New Books and Videos

October 2007

Farber, Evan Ira.
College libraries and the teaching/learning process : selections from the writings of Evan Ira Farber / selected and edited by David Gansz.
025.5677 F219c

Library of Congress.
Annual report of the Librarian of Congress for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006.
027.573 U58a 2006

Plotnik, Arthur.
The elements of editing : a modern guide for editors and journalists / by Arthur Plotnik.
070.41 P729e

Philosophy and Psychology

Career paths in psychology : where your degree can take you / edited by Robert J. Sternberg.
150.2373 C271 2007

Tavris, Carol.
Mistakes were made (but not by me) : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts / Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson.
153 T234m

Gigerenzer, Gerd.
Gut feelings : the intelligence of the unconscious / Gerd Gigerenzer.
153.44 G459g

Biswas-Diener, Robert.
Positive psychology coaching : putting the science of happiness to work for your clients / Robert Biswas-Diener and Ben Dean.
158.9 B623p

Relihan, Joel C.
The prisoner's philosophy : life and death in Boethius's Consolation / Joel C. Relihan ; with a contribution on the medieval Boethius by William E. Heise.
189.4 B673cYr

Religion

Tishkoff, Doris.
Madonna/whore : the myth of the two Marys / by Doris Tishkoff.
270.082 T613m

Ohler, Frederick, 1931-
Peppermint Christmas/chocolate Easter / Frederick Ohler.
285.1092 O37p

Rambelli, Fabio.
Vegetal Buddhas : ideological effects of Japanese Buddhist doctrines on the salvation of inanimate beings / by Fabio Rambelli.
294.342 R167v

A Buddhist kaleidoscope : essays on the lotus sutra / edited by Gene Reeves ; with a foreword by Nichiko Niwano.
294.382 B927r

The Cakrasamvara Tantra : the discourse of *Sr¯i Heruka (*Sr¯iheruk¯abhidh¯ana) / a study and annotated translation by David B. Gray ; editing and design by Thomas F. Yarnall.
294.3823 C139g

Collins, Elizabeth Fuller.
Pierced by Murugan's lance : ritual, power, and moral redemption among Malaysian Hindus / Elizabeth Fuller Collins.
294.536095951 C712p

Babb, Lawrence A.
Redemptive encounters : three modern styles in the Hindu tradition / Lawrence A. Babb.
294.556 B112r

Classical Hindu mythology : a reader in the Sanskrit Pur¯a·nas / edited and translated by Cornelia Dimmitt and J. A. B. van Buitenen.
294.5925 P985Xd

Dudbridge, Glen.
Religious experience and lay society in T'ang China : a reading of Tai Fu's Kuang-i chi / Glen Dudbridge.
299.51 D844r

Stevens, Keith G., 1926-
Chinese mythological gods / Keith G. Stevens.
299.51 S884c

Kehoe, Alice Beck, 1934-
The ghost dance : ethnohistory and revitalization / Alice Beck Kehoe.
299.798 K26g

Social Sciences

Goklany, Indur M.
The improving state of the world : why we're living longer, healthier, more comfortable lives on a cleaner planet / Indur M. Goklany.
304.2 G616i

The Arab human development report 2005 : towards the rise of women in the Arab world / UNDP, Regional Bureau for Arab States.
305.420956 A658

Chen, Guidi.
Will the boat sink the water? : the life of China's peasants / Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao ; translated from Chinese by Zhu Hong.
305.56330951 C518w

Lankford, George E., 1938-
Reachable stars : patterns in the ethnoastronomy of eastern North America / George E. Lankford.
305.8971074 L289r

Bribiescas, Richard G.
Men : evolutionary and life history / Richard G. Bribiescas.
306.4 B849m

Shields, David, 1956-
Body politic : the great American sports machine / David Shields ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Robert Lipsyte.
306.4830973 S555b

Hansen, Mogens Herman, 1940-
Polis : an introduction to the ancient Greek city-state / Mogens Herman Hansen.
307.760938 H249p

Fountain of youth : strategies and tactics for mobilizing America's young voters / edited by Daniel M. Shea and John C. Green.
324.72 F771

George, James Zachariah, 1826-1897.
The political history of slavery in the United States / by James Z. George ; with a foreword and with a sketch of the author's life by William Hayne Leavell ; and with a preface, somewhat in the nature of a personal tribute, by John Bassett Moore ; read carefully in proof by Dr. Austin Baxter Keep.
326.0973 G348p

Ferguson, James, 1959-
Global shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order / James Ferguson.
327.6 F352g

Moore, Donald S., 1963-
Suffering for territory : race, place, and power in Zimbabwe / Donald S. Moore.
333.316891 M821s

Dancing with giants : China, India, and the global economy / edited by L. Alan Winters and Shahid Yusuf.
337.51 D173

Smith, Rhona K. M.
Texts & materials on international human rights / Rhona K.M. Smith.
341.48 S657t

Steiner, Henry J.
International human rights in context : law, politics, morals : text and materials / Henry J. Steiner and Philip Alston.
341.481 S822i

Directory of state and county officials of North Carolina.
353.9756 D598 2006

Handbook of adoption : implications for researchers, practitioners, and families / edited by Rafael A. Javier et al. ; preface by David Brodzinsky.
362.734 H236

Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934-
Useless arithmetic : why environmental scientists can't predict the future / Orrin H. Pilkey & Linda Pilkey-Jarvis.
363.705 P639u

Levine, Marvin J., 1930-
Pesticides : a toxic time bomb in our midst / Marvin J. Levine.
363.7384 L665p

Reed, Miriam, 1933-
Margaret Sanger : her life in her words / Miriam Reed.
363.96092 S225r

Language

Kenneally, Christine.
The first word : the search for the origins of language / Christine Kenneally.
400 K34f

Pinker, Steven, 1954-
The stuff of thought : language as a window into human nature / Steven Pinker.
401 P655s

Natural Sciences and Mathematics

Downie, N. A. (Neil A.)
Ink sandwiches, electric worms, and 37 other experiments for Saturday science / Neil A. Downie.
507.8 D751i

Grant, Edward, 1926-
A history of natural philosophy : from the ancient world to the nineteenth century / Edward Grant.
509 G761h

Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Worlds out of nothing : a course in the history of geometry in the 19th century / Jeremy Gray.
516.009034 G779w

Atkins, P. W. (Peter William), 1940-
Four laws that drive the universe / Peter Atkins.
536.71 A874f

Superconductivity / Charles Poole et al.
537.623 S959

Brändén, Carl-Ivar, 1934-
Introduction to protein structure / Carl Branden, John Tooze.
572.633 B817i

Cook, Paul F.
Enzyme kinetics and mechanism / Paul F. Cook, W.W. Cleland.
572.744 C771e

Allendorf, Frederick William.
Conservation and the genetics of populations / Fred W. Allendorf and Gordon Luikart.
576.58 A432c

Otto, Sarah P., 1967-
A biologist's guide to mathematical modeling in ecology and evolution / Sarah P. Otto and Troy Day.
577.015118 O91b

Berger, Cynthia.
Dragonflies / Cynthia Berger ; illustrations by Amelia Hansen and Michigan Science Art.
595.733 B496d

DuBois, Bob.
Damselflies of the north woods / by Bob DuBois ; photos by Mike Reese.
595.7330977 D815d

Mead, Kurt.
Dragonflies of the north woods / by Kurt Mead.
595.7330977 M479d

Miller, J. C. (Jeff C.)
100 butterflies and moths : portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica / Jeffrey C. Miller, Daniel H. Janzen, Winifred Hallwachs.
595.789097286 M648o

Technology and Applied Sciences

Premila, M. S.
Ayurvedic herbs : a clinical guide to the healing plants of traditional Indian medicine / M.S. Premila.
615.321 P925a

Strassman, Rick, 1952-
DMT : the spirit molecule : a doctor's revolutionary research into the biology of near-death and mystical experiences / Rick Strassman.
615.7883 S897d

Campbell, Jane M.
Essentials of clinical supervision / Jane Campbell ; featuring a chapter on ethics by Barbara Herlihy.
616.89 C188e

Burns, George W. (George William)
101 healing stories : using metaphors in therapy / George W. Burns.
616.8914 B967o

Scherr, Sara J.
Farming with nature : the science and practice of ecoagriculture / Sara J. Scherr, Jeffrey A. McNeely.
631.58 F234

McComb, Brenda C.
Wildlife habitat management : concepts and applications in forestry / Brenda C. McComb.
639.92 M129w

Albala, Ken, 1964-
Beans : a history / Ken Albala.
641.3565 A325b

The Herb Society of America's essential guide to growing and cooking with herbs / edited by Katherine K. Schlosser.
641.357 H534

Marquard, William H.
Wal-smart : what it really takes to profit in a Wal-mart world / William H. Marquard with Bill Birchard.
658.879 M357w

Stowe, Doug.
Taunton's complete illustrated guide to box making / Doug Stowe.
684.08 S892t

Tolpin, Jim, 1947-
The toolbox book / Jim Tolpin.
684.08 T653t

Smith, Colin, 1942-
This cold house : the simple science of energy efficiency / Colin Smith.
697 S644t

The Arts

González-Torres, Félix, 1957-
Felix Gonzalez-Torres / edited by Julie Ault.
709.2 G643f

Imperato, Pascal James.
African mud cloth : the Bogolanfini art tradition of Gneli Traoré of Mali / Pascal James Imperato.
746.14092 I34a

Greenfeld, Howard.
Ben Shahn : an artist's life / Howard Greenfeld.
760.092 S525g

Wands, Bruce.
Art of the digital age / Bruce Wands.
776 W245a

Breathnach, Breandán.
Folk music and dances of Ireland : a comprehensive study examining the basic elements of Irish folk music and dance traditions / Breandán Breathnach.
781.629162 B828f

Rosenberg, Neil V.
The music of Bill Monroe / Neil V. Rosenberg and Charles K. Wolfe.
781.642092 M753r

Fox, Aaron A., 1964-
Real country : music and language in working-class culture / Aaron A. Fox.
781.64209764 F791r

Cohen-Cruz, Jan, 1950-
Local acts : community-based performance in the United States / Jan Cohen-Cruz.
792.02 C678L

Boal, Augusto.
Games for actors and non-actors / Augusto Boal.
792.028 B662g

Brown, Carolyn, ballet-dancer.
Chance and circumstance : twenty years with Cage and Cunningham / Carolyn Brown.
792.80280922 C973b

Burchenal, Elizabeth, 1877-1959.
Dances of the people : a second volume of Folk-dances and singing games; containing twenty-eight folk-dances of the United States, Ireland, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, and Switzerland; with the music, full directions for performance and numerous illustrations / collected and described by Elizabeth Burchenal.
793.3 B947d

Dibbell, Julian.
Play money, or, How I quit my day job and made millions trading virtual loot / Julian Dibbell.
793.932 D543p

Crowther, Nigel B.
Sport in ancient times / Nigel B. Crowther.
796.0901 C953s

Allain, Monique.
The effect of adventure-based experiential training on team cohesion / by Monique Allain.
796.5019 A416e

Bernstein, Danny, 1946-
Hiking the Carolina mountains : Appalachian Trail, Blue Ridge Parkway, DuPont State Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pisgah & Nantahala National Forests, upstate South Carolina and much more / by Danny Bernstein.
796.52209756 B531h

Literature and Rhetoric

Bloom, Lary.
The writer within : a guide to creative nonfiction / Lary Bloom.
808.02 B655w

APA style guide to electronic references.
808.06615 A639

Entre mundos/among worlds : new perspectives on Gloria E. Anzaldúa / edited by AnaLouise Keating.
810.809206643 A543Yk

Rash, Ron, 1953-
Among the believers / Ron Rash ; with an introduction by Anthony Hecht.
811.54 R224a

Matthews, Sebastian, 1965-
We generous : poems / Sebastian Matthews.
811.6 M442w

Trefzer, Annette, 1960-
Disturbing Indians : the archaeology of southern fiction / Annette Trefzer.
813.5209 T786d

Hovis, George.
Vale of humility : plain folk in contemporary North Carolina fiction / George Hovis.
813.540932756 H846v

Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
The works of William Wells Brown : using his "strong, manly voice" / edited by Paula Garrett and Hollis Robbins ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
818.409 B881

Leland, John, 1959-
Why Kerouac matters : the lessons of On the road (they're not what you think) / John Leland.
818.54 K39YL

Waller, P. J. (Philip J.)
Writers, readers, and reputations : literary life in Britain, 1870-1918 / Philip Waller.
820.939 W198w

Chew, Samuel Claggett, 1888-1960.
Byron in England : his fame and after-fame / Samuel Claggett Chew.
821.7 B996Yc

Boas, Frederick S. (Frederick Samuel), 1862-1957.
Shakspere and his predecessors, by Frederick S. Boas.
822.33 D B662s

Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943.
The advance of the English novel, by William Lyon Phelps.
823.03 P541a

Lives of Victorian literary figures 3. Vol.2, The Carlyles / edited by Aileen Christianson and Sheila McIntosh.
824.8 C286Ychr

Lives of Victorian literary figures 3. Vol.1, Elizabeth Gaskell / edited by Valerie Sands.
828.8 G248Ysa

Lives of Victorian literary figures 3. Vol.3, John Ruskin / edited by Simon Grimble.
828.8 R956Yg

Noiville, Florence.
Isaac B. Singer : a life / Florence Noiville ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
839.133 S617Yn

Geography and History

Glassman, Steve.
On the trail of the Maya explorer : tracing the epic journey of John Lloyd Stephens / Steve Glassman.
917.28044 G549o

Wheatley, David, 1965-
Spatial technology and archaeology : the archeaological applications of GIS / David Wheatley and Mark Gillings.
930.1028 W557s

Conolly, James, 1968-
Geographical information systems in archaeology / James Conolly, Mark Lake.
930.10285 C753g

The Babylonian world / edited by Gwendolyn Leick.
935.02 B115

Rowley, Trevor, 1942-
The English landscape in the twentieth century / Trevor Rowley.
942.082 R884e

Ackroyd, Peter, 1949-
London : the biography / Peter Ackroyd.
942.1 A182L

Spiesz, Anton.
Illustrated Slovak history : a struggle for sovereignty in Central Europe / Anton Spiesz and Dusan Caplovic ; editor, Ladislaus J. Bolchazy et al.
943.73 S755i

Lessing, Erich.
Revolution in Hungary : the 1956 Budapest uprising / Erich Lessing.
943.905 L639r

Bauer, Kenneth M.
High frontiers : Dolpo and the changing world of Himalayan pastoralists / Kenneth M. Bauer.
954.96 B344h

Weizman, Eyal
Hollow land : Israel's architecture of occupation / Eyal Weizman.
956.94054 W436h

Mandela : the authorized portrait / editorial consultants, Mac Maharaj and Ahmed Kathrada ; narrative, Mike Nicol ; interviews, Tim Couzens, Rosalind Coward, and Amina Frense ; editor, Kate Parkin ; picture research, Gail Behrmann.
968.065092 M271m

Wilentz, Sean.
The rise of American democracy : Jefferson to Lincoln / Sean Wilentz.
973.5 W676r

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave : with related documents / written by himself ; edited with an introduction by David W. Blight.
973.7114 D733n 2003

Harper, Steven Craig, 1970-
Promised land : Penn's holy experiment, the Walking Purchase, and the dispossession of Delawares, 1600-1763 / Steven Craig Harper.
974.802 H295p

The Mississippian emergence / edited by Bruce D. Smith ; with a new preface by the author.
975.01 M678

Southeastern ceremonial complex : chronology, content, context / edited by Adam King.
975.01 S727

Painter, Jacqueline Burgin.
The Stackhouses of Appalachia : even to our own times / by Jacqueline Burgin Painter.
975.6875 P148s

Archaeology of the Moundville chiefdom / edited by Vernon J. Knight, Jr. and Vincas P. Steponaitis.
976.143 A669

City adrift : New Orleans before and after Katrina / Jenni Bergal et al. ; foreword by Dan Rather ; a Center for Public Integrity Investigation.
976.335 C581

DuVal, Kathleen.
The native ground : Indians and colonists in the heart of the continent / Kathleen DuVal.
976.700497 D983n

Wesler, Kit W.
Excavations at Wickliffe Mounds / Kit W. Wesler ; foreword by Victoria G. Fortner ; contributions by Kristin Brown et al.
976.996 W513e
976.996 W513e CD

Archives

Ohler, Frederick, 1931-
Peppermint Christmas/chocolate Easter / Frederick Ohler.
Archives 285.1092 O37p

Amir, Larissa.
Surrounded by water : a collection of short stories and selections from a novella / by Larissa Amir.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Baszile, Natalie.
The grinding season : selections from a novel / by Natalie Baszile.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Bowler, Katie.
State Street, and other poems / by Katie Bowler.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Burhardt, Majka.
Stay until I go : selections from a novel / by Majka Burhardt.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Hallingstad, Jean.
To a peregrine god : a collection of poems / by Jean Hallingstad.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Harris, Daniel.
Blood physics : poems / by Daniel Harris.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Llagas, Karen.
Archipelago dust : a collection of poems / by Karen Llagas.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Maki, Heather.
Amfibio : a collection of poems / by Heather Maki.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Nguyen, Kathy L.
April is the cruellest month : excerpt from a novel / by Kathy L. Nguyen.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Porter, Edward.
The changing station : a collection of short stories / by Edward Porter.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Shipman, Leslie.
Diorama : a collection of poems / by Leslie Shipman.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Stanford, Ann Folwell.
Passage : a collection of poems / by Ann Folwell Stanford.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Thornburg, Janet.
Calling her back from the dead : selections from a novella / by Janet Thornburg.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Wilsey, Suzanne DeForest.
Little thefts : a collection of short stories / by Suzanne DeForest Wilsey.
Spec. Coll. M.F.A.

Audiovisual

Profane existence.
AUDIO CD P964 2007 54

Relix.
AUDIO CD R382 2007 09-10

Southern cultures / sponsored by the Center for the Study of the American South.
AUDIO CD S719 2007 03

100 years of terror / SET Productions and NOGA Communications in association with A & E Network ; writer, Andrew Potter ; producer, Avner Tavori.
DVD 303.62509 O58 V.1-2

In the womb / produced by Pioneer Film and TV Productions Limited for National Geographic Channel ; written, produced & directed by Toby Macdonald ; editor, Andy Greening.
DVD 612.6 I35

Josef and Anni Albers : art is everywhere / producer and director Sedat Pakay ; narrative based on texts by Nicholas Fox Weber ; produced by Hudson Filmworks, Inc.
DVD 709.22 A332

Die 3 groschenoper : The 3 penny opera / Warner Bros. Pictures ; in association with Tobis Filmkunst ; Thomas J. Brandon presents ; produced by S. Nebenzahl ; screenplay by Léo Lania, Ladislaus Vajda and Béla Balázs ; directed by G. W. Pabst.
DVD 782.12 W422t V.1-2 + Booklet

Points in space / directed by Elliot Caplan and Merce Cunningham ; produced by Bob Lockyer and Cunningham Dance Foundation.
DVD 792.8 P752

Standing silent nation / a Prairie Dust Films production ; produced in association with P.O.V./American Documentary Inc.
DVD 978.300497 S785

Zen noir / Magic Lamp Releasing presents a Dreaming Dog production ; produced, written and directed by Marc Rosenbush.
DVD F Z54

Das leben der Anderen / eine film von Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ; eine Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion ; im Verleih der Buena Vista International ; in Coproduktion mit Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte, Creado Film ; coproduzenten, Dirk Hamm, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ; produzenten, Quirin Berg, Max Wiedemann ; buch und regie, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.
DVD German F L442

Altered states / produced by Twenty Twenty Television for Channel 4 Television and Discovery Channel.
VIDEO 154.6 A466

Saving America's pearly mussels.
VIDEO 594 S267

Fiction

Bellow, Saul.
Henderson, the rain king / Saul Bellow.
F B448he

The best American short stories.
F B561a 2007

Hendrie, Laura, 1954-
Remember me : a novel / Laura Hendrie.
F H498r

Hosseini, Khaled.
A thousand splendid suns / Khaled Hosseini.
F H829t

Johnson, Denis, 1949-
Tree of smoke / Denis Johnson.
F J66t

Kerouac, Jack.
Road novels 1957-1960 : On the road, the dharma bums, The subterraneans, Tristessa, Lonesome traveler, journal selections / Jack Kerouac.
F K39r

Russo, Richard, 1949-
Bridge of sighs / Richard Russo.
F R969b

Foreign Language

Liu, Yi-jung.
Vegetarian women in southern Fujian / Liu Yi-jung.
Chinese 294.365 L783

Juvenile

Vivian, R. Gwinn.
Chaco Canyon / R. Gwinn Vivian and Margaret Anderson.
J 978.900497 V858c

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