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New Books: January 2019

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Crashed : how a decade of financial crises changed the world / Adam Tooze.

Criminal Justice

The age of lone wolf terrorism / Mark S. Hamm and Ramon Spaaij.

Convicted and condemned : the politics and policies of prisoner reentry / Keesha M. Middlemass.

Crime and social justice in Indian country / edited by Marianne O. Nielsen and Karen Jarratt-Snider.

Gender, psychology, and justice : the mental health of women and girls in the legal system / edited by Corinne C. Datchi and Julie R. Ancis.

Education

Can I teach that? : negotiating taboo language and controversial topics in the language arts classroom / edited by Suzanne Linder and Elizabeth Majerus.

Engaging primary children in mathematics / Margaret Sangster.

Reaching reluctant young readers / Rob Reid.

Scholarly communication : what everyone needs to know® / Rick Anderson.

Trans* in college : transgender students' strategies for navigating campus life and the institutional politics of inclusion / Z. Nicolazzo ; foreword by Kristen A. Renn ; afterword by Stephen John Quaye.

Was the Cat in the Hat black? : the hidden racism of children's literature, and the need for diverse books / Philip Nel.

Fine Arts

Blackface nation : race, reform, and identity in American popular music, 1812-1925 / Brian Roberts.

The hope of another spring : Takuichi Fujii, artist and wartime witness / Barbara Johns ; foreword by Roger Daniels ; introduction to the diary by Sandy Kita.

Magnum manifesto / edited by Clément Chéroux ; in collaboration with Clara Bouveresse.

Ninth Street women : Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler : five painters and the movement that changed modern art / Mary Gabriel.

Revival type : digital typefaces inspired by the past / Paul Shaw, foreword by Jonathan Hoefler.

Surface decoration / Kevin Millward.

History

The Caribbean before Columbus / William F. Keegan and Corinne L. Hofman.

Defending the Motherland : the Soviet women who fought Hitler's aces / Lyuba Vinogradova; with an introduction by Antony Beevor; translated from the Russian by Arch Tait.

Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom / David W. Blight.

Genocide : a world history / Norman M. Naimark.

The great stain : witnessing American slavery / Noel Rae.

The Holocaust : a new history / Laurence Rees.

It's all a game : the history of board games from Monopoly to settlers of Catan / Tristan Donovan.

Lighting the fires of freedom : African American women in the civil rights movement / Janet Dewart Bell.

The prison letters of Nelson Mandela / edited by Sahm Venter ; foreword by Zamaswazi Dlamini-Mandela.

The promise and the dream : the untold story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy / David Margolick ; foreword by Douglas Brinkley.

Viet Nam : a history from earliest times to the present / Ben Kiernan.

The voice of the past : oral history / Paul Thompson with Joanna Bornat.

Voices of civil rights lawyers : reflections from the deep South, 1964-1980 / edited by Kent Spriggs ; foreword by Marian Wright Edelman.

Language and Literature

From a Lisbon rooftop / Eric Steineger.

Maternal metaphors of power in African American women's literature : from Phillis Wheatley to Toni Morrison / Geneva Cobb Moore ; foreword by Andrew Billingsley.

Reading William Gilmore Simms : essays of introduction to the author's canon / edited by Todd Hagstette.

Sabers and utopias : visions of Latin America / Mario Vargas Llosa ; translated from the Spanish by Anna Kushner.

Nursing

Prevention is better than cure : learning from adverse events in healthcare / Ian Leistikow.

Religion and Philosophy

Billy Graham : American pilgrim / edited by Andrew Finstuen, Anne Blue Wills, Grant Wacker.

The evil of banality : on the life and death importance of thinking / Elizabeth K. Minnich.

Seven ways of looking at pointless suffering : what philosophy can tell us about the hardest mystery of all / Scott Samuelson.

Social Sciences

After hope and change : the 2012 elections and American politics, post 2014 election update / James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney Jr.

The American nonvoter / Lyn Ragsdale and Jerrold G. Rusk.

The coddling of the American mind : how good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure / Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.

The death of truth : notes on falsehood in the age of Trump / Michiko Kakutani.

Defying the odds : the 2016 elections and American politics / James W. Ceaser, Andrew E. Busch, and John J. Pitney Jr.

Generation wealth / Lauren Greenfield ; foreword by Juliet Schor ; photographs edited with Trudy Wilner Stack ; text edited with Susan Lynley Welsh.

Just immigration : American policy in Christian perspective / Mark R. Amstutz.

The Obama doctrine : American grand strategy today / Colin Dueck.

Plundered skulls and stolen spirits : inside the fight to reclaim native America's culture / Chip Colwell.

The psychology of racial colorblindness : a critical review / Philip J. Mazzocco.

To end a presidency : the power of impeachment / Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz.

Social Work

Domestic abuse, child custody, and visitation : winning in family court / Toby G. Kleinman and Daniel Pollack.

Curriculum

Thirteen ways of looking at a black boy / Tony Medina & 13 artists.

Fiction

A gambler's anatomy : a novel / Jonathan Lethem.

American histories : stories / John Edgar Wideman.

The Best American short stories 2018 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Roxane Gay with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Roxane Gay.

The children's crusade / Ann Packer.

Commonwealth : a novel / Ann Patchett.

How are you going to save yourself / JM Holmes.

Lucky us : a novel / Amy Bloom.

The overstory : a novel / Richard Powers.

Red, white, blue / Lea Carpenter.

The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for girls / Anton DiSclafani.