Eats, Shoots and Leaves - "We all know the basics of punctuation--or do we? In "Eats, Shoots & Leaves," Truss dares to say, in her delightfully witty way, that it is time to institute a zero tolerance approach to punctuation."

Call number: PE1450.T75 2004

Open Society Paradox: Why the Twenty-First Century Calls for More Openness--Not Less - "How do we ensure security and, at the same time, safeguard civil liberties? The Open Society Paradox challenges the conventional wisdom of those on both sides of the debate--"leaders who want unlimited authority and advocates who would sacrifice security for individual privacy protection. It offers a provocative alternative, suggesting that while the very openness of American society has left the United States vulnerable to today's threats, only more of this quality will make the country safer and enhance its citizens' freedom and mobility. Uniquely qualified to address these issues, Dennis Bailey argues that the solution is not to create a police state that restricts liberties but, paradoxically, to embrace greater openness. Through new technologies that engender transparency, including secure information, biometrics, surveillance, facial recognition, and data mining, society can remove the anonymity of the ill-intentioned while revitalizing the notions of trust and accountability and enhancing freedom for most Americans. He explores the impact of greater transparency on our lives, our relationships, and our liberties. The Open Society Paradox is a brave exploration of how to realign our traditional assumptions about privacy with a twenty-first-century concept of an open society."

Call number: JC596.2.U5 B35 2004

What the Anti-Federalists Were For: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution

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Call number: JK116.S8 1981

"The Anger Advantage" presents women -- who are taught to respond to anger differently than men -- with entirely new paradigm for thinking about anger and shows why diverting it is rarely the best idea. Women who are uncomfortable with how they are being treated at home or work, who try to hide their anger in professional settings for fear that they won't be taken seriously, or who are struggling in their relationship with a partner risk:

-- losing valuable information that can help them make needed decisions

-- developing physical and emotional symptoms (headaches, depression, low sex drive)

-- becoming hostages in stagnant, unfulfilling relationships

-- losing their sense of self and thus their motivations and needs

This book offers women a framework for evaluating their angry experiences, as well as practical exercises and strategies for tapping anger. As a result women will:

-- gain clearer insight into who they are and what they want

-- Learn how to set and maintain healthy, appropriate boundaries with others

-- Be rid of unnecessary guilt, shame, and self-recrimination

-- Alleviate physicalsymptoms generated by unhealthy diversions of anger

An inspiring, watershed guidebook in an age of books like The Rules and The Surrendered Wife, "The Anger Advantage" empowers women with the tools they need to recognize the validity of their emotions and take charge of their lives."

Call number: BF575.A5 C67 2003

Ancient City Hauntings: More Ghosts of St. Augustine - "St. Augustine is America's oldest city -- and perhaps its most haunted. David Lapham's first volume, Ghosts of St. Augustine, has proven very popular. Enjoy another twenty-five hair-raising stories from the ethereal shadows of the Ancient City's murky past. Why is St. Augustine so ghost-ridden, so filled with spirits? Since the release of Ghosts of St. Augustine, the Ancient City has been the subject of numerous television documentaries and paranormal investigations. Ghost tours have burgeoned. Few have been disappointed in their quests for supernatural experiences. Come walk again with Dave Lapham through the dark, enduring streets of St. Augustine and shiver in the ice-cold pockets of air that smother you in the black of night, listen to the gentle lapping of the water along the bay front and the distant murmurs of French sailors being slaughtered on the river. Come visit the Oldest House, the Old Jail, Ripley's, the Oldest School House, and all the many haunted places."

Call number: BF1472.U6 L37 2004

Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Studies in Short Fiction - "The work of Chopin, Wharton, and Gilman in the short story is more highly esteemed in contemporary critical opinion than ever before. Janet Beer illuminates their congruities as well as their diversity and demonstrates the unique, innovatory contribution that each made to the tradition of the short story. She looks at the short fiction of all three writers in terms of both genre and theme, ranging between discussions of Chopin's short stories and Wharton's novellas; between Chopin's frankly erotic writing and the homilies in which Gilman warns of the dangers of the sexually transmitted disease. Other issues addressed are ethnicity in the work of Chopin, Wharton's New England stories, Gilman's innovative use of genre and "The Yellow Wallpaper" on film. Separate aspects of the individual writers are explored, concentrating closely on subject and style and engaging in detailed readings of a range of texts. This is the first time these writers have been compared in depth in one volume."

Call number: PS374.S5 B44 1997

Degree Mills: The Billion-Dollar Industry That Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas - "Two experts, including an FBI agent specializing in diploma fraud, expose how degree mills operate and how pervasive this deception has become."

Call number: LB2388 .E94 2005

Feng Shui: Arranging Your Home to Change Your Life - "With feng shui, the ancient Chinese art of placement, you can change your life by rearranging your home. The careful arrangement of the contents of any room, from kitchen to office, can dramatically improve your health, finances, and relationships. Creating good feng shui can be as simple as moving your furniture, and as subtle as hanging a mirror or highlighting an auspicious color. Feng shui can be as personal as your own decorating taste: Once you set your goals and priorities - whether to improve family harmony or succeed in business - you can put feng shui to work especially for you. This easy-to-use room-by-room handbook provides tips for good feng shui in every part of your home, as well as simple cures for feng shui problems: If you have an interior staircase that directly faces your front door, good luck may be running directly out the door - and out of your life. A mirror on the landing of the stairs can draw in positive energy and circulate it around your home for better luck. For more restful sleep and better health, move your bed away from overhanging beams. A beam that cuts across a bed can create aches and pains in the parts of the body exposed to it - virtually "cutting in half" the life of the sleeper - and a beam that divides the bed between the sleepers can result in marital problems. Keep stove burners clean - clogged burners can block your income potential - and use all the burners regularly. The heat and energy passing through these openings will keep your family's business prospects from growing cold. Move your desk so it faces your office door, not the wall. If your back is to the door, you'll be surprised by people coming in - as well as by what they have tosay. Enhance your finances by placing a fish tank in your living room or office. The flow of water represents cash flow, and the fish symbolize abundant wealth - there are always more fish in the sea!"

Call number: BF1779.F4 L34 1996

St. Johns River Guidebook - "From any point of view -- historical, commercial, or recreational -- the St. Johns River is the most important river in Florida. This guide describes the history, major towns/cities along the way, wildlife, personages associated with the river. You'll go by Sanford and Georgetown, Palatka and Orange Park. And at the mouth of the river, you'll encounter the metropolis of Jacksonville and the Naval Station in Mayport. Because not everyone interested in the river has the time or facilities to boat it, the last part of each chapter describes the land journey on each side of the St. Johns, from south to north. The last chapter describes some of the many places for lodging and eating along the way."

Call number: F317.S2 M38 2004

China: A New History, Enlarged Edition - "The late John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. This book remains a masterwork without parallel--a concise and authoritative account of China and its people over four millennia. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman has brought the book up to date with a chapter on events in the post-Mao period and a new preface and epilogue. She provides a detailed account of the wide array of changes--social, economic, cultural, and even political--that have taken place in China over the past two decades."

Call number: DS735.F27 1998

Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free! - "Ken Wilber's latest book is a daring departure form his previous writings-a highly original work of fiction that combines brilliant scholarship with tongue-in-cheek storytelling to present the integral approach to human development that he expounded in more conventional terms in his recent "A Theory of Everything.
The story of a naive young grad student in computer science and his quest for meaning in a fragmented world provides the setting in which Wilber contrasts the alienated "flatland" of scientific materialism with the integral vision, which embraces body, mind, soul, and spirit in self, culture, and nature. The book especially targets one of the most stubborn obstacles to realizing the integral vision: a disease of egocentrism and narcissism that Wilber calls "boomeritis" because it seems to plague the baby-boomer generation most of all.
Through a series of sparkling seminar-lectures skillfully interwoven with the hero's misadventures in the realms of sex, drugs, and popular culture, all of the major tenets of extreme postmodernism are criticized-and exemplified-including the author's having a bad case of boomeritis himself. Parody, intellectual slapstick, and a mind-twisting surprise ending unite to produce a highly entertaining summary of the work of cutting-edge theorists in human development from around the world."

Call number: PS3623.I52 B66 2002

Age Ain't Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife - "Forty-five black women writers--known and new--discuss midlife in the first anthology of its kind. Finally, a collection that celebrates, considers, contemplates, even criticizes "midlife" from a black woman"s point of view. Age Ain"t Nothing
but a Number ranges over every aspect of black women"s lives: personal growth, family and friendship, love and sexuality, health, beauty, illness,
spirituality, creativity, financial independence, work, and scores of other topics.
Midlife today isn"t your grandmother"s "change of life." Today, black women call hot flashes "power surges," and menopause, the "pause that refreshes." These days, middle-aged women may be newlyweds or new mothers, as
well as grandmothers or widows. They may experience the empty-nest syndrome and then the "return-to-the-nest syndrome" as adult children move back home. They may navigate the field of Internet dating, travel the world,
teach homeless women, take up pottery, or study international business.
This anthology captures all of these aspects of midlife as experienced by some of the finest voices in African-American writing today. Featuring
the work of Maya Angelou, J. California Cooper, Pearl Cleage, Nikki Giovanni, Susan L. Taylor, Alice Walker, and dozens of others, Age Ain"t Nothing but a Number will make readers think, laugh, and cry.

Call number: PS509.N4 A35 2003

In this riveting memoir, General Franks retraces his journey from a small-town boyhood in Oklahoma and Midland, Texas, through a lifetime of military service -- including his heroic tour as an Artillery officer in Vietnam, where he was wounded three times. A reform-minded Cold War commander and a shrewd tactician during Operation Desert Storm, Franks took command of CENTCOM at the dawn of what he calls a "crease in history" -- becoming the senior American military officer in the most dangerous region on earth.

Now, drawing on his own recollections and military records declassified for this book, Franks offers the first true insider's account of the war on terrorism that has changed the world since September 11, 2001. He puts you in the Operations Center for the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom just weeks after 9/11, capturing its uncertain early days and the historic victory that followed. He traces his relationship with the demanding Donald Rumsfeld, as early tensions over the pace of the campaign gave way to a strong and friendly collaboration.

When President Bush focused world attention on the threat of Iraq, Franks seized the moment to implement a bold new vision of joint warfare in planning Operation Iraqi Freedom. Rejecting Desert Storm– style massive troop deployment in favor of flexibility and speed, Franks was questioned by the defense establishment -- including Secretary of State Colin Powell. Yet his vision was proven on the ground: Within three weeks, Baghdad had fallen.

"American Soldier is filled with revelation. Franks describes the covert diplomacy that helped him secure international cooperation for the war, and reveals the role of foreign leaders -- and a critical double agent code-named "April Fool" -- in the most successful military deception since D-Day in 1944. He speaks frankly of intelligence shortcomings that endangered our troops, and of the credible WMD threats -- including eleventh-hour warnings from Arab leaders -- that influenced every planning decision. He offers an unvarnished portrait of the "disruptive and divisive" Washington bureaucracy, and a candid assessment of the war's aftermath. Yet in the end, as "American Soldier demonstrates, the battles in Afghanistan and Iraq remain heroic victories -- wars of liberation won by troops whose valor was "unequalled," Franks writes, "by anything in the annals of war.""

Call number: E840.5.F65 A3 2004

French Women Don't Get Fat - "Mireille Guiliano first visited the US as a teenaged exchange student. When she returned to France, her family was shocked (and she was humiliated) by what American sweets had done to her figure, so she turned to her family doctor for help. "Dr. Miracle" put her through the paces of a traditional French "cure," and his common-sense approach to maintenance has since guided her through a lifetime of extravagant dining. Now, in "French Women, Don't Get Fat she reveals how anyone can maintain healthy weight without depriving herself of life's most elemental pleasures. This is the wisdom generations of French mothers have passed on to their daughters, from force majeure responses like magic leek soup to everyday practices like portion control that still leads to contentment and the cumulative power of avoiding unnecessary convenieces like elevators. Guiliano's effervescent good humor makes it a brewze to stick with the program until it's become second nature. Her recipes give even the busiest and least-practiced cook the confidence to prepare simple, nutritious, and beautiful meals. And through her stories--about the challenges faced by her American friends, the pleasures of marketing and cooking in France, and her own youthful struggle with a dessert habit--the reader comes to understand the attitudes that allow French women to enjoy bread, chocolate, wine, and other foods that few American women consume without torments of guilt."

Call number: RM222.2.G785 2004

Guide to the University of Florida and Gainesville - " -- Each significant building on campus and in town is pictured and described here, with information on its history, architecture, location, and present use
-- Gainesville boasts charming historic neighborhoods and a vibrant downtown entertainment district
-- This book will introduce everyone to the unique places and character of the university and the Gainesville area"

Call number: LD1794.M33 1997

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 25th Anniversary Edition - "To property celebrate we are popping the cork on two great treats: - A deluxe edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which will feature 42 new pages of stuff from the Douglas Adams archive, an introduction by Terry Gilliam of Monty Python fame, and 42 good words on the wisdom gleaned from a first reading--low those many years ago--by 21 contemporary writers. There will be photographs and drawings and memorable, meaningful artifacts only recently, ahem, unearthed.- Harmony is also making available a facsimile edition of the original hardcover. Which will took and feel exactly like the first edition did when it rolled off the presses in 1979."

Call number: PR6051.D3352 1980

The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn - "Private interest groups have always had a hand in shaping school texts. But in recent years, they have pressured publishers and state officials to purge textbooks and tests of any potentially offensive language or images. The result: boring, inane textbooks, and--no surprise!--a failure to improve students' test scores, the very reason for eliminating allegedly insensitive words and topics from tests. In this hard-hitting analysis, Diane Ravitch--the nation's leading historian of American education--explains the causes and consequences of this widespread censorship. From her firsthand experience as a member of a federal testing board, Ravitch describes how both the political right and left have demanded censorship and been highly effective. Christian groups object to topics dealing with evolution, fantasy, and nontraditional family settings, while feminists and multiculturalists insist on removal of all language and images that might somehow be construed as sexist or racist. Ravitch shows us how these groups have succeeded in large part because of their leverage in the powerful markets of California and Texas--two of the largest purchasers of textbooks in the country. Passionate and polemical, this highly controversial book probes a major intellectual scandal: political correctness of the left and right run amok."

Call number: LB3045.7.R38 2003

Marriage on Trial: The Case Against Same-Sex Marriage and Parenting - "Basing their case on current social research, psychologist Maier and researcher Stanton argue that gay "marriage" and single-sex families fall far short of offering to children and society in general the same benefits as traditional marriage."

Call number: HQ1033.S726 2004

Pornography: Private Right or Public Menace? - "The marketing of sexual products and services in cyberspace has propelled the pornography debate into new and uncharted territory. This revised edition of PORNOGRAPHY explores the battlelines drawn between those who argue in favor of censorship and those who defend free speech. It includes essays on defining pornography; social and psychological effects; the differences between pornography, erotica, and artistic expression; and sexism, violent pornography, and women's rights."

Call number: HQ471.P6462 1998

Sideways - "Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack plans to marry, the pair heads out from Los Angeles to the Santa Ynez wine country. For Jack, the tasting tour is Seven Days to D-Day, his final stretch of freedom. For Miles--who has divorced his wife, is facing an uncertain career and has lost his passion for living-the trip is a weeklong opportunity to evaluate his past, his future and himself.
A raucous and surprising novel filled with wonderful details about wine, Sideways is also a thought-provoking and funny book about men, women, and human relationships."

Call number: PS3566.I316 S55 2004

Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins - " This rollicking parody is a hilarious send-up of self-help books and American society by a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright."

Call number: BF485.W38 2005

The Art of War - "Written in China over two thousand years ago, Sun Tzu's The Art of War provides the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning and conduct of military operations. These wise, aphoristic essays contain principles acted upon by such twentieth-century Chinese generals as Mao Tse Tung. Samuel Griffith offers a much-needed translation of this classic which makes it even more relevant to the modern world. Including an explanatory introduction and selected commentaries on the work, this edition makes Sun Tzu's timeless classic extremely accessible to students of Chinese history and culture, as well as to anyone interested in the highly volatile military and political issues in present-day China."

Call number: U101 .S95

The "M" Word: Writers on Same-Sex Marriage - "Contemporary gay and straight writers--including Dan Savage, Francine Prose, David Leavitt, and George Saunders--offer their personal takes on gay marriage."

Call number: HQ1033.M6 2004

The Story of American Golf Volume One: 1888-1941 - " Originally published in 1948, Herbert Warren Wind's work is considered the most thorough history of professional and amateur men's and women's golf in America. Includes many never-before published photos and covers the emergence of the first star players of the sport."

Call number: GV981.W49 2000

The Official Handbook for the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Loony Left - "Attorney and conservative commentator Mark Smith deconstructs the 10 biggest liberal myths, provides facts and proof to expose liberal lies and hypocrisy, and delivers hard evidence on why the liberals' standing policies on such issues as taxes, welfare. goverment spending, and defense are just plain wrong."

Call number: JC573.2.U6S644 2004

Psychology Applied to Law - "PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO LAW is a friendly, engaging introduction to the exciting field of psychology and law. Drawing on research in social, cognitive, clinical, and developmental psychology, the author shows how psychology can be used to enhance the gathering of evidence, improve legal decision-making, and promote justice. Although the emphasis is on psychological research, the book makes extensive use of actual cases and real trials to draw students into the material and to illustrate the relevance of research findings. Concise but comprehensive, this brief introduction to the field gives professors the flexibility to assign additional books or articles. PSYCHOLOGY APPLIED TO LAW is a lively alternative to traditional textbooks."

Call number: K346.C67 2004

Atta Girl!: A Celebration of Women in Sport - "The growth in popularity of women's sports has been a long time coming. Many, many women have worked very hard behind the scenes to make today's professional and gold-medal winning Olympic teams a reality. But this book is about more than just the female athletes, it's about their relationships with each other, their families, their children. It is about the frustration of having to fight to have the same opportunities that male athletes have always had. It is about getting into the boys' club without wanting to be one of the boys. It celebrates women's strengths, humor and honor and the way women's participation in sports can positively influence girls and boys."

Call number: GV697.A1 P59 2003

Gertrude and Claudius - "In his brilliant new novel, John Updike tells the story of Gertrude and Claudius, King and Queen of Denmark, before the action of Shakespeare's Hamlet begins. Employing certain details of the ancient Scandinavian legends that first describe the prince who feigns madness to achieve revenge upon his father's slayer, Updike brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King Hamlet, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. Beginning in the aura of pagan barbarism, and anticipating Renaissance humanism and empiricism, this modern retelling of a tale of medieval violence presents the case for its central couple that Shakespeare only hinted at. Gertrude's warmth and lucidity, Claudius's soldierly yet peaceable powers of command are seen afresh against a background of fond intentions and familial dysfunction, on a stage darkened by the ominous shadow of a sullen, disaffected prince."

Call number: PS3571.P4 G47 2000

The Hacking of America: Who's Doing It, Why, and How - "This is the first book to explore and profile the personalities and behavioral traits of more than 200 self-admitted hackers."

Call number: HV6773 .S355 2002

Jacksonville Greets the 20th Century: The Pictorial Legacy of Leah Mary Cox - "Through striking architectural photographs and lively, readable narrative, this pictorial account of early-twentieth-century Jacksonville tells the triumphant story of photographer Leah Mary Cox while revealing Jacksonville's architectural history."

Call number: F319.J1 C69 2002

Policing Pop - "The essays collected here focus on the forms of censorship as well as specific instances of how the state and other agencies have attempted to restrict the types of music produced, recorded and performed within a culture. Several show how even unsuccessful attempts to exert the power of the state can cause artists to self-censor. Others point to material that taxes even the most liberal defenders of free speech. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that censoring agents target popular music all over the world, and they raise questions about how artists and the public can resist the narrowing of cultural expression."

Call number: ML3918.P67 P65 2003

Fleeced - "Regan Reilly is in New York to attend a crime conference organized by her celebrity-author mother. A friend, Thomas Pilsner -- the frenetic president of the Settlers' Club on Gramercy Park -- calls Regan, desperately pleading for help. Thomas is distraught over the sudden suspicious deaths of two members of the Settler's Club. The men had promised to donate a cache of valuable diamonds to save the Club. But now the diamonds re gone, the men are dead, and Thomas is a mess. He fears the police will suspect he is at the heart of both mysteries, and worse yet, he'll lose his job. Enter Regan. Who better than the star of "Decked, Snagged, Iced, and "Twanged to solve the mystery of the missing diamonds and the suspicious deaths? Who better to contend with quirky characterslike Lydia Sevatura, the self-styled "Princess of Love" who operates a dating service and her butler, Maldwin Feckles, who has just opened up the first school of butlering in New York City? And who better than Carol Higgins Clark whose sparkling, canny prose keeps listeners guessing to the end "who done it"? "

Call number: PS3553.L278 F58 2001 AUDBK

P Is for Peril: A Kinsey Milhone Mystery - "Kinsey Millhone stakes her life on a thin thread of intuition when she investigates the mysterious disappearance of a prominent physician and a cunning Medicare fraud."

Call number: PS3557.R13 P574 2001 AUDBK

Red Rabbit - "Tom Clancy returns to Jack Ryan's early days in an extraordinary audiobook of global political drama. The novice CIA analyst is assigned to stop the assassination of the Pope and foil a plot to destabilize the Western world."

Call number: PS3553.L245 R39 2002 Audbk.

The Summons - " Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. He's forty-three, newly single, and still enduring the aftershocks of a surprise divorce. He has a younger brother, Forrest, who redefines the notion of a family's black sheep. And he has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi. He is known to all only as Judge Atlee, a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for forty years. No longer on the bench, the judge has withdrawn to the Atlee mansion and become a recluse.With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons for both sons to return home to Clanton, to discuss the details of his estate. It is typed by the Judge himself, on his handsome old stationary, and gives the date and time for Ray and Forrest to appear in his study. Ray reluctantly heads south, to his hometown, to the place where he grew up, which he prefers now to avoid. But the family meeting does not take place. The judge dies too soon, and in doing so leaves behind a shocking secret known only to Ray. And perhaps someone else. "

Call number: PS3557.R5355 S86x 2000b