May Acquisitions List

ACQUISITIONS LIST

Chadwick Library

Iowa Wesleyan College

May 2008

*---Gifts

#---Free Gov’t Doc.

GENERAL INTEREST

*Obama, Barack. Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance. Three Rivers Press, 2004. (Ei85.97.O23 A3 2004)

*Bruni, Frank. Ambling into history: the unlikely odyssey of George W. Bush. HarperCollins, 2002. (E903.B78 2002b)

HIGHER EDUCATION

Tobolowsky, Barbara F. (ed.) Shedding light on sophomores: an exploration of the second college year. National Resource Center, 2007. (LA229.S49 2007)

EDUCATION

*Senge, Peter. Schools that learn: a fifth discipline fieldbook for educators, parents, and everyone who cares about education. Doubleday, 2000. (LB2822.82 .S38 2000)

*Cress, Christine M. Learning through serving: a student guidebook for service-learning across the disciplines. Stylus, 2005. (LC220.5 .C72 2005)

PSYCHOLOGY

*Cohen, Libby G. Assessment of children and youths with special needs. Allyn & Bacon, 2003. (BF722.C638 2003)

*Delisle, Jim. When gifted kids don’t have all the answers: how to meet their social and emotional needs. Free Spirit Publishing, 2002. (LC3993.2 .D36 2002)

*Weishaar, Mary Konya. Case studies in assessment of students with disabilities. Pearson, 2005. (LC4019 .W45 2005)

ENGLISH & LITERATURE

*Deans, Thomas. Writing and community action: a service-learning rhetoric and reader. Longman, 2003 (PE1127.S6 D43 2003)

*Ross, Carolyn. Writing for real: a handbook for writers in community service. Longman, 2003. (PE1479.S62 R67 2003)

*Gwamna, Olabisi. Dancing with shadows and other stories. Hamilton Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. (PR9387.9.G83 D36 2008)

FICTION

*Erdrich, Louise. The Master Butchers Singing Club: a novel. Perennial/HarperCollins, 2004. (PS3555.R42 M37 2004)

HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE

*Wolff, Leon. Little brown brother: how the United States purchased and pacified the Philippine Islands at the century’s turn. History Book Club, 2006. (DS682.A1 W6 2006)

*Calloway, Colin G. The scratch of a pen: 1763 and the transformation of North America. Oxford University Press, 2006. (E46 .C35 2006)

*Troiani, Don. Don Troiani’s American battles: the art of the nation at war, 1754-1865. Stackpole Books, 2006. (qE181 .T85 2006)

*Schama, Simon. Rough Crossings: Britain, the slaves and the American Revolution. (E269.N3 S33 2006)

*Wood, Gordon S. Revolutionary characters: what made the founders different. Penguin Press, 2006. (E302.5 .W82 2006)

*Bordewich, Fergus M. Bound for Canaan: the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America. Amistad/HarperCollins, 2005. (E450 .B735 2005)

*Swanson, James L. Manhunt: the twelve day chase for Lincoln’s killer. William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2006. (E457.5 .S993 2006)

*Witness to the Civil War: first-hand accounts from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Collins/HarperCollins, 2006. (qE464 .W58 2006)

*Hanson, Kathleen S. (ed.) Turn backward, O time: the Civil War diary of Amanda Shelton. Edinborough Press, 2006. (E621 .S47 2006)

*Philbrick, Nathaniel. Mayflower: a story of courage, community, and war. Viking/Penguin, 2006. (F68 .P44 2006)

*Goetzmann, William H. Exploration and empire: the explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West. History Book Club, 2006 (F591 .G62 2006)

*Faragher, John Mack. A great and noble scheme: the tragic story of the expulsion of the France Acadians from their American homeland. W.W. Norton, 2005. (F1038 .F37 2005)

RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

*Sample, Tex. Powerful persuasion: multimedia witness in Christian Worship. Abingdon Press, 2005. (BV288 .S26 2005)

YOUTH LITERATURE

Seeger, Lara Vaccaro. First the egg. Roaring Brook Press, 2007. (Youth Lit CAL Se3fi)

AUDIO-VISUAL

*Kabul Transit. Bullfrog Films, 2006. (A-V DVD DS375.K2 K33 2006)

Best of 2007. Films Media Group, 2007. (A-V DVD HF6146.T42 F68 2007)

One for you sociologists, mathematician, philosophers and marketers

As I was working on collection development the other day, I came across this entry for a very unique and unusual book titled, "Indexed". Being a librarian and concerned with access, I must say that this piqued my interest. How could there be a book on indexing in the past tense? What kind of information would it hold? And, why would anyone buy it? Well, it turns out that
this isn't a book on indexing from a librarian's perspective, but one from a unique, creative and sometimes even thought provoking perspective.

The author, Jessica Hagy, thinks in a very visual manner. On her blog, indexed.blogspot.com (which BTW was named a 2007 Webby Awards nominee) she posts charts, graphs, and Venn diagrams drawn on index cards that provide observations on unusual connections in our culture.

Curious? Here's an example:

Those simple steps are never so simple:

Here's another....

Out with the old, in with the new












So, how does this tie in with student learning and information literacy?

During the first year English 101 program one of our information literacy sessions has a segment on the grammar and syntax of searching. This is more commonly known as Boolean logic which uses Venn diagrams and the connectors of and, or and not to represent search statements. This encourages the students to represent their searching in a graphic manner. So, when I explored this book and blogspot, my intention was to provide some interesting (and yes, entertaining) examples of Boolean logic that would help eliminate that glassy eyed look we get from students when we present this material.

I think it's especially interesting that this has applications to all sorts of discipline areas--philosophy, marketing, sociology, and math to name a few. Yes, I know, it's not a scholarly resource, but hey, it's summer!

April Acquisitions List

ACQUISITIONS LIST

Chadwick Library

Iowa Wesleyan College

April 2008

*---Gifts

#---Free Gov’t Documents

REFERENCE, INDEX, ETC.

Lecointre, Guillaume. The tree of life: a phylogentic classification. Belknap Press, 2006 (Ref QH83.L42513 2006)

*Vogt, Peter, Career wisdom for college students: insights you won’t get in class, on the Internet, or from your parents. Checkmark Books, 2007 (HF5381.V58 2007)

GENERAL INTEREST

* Lerner, Barron H. When illness goes public: celebrity patients and how we look at medicine. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 (R703.L47 2006)

Fitzgerald, Terence J. (ed.) Celebrity culture in the United States. H.W. Wilson, 2008 (E169.12.C39 2008)

NURSING

Chong, Nilda. The Latino patient: a cultural guide for health care providers. Intercultural Press, 2002 (RA448.5.H57 C56 2002)

Long, Stephen Weber. Caring for people with challenging behaviors: essential skills and successful strategies in long-term care. Health Professions Press, 2005 (RC451.4.N87 L66 2005)

Innes, Anthea (ed.) Dementia care mapping: applications across cultures. Health Professions Press, 2003 (RC521.D4537 2003)

Odom-Forren, Jan. Practical guide to moderate sedation/analgesia. C.V. Mosby, 2005 (RD85.C64 O36 2005)

Hardin, Sonya R. (ed.) Synergy for clinical excellence: the AACN synergy model for patient care. Jones and Bartlett, 2005 (RT120.I5 S97 2005)

HIGHER EDUCATION

Moss, Pamela A. (ed.) Evidence and decision making. 2007 (LB5.N25 106^th pt. 1)

Smolin, Louanne, (ed.) Information and communication technologies: considerations of current practice for teachers and teacher educators. 2007 (LB5.N25 106^th pt. 2)

Boss, Suzie. Reinventing project-based learning: your field guide to real-world projects in the digital age. ISTE, 2007 (LB1027.43.B67 2007)

Watts, Margit Misangyi. College: we make the road by walking. Prentice Hall, 2007 (LC1011.W29 2007)

Tabors, Patton O. One child, two languages: a guide for early childhood educators of children learning English as a second language. Paul H. Brooks Publishing, 2008 (P118.2.T325 2008)

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY

Horst, Heather A. The cell phone: an anthropology of communication. Berg Publishers, 2006 (HE9715.J25 H67 2006)

Bianchi, Suzanne M. Changing rhythms of American family life. Russell Sage Foundations Publications, 2007 (HQ536.B59 2007)

Delgado, Melvin. Social work with Latinos: a cultural assets paradigm. Oxford University Press, 2007 (HV3187.A2 D444 2007)

ART

Foster, Hal. Art since 1900: modernism, antimodernism, post modernism. Thames & Hudson, 2004 (qN6490.A7186 2004)

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION/ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS

*Fishback, Price V. Government & the American econmomy: a new history. University of Chicago Press, 2007 (HC103.G676 2007)

*Pomfret, Richard. The Central Asian economies since independence. Princeton University Press, 2006 (HC420.3.P654x 2006)

*Noland, Marcus. The Arab economies in a changing world. Institute of International Economics, 2007 (HC498.N56 2007)

*Moss, Todd J. African development: making sense of the issues and actors. Lynne Rienner, 2007 (HC800.M6775 2007)

*Sisodia, Rajendra S. Firms of endearment: how world-class companies profit from passion and purpose. Wharton School Publishing, 2007 (HD30.28.S478 2007)

NCEE. Tough choices or tough times: the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2008 (HD5715.2.N32 2008)

*Lawler, Edward E. America at work: choices and challenges. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

(HD6957.U5 A485 2006)

Bragg, Steven M. Wiley GAAP policies and procedures. Wiley, 2007 (HF5616.U5 B7 2007)

Epstein, Barry J. Wiley GAAP 2008: interpretation and application of generally accepted accounting principles. Wiley, 2007 (HF5616.U5 W55)

*Stallings, Barbara. Finance for development: Latin America in comparative perspective. Brookings Institution Press, 2006 (HG185.L3 S83 2006)

HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE

*Wood, Edward W. Jr. Worshipping the myths of World War II: reflections on America’s dedication to war. Potomac Books, 2006 (D769.1.W66 2006)

*Vinen, Richard. The unfree French: life under the occupation. Yale University Press, 2006 (DC397.V56 2006)

*Moyar, Mark. Triumph forsaken: the Vietnam war, 1954-1965. Cambridge University Press, 2006 (DS557.7.M77 2006)

*Johnson, Robert David. Congress and the Cold War. Cambridge University Press, 2006 (E840.J635 2006)

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Bentley, Jon. Programming Pearls. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000 (QA76.6.B454 2000)

Meyers, Scott. Effective C++: 55 specific ways to improve your programs and designs. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005 (QA76.73.C153 M48 2005)

Eckel, Bruce. Thinking in Java. Prentice Hall, 2006 (QA76.73.J38 E25 2006)

RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

Brogan, Walter (ed.) American continental philosophy: a reader. Indiana University Press, 2000 (B935.A44 2000)

Flahault, Francois. Malice. Verso, 2003 (BJ1406.F5313 2003)

Townsend, Kathleen Kennedy. Failing America’s faithful: how today’s churches are mixing God with politics and losing their way. Warner BKS, 2007 (BR526.T72 2007)

Bremmer, Jan (ed.) The Apochrypal acts of Paul and Thecla. Kok Pharos Publishing House, 1996 (BS2880.P4 A66 1996)

SCIENCE – BIOLOGY

Miller, Suzanne M. (ed.) Individuals, families, and the new era of genetics: biopsychosocial perspectives. W.W. Norton, 2006 (RB155.I525 2006)

GLOBAL ISSUES

Ward, Peter D. Under a green sky: global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they can tell us about our future. Collins, 2008 (QE721.2.E97 W384 2008)

YOUTH LITERATURE

Levine, Ellen. Henry’s freedom box. Scholastic Press, 2007 (Youth Lit CAL L57he)

Selznick, Brian. The invention of Hugo Cabret: a novel in words and pictures. Scholastic Press, 2007 (Youth Lit CAL Se4in)

Sis, Peter. The wall: growing up behind the Iron Curtain. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 (Youth Lit CAL Si8wa)

Willems, Mo. Knuffle Bunny too: a case of mistaken identity. Hyperion, 2007 (Youth Lit CAL W66Ku)

Curtis, Christopher Paul. Elijah of Buxton. Scholastic Press, 2007 (Youth Lit NEW C94el

Schlitz, Laura Amy. Good masters! sweet ladies!: voices from a medieval village. Candlewick Press, 2007 (Youth Lit NEW Sch3go)

Schmidt, Gary D. The Wednesday wars. Clarion Books, 2007 (Youth Lit NEW Sch5we)

Woodson, Jacqueline. Feathers. Putnam Juvenile, 2007 (Youth Lit NEW W86fe)

Simon, Seymour. Bones: our skeletal system. HarperTrophy/Morrow, 1998 (Youth Lit SCI(B) Si5bo)

Simon, Seymour. The brain: our nervous system. HarperCollins, 2006 (Youth Lit SCI(B) Si5br)

Simon, Seymour. Eyes and ears. HarperTrophy, 2003 (Youth Lit SCI(B) Si5ey)

Simon, Seymour. Guts: our digestive system. HarperCollins, 2005 (Youth Lit SCI(B) Si5gu)

Simon, Seymour. The heart: our circulatory system. HarperCollins, 2006 (Youth Lit SCI(B) Si5he)

Simon, Seymour. Lungs: your respiratory system. HarperCollins, 2007 (Youth Lit SCI(B) Si5lu)

Simon, Seymour. Muscles: our muscular system. HarperTrophy 1998 (Youth Lit SCI(B) Si5mu)

Simon, Seymour. Earthquakes. HarperCollins, 2006 (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5ea)

Simon, Seymour. Hurricanes. HarperCollins, 2007 (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5hu)

Simon, Seymour. Icebergs and glaciers. HarperTrophy, 1999 (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5ic)

Simon, Seymour. Lightning. HarperCollins, 1997 (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5li)

Simon, Seymour. Mountains. HarperTrophy, 1997 (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5mo)

Simon, Seymour. Oceans. HarperCollins, 2006 (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5oc)

Simon, Seymour. Storms. HarperTrophy, 1992 (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5st)

Simon, Seymour. Tornadoes. HarperTrophy, 1999 (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5to)

Simon, Seymour. Weather. HarperCollins 2006, (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5we)

Simon, Seymour. Wildfires. HarperTrophy 1996, (Youth Lit SCI(P) Si5wi)

AUDIO-VISUAL

Tabors, Patton O. One child, two languages: a guide for early childhood educators of children learning English as a second language. Paul H. Brooks Publishing, 2008 (A-V CD P118.2.T325 2008)

How They Sell. Films Media Group, 2004 (A-V DVD HF5415.2 .H695 2004)