October Library Acquisitions

ACQUISITIONS LIST
Chadwick Library
Iowa Wesleyan College
October 2010
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REFERENCE, INDEX, ETC

*Wilson, Ellen Judy. Encyclopedia of Enlightenment. Facts on File, 2004. (REF B802 .W48 2004)
*Bently (ed.), Peter. The dictionary of world myth. Facts on File, 1995. (REF BL303 .D46 1995)
*Mercatante, Anthony S. The Facts on File encyclopedia of world mythology and legend v.2. Facts on File NY, 2004. (REF BL303 .M45 2001 V.2)
*Jones, David M. The mythology of Americas: an illustrated encyclopedia of gods, spirits and sacred places of North America, Mesoamerica and South America. Lorenz Books, 2001. (REF E59 .R38 J66 2001)
*Levinson (ed.), David. Encyclopedia of world sport: from ancient times to the present. Oxford University Press, 1999. (REF GV567 E55 1999)
*Dunning, John. On the air: the encyclopedia of old-time radio. Oxford University Press, 1998. (REF PN1991.3 .U6 D8 1998)

EDUCATION

CAAP Exam Team. CAAP secrets study guide: your key to exam success. Mometrix Media LLC, 2009. (LB1761.5 .C33 2009)

SOCIOLOGY & ANTHROPOLOGY

*Barry, John M. The great influenza: the epic story of the deadliest plaque in history. Viking/Penguin, 2004. (RC150.4 .B37 2004)

 
ART

*Schama, Simon. The power of art. Ecco/HarperCollins, 2006. (N5300 .S24 2006)
*Nicholl, Charles. Leonardo da Vinci: flights of the mind. Viking/Penguin, 2004. (N6923 .L33 N52 2004)

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS

*Sachs, Jeffrey D. The end of poverty: economic possibilities for our time. Penguin Press, 2005. (HC59.72 .P6 S225 2005)

ENGLISH & LITERATURE

*Schmidt, Michael. The first poets: lives of the ancient Greek poets. Alfred A Knopf, 2005. (PA3064 .S36 2005)
*Burl, Aubrey. Catullus: a poet in the Rome of Julius Caesar. Carroll & Graf, 2004. (PA6276 .B87 2004)
*Truss, Lynne. Eats, shoots, & leaves: the zero tolerance approach to punctuation. Gotham Books/Penguin, 2004. (PE1450 .T75 2004)
*Hughs, Ted. Selected translations. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. (PN6101 .S447 2007)
*Reynolds, Barbara. Dante: the poet, the political thinker, the man. Shoemaker & Hoard Emeryville, 2006. (PQ4335 .R49 2006)
*Petrarca, Francesco. The poetry of Petrarch. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. (PQ4496 .E23 2004)
*Epstein (ed.), Joseph. Literary genius: 25 classic writers who define English & American literature. Paul Dry Books Philadelphia, 2007. (PR105 .L56 2007)
*Lynch, Jack. Becoming Shakespeare: the unlikely afterlife that turned a provincial playwright into the bard. Walker & Co, 2007. (PR2965 .L96 2007)
*Blank, Paula. Shakespeare and the mismeasure of Renaissance man. Cornell University Press Ithaca, 2006. (PR3069 .M43 B57 2006)
*Sacks, Kenneth S. Understanding Emerson: “the American scholar” and his struggle for self-reliance. Princeton University Press, 2003. (PS1615 .A84 S23 2003)
*Shields, Charles J. Mockingbird: a portrait of Harper Lee. Henry Holt, 2006. (PS3562 .E353 Z87 2006)

HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE

*Bland, William D. The Little Alamo: the real story of Bradford’s Bandits at Dong Ha Air Base, Vietnam 1965-1996. Word Association Publishers Tarentum, 2006. (DS557.7 .B53 2006)
*Wilentz, Sean. The rise of American democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln. W.W. Norton, 2005. (E302.1 .W55 2005)
*Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: an American life. Simon & Schuster, 2003. (E302.6 .F8 I83 2003)
*Cunliffe, Barry. The extraordinary voyage of Pytheas the Greek. Walker & Co, 2002. (G88 .C86 2002)
*Berg, Jerome S. On the short waves, 1923-1945: broadcast listening in the pioneer days of radio. McFarland & Co. Jefferson, 1999. (TK6547 .B425 1999)
*Simmons, Amelia. The first American cookbook: a facsimile of “American Cookery,” 1796. Dover Publications, 1984. (TX703 .S5 1984b)
*Vehling, Joseph Dommers. Cookery and dining in Imperial Rome: a bibliography, critical review and translation of the ancient book known as Apicius de ne Coquinaria. Dover Publications, 1977. (TX713 .A713)
*Gozzini Giacosa, Ilaria. A taste of ancient Rome. University of Chicago Press Chicago, 1994. (TX725 .A1 G613 1994)

RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

*Zeruneith, Keld. The wooden horse: the liberation of the western mind from Odysseus to Socrates. Overlook, 2007. (B181 .Z4713 2007)
*Reeve (ed.), C.D.C. Plato on love: Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with selections from Republic, Laws. Hackett Publishing, 2006. (B358 .R44 2006)
*Pejman, Louis P. Who are we?: theories of human nature. Oxford University Press, 2006. (BD450 .P5764 2006)
*Yourgrau, Palle. A world without time: the forgotten legacy of Godel and Einstein. Basic Books/Pereus Books, 2005. (BD638 .Y73 2005)
*Stenmark, Mikael. How to relate science and religion: a multidimensional model. William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004. (BL240.3 .S744 2004)
*Cashford, Jules. The moon: myth and image. Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003. (BL325 .M56 C37 2003)
*Kohlenberger (ed.), John R. The parallel Apocrypha: Greek text, King James version, Douay Old Testament, the Holy Bible by Ronald Knox, Today’s English Version, New revised Standard Version, New American Bible, New Jerusalem Bible. Oxford University Press, 1997. (BS1692 1997)
*Richards, E.G. Mapping time: the calendar and its history. Oxford University Press, 1999. (CE11 .R5 1999)

SCIENCE – GENERAL

*Angier, Natalie. The canon: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science. Houghton Mifflin Boston, 2007. (Q162 .A59 2007)
*Mazur, Joseph. Euclid in the rainforest: discovering universal truth in logic and math. Pi Press, 2005. (QA9 .M3935 2005)
*O’Shea, Donal. The Poincare conjecture: in search of the shape of the universe. Walker & Co, 2007. (QA612 .O83 2007)

SCIENCE – BIOLOGY

*Gould, Carol Grant. The remarkable life of William Beebe: explorer and naturalist. Island Press/Shearwater Books Washington 2004. (QL31 .B37 G68 2004)

SCIENCE – PHYSICS
*Bertulani, Carlos A. Nuclear physics in a nutshell. Princeton University Press Princeton, 2007. (QC776 .B466 2007)