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May 2006

 

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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

 

Ambient findability / Peter Morville.
Sebastopol, CA. : O'Reilly Media, c2005.


Fiction catalog / edited by John Greenfieldt.
New York : H.W. Wilson, 2006.


The art of computer virus research and defense / Peter Szor.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Addison-Wesley, 2005.


The enduring library : technology, tradition, and the quest for balance / Michael Gorman.
Chicago : American Library Association, 2003.



100's Psychology and Philosophy

 

The accountable corporation / edited by Marc J. Epstein and Kirk O. Hanson.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.


Ending life : ethics and the way we die / Margaret Pabst Battin.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


Environmental ethics for a postcolonial world / Deane Curtin.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2005.


Reading Plotinus : a practical introduction to neoplatonism / Kevin Corrigan.
West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, c2005.


Reality check : what your mind knows, but isn't telling you / David L. Weiner ; preface by Robert D. Hare.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.


The myth of self-esteem : how rational emotive behavior therapy can change your life forever / Albert Ellis.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.


The Oxford companion to philosophy / edited by Ted Honderich.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


The stem cell controversy : debating the issues / edited by Michael Ruse and Christopher A. Pynes.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2003.


The world's children and their companion animals : developmental and educational significance of the child/pet bond / Mary Renck Jalongo, editor.
Olney, MD : Association for Childhood Education International, c2004.



200's Religions and Mythology

 

Don't know much about mythology : everything you need to know about the greatest stories in human history but never learned / Kenneth C. Davis.
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2005.


When children became people : the birth of childhood in early Christianity / O. M. Bakke ; translated by Brian McNeil.
Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2005.


300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore

 

Cases for community college teachers : thought-provoking and practical solutions for community college educators / by Dr. Rebecca Kamm.
Stillwater, OK. : New Forums Press, c2001.


Educating African American males : voices from the field / edited by Olatokunbo S. Fashola.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2005.


How to get good grades in college / by Linda O'Brien.
Dayton, Ohio : Woodburn Press, c2006.


It works for me! : shared tips for teaching / Hal Blythe, Charlie Sweet.
Stillwater, OK. : New Forums Press, c1998.


School board battles : the Christian right in local politics / Melissa M. Deckman.
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2004.


Phi Theta Kappa leadership development program : a comprehensive approach to teaching and learning leadership at community colleges / by Carlene S. Feldman, Rod A. Risley, Diane U. Eisenberg. Jackson, MS. : Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society, c1996.


Why we teach / Sonia Nieto, editor.
New York : Teachers College Press, c2005.


Teaching for change : fostering transformative learning in the classroom / Edward W. Taylor, editor.
San Francisco, CA. : Jossey-Bass, c2006.


The art of changing the brain : enriching teaching by exploring the biology of learning / James E. Zull.
Sterling, Va. : Stylus Pub., 2002.


The politics of the global oil industry : an introduction / Toyin Falola and Ann Genova.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.


The losing battle with Islam / David Selbourne.
Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2005.


Complicity : how the North promoted, prolonged, and profited from slavery / Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank of the Hartford Courant.
New York : Ballantine Books, c2005.


Confessions of an economic hit man / John Perkins.
San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2004.


A secret life : the Polish officer, his covert mission, and the price he paid to save his country / Benjamin Weiser.
New York : PublicAffairs, 2004.


Civil liberties vs. national security : in a post-9/11 world / edited by M. Katherine B. Darmer, Robert M. Baird, and Stuart E. Rosenbaum.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.


Dying to win: the strategic logic of suicide terrorism / Robert A. Pape.
New York : Random House, c2005.


Democracy and religion : free exercise and diverse visions / edited by David Odell-Scott.
Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c2004.


Fear and loathing: on the campaign trail '72 / Hunter S. Thompson.
New York : Warner Books, 1983.


Hatred, bigotry, and prejudice : definitions, causes & solutions / edited by Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1999.


Hubris and hybrids : a cultural history of technology and science / Mikael Hard and Andrew Jamison.
New York : Routledge, 2005.


In search of Islamic feminism : one woman's global journey / by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea.
New York : Doubleday, 1998.


Making divorce easier on your child : 50 effective ways to help children adjust / Nicholas Long and Rex Forehand.
Chicago : Contemporary Books, c2002.


Mergent equity research reports.
New York : Mergent FIS, 2005-


Not-so-nuclear families : class, gender, and networks of care / Karen V. Hansen.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.


One with Nineveh : politics, consumption, and the human future / Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich.
Washington : Island Press : Shearwater Books, 2005, c2004.


in celebration of the first 25 years / editors, Diana T. Slaughter-Defoe, Aline M. Garrett, Algea O. Harrison-Hale
Maldon, MA. : Blackwell Publishers, c2006.


Policy challenges in modern health care / edited by David Mechanic ... [et al.].
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.


Same-sex marriage : the moral and legal debate / edited by Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.


Science, technology, and criminal justice / Robert C. Bradley.
New York : Peter Lang, c2004.


Shelter from the storm : repairing the national emergency management system after Hurricane Katrina / special editors of this volume, William L. Waugh Jr.
Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2006.


Shiksa goddess (or, How I spent my forties) : essays / by Wendy Wasserstein.
New York, NY. : Vintage Books, c2002.


Smoking : who has the right? / edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler & Magda E. Schaler.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1998.


Social Security under the gun : what every informed citizen needs to know about pension reform / Arthur Benavie.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 2003.


Stakes and kidneys : why markets in human body parts are morally imperative / James Stacey Taylor.
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2005.


Taking sides : clashing views in lifespan development / selected, edited, and with introductions by Andrew M. Guest.
Dubuque, Iowa : McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, c2007.


The constitution in wartime : beyond alarmism and complacency / Mark Tushnet, editor.
Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2005.


The economic implications of aging societies : the costs of living happily ever after / Steven A. Nyce, Sylvester J. Schieber. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.


The good divorce : keeping your family together when your marriage comes apart / Constance Ahrons.
New York : HarperCollins, 1995, c1994.


The health & safety guide for film, TV, & theater / Monona Rossol.
New York : Allworth Press, c2000.


The impact of the Internet on our moral lives / Robert J. Cavalier.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.


The rapture of maturity : a legacy of lifelong learning / Charles D. Hayes.
Wasilla, AK : Autodidactic Press, c2004.


Trade-offs : an introduction to economic reasoning and social issues / Harold Winter.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.


The world is flat : a brief history of the twenty-first century / Thomas L. Friedman.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.


What motivates suicide bombers? / Lauri S. Friedman, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2005.


With courage and common sense : memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles / edited and with introductions by Susan Wittig Albert and Dayna Finet ; foreword by Liz Carpenter.
Austin : University of Texas Press, c2003.


400's Languages and Grammar


American voices : how dialects differ from coast to coast / edited by Walt Wolfram and Ben Ward.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.


500's Math and Science


The plausibility of life : resolving Darwin's dilemma / Marc W. Kirschner and John C. Gerhart.
New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 2005.


The Republican war on science / Chris Mooney.
New York : Basic Books, c2005.


Dragonflies and damselflies of Texas and the South-Central United States : Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico / John C. Abbott.
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2005.


Enjoying purple martins more / by Richard A. Wolinski.
Marietta, Ohio : Bird Watcher's Digest Press, c1995.


From blue moons to black holes : a basic guide to astronomy, outer space, and space exploration / Melanie Melton Knocke.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.


Making modern science : a historical survey / Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.


On ancient wings : The Sandhill cranes of North America / Michael Forsberg.
Lincoln, NE. : Michael Forsberg Photography, c2004.


Stargazer : the life and times of the telescope / Fred Watson.
New York : Da Capo Press, c2005.


What scientists think / [edited by] Jeremy Stangroom.
New York, NY : Routledge, 2005.


600's Medicine and Technology


101 reasons why I'm a vegetarian / Pamela Rice.
New York : Lantern Books, 2005.


Acupuncture for everyone : what it is, why it works, and how it can help you / Ruth Kidson.
Rochester, VT : Healing Arts Press, 2000.


Degunking your PC / Joli Ballew, Jeff Duntemann.
Scottsdale, AZ. : Paraglyph Press, c2005.


Green building products : the GreenSpec guide to residential building materials / Alex Wilson and Mark Piepkorn, editors ; Nadav Malin, co-editor, GreenSpec ; Angela Battisto, GreenSpec manager.
Brattleboro, VT. : BuildingGreen Inc. ; Gabriola Island, BC. : New Society Publishers, c2005.


Growing up with OI : a guide for families and caregivers / edited by Ellen Painter Dollar.
Gaithersburg, MD. : Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation, c2001.


Latino culture : a dynamic force in the changing American workplace / Nilda Chong and Francia Baez.
Yarmouth, ME : Intercultural Press, 2005.


NCLEX-PN / Wilda Rinehart, Diann Sloan, Clara Hurd.
[Indianapolis, IN.] : Que Certification, c2005.


Taking sides. Clashing views in abnormal psychology / selected, edited, and with introductions by Richard P. Halgin.
Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill, c2007.


The bipolar workbook : tools for controlling your mood swings / Monica Ramirez Basco.
New York : Guilford Press, c2006.


The Joslin guide to diabetes : a program for managing your treatment / Richard S. Beaser and Amy P. Campbell.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Vegan with a vengeance : 150 delicious, cheap, animal-free, logo-free recipes that rock / Isa Chandra Moskowitz ;
photographs by Geoffery Tischman ; food styling by Neje Bailey, Isa Chandra Moskowitz, and Terry Romero.
New York, NY : Avalon, 2005.


What is medical history? / John Burnham.
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005.


Without conscience : the disturbing world of the psychopaths among us / Robert D. Hare.
New York : Guilford Press, 1999.


700's Arts and Recreation


Stages in design : assignments for the performing arts / Kenneth Kimber & David Wood.
London : Hodder & Stoughton, c1994.


Technical design solutions for theatre : the technical brief collection / [editors] Bronislaw J. Sammler, Don Harvey.
Amsterdam : Focal Press, c2002.


The complete professional audition : a commonsense guide to auditioning for musicals and plays / Darren R. Cohen with Michael Perilstein ; with illustrations by Chad Thompson.
New York, N.Y. : Back Stage Books, c2005.


The perfect stage crew : the compleat technical guide for high school, college, and community theater / John Kaluta.
New York : Allworth Press, c2003.


Classical architecture for the twenty-first century : an introduction to design / J. Fran??s Gabriel.
New York : W. W. Norton & Co. in association with the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America, [2004]


What women watched : daytime television in the 1950s / Marsha F. Cassidy.
Austin : University of Texas Press, c2005.


800's Literature


Bachelor girls / Wendy Wasserstein.
New York : Vintage Books, 1991.


Feminismo y misoginia en la literatura espa+¦ola : fuentes literarias para la Historia de las Mujeres / Cristina Segura
Gra+¡+¦o (coord.)
Madrid : Narcea, c2001.


Writing on the wind : an anthology of West Texas women writers / edited by Lou Halsell Rodenberger, Laura Payne Butler, and Jacqueline Kolosov.
Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2005.


900's Geography and History


100 myths about the Middle East / Fred Halliday.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.


Chief Joseph & the flight of the Nez Perce : the untold story of an American tragedy / Kent Nerburn.
New York, NY. : HarperSanFrancisco, c2005.


Destination America / Chuck Wills.
New York : DK Pub., 2005.


The past from above : aerial photographs of archaeological sites / Georg Gerster ; edited by Charlotte Trümpler ; [translation by Stewart Spencer].
Los Angeles, CA. : The J. Paul Getty Museum, c2005.


Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
New York : Three Rivers Press, c2004.


Maps of time : an introduction to big history / David Christian.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.


The emergence of modern Southeast Asia : a new history / edited by Norman G. Owen ... [et al.].
Honolulu : University of Hawai¦i Press, c2005.


The past from above : aerial photographs of archaeological sites / Georg Gerster ; edited by Charlotte Tr++mpler ; [translation by Stewart Spencer].
Los Angeles, CA. : The J. Paul Getty Museum, c2005.


The Thames / Jonathan Schneer.
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2005.


Troubadour's song : the capture, imprisonment and ransom of Richard the Lionheart / David Boyle.
New York : Walker & Co., c2005.


When Baghad ruled the Muslim world : the rise and fall of Islam's greatest dynasty / Hugh Kennedy.
Cambridge, MA. : Da Capo Press, c2005.


Biographies

 

The life of Benjamin Franklin / J.A. Leo Lemay.
Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006


Fiction


The king in the window / Adam Gopnik.
New York : Hyperion Books for Children, c2005.


About a boy / Nick Hornby.
New York : Riverhead Books, c1999, 1998.


Armadillos & old lace / Kinky Friedman.
New York : Bantam, 1995, 1994.


Butterfly burning / Yvonne Vera.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.


Dragonwyck, by Anya Seton.
Chicago, IL, Chicago Review Press, 2005, 1944.


Elvis, Jesus & coca cola / by Kinky Friedman.
New York : Bantam, 1994, c1993.


Eventide : a novel / Kent Haruf.
New York : Random House, 2005, 2004.


Fingersmith / Sarah Waters.
New York : Riverhead Books, 2002.


Icy Sparks / Gwyn Hyman Rubio.
New York, N.Y. : Penguin, 1998.


Kill two birds & get stoned / Kinky Friedman.
New York : HarperCollins, 2004, c2003.


Plainsong / by Kent Haruf.
New York : Vintage, 2000, 1999.


PS, I love you / Cecelia Ahern.
New York : Hyperion, c2004.


Roadkill / Kinky Friedman.
New York, NY : Ballantine, 1998, c1997.


Rose of Dutcher's Coolly / Hamlin Garland ; introduction and edited by Keith Newlin.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.


Spanking Watson : a novel / Kinky Friedman.
New York : Pocket Books, 2000, c1999.


Tarnished honor / Mary Lou Hagen.
Baltimore : America House Book Publishers, c2001.


Texas widow / Mary Lou Hagen.
Baltimore : Publish America Book Publishers, c2002.


The blue flower / Penelope Fitzgerald.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995.


The Drive-in : a double-feature omnibus / Joe R. Lansdale.
New York, : Carroll & Graf, 1997.


The enigma of arrival : a novel / V.S. Naipaul.
New York : Vintage Books, 1988, c1987.


The gate of angels / Penelope Fitzgerald.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.


The golden child / Penelope Fitzgerald.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.


The mile high club / Kinky Friedman.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001, c2000.


Wild animus / Rich Shapero.
Woodside, CA : Too Far, 2004.


The stone virgins / Yvonne Vera.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.


Audiovisuals


Always a river, sometimes a library [videorecording] / College of DuPage. Satellite Network ; a production of Information
Technology, Multimedia Services and the Office of Special Services in cooperation with the Library Learning Network at
College of DuP
[Glen Ellyn, Ill.] : College of DuPage, Satellite Network, 2006.


Google and your patrons [videorecording] / College of DuPage. Satellite Network ; a production of Information Technology, Multimedia Services and the Office of Special Services in cooperation with the Library Learning Network at College of DuPage ; produc [Glen Ellyn, Ill.] : College of DuPage, Satellite Network, 2005.


Integrating technology into your ESOL program [videorecording] / Starlink in association with Odessa College ; producer, Lisa Brown ; director, Mark Phillips.
[Dallas, TX.] : Starlink, 2002.


Library management hot topics [videorecording] : a roundtable discussion with experienced library managers / College of DuPage. Satellite Network ; a production of Information Technology, Multimedia Services and the Office of Special Services in cooperati [Glen Ellyn, Ill.] : College of DuPage, Satellite Network, 2006.

Makeup for the theatre [videorecording] / the Ben Nye Company ; executive producer, Dana Nye ; producer, Paul J. O'Dell.
Los Angeles, CA. : Ben Nye Co., c2001.


Successfully involving faculty in your continuous improvement program [videorecording] / produced by the Bill J. Priest
Institute for Economic Development, DCCCD, under a Carl A. Perkins Leadership Grant provided by the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating
Dallas, Tex. : Starlink, 2002.


Teaching & assessing for critical thinking and deep learning [videorecording] / Starlink and the Texas Community College Teachers Association ; producers, Henry Hartman, Richard Moore, Tom Angelo.
[Dallas, TX.] : Starlink, c2002.


Techniques for teaching adults [videorecording] : a motivational and reflective approach / produced at the R. Jan LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications, Dallas County Community College District ; Starlink
Dallas, Tex. : Starlink, 2005


The portfolio as a student learning and assessment tool [videorecording] / produced by Starlink ; produce
Dallas, TX. : Starlink, 2001.


Understanding hand & power tool safety [videorecording] / J. J. Keller & Associates, Inc.
Neenah, WI. : J. J. Keller & Associates, c2002.


Audio for theater [videorecording] / produced by Interactive Educational Video LLC.
St. Louis, MO. : Interactive Educational Video LLC, c2004.


Auto shop safety [videorecording] / A Cambridge Educational production.
Lawrenceville, NJ. : Cambridge Educational, c2004.


Basic set construction and theater safety [videorecording] / produced by Interactive Educational Video LLC.
St. Louis, MO. : Interactive Educational Video LLC, c2003.


Electrical safety [videorecording] / A Cambridge Educational production.
Lawrenceville, NJ. : Cambridge Educational, c2004.


Lighting for theater [videorecording] / produced by Interactive Educational Video LLC.
St. Louis, MO. : Interactive Educational Video LLC, c2003.


Oedipus the king [videorecording] / a BBC TV co-production in association with Bioscope, Inc. ; produced by Louis Marks ; directed & translated by Don Taylor.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c2004.


Stage management [videorecording] / produced by Interactive Educational Video LLC.
St. Louis, MO. : Interactive Educational Video LLC, c2003.


The power of the sun [videorecording] / Inca Productions ; executive producer: Walter Kohn ; produced by: David Kennard & Victoria Simpson ; written by: John Perlin & David Kennard.
California : The Regents of the University of Southern California, 2005.


Welding shop safety [videorecording] / A Cambridge Educational production.
Lawrenceville, NJ. : Cambridge Educational, c2004.


Woodworking safety [videorecording] / A Cambridge Educational production.
Lawrenceville, NJ. : Cambridge Educational, c2004.

 

 

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