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Graphic Novels
000's General Knowledge
Books on fire : the destruction of libraries throughout history / Lucien X. Polastron ; translated by Jon E. Graham. Rochester, Vt. : Inner Traditions, 2007.
100's Psychology and Philosophy
Plato and a platypus walk into a bar-- : understanding philosophy through jokes / Thomas Cathcart & Daniel Klein. New York : Abrams Image, 2007. Taking sides : clashing views on psychological issues / selected, edited, and with introductions by Brent Slife. Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008. The scent of desire : discovering our enigmatic sense of smell / Rachel Herz. New York : William Morrow, 2007. Child Development / John Santrock. NY: McGrawHill; c2007. Come on, people : on the path from
victims to victors / Bill Cosby & Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D. Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2007.
200's Religions and Mythology
Discovering God : the origins of the great religions and the evolution of belief / Rodney Stark. New York : HarperOne, c2007. Can God intervene? : how religion explains natural disasters / Gary Stern. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007. The year of living biblically : one man's humble quest to follow the Bible as literally as possible / A.J. Jacobs. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007. Buddhism : a short history / Edward Conze. Oxford : Oneworld, c1993.
300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore
Media impact; an introduction to mass media / Shirley Biagi. Belmont, CA; Thomson Wadsworth; c2007 (Un)civil war of words : media and politics in the Arab world / Mamoun Fandy. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2007. Discrimination / Jacqueline Langwith, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2008. Taking sides : clashing views in childhood and society / selected, edited, and with introductions by Diana S. DelCampo and Robert L. DelCampo. Guilford, Conn. : McGraw-Hill, c2008. A bagful of locusts and the baboon woman / David N. Suggs. Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2002. Lives on the line : women and ecology on a Pacific atoll / Alexandra Brewis. Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1996.
Challenging gender norms : five genders among Bugis in Indonesia / Sharyn Graham Davies. Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, c2007. A Sinhalese village in Sri Lanka : coping with uncertainty / Victoria J. Baker. Belmont, CA : Thompson Wadsworth, c1998. The Canela : kinship, ritual, and sex in an Amazonian tribe / William H. Crocker, Jean G. Crocker. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2004. Yanomamo / Napoleon A. Chagnon. Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1997. Globalization and change in fifteen cultures : born in one world, living in another / George Spindler and Janice E. Stockard, [editors]. Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, 2007. The Dobe Ju/'hoansi / Richard B. Lee. [Belmont, CA] : Wadsworth Thomson Learning, c2003.
Watch and pray : a portrait of Fante village life in transition / Nancy Lundgren. Fort Worth, Tex : Harcourt College, 2002. The slave ship : a human history / Marcus Rediker. New York : Viking, c2007. Scottish crofters : a historical ethnography of a Celtic village / Susan Parman. Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2005. Taking sides : clashing views in science, technology, and society / selected, edited and with introductions by Thomas A. Easton. Boston, MA. : McGraw-Hill, c2008. Encyclopedia of Title IX and sports / Nicole Mitchell and Lisa A. Ennis. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2007. Nobodies : modern American slave labor and the dark side of the new global economy / John Bowe. New York : Random House, c2007.
Alternative energy : political, economic, and social feasibility / Christopher A. Simon. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007. Hawaiian fishermen / Edward W. Glazier. Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, c2007. Natural law, religion, and rights : an exploration of the relationship between natural law and natural rights, with special emphasis on the teachings of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke / Henrik Syse. South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, 2007. Taking sides : clashing views on legal issues / selected, edited and with introductions by M. Ethan Katsh Boston, MA : McGraw-Hill, c2008. The next Justice : repairing the Supreme Court appointments process / Christopher L. Eisgruber. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. Taking sides : clashing views in health and society / selected, edited, and with introductions by Eileen L. Daniel. Boston, MA : McGraw-Hill, c2008.
Taking sides: clashing views in drugs and society / selected, edited, and with introductions by Raymond Goldberg. Boston, MA. : McGraw-Hill, c2008. Domestic violence : a reference handbook / Margi Laird McCue. Santa Barbara, CA : ABC-Clio, c2008. Taking sides : clashing views in crime and criminology / selected, edited, and with introductions by Thomas J. Hickey. New York, NY : McGraw-Hill, c2008. Taking sides : clashing views in educational psychology / selected, edited, and with introductions and postscripts by Leonard Abbeduto and Frank Symons. Boston, MA. : McGraw-Hill, c2008. The sandbox investment : the preschool movement and kids-first politics / David L. Kirp. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007. The department head's guide to assessment implementation in administrative and educational support units / by Karen W. Nichols and James O. Nichols. New York : Agathon Press, c2000.
The departmental guide and record book for student outcomes assessment and institutional effectiveness / by James O. Nichols and Karen W. Nichols. New York : Agathon Press, c2000. General education assessment for improvement of student academic achievement : guidance for academic departments and committees / by James O. Nichols and Karen W. Nichols. New York : Agathon Press, c2001. Assessment case studies : common issues in implementation with various campus approaches to resolution / James O. Nichols. New York : Agathon Press, c1995. A road map for improvement of student learning and support services through assessment / James O. Nichols and Karen W. Nichols, with additional contributions by Cheryl Cleaves ... [et al.]. New York : Agathon Press, c2005. The Hammer story : the authorized history of hammer films / Marcus Hearn & Alan Barnes. London : Titan Books, 2007. The Sambia : ritual, sexuality, and change in Papua New Guinea / Gilbert Herdt. Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2006.
400's Languages and Grammar
500's Math and Science
Fundamentals of differential equations / Kent R. Nagle. Boston; Pearson, Addison, Wesley; c2004 Physics in the 20th century / Curt Suplee ; edited by Judy R. Franz and John S. Rigden. New York : Harry N. Abrams in association with the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics, 1999.
600's Medicine and Technology
Best practices in nursing education : stories of exemplary teachers / [edited by] Mary Jane Smith, Joyce J. Fitzpatrick. New York : Springer Pub., c2006. Snake oil science : the truth about complementary and alternative medicine / by R. Barker Bausell. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007. Shyness : how normal behavior became a sickness / Christopher Lane. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007. Straight talk about cosmetic surgery / Arthur W. Perry ; with a foreword by Michael F. Roizen. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007. The god machine : from boomerangs to black hawks, the story of the helicopter / James R. Chiles. New York, N.Y. : Bantam Dell, 2007. Epic rivalry : the inside story of the Soviet and American space race / Von Hardesty and Gene Eisman. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2007.
America in space : NASA's first fifty years / foreword by Neil Armstrong ; edited by Steven J. Dick ... [et al.] ; with the assistance of the NASA Chief Historian's Office and the NASA Photo Departments. New York : Abrams, 2007. A ball, a dog, and a monkey : 1957, the space race begins / Michael D'Antonio. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007. The robotics primer / Maja J. Mataric ; illustrations by Nathan Koenig. Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, c200 Skin and bones : the management of people and natural resources in Shellcracker Haven, Florida / Jane W. Gibson. Belmont, CA : Thomson/Wadsworth, c2004. The homeowner's guide to renewable energy : achieving energy independence through solar, wind, biomass and hydropower / Dan Chiras. Gabriola, BC : New Society, c2006. Crystal reports 10 for dummies / by Allen G. Taylor. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Pub., c2004.
Adland : a global history of advertising / Mark Tungate. London ; Philadelphia : Kogan Page, 2007. Textiles in America, 1650-1870 : a dictionary based on original documents, prints and paintings, commercial records, American merchant's papers, shopkeepers' advertisements, and pattern books with original swatches of cloth / Florence M. Montgomery ; foreword by Linda Eaton. New York : W. W. Norton & Co., c2007. The traditional bowyers encyclopedia : the bowhunting and bowmaking world of the nation's top crafters of longbows and recurves / Dan Bertalan. New York, NY : Skyhorse Pub., 2007.
700's Arts and Recreation
The authentic garden : five principles for cultivating a sense of place / Claire E. Sawyers. Portland, Or. : Timber Press, 2007. Sculpture as experience : working with clay, wire, wax, plaster, and found objects : now, paper, foam core, wood, and sand and methods for mounting and project preservation / Judith Peck. Iola, WI : Krause Publications, c2007. Air castle of the South : WSM and the making of Music City / Craig Havighurst. Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press, c2007.
800's Literature
Declension in the village of Chung Luong / Bruce Weigl. Keene, NY : Ausable Press ; Saint Paul, MN : Distributed to the trade by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, 2006. Archeology of the circle : new and selected poems / Bruce Weigl. New York : Grove Press, c1999. The unraveling strangeness : poems / by Bruce Weigl. New York : Grove Press, c2002. Tennessee Williams's The glass menagerie / edited and with an introcution by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2007. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The scarlet letter / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2007.
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism : Chelsea House, c2007. Mark Twain's The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2007. Jane Austen's pride and prejudice / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2007. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2007. Charles Dickens's A tale of two cities / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Chelsea House, c2007. Homer's The Odyssey / edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2007.
900's Geography and History
Journeys of a lifetime : 500 of the world's greatest trips / introduction by Keith Bellows. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2007. A chronology of middle Missouri Plains village sites / Craig M. Johnson ; with contribution by Stanley A. Ahler ... [et al.]. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2007. A shattered peace : Versailles 1919 and the price we pay today / David A. Andelman. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2008. The boys of Pointe du Hoc : Ronald Reagan, D-Day, and the U.S. Army 2nd Ranger Battalion / Douglas Brinkley. New York : W. Morrow, c2005. Rule number two : lessons I learned in a combat hospital / Heidi Squier Kraft ; foreword by W.C. Gregson. New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007. The Aztecs of central Mexico : an imperial society / Frances F. Berdan. Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, c2005.
Katun : a twenty-year journey with the Maya / Cindy L. Hull. Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2004. Taking Sides Clashing Views in United States History / Larry Madaras. Dubuque, IA McGraw Hill c2007. Ronald Reagan / Jules Tygiel. Pearson Education; 2006. The American idea : the best of the Atlantic monthly : 150 years of writers and thinkers who shaped our history / edited by Robert Vare with Daniel B. Smith. New York : Doubleday, c2007. A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight. Orlando : Harcourt, c2007. Life in Riverfront : a middle-western town seen through Japanese eyes / Mariko Fujita and Toshiyuki Sano. Belmont, CA : Thompson Wadsworth, c2001.
Through the eye of the needle : a Maori elder remembers / Mary Katharine Duffié. Orlando, FL : Harcourt College Publishers, c2001. Grand Valley Dani : peaceful warriors / Karl G. Heider. Belmont, CA : Thompson Wadsworth, c1997.
Biographies
¡Hugo! : the Hugo Chávez story from mud hut to perpetual revolution / Bart Jones. . Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, c2007. The authentic Confucius : a life of thought and politics / Annping Chin. New York : Scribner, 2007. Benjamin Harrison / Charles W. Calhoun. New York : Times, 2005. Young Stalin / Simon Sebag Montefiore. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. |
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