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October 2005

 

000's General Knowledge

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

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2005: Mar., Apr., May, June, July, Aug., Sept.

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

 

Bowker's best reference books : arranged by subject heading / [managing editor, Ashley Ludwig].
New Providence, NJ : The Best Books, c2005.


Saving stuff : how to care for and preserve your collectibles, heirlooms, and other prize possessions / Don Williams and
Louisa Jaggar.
New York : Fireside, 2005.


 

100's Psychology and Philosophy


A miniature guide for students and faculty to scientific thinking / by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2003.


A miniature guide for students and faculty to the foundations of analytic thinking : how to take thinking apart and what to look
for when you do: the elements of thinking and the standards they must meet / by Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2003.


Critical thinking : unfinished business / Christine M. McMahon, editor.
San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass, 2005.


Encyclopedia of applied psychology / editor-in-chief, Charles D. Spielberger.
Amsterdam : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004.

 

Listening to fear : helping kids cope, from nightmares to the nightly news / Steven Marans.
New York : Owl Books, 2005.


The ethics of bowhunting for deer / by Arthur Jaggard.
Bloomington, IN : AuthorHouse, 2004.


The miniature guide to critical thinking concepts & tools / by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2004.


The miniature guide to the art of asking essential questions / by Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2005.


The miniature guide to the human mind : how it learns, how it mslearns / by Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2004.


The thinker's guide to the art of strategic thinking : 25 weeks to better thinking and better living: first steps to becoming a
critical thinker / by Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2004.


The thinker's guide to the nature and functions of critical & creative thinking / by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2004.


Transplantation ethics / Robert M. Veatch.
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2000


200's Religions and Mythology

 


Santeria : the beliefs and rituals of a growing religion in America / Miguel A. De La Torre.
Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., c2004.



300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore



A guide for educators to critical thinking competency standards : standards, principles, preformance indicators, and outcomes
with a critical thinking master rubric / by Richard Paul and Linda Elder.
Dillon Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, c2005.


A miniature guide for those who teach on how to improve student learning : 30 practical ideas / by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr.
Linda Elder.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2003.


Establishing & sustaining learning-centered community colleges / edited by Christine Johnson McPhail ; foreword by George R. Boggs.
Washington, D.C. : Community College Press, c2005.


The miniature guide for those who teach on practical ways to promote active & cooperative learning / by Dr. Wesley Hiler and
Dr. Richard Paul.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2005.


The thinker's guide for conscientious citizens on how to detect media bias & propaganda in national and world news / by Dr.
Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2004.


The thinker's guide for students on how to study & learn a discipline : using critical thinking concepts and tools / by Richard
Paul and Linda Elder.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2003.


The classroom of choice : giving students what they need and getting what you want / Jonathan C. Erwin.
Alexandria, VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2004.


Moral questions in the classroom : how to get kids to think deeply about real life and their schoolwork / Katherine G. Simon.
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2001.


Waldorf student reading list / edited by Pamela Johnson Fenner and Karen L. Rivers.
Amesbury, MA : Michaelmas Press, c1995.


Responding to the challenges of developmental education / Carol A. Kozeracki, editor.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2005.


Skilled dialogue : strategies for responding to cultural diversity in early childhood / by Isaura Barrera and Robert M. Corso with
Dianne Macpherson.
Baltimore, Md. : P.H. Brookes Pub., c2003.


Archaeology
CA; Wadsworth, c2006


Black rednecks and white liberals : and other cultural and ethnic issues / Thomas Sowell.
San Francisco, Calif. : Encounter Books, 2005.

Chronology of transportation in the United States / Russell O. Wright.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2004.


Criminal Justice Today
NJ; Pearson, c2005


Empire : a tale of obsession, betrayal, and the battle for an American icon / Mitchell Pacelle.
New York : Wiley, c2001.


Employment, hours, and earnings : states and areas, 2005 / editor, Diane Werneke ; associate editor, Mary Meghan Ryan.
Lanham, MD : Bernan Press, c2005.


Freedom from want : the human right to adequate food / George Kent ; foreword by Jean Ziegler.
Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2005.


From Love Canal to environmental justice : the politics of hazardous waste on the Canada-U.S. border / Thomas H. Fletcher.
Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, 2003.


Garbage land : on the secret trail of trash / Elizabeth Royte.
New York : Little, Brown and Co., c2005.


God, sex, and politics : homosexuality and everyday theologies / Dawne Moon.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2004.


Legal rights of prisoners : cases and comments / James F. Anderson and Laronistine Dyson.
Lanham : University Press of America, c2001.


Liberalism / Paul Kelly.
Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2005.


New Jersy Is Not Blue Not is Pennsylvania Scarlet
Fort Worth; Harcourt , c1999


The complete dictionary of symbols / Jack Tresidder, general editor.
San Francisco, CA. : Chronicle Books, c2005.



Vital statistics of the United States : births, life expectancy, deaths and selected health data / editors, Helmut F. Wendel,
Christopher S. Wendel ; associate editors, Katherine A. DeBrandt, Mary Meghan Ryan, Mark Siegal.
Lanham, MD : Bernan Press, c2004.


War : opposing viewpoints / book editor, Louise I. Gerdes.
San Diego, Calif. : Greehaven Press, 2005.

When in Rome or Rio or Riyadh-- : cultural q&as for successful business behavior around the world / Gwyneth Olofsson.
Yarmouth, Me. : Intercultural Press, c2004





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


Encyclopedia of entomology / edited by John L. Capinera.
Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2004.


Flatland; a romance of many dimensions / Edwin A. Abbott.
United States, Kessinger Publishing, [n.d.]


Master math : geometry : including everything from triangles, polygons, proofs, and deductive reasoning to circles, solids,
similarity, and coordinate geometry / by Debra Anne Ross.
Clifton Park, NY : Thomson/Delmar Learning, c2005.


600's Medicine and Technology


Managing Fire and Rescue Services
NY; ICMA University, c2002


Occupational safety & Health in the emergency Services
NY: Thomson, c2005


Quirky kids : understanding and helping your child who doesn't fit in-- when to worry and when not to worry / Perri Klass and
Eileen Costello.
New York : Ballantine Books, c2004.


The oasis guide to asperger syndrome : advice, support, insights, and inspiration / Patricia Romanowski Bashe and Barbara L. Kirby ; forewords by Simon Baron-Cohen and Tony Attwood.
New York : Crown Publishers, c2005.


700's Arts and Recreation

 

ArtBasics; an illustrated glossary and timeline
Wadsworth; c2005


Ethics and college sports : ethics, sports, and the university / Peter A. French.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004.


Not since Carrie : forty years of Broadway musical flops / Ken Mandelbaum.
New York : St. Martin's Press, c1991


Reading abstract expressionism : context and critique / edited and with an introduction by Ellen G. Landau.
New Haven ; London : Yale, 2005.


San Antonio at bat : professional baseball in the Alamo city / David King.
College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, c2004.


The deer hunter's book : classic hunting stories/ edited by Lamar Underwood ; foreword by John Madson ; drawings by Al
Barker.
Guilford, Conn. : Lyon's Press, 2004.



800's Literature


A historical guide to Langston Hughes / edited by Steven C. Tracy.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


All things Austen : an encyclopedia of Austen's world / Kirstin Olsen.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.


Blinn literary journal.
Bryan, TX : Blinn College, 2005-


Dialogues An Argument Rhetoric and Reader
Pearson; NY, c2006


Oedipus at Colonus / Sophocles ; translated by Eamon Grennan and Rachel Kitzinger.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


Ralph Ellison's Invisible man : a casebook / edited by John F. Callahan.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.


Richard Wright's Black boy (American hunger) : a casebook / edited by William L. Andrews , Douglas Taylor.
Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.


The best American essays 2004 / edited and with an introduction by Louis Menand.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2004.


The moral philosophy of John Steinbeck / edited by Stephen K. George.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2005.


The thinker's guide to how to write a paragraph : the art of substantive writing : how to say something worth saying about
something worth saying something about / by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder.
Dillion Beach, CA : Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2003.


William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! : a casebook / edited by Fred Hobson.
Oxford, [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.


Your First Interview
Franklin NJ; Career Press, c1996


900's Geography and History


The Cuban Revolution : past, present, and future perspectives / Geraldine Lievesley.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.



Fiction


Lonesome Dove : a novel / by Larry McMurtry.
New York : Simon and Schuster, c2000.

Strangers / Dean R. Koontz.
New York : Berkley Books, 2002.


The bad place / Dean R. Koontz.
New York : Berkley Books, 2004.


The gay place : being three related novels / Billy Lee Brammer ; with a new introduction by Don Graham.
Austin : University of Texas Press, 1995.


Audiovisuals

 

Far and away [videorecording] / Imagine Films Entertainment ; produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard ; directed by Ron
Howard ; screenplay by Bob Dolman.
Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, c1998.


Gulliver's travels [videorecording] / RHI Entertainment, Inc. ; Channel Four Television ; Jim Henson Productions ; produced by
Duncan Kenworthy ; directed by Charles Sturridge ; teleplay by Simon Moore.
Los Angeles : Hallmark Home Entertainment, c1999


Primary colors [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; Mutual Films ; Icarus Productions ; produced and directed by Mike Nichols
; screenplay by Elaine May.
Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, c1999.


The godfather DVD collection [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures ; Zoetrope Studios ; produced and directed by Francis
Ford Coppola ; written by Mario Puzo & Francis Ford Coppola.
Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Video, 2001.


The office [videorecording] : complete series one & two and the special / British Broadcasting Corporation ; producer, Ash
Atalla ; executive producer, Anil Gupta ; written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.
[England] : BBC Worldwide Americas ; Burbank, CA. : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video, c2004.


Vertigo [videorecording] / Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions and Paramount Pictures ; directed and produced by Alfred
Hitchcock ; screenplay by Alec Coppel & Samuel Taylor.
Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Video, c1999.


Snow falling on cedars [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; produced by Kathleen Kennedy ... [et al.] ; directed by Scott
Hicks ; screenplay by Ron Bass, Scott Hicks.
Universal City, CA : Universal Home Video, c2000.

 

 

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