Resources By Department: New Books: June/July 2019

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Rebel threads : clothing of the bad, beautiful & misunderstood / Roger K. Burton.

Reinventing business models : how firms cope with disruption / Henk Volberda, Frans van den Bosch, Kevin Heij.

Criminal Justice

American prison : a reporter's undercover journey into the business of punishment / Shane Bauer.

Cyberspace and cybersecurity / George Kostopoulos.

Insane : America's criminal treatment of mental illness / Alisa Roth.

Spy watching : intelligence accountability in the United States / Loch K. Johnson.

Fine Arts

Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times / Alan Walker.

Schumann : the faces and the masks / Judith Chernaik.

Wendy Wasserstein / Jill Dolan.

History

The Brazil reader : history, culture, politics / edited by James N. Green, Victoria Langland, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz.

Broken lives : how ordinary Germans experienced the twentieth century / Konrad H. Jarausch.

Gandhi before India / Ramachandra Guha.

Gandhi : the years that changed the world, 1914-1948 / Ramachandra Guha.

Litigating across the color line : civil cases between black and white southerners from the end of slavery to civil rights / Melissa Milewski.

London's triumph : merchants, adventurers, and money in Shakespeare's city / Stephen Alford.

Midnight in Chernobyl : the untold story of the world's greatest nuclear disaster / Adam Higginbotham.

Nation branding in modern history / edited by Carolin Viktorin, Jessica C.E. Gienow-Hecht, Annika Estner, Marcel K. Will.

The new abolition : W.E.B. Du Bois and the black social gospel / Gary Dorrien.

Out of the ashes : an oral history of provisional Irish Republican movement (Social movements vs terrorism) / Robert W. White.

Rampage : MacArthur, Yamashita, and the battle of Manila / James M. Scott.

Separate : the story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's journey from slavery to segregation / Steve Luxenberg.

Thomas Cromwell : a revolutionary life / Diarmaid MacCulloch.

The war before the war : fugitive slaves and the struggle for America's soul from the Revolution to the Civil War / Andrew Delbanco.

Language and Literature

Daemon voices : on stories and storytelling / Philip Pullman ; edited by Simon Mason.

Hesse : the wanderer and his shadow / Gunnar Decker ; translated by Peter Lewis.

Science fiction and the moral imagination : visions, minds, ethics / Russell Blackford.

The source of self-regard : selected essays, speeches, and meditations / Toni Morrison.

Well-read black girl : finding our stories, discovering ourselves : an anthology / edited by Glory Edim.

The world-ending fire : the essential Wendell Berry / selected and with an introduction by Paul Kingsnorth.

Math and Natural Sciences

Close encounters with humankind : a paleoanthropologist investigates our evolving species / Sang-Hee Lee with Shin-Young Yoon.

Energy : a human history / Richard Rhodes.

Guide to the geology & natural history of the Blue Ridge Mountains / Edgar W. Spencer ; designed and edited by Shawn Spencer.

Mushrooms of the Southeast / Todd F. Elliott and Steven L. Stephenson.

North on the wing : travels with the songbird migration of spring / Bruce M. Beehler ; illustrations by John T. Anderton.

The science of sleep : what it is, how it works, and why it matters / Wallace B. Mendelson.

She has her mother's laugh : the powers, perversions, and potential of heredity / Carl Zimmer.

Survival guide to organic chemistry : bridging the gap from general chemistry / Patrick E. McMahon, Bohdan B. Khomtchouk, Claes Wahlestedt.

Religion and Philosophy

Hard, hard religion : interracial faith in the poor South / John Hayes.

Jah kingdom : Rastafarians, Tanzania, and pan-Africanism in the age of decolonization / Monique A. Bedasse.

Seven ways of looking at religion : the major narratives / Benjamin Schewel.

The three escapes of Hannah Arendt : a tyranny of truth / Ken Krimstein.

Social Sciences

A savage order : how the world's deadliest countries can forge a path to security / Rachel Kleinfeld.

American overdose : the opioid tragedy in three acts / Chris McGreal.

Can we all be feminists? : new writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 others on intersectionality, identity, and the way forward for feminism / edited by June Eric-Udorie.

Heavy : an American memoir / Kiese Laymon.

How to be less stupid about race : on racism, White supremacy, and the racial divide / Crystal M. Fleming.

The lies that bind : rethinking identity, creed, country, color, class, culture / Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Likewar : the weaponization of social media / P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking.

The road to unfreedom : Russia, Europe, America / Timothy Snyder.

To face down Dixie : South Carolina's war on the Supreme Court in the age of civil rights / James O. Heath.

What you are getting wrong about Appalachia / Elizabeth Catte.

White kids : growing up with privilege in a racially divided America / Margaret A. Hagerman.

Why parties matter : political competition and democracy in the American South / John H. Aldrich, John D. Griffin.

Fiction

Always coming home / Ursula K. LeGuin ; Brian Attebery, editor.

The birds of Opulence / Crystal Wilkinson.

Boy, snow, bird / Helen Oyeyemi.

Florida / Lauren Groff.

How long 'til black future month? / N.K. Jemisin.

In the country : stories / Mia Alvar.

Killing commendatore / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel and Ted Goossen.

Mendocino fire : stories / Elizabeth Tallent.

The street ; The narrows / Ann Petry ; edited by Farah Jasmine Griffin.

Theft : a love story / Peter Carey.

Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights : a novel / Salman Rushdie.

Washington Black / Esi Edugyan.

The year of the runaways / Sunjeev Sahota.