Monday, June 16, 2008

New Books Available!

Over 90 new books are on display in the New Book Area!

Bring your SWC photo ID card with you to check a book out for 4 weeks.

Leisure Reading
3132
Three cups of tea : one man's mission to promote peace -- one school at a time (2 copies)
Mortenson, Greg

3133
Ridiculous/hilarious/terrible/cool : a year in an American high school
Cooper, Elisha

3134
Amá, your story is mine : walking out of the shadows of abuse
Cedeño, Ercenia

3135
If I'd known then : women in their 20s and 30s write letters to their younger selves
edited by Ellyn Spragins

3136
Have you found her : a memoir
Erlbaum, Janice

3137
Child 44
Smith, Tom Rob

3138
The calling
Wolfe, Inger Ash

Stacks
B105.C477 R63 2008
Consciousness and mental life

BF456.N7 B94 2007
How mathematicians think : using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics

BF717 .E397 2007
The power of play : how spontaneous, imaginative activities lead to happier, healthier children

BF717 .L56 2008
The case for make believe : saving play in a commercialized world

BF724 .S23 2007
When no one understands : letters to a teenager on life, loss, and the hard road to adulthood

BL53 .N49 2006
Why we believe what we believe : uncovering our biological need for meaning, spirituality, and truth

BL312 .A76 2005
A short history of myth

BL1202 .R55 2006
Essential Hinduism

BP603 .D38 2006
The visionary state : a journey through California's spiritual landscape

DP53.I2 A75
The Iberians

DP66 .V513
Approaches to the history of Spain

DS79.76 .H3758 2006
Insurgency and counter-insurgency in Iraq

DS318.84.A36 N35 2008
Ahmadinejad : the secret history of Iran's radical leader

E83.876 .D66 2008
A terrible glory : Custer and the Little Bighorn-- the last great battle of the American West

E184.M88 M38 2006
Transnational Muslims in American society

E185.61 .N478 2004
The civil rights movement

E902 .L557 2007
Controversies of the George W. Bush presidency : pro and con documents

F220.A1 S65 2006
There goes my everything : white Southerners in the age of civil rights, 1945-1975

F1210 .S699 2006
A companion to Mexican studies

F1219.1.B3 P74 2006
The prehistory of Baja California : advances in the archaeology of the forgotten peninsula

F3429 .S22413 2007
The history of the Incas

G860 .C66 2007
Antarctica : the global warning (+DVD)

GR111.M49 H47 2006
Chicano folklore : a handbook

GT2845 .A84 2007
The dirt on clean : an unsanitized history

GV452 .M35 2004
Purposeful play : early childhood movement activities on a budget

GV706.3 .R67 2007
The erosion of the American sporting ethos : shifting attitudes toward competition

GV859 .8 P693 2008
Skateboarding skills : the rider's guide

GV863.A1 W445 2008
Far from home : Latino baseball players in America

GV1005 .S46 1997
Winning table tennis

GV1017.H7 M58 2005
Field hockey techniques & tactics

GV1111 .M383 2007
Self-defense : steps to survival

GV1111 .T69 2006
Self-defense for peaceable people

GV1195 P752 2005
The ultimate guide to weight training for wrestling

GV1196.3 .K45 1990
Successful wrestling : coaches' guide for teaching basic to advanced skills

HC79.E5 B759 2008
Plan B 3.0 : mobilizing to save civilization

HC435.3 .M47 2007
The elephant and the dragon : the rise of India and China and what it means for all of us

HD9666.5 .P415 2008
Our daily meds : how the pharmaceutical companies transformed themselves into slick marketing machines and hooked the nation on prescription drugs

HE8689.8 .K625 2007
Fighting for air : the battle to control America's media

HG540 .K37 2008
Biography of the dollar : how the mighty buck conquered the world and why it's under siege

HM851 .S25 2007
The Internet and society : a reference handbook

HM1051 .M85 2006
Everyone is NOT doing it : abstinence and personal identity

HQ784.V53 A53 2007
Violent video game effects on children and adolescents : theory, research, and public policy

HQ814 .C55 2006
Divorce : causes and consequences

HQ1418 .M36 2008
Seneca Falls and the origins of the women's rights movement

HV5831.C2 S54 2006
Beautiful boy : a father's journey through his son's meth addiction

HV9305.C2 D53 2006
Chicana lives and criminal justice : voices from el barrio

HV9471 .G67 2006
The prison and the gallows : the politics of mass incarceration in America

JK275 .R45 2007
Supercapitalism : the transformation of business, democracy, and everyday life

KF390.A96 E925 2006
Copyright companion for writers (+CD-ROM)

KF4291 .S28 2005
Legal aspects of the music industry : an insider's view

LB1028.3 .U849 2007
Using technology with classroom instruction that works

LB1044.87 C272 2007
An educator's guide to: Google Apps for education

LB2343.32 .A76 2005
Assessing conditions to enhance educational effectiveness : the inventory for student engagement and success

LC212.52 .T37 2007
Can we talk about race? : and other conversations in an era of school resegregation

LC2781 .C54 2007
Closing the African American achievement gap in higher education

NC1766.U52 D5375 2006
Walt Disney : the triumph of the American imagination

PN49 .K8613 2006
The curtain : an essay in seven parts

PN1995.63.K36 B87 2007
Banned in Kansas : motion picture censorship, 1915-1966

PN1995.9.S45 P437 2007
The history of sex in American film

PN2062 .S7613 2008
An actor's work : a student's diary

PN4888.W37 C66 2007
Reporting the war : freedom of the press from the American revolution to the War on terrorism

PS647.A35 A346 2006
African American literature beyond race : an alternative reader

PZ7.T117 B482 2008
Blue Goose

PZ73.G589 M8 2007
Mis colores, mi mundo = My colors, my world

QA22 .M3735 2007
The mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam : a sourcebook

QA76.76.O63 H34349 2000
Red Hat Linux for dummies (+ 2 CD-ROMs)

QA76.76.O63 R434 1999
Red Hat Linux 6.1 : the official Red Hat Linux reference guide

QA174.7.S96 D8 2008
Symmetry : a journey into the patterns of nature

QB461.3 .I55 2007
Astrophysics is easy! : a complete introduction for amateur astronomers

QC16.N7 A48 2006
Newton

QC981.8.C5 S5 2005
Shattered consensus : the true state of global warming

QH366.2 .S35 2008
Science, evolution, and creationism

QH541.15.B56 B557 2008
Biodiversity

QM181 .P48 2007
The heart

QP355.2 .B42 2007
Neuroscience : exploring the brain (+CD-ROM)

QP398 .A53 2005
The creating brain : the neuroscience of genius

R118 .P47 2007
Straight talk about cosmetic surgery

RA566.27 .G57 2006
What's toxic, what's not

RA644.C3 H46 2007
The strange case of the Broad Street pump : John Snow and the mystery of cholera

RC553.A88 G75 2007
Unstrange minds : remapping the world of autism

TD171.7 .Y373 2008
How to reduce your carbon footprint : 365 simple ways to save energy, resources, and money

TJ163.25.U6 B79 2008
Gusher of lies : the dangerous delusions of "energy independence"

TK6570.M6 F433 2007
Mobile persuasion : 20 perspectives on the future of behavior change

TK7888.3 .N57 2005
The elements of computing systems : building a modern computer from first principles

TK9969 .H36 2008
Do-it-yourself PC upgrade projects : 24 cool things you didn't know you could do!