Thursday, November 5, 2015

Sawyer Library New Book Display

Here is a list of the titles currently up in the Sawyer Library display case. This display features new book covers from the Sawyer Library collection. Click the hyperlink to see if the book is available, or already checked-out. Please be assured that the books in the display case are not the actual books!

Mildred F. Sawyer Library Book Display List 
  1. Reclaiming conversation : the power of talk in a digital age / Sherry Turkle
  2. Saving capitalism : for the many, not the few / Robert B. Reich 
  3. $2.00 a day : living on almost nothing in America / Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer
  4. Medical monopoly : intellectual property rights and the origins of the modern pharmaceutical industry / Joseph M. Gabriel 
  5. Reframing decadence : C.P. Cavafy's imaginary portraits / Peter Jeffreys
  6. Geek heresy : rescuing social change from the cult of technology / Kentaro Toyama
  7. Vaccine nation : America's changing relationship with immunization / Elena Conis
  8. Gaining control : how human behavior evolved / Robert Aunger and Valerie Curtis 
  9. Eat, drink, and be wary : how unsafe is our food? / Charles M. Duncan ; edited by Diana Kearley Duncan
  10. The Wright brothers / David McCullough   
  11. After Roe : the lost history of the abortion debate / Mary Ziegler 
  12. Seizing freedom : slave emancipation and liberty for all / David Roediger 
  13. All the light we cannot see : a novel / Anthony Doerr 
  14. The workfare state : public assistance politics from the New Deal to the new Democrats / Eva Bertram
  15. A country called prison : mass incarceration and the making of a new nation / Mary D. Looman, John D. Carl 
  16. Economic analysis of the digital economy / Edited by Avi Goldfarb, Shane M. Greenstein, and Catherine E. Tucker
  17. God help the child / Toni Morrison 
  18. Designing the new American university / Michael M. Crow and William B. Dabars
  19. Alibaba's world : how a remarkable Chinese company is changing the face of global business / Porter Erisman 
  20. This nonviolent stuff'll get you killed : how guns made the civil rights movement possible / Charles E. Cobb
  21. Pulse of the people : political rap music and black politics / Lakeyta M. Bonnette
  22. The cultural matrix : understanding Black youth / edited by Orlando Patterson ; with Ethan Fosse 
  23. Environment in the balance : the green movement and the Supreme Court / Jonathan Z. Cannon
  24. Black hole : how an idea abandoned by Newtonians, hated by Einstein, and gambled on by Hawking became loved / Marcia Bartusiak
  25. Every town is a sports town : business leadership at ESPN, from the mailroom to the boardroom / George Bodenheimer, Donald T. Phillips
  26. Law and popular culture : international perspectives / edited by Michael Asimow, Kathryn Brown and David Ray Papke
  27. The age of acquiescence : the life and death of American resistance to organized wealth and power / Steve Fraser
  28. Chinese and Americans : a shared history / Xu Guoqi  
  29. Masters of the universe, slaves of the market / Stephen Bell & Andrew Hindmoor 
  30. Raising the world : child welfare in the American century / Sara Fieldston
  31. Half-life : the divided life of Bruno Pontecorvo, physicist or spy / Frank Close
  32. Party ballots, reform, and the transformation of America's electoral system / Erik J. Engstrom, University of California, Davis, Samuel Kernell, University of California, San Diego
  33. The hungry mind : the origins of curiosity in childhood / Susan Engel
  34. A path in the mighty waters : shipboard life & Atlantic crossings to the New World / Stephen R. Berry
  35. The Making of the First World War / Ian F.W. Beckett  
  36. The objective leader : how to leverage the power of seeing things as they are / Elizabeth Thornton
  37. Missoula : rape and the justice system in a college town / Jon Krakauer  
  38. Understanding OCD : skills to control the conscience and outsmart obsessive compulsive disorder / Leslie J. Shapiro ; foreword by Michael A. Jenike 
  39. Who rules the earth? : how social rules shape our planet and our lives / Paul F. Steinberg
  40. Medieval Christianity : a new history / Kevin Madigan 
  41. Restless ambition : Grace Hartigan, painter / Cathy Curtis 
  42. Martha Jefferson : an intimate life with Thomas Jefferson / William G. Hyland Jr 
  43. Cuckoo : cheating by nature / Nick Davies ; with field drawings by James McCallum
  44. The least likely man : Marshall Nirenberg and the discovery of the genetic code / Franklin H. Portugal  
  45. Back to the garden : nature and the Mediterranean world from prehistory to the present / James H.S. McGregor
  46. Epic measures : one doctor, seven billion patients / Jeremy N. Smith   
  47. Fighting over the founders : how we remember the American Revolution / Andrew M. Schocket
  48. Intimate reconstructions : children in postemancipation Virginia / Catherine A. Jones