Social Sciences
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May 2008

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New Circulating Books

070.5797 GomeJ 2008
Print is dead : books in our digital age / Jeff Gomez.

131 HorsM 2007
Chakra workout : balancing your energy with yoga and meditation / Mary Horsley.

133.44 IlleJ 2007
Pure magic : a complete course in spellcasting / Judika Illes.

142.78 ReynJ 2006
Understanding existentialism / Jack Reynolds.

144.3 DeC 2005
On pragmatism / Cornelis De Waal.

153.94 BryoM 2008
How to pass advanced verbal reasoning tests / Mike Bryon.

158 GimiJ 2008
The rules of victory : how to transform chaos and conflict--strategies from The art of war / James Gimian and Barry Boyce.

158 JohnA 2008
Aspire higher : winning on and off the court with determination, discipline, and decisions / Avery Johnson with Roy Johnson.

158.1 OcchM 2008
Awakened instincts : seven keys for enhancing every aspect of your life / by MaryRose Occhino with Jacqueline Sullivan.

181.112 Confu 2007
The analects of Confucius / translated by Burton Watson.

184 Plato 2005
Essential dialogues of Plato / translated by Benjamin Jowett translation revised by Pedro de Blas edited with an introduction and notes by Pedro de Blas George Stade, consulting editorial director.

184 Plato 2005
Essential dialogues of Plato / translated by Benjamin Jowett translation revised by Pedro de Blas edited with an introduction and notes by Pedro de Blas George Stade, consulting editorial director.

190.9031 Cambr 2007
The Cambridge companion to Renaissance philosophy / edited by James Hankins.

192 CoveA 2007
Hume : a guide for the perplexed / Angela Coventry.

200.92273 MondA 2007
Do you believe? : conversations on God and religion / Antonio Monda translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

224.106 RubeR 2006
Thus saith the Lord : the revolutionary moral vision of Isaiah and Jeremiah / Richard E. Rubenstein.

234.13 PrinD 2007
The gifts of the spirit : understanding and receiving God's supernatural power in your life / Derek Prince.

248.4 JakeT 2008
Insights to help you survive the peaks and valleys : can you stand to be blessed? / T.D. Jakes.

277.3083 McelR 2008
Grand theft Jesus : the hijacking of religion in America / Robert S. McElvaine.

280.40975 StepR 2008
The fire spreads : holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South / Randall J. Stephens.

294.3444 LeviN 2007
Against the stream : a Buddhism manual for spiritual revolutionaries / Noah Levine.

294.3444 Nhat 2007
Nothing to do, nowhere to go : waking up to who you are / Thich Nhat Hanh [edited by Rachel Neumann].

296.491 HambW 2007
Solomon's temple : myth and history / William J. Hamblin and David Rolph Seely.

297.09 KennH 2007
The great Arab conquests : how the spread of Islam changed the world we live in / Hugh Kennedy.

299.93 BradG 2008
The spontaneous healing of belief : shattering the paradigm of false limits / Gregg Braden.

305.262 LindR 2008
Forward from here : leaving middle age and other unexpected adventures / Reeve Lindbergh.

305.896073 BlacD 2008
Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of Black people in America from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon.

306.874 StewS 2007
Brave new stepfamilies : diverse paths toward stepfamily living / Susan D. Stewart.

320.60973 BoreD 2008
A letter to America / by David Boren.

320.97309 HuffA 2008
Right is wrong : how the lunatic fringe hijacked America, shredded the Constitution, and made us all less safe / Arianna Huffington.

321.07 MoreT 2005
Utopia / Sir Thomas More translated by Ralph Robinson, 1551 with the life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper edited, with a introduction and notes by Wayne A. Rebhorn.

321.07 MoreT 2005
Utopia / Sir Thomas More translated by Ralph Robinson, 1551 with the life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper edited, with a introduction and notes by Wayne A. Rebhorn.

323.092 DysoM 2008
April 4, 1968 : Martin Luther King Jr.'s death and how it changed America / Michael Eric Dyson.

323.1196073 CobbC 2008
On the road to freedom : a guided tour of the civil rights trail / by Charles E. Cobb, Jr.

323.623076 Pass
Pass the U.S. citizenship exam.

325.73 MotoH 2007
Americans in waiting : the lost story of immigration and citizenship in the United States / Hiroshi Motomura.

327.1 KhanP 2008
The second world : empires and influence in the new global order / Parag Khanna.

327.51 GelbH 2007
The dragon and the foreign devils : China and the world, 1100 B.C. to the present / Harry G. Gelber.

342.730854 BoylF 2008
Protesting power : war, resistance, and law / Francis A. Boyle.

343.730143 SmitC 2007
Eight o'clock ferry to the windward side : seeking justice in Guantánamo Bay / Clive Stafford Smith.

346.73047 RandM 2007
Every dog's legal guide : a must-have book for your owner / by Mary Randolph.

355.48 KeegJ 1978
The face of battle / John Keegan.

362.19 CousN 2005
Anatomy of an illness as perceived by the patient : reflections on healing and regeneration / by Norman Cousins introduction by René Dubos.

362.29 EgenL 2007
Performance-enhancing drugs / by Laura K. Egendorf.

362.290973 Drug 2007
Drug abuse / Kelly Barth, book editor.

362.2920973 Alcoh 2007
Alcohol abuse / Ronnie D. Lankford, book editor.

362.298073 RoleT 2008
Cocaine and crack / by Tamara L. Roleff.

362.5 StriF 2007
Why America lost the war on poverty-- and how to win it / Frank Stricker.

363.31 SemoJ 2007
Censoring sex : a historical journey through American media / John E. Semonche.

363.46 BeckF 2007
Defending life : a moral and legal case against abortion choice / Francis J. Beckwith.

363.69 HowaJ 2007
Buying time for heritage : how to save an endangered historic property / J. Myrick Howard.

364.1524092 RayJ 2008
Truth at last : the untold story of James Earl Ray and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. / John Larry Ray and Lyndon Barsten.

370.1 NoddN 2007
Philosophy of education / Nel Noddings.

372.21 What 2008
What your preschooler needs to know : read-alouds to get ready for kindergarten / [edited by] E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Linda Bevilacqua.

381.177 NissD 2007
FutureShop : how to trade up to a luxury lifestyle today / Daniel Nissanoff.

388.40973 FotsP 2007
Watching the traffic go by : transportation and isolation in urban America / Paul Mason Fotsch.

395.22 HamiC 2007
The wedding planner / Carole Hamilton illustrations by Max Savva.

395.22 TigeC 2008
Wedding speeches & toasts / Caroline Tiger.

395.4 PaskS 2007
Easy eloquence : sample thank you notes and sympathy cards for every occasion / Sharon Paskoff.

395.52 ChanL 2007
The essential guide to business etiquette / Lillian Hunt Chaney and Jeanette St. Clair Martin.

398.9 MansM 2007
The Facts on File dictionary of proverbs / Martin H. Manser associate editors, Rosalind Fergusson, David Pickering.

909.6 BrooT 2008
Vermeer's hat : the seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world / Timothy Brook.

929.44 LestM 2008
Biblical baby names for today / Meera Lester.

932 MertB 2008
Red land, black land : daily life in ancient Egypt / Barbara Mertz.

942.067 VallE 2008
The Glorious Revolution : 1688, Britain's fight for liberty / Edward Vallance.

946.081 PresP 2007
The Spanish Civil War : reaction, revolution and revenge / Paul Preston.

951.06 BeckJ 2006
Dragon rising : an inside look at China today / Jasper Becker.

954.9105 BhutB 2008
Reconciliation : Islam, democracy, and the West / Benazir Bhutto.

956.05 MillA 2008
The much too promised land : America's elusive search for Arab-Israeli peace / Aaron David Miller.

956.704431 StigJ 2008
The three trillion dollar war : the true cost of the Iraq Conflict / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes.

959.70437 HendB 2007
An enormous crime : the definitive account of American POWs abandoned in Southeast Asia / Bill Hendon and Elizabeth A. Stewart.

973 FarqM 2008
A treasury of foolishly forgotten Americans : pirates, skinflints, patriots, and other colorful characters stuck in the footnotes of history / Michael Farquhar.

973 MckeG 2007
The Puritan origins of American patriotism / George McKenna.

973.8 PostC 2007
The populist vision / Charles Postel.

973.82 DonoJ 2008
A terrible glory : Custer and the Little Bighorn-- the last great battle of the American West / James Donovan.

973.922092 KaisD 2008
The road to Dallas : the assassination of John F. Kennedy / David Kaiser.

973.93 HageC 2008
America : our next chapter : tough questions, straight answers / Chuck Hagel.

973.931 LichE 2008
Bush's law : the remaking of American justice / Eric Lichtblau.

973.931 OlbeK 2007
Truth and consequences : special comments on the Bush administration's war on American values / Keith Olbermann.

974.71043 JacoM 2007
American gangster : and other tales of New York / Mark Jacobson foreword by Richard Price.

B Aung San Suu Kyi 2007
Perfect hostage : a life of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's prisoner of conscience / Justin Wintle.

B Benners 2007
Disunion, war, defeat, and recovery in Alabama : the journal of Augustus Benners, 1850-1885 / edited by Glenn and Virginia Linden.

B Carter 2008
Away from home : letters to my family / by Lillian Carter and Gloria Carter Spann.

B Carter 2008
A remarkable mother / Jimmy Carter.

B Edward VI 2007
Edward VI : the lost King of England / Chris Skidmore.

B Hari 2008
The translator : a tribesman's memoir of Darfur / Daoud Hari.

B Harris 2005
A Master Option Trader's journey from Pipe Shop to Wall Street : the life and times of Terry Harris / as told to Dr. Horace Huntley with the N2K presentation by Tony and Pauline Talley.

B Murray 2007
Dirty diplomacy : the rough-and-tumble adventures of a scotch-drinking, skirt-chasing, dictator-busting and thoroughly un-repentant ambassador stuck on the frontline of the war against terror / Craig Murray.

B Rice 2007
Condoleezza Rice : an American life : a biography / Elisabeth Bumiller.

B Wallace 2007
Stand up for Alabama : Governor George Wallace / Jeff Frederick.

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New Audio Books

294.3444 ChodP 2008
This moment is the perfect teacher [sound recording] : [ten Buddist teachings on cultivating inner strength & compassion] / Pema Chödrön.

305.235 HarrA 2008
Do hard things [sound recording] : [a teenage rebellion against low expectations] / Alex and Brett Harris.

322.10973 DanfJ 2006
Faith and politics [sound recording] : [how the moral values debate divides America and how to move forward together] / John Danforth.

364.106 GlenM 2008
McMafia [sound recording] : [a journey through the global underworld] / by Misha Glenny.

973.0496073 ObamB 2006
The audacity of hope [sound recording] / Barak Obama.

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New DVDs

364.1524092 Who 2008
Who killed Martin Luther King? [videorecording] / an Otmoor production a John Edginton film written, directed & produced by John Edginton.

941.1086 Dirt 2008
The dirt detective [videorecording] : uncovering the mysteries of Scotland's ancient past / an STV production produced by George Cathro, Paul Murton, Bill Boyes written and presented by Craig Ferguson directed by George Cathro, Paul Murton, Charlie Stuart, Bill Boyes.

973.04924 Jewis 2008
The Jewish Americans [videorecording] / Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. & JTN Productions written, produced and directed by David Grubin.

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