Hey there political junkies!

March 16th, 2010

Anyone interested in the political process will probably be excited to hear that C-Span has put basically all of their archives online.  That’s over 160,000 hours of footage.

Have fun!

Carefully consider constructions containing clauses connected by commas; this kind of creation can commonly be considered contraband or criminal.  The comma splice is a notoriously frequent error. Avoid comma splices by using a semicolon instead of a comma after an independent clause like “Betty spent the afternoon on the golf course; the kids were at camp.”  The two clauses must be connected enough to each other to justify being in the same sentence.  The example above is ok; “Hamlet is playing at the local theatre; Jane was just in time to return books to the library” is not.  Here, the two clauses don’t belong in the same sentence. The semicolon should be a period, and the remainder of the words turned into a separate sentence.

Jim Zuercher

Staff Writing Tutor

Alas, assembling all right as alright at times appears all right; although always avoiding alright altogether actually attains accuracy.  This error is so widespread that it is even commonly accepted in informal communications, but, in formal English writing, alright is wrong.  The one-word spelling probably originated as an attempt to parallel altogether and already. The difference is, those two words have meanings distinct from the meanings of their two-word counterparts; when people use alright, there is no other meaning than all right.

Jim Zuercher

Staff Writing Tutor

Bestsellers

March 5th, 2010

Hi all,

Here is a list of  the new bestsellers.

 

Title: All things at once / Mika Brzezinski ; with Daniel

Paisner.

Non Fic 070.19092 B849 2009

Title: Anticancer : a new way of life / David

Servan-Schreiber.

Non Fic 616.99 Se691 2009

Title: Born to run : a hidden tribe, superathletes, and the

greatest race the world has never seen / Christopher

McDougall.

Non Fic 796.424 M459 2009

Title: Committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage /

Elizabeth Gilbert.

Non Fic 306.81 G372 2010

Title: Deeper than the dead / Tami Hoag.

Fic Hoag

Title: Drive : the surprising truth about what motivates us /

Daniel H. Pink.

Non Fic 153.1534 P655 2009

Title: The first rule : a Joe Pike novel / Robert Crais.

Fic Crais

Title: Game change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and

Palin, and the race of a lifetime / John Heilemann and

Mark Halperin.

Non Fic 324.973 H363 2010

Title: The girl who played with fire / Stieg Larsson ;

translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland.

Fic Larsson

Title: Going rogue : an American life / Sarah Palin.

Non Fic 973.931 P176 2009

Title: The honor of spies / W.E.B. Griffin and William E.

Butterworth IV.

Fic Griffin

Title: I, Alex Cross : a novel / James Patterson.

Fic Patterson

Title: I, sniper : a Bob Lee Swagger novel / Stephen Hunter.

Fic Hunter

Title: Noah’s compass : a novel / by Anne Tyler.

Fic Tyler

Title: Not my daughter / Barbara Delinsky.

Fic Delinsky

Title: Open : an autobiography / Andre Agassi.

Non Fic 796.342092 Ag16 2009

Title: Precious : a novel / by Sapphire.

FIC SAPPHIRE

Title: Roses / Leila Meacham.

Fic Meacham

Title: Stones into schools : promoting peace with books, not

bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Greg Mortenson.

Non Fic 371.823 M842 2009

Title: Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic

prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life

insurance / Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner.

Non Fic 330 L579 2009

Title: The swan thieves : a novel / Elizabeth Kostova.

Fic Kostova

Title: Too big to fail : the inside story of how Wall Street

and Washington fought to save the financial system

from crisis–and themselves / Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Non Fic 330.973 So689 2009

Title: Treasure Hunt : a novel / John Lescroart.

Fic Lescroart

Title: U is for undertow / Sue Grafton.

Fic Grafton

Title: What the dog saw and other adventures / Malcolm

Gladwell.

Non Fic 814.6 G455 2009

Maybe mettle is manufactured; my marvelous metal mending machine meddled with many men’s mogul medals. The four italicized words sound alike, but have very different meanings. People prove their mettle, usually in combat or a sporting event, by displaying great strength, courage, or stamina. To meddle is to interfere. Medals are won in the Olympics, among other places, and are usually made out of the metals gold, silver, or bronze.

Jim Zuercher
Staff Writing Tutor

George Packer talks about being Neither Luddite nor Biltonite with respect to new media and technology.  Luddite, being one who shuns all technology while Biltonite is a Packer-created neologism (inspired by Nick Bilton of the New York Times) referring to those who is enthusiastic about all technological change.  His article brings up interesting questions about the idea of change for change sake and the importance of critical evaluation of all technologies, new and old alike.

Thoughts?  Add ‘em in the comments.

Library or Learning Center

February 5th, 2010

What is that in the middle of campus?  Is it a Library or a Learning Center?  Last year a marketing survey revealed that many people on campus are confused.  The recommendation:  ‘brand’ recognition would be enhanced by abandoning the  label ‘learning center’ and instead re-embracing the term ‘library’.  But the term ‘learning center’ was adopted in 2006 when tutors and the coffee shop were added to the library.

The name confusion indicates substantive issues.  On the surface, it is tempting to resolve matters with simple convenience- let’s just use whatever is easier to say or remember.  Deeper, it is tempting to debate the accuracy of terminology- what does the dictionary say?  But neither convenience nor language accuracy will solve our need for a powerful brand.

How can we best communicate to our patrons what we are?  Do patrons know that we are focused on developing life-long learners?  Do our patrons know that providing expertise is more important to us than providing books?  Do we identify ourselves primarily with other ‘libraries’ or with our role here on campus?

I favor using the term ‘learning center’ to include all the services we provide to aid the learning enterprise: tutors, professional staff, librarians, books, databases, computers, and specialized learning spaces.   To me, a strong library is a necessary part of a learning center.  But to cultivate life-long learning as part of a developmental program is a specialized mission that sets us apart.

The name confusion is a call for us to better describe what we do.

Please tell me what you think by clicking on the comment feature below…

Thanks,

Andy Heiser
Dean of the Learning Center

Although the audio is acceptable, avoid arbitrary application of all ready and already in any academic activity, article, or argument. Already pertains to a timeframe. Josephine already has Super Bowl tickets. All ready is a two-word phrase meaning completely prepared. Despite already having Super Bowl tickets, Josephine is pretty far from being all ready for her trip to Miami for Super Sunday.

Jim Zuercher
Staff Writing Tutor

Traffic tragedy triggers terribly tardy Tuesday Tutoring Tip. This writer was involved in a minor car accident (no one hurt) Tuesday, which delayed the release of this email. This late tip involves three words that sound alike, but are often confused: assure, ensure, and insure. If you assure a person of something, you make him or her more confident of it. Some students need a little assurance before getting up in front of the class and giving a speech. Usually, ensure refers to some action that makes certain that something else happens. The recent victory by Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senatorial race ensures that, provided they are unified, the Republicans will be able to sustain a filibuster against proposed legislation on the Senate floor. Lastly, insure involves issuing or purchasing an insurance policy. I insured the package I sent to my brother for ten times its actual value.

Jim Zuercher
Staff Writing Tutor

New Books

February 1st, 2010

Hi all,

Here is a list of new books at the library. Take a look!

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                 Produced Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM                 
                                                                               
                 Title: 1 Chronicles : a commentary / by Ralph W. Klein ;
                        edited by Thomas Kr*uger.

                 Title: 48 hours of Kristallnacht : night of destruction/dawn
                        of the Holocaust : an oral history / Mitchell G. Bard.

                 Title: 1848 : year of revolution / Mike Rapport.

                 Title: 1948 : a history of the first Arab-Israeli war / Benny
                        Morris.

                 Title: Abraham Lincoln : a life / Michael Burlingame.

                 Title: Abraham Lincoln : a life / Michael Burlingame.

                 Title: Against the president : dissent and decision-making in
                        the White House : a historical perspective / by Mark
                        J. White.

                 Title: The American Far West in the twentieth century / Earl
                        Pomeroy ; edited by Richard W. Etulain ; foreword by
                        Howard R. Lamar.

                 Title: American fiction of the 1990s : reflections of history
                        and culture / edited by Jay Prosser.

                 Title: American law yearbook.

                 Title: The American West at risk : science, myths, and
                        politics of land abuse and recovery / Howard G.
                        Wilshire, Jane E. Nielson, Richard W. Hazlett.

                 Title: Andersonvilles of the North : the myths and realities
                        of Northern treatment of Civil War Confederate
                        prisoners / James M. Gillispie.

                 Title: The anti-intellectual presidency : the decline of
                        presidential rhetoric from George Washington to George
                        W. Bush / Elvin T. Lim.

                 Title: Approaches to behavior and classroom management :
                        integrating discipline and care / W. George Scarlett,
                        Iris Chin Ponte, Jay P. Singh.

                 Title: Assessing organizational performance in higher
                        education / Barbara A. Miller.

                 Title: Assessment clear and simple : a practical guide for
                        institutions, departments, and general education /
                        Barbara E. Walvoord ; foreword by Trudy W. Banta.

                 Title: The atlas of food : who eats what, where, and why /
                        Erik Millstone and Tim Lang ; foreword by Marion
                        Nestle.

                 Title: The automobile and American life / John A. Heitmann.

                 Title: Bandits and partisans : the Antonov movement in the
                        Russian Civil War / Erik C. Landis.

                 Title: Barbarians to angels : the Dark Ages reconsidered /
                        Peter S. Wells.

                 Title: Behavioral disorders / Louise I. Gerdes, book editor.
                                   Item List                                   
                                                                               
                 Produced Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM                 
                                                                               
                 Title: Between men : English literature and male homosocial
                        desire / with a new preface by the author Eve Kosofsky
                        Sedgwick.

                 Title: Beyond Douglass : new perspectives on early
                        African-American literature / edited by Michael J.
                        Drexler and Ed White.

                 Title: Beyond Rangoon [videorecording] / Castle Rock
                        Entertainment presents a Pleskow/Spikings production ;
                        written by Alex Lasker & Bill Rubenstein ; produced by
                        Barry Spikings, Eric Pleskow, and John Boorman ;
                        directed by John Boorman.

                 Title: Beyond red state, blue state : electoral gaps in the
                        twenty-first century American electorate / edited by
                        Laura R. Olson, John C. Green.

                 Title: The bitter road to freedom : a new history of the
                        liberation of Europe / William I. Hitchcock.

                 Title: Black and white in color [videorecording] / Home
                        Vision Entertainment ; Janus Films ;
                        Reggane-S.F.P.-Artco Film Productions ; an Arthur Cohn
                        Production ; original screenplay by Georges Conchon
                        and Jean-Jacques Annaud ; directed by Jean-Jacques
                        Annaud ; produced by Arthur Cohn, Jacques Perrin,
                        Giorgio Silvagni. The sky above, the mud below /
                        Embassy Pictures Corp ; Joseph E. Levine presents ;
                        directed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau ; produced by
                        Arthur Cohn and Rene LaFuite.

                 Title: Black rock [videorecording] / Palm Beach Pictures in
                        association with PolyGram Filmed Entertainment present
                        ; screenplay, Nick Enright, based on his stageplay ;
                        producer, David Elfick ; director, Steve Vidler.

                 Title: Blade runner [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures
                        ; the Ladd Company ; produced by Michael Deeley ;
                        screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples ;
                        directed by Ridley Scott.

                 Title: Branded conservatives : how the brand brought the
                        right from the fringes to the center of American
                        politics / Kenneth M. Cosgrove.

                 Title: The Brusilov offensive / Timothy C. Dowling.

                 Title: Buffalo boy [videorecording].

                 Title: The Cambridge companion to American travel writing /
                        edited by Alfred Bendixen and Judith Hamera.

                 Title: The Cambridge companion to Kate Chopin / edited by
                        Janet Beer.

                 Title: The Cambridge companion to Seamus Heaney / edited by
                        Bernard O’Donoghue.

                 Title: The Cambridge introduction to Michel Foucault / Lisa
                        Downing.

                 Title: The Cambridge introduction to twentieth-century
                        American poetry / Christopher Beach.
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                 Produced Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM                 
                                                                               
                 Title: The campaign manager : running and winning local
                        elections / Catherine Shaw.

                 Title: CBS’s Don Hollenbeck : an honest reporter in the age
                        of McCarthyism / Loren Ghiglione.

                 Title: Certain victory : images of World War II in the
                        Japanese media / David C. Earhart.

                 Title: Chess Players/Devki Chitra presents ; produced by
                        Suresh Jindal ; screenplay, music & direction,
                        Satyajit Ray = Chess Players.

                 Title: Child development : myths and misunderstandings / Jean
                        Mercer.

                 Title: The Columbia companion to the twentieth-century
                        American short story / edited by Blanche H. Gelfant.

                 Title: The coming of the frontier press : how the West was
                        really won / Barbara Cloud ; foreword by Alan K.
                        Simpson.

                 Title: The Commission : the uncensored history of the 9/11
                        investigation / Philip Shenon.

                 Title: A concise companion to twentieth-century American
                        poetry / edited by Stephen Fredman.

                 Title: The condition of postmodernity : an enquiry into the
                        origins of cultural change / David Harvey.

                 Title: Consumerism / Roman Espejo, editor.

                 Title: Crises of empire : decolonization and Europe’s
                        imperial states, 1918-1975 / Martin Thomas, Bob Moore,
                        and L.J. Butler.

                 Title: Critical companion to Zora Neale Hurston : a literary
                        reference to her life and work / Sharon L. Jones.

                 Title: Critical practice / Catherine Belsey.

                 Title: The culture of beauty / Roman Espejo, book editor.

                 Title: The day Wall Street exploded : a story of America in
                        its first age of terror / Beverly Gage.

                 Title: Dead last : the public memory of Warren G. Harding’s
                        scandalous legacy / Phillip G. Payne.

                 Title: Debt / Christina Fisanick, book editor.

                 Title: Defying Dixie : the radical roots of civil rights,
                        1919-1950 / Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore.

                 Title: Democracy’s prisoner : Eugene V. Debs, the great war,
                        and the right to dissent / Ernest Freeberg.

                 Title: Departures [videorecording] / a Regent/Here Media
                        release of a Departures Film Partners presentation ;
                        producers, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Toshihisa Watai ;
                        screenplay by Kundo Koyama ; directed by Yojiro
                        Takita.
                                   Item List                                   
                                                                               
                 Produced Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM                 
                                                                               
                 Title: Disunion! : the coming of the American Civil War,
                        1789-1859 / Elizabeth R. Varon.

                 Title: Dying, death, and grief : working with adult
                        bereavement / Brenda Mallon.

                 Title: Earth [videorecording] / Cracking the Earth Films,
                        Inc. ; David Hamilton and Jhamu Sughand present ; a
                        Deepa Mehta film ; written and directed by Deepa Mehta
                        ; producers, Deepa Mehta, Anne Masson.

                 Title: Echo chamber : Rush Limbaugh and the conservative
                        media establishment / Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Joseph
                        N. Cappella.

                 Title: Edited clean version : technology and the culture of
                        control / Raiford Guins.

                 Title: Effective grief and bereavement support : the role of
                        family, friends, colleagues, schools and support
                        professionals / Kari Dyregrov and Atle Dyregrov ;
                        foreword by Magne Raundalen.

                 Title: Eleventh-century Germany : the Swabian chronicles /
                        translated and selected by I.S. Robinson.

                 Title: The end of food / Thomas Pawlick.

                 Title: Enhancing scholarly work on teaching and learning :
                        professional literature that makes a difference /
                        Maryellen Weimer.

                 Title: Exploring research-based teaching / Carolin Kreber,
                        editor.

                 Title: Faith and the presidency : from George Washington to
                        George W. Bush / Gary Scott Smith.

                 Title: Fast food nation [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight
                        Pictures ; Participant Productions and HanWay Films in
                        association with BBC Films present ; a Recorded
                        Picture Company presentation ; a Jeremy Thomas
                        production ; a Richard Linklater film ; producer,
                        Malcolm McLaren ; written by Eric Schlosser and
                        Richard Linklater ; directed by Richard Linklater.

                 Title: The fate of Texas : the Civil War and the Lone Star
                        State / edited by Charles D. Grear.

                 Title: Feminist coalitions : historical perspectives on
                        second-wave feminism in the United States / edited by
                        Stephanie Gilmore ; foreword by Sara M. Evans.

                 Title: Fighting at sea in the eighteenth century : the art of
                        sailing warfare / Sam Willis.

                 Title: Fire [videorecording] / a New Yorker Films release ;
                        Zeitgeist Films ; Trial by Fire Films presents a Deepa
                        Mehta film ; written and directed by Deepa Mehta ;
                        produced by Bobby Bedi, Deepa Mehta.

                 Title: Firebrand of liberty : the story of two Black
                        regiments that changed the course of the Civil War /
                        Stephen V. Ash.
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                 Produced Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM                 
                                                                               
                 Title: Forgotten patriots : the untold story of American
                        prisoners during the Revolutionary War / Edwin G.
                        Burrows.

                 Title: From integration to inclusion : a history of special
                        education in the 20th century / Margret A. Winzer.

                 Title: General Lee’s army : from victory to collapse / Joseph
                        T. Glatthaar.

                 Title: Girls and sports / Karen Miller, book editor.

                 Title: Global TV : exporting television and culture in the
                        world market / Denise D. Bielby and C. Lee Harrington.

                 Title: Good night, and good luck [videorecording] / Warner
                        Independent Pictures, 2929 Entertainment and
                        Participant Productions in associations with Davis
                        Films, Redbus Pictures and Tohokushinsha ; a Section
                        Eight production ; directed by George Clooney ;
                        written by George Clooney & Grant Heslov ; produced by
                        Grant Heslov.

                 Title: Governance in dark times : practical philosophy for
                        public service / Camilla Stivers.

                 Title: A government ill executed : the decline of the federal
                        service and how to reverse it / Paul C. Light ;
                        foreword by Paul A. Volcker.

                 Title: The graphic syllabus and the outcomes map :
                        communicating your course / Linda B. Nilson.

                 Title: Grave of the fireflies [videorecording] / written and
                        directed by Isao Takahata ; animation director,
                        Yoshifumi Kondo ; producer, Toru Hara.

                 Title: The great medieval heretics : five centuries of
                        religious dissent / Michael Frassetto.

                 Title: Greek and Roman education : a sourcebook / Mark Joyal,
                        Iain McDougall, J.C. Yardley.

                 Title: A guide to the good life : the ancient art of Stoic
                        joy / William B. Irvine.

                 Title: Guyland : the perilous world where boys become men /
                        Michael Kimmel.

                 Title: Helping sophomores succeed : understanding and
                        improving the second-year experience / Mary Stuart
                        Hunter … [et al.].

                 Title: Henry Hotze, Confederate propagandist : selected
                        writings on revolution, recognition, and race /
                        [edited by] Lonnie A. Burnett.

                 Title: Henry VIII / Lucy Wooding.

                 Title: Heroes & cowards : the social face of war / Dora L.
                        Costa & Matthew E. Kahn.

                 Title: Hiring, training, and supervising library shelvers /
                        Patricia Tunstall.
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                 Produced Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM                 
                                                                               
                 Title: A history of Cambodia / David Chandler.

                 Title: A history of histories : epics, chronicles, romances
                        and inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the
                        twentieth century / John Burrow.

                 Title: History of the church of the United Brethern in Christ
                        / by Rev. Daniel Berger.

                 Title: Hospital : man, woman, birth, death, infinity, plus
                        red tape, bad behavior, money, God, and diversity on
                        steroids / Julie Salamon.

                 Title: How cities won the West : four centuries of urban
                        change in western North America / Carl Abbott.

                 Title: How to run for local office : a complete step-by-step
                        guide that will take you through the entire process of
                        running and winning a local election / Robert J.
                        Thomas.

                 Title: Human Relations for Educators.

                 Title: Imagining Virginia Woolf : an experiment in critical
                        biography / Maria DiBattista.

                 Title: Immigrant stories : ethnicity and academics in middle
                        childhood / Cynthia Garc*ia Coll, Amy Kerivan Marks.

                 Title: The industrial revolutionaries : the making of the
                        modern world, 1776-1914 / Gavin Weightman.

                 Title: International news reporting : frontlines and
                        deadlines / edited by John Owen and Heather Purdey.

                 Title: Inventing Vietnam : the United States and State
                        Building, 1954-1968 / James M. Carter.

                 Title: The Jews against Rome / Susan Sorek.

                 Title: Journey from the Fall [videorecording] = Journey from
                        the fall / ImaginAsian Pictures and Lam Nguyen
                        Productions present an Old Photo film ; story by Ham
                        Tran and Lam Nguyen ; produced by Lam Nguyen and Ham
                        Tran ; written for the screen, directed and edited by
                        Ham Tran.

                 Title: A jury of her peers : American women writers from Anne
                        Bradstreet to Annie Proulx / by Elaine Showalter.

                 Title: Hidden Blade [videorecording] / Sh*ochiku Eiga ;
                        purody*us*a Fukasawa Hiroshi, Yamamoto Ichir*o ;
                        kyakuhon Yamada Y*oji, Asama Yoshitaka ; kantoku
                        Yamada Y*oji.

                 Title: Kamikaze Girls [videorecording] = Kamikaze girls /
                        seisaku Amy*uzu … [et al.] ; story by Novala
                        Takemoto ; produced by Yuji Ishida, Takashi Hirano,
                        Satoru Ogura ; directed by Tetsuya Nakashima ; T*oh*o
                        Kabushiki Kaisha.

                 Title: The killing fields [videorecording] / Warner Bros.
                        Pictures ; Goldcrest and International Film Investors
                        present an Enigma production ; director of
                        photography, Chris Menges ; screenplay by Bruce

                                   Item List                                   
                                                                               
                 Produced Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM                 
                                                                               
                        Robinson ; produced by David Puttnam ; directed by
                        Roland Joff*e.

                 Title: The Lacanian subject : between language and jouissance
                        / Bruce Fink.

                 Title: Lan feng zheng [videorecording] / Chang wei zhi zuo
                        you xian gong si chu pin ; bian ju Xiao Mao ; dao yan
                        Tian Zhuangzhuang = The blue kite / a Longwick
                        Production Ltd. presentation ; screenplay by Xiao Mao
                        ; directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang.

                 Title: Language and sexism / Sara Mills.

                 Title: Leadership ethics : an introduction / Terry L. Price.

                 Title: Learning from L.A. : institutional change in American
                        public education / Charles Taylor Kerchner … [et
                        al.].

                 Title: Learning online with games, simulations, and virtual
                        worlds : strategies for online instruction / Clark
                        Aldrich.

                 Title: Legislative women : getting elected, getting ahead /
                        edited by Beth Reingold.

                 Title: Lemonade stories [videorecording] : inspiring
                        entrepreneurs / presented by Babson College ; written,
                        produced and directed by Mary Mazzio ; 50 EGGS
                        production.

                 Title: The life and letters of Charles Darwin : including an
                        autobiographical chapter / edited by his son Francis
                        Darwin.

                 Title: Lincoln and the decision for war : the northern
                        response to secession / Russell McClintock.

                 Title: Lincoln president-elect : Abraham Lincoln and the
                        great secession winter 1860-1861 / Harold Holzer.

                 Title: The location of culture / Homi K. Bhabha ; with a new
                        preface by the author.

                 Title: Lynching and spectacle : witnessing racial violence in
                        America, 1890-1940 / Amy Louise Wood.

                 Title: Magic(al) realism / Maggie Ann Bowers.

                 Title: Mainly the truth : interviews with Mark Twain / edited
                        by Gary Scharnhorst.

                 Title: The making of a Catholic president : Kennedy vs. Nixon
                        1960 / Shaun A. Casey.

                 Title: The making of a quagmire : America and Vietnam during
                        the Kennedy era / David Halberstam ; edited with an
                        introduction by Daniel J. Singal.

                 Title: Male subjectivity at the margins / Kaja Silverman.

                 Title: Malory : the knight who became King Arthur’s
                        chronicler / Christina Hardyment.
                                   Item List                                   
                                                                               
                 Produced Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM                 
                                                                               
                 Title: Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia [videorecording] =
                        Curse of the golden flower / Beijing New Picture Film
                        Co. ; EDKO Film Ltd. ; Elite Group Enterprises ; Film
                        Partner International ; produced by William Kong,
                        Weiping Zhang, Yimou Zhang ; written by Yimou Zhang ;
                        directed by Yimou Zhang.

                 Title: A man’s game : masculinity and the anti-aesthetics of
                        American literary naturalism / John Dudley.

                 Title: Mark : a commentary / by Adela Yarbro Collins ; edited
                        by Harold W. Attridge.

                 Title: Marking the mind : a history of memory / Kurt
                        Danziger.

                 Title: Mary Tudor / Judith M. Richards.

                 Title: Mass media / Roman Espejo, book editor.

                 Title: Matthew : a commentary / Ulrich Luz ; translated by
                        Wilhelm C. Linss.

                 Title: Matthew 1-7 : a commentary / by Ulrich Luz ;
                        translated by James E. Crouch ; volume editor, Helmut
                        Koester.

                 Title: The mechanics of state legislative campaigns / John S.
                        Klemanski, David A. Dulio.

                 Title: Menahem Pressler : artistry in piano teaching /
                        William Brown.

                 Title: When the Last Sword is Drawn [videorecording] /
                        Sh*ochiku … [et al.] teikei sakuhin ; purody*us*a
                        Miyajima Sh*uji, Enoki Nozomi ; kyakuhon Nakajima
                        Takehiro ; kantoku Takita Y*ojir*o.

                 Title: A mighty heart [videorecording] / Paramount Vantage
                        presents ; a Plan B Entertainment/Revolution Films
                        production ; produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner,
                        Andrew Eaton ; screenplay by John Orloff ; directed by
                        Michael Winterbottom.

                 Title: Modernism and the locations of literary heritage /
                        Andrea Zemgulys.

                 Title: The motorcycle diaries [videorecording] / Focus Films
                        ; produced by Michael Nozik, Edgard Tenenbaum, Karen
                        Tenkhoff ; screenplay by Jose Rivera ; director,
                        Walter Salles.

                 Title: Nathanael Greene : a biography of the American
                        Revolution / Gerald M. Carbone.

                 Title: Navigating the Missouri : steamboating on nature’s
                        highway, 1819-1935 / William E. Lass.

                 Title: Nazi Paris : the history of an occupation, 1940-1944 /
                        Allan Mitchell.

                 Title: Nero Caesar Augustus : emperor of Rome / David
                        Shotter.

                 Title: New faces in new places : the changing geography of

                                   Item List                                   
                                                                               
                 Produced Monday, February 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM                 
                                                                               
                        American immigration / Douglas S. Massey, editor.

                 Title: New media / Nicholas Gane and David Beer.

                 Title: No Child Left Behind : past, present, and future /
                        William Hayes.

                 Title: Nowtopia : how pirate programmers, outlaw bicyclists,
                        and vacant-lot gardeners are inventing the future
                        today / by Chris Carlsson.

                 Title: On the divide : the many lives of Willa Cather / David
                        Porter.

                 Title: The original kings of comedy [videorecording] / MTV
                        Films and Latham Entertainment present a 40 Acres and
                        a Mule Filmworks production ; produced by Walter
                        Latham ; produced by David Gale ; produced by Spike
                        Lee ; directed by Spike Lee.

                 Title: Origins of the specious : myths and misconceptions of
                        the English language / Patricia T. O’Conner and
                        Stewart Kellerman.

                 Title: Oxford American writer’s thesaurus / compiled by
                        Christine A. Lindberg.

                 Title: Panorama of a presidency : how George W. Bush acquired
                        and spent his political capital / Steven E. Schier.

                 Title: Pericles : a sourcebook and reader / Stephen V. Tracy.

                 Title: Philip II of Macedonia / Ian Worthington.

                 Title: Poe : a life cut short / Peter Ackroyd.

                 Title: A poetics of postmodernism : history, theory, fiction
                        / Linda Hutcheon.

                 Title: Political campaigns / Louise I. Gerdes, book editor.

                 Title: The political influence of churches / Paul A. Djupe,
                        Christopher P. Gilbert.

                 Title: The political unconscious : narrative as a socially
                        symbolic act / Fredric Jameson.

                 Title: The politics of postmodernism / Linda Hutcheon.

                 Title: Portable communities : the social dynamics of online
                        and mobile connectedness / Mary Chayko.

                 Title: The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge /
                        Jean-Fran*cois Lyotard ; translation from the French
                        by Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi ; foreword by
                        Fredric Jameson.

                 Title: Postmodernism, or, the cultural logic of late
                        capitalism / Fredric Jameson.

                 Title: The protector [videorecording] = [Tom yum goong] / the
                        Weinstein Company ; Sahamongkolfilm International ;
                        Baa-Ram-Ewe ; story by Prachya Pinkaew ; written by
                        Napalee Piyaros Thongdee, Joe Wannapin, Kongdej
                        Jaturanrasmee ; producers, Prachya Pinkaew, Sukanya

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                        Vongsthapat ; directed by Prachya Pinkaew.

                 Title: Qoheleth : a commentary / by Thomas Kr*uger ;
                        translated by O.C. Dean, Jr. ; edited by Klaus
                        Baltzer.

                 Title: Race, war, and remembrance in the Appalachian South /
                        John C. Inscoe.

                 Title: Raise the red lantern [videorecording] = Da hong deng
                        long gao gao gua / Era International (HK) Ltd.
                        presents in association with China Film Co-Production
                        Corporation ; screenplay by Ni Zhen ; producer, Chiu
                        Fusheng ; directed by Zhang Yimou.

                 Title: Rand McNally … commercial atlas & marketing guide.

                 Title: Rand McNally … commercial atlas & marketing guide.

                 Title: Real enemies : conspiracy theories and American
                        democracy, World War I to 9/11 / Kathryn S. Olmsted.

                 Title: Real world banking and finance : progressive
                        perspectives from Dollars & sense / edited by Daniel
                        Fireside, Amy Gluckman and the Dollars & sense
                        collective.

                 Title: Real world macro.

                 Title: Real world micro.

                 Title: The realities of witchcraft and popular magic in early
                        modern Europe : culture, cognition, and everyday life
                        / Edward Bever.

                 Title: Recent American art song : a guide / Keith E. Clifton.

                 Title: Reforming the world : social activism and the problem
                        of fiction in nineteenth-century America / Mar*ia
                        Carla S*anchez.

                 Title: Refugees / Margaret Haerens, book editor.

                 Title: The religious Enlightenment : Protestants, Jews, and
                        Catholics from London to Vienna / David Sorkin.

                 Title: The return of Ulysses : a cultural history of Homer’s
                        Odyssey / Edith Hall.

                 Title: Returner [videorecording] / Returner Film Partners
                        present a Robot production, a Takeshi Yamazaki film ;
                        produced by Akifumi Takuma, Toru Horibe, Chikahiro
                        Ueda ; screenplay by Takashi Yamazaki, Kenya Hirata ;
                        VFX and directed by Takashi Yamazaki.

                 Title: Rice People [videorecording] = Les gens de la rizi*ere
                        / Jacques Bidou, Pierre-Alain Meier pr*esentent ; une
                        production JBA Production … [et al.] ; avec la
                        participation de Canal+ … [et al.] ; sc*enario, Eve
                        Deboise, Rithy Panh ; un film de Rithy Panh.

                 Title: The road to Fondwa [videorecording] / directed by Dan
                        Schnorr and Justin Brandon.

                 Title: Robbing the Jews : the confiscation of Jewish property

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                        in the Holocaust, 1933-1945 / Martin Dean.

                 Title: The role of the classroom in college student
                        persistence / John M. Braxton, editor.

                 Title: Romans : a commentary / by Robert Jewett ; assisted by
                        Roy D. Kotansky ; edited by Eldon Jay Epp.

                 Title: Rome enters the Greek East : from anarchy to hierarchy
                        in the Hellenistic Mediterranean, 230-170 BC / Arthur
                        M. Eckstein.

                 Title: Rome’s cultural revolution / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.

                 Title: Save the world on your own time / Stanley Fish.

                 Title: Science and social inequality : feminist and
                        postcolonial issues / Sandra Harding.

                 Title: The sciencebook : everything you need to know about
                        the world and how it works / [authors, Matthias
                        Delbr*uck ... et al.].

                 Title: Sciences from below : feminisms, postcolonialities,
                        and modernities / Sandra Harding.

                 Title: Scipio Africanus : Rome’s greatest general / Richard
                        A. Gabriel.

                 Title: Screening sex / Linda Williams.

                 Title: The secret life of words : how English became English
                        / Henry Hitchings.

                 Title: Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles : it was forty years ago
                        today / edited by Olivier Julien.

                 Title: Shakespeare survey; an annual survey of Shakespearian
                        study & production.

                 Title: The shock doctrine : the rise of disaster capitalism /
                        Naomi Klein.

                 Title: Shower [videorecording] = Shower / Imar Film
                        production ; screenplay by Zhang Yang ; produced by
                        Peter Loehr ; directed by Zhang Yang ; a Sony Pictures
                        Classics release ; Xian Film Studio.

                 Title: Simulacra and simulation / by Jean Baudrillard ;
                        translated by Sheila Faria Glaser.

                 Title: The skillful teacher : on technique, trust, and
                        responsiveness in the classroom / Stephen D.
                        Brookfield.

                 Title: Slang : the people’s poetry / Michael Adams.

                 Title: Slave revolts in antiquity / Theresa Urbainczyk.

                 Title: Slogum house / Mari Sandoz.

                 Title: Slumdog millionaire [videorecording] / a Fox
                        Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures, Celador
                        Films, Film4 presentation ; directed by Danny Boyle ;
                        co-director (India), Loveleen Tandan ; screenplay by

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                        Simon Beaufoy ; produced by Christian Colson ;
                        executive producers, Paul Smith, Tessa Ross.

                 Title: The smartest guys in the room : the amazing rise and
                        scandalous fall of Enron / Bethany McLean and Peter
                        Elkind.

                 Title: The Somme : the darkest hour on the Western Front /
                        Peter Hart.

                 Title: Sounds of change : a history of FM broadcasting in
                        America / Christopher H. Sterling & Michael C. Keith ;
                        foreword by Lynn Christian & Bill Siemering.

                 Title: Sport in films / edited by Emma Poulton and Martin
                        Roderick.

                 Title: Stone the crows : Oxford dictionary of modern slang /
                        John Ayto, John Simpson.

                 Title: Story behind the protest song : a reference guide to
                        the 50 songs that changed the 20th century / Hardeep
                        Phull.

                 Title: The strategic teacher : selecting the right
                        research-based strategy for every lesson / Harvey F.
                        Silver, Richard W. Strong, Matthew J. Perini.

                 Title: The sublime object of ideology / Slavoj *Zi*zek.

                 Title: Teaching at its best : a research-based resource for
                        college instructors / Linda B. Nilson.

                 Title: Teaching content outrageously : how to captivate all
                        students and accelerate learning, grades 4-12 /
                        Stanley Pogrow.

                 Title: Teaching literary theory using film adaptations /
                        Kathleen L. Brown ; foreword by Peter Lev.

                 Title: Teaching the digital generation : no more
                        cookie-cutter high schools / Frank S. Kelly, Ted
                        McCain, Ian Jukes.

                 Title: The King of masks / Samuel Goldwyn Films ; presented
                        by Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd ; produced & directed by Wu
                        Tian Ming.

                 Title: Theories of imperialism / Wolfgang J. Mommsen ;
                        translated by P.S. Falla.

                 Title: Through  Chinese eyes  : tradition, revolution, and
                        transformation / Edward Vernoff and Peter J. Seybolt.

                 Title: Through Indian eyes / [edited by] Donald Johnson and
                        Jean Elliott Johnson.

                 Title: Through Japanese eyes / by Richard H. Minea.

                 Title: The timberclads in the Civil War : the Lexington,
                        Conestoga, and Tyler on the western waters / Myron J.
                        Smith, Jr. ; foreword by B. Franklin Cooling.

                 Title: To everything there is a season : Pete Seeger and the
                        power of song / Allan M. Winkler.

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                 Title: To Improve the Academy Resources for Faculty,
                        Instructional, and Organizational Development.

                 Title: To Live [videorecording] = To live / Nian dai guo ji
                        (Xianggang) you xian gong si chu pin ; Shanghai dian
                        ying zhi pian chang xie zhu ; chu pin ren Qiu Fusheng
                        ; bian ju Yu Hua, Lu Wei ; dao yan Zhang Yimou = ERA
                        International (HK) Ltd. presents ; in association with
                        Shanghai Film Studios ; producer, Chiu Fusheng ;
                        script, Yu Hua and Lu Wei ; screenplay, Lu Wei ;
                        directed by Zhang Yimou.

                 Title: To test or not to test : a guide to genetic screening
                        and risk / Doris Teichler Zallen.

                 Title: Together [videorecording] / Zhongguo dian ying ji tuan
                        gong si …. [et al.] ; lian he she zhi ; chu pin ren
                        Tong Gang, Chen Hong ; bian ju Chen Kaige, Xue Xiaolu
                        ; dao yan Chen Kaige.

                 Title: Tours of Vietnam : war, travel guides, and memory /
                        Scott Laderman.

                 Title: Train Man [videorecording] / [T*oh*o Kabushiki Kaisha
                        ; purody*us*a Yamauchi Akihiro, Nihei Tomoyo, Inada
                        Hideki ; gensaku Nakano Hitori ; kyakuhon Kaneko Arisa
                        ; kantoku Murakami Shosuke] =  Train_man / Viz
                        Pictures presents a Shosuke Murakami film ; Toho ;
                        Fuji Television Network ; producers, Yoshishige
                        Shimatani … [ et. al. ] ; screenplay, Arisa Kaneko ;
                        directed by Shosuke Murakami.

                 Title: Transgender history / Susan Stryker.

                 Title: Translating modernism : Fitzgerald and Hemingway /
                        Ronald Berman.

                 Title: The U.S. Supreme Court / Margaret Haerens, book
                        editor.

                 Title: Vicksburg, 1863 / Winston Groom.

                 Title: The Vietnam War : a concise international history /
                        Mark Atwood Lawrence.

                 Title: Voices of emancipation : understanding slavery, the
                        Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension
                        Bureau files / edited by Elizabeth A. Regosin and
                        Donald R. Shaffer.

                 Title: Water / Jacqueline Langwith, book editor.

                 Title: Wednesday is indigo blue : discovering the brain of
                        synesthesia / Richard E. Cytowic and David M.
                        Eagleman.

                 Title: The West the railroads made / Carlos A. Schwantes,
                        James P. Ronda.

                 Title: What Americans really believe : new findings from the
                        Baylor surveys of religion / Rodney Stark with
                        Christopher Bader … [et al.].

                 Title: Why don’t students like school? : a cognitive

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                        scientist answers questions about how the mind works
                        and what it means for your classroom / Daniel T.
                        Willingham.

                 Title: Why we watched : Europe, America, and the Holocaust /
                        Theodore S. Hamerow.

                 Title: William Clark : Indian diplomat / Jay H. Buckley.

                 Title: William Faulkner : seeing through the South / John T.
                        Matthews.

                 Title: Women, armies, and warfare in early modern Europe /
                        John A. Lynn II.

                 Title: Women’s studies on the edge / edited by Joan Wallach
                        Scott.

                 Title: World almanac and book of facts

                 Title: Xin Long men ke zhan [videorecording] = Dragon Inn /
                        Tai Seng Video Marketing presents a Century Pacific
                        Entertainment release of a Seasonal Films and Film
                        Workshop production ; producer, Tsui Hark ; writer,
                        Cheung Tan ; director, Raymond Lee.

                 Title: Zionism and anti-semitism in Nazi Germany / Francis R.