Friday, September 17, 2010

New Books Available

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. A quote from Irish writer and politician Sir Richard Steele (bap. March 12, 1672 - September 1, 1729). Here's your chance to exercise your mind with a new book from our list of new book titles at Southwestern College library.

Don't forget to bring your SWC photo ID card with you to check out a new book. Think of it as your gym membership card for your mind. Items on the New Book Shelf can be checked out for 4 weeks.

Title / Call No.

Norwegian wood / 3212

Island beneath the sea : a novel / 3218

Ancestral roots : modern living and human evolution / BD450 .C5475 2009

The hidden brain : how our unconscious minds elect presidents, control markets, wage wars, and save our lives / BF315 .V399 2010

The genius in all of us : why everything you've been told about genetics, talent, and IQ is wrong / BF341 .S54 2010

You don't need a title to be a leader : how anyone, anywhere, can make a positive difference / BF637.L4 S255 2006

The art of thank you : crafting notes of gratitude / BJ1533.G8 L43 2002

Paris in the Middle Ages / DC707 .R67513 2009

Why we're all Romans : the Roman contribution to the Western world / DG77 .R53 2010

Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10 / DS371.413 .L87 2009

China / DS779.4 .O55 2010

Xinjiang : China's Muslim borderland / DS793.S62 X5632 2004

The house at Sugar Beach : in search of a lost African childhood / DT636.53.C66 A3 2009

Mandela's way : fifteen lessons on life, love, and courage / DT1974 .S74 2009

Muslims in America : a short history / E184.M88 C877 2009

That's no angry mob, that's my mom : team Obama's assault on Tea-Party, talk-radio Americans / E907 .G73 2010

The search for the Codex Cardona : on the trail of an sixteenth century mexican treasure / F1219.73 .B38 2009

Colonial blackness : a history of Afro-Mexico / F1392.B55 B467 2009

What anthropologists do / GN41.8 .S77 2009

Hair : styling, culture and fashion / GT2290 .H25 2008

Sports in America : recreation, business, education, and controversy / GV14 I62 2010

Gold medal physics : the science of sports / GV558 .G64 2010

King of the court : Bill Russell and the basketball revolution / GV884.R86 G68 2010

Identity economics : how our identities shape our work, wages, and well-being / HB74.P8 A4944 2010

Happiness around the world : the paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires / HB74.P8 G73 2009

How the economy works : confidence, crashes and self-fulfilling prophecies / HB95 .F37 2010

Capitalism / HB501 .C87 2010

The cost of capitalism : understanding market mayhem and stabilizing our economic future / HB3722 .B37 2009

The world economy / HB3722 .C87 2010

On the brink : inside the race to stop the collapse of the global financial system / HB3722 .P42 2010

Freefall : America, free markets, and the sinking of the world economy / HB3722 .S842 2010

Stabilizing an unstable economy / HB3732 .M56 2008

The U.S. economy / HC106.84 .C87 2010

Awakening giants, feet of clay : assessing the economic rise of China and India / HC427.95 .B37 2010

Bankruptcy for small business owners : how to file for chapter 7 / HD2346.U6 E45 2010

Social security / HD7125 .O55 2010

The local food movement / HD9000.5 .A74 2010

The coming famine : the global food crisis and what we can do to avoid it / HD9000.5 .C715 2010

The Alaska gas pipeline / HD9581.U53 A74 2010

The World Trade Organization / HF1385 .O55 2010

What's next, Gen X? : keeping up, moving ahead, and getting the career you want / HF5381 .E5855 2010

Shaping your career : expert solutions to everyday challenges. HF5381 .S5145 2008

What color is your parachute? : a practical manual for job-hunters and career-changers / HF5386 .B56 2010

Knock 'em dead 2010 : the ultimate job search guide / HF5549.5.I6 Y37 2009

Advertising / HF5831 .O55 2010

Financial planning for your first job / HG179 .B734 2009

Consumer debt / HG3755 .C87 2010

Saving capitalism from the capitalists : unleashing the power of financial markets to create wealth and spread opportunity / HG4523 .R345 2004

The federal budget / HJ2051 .O55 2010

A new American tea party : the counterrevolution against bailouts, handouts, reckless spending, and more taxes / HJ7537 .O43 2010

Social justice / HM671 .O55 2010

The wind doesn't need a passport : stories from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands / HN79.A165 H46 2010

Lesbian and gay parents and their children : research on the family life cycle / HQ75.27 .G65 2010

Lies at the altar : the truth about great marriages / HQ734 .S743 2006

Abortion : an eternal social and moral issue / HQ767 .I62 2010

Is media violence a problem? / HQ784.M3 A74 2010

Children and youth in a new nation / HQ792.U5 C424 2009

Me, MySpace, and I : parenting the net generation / HQ799.2.I5 R66 2007

Paradise beneath her feet : how women are transforming the Middle East / HQ1236.5.M65 C65 2010

Women in American society / HQ1402 I62 2010

The middle class / HT690.U6 O55 2010

Hurricane Katrina / HV551.4.G85 A74 2010

Growing old in America. HV1461 I62

Does the Internet increase crime? / HV6773 .A74 2010

Cyber war : the next threat to national security and what to do about it / HV6773.2 .C53 2010

Capital punishment : cruel and unusual? / HV8694 I62 2010

America's prisons / HV9471 .O55 2010

In the place of justice : a story of punishment and deliverance / HV9475.L22 L646 2010

Obama zombies : [how the liberal machine brainwashed my generation] / JC573.2.U6 M353 2010

Are privacy rights being violated? / JC596.2.U5 A74 2010

The Tea Party movement : why it started, what it's about, and how you can get involved / JK1764 .B39 2010

The craft artist's legal guide : protect your work, save on taxes, maximize profits / KF390.A69 S748 2010

Divorce after 50 : your guide to the unique legal & financial challenges / KF535.Z9 G738 2010

A legal guide for lesbian and gay couples / KF539.Z9 .C87 2010

Your rights in the workplace / KF3455.Z9 R47 2010

Immigrant rights in the shadows of citizenship / KF4819 .I49 2008

California tenants' rights / KFC145.Z9 .M68 2010

Everybody's guide to small claims court in California / KFC976.Z9 .W37 2010

The achievement gap / LB1062.6 .O55 2010

Preschool in three cultures revisited : China, Japan, and the United States / LB1140.25.J3 T63 2009

Online education / LB2328 .N4 v. 150

Teaching what you don't know / LB2331 .H875 2009

Adventures abroad : the student's guide to studying overseas / LB2375 .L64 2007

Education : meeting America's needs? / LB2846 I62

Homeschooling / LC40 .O55 2010

Mariachi / ML3485 .G74 2009

Cajun breakdown : the emergence of an American-made music / ML3560.C25 B73 2009

Animating space : from Mickey to Wall-E / NC1766.U5 T45 2010

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun : the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution / ND553.V5325 M39 2005

Marlene Dumas : intimate relations / ND653.D87 A4 2007

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard : artist in the age of revolution / ND1329.L32 A97 2009

The exceptional woman : Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the cultural politics of art / ND1329.V53 S54 1997

Losing our religion : the liberal media's attack on Christianity / PN4867.O45 C87 2010

El amor en los tiempos del cólera / PQ8180.17.A73 A8 1985

Crónica de una muerte anunciada / PQ8180.17.A73 C625 1993

To kill a mockingbird / PS3562.E44 T6 2006

To kill a mockingbird / PS3562.E44 T6 2006

Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird / PS3562.E44 T635 1984

Gloryland : a novel / PS3610.O383 G56 2009

The silent gift / PS3612.A5484 S55 2009

The lovely bones : a novel / PS3619.E26 L68 2009

The lovely bones : a novel / PS3619.E26 L68 2009

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / PS3619.H3365 G84 2008

Cutting for stone : a novel / PS3622.E744 C87 2010

The girl who kicked the hornet's nest / PT9876.22.A6933 L8413 2010

The girl with the dragon tattoo / PT9876.22.A6933 M3613 2008

Biblioburro : a true story from Colombia / PZ10.W4582 B415 2010

Essential math skills for engineers / QA37.3 .P39 2009

Applied mathematics for the managerial, life, and social sciences / QA37.3 .T358 2007

Applied mathematics for the managerial, life, and social sciences / QA37.3 .T358 2007

Thinking mathematically / QA39.3 .B59 2008

Thinking mathematically / QA39.3 .B59 2008

Prealgebra / QA107.2 .M37 2008

Prealgebra / QA107.2 .M37 2008

Knowing and teaching elementary mathematics : teachers' understanding of fundamental mathematics in China and the United States / QA135.5 .M22 2010

Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman! : adventures of a curious character / QC16.F49 A37 1997

The Gulf of California : biodiversity and conservation / QH95.4 .G85 2010

Human genetics / QH431 .C87 2010

Biodiversity / QH541.15.B56 A74 2010

Fishes of the open ocean : a natural history & illustrated guide / QL620 .P46 2010

The nesting season : cuckoos, cuckolds, and the invention of monogamy / QL698.3 .H435 2010

A field guide to the mammals of Central America & Southeast Mexico / QL723.A1 R45 2009

The microbe files : cases in microbiology for the undergraduate with answers / QR46 .C867 2002

Superbug : the fatal menace of MRSA / QR201.S68 M45 2010

The Latina guide to health : consejos and caring answers / RA778.4.H57 D445 2010

Wilderness and rescue medicine : a practical guide for the basic and advanced practitioner / RC88.9.O95 I83 2007

Everything changes : the insider's guide to cancer in your 20s and 30s / RC263 .R645 2009

The everything health guide to living with breast cancer : an accessible and comprehensive resource for women / RC280.B8 C3954 2009

The faces of intellectual disability : philosophical reflections / RC570.2 .C37 2010

AIDS / HIV. RC607 I62 A34

Get me out : a history of childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the sperm bank / RG651 .E67 2010

Intellectual disability : a guide for families and professionals / RJ506.M4 H375 2010

Factory farming / SF140.L58 C87 2010

Rescuing Sprite : a dog lover's story of joy and anguish / SF426.2 .L47 2009

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 : introductory concepts and techniques / T385 .S427 2008

The environment : a revolution in attitudes. TD169 I62

The pocket idiot's guide to your carbon footprint / TD885.5.C3 .G73 2008

Losing our cool : uncomfortable truths about our air-conditioned world (and finding new ways to get through the summer) / TH687.5 .C69 2010

The complete photo guide to home improvement / TH4817.3 .C654 2009

Offshore drilling / TN871.3 .O55 2010

California on the breadlines : Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the making of a New Deal narrative / TR140.L3 G645 2010

Breaking bread : recipes and stories from immigrant kitchens / TX725.A1 A564 2010

The armed forces / UA10 .O55 2010

War, coups & terror : Pakistan's army in years of turmoil / UA853.P3 C63 2008

Biological and chemical weapons / UG447.8 .A74 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

New Books Available


The start of a new month brings new book titles into the library. Bring your student ID card with you and browse the New Book shelf or come by and check out one of our 120 new book titles listed below.


Title / Call No.
The smart one and the pretty one / 3155

Can you keep a secret? / 3189

The help / 3206

Duchess of death : the unauthorized biography of Agatha Christie / 3209

South of Broad : a novel / 3210

The other queen / 3211

Japanese mythology. BL2202 .P5 1969

Capture the flag : the stars and stripes in American history / CR113 .T4613 2010

Chronicles of the Crusades / D151 .J64 2008

Dungeon, fire, and sword : the Knights Templar in the crusades / D160 .R62 1991

The last crusaders : the hundred-year battle for the centre of the world / D214 .R63 2010

Japanese American resettlement through the lens : Hikaru Carl Iwasaki and the WRA's Photographic Section, 1943-1945 / D769.8.A6 H578 2009

Infidel / DJ292.H57 A3 2008


Dragon Fighter : one woman's epic struggle for peace with China / DS793.E2 K2413 2009


The African diaspora : a history through culture / DT16.5 .M35 2009


Cleopatra : a biography / DT92.7 .R65 2010


Acts of faith : the story of an American Muslim, the struggle for the soul of a generation / E184.M88 P38 2007


NAACP : celebrating a century : 100 years in pictures / E185.5.N276 N32 2009


Founders : the people who brought you a nation / E208 .R248 2009


American insurgents, American patriots : the revolution of the people / E209 .B76 2010
Betsy Ross

and the making of America / E302.6.R77 M54 2010


David Ruggles : a radical black abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City / E449.R94 H63 2010


Making haste from Babylon : the Mayflower Pilgrims and their world : a new history / F68 .B936 2010


Partly colored : Asian Americans and racial anomaly in the segregated South / F220.A75 B69 2010


The new Miami, the magic city / F319.M6 P27 2008


The other side of the fence : American migrants in Mexico / F1392.A5 C76 2009


Monuments of the Incas / F3429 .H38 2010


The story of stuff : how our obsession with stuff is trashing the planet, our communities, and our health--and a vision for change / GN406 .L46 2010


How to start a home-based personal trainer business / GV428.7 .A94 2010


The last hero : a life of Henry Aaron / GV865.A25 B79 2010


Bowled over : big-time college football from the sixties to the BCS era / GV950 .O7 2009


Hard driving : the Wendell Scott story, the American odyssey of NASCAR's first Black driver / GV1032.S36 D65 2009


The big short : inside the doomsday machine / HC106.83 .L5 2010


The Chinese economy : transitions and growth / HC427.95 .N38 2007


The women's small business start-up kit : a step-by-step legal guide / HD6053 .P35 2010


The energy crisis / HD9560.5 A74 2010


Oil : money, politics, and power in the 21st century / HD9560.5 .B68 2010


Cars in America / HD9710.U62 O55 2010


Use your head to get your foot in the door : job search secrets no one else will tell you / HF5382.7 .M324 2010


Getting started with OpenOffice.org 3 / HF5548.4.O57 O643 2008


The banking crisis / HG1573 .O55 2010


Gandhi and beyond : nonviolence for an age of terrorism / HM1281 .C6715 2006


Nonviolence : the history of a dangerous idea / HM1281 .K86 2008


The politics of happiness : what government can learn from the new research on well-being / HN60 .B63 2010


The opinion makers : an insider exposes the truth behind the polls / HN90.P8 M65 2009


Children and the entertainment industry / HQ784.T4 O55 2010


Elizabeth Cady Stanton : an American life / HQ1413.S67 G43 2009


Judging victims : why we stigmatize survivors, and how they reclaim respect / HV6250.25 .D86 2010


The everything guide to careers in law enforcement : a complete handbook to an exciting and rewarding life of service / HV8143 .B24 2007


John Douglas's guide to landing a career in law enforcement / HV8143 .D675 2005


Voter fraud / JK1994 .A74 2010


The Magna Carta manifesto : liberties and commons for all / JN147 .L56 2008


Not fit for our society : nativism and immigration / JV6121 .S35 2010


Migra! : a history of the U.S. Border Patrol / JV6483 .H45 2010


Divided by borders : Mexican migrants and their children / JV7402 .D74 2010


Globalization : the transformation of social worlds / JZ1318 .G679 2009


The judge who hated red nail polish : & other crazy but true stories of law & lawyers / K184 .B73 2010


The guilt project : rape, morality, and law / KF221.S49 P58 2010


Mandatory minimum sentencing / KF9685 .O55 2010


The death and life of the great American school system : how testing and choice are undermining education / LA217.2 .R38 2010


Catching readers before they fall : supporting readers who struggle, K-4 / LB1525.76 .J64 2010


No more "I'm done!" : fostering independent writing in the primary grades / LB1631 .J34 2010


Student success in community colleges : a practical guide to developmental education / LB2328 .S94 2010


Leadership for a better world : understanding the social change model of leadership development / LB2341 .K66 2009


Success strategies for teaching kids with autism / LC4717 .A75 2010


Oye como va! : hybridity and identity in Latino popular music / ML3917.U6 P33 2010


Maira Kalman : various illuminations (of a crazy world) / N6537.K236 A4 2010


Barbara Kruger / N6537.K78 B37 2010


Tracey Emin : 20 years / N6797.E486 A4

2008
From word to image : storyboarding and the filmmaking process / NC1002.S85 B44 2010


Directing the story : professional storytelling and storyboarding techniques for live action and animation / PN1995.9.P7 G448 2009


Theatre in your life / PN2037 .B37 2008


Original sin / PR 6060 A467 O75 1995


Towards a new American poetics : essays & interviews : Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg / PS325 .F37 1978


Limbo : a memoir / PS3551.N645 Z463 2001


The constructor : poems / PS3561.O35 C66 2000


The surrendered / PS3562.E3347 S87 2010


Teaching the female brain : how girls learn math and science / QA11.2 .J36 2009


The math book : from Pythagoras to the 57th dimension, 250 milestones in the history of mathematics / QA21 .P53 2009


A+ guide to managing and maintaining your PC / QA76.3 .A56 2006


Compression for great video and audio : master tips and common sense / QA76.575 .W32 2010


Introduction to game development / QA76.76.C672 I58 2010


iPhone app development : the missing manual / QA76.8.I64 H633 2010


iPhone game development / QA76.8.I64 Z57 2010


Databases : a beginner's guide / QA76.9.D26 O65 2009


Heaven's touch : from killer stars to the seeds of life, how we are connected to the universe / QB44.3 .K35 2009


The new solar system : ice worlds, moons, and planets redefined / QB501 .D36 2009


The end of time : the Maya mystery of 2012 / QB638.8 .A94 2009


The Cambridge double star atlas / QB821 .M829 2009


Before the Big Bang : the prehistory of our universe / QB981 .C627 2009


Superconductivity : a very short introduction / QC611.92 .B58 2009


Earth : making a life on a tough new planet QC981.8.C5 M3895 2010


The complete Ice Age : how climate change shaped the world / QE697 .C67 2009


A student handbook for writing in biology / QH304 .K59 2009


The greatest show on Earth : the evidence for evolution / QH366.2 .D374 2009


Hidden animals : a field guide to Batsquatch, Chupacabra, and other elusive creatures / QL89 .N55 2009


Loon magic / QL696.G33 K54 1985


Animals on the edge : reporting from the frontline of extinction / QL706.8 .W47 2009


The new executive brain : frontal lobes in a complex world / QP382.F7 G653 2009


Becoming a healthcare professional. R697.A4 B427 2010


The official guide for foreign-educated allied health professionals : what you need to know about health care and the allied health professions in the United States / R697.A4 O44 2010


An odyssey with animals : a veterinarian's reflections on the animal rights & welfare debate / R724 .M845 2009


The right to die / R726 .A747 2010


Empowering the patient : how to reduce the cost of healthcare and improve its quality / R727.3 M34 2009


The healing of America : a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care / RA395.A3 R435 2009


Medicare : a primer / RA412.3 .M4266 2009


Men's health : body, identity and social context / RA564.83 .M49 2009


Anorexia / RC552.A5 S87 2009


The skin type solution : a revolutionary guide to your best skin ever / RL87 .B366 2006


Understanding green building guidelines : for students and young professionals / TH880 .R53 2009


Cinematic storytelling : the 100 most powerful film conventions every filmmaker must know / TR850 .V36 2005


Final Cut Pro 7 / TR899 .B74 2010


Video made on a Mac : production and postproduction using Apple Final Cut Studio and Adobe Creative Suite / TR899 H277 2010


Slaughterhouse : the shocking story of greed, neglect, and inhumane treatment inside the U.S. meat industry / TS1963 .E37 1997


Cooking green : reducing your carbon footprint in the kitchen : the new green basics way / TX653 .H49 2009


Entangling alliances : foreign war brides and American soldiers in the twentieth century / U766 .Z45 2010


A few good women : America's military women from World War I to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan / UB418.W65 M66 2010


The complete library technology planner : a guidebook with sample technology plans and RFPs on CD-ROM / Z678.9.A4 U622 2010


Learning to lead and manage information literacy instruction / Z711.2 .G75 2005


Information literacy instruction : theory and practice / ZA3075 .G73 2009