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

Sawyer Library New Book Display

Here is an alphabetical 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. Advertising and propaganda in World War II : cultural identity and the blitz spirit / David Clampin

2. Animal madness : how anxious dogs, compulsive parrots, and elephants in recovery help us understand ourselves / Laurel Braitman

3. Arresting contagion : science, policy, and conflicts over animal disease control / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode

4. Bats : a world of science and mystery / M. Brock Fenton, Nancy B. Simmons

5. Big data, little data, no data : scholarship in the networked world / Christine L. Borgman

6. Blaming Europe? : responsibility without accountability in the European Union / Sara B. Hobolt, James Tilley

7. Bridging the gender gap : seven principles for achieving gender balance / Lynn Roseberry and Johan Roos

8. The business of America is lobbying : how corporations became politicized and politics became more corporate / Lee Drutman

9. City of steel : how Pittsburgh became the world's steelmaking capital during the Carnegie era / Kenneth J. Kobus

10. The container principle : how a box changes the way we think / Alexander Klose ; translated by Charles Marcrum II

11. Cowardice : a brief history / Chris Walsh

12. Currency politics : the political economy of exchange rate policy / Jeffry A. Frieden

13. Energy poverty : global challenges and local solutions / edited by Antoine Halff, Benjamin K. Sovacool and Jon Rozhon

14. Failing our fathers : confronting the crisis of economically vulnerable, nonresident fathers / Ronald B. Mincy, Monique Jethwani, Serena Klempin

15. The First Amendment bubble : how privacy and paparazzi threaten a free press / Amy Gajda

16. Flags and Faces : the visual culture of America's First World War / David M. Lubin

17. From development to dictatorship : Bolivia and the alliance for progress in the Kennedy era / Thomas C. Field Jr

18. From slave abuse to hate crime : the criminalization of racial violence in American history / Ely Aaronson

19. Galileo's middle finger : heretics, activists, and the search for justice in science / Alice Dreger

20. Government paternalism : nanny state or helpful friend? / Julian Le Grand and Bill New

21. Great minds : reflections of 111 top scientists / Balazs Hargittai, Magdolna Hargittai, Istvan Hargittai

22. Happiness and economic growth : lessons from developing countries / edited by Andrew E. Clark and Claudia Senik

23. The human and environmental impact of fracking : how fracturing shale for gas affects us and our world / Madelon L. Finkel, editor ; foreword by Seth B.C. Shonkoff, PhD, MPH

24. Internet literature in China / Michel Hockx

25. It's not the size of the data--it's how you use it : smarter marketing with analytics and dashboards / Koen Pauwels

26. Japan : the paradox of harmony / Keiko Hirata and Mark Warschauer

27. Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the art of the figure / Michael W. Cole

28. Living in infamy : felon disfranchisement and the history of American citizenship / Pippa Holloway

29. Media violence and children : a complete guide for parents and professionals / Douglas A. Gentile, editor ; foreword by Michael Rich, MD, MPH

30. The merchant republics : Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648-1790 / Mary Lindemann

31. Mexicans in the making of America / Neil Foley

32. Miseducating Americans : distortions of historical understanding / Richard F. Hamilton

33. The new wild : why invasive species will be nature's salvation / Fred Pearce

34. Notes from a colored girl : the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis / Karsonya Wise Whitehead

35. The oldest living things in the world / Rachel Sussman

36. The outsourcer : the story of India's IT revolution / Dinesh C. Sharma

37. Perspectives on Dodd-Frank and finance / edited by Paul H. Schultz

38. Racial reckoning : prosecuting America's civil rights murders / Renee C. Romano

39. Rare : the high-stakes race to satisfy our need for the scarcest metals on Earth / Keith Veronese

40. The Reagan Era : a history of the 1980s / Doug Rossinow

41. Saving the Pryor Mountain mustang : a legacy of local and federal cooperation / Christine M. Reed

42. Sea of storms : a history of hurricanes in the greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina / Stuart B. Schwartz

43. The Secret History of Wonder Woman / Jill Lepore

44. Sexualized media messages and our children : teaching kids to be smart critics and consumers / Jennifer W. Shewmaker

45. South Asia in the globalised world / edited by C. Vinodan

46. The triumph of seeds : how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses, and pips, conquered the plant kingdom and shaped human history / Thor Hanson

47. Unfinished work : the struggle to build an aging American workforce / Joseph Coleman

48. The vanishing neighbor : the transformation of American community / Marc J. Dunkelman

49. Who we be : the colorization of America / Jeff Chang

50. The wobblies in their heyday : the rise and destruction of the industrial workers of the world during the World War I era / Eric Thomas Chester

Interesting reading (seriously) on freight, shipping, supply chains, and logistics.

Listed below is a sample of titles that relate to containers and freight shipping. All are available through the Sawyer Library.

The "Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics" is a scholarly reference book, but the others (especially the three print titles) are interesting and relatively quick to read in their entirety.

All of the titles should awaken respect for those who work to transport the items that are at the center of the consumer economy.

Ninety Percent of Everything :
Inside Shipping, The Invisible Industry that Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate.
By Rose George
Sawyer 4th Floor
HE571 .G465 2013

The Box :
How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.
By Marc Levinson
Sawyer 4th Floor
TA1215 .L47 2006

The Container Principle :
How a Box Changes the Way we Think.
By Alexander Klose ;
translated by Charles Marcrum II
Sawyer New Books
TA1215 .K5813 2015

Box Boats:
How Container Ships Changed the World.
By Brian J. Cudahy
E-BOOK

Handbook of Ocean Container Transport Logistics:
Making Global Supply Chains Effective.
Edited by Chung-Yee Lee, Qiang Meng
E-BOOK

Development of Containerization:
Success Through Vision, Drive and Technology.
By Hans van Ham, Joan Rijsenbrij
E-BOOK

Have you heard about "Bitcoin"? Are you curious about virtual currencies? Are you looking for a paper topic relating to technology and society?

If the answer to any of the above questions is yes, then have a look at this new book:

"Wildcat Currency: How the Virtual Money Revolution is Transforming the Economy," written by Edward Castronova, published by Yale University Press, [2014].

The publisher has provided this synopsis:

"Private currencies have always existed, from notes printed by individual banks to the S&H Green Stamps that consumers once redeemed for household items. Today's economy has seen an explosion of new forms of monetary exchange not created by the federal government. Credit card companies offer points that can be traded in for a variety of goods and services, from airline miles to online store credit. Online game creators have devised new mediums of electronic exchange that turn virtual money into real money. Meanwhile, real money is increasingly going digital, where it competes with private currencies like Bitcoin. The virtual and the real economic worlds are intermingling more than ever before, raising the possibility that this new money might eventually replace the government-run system of dollars, euros, and yen. Edward Castronova is the leading researcher in this field, a founder of scholarly online game studies and an expert on the economies of virtual worlds. In this dynamic and essential work, he explores the current phenomenon of virtual currencies and what it will mean legally, politically, and economically in the future. In doing so, he provides a fascinating, often surprising discourse on the meaning of money itself-what it is, what we think it is, and how we relate to it on an emotional level"

Sawyer Library Book Display

Here is an alphabetical list of the titles currently up in the Sawyer Library Book display. The display features book covers from the Sawyer Library collection related to African American History and Women's History. 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!

1. Ad women : how they impact what we need, want, and buy / Juliann Sivulka
2. Alice Paul : claiming power / J. D. Zahniser & Amelia R. Fry
3. Articulating rights : nineteenth-century American women on race, reform, and the state / Alison M. Parker
4. Brilliant women : 18th-century bluestockings / Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz
5. Climbin' Jacob's ladder : the Black freedom movement writings of Jack O'Dell / edited and introduced by Nikhil Pal Singh
6. Colored people : a memoir / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
7. Coming through : voices of a South Carolina Gullah community from WPA oral histories / collected by Genevieve W. Chandler ; edited by Kincaid Mills, Genevieve C. Peterkin, and Aaron McCollough ; foreword by Charles W. Joyner
8. Contagious representation : women's political representation in democracies around the world / Frank C. Thames and Margaret S. Williams
9. The counter-revolution of 1776 : slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America / Gerald Horne
10. Different daughters : a history of the Daughters of Bilitis and the rise of the lesbian rights movement / Marcia M. Gallo
11. Enlightened sexism : the seductive message that feminism's work is done / Susan J. Douglas
12. Fierce angels : the strong black woman in American life and culture / Sheri Parks
13. Freedom for women : forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970 / Carol Giardina
14. Great women of the Bible in art and literature / preface Herbert Haag ; commentary Dorothée Sölle ; literary development Joe H. Kirchberger ; art history Anne-Marie Schnieper-Müller ; English translation Joe H. Kirchberger ; project editor Emil Bührer
15. Growth-oriented women entrepreneurs and their businesses : a global research perspective / edited by Candida G. Brush ... [et al.]
16. Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War : the undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American quest for equality / Jeffrey T. Sammons and John H. Morrow, Jr
17. The Harlem renaissance in black and white / George Hutchinson
18. A home elsewhere : reading African American classics in the age of Obama / Robert B. Stepto
19. I am your sister : collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde / edited by Rudolph P. Byrd, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Beverly Guy-Sheftall
20. In her own image : women's self-representation in twentieth-century art / Danielle Knafo
21. I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation / Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
22. Let us fight as free men : black soldiers and civil rights / Christine Knauer
23. Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women / [edited by] Patricia Bell-Scott
24. Mammographies : the cultural discourses of breast cancer narratives / Mary K. DeShazer
25. Margaret Fuller, wandering pilgrim / Meg McGavran Murray
26. Mom & me & mom / Maya Angelou
27. A museum of their own : National Museum of Women in the Arts / Wilhelmina Cole Holladay ; text contributions by Philip Kopper
28. My soul looks back, 'less I forget : a collection of quotations by people of color / Dorothy Winbush Riley, editor
29. The myth of Seneca Falls : memory and the women's suffrage movement, 1848-1898 / Lisa Tetrault
30. Our bodies, our crimes : the policing of women's reproduction in America / Jeanne Flavin
31. The paradox of gender equality : how American women's groups gained and lost their public voice / Kristin A. Goss
32. Phillis Wheatley's poetics of liberation : backgrounds and contexts / John C. Shields
33. The political thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton : women's rights and the American political traditions / Sue Davis
34. Pretty/funny : women comedians and body politics / by Linda Mizejewski
35. The richer, the poorer : stories, sketches, and reminiscences / Dorothy West
36. Rocking the babies / Linda Raymond
37. Seneca Falls and the origins of the women's rights movement / by Sally McMillen
38. Singin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas / Maya Angelou
39. Tell it with pride : the 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Shaw Memorial / Sarah Greenough and Nancy K. Anderson ; with Lindsay Harris and Renée Ater ; foreword by Richard J. Powell
40. That the blood stay pure : African Americans, Native Americans, and the predicament of race and identity in Virginia / Arica L. Coleman
41. Thirteen ways of looking at a Black man / Henry Louis Gates, Jr
42. Those good Gertrudes : a social history of women teachers in America / Geraldine J. Clifford
43. What is veiling? / Sahar Amer
44. "When I can read my title clear" : literacy, slavery, and religion in the antebellum South / Janet Duitsman Cornelius
45. Wild embers / by Anita Richmond Bunkley
46. Women and authorship in revolutionary America / Angela Vietto
47. Women, feminism and religion in early Enlightenment England / Sarah Apetrei
48. Women in American history since 1880 : a documentary reader / [edited by] Nancy J. Rosenbloom
49. Women street hustlers : who they are and how they survive / Barbara A. Rockell
50. Working the land : the stories of ranch and farm women in the modern American West / Sandra K. Schackel