Tuesday, August 5, 2008

New Books Available Now

Books that can be checked out

General Interest
In defense of food: an eater's manifesto
Faking it: how to seem like a better person without actually improving yourself
Work, life, and family imbalance: how to level the playing field
Money for nothing: one man's journey through the dark side of lottery millions

Test Preparation
The Best test preparation for the CLAST, College Level Academic Skills Test

Technology and Industry
24/7: how cell phones and the Internet change the way we live, work, and play
The thief at the end of the world: rubber, power, and the seeds of empire
The Second Life Herald: the virtual tabloid that witnessed the dawn of the metaverse
Nanotechnology 101

Women’s Studies
Inuit women: their powerful spirit in a century of change

Politics
Brothers: the hidden history of the Kennedy years
Gaming the vote: why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it)
The climate change challenge and the failure of democracy
Divided America: the ferocious power struggle in American politics
Presidential elections: strategies and structures of American politics
The media effect: how the news influences politics and government
Hillary Clinton

Nature and Animals
Crocodile: evolution’s greatest survivor
Bears: a brief history
Platypus
American chestnut: the life, death, and rebirth of a perfect tree

Florida Studies
Florida’s seashells
Everglades: an ecosystem facing choices and challenges
Florida’s hurricane history
Florida’s rivers

American History and Economics
On the road to freedom: a guided tour of the civil rights trail
Freedom: America’s competitive advantage in the global market
American Indians and the law
The logic of life: the rational economics of an irrational world
This republic of suffering: death and the American Civil War
Blue skies, black wings: African American pioneers of aviation
Are we Rome? : The fall of an empire and the fate of America

World History
The Mycenaeans
Constantinople: capital of Byzantium
Marie-Therese, child of terror: the fate of Marie Antoinette's daughter
India after Gandhi: the history of the world's largest democracy
The history of Kuwait
Lenin's private war: the voyage of the philosophy steamer and the exile of the intelligentsia

Psychology and Sociology
The disposable male: sex, love and money: your world through Darwin's eyes
Making multiracials: state, family, and market in the redrawing of the color line
The loss of sadness: how psychiatry transformed normal sorrow into depressive disorder
Why immigrants come to America: braceros, indocumentados, and the migra
Beauty bias: discrimination and social power
Lifting the weight: understanding depression in men, its causes and solutions
American babies: their life and times in the 20th century

Arts
Egypt art
Roman art
Latinos in the arts
Asian cinema: a field guide
The judgment of Paris: the revolutionary decade that gave the world impressionism
Calatrava
Mies Van Der Rohe
Lucian Freud

Literature
Everything I needed to know about being a girl I learned from Judy Blume
Beowulf: a new translation
Why Shakespeare?
Sexy thrills: undressing the erotic thriller
The country of the blind and other selected stories / H.G. Wells
The nutcracker and the mouse king / E.T.A. Hoffmann and The tale of the nutcracker / Alexandre Dumas
The portable Jack Kerouac
Road novels 1957-1960 / Jack Kerouac
The Penguin book of modern African poetry
The secret agent: a simple tale / Joseph Conrad
Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad
The rainbow / D.H. Lawrence
Anne of Green Gables / L. M. Montgomery
"So has a daisy vanished”: Emily Dickinson and tuberculosis
Toni Morrison's The bluest eye
Latino writers and journalists
A blue hand: the Beats in India

Religious Studies
Religion and American politics: from the colonial period to the present
Prescribing faith: medicine, media, and religion in American culture
Religion and film: an introduction
Fundamentalism
The parapsychology revolution: a concise anthology of paranormal and psychical research
Monkey trials and gorilla sermons: evolution and Christianity from Darwin to intelligent design
The Jesus legend: a case for the historical reliability of the synoptic Jesus tradition
Science and Asian spiritual traditions
Alien worlds: social and religious dimensions of extraterrestrial contact
Head and heart: American Christianities
Amish grace: how forgiveness transcended tragedy

Sports
Latino athletes
The ball is round: a global history of football
Iceman: my fighting life / Chuck Liddell
Alex Rodriguez
Jesse Owens

Military and War
Ask & tell: gay and lesbian veterans speak out

Science
Latinos in science, math, and professions
Star maps: a history, artistry, and cartography
Hubble: the mirror on the universe
Earth from space: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Endless universe: beyond the Big Bang

Health and Medicine
Opium
Barbiturates
Peyote and mescaline
Methamphetamine
Medical abbreviations: 28,000 conveniences at the expense of communication and safety
Medical apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present
Inside the body: fantastic images from beneath the skin
Vaccinated: one man's quest to defeat the world's deadliest diseases
From snake oil to medicine: pioneering public health
Natural treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome
Fact and fiction of healthy vision: eye care for adults and children
Breathing space: how allergies shape our lives and landscapes

Nursing
Math for nurses
Critical care nursing made incredibly easy
Wound care made incredibly visual!
Nursing care planning made incredibly easy
NCLEX-RN review made incredibly easy!

Business
The essential guide to business etiquette
The small business owner's manual: everything you need to know to start up and run your business
Women in business: the changing face of leadership
Survival tactics: the top 11 behaviors of successful entrepreneurs
An easy out: corporate America's addiction to outsourcing
Her turn: why it's time for women to lead in America
What men don't tell women about business: opening up the heavily guarded alpha male playbook Wikinomics: how mass collaboration changes everything

Linguistics and Education
The history of special education: a struggle for equality in American public schools
Governance and the public good
The academic bill of rights debate: a handbook

Popular Culture
The Notorious B.I.G.
Frankenstein: a cultural history
Slash
May contain graphic material: comic books, graphic novels, and film
Dark victory: the life of Bette Davis

Crime and Criminal Justice
The Innocence Commission: preventing wrongful convictions and restoring the criminal justice system
Blood on the table: the greatest cases of New York City's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Ethical, Social, and Political Issues
Terrorism and global security
Who cares for our children? : The child care crisis in the other America
Silenced! : Academic freedom, scientific inquiry, and the First Amendment under siege in America

Agriculture and Food
Beans: a history

Popular Fiction / Bestsellers
The Black Tattoo
One flew over the cuckoo's nest / Ken Kesey

Graphic Novels
Pride of Baghdad

Books that can be used in the library
Dictionary of Business Terms
The pronunciation of placenames: a worldwide dictionary