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The list below includes selected new titles from the circulating and Reference collections. The circulating titles may be found on the New Books Shelf near the Library entrance, while the Reference titles have been shelved with the collection. Click on the titles below to view the items in our catalog. 

Featured New Books

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Why Does College Cost So MuchGun FightThe Warcraft CivilizationThe Animal ConnectionMan in the Music

New Circulating Books

March  2012

Moonwalking with Einstein: the art and science of remembering everything
Thinking , fast and slow
New: understanding our need for novelty and change
The faiths of the founding fathers
1493: uncovering the new world Columbus created
Enjoy the same liberty: Black Americans and the revolutionary era
The Civil War: the first year told by those who lived it
The Iranian green movement
The animal connection: a new perspective on what makes us human
The warcraft civilization: social science in a virtual world
Africa: opposing viewpoints
Are executives paid too much?
Catching out: the secret world of day laborers
The great A&P and the struggle for small business in America
Glock: the rise of America’s gun
More: the vanishing of scale in an over-the-top nation
bloggerati, twitterati: how blogs and twitter are transforming popular culture
The net delusion: the dark side of internet freedom
Alone together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other
The global impact of social media
Domestic violence: opposing viewpoints
Gun fight: the battle over the right to bear arms in America
Class warfare: inside the fight to fix America’s schools
Why does college cost so much?
Man in the music: the creative life and work of Michael Jackson
Christ to coke: how image becomes icon
The Ascent of media from Gilgamesh to Google via Gutenberg
Kill the messenger: the media’s role in the fate of the world
The anatomy of influence: literature as a way of life
The indignant generation: a narrative history of African American writers and critics, 1934-1960
After the fall: American literature since 9/11
The reconstruction of Mark Twain: how a confederate bushwhacker became the Lincoln of our literature
The magic of reality: how we know what’s really true
The beginning of infinity: explanations that transform the world
The man of numbers: Fibonacci’s arithmetic revolution
The physics book: from the big bang to quantum resurrection, 250 milestones in the history of physics
Stem cells: opposing viewpoints
Who’s in charge? :  Free will and the science of the brain
Remedy and reaction: the peculiar American struggle over health care reform
Changing planet, changing health: how the climate crisis threatens our health and what we can do about it
Earth: the operators’ manual

February 2012 »

February 2012

The knight in history
The cultural revolution:  a very short introduction
American Civil War: the essential reference guide
American uprising: the untold story or America’s largest slave revolt
World on the edge: how to prevent environmental and economic collapse
The victor’s crown: a history of ancient sport from Homer to Byzantium
Energy & energy use
Business writing in the digital age
Cyberbullying
The Supreme Court and the press: the indispensable conflict
Student loans
SAT wars: the case for test-optional college admissions
Future media
Visual storytelling: inspiring a new visual language
A history of American movies: a film-by-film look at the art, craft, and business of cinema
Blur: how to know what’s true in the age of information overload
American literature in context to 1865
Brave new words: how literature will save the planet
American literature in context from 1865 to 1929
American literature in context after 1929
Three American poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville
The American novel now: reading contemporary American fiction since 1980
Chasing the white whale: the Moby-Dick marathon; or, what Melville means today
Visual complexity:  mapping patterns of information
The primate family tree: the amazing diversity of our closest relatives
Atmosphere & air pollution
The panic virus: the true story behind the vaccine-Autism controversy
Pandemics
An introduction to sustainable resource use
Uncertain path: a search for the future of national parks
Water & water pollution
Human waste