Recent acquisitions
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Agriculture, Equestrian
The brother gardeners : botany, empire, and the birth of an obsession / Andrea Wulf.
SB61 .W85 2009
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Chemistry
Uranium : war, energy, and the rock that shaped the world / Tom Zoellner.
QD181.U7 Z64 2009
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Economics and Business
Minimum wages / David Neumark and William L. Wascher.
HD4918 .N432 2008
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Smart green : how to implement sustainable business practices in any industry and make money / Jonathan Estes.
HD30.255 .E84 2009
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In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic / David Wessel.
HG2565 .W47 2009
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The myth of the rational market : a history of risk, reward, and delusion on Wall Street / Justin Fox.
HB3731 .F69 2009
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Gender and entrepreneurship : a multilevel theory and analysis / Amanda Brickman Elam.
HB615 .E476 2008
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The skeptical economist : revealing the ethics inside economics / Jonathan Aldred.
HB72 .A345 2009
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The pleasures and sorrows of work / Alain de Botton.
HD4901 .D35 2009
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Bernanke's test : Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and the drama of the central banker / Johan Van Overtveldt.
HG2565 .O94 2009
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Education
Undergraduate research at community colleges / edited by Brent D. Cejda ; Nancy Hensel.
LB2328.15.U6 U6 2009
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Flexibility in early verb use : evidence from a multiple-N diary study / Letitia R. Naigles, Erika Hoff, and Donna Vear ; with commentary by Michael Tomasello ... [et al.].
LB1103 .S6 v.74, no.2
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Teaching, learning, assessing : a guide for effective teaching at college and university / edited by Kara Smith.
LB2331 .T416 2009
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Geology and Environmental Science
Confessions of an eco-sinner : tracking down the sources of my stuff / Fred Pearce.
GE195.7 .P43 2008
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History - Americas
The Mexican Wars for Independence / Timothy J. Henderson.
F1232 .H45 2009
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Tried by war : Abraham Lincoln as commander in chief / James M. McPherson.
E457.2 .M478 2008
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Hermie & friends. Hailey & Bailey's silly fight [videorecording] / GlueWorks entertainment.
E DVD HAI
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History - Biography, etc.
Archives power : memory, accountability, and social justice / Randall C. Jimerson.
CD971 .J56 2009
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Archival and special collections facilities : guidelines for archivists, librarians, architects, and engineers / edited by Michele F. Pacifico and Thomas P. Wilsted.
CD981 .A695 2009
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2010 Census Local Census Offices with Type of Enumeration Areas.
C 3.62/2:EN 8
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History - World
Going Dutch : how England plundered Holland's glory / Lisa Jardine.
DA435 .J37 2008
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The Borgias and their enemies : 1431-1519 / Christopher Hibbert.
DG463.8.B7 H53 2008
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USC Shoah Foundation Institute.
D804.195 .U6 CD
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A daughter's love : Thomas More and his dearest Meg / John Guy.
DA335.R6 G89 2009
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Faces of neutrality : a comparative analysis of the neutrality of Switzerland and other neutral nations during WW II / Herbert R. Reginbogin ; with a foreword by Detlev F. Vagts ; [editor, Working Group Lived History ; translated by Ulrike Seeberger and Jane Britten ; copy edited by Thomas Ryan].
D754.S9 R4413 2009
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100 books for understanding contemporary Japan.
DS806.Z99 A125 2008
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Language and Literature
In praise of shadows / by Junichiro Tanizaki ; [foreword by Charles Moore ; afterword by Thomas J. Harper] ; translated by Thomas J. Harper & Edward G. Seidensticker.
PL839.A7 A25
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Young Rilke and his time / George C. Schoolfield.
PT2635.I65 Z861633 2009
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Ballistics : poems / Billy Collins.
PS3553.O47478 B35 2008
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Colosseum : poems / by Katie Ford.
PS3606.O739 C65 2008
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Warhorses : poems / Yusef Komunyakaa.
PS3561.O455 W37 2008
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The Truro bear and other adventures : poems and essays / Mary Oliver.
PS3565.L5 T78 2008
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Unpacking the boxes : a memoir of a life in poetry / Donald Hall.
PS3515.A3152 Z478 2008
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I haven't dreamed of flying for a while / Taichi Yamada ; translated by David James Karashima.
PL865.A5128 T6313 2008
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The wasted vigil / Nadeem Aslam.
PR9540.9.A83 W37 2008
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City of refuge : a novel / Tom Piazza.
PS3566.I23 C57 2008
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The cape : and other stories from the Japanese Ghetto / Kenji Nakagami ; translated, with a preface and an afterword, by Eve Zimmerman.
PL857.A3683 A28 2008
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Dear husband / Joyce Carol Oates.
PS3565.A8 D43 2009
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Face / Sherman Alexie.
PS3551.L35774 F33 2009
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Primo Levi's universe : a writer's journey / Sam Magavern ; foreword by Jonathan Rosen ; afterword by Risa Sodi.
PQ4872.E8 Z7256 2009
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Beaumarchais : a biography / Maurice Lever ; translated from the French by Susan Emanuel.
PQ1956 .L455 2009
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Teatro español del siglo XXI : actos de identidad / edición de Candyce Leonard y John P. Gabriele.
PQ6228 .T43 2009
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The waker's corridor : poems / Jonathan Thirkield.
PS3620.H57 W35 2009
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Strange flesh / William Logan.
PS3562.O449 S77 2008
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VALIS and later novels / Philip K. Dick.
PS3554.I3 A6 2009
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Collected stories / Raymond Carver ; [William L. Stull and Maureen P. Carroll wrote the chronology, bibliography, note on the texts, and notes and edited the text of "Beginners"].
PS3553 .A7894 2009
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The bridge of San Luis Rey and other novels, 1926-1948 / Thornton Wilder ; [J.D. McClatchy, editor].
PS3545.I345 B7 2009
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Law
101 ways to score higher on your LSAT : what you need to know about the Law School Admission Test explained simply / by Linda C. Ashar.
KF285.Z9 A84 2008
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Protection for pre-1972 sound recordings under state law and its impact on use by nonprofit institutions : a 10-state analysis / commissioned for and sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress ; prepared by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Washington College of Law, American University ; under the supervision of Peter Jaszi with the assistance of Nick Lewis.
KF2996 .P76 2009
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Library and Information Science
More than a thank you note : academic library fundraising for the dean or director / Kimberly A. Thompson and Karlene Noel Jennings.
Z683 .T46 2009
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Burn this book : PEN writers speak out on the power of the word / edited by Toni Morrison.
Z657 .B935 2009
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Media - DVD
Hair [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios ; screenplay by Michael Weller ; produced by Lester Persky and Michael Butler ; directed by Milos Forman.
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Into the wild [videorecording] / Paramount Vantage and River Road Entertainment present a Square One, C.I.H./Linson Film production ; produced by Sean Penn, Art Linson, William Pohlad ; screenplay and directed by Sean Penn.
VIDEODISC COLL
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A woman under the influence [videorecording] / Castle Hill Productions, Faces International Films ; produced by Sam Shaw ; written and directed by John Cassavetes.
VIDEODISC COLL
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Imitation of life [videorecording].
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Tyson [videorecording] / a Sony Pictures Classics release, Fyodor Productions and Wild Bunch present a Damon Bingham/Harlan Werner production in association with Green Room Films and Krossover Productions ; producers, James Toback, Damon Bingham ; directed by James Toback.
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Terminator 2 [videorecording] : judgment day / Mario Kassar presents a Pacific Western production in association with Lightstorm Entertainment, Studio Canal ; written by James Cameron, William Wisher ; produced and directed by James Cameron.
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The national parks [videorecording] : America's best idea / a production of Florentine Films and WETA Television ; written by Dayton Duncan ; produced by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns.
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Zora Neale Hurston [videorecording] : jump at the sun / producer and writer, Kristy Andersen ; director, Sam Pollard ; co-produced by Bay Bottom News and Thirteen/WNET's American Masters.
VIDEODISC COLL
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Media - Music CD
The complete vox, Turnabout and Vanguard solo recordings [sound recording].
CD #1574
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All that jazz [sound recording] : live at Princeton / Benny Carter.
CD #108
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Free jazz [sound recording] : a collective improvisation / by The Ornette Coleman Double Quartet.
CD #111
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Big train [sound recording] / Wynton Marsalis.
CD #1436
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Mendelssohn : The complete masterpieces [sound recording].
CD #1575
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Meisterkonzerte : the masters of music [sound recording].
CD #1576
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George Frideric Handel : six operas [sound recording] / George Frideric Handel.
CD #1577
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Military and Naval Sciences
History of operations research in the United States Army / Charles R. Shrader.
U393.5 .S58
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Music
Big ears : listening for gender in jazz studies / edited by Nichole T. Rustin and Sherrie Tucker.
ML3506 .B53 2008
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Philosophy
Ernst Cassirer : the last philosopher of culture / Edward Skidelsky.
B3216.C34 S55 2009
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Giordano Bruno : philosopher/heretic / Ingrid D. Rowland.
B783.Z7 R595 2009
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Wittgenstein and reason / edited by John Preston.
B3376.W564 W555455 2008
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Physics
Antimatter / Frank Close.
QC173 .C52 2009
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Political Science
Governing Japan : divided politics in a resurgent economy / J.A.A. Stockwin.
JQ1631 .S76 2008
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After the party : corruption, the ANC and South Africa's uncertain future / Andrew Feinstein.
JQ1998.A4 F45 2009
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Epic journey : the 2008 elections and American politics / James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney, Jr.
JK526 2008 .C43 2009
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Immigration in the United States / edited by William Dvorak.
JV6465 .I4755 2009
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Psychology
The paranormal / edited by Kenneth Partridge.
BF1031 .P325 2009
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Religion
Proverbs 10-31 : a new translation with introduction and commentary / by Michael V. Fox.
BS192.2.A1 2008 .N46 v.18B
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Nahum : a new translation with introduction and commentary / Duane L. Christensen.
BS192.2.A1 2008 .N46 v.24F
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Science - General
Japanese science : from the inside / Samuel Coleman.
Q180.J3 C66 2008
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The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science / Richard Holmes.
Q127.G4 H65 2008
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Sociology
Ancient Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization : the evolution of an urban landscape / Guillermo Algaze.
HT114 .A524 2008
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Half the sky : turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide / Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
HQ1236.5.D44 K75 2009
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Neighborhood Tokyo / Theodore C. Bestor.
HN730.T65 B47 2008
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The second plane : September 11 : terror and boredom / Martin Amis.
HV6432.7 .A3836 2008
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