Thursday, July 8, 2010

New Books Available

No need to line up, just come on in and checkout one of our 116 new book titles listed below and now on display at the Southwestern College library.

Don't forget to bring your SWC photo ID card with you.


Title / Call No.
The best American science and nature writing. 2007 / 3054

Make the most of your time on earth : a Rough guide to the world. / 3080

The Diana chronicles / 3086

What you should know about politics-- but don't : a nonpartisan guide to the issues / 3197

Naomi's breakthrough guide : 20 choices to transform your life / 3200

Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder / BF353.5.N37 L68 2008

Chocolate for a teen's heart : unforgettable stories for young women about love, hope, and happiness / BJ1651 .C47 2001

Global rebellion : religious challenges to the secular state, from Christian militias to al Qaeda / BL80.3 .G542 2008

How does religion influence politics? / BR 115.P7 A74 2010

Holy warriors : a modern history of the crusades / D157 .P55 2009

Pakistan / DS389 .O55 2010

The scholar and the tiger : a memoir of famine and war in revolutionary China / DS734.9.C3 A3 2009

Thunder and herds : rock art of the High Plains / E78.G73 L64 2008

Four generations of norteños : new research from the cradle of Mexican migration / E184.M5 F694 2009

Lincoln's virtues : an ethical biography / E457.2 .M643 2002

Civil War wives : the lives and times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant / E628 .B47 2009

Cheney : the untold story of America's most powerful and controversial vice president / E840.8.C43 H39 2007

A bubble in time : America during the interwar years, 1989-2001 / E881 .O54 2009

A sense of belonging : from Castro's Cuba to the U.S. Senate, one man's pursuit of the American dream / E901.1.M37 A3 2008

Winning the future : a 21st century Contract with America / E902 .G56 2006

Developing Zapatista autonomy : conflict and NGO involvement in rebel Chiapas / F1256 .B36 2009

To be like gods : dance in ancient Maya civilization / F1435.3.D34 L66 2009

Lula of Brazil : the story so far / F2538.5.L5 B68 2008

The rising sea / GC89 .P48 2009

Willie Mays : the life, the legend / GV865.M38 H57 2010

The case for the living wage / HD4918 .W264 2004

Make job loss work for you : get over it and get your career back on track / HD5708 .D44 2010

Forced out : older workers confront job loss / HD5708.55.U6 R65 2009

A Dolores Huerta reader / HD6509.H84 D65 2008

Food chains : from farmyard to shopping cart / HD9000.5 .F5938 2009

The tyranny of e-mail : the four-thousand-year journey to your inbox / HE7551 .F74 2009

Alternative lending / HG3701 .O55 2010

Europe's promise : why the European way is the best hope in an insecure age / HN373.5 .H55 2010

The marriage-go-round : the state of marriage and the family in America today / HQ535 .C416 2009

Abortion / HQ767 .O55 2010

Victorian childhoods / HQ792.G7 F76 2009

Mixed messages : multiracial identities in the "color-blind" era / HT1521 .M58 2006

A guidebook to human service professions : helping college students explore opportunities in the human services field / HV10.5 .I4 2009

The mistress's daughter / HV874 H66 2008

At home on the street : people, poverty, and a hidden culture of homelessness / HV4505 .W26 2010

The Guantánamo effect : exposing the consequences of U.S. detention and interrogation practices / HV6432 .G826 2009

The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in its first age of terror / HV6432.44.N7 G34 2009

Federal law enforcement careers : profiles of 250 high-powered positions and tactics for getting hired / HV8143 .A64 2006

From immigrants to Americans : the rise and fall of fitting in / JV6450 .V54 2009

Immigration / JV6456 .C87 2010

Mexican migration and the U.S. economic crisis : a transnational perspective / JV6471 .M49 2010

Immigrants and modern racism : reproducing inequality / JV6475 .M47 2008

Should the U.S. close its borders? / JV6483 .A74 2010

Migration from the Mexican Mixteca : a transnational community in Oaxaca and California / JV7409.Z6 .S366 2009

Red families v. blue families : legal polarization and the creation of culture / KF505 .C34 2010

The great American university : its rise to preeminence, its indispensable national role, and why it must be protected / LA227.4 .C64 2009

Helping college students find purpose : the campus guide to meaning-making / LA227.4 .N36 2010

No Child Left Behind : past, present, and future / LB2806.22 .H395 2008

The paradoxes of high stakes testing : how they affect students, their parents, teachers, principals, schools, and society / LB3051 .M368 2009

Música norteña : Mexican migrants creating a nation between nations / ML3570.9 .R35 2009

Unnatural wonders : essays from the gap between art and life / N6490 .D242 2005

Bill Viola : hatsu-yume = first dream. N6537.V56 A4 2006

The art of Bill Viola / N6537.V56 A8 2004

Airbrush : the complete studio handbook / NC915.A35 V48 1983

Gerhard Richter / ND588.R48 G47 2009

Supermarket / PL845.R246 S56 2009

Shot by both sides : a novel / PL851.O83 H313 2008

Life, once more : forms of reenactment in contemporary art / PN1584 .L54 2005

Latina/o stars in U.S. eyes : the making and meanings of film and TV stardom / PN1995.9.H47 B45 2009

Pulitzer : a life in politics, print, and power / PN4874.P8 M67 2010

The angel's game / PQ6668.U49 J8413 2009

The whole island : six decades of Cuban poetry, a bilingual anthology / PQ7384.5.E5 W56 2009

Lady Chatterley's lover / PR6023.A93 L2 2001

The grass is singing / PR6023.E833 G7 2000

The tenderness of wolves / PR6116.E58 T46 2007

Strong medicine / PR9199.3.H3 S7 1984

Metropolitan lovers : the homosexuality of cities / PS169.H65 A37 2009

Book of the dead / PS3553.O692 B65 2007

The life all around me by Ellen Foster / PS3557.I13917 L54 2006

Secret windows : essays and fiction on the craft of writing / PS3561.I483 S44 2000

A gesture life / PS3562.E3347 G4 2000

A lion among men / PS3563.A3535 L56 2008

Son of a witch : a novel / PS3563.A3535 S66 2006

Trespass : a novel / PS 3563 .A7295 T728 2008

Shanghai girls : a novel / PS3569.E3334 S53 2009

A simple plan / PS3569.M5379 S57 1994

A bride most begrudging / PS3607.I55 B75 2005

The girl who played with fire / PT9876.22.A6933 F5713 2009

Itty Bitty / PZ7.B3889 I7 2009

A practical introduction to computer architecture / QA76.9.A73 .P34 2009

Elementary & intermediate algebra / QA152 .S88 2007

The day we found the universe / QB15 .B37 2009

The case for Pluto : how a little planet made a big difference / QB701 .B69 2010

The universe : order without design / QB981 .C345 2009

Why we disagree about climate change : understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity / QC981.8.C5 H825 2009

Dinosaur odyssey : fossil threads in the web of life / QE861.4 .S26 2009

The biology of caves and other subterranean habitats / QH89 .C85 2009

Plant biology / QK45.2 .P575 2010

California plant families : west of the Sierran crest and deserts / QK149 .K34 2009

Surviving your doctors : why the medical system is dangerous to your health and how to get through it alive / R729.8 .K64 2010

Why our health matters : a vision of medicine that can transform our future / RA395.A3 W443 2009

Universal health care / RA412.2 .C87 2010

Defending the cavewoman : and other tales of evolutionary neurology. RC359 .K578 2000

Food allergies / RC596 .R53 2009

Normal at any cost : tall girls, short boys, and the medical industry's quest to manipulate height / RJ482.G76 C63 2009

Hardy succulents : tough plants for every climate / SB438 .K45 2008

The Media Lab : inventing the future at MIT. T 171 M49 B73 1987

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 : user guide. T385 .A36 2000

Adobe Illustrator CS4 how-tos : 100 essential techniques / T385 .K35234 2009

Should the Internet be free? / TK5105.875.I57 A74 2010

Digital radio production / TK6562.D54 C66 2004

Mapplethorpe : a biography / TR140.M347 M67 1995

Electronic moviemaking. TR850 .G76 2000

The little digital video book : a friendly introduction to home video / TR896 .R83 2009

MEL scripting : a character rig in Maya / TR897.7 .D467 2009

Adobe Premiere 6.0 : user guide. TR899 .A35 2000

Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 classroom in a book : the official training workbook from Adobe Systems. TR899 .A36 2009

Premiere Pro CS3 for Windows and Macintosh / TR899 .B6529 2008

Video editing : a postproduction primer. TR899 .B725 1997

The untold war : inside the hearts, minds, and souls of our soldiers / U22.3 .S44 2010

Biological warfare / UG447.8 .O55 2010