Action/Adventure
300
Flags of our fathers
Gladiator
Henry V
Letters from Iwo Jima
Sin City
Book Adaptations
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their eyes were watching God
Jane Austen’s Persuasion (1995)
Jane Austen’s Emma (starring Kate Beckinsale)
Jane Austen’s Emma (starring Gwyneth Paltrow)
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick papers
Charles Dickens’ Dombey and son
Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield
Anthony Trollope’s The Barchester chronicles
Anthony Trollope’s He knew he was right
George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
George Eliot’s Silas Marner
George Eliot’s Adam Bede
George Eliot’s Middlemarch
George Eliot’s The mill on the floss
Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s profession
Classic Films
A clockwork orange
Some like it hot
Comedy
Smoke Signals
The sisterhood of the traveling pants
Drama
Brokeback Mountain
The Queen
Hamlet
Skins
Documentaries
Fat: what no one is telling you
Ghosts of Rwanda
Through deaf eyes
Jonestown: the life and death of Peoples Temple
In search of myths & heroes
Auschwitz--inside the Nazi state
Walking the Bible: A journey by land through the five books of Moses
Secrets of the mind
Raising Cain: Exploring the inner lives of America’s boys
Gothic cathedrals: Notre Dame to the National Cathedral
Desperate crossing: the untold story of the Mayflower
Discounted dreams: high hopes and harsh realities at America's community colleges
The war tapes
Super size me
Secrets of Mary Magdalene
The Tuskegee airmen
Anne Frank remembered
Martin Luther King: I have a dream
Monday, June 16, 2008
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
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
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
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