January New Books

January 2018 New Books

Criminal Justice

• Locked in : the true causes of mass incarceration — and how to achieve real reform / John F. Pfaff.

• Women and capital punishment in the United States : an analytical history / David V. Baker.

• Writing the history of crime / Paul Knepper.

Education

• Blackballed : the black and white politics of race on America’s campuses / Lawrence Ross.

• How to be a researcher : a strategic guide for academic success / Jonathan St B T Evans.

• Toward a more perfect university / Jonathan R. Cole.

Fine Arts

• The banjo : America’s African instrument / Laurent Dubois.

• The ceramic presence in modern art : selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery / Sequoia Miller ; with an essay by John Stuart Gordon.

• Composing electronic music : a new aesthetic / Curtis Roads.

• The evolution of type : a graphic guide to 100 landmark typefaces : examining letters from metal type to open type / Tony Seddon ; foreword by Stephen Coles.

• Good charts : the HBR guide to making smarter, more persuasive data visualizations / Scott Berinato.

• Rock ‘n’ film : cinema’s dance with popular music / David E. James.

• Storytelling art studio : visual expressions of character, mood and theme using mixed media / Cathy Nichols.

History

• A knock on the door : the essential history of residential schools / from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada ; foreword by Phil Fontaine.

• The blood of Emmett Till / Timothy B. Tyson.

• The conflict in Ukraine / Serhy Yekelchyk.

• Fighters in the shadows : a new history of the French resistance / Robert Gildea.

• The gates of Europe : a history of Ukraine / Serhii Plokhy.

• ISIS : a history / Fawaz A. Gerges.

• The life and work of John C. Campbell / Olive Dame Campbell ; edited by Elizabeth McCutchen Williams.

• Pisgah National Forest : a history / Marci Spencer.

• The Princeton history of modern Ireland / edited by Richard Bourke & Ian McBride.

• Public history : a practical guide / Faye Sayer.

• Truman, Congress, and Korea : the politics of America’s first undeclared war / Larry Blomstedt.

• The war within : diaries from the Siege of Leningrad / Alexis Peri.

• Who is the historian? / Nigel A. Raab.

Language and Literature

• Collected poems, 1991-2000 / John Ashbery ; Mark Ford, editor ; chronology by Mark Ford and David Kermani.

• Critical survey of poetry : American poets, 4 volumes / editor, Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman.

• Critical survey of poetry : British, Irish, and Commonwealth poets, 3 volumes / editor, Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman.

• Critical survey of poetry : European poets, 3 volumes / editor, Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman.

• Critical survey of poetry : topical essays, 2 volumes / editor, Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman.

• Critical survey of poetry : world poets / editor, Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman.

• The Essential Goethe / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; edited and introduced by Matthew Bell.

• In the words of the winners : the Newbery and Caldecott medals, 2001-2010 / Association for Library Service to Children, the Horn Book.

• James Still : a life / Carol Boggess.

• Living on paper : letters from Iris Murdoch 1934-1995 / Iris Murdoch ; edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe.

• Masterplots, 12 volumes / editor, Laurence W. Mazzeno.

• Masterplots II. African American literature, 4 volumes / edited by Tyrone Williams.

• Reading trauma narratives : the contemporary novel & the psychology of oppression / Laurie Vickroy.

• Reflections on the New River : new essays, poems and personal stories / edited by Chris Arvidson, Scot Pope and Julie E. Townsend.

• Rough fugue : poems / Betty Adcock.

• Sophocles : four tragedies : Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus / a new verse translation by Oliver Taplin.

• Why write? : collected nonfiction, 1960-2013 / Philip Roth.

Math and Natural Sciences

• Coming of age at the end of nature : a generation faces living on a changed planet / edited by Julie Dunlap & Susan A. Cohen ; foreword by Bill McKibben.

• Dragonflies and damselflies of the East / Dennis Paulson.

• Energy revolution : the physics and the promise of efficient technology / Mara Prentiss.

• The gene : an intimate history / Siddhartha Mukherjee.

• Life 3.0 : being human in the age of artificial intelligence / Max Tegmark.

• The Serengeti rules : the quest to discover how life works and why it matters / Sean B. Carroll.

Nursing

• The A-Z guide to food as medicine / Diane Kraft, Ara DerMarderosian.

• American Indian health and nursing / Margaret P. Moss, editor.

• Remaking the American patient : how Madison Avenue and modern medicine turned patients into consumers / Nancy Tomes.

P.E. and Recreation

• Child’s play : sport in kids’ worlds / edited by Michael A. Messner and Michela Musto.

• Sex segregation in sports : why separate is not equal / Adrienne N. Milner and Jomills Henry Braddock, II.

• Sport management : the basics / Rob Wilson and Mark Piekarz.

Religion and Philosophy

• The Enlightenment : a very short introduction / John Robertson.

• Handbook of women biblical interpreters : a historical and biographical guide / Marion Ann Taylor, editor ; Agnes Choi, associate editor.

• The mind illuminated : a complete meditation guide integrating Buddhist wisdom and brain science for greater mindfulness / Culadasa (John Yates, PhD) and Matthew Immergut, PhD, with Jeremy Graves.

• Nestle-aland Novum Testamentum Graece 28 / Institute for New Testament Textual Research.

• What is Islam? : the importance of being Islamic / Shahab Ahmed.

Social Sciences

• A very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin’s war with the West / Luke Harding.

• Afterglow : a dog memoir / Eileen Myles.

• The age of scientific sexism : how evolutionary psychology promotes gender profiling and fans the battle of the sexes / Mari Ruti.

• Ctrl + Z : the right to be forgotten / Meg Leta Jones.

• Exiting the extraordinary : returning to the ordinary world after war, prison, and other extraordinary experiences / Frances V. Moulder.

• Getting gamers : the psychology of video games and their impact on the people who play them / Jamie Madigan.

• Getting high : marijuana through the ages / John Charles Chasteen.

• The girl at the baggage claim : explaining the East-West culture gap / Gish Jen.

• The good death : an exploration of dying in America / Ann Neumann.

• The Hamlet Fire : a tragic story of cheap food, cheap government, and cheap lives / Bryant Simon.

• How I shed my skin : unlearning the racist lessons of a southern childhood / Jim Grimsley.

• Inside campaigns : elections through the eyes of political professionals / William J. Feltus, Kenneth M. Goldstein, Matthew Dallek.

• Justice at a distance : extending freedom globally / Loren E. Lomasky, Fernando R. Tesón.

• Mayhem : a memoir / Sigrid Rausing.

• Memorials to shattered myths : Vietnam to 9/11 / Harriet F. Senie.

• The moral complexities of eating meat / edited by Ben Bramble and Bob Fischer.

• The ultimate search book : U.S. adoption, genealogy & other search secrets / by Lori Carangelo.

• The UN Security Council in the twenty-first century / edited by Sebastian von Einsiedel, David M. Malone, Bruno Stagno Ugarte.

Curriculum

• Nyxia / Scott Reintgen.

• Trailing Tennessee / Cory Wheeler Mimms.

• Warcross / Marie Lu.

Fiction

• American war / Omar El Akkad.

• Best American short stories 2017 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Meg Wolitzer with Heidi Pitlor.

• The best kind of people : a novel / Zoe Whittall.

• Complete stories, 2 volumes / Peter Taylor ; Ann Beattie, editor.

• Extraordinary adventures / Daniel Wallace.

• The girls : a novel / Emma Cline.

• If I loved you, I would tell you this : stories / Robin Black.

• Prayers the devil answers : a novel / Sharyn McCrumb.

• Prince Lestat and the realms of Atlantis / Anne Rice.

• The rules of magic / Alice Hoffman.

• Signals : new and selected stories / Tim Gautreaux.

• Supernova / C.A. Higgins.