Friday, January 30, 2015

New Books and DVDs: December 2014

Books:

All the light we cannot see : a novel / Anthony Doerr
Art and architecture of viceregal Latin America, 1521-1821 / Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Assessment essentials : planning, implementing, and improving assessment in higher education / Trudy W. Banta, Catherine A. Palomba
Blockbuster drugs : the rise and fall of the pharmaceutical industry / Jie Jack Li
The book of unknown Americans / Cristina Henríquez


Cholera : a worldwide history / S.L. Kotar and J.E. Gessler
A chosen exile : a history of racial passing in American life / Allyson Hobbs
Conceptual physics / written and illustrated by Paul G. Hewitt, City College of San Francisco
Grothendieck-Serre correspondence / editors, Pierre Colmez, Jean-Pierre Serre ; translated by Catriona Maclean with the assistance of Leila Schneps, Jean-Pierre Serre
Crimes of the future : theory and its global reproduction / Jean-Michel Raba

The Dead Sea scrolls study edition / edited by Florentino García Martínez & Eibert J.C. TigchelaarDeep-sky video astronomy / by Steve Massey, Steve Quirk
L'éloquence du silence : dramaturgie du non-dit sur la scène théâtrale des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles / sous la direction d'Hélène Bilis et Jennifer Tamas

Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations. VII, chapitres 163-176 / Voltaire ; edited by Bruno Bernard, John RenwickEthics in science : ethical misconduct in scientific research / John D'Angelo
A fighting chance / Elizabeth Warren
Fortress commentary on the Bible. The New Testament / Margaret Aymer, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, David A. Sánchez, editors
Fortress commentary on the Bible. The Old Testament and Apocrypha / Gale A. Yee, Hugh R. Page Jr., Matthew J.M. Coomber, editors
A guide to writing as an engineer / David Beer, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, David McMurrey, Austin Community College
Hidden riches : a sourcebook for the comparative study of the Hebrew Bible and ancient Near East / Christopher B. Hay
Imperial identities : stereotyping, prejudice, and race in colonial Algeria / Patricia M.E. Lorcin ; foreword by Hugh Roberts
Interpreting the Ancien Régime : David Bien / edited by Rafe Blaufarb, Michael S. Christofferson and Darrin M. McMahon ; preface by Keith Baker
An introduction to music technology / Dan Hosken, California State University, Northridge
Introduction to nuclear concepts for engineers / Robert M. Mayo
An introduction to thermal physics / Daniel V. Schroeder
The invisible history of the human race : how DNA and history shape our identities and our futures / Christine Kenneally
Keywords in composition studies / edited by Paul Heilker, Peter Vandenberg


Left to tell : discovering God amidst the Rwandan holocaust / Immaculée Ilibagiza with Steve Erwin
The library instruction cookbook / [edited] by Ryan L. Sittler and Douglas Cook
The linguistic cycle : language change and the language faculty / Elly van Gelderen
Making the grade : the aspiring actuary's guidebook to consistent exam success and advancement in the workplace / Nicholas Mocciolo
Midnight in Siberia : a train journey into the heart of Russia / David Greene
The militant song movement in Latin America : Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina / edited by Pablo Vila
National rhythms, African roots : the deep history of Latin American popular dance / John Charles Chasteen
The nature and origin of language / Denis Bouchard
No place to hide : Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. surveillance state / Glenn Greenwald
The Oxford handbook of the Dead Sea Scrolls / edited by Timothy H. Lim and John J. Collins
The Oxford History of English / edited by Lynda Mugglestone
Penser l'Europe au XVIIIe siècle : commerce, civilisation, empire / edité par Antoine Lilti et Céline Spector
Physics for scientists and engineers / Raymond A. Serway, Emeritus, James Madison University, John W. Jewett, Jr., Emeritus, California State Polytechnic, University, Pomona ; with contributions from Vahé Peroomian, University of California at Los Angeles
Physics of radio-frequency plasmas / Pascal Chabert, CNRS, Nicholas Braithwaite, the Open University
Poetic heroes : literary commemorations of warriors and warrior culture in the early biblical world / Mark S. Smith
Portraiture and politics in Revolutionary France / Amy Freund
Principles of plasma discharges and materials processing / Michael A. Lieberman, Allan J. Lichtenberg
Revival : a novel / Stephen King
Social and economic life in Second Temple Judea / Samuel L. Adams


Theatrical legitimation : allegories of genius in seventeenth-century England and France / Timothy Murray
Twentieth century design : a decade-by-decade exploration of graphic style / Tony Seddon