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February 2006

 

000's General Knowledge

This page lists new books and audiovisuals in the Blinn College library.

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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

 

Anatomy of wonder : a critical guide to science fiction / [edited by] Neil Barron.
Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2004.


Information literacy programs : successes and challenges / Patricia Durisin, editor.
New York : Haworth Information Press, 2002.


Integrating information literacy into the higher education curriculum : practical models for transformation / Ilene Rockman and
associates.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2004.



100's Psychology and Philosophy

 

A world without time : the forgotten legacy of Godel and Einstein / Palle Yourgrau.
New York : Basic Books, c2005.


Happiness : lessons from a new science / Richard Layard.
New York : Penguin Press, 2005.



200's Religions and Mythology

 

Dear people : remembering Jonestown / edited by Denice Stephenson.
San Francisco, Calif. : California Historical Society Press, 2005.


Freedom's coming : religious culture and the shaping of the South from the Civil War through the civil rights era / Paul Harvey.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.


Why intelligent design fails : a scientific critique of the new creationism / edited by Matt Young and Taner Edis.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.



300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore

 

Information literacy and workplace performance / Tom W. Goad.
Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2002.


Access to justice / by Deborah L. Rhode.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Advice and consent : the politics of judicial appointments / Lee Epstein and Jeffrey A. Segal.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


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


Boiling point : how politicians, big oil and coal, journalists, and activists are fueling the climate crisis--and what we can do to
avert disaster / Ross Gelbspan.
New York : Basic Books, c2004.


Democratic development & political terrorism : the global perspective / edited by William Crotty.
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2005.


Dictionary of British politics / Bill Jones.
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave, 2004.


Encyclopedia of law enforcement / Larry Sullivan, general editor.
Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c2005.


Five families : the rise, decline, and resurgence of America's most powerful Mafia empires / Selwyn Raab.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2005.


Generation Rx : how prescription drugs are altering American lives, minds, and bodies / Greg Critser.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.


Happier meals : rethinking the global meat industry / Danielle Nierenberg.
Washington, DC : Worldwatch Institute, 2005.


Marriage customs of the world : from henna to honeymoons / George P. Monger.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c2004.


Miranda : the story of America's right to remain silent / Gary L. Stuart ; with a foreword by Janet Napolitano.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2004.


My face is black is true : Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations / Mary Frances Berry.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.


Outsourcing America : what's behind our national crisis and how we can reclaim American jobs / Ron Hira and Anil Hira.
New York : American Management Association, c2005.


Slaves to fashion : poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops / Robert J. S. Ross.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2004.


Texas Association of Community Colleges [membership directory] / Texas Association of Community Colleges.
Austin, TX. : The Association, c1994-


The boundaries of her body : the troubling history of women's rights in America / Debran Rowland.
Naperville, Ill. : Sphinx Pub., 2004.


The democratic century / by Seymour Martin Lispet and Jason M. Lakin.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2004.


The making of a lynching culture : violence and vigilantism in central Texas, 1836-1916 / William D. Carrigan.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.


Thirsty planet : strategies for sustainable water management / Constance Elizabeth Hunt.
London ; New York : Zed Books, 2004.


Us and them : understanding your tribal mind / David Berreby.
New York : Little, Brown and company, c2005.


Women in the Middle Ages : an encyclopedia / edited by Katharina M. Wilson and Nadia Margolis.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.


Word origins-- and how we know them : etymology for everyone / Anatoly Liberman.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


400's Languages and Grammar



500's Math and Science


Archives of the universe : a treasury of astronomy's historic works of discovery / edited and with introductions by Marcia
Bartusiak.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2004.


Cacti of the Trans-Pecos & adjacent areas / A. Michael Powell and James F. Weedin.
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2004.


Dark hero of the information age : in search of Norbert Wiener, the father of cybernetics / Flo Conway & Jim Siegelman.
New York : Basic Books, c2005.


Encyclopedia of geomorphology / edited by A.S. Goudie.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.


Encyclopedia of physics / Joe Rosen.
New York : Facts on File, c2004.


Glaciers / Michael Hambrey, Jurg Alean.
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2004.


Obsessive genius : the inner world of Marie Curie / Barbara Goldsmith.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.


Return to wild America : a year-long journey in search of the continent's natural soul / Scott Weidensaul.
New York : North Point Press, 2005.


Rivers of North America / edited by Arthur C. Benke & Colbert E. Cushing.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, c2005.


Sharks of the world / Leonard Compagno, Marc Dando, Sarah Fowler.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.


The hunt for the dawn monkey : unearthing the origins of monkeys, apes, and humans / Chris Beard ; illustrations by Mark
Klingler.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.


The illustrated encyclopedia of trees / David More, John White.
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2005, 2002.


The remarkable life of William Beebe : explorer and naturalist / Carol Grant Gould.
Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2004.


The triumph of numbers : how counting shaped modern life / I. Bernard Cohen.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005


Tropical rain forests : an ecological and biogeographical comparison / Richard Primack & Richard Corlett.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2005.



600's Medicine and Technology


Beasts of the earth : animals, humans, and disease / E. Fuller Torrey, Robert H. Yolken.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.


Davis's drug guide for nurses / Judith Hopfer Deglin, April Hazard Vallerand.
Philadelphia : F. A. Davis, c2005.


Hope or hype : the obsession with medical advances and the high cost of false promises / Richard A. Deyo, Donald L. Patrick.
New York : AMACOM, American Management Association, c2005.


Love signals : a practical field guide to the body language of courtship / David Givens.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2005.


Preventing childhood obesity : health in the balance / Committee on Prevention of Obesity in Children and Youth, Food and
Nutrition Board, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine of the National Academie
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2005.


Quick reference dictionary for massage therapy and bodywork / Ed Denning.
Thorofare, NJ : Slack, c2005.


Sound recording : the life story of a technology / David L. Morton, Jr.
Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2004


Stedman's medical dictionary.
Baltimore : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006.


Terrors of the table : the curious history of nutrition / Walter Gratzer.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


The encyclopedia of the heart and heart disease / Otelio S. Randall and Deborah S. Romaine.
New York, NY : Facts on File, c2005.


Understanding genetics : a primer for couples and families / Angela Scheuerle.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2005.


700's Arts and Recreation

 

Childe Hassam : impressionist in the West / Margaret E. Bullock ; with a foreword by H. Barbara Weinberg.
[Portland] Or. : Portland Art Museum, 2004.


Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Cary D. Wintz and Paul Finkelman
New York : Routledge, 2004.


Hattie McDaniel : black ambition, white Hollywood / Jill Watts.
New York : Amistad, 2005.


Japan 1945 : a U.S. Marine's photographs from Ground Zero / Joe O'Donnell.
Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2005.


Joan Miro, 1917-1934 / edited by Agnes de la Beaumelle.
Paris : Centre Pompidou ; London : P. Holberton Pub., c2004.


Stepin Fetchit : the life and times of Lincoln Perry / Mel Watkins.
New York : Pantheon Books, c2005.


The clarinet in the classical period / Albert R. Rice.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.


The golden age of amateur basketball : the AAU Tournament, 1921-1968 / Adolph H. Grundman.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.


The oboe / Geoffrey Burgess and Bruce Haynes.
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2004.


The teapot book / Steve Woodhead.
London : A & C Black ; Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.


800's Literature


Encyclopedia of feminist literature / Kathy J. Whitson.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.


Hans Christian Andersen : a new life / Jens Andersen ; translated from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally.
Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, c2005.


Longfellow : a rediscovered life / Charles C. Calhoun.
Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.


Secrets beyond the door : the story of Bluebeard and his wives / Maria Tatar.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004.


The best men's stage monologues of 2004 / edited by D.L. Lepidus.
Newbury, Vt. : Smith and Kraus, c2004.


The best women's stage monologues of 2004 / edited by D.L. Lepidus.
Newbury, Vt. : Smith and Kraus, c2004.


The Longman dictionary of literary terms : vocabulary for the informed reader / X.J. Kennedy, Dana Gioia, Mark Bauerlein.
New York : Pearson/Longman, c2006.


The Yale anthology of twentieth-century French poetry / edited by Mary Ann Caws.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


Walden : a fully annotated edition / Henry D. Thoreau ; edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.


900's Geography and History

 

After the ice : a global human history, 20,000-5000 BC / Steven Mithen.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.


Envy of the gods : Alexander the Great's ill-fated journey across Asia / John Prevas.
Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo, 2004.


Faith at war : a journey on the frontlines of Islam, from Baghdad to Timbuktu / Yaroslav Trofimov.
New York : Henry Holt, 2005.


The American counties : origins of county names, dates of creation, and population data, 1950-2000 / Joseph Nathan Kane,
Charles Curry Aiken.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.


The gates of Africa : death, discovery, and the search for Timbuktu / Anthony Sattin.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2005.


The regions of Germany : a reference guide to history and culture / Dieter K. Buse.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2005.


The Southern past : a clash of race and memory / W. Fitzhugh Brundage.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005.


The Third Reich in power, 1933-1939 / Richard J. Evans.
New York : Penguin Press, 2005.


When trumpets call : Theodore Roosevelt after the White House / Patricia O'Toole.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2005.


Biographies

 

Kafka / Nicholas Murray.
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2004.



Fiction


A taste for death / P.D. James.
New York : Random House, 2005, 1986.


La casa en Mango Street / por Sandra Cisneros ; traducido por Elena Poniatowska.
New York : Vintage Books, 1994.


Skeleton man / Tony Hillerman.
New York : HarperCollins, c2004.


Sunset and sawdust / Joe R. Lansdale.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.


Wizard and glass / Stephen King ; illustrated by Dave McKean.
New York : Penguin, 2003.


Audiovisuals

 

Backdraft & smoke explosions / by Vincent Dunn ; [produced by Jacoby/Storm Productions].
Tulsa, OK. : Fire Engineering, c1991.


Flashover! / by Vincent Dunn ; [Jacoby/Storm Productions, Inc.].
Tulsa, OK. : Fire Engineering, c1988.


high rise firefighting : strategy and tactics / by Vincent Dunn.
[s.l.] : Fire Department Video Training, [c2001].


Jean de Florette [videorecording] / Renn Productions ; adapted for the screen by Claude Berri & Gerard Brach ; produced and
directed by Claude Berri.
Santa Monica, Calif. : Orion Home Video, c1995.


Manon des sources [videorecording] = Manon of the springs / Renn Productions ; Orion Classics ; produced and directed by
Claude Berri ; adapted for the screen by Claude Berri and Gerard Brach.
New York : Orion Home Video, c1995.


Seven wonders of ancient Rome [videorecording] / [Atlantic Productions] ; Discovery Channel ; [director, Clive Maltby ;
producer, Patricia Wrobel].
Silver Spring, MD. : Discovery Communications, c2003.


Shakespeare - major themes in 'Othello' / [Classroom Video presents ; producers, Barbara Peters and Arthur Tanaka ;
director, Arthur Tanaka.
Seattle, Wash. : Classroom Video ; [s.l.] : Distribution Access, [c2003].


The doll's house: Henrik Isben / [presented by Alan Dilnot, Monica Siggins, Monash University].
New York : Distributed by Insight Media, [c198?].

 

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