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December 2005

 

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

 

Library instruction : restating the need, refocusing the response / edited by Deb Biggs Thomas ... [et al.].
Ann Arbor, MI. : Published for the University Library, Eastern Michigan University, by Pierian Press, c2005.


Sarah Anderson's travel companion / Sarah Anderson.
London : Portobello London, c2004.

Teach yourself visually Excel 2003 / Sherry Willard Kinkoph.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Pub., c2005.


Teach yourself visually Office 2003 / Sherry Willard Kinkoph.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2006.


 

100's Psychology and Philosophy


Animal rights / Kim Masters Evans.
Detroit


On apology / Aaron Lazare.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Stem cell research : new frontiers in science and ethics / edited by Nancy E. Snow.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2003.


200's Religions and Mythology


Introducing early Christianity : a topical survey of its life, beliefs, and practices / Laurie Guy.
Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2004.


Religion and the death penalty : a call for reckoning / edited by Erik C. Owens, John D. Carlson, and Eric P. Elshtain.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, 2004.



300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore

 

The official THEA test study guide / [developed by] National Evaluation Systems, Inc.
Amherst, MA : National Evaluation Systems, Inc., c2004.


The reading teacher's handbook / Jo Phenix.
Markham, Ont. : Pembroke Publishers ; Portland, ME : Distributed in the U.S. by Stenhouse Publishers, c2002


Teaching word recognition, spelling, and vocabulary : strategies from The reading teacher / Timothy V. Rasinski ... [et al.],
editors.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c2000.


Book club for middle school / Taffy E. Raphael, Marcella Kehus, Karen Damphousse.
Lawrence, Mass. : Small Planet Communications, c2001.


Small-group reading instruction : a differentiated teaching model for intermediate readers, grades 3-8 / Beverly Tyner, Sharon
E. Green.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c2005.

 

The spelling book : teaching children how to spell, not what to spell / Gladys Rosencrans.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c1998.


Working together : reading and writing in inclusive classrooms / Marilyn C. Scala.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c2001.



The use and usefulness of the social sciences : achievements, disappointments, and promise / special editors of this volume,
Robert W. Pearson, Lawrence W. Sherman.
Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2005.


Guided comprehension : a teaching model for grades 3-8 / Maureen McLaughlin, Mary Beth Allen.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c2002.


Imagination and play in the electronic age / Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.


Guided comprehension in action : lessons for grades 3-8 / Maureen McLaughlin, Mary Beth Allen.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, 2002.


Innovative approaches to literacy education : using the Internet to support new literacies / Rachel A. Karchmer ... [et al],
editors.
Newark, DE : International Reading Association, c2005.


Public school law : teachers' and students' rights / Nelda H. Cambron-McCabe, Martha M. McCarthy, Stephen B. Thomas.
Boston : Pearson A and B, c2004.


Guided comprehension in the primary grades / Maureen McLaughlin.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c2003.


A Jew in the new Germany / Henryk Broder ; translated from the German by the Broder Translators' Collective ; edited by
Sander L. Gilman and Lilian M. Friedberg.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.


After early intervention, then what? : teaching struggling readers in grades 3 and beyond / Rachel L. McCormack, Jeanne R.
Paratore, editors.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, 2003.


Alcohol and tobacco : America's drugs of choice / Sandra M. Alters.
Farmington, MI. : Thomson Gale , c2006.


American naval history : an illustrated chronology of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, 1775-present / Jack Sweetman.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2002.


American soldiers overseas : the global military presence / Anni P. Baker.
Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2004.


Deep water : the epic sturggle over dams, displaced people, and the environment / Jacques Leslie.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.


Emerging labor market institutions for the twenty-first century / edited by Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch, and Lawrence
Mishel.
Chicago : Univeristy of Chicago Press, 2005.


Governor : in the company of Ann W. Richards, Governor of Texas / writen and photographed by Richard Sobol ; foreword
by Ann W. Richards.
New York : Cobblehill Books, c1994.


Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies / Jared Diamond.
New York : W. W. Norton & company, 2005, 1997.


Homeless in America : how could it happen here? / Melissa J. Doak.
Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2006.


Illegal drugs--America's anguish / Robert Jacobson.
Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2006.


Immigration and illegal aliens--burden or blessing? / Cynthia S. Becker.
Farmington, MI. : Thomson Gale, c2006.


Miracle cure : how to solve America's health care crisis and why Canada isn't the answer / by Sally C. Pipes ; with a
foreword by Milton Friedman.
San Francisco : Pacific Research Institute : Vancouver ; Fraser Institute, c2004.


Navies in modern world history / Lawrence Sondhaus.
London : Reaktion Books, c2004.


Place randomized trials : experimental tests of public policy / special editor of this volume, Robert Boruch.
Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2005.


Preventing surprise attacks : intelligence reform in the wake of 9/11 / Richard A. Posner.
Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution, Stanford University ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.


Prisons and jails--a deterrent to crime? / Thomas Wiloch.
Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2006.


Profiling and criminal justice in America : a reference handbook / Jeffrey B. Bumgarner.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, 2004.


Race, racism, and science : social impact and interaction / John P. Jackson Jr., and Nadine M. Weidman.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c2004.


Racial profiling / Fred C. Pampel.
New York : Facts on File, c2004.


Reading with Oprah : the book club that changed America / by Kathleen Rooney.
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2005.


Rivers for life : managing water for people and nature / Sandra Postel and Brian Richter.
Washington : Island Press, c2003.


Roads of the Romans / Romolo Augusto Staccioli.
Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2003.


Ruling America : a history of wealth and power in a democracy / edited by Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.


Sharing the dream : white males in multicultural America / Dominic J. Pulera.
New York : Continuum, c2004.


Silent snow : the slow poisoning of the Arctic / Marla Cone.
New York : Grove Press, 2005.

 

Soldiers to citizens : the G.I. bill and the making of the greatest generation / Suzanne Mettler.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


The Achille Lauro hijacking : lessons in the politics and prejudice of terrorism / Michael K. Bohn.
Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, c2004.


The American Congress : the building of democracy / Julian E. Zelizer, editor.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.


The color of guilt & innocence : racial profiling and police practices in America / Steve Holbert & Lisa Rose.
San Ramon, Calif. : Page Marque Press, c2004.


The constitution of the United States of America: analysis and interpretation. analysis of cases decided by the Supreme Court
of the United States to June 28, 2002. Prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress
Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 2004.


The science of voter mobilization / special editors of this volume, Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber.
Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2005.


Water--no longer taken for granted / Robert Jacobson.
Farmington Hills, MI. : Thomson Gale, c2006.


Weapons of mass destruction : an encyclopedia of worldwide policy, technology, and history / Eric A. Croddy and James J.
Wirtz, editors.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c2005.


Welcome aboard! : your career as a flight attendant / Becky S. Bock.
Newcastle, Wash. : Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc., c2005.


Why does he do that? : inside the minds of angry and controlling men / Lundy Bancroft.
New York : Putnam's Sons, c2003, 2002.


Why men earn more : the startling truth behind the pay gap--and what women can do about it / Warren Farrell.
New York : AMACOM, c2005.


Worst cases : terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination / Lee Clarke.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.


400's Languages and Grammar


Comprehension strategies for middle grade learners : a handbook for content area teachers / Charlotte Rose Sadler.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, 2001.


Strategies for integrating reading and writing in middle and high school classrooms / by Karen D. Wood & Janis M. Harmon.
Westerville, Ohio : National Middle School Association, c2001.


Struggling adolescent readers : a collection of teaching strategies / [edited by] David W. Moore, Donna E. Alvermann, Kathleen
A. Hinchman.
Newark, Del. : International Reading Association, c2000.


The Facts on File encyclopedia of word and phrase origins / Robert Hendrickson.
New York, NY : Facts on File, c2004.


When kids can't read, what teachers can do : a guide for teachers, 6-12 / Kylene Beers.
Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2003.


500's Math and Science


A to Z of scientists in space and astronomy / Deborah Todd and Joseph A. Angelo, Jr.
New York : Facts on File, c2005.


American household botany : a history of useful plants, 1620-1900 / Judith Sumner ; foreword by John Forti.
Portland, Ore. : Timber Press, 2004.


Doctor Dolittle's delusion : animals and the uniqueness of human language / Stephen R. Anderson ; with illustrations by
Amanda Patrick.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


Genetics and genetic engineering / Barbara Wexler.
Detroit, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2006.

Life of Fred : statistics / Stanley F. Schmidt.
Reno, NV : Polka Dot Pub., c2005.


Liquid assets : the critical need to safeguard freshwater ecosystems / Sandra Postel ; Lisa Mastny, editor.
Washington, D.C. : Worldwatch Institute, c2005.


Return of the peregrine : a North American saga of tenacity and teamwork / editors, Tom J. Cade and William Burnham ;
associate editor, Patricia Burnham ; art director, Amy Siedenstrang.
Boise, Idaho : Peregrine Fund, c2003.


Shorebirds of North America : the photographic guide / Dennis Paulson.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2005.


The quantum world : quantum physics for everyone / Kenneth W. Ford.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.


Whales & dolphins of the world / Mark Simmonds ; photography by seapics.com.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.



600's Medicine and Technology


100 garden tips and timesavers / by Walter Chandoha.
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c2005.


Brand royalty : how the world's top 100 brands thrive and survive / Matt Haig.
London ; Sterling, Va. : Kogan Page, c2004.


Fed up! : winning the war against childhood obesity / Susan Okie.
Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2005.


Forgotten lunatics of the Great War / Peter Barham.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


Our overweight children : what parents, schools, and communities can do to control the fatness epidemic / Sharron Dalton.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.


The architecture and design of man and woman : the marvel of the human body, revealed / Alexander Tsiaras ; text by Barry
Werth.
New York : Doubleday, 2004.


The best apples to buy and grow / Beth Hanson, editor.
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c2005.


The China study : the most comprehensive study of nutrition ever conducted and the startling implications for diet, weight loss
and long-term health / T. Colin Campbell with Thomas M. Campbell II.
Dallas, Tex. : BenBella Books, 2005.


The encyclopedia of cancer / Carol Turkington, William LiPera.
New York : Facts on File, c2005.


The encyclopedia of the muscle and skeletal systems and disorders / Mary Harwell Sayler ; foreword by Lori Siegel.
New York, NY : Facts on File, c2005.


The enthusiastic employee : how companies profit by giving workers what they want / David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind,
Michael Irwin Meltzer.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Wharton School Pub., c2005.


The good cook : 70 essential techniques : 250 step-by-step photographs : 350 easy recipes / Anne Willan ; photographs by
Alison Harris.
New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2004.


The great brain debate : nature or nurture? / John E. Dowling.
Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, 2004.


Twenty-first century plague : the story of SARS / Thomas Abraham.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.


Underage and overweight : our childhood obesity crisis--what every family needs to know / Frances M. Berg.
Long Island City, NY : Hatherleigh Press, 2005.


Welcome to the genome : a user's guide to the genetic past, present, and future / Rob DeSalle, Michael Yudell.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Liss, c2005.


Wildlife & woodlot management : a comprehensive handbook for food plot & habitat development / Monte Burch.
Florida, N.Y. : Woods N' Water : Outdoorsman's Edge Book Club, c2004.


Wildlife ecology and management / Eric G. Bolen, William L. Robinson.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2003.


700's Arts and Recreation

 

...Isms : understanding art / Stephen Little.
New York, NY : Universe Publishing, c2004.


Athens to Athens : the official history of the Olympic Games and the IOC, 1894-2004 / David Miller.
Edinburgh : Mainstream Publishing, c2003.


Baseball before we knew it : a search for the roots of the game / David Block ; with a foreword by Tim Wiles.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.


Designing for the homeless : architecture that works / Sam Davis.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.


Drawn by the brush : oil sketches by Peter Paul Rubens / Peter C. Sutton, Marjorie E. Wieseman with Nico van Hout.
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press in association with Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich, Conneticut ;
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio ; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley,
California,


Hagia Sophia / W. Eugene Kleinbauer, Antony White, Henry Matthews ; photographs by Tahsin Aydogmus.
London : Scala Publishers ; Istanbul : Archaeology and Art Publications, c2004.


How to successfully still-hunt the whitetail / Randy Hill.
Baltimore : Publish America, c2004.


Inspiration=ideas : a creativity sourcebook for graphic designers / Petrula Vrontikis.
Gloucester, Mass. : Rockport Publishers, c2002.


Masters of Dutch painting : The Detroit Institute of Arts / George S. Keyes ... [at al.].
Detroit : The Detroit Institute of Arts, in association with D. Giles Ltd., London, c2004.


Natural horse-man-ship / by Pat Parelli, with Kathy Swan ; photographs by Karen Parelli Hagen.
Colorado Springs, CO : Western Horseman, 2004, c1993.


Retratos : 2,000 years of Latin American portraits / Elizabeth P. Benson ... [et al.].
San Antonio, Tex. : San Antonio Museum of Art, 2004.


Skyscrapers / Andres Lepik.
Munich ; New York : Prestel, c2004.


Sunday money : speed! lust! madness! death! : a hot lap around America with NASCAR / Jeff MacGregor ; photographs by
Olya Evanitsky.
New York, NY : HarperCollins, c2005.


The deer stalking handbook / Graham Downing.
Shrewsbury, England : Swan Hill Press, c2004.


The last great American picture show : new Hollywood cinema in the 1970s / edited by Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander
Horwath and Noel King.
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, c2004.


The sixteenth century Italian paintings / Nicholas Penny.
London : National Gallery Co. ; [New Haven, Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2004.


Through the lens of the city : NEA photography surveys of the 1970s / Mark Rice.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2005.


Type at work : the use of type in editorial design / Andreu Balius.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands : BIS, c2003.


Where dreams die hard : a small American town and its six-man football team / Carlton Stowers.
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2005.


World graphic design : contemporary graphics from Africa, the Far East, Latin America and the Middle East / Geoffrey Caban.
London : Merrell, 2004.


800's Literature


A companion to American fiction, 1780-1865 / edited by Shirley Samuels.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.


A man without a country / Kurt Vonnegut ; edited by Daniel Simon.
New York : Seven Stories Press, 2005.


Agatha Christie : a reader's companion / Vanessa Wagstaff & Stephen Poole.
London : Aurum Press, c2004.


Between two fires : intimate writings on life, love, food & flavor / Laura Esquivel ; translated by Stephen Lytle.
New York : Crown Publishers, c2000.


Essentials of children's literature / Carol Lynch-Brown, Carl M. Tomlinson.
Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2005.


Lady Caroline Lamb / Paul Douglass.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.


Melville : his world and work / Andrew Delbanco.
New York : Knopf, c2005.


Memoranda during the war / Walt Whitman ; edited by Peter Coviello.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Place in American fiction : excursions and explorations / edited by H.L. Weatherby and George Core.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2004.


Reading Shakespeare's dramatic language : a guide / edited by Sylvia Adamson ... [et al.].
London : Arden Shakespeare, c2001.


Readings on Stephen Crane / Bonnie Szumski, book editor.
San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c1998.


Sam Shepard : a 'poetic rodeo' / Carol Rosen.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.


Shakespeare after all / Marjorie Garber.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2004.


The case for Shakespeare : the end of the authorship question / Scott McCrea.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.


The crucible : a play in four acts / Arthur Miller ; with a foreword by Richard Eyre ; and an afterword by Christopher Bigsby.
New York : Penguin Books, 2002.


The spooky art : some thoughts on writing / Norman Mailer.
New York : Random House, c2004, 2003.


The Trojan epic : Posthomerica / Quintus of Smyrna ; translated and edited by Alan James.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.


Theodore Dreiser : interviews / edited by Frederic E. Rusch and Donald Pizer.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.


Trespassing boundaries : Virginia Woolf's short fiction / edited by Kathryn N. Benzel and Ruth Hoberman.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.


Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury avant-garde : war, civilization, modernity / Christine Froula.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2005.


Walt Whitman / David S. Reynolds.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


What happened to Abraham? : reinventing the covenant in American Jewish fiction / Victoria Aarons.
Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2005.


Why Shakespeare : an introduction to the playwright's art / Gerald M. Pinciss.
New York : Continuum, c2005.



900's Geography and History


A proper sense of honor : service and sacrifice in George Washington's army / Caroline Cox.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.


A woman in Berlin : eight weeks in the conquered city : a diary / by Anonymous ; translated by Philip Boehm.
New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2005.


Birth of the Bill of Rights : a encyclopedia of the Antifederalists / Jon L. Wakelyn
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.


Born fighting : how the Scots-Irish shaped America / James Webb.
New York : Broadway Books, 2004.


Colombia : a brutal history / Geoff Simons.
London : Saqi, 2004.


Commercial atlas & marketing guide.
Chicago : Rand McNally and Company, c2004.


Defying Rome : the rebels of Roman Britain / Guy de la Bédoyère.
Stroud, Great Britain : Tempus, c2003.


Enola Gay and the court of history / Robert Newman.
New York : P. Lang, 2004.


Freedom rising : Washington in the Civil War / Ernest B. Furgurson.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.


Native American placenames of the United States / William Bright.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004.


Notable American women : a biographical dictionary completing the twentieth century / Susan Ware, editor ; Stacy Braukman,
assistant editor.
Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press, 2004


River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey / Candice Millard.
New York : Doubleday, 2005.


Stalin's secret war : Soviet counterintelligence against the Nazis, 1941-1945 / Robert W. Stephan.
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2004.


The eloquent president : a portrait of Lincoln through his words / Ronald C. White, Jr.
New York : Random House, c2005.

The empire of the great Mughals : history, art and culture / Annemarie Schimmel ; translated by Corinne Atwood ; edited by
Burzine K. Waghmar ; with a foreword by Francis Robinson.
London : Reaktion Books, c2004.


The road to Valley Forge : how Washington built the army that won the Revolution / John Buchanan.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2004.


Vicksburg is the key : the struggle for the Mississippi River / William L. Shea and Terrence J. Winschel.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.



Biographies

 

Madame de Staël / Maria Fairweather.
New York, NY : Carroll & Graf Pubs., c2005.


Stuart Symington : a life / James C. Olson.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2003.


The last titan : a life of Theodore Dreiser / Jerome Loving.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.



Audiovisuals

 

An enemy of the people [videorecording] / a presentation of Thirteen/WNET ; directed by Paul Bogart ; adaptation by Arthur
Miller ; produced by Jack Landau.
West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur, 2002.


Guns, germs, and steel [videorecording] / produced by Lion TV for National Geographic Television & Film ; produced and
directed by Tim Lambert, Cassian Harrison.
[Burbank, Calif]. : National Geographic Society, c2005.

 

 

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