Title

Author

Prefix / Call #

 

 

New February 2008

 

 

 

Philosophy & Psychology

 

You can heal your life

Hay, Louise L.

158 HAY

This I believe : the personal philosophies of remarkable men and women

Allison, Jay.

170 THI

Moral politics : how liberals and conservatives think

Lakoff, George.

172 LAK

 

 

 

Religion

 

A new earth : awakening to your life's purpose

Tolle, Eckhart, 1948-

204.4 TOL

God's problem : how the Bible fails to answer our most important question--why we suffer

Ehrman, Bart D.

231 EHR

Prophecy and the fundamentalist quest : an integrative study of Christian and Muslim apocalyptic religion

Shahid, Farzana Hassan

231.7 SHA

 

 

Social Sciences

 

Bitches, bimbos, and ballbreakers : the Guerrilla Girls' illustrated guide to female stereotypes

Guerrilla Girls

305.4 BIT

Who's afraid of Marie Curie? : the challenges facing women in science and technology

Hall, Linley Erin

305.43 HAL

Break through : from the death of environmentalism to the politics of possibility

Nordhaus, Ted

333.72 NOR

Predictably irrational : the hidden forces that shape our decisions

Ariely, Dan

339.4 ARI

Ana's story : a journey of hope

Bush, Jenna

362.196 BUS

Three little words : a memoir

Rhodes-Courter, Ashley,

362.73 RHO

 

 

Sciences

 

Nets, puzzles, and postmen

Higgins, Peter M., 1956-

510 HIG

Six degrees : our future on a hotter planet

Lynas, Mark, 1973-

551.6 LYN

 

 

Technology

 

Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body

Shubin, Neil

611 SHU

Multicultural cookbook of life-cycle celebrations

Webb, Lois Sinaiko

641.59 WEB

The food and wine of Greece

Kochilas, Diane

641.59495 KOC

 

 

Art & Recreation

 

The Guerrilla Girls' bedside companion to the history of Western art

Guerrilla Girls

704 GUE

Art in action : nature, creativity, and our collective future.

Natural World Museum

704.9 ART

Missing peace : artists & the Dalai Lama : Committee of 100 for Tibet & the Dalai Lama Foundation.

Committee of 100 for Tibet & the Dalai Lama Foundation

709.05 MIS

Biophilic design : the theory, science, and practice of bringing buildings to life

Kellert, Stephen R.

720 BIO

Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls / by the Guerrilla Girls (whoever they really are) ; with an essay by Whitney Chadwick.

Guerrilla Girls

760 CON

The rest is noise : listening to the twentieth century

Ross, Alex, 1968-

780.9 ROS

Pictures at a revolution : five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood

Harris, Mark, 1963-

791.43 HAR

Sports in America

Podell, Janet.

796 SPO

 

 

Literature

 

The best American essays 2007 / edited and with an introduction by David Foster Wallace ; Robert Atwan, series editor.

Wallace, David Foster.

814.54 BES

Happy days; a play in two acts

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-

822 BEC

Ian McEwan's Enduring love

Childs, Peter, 1962-

823 MCE CHI

The fiction of Ian McEwan

Childs, Peter, 1962-

823 MCE FIC

Ian McEwan

Head, Dominic

823 MCE HEA

 

 

History and Geography

 

One soldier's war

Babchenko, Arkadii

947.5 BAB

Celebrity culture in the United States

Fitzgerald, Terence J.

973.92 CEL

 

 

 

 

New December/January 2008

 

Philosophy & Psychology

 

The society of mind

Minsky, Marvin Lee, 1927-

153 MIN

Human moments : how to find meaning and love in your everyday life

Hallowell, Edward M.

158 HAL

The book of questions

Stock, Gregory.

158 STO

Sceptical essays

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

192 RUS

Spinoza.

Hampshire, Stuart, 1914-

199.492 HAM

 

 

Religion

 

 

Mere Christianity : a revised and amplified edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, Broadcast talks, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality

Lewis, C. S 1898-1963

204 LEW

 

 

 

Social Sciences

 

 

Gay-straight alliances : a handbook for students, educators, and parents

Macgillivray, Ian K., 1967-

305.9 MAC

Male-male intimacy in early America : beyond romantic friendships

Benemann, William, 1949-

306.76 BEN

Becoming a woman : a biography of Christine Jorgensen

Docter, Richard F.

306.76 DOC

Legacies of love : a heritage of queer bonding

Wilde, Winston

306.76 WIL

The whale warriors : the battle at the bottom of the world to save the planet's largest mammals

Heller, Peter, 1959-

333.95 HEL

Schoolhouse decisions of the United States Supreme Court

Harrison, Maureen

347.73 SCH

Censoring science : inside the political attack on Dr. James Hansen and the truth of global warming

Bowen, Mark

363.738 BOW

The self-organizing school : next generation comprehensive school reforms

Bain, Alan, 1957-

371.2 BAI

Going broke by degree : why college costs too much

Vedder, Richard K.

378.3 VED

The adventures of Amir Hamza : lord of the auspicious planetary conjunction

Lakhnavi, Ghalib.

398.2 LAK

Men and gods : myths and legends of the ancient Greeks

Warner, Rex, 1905-1986

398.2

 

 

 

Sciences

 

 

Built by animals : the natural history of animal architecture

Hansell, Mike.

591.56 HAN

 

 

 

Technology

 

 

In defense of food : an eater's manifesto

Pollan, Michael

613 POL

 

 

 

Art & Recreation

 

 

Ice cream : contemporary art in culture

 

709.03 ICE

Food play : a collection of pictures

Freymann, Saxton

736 FRE

The arrival

Tan, Shaun

741.5 TAN

And fork : 100 designers, 10 curators, 10 good designs

Dixon, Tom

745.44 DIX

Assignment, Shanghai : photographs on the eve of revolution

Birns, Jack, 1919-

770.951 BIR

New York look book : a gallery of street fashion

Larocca, Amy

779 LAR

Holding out and hanging on : surviving Hurricane Katrina

Neff, Thomas, 1948-

779 NEF

Street : the Nylon book of global style.

 

779 STR

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Representative American Speeches, 2006-2007

Curry, Jennifer.

815.08 REP

Looking for Hamlet

Hunt, Marvin W.

822.3 HUN

I heard God laughing : renderings of Hafiz

Hafiz, 14th cent.

891 HAF

 

 

 

History and Geography

 

 

The travels of Ibn Battutah

Ibn Batuta, 1304-1377

910.4 IBN

The travels of Sir John Mandeville : the fantastic 14th century account of a journey to the East

Mandeville, John, Sir

915.04 MAN

The day of battle : the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944

Atkinson, Rick

940.54 ATK

Lincoln's sword : the presidency and the power of words

Wilson, Douglas L.

973.7092 WIL

Delaware then and now : (revised edition)

Redden, Bob.

975.1 RED

More Delaware then and now :

Redden, Bob.

975.1 RED

 

 

 

New November 2007

 

 

Computers, Information & Gen'l Ref.

 

 

Public editor #1 : the collected columns (with reflections, reconsiderations, and even a few retractions) of the first ombudsman of The New York times

Okrent, Daniel, 1948-

070.92 OKR

 

 

Philosophy & Psychology

 

CrazyBusy : overstretched, overbooked, and about to snap : strategies for coping in a world gone ADD

Hallowell, Edward M.

158 HAL

 

 

Religion

 

Do you believe? : conversations on God and religion

Monda, Antonio

200.92 MON

Four biblical heroines and the case for female authorship : an analysis of the women of Ruth, Esther, and Genesis 38

Millgram, Hillel I., 1931-

222 MIL

Become a better you : 7 keys to improving your life every day

Osteen, Joel

248.4 OST

The trouble with Islam : a Muslim's call for reform in her faith

Manji, Irshad

297 MAN

 

 

Social Sciences

 

Blood and soil : a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur

Kiernan, Ben.

304.6 KIE

The end of America : letter of warning to a young patriot

Wolf, Naomi

323.4 WOL

A history of the duPont Company's relations with the United States government : 1802-1927

 

338.766 HIS