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december 2012

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business and social sciences

• The most human human : what talking with computers teaches us about what it means to be alive / Brian Christian.

• Games primates play : an undercover investigation of the evolution and economics of human relationships / Dario Maestripieri.

• The wow factor : the 33 things you must (and must not) do to guarantee your edge in today's business world / Frances Cole Jones.

• Words and values : some leading words and where they lead us / Peggy Rosenthal.

• Giovanni and Lusanna : love and marriage in Renaissance Florence / Gene Brucker.

• The optimism bias : a tour of the irrationally positive brain / Tali Sharot.

• Some we love, some we hate, some we eat : why it's so hard to think straight about animals / Hal Herzog.

• Picking Cotton : our memoir of injustice and redemption / Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin Torneo.

• Mao and#65056;Tand#65057;Szand#279;dun. English;"Mao : the real story / Alexander V. Pantsov with Steven I. Levine."

• Research methods for the biosciences / D. Holmes, P. Moody, D. Dine.

• Basic economics : a common sense guide to the economy / Thomas Sowell.

• The creation of inequality : how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire / Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus.

• Born, not raised : voices from Juvenile Hall / Susan Madden Lankford.

• The age of persuasion : how marketing ate our culture / Terry O'Reilly and Mike Tennant.

• Born together--reared apart : the landmark Minnesota twin study / Nancy L. Segal.

• In search of Sacco and Vanzetti : double lives, troubled times, and the Massachusetts murder case that shook the world / Susan Tejada.

• At liberty to die : the battle for death with dignity in America / Howard Ball.

• Queer (in)justice : the criminalization of LGBT people in the United States / Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock.

• The beauty bias : the injustice of appearance in life and law / Deborah L. Rhode.

• Moral origins : the evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame / Christopher Boehm.

• Mu bei. English;"Tombstone : the great Chinese famine, 1958-1962 / Yang Jisheng ; translated from the Chinese by Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian ; edited by Edward Friedman, Guo Jian, and Stacy Mosher ; introduction by Edward Friedman and Roderick MacFarquhar."

• American empire : the rise of a global power, the democratic revolution at home, 1945-2000 / Joshua B. Freeman.

• Justice for hedgehogs / Ronald Dworkin.

• The economists' voice 2.0 : the financial crisis, health care reform, and more / Aaron S. Edlin, Joseph E. Stiglitz, editors ; Bradford DeLong ... [et al.], coeditors.

• The economists' voice : top economists take on today's problems / Joseph E. Stiglitz, Aaron S. Edlin, J. Bradford DeLong, editors.

• Get a financial life : personal finance in your twenties and thirties / Beth Kobliner.

• No citizen left behind / Meira Levinson.

• The founder's dilemmas : anticipating and avoiding the pitfalls that can sink a startup / Noam Wasserman.

• The right to be parents : LGBT families and the transformation of parenthood / Carlos A. Ball.

• Quantify! : a crash course in smart thinking / Göran Grimvall.

• Life without parole : America's new death penalty? / edited by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat.

• Romantic relationships in emerging adulthood / edited by Frank D. Fincham, Ming Cui.

• Breakthrough branding : how smart entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs transform a small idea into a big brand / Catherine Kaputa.

• From Cairo to Wall Street : voices from the global spring / edited by Anya Schiffrin and Eamon Kircher-Allen ; foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs ; introduction by Joseph E. Stiglitz.

• Uncontrolled : the surprising payoff of trial-and-error for business, politics, and society / Jim Manzi.

• Immortality : the quest to live forever and how it drives civilization / Stephen Cave.

• Victory : the triumphant gay revolution / Linda Hirshman.

• Healers : extraordinary clinicians at work / David Schenck and Larry R. Churchill.

• Some of my best friends are Black : the strange story of integration in America / Tanner Colby.

• The new rules of retail : competing in the world's toughest marketplace / Robin Lewis and Michael Dart.

• The case against perfection : ethics in the age of genetic engineering / Michael J. Sandel.

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curriculum

• The higher power of Lucky / by Susan Patron with illustrations by Matt Phelan.

• Drummer Hoff / adapted by Barbara Emberley ; illustrated by Ed Emberley.

• Sylvester and the magic pebble / by William Steig.

• Frog went a-courtin', retold by John Langstaff. With pictures by Feodor Rojankovsky.

• The rooster crows : a book of American rhymes and jingles / Maud and Miska Petersham.

• They were strong and good / written and illustrated by Robert Lawson.

• Lon Po Po : a Red-Riding Hood story from China / translated and illustrated by Ed Young.

• Good masters! Sweet Ladies! : voices from a medieval village / Laura Amy Schlitz ; illustrated by Robert Byrd.

• Hitty, her first hundred years, by Rachel Field, with illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop.

• A gathering of days : a New England girl's journal, 1830-32 : a novel / by Joan Blos.

• The midwife's apprentice / by Karen Cushman.

• One fine day / by Nonny Hogrogian.

• Saint George and the dragon : a golden legend / adapted by Margaret Hodges from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene ; illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman.

• Flotsam / David Wiesner.

• Jumanji / written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.

• Jumanji / written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg.

• Prayer for a child / by Rachel Field ; pictures by Elizabeth Orton Jones.

• Black and white / David Macaulay.

• The cure for everything : untangling twisted messages about health, fitness, and happiness / Timothy Caulfield.

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education

• Teachers matter : rethinking how public schools identify, reward, and retain great educators / Marcus A. Winters.

• No undocumented child left behind : Plyler v. Doe and the education of undocumented schoolchildren / Michael A. Olivas.

• An education in politics : the origins and evolution of No Child Left Behind / Jesse H. Rhodes.

• Anetso, the Cherokee ball game : at the center of ceremony and identity / Michael J. Zogry.

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fine arts

• The chitlin' circuit : and the road to rock 'n' roll / Preston Lauterbach.

• Verdi's Shakespeare : men of the theater / Garry Wills.

• Dirty South : Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern rappers who reinvented hip-hop / Ben Westhoff.

• Beaton in Vogue / Josephine Ross.

• A higher contemplation : sacred meaning in the Christian art of the Middle Ages / Stephen N. Fliegel.

• Colors of confinement : rare Kodachrome photographs of Japanese American incarceration in World War II / edited by Eric L. Muller ; with photographs by Bill Manbo.

• Indigo : Egyptian mummies to blue jeans / Jenny Balfour-Paul.

• Textiles : the whole story : uses, meanings, significance / Beverly Gordon.

• 500 cameras : 170 years of photographic innovation / Todd Gustavson.

• Women from the ankle down : the story of shoes and how they define us / Rachelle Bergstein.

• Groove music : the art and culture of the hip-hop DJ / Mark Katz.

• Symbol / Angus Hyland and Steven Bateman.

• Rethinking Schumann / edited by Roe-Min Kok, Laura Tunbridge.

• The day in its color : Charles Cushman's photographic journey through a vanishing America / Eric Sandweiss.

• Basics of game design / Michael E. Moore.

• Photographing the Mexican Revolution : commitments, testimonies, icons / John Mraz.

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humanities

• Religion in human evolution : from the Paleolithic to the Axial Age / Robert N. Bellah.

• Angela's ashes : a memoir / Frank McCourt.

• The Silk Road : a new history / Valerie Hansen.

• Life after death / Damien Echols.

• Kentucky folktales : revealing stories, truths, and outright lies / Mary Hamilton.

• Strom Thurmond's America / Joseph Crespino.

• Life of slang / Julie Coleman.

• Wie wir ticken. English;"Internal time : chronotypes, social jet lag, and why you're so tired / Till Roenneberg."

• Finding flow : the psychology of engagement with everyday life / Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.

• Denise Levertov : a poet's life / Dana Greene.

• Arab voices : what they are saying to us, and why it matters / James Zogby.

• Schoenberg's new world : the American years / Sabine Feisst.

• Next word, better word : the craft of writing poetry / Stephen Dobyns.

• Plessy v. Ferguson : race and inequality in Jim Crow America / Williamjames Hull Hoffer.

• In this timeless time : living and dying on death row in America / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian.

• In this timeless time : living and dying on death row in America / Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian.

• Arab spring dreams : the next generation speaks out for freedom and justice from North Africa to Iran / edited by Sohrab Ahmari and Nasser Weddady ; foreword by Gloria Steinem.

• Ethical chic : the inside story of the companies we think we love / Fran Hawthorne.

• Correspondence. Selections;"My dear governess : the letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann / edited by Irene Goldman-Price."

• The Bible and the believer : how to read the Bible critically and religiously / Marc Zvi Brettler, Peter Enns, and Daniel J. Harrington.

• A nation of deadbeats : an uncommon history of America's financial disasters / Scott Reynolds Nelson.

• Lincoln's Hundred Days : THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION AND THE WAR FOR THE UNION / Louis P. Masur.

• Russia's Cold War : from the October Revolution to the fall of the wall / Jonathan Haslam.

• Kurt Vonnegut : letters / edited and with an introduction by Dan Wakefield.

• The secret lives of codebreakers : the men and women who cracked the Enigma code at Bletchley Park / Sinclair McKay.

• The years of Lyndon Johnson / Robert A. Caro.

• The years of Lyndon Johnson / Robert A. Caro.

• The years of Lyndon Johnson / Robert A. Caro.

• The great famine in China, 1958-1962 : a documentary history / edited by Zhou Xun.

• The South that wasn't there : postsouthern memory and history / Michael Kreyling.

• Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The hobbit / Corey Olsen.

• The legacy of David Foster Wallace / edited by Samuel Cohen and Lee Konstantinou.

• The art of Robert Frost / Tim Kendall.

• The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance tragedy / edited by Emma Smith and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.

• Islam and America : building a future without prejudice / Anouar Majid.

• Jihad and genocide / Richard L. Rubenstein.

• Islamophobia : making Muslims the enemy / Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg.

• Jungle fever : exploring madness and medicine in twentieth-century tropical narratives / Charlotte Rogers.

• The weight of vengeance : the United States, the British empire, and the War of 1812 / Troy Bickham.

• Benevolence and betrayal : five Italian Jewish families under fascism / Alexander Stille.

• Quantum questions : mystical writings of the world's great physicists / edited by Ken Wilber ; with the research assistance of Ann Niehaus.

• Paysannerie et le pouvoir sovietique, 1928-1930. English;"Russian peasants and Soviet power : a study of collectivization / by M. Lewin ; translated by Irene Nove, with the assistance of John Biggart ; with a pref. by Alec Nove."

• Charles de Gaulle : a brief biography with documents / Charles G. Cogan.

• Slave revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804 : a brief history with documents / Laurent DuBois, John D. Garrigus.

• France and the Dreyfus affair : a documentary history / Michael Burns.

• Czechoslovakia between Stalin and Hitler : the diplomacy of Edvard Beneand#353; in the 1930s / Igor Lukes.

• Penser avec Whitehead. English;"Thinking with Whitehead : a free and wild creation of concepts / Isabelle Stengers ; translated by Michael Chase ; foreword by Bruno Latour."

• Palace walk / Najib Mahfuz ; translated by William Maynard. Hutchins and Olive E. Kenny.

• The master switch : the rise and fall of information empires / Tim Wu.

• Looking for Utopia : the life and times of John C. West / Philip G. Grose.

• 2012 : the return of Quetzalcoatl / Daniel Pinchbeck.

• American creation : triumphs and tragedies at the founding of the republic / Joseph J. Ellis.

• Inside the money machine / Minnie Bruce Pratt.

• The red market : on the trail of the world's organ brokers, bone thieves, blood farmers, and child traffickers / Scott Carney.

• Golden holocaust : origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition / Robert N. Proctor.

• The accidental city : improvising New Orleans / Lawrence N. Powell.

• On writing : a memoir of the craft / by Stephen King.

• Stranger magic : charmed states and The Arabian nights / Marina Warner.

• Selections. 2012;"Steinbeck in Vietnam : dispatches from the war / [John Steinbeck] ; edited by Thomas E. Barden."

• The believer book of writers talking to writers / edited by Vendela Vida.

• Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement / John Lewis with Michael D'Orso.

• The invisible Arab : the promise and peril of the Arab revolution / Marwan Bishara.

• An American betrayal : Cherokee patriots and the Trail of Tears / Daniel Blake Smith.

• The new religious intolerance : overcoming the politics of fear in an anxious age / Martha C. Nussbaum.

• Why lyrics last : evolution, cognition, and Shakespeare's sonnets / Brian Boyd.

• Conversations with David Foster Wallace / edited by Stephen J. Burn.

• Gothicka : vampire heroes, human gods, and the new supernatural / Victoria Nelson.

• Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 / Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward.

• Antony and Cleopatra / Adrian Goldsworthy.

• Brigham Young, pioneer prophet / John G. Turner.

• Diaries / George Orwell ; edited by Peter Davison ; introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

• Aftermath : deportation law and the new American diaspora / Daniel Kanstroom.

• Poems. Selections;"Collected poems / Jack Kerouac ; Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell, editor."

• Founding gardeners : the revolutionary generation, nature, and the shaping of the American nation / Andrea Wulf.

• The candidate : what it takes to win, and hold, the White House / Samuel L. Popkin.

• The President's czars : undermining Congress and the Constitution / Mitchel A. Sollenberger and Mark J. Rozell.

• The social animal : the hidden sources of love, character, and achievement / David Brooks.

• The haves and the have-nots : a brief and idiosyncratic history of global inequality / Branko Milanovic.

• News for all the people : the epic story of race and the American media / Juan González and Joseph Torres.

• The industrial revolution : a history in documents / Laura L. Frader.

• Zombies vs. Nazis : a lost history of the walking dead / Scott Kenemore ; illustrations by Adam Wallenta.

• Correspondence. Selections;"The selected letters of Charles Dickens / edited by Jenny Hartley."

• A difficult woman : the challenging life and times of Lillian Hellman / Alice Kessler-Harris.

• Against wind and tide : letters and journals, 1947-1986 / Anne Morrow Lindbergh ; edited and with an introduction by Reeve Lindbergh.

• Her immaculate hand : selected works by and about the women humanists of Quattrocento Italy / edited by Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr.

• Italy from Revolution to Republic : 1700 to the present / Spencer M. Di Scala.

• Tragédie française. English;"A French tragedy : scenes of civil war, summer 1944 / Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Mary Byrd Kelly ; translation edited and annotated by Richard J. Golsan."

• The United States and Italy / H. Stuart Hughes.

• Nîmes at war : religion, politics, and public opinion in the Gard, 1938-1944 / Robert Zaretsky.

• Istoriand#65056;iand#65057;a russkoand#301; revoland#65056;iand#65057;uand#65056;tand#65057;sii. English. Selections;"The Russian Revolution; the overthrow of tzarism and the triumph of the Soviets. Selected and edited by F.W. Dupee from The history of the Russian Revolution [translated from the Russian by Max Eastman]."

• Generations : a century of women speak about their lives / Myriam Miedzian and Alisa Malinovich.

• Where the heart beats : John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the inner life of artists / Kay Larson.

• Object lessons : the Paris Review presents the art of the short story / edited by Lorin Stein and Sadie Stein.

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interdisciplinary studies

• Radio Shangri-La : what I discovered on my accidental journey to the happiest kingdom on earth / Lisa Napoli.

• Mañana forever? : Mexico and the Mexicans / Jorge G. Castañeda.

• Crazy river : a journey to the source of the Nile / by Richard Grant.

• A concise history of Spain / William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips.

• España. English;"Spain : a unique history / Stanley G. Payne."

• Venice : history of the floating city / Joanne M. Ferraro.

• Running out of water : the looming crisis and solutions to conserve our most precious resource / Peter Rogers and Susan Leal ; foreward by Congressman Edward J. Markey.

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math and natural sciences

• The big thirst : the secret life and turbulent future of water / Charles Fishman.

• The boy who harnessed the wind : creating currents of electricity and hope / William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer.

• Wildlife heroes : 40 leading conservationists and the animals they are committed to saving / by Julie Scardina and Jeff Flocken ; with photo editor Sterling Zumbrunn.

• Animals in translation : using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behavior / Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson.

• A planet of viruses / Carl Zimmer.

• Earth : the operators' manual / Richard B. Alley.

• Life everlasting : the animal way of death / Bernd Heinrich.

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