Library--Pellissippi State Technical Community College

New Books and Media: May 2007

Browse the list below or choose a broad category to see new titles that have been added recently. You may also look in theonline catalog for more information about the books on this list.

General Works
Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Biography, Ancient History
World History
American History
Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
Business, Social Sciences
Political Science
Law
Education

Music
Fine Arts, Architecture
Language, Literature
Mathematics, Computer Science, Sciences
Medicine
Agriculture
Technology
Publishing
Reference Books

The following are new titles in the Library’s collection:

General Works

AG	Book of useless information. N. Botham.
AG	Exploring the unexplained: the world’s greatest marvels, mysteries, and myths. Time Magazine.

Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

B	Husserl: a guide for the perplexed. M. Russell.
BF	Mind: a user’s manual. J. Taylor.
BF	In control. R. Williams.
BF	Overachievers: the secret lives of driven kids. A. Robbins.
BF	How to spot a liar: why people don’t tell the truth … and how you can catch them. G. Hartley.
BF	Wicca for beginners. T. Sabin.
BJ	Great personal letters for busy people. D. Booher.
BL	Why we believe: our biological need for meaning, spirituality, and truth. A. Newberg.
BL	G.O.D. experiments: how science is discovering God in everything, including us. G. Schwartz.
BL	Botanica Los Angeles: Latino popular religious art in the city of angels. P. Polk.
BL	Faiths of the founding fathers. D. Holmes.
BQ	Tibetan book of the dead. G. Coleman.
BR	Religion gone bad. M. White.
BT	Kingdom coming: the rise of Christian nationalism. M. Goldberg.

Biography, Auxiliary Materials

CB	Ancient civilizations: the illustrated guide to belief, mythology, and art. G. Woolf.
CB	I hate the 21st century reader. C. Willis.

World History

DK	Tajikistan. R. Abazov.
DK	Turkmenistan. M. Knowlton.
DK	Uzbekistan. M. Knowlton.
DS	Images of Asia: cultural perspectives on a changing Asia. K. Bergquist.
DS	How to cure a fanatic. A. Oz.
DS	Kabul in winter: life without peace in Afghanistan. A. Jones.
DS	America’s lost war: Vietnam, 1945 – 1975. C. Neu.
DT	They poured fire on us from the sky: the true story of three lost boys from Sudan. A. Deng.
DT	Machete season: the killers in Rwanda speak. J. Hatzfeld.
DT	In his words. N. Mandela.
DT	Prisoner in the garden: the Nelson Mandela Foundation. N. Mandela.

American History

E	The Crow. R. Bial.
E	The Delaware. R. Bial.
E	East Main Street: Asian American popular culture. S. Dave.
E	Translation nation: defining a new American identity in the Spanish-speaking United States. H. Tobar.
E	Beat of a different drum: the untold stories of African Americans forging their own paths in work. R. Dax-Devlon.
E	Invisible privilege: a memoir about race, class, and gender. P. Rothenberg.
E	Darkest dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the great American tragedy. T. Goodrich.
E	People’s history of the Civil War. D. Williams.
E	Middle Tennessee society transformed, 1860 – 1870. S. Ash.
E	New Pearl Harbor: disturbing questions about the Bush administration and 9/11. D. Griffin.
F	Crack in the edge of the world: America and the great California earthquake of 1906. S. Winchester.
F	Maya script: a civilization and its writing. M. Longhena.
F	Nicaragua. J. Kott.

Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

G	Preparedness now: an emergency survival guide for civilians and their families. A. Edwards.
GA	To the ends of the earth: 100 maps that changed the world. J. Harwood.
GN	Shutting out the sun: how Japan created its own lost generation. M. Zielenziger.
GR	Girl who married a lion and other tales from Africa. A. Smith.
GT	Remember me: a lively tour of the new American way of death. L. Cullen.
GV	Baseball: a history of America’s favorite game. G. Vecsey.
GV	Where football is king: a history of the SEC. C. Walsh.
GV	Golf tips from the pros. T. Baker.
GV	Golf rules & etiquette simplified: what you need to know to walk the links like a pro. J. Companiotte.
GV	Inside the Tour de France: the pictures, the legends, and the untold stories of the world’s most beloved bicycle race. E. Delanzy.
GV	Tour de France: a cultural history. C. Thompson.
GV	Competitive running. A. Bean.
GV	Injury-free running. A. Bean.

Business, Social Sciences

H	Action research dissertation. K. Herr.
HD	Brandsimple: how the best brands keep it simple and succeed. A. Adamson.
HD	Tips and traps for getting started as a real estate agent. R. Irwin.
HD	Growing season: the life of a migrant community. G. Harwood.
HD	There is no place like work: seven leadership insights for creating a workplace to call home. S. Margolis.
HD	Labor rights are civil rights: Mexican American workers in twentieth-century America. Z. Vargas.
HD	Reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action. D. Schon.
HD	Working Americans, 1880 – 1999. S. Derks.
HD	Bottomless well: the twilight of fuel, the virtue of waste, and why we will never run out of fuel. P. Huber.
HF	Roadtrip nation: find your path in life. N. Gebhard.
HF	Butterfly hunter: the adventures of people who found their true calling off the beaten path. C. Ballard.
HF	100 great businesses and the minds behind them. E. Ross.
HF	Global business etiquette: a guide to international communication and customs. J. Martin.
HF	Marketing. A. Hiam.
HF	Culturally customized Website. N. Singh.
HF	Sales and marketing the six sigma way. M. Webb.
HF	Customer service from the inside out made easy. P. Levesque.
HF	Excel 2007 all-in-one desk reference for dummies. G. Harvey.
HF	Teach yourself visually Excel 2007. N. Muir.
HF	Office 2007 all-in-one desk reference for dummies. P. Weverka.
HF	Say it with presentations: how to design and deliver successful business presentations. G. Zelazny.
HG	Automatic wealth for grads … and anyone else just starting out. M. Masterson.
HJ	Taxes. K. Kowalski.
HM	Friendship. J. Epstein.
HQ	Is it a choice? E. Marcus.
HQ	Over-scheduled child: avoiding the hyper-parenting trap. A. Rosenfeld.
HQ	Wall between women: the conflict between stay-at-home and employed mothers. B. Brykman.
HQ	Science of parenting: practical guidance on sleep, crying, play, and building emotional well-being for life. M. Sunderland.
HQ	Alpha girls: understanding the new American girl and how she is changing the world. D. Kindlon.
HQ	Elephant in the living room: make television work for your kids. D. Christakis.
HQ	Where should I sit at lunch? H. Mosatche.
HQ	Help yourself for teens: real-life advice for real-life challenges. D. Pelzer.
HQ	Gay marriage, real life: ten stories of love and marriage. M. Deakin.
HQ	America’s struggle for same-sex marriage. D. Pinello.
HQ	Denial of aging: perpetual youth, eternal life, and other dangerous fantasies. M. Gillick.
HQ	I do but I don’t: walking down the aisle without losing your mind. K. Wicoff.
HQ	Calling this place home: women on the Wisconsin frontier, 1850 – 1925. J. Jensen.
HQ	Woman today: a celebration: fifty years of South African women. H. Reynolds.
HS	Complete idiot’s guide to freemasonry. S. Morris.
HV	Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the failure of Homeland Security. C. Cooper.
HV	Breach of faith: Hurricane Katrina and the near death of a great American city. J. Horne.
HV	Educating deaf students: from research to practice. M. Marschark.
HV	Animal testing. K. Judson.
HV	Wake-up call: the political education of a 9/11 widow. K. Breitweiser.
HV	Because they hate: a survivor of Islamic terror warns America. B. Gabriel.
HV	The facts about heroin. S. LeVert.

Political Science

JK	Courage of our convictions: a manifesto for Democrats. G. Hart.
JV	Patrolling chaos: the U.S. border patrol in deep South Texas. R. Maril.
JZ	U.N. exposed: how the United Nations sabotages America’s security and fails the world. E. Shawn.

Law

KF	Million reasons: why I fought for the rights of the disabled. A. Labonte.
KF	Paralegal career starter. J. Southard.
KF	Law 101: everything you need to know about the American legal system. J. Feinman.
KF	Legal guide for Americans over 50. American Bar Association.
KF	American Bar Association guide to marriage, divorce, & families.
KF	Copyright handbook: how to protect and use written works. S. Fishman.
KF	Censorship. T. Gottfried.

Education

LB	Creative teacher: an encyclopedia of ideas to energize any curriculum. S. Springer.
LB	Handbook of educational psychology. P. Alexander.
LB	Building blocks: making children successful in the early years of school. G. Maeroff.
LB	High school confidential. J. Iversen.
LB	Faculty diversity: problems and solutions. J. Moody.
LB	Free yourself from student loan debt. B. O’Connell.
LB	Intercultural campus: transcending culture & power in American higher education. G. Tanaka.
LB	How to choose a college major. L. Andrews.
LB	Guiding students from cheating and plagiarism to honesty and integrity. A. Lathrop.
LC	Quality and quantity of contact: African Americans and Whites on college campuses. R. Moore.
LC	Educating the reflective practitioner. D. Schon.

Music

ML	Savvy guide to digital music. R. Mansfield.
ML	700 years of classical treasures. Reader’s Digest.
ML	American music: a panorama. L. Candelaria.
ML	Sound of Stevie Wonder. J. Perone.
ML	Blowin’ hot and cool: jazz and its critics. J. Gennari
MT	Teach yourself visually piano. M. Taylor.

Fine Arts, Architecture

N	World of ancient art. J. Boardman.
N	Earthworks and beyond: contemporary art in the landscape. J. Beardsley.
N	Digital canvas: discovering the art studio in your computer. J. Raimes.
NC	Human anatomy: from the Renaissance to the digital age. B. Rifkin.
NC	Business side of creativity: a complete guide to running a small graphic design or communications business. C. Foote.
NC	Building design portfolios: innovative concepts for presenting your work. S. Eisenman.
NK	Cowboy style. C. Ewald.
NK	How to start a home-based interior design business. N. Phillips.
NK	Interior design course. T. Tangaz.
NK	Plan your bathroom: hundreds of design combinations at-a-glance. L. Mack.

Language, Literature

P	Infinite gift: how children learn and unlearn languages of the world. C. Yang.
PE	How not to write: an office primer for the grammatically perplexed. T. Denman.
PE	Basic American grammar and usage: an ESL/EFL handbook. M. Danesi.
PG	Chekhov: scenes from a life. R. Bartlett.
PL	Columbia anthology of modern Japanese literature. J. Rimer.
PL	Chinese fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. P. Hanan.
PN	Writing tools: 50 essential strategies for every writer. R. Clark.
PN	Godzilla on my mind: fifty years of the king of monsters. W. Tsutsui.
PN	Measure of a man: a spiritual autobiography. S. Poitier.
PN	Jimmy Stewart: the truth behind the legend. M. Munn.
PN	Public speaking for success. D. Carnegie.
PQ	Latin American fiction: a short introduction. P. Swanson.
PR	Jeeves and the feudal spirit. P.G. Wodehouse.
PR	Oxford companion to the Brontes. C. Alexander.
PR	Charlotte Bronte. R. Reiff.
PR	Madonna of Excelsior. Z. Mda.
PR	Vintage book of modern Indian literature. A. Chaudhuri.
PS	Touching the web of Southern novelists. D. Madden.
PS	Redreaming America: toward a bilingual American culture. D. Castillo.
PS	Clotel, or, The president’s daughter. W. Brown.
PS	Acolytes. N. Giovanni.
PS	June Jordan: her life and letters. V. Kinloch.
PS	Toni Morrison. R. Andersen.
PS	Chicano sketches: short stories. M. Suarez.

Mathematics, Computer Science, Sciences

Q	Does anything eat wasps? New Scientist.
Q	Challenging nature: the clash of science and spirituality at the new frontiers of life. L. Silver.
QA	Artist and the mathematician: the story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the genius mathematician who never existed. A. Aczel.
QA	Oracle PL/SQL for dummies. M. Rosenblum.
QA	Networking and online games: understanding and engineering multiplayer Internet games. G. Armitage.
QA	Network security: a hacker’s perspective. A. Fadia.
QA	SQL Server 2005 for developers. R. Ericsson.
QA	Oracle e-business suite security. J. Abel.
QA	How to do everything with Adobe Acrobat 8. D. Sahlin.
QA	Technical math demystified. S. Gibilisco.
QA	Schaum’s outline of differential equations. R. Bronson.
QB	Conflict in the cosmos: Fred Hoyle’s life in science. S. Mitton.
QC	Categories – on the beauty of physics: essential physics concepts and their comparisons in art and literature. E. Sefusatti.
QC	Restless skies: the ultimate weather book. P. Douglas.
QC	Global warming. K. Kowalski.
QH	Real mosquitoes don’t eat meat: this and other inquiries into the oddities of nature. B. Wetzler.
QH	Human experiment: two years and twenty minutes inside Biosphere 2. J. Poynter.
QL	Sailing with Noah: stories from the world of zoos. J. Bonner.
QL	National Geographic complete birds of North America. J. Alderfer.
QP	Owner’s manual for the brain. P. Howard.

Medicine

R	Unplugged: reclaiming our right to die in America. W. Colby.
RA	Body hunters: testing new drugs on the world’s poorest patients. S. Shah.
RA	AIDS in Latin America. T. Frasca.
RA	Shape your self. M. Navratilova.
RA	Longevity bible: 8 essential strategies for keeping your mind sharp and your body young. G. Small.
RA	Health consequences of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke.
RC	Polio: an American story. D. Oshinsky.
RC	The facts about amphetamines. F. Menhard.
RF	Save your hearing now: the revolutionary program that can prevent and may even reverse hearing loss. M. Seidman.
RJ	Fed up!: winning the war against childhood obesity. S. Okie.
RZ	Curandero: a life in Mexican folk healing. E. Torres.

Agriculture

SB	Nature-friendly garden. M. Condon.
SB	Landscaping Southern gardens. P. Cornelison.
SB	Before & after garden makeovers. V. Webster.
SF	Keeper of bees: notes on hive and home. A. Wallace.

Technology

T	Technical communication and the World Wide Web. M. Day.
T	Dance of molecules: how nanotechnology is changing our lives. T. Sargent.
T	Teach yourself visually Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. L. Bucki.
T	AutoCAD 2007 for dummies. D. Byrnes.
T	Just enough AutoCAD 2007. G. Omura.
TA	Asbestos and fire: technological tradeoffs and the body at risk. R. Maines.
TA	Handbook of face recognition. S. Li.
TH	Popular mechanics outdoor and garden projects. A. Jackson.
TK	Hands-on guide to streaming media: an introduction to delivering on-demand media. J. Follansbee.
TK	Understanding search engines. M. Berry.
TK	Absolute beginner’s guide to podcasting. G. Colombo.
TK	Pro tools 101: official courseware. Digidesign.
TK	Geeks on call PCs: 5-minutes fixes. J. Geier.
TL	Terror on the highway: rage on America’s roads. P. Eberle.
TL	Miracle in the Andes: 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home. N. Parrado.
TR	Learning to see creatively: design, color, & composition in photography. B. Peterson.
TR	Photoshop elements drop dead fantasy techniques. D. Lea.
TR	How to create a high-profit photography business in any market. J. Williams.
TR	Final Cut Pro 5 for Mac OS X: visual quickpro guide. L. Brenneis.
TR	Avid editing: a guide for beginning and intermediate users. S. Kauffmann.
TS	Packaging design: successful product branding from concept to shelf. M. Klimchuk.
TT	So simple upholstery.
TT	Success with routing. S. Lawson.
TT	Spectacular walls. J. Dostal.
TX	Elle décor home.
TX	Organic housekeeping. E. Sandbeck.
TX	Better world shopping guide: every dollar makes a difference. E. Jones.
TX	Chew on this: everything you don’t want to know about fast food. E. Schlosser.

Military Science

U	Beyond shock and awe: warfare in the 21st century. E. Haney.
UA	Defense strategy for the post-Saddam era. M. O’Hanlon.
UG	Applications of information systems to homeland security and defense. H. Abbass.

Publishing

Z	Teach yourself visually Word 2007. E. Marmel.
Z	Designing type. K. Cheng.
Z	Intellectual freedom manual.

Reference Books

GT	Traditional festivals. C. Roy.
HA	Social change in America: the historical handbook. P. Becker.
HF	Big book of jobs/occupational outlook handbook.
ML	Uncloudy days: the gospel music encyclopedia. B. Carpenter.
PE	You say to-ma-to. R. Jackson.
PE	Wrong word dictionary. D. Dowling.
PE	Official dictionary of unofficial English. G. Barrett.
PR	Critical companion to William Shakespeare. C. Boyce.
QA	Handy math answer book. T. Svarney.
RB	101 diseases you don’t want to get. M. Powell.
RM	Drugs and society.