Thanks to Melodie Farnham, cataloger and acquisitions librarian extraordinaire, I have a pile of new print books to tell you about. These were all added to the library's collection in the last two months--ebooks were also added, but I don't get a list of them to share with you, so be sure to wander around in our catalog periodically to find new books in your research areas.
Because there are so many listed here,
I've arranged them by subject (not quite by call number), and featured at least one in each subject area. Come check them out for yourself!
Hot Topic:
BC Call Number: 363.323 W876c
Wood, Lesley J.
Crisis and control: the militarization of protest policing. New York: Distributed by Palgrave MacMillan, 2014.
This balanced look at global policing provides an examination of the issue that is "both academic and hands-on" (Morton). Melodie describes her reasons for purchasing the book: "We have been hearing more and more about the increasing militarization of police forces across the US. I wanted to provide students with the opportunity to take a closer look at both sides of the issue."
BC Call Number: 363.232 E64p
Epp, Charles R.
Pulled over: how police stops define race and citizenship. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
A Bit Random
BC Call Number: 025.11 S942w
Successful library fundraising: best practices. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Yep, we ordered that one for me.
BC Call Number: 646.34 H791p
Hope, Babe.
Pretty plus: how to look sexy, sensational and successful, no matter what you weigh. Far Hills, N.J.: New Horizon Press, c2010.
BC Call Number: 686.22 W235f
Walters, John L.
Fifty typefaces that changed the world. London: Conran Octopus, 2013.
Publisher's description: The digital revolution has made typesetters of us all as we define our identities through the typefaces we choose to communicate with the world. In this witty and insightful book John L Waters explores 50 of the most influential typefaces and shows them in use on posters, perfume packaging, buildings and more. From the power of Gotham - the typeface used in Obama's first presidential campaign - to Wim Crouwel's digital-taming New Alphabet, this is a book of visual treats and wonderful stories.
BC Call Number: 690.892 C284b
Carlsen, Spike.
The backyard homestead book of building projects. North Adams, MA: Storey Publishing, 2014.
Psychology
BC Call Number: 153.8 D989m
Dweck, Carol S.
Mindset: the new psychology of success. New York: Ballantine Books, 2008.
Melodie writes about this title, "I learned about this book last fall at a faculty development function. The author's explanation of fixed and growth mindsets will prompt readers to examine how they view challenges. This was purchased with both faculty and students in mind."
Description from Publisher's Weekly:
Mindset is "an established set of attitudes held by someone," says the Oxford American Dictionary. It turns out, however, that a set of attitudes needn't be so set, according to Dweck, professor of psychology at Stanford. Dweck proposes that everyone has either a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. A fixed mindset is one in which you view your talents and abilities as... well, fixed. In other words, you are who you are, your intelligence and talents are fixed, and your fate is to go through life avoiding challenge and failure. A growth mindset, on the other hand, is one in which you see yourself as fluid, a work in progress. Your fate is one of growth and opportunity. Which mindset do you possess? Dweck provides a checklist to assess yourself and shows how a particular mindset can affect all areas of your life, from business to sports and love....Dweck's overall assertion that rigid thinking benefits no one, least of all yourself, and that a change of mind is always possible, is welcome.
BC Call Number: 306.7 B511p
Bering, Jesse.
Perv: the sexual deviant in all of us. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
BC Call Number: 362.8292 B213w
Bancroft, Lundy.
Why does he do that? Inside the minds of angry and controlling men. New York: Berkley Books, 2003.
BC Call Number: 612.8 K13f
Kaku, Michio.
The future of the mind: the scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind. New York: Doubleday, 2014.
BC Call Number: 616.891 P578c
Physical activity and mental health. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2014.
BC Call Number: 616.890092 H662c
Hines, Kevin.
Cracked, not broken: surviving and thriving after a suicide attempt. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2013.
Philosophy
BC Call Number: 170 N414e
Neiman, Susan.
Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.
BC Call Number: 174.297954 S531t
Sharp, Lesley Alexandra.
The transplant imaginary: mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 174.4 S757g
Spinello, Richard A.
Global capitalism, culture, and ethics. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
BC Call Number: 741.50973 R464s
Reynolds, Richard.
Super heroes: a modern mythology. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1994.
BC Call Number: 741.509 S959m
Superheroes and philosophy: truth, justice, and the Socratic way. Chicago, Ill.: Open Court, c2005.
BC Call Number: 791.4372 M433i
The matrix and philosophy: welcome to the desert of the real. Chicago: Open Court, 2002.
BC Call Number: 791.4372 M488g
Philosophers explore The Matrix. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
BC Call Number: 794.801 W927c
World of Warcraft and philosophy: wrath of the philosopher king. Chicago: Open Court, c2009.
We picked up a few academic popular culture analyses during December and January, some from a really interesting batch of donations. This book is described as follows:
Recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in videogame history, World of Warcraft is everywhere — from episodes of South Park and The Simpsons, to online series like Watch the Guild, accolades and awards from game critics, and prime-time commercials with Mr. T. Inevitably, such a cultural phenomenon triggers deeper questions. When does an assumed identity become real? Does the Corrupted Blood epidemic warn us of future public health catastrophes? What are the dangers when real life is invaded by events in the game? What can our own world learn from Azeroth’s blend of primitivism and high-tech? In these lively essays, a specially commissioned guild of philosophers, including Yara Mitsuishi, Monica Evans, Tim Christopher, and Anna Janssen, tackles these and other complex questions arising from WoW.
Norton, Brian Michael.
Fiction and the philosophy of happiness: ethical inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment. Lewisburg, Pa: Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2014.
Business & Business Ethics
BC Call Number: 174.4 S757g
Spinello, Richard A.
Global capitalism, culture, and ethics. New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
BC Call Number: 174.4 A142m
Abend, Gabriel.
The moral background: an inquiry into the history of business ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 658.4038 R658i
Robinson, Alan.
The idea-driven organization: unlocking the power in bottom-up ideas. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2014.
Book description: Too many organizations are overlooking, or even suppressing, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation....The frontline employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services have unparalleled insights into where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. In this follow-up to their bestseller Ideas Are Free, Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder show how to align every part of an organization around generating and implementing employee ideas and offer dozens of examples of what a tremendous competitive advantage this can offer. Their advice will enable leaders to build organizations capable of implementing 20, 50, or even 100 ideas per employee per year. Citing organizations from around the world, they explain what’s needed to put together a management team that can lead the type of organization that embraces grassroots ideas and describe the strategies, policies, and practices that enable them. They detail exactly how high-performing idea processes work and how to design one for your organization. (Source: Amazon)
BC Call Number: 658.4012 H224f
Hammerich, Kai.
Fish can't see water: how national culture can make or break your corporate strategy. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, 2013.
Religion
BC Call Number: 200.94 W746g
Wilson, A. N.
God's funeral. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
BC Call Number: 201.678 P275l
Partridge, Christopher H.
The lyre of Orpheus: popular music, the sacred, and the profane. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 204 K26i
Keen, Sam.
In the absence of God: dwelling in the presence of the sacred. New York: Harmony Books, c2010.
BC Call Number: 220.863 S673t
Snodgrass, J.
Turning the tables: farming and feeding in the Gospels. Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, 2012.
BC Call Number: 261.29514 P175j
Palmer, Martin.
The Jesus sutras: rediscovering the lost scrolls of Taoist Christianity. New York: Ballantine, 2001.
BC Call Number: 294.3 R148w
Walpola Rahula.
What the Buddha taught. 2nd ed. New York: Grove Press, 1974.
BC Call Number: 294.513 C775m
Noble, Margaret Elizabeth.
Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists. New York, Dover Publicatons, 1967.
BC Call Number: 296.396 B789j
Boyarin, Daniel.
The Jewish Gospels: the story of the Jewish Christ. New York: The New Press, 2012.
BC Call Number: 297.09 R165w
Ramadan, Tariq.
Western Muslims and the future of Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Review from Foreign Affairs:
"In the spirit of interfaith dialogue, which Ramadan embraces, one might as well describe this book as a splendid practical catechism for Muslims in the West. There is much food for thought in it as well for non-Muslim majorities in the West and Muslim majorities in the Middle East. The book is at its best when it describes and interprets the recent explosion of accusations of witchcraft and other superstitions in the region and links them to the exercise of political power."
BC Call Number: 297.283 J75b
Jomier, Jacques.
The Bible and the Qur'an. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2002.
BC Call Number: 297.283 P573m
Phipps, William E.
Muhammad and Jesus: a comparison of the prophets and their teachings. New York: Continuum, 1996.
BC Call Number: 299.785 M478n
McGaa, Ed.
Nature's way: native wisdom for living in balance with the earth. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2004.
BC Call Number: 322.109 B974t
Buruma, Ian.
Taming the gods: religion and democracy on three continents. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Education & Teaching
BC Call Number: 370.9 R589s
Ripley, Amanda.
The smartest kids in the world: and how they got that way. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013
BC Call Number: 371.01 O977c
Owens, John.
Confessions of a bad teacher: the shocking truth from the front lines of American public education. Naperville, Illinois: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2013.
BC Call Number: 371.829 H773b
Honigsfeld, Andrea.
Breaking the mold of classroom management: what educators should know and do to enable student success. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2014.
BC Call Number: 371.242 B491a Beresin, Anna R.
The art of play: recess and the practice of invention. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 371.3 P141a
Pahomov, Larissa.
Authentic learning in the digital age: engaging students through inquiry. Alexandria, Virginia: ASCD, 2014.
Although aimed at K-12 teachers, the precepts explored in this volume fit perfectly with BC's experiential education focus.
Book Description: How can you create an authentic learning environment—one where students ask questions, do research, and explore subjects that fascinate them—in today’s standards-driven atmosphere? Pahomov outlines a framework for learning structured around five core values: inquiry, research collaboration, presentation and reflection. For each value, she presents:
* A detailed description of how the value can transform classroom practice and how a “digital connection” can enhance its application.
* A step-by-step outline for how to implement the value, with examples from teachers in all subject areas.
* Solutions to possible challenges and roadblocks that teachers may experience.
* Suggestions for how to expand the value beyond the classroom to schoolwide practice.</br<
* Anecdotes from students, offering their perspectives on how they experienced the value in the classroom and after graduation. (Source: Amazon)
BC Call Number: 507.12 S562e
Shumow, Lee.
Enhancing adolescents' motivation for science: research-based strategies for teaching male and female students. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin, 2014.
BC Call Number: 780.71 B478t Benton, Carol W.
Thinking about thinking: metacognition for music learning. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Social Sciences
BC Call Number: 302.13 R125p
Radcliff, Benjamin.
The political economy of human happiness: how voters' choices determine the quality of life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 305.23 R579n
Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela.
The nature of childhood: an environmental history of growing up in America since 1865. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2014.
BC Call Number: 305.896 M657c
Mills, Quincy T.
Cutting along the color line: Black barbers and barber shops in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 305.896073 M433o (Also available as an
e-book)
Matlin, Daniel.
On the corner: African American intellectuals and the urban crisis. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 306.7 B511p
Bering, Jesse.
Perv: the sexual deviant in all of us. New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Melodie selected this book "to support students who are taking the Human Sexuality class this spring and for anyone who is looking to gain a better insight into his or her own sexual development."
Author Jesse Bering is a psychologist and columnist who combines "
cutting-edge studies and critiques of landmark research and conclusions drawn by Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, and the DSM-5" to make the argument that sexual deviance is commonplace. (Source: Amazon)
BC Call Number: 322.109 B974t
Buruma, Ian.
Taming the gods: religion and democracy on three continents. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
BC Call Number: 332.4 F695m
Forbes, Steve.
Money: how the destruction of the dollar threatens the global economy--and what we can do about it. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2014.
BC Call Number: 352.379 S129s
Sagar, Rahul.
Secrets and leaks: the dilemma of state secrecy. Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 362.196 E26i
Edwards, Laurie.
In the kingdom of the sick: a social history of chronic illness in America. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
BC Call Number: 363.192 L971f
Lusk, Jayson.
The food police: a well-fed manifesto about the politics of your plate. New York: Crown Forum, 2013.
BC Call Number: 363.325 K96h
Kumamoto, Robert D.
The historical origins of terrorism in America: 1644-1880. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
BC Call Number: 363.883 P831b
Poppendieck, Janet.
Breadlines knee-deep in wheat: food assistance in the Great Depression.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 364.1523 H491i
Hempel, Sandra.
The Inheritor's powder: a tale of arsenic, murder, and the new forensic science. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2015.
BC Call Number: 364.601 F353i
Ferguson, Robert A.
Inferno: an anatomy of American punishment. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 391.5 G878a
Grosswirth, Marvin.
The art of growing a beard. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2014.
BC Call Number: 398.2089 M999b
Myths and tales of the American Indians. New York: Indian Head Books, 1992.
Math & Science
BC Call Number: 174.297954 S531t
Sharp, Lesley Alexandra. T
he transplant imaginary: mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 031.02 P728b
Plimmer, Martin.
Beyond coincidence: stories of amazing coincidence and the mystery and mathematics behind them. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
BC Call Number: 501 Y24o
Yanofsky, Noson S.
The outer limits of reason: what science, mathematics, and logic cannot tell us. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 508.0922 B873s
Brooks, Paul.
Speaking for nature: the literary naturalists, from transcendentalism to the birth of the American environmental movement. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2014.
BC Call Number: 516 M296b
Maor, Eli.
Beautiful geometry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 530.13 M361p
Marro, Joaquin.
Physics, nature and society: a guide to order and complexity in our world. Springer, 2014.
BC Call Number: 539.7215 P277p
Pas, H.
The perfect wave: with neutrinos at the boundary of space and time. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014
BC Call Number: 551.22 D988e
Dvorak, John.
Earthquake storms: the fascinating history and volatile future of the San Andreas Fault. New York, NY: Pegasus Books, 2014.
BC Call Number: 579.17 M742a
Money, Nicholas, P.
The amoeba in the room: lives of the microbes. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014
BC Call Number: 591.5 K52h
King, Barbara J.
How animals grieve. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
An interesting controversy in science is the question of whether animals have emotion. Traditional schools of thought caution against anthropomorphizing animals. I can remember mentioning to a biologist colleague at another school how sad a particular elephant looked at a zoo, and he lectured me on how animals do
not feel emotion. Little did I know at the time that it was a hot button in his field. King, however, is an anthropologist at the forefront of the movement that draws attention to animal emotions. In this book, she explores specifically the emotion of grief and how animals mourn lost companions.
BC Call Number: 591.53 B372s
Beauchamp, Guy.
Social predation: how group living benefits predators and prey. Waltham, MA: Elsevier/ Academic Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 796.0151 L668a
Levy, Joel.
All the right angles: From gear ratios to calculating odds: mathematics in the world of sports. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books, 2013.
Exercise Science, Sports & Outdoor Activities
BC Call Number: 612.044 E64s
Epstein, David J.
The sports gene: inside the science of extraordinary athletic performance. New York: Current, 2014.
BC Call Number: 612.76 G476h
Gillen, Christopher M.
The hidden mechanics of exercise: molecules that move us. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 613.71 D343st
Delavier, Frederic.
The strength training anatomy workout. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, c2011.
BC Call Number: 616.891 P578c
Physical activity and mental health. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2014.
BC Call Number: 623.829 W288c
Warren, Graham.
Canoe paddles: a complete guide to making your own. Buffalo, N.Y.: Firefly Books, 2001.
BC Call Number: 629.2272 H186b
Hallett, Richard.
The bike deconstructed: a grand tour of the modern bicycle. New York, New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 796.0151 L668a
Levy, Joel.
All the right angles: From gear ratios to calculating odds: mathematics in the world of sports. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books, 2013.
BC Call Number: 796.6409 S628b 2014
Skinner, Elizabeth.
Bicycling the Blue Ridge: a guide to the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway. Birmingham, Alabama: Menasha Ridge Press, 2014.
Anyone who has seen me can clearly tell that I am not going to be biking the Parkway anytime soon, but with the number of bicycle enthusiasts on our campus, I predict this could be a popular book. This brand new edition has updated information on bike shops, lodging,campgrounds, road crossings, points of interests, great views and food options, listed by mileposts on the 574-mile route from Front Royal VA to Cherokee NC.
BC Call Number: 796.50289 G659b
Reed, Tom.
NOLS Bear Essentials: hiking and camping in bear country. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, c2009.
BC Call Number: 796.54 T581w
Tilton, Buck.
NOLS winter camping. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, c2005.
BC Call Number: 796.58 W453w
Wells, Darran.
NOLS wilderness navigation. 2nd ed. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, c2013.
BC Call Number: 796.75 L991b
Lyon, Danny.
The bikeriders. New York: Aperture, 2014.
Health Science
BC Call Number: 362.196 E26i
Edwards, Laurie.
In the kingdom of the sick: a social history of chronic illness in America. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.
BC Call Number: 612.8 K13f
Kaku, Michio.
The future of the mind: the scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind. New York: Doubleday, 2014.
BC Call Number: 614.5 L666d
Levitt, Alexandra M.
Deadly outbreaks: how medical detectives save lives threatened by killer pandemics, exotic viruses, and drug-resistant parasites. New York: Skyhorse Pub., c2013.
BC Call Number: 615.7922 B644m
Blaser, Martin J.
Missing microbes: how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
BC Call Number: 616.042 D261c
Davis, Daniel M.
The compatibility gene: how our bodies fight disease, attract others, and define our selves. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
We each have around 25,000 genes, but the genes in this story are those that vary the most from person to person. These genes--called compatibility genes--are, in effect, a molecular signature that distinguishes each of us as individuals. Davis tells the remarkable story of the discovery of compatibility genes, and how decades of patient scientific inquiry, punctuated with individual strokes of genius, have unraveled their workings. Davis reveals how our compatibility genes fight disease, and how this fight varies in all of us....What is particularly fascinating is that these same genes influence the wiring of our brains, the lovers we choose, and successful pregnancies....By bringing together evidence from diverse fields of biology, this book argues that our compatibility genes are central to how we live and when we die, and that a shocking amount of what we do and who we are is determined by how we have evolved to survive disease. Science has never been more elusive or tantalizing than in revealing the nature of ourselves--and unlocking the secrets of our compatibility genes will be central to 21st-century medicine. (Source: Amazon)
Art
BC Call Number:704.9499 B676a
Bohm-Duchen, Monica.
Art and the Second World War. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 709.2 E59v
Brian Eno: visual music. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2013.
BC Call Number: 709.2 K29m (Oversized)
Mike Kelley. [Amsterdam]: Stedelijk Museum ; New York: Prestel Publishing, 2013
BC Call Number: 709.730905 A784a (Oversized)
Art studio America: Contemporary artist spaces. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2013.
BC Call Number: 741.59 S666o (Oversized)
Smolderen, Thierry.
The origins of comics: from William Hogarth to Winsor McCay. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
BC Call Number: 746.92 P973l
Przybyszewski, Linda.
The lost art of dress: the women who once made America stylish. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2014.
BC Call Number: 759.9492 M741t
Troy, Nancy J.
The afterlife of Piet Mondrian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
This title reminded me that, in my first apartment, I had sheets and curtains I thought of as my Mondrian decor. It fascinates me how fine art can become a visual icon in pop culture. I can't wait until the book is returned and I can find out more about this process with Mondrian.
Here's the publisher's description: "Dutch painter Piet Mondrian died in New York City in 1944, but his work and legacy have been far from static since then. From market pressures to personal relationships and scholarly agendas, posthumous factors have repeatedly transformed our understanding of his oeuvre. InThe Afterlife of Piet Mondrian, Nancy J. Troy explores the controversial circumstances under which our conception of the artist's work has been shaped since his death, an account that describes money-driven interventions and personal and professional rivalries in forthright detail. Troy reveals how collectors, curators, scholars, dealers and the painter's heirs all played roles in fashioning Mondrian's legacy, each with a different reason for seeing the artist through a particular lens. She shows that our appreciation of his work is influenced by how it has been conserved, copied, displayed, and publicized, and she looks at the popular appeal of Mondrian's instantly recognizable style in fashion, graphic design, and a vast array of consumer commodities. Ultimately, Troy argues that we miss the evolving significance of Mondrian's work if we examine it without regard for the interplay of canonical art and popular culture. A fascinating investigation into Mondrian's afterlife, this book casts new light on how every artist's legacy is constructed as it circulates through the art world and becomes assimilated into the larger realm of visual experience."
BC Call Number: 759.13 G881z (Oversized)
Mark Grotjahn. Aspen, CO: Aspen Art Museum: Aspen Art Press ; New York, N.Y.: Artbook / Distributed Art Publishers, 2012
BC Call Number: 769.92 C623j
Johnston, Melinda.
Lateral Inversions: The Prints of Barry Cleavin. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press , 2013.
BC Call Number: 770 Z967s
Zuromskis, Catherine.
Snapshot photography: the lives of images. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 779 R414p (Oversized)
Poetics of light: contemporary pinhole photography: selections from the Pinhole Resource Collection. New Mexico History Museum. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, [2014]
BC Call Number: 779.092 H468o (Oversized)
Robert Heinecken: object matter. New York, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2014.
BC Call Number: 779.092 K96n (Oversized)
Kuhn, Mona.
Native. Gottingen: Steidl, 2009.
BC Call Number: 779.092 C236y (Oversized)
Young, Cynthia
Capa in color. New York: International Center of Photography, 2014.
BC Call Number: 779.092 M391k (Oversized)
Charles Marville: photographer of Paris. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2013.
BC Call Number: 779.092 W365m (Oversized)
Webb, Alex.
Memory City. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Radius Books, 2014.
Music
BC Call Number: 016.78 E64m
Epperson, Bruce D.
More important than the music: a history of jazz discography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 780 H387v
Havers, Richard.
Verve: the sound of America. London: Thames & Hudson, Inc., 2013.
BC Call Number: 780.71 B478t
Benton, Carol W.
Thinking about thinking: metacognition for music learning. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
BC Call Number: 781.43 D256r
Davies, J. Q.
Romantic anatomies of performance. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 781.17 C771b
Cook, Nicholas.
Beyond the score: music as performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 781.542 D685o
Donnelly, K. J.
Occult aesthetics: synchronization in sound film. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 781.66 E59m
Ensminger, David A.
Mavericks of sound: conversations with artists who shaped indie and roots music. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
BC Call Number: 782.14 G393s
Gestures of music theater: the performativity of song and dance. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 782.14092 K39h
Hischak, Thomas S.
The Jerome Kern encyclopedia. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.
BC Call Number: 782.42162 O25v
Odo, Franklin.
Voices from the canefields: Folksongs from Japanese immigrant workers in Hawai'i. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013
BC Call Number: 782.421644 S426b
Baram, Marcus.
Gil Scott-Heron: pieces of a man. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2014.
Publisher's description: Best known for his 1970 polemic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised," Gil Scott-Heron was a musical icon who defied characterization. He tantalized audiences with his charismatic stage presence, and his biting, observant lyrics in such singles as "The Bottle" and "Johannesburg" provide a time capsule for a decade marked by turbulence, uncertainty, and racism. While he was exalted by his devoted fans as the "black Bob Dylan" (a term he hated) and widely sampled by the likes of Kanye West, Prince, Common, and Elvis Costello, he never really achieved mainstream success. Yet he maintained a cult following throughout his life, even as he grappled with the personal demons that fueled so many of his lyrics. Scott-Heron performed and occasionally recorded well into his later years, until eventually succumbing to his life-long struggle with addiction. He passed away in 2011, the end to what had become a hermit-like existence. In this biography, Marcus Baram--an acquaintance of Gil Scott-Heron's--will trace the volatile journey of a troubled musical genius. Baram will chart Scott-Heron's musical odyssey, from Chicago to Tennessee to New York: a drug addict's twisted path to redemption and enduring fame. In Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man, Marcus Baram puts the complicated icon into full focus.
Film
BC Call Number: 781.542 D685o
Donnelly, K. J.
Occult aesthetics: synchronization in sound film. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 791.430233 C994b (also
e-book)
Cybulski, Mary.
Beyond continuity: script supervision for the modern filmmaker. New York ; London: Focal Press, 2014.
Publisher's description: "A guide to the craft of script supervising, Beyond Continuity features practical instruction through real-world examples demonstrating and explaining the skills needed by a professional script supervisor. Mary Cybulski, one of Hollywood's premier script supervisors, imparts her sage wisdom as she walks you through the process of training and working as a professional script supervisor, covering the basic skills of breaking down a script, taking notes on set, matching, cheating, determining screen direction, and knowing what the director, actors, and editor expect from a script supervisor. She also details many of the more subtle, but just as important skills-- how to get a job, how to think like an editor, how to tell what is important in a script and on set, how to get along with the cast and crew, and how not to get overwhelmed when there is too much information to process"
BC Call Number: 791.4372 M433i
The Matrix and philosophy: welcome to the desert of the real. Chicago: Open Court, 2002.
BC Call Number: 791.4372 M488g
Philosophers explore The Matrix. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Literature
BC Call Number: 809.933578 P479m
Petermann, Emily.
The Musical Novel: Imitation of Musical Structure, Performance, and Reception in Contemporary Fiction. Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2014.
BC Call Number: 810.936 T737w
Toward a literary ecology: places and spaces in American literature. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 508.0922 B873s
Brooks, Paul.
Speaking for nature: the literary naturalists, from transcendentalism to the birth of the American environmental movement. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 2014.
If you are interested in the interconnections between literature and ecology, these two books are a nice pairing. The interdisciplinarity of the subject is highlighted by their Dewey classifications--you'll note that 800's are literature and 500's are sciences. Toward a Literary Ecology
is much more a literary theory text, with a compilation of essays that discuss works of several authors, genres, and geographies. Speaking for Nature
is a biographical source, with profiles of nature writers both literary and activist and drawings by the author.
BC Call Number: 810.9896073 W319o
Washington, Mary Helen.
The other blacklist: the African American literary and cultural left of the 1950s. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 810.9975 C737g
A companion to the literature and culture of the American south. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004.
BC Call Number: 811.308 O962k
Over the river and through the wood: an anthology of nineteenth-century American children's poetry. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]
BC Call Number: 813.54 D886l
Leak, Jeffrey B.
Visible man: the life of Henry Dumas. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 821.9 H646h
Hill, Geoffrey.
Broken hierarchies: poems, 1952-2012. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
BC Call Number: 823.914 B365f
Beahm, George W.
Fact, fiction, and folklore in Harry Potter's world: an unofficial guide. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Pub. Co., c2005.
BC Call Number: 809.3033 N882f
Norton, Brian Michael.
Fiction and the philosophy of happiness: ethical inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment. Lewisburg, Pa: Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2014.
History
BC Call Number: 909.04924 S299s
Schama, Simon.
The story of the Jews: finding the words, 1000 BC-1492 AD. New York, NY: Ecco, 2014.
BC Call Number: 938 S428d
Scott, Michael.
Delphi: a history of the center of the ancient world. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 973.7092 G659a
Gopnik, Adam.
Angels and ages: a short book about Darwin, Lincoln, and modern life.
New York: Vintage Books, 2010.
BC Call Number: 940.5472 O419c
Okubo, Mine.
Citizen 13660. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2014.
First published in 1946, this classic illustrated memoir tells the story of a California-born Japanese American artist forced into the "relocation centers" established by executive order in 1942. 120,000 ethnic Japaneses were incarcerated in these camps. This piece of shameful American history is poignantly depicted in Mine's line drawings and text. I can envision a senior project drawing on this memoir and both primary and secondary source historical documents on this topic.
BC Call Number: 940.282 S862f
Stites, Richard.
The four horsemen: riding to liberty in post-Napoleonic Europe. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.
BC Call Number: 907.2 B894g
Brundage, Anthony.
Going to the sources: a guide to historical research and writing. Fifth Edition. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
