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000's General Knowledge

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2005: Mar., Apr.

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
F Fiction
VT Audiovisuals

 

 

 


000's General Knowledge

 

Encyclopedia of the Library of Congress : for Congress, the nation & the world / John Y. Cole and Jane Aikin, editors.
Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress ; Lanham, MD : Bernan Press, c2004.


Learning to learn : a guide to becoming information literate / Ann Marlow Riedling ; introduction by Michael Eisenberg.
New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2002.


Macromedia Flash MX 2004 : a beginner's guide / Brian Underdahl.
New York : McGraw-Hill/Osborne, c2004.


The college student's research companion / Arlene Rodda Quaratiello.
New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2003.




100's Psychology and Philosophy


Bad for us : the lure of self-harm / John Portmann.
Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.


The astrology book : the encyclopedia of heavenly influences / James R. Lewis.
Detroit : Visible Ink Press, c2003.


Trajectories of physical aggression from toddlerhood to middle childhood : predictors, correlates, and outcomes / NICHD Early
Child Care Research Network ; with commentary by William F. Arsenio.
Maldon, MA. : Blackwell Publishers, c2004.


200's Religions and Mythology


A Buddhist Bible : the favorite scriptures of the Zen Sect ; history of early Zen Buddhism, self-realisation of noble wisdom,
the Diamond Sutra, the Prajna Paramita Sutra, The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch ; edited, interpreted & published by Dwight
Goddar
Thetford, Vermont : Dwight Goddard, c1932.


Dark nights of the soul : a guide to finding your way through life's ordeals / Thomas Moore.
New York : Gotham Books, c2004.


Dream catchers : how mainstream America discovered native spirituality / Philip Jenkins.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Spiritual heroes; a study of some of the world's prophets / David Saville Muzzey.
New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1959]


The meaning of the Holy Quran / Abdullah Yusuf Ali.
Beltsville, MD : Amana Publications, 2004.


300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore


Adjunct faculty in community colleges : an academic administrator's guide to recruiting, supporting, and retaining great
teachers / Desna L. Wallin, editor.
Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub., c2005.


Beating the S&P with dividends : how to build a superior profolio of dividend yielding stocks / Mergent, Inc. ; Peter O'Shea and
Jonathan Worrall.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2005.


Black is a country : race and the unfinished struggle for democracy / Nikhil Pal Singh.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.


Learning and motivation in the postsecondary classroom / Marilla D. Svinicki.
Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub. Co., c2004.


Notes of a native son.
Boston, Beacon Press 1984, c1955.


Opportunities in paralegal careers / Alice Fins.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2005.


Opportunities in teaching careers / Janet Fine.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2005.


Some of us did not die : new and selected essays of June Jordan.
New York : Basic/Civitas Books, c2003.


Sound truth and corporate myth$ : the legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill / Riki Ott.
Cordova, Alaska : Dragonfly Sisters Press, c2005.


The "casualty issue" in American military practice : the impact of World War I / Evan Andrew Huelfer.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.


The good-bye window : a year in the life of a day-care center / Harriet N. Brown.
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c1998.


The rise of regulatory capaitalism : the global diffusion of a new order / special editors of this volume, David Levi-Faur, Jacint
Jordana.
Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2005.


Washington gone crazy : senator Pat McCarran and the great American Communist hunt / Michael J. Ybarra.
Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, c2004.


500's Math and Science


A field guide to southwestern and Texas wildflowers / text by Theodore F. Niehaus ; illustrations by Charles L. Ripper,
Virginia Savage.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984.


Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology / David R. Boone, Richard W. Castenholz, editors, volume 1 ; George M. Garrity,
editor-in-chief.
New York : Springer, 2001-


Life of Fred : advanced algebra / Stanley F. Schmidt.
Reno, NV : Polka Dot Pub., c2002.


Life of Fred : calculus / Stanley F. Schmidt.
Reno, NV : Polka Dot Pub., c2001.


Life of Fred : geometry / Stanley F. Schmidt.
Reno, NV : Polka Dot Pub., c2003.


Life of Fred : trigonometry / Stanley F. Schmidt.
Reno, NV : Polka Dot Pub., c2003.


National Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers : eastern region / revising author, John W. Thieret;
original authors, William A. Niering and Nancy C. Olmstead.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c2001.


Religious holidays and calendars : an encyclopedic handbook / edited by Karen Bellenir ; foreword by Martin E. Marty.
Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, 2004.


600's Medicine and Technology


Advertising the American dream : making way for modernity, 1920-1940 / Roland Marchand.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1986.


An encyclopedia of shade perennials / W. George Schmid.
Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2002.


Kitchens : moneysmart makeovers / Rick Peters.
New York : Hearst Books, c2004.


Opportunities in allied health careers / Alex Kacen.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2005.


Opportunities in nutrition careers / Carol Coles Caldwell.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2005.


Opportunities in physician careers / Jan Sugar-Webb.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2005.


Parrot culture : our 2,500-year-long fascination with the world's most talkative bird / Bruce Thomas Boehrer.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.


Preventing Alzheimer's : prevent, detect, diagnose, treat, and even halt Alzheimer's disease and other causes of memory loss
/ William Rodman Shankle, Daniel G. Amen.
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, c2004.


Surviving leukemia : a practical guide / Robert Patenaude ; [preface by E. Donnall Thomas].
New York : Firefly Books, c1999.


Thank you brain, for all you remember : what you forgot was my fault / W.R. (Bill) Klemm.
Bryan, TX : Benecton Press, c2004.


The allergy self-help cookbook : over 350 natural food recipes, free of all common food allergens / Marjorie Hurt Jones.
Emmaus, Pa. : Rodale Press, c2001.


The Deaf Smith country cookbook; natural foods for family kitchens [by] Marjorie Winn Ford, Susan Hillyard [and] Mary Faulk
Koock.
New York, Macmillan [1973]


The taste of dreams : an obsession with Russia and caviar / Vanora Bennett.
London : Review, c2003.


700's Arts and Recreation

 

Building with light : the international history of architectural photography / Robert Elwall.
London : Merrell, c2004.


Eva Zeisel on design : the magic language of things / Eva Zeisel.
Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2004.


Icons : divine beauty / Richard Temple.
London : Saqi in association with The Temple Gallery, c2004.


Intimate gardens / by C. Colson Burrell with Lucy Hardiman.
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c2005.


North American Indian art / David W. Penny.
New York, NY : Thames & Hudson, c2004.


On the air : the encyclopedia of old-time radio / John Dunning.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.


Opportunities in acting careers / Dick Moore.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2005.


Quinlan's character stars / David Quinlan.
Richmond : Reynolds & Hearn, c2004.


Spirited journeys : self-taught Texas artists of the twentieth century / Lynne Adele ; exhibition organized by the Archer M.
Huntington Art Gallery, College of Fine Arts, the University of Texas at Austin.
[Austin, Tex.] : The Gallery : Distributed by University of Texas Press, c1997.


The flower painter's pocket palette : instant visual reference on colors and shapes / Elisabeth Harden.
Edison, NJ : Chartwell Books, 1996.


World heritage : monumental sites / a joint co-publication by The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), and Skira Editora.
Milano : Skira ; Paris : UNESCO ; New York, NY : Distributed in North America and Latin America by Rizzoli International
Publications, c2003.

 


800's Literature


African-American writers / Philip Bader.
New York : Facts on File, c2004.


Bram Stoker's Dracula / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.


Carson McCullers' The ballad of the sad cafe / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.


Cervantes' Don Quixote / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2001.


Cormac McCarthy / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002.


Dante in love : the world's greatest poem and how it made history / Harriet Rubin.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2004.


Dark eyes on America : the novels of Joyce Carol Oates / Gavin Cologne-Brookes.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2005.


Don DeLillo's White noise / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2003.


Erich Maria Remarque's All quiet on the western front / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2001.


Flannery O'Connor / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Broomall, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, c1999.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the time of cholera / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.


Gwendolyn Brooks / Harold Bloom, ed.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, 2003.


H.G. Wells / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2005.


Herman Melville / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Broomall, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, c1999.


J.D. Salinger / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Broomall, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, c1999.


J.R.R. Tolkien's the Lord of the rings / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2000.


Jack London / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Broomal, PA : Chelsea House, c2001.


Just enough Liebling : classic work by the legendary New Yorker writer / A.J. Liebling ; introduction by David Remnick.
New York : North Point Press, 2004.


Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's cradle / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2002.


Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse five / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2001.


Long life : essays and other writings / Mary Oliver.
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, c2004.


Margaret Atwood / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2000.


Margaret Atwood's The handmaid's tale / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2001.


Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c1998.


Of other worlds: essays and stories [by] C. S. Lewis, edited by Walter Hooper.
New York, Harcourt, Brace & World [1967, c1966]


Ray Bradbury / edited by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2001.


Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2003.


Robert Louis Stevenson / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2005.


Sylvia Plath / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Broomall, PA : Chelsea House Publishers, c2001.


The poet's guide to life : the wisdom of Rilke / translated and edited by Ulrich Baer.
New York : Modern Library, 2005.


The tale of Genji / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia, Pa. : Chelsea House Publishers, c2004.


William Styron's Sophie's choice / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002.


Words of wisdom : more good advice / compiled and edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir.
New York : Simon and Schuster, c1990.


Young Goodman Brown / [edited by] Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c2005.


 


900's Geography and History

 

A mighty fortress : a new history of the German people / Steven Ozment ; [maps by Adam G. Beaver].
New York : HarperCollins, c2004.


Across time and tundra : the Inuvialuit of the western Arctic / Ishmael Alunik, Eddie D. Kolausok, and David Morrison.
Vancouver : Raincoast Books ; Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Museum of
Civilization, c2003.


African American lives / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Africana : the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience / editors, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Henry Louis
Gates, Jr.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


An expedition to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, by Howard Stansbury.
Ann Arbor [Mich.] University Microfilms [1966]


Austria-Hungary and the successor states : a reference guide from the Renaissance to the present / by Eric Roman.
New York : Facts on File, 2003.


Dixie ; or, Southern scenes and sketches, by Julian Ralph ...
New York : Harper & brothers, 1896.


Elie Wiesel's Night / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2003.


Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol empire / Christopher P. Atwood.
New York, NY : Facts on File, c 2004.


History lessons : how textbooks from around the world portray U.S. history / Dana Lindaman and Kyle Ward.
New York : New Press, 2004.


Hitler's second book : the unpublished sequel to Mein Kampf / by Adolf Hitler ; Gerhard L. Weinberg, editor ; translated by
Krista Smith.
New York, NY : Enigma Books, 2003.


I rose like a rocket : the political education of Theodore Roosevelt / Paul Grondahl.
New York : Free Press, c2004.


Impressions of the Sahara / Jean-Loic Le Quellec ; photographs by Tiziana and Gianni Baldizzone.
Paris : Flammarion, c2004.


Indians in unexpected places / Philip J. Deloria.
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2004.


Inside television's first war : a Saigon journal / Ron Steinman.
Columbia, MO : University of Missouri Press, c2002.


Journal of the travels over the Rocky Mountains / Joel Palmer.
Ann Arbor [Mich.] University Microfilms [1966]


London 1945 : life in the debris of war / Maureen Waller.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2005.


Minnie Fisher Cunningham : a suffragist's life in politics / Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.


Natchez : the houses and history of the jewel of the Mississippi / text by Hugh Howard ; photography by Roger Straus III.
New York : Rizzoli : Distributed in the U.S. trade by St. Martin's Press, c2003.


One hundred great lives, revealing biographies of scientists and inventors, leaders and reformers, writers and poets, artists
and musicians, discoverers and explorers, soldiers and statesmen [and] great women. Ed. by John Allen [pseud.]
New York : Greystone Press, 1945.


Plutarch's Lives; the translation called Dryden's, cor. from the Greek and rev. by A. H. Clough, with Dr. William Smith's
historical notes.
New York, Bigelow, Smith & co. [c1911]


Race to the pole : tragedy, heroism, and Scott's Antarctic quest / Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
New York : Hyperion, c2004.


Seven against the night/ Paul Eldridge.
New York : T. Yoseloff, [1960]


Studies in contemporary biography, by James Bryce ...
New York : The Macmillan company ; London : Macmillan & co., ltd., 1904, 1903.


Texas, the marvelous, the state of the six flags, by Nevin O. Winter. Texas centennial ed. With fifty-three plates, of which five
are in colour.
Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City publishing co., inc., 1936, c1916.


The big ranch country / J.W. Williams ; illustrations by Stephen D. Thorpe.
Wichita Falls, TX : Terry Bros. Pub, c1954.


The captured : a true story of Indian abduction on the Texas frontier / Scott Zesch.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2004.


The fall of Baghdad / Jon Lee Anderson.
New York : Penguin Press, 2004.


The famous five / Holmes Moss Alexander.
New York, The Bookmailer [c1958]


The Galactic Club : intelligent life in outer space / Ronald N. Bracewell.
San Francisco : W. H. Freeman : distributed by Scribner, New York, [1975]


The gold-headed cane, by William Macmichael, M. D.; with an introduction by Sir William Osler ... and a preface by Francis R.
Packard, M. D.
New York, P. B. Hoeber, 1926.


The land that time forgot ; adventures and discoveries in New Guinea, by Michael Leahy and Maurice Crain.
New York ; London : Funk & Wagnalls company, 1937.


The Mississippi and the making of a nation : from the Louisiana Purchase to today / Stephen E. Ambrose, Douglas G. Brinkley ;
photographs by Sam Abell.
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2002.


The national parks portfolio, by Robert Sterling Yard, formerly editor, National park service.
Washington : U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1931.


The Oregon trail of Francis Parkman; ed. by William Ellery Leonard ...
Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and company [c1910]


The Pacific world, its vast distances, its lands and the life upon them, and its peoples, edited by Fairfield Osborn, with maps
and illustrations by Robert M. Chapin, jr., Andrey Avinoff, Francis Lee Jacques [and others] ...
New York : W.W. Norton & company, inc., [1944].


The world of the virtuoso. Translated from the French by Lucile H. Brockway.
London, Victor Gollancz, 1964, [1963], [1961]


The World War II Memorial : a grateful nation remembers / Douglas Brinkley, editor ; foreword by John S.D. Eisenhower ;
memorial photography by Richard Latoff.
Washington, [D.C.] : Smithsonian Books ; [c2004]


Working north from Patagonia ; being the narrative of a journey, earned on the way, through southern and eastern South
America, by Harry F. Franck ... Illustrated with 176 unusual photographs by the author, with a map showing the route.
New York : The Century co., 1921.



Fiction


Booked to die : a mystery introducing Cliff Janeway / John Dunning.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001.


Of human bondage / W. Somerset Maugham.
New York : Penguin Books, 1992.


Tales of the Labrador, by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell ...
Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1916.


The bookman's promise : a Cliff Janeway novel / John Dunning.
New York : Simon & Schuster , c2005.


The collected short stories of Louis L'Amour : the frontier stories, volume 2 / Louis L'Amour.
New York : Bantam Books, 2004.


The curious incident of the dog in the night-time / Mark Haddon.
New York : Random House, 2003.


The Mrs. Dalloway reader / Virginia Woolf et al. ; edited by Francine Prose.
Orlando : Harcourt, 2004.


The sign of the book : a Cliff Janeway novel / John Dunning.
New York : Scribner, 2005.


With the Indians in the Rockies / James Willard Schultz ; with illustrations by George Varian.
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1912.

 

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