New Books Available in the Library

New Books 3/19/2007

Non-Circulating - Reserve
NCLEX-RN review (HESI)
Mosby’s comprehensive review of nursing for NCLEX-RN examination
Nursing2007 drug handbook.

Non-Circulating – Reference
Encyclopedia of American folklife
The Cat Fanciers’ Association complete cat book
The complete dog book
APA dictionary of psychology

Circulating
Nursing
Health assessment made incredibly visual!
Fundamentals of nursing made incredibly easy!
Emergency nursing made incredibly easy!
Nursing against the odds: how health care cost cutting, media stereotypes, and medical hubris undermine nurses and patient care
Caring for the perioperative patient
Central venous access devices: care and management
Stoma care

Health and Medicine
Understanding child sexual abuse
Understanding multiple sclerosis
Understanding herpes
The Cambridge history of medicine
Cancer sourcebook for women
Urinary tract and kidney diseases and disorders sourcebook
Thyroid disorders sourcebook
Understanding the mammography controversy: science, politics, and breast cancer screening
The cult of pharmacology: how America became the world’s most troubled drug culture
Inventing disease and pushing pills: pharmaceutical companies and the medicalisation of normal life
Medical ethics: a very short introduction
Organ transplantation
The vaccine controversy: the history, use, and safety of vaccinations
The new medicines: how drugs are created, approved, marketed, and sold
Health and long life the Chinese way

Floridiana
Florida’s birds: a field guide and reference
The swamp: the Everglades, Florida, and the politics of paradise
Land of sunshine, state of dreams: a social history of modern Florida
Pop culture Florida



Arts
The Bauhaus, 1919-1933: reform and Avant-Garde
New media art
Video art
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: the genius of the German Renaissance
Caravaggio
Monet
Piero della Francesca
American Gothic: a life of America’s most famous painting
-isms: understanding art
The Alhambra
Westminster Abbey
The Temple of Jerusalem
The Colosseum
Christian art: a very short introduction
Rock & roll: a social history

Biography
Francis Crick: discoverer of the genetic code
Blow: how a smalltown boy made $100 million with the Medellin cocaine cartel and lost it all

Environmental Issues
Organic, inc.: natural foods and how they grew
Tiger bone & rhino horn: the destruction of wildlife for traditional Chinese medicine
Killing our oceans: dealing with the mass extinction of marine life

True Crime
Ripperology: a study of the world’s first serial killer and a literary phenomenon
Manhunt: the twelve-day chase for Lincoln’s killer

Literary Studies
Zeus
Bloom’s major literary characters: Satan
A Routledge literary sourcebook on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
Kate Chopin’s The awakening: a sourcebook
The poetry of Pablo Neruda
Bloom’s modern critical views: The Bible
Bloom’s guides: Hamlet
Tim O’Brien: a critical companion
Alice Walker: a critical companion
Race and racism in literature

Psychology/Sociology
Women and madness
Antidepressants
Boys of few words: raising our sons to communicate and connect
Psychotropic drugs and popular culture: essays on medicine, mental health and the media
False alarm: the truth about the epidemic of fear
The brain: a very short introduction
A brief history of modern psychology
Where men hide
Why white kids love hip-hop: wangstas, wigger, wannabes, and the new reality of race in America
No child left different
Mommies, daddies, donors, surrogates: answering tough questions and building strong families
Spiritual tattoo: a cultural history of tattooing, piercing, scarification, branding, and implants
Understanding disability: inclusion, access, diversity, and civil rights

Science
Geology terms in English and Spanish
Particle physics: a very short introduction
Fossils: a very short introduction
Cosmic discoveries: the wonders of astronomy
Rx for survival: why we must rise to the global health challenge
Agates: treasures of the earth
Kennedy Space Center: gateway to space

Political Issues
Bordering the future: the impact of Mexico on the United States
The white man’s burden: why the West’s efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good
Affirmative action around the world: an empirical study
The World Trade Organization: a very short introduction
Anarchism: a very short introduction
Liberties lost: the endangered legacy of the ACLU

Technology and Industry
The railroad: the life story of a technology
High tech trash: digital devices, hidden toxics, and human health
Books, banks, buttons, and other inventions from the Middle Ages
Cultural Studies
The Asian mystique: dragon ladies, geisha girls, & our fantasies of the exotic Orient
Mummies and death in Egypt
Vegetarians and vegans in America today
Freemasonry: symbols, secrets, significance
The world of the Celts
Divine creatures: animal mummies in ancient Egypt

Religious Studies
The world’s religions: our great wisdom traditions
The African American religious experience in America
Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene: the followers of Jesus in history and legend
A brief history of death
A brief history of saints
The lost gospel: the quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot
Kabbalah: a very short introduction
The natural history of the Bible: an environmental exploration of the Hebrew scriptures
Sex in the Bible: a new consideration

Current Controversies
Merchandizing prisoners: who really pays for prison privatization?
The promise and politics of stem cell research
Genetic engineering: a reference handbook
The age of oil: the mythology, history, and future of the world’s most controversial resource
The war on terrorism: opposing viewpoints
Sports and athletes: opposing viewpoints
Origins and development of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Ethics & AIDS in Africa: the challenge to our thinking
Burning books and leveling libraries: extremist violence and cultural destruction
Religion in schools: controversies around the world