New Books in History and Political Science

January 2008

Plain secrets : an outsider among the Amish / Joe Mackall.
Boston : Beacon Press, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION BX8129.A5 M33 2007

Rodney Hilton's Middle Ages : an exploration of historical themes.
Oxford : Oxford Journals, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION D117 .R636 2007

Historical knowledge, historical error : a contemporary guide to practice / Allan Megill with contributions by Steven Shepard and Phillip Honenberger.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION D16.9 .M299 2007

The battle for Palestine 1917 / John D. Grainger.
Woodbridge, UK Rochester, NY : Boydell, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION D568.7 .G695 2006

The Vikings : culture and conquest / Martin Arnold.
London New York : Hambledon Continuum, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION DL65 .A75 2006

A history of Israel : from the rise of Zionism to our time / Howard M. Sachar.
New York : Knopf, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION DS126.5 .S155 2007

A shameful act : the Armenian genocide and the question of Turkish responsibility / Taner Akçam translated by Paul Bessemer.
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION DS195.5 .A418 2006

The elephant, the tiger, and the cell phone : reflections on India, the emerging 21st-century power / Shashi Tharoor.
New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by Hachette Book Group USA, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION DS428.2 .T46 2007 c.1

The Middle East / Debra A. Miller, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION DS63.2.U5 M473 2008

Iraq : searching for hope / Andrew White.
London New York : Continuum, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION DS79.76 .W483 2007

Gifts from the pharaohs : how Egyptian civilization shaped the modern world / Christiance Desroches Noblecourt.
Paris : Flammarion London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION DT61 .D4413 2007

Partners in the age of global terrorism : the United States-British special relationship in historical perspective / J. Lee Thompson.
[Beaumont, Tex.] : Lamar University, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION E183.8.G7 T46 2007

Race and ethnicity / Uma Kukathas, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION E185.615 .R15 2008

Reconstructions : new perspectives on the postbellum United States / edited by Thomas J. Brown.
Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION E668 .R425 2006

The witches of Abiquiu : the governor, the priest, the Genìzaro Indians, and the Devil / Malcolm Ebright & Rick Hendricks illustrations by Glen Strock.
Albuquerque, N.M. : University of New Mexico Press, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION E78.N65 E26 2006

No excuses : concessions of a serial campaigner / Robert Shrum.
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION E840.8.S533 A3 2007

Households and families of the Longhouse Iroquois at Six Nations Reserve / Merlin G. Myers foreword by Fred Eggan afterword by M. Sam Cronk.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION E99.C3 M84 2006

Testimonios : early California through the eyes of women, 1815-1848 / translated, with introduction and commentary, by Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz.
Berkeley, CA : Heyday Books, c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION F864 .T327 2006

Portraits of pride / Chinese Historical Society of Southern California.
Los Angeles : Chinese Historical Society of Southern California, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION F870.C5 P67 2006

Encyclopedia of exploration, 1800 to 1850 : a comprehensive reference guide to the history and literature of exploration, travel and colonization between the years 1800 and 1850 / Raymond John Howgego.
Sydney : Hordern House, c2004.
REFERENCE G80 .H678 2004

Body piercing and tattoos / Tamara Roleff, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION GN419.25 .B63 2008

Drunk driving / Tamara Thompson, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION HE5620.D72 D784 2008

Encyclopedia of social psychology / Roy F. Baumeister, Kathleen D. Vohs, editors.
Los Angeles : Sage Publications, c2007.
REFERENCE HM1007 .E53 2007 v.1-2

Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 / Roger S. Bagnall and Raffaella Cribiore with contributions by Evie Ahtaridis.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION HQ1137.E3 B34 2006

Women of the Republic : intellect and ideology in Revolutionary America / by Linda K. Kerber
Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c1980
GENERAL COLLECTION HQ1418 .K47

Drug trafficking / Julia Bauder, book ed.
New York : Greenhaven Press Thomson/Gale, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION HV5801 .D78 2008

Crime, punishment, and politics in a comparative perspective / edited by Michael Tonry.
Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION HV6001 .C672 v. 36

Violence against women / Kate Burns, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION HV6250.4.W65 V52233 2008

Bioterror [videorecording] : the invisible enemy / Films for the Humanities and Sciences NBC News Productions Discovery Health Channel.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c2004.
AV SERVICES HV6433.3 .B56 2004 DVD

18 with a bullet [videorecording] / an IWC Media production in association with Thirteen/WNET New York producer, director, Ricardo Pollack.
Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, c2006.
AV SERVICES HV6439.S2 A15 2006 DVD

Sex offenders and public policy / Lynn M. Zott, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, an imprint of Thomson Gale, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION HV6592 .S479 2008

Campaigning for hearts and minds : how emotional appeals in political ads work / Ted Brader.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION JA74.5 .B69 2006

Islam, oil, and geopolitics : Central Asia after September 11 / edited by Elizabeth Van Wie Davis and Rouben Azizian.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION JC319 .I85 2007

Globalization, violent conflict and self-determination / edited by Valpy FitzGerald, Frances Stewart and Rajesh Venugopal.
Basingstoke [England] New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
GENERAL COLLECTION JC328.65.D48 G56 2006

Should the voting age be lowered? / Ronnie D. Lankford, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION JF841 .S56 2008

Political activism / Tom Lansford, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION JK1118 .P64 2008

Should the United States move to electronic voting? / Diane Andrews Henningfeld, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press/Thomson Gale, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION JK1985 .S56 2008

Political scandals / Randy Scherer, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION JK2249 .P647 2008

How to win your 1st election / Susan Guber.
Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c1997.
GENERAL COLLECTION JK2283 .G83 1997

The presidential election process / Tom Lansford, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION JK521 .P69 2008

Is the U.S. ready for a minority president? / Amanda Hiber, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION JK528 .I8 2008

Out law : what LGBT youth should know about their legal rights / Lisa Keen.
Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION KF4754.5.Z9 K44 2007

God on trial : dispatches from America's religious battlefields / Peter Irons.
New York : Viking, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION KF4783.I76 2007

The Rehnquist Court : understanding its impact and legacy / David L. Hudson, Jr. foreword by John R. Vile.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION KF8742.H78 2007

Child custody, visitation, and support in Texas / Traci Truly.
Naperville, Ill. : Sphinx Pub., 2001.
GENERAL COLLECTION KFT1304.6.Z9 T78 2001

Write your own Texas will / Karen Ann Rolcik and Mark Warda.
Naperville, Ill. : Sphinx Pub., 2005.
GENERAL COLLECTION KFT1344.Z9 R65 2005

Civil liabilities and right of police officiers and supervisiors in Texas/ Rolando V. del Carmen...[et. al.].
Huntsville, Texas : Sam Houston State University, 2003.
GENERAL COLLECTION KFT1395.A15C48 2003

Environmental assessment for the Intermodal Terminal, Houston, Texas : prepared for The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County / prepared by LOPEZGARCIA GROUP.
Dallas : LopezGarcia Group, 2006.
REFERENCE TA1205.M48 2006 v. 1/1

Environmental assessment for the Intermodal Terminal, Houston, Texas : prepared for The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County / prepared by LOPEZGARCIA GROUP.
Dallas : LopezGarcia Group, 2006.
REFERENCE TA1205.M48 2006 v. 1/2

The Pentagon : a history : the untold story of the wartime race to build the Pentagon--and to restore it sixty years later / Steve Vogel.
New York : Random House, c2007.
GENERAL COLLECTION UA26.A745 V64 2007

Military recruiters / Lauri Harding, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION UB323 .M55 2008

Should women be allowed to serve in combat in the U.S. Armed Forces? / Diane Andrews Henningfeld, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION UB418.W65 S568 2008

Book banning / Ronnie D. Lankford, book editor.
Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008.
GENERAL COLLECTION Z657 .B73 2008