The Library has purchased 127 new books so far this new year. You can view a handful here or click here to see the full listing. These books are on display in the lobby of the Library’s lobby.
Title: All Joking Aside : American Humor and Its Discontents
Author: Krefting, Rebecca
Pub date: 2014
In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, “charged humor,” and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs–they challenge myths about how fair and democratic our society is and the behaviors and practices we enact to maintain…
Title: Archaeology in practice : A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses
Author: Balme, Jane.
Pub date: 2014.
This much-enhanced new edition of the highly accessible guide to practical archaeology is a vital resource for students. It features the latest methodologies, a wealth of case studies from around the world, and contributions from leading specialists in archaeological materials analysis. New edition updated to include the latest archaeological…
Title: The Athletic Trap : How College Sports Corrupted the Academy
Author: Nixon, Howard L.
Pub date: 2014.
The unrivaled amount of cash poured into the college athletic system has made sports programs breeding grounds for corruption while diverting crucial resources from the academic mission of universities. Like money in Washington politics, the influence bought by a complex set of self-interested actors seriously undermines movement toward reform …
Title: Capturing Music: The Story of Notation
Author: Kelly, Thomas Forrest.
Pub date: 2015.
In today’s digital landscape, we have the luxury of experiencing music anytime, anywhere. But before this instant accessibility and dizzying array of formats–before CDs, the eight-track tape, the radio, and the turntable–there was only one recording technology: music notation. It allowed singers and soloists to travel across great distances …
Title: Chasing the Wind: Inside the Alternative Energy Battle
Author: Johnson, Rody.
Pub date: 2014
Over the past few decades, the vexing problems of climate change and finite resources have ignited contentious global debates about alternative energy technologies. In this lucid, balanced book, Rody Johnson investigates the development and deployment of one such technology#151;wind power#151;and, in particular, the ways in which a heated…
Title: Construction Safety and Health
Author: Goetsch, David L.
Pub date: 2013.
This up-to-date and practical teaching resource makes the theories and principles of construction safety and health useful in a real-world setting, and integrates up-to-the-minute research throughout. Direct and straightforward, CONSTRUCTION SAFETY & HEALTH, 2/e focuses on the specific needs of modern construction professionals and on the…
Title: Descent: A Novel
Author: Johnston, Tim
Pub date: 2015.
A riveting literary thriller of the can’t-stop-turning-the-page, stay-up-all-night variety.” –Alice LaPlante, author of A Circle of Wives The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, a young family from the plains taking a last summer vacation before their daughter begins college. For eighteen-year-old Caitlin, the mountain…
Title: The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection
Author: Harris, Michael
Pub date: 2014
Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean?For future generations, it won’t mean anything very obvious. They will be so immersed in online life that questions about the Internet’s basic purpose or meaning will vanish.But those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded…
Title: Contesting Constructed Indian-ness: The Intersection of the Frontier, Masculinity, and Whiteness in Native American Mascot Representations
Author: Taylor, Michael
Native American sports team mascots represent a contemporary problem for modern Native American people. The ideas embedded in the mascot representations, however, are as old as the ideas constructed about the Indian since contact between the peoples of Western and the Eastern hemispheres. Such ideas conceived about Native Americans go hand-in-hand…
Title: Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation
Author: Nye, Bill.
Pub date: 2014.
Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as nature itself. It is also the most meaningful creation story that humans have ever found.”–Bill Nye Sparked…
Title: Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed–and What it Means for our Future
Author: Jamieson, Dale.
Pub date: 2014
From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why…