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000's General Knowledge
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

 


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000's General Knowledge

 

The last lecture / Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow. Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2008.

The wireless society / Stuart A. Kallen, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2007.

Introducing Ubuntu : desktop Linux / Brian Proffitt. Boston, MA : Thomson Course Technology, c2008.

Charts and graphs for Microsoft Office Excel 2007 / Bill Jelen. Indianapolis, Ind. : QUE, c2007.

Analyzing library collection use with Excel / Tony Greiner and Bob Cooper. Chicago : American Library Association, 2007.

The book of general ignorance / John Lloyd and John Mitchinson. New York : Harmony Books, c2006.

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El Pequeño Larousse ilustrado / redacción: David Aguilar ... [et al.]. Mexico : Larousse, c2

Embedded--weapons of mass deception : how the media failed to cover the war on Iraq / Danny Schechter. Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2003.

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100's Psychology and Philosophy

 

The mind : its nature and origin / Christiaan D. van der Velde. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.

Emotional sobriety : from relationship trauma to resilience and balance / Tian Dayton. Deerfield Beach, FL : Health Communications, c2007.

Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions / Dan Ariely. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.

The genetic and environmental origins of learning abilities and disabilities in the early school years / Yulia Kovas...[et al.]. Maldon, MA. : Blackwell Publishers, c2007.

The preservation of two infant temperments into adolescence / edited by Jerome Kagan...[et al.] ; with commentary by Laurence Steinberg, Nathan A. Fox. Maldon, MA. : Blackwell Publishers, c2007.

An hour to live, an hour to love : the true story of the best gift ever given / Richard Carlson and Kristine Carlson. New York : Hyperion, 2007.

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Cloning / Sylvia Engdahl, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

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200's Religions and Mythology

 

The psychological roots of religious belief : searching for angels and the parent-god / M.D. Faber. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2004.

Wright, N. T. (Nicholas Thomas) 230 W934s New York : HarperOne, c2006. Simply Christian : why Christianity makes sense / N.T. Wright.

Christianity and the social crisis in the 21st century : the classic that woke up the church / Walter Rauschenbusch. New York : HarperOne, c2007.

Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1500 Salem Road, Brenham, Texas, 1856-2006 : in celebration of 150 years of continuous service to God, November 26, 2006 / [Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Anniversary Planning Committee]. [Brenham, Tex.] : [Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church], c2006.

Leaving Islam : apostates speak out / edited by Ibn Warraq. Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2003.

The great Arab conquests : how the spread of Islam changed the world we live in / Hugh Kennedy. Philadelphia, PA : Da Capo, c2007.

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The origins of the Koran : classic essays on Islam's holy book / edited by Ibn Warraq. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1998.

The myth of Islamic tolerance : how Islamic law treats non-Muslims / edited by Robert Spencer. Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2005.

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300's Social Sciences, Education, and Folklore

 

Taking sides : clashing views on controversial social issues / edited, selected, and with introductions by Kurt Finsterbusch. Boston, MA : McGraw-Hill, c2009.

News incorporated : corporate media ownership and its threat to democracy / edited by Elliot D. Cohen. Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2005.

Blogging America : the new public sphere / Aaron Barlow. Westport, CT : Praeger, 2008.

24/7 : how cell phones and the Internet change the way we live, work, and play / Jarice Hanson. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.

Is media violence a problem? / David M. Haugen, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2007.

The war of the world : twentieth-century conflict and the descent of the West / Niall Ferguson. New York : Penguin Press, 2006.

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Me, MySpace, and I : parenting the net generation / by Larry D. Rosen. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

America's youth : opposing viewpoints / Jamuna Carroll, book editor. Detroit : Gale Thomson, c2008.

Growing old in America / Barbara Wexler. Detroit, MI. : Thomson Gale, c2006.

Taking sides : clashing views in gender ; selected, edited, and with introductions by Jacquelyn W. White. Boston, MA : McGraw-Hill, c2009.

Women in American society / Milissa J. Doak. Detroit, MI : Thomson Gale, 2008.

Who's afraid of Marie Curie? : the challenges facing women in science and technology / by Linley Erin Hall. Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, c2007.

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The race card : how bluffing about bias makes race relations worse / Richard Thompson Ford. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Inclusive scholarship : developing Black studies in the United States : a 25th anniversary retrospective of Ford Foundation grant making, 1982-2007 / with introduction and commentary by Farah Jasmine Griffin. New York, NY : Ford Foundation, 2007.

Taking sides : clashing views on controversial issues in anthropology / selected, edited and with introductions by Kirk M. Endicott and Robet L. Welsch. Guilford, CT : Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, c2005.

Is the American dream a myth? / Kate Burns, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2006.

The biology of political behavior / special editors of this volume, John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith. Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2007.

Genetic engineering / Sylvia Engdahl, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2007.

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Homosexuality / Paul G. Connors, book editor. Detroit : Thompson Gale, 2008.

Pop-porn : pornography in American culture / edited by Ann C. Hall and Mardia J. Bishop. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007.

Interracial relationships / David M. Haugen, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2006.

The future of marriage / David Blankenhorn. New York : Encounter Books, 2007.

Inside Texas politics / Mary Barnes, Joel L. Franke & Brandon Franke. Mason, OH : Thomson Custom Solutions, c2006.

Liberal fascism : the secret history of the American left, from Mussolini to the politics of meaning / Jonah Goldberg. New York : Doubleday, c2007.

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Can democracy succeed in the Middle East? / Jann Einfeld, book editor. Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2006.

Taking sides : clashing views on controversial political issues / edited, selected, and with introductions by George McKenna and Stanley Feingold. Boston, MA : McGraw-Hill, c2009.

Religious pluralism and civil society / special editor of this volume, Wade Clark Roof. Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2007.

Good to be king : the foundation of our constitutional freedom Michael Badnarik. Cranston, R.I. : Writers' Collective, c2004.

Casualty of war : the Bush administration's assault on a free press / David Dadge. Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2004.

Should the United States move to electronic voting? / Diane Andrews Henningfeld, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, c2008.

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Are American elections fair? / Stuart A. Kallen, book editor. Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2006.

The immigration solution : a better plan than today's / Heather Mac Donald, Victor Davis Hanson, Steven Malanga. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2007.

Minorities in the new world; six case studies Charles Wagley and Marvin Harris. New York, Columbia University Press, 1958, 1964.

Public diplomacy in a changing world / special editors of this volume, Geoffrey Cowan, Nicholas J. Cull. Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2008.

Our man in Mexico : Winston Scott and the hidden history of the CIA / Jefferson Morley ; foreword by Michael Scott. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2008.

Barack Obama, the new face of American politics / Martin Dupuis and Keith Boeckelman. Westport, CT : Praeger, 2008.

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Barn burning barn building : tales of a political life from LBJ through George W. Bush and beyond / by Ben Barnes with Lisa Dickey. Albany, TX : Bright Sky Press, 2006.

Economic facts and fallacies / Thomas Sowell. New York : Basic Books, c2008.

Economics / Mathew Forstater ; introduction by professor James Rollo. Chicago, ILL. : Chicago Review Press, c2007.

Does outsourcing harm America? / Katherine Read Dunbar, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Powering China's development : the role of renewable energy / Eric Martinot and Li Junfeng ; Lisa Mastny, editor. Washington, D.C., USA : Worldwatch Institute, c2007.

Nuclear power / Janet Wood. London, U.K. : The Institution of Engineering and Technology, c2007.

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Biodiversity / Debra A. Miller, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, 2008.

Advancing research on minority entrepreneurship / special editors of this volume, Timothy Bates, William E. Jackson III, James H. Johnson Jr. Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Periodicals Press, c2007.

Opportunities in petroleum careers / by Gretchen Krueger. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

McIlhenny's gold : how a Louisiana family built the Tabasco empire / Jeffrey Rothfeder. New York : Collins, c2007.

Winning the peace : the Marshall Plan and America's coming of age as a superpower / Nicolaus Mills. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2008.

Defending the nation : U.S. policymaking to create scientists and engineers from Sputnik to the 'War against Terrorism' / Juan C. Lucena. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c2005.

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Civil liberties and war / Jamuna Carroll, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

What limits should be placed on presidential powers? / Tamara L. Roleff, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2007.

What rights should illegal immigrants have? / Lori Newman, book editor. San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, 2007.

Freedom of the press / Rob Edelman, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Fat rights : dilemmas of difference and personhood / Anna Kirkland. New York : New York University Press, c2008.

American Indians and the law / N. Bruce Duthu. New York : Viking 2008.

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Racial discrimination / Mitchell Young, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Reproductive rights / William Dudley, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Students' rights / Laura K. Egendorf, book editor. San Diego, Calif. : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

When the husband is the suspect / F. Lee Bailey with Jean Rabe. New York : Forge Books/Tom Doherty Associates, 2008.

Individual rights and the police / Mark R. Nesbitt, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Rights of the accused / Michelle Lewis, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, 2007.

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The death penalty / Samuel Brenner, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Black communists speak on Scottsboro : a documentary history / edited by Walter T. Howard. Philadelphia PA : Temple University Press, 2008.

Eight o'clock ferry to the windward side : seeking justice in Guantánamo Bay / Clive Stafford Smith. New York : Nation Books, c2007.

Storm center : the Supreme Court in American politics / David M. O'Brien. New York : Norton, c2005.

Huns and Vikings : nomads at war / Hugh Kennedy ; general editor, John Keegan. London : Cassell, 2002. Mongols,

Volunteerism / Gary Wiener, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2008.

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AIDS/HIV / Barbara Wexler. Detroit, MI. : Gale , c2008.

Overtreated : why too much medicine is making us sicker and poorer / Shannon Brownlee. New York, NY : Bloomsbury, 2007.

AIDS / Viqi Wagner, book editor. Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2008.

Alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs / Sandra M. Alters. Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2008.

Is poverty a serious threat? / Mercedes Munoz, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press : Thomson/Gale, c2006.

Hope's boy : [a memoir] / Andrew Bridge. New York : Hyperion, c2008.

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Child abuse / Jean Leverich, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Food safety / Stuart A. Kallen, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2005.

City of Brenham : police needs assessment / prepared by Brinkley Sargent Architects. [Tex.] : Brinkley Sargent Architects, c2004.

Racial profiling / Kris Hirschmann, editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Crime scene evidence : a guide to the recovery and collection of physical evidence / Mike Byrd. Wildomar, CA : Staggs Publishing, c2001.

DNA databases / Lauri R. Harding, book editor Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2007. .

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Trace evidence analysis : more cases in mute witnesses / edited by Max M. Houck. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Academic Press, c2004.

How should the world respond to natural disasters? / Rebecca K. O'Connor, editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Forensic fire scene reconstruction / David J. Icove, John D. DeHaan. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2009.

Kirk's fire investigation / John D. DeHaan. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall : c2007.

Blazing heritage : a history of wildland fire in the national parks / Hal K. Rothman. New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Science in drug control : the role of laboratory and scientific expertise / United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ; [Sandeep Chawla, editor ; Suzanne Kunnen, editorial assistant]. New York : United Nations, c2007.

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Drug trafficking / Julia Bauder, book editor. Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2008.

Abortion / Jacquelyn Landis, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

Abortion : an eternal social and moral issue / Sandra M. Alters. Detroit, MI. : Gale Group, c2008.

Will the world run out of fresh water? / Debra A. Miller, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2007.

Taking sides : clashing views on environmental issues / edited, edited, and with introductions by Thomas A. Easton. Boston, MA : McGraw-Hill, c2009.

The environment : a revolution in attitudes / Kim Masters Evans. Farmington Hills, MI : Thomson Gale, c2008.

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Cool it : the skeptical environmentalist's guide to global warming / Bjorn Lomborg. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007

Crime / Mikko Canini, book editor. Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, c2007.

JFK : the CIA, Vietnam, and the plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy / L. Fletcher Prouty ; with an introduction by Oliver Stone. New York : Carol Pub. Group, c1992.

Sex offenders and public policy / Lynn M. Zott, book editor. Detroit : Thomson Gale, 2008.

Capital punishment : cruel and unusual? / Kim Masters Evans. Detroit, MI. : Thomson Gale, c2008.

Capital punishment / Steffanie Richardson, book editor. Detroit, MI : Greenhaven Press, 2006.

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Crime, prisons and jails. Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2008.

Pension puzzles : social security and the great debate / by Melissa Hardy & Lawrence Hazelrigg. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2007.

International reform efforts and challenges in community colleges / Edward J. Valeau, Rosalind Latiner Raby, editors. San Francisco, CA. : Jossey-Bass, c2007.

Early Texas schools : a photographic history / text by Mary S. Black ; photographs by Bruce Jordan. Austin, Tex. : University of Texas Press, 2008.

Education : meeting America's needs? / Sandra M. Alters. Detroit, MI. : Gale, c2008.

Taking sides : clashing views in controversial issues in teaching and educational practice / selected, edited, and with introductions by Dennis L. Evans Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008.

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The kids left behind : catching up the underachieving children of poverty / Robert D. Barr, William H. Parrett ; foreword by Kati Haycock. Bloomington, IN. : Solution Tree, c2007.

Teaching reading comprehension to students with learning difficulties / Janette K. Klingner, Sharon Vaughn, Alison Boardman. New York : Guilford Press, 2007.

Introducing students to scientific inquiry : how do we know what we know? / Susan Etheredge, Al Rudnitsky. Boston : Allyn and Bacon, c2003.

Opportunities in adult education careers / Blythe Camenson. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

What works : research-based best practices in developmental education / Hunter R. Boylan. Boone, NC : Continuous Quality Improvement Network with the National Center for Developmental Education, Appalachian State University, c2002.

Affirmative action / Leora Maltz, book editor. Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2005.

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Current landscape and changing perspectives of part-time faculty / Richard L. Wagoner, editor. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Inc., 2007.

Collaborations across educational sectors / Marilyn J. Amey, editor. San Francisco, CA. : Jossey-Bass, c2007.

Standardized testing / Diane Andrews Henningfeld, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.

Are chain stores ruining America? / Kirsten Engdahl, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2006.

Leaders count : the story of BNSF Railway / Lawrence H. Kaufman. Austin, TX : Texas Monthly Custom Pub. ; College Station, TX : Distributed by Texas A&M University Press, c2005.

Medieval dress & fashion / Margaret Scott. London : The British Library, c2007.

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Tea cult of Japan / by Yasunosuke Fukukita. Tokyo, Japan Travel Bureau 1961.

The essential guide to business etiquette / Lillian Hunt Chaney and Jeanette St. Clair Martin. Westport, CT : Praeger, 2007.

Kiss, bow, or shake hands: Europe / how to do business in 25 Euroopean countries / Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway. Avon, Mass. : Adams Media, c2007.

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400's Languages and Grammar

Foyle's philavery : a treasury of unusual words / collected by Christopher Foyle. Edinburgh : Chambers, 2007.

I always look up the word "egregious" / Maxwell Nurnberg. New York : Barnes & Noble Books, c1981, 1998.

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500's Math and Science

 

The sun kings : the unexpected tragedy of Richard Carrington and the tale of how modern astronomy began / Stuart Clark. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.

Endless universe : beyond the Big Bang / Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok. New York : Doubleday, c2007.

Hidden treasures / Stephen James O'Meara. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : Sky & Telescope, 2007.

Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel / Michio Kaku. New York : Doubleday, c2008.

The joy of chemistry : the amazing science of familiar things / Cathy Cobb & Monty L. Fetterolf. Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 2005.

Restless skies : the ultimate weather book / Paul Douglas. New York : Sterling Pub. Co., c2007.

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Evolution and creationism : a documentary and reference guide / Christian C. Young and Mark A. Largent. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

Geology and wildflowers of Grand Mesa, Colorado, by Robert G. Young and Joann W. Young. Grand Junction, Colorado, Mesa College [1968]

'Dillos : roadkill on extinction highway? / W.R. (Bill) Klemm. Bryan, TX : Benecton Press, c2007.

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600's Medicine and Technology

 

Human origins : what bones and genomes tell us about ourselves / Rob DeSalle & Ian Tattersall.

The brain that changes itself : stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science / Norman Doidge. New York : Viking, 2007.

Welcome to your brain : why you lose your car keys but never forget how to drive and other puzzles of everyday life / Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang. New York : Bloomsbury USA, c2008.

Bowes & Church's food values of portions commonly used / Jean A.T. Pennington & Judith S. Douglass. Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2005.

Pediatric dosage handbook : including neonatal dosing, drug administration, & extemporaneous preparations / edited by Carol K. Taketomo, et al. Hudson, Ohio : Lexi-Comp, c2007

Prescription drugs / Christine Watkins, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2006.

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Alternative medicine / David M. Haugen, book editor. Detroit : Thomson Gale, c2008.

Medication errors / edited by Michael R. Cohen. Washington, DC : American Pharmacists Association, c2007.

Food-borne illnesses / Karen F. Balkin, book editor. San Diego : Greenhaven Press, c2004.

EMT-Basic / by Richard J. Lapierre. 2007 New York : Kaplan Publishing, c2007.

Natural treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome / Daivati Bharadvaj. Westport, CT : Praeger, 2007.

Understanding the antioxidant controversy : scrutinizing the "fountain of youth" / Paul E. Milbury and Alice C. Richer. Westport, CT : Praeger, 2008.

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Blood and circulatory disorders sourcebook / edited by Amy L. Sutton. Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2005.

Anemias and other red cell disorders / edited by Kenneth R. Bridges, Howard A. Pearson. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

The secret history of the war on cancer / Devra Davis. New York, NY : Basic Books, c2007.

Head cases : stories of brain injury and its aftermath / Michael Paul Mason. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

Pushed : the painful truth about childbirth and modern maternity care / Jennifer Block. Cambridge, MA : Da Capo, c2007.

Overweight and obesity in America's children : causes, consequences, solutions / special editor of this volume, Amy B. Jordan. Thousand Oaks, CA. : Sage Publications, c2008.

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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder / William Dudley, book editor. Farmington Hills, MI : Greenhaven Press, c2005.

Opportunities in laser technology careers / Jan Bone. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

Newton's telecom dictionary / Harry Newton. New York : Flatiron Publishing : Lanham, MD : Distributed by National Book Network, c2007.

Television : the life story of a technology / Alexander B. Magoun. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

The hazards of space travel : a tourist's guide / Neil F. Comins. New York : Villard, c2007.

Citrus : a history / Pierre Laszlo. Chicago : The University of Chicago press, 2007.

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Buried treatures : tasty tubers of the world : how to grow and enjoy root vegetables, tubers, rhizomes, and corms / Beth Hanson, editor. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c2007.

The wildlife gardner's guide / by Janet Marinell. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, c2008.

Rescuing family records : a disaster planning guide / David W. Carmicheal. Iowa City, IA : Council of States Archivists, c2007.

Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life / Barbara Kingsolver, with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver ; original drawings by Richard A. Houser. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2007.

The fortune cookie chronicles : adventures in the world of Chinese food / Jennifer Lee. New York, NY : Twelve, 2008.

Ultimate sewing bible : a complete reference with step-by-step techniques / Marie Clayton. London, U.K. : Collins & Brown ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Sterling Pub. Co., c2008.

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Crystal reports XI : the complete reference / by George Peck. Berkeley, Calif. : Osborne/McGraw-Hill , 2005.

Opportunities in direct marketing careers / Anne Basye. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Opportunities in metalworking careers / Mark Rowh. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

Shooter's Bible presents antique guns : the collector's guide / edited by Steve Carpenteri. New York : Coward-McCann, 1983, c1979.

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700's Arts and Recreation

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston : visitor guide / by Janet Landay. London : SCALA : Houston, TX : in association with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000.

Mirror of the world : a new history of art / Julian Bell. New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, 2007.

An intelligent person's guide to modern art / Stephen Farthing. London : Duckworth, c2000.

Art deco; a guide for collectors / Katharine Morrison McClinton. New York, C. N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers [1972]

The Art Deco style in household objects, architecture, sculpture, graphics, jewelry; 468 authentic examples / selected by Theodore Menten. New York, Dover Publications [1972]

Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese art : Freer Gallery of Art Handbook. Washington : Smithsonian Institution, 1976.

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The American house / by Mary Mix Foley ; drawings by Madelaine Thatcher ; foreword by James Marston Fitch. New York : Harper & Row, c1980.

Making comics : storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels / Scott McCloud. New York : Harper, c2006.

Understanding comics : the invisible art / Scott McCloud. New York : HarperPerennial, 1993.

The art of ill will : the story of American political cartoons / Donald Dewey. New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Complete anatomy and figure drawing / John Raynes. London : Batsford ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Sterling Pub. Co., c2007.

Design classics, 1880-1930 / Torsten Brehan, Thomas Berg. Koln : Taschen, c2001.

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Retro graphics : a visual sourcebook to 100 years of graphic design / by Jonathan Raimes and Lakshmi Bhaskaran. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, c2007.

30s,40s, decorative art : a sourcebook / edited by Charlotte & Peter Fiell. Koln : Taschen, c2000.

European textile design of the 1920s / texts by Katharina Metz, Ingrid Mossinger, Wieland Poser. Zurich ; New York : Edition Stemmle, c1999

1001 paintings you must see before you die / general editor, Stephen Farthing ; preface by Geoff Dyer. New York : Universe, c2006.

Abstract and colour techniques in painting / Claire Harrigan with Robin Capon. London : Batsford, c2007.

Impressionism : 50 paintings you should know / Ines Janet Engelmann. Munich: Prestel, c2007.

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Georgia O'Keeffe 1887-1986 : flores en el desierto / Britta Benke ; [traducción: Carmen Izaguirre]. Koln, Germany : Benedikt Taschen, c1995.

Impressionists by the sea / John House ; with an essay by David Hopkin. London : Royal Academy of Arts ; New York : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, c2007.

Giotto y el arte de la edad media : los talleres, las ténicas, los lugares y las historias / texto, Lucia Corrain ; illustraciones, Sergio con la colaboración de Andrea Ricciardi. Barcelona : Serres, 1996.

Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Walter Liedtke. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007.

Making records : the scenes behind the music / Phl Ramone & Charles L. Granata. New York : Hyperion, c2007.

The Penguin guide to blues recordings / Tony Russell and Chris Smith ; with Neil Slaven, Ricky Russell, Joe Faulkner. London : Penguin Books, c2006.

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Richard Cook's jazz encyclopedia / Richard Cook. London : Penguin Books, c2005.

The Miles Davis reader / edited and compiled by Frank Alkyer, Ed Enright, Jason Koransky. New York : Hal Leonard Books, c2007.

Realityland : true-life adventures at Walt Disney World / by David Koenig. Irvine, CA : Bonaventure Press, c2007.

I thought we were making movies, not history / Walter Mirisch. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.

May contain graphic material : comic books, graphic novels, and film / M. Keith Booker. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.

Starring Sherlock Holmes : a century of the master detective on screen / David Stuart Davies ; foreword by Ian Richardson. London : Titan Books, c2007.

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The films of Sergio Leone / Robert C. Cumbow. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Monty Python encyclopedia / Robert Ross. New York : Barnes & Noble Books, 2002.

The handbook of stage costume / Tina Bicât. Wiltshire, England : Crowood Press, c2???

Theater in America : 200 years of plays, players, and productions / Mary C. Henderson ; foreword by Joseph Papp. New York : H.N. Abrams, 1986.

The video game explosion : a history from PONG to Playstation and beyond / edited by Mark J.P. Wolf. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.

Should college athletes be paid? / Geoff Griffin, book editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.

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Sports in America : recreation, business, education, and controversy / Bob Jacobson. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008. Child athletes / Christine Watkins, book editor.

The code : baseball's unwritten rules and its ignore-at-your-own-risk code of conduct / Ross Bernstein. Chicago : Triumph Books, 2008.

The 33 year-old rookie : how I finally made it to the big leagues after eleven years in the minors / Chris Coste ; foreword by John Kruk. New York : Ballantine Books, c2008.

Far from home : Latino baseball players in America / Tim Wendel, Jose Luis Villegas. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2008

Fast women : the legendary ladies of racing / Todd McCarthy.New York : Hyperion, c2007.

Crew : the rower's handbook / M.B. Roberts ; photographs by Ronald C. Modra. New York : Sterling Pub., c2007.

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Hunting / Dawn Laney, book editor. Detroit, MI : Thomson Gale, c2008.

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800's Literature

 

Opportunities in technical writing careers / by Jay R. Gould and Wayne A. Losano. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

The art of fiction : notes on craft for young writers / John Gardner. New York : Vintage Books, c1983, 1991.

The drama 100 : a ranking of the greatest plays of all time / Daniel S. Burt. New York : Facts on File, inc., 2007.

Considering children's literature : a reader / edited by Andrea Schwenke Wyile and Teya Rosenberg. Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2008.

Encyclopedia of African American literature / Wilfred D. Samuels, editor ; Tracie Guzzio, associate editor, Loretta Gilchrist Woodard, associate editor. New York, NY : Facts on File, 2007.

Critical companion to Robert Frost : a literary reference to his life and work / by Deirdre Fagan. New York : Facts on File, 2007.

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Critical companion to Arthur Miller : a literary reference to his life and work / Susan Abbotson. New York : Facts on File, c2007.

Critical companion to Tennessee Williams / Greta Heintzelman, Alycia Smith Howard. New York : Facts on File, c2005.

Critical companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne : a literary reference to his life and work / Sarah Bird Wright. New York, NY : Facts on File, c2007.

Critical companion to Herman Melville : a literary reference to his life and work / Carl Rollyson, Lisa Paddock, and April Gentry. New York : Facts on File, 2007.

Critical companion to F. Scott Fitzgerald : a literary reference to his life and times / Mary Jo Tate ; foreword by Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York, NY : Facts on File, c2007.

Critical companion to Ernest Hemingway : a literary reference to his life and work / Charles M. Oliver. New York, NY : Facts on File, 2007.

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Ken Kesey's One flew over the cuckoo's nest / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2008.

Critical companion to Toni Morrison : a literary reference to her life and work / Carmen Gillespie. New York : Facts on File, c2008.

Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York, NY : Bloom's Liteary Criticism, c2007.

Critical companion to Flannery O'Connor / by Connie Ann Kirk. New York : Facts on File, 2008.

Letters from the earth [by] Mark Twain ; edited by Bernard DeVoto, with a preface by Henry Nash Smith. New York, HarperPerennial c1962, 1991.

Critical companion to Edgar Allan Poe : a literary reference to his life and work / Dawn B. Sova. New York : Facts on File, 2007.

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Literary genius : 25 classic writers who define English & American literature / selected & edited by Joseph Epstein ; with wood engravings by Barry Moser. Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2007.

Sonnets from the Portuguese; and other treasured poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. selected by Nancy Holmes. Kansas City, Mo. Hallmark Editions 1967.

Critical companion to T.S. Eliot : a literary reference to his life and work / Russell Murphy. New York NY : Facts on File, inc., c2007.

Looking for Hamlet / Marvin W. Hunt. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007.

Antony and Cleopatra / William Shakespeare ; edited, fully annotated, and introduced by Burton Raffel ; with an essay by Harold Bloom. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Critical companion to William Shakespeare : a literary reference to his life and works / Charles Boyce. New York : Facts on File, c2005.

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Dear Brutus : a comedy in three acts / J. M. Barrie. London : Hodder and Stoughton, [1922]

Critical companion to Jane Austen : a literary reference to her life and work / William Baker. New York, NY : Facts on File, 2008.

Critical companion to Charles Dickens : a literary reference to his life and work / Paul Davis. New York : Facts on File, 2007.

Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2008.

The complete fables of Jean de La Fontaine / translated by Norman R. Shapiro ; introduction by John Hollander ; illustrations by David Schorr. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2007.

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900's Geography and History

 

Schulenburg : halfway to everywhere / edited by Audrey A. Herbrich and Vicki Woodard. San Antonio, Tex. : Historical Pub. Network, c2007

Lewis & Clark and the Indian country : the Native American perspective / edited by Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson. Urbana : University of Illinois Press : Published for the Newberry Library, c2007.

King, Kaiser, Tsar : three royal cousins who led the world to war / Catrine Clay. New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2007.

Setting the desert on fire : T.E. Lawrence and Britain's secret war in Arabia, 1916-1918 / James Barr.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.

The French century : an illustrated history of modern France / Brian Moynahan. Paris : Flammarion, c2007.

Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, c2007. Paris : the secret history / Andrew Hussey. New York :

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The ghost of freedom : a history of the Caucasus / Charles King. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

One soldier's war / Arkady Babchenko ; translated from the Russian by Nick Allen. New York : Grove Press, c2007.

Constantinople : capital of Byzantium / Jonathan Harris. London : Hambledon Continuum, c2007.

The siege of Mecca : the forgotten uprising in Islam's holiest shrine and the birth of al Qaeda / Yaroslav Trofimov. New York : Doubleday, c2007.

Opium season : a year on the Afghan frontier / Joel Hafvenstein. Guilford, Conn. : Lyons Press, 2007.

Taking sides : clashing views on African issues ; / selected, edited, and with introductions by William G. Moseley. Boston, MA : McGraw-Hill, c2009.

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Silent accomplice : the untold story of France's role in the Rwandan genocide / Andrew Wallis. New York,
NY : I. B. Tauris & Co., 2007, c2006.

Encyclopedia of American Indian history / [edited by] Bruce E. Johansen, Barry M. Pritzker. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-Clio, c2007.

The fabric of America : how our borders and boundaries shaped the country and forged our national identity / Andro Linklater. New York : Walker & Co. : Distributed to the trade by Hottzbrinck Publishers, c2007.

Opposing viewpoints in American history / William Dudley, volume editor ; John C. Chalberg, consulting editor. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2007.

Taking sides : clashing views in United States history, volume 1, The colonial period to Reconstruction / selected, edited, and with introductions by Larry Madaras and James M. SoRelle. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2009.

Mr. and Mrs. Prince : how an extraordinary eighteenth-century family moved out of slavery and into legend / Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina ; researched with Anthony Gerzina. New York, NY : Amistad, c2008.

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Lincoln's rise to the presidency / William C. Harris. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2007.

Texas terror : the slave insurrection panic of 1860 and the secession of the lower South / Donald E. Reynolds. Baton Rouge, LA : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.

The Teapot Dome Scandal : how big oil bought the Harding White House and tried to steal the country / Laton McCartney. New York : Random House, c2008.

Taking sides : clashing views in United States history since 1945 / selected, edited, and with introductions by Larry Madaras. Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008.

Goings on about town : photographs for the New Yorker / Sylvia Plachy ; foreword: Mark Singer ; afterword: Elizabeth Biondi. New York, NY : Aperture : co-published with The New Yorker, c2007.

Cradle of America : four centuries of Virginia history / Peter Wallenstein. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2007.

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The head in Edward Nugent's hand : Roanoke's forgotten Indians / Michael Leroy Oberg. Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2008.

Twentieth-century Texas : a social and cultural history / edited by John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley. Denton, TX : University of North Texas Press, c2008.

Final report : Facilities survey & evaluations, City of Brenham, Texas / WACE Inc. Bryan, TX. : WACE Inc., c2003.

The J. H. McDonald family / [Roberts County Sesquicentennial Committee]. [Tex.] : s.n., 1987.

Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10 / Marcus Luttrell ; with Patrick Robinson. New York : Little, Brown, 2007.

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Biographies

 

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Fiction

 

Secrets of a proper lady / Victoria Alexander. New York : Avon Books, 2007.

Quentins / Maeve Binchy. New York : Signet, c2002.

Monsieur Pamplemousse : hits the headlines / Michael Bond. London : Allison & Busby Limited, c2003, 2006.

On wings of the morning / Marie Bostwick. New York : Kensington Books, c2007.

Alice's adventures in Wonderland and, Through the looking-glass / by Lewis Carroll ; with an introduction by Morton N. Cohen. New York : Bantam Books, 1981.

Sweetwater : A DI Christy Kennedy mystery / Paul Charles. Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland : Brandon, 2006.

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Shavetail : a novel / Thomas Cobb. New York : Scribner, 2008.

Sword song : The battle for London / Bernard Cornwell. New York : HarperCollins, c2008.

Staying fat for Sarah Byrnes / Chris Crutcher. New York : HarperTempest, 1993.

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Diaz. New York : Riverhead Books, 200

Castle Rouge : an Irene Adler novel / Carole Nelson Douglas. New York : Forge, 2002.

Unnatural selection / Aaron Elkins. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2006.

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Hard eight / Janet Evanovich. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2002, 2003.

To the nines / by Janet Evanovich. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2003, 2004.

Bones to pick / Carolyn Haines. New York : Kensington Books, c2006.

The war against Miss Winter : a novel / Kathryn Miller Haines. New York : Harper, c2007.

The man who died laughing & the man who lived by night / David Handler. Houston, TX : Busted Flush Press, 2006.

Muletrain to Maggody : an Arly Hanks mystery / Joan Hess. New York : Pocket Books, c2004, 2005.

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The wailing wind / Tony Hillerman. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002.

Too big to miss / Sue Ann Jaffarian. Woodbury, Minn. : Midnight Ink, c2006.

Dragonflight / Anne McCaffrey. New York : Ballantine Books, 1997, c1968.

The ship who sang / Anne McCaffrey. New York, Del Rey c1969.

Women with big eyes / Angeles Mastretta ; translated from the Spanish by Amy Schildhouse Greenberg. New York : Riverhead Books, 2003

In the country of men / Hisham Matar. New York : Dial Press, 2007.

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Water : nine stories / Alyce Miller. Louisville, Ky. : Sarabande Books, c2008.

Wild nights! : stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James, and Hemingway / Joyce Carol Oates. New York : HarperCollins, 2008.

Harry Potter and the goblet of fire / by J.K. Rowling ; illustrations by Mary GrandPré. New York : Scholastic, Inc., c2000, 2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets / by J.K. Rowling. New York : Scholastic, Inc., 1999, 2002.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix / by J.K. Rowling ; illustrations by Mary GrandPré. New York, NY : Scholastic, Inc., 2003, 2004

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince / by J.K. Rowling ; illustrations by Mary GrandPre. New York, NY : Scholastic, Inc., 2005, 2006.

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Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban / by J.K. Rowling. New York : Scholastic, Inc., 1999, 2004.

A rose from old terra : a novel of the scattered worlds / Don Sakers. Linthicum, MD : Speed-of-C Productions, 2007.

Low country : a novel / Anne Rivers Siddons. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, c1998.

The Septembers of Shiraz / Dalia Sofer. New York : Ecco/HarperCollins, c2007.

These is my words : the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : Arizona territories : a novel / Nancy E. Turner. New York, NY : Harper Perennial, c1998.

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Audiovisuals

 

Mysteries of the landscape [videorecording]. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2006, c1991.

God on the brain [videorecording] : a neurological basis for the religious impulse / a BBCW Production. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2003.

Martin Luther King-- I have a dream [videorecording] / MPI Productions. [Oak Forest, Ill.] : MPI Home Video, 2005.

The plea [videorecording] / [written, produced and directed by Ofra Bikel ; a Frontline co-production with Ofra Bikel Productions.] Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Video, 2004.

Probable cause & reasonable suspicion [videorecording] : [part II, the suspicion factors / Randy Means, Brian Kirchoff]. Saint Louis, MO : Alert Publishing Co., [c2005].

The meth epidemic [videorecording] / written and produced by Carl Byker ; a Frontline coproduction with Oregon Public Broadcasting in association with The Oregonian. 2006 [Alexandria, Va.] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2006.

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Nonconsensual sexuality [videorecording] / [producer, Mary Ann Watson]. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2006.

The mind of a serial killer [videorecording] / A production of Mercury Productions in association with WGBH/Boston for NOVA ; produced by Mark Olshaker & Larry Klein ; directed by Larry Klein ; written by Mark Olshaker. [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation, 2005.

A crime of insanity [videorecording] / a Frontline production. Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2006.

Frontline: juvenile justice [videorecording] / produced and directed by Janet Tobias and Laura Rabhan Bar-On ; a Frontline co-production with Oregon Public Broadcasting. Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, 2006.

When kids get life [videorecording] / a Frontline co-production with Ofra Bikel Productions ; producer, writer, and director: Ora Bikel. Alexandria, VA : Distributed by PBS Home Video, 2007.

The new asylums [videorecording] / written, produced & directed by Miri Navasky & Karen O'Connor ; a Frontline coproduction with Mead Street Films. [Alexandria, VA] : Distributed by PBS Video, c2005.

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Shots fired [videorecording] : when lightning strikes / presented by Center for Personal Protection & Safety. [Spokane, WA] : Center for Personal Protection & Safety, c2007.

Super size me [videorecording] / The Con presents a film by Morgan Spurlock. New York, N.Y. : Hart Sharp Video, c2004.

The private lives of dolphins [videorecording] / written, directed and edited by Mark J. Davis ; an MDTV Production in association with WGBH Boston for NOVA. [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation, 2006.

Life's greatest miracle [videorecording] / a Nova production by Erickson & Nilsson Production in association with WGBH/Boston ; written by Julia Cort. Burbank, CA : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2004.

Seamus Heaney on the new Beowulf [videorecording]. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities, c2004.

Young blood [videorecording] : rebellion, riots, and rock 'n roll in the sixties / written, produced and directed by Mark J. Davis. Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, 2006.

Korea [videorecording] : MacArthur's war with Truman. Culver City, CA. : Zenger Media, c1990.

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Danzón [videorecording] / Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografia ; Macondo Cine Video ; Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematografica ; Television Espanola ; Tabasco Films ; produced by Jorge Sanchez ; directed by Maria Novaro ; screenplay by Beatriz and Maria Novaro. Burbank, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c1999.

Secrets of the mind [videorecording] / written and directed by Christopher Rawlence ; produced by Emma Crichton-Miller ; A Rosetta Pictures production for NOVA/WGBH and Channel 4. [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation, 2007.

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