New Items in Our Collection - December 2011

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Leisure Materials

Up In the Air

Author:
Call No: PN1997.2.U63 2010

 

New Book Shelf

Agriculture

50 Beautiful Deer-Resistant Plants: The Prettiest Annuals, Perennials, Bulbs, and Shrubs That Deer Don't Eat

Author: Clausen, Ruth Rogers
Call No: SB994.D4C63 2011

 

Allied Health

The Hippocratic Myth: Why Doctors Are Under Pressure to Ration Care, Practice Politics, and Compromise Their Promise To Heal

Author: Bloche, Maxwell Gregg
Call No: RA395.A3B5445 2011

 

The Quest For the Cure: The Science and Stories Behind the Next Generation of Medicines

Author: Stockwell, Brent R.
Call No: RM301.25.s76 2011

 

Virtually You: The Dangerous powers of the E-Personality

Author: Aboujaoude, Elias
Call No: RC569.5.I54A26 2011

 

Business

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap--and Others Don't

Author:
Call No: HD57.7.C645 2001

 

Great By Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why some Thrive Despite Them All

Author: Collins, James C.
Call No: HF5386.C736 2011

 

Guanteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance

Author:
Call No: HG2040.5.U5G83 2011

 

Inside Steve's Brain

Author: Kahney, Leander
Call No: HD9696.2.U62J636 2009

 

Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality

Author: Belsky, Scott
Call No: HD53.B437 2010

 

Schaum's Easy Outlines Bookkeeping and Accounting

Author: Lerner, Joel J.
Call No: HF5635.B66 2012

 

Taxing the Poor Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged

Author: Newman, Katherine S.
Call No: HJ2387.N49 2011

 

Water: Towards A Culture of Responsibility

Author: Frerot, Antoine
Call No: HD1691.F74 2011

 

Humanities and Communication

A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--From Mozart to Modern Jazz, and Everything in Between

Author: Isacoff, Stuart
Call No: ML650.I83 2011

 

Cite Right: A Quick Guide to Citation Styles--MLA, APA, Chicago, the Sciences, Professions, and More

Author: Lipson, Charles
Call No: PN171.F56L55 2011

 

Get Started in Film Making

Author: Holden, Tom
Call No: PN1995.9.P7H65 2010

 

Man in the Music: the Creativel Life and Work of Michael Jackson

Author: Vogel, Joseph
Call No: ML420.J175V65 2011

 

The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics

Author: Pollack, John
Call No: PN6231.W64P65 2011

 

Understanding Film Studies

Author: Buckland, Warren
Call No: PN1995.B797 2010

 

Leisure Materials

A Beutiful Mind

Author:
Call No: PN1995.9.B55B438 2002

 

Schaum's Easy Outlines Beginning Chemistry

Author:
Call No: QD41

 

The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age

Author:
Call No: KF223.H3774M47

 

Math/Physical Science

Basics of Game Design

Author: Moore, Michael E.
Call No: QA76.76.C672M6158 2011

 

Biochemistry

Author: Hames, B.D.
Call No: QP518.3.H355 2011

 

Explorations In Geometry

Author: Shawyer, Bruce
Call No: QA445.S53 2010

 

First Contact: Scinetific Breakthroughts in the Hunt For Life Beyond Earth

Author: Kaufman, Marc
Call No: QB54.K38 2011

 

Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games As A Medium For Learning

Author: Devlin, Keith J.
Call No: QA135.6.D53 2011

 

Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, From Arsenic to Zinc

Author: Aldersey-Williams, Hugh
Call No: QD467.A457 2011

 

Physics Demystified

Author: Gibilisco, Stan
Call No: QC23.2.G54 2011

 

Saving Sea Turtles: Extraordinary Stories From the Battle Against Extinction

Author: Spotila, James R.
Call No: QL666.C536S688 2011

 

Schaum's Easy Outline of Calculus

Author: Mendelson, Elliott
Call No: QA303.3.M46 2010

 

Schaum's Easy Outlines Applied Physics

Author: Beiser, Arthur
Call No: QC23.2.B45 2011

 

Schaum's Easy Outlines Biochemistry

Author: Kuchel, Philip W.
Call No: QP518.3.K82 2012

 

Science Secrets: The Truht About Darwin's Finches, Einstein's Wife, and other Myths

Author: Martinez, alberto A.
Call No: Q173.M316 2011

 

The Cambridge Guide to the Solar System

Author: Lang, Kenneth R.
Call No: QB501.L24 2011

 

Social Science & Education

2012 and the End of the World: the Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse

Author: Restall, Matthew
Call No: F1435.3.C14R47 2011

 

A Concise History of the Caribbean

Author: Higman, B.W.
Call No: F1621.H55 2011

 

American Property: A History of How, Why, and What We Own

Author: Banner, Sturart
Call No: KF562.B36 2011

 

Becoming Indian: The Struggle Over Cherokee Indentity in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Sturm, Circe
Call No: E99.C5S878 2011

 

Change.edu: Rebooting For the New Talent Economy

Author: Rosen, Andrew S.
Call No: LB2328.52.U6R67 2011

 

Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: the Social realities of Justice in America

Author: Barak, George
Call No: HV9950.B34 2010

 

Driving With Plato: The Meaning of Life's Milestones

Author: Smith, Robert Rowland
Call No: BD431.S59 2011

 

Egypt on the Brink: From Nasser to to Mubarak

Author:
Call No: DT107.83.O76 2010

 

Envy Up, Scorn Down: How Status Divides Us

Author: Fiske, Susan T.
Call No: HN90.S6F57 2011

 

Ethics and Animals: An Introduction

Author: Gruen, Lori
Call No: HV4708.G78 2011

 

Everyday Sociology Reader

Author: Sternheimer, Karen
Call No: HM585.S74 2010

 

Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rightss and the Election That Saved a Nation

Author: DeRose, Chris
Call No: E302.1.D47 2011

 

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of A Lifetime

Author: Heilemann, John
Call No: E906.H45 2010d

 

Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit

Author: Epstein, Joseph
Call No: BJ1535.G6E67

 

Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History

Author: Gill, Jonathan, Professor
Call No: F128.68.H3G55 2011

 

Homelessness, Housing, and Mental Illness

Author: Schutt, Russell K.
Call No: HV3006.A4S383 2011

 

Inferno: the World at War, 1939-1945

Author: Hastings, Max
Call No: D743.H35 2011

 

Justices and Journalists: The U.S. Supreme Court and the Media

Author: Davis, Richard
Call No: K487.M4D38 2011

 

Lawtalk: The Unknown Stories Behind Familiar Legal Expressions

Author:
Call No: KF156.L39 2011

 

Logic Demystified

Author: Boutelle, Anthony
Call No: BC108.B68 2011

 

NATO 2.0: Reboot or Delete?

Author: Kashmeri, Sarwar A.
Call No: JZ5930.K38 2011

 

Pacific Crucible: War At Sea in the Pacific

Author: Toll, Ian W.
Call No: D767.T65 2012

 

Psychology: A Concise Introduction

Author: Griggs, Richard A.
Call No: BF121.G72 2012

 

Remaking the Heartland: Middle America Since the 1950s

Author: Wuthnow, Robert
Call No: HC107.A14W88 2011

 

Rome: A Cultural, Visual, and Personal History

Author: Hughes, Robert
Call No: DG808.H84 2011

 

Sam Adams: the Life of an American Revolutionary

Author: Alexander, John K.
Call No: E302.6.A2A543 2011

 

Schoolhouse of Cards: An Inside Story of No Child Left Behind and Why America Needs a Real Education Revolution

Author: Hickok, Eugene W.
Call No: LB2806.22.H52 2010

 

Shortchanged: Why Women Have Less Wealth and What can Be Done About It

Author: Chang, Mariko Lin
Call No: HQ1381.C52 2010

 

Spain: A Unique History

Author: Payne, Stanley G.
Call No: DP63.P1913 2011

 

Starmaker: Life as a Hollywood Publicist with Farrah, the Rat Pack and 600 More Stars Who Fired Me

Author: Bernstein, Jay
Call No: HM1226.B47 2011

 

Teaching Early Reading and Phonics

Author: Goouch, Kathy
Call No: LB1573.3.G66 2011

 

The Accidental Creative: How To Be Brilliant At A Moment's Notice

Author: Henry, Todd
Call No: HD53.H46 2011

 

The Better Angels Of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Author: Pinker, Steven
Call No: HM1116.P57 2011

 

The Collapse of American Criminal Justice

Author: Stuntz, William J.
Call No: HV7432.S78 2011

 

The End of Byzantium

Author: Harris, Jonathan
Call No: DF639.H37 2010

 

The Fence:National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration Along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Author: Maril, Robert Lee
Call No: JV6565.M37 2011

 

The Gender of Crime

Author: Britton, Dana M.
Call No: HV6046.B825 2011

 

The Myth of Post-Racial America: Searching For Equality in the Age of Materialism

Author: Kaplan, H. Roy
Call No: Kaplan, H. Roy

 

The Order of Days: The Maya World and the Truth About 2012

Author: Stuart, David
Call No: F1435.3.C14S78 2011

 

The Trial of the Haymarket Anarchists: Terrorism and Justice in the Gilded Age

Author: Messer-Kruse, Timothy
Call No: KF223.H3774M47 2011

 

The Virtues of Our Vices: A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits

Author: Westacott, Emrys
Call No: BJ1534.W47 2012

 

Tibet: A History

Author: Van Schaik, Sam
Call No: DS786.V35 2011

 

Was America Founded As A Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction

Author: Fea, John
Call No: BR515.F43 2012

 

What It Is Like To Go To War

Author: Marlantes, Karl
Call No: DS559.5.M358 2011

 

Technology

Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis

Author: Barnett, Cynthia
Call No: TD223.B37 2011

 

Earth: The Operators' Manual

Author: Alley, Richaard B.
Call No: TJ163.2.A43 2011

 

Electronics Demystified

Author: Gibilisco, Stan
Call No: TK7819.G35 2012

 

Life After the Military: A Handbook For Transitioning Veterans

Author: Hill, Janelle
Call No: UB357.H55 2011

 

National Electrical Code

Author:
Call No: TK260.N45 2010

 

Understanding Green Building Materials

Author: Rider, Traci Rose
Call No: TD196.B85R53 2011

 

New Media

Allied Health

Stress: Portrait of a Killer

Author:
Call No: RC455.4.S87S77 2008

 

Humanities and Communication

The Vatican Museums

Author:
Call No: N2940.V345 2006

 

Leisure Materials

Gran Torino

Author:
Call No: PN1997.2.G73 2009

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2

Author:
Call No: PN1997.2.H37 2011

 

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Author:
Call No: PN1997.2.H37 2009

 

Larry Crowne

Author:
Call No: PN1997.2.L37 2011

 

Shutter Island

Author:
Call No: PN1997.2.S5395 2010

 

Super 8

Author:
Call No: Pn1997.2.S87 2011

 

The Social Network

Author:
Call No: PN1997.2.S63 2011

 

Math/Physical Science

Brain Games

Author:
Call No: QP376.B735 2011

 

The Fabric of the Cosmos

Author:
Call No: QB981.F33 2011

 

Social Science & Education

Miss Representation

Author:
Call No: HQ1421.M57 2011

 

Waging A Living

Author:
Call No: HC79.P6W34 2006

 

What Are Dreams?

Author:
Call No: BF175.5..D74W43 2010

 

Reference

Allied Health

The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

Author:
Call No: RC41.G35 2011 v.1-6

 

Leisure Materials

Washington Information Directory, 2011-2012

Author:
Call No: F192.3.W33 2011-12

 

Social Science & Education

Business Statistics of United States, 2011: Patterns of Economic Change

Author:
Call No: HC101.B87 2011 16th ed.

 

College Blue Book

Author:
Call No: LA226.C685 2012 v. 1-6 39th ed.

 

Illinois Court of Claims Rules and Statutes

Author:
Call No: KFI1722.A29I44 2011

 

Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012

Author:
Call No: HA202.S8 2012 131st ed.

 

The 9/11 Encyclopedia

Author:
Call No: HV6432.7.a85 2011 v.1&2

 

Reserve

Social Science & Education

The Creative Curriculum For Preschool V.1-5

Author:
Call No: LB1140.4.C74 2010 V.1-5