New Books

Books that can be checked out
General Interest
Pedal power: the quiet rise of the bicycle in American public life
The improving state of the world: why we're living longer, healthier, more comfortable lives on a cleaner planet
The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals
Culture and customs of the United States
Women’s Studies
Opting out? : Why women really quit careers and head home
Politics
One night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the dream of dignity
Nature and Animals
Nature and the environment in pre-Columbian American life
The powerful bond between people and pets: our boundless connections to companion animals
Heritage of care: the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
History and Economics
A farewell to alms: a brief economic history of the world
Blood and soil: a world history of genocide and extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Family life in 20th-century America
What makes a terrorist: economics and the roots of terrorism
Money: a history
Carpetbaggers, cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: exposing the invisible empire during reconstruction
Roanoke: the abandoned colony
Math
Unknown quantity: a real and imaginary history of algebra
Psychology and Sociology
Sperm counts: overcome by man's most precious fluid
Asylum: a mid-century madhouse and its lessons about our mentally ill today
Creative anger: putting that powerful emotion to good use
Beyond bad girls: [gender, violence and hype]
Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets
This is your brain on music: the science of a human obsession
Bipolar children: cutting-edge controversy, insights, and research
The architecture of madness: insane asylums in the United States
The transgender phenomenon
Child abuse and stress disorders
Not quite white: white trash and the boundaries of whiteness
There is no such thing as a natural disaster: race, class, and Hurricane Katrina
Arts and Literature
Racism in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Racism in Maya Angelou's I know why the caged bird sings
Bloom’s guides: Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451
Shakespeare on masculinity
Rococo
UNStudio
Hiroshige
Religious Studies
God in the classroom: religion and America's public schools
American religious democracy: coming to terms with the end of secular politics
Can God intervene? : How religion explains natural disasters
The destructive power of religion: violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Decoding early Christianity: truth and legend in the early church
Nuns: a history of convent life, 1450-1700
The Upanishads
The Dhammapada
Horse-and-buggy Mennonites: hoofbeats of humility in a postmodern world
Sports
Drugs and sports
Military and War
King, Kaiser, Tsar: three royal cousins who led the world to war
Betraying our troops: the destructive results of privatizing war
The coldest winter: America and the Korean War
Our savage neighbors: how Indian war transformed early America
Warhorse: cavalry in ancient warfare
Thermopylae: the battle that changed the world
American military technology: the life story of a technology
Power at sea
People
Amerigo: the man who gave his name to America
Anne Frank's tales from the secret annex: including her unfinished novel Cady's Life
Johnny Depp: a biography
The three Richards: Richard I, Richard II and Richard III
Judy Blume: a biography
Science
Contact with alien civilizations: our hopes and fears about encountering extraterrestrials
The future of the universe
Microcosmos: discovering the world through microscopic images from 20 X to over 20 million X magnification
The new cosmic onion: quarks and the nature of the universe
Philosophy
The shorter Leibniz texts: a collection of new translations
Health and Medicine
Understanding bioethics and the law: the promises and perils of the brave new world of biotechnology
The ghost map: the story of London's most terrifying epidemic-- and how it changed science, cities, and the modern world
A second opinion: rescuing America's health care: a plan for universal coverage serving patients over profit
Alternative medicine
Understanding the antioxidant controversy: scrutinizing the "fountain of youth"
Business
The essential guide to business etiquette
Linguistics and Education
Living languages: multilingualism across the lifespan
Popular Culture
The video game explosion: a history from PONG to Playstation and beyond
Online social networking
White weddings: romancing heterosexuality in popular culture
Blogging America: the new public sphere
Children and consumer culture in American society: a historical handbook and guide
When the girls came out to play: the birth of American sportswear
Crime and Criminal Justice
Forensic science: modern methods of solving crime
Guys and guns amok: domestic terrorism and school shootings from the Oklahoma City bombing to the Virginia Tech massacre
Women behind bars: the crisis of women in the U.S. prison system
Smuggling and trafficking in human beings: all roads lead to America
American furies: crime, punishment, and vengeance in the age of mass imprisonment
Public executions: the death penalty and the media
The book thief: the true crimes of Daniel Spiegelman
Neither angels nor demons: women, crime, and victimization
Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Zoos and animal welfare
Military draft
Religion and sexuality
Labor unions
Hunting
Reproductive technologies
Self-mutilation
Espionage and intelligence
Sex offenders and public policy
Working women
Violent video game effects on children and adolescents: theory, research, and public policy
Brewing justice: fair trade coffee, sustainability, and survival
Downloading music

Books that can be used in the library
The atlas of human migration
Firefly encyclopedia of the vivarium: keeping amphibians, reptiles, and insects, spiders and other invertebrates in terraria, aquaterraria, and aquaria