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)