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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

 

Creating the one-shot library workshop : a step-by-step guide / Jerilyn Veldof.
Chicago : American Library Association, 2006.


Defining moments : the Internet revolution / Kevin Hillstrom.
Detroit, Mi : Omnigraphics, 2005.


I found it on the Internet : coming of age online / Frances Jacobson Harris.
Chicago : American Library Association, c2005.


Infamous scribblers : the founding fathers and the rowdy beginnings of american journalism / Eric Burns.
New York : Public Affairs, c2006.


Planning academic and research library buildings / Philip D. Leighton, David C. Weber.
Chicago : American Library Association, 2000.


The subject is research : processes and practices / edited by Wendy Bishop & Pavel Zemliansky.
Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers, c2001.


100's Psychology and Philosophy

 

Don't shoot the dog! : the new art of teaching and training / Karen Pryor.
New York : Bantam Books, 1999.



200's Religions and Mythology

 

Crossing and dwelling : a theory of religion / Thomas A. Tweed.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006.


Kabbalah : a very short introduction / Joseph Dan.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2006.


The improbability of God / edited by Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier.
Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2006.


Wide as the waters : the story of the English Bible and the revolution it inspired / Benson Bobrick.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2001.


300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore

 

Within our reach : how America can educate every child / edited by John E. Chubb.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ; Distributed by National Book Network, c2005.


A larger sense of purpose : higher education and society : non nobis solum / Shapiro, Harold T.,
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.


Teacher man : a memoir / Frank McCourt.
New York : Scribner, 2005.


Educating the net generation / Diana G. Oblinger, James L. Oblinger, editors.
Boulder, CO : EDUCAUSE, 2005.


Chairing academic departments : traditional and emerging expectations / N. Douglas Lees.
Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub. Co., Inc., 2006.


Beyond note cards : rethinking the freshman research paper / Bruce Ballenger ; [editor, William Varner].
Portsmouth, NH : Boynton/Cook Publishers, c1999.


A million little pieces / James Frey.
New York : Random House, 2004.


A thousand barrels a second : the coming oil break point and the challenges facing an energy dependent world / Peter
Tertzakian.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2006.


America at the crossroads : democracy, power, and the neoconservative legacy / Francis Fukuyama.
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2006.


American Indian food / Linda Murray Berzok.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.


American mythos : why our best efforts to be a better nation fall short / Robert Wuthnow.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2006.


Asbestos and fire : technological tradeoffs and the body at risk / Rachel Maines.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005.


Capital punishment / Harry Henderson
New York : Facts on File, c2006.


Childhood lost : how American culture is failing our kids / edited by Sharna Olfman.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.


Crazy : a father's search through America's mental health madness / Pete Earley.
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2006.


Drugs : should we legalize, decriminalize, or deregulate? / edited by Jeffrey A. Schaler.
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1998.


Ecosystems and human well-being : synthesis / Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
Washington, DC : Island Press, c2005.


Electing the President, 2000 : the insiders' view / edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2001.


Feminism: the essential historical writings. Edited, and with an introd. and commentaries, by Miriam Schneir.
New York, Random House 1994, c1972.


Firestarters : 100 job profiles to inspire young women / Kelly Beatty and Dale Salvaggio Bradshaw.
Indianapolis, IN : JIST Works, 2006.


For the many or the few : the initiative, public policy, and American democracy / John G. Matsusaka.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.


Guide to your career / the Princeton Review.
New York, NY : Random House, 1996-


Hershey : Milton S. Hershey's extraordinary life of wealth, empire, and utopian dreams / Michael D'Antonio.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2006.


High-speed dreams : NASA and the technopolitics of supersonic transportation, 1945-1999 / Erik M. Conway.
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.


House of war : the Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power / James Carroll.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.


Impostor : how George W. Bush bankrupted America and betrayed the Reagan legacy / Bruce Bartlett.
New York : Doubleday, c2006.


Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World / by David Brion Davis.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.


Knockoff : the deadly trade in counterfeit goods : the true story of the world's fastest growing crime wave / Tim Phillips.
London ; Sterling, Va. : Kogan Page, 2005.


No debate : how the Republican and Democratic parties secretly control the presidential debates / George Farah.
New York : Seven Stories Press, c2004.


Oil politics : a modern history of petroleum / Francisco Parra.
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2004.


Our town : a a heartland lynching, a haunted town, and the hidden history of white America / Cynthia Carr.
New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.


Paying with plastic : the digital revolution in buying and borrowing / David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005


Pregnancy and power : a short history of reproductive politics in America / Rickie Solinger.
New York : New York University Press, c2005.


Prisons / Jeffrey Ferro.
New York : Facts on File, c2006.


Rituals and patterns in children's lives / edited by Kathy Merlock Jackson.
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press, c2005.


State of the wild : 2006 / edited by Sharon Guynup.
Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2005.


The Arab Americans : a history / Gregory Orfalea.
Northampton, Mass. : Olive Branch Press, 2006.


The art of civilized conversation : a guide to expressing yourself with style and grace / Margaret Shepherd with Sharon
Hogan ; illustrations by Penny Carter.
New York : Broadway Books, 2006.


The battle for peace : a frontline vision of America's power and purpose / Tony Zinni, Tony Koltz.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.


The computer industry / Jeffrey R. Yost.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.


The end of poverty : economic possibilities for our time / Jeffrey D. Sachs.
New York : Penguin Press, 2005.


The final energy crisis / edited by Andrew McKillop with Shelia Newman.
London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto, 2005.


The idea of democracy in the modern era / Ralph Ketcham.
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2004.


The moral property of women : a history of birth control politics in America / Linda Gordon.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2002.


The rise and fall of the American Whig Party : Jacksonian politics and the onset of the Civil War / Michael F. Holt.
New York : Oxford University Press, 2003, c1999.


The secret message of Jesus : uncovering the truth that could change everything / Brian McLaren.
Nashville : W Pub., 2006.


The shield and the cloak : the security of the commons / by Gary Hart.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.


The Wal-Mart effect : how the world's most powerful company really works-- and how it's transforming the American
economy / Charles Fishman.
New York : Penguin Press, 2006.


To dare and to conquer : special operations and the destiny of nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda / Derek Leebaert.
New York : Little, Brown, 2006.


Unsung heroines : single mothers and the American dream / Ruth Sidel.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006.


White guilt : how blacks and whites together destroyed the promise of the civil rights era / Shelby Steele.
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.



400's Languages and Grammar

 

English grammar for students of French : the study guide for those learning French / Jacqueline Morton.
Ann Arbor, MI. : Olivia and Hill Press, c1993.


Exacto! : a practical guide to Spanish grammar / Ane Ortega ... [et al.].
Chicago : McGraw-Hill, c2002.


Faux pas? : a no-nonsense guide to words and phrases from other languages / Philip Gooden.
New York : Walker & Co., 2006.


French grammar and usage / Roger Hawkins & Richard Towell.
Chicago : McGraw-Hill, 2001.


Right, wrong, and risky : a dictionary of today's American English usage / Mark Davidson.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2006.


500's Math and Science

 

Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz : making light of weighty ideas / Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird ; original illustrations by Alan Witschonke.
New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.


Ecological responses to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens / Virginia H. Dale, Frederick J. Swanson, Charles M. Crisafulli, editors ; with a foreword by Jerry F. Franklin.
New York, NY : Springer c2005.


Of mice and mountain lions : the adventures of a wildlife biologist / Ronnie Ridley George.
Austin, TX : Eakin Press, 2004.


Prairie dog empire : a saga of the shortgrass prairie / Paul A. Johnsgard.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005.


Songbird journeys : four seasons in the lives of migratory birds / Miyoko Coco Chu.
New York, : Walker & Co., 2006.


The first human : the race to discover our earlierst ancestor / Ann Gibbons.
New York : Doubleday : 2006.


The first scientific American : Benjamin Franklin and the pursuit of genius / Joyce E. Chaplin.
New York : Basic Books, c2006.


When computers were human / David Alan Grier.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.


600's Medicine and Technology


Be a survivor : your guide to breast cancer treatment / Vladimir Lange.
Los Angeles : Lange Productions, 2005, c1998.


Case studies in dental hygiene / Evelyn M. Thomson ... [et al.].
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2003.


Clinical practice of the dental hygienist / Esther M. Wilkins.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2005.


Clinically oriented anatomy / Keith L. Moore, Arthur F. Dalley II ; in collaboration with, and with content provided by Anne M.R. Agur ; with the developmental assistance and dedication of Marion E. Moore.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006.


Dellmann's textbook of veterinary histology / [edited by] Jo Ann Eurell, Brian L. Frappier.
Baltimore, MD : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2006.


Dental hygiene theory and practice / [edited by] Michele Leonardi Darby, Margaret M. Walsh.
Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, c2003.


Dental management of the medically compromised patient / James W. Little ... [et al.].
St. Louis : Mosby, c2002.


Flashback : posttraumatic stress disorder, suicide, and the lessons of war / Penny Coleman.
Boston : Beacon Press, c2006.


Food in colonial and federal America / Sandra L. Oliver.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.


Forest fires : a reference handbook / Philip N. Omi.
Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c2005.


Fundamentals of periodontal instrumentation & advanced root instrumentation / Jill S. Nield-Gehrig.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.


Greenhouse gardener's companion : growing food and flowers in your greenhouse or sunspace / Shane Smith ; illustrations by Marjorie C. Leggitt.
Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2000.


Handbook of nitrous oxide and oxygen sedation / Morris Clark, Ann Brunick.
St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby, c2003.


Let them eat precaution : how politics is undermining the genetic revolution in agriculture / edited by Jon Entine.
Washington, D.C. : AEI Press ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Distributed to the trade by National Book Network, c2006.


Mosby's dental hygiene : concepts, cases, and competencies / editors, Susan J. Daniel, Sherry A. Harfst.
St. Louis : Mosby, c2004.


Oral pathology for the dental hygienist / Olga A.C. Ibsen, Joan Andersen Phelan.
St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders, c2004.


Oral radiology : principles and interpretation / [edited by] Stuart C. White, Michael J. Pharoah ; selected illustrations by Donald O'Connor.
St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby, c2004.


Pediatric nursing secrets / [edited by] Suzanne M. Levasseur.
Philadelphia : Hanley & Belfus, c2002.


Periodontology / Herbert F. Wolf ... [et al.] ; forewords by Samuel B. Low and Maurizio S. Tonetti.
Stuttgart ; New York : Thieme ; c2005.


Pharmacology and therapeutics for dentistry / [edited by] John A. Yagiela, Frank J. Dowd, Enid A. Neidle.
St. Louis, Mo. : Mosby, c2004.


Shop 'til you drop : consumer behavior and American culture / Arthur Asa Berger ; illustrations by the author.
Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2005.


Surviving schizophrenia : a manual for families, patients and providers / E.Fuller Torrey.
New York : HarperPaperbacks, 2006.


Texas gardener's guide to growing tomatoes.
Waco, Tex. : Suntex Communications, c1984.


The butterfly hunter : adventures of people who found their true calling way off the beaten path / Chris Ballard.
New York : Broadway Books, 2005.


The complete book of t'ai chi / Stewart McFarlane ; consultant, Tan Mew Hong.
New York : DK Pub., 1997.


The complete guide to Texas lawn care / by William E. Knoop ; [editor, Rita Miller ; illustrations, Mike Lee].
Waco, Tex. : TG Press, c1986.


The complete idiot's guide to choosing, training, and raising a dog / by Sarah Hodgson.
New York, NY : Alpha Books, c1996.


The dental hygienist's guide to nutritional care / Cynthia A. Stegeman, Judi Ratliff Davis.
St. Louis, Mo. : Elsevier Saunders, c2005.


The elements of murder / John Emsley.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.


The French diet : the secrets of why French women don't get fat / Michel Montignac.
New York, NY : DK Publishing, c2005.

 

The gecko's foot : bio-inspiration : engineering new materials from nature / Peter Forbes.
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2006.


The lady named Thunder : the biography of Dr. Ethel Margaret Phillips (1876-1951) / Clifford H. Phillips (Lei Houtian).
Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, 2003.


The new business road test : what entrepreneurs and executives should do before writing a business plan / John W. Mullins.
New York : Prentice Hall/Pearson, 2003.


The sports injury handbook / Hans Kraus.
New York, NY : Lyons Books, c2001.


The vegetable gardener's bible : discover Ed's high-yield W-O-R-D system for all North American gardening regions / Edward C. Smith ; foreword by John Storey.
Pownal, Vt. : Storey Books, c2000.


Vegetable gardening for dummies / by Charlie Nardozzi and the editors of the National Gardening Association.
Foster City, CA : IDG Books Worldwide, c1999.


What is schizophrenia and how can we fix it? / Glenn D. Shean.
Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2003.


What to expect when you're expecting / Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff, Sandee E. Hathaway ; with a foreword by
Richard Aubry.
New York : Workman Pub., c1996.


Why people die by suicide / Thomas Joiner.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.


Your front yard : grass, shrubs, plants, and trees / by John Burrow.
Alvin, Tex. : Swan Pub. Co., [1994]


700's Arts and Recreation


American houses : a field guide to the architecture of the home / Gerald Foster.
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.


Home : Native people in the Southwest / Ann Marshall, editor ; with poetry by Ofelia Zepeda ; [overall text coordination and organization, Diana Pardue].
Phoenix, Ariz. : Heard Museum, c2005.


House, home, family : living and being Chinese / edited by Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo.
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press ; New York : China Institute in America, c2005.


Native American voices on identity, art, and culture : objects of everlasting esteem / edited by Lucy Fowler Williams, William Wierzbowski, and Robert W. Preucel.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, c2005.


Sesame Street and the reform of children's television / Robert W. Morrow.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006.


The art of Ray Harryhausen / Ray Harryhausen.
New York, NY : Billboard Books, 2006.


The Tudor house and garden : architecture and landscape in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Paula Henderson.
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005.


800's Literature


A bookshelf of our own ; works that changed women's lives / Deborah G. Felder.
New York : Citadel Press, 2005.


A temple of texts : essays / William H. Gass.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.


Averno / Louise Gluck.
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.


Collected poems / Jane Kenyon.
Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2005.


Refusing heaven : poems / by Jack Gilbert.
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House 2005.


Shakespeare's tragedies : violation and identity / Alexander Leggatt.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.


The birth of theatre / Philip Freund.
London : Peter Owen ; Chester Springs, PA : Distributed in the USA by Dufour Editions, 2003.


The threads of The scarlet letter : a study of Hawthorne's transformative art / Richard Kopley.
Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c2003.


The woman's historical novel : British women writers, 1900-2000 / Diana Wallace.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.


Unsung heroes of the Lord of the rings : from the page to the screen / Lynnette R. Porter.
Westport, Conn : Praeger Publishers, c2005.


Upton Sinclair and the other American century / Kevin Mattson.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2006.


Zane Grey : his life, his adventures, his women / Thomas H. Pauly.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2005.


900's Geography and History


A history of the Middle East / Saul S. Friedman.
Jefferson, N.C. ; London : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2006.


Blood red snow : the memoirs of a German soldier on the Eastern Front / Gunter K. Koschorrek ; [this edition was translated by Olav R. Crone-Aamot, and edited, designed, and typeset by Roger Chesneau].
London : Greenhill Books ; Mechanicsburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books, 2002.


Decade of nightmares : the end of the sixties and the making of eighties America / Philip Jenkins.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2006.


Forgotten empire : the world of ancient Persia / edited by John Curtis and Nigel Tallis ; with contributions by Beatrice Andre- Salvini .. . [et al.]
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.


Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July / James A. Colaiaco.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.


President Reagan : the triumph of imagination / Richard Reeves.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2005.


Sacagawea's child : the life and times of Jean-Baptiste (Pomp) Charbonneau / by Susan M. Colby.
Spokane, Wash. : Arthur H. Clark Co., 2006.


Sam Houston / James L. Haley.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, c2002.


The boy who fell out of the sky : a true story / Ken Dornstein.
New York : Random House, c2006.


The court of the last tsar : pomp, power, and pageantry in the reign of Nicholas II / Greg King.
Hoboken : Wiley, 2006.


The Texas Kickapoo : keepers of tradition / photography by Bill Wright ; historical essay by E. John Gesick, Jr.
El Paso : Texas Western Press, 1996.


Victorian London : the life of a city, 1840-1870 / Liza Picard.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.


Warlords : an extraordinary re-creation of World War II through the eyes and minds of Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin / Simon Berthon and Joanna Potts.
Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2006.


Who the hell are we fighting? : the story of Sam Adams and the Vietnam intelligence wars / C. Michael Hiam.
Hanover, N.H. : Steerforth Press, 2006.



Biographies

 

The Big Bam : the life and times of Babe Ruth / Leigh Montville.
New York : Doubleday, 2006.



Fiction


Blast from the past / Kinky Friedman.
New York : Ballantine 1999.


Sleep, pale sister / Joanne Harris.
New York : Perennial, 2005.



Audiovisuals


 

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