Finally, a new New Books list
It's been a while since I posted a list of some of our newest books. So here they are (remember that if you see something you like, simply copy and paste the title into the Novanet catalogue to get the call number and determine its availability):
Philosophy
The know-it-all: one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world / A.J. Jacobs
Good and real: demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics / Gary Drescher
Reshaping reason: toward a new philosophy / John McCumber
Spinoza’s book of life: freedom and redemption in the Ethics / Steven B. Smith
Educating the human brain / Michael Posner
Euclid in the rainforest: discovering universal truth in logic and math / Joseph Mazur
Plato’s fable: on the moral condition in shadowy times / Joshua Mitchell
Intricate ethics: rights, responsibilities and permissible harm / F.M. Kamm
Religion
The Oxford handbook of religion and science / Ed. by Philip Clayton
Church and state in Canada / Albert Menendez
A church divided: German Protestants confront the Nazi past / Matthew Hockenos
Pagodas, gods and spirits of Vietnam / Ann Unger
Women’s religious activity in the Roman Republic / Celia Shultz
Beyond toleration: the religious origins of American pluralism / Chris Beneke
Chinese steles: pre-Buddhist and Buddhist use of a symbolic from / Dorothy Wong
History/Geography
The medieval and early modern world: primary sources and reference volume / [compiled by] Donald R. Kelley and Bonnie G. Smith
The real chief: Liam Lynch / Meda Ryan
In search of the Trojan War / Michael Wood
Strabo’s cultural geography: the making of a Kolossourgia / Ed. by Daniela Dueck
Thailand's political history: from the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767 to recent times / B.J. Terwiel.
The rise, fall, and legacy of apartheid / P. Eric Louw
The Tay Son uprising; society and rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam / George Dutton
The lore of Ireland: an encyclopedia of myth, legend and romance / Daithi O hOgain
Escape from impasse: the decision to open Japan / Mitani Hiroshi
Subjects unto the same King: Indians, English and the contest for authority in colonial New England / Jenny Pulsipher
An imperial possession: Britain in the Roman Empire / David Mattingly
Sociology/Criminology
Don’t get too comfortable: the indignities of coach class and other First World problems / David Rakoff
The invention of pornography: obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800 / Ed. by Lynn Hunt
The challenge of affluence: self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950 / Avner Offer
A place to belong: community order and everyday space in Calvert, Newfoundland / Gerald Pocius
Delinquency, development and social policy / David Brandt
A great feast of light: growing up Irish in the television age / John Doyle
Taking stock: the status of criminological theory / Ed. by Francis Cullen
Think global, fear local: sex, violence and anxiety in contemporary Japan / David Leheny
From nature to experience: the American search for cultural authority / Roger Lundin
Rethinking substance abuse: what the science shows and what we should do about it / Ed. by William Miller
Women’s Studies
A New Orleans voudou priestess: the legend and reality of Marie Laveau / Carolyn Morrow Long
Hemingway and women: female critics and the female voice / Ed. by Lawrence Broer & Gloria Holland
Invisible shadows: a black woman's life in Nova Scotia / Verna Thomas
Scientists and storytellers: feminist anthropologists and the construction of the American Southwest / Catherine Lavender
Women and the politics of travel, 1870-1914 / Monica Arita Liljestromnderson
The women's century: a celebration of changing roles, 1900-2000 / Mary Turner
The flaming womb: repositioning women in early modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Andaya
International Development Studies
After the killing fields: lessons from the Cambodian genocide / Craig Etcheson
We are poor but so many: the story of self-employed women in India / Ela Bhatt
Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire / Anne Norton
The new rulers of the world / John Pilger
Profit and poverty in rural Vietnam: winners and losers of a dismantled revolution / Rita Liljestrom
How to spend $50 billion to make the world a better place / edited by Bjørn Lomborg
In Sierra Leone / Michael Jackson
Whispering in the giant's ear: a frontline chronicle from Bolivia's war on globalization / William Powers
Political Science
The American enemy: a story of French anti-Americanism / Philippe Roger; translated by Sharon Bowman
Ghost plane: the true story of the CIA torture program / Stephen Grey
Liberals: the history of the Liberal and Liberal Democrat parties / Roy Douglas
State of denial / Bob Woodward
Conversations on Russia: reform from Yeltsyn to Putin / Padma Desai
Twilight in the desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy / Matthew Simmons
Business/Economics
The global leader: critical factors for creating the world class organization / Terence Brake
The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more / Chris Anderson
Money makers; the stock market secrets of Britain’s top professional investors / Jonathan Davis
Cycles: how we will live, work, and buy / Maddy Dychtwald
Towards North American monetary union?: the politics and history of Canada's exchange rate regime / Eric Helleiner
Startups that work: the 10 critical factors that will make or break a new company / Joel Kurtzman
An introduction to the bond market / Patrick Brown
The undercover economist: exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor--and why you can never buy a decent used car! / Tim Harford
Globalization and organization: world society and organizational change / Ed. by Gili Drori
A corporate solution to global poverty: how multinationals can help the poor and invigorate their own legitimacy / George Lodge
Literature & Language
Analysing sociolinguistic variation / Sali A. Tagliamonte
The collected poems of Odysseus Elytis / translated by Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris; introduction and notes by Jeffrey Carson
The poems of Catullus / translated, with commentary, by Peter Green
A literary history of women’s writing in Britain, 1660-1789 / Susan Staves
Action writing: Jack Kerouac’s wild form / Michael Hrebeniak
Lost for words: the mangling and manipulating of the English language / John Humphrys
How novels work / John Mullan
Ghost stories of the Maritimes / Vernon Oickle
Loud sparrows: contemporary Chinese short-shorts / Ed. by Aili Mu
Becoming strangers / Louise Dean
The din in the head: essays / Cynthia Ozick
Articles of faith: the collected Tablet journalism of Graham Greene / edited with an introduction by Ian Thomson
Grace and truth / Jennifer Johnston
A chance meeting: intertwined lives of American writers and artists / Rachel Cohen
Oh pure and radiant heart / Lydia Millet
Stranger than fiction: true stories / Chuck Palahniuk
Sciences
The book nobody read: chasing the revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus / Owen Gingerich
Virus and the whale: exploring evolution in creatures small and large / Judy Diamond, editor; with Carl Zimmer ... [et al.]
Reading the rocks: the autobiography of the Earth / Marcia Bjornerud
Postmortem: how medical examiners explain suspicious deaths / Stefan Timmermans
The archaeology of disease / Charlotte Roberts
Murder 2: the second casebook of forensic detection / Colin Evans
Deep stall: the turbulent story of Boeing commercial airplanes / Philip K. Lawrence and David W. Thornton
Tsunami: the Newfoundland tidal wave disaster / Maura Hanrahan
Philosophy
The know-it-all: one man's humble quest to become the smartest person in the world / A.J. Jacobs
Good and real: demystifying paradoxes from physics to ethics / Gary Drescher
Reshaping reason: toward a new philosophy / John McCumber
Spinoza’s book of life: freedom and redemption in the Ethics / Steven B. Smith
Educating the human brain / Michael Posner
Euclid in the rainforest: discovering universal truth in logic and math / Joseph Mazur
Plato’s fable: on the moral condition in shadowy times / Joshua Mitchell
Intricate ethics: rights, responsibilities and permissible harm / F.M. Kamm
Religion
The Oxford handbook of religion and science / Ed. by Philip Clayton
Church and state in Canada / Albert Menendez
A church divided: German Protestants confront the Nazi past / Matthew Hockenos
Pagodas, gods and spirits of Vietnam / Ann Unger
Women’s religious activity in the Roman Republic / Celia Shultz
Beyond toleration: the religious origins of American pluralism / Chris Beneke
Chinese steles: pre-Buddhist and Buddhist use of a symbolic from / Dorothy Wong
History/Geography
The medieval and early modern world: primary sources and reference volume / [compiled by] Donald R. Kelley and Bonnie G. Smith
The real chief: Liam Lynch / Meda Ryan
In search of the Trojan War / Michael Wood
Strabo’s cultural geography: the making of a Kolossourgia / Ed. by Daniela Dueck
Thailand's political history: from the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767 to recent times / B.J. Terwiel.
The rise, fall, and legacy of apartheid / P. Eric Louw
The Tay Son uprising; society and rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Vietnam / George Dutton
The lore of Ireland: an encyclopedia of myth, legend and romance / Daithi O hOgain
Escape from impasse: the decision to open Japan / Mitani Hiroshi
Subjects unto the same King: Indians, English and the contest for authority in colonial New England / Jenny Pulsipher
An imperial possession: Britain in the Roman Empire / David Mattingly
Sociology/Criminology
Don’t get too comfortable: the indignities of coach class and other First World problems / David Rakoff
The invention of pornography: obscenity and the origins of modernity, 1500-1800 / Ed. by Lynn Hunt
The challenge of affluence: self-control and well-being in the United States and Britain since 1950 / Avner Offer
A place to belong: community order and everyday space in Calvert, Newfoundland / Gerald Pocius
Delinquency, development and social policy / David Brandt
A great feast of light: growing up Irish in the television age / John Doyle
Taking stock: the status of criminological theory / Ed. by Francis Cullen
Think global, fear local: sex, violence and anxiety in contemporary Japan / David Leheny
From nature to experience: the American search for cultural authority / Roger Lundin
Rethinking substance abuse: what the science shows and what we should do about it / Ed. by William Miller
Women’s Studies
A New Orleans voudou priestess: the legend and reality of Marie Laveau / Carolyn Morrow Long
Hemingway and women: female critics and the female voice / Ed. by Lawrence Broer & Gloria Holland
Invisible shadows: a black woman's life in Nova Scotia / Verna Thomas
Scientists and storytellers: feminist anthropologists and the construction of the American Southwest / Catherine Lavender
Women and the politics of travel, 1870-1914 / Monica Arita Liljestromnderson
The women's century: a celebration of changing roles, 1900-2000 / Mary Turner
The flaming womb: repositioning women in early modern Southeast Asia / Barbara Andaya
International Development Studies
After the killing fields: lessons from the Cambodian genocide / Craig Etcheson
We are poor but so many: the story of self-employed women in India / Ela Bhatt
Leo Strauss and the politics of American empire / Anne Norton
The new rulers of the world / John Pilger
Profit and poverty in rural Vietnam: winners and losers of a dismantled revolution / Rita Liljestrom
How to spend $50 billion to make the world a better place / edited by Bjørn Lomborg
In Sierra Leone / Michael Jackson
Whispering in the giant's ear: a frontline chronicle from Bolivia's war on globalization / William Powers
Political Science
The American enemy: a story of French anti-Americanism / Philippe Roger; translated by Sharon Bowman
Ghost plane: the true story of the CIA torture program / Stephen Grey
Liberals: the history of the Liberal and Liberal Democrat parties / Roy Douglas
State of denial / Bob Woodward
Conversations on Russia: reform from Yeltsyn to Putin / Padma Desai
Twilight in the desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy / Matthew Simmons
Business/Economics
The global leader: critical factors for creating the world class organization / Terence Brake
The long tail: why the future of business is selling less of more / Chris Anderson
Money makers; the stock market secrets of Britain’s top professional investors / Jonathan Davis
Cycles: how we will live, work, and buy / Maddy Dychtwald
Towards North American monetary union?: the politics and history of Canada's exchange rate regime / Eric Helleiner
Startups that work: the 10 critical factors that will make or break a new company / Joel Kurtzman
An introduction to the bond market / Patrick Brown
The undercover economist: exposing why the rich are rich, the poor are poor--and why you can never buy a decent used car! / Tim Harford
Globalization and organization: world society and organizational change / Ed. by Gili Drori
A corporate solution to global poverty: how multinationals can help the poor and invigorate their own legitimacy / George Lodge
Literature & Language
Analysing sociolinguistic variation / Sali A. Tagliamonte
The collected poems of Odysseus Elytis / translated by Jeffrey Carson and Nikos Sarris; introduction and notes by Jeffrey Carson
The poems of Catullus / translated, with commentary, by Peter Green
A literary history of women’s writing in Britain, 1660-1789 / Susan Staves
Action writing: Jack Kerouac’s wild form / Michael Hrebeniak
Lost for words: the mangling and manipulating of the English language / John Humphrys
How novels work / John Mullan
Ghost stories of the Maritimes / Vernon Oickle
Loud sparrows: contemporary Chinese short-shorts / Ed. by Aili Mu
Becoming strangers / Louise Dean
The din in the head: essays / Cynthia Ozick
Articles of faith: the collected Tablet journalism of Graham Greene / edited with an introduction by Ian Thomson
Grace and truth / Jennifer Johnston
A chance meeting: intertwined lives of American writers and artists / Rachel Cohen
Oh pure and radiant heart / Lydia Millet
Stranger than fiction: true stories / Chuck Palahniuk
Sciences
The book nobody read: chasing the revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus / Owen Gingerich
Virus and the whale: exploring evolution in creatures small and large / Judy Diamond, editor; with Carl Zimmer ... [et al.]
Reading the rocks: the autobiography of the Earth / Marcia Bjornerud
Postmortem: how medical examiners explain suspicious deaths / Stefan Timmermans
The archaeology of disease / Charlotte Roberts
Murder 2: the second casebook of forensic detection / Colin Evans
Deep stall: the turbulent story of Boeing commercial airplanes / Philip K. Lawrence and David W. Thornton
Tsunami: the Newfoundland tidal wave disaster / Maura Hanrahan
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