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New Books: August/September 2019

Criminal Justice

Law enforcement in the age of Black Lives Matter : policing black and brown bodies / edited by Sandra E. Weissinger and Dwayne A. Mack.

The Oxford handbook of prisons and imprisonment / edited by John Wooldredge, Paula Smith.

Education

Is everyone really equal? : an introduction to key concepts in social justice education / Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo.

Raising and educating a deaf child : a comprehensive guide to the choices, controversies, and decisions faced by parents and educators / Marc Marschark.

Teach like Finland : 33 simple strategies for joyful classrooms / Timothy D. Walker ; foreword by Pasi Sahlberg.

Fine Arts

Black out : silhouettes then and now / Asma Naeem ; with contributions by Penley Knipe, Alexander Nemerov, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, and Anne Verplanck.

Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly / Joshua Rivkin.

A global history of architecture / Francis D.K. Ching, Mark Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash.

Makers of modern architecture, 3 volumes / Martin Filler.

Health, Human Performance and Recreation

College athletes' rights and well-being : critical perspectives on policy and practice / edited by Eddie Comeaux.

Good sport : why our games matter -- and how doping undermines them / Thomas H. Murray.

Mindful sport performance enhancement : mental training for athletes and coaches / Keith A. Kaufman, Carol R. Glass, Timothy R. Pineau.

National pastime : U.S. history through baseball / Martin C. Babicz and Thomas W. Zeiler.

History

21 lessons for the 21st century / Yuval Noah Harari.

A history of America in ten strikes / Erik Loomis.

A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx / Sven-Eric Liedman ; translated by Jeffrey N. Skinner.

Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation / Anne Frank ; adapted by Ari Folman ; illustrations by David Polonsky.

Coup : the day the Democrats ousted their governor, put Republican Lamar Alexander in office early, and stopped a pardon scandal / Keel Hunt ; with a newly discovered account of the events by Lamar Alexander.

The dead march : a history of the Mexican-American War / Peter Guardino.

Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life / Robert Dallek.

The history of modern Spain : chronologies, themes, individuals / edited by Adrian Shubert and José Álvarez Junco.

Iran : a modern history / Abbas Amanat.

The mistaken history of the Korean War : what we got wrong then and now / Paul M. Edwards.

Political culture in Spanish America, 1500-1830 / Jaime E. Rodríguez O.

The presidency of Ulysses S. Grant / Charles W. Calhoun.

Stonehenge : the story of a sacred landscape / Francis Pryor.

These truths : a history of the United States / Jill Lepore.

Vietnam : an epic tragedy, 1945-1975 / Max Hastings.

Voices from Mariel : oral histories of the 1980 Cuban boatlift / José Manuel García.

Language and Literature

After Ireland : writing the nation from Beckett to the present / Declan Kiberd.

The Cambridge companion to Latin American poetry / edited by Stephen Malcolm Hart, University College, London.

The Iron Mountain review : Karen Salyer McElmurray issue.

The life of Mark Twain : the early years, 1835-1871 / Gary Scharnhorst.

The life of Saul Bellow : love and strife, 1965-2005 / Zachary Leader.

Migrating fictions : gender, race, and citizenship in U.S. internal displacements / Abigail G.H. Manzella.

Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense / Jenny Uglow.

North Carolina literary review : NCLR, 2019. Featuring North Carolina African American literature.

Math and Natural Sciences

Essential fish biology : diversity, structure and function / Derek Burton, Margaret Burton.

Resilience in complex socio-ecological systems / edited by David A. Bohan, Alex J. Dumbrell.

The tangled tree : a radical new history of life / David Quammen.

Veer ecology : a companion for environmental thinking / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Lowell Duckert, editors ; foreword by Cheryll Glotfelty ; afterword by Nicholas Royle.

Writing undergraduate lab reports : a guide for students / Christopher S. Lobban, University of Guam, Maria Schefter, University of Guam.

Nursing

The Oxford handbook of stigma, discrimination, and health / edited by Brenda Major, John F. Dovidio, Bruce G. Link.

Pale rider : the Spanish Flu of 1918 and how it changed the world / Laura Spinney.

Specimen science : ethics and policy implications / edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, Barbara E. Bierer, I. Glenn Cohen, and Suzanne M. Rivera.

Religion and Philosophy

1517 : Martin Luther and the invention of the Reformation / Peter Marshall.

Islam, an American religion / Nadia Marzouki ; translated by C. Jon Delogu.

Social Sciences

Algorithms of oppression : how search engines reinforce racism / Safiya Umoja Noble.

Appalachia in regional context : place matters / edited by Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver.

The first twenty-five : an oral history of the desegregation of Little Rock's public junior high schools / edited by Laverne Bell-Tolliver.

How to change your mind : what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence / Michael Pollan.

Hurt : chronicles of the drug war generation / Miriam Boeri.

Mexican-origin foods, foodways, and social movements : decolonial perspectives / edited by Devon G. Peña, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and Gabriel R. Valle.

Political handbook of the world, 2018-2019, 2 volumes / edited by Tom Lansford ; associate editors Jorge Brown, John Callahan, David Harms Holt, Wayne F. Lesperance Jr., Robert J. Pauly Jr.

Watermelons, nooses, and straight razors : stories from the Jim Crow Museum / David Pilgrim.

Social Work

The art of life and death : radical aesthetics and ethnographic practice / Andrew Irving.

Physician-assisted death : what everyone needs to know / L.W. Sumner.

Curriculum

The night diary / Veera Hiranandani.

Poison in the colony : James Town 1622 / Elisa Carbone.

Shout : a poetry memoir / by Laurie Halse Anderson.

Fiction

At the end of the century / the stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala ; with an introduction by Anita Desai.

Booth Tarkington : novels & stories / Booth Tarkington ; Thomas Mallon, editor.

Forgetfulness / Ward Just.

The fortress of solitude : a novel / Jonathan Lethem.

Fortune smiles : stories / Adam Johnson.

The great believers / Rebecca Makkai.

Selected stories / Shirley Ann Grau ; with a foreword by Robert Phillips.

Songs without words / Ann Packer.

The stories of Mary Gordon / Mary Gordon.

Supermarket / written and directed by Bobby Hall.

The woman upstairs : a novel / Claire Messud.