Smith, Penny J. Hoffman, editors.
Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2004.


Perilous voyages : Czech and English immigrants to Texas in the 1870s / [edited by] Lawrence H. Konecny & Clinton
Machann.
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2004.


Personality, character, and leadership in the White House : psychologists assess the presidents / Steven J. Rubenzer and
Thomas R. Faschingbauer.
Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, c2004.


Sleuthing the Alamo : Davy Crockett's last stand and other mysteries of the Texas Revolution / James E. Crisp.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Texas : off the beaten path : a guide to unique places / by June Naylor.
Guilford, Conn. : Globe Pequot Press, c2005.


The ancient Maya : new perspectives / Heather McKillop.
Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-Clio, c2003.

The Avengers / Rich Cohen.
New York : Random House, 2001.


The confident hope of a miracle : the true history of the Spanish Armada / Neil Hanson.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

The fate of the corps : what became of the Lewis and Clark explorers after the expedition / Larry E. Morris.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


The finishing stroke : Texans in the 1864 Tennessee campaign / John R. Lundberg ; foreword by T. Michael Parrish.
Abilene, Tex. : McWhiney Foundation Press, c2002.


The great journey : the peopling of ancient America / Brian M. Fagan.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2004.


The ideas that conquered the world : peace, democracy, and free markets in the twenty-first century / Michael Mandelbaum.
New York : Public Affairs, c2003.


The last knight : the twilight of the Middle Ages and the birth of the modern era / Norman F. Cantor ; picture editor, Judy Cantor.
New York : Free Press, c2004.


The last valley : Dien Bien Phu and the French defeat in Vietnam / Martin Windrow.
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2004.


The road to martyrs' square : a journey into the world of the suicide bomber / Anne Marie Oliver and Paul F. Steinberg.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


We'll always have Paris : American tourists in France since 1930 / Harvey Levenstein.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.


What I learned on the ranch and other stories from a West Texas childhood / James Bruce Frazier ; foreword by Donald S.
Frazier.
Abilene, Tex. : McWhiney Foundation Press, McMurry University, c2003



Biographies

 

Bessie / Chris Albertson.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.


Good chemistry : the life and legacy of valium inventor Leo Sternbach / Alex Baenninger ... [et al.].
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2004.


John Adams : party of one / James Grant.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.


John F. Kennedy : a biography / Michael O'Brien.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2005.



One matchless time : a life of William Faulkner / Jay Parini.
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2004.



Fiction


I cannot get you close enough : three novellas / by Ellen Gilchrist.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1990.


In the land of dreamy dreams : short fiction / by Ellen Gilchrist.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1981.


Polaris / Jack McDevitt.
New York : Ace Books, 2004.


Pretty birds : a novel / Scott Simon.
New York : Random House, c2005.


The annunciation / Ellen Gilchrist.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1983.


The finishing school / Muriel Spark.
New York : Doubleday, 2004.

The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea / Yukio Mishima ; translated from the Japanese by John Nathan.
New York : Vintage International, 1994.


Audiovisuals

 

The glass menagerie [videorecording] / Broadway Theatre Archive ; directed by Anthony Harvey ; produced by David
Suskind.
West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, 2001


The Alamo [videorecording] / Touchstone / Buena Vista Home Entertainment ; produced by Mark Johnson, Ron Howard ; written by Leslie Bohem and Stephen Lee Hancock ; directerd by John Lee Hancock.


Dances with Wolves [videorecording] / directed by Kevin Costner ; written by Michael Blake.


Forrest Gump [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures ; a Steve Tisch/Wendy Finerman production ; produced by Wendy Finerman, Steve Tisch, Steve Starkey ; directed by Robert Zemeckis ; screenplay by Eric Roth.

Gettysburg [videorecording] / Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2000. Turner Pictures ; produced by Robert Katz, Moctesuma Esparza ; directed and screenplay by Ronald F. Maxwell


Gone with the wind [videorecording] /Warner Home Video, c1999. Selznick International in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by David O. Selznick ; directed by Victor Fleming ; screenplay by Sidney Howard.


The patriot [videorecording] / Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2000.Centropolis Entertainment ; produced by Dean Devlin, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn ; directed by Roland Emmerich ; written by Robert Rodat.


Saving Private Ryan [videorecording] / Universal City, CA : DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2004. DreamWorks Pictures ; Paramount Pictures ; Amblin Entertainment ; produced by Steven Spielberg ... [et al.] ; directed by Steven Spielberg ; written by Robert Rodat.


Star wars trilogy [videorecording] / Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2004. Twentieth Century Fox ; Lucasfilm Ltd.


The Rogers & Hammerstein collection [videorecording] / Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2003.

 

 

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