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New Materials in Support of the Art Curriculum

The holy place : architecture, ideology, and history in Russia Akinsha, Konstantin. 726 AK45HO Includes sections on Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Archimandrite Filaret (Vasily Drozdov, Napoleonic War, Nicholas I, Palace of Soviets, Joseph Stalin, Konstantin Ton, Karl Magnus Vitberg. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Athletics Curriculum

Major : a Black athlete, a White era, and the fight to be the world's fastest human being Balf, Todd. 796.6 B31MA Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Economics Curriculum

American-made : the enduring legacy of the WPA, when FDR put the nation to work Taylor, Nick, 1945- 331.1 T22AM If you have traveled the nation's highways, flown into New York's LaGuardia Airport, strolled San Antonio's River Walk, or seen the Pacific Ocean from the Beach Chalet in San Francisco, you have experienced some part of the legacy of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of the enduring cornerstones of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. When President Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, he was facing a devastated nation. Four years into the Great Depression, a staggering 13 million American workers were jobless and many millions more of their family members were equally in need. Desperation ruled the land. What people wanted were jobs, not handouts: the pride of earning a paycheck; and in 1935, after a variety of temporary relief measures, a permanent nationwide jobs program was created. This was the Works Progress Administration, and it would forever change the physical landscape and the social policies of the United States. The WPA lasted for eight years, spent $11 billion, employed 8 and a half million men and women, and gave the country not only a renewed spirit but a fresh face. Under its colorful head, Harry Hopkins, the agency's remarkable accomplishment was to combine the urgency of putting people back to work with its vision of physically rebuilding America. Its workers laid roads, erected dams, bridges, tunnels, and airports. They stocked rivers, made toys, sewed clothes, served millions of hot school lunches. When disasters struck, they were there by the thousands to rescue the stranded. And all across the country the WPA's arts programs performed concerts, staged plays, painted murals, delighted children with circuses, created invaluable guidebooks. Even today, more than sixty years after the WPA ceased to exist, there is almost no area in America that does not bear some visible mark of its presence. Politically controversial, the WPA was staffed by passionate believers and hated by conservatives; its critics called its projects make work and wags said it stood for We Piddle Around. The contrary was true. We have only to look about us today to discover its lasting presence. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

Blue covenant : the global water crisis and the coming battle for the right to water Barlow, Maude. 333.91 B24BL Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the English Curriculum

	The collected works : with eighty-four illustrations by th author Gibran, Kahlil, 1883-1931. 813 G35CO Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Approaches to teaching Henry James's Daisy Miller and The turn of the screw 813 J23ZR Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	The fiction of Toni Morrison : reading and writing on race, culture, and identity 813 M73ZFI Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the History and Social Sciences Curriculum

	The future of marriage Blankenhorn, David. 306.81 B53FU Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Chasing the flame : Sergio Vieira de Mello and the fight to save the world Power, Samantha. 341.4 P68CH Reveals Sergio Vieira de Mello's powerful legacy of humanity and ideological strength in the context of his troubleshooting attempts in Lebanon in the aftermath of Israel's 1982 invasion; in his taming of the Khmer Rouge and his repatriation of four-hundred-thousand Cambodian refugees in the early nineties; in his efforts to negotiate an end to the slaughter in Bosnia; in his struggle to nation-build in war-torn societies during his quasi-colonial governorships of Kosovo and East Timor; and through his tragic final posting as the UN representative in Baghdad, where he became the victim of the country's first-ever suicide bomb. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Torture : when the unthinkable is morally permissible Bagaric, Mirko. 365.6 B24TO Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Elvis is titanic : classroom tales from the other Iraq Klaus, Ian, 1978- 370.956 K55EL In the spring of 2005, 26-year-old Ian Klaus arrived at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan. This is the poignant, funny, and eye-opening story of the semester he spent there teaching U.S. history and English in the thick of the war for hearts and minds. Inspired by the volunteerism of so many young Americans after 9/11, Klaus exchanges the abstraction of duty for an intimate involvement with individual lives. Among the Kurds, a perennially oppressed but seemingly indomitable people, he encounters both openhearted welcome and resentful suspicion--and soon learns firsthand how far even a trusted stranger can venture in this society. With assignments ranging from Elvis to Ellington, from baseball to Tocqueville, Klaus strives to illuminate the American way for charges initially far more attuned to our pop culture than our national ideals--and begins his own reexamination of truths we hold to be self-evident.--From publisher description. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	A splendid exchange : how trade shaped the world Bernstein, William J. 382 B53SP Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	From silver to cocaine : Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500-2000 382.09 F73T Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Bad samaritans : the myth of free trade and the secret history of capitalism Chang, Ha-Joon. 382.7 C44BA Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the World Is Flat orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide- open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, todays economic superpowersfrom the U.S. to Britain to his native Koreaall attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade andvia our proxies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organizationramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	The great Arab conquests : how the spread of Islam changed the world we live in Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.). 909.09 K46GR Includes sections on Alexandria, Anatolia, Antioch, Armenia, Baghdad, Basra, Byzantine Empire, Carthage, Constantinople, Cordova, Ctesiphon, Damascus, Jerusalem, Khurasan, Kish, Mecca, Medina, Merv, Palestine, Qayrawan, Samarqand, Soghdia, Transoxania, Tripoli, Yemen. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	China's geography : globalization and the dynamics of political, economic, and social change 915.1 V33CH Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Mirror of the Arab world : Lebanon in conflict Mackey, Sandra, 1937- 956.92 M19MI Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Fidel Castro : my life : a spoken autobiography Castro, Fidel, 1926- 972.91 C27CA Fidel Castro is perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times. A dictatorial pariah to some, he has become a hero and inspiration for many of the world's poor, defiantly charting an independent and revolutionary path for Cuba over nearly half a century. Numerous attempts have been made to get Castro to tell his own story, but only now, in the twilight of his years, has he been prepared to set out the details for the world to read. Drawing on more than one hundred hours of interviews with journalist Ignacio Ramonet, a knowledgeable and trusted interlocutor, this spoken autobiography will stand as the definitive record of an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times.--From publisher description. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Monuments : America's history in art and memory Dupre, Judith, 1956- 973 D91MO Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	This republic of suffering : death and the American Civil War Faust, Drew Gilpin. 973.71 F38RE An illuminating study of the American struggle to comprehend the meaning and practicalities of death in the face of the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War. During the war, approximately 620,000 soldiers lost their lives. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. This book explores the impact of this enormous death toll from every angle: material, political, intellectual, and spiritual. Historian Faust delineates the ways death changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation and its understanding of the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. She describes how survivors mourned and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the slaughter with its belief in a benevolent God, and reconceived its understanding of life after death.--From publisher description. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Math Curriculum

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New Materials in Support of the Music Curriculum

Can't buy me love : the Beatles, Britain, and America Gould, Jonathan, 1951- 784.5 B38G Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Curriculum

	Farm Sanctuary : changing hearts and minds about animals and food Baur, Gene. 179.3 B38FA A founder of an organization dedicated to promoting the compassionate treatment of animals and combating factory farming addresses the ethics of breeding animals for food, exposing inhumane practices utilized by typical food- production companies. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Out of the storm : the life and legacy of Martin Luther Wilson, Derek A. 270.6092 L97W Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Psychology Curriculum

American transcendentalism : a history Gura, Philip F., 1950- 141.3 G92AM Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Natural Sciences Curriculum

	Astrophysics is easy! : an introduction for the amateur astronomer Inglis, Mike, 1954- 523.1 IN43AS Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel Kaku, Michio. 530 K18PH Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Evolution and creationism : a documentary and reference guide Young, Christian C. REF 576.8 Y63EV Contains Primary Source Material". Also include summary, "Includes articles on intelligent design and school board debates surrounding the issue. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Your inner fish : a journey into the 3.5-billion-year history of the human body Shubin, Neil. 611 SH88YO Neil Shubin, a leading paleontologist and professor of anatomy who discovered Tiktaalik--the "missing link" that made headlines around the world in April 2006--tells the story of evolution by tracing the organs of the human body back millions of years, long before the first creatures walked the earth. By examining fossils and DNA, Shubin shows us that our hands actually resemble fish fins, our head is organized like that of a long-extinct jawless fish, and major parts of our genome look and function like those of worms and bacteria.--From piblisher description. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Welcome to your brain : why you lose your car keys but never forget how to drive and other puzzles of everyday life Aamodt, Sandra. 612.8 AA55WE Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	In defense of food : an eater's manifesto Pollan, Michael. 613.2 P64IN "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." Indeed, plain old eating is being replaced by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Pollan's advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Looking at what science does and does not know about diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about what to eat, informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the nutrient-by-nutrient approach.--From publisher description. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Snake oil science : the truth about complementary and alternative medicine Bausell, R. Barker, 1942- 615.5 B29SN Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Chemistry of the environment Newton, David E. REF 628 N35CH Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Uncertain peril : genetic engineering and the future of seeds Cummings, Claire Hope, 1943- 631.5 C86UN Examines the rise of industrial agriculture and plant biotechnology, the fall of public interest science, and the folly of patenting seeds. The author suggests how green technologies and new approaches to food and farming methods will provide a way out of this growing predicament. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Why it sells : decoding the meanings of brand names, logos, ads, and other marketing and advertising ploys Danesi, Marcel, 1946- 658.8 D25WH Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Art Curriculum

Things Japanese Bornoff, Nicholas. 745 B67TH Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Athletics Curriculum

No new materials this month

New Materials in Support of the Economics Curriculum

	How the Chinese economy works Guo, Rongxing. 330.951 G85HO Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Con$umed : how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole Barber, Benjamin R., 1939- 339.4 B37CO Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the English Curriculum

	Zadie Smith : critical essays 823 SM45W Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Writing identity : the politics of contemporary Afro-Brazilian literature Oliveira, Emanuelle. 860.9 OL43WR Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Aesthetics of equilibrium : the vanguard poetics of Vicente Huidobro and Mario de Andrade Willis, Bruce Dean, 1968- 861 W44AE Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Central at the margin : five Brazilian women writers Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner (Renata Ruth Mautner), 1941- 869.3 W25CE Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Central at the margin : five Brazilian women writers Wasserman, Renata R. Mautner (Renata Ruth Mautner), 1941- 869.3 W25CE Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the History and Social Sciences Curriculum

	Made to stick : why some ideas survive and others die Heath, Chip. 302.1 H34MA Urban legends, conspiracy theories, and bogus public-health scares circulate effortlessly. Meanwhile, people with important ideas--business people, teachers, politicians, journalists, and others--struggle to make their ideas "stick." Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? Educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the "human scale principle," using the "Velcro Theory of Memory," and creating "curiosity gaps." In this fast-paced tour of success stories (and failures), we discover that sticky messages of all kinds--from the infamous "kidney theft ring" hoax to a coach's lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony--draw their power from the same six traits. This book that will transform the way you communicate ideas.--From publisher description. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Shades of white : white kids and racial identities in high school Perry, Pamela, 1955- 305.235 P34SH Through ethnographic research and in-depth interviews of students in two demographically distinct U.S. high schools-- one suburban and predominantly white; the other urban, multiracial, and minority white-- Perry shares students' candor about race and self-identification. By examining the meanings students attached (or didn't attach) to their social lives and everyday cultural practices, including their taste in music and clothes, she shows that the ways white students defined white identity were not only markedly different between the two schools but were considerably diverse and ambiguous within them as well. Challenging reductionist notions of whiteness and white racism, this study suggests how we might go "beyond whiteness" to new directions in antiracist activism and school reform. Shades of White is emblematic of an emerging second wave of whiteness studies that focuses on the racial identity of whites. It will appeal to scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as to those involved with high school education and antiracist activities. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	The first modern campaign : Kennedy, Nixon, and the election of 1960 Donaldson, Gary. 324.973 D71FI Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	For the soul of mankind : the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War Leffler, Melvyn P., 1945- 327.73 L51FO Includes sections on Afghanistan, Africa, Yuri Andropov,Lavrenty Beria, Leonid Brezhnev, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, China, John Foster Dulles, Dwight David Eisenhower, Ethiopia, German Democratic Republic, Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Gromyko, Iran, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Kikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, Georgi Malenkov, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), nuclear weapons, Ronald Reagan, Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) I and II, Harry Truman". Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Against the tide : how a compliant Congress empowered a reckless president Chafee, Lincoln D., 1953- 328.73 C39AG "Lincoln Chafee offers a behind-the-scenes look at the firstsix years of the Bush Administration from the vantage point of one of the few Republican moderates in the Senate." Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Young J. Edgar : Hoover, the Red Scare, and the assault on civil liberties Ackerman, Kenneth D. 353.007 H76A Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	The Manhattan project : the birth of the atomic bomb in the worlds of its creators, eyewitnesses, and historians 355.8 M313 Includes primary source material. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Phillips Academy newsclips 373.7 An2ne Spring 2008 Check Amazon by Title
	Hip to the trip : a cultural history of Route 66 Dedek, Peter B., 1964- 388 D41HI Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Riben ren de chuan shuo yu xin ling Kawai, Hayao, 1928-2007. C 398.2 K32JA Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Human smoke : the beginning of the Second World War and the end of civilization Baker, Nicholson. 940.53 B25HU Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Shards of memory : narratives of Holocaust survival 940.53 SH27L "As the last Holocaust survivors die, their testimonialsmake the transition from memory to history. In this compelling volume, Yehudi Lindeman, Director of the Living Testimonials Video Archive in Montreal, shares compelling stories of survival and triumph collected from years of interviews with those who lived through the most harrowing decade of the 20th century. Here are 25 tales of courage and loss, representing the experiences of women, men, and children who either survived the death camps or lived in hiding, and of their rescuers and redeemers." . NOTE = Includes primary source material. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	The elusive revolution; anatomy of a student revolt Aron, Raymond, 1905- 944.083 Ar6 Check Amazon by Title
	One soldier's war Babchenko, Arkadii. 947.5 B33ON A young Russian soldier offers a harrowing chronicle of his experiences in the Chechen wars that captures the fear, chaos, hardship, drudgery, and brutality of modern warfare, documenting his personal odyssey from naive, teenage conscript to battle-hardened soldier. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Darfur's sorrow : a history of destruction and genocide Daly, M. W. 962.4 D25DA Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Papers of John Adams Adams, John, 1735-1826. 973.4 AD18TA Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	The Black Hawk War of 1832 Jung, Patrick J., 1963- 973.5 J86BL Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	A terrible glory : Custer and the Little Bighorn-- the last great battle of the American West Donovan, Jim, 1954- 973.8 D73TE Includes sections on Frederick Benteen, Cheyennes, CrazyHorse, George Crook, Elizabeth "Libbie" Bacon Custer, George Armstrong Custer, Dakota column, John Gibbon, Lakotas (Tetons), nontreaty Indians, Plains Indians, Marcus Reno, Reno court of inquiry (1879), Seventh Cavalry, Philip Henry Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman, Sitting Bull, Alfred H. Terry, Thomas Weir. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Math Curriculum

Group theory in the bedroom and other mathematical diversions Hayes, Brian. 512.2 H28GR The author, a regular contributor to American Scientist, looksat a variety of problems and solutions from a distinctly mathematical point of view. He discusses the inner workings of a clock (the award winning essay "Clock of Ages") to the dilemma of mattress flipping. Each essay includes some afterthoughts where he addresses readers' responses and problems with the original essays. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Music Curriculum

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New Materials in Support of the Philosophy and Religious Studies Curriculum

War crimes and just war May, Larry. 172.42 M27WA Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Psychology Curriculum

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New Materials in Support of the Natural Sciences Curriculum

	Nuclear waste stalemate : political and scientific controversies Vandenbosch, Robert, 1932- 363.72 V23NU Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Science for sale : the perils, rewards, and delusions of campus capitalism Greenberg, Daniel S., 1931- 500 G82SC Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Very special relativity : an illustrated guide Bais, Sander. 530.11 B25VE Using graphs and illustrations, the author offers a clear and straightforward explanation of Einstein's "Special Theory of Relativity." A good introduction to the topic. Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Golden wings and hairy toes : encounters with New England's most imperiled wildlife McLeish, Todd. 578.6 M25GO Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	Ultralongevity : the seven-step program for a younger, healthier you Liponis, Mark, 1958- 613.2 L44ULT Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title
	The story of tea : a cultural history and drinking guide Heiss, Mary Lou. 641.3 H41ST Check Amazon by ISBN | Check Amazon by Title

New Materials in Support of the Theater and Dance Curriculum

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New Materials in Support of the World Languages Curriculum

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