16 March 2006 - 11:17New Fiction

Death Dance. Fairstein, Linda A. FIC FAI F172d.

Death Dance : A Novel (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries)

Deadly Web. Green, Christine. FIC GRE G795d.

Deadly Web (Kate Kinsella Mysteries)

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. MaGuire, Gregory. FIC MAG M213c.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister : A Novel

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: an authoritative text, Contexts and sources, criticism. Twain, Mark. FIC TWA T969a.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : An Authoritative Text Contexts and Sources Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)

The Haj. Uris, Leon. FIC URI U76h.

The Haj

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16 March 2006 - 9:45The Cummings Room

Pathways to the Gods: the stones of Kiribati. Daniken, Erich von. CMG 930.1 D186p

Paul the Convert: the apostolate and apostasy of Saul the Pharisee. Segal, Alan F. CMG 226 S454p.

The Philosophical Scientists. Foster, David Blythe. CMG 501 F754p

Philosophy and the Human Sciences. Anderson, R. J. CMG 190 A549p.

Prescott’s histories: the rise and decline of the Spanish Empire. Prescott, William Hickling. CMG 946 P929p.

The Punic Wars. Goldsworthy, Adrian Keith. CMG 937 G624p.

Reflections on History. Burchhardt, Jacob. CMG 901 B948w.

Remember Everything You Read: the Evelyn Wood seven-day speed reading and learning program. Frank, Stanley D. CMG 371.3 F828r.

The Right-brain Experience: an intimiate program to free the powers of your imagination. Zdenek, Marilee. CMG 153.3 Z39r.

Robert the Bruce: King of Scots. Scott, Ronald McNair. CMG 941.102.

Saint Peter: a Biography. Grant, Michael. CMG 921 G762s.

The Thirty Years’ War. Parker Geoffrey CMG 940.24 T447.

Trial and Error: the American Civil Liberties Union and its impact on your family. Grant, George. CMG 261.7 G761t.

Twelve who ruled: the year of the terror in the French Revolution. Palmer, R.R. CMG 944.046 P175t.

What Philosophy can do. Wilson, John. CMG 101 W749w.

Will & Circumstance: Montesquieu, Rousseau, and the French Revolution. Hapson, Norman. CMG 944.04 H231w.

The Wind from America, 1778-1781. Manceron, Claude. CMG 944 M268w.

Worldy Goods: a new history of the Renaissance. Jardine, Lisa. CMG 940.2 J37w.

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15 March 2006 - 16:53New for the Cummings Library

Atlas of African History. McEvedy, Colin. CMG 911 M113a.

The Autumn of the Middle Ages. Huizinga, Johan. CMG 944 H911a.

The Battle for Gaul. Caesar, Julius. CMG 936.4 C128b.

Beaumarchais: the Man who was Figaro. Grendel, frederic. CMG 842.5 G842.5.

The Book of J. Bible. O.T. Pentateuch. CMG 222 B724.

Cabinets and Built-ins: a Practical Guide to Building Professional-quality Cabinetry. Levine, Paul. CMG 684.1 L665c.

Christianizing the Roman Empire: A.D. 100-400. MacMullen, Ramsay. CMG 270.1 M113c.

Chronicles of the Barbarians: Firsthand accounts of Pillage and Conquest from the Ancient World to the Fall of Constantinople. McCullough, David W. CMG 930 C557.

Cicero: the Life and Times of Rome’s Greatest Politician. Everitt, Anthony. CMG 937 E93c.

The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance. Hale, J.R. CMG 940.2 H163c.

The classical Greeks. Grant, Michael. CMG 938 G762c.

Classics of Western Philosophy. Cahn, Steven M. CMG 190 C132.

Consilience: the Unity of Knowledge. Wilson, Edward O. CMG 121 W747c.

Economics and the Public Welfare: a Finanical and Economics History of the United States, 1914-1946. Anderson, Benjamin M. CMG 330.9 A545e.

Educating for Disaster: the Nuclear spectre in America’s classrooms. Smith, Thomas Bell. CMG 370.1 S662e.

The End of Order, Versailles, 1919. Mee, Charles L. CMG 940.3141 M494e.

The end of the Old Regime in Europe, 1768-1776: the first Crisis. Venturi, Franco. CMG 940.2 V468e.

The Epic of Latin America. Crow, John Armstrong. CMG 980 C953e.

The Evidence of Evolution. Hotton, Nicholas. CMG 575 H834e.

The Fateful Alliance: France, Russia, and the coming of the First World War. Kennan, George Frost. CMG 940.3 K34f.

The Feudal Transformation: 900-1200. Poly. Jean-Pierre. CMG 944 P781f.

Fighting for the Confederacy: the Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexander. Alexander, Edward Porter. CMG 973.7 A375f.

The First Dissident: the Book of Job in Today’s Politics. Safire, William CMG 223 S128f.

Florentine Histories. Machiavelli, Niccolo. CMG 945 M149f.

The Franco-Prussian War: the German Invasion of France. Howard, Michael. CMG 943.082 H851f.

Free Market envirnmentalism. Anderson, Terry Lee. CMG 333.7 A551f.

Freedom, Justice, and Hope: Toward a strategy for the poor and the oppressed. Schlossberg, Herbert. CMG 261.8 S345F.

Germany, 1866-1945. Craig, Gordon Alexander. CMG 943.08. C886g.

Gods in everyman: a new psychology of men’s lives and loves. Bolen, Jean Shinoda. CMG 155.6 B588g.

Great Thinkers of the Western World: the Major Ideas and Classic Works of more than 100 OUstanding Western Philosophers, Physical and Social scientists, pyschologists, religious writers and theologians. McGreal, Ian Philip. CMG 190 G786.

The Great War at Sea, 1914-1918. Hough, Richard Alexander. CMG 940.4 H838g.

The Greek Way; the Roman Way. Hamilton, Edith. CMG 938 H217a.

A History of the Mind. Humphrey, Nicholas. Cmg 128 H926h.

Living Philosophies: the reflections of some eminent men and women of out time. Fadiman, Clifton. CMG 128 L784.

Making Silent Stones Speak: Human evolution and the sawn of technology. Schick, Kathy Diane. CMG 930.1 S331m.

Missouri Compromise. Coffin, Tristram. CMG 973.918 C675m.

Nonsense, How to Overcome it. Gula, Robert I. CMG 155.9 G971n.

The Outside Story: How democrats and Republicans re-elected Reagan. Brookhiser, Richard. CMG 324.973 B872o.

A Passion for Wisdom: a very brief history of philosophy. Solomon, Robert C. CMG 109 S689p.

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15 March 2006 - 14:31New Titles for Reference

The Math Teacher’s Book of Lists. Muschla, Judith A. REF 510 M985m.

New text which update literary criticism:

Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research. REF 809.04 G151t.

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15 March 2006 - 12:41New Movies for April

Title/ Call Number/ Format

Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
DVD 791.4372 C557
DVD
The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Widescreen Edition)

Memoirs of a Geisha (Widescreen 2-Disc Special Edition)
DVD 791.4372 M533
DVD

Hostel

DVD 791.4372 H831
DVD
Hostel (Unrated Widescreen Edition)

Wallace & Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Widescreen Edition)
DVD 791.4372 W196
DVD

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15 March 2006 - 12:36New Movies for March

Title/ Call Number/ Format

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Full Screen Edition) (Harry Potter 4)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
DVD 791.4372 H323h
DVD

Jarhead (Widescreen Edition)
DVD 791.4372 J37
DVD

Paradise Now
DVD 791.4372 P222
DVD

The Squid and the Whale
DVD 791.4372 S773
DVD
The Squid and the Whale

Capote
DVD 791.4372 C245
DVD

Good Night, and Good Luck (Widescreen Edition)
DVD 791.4372 G864
DVD

A History of Violence
DVD 791.4372 H673
DVD
A History of Violence

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