New Book List

Q 121 .M3 2007 vols. 1 - 20
McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology

"This work continues to be the premier encyclopedia in science and engineering,
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Philosophy and Religion

Library of Congress Classification
(LC Class):
B

BL 240.3 .C66 2006
The language of God: a scientist presents evidence for belief / Francis S. Collins.

Contents:
From atheism to belief -- The war of worldviews -- The origins of the universe -- Life on Earth: of microbes and man -- Deciphering God's instruction book: the lessons of the human genome -- Genesis, Galileo, and Darwin -- Option 1: atheism and agnosticism (when science trumps faith) -- Option 2: creationism (when faith trumps science) -- Option 3: intelligent design (when science needs divine help) -- Option 4: bioLogos (science and faith in harmony) -- Truth seekers -- Appendix. The moral practice of science and medicine: bioethics.

BS 1223 .A48 2004
The five books of Moses: a translation with commentary / Robert Alter.

Publisher's description:
Through a distinguished career of critical scholarship and translation, Robert Alter has equipped us to read the Hebrew Bible as a powerful, cohesive work of literature. The culmination of this work, Alter's masterly new translation and probing commentary combine to give contemporary readers the definitive edition of The Five Books. Alter's majestic translation recovers the mesmerizing effect of these ancient stories-the profound and haunting enigmas, the ambiguities of motive and image, and the distinctive cadences and lovely precision of the Hebrew text. Other modern translations either recast these features for contemporary clarity, thereby losing the character of the original, or fail to give readers a suitably fluid English as a point of contact. Alter's translation conveys the music and the meaning of the Hebrew text in a lyrical, lucid English. His accompanying commentary illuminates the text with learned insight and reflection on its literary and historical dimensions.

BS 2860.J832 P34 2007
Reading Judas: the Gospel of Judas and the shaping of Christianity / Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King.
Contents:
I: Reading Judas / Elaine Pagels and Karen L. King -- Judas: betrayer or favored disciple? -- Judas and the twelve -- Sacrifice and the life of the spirit -- The mysteries of the kingdom -- A final note -- 2: The Gospel of Judas / Karen L. King -- English translation of the Gospel of Judas.

History

LC Classes:
C - D

DS 63.2 .U5 F85 2006
Advertising's war on terrorism: the story of the U.S. State Department's Shared Values Initiative / Jami A. Fullerton, Alice G. Kendrick.
Contents:
Introduction -- Quote from former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell -- A brief history of the Shared Values Initiative -- The Shared Values Initiative: propaganda or public diplomacy? -- New approaches to public diplomacy -- Reactions to the Shared Values Initiative -- Did Shared Values work?: the post-campaign study -- Did Shared Values work?: results of experiments and diagnostic copy tests -- Advertising: a weapon for the War on Terrorism? -- Appendix A: "Don't brand the U.S., Uncle Sam: the backlash against Charlotte Beers' America branding" / by John Brown -- Appendix B: "Public diplomacy: what have we learned?" / by Joe B. Johnson.

DS 79.72 .W54 2006
Combat search and rescue in Desert Storm / Darrel D. Whitcomb.
Contents: A rich heritage: the saga of Bengal 505 Alpha -- The interim years -- Desert Shield -- Desert Storm week one -- Desert Storm weeks two/three/four -- Desert Storm week five -- Desert Sabre week six.

DS 79.76 .H3758 2006
Insurgency and counter-insurgency in Iraq / Hashim, Ahmed.

Publisher's description:
Years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this sobering account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed Hashim, a specialist on Middle Eastern strategic issues and on irregular warfare, reveals the insurgents behind the widespread revolt, their motives, and their tactics. The insurgency, he shows, is not a united movement directed by a leadership with a single ideological vision. Instead, it involves former regime loyalists, Iraqis resentful of foreign occupation, foreign and domestic Islamist extremists, and elements of organized crime. These groups have cooperated with one another in the past and coordinated their attacks; but the alliance between nationalist Iraqi insurgents on the one hand and religious extremists has frayed considerably. The U.S.-led offensive to retake Fallujah in November 2004 and the success of the elections for the Iraqi National Assembly in January 2005 have led more “mainstream” insurgent groups to begin thinking of reinforcing the political arm of their opposition movement and to seek political guarantees for the Sunni Arab community in the new Iraq.
Hashim begins by placing the Iraqi revolt in its historical context. He next profiles the various insurgent groups, detailing their origins, aims, and operational and tactical modi operandi. He concludes with an unusually candid assessment of the successes and failures of the Coalition's counter-insurgency campaign. Looking ahead, Hashim warns that ethnic and sectarian groups may soon be pitted against one another in what will be a fiercely contested fight over who gets what in the new Iraq. Evidence that such a conflict is already developing does not augur well for Iraq's future stability. Both Iraq and the United States must work hard to ensure that slow but steady success over the insurgency is not overshadowed by growing ethno-sectarian animosities as various groups fight one another for the biggest slice of the political and economic pie.
In place of sensational headlines, official triumphalism, and hand-wringing, Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq offers a clear-eyed analysis of the increasingly complex violence that threatens the very future of Iraq.

About the author:
Ahmed S. Hashim is Professor of Strategic Studies at the U.S. Naval War College. His previous books include Iran: Dilemmas of Dual Containment and Iraq: Sanctions and Beyond, both written with Anthony H. Cordesman.

History: America

LC Class:
E - F

E 99 .E7 B55 2007
Inuit women: their powerful spirit in a century of change / Janet Mancini Billson and Kyra Mancini.

Publisher's description:
Inuit Women is the definitive study of the Inuit during a time of rapid change. Based on fourteen years of research and fieldwork, this analysis focuses on the challenges facing Inuit women as they enter the twenty-first century. Written shortly after the creation of Nunavut, a new province carved out of traditional Inuit homelands in the Canadian North, this compelling book combines conclusions drawn from the authors' ethnographic research with the stories of Inuit women and men, told in their own words.
In addition to their presentation of the personal portraits and voices of many Inuit respondents, Janet Mancini Billson and Kyra Mancini explore global issues: the impact of rapid social change and Canadian resettlement policy on Inuit culture; women's roles in society; and gender relations in Baffin Island, in the Eastern Arctic. They also include an extensive section on how the newly created territory of Nunavut is impacting the lives of Inuit women and their families. Working from a research approach grounded in feminist theory, the authors involve their Inuit interviewees as full participants in the process. This book stands alone in its attention to Inuit women's issues and lives and should be read by everyone interested in gender relations, development, modernization, globalization, and Inuit culture.

About the authors:
Janet Mancini Billson is director of Group Dimensions International in Barrington, Rhode Island, and adjunct professor of sociology at The George Washington University.
Kyra Mancini is senior research associate for Group Dimensions International and an expert data analyst.

E 169.1 .L528 2005
Hip, the history / John Leland.

Contents:
In the beginning there was rhythm: slavery, minstrelsy and the blues -- The O.G.'s: Emerson, Thoreau, Melville and Whitman -- My black/white roots: Jazz, the lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance -- Would a hipster hit a lady? Pulp fiction, film noir and gangsta rap -- The golden age of hip, part 1: Bebop, cool jazz and the cold war -- The golden age of hip, part 2: The beats -- The tricksters: signifying monkeys and other hip engines of progress -- Hip has three fingers: the miseducation of Bugs Bunny -- The world is a ghetto: Blacks, Jews, and blues -- Criminally hip: Outlaws, gangsters, players, hustlers -- Where the ladies at? Revel girls, riot grrrls and the revenge on the mother -- Behind the music: the drug connection -- "It's like punk rock, but a car": Hip sells out -- Do geeks dream of HTML sheep? A digressive journey through digital hip -- Everybody's hip: superficial reflections on the white caucasian.

Geography, Maps, Anthropology, Recreation

LC Class:
G

GF 21 .T87 2004
The earth's blanket: traditional teachings for sustainable living / Nancy J. Turner.

Contents:
Prologue: the land and the peoples -- Wealth and value in a changing world -- Land-based stories of peoples and home places -- A kincentric approach to nature -- Honouring nature through ceremony and ritual -- The balance between humans and nature -- Looking after the lands and waters -- Everything is one -- Finding meaning in a contemporary context.

Publisher's description:
At the turn of the twentieth century, the ethnographer James Teit wrote of the belief among the Nlaka'pmx people that flowers, plants, and grasses are the blanket of the earth, and that if too much vegetation is picked or destroyed, the earth is sorry and weeps. In The Earth's Blanket, ethnobotanist Nancy Turner explores the wealth of ecological knowledge and spiritual connection to the natural world that is fundamental to indigenous cultures and lifeways.
Turner has worked with Native peoples in the Pacific Northwest for more than thirty-five years, and generations of her indigenous teachers have given her permission to share their stories and perspectives about the natural world. Their teachings describe a rich variety of methods of harvesting, transporting, processing, storing, maintaining, and enhancing natural resources such as trees, medicinal plants, berries, root vegetables, fish, meat, and shellfish. More than just stories, these narratives underlie a belief system that informs everyday attitudes toward the earth.
The Earth's Blanket suggests how systems of traditional ecological knowledge can contribute to the modern world. It is an important book, a magnum opus, from a gifted and internationally respected scholar and teacher. It has the power to transform our way of thinking about the earth and our relationship with its ecosystems.

About the Author
Nancy J. Turner is Distinguished Professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. She is also a Research Associate with the Royal British Columbia Museum and the author or co-author of more than 15 books and numerous other publications. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Linnaean Society of London, and recipient of the Richard Evans Schultes Award in Ethnobotany from the Healing Forest Conservancy in Washington, D.C., the Order of British Columbia, and the Canadian Botanical Association's Lawson Medal for lifetime contributions to Canadian botany.

GF 75 .M67 2006
People and nature: an introduction to human ecological relations / Emilio F. Moran.
Contents:
Introduction -- Can one conceive of ecosystems without human agents? -- Human agency: individuals making a difference -- Overwhelming evidence for concern with the condition of the earth system -- Looking back and looking forward -- The study of human ecological relations - The contemporary study of environmental issues -- The evolution of human-environment interactions -- Hunter-gatherers: setting our preferences -- How did we decide to become farmers? -- Herding and farming: an uneasy relationship -- More food for the masses - Earth transformations in prehistory -- The archeology of environmental change -- The urban-industrial revolution and the unleashing of Prometheus - The contemporary situation: human-dominated ecosystems -- The web of life and trophic relations: thinking ecologically -- Ecosystem productivity and net primary production -- Land use and long term disturbance -- Learning, adaptation, and information -- Mitigation and the cautionary principle -- Transforming the face of the earth: making better decisions - Population and the environment -- Community in human evolution -- What is sacred in human evolution? -- Tragedies of the commons -- Institutions and self-organization -- Bioregionalism, deep ecology, and embedding people in nature -- Material boys and material girls -- Patterns of consumption in developed countries -- Patterns of consumption in developing countries -- A feeding frenzy and a crisis in public health -- Burning fossils fuels instead of calories -- Do we have enough material goods now? - Resource abundance versus resource scarcity -- When less is more -- The scale of the problem and the scale of the solution -- Restoring our balance: valuing community and trust, rather than more "stuff" -- Are we happier when we have more?

GN 751 .K56 2005
Finding Atlantis: a true story of genius, madness and an extraordinary quest for a lost world / David King.
Contents:
Promises -- Oracle of the North -- Remarkable correspondences -- A Cartesian witch hunt -- Follow the fish! -- Gazing at the face of Thor -- The quest for the golden fleece -- Mountains don't dance -- Twelve trumpets, four kettledrums and a bag of gold -- All oars to Atlantis -- Olympus stormed -- Hanging by a thread -- Et vos homines -- On nothing -- And then the snake thawed -- The Elysian fields.

GT 2853 .U5 G53 2007
The gospel of food: everything you think you know about food is wrong / Barry Glassner.

Publisher's description:
From the author of the national bestseller The Culture of Fear comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable eating.
For many Americans, eating is a religion. We worship at the temples of celebrity chefs. We raise our children to believe that certain foods are good and others are bad. We believe that if we eat the right foods, we will live longer, and if we eat in the right places, we will raise our social status. Yet what we believe to be true about food is, in fact, quite contradictory. Offering part exposé, part social com-mentary, sociologist Barry Glassner talks to chefs, food chemists, nutritionists, and restaurant critics about the way we eat. Helping us recognize the myths, half-truths, and guilt trips they promulgate, The Gospel of Food liberates us for greater joy at the table.

GT 4995 .A4 N67 2006
Days of death, days of life: ritual in the popular culture of Oaxaca / Kristin Norget.
Contents:
Introduction: Death and life in Oaxaca -- pt. 1. Rites of popular life in Oaxaca -- 1. Anthropology in a Mexican City -- 2. Practicing popular religion in Oaxaca -- pt. 2. Rites of popular death in Oaxaca -- 2. Living with death -- 4. The drama of death -- pt. 3. Living the Day of the Dead -- 5. Days of the Dead in Oaxaca -- 6. Spectacular death and cultural change -- Epilogue: Life in death.

Publisher's description:
Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practices. She analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity.
Norget also considers the intimate relationship that is perceived to exist between the living and the dead in Oaxacan popular culture. She argues that popular death rituals, which lie largely outside the sanctioned practices of the Catholic Church, establish and reinforce an ethical view of the world in which the dead remain with the living and in which the poor (as opposed to the privileged classes) do right by one another and their dead. For poor Oaxacans, these rituals affirm a set of social beliefs and practices, based on fairness, egalitarianism, and inclusiveness.

GV 716 .B47 2006
The wages of wins: taking measure of the many myths in modern sport / David J. Berri, Martin B. Schmidt, Stacey L. Brook.

Publisher's description:
Arguing about sports is as old as the games people play. Over the years sports debates have become muddled by many myths that do not match the numbers generated by those playing the games. In The Wages of Wins, the authors use layman's language and easy to follow examples based on their own academic research to debunk many of the most commonly held beliefs about sports. In this updated version of their book, these authors explain why Allen Iverson leaving Philadelphia made the 76ers a better team, why the Yankees find it so hard to repeat their success from the late 1990s, and why even great quarterbacks like Brett Favre are consistently inconsistent. The book names names, and makes it abundantly clear that much of the decision making of coaches and general managers does not hold up to an analysis of the numbers. Whether you are a fantasy league fanatic or a casual weekend fan, much of what you believe about sports will change after reading this book.

GV 1049.2 .T68 T68 2003
The Tour de France, 1903-2003: a century of sporting structures, meanings, and values / editors, Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare.

Contents:
The Tour de France, a pre-modern contest in a post-modern context / Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare -- The changing organization of the Tour de France and its media coverage: an interview with Jean-Marie Leblanc / Dominique Marchetti -- The Tour de France and cycling's belle epoque / Philippe Gaboriau -- The Tour in the inter-war years: political ideology, athletic excess, and industrial modernity / Christopher Thompson -- The economics of the Tour, 1930-2003 / Eric Reed -- The Tour de France as an agent of change in media production / Fabien Wille -- Beating the bounds: the Tour de France and national identity / Christophe Campos -- French cycling heroes of the Tour: winners and losers / Hugh Dauncey -- Se faire naturaliser cycliste: the Tour and its non-French competitors / John Marks -- The Tour de France and the doping issue / Patrick Mignon -- A cote du Tour: ambushing the Tour for political and social causes / Jean-Francois Polo -- Chronology of the tour 1902-2003.

Publisher's description:
Written by academic specialists from France, USA and Britain, the work analyses the Tour de France over its long history both as France's most prestigious and famous sporting event and as a European and, increasingly, a world cycling competition. It provides interdisciplinary and varied perspectives on the sporting, cultural, social, economic and political significance of the Tour within and outside France, giving a comprehensive and authoritative investigation of up-to-the minute thinking on what the Tour means, now and in the past, to competitors, to France, to the French public, to the cultural history of sport, and the sport of cycling itself.

GV 1051 .A76 C69 2005
Lance Armstrong's war: one man's battle against fate, fame, love, death, scandal, and a few other rivals on the road to the Tour de France / Daniel Coyle.

Social Sciences

LC Class:
H

HB 76 .C65 2004
The changing face of economics: conversations with cutting edge economists / David Colander, Richard P. F. Holt, and J. Barkley Rosser.
Contents:
Deirdre McCloskey -- Kenneth G. Binmore -- Herbert Gintis -- Robert H. Frank -- Matthew Rabin -- William A. ("Buz") Brock -- Duncan K. Foley -- Richard B. Norgaard -- Robert Axtell and H. Peyton Young -- Kenneth Arrow -- Paul A. Samuelson.

Publisher description:
The Changing Face of Economics gives the reader a sense of the modern economics profession and how it is changing. The volume does so with a set of nine interviews with cutting edge economists, followed by interviews with two Nobel Prize winners, Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, reflecting on the changes that are occurring. What results is a clear picture of today's economics--and it is no longer standard neoclassical economics.
The interviews and commentary together demonstrate that economics is currently undergoing a fundamental shift in method and is moving away from traditional neoclassical economics into a dynamic set of new methods and approaches. These new approaches include work in behavioral economics, experimental economics, evolutionary game theory and ecological approaches, complexity and nonlinear dynamics, methodological analysis, and agent-based modeling.

About the authors:
David E. Colander is Professor of Economics, Middlebury College.
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr., is Professor of Economics and Kirby L. Kramer Jr. Professor of Business Administration, James Madison University.
Richard P. F. Holt is Professor of Churchill Honors and Economics, Southern Oregon University.

HB 94 .S69 2006
On classical economics / Thomas Sowell.
Contents:
Social philosophy of classical economists -- Classical macroeconomics -- Classical microeconomics -- Classical methodology -- Sismondi: a neglecteded pioneer -- The enigma of John Stuart Mill -- The mysteries of Marxian economics -- Thoughts on the history of economics.

HB 103 .S6 B83 2006
The authentic Adam Smith: his life and ideas / James Buchan.

Contents:
Fatherless world 1723/1746 -- Cave, tree, fountain 1746/1759 -- Pen-knives and snuff-boxes 1759 -- Infidel with a bag wig 1759/1776 -- Baboons in the orchard 1776 -- The forlorn station 1776/1790.

Publisher's description:
Celebrated author James Buchan on the widely known-but often misread-Scottish philosopher Adam Smith.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated business and small government. His "invisible hand" has become a commanding shorthand for politicians promoting laissez-faire economics, but Smith never used it in reference to free-market capitalism. Smith was a deeply moral man who considered himself a philosopher, not an economist.
Drawing on twenty-five years of research, James Buchan renders an Adam Smith untainted by political and economic interests. This compelling narrative uncovers Smith's passionate commitment to develop an ethical theory essential to his vision of a just commercial society.

About the author:
James Buchan, a novelist and historian, is the winner of the Duff Cooper Award for Frozen Desire. His most recent work is a study of Enlightenment Edinburgh, Crowded with Genius. He lives in Norwich, England.

HB 2583 .N93 2005
The economic implications of aging societies: the costs of living happily ever after / Steven A. Nyce, Sylvester J. Schieber.
Contents:
Population developments in a global context -- Pension options, motivations, and choices -- Pension structures and the implications of aging -- Retirement systems and the economic costs of aging -- Beyond pensions to health care considerations -- Labor supply and living standards -- Too many wants or too few workers? -- Alternatives to finding moreworkers -- Aligning retirement policy with labor needs -- Funding pensions and securing retiree claims -- Macroeconomic policies for improved living standards -- Risks associated with alternative public policies -- Roadmap to the future.

HC 110 .P63 S524 2007
Just generosity: a new vision for overcoming poverty in America / Ronald J. Sider.
Contents:
What does poverty look like? -- A biblical foundation -- A comprehensive strategy -- If I work, can I earn a family income? -- Broken families and rising poverty -- Does justice include health care for the poor? -- Quality education for everyone -- Could welfare empower the poor? -- Other important issues affecting the poor -- We can end the scandal.

HD 75 .M353 2007
Deep economy: the wealth of communities and the durable future / Bill McKibben.
Contents:
After growth -- The year of eating locally -- All for one or one for all -- The wealth of communities -- The durable future.

HD 5724 .W6417 2006
Working and poor: how economic and policy changes are affecting low-wage workers / Rebecca M. Blank, Sheldon H. Danziger, and Robert F. Schoeni, editors.

HD 8081 .H7 C46 2005
Latino culture: a dynamic force in the changing American workplace / Nilda Chong and Francia Baez.

HD 9000.5 .F29 2006
Fast food/slow food: the cultural economy of the global food system / edited by Richard Wilk.
Contents:
Ch. 1. Food at moderate speeds / Sidney Mintz
Ch. 2. From wild weeds to artisanal cheese / Richard Wilk
Ch. 3. Building lives with food: production, circulation, and consumption of food in Yap / James A. Egan, Michael L. Burton, Karen L. Nero
Ch. 4. Food for the Malian middle class: an invisible Cuisine / Dolores Koenig
Ch. 5. Taco Bell, Maseca, and slow food: a postmodern apocalypse for Mexico's peasant cuisine? / Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Ch. 6. From hunger foods to heritage foods: challenges to food localization in Lao PDR / Penny Van Esterik
Ch. 7. Tasting the worlds of yesterday and today: culinary tourism and nostalgia foods in post-Soviet Russia / Melissa L. Caldwell
Ch. 8. Kaiten-zushi and Konbini: Japanese food culture in the age of mechanical reproduction / Theodore C. Bestor
Ch. 9. Rice ball rivalries: Japanese convenience stores and the appetite of late capitalism / Gavin Hamilton Whitelaw
Ch. 10. Global tastes, local contexts: an ethnographic account of fast food expansion in San Fernando City, the Philippines / Ty Matejowsky
Ch. 11. From the bottom up: the global expansion of Chinese vegetable trade for New York City markets / Valerie Imbruce
Ch. 12. The role of ideology in New Mexico's CSA (community supported agriculture) organizations: conflicting visions between growers and members / Lois Stanford
Ch. 13. Artisanal cheese and economies of sentiment in New England / Heather Paxson
Ch. 14. Fast and slow food in the fast lane: automobility and the Australian diet / Cathy Banwell, Jane Dixon, Sarah Hinde, Heather McIntyre
Ch. 15. Just Java: roasting fair trade coffee / Sarah Lyon.

Publisher's description:
Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is mising in other economic and developmental studies, and provide rich ethnographic data on markets, industrial production, and food economies. This new book will appeal to professionals in economic and environmental anthropology: economic development, agricultural economics, consumer behavior, nutritional sciences, environmental sustainability, and globalization studies.

About the Editor
Richard Wilk is chair of the anthropology department at Indiana University and past president of the Society for Economic Anthropology. He has conducted most of his fieldwork in Belize and the United States. His publications included: The Environment in Anthropology (with Nora Haenn, 2001 New York University Press); Economies and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology (1996 Westview Press). With Josiah Heyman, he is co-editor of the AltaMira Series in Globalization and the Environment.

HD 9000.5 .F345 2006
Feeding the future: from fat to famine, how to solve the world's food crises / edited by Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon.

Publisher's description:
From global famine to fast-food fat, from mad cows to missing cod, can ingenuity solve the world's food crises? How can we all manage to eat well and stay healthy?
Feeding the Future, the second book in the Ingenuity Project series, and the accompanying CBC broadcasts will provide answers to these urgent questions. Building on last year's Fueling the Future, a national bestseller that was nominated for a National Business Book Award, editors Andrew Heintzman and Evan Solomon have once again brought together some of the world's brightest lights, this time to tackle the problems we face trying to feed six billion mouths and counting.
The contributors, who include William Illsey Atkinson, Kelly D. Brownell, Gene Kahn, Stuart Laidlaw, Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe, Ian MacLachlan, Carl Safina, and David Wheeler, offer practical solutions to issues ranging from industrial farming and sustainability to food-related diseases and nutrition. Their examples of ingenuity encompass emerging technologies, business models for sustainable food production, and solutions to the world's obesity epidemic, and they debate the merits of controversial techniques such as the use of genetically modified organisms. By offering useful, workable solutions to the problems of food, Feeding the Future is satisfying one of our most pressing needs.

HD 9005 .B44 2007
Appetite for change: how the counterculture took on the food industry / Warren J. Belasco.
Contents:
An edible dynamic -- Radical consumerism -- Radical therapy -- Organic force -- The orthodox defense -- The mess in Washington -- The press -- Opportunism in the marketplace -- Straddling the contradictions -- A healthy foods portfolio -- Looking backward, and forward.

HD 9502 .A2 T473 2006
A thousand barrels a second: the coming oil break point and the challenges facing an energy dependent world / Peter Tertzakian.
Contents:
Introduction: The coming oil break point -- Lighting the last whale lamp -- The thirty-three percent advantage -- Not a wheel turns -- To the ends of the earth -- The technology ticket -- The next great rebalancing act

Publisher's description:
A Powerful Analysis of Our Oil Addiction and a New Direction for Global Energy
In 2006, world oil consumption exceeded one thousand barrels per second-a level with enormous impact on the environment, world economies, investments, and business profitability. A Thousand Barrels a Second examines the future of oil and the nature of our energy supply, revealing how governments, businesses, and individuals can meet the coming challenges with better solutions and innovations.

About the author:
Peter Tertzakian is Chief Energy Economist of ARC Financial Corporation, and has become an internationally recognized analyst. Tertzakian publishes ARC Energy Charts, a weekly synopsis of world energy trends.

For more information about the future of energy, visit athousandbarrelsasecond.com

HD 9665.5 .L38 2006
Big pharma: exposing the global healthcare agenda / Jacky Law.

HF 5429.215 .U6 F56 2006
The Wal-Mart effect: how the world's most powerful company really works--and how it's transforming the American economy / Charles Fishman.

Publisher's description:
Wal-Mart is not only the world's largest company; it is also the largest company in the history of the world. Americans spend $25 million every hour at Wal-Mart, twenty-four hours of every day, every day of the year. Is the company a good thing or a bad thing? On the one hand, market guru Warren Buffett estimates that the company's low prices save American consumers $10 billion a year. On the other, the behemoth is the #1 employer in thirty-seven of the fifty states yet has never let a union in the door. Though 70 per cent of Americans now live within a fifteen-minute drive of a Wal-Mart store, we have not even begun to understand the true power of the company and the many ways it is shaping American life. We know about the lawsuits and the labour protests, but what we don't know is how profoundly the "Wal-Mart effect" is shaping our lives. Fast Company senior editor Fishman, whose revelatory cover story on Wal-Mart generated the strongest reader response in the history of the magazine, takes us on an unprecedented behind-the-scenes investigative expedition deep inside the many worlds of Wal-Mart. He reveals the radical ways in which the company is transforming America's economy, our workforce, our communities, and our environment. Fishman penetrated the secrecy of Wal-Mart headquarters, interviewing twenty-five high-level ex-executives; he journeyed into the world of a host of Wal-Mart's suppliers to uncover how the company strong-arms even the most established brands; and journeyed to the ports and factories, the fields and forests where Wal-Mart's power is warping the very structure of the world's market for goods. Wal-Mart is not just a retailer anymore, Fishman argues. It has become a kind of economic ecosystem, and anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping our world today must understand the company's hidden reach.

HG 178.33 .U6 K37 2005
Shortchanged: life and debt in the fringe economy / Howard Karger.
Contents:
PART I. Overview of the fringe economy :
1. America's changing fringe economy
2. Why the fringe economy is growing
3. Debt and the functionally poor middle class
PART II. The fringe sectors :
4. The credit card industry
5. Storefront loans: pawnshops, payday loans, and tax refund lenders
6. Alternative services: check-cashers, the rent-to-own industry, and telecommunications
7. Fringe housing
8. Real estate speculation and foreclosure
9. The fringe auto industry
10. The getting-out-of-debt industry
PART III. Looking forward :
11. What can be done to control the fringe economy?

Publisher's description:
Drive through just about any low-income neighborhood and you're sure to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns, and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We're awash in "alternative financial services" directed at the poor and those with credit problems. Howard Karger describes this world as an economic Wild West, where just about any financial scheme that's not patently illegal is tolerated.
Taking a hard look at this fringe economy, Karger shows that what seem to be small, independent storefront operations are actually part of a fully-formed parallel economy dominated by a handful of well-financed corporations, subject to little or no oversight, with increasingly strong ties to mainstream financial institutions. "It is a hidden world," Karger writes, "where a customer's economic fate is sealed with a handshake, a smile, and a stack of fine print documents that would befuddle many attorneys." Filled with heartbreaking stories of real people trapped in perpetual debt, Shortchanged exposes the deceptive practices that allow these businesses to prey on people when they are most vulnerable. Karger reveals the many ways this industry has run amok, ruining countless people's lives, and shows that it's not just the poor but, more and more, maxed-out middle class consumers who fall prey to these devious schemes.
Balancing compassion with a realistic awareness of the risks any business faces in working with an economically distressed clientele, Karger details hard headed, practical recommendations for reforming this predatory industry.

HN 90 .S6 C565 2005
Class matters / correspondents of the New York times ; introduction by Bill Keller.

Publisher's description:
Social class remains a powerful force in North American life, its effects more pronounced than most of us realize. From health to religious practice to college education to consumer goods, the differences that distinguish the top from the middle from the bottom remain stark, even as social mobility seems to have stagnated. A team of New York Times reporters has spent more than a year exploring the ways in which class defined as a combination of income, education, wealth, and occupation influences destiny in a society that likes to think of itself as a land of unbounded opportunity. This book takes us on a tour of what they found and what it means for the future.

HV 636 2005 .G85 V36 2006
The storm: what went wrong and why during hurricane Katrina: the inside story from one Louisiana scientist / Ivor van Heerden and Mike Bryan.

Publisher's description:
It was a natural disaster-but magnified enormously by government's crushing incompetence in both preparation and response. The storm leveled the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but man-made problems destroyed New Orleans. The catastrophic flooding there should never have happened. Properly designed and constructed levees would have protected the city. Instead, they collapsed. Never in American history has a natural disaster been magnified so disastrously by the systemic failure of our government to protect and serve the people. The result is the national tragedy known forevermore as simply Katrina. The question is, what do we do now?
The story begins innocently, with yet another little disturbance in the Caribbean, the next in a summer's growing storm count. But some scientists were already fearing the worst as tropical depression 12 strengthened into a hurricane, grew still more in the Gulf of Mexico, then took deadly aim at the most vulnerable coastal region in the United States: south Louisiana and the famed "city that care forgot," New Orleans.
Among those scientists was LSU disaster specialist and hurricane researcher Ivor van Heerden. For the last decade, he had used every available megaphone to warn of this catastrophe waiting to happen. On August 29, 2005, his worst fears became reality, and the natural disaster in Louisiana and Mississippi quickly evolved into national disgrace. Soon van Heerden became perhaps the most prominent independent voice in the national media pressing the administration, FEMA, the Corps of Engineers, everyone at all levels of government to act now.
The Storm is the ultimate inside story of the Katrina tragedy. In Louisiana, van Heerden is known as a scientist who tells it like it is. He knows why the levees failed to protect New Orleans. As a former coastal restoration chief for the state, he knows why the abused wetlands surrounding the city could not protect the levees. He knew how many people would be unwilling-or unable-to evacuate and how many homes were likely to be destroyed. And he has seen with his own eyes the politics responsible over the decades for the failure to plan for this completely predictable situation. He now unites this understanding with his firsthand, behind-the-scenes reporting, including the state's official investigation into the levee failures, which he led.
Van Heerden witnessed the desperation of first responders who were unable to talk with one another-and the heroism of those same responders, tirelessly working the waters of a flooded New Orleans to save thousands of lives. This is their story. It is the story of the families that escaped the flooding in Louisiana and the devastating storm surge on the Mississippi coastline-and it is told in memory of those 1,300 Americans who did not.
If the past is indeed prologue, "America's wetlands" is in terminal trouble, but they don't have to be. Van Heerden lays out the necessary course of action for building the levees and the protective wetlands that will guarantee "Cat 5" flood protection for New Orleans and the surrounding communities. Success depends only on civic will and political leadership. Van Heerden doesn't like to see science pushed to the sidelines, but that is what happened in Louisiana for decades. He is the only one to connect the dots between the bureaucrats, the politicians, the Corps of Engineers, and the tragic chain of events that culminated in the catastrophe that crippled, perhaps forever, a great American city.

About the author:
Ivor van Heerden was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is cofounder and deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center and director of the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes. He is also associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at LSU. He holds a Ph.D. in marine sciences from LSU, where his research focused on the Atchafalaya River Delta; his ongoing research areas include disaster preparation and response, coastal geomorphology, environmental management, and habitat restoration.

Political Science

LC Class:
J

JA 85.2 .U6 D45 2005
Liars! cheaters! evildoers!: demonization and the end of civil debate in American politics / Tom De Luca and John Buell.
Contents:
Demonization American-style -- The politics of moral personae -- America's moral paradox -- The deep divide and the most vulnerable -- Seeking the enemy -- Terror, evil, and the new cold war -- Terror wars and culture wars -- Preserve the environment!: become an environmental sport -- Conclusion: A new democratic covenant.

Publisher's description:
The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like "evildoer," "war on terror," and "axis of evil" have become commonplace in our discussion of international politics. What ever happened to civil debate? Where has all this moralizing come from? And what harm has this new level of attack caused to democracy in America?
In this compelling and cogent account, Tom De Luca and John Buell chart the rise of what they rightly label as the "demonization" of American politics, showing how political campaigns often neglect debates over policy in favor of fights over the private character and personal lives of politicians. Political interests are still served by this style of politics, but democracy, the authors contend, is the loser. Covering everything from the Clinton impeachment to the war on terrorism to the 2004 presidential campaign, the authors show the distinctly American qualities of demonization and how their frequency and intensity has grown in the last four decades.
Suggesting that demonization is not inevitable or irreversible, this important book offers ways out of the political mudpit and back to a more civilized debate where democracy and freedom of speech can coexist in a productive, idea-rich environment.

About the authors:
Tom De Luca is associate professor of political science at Fordham University and the author of The Two Faces of Political Apathy He is the 2006 Fulbright Distinguished Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Social Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
John Buell is a columnist for the Bangor Daily News and a former editor at The Progressive. He is also co-author of The End of Homework.

JC 573.2 .U6 H38 2005
The making of the American conservative mind: National review and its times / Jeffrey Hart.

Publisher's description:
National Review has been the leading conservative national magazine since it was founded in 1955, and in that capacity it has played a decisive role in shaping the conservative movement in the United States. In The Making of the American Conservative Mind, Jeffrey Hart provides an authoritative and high-spirited history of how the magazine has come to define and defend conservatism for the past fifty years. He also gives a firsthand account of the thought and sometimes colorful personalities-including James Burnham, Willmoore Kendall, Russell Kirk, Frank Meyer, William Rusher, Priscilla Buckley, Gerhart Niemeyer, and, of course, the magazine's founder, William F. Buckley Jr.-who contributed to National Review's life and wide influence.
As Hart sees it, National Review has regularly veered toward ideology, but it has also regularly corrected its course toward, in Buckley's phrase, a "politics of reality." Its catholicity and originality-attributable to Buckley's magnanimity and sense of showmanship-has made the magazine the most interesting of its kind in the nation, concludes Hart. His highly readable and occasionally contrarian history, the first history of National Review yet published, marks another milestone in our understanding of how the conservatism now so influential in American political life draws from, and in some ways repudiates, the intellectual project that National Review helped launch a half century ago.

JK 526 2004 .F74 2006
Was the 2004 presidential election stolen?: exit polls, election fraud, and the official count / Steven F. Freeman and Joel Bleifuss ; foreword by John Conyers, Jr.
Contents:
Dateline November 2, 2004 -- Florida sets the stage in 2000 -- Electronic voting: an invitation for fraud -- Biased polls or biased count? -- How did America really vote? -- Responsible journalism versus conspiracy theory -- There can be no moving on.

Publisher's description:
On the afternoon of election day 2004, the world was abuzz with the news: exit polls indicated that John Kerry would decisively win the election and become the next president of the united states. That proved not to be the case.
According to the official count-the number of votes tallied, not necessarily the number of votes cast-George W. Bush beat Kerry by a margin of three million votes. The exit polls, however, had predicted a margin of victory for Kerry of five million votes. Occurences of vote manipulation, vote suppression, and outright election fraud were alleged at the local level in many precincts throughout Ohio and other "battleground" states.
Where the controversy of the 2000 presidential election had come about as the result of an extremely close race, in 2004 the irregularities were widespread and appeared to follow a clear pattern. Why then did the Democrats concede the election early the next morning? Why has there been no investigation by any major news organization? What does it say about our democracy when the slot machine industry is more strictly regulated than our electronic voting machines?
Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen? analyzes the available data, and attempts to answer the question of whether America's sitting president was inaugurated after winning, or losing the 2004 presidential race.

About the authors:
Steven F. Freeman has a Ph.D. in Organization Studies from MIT's Sloan School of Management. He is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Organizational Dynamics, where he teaches research methods and survey design (a domain that includes polling). He has received four national awards for best research paper of the year-on four different topics in three different fields.
Joel Bleifuss, a journalist of 23 years, is the editor of In These Times. In his 18 years there, he has had more articles cited as one of the "Top Censored Stories" of the year by Project Censored than any other journalist. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Utne Reader, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and Dissent, among many others.

"Will The Next Election Be Hacked?" by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Rolling Stone

JQ 1758 .A91 R83 2006
The long war for freedom: the Arab struggle for democracy in the Middle East / Barry Rubin.
Contents:
Introduction -- Heartbreak and hope -- "Better Saddam's hell than America's paradise" -- The courage of their convictions -- What's wrong with Arab society -- Whose Islam? -- America: Satan or savior? -- Israel: the great excuse -- The challenge of terrorism -- The Iraq war: aggression or liberation? -- Women's rights: a test case for reform -- A thousand and one difficulties.

Chapter 1 excerpt

JV6483 .B83 2006
State of emergency: the Third World invasion and conquest of America / Patrick J. Buchanan.

Publisher's description:
Pat Buchanan is sounding the alarm. Since 9/11, more than four million illegal immigrants have crossed our borders, and there are more coming every day. Our leaders in Washington lack the political will to uphold the rule of law. The Melting Pot is broken beyond repair, and the future of our nation is at stake.
In this important book, Pat Buchanan reveals that, slowly but surely, the great American Southwest is being reconquered by Mexico. These lands---which many Mexicans believe are their birthright---are being detached ethnically, linguistically, and culturally from the United States by a deliberate policy of the Mexican regime. This is the "Aztlan Plot" for "La Reconquista," the recapture of the lands lost by Mexico in the Texas War of Independence and Mexican-American War.
Comparing the immigrant invasion of America from across the Mexican border--and of Europe from across the Mediterranean--to the barbarian invasions that ended the Roman Empire, the author writes with passion and conviction that we have begun the final chapter of the Death of the West. Unless the invasion is halted now, Buchanan argues, by midcentury America will be a country unrecognizable to our parents, the Third World dystopia that Theodore Roosevelt warned against when he said we must never let America become a "polyglot boardinghouse" for the world.
President Bush's failure to halt the invasion and secure America's border, Buchanan writes, is a dereliction of constitutional duty that, in other times, would have called forth articles of impeachment. In the final chapter, "Last Chance," he lays out a sweeping immigration reform and border security plan, which, he contends, if not pursued, means George W. Bush's legacy will be to have lost for America a Southwest that was the legacy of Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk. With an estimated ten to fifteen million "illegals" already here and tens of millions more poised to pour across our borders, few books could be as timely---or important---as State of Emergency. It is essential reading for all Americans.

JZ 1480 .B69 2007
Second chance: three presidents and the crisis of American superpower / Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Publisher's description:
America's most distinguished commentator on foreign policy, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, offers a reasoned but unsparing assessment of the last three presidential administrations' foreign policy. Though spanning less than two decades, these administrations cover a vitally important turning point in world history: the period in which the United States, having emerged from the Cold War with unprecedented power and prestige, managed to squander both in a remarkably short time. This is a tale of decline: from the competent but conventional thinking of the first Bush administration, to the well-intentioned self-indulgence of the Clinton administration, to the mortgaging of America's future by the "suicidal statecraft" of the second Bush administration. Brzezinski concludes with a chapter on how America can regain its lost prestige. This scholarly yet highly opinionated book is sure to be both controversial and influential.

About the author:
Zbigniew Brzezinski, formerly the National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, is a counselor and trustee at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor of American foreign policy at the School of Advanced International Studies, the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. His many books include The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership (2004) and The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (1997). He lives in Washington, D.C.

JZ 5538 .A38 2005
After terror: promoting dialogue among civilizations / edited by Akbar Ahmed and Brian Forst.
Contents:
PART I. Introduction. Ch. 1. Toward a More Civil 21st Century / Akbar Ahmed and Brian Forst.
PART II. Nature and Sources of the Problem. Ch. 2. The Simple Power of Weakness, the Complex Vulnerability of Power / Zbigniew Brzezinski -- Ch. 3. Dialogue and the Echo Boom of Terror: Religious Women's Voices After 9/11 / Diana Eck -- Ch. 4. Closing Ch.s of Enmity / Rajmohan Gandhi -- Ch. 5. Benjamin Franklin's Gift of Tolerance / Walter Isaacson
Ch. 6. God's Word and World Politics / Bishop Desmond Tutu.
PART III. Pathways to Dialogue and Understanding.
Ch. 7. The Role of the Media in Promoting Tolerance / Shashi Tharoor -- Ch. 8. Civilization, Human Rights and Collective Responsibility / Sergio Vieira de Mello -- Ch. 9. Endless Enemies or Human Security / Jody Williams -- Ch. 10. Dialogue Among Civilizations and Cultures / Seyed Mohammed Khatami -- Ch. 11. Transnational Moral Dialogues / Amitai Etzioni -- Ch. 12. In Other People's Shoes / Marilyn Strathern -- Ch. 13. A Universal Language, Without Boundary or Prejudice / Ravi Shankar -- Ch. 14. Dialogue Among Civilizations / Kofi Annan -- Ch. 15. The Productive Airing of Grievances / Lord Carey -- Ch. 16. All of Man's Troubles / Edward O. Wilson -- Ch. 17. Turning Enemies into Friends / Jonathan Sacks -- Ch. 18. Security Through Dialogue / Queen Noor of Jordan -- Ch. 19. The Power of Dialogue: Redefining "Us" / Tamara Sonn -- Ch. 20. On Clash, Morality, Renaissance and Dialogue / Judea Pearl -- Ch. 21. The Just War Tradition and Cultural Dialogue / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Ch. 22. Celebrating Differences in Our Melting Pot Planet / Prince El Hassan bin Talal.
PART IV. From Concern to Action. Ch. 23. Clash or Dialogue of Cultures? / Bernard Lewis --
Ch. 24. The Fellowship of Dialogue / James D. Wolfensohn -- Ch. 25. Hard Power and Soft Power / Joseph S. Nye, Jr. -- Ch. 26. Global Governance in an Interdependent World / Benjamin R. Barber -- Ch. 27. Getting to Peace: Awakening the Third Side / William L. Ury -- Ch. 28. Risking Hospitality / Martin Marty.

Publisher's description:
After Terror presents sustained reflections by some of the world's most celebrated thinkers on the most pressing question of our time: how can we find ways to defuse the ticking bombs of terrorism and excessive interventions against it? It offers an antidote to the fatalistic global holy war perspective that afflicts much contemporary thought, focusing instead on the principles, issues, and acts needed to shift course from alienation and conflict to a path of sanity and goodwill among cultures and civilizations.
The central aim of the book is to advance contemporary thinking on the causes and implications of 9/11 and thus provide the essential elements of a blueprint for humanity. It features 28 original essays by some of the world's leading public figures, scholars, and religious leaders, including Benjamin Barber, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Amitai Etzioni, Bernard Lewis, Martin Marty, Queen Noor, Joseph Nye, Judea Pearl, Jonathan Sacks, Ravi Shankar, Bishop Desmond Tutu, E.O. Wilson and James D. Wolfensohn.
After Terror attests to the power of dialogue and mutual understanding and the possibility of tolerance, respect, cooperation, and commitment. Without ignoring the dangers of the modern world, it points to a future in which people can celebrate both the fundamental sentiments and interests that we share and the diversities that make us human.

Law

LC Class:
K

KF 4545 .S5 A948 2006
Origins of the Dred Scott case: Jacksonian jurisprudence and the Supreme
Court, 1837-1857 / Austin Allen.
Contents:
Realizing popular sovereignty: partisan sentiment and constitutional constraint in Jacksonian jurisprudence -- Imposing self-rule: professionalism, commerce, social order, and the sources of Taney court jurisprudence -- Evidence of law: popular sovereignty and judicial authority in Swift v. Tyson -- Moderating Taney: concurrent sovereignty and answering the slavery question, 1842-1852 -- The limits of judicial partisanship: corporate law and the emergence of southern factionalism -- The sources of southern factionalism: corporations, free blacks, and imperatives of federal citizenship -- The failure of evasion: Dred Scott v. Emerson, Strader v. Graham, Swift v. Tyson, and Dred Scott v. Sandford -- The political economy of blackness: citizenship, corporations, and the judicial uses of racism in Dred Scott -- Looking westward: concurrent sovereignty and the answer to the territorial question.

Publisher's description:
The Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision denied citizenship to African Americans and enabled slavery's westward expansion. It has long stood as a grievous instance of justice perverted by sectional politics. Austin Allen finds that the outcome of Dred Scott hinged not on a single issue-slavery-but on a web of assumptions, agendas, and commitments held collectively and individually by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney and his colleagues.
Allen carefully tracks arguments made by Taney Court justices in more than 1,600 reported cases in the two decades prior to Dred Scott and in its immediate aftermath. By showing us the political, professional, ideological, and institutional contexts in which the Taney Court worked, Allen reveals that Dred Scott was not simply a victory for the Court's prosouthern faction. It was instead an outgrowth of Jacksonian jurisprudence, an intellectual system that charged the Court with protecting slavery, preserving both federal power and state sovereignty, promoting economic development, and securing the legal foundations of an emerging corporate order-all at the same time. Here is a wealth of new insight into the internal dynamics of the Taney Court and the origins of its most infamous decision.

About the author:
Austin Allen is an assistant professor of history at the University of Houston, Downtown.

KF 4754.5 .R525 2005
The case for gay rights: from Bowers to Lawrence and beyond / David A. J. Richards.
Contents:
The personal as political -- Philosophy -- Judicial review in the United States after World War II: free speech and gay rights as a protest movement -- Judicial review in the United States after World War II: religion, race, and gender -- The constitutional right to privacy -- Bowers v. Hardwick -- Lawrence v. Texas -- Sexual orientation as a suspect class -- Same-sex marriage -- Psychology.

Publisher's description:
As Americans wrestle with red-versus-blue debates over traditional values, defense of marriage, and gay rights, reason often seems to take a back seat to emotion. In response, David Richards, a widely respected legal scholar and long-time champion of gay rights, reflects upon the constitutional and democratic principles-relating to privacy, intimate life, free speech, tolerance, and conscience-that underpin these often heated debates.
The distillation of Richards's thirty-year advocacy for the rights of gays and lesbians, his book provides a reflective treatise on basic human rights that touch all of our lives. Drawing upon his own experiences as a gay man, Richards interweaves personal observations with philosophical, political, judicial, and psychological insights to make a compelling case that gays should be entitled to the same rights and protections that every American enjoys. Indeed, the call for gay rights can trace its lineage back to the powerful protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s, which demanded racial and sexual equality and ultimately overthrew the bigoted status quo.
Richards focuses particularly on two key Supreme Court cases: the 1986 decision in Bowers v. Hardwick upholding Georgia's anti-sodomy laws and the 2003 decision in Lawrence v. Texas striking down Texas anti-sodomy laws and overturning Bowers. He shows how Bowers arose in a period of constitutional crisis over the right to privacy and examines the opinions in light of the Court's division in Roe v. Wade. He then shows that Lawrence must be understood in the context of later cases, notably Casey and Romer, which required that Bowers be reconsidered and overruled. Along the way, he examines current debates over gays in the military and same-sex marriage, assesses the Massachusetts Supreme Court's decision to permit gay marriage, and critiques the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
Eloquent and impassioned, Richards's work crystallizes the essence of the argument for a much more expansive and tolerant view of gay rights in America. It also offers a touching account of one gay man's very personal struggle to find the voice he needed to speak truth to the powerful forces of discrimination.

About the Author:
David A.J. Richards is Edwin D. Webb Professor of Law at New York University. Among his twelve other books are Free Speech and the Politics of Identity; Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies; Women, Gays and the Constitution; and Disarming Manhood.

KF 4755 .W36 2006
Discrimination by default: how racism becomes routine / Lu-in Wang.
Contents:
Discrimination by default, discrimination as default -- Situational racism -- Self-fulfilling stereotypes -- Failures of imagination -- Discrimination by and as default in medical care -- Overriding the default.

Publisher's description:
Much as we "select" computer settings by default-reflexively, without thinking, and sometimes without realizing there are other options-we often discriminate by default as well. And just as default computer settings tend to become locked in or entrenched as the standard, discrimination by default creates a situation in which disparate outcomes are expected, accepted, and taken for granted. The killing of Amadou Diallo, racial disparities in medical care, the dominance of Whites and men in certain professions, and even the uneven media attention paid to crimes depending on their victims' race and class, all might be cases of discrimination by, or as, default.
Wang contends that, today, most discrimination occurs by default and not design, making legal prohibitions that focus on those who discriminate out of ill will inadequate to redress the largest share of modern discrimination. She draws on social psychology to detail three ways in which unconscious assumptions can lead to discrimination, showing how they play out in a range of everyday settings. Wang then demonstrates how these dynamics interact in medical care to produce an invisible, self-fulfilling, and self-perpetuating prophecy of racial disparity. She goes on to suggest ways in which institutions and individuals might recognize, interrupt, and override the discriminatory default.

About the author:
Lu-in Wang is professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She is the author of Hate Crimes Law.

KF 5753 .M66 2006
Subverting open government: White House materials and executive branch politics / Bruce P. Montgomery.
Contents:
Nixon's quest to monopolize history -- The Kissinger transcripts -- The Presidential Records Act: a refuge from the FOIA -- Nixon and the Presidential Records Act -- Cheney and the Energy Task Force Records.

Publisher's description:
Many of the most significant disputes between the legislative and executive branches of government have occurred over Congressional requests for information to assure executive accountability. No greater confrontation occurred than the fight over President Richard Nixon's White House tapes and records concerning the Watergate scandals. The constitutional crisis surrounding this event and the subsequent seizure of Nixon's presidential materials by Congress for the continuing Watergate investigations and trials after his resignation ultimately caused a quasi-revolution in the overturning of the tradition of private ownership of presidential materials with passage of the 1978 Presidential Records Act (PRA), which established public domain over White House materials starting with the Reagan presidency.
In an unprecedented 1974 U.S. Supreme Court Ruling, the Court declared that the former president did not have an absolute and un-reviewable privilege to withhold presidential communications, thus compelling him to turn over to the special Watergate prosecutor the very documents that destroyed his presidency. The PRA represented but one of many cornerstone statutes in the flurry of post-Watergate legislative measures passed by Congress to assure a more open and accountable government after the enormous abuses of power and secrecy of the Nixon years.
In this volume, Bruce Montgomery addresses these major themes under various presidential administrations starting with the Reagan years and continuing through the current administration. The essays address the themes of publicity and secrecy, legislative and executive branch conflict over presidential materials, historical legacy versus open government, and the ramifications of Nixon's inadvertent legacy concerning the presidential prerogative of executive privilege and the disposition of presidential communications.

About the author
Bruce P. Montgomery is associate professor and faculty director of Archives at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the founding director of The Human Rights Initiative, and his articles and book chapters have appeared in numerous journals, including Presidential Studies Quarterly, Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Peace Studies, Archivaria, and others.

Co-winner of the 2006-2007 Scribes Book Award in honor of the best law book published in 2006.

KF 9430 .A932 2006
Before the next attack: preserving civil liberties in an age of terrorism / Bruce Ackerman.
Contents:
This is not a war -- This is not a crime -- This is an emergency - The political constitution -- The role of judges -- American exceptionalism -- If Washington blows up? -- The morning after.

Publisher's description:
Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this clear-sighted book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents an intuitive, practical alternative. He proposes an "emergency constitution" that enables government to take extraordinary actions to prevent a second strike in the short run while prohibiting permanent measures that destroy our freedom over the longer run.
Ackerman's "emergency constitution" exposes the dangers lurking behind the popular notion that we are fighting a "war" on terror. He criticizes court opinions that have adopted the war framework, showing how they uncritically accept extreme presidential claims to sweeping powers. Instead of expanding the authority of the commander in chief, the courts should encourage new forms of checks and balances that allow for decisive, but carefully controlled, presidential action during emergencies. In making his case, Ackerman explores emergency provisions in constitutions of nations ranging from France to South Africa, retaining aspects that work and adapting others. He shows that no country today is well equipped to both fend off terrorists and preserve fundamental liberties, drawing particular attention to recent British reactions to terrorist attacks. Written for thoughtful citizens throughout the world, this book is democracy's constitutional reply to political excess in the sinister era of terrorism.

About the author:
Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University, and the author or coauthor of more than fifteen books on political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy, including Social Justice in the Liberal State, The Stakeholder Society, and Deliberation Day, all published by Yale University Press.

Education

LC Class:
L

LB 1029 .M75 L53 2005
Montessori: the science behind the genius / Angeline Stoll Lillard ; photographs by An Vu.

LB 1051 .J386 2005
The psychology of effective learning and teaching / Matt Jarvis.
Excerpt

Publisher's description:
This book covers the psychology of teaching and learning and focuses on applying up-to-date as well as traditional theory in the classroom. It covers a range of issues that most concern the new teacher, written clearly and at an appropriate level.

LB 1139.25 .E87 2007
Introduction to early childhood education / Eva L. Essa.
Contents:
The scope of and need for early childhood education -- The children -- The families -- The teachers/caregivers -- Rationale supporting early childhood education -- Goals, objectives, and evaluation -- The physical environment -- Scheduling and curriculum planning -- Creative development through the curriculum -- Physical development through the curriculum -- Cognitive development through the curriculum -- Language development through the curriculum -- Social development through the curriculum -- Guiding routines and group activities -- Guiding social behaviors -- Helping children cope with stress.

LC 2802 .V8 D54 2007
Dream not of other worlds: teaching in a segregated elementary school, 1970 / Huston Diehl.
Contents:
African Americans--Education--Virginia--Louisa County--Case studies.
Segregation in education--Virginia--Louisa County--Case studies.
First year teachers--Case studies.

Publisher's description:
When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a "Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school's white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach "those children" anything. She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students' ability to learn. With its overcrowded classrooms, poorly trained teachers, empty bookshelves, and meager supplies, her segregated school was vastly inferior to the county's white elementary schools, and the message it sent her students was clear: "dream not of other worlds."
In her often lyrical memoir, Diehl reveals how, in the intimacy of the classroom, her students reached out to her, a young white northerner, and shared their fears, anxieties, and personal beliefs. Repeatedly surprised and challenged by her students, Diehl questions her long-standing middle-class assumptions and confronts her own prejudices. In doing so, she eloquently reflects on what the students taught her about the hurt of bigotry and the humiliation of poverty as well as dignity, courage, and resiliency.
Set in the waning days of the Jim Crow South, Dream Not of Other Worlds chronicles an important moment in American history. Diehl examines the history of black education in the South and narrates the dramatic struggle to integrate Virginia's public schools. Meeting with some of her former students and colleagues and visiting the school where she once taught, she considers what has-and has not-changed after more than thirty years of integrated schooling. This provocative book raises many issues that are of urgent concern today: the continuing social consequences of segregated schools, the role of public education in American society, and the challenges of educating minority and poor children.

About the author:
Huston Diehl is professor of English at the University of Iowa and a Collegiate Fellow of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. An award-winning teacher, she has published a number of essays on pedagogy as well as many articles on Renaissance literature. She is the author of An Index of Icons in English Emblem Books and Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage: Protestantism and Popular Theater in Early Modern England.

MUSIC

LC Class:
M

ART

LC Class:
N

Language and Literature

LC Class:
P

P 119.3 .P658 2006
Unspeak: how words become weapons, how weapons become a message, and how that message becomes reality / Steven Poole.

Publisher's description:
Unspeak is a critical look at how politicians, interest groups, and the media manipulate language, silence ideas, and change the way we think.
What do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. "Climate change" is less threatening than "global warming"; we say "ethnic cleansing" when we mean "mass murder." A completely partisan argument can be packed into a sound bite. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them "evaluative-descriptive terms." Others talk of "terministic screens" or discuss the way debates are "framed." Author Steven Poole calls them Unspeak. Unspeak represents an attempt by politicians, interest groups, and business corporations to say something without saying it, without getting into an argument and so having to justify itself. At the same time, it tries to unspeak-in the sense of erasing or silencing-any possible opposing point of view by laying a claim right at the start to only one way of looking at a problem. Recalling the vocabulary of George Orwell's 1984, as an Unspeak phrase becomes a widely used term of public debate, it saturates the mind with one viewpoint while simultaneously make an opposing view ever more difficult to enunciate.
In this fascinating book, Poole traces modern Unspeak-from "extremist" to "weapons of mass destruction"-and reveals how the evolution of language changes the way we think. "Propaganda" becomes "public diplomacy," and "sound science" (a phrase actually coined by tobacco giant Philip Morris) becomes a tool with which to instill a fear and distrust of legitimate scientific research.

P 95.45 .M54 2006
Conversation: a history of a declining art / Stephen Miller.

Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2007

Publisher's description:
Essayist Stephen Miller pursues a lifelong interest in conversation by taking an historical and philosophical view of the subject. He chronicles the art of conversation in Western civilization from its beginnings in ancient Greece to its apex in eighteenth-century Britain to its current endangered state in America. As Harry G. Frankfurt brought wide attention to the art of bullshit in his recent bestselling On Bullshit, so Miller now brings the art of conversation into the light, revealing why good conversation matters and why it is in decline.
Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in "The Age of Conversation" and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation.

About the author:
Stephen Miller is a freelance writer and a contributing editor to The Wilson Quarterly. His essays on leading eighteenth-century writers have appeared in many magazines, including the Times Literary Supplement, Partisan Review, and Sewanee Review.

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Gender and the media / Rosalind Gill.
Contents:
Gender and the media -- Analysing gender in media texts -- Advertising and postfeminism -- News, gender, and journalism -- Talk shows: feminism on TV? -- Gender in magazines: from Cosmopolitan to Loaded -- Postfeminist romance -- Postfeminist media culture?

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Chester Gould: a daughter's biography of the creator of Dick Tracy / Jean Gould O'Connell ; foreword by Dick Locher ; introduction by Garyn G. Roberts.

Publisher's description:
In 1931, the Chicago Tribune introduced the public to an exciting new comic strip destined to become a classic: Dick Tracy. Tracy's creator, Chester Gould, would spend the next 46 years of his life developing the dynamic, crime-fighting character, and his work on the strip won him the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year in both 1959 and 1977.
A revolutionary in the comics industry, Gould invented both a genre and an icon. The personal story of this pioneer cartoonist is now presented in a biography written by Gould's only child. Beginning with his young life in a three-room house in Pawnee, Oklahoma, this book traces all the steps Gould took to eventually achieve remarkable distinction at the top of his field. The early pages relate his ancestors' part in the Oklahoma land rush, drawing on the unpublished memoir of his father, Gilbert Gould. C