That Might Be Useful - Publisher's Marketing: " Several years ago, author Naton Leslie decided to opt out of America's dizzying array of retail goods and buy used necessities whenever possible. What he discovered in his meanderings was a characteristically American secondhand culture, replete with a cast of fascinating characters, goods, and venues ranging from the sublime to the bizarre. In the humorous and eminently readable manner of Tony Horwitz and Jonathan Raban, That Might Be Useful recounts his varied journey from well-heeled auction houses dealing exclusively with the estates of the famous, where he finds a desiccated mummy's hand under glass, to
suburban tag sales, antiques stores, and a rural auction house where the motormouthing auctioneer relies heavily on humor and brevity to move objects he is at a loss for words to describe.
While retailers have moved out of downtowns and into malls, and then out into big-box stores, secondhand commerce has remained in communities, and off the radar screens of giant corporations. Sales tax records from antiques stores, auctions, and eBay might give some measure of the billions of dollars engaged in this commerce of broken farm tractors, American primitive art, and nineteenthcentury French bronzes. But the many transactions made under the table through yard sales, flea markets, and other less visible settings are unquantifiable.
It is a facet of American culture that pays scant attention to new retail advertising,
that mocks mainstream megacapitalism by thriving on the American tradition of reuse rooted in practicality, frugality, and ingenuity. That Might Be Useful will appeal to antiques collectors, junk pickers, tool collectors, lovers of PBS's "Antiques Roadshow, andall who like entertaining stories about people passionate for the buying and selling of items from our distant and recent past."

Call number: HF5482.15.L47 2005 Naton, Leslie

Theodore Rex - Publisher's Marketing: " In the long-awaited sequel to "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, " which won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for biography, Morris tells the story of Teddy Roosevelt's two successful terms as president of the United States. Photos throughout."

Call number: E757.M885 2001

The Thirteenth Tale - Publisher's Marketing: ""All children mythologize their birth... "So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the 12 that do exist."

Call number: PS3619.E86 T48 2006

This I Believe - Publisher's Marketing: " Based on the NPR series of the same name, "This I Believe" is an inspiring collection of the personal philosophies and core values of a fascinating group of Americans."

Call number: BD215.T46 2006

Three New Deals - Publisher's Marketing: " From a world-renowned cultural historian, an original look at the hidden commonalities among Fascism, Nazism, and the New Deal
Today Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal is regarded as the democratic ideal, the positive American response to an economic crisis that propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, shocking as it may seem, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical. Now, Wolfgang Schivelbusch investigates the shared elements of these three "new deals" to offer a striking explanation for the popularity of Europe's totalitarian systems.
Returning to the Depression, Schivelbusch traces the emergence of a new type of state: bolstered by mass propaganda, led by a charismatic figure, and projecting stability and power. He uncovers stunning similarities among the three regimes: the symbolic importance of gigantic public works programs like the TVA dams and the German autobahn, which not only put people back to work but embodied the state's authority; the seductive persuasiveness of Roosevelt's fireside chats and Mussolini's radio talks; the vogue for monumental architecture stamped on Washington, as on Berlin; and the omnipresent banners enlisting citizens as loyal followers of the state.
Far from equating Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini or minimizing their acute differences, Schivelbusch proposes that the populist and paternalist qualities common to their states hold the key to the puzzling allegiance once granted to Europe's most tyrannical regimes."

Call number: RC106.3.S3246 2006

Tiger Traits - Publisher's Marketing: "Tiger Woods' success in golf and in lifeis not an accident. There's no doubt that he was born with a special talent, but Tiger also has nine traits that have allowed him to express that talent in extraordinary ways. These nine traits have helped Tiger become a champion, and they can help you lay a solid foundation for an outstanding business career and a fulfilling life. Each chapter contains stories from Tiger's life that exemplify one of the traits, a practical discussion about how each trait plays out in the business world, and exercises that will help you put the lesson into practice in your personal life. Tiger Traits describes how Tiger developed his natural talents and created a compelling dream for his life, who his heroes and mentors were, and how all of this helped him not just on the golf course but also in his journey to become a top entrepreneur in the world of sports. The lesson's Tiger's life teaches us?how to acquire confidence, use mental models to create success."

Call number: HF5386.B66 2007

To Have and To Hurt - Publisher's Marketing: " When Cathy and John married 20 years ago, the relationship seemed almost charmed. But over the years as John's career became more established and Cathy raised the family of three children, things changed. First angry fights developed, followed by verbal and gestured threats of violence, and later, actual physical attacks and injuries. Several times Cathy called police, but when they arrived, fearing the social stigma as well as John's retribution, she would explain her injuries as dealt out by a prowler. When friends or family asked, she would claim the cuts or bruises were due to a fall or some other accident. But eventually, when her arm had been broken, a tooth knocked out, and her face bruised so badly she could not cover it up with makeup, she finally left the house and her husband--only to be stalked. Cathy and John are one couple that Angela Browne-Miller introduces us to in this book that looks at the increasingly publicized incidence of "intimate partner violence," abuse that takes place behind closed doors, inside marriages and other "loving" relationships. Only a fraction of this abuse is ever reported, so just a fragment of the problem is reflected in national statistics that show nearly 2 million injuries and some 1,300 deaths annually caused by this so-called intimate partner violence. In this work, Browne-Miller uses vignettes, as well as standing and emerging research, to help us recognize the difference between a relationship being effected by normal stressors, and one that is abusive, or perhaps even deadly. Psychotherapist Browne-Miller details both healthy and hurtful relationships and shows partners how to recognize and change relationships on, or headed down, thepath to abuse. And she also explains when we should leave a relationship, as well as how to do that to disentangle without further harm. This is a book that will interest not only lay readers who are involved in, or know of someone who is or might be involved in, an abusive relationship, but also students and scholars of psychology, counseling, social work, women's studies, and men's studies."

Call number: HV6626.B77 2007

Today’s The Day: Winner's Wisdom to Succeed in Every Situation

Call number: BJ1611.2.S755 2007

As Callum M. Roberts reveals in THE UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEA, the oceans' bounty didn't disappear overnight. While today's fishing industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but in the 11th century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation of the seas.

Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants, fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past: waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by 15th century seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries, he shows, are simply latest chapter in a long history of unfettered commercialization of the seas.

The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can leave the oceans richer than we found them."

Call number: CB465.R63 2007 Roberts, Callum

Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907 - Publisher's Marketing: "Three men and three woman -- a plant collector, a merchant and his novelist wife, a military officer, and two famous women travelers -- went to China between the Opium War and the formal end of the opium trade, 1842-1907. Their range of perspectives, their acquaintance with one another and their similar scope of travel to Hong Kong, the treaty ports, and Sichuan lend intensity to their picture of China and the Western presence there."

Call number: DS709 .T49 1999

Violence in America’s Schools: Understanding, Prevention, and Responses - Publisher's Marketing: "The problem of violence in schools has not gone away despite radical reductions in violent crimes throughout the country over the last decade. Students continue to harrass, haze, and harm each other in a variety of ways, disrupting classrooms and whole schools. In the wake of the Columbine massacre, many focused on the worst kind of school violence: deadly assaults with dangerous weapons. But other forms of violence are more persistent, common, and just as destructive in many ways: fighting, sexual abuse, carrying weapons to school, vandalism, and assorted other crimes that happen behind the closed doors of elementary, middle, and high schools across the country. The consequences range from violent victimization and death, to the disruption of learning and fear among student bodies and teaching staffs. Here, Thomas provides a foundation for understanding why the violence occurs, preventing it from happening, and treating both offenders and victims after it happens. Using scores of case descriptions to illustrate the types of school violence and their treatment in recent years, the author skillfully shows readers how the problem of violence and crime in schools is an insidious issue that cannot go untreated. He offers both tested and proposed methods for dealing with a host of violence issues and a guide to planning treatment of the problem and its associated consequences. He answers the questions: What are prominent types of violence in American schools? What conditions contribute to those types of violence? What methods can be applied in an effort to reduce school violence? Readers will come away from this book with a greater understanding of the scope of violence in America's schools, and the myriad ways of addressing it. "

Call number: LB3013.32 .T46 2006

Absolute Power - Summary: "Absolute Power is the first-rate thriller about a master thief who witnesses a strange murder at the home of a Washington power player. Because of his occupation, he can't reveal his own identity or the killers'. It's a suspenseful showdown as the thief and conspirators head for confrontation."

Call number: PN 1997 Absol P69 2000 DVD

Air America - Summary: "CIA-funded pilots hit drug traffic while flying supplies for the covert war effort in Laos."

Call number: PN 1997 Air A64 2004 DVD

The Animal - Summary: "Marvin wants to fulfill his life-long dream of becoming a cop, but helacks the fearless fortitude required for the job. That all changes whena freak accident leaves him near death and a quack doctor performs lifesaving surgery on Marvin, substituting animal organs for human organs.Now, Marvin must find the right balance with his animal instincts tokeep up his persona as Supercop and to woo the heart of his newlybeloved Rianna."

Call number: PN 1997 Anim 2004 DVD

Art of War - Summary: "During a UN trade meeting, the Ambassador to China is assassinated. Top covert agent Neil Shaw, framed for the murder, is now on the run to prove his innocence and unravel a conspiracy."

Call number: PN 1997 Art O93 2000 DVD

Astronaut’s Wife - Summary: "In the tradition of "Rosemary's Baby," NASA astronaut Spencer Armacost and his wife Jillian are a seemingly perfect couple whose lives are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously loses contact with Earth for two minutes."

Call number: PN 1997 Astron 2000 DVD

Atonement - Summary: "Shot on location in the U.K., the film","s story spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony","s vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (McAvoy), the educated son of the family","s housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony","s headstrong older sister Cecilia (Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes, has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this relationship to combust. When it does, Briony ", who has a crush on Robbie ", is compelled to interfere, going so far as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie declare their love for each other, but he is arrested ", and with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding of the power of enduring love."

Call number: PN 1997 Atone 2008 DVD

Aviator - Summary: "Eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes inherits his money from his family's tool business and decides to branch out into movies and the airline industry. Howard Hughes takes on Pan-Am and their monopoly of the Trans-Atlantic routes while trying to keep a handle on his fragile mental state."

Call number: PN 1997 Avia 2005 DVD

Be Cool - Summary: "Chili Palmer is back. After his successful movie producing venture takes off, he decides that he wants out of the movie business. When his friend, and record producer, is killed by the Russian mafia, Chili helps his friend's widow with their music label. After being floored with an up-and-coming singer, Chili moves to sign her to his friend's label dispite the fact that she is under contract with another company."

Call number: PN 1997 Be C66 2006 DVD

Best Man - Summary: "A wedding is a joyous occasion--it's time when lifelong friends get together to celebrate. But for the best man, fledgling writer Harper Stewart, this might just be a reunion to forget! His new book chronicles his college life with his friends in a less than perfect light and emotions, laughter and secrets are soon revealed."

Call number: PN 1997 Best M36 2000 DVD

Bringing Down The House - Summary: "Lawyer Peter Sanderson's life is turned upside down when his online relationship turns out to be a parolee in need of a good defense."

Call number: PN 1997 Bring D69 2003 DVD

Deep Blue Sea - Summary: "In the Aquatica Research Laboratory, Dr. Susan McAlester is experimenting with the brain tissue found in a small group of mako sharks in hopes of irradiating Alzheimer's Disease. But as a tropical storm brews overhead, McAlester and her team find themselves stalked by a terrifying new generation of predators."

Call number: PN 1997 Deep B35 1999 DVD

Disclosure - Summary: "A computer-firm boss seduces her married co-worker, then accuses him of sexual harassment. From the Michael Crichton novel."

Call number: PN 1997 Discl 1997 DVD

The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life Dialogue - Publisher's Marketing: "This carefully edited selection of correspondence includes letters both to - and from - Martin Buber from world-renowned scholars, thinkers, and philosophers. This edition contains the Preface to the German edition, as well as a Biographical Sketch by Grete Schaeder."

Call number: B3213.B84 A4 1996

The Macintyre Reader

Call number: B1647.M121 M33 1998

The New Quantum Universe - Publisher's Marketing: " The principles of quantum mechanics are the basis of everything in the physical world--from atoms to stars, from nuclei to lasers. Quantum paradoxes and the eventful life of Schroedinger's Cat are explained, along with the Many Universe explanation of quantum measurement in this newly revised edition. Updated throughout, the book also looks ahead to the nanotechnology revolution and describes quantum cryptography, computing and teleportation. Including an account of quantum mechanics and science fiction, this accessible book is geared to the general reader. Anthony Hey teaches at the University of Southampton, UK, and is the co-author of several books, including two with Patrick Walters, The Quantum Universe (Cambridge, 1987), and Einstein's Mirror (Cambridge, 1997). Patrick Walters is a Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Wales at Swansea. He co-ordinates the Physical Science Programme in DACE which includes the Astronomy Programme. His research interests include science education, and he also writes non-technical books on science for the general reader and beginning undergraduates."

Call number: QC174.12.H478 2003

Passion Test - Publisher's Marketing: " Combining powerful storytelling, a life-transforming program of action, and profound expert wisdom from successful leaders, this book shows readers, step by step, how to identify their top five passions and determine what really matters most to them."

Call number: BF 637.S4 A885 2007

Spice Box - Publisher's Marketing: " This first in new series about crimes solved by female chefs introduces Bridget Heaney, who escaped the Irish Famine to become a cook in Isaac Gold's household in New York City. On her first day, she finds the body of the Golds' infant son hidden in the bread dough box. Includes recipes."

Call number: PS 3570.E535 S65 2005

Stop Aging, Start Living: The Revolutionary 2-Week PH Diet That Erases Wrinkles, Beautifies Skin, and Makes You Feel Fantastic - Publisher's Marketing: " Though other skin-care experts have identified free radicals and cellular inflammation as key triggers to the breakdown of healthy skin, renowned dermatologist and former National Institutes of Health fellow Jeannette Graf, M.D., has discovered a way to prevent these saboteurs from developing in the first place--rather than just treating the symptoms they've caused.
Based on the scientifically groundbreaking premise that our cells--and consequently our skin--can only function best when the pH balance of our body is at its proper level, Dr. Graf's four-part plan focuses on changing your body's ratio of acids to alkalines. Most of us tend to eat three acidic-building foods (like sugar, refined carbs, meat, and dairy) for every one alkalinizing food (dark green leafy vegetables, garlic, onions, olive oil, lemon, fruit, nuts and seeds, and whole grains)--the reverse of the ideal ratio. And while changing your diet is important, food is not the only way to shift this ratio or reverse the cell aging that's affecting your skin. The plan also includes detailed information on:
- daily alkalinizing "cocktails"
- quality calcium-mineral supplements
- probiotic supplements (good bacteria in a bottle)
- how to assess your skin and care for it accordingly--choosing the right cleansers, moisturizers, and treatments that will give you the most noticeable results (hint: many of these products line the shelves of your local drugstore)
- the joy prescription: activities that can add exhilaration and laughter to your life and increase the neuropeptides in the brain that actually rejuvenate skin cells
- nutrients in foods that enhance cell energy production and cell signaling
But don't just take her word for it: "Stop Aging, Start Living "is filled with testimonials from her patients. Whether you want to see results fast (with her twenty-four-hour kickstart plan), ease into it (with the two-week prescription), or just incorporate a few "Stop Aging, Start Living" strategies into your life as they suit you, you'll come away looking and feeling incredibly younger."

Call number: RA784.G688 2007

Suite Francaise - Publisher's Marketing: "An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz. Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, "Suite Fran
aise" is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant, profoundly moving work of art."

Call number: PQ2627.E4 S8513 2006

Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas - Publisher's Marketing: " SUPREME DISCOMFORT "originated from a much-commented-upon profile of Clarence Thomas that appeared in an August 2002 issue of "The Washington Post Magazine". In it, Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher, both "Post" staffers, both black, crafted a haunting portrait of an isolated and bitter man, savagely reviled by much of the black community, not entirely comfortable in white society, internally wounded by his passage from a broken family and rural poverty in Georgia to elite educational institutions to the pinnacle of judicial power. He has clearly never recovered from the searing experience of his Senate confirmation hearings and the "he said/she said" drama of the accusations of sexual harassment by Anita Hill.
SUPREME DISCOMFORT tracks the personal odyssey of perhaps the least understood man in Washington, from his poor childhood in Pin Point and Savannah, Georgia, to his educational experiences in a Catholic seminary and Holy Cross, to his law school years at Yale during the black power era, to his rise within the Republican political establishment. It offers a window into a man who straddles two different worlds and is uneasy in both--and whose divided personality and conservative political philosophy will deeply influence American life for years to come."

Call number: KF8745.T48 M47 2007

Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire - Publisher's Marketing: "From the man whom "The New York Times" calls "a genius and a saint" comes a revelatory program for educating today's youth. This work is a brilliant and inspiring road map for parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about the future success of children."

Call number: LB41.E48 2007

Just as America's domestic and international policies became inextricably linked during the Cold War, so did the nation's public and private technologies. The spread of the suburbs fed into demands for an interstate highway system, which itself became implicated in urban renewal projects. Fear of slipping into a postwar economic depression was offset by the creation of "a consumers' republic" in which buying and using consumer goods became the ultimate act of citizenship and a symbol of an "American Way of Life."

Pursell begins with the events of World War II and the increasing belief that technological progress and the science that supported it held the key to a stronger, richer, and happier America. He looks at the effect of returning American servicemen and servicewomen and the Marshall Plan, which sought to integrate Western Europe into America's economic, business, and technological structure. He considers the accumulating "problems" associated with American technological supremacy, which, by the end of the 1960s, led to a crisis of confidence.

Pursell concludes with an analysis of how consumer technologies create a cultural understanding that makes political technologies acceptable and even seem inevitable, while those same political technologies provide both form and content for the technologies foundat home and at work. By understanding this history, Pursell hopes to advance a better understanding of the postwar American self. "

Call number: T21.P83 2007

Technology Matters - Publisher's Marketing: "Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006 Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years, and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities. People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing new tools for more elegant solutions to old tasks. Perhaps this is because we are intimate with devices and machines from an early age--as children, we play with technological toys: trucks, cars, stoves, telephones, model railroads, Playstations. Through these machines we imagine ourselves into a creative relationship with the world. As adults, we retain this technological playfulness with gadgets and appliances--Blackberries, cell phones, GPS navigation systems in our cars. We use technology to shape our world, yet we think little about the choices we are making. In "Technology Matters," Nye tackles ten central questions about our relationship to technology, integrating a half-century of ideas about technology into ten cogent and concise chapters, with wide-ranging historical examples from many societies. He asks: Can we define technology? Does technology shape us, or do we shape it? Is technology inevitable or unpredictable? (Why do experts often fail to get it right?)? How do historians understand it? Are we using modern technology to create cultural uniformity, or diversity? To create abundance, or an ecological crisis? To destroy jobs or create new opportunities? Should "the market" choose our technologies? Do advanced technologies make us more secure, or escalate dangers? Does ubiquitous technology expand our mental horizons, or encapsulate us in artifice? These largequestions may have no final answers yet, but we need to wrestle with them--to live them, so that we may, as Rilke puts it, "live along some distant day into the answers.""

Call number: T14.N88 2006

Teenagers HIV and AIDS Insights From Youths Living With the Virus - Publisher's Marketing: "Including vignettes with teen-agers in treatment, explains the psychological, social and medical issues adolescents face when infected with HIV and later fighting AIDS. Also gives attention to end-of-life issues, and how caring adults can offer support."

RJ387.A25 T442 2006

The Wednesday Letters - Publisher's Marketing: "Jack and Laurel have been married for 39 years. Theyve lived a good life and appear to have had the perfect marriage. With his wife cradled in his arms, and before Jack takes his last breath, he scribbles his last Wednesday Letter. When their adult children arrive to arrange the funeral, they discover boxes and boxes full of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each week on Wednesday. As they begin to open and read the letters, the children uncover the shocking truth about the past. In addition, each one must deal with present- day challenges. Matthew has a troubled marriage, Samantha is a single mother, and Malcolm is the black sheep of the family who has returned home after a mysterious two- year absence. The Wednesday Letters has a powerful message about forgiveness and quietly beckons for readers to start writing their own Wednesday Letters."

Call number: PS3623.R539 W44 2007

We’re All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age - Publisher's Marketing: "A provocative and engaging argument for affording bloggers and everyone else who disseminates information in the U.S. the same rights and privileges that traditional journalists enjoy."

Call number: KF2750 .G36 2007

What Good is Journalism?: How Reporters and Editors Are Saving America’s Way of Life - Publisher's Marketing: "To go by today's critics of media bias--who have created a virtual cottage industry--American journalism has reached a nadir, yet with all its well-documented faults, journalism is vital to the health of our democracy, the glue of information that holds this complex nation together. This book shows the most important roles that journalism plays in the world's oldest democracy. Two seasoned educators and practitioners of journalism have assembled a team of writers who look beyond the critics to show that there is much to be praised about the state of American journalism today. Journalism tells us most of what we know about the world beyond our own experience by going where its audience cannot or will not. It keeps watch on the government and other powerful institutions, exposes wrongdoing and injustice, and shares the endless fascinations of everyday life. Through stories of real people, this book forcefully argues that American journalism is better than its critics admit and a force for good in the lives of both individuals and the nation. Like the exemplary journalism it describes, it offers dozens of instances that show how good journalistic practices enrich the daily lives of citizens and enable them to play their own roles in the democracy. These essays offer a multifaceted view of the press, tracing the development of free expression through American history and showing how the principles of journalism that we take for granted are playing a revolutionary role in emerging democracies. They report the results of a unique national survey--undertaken for this book--revealing how Americans really view and use the press and cite the successes of good reporting, from hometown newspapersto NPR. They show how investigative journalism and computer-assisted reporting unearth important truths and even create new knowledge and how citizens can demand the good journalism they need. What good is journalism? This book spells out the answer through a conversation about journalism and democracy that offers both an antidote to the recent storm of ideologically based criticism of "liberal media" and a demonstration of the true worth of an institution essential to the protection of freedom. It provides today's readers--and tomorrow's journalists--a fresh perspective on the press to remind us all where we would be without it."

Call number: PN4888.S6 W53 2007

What Happy Women Know: How New Findings in Positive Psychology Can Change Women’s Lives for the Better - Publisher's Marketing: "The director of Canyon Ranch's award-winning Life Enhancement Program draws on the latest discoveries in psychology and gender-specific medicine to help all women enjoy richer, healthier, more fulfilling lives.
In this innovative book about what brings women happiness, Dr. Dan Baker focuses on the five traps that can compromise happiness and leave women yearning for a better life.
Unlike clinical psychology, which focuses on trying to fix what's wrong with an individual, positive psychology builds on a person's natural strengths. The root of most unhappiness, fear, finds a special expression in women, who too often succumb to the happiness traps of perfectionism, wanton wanting, people pleasing, seeking revenge, thinking I'm nothing without X, and overinvesting in their careers.
In What Happy Women Know, Dr. Baker synthesizes a wide range of current research on how women uniquely respond to life's slings and arrows and how they can best bounce back from them. The book offers women a compelling set of tools that will help them accept the past and actively move toward a happier future of their own design."

Call number: HQ1206 .B213 2007

When a Family Member Has Dementia: Steps to Becoming a Resilient Caregiver - Publisher's Marketing: "Caring for a person with dementia is a difficult and often- overwhelming task. In addition to the inevitable decline in memory and physical function, most persons with dementia develop one or more troublesome behavior problems, such as depression, fearfulness, sleep disturbances, paranoia, or physical aggression at some point in their disease. Behavioral challenges in dementia are highly idiosyncratic. No two patients are alike, and interventions that work well with one person are often ineffective with another. Caregivers often become stuck: either unable to figure out how best to help their loved one, or unable to consistently implement positive practices they know would improve their situation. This book offers caregivers a set of practical and flexible tools to enable them become more resilient in the face of difficulty and change. McCurry teaches caregivers how to take advantage of their own creativity and inner resources to develop strategies that will work in their unique situations. She presents her set of five core principles and then brings them to life through vignettes. Anyone who lives, works, or comes in contact with a person who has dementia will benefit from this volume."

Call number: RC521 .M39 2006

When Nature Strikes: Weather Disasters and the Law - Publisher's Marketing: "Both law and weather affect us every day of our modern lives, yet most people do not know how the weather has affected developments in the law, nor are they aware of how the law has attempted to develop ways to affect the weather. When Nature Strikes is the first book to examine the various areas in which law and weather meet and affect each other. This one-of-a-kind work describes the law related to weather in the United States in the context of specific cases, legislation, and administrative legal action. For example, weather can be the means to commit a crime or the factor that turns an event from a terrible accident into a criminal act. Weather can be a defense against liability in both civil and criminal cases. People seek relief in court from the harm caused by weather events, whether a slip on the ice or the horrible devastation wrought by a deadly hurricane. Courts and the criminal justice system can be affected by weather events that prevent physical access to the courthouse or that destroy evidence. Through laws passed by Congress, U.S. weather services have evolved from simply weather recording into weather forecasting and warning systems. Federal patent law offers monopolies over inventions to encourage inventors to develop new devices that increase human safety in extreme weather or to improve methods such as cloud seeding or wind energy."

Call number: KF3750 .B38 2007

Where Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery - Publisher's Marketing: "Arlington National Cemetery spreads across the rolling hills west of the Potomac, a serene and reverent sanctuary for the presidents, soldiers, and heroes--famous and unsung alike--who lie in eternal rest among its green lawns and quiet glades, a roster dating back to America's birth and including many of the foremost names in our history. A national monument in the truest sense, Arlington's solemn beauty embraces a brave legacy--a heritage remembered and renewed every day as the military buries its own.
Bittersweet, breath-taking, sometimes heart-wrenching, always deeply respectful, this commemorative book guides readers gently over tree-lined slopes to share the ceremonies observed throughout the year, from the traditional wreath-laying on Memorial Day, which enshrines centuries of courage with a formality at once austere and profoundly emotional, to the moving graveside services that honor individual men and women who served our country. Captured in stunning color by a select group of gifted photographers, 220 unforgettable images create a portrait as poignant as it is proud.
Archival photographs also trace the history of the cemetery from the early National Historic Monument, "Arlington House," to the eternal flame at the Kennedy grave to sections for the lost astronauts and victims of the 9/11 Pentagon attack. With an Introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson, this lovely volume is both a fitting tribute and a stirring reminder of the values we Americans hold dear."

Call number: F234.A7 W48 2007

The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood - Publisher's Marketing: "A magnificent history of Hollywood from the invention of film to the present day, by the everywhere acclaimed David Thomson, who has established himself as the "greatest living film critic and historian" "(The Atlantic Monthly), "irreplaceable" "(The "New York Times), and simply "the best writer about the movies" "(San Francisco Chronicle).
Now we have his master work, "The Whole Equation, which, in his own words, embraces "the murder and the majesty, the business statistics and millions of us being moved, the art and the awfulness." It accommodates "the artistic careers, the lives of the pirates, the ebb and flow if business, the sociological impact-in short, the wonder in the dark, the calculation in the offices, and the staggering impact on America of moving pictures. Which is also the thunderous artillery of America unleashed on the world."
Thomson tells us how D. W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin created the first movies of mass appeal. He writes about Louis B. Mayer, who understood the whole equation and reaped the profits. He shows us how David O. Selznick exemplified the vanity and passion that gets memorable movies made; how the movies, offering a sense of common experience, helped Americans through the difficult years of the 1930s and '40s; how and why the quest for the blockbuster changed the industry.
He examines the films of Capra, Wilder, Hitchcock, Spielberg; of Gable, Cagney, Monroe, Crawford, Brando, Bogart, Nicholson, Kidman; of Irving Thalberg, Lew Wasserman, Harvey Weinstein-and scores more. He considers noir films, the blacklist, agents, method acting. He tells us the stories behind "The Godfather, Chinatown, and" Jaws. And he follows the money-a tripessential to understanding Hollywood at its most thrilling and most disappointing.
David Thomson has given us a one-volume history of Hollywood that is as well one of the most brilliant, most insightful, entertaining, and illuminating books ever written on American film."

Call number: PN1993.5.U65 T56 2005

With Love From Spain, Melanie Martin - Publisher's Marketing: "The third of the popular Melanie Martin books finds Melanie in Spain and caught up in her first romance. Written in a popular diary format, Melanie's adventure is fun and accessible for middle-graders."

Call number: PZ7.W526285 Wi 2004

The authors offer clear advice on these and other crucial topics:

Testing for HIV and coping with the diagnosisFinding a physician and preparing for the first visitRecognizing symptoms and preventing complicationsUnderstanding the latest treatment options, including new medical research and clinical trialsCoping with gynecological infections and STDsConsidering pregnancy and birth controlAssuring breast, bone, and heart healthTreating drug and alcohol dependenceDealing with partner violence and abuse

Also included are lists of recommended books, support groups, Web sites, and other resources for people with HIV. The practical advice in this book can help the thousands of women diagnosed with HIV every year lead to fuller and healthier lives."

Call number: RC607.A26 C5685 2004

Words, Words, Words - Publisher's Marketing: ""Lexicography is not just an exercise in linguistic accounting," writes preeminent English language scholar David Crystal in this exceptionally lively and erudite little book. "It is a voyage of lexical exploration and discovery."
In Words, Words, Words, Crystal takes readers on a fascinating linguistic adventure, exploring the English language in all its oddity, complexity, and ever-changing beauty. Traveling from word origins and word evolution to wordgangs, wordrisks, wordplay, wordgames and beyond, Crystal shares his immense knowledge of, and equally immense delight in, language. He celebrates new words, old words, words that "snarl" and words that "purr," elegant words and taboo words, plain English words and convoluted gobbledegook, eponyms and antonyms, spoonerisms and malapropisms, and a host of other written and spoken forms and variations.
Words, Words, Words offers invaluable insight on such subjects as
how to estimate the size of your vocabulary
the functions of jargon
when cliches are necessary
the value of slang words ("the chief use of slang/is to show you're one of the gang")
how to create your own "semantic field"
dialect humor
how to become a word detective
how to keep a record of your child's words
and much more!
With illuminating sidebars featuring everything from common word origins and sample definitions from the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson and Ambrose Bierce to a passage from Finnegan's Wake and the winning entries of The Guardian Text Message Poetry Competition, Words, Words, Words will both satisfy and spark the curiosity of anyone who has ever been intrigued, befuddled, or awed by words and myriad ways we usethem."

Call number: P326 .C79 2006

In this book couples will discover how others from around the world and across time have chosen to say "I do" as well as the derivatives and customs behind these words.

More than simply a guide to writing wedding vows, this beautifully packaged collection includes: Dozens of diverse vows, poems, and readings from a range of cultural and religious traditions Includes customs from Catholicism, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Baha'i, Hispanic, Native American, Asian, European, and other religions and cultures Tips on crafting vows that reflect the couple's singular style and honor the sacredness of their commitment."

Call number: BL619.M37 B47 2005

Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team and authors of the bestselling "YOU" series, are now translating this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the code on true and lifelong waist management.

Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information, motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain, stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In "YOU: On a Diet," Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take you through an under-theskin tour of the organs that influence your body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.

Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail spammers, you'd think that just about all of us would know everything there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons why our bellies have grown so large. "YOU: On a Diet" is much more than a diet plan or a series ofinstructions and guidelines or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It's a complete manual for waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to which any weight-loss system can be explained. "YOU: On a Diet" will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your body and the biology and psychology of fat, you'll be given the YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain. Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to two inches from your waist right from the start.

With Roizen and Oz's signature accessibility, wit, and humor, "YOU: On a Diet -- The Owner's Manual for Waist Management" will revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body on a diet."

Call number: RM237.5 .R65 2006

The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story - Publisher's Marketing: "A true story--as powerful as "Schindler's List"--in which the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants--otters, a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.
With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery, keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe crumbled around her. 8 pages of illustrations."

Call number: DS134.64 .A25 2007 Ackerman, Diane

America’s War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty - Publisher's Marketing: ""In our free society, people have the right to choose how they live their lives."-- President George Bush, June 3, 2006 So why does our government want to censor what you read, hear, and see? try to limit your access to contraception? attempt to legislate "good moral values"? try to brainwash your kids about "abstinence"? These are the kinds of questions Dr. Marty Klein asks--and answers--in his new book, America's War on Sex. With hundreds of examples ripped from today's headlines, he names names, challenges political hypocrisy, and shows the financial connections between government and conservative religious groups that are systematically taking away your rights. Dr. Klein isn't shy about it. He demands to know--as you should demand to know-- If 50 million Americans consume pornography, why does the government dare to regulate it without consulting any consumers? Why do Congressmen listen to "victims of porn" but not healthy adults who use porn? Now that "abstinence-only" sex education has been proven a failure, why does the government still give it $200 million each year? And how can most of that money go to "faith-based" groups who tell your kids how God feels about their sexual choices? Why do hundreds of American communities feel they have the right to eliminate legal adult entertainment, claiming "we're not that kind of city"? Why do family courts have the right to judge the private sexual habits of each parent when making custody decisions? How can licensed pharmacists and physicians claim they have the right to deny you legal medical care if it violates their "conscience"? Our glorious Constitution guarantees us the widest range of rights civilization has ever seen. Why arethose rights systematically undermined and revoked when it comes to sexual expression? Is there a conspiracy to deny us our sexual rights? No, says Marty Klein: "It's worse than a conspiracy. It's a war. They're very open about it--it's a War on Sex." It's a war that threatens the very fabric of our secular democracy. The American Taliban, our own sexual jihadists, want to replace our government with laws based on the Bible, creating a country in which "normal sex" is narrowly defined and no one has the right to alternative sexual information, health care, or personal expression. America is fighting a war on terror to prevent the overthrow of our way of life by fanatics who want to base all law on their strict religious beliefs. It is completely unacceptable that a group of conservative Americans is trying to accomplish the same thing right here."

Call number: HQ18.U5 K645 2006

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves - Publisher's Marketing: "From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the world.
In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings to boycotts and lapel pins. This talented group combined a hatred of injustice with uncanny skill in promoting their cause. Within five years, more than 300,000 Britons were refusing to eat the chief slave-grown product, sugar; London's smart set was sporting antislavery badges created by Josiah Wedgwood; and the House of Commons had passed the first law banning the slave trade.
However, the House of Lords, where slavery backers were more powerful, voted down the bill. But the crusade refused to die, fueled by remarkable figures like Olaudah Equiano, a brilliant ex-slave who enthralled audiences throughout the British Isles; John Newton, the former slave ship captain who wrote "Amazing Grace"; Granville Sharp, an eccentric musician and self-taught lawyer; and Thomas Clarkson, a fiery organizer who repeatedly crisscrossed Britain on horseback, devoting his life to the cause. He and his fellow activists brought slavery in the British Empire to an end in the 1830s, long before it died in the United States. The only survivor of the printing shop meeting half a century earlier, Clarkson lived to see the day when a slave whip and chains were formally buried in a Jamaican churchyard.
Like Hochschild's classic King Leopold'sGhost, Bury the Chains abounds in atmosphere, high drama, and nuanced portraits of unsung heroes and colorful villains. Again Hochschild gives a little-celebrated historical watershed its due at last."

Call number: HT1163 .H63 2005

Music is the mother's milk of Cuban culture. Cubans express their fondest hopes, their frustrations, even their political dissent, through music. Most Americans think only of salsa and the "Buena Vista Social Club" when they think of the music of Cuba, yet those styles are but a piece of a broad musical spectrum. Just as the West learned more about China after the Cultural Revolution by watching "From Mao to Mozart," so will readers discover the real Cuba -- the living, breathing, dying, yet striving Cuba.

Cuban music is both wildly exuberant and achingly melancholy. A thick stew of African and European elements, it is astoundingly rich and influential to have come from such a tiny island. From rap stars who defy the government in their lyrics to violinists and pianists who attend the world's last Soviet-style conservatory to international pop stars who could make millions abroad yet choose to stay and work for peanuts, Robinson introduces us to unforgettable characters who happily bring him into their homes and backstage discussions.

Despite Castro's attemptsto shut down nightclubs, obstruct artists, and subsidize only what he wants, the musicians and dancers of Cuba cannot stop, much less behave. Cubans move through their complicated lives the way they move on the dance floor, dashing and darting and spinning on a dime, seducing joy and fulfillment and next week's supply of food out of a broken system. Then at night they take to the real dance floors and invent fantastic new steps. "Last Dance in Havana" is heartwrenching, yet ultimately as joyous and hopeful as a rocking club late on a Saturday night."

Call number: F1765.3 .R63 2004

The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic - Publisher's Marketing: "At 16, Maurice impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company and was sent to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where he immersed himself in the Inuit people's culture and way of life. Through deadly epidemics and the struggle to survive, the young man from England came of age."

Call number: F1090.5 .M38 2005

The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the great Captain’s Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck, Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery - Publisher's Marketing: "Columbus' fourth voyage is a saga of shipwreck, mutiny, discovery, and political treachery, yet his quest to find a passage to the Orient drove him onward in the face of peril."

Call number: E118 .D84 2005

The Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies are Developing Their Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success

Call number: HD30.4 .F83 2008

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir - Publisher's Marketing: "From one of the most beloved and bestselling authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise that it is "laugh-out-loud funny."
Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came from his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt. It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the middle of America to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people's hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in the manner of Superman.
Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." In this hilarious new memoir, he travels back to explore the kid he once was and the weird and wonderful world of 1950s America. He modestly claims that this is a book about not very much: about being small and getting much larger slowly. But for the rest of us, it is a laugh-out-loud book that will speak volumes - especially to anyone who has ever been young."

Call number: G154.B79 A3 2006

The Life of David - Publisher's Marketing: "Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, plumbs the depths of David's life: his triumphs and his failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his human humiliations. Drawing on the biblical chronicle of David's life as well as on the later commentaries and the Psalms----traditionally considered to be David's own words----Pinsky teases apart the many strands of David's story and reweaves them into a glorious narrative.
Under the clarifying and captivating light of Pinsky's erudition and imagination, and his mastery of image and expression, King David----both the man and the idea of the man----is brought brilliantly to life."

Call number: BS580.D3 P56 2005

The Light Inside: Abakua Society Arts and Cuban Cultural History

Call number: HS1355.S64 C84 2003

The Literary Guide & Companion to Southern England - Publisher's Marketing: "In a series of intriguing routes through the English countryside, Professor robert Cooper notes those attractions that the casual tourist might unknowingly pass by, such as the house where Dickens wrote. A Tale of Two Cities, or the windswept quay where John Fowles's French Lieutenant's woman walked. Maps and information about restaurants and accommodations give the traveler the opportunity of having pints of "half and half" where Jane Austen dined or visiting the pub where Blake's scuffle led to his trial for treason.

This newly revised and updated edition of Robert Cooper's acclaimed handbook combines the utility of current travel information with the appeal of literary history, biography, and anecdote in a leisurely and flavorful guide to the broad sweep of southern England outside of London. A rich and reliable guide to the landscape that fostered one of our most cherished cultures, The Literary Guide & Companion to Southern England is an indispensable resource for those who wish to experience literature firsthand. "

Call number: PR109 .C6 1998

Growth investing--which aims to produce capital gains rather than income--is one of the best ways to invest for success. Best of all, Navellier has created a proven and easy-to-follow approach to growth investing that offers you a rare opportunity to outperform the market without taking on excessive risk. In The Little Book That Makes You Rich, Navellier explains exactly why this proactive approach works and skillfully shows you how it can be used to find stocks that are poised for rapid price increases--regardless of overall stock market direction.

Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little Book That Makes You Rich details a proven formula for finding growth stocks that beat the market, which combines eight powerful fundamentals--such as sales growth and cash flow--with key quantitative ratings that measure the risk versus reward of buying a stock. It also outlines specific tools that take the guesswork out of when to buy and when to sell any stock on Wall Street.

You'll learn precisely what to do to best maximize your returns, including how to structure a winning growth portfolio. And perhaps, most importantly, you'll discover how to monitor and maintain the overall strength and quality of your portfolio without spending excessive amounts of time doing so.

Louis Navellier has made his living by investing in healthy, vital, growing companies.This approach allowed him to turn his financial dreams into a reality, and it could empower you to do the same. Written in an accessible and engaging style, The Little Book That Makes You Rich outlines an effective approach to building true wealth in today's markets--and proves you don't need the resources of a powerful Wall Street firm to achieve unparalleled investment success."

Call number: HG4661 .N385 2007

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 - Publisher's Marketing: "This sweeping narrative history of 9/11 includes important new information about the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks, told for the first time from both the American and Arab sides of the story."

Call number: HV6432.7 .W75 2006

Looks: Why They Matter More Than You Ever Imagined - Publisher's Marketing: "Very few of us realize just how much looks affect every aspect of our lives. People blessed with good looks earn more than their average-looking colleagues and are more likely to get hired and promoted at work. They also tend to be luckier in love, more popular, and get better grades in school. What exactly is this "physical attractiveness" phenomenon and how does it affect every one of us? Dr. Gordon L. Patzer has devoted the last 30 years to investigating this unsettling trend, and in this eye-opening new book, he proves once and for all that when it comes to success, it's what's on the outside that counts."

Call number: HM1151 .P36 2008

- More than an inspirational biography--The Luckiest Unlucky Man Alive shows readers how they can be lucky too and overcome the greatest challenges in life.

Now a 42-year old retired Navy pilot, Lt. Commander Bill Goss was a garbageman, a golden glove boxer, a dynamiter in an underground copper mine, and an expert in underwater explosives in the U.S. Navy -- all while he worked his way through college. He served as a reconnaissance pilot specializing in spying on Russia's stealthiest and deadliest Soviet missile submarines. Bill has navigated the giant nuclear aircraft cartier USS Carl Vinson, cruised 1000 feet below the Mediterranean Sea in a nuclear submarine and flown 20 types of high-performance aircraft, including the sound barrier breaking F-18 Hornet.

But he considers diagnosis with cancer his greatest challenge of all when he was given only six months to live. Bill chose to undergo twelve hours of disfiguring surgery to overcome his incredibly low odds. It wasn't only his decisions but his attitude that made him a cancer survivor. The hilarious stories of his reconstructive surgeries will educate and inspire."

Call number: BF1045.N4 G67 1998

Magnum Ireland - Publisher's Marketing: "The changing faces of Ireland--social, political, and cultural--documented by some of the greatest photographers of the modern era.
Since the invention of photography, Ireland has been a magnet for photographers, but this book is unique in bringing together the work done by the unrivaled talents of the members of Magnum. From Ireland's first attempts to forge a modern identity in the 1950s to the confident country of the twenty-first century, here is a stunning survey of a beautiful and complex place and people, through times of peace as well as trouble.
The photographs reflect the extraordinary insights of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Inge Morath, Erich Lessing, Eve Arnold, Martine Franck, Martin Parr, Bruce Gilden, Donovan Wylie, Stuart Franklin, and others. They bring a truly international perspective to the book, reflecting the sensibilities of America, France, Germany, Iran, Japan, Morocco--and, of course, Ireland itself.
Organized decade by decade, the images show the lingering influence of rural life in the 1950s; the hidden story of ordinary Irish men and women--as well as the sectarian conflict--during the uneasy 1960s and 1970s; renewed confidence and the growth of prosperity and peace as the century passed through its last two decades; and the robust "Celtic tiger" of today. Each decade has commentary and context supplied by one of the most notable Irish writers of our time. With texts by: John Banville, Anthony Cronin, Anne Enright, Eamonn McCann, Nuala O'Faolain, Fintan O'Toole, and Colm Toibin. Over 250 photographs in color and duotone.
A touring exhibition of the photographs in Magnum Ireland will begin in Ireland in Spring 2006before continuing in the United States."

Call number: DA982 .M34 2005

March: A Novel - Publisher's Marketing: "As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. Riveting and elegant as it is meticulously researched, "March" is an extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history.

From Louisa May Alcotts beloved classic "Little Women," Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March, who has gone off to war, leaving his wife and daughters to make do in mean times. To evoke him, Brooks turned to the journals and letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa Mays fathera friend and confidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. In her telling, March emerges as an idealistic chaplain in the little known backwaters of a war that will test his faith in himself and in the Union cause as he learns that his side, too, is capable of acts of barbarism and racism. As he recovers from a near mortal illness, he must reassemble his shattered mind and body and find a way to reconnect with a wife and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through.

Spanning the vibrant intellectual world of Concord and the sensuous antebellum South, "March" adds adult resonance to Alcotts optimistic childrens tale to portray the moral complexity of war, and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealismand by a dangerous and illicit attraction. A lushly written, wholly original tale steeped in the details of another time, "March" secures Geraldine Brookss place as an internationally renowned author of historical fiction."

Call number: PR9619.3.B7153 M37 2005 Brooks, Geraldine

Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail - Publisher's Marketing: "From a well-known actress and math genius a groundbreaking guide to mathematics for middle school girls, their parents, and educators
As the math education crisis in this country continues to make headlines, research continues to prove that it is in middle school when math scores begin to dropaespecially for girlsain large part due to the relentless social conditioning that tells girls they acanat doa math, and that math is auncool.a Young girls today need strong female role models to embrace the idea that itas okay to be smartain fact, itas sexy to be smart!
Itas Danica McKellaras mission to be this role model, and demonstrate on a large scale that "math doesnat suck," In this fun and accessible guide, McKellaradubbed a amath superstara by "The New York Times"agives girls and their parents the tools they need to master the math concepts that confuse middle-schoolers most, including fractions, percentages, pre-algebra, and more. The book features hip, real-world examples, step-by-step instruction, and engaging stories of Danicaas own childhood struggles in math (and stardom). In addition, borrowing from the style of todayas teen magazines, it even includes a Math Horoscope section, Math Personality Quizzes, and Real-Life Testimonialsaultimately revealing why math is easier and cooler than readers think."

Call number: QA13 .M319 2007

The Media Effect: How the News Influences Politics and Government - Publisher's Marketing: "In a postmodern age where the media's depictions of reality serve as stand-ins for the real thing for so many Americans, how much government policy is being made on the basis of those mediated realities and on the public reaction to them? When those mediated depictions deviate from the truth of the actual situation, how serious a situation is that? Time and again, both anecdotal evidence and scientific research seem to confirm that the news media often influence government action. At the least, they speed up policy making that would otherwise take a slower, more reasoned course. Sometimes the media serve as the communication link among world leaders who may be ideological enemies. Because of the enduring popularity of television news, government leaders monitor the networks' story selections and track public opinion trends generated by interviews done in these stories. These then become the substance of proposed legislation and/or executive action, as politicians strive to prove themselves able listeners to the heartland of America and also prove themselves worthy of re-election. This book examines many specific events that show how major news operations either painted a truthful or distorted picture of national and international events, and how governmental leaders responded following those representations."

Call number: PN4738 .W55 2007

A Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines of the Mediterranean, From the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary Corsairs, with More Than 500 Recipes - Publisher's Marketing: "A groundbreaking culinary work of extraordinary depth and scope that spans more than one thousand years of history, "A Mediterranean Feast" tells the sweeping story of the birth of the venerated and diverse cuisines of the Mediterranean. Author Clifford A. Wright weaves together historical and culinary strands from Moorish Spain to North Africa, from coastal France to the Balearic Islands, from Sicily and the kingdoms of Italy to Greece, the Balkan coast, Turkey, and the Near East.

The evolution of these cuisines is not simply the story of farming, herding, and fishing; rather, the story encompasses wars and plagues, political intrigue and pirates, the Silk Road and the discovery of the New World, the rise of capitalism and the birth of city-states, the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition, and the obsession with spices. The ebb and flow of empires, the movement of populations from country to city, and religion have all played a determining role in making each of these cuisines unique.

In "A Mediterranean Feast," Wright also shows how the cuisines of the Mediterranean have been indelibly stamped with the uncompromising geography and climate of the area and a past marked by both unrelenting poverty and outrageous wealth. The book's more than five hundred contemporary recipes (which have been adapted for today's kitchen) are the end point of centuries of evolution and show the full range of culinary ingenuity and indulgence, from the peasant kitchen to the merchant pantry. They also illustrate the migration of local culinary predilections, tastes for food and methods of preparation carried from home to new lands and back by conquerors, seafarers, soldiers, merchants, andreligious pilgrims.

"A Mediterranean Feast" includes fourteen original maps of the contemporary and historical Mediterranean, a guide to the Mediterranean pantry, food products resources, a complete bibliography, and a recipe and general index, in addition to a pronunciation key. An astonishing accomplishment of culinary and historical research and detective work in eight languages, "A Mediterranean Feast" is required--and intriguing--reading for any cook, armchair or otherwise."

Call number: TX641 .W75 1999

Reef - Publisher's Marketing: "This unique pictorial celebration of the worlds reefs progresses through an ecological chain that goes from algae, sponges, and mollusks to the thousands of fish that make their homes there. This vivid collection of photographs reveals reefs as theyve never been seen before."

Call number: G8461 .R39 2007

Royal Gardeners: The History of Britain’s Royal Gardens - Publisher's Marketing: "In this lavish book, a companion to the acclaimed BBC series, one of Britain's most celebrated gardening experts takes us on a breathtaking tour through the history of Britain's royal gardens, from medieval times to the present day. Taking in existing royal gardens as well as those that now only exist in paintings, Alan Titchmarsh uncovers the stories behind the gardens and the colorful monarchs who created them. From Hampton Court Palace and Gardens to the modern-day developments at the Prince of Wales' home at Highgrove, Titchmarsh takes a highly personal excursion through Britain's gardening heritage. Richly illustrated with color photos, original plans, letters, planting records, and full-color diagrams of the major surviving gardens, this is a glorious record of some of the world's most remarkable gardens. Alan Titchmarsh--horticulturist, well-known BBC TV presenter, and author of more than 30 books--has twice been named Britain's Gardening Writer of the Year."

Call number: SB466.G7 T58 2003

Stalin and the Jews: The Tragedy of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Soviet Jews - Publisher's Marketing: "An in-depth study of the secret pogroms in Stalin's Russia and the consequences they were to have on the Jews, especially the prominent writers and artists that were to suffer so harshly because of the dictator's paranoid obsessions. An encyclopedia of the people and the events that took place until Stalin's death and beyond."

Call number: DS135.R92 L87 2003

Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health - Publisher's Marketing: "Most people believe that sucralose (Splenda) is a perfectly safe artificial sweetener. Big business and the FDA have fostered that dangerous misconception. Dr. Mercola--supported by extensive studies and research--exposes the fact that Splenda actually contributes to a host of serious diseases."

Call number: RA1242.A73 M47 2006

Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre: Relativism, Thomism, and Philosophy - Publisher's Marketing: "Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre presents a stimulating intellectual history and expertly reasoned defense of this towering figure in contemporary American philosophy. Drawing on interviews and published works, Christopher Lutz traces MacIntyreAIs philosophical development and refutes the criticisms of the major thinkers--including Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Nagel--who have most vocally attacked him. Permanently shifting the debate on MacIntyreAIs oeuvre, Lutz convincingly demonstrates how MacIntyreAIs neo-Aristotelian ethical thought provides an essential corrective to the contemporary discussions of relativism and ideology, while successfully drawing on the objectivity of Thomistic natural law."

Call number: B1647.M124 L88 2004

More Than Skin Deep: Exploring the Real Reasons Why Women Go Under the Knife - Publisher's Marketing: "Dr. Eskenazi, a nationally recognized expert on breast reconstruction after cancer, began her medical career believing that she would become a psychiatrist. Her interest in psychology combined with a lifelong study of art, mythology, and anthropology has given her an unusual window into the interior landscape of her patients. What she has found is that the desire for external transformation through surgery is connected to internal transformation, most particularly at key moments of transition in a woman's life. Although some eight million women a year have some sort of procedure done, cosmetic surgery is still identified with excessive vanity, narcissism, lack of authenticity, and psychological weakness with the path of least resistance being to deny having had it. By framing cosmetic surgery in a more deeply spiritual and psychological way, Eskenazi takes on this culture of shame and refutes the idea that cosmetic surgery and internal change are antithetical. Whether women decide to have cosmetic surgery or not, this book will provide them with a different vision and a context for understanding their decision."

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