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New Acquisitions -  February, 2010

This page provides links to a sampling of new books added to the Gutman Library collection. If you visit the library in search of books on this list, we recommend you look on the "new book" shelf before proceeding to the stacks. You may also want to check PhilaFind to make sure the book you want has not yet been checked out. Each month's list provides four categories of publications:

Go to a Subject-organized list of selected new additions to our collection.

Go to the most current Recreational Reading Titles.

Go to Special Collections,  for recent rare book acquisitions.

Go to VISIONAIRE for digital images of the most recent issue.  

Go to PhilaFind, the library's online web-based catalog, to search for more books on your topic.

Return to New Acquisitions Main Page.


 

 

 

Subject-Organized New Additions

ARCHITECTURE

FASHION MEDICINE/HEALTH SCIENCES
BUSINESS FINE ART PSYCHOLOGY
COMPUTER HISTORY SCIENCE
DESIGN HUMANITIES SOCIALSCIENCE
EDUCATION INTERIORS TEXTILES

 

ARCHITECTURE

 Andrzejewski, Anna Vemer. BUILDING POWER: ARCHITECTURE AND SURVEILLANCE IN VICTORIAN AMERICA. University of Tennessee Press, 2008. 720.1030973A577b.

Bergman, Sigurd. THEOLOGY IN BUILT ENVIRONMENTS: EXPLORING RELIGION, ARCHITECTURE, AND DESIGN. Transaction Publishers, 2009. 720.108T391b.

Brown, Lance Jay, David Dixon, & Oliver Gillham. URBAN DESIGN FOR AN URBAN CENTURY: PLACE MAKING FOR PEOPLE. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. 711.4B878u.

Carbone, Claudia & Claus Peder Pederson. ARKITEKTURGALLERIET. Dansk Arkitektur Center, 1999. 720.922C265c.

Curran, Brian A., Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long, & Benjamin Weiss. OBELISK: A HISTORY. Burndy Library, 2009. 725.94O12c.

Isenberg, Barbara. CONVERSATIONS WITH FRANK GEHRY. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 720.924G311c.

Leatherbarrow, David. ARCHITECTURE ORIENTED OTHERWISE. Princeton Architectural Press, 2009. 720.1L438a.

Lockwood, Thomas & Thomas Walton. BUILDING DESIGN STRATEGY: USING DESIGN TO ACHIEVE KEY BUSINESS OBJECTIVES . Allworth Press, 2008. 745.4068B932L.

Lorance, Loretta. BECOMING BUCKY FULLER. MIT Press, 2009. 620.0092L865b.

Nbbj. CHANGE DESIGN: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ARCHITECTURE AS THE ULTIMATE BUSINESS TOOL. Greenway Communications, 2009. 725.23C456n.

Nelson, Louis P. THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS: ANGLICANISM & ARCHITECTURE IN COLONIAL SOUTH CAROLINA. University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 726.583N427b.

Pfeiffer, Bruce Brooks. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, THE HEROIC YEARS: 1920 – 1932. Rizzoli, 2009. 720.92W949pg.

 

Business

Clifton, Rita et al. BRANDS AND BRANDING. 2nd Edition. Bloomberg Press, 2009. 658.827B219c2.

Finlay, Steven. CONSUMER CREDIT FUNDAMENTALS. 2ND edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 332.743F512c2.

Friend, Graham & Stefan Zehle. GUIDE TO BUSINESS PLANNING. 2nd Edition. Bloomberg Press, 2009. 658.4012F911g2.

Keilbach, K.B. GLOBAL WARMING IS GOOD FOR BUSINESS: HOW SAVVY ENTREPRENEURS, LARGE CORPORATIONS, AND OTHERS ARE MAKING MONEY WHILE SAVING THE PLANET. Quill Driver Books, 2009. 658.4083K27g.

Osterwalder, Alexander & Yves Pigneur. BUSINESS MODEL GENERATION: A HANDBOOK FOR VISIONARIES, GAME CHANGERS, AND CHALLENGERS. Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur, 2009. 658.4012O85b.

Safko, Lon & David K. Brake. THE SOCIAL MEDIA BIBLE: TACTICS, TOOLS & STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS. John Wiley & Sons, 2009. 658.84S128s.

Shaviro, Daniel N. DECODING THE U.S. CORPORATE TAX. Urban Institute Press, 2009. 336.2070973S553d.

Zandi, Mark. FINANCIAL SHOCK: A 360 LOOK AT THE SUPREME MORTGAGE IMPLOSION, AND HOW TO AVOID THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRISIS. Pearson Education, 2009. 332.720973Z27f.

 

Computers

Dube, Roger R. HARDWARE-BASED COMPUTER SECURITY TECHNIQUES TO DEFEAT HACKERS: FROM BIOMETRICS TO QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY. John Wiley & Sons, 2008. 005.8D814h.

Lynch, Partick J. & Sarah Horton. WEB STYLE GUIDE: BASIC DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR CREATING WEB SITES. 3rd Edition. Yale University Press, 2008. 005.72L987w3.

 

Design

Ames, David & Richard Wagner. DESIGN & HISTORIC PRESERVATION: THE CHALLENGE OF COMPATIBILITY. University of Delaware Press, 2009. 720.288D457a.

Hutchinson, Elizabeth. THE INDIAN CRAZE: PRIMITIVISM, MODERNISM, AND TRANSCULTURATION IN AMERICAN ART, 1890 – 1915. Duke University Press, 2009. 704.0397H975i.

 

Fashion

Anderson, Barbara & Cletus Anderson. COSTUME DESIGN. 2nd Edition. Wadsworth, 1999. 792.026A545c2.

Beer, Randi. DESIGNER’S GUIDE TO GIRLS’ & JUNIOR APPAREL. Fairchild, 2010. 646.406B415d.

Durham, Teva. LOOP-D-LOOP: MORE THAN 40 NOVEL DESIGNS FOR KNITTERS. STC Craft, 2005. 746.432041D961L.

Ewing, William A. & Todd Brandow. EDWARD STEICHEN: IN HIGH FASHION, THE CONDE NAST YEARS 1923 – 1937. FEP Editions, 2008. 779.092S818e.

Gaughan, Norah. KNITTING NATURE: 39 DESIGNS INSPIRED BY PATTERNS IN NATURE. STC Craft, 2006. 746.432041G268k.

Ingham, Rosemary & Liz Covey. THE COSTUME DESIGNER’S HANDBOOK: A COMPLETE GUIDE FOR AMATEUR AND PROFESSIONAL COSTUME DESIGNERS. 2nd Edition. Heinemann Educational Books, 1992. 792.026l48c2.

Koshizen, Yuka. CARRY ME: 20 BOUTIQUE BAGS TO SEW. Interweave, 2009. 746.4041K86c.

Polan, Brenda & Roger Tredre. THE GREAT FASHION DESIGNERS. Berg, 2009. 746.920922P792g.

Strand-Evans, Katherine. COSTUME CONSTRUCTION. Waveland Press, 1989. 792.026S897c.

Rigdon, Renee & Zabet Stewart. ANTICRAFT: KNITTING, BEADING, AND STITCHING FOR THE SLIGHTLY SINISTER. F+W Publications, 2007. 746.432041R657a.

 

Fine Art

Ausherman, Maria Elizabeth. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC LEGACY OF FRANCES BENJAMIN JOHNSTON. University Press of Florida, 2009. 779.4J72a.

Brown, Rebecca M. ART FOR A MODERN INDIA, 1947-1980. Duke University Press, 2009. 709.5409045B883a.

Cutshaw, Stacey McCarroll & Ross Barrett. IN THE VERNACULAR: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EVERYDAY. Boston University, 2008. 779.2C989i.

Monnas, Lisa. MERCHANTS, PRINCES AND PAINTERS: SILK FABRICS IN ITALIAN AND NORTHERN PAINTINGS 1300-1550. Yale University Press, 2008. 704.949677M748m.

Paul, Christine. NEW MEDIA IN THE WHITE CUBE AND BEYOND: CURATORIAL MODELS FOR DIGITAL ART. University of California Press, 2008. 700.105N532p.

Revelli, M. JUXTAPOZ: DARK ARTS. Gingko Press, Inc., 2009. 741.60905J68d.

Smith, Joel. MORE THAN ONE: PHOTOGRAPHS IN SEQUENCE. Yale University Press, 2008. 770.1M835s.

Taragin, Davira S., Patternson Sims & Susan Jefferies. Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey. Hudson Hills Press, 2009. 730.92F893t.

 

History

Andersson, Rani-Henrik. THE LAKOTA GHOST DANCE OF 1890. University of Nebraska Press, 2008. 978.02A549L.

Beiler, Rosalind. IMMIGRANT AND ENTREPRENEUR: THE ATLANTIC WORLD OF CASPAR WISTAR, 1650-1750. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 974.81102B422i.

Benjamin, Thomas. THE ATLANTIC WORLD: EUROPEANS, AFRICANS, INDIANS, AND THEIR SHARED HISTORY, 1400-1900. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 909.09821B466a.

Burlingame< Michael. ABRAHAM LINCOLN: A LIFE. Volume 2. Johns Hopkins University press, 2009. 973.7092B961a v.2.

Cozzens, Peter. SHENANDOAH 1862: STONEWALL JACKSON’S VALLEY CAMPAIGN. University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 973.732C882s.

Critchley, David. THE ORIGIN OF ORGANIZED CRIME IN AMERICA: THE NEW YORK CITY MAFIA, 1891-1931. 364.106c934o.

Heckel, Waldemar & Lawrence A. Tritle. ALEXANDER THE GREAT: A NEW HISTORY. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. 938.07A378h.

Maltby, William S. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SPANISH EMPIRE. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 946.04M426r.

Marrinan, Michael. ROMANTIC PARIS: HISTORIES OF A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, 1800-1850. Stanford University Press, 2009. 700.944361M359r.

Shotter, David. NERO CAESAR AUGUSTUS: EMPEROR OF ROME: Pearson Education, 2008. 937.07S559n.

Wood, Amy Louise. LYNCHING AND SPECTACLE: WITNESSING RACIAL VIOLENCE IN AMERICA, 1890-1940. University of North Carolina Press, 2009. 364.134W873L.

 

Humanities

Adams, Michael. SLANG: THE PEOPLE’S POETRY. Oxford University Press, 2009. 427A215s.

Bigsby, Christopher. ARTHUR MILLER: 1915-1962. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009. 812.517B594a.

Kazan, Elia. KAZAN ON DIRECTING. Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 791.430233K23k.

Rustomji, Nerina. THE GARDEN AND THE FIRE: HEAVEN AND HELL IN ISLAMIC CULTURE. Columbia University Press, 2009. 297.23R971g.

 

Medicine/ Health

Kalichman, Seth. DENYING AIDS: CONSPIRACY THEORIES, PSEUDOSCIENCE, AND HUMAN TRAGEDY. Springer Science+Business Media, 2009. 362.1969792K14d.

Klein, Axel. DRUGS AND THE WORLD. Reaktion Books, 2008. 362.29K64d.

Lynch, Michael. Simon A. Cole, Ruth McNally & Kathleen Jordan. TRUTH MACHINE: THE CONTENTIOUS HISTORY OF DNA FINGERPRINTING. University of Chicago Press, 2008. 614.1L987t.

Shumaker, Sally A., Judith K. Ockene &Kristin A. Riekert. THE HANDBOOK OF HEALTH BEHAVIOR CHANGE. 3rd Edition. Springer, 2009. 613H236s3.

 

Psychology

Rickards, Tudor, Mark A. Runco & Susan Moger. THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO CREATIVITY. Routledge, 2009. 658.314R869r.

Webber, Craig. PSYCHOLOGY & CRIME: KEY APPROACHES TO CRIMINOLOGY. Sage, 2010. 364.3W371p.

 

Science

Berge, Bjorn. THE ECOLOGY OF BUILDING MATERIALS. 2nd Edition. Architectural Press, 2009. 691B495e2.

Braddock, Theda & Lisa Berntsen. WETLANDS: AN INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGY, THE LAW, AND PERMITTING. 2nd Edition. Government Institutes, 2007. 346.73046F788w2.

Brownell, F. William. CLEAN AIR HANDBOOK. 3rd Edition. Government Institutes, 1998. 344.73C623b3.

Cassady, C. Richard, Joel A. Nachlas. PROBABILITY MODELS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH. CRC Press, 2009. 658.4034C343p.

Gore, Al. OUR CHOICE: A PLAN TO SOLVE THE CLIMATE CRISIS. Rodale, 2009. 363.73874G666o.

Knop, Larry E. LINEAR ALGEBRA: A FIRST COURSE WITH APPLICATIONS. CRC Press, 2009. 512.5K72L.

Menard, Scott. LOGISTIC REGRESSION: FROM INTRODUCTORY TO ADVANCED CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS. Sage Publications, 2010. 519.536M235L.

Meyers, Marc & Krishan Chawla. MECHANICAL BEHAVIORS OF MATERIALS. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 620.112M613m2.

Rossman, Jenn Stroud & Clive L. Dym. INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING MECHANICS: A CONTINUUM APPROACH. CRC Press, 2009. 620.1R837i.

 

Social Science

Bauer, Susan Wise. THE ART OF THE PUBLIC GROVEL: SEXUAL SIN & PUBLIC CONFESSION IN AMERICA. Princeton University Press, 2008. 176B344a.

Bernstein, William J. A SPLENDID EXCHANGE: HOW TRADE SHAPED THE WORLD. Grove Press, 2008. 382.09B531s.

Charney, Michael W. A HISTORY OF MODERN BURMA. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 959.105C483h.

Cimbala, Stephen J. SHIELD OF DREAMS: MISSILE DEFENSE AND U.S.-RUSSIAN NUCLEAR STRATEGY. Naval Institute Press, 2008. 358.17C573s.

Delaney, tim & Tim Madigan. THE SOCIOLOGY OF SPORTS: AN INTRODUCTION. McFarland & Co, Inc., 2009. 306.483D337s.

Goodall, Jane. STAGE PRESENCE. Routledge, 2008. 792.028019G646s.

Eller, Ronald D. UNEVEN GROUND: APPALACHIA SINCE 1945. University Press of Kentucky, 2008. 307.1412E45u.

Jackson, Phil. INSIDE CLUBBING: SENSUAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE ART OF BEING HUMAN. Oxford, 2004. 306.1J13i.

Jones, Partick D. THE SELMA OF THE NORTH: CIVIL RIGHTS INSURGENCY IN MILWAUKEE. Harvard university Press, 2009. 323.1196073J78s.

Kapcia, Antoni. CUBA IN REVOLUTION: A HISTORY SINCE THE FIFTIES. Reaktion Books, 2008. 972.91064K17cr.

Kepel, Gilles. BEYOND TERROR AND MARTYRDOM: THE FUTURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST. Belknap Press, 2008. 303.6250956K38b.

Kyle, Chris. FEEDING CHILAPA: THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF A MEXICAN REGION. University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. 338.97273K99f.

Langman, Peter. WHY KIDS KILL: INSIDE THE MINDS OF SCHOOL SHOOTERS. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 371.782L284w.

Lee, Edwin. SINGAPORE: THE UNEXPECTED NATION. ISEAS Publishing, 2008. 959.57L477s.

Mudry, Jessica J. MEASURED MEALS: NUTRITION IN AMERICA. SUNY Press, 2009. 613.20973M945m.

Rorabaugh, W. J. THE REAL MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: KENNEDY, NIXON AND THE 1960 ELECTION. University Press of Kansas, 2009. 329.023R787r.

Scheele, Judith. VILLAGE MATTERS: KNOWLEDGE, POLITICS, & COMMUNITY IN KABYLIA, ALGERIA. James Currey, 2009. 965.3S814v.

Seierstad, Asne. THE BOOKSELLER OF KABUL. Back Bay Books, 2002. 958.1047S458b.

Sterling, Christopher H. & Michael C. Keith. SOUNDS OF CHANGE: A HISTORY OF FM BROADCASTING IN AMERICA. University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 384.540973S838s.

Tribe, Laurence H. THE INVISIBLE CONSTITUTION. Oxford University Press, 2008. 342.7302T822i.

Van Wormer, Katherine & Albert R. Roberts. DEATH BY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: PREVENTING THE MURDERS AND MURDER-SUICIDES. Praeger, 2009. 362.82927V285d.

 

Textiles

Brosens, Koenraad. EUROPEAN TAPESTRIES IN THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. Yale University Press, 2008. 746.394074B874e.

Chen, X. MODELLING AND PREDICTING TEXTILE BEHAVIOR. Woodhead Publishing, 2010. 677.0287M689c

Monem, Nadine. CONTEMPORARY TEXTILES: THE FABRIC OF FINE ART. Black Dog, 2008. 746.0905C761m.

 

 

Recreational Reading 

As a service to readers, books link to amazon.com.  The book's dustjacket image is available  with reader reviews of the title.   This is not an attempt to solicit book purchases. 

Chevalier, Tracy     REMARKABLE CREATURES.
Dutton, 2010.

Delinsky, Barbara     NOT MY DAUGHTER.
Doubleday, 2010.

Higgins, Jack     THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.
Putnam's Sons, 2010.

Hoag, Tami      DEEPER THAN THE DEAD.
Dutton, 2010.

Hooper, Kay     BLOOD TIES (audio recording)
Brilliance Audio, 2010.

Kaminsky, Stuart M.      A WHISPER TO THE LIVING.
Forge, 2010.

Lynch, Jack W.      THE MAJESTIC TWELVE.
St. Martin's Press, 2009.

Oates, Joyce Carol     A FAIR MAIDEN.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

Patterson, James     WORST CASE.
Little, Brown and Co., 2010.

Preston, Douglas J.      IMPACT.
Forge, 2009.

Tyler, Anne     NOAH'S COMPASS.
Knopf, 2009.

Watters, Ethan     CRAZY LIKE US.
Free Press, 2010.

Zahn, Timothy     THE DOMINO PATTERN.
Tor, 2010.

 

Recent Additions to  SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
  McCabe, James D  THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION...
Philadelphia
: National Publishing Co., 1876, 
682 pgs., 22.5 cm.
Call Number: 909.81 M113i 1876

A good example of the elaborate souvenir gift books produced after the Centennial Exhibition. Contains a general history of the fair with woodcut illustrations. This specific title was noteworthy enough, that a reprint was published in 1975.  

 

Sandhurst, Phillip T and Others THE GREAT CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION : Critically Described and Illustrated. 
Philadelphia :  Ziegler & Co., 1876, 
544 pgs.,  23.5 cm.
Call Number: 607.3474811 S217g 1876

Another example of the souvenir gift books published after the Centennial Exhibition. The exhibition is of interest to our University community, since the need for a local textile school was apparent after exposure to the European textile products shown at the fair.  

 
The Library also now receives VISIONAIRE, a limited edition conceptual art and fashion quarterly published in New York. However, due to its format it is not shelved with the other magazines.  It is available for inspection on request.  Since every issue is different, images of each new issue will be included in this list.

VISIONAIRE #49 DECADES

 
 
         
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