Wednesday, May 14, 2008

New Books Available!

114 new books are on display in the New Book Area! Browse some of your favorite topics, catch up with what's happening in the world, or discover a new interest. Bring your SWC photo ID card with you to check a book out for 4 weeks.


Leisure Reading New Books


3130
A new earth : awakening to your life's purpose
Tolle, Eckhart

3131
My mistress's sparrow is dead : great love stories from Chekhov to Munro
Eugenides, Jeffrey (ed)





Main Stacks New Books

BF637.P4 F55 2003
Persuasive technology : using computers to change what we think and do

BJ37 .W47 2007
Creative problem-solving in ethics

BL2540 .R45 2006
Religion in Latin America : a documentary history

BR563.M49 M33 2006
Sea la luz : the making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900

D20.E82 2004
The human venture : from prehistory to the present

D57 .B38 2007
The history of the ancient world : from the earliest accounts to the fall of Rome

DG311 .M66 2007
A history of the later Roman Empire, AD 284-641 : the transformation of the ancient world

DG551 .D84 2008
The force of destiny : a history of Italy since 1796

DS79.76 .R33 2007
The long road home : a story of war and family

DS389.22.B48 A3 2008
Reconciliation : Islam, democracy, and the West

DS706 .C4873 2007
China : [people, place, culture, history]

DS735 .L42 2007
The Early Chinese Empires : Qin and Han

DT73.B44 H39 2006
The royal tombs of Egypt : the art of Thebes revealed

E178.1.A4894 1995
America past and present : volume one to 1877

E184.M5 B35 2006
Decade of betrayal : Mexican repatriation in the 1930s

E185.61 .R59 2006
Growing up Jim Crow : how Black and White southern children learned race

E185.86 .F65 2008
The race card : how bluffing about bias makes race relations worse

E185.86 .K57 2005
African American childhoods : historical perspectives from slavery to civil rights

E450.W325 B58 2007
A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation

E457.2 .M645 2008
President Lincoln : the duty of a statesman

F1221.Z3 M375 2007
Sons of the Sierra : Juárez, Díaz, and the people of Ixtlán, Oaxaca, 1855-1920

F1232.S232 F69 2007
Santa Anna of Mexico

F1412 .C48 2008
Americanos : Latin America's struggle for independence

F1569.D3 F47 2006
Writing from the edge of the world : the memoirs of Darién, 1514-1527

GE 140 E824 2008
The environment : a revolution in attitudes

GV14 R328 2008
Sports in America : recreation, business, education, and controversy

GV546 S382 1997
Power factor training : a scientific approach to building lean muscle mass

GV837 B32 2005
Synchronized swimming : an American history

GV1785.F8 G37 2007
Electric Salome : Loie Fuller's performance of modernism

HC135 .C44 2006
Changing structure of Mexico : political, social, and economic prospects

HD57.7 .R658 2008
Just enough anxiety : the hidden driver of business success

HD2333 .F59 2008
The work from home handbook : flex your time, improve your life

HD9710.J34 T6528 2007
How Toyota became #1 : leadership lessons from the world's greatest car company

HE8700.72.U6 C355 2007
Cable visions : television beyond broadcasting

HF5548.8 .H625 2007
Best practices : Difficult people : working effectively with prickly bosses, coworkers, and clients

HF5549.17 .S55 2007
Best practices. Managing people : secrets to leading for new managers

HF5549.5.E429 R67 2004
The safe hiring manual : the complete guide to keeping criminals, imposters and terrorists out of the workplace

HF5549.5.M63 S59 2007
Best practices. Motivating employees : bringing out the best in your people

HF5549.5.S38 S35 2007
Best practices. Hiring people : recruit and keep the brightest stars

HM1121 .C64 2008
Violence : a micro-sociological theory

HQ57.5.A3 L85 2006
When sex goes to school : warring views on sex--and sex education--since the sixties

HQ115 .P74 2006
Prostitution and pornography : philosophical debate about the sex industry

HQ767 A26 2008
Abortion : an eternal social and moral issue

HQ772 .G87 2007
Nurture the nature : understanding and supporting your child's unique core personality

HQ1236 .M337 2006
Are women human? : and other international dialogues

HQ1402 W653 2008
Women in American society

HV1461.G7 2008
Growing old in America

HV5801 .D415 2008
Drug smugglers on drug smuggling : lessons from the inside

HV8694 C36 2008
Capital punishment : cruel and unusual?

JK1726 .J33 2008
Racial paranoia : the unintended consequences of political correctness : the new reality of race in America

KF3022.Z9 F57 2006
The public domain : how to find & use copyright-free writings, music, art & more

LB2328 .N4 v.141
Governance in the community college

LB2376.4 .B48 2007
International students in American colleges and universities : a history

LB2846 E345 2008
Education : meeting America's needs?

ML419.C645 R37 2007
Coltrane : the story of a sound

ML3531 .D95 2007
Know what I mean? : reflections on hip-hop

ML3531 .S27 2007
Third coast : OutKast, Timbaland, and how hip-hop became a southern thing

ML3534 .H49 2005
From the Velvets to the Voidoids : the birth of American punk rock

N6538.A83 O54 2006
One way or another : Asian American art now

NC1420 .D49 2007
The art of ill will : the story of American political cartoons

PE1413 .B28 2006
Academic writing : a handbook for international students

PG3326 .Z4 1992
Notes from the underground

PL813.K3 H36213 2007
The curious casebook of Inspector Hanshichi : detective stories of old Edo

PL830.W33 J5913 2006
School of freedom

PL832.A92 S513 2007
Mistress Oriku : stories from a Tokyo teahouse

PL872.5.A3 T3513 2007
Woman on the other shore

PL875.5.U46 .H913 2006
The hundred-yen singer

PN1992.8.M52 J64 2008
Heartland TV : prime time television and the struggle for U.S. identity

PN1993.5.U6 H37 2008
Pictures at a revolution : five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood

PQ7440.P3863 C84 2006
Cuestión de hombres

PS3619.A57 G48 2008
Ghosts of El Grullo

PZ7.F844 .C6729 2008
Corduroy

PZ7.H2436 M29 2008
Maybe a bear ate it!

PZ7.M47825 B728 2006
Brave Bitsy and the bear

PZ8.I84 T824 2007
The twelve dancing princesses

QA802 .C76 2007
Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein

QB65 .K345 2007
Star maps : a history, artistry, and cartography

QB541 .M63 2007
Total solar eclipses and how to observe them

QC879.8 .G62 2007
How to live a low-carbon life : the individual's guide to stopping climate change

QC981.8.C5 H63 2007
Carbon strategies : how leading companies are reducing their climate change footprint

QE392 O385 2008
Gems of the world

QH31.C33 L98 2007
The gentle subversive : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement

QH31.M4516 T63 2007
Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis

QH84.8 .N36 2007
Life in the soil : a guide for naturalists and gardeners

QK149 .H38 2007
Trees of the California landscape : a photographic manual of native and ornamental trees

QK938.M27 H64 2007
The biology of mangroves and seagrasses

QL737.P96 G553 2000
The nature of great apes : our next of kin

QP376 .F686 2007
Making up the mind : how the brain creates our mental world

RA639 .G73 2006
The vector- and rodent-borne diseases of Europe and North America : their distribution and public health burden

RA781.8 .C4694 2005
The inner structure of tai chi : mastering the classic forms of tai chi chi kung

RA784 .P643 2008
In defense of food : an eater's manifesto

RC143 .S28 2007
Death in the pot : the impact of food poisoning on history

RC547 .S554 2006
Sleep disorders and sleep deprivation : an unmet public health problem

RC560.C46 S478 2008
Pedophilia and sexual offending against children : theory, assessment, and intervention

RC600 .N35 2008
The autoimmune epidemic : bodies gone haywire in a world out of balance-- and the cutting-edge science that promises hope

RC607.A26 A34 2008
AIDS/HIV

RC1220.F6 O43 2008
Play hard die young : football dementia, depression and death

RG525 .M87 2008
What to expect when you're expecting

RG960 .B585 2007
Pushed : the painful truth about childbirth and modern maternity care

RJ506.A9 G74 2006
Engaging autism : using the floortime approach to help children relate, communicate, and think

RM263 .D44 2006
The cult of pharmacology : how America became the world's most troubled drug culture

RM931.A65 P53 2007
Animal-assisted brief therapy : a solution-focused approach

SB475.83 .D86 2007
Rain gardens : managing water sustainably in the garden and designed landscape

SD421.24 .D47 2007
On the fireline : living and dying with wildland firefighters

T385 .A4555 2007
AutoCAD : professional tips and techniques

T385 .B97 2007
AutoCAD 2008 for dummies

TK9146 .C65 2007
Power to save the world : the truth about nuclear energy

TR 690 A1 P48 2008
Photo annual

TX360.U6 N47 2007
Food politics : how the food industry influences nutrition and health

UB418.G38 E77 2007
Ask & tell : gay and lesbian veterans speak out

ZA4080 .W48 2007
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