New books for June

WOW! Has summer flown by or what?! In less than 4 weeks we'll be back in school. I hope your summer has lived up to your expectations.

Here is a list of the many books we put on the shelf in June. The second half of the list is for the Geary County campus.

CONCORDIA CAMPUS --

Angels and demons in art, by Rosa Giorgi. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. NEW 704.948 G438

Business for beginners: from research and business plans to money, marketing and the law, by Frances McGuckin. Sourcebooks, 2005. NEW 658.11 M179

Categories--on the beauty of physics: essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature, by Emiliano Sefusatti. Vernacular Press, 2005. NEW 530 C281

A companion to twentieth-century American drama, edited by David Krasner. Blackwell, 2005. NEW 812.00 9C738

The contemporary African American novel: its folk roots and modern literary branches, by Bernard W. Bell. University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. NEW 813.009 B413

Does God belong in public schools?, by Kent Greenawalt. Princeton University Press, 2005. NEW 379.28 G828

Execution: the guillotine, the pendulum, the thousand cuts, the Spanish donkey, and 66 other ways of putting someone to death, by Geoffrey Abbott. St. Martin's Press, 2006. NEW 364.66 Ab26

Forgive and forget: healing the hurts we don't deserve, by Lewis B. Smedes. HarperSanFrancisco, 1996. NEW 234.5 Sm32

The how of WOW: a guide to giving a speech that will positively blow 'em away, by Tony Carlson. American Management Association, 2005. NEW 808.51 C197

Inhuman bondage: the rise and fall of slavery in the New World, by David Brion Davis. Oxford University Press, 2006. NEW 306.36 2D291

Led Zeppelin: the story of a band and their music, 1968-80, by Keith Shadwick. Backbeat, 2005. NEW 782.42 Sh12

More secure, less free?: antiterrorism policy & civil liberties after September 11, by Mark Sidel. University of Michigan Press, 2004. NEW 363.32 Si13

The power of critical theory: liberating adult learning and teaching, by Stephen D. Brookfield. Jossey-Bass, 2005. NEW 374 B791

Principle-centered leadership, by Stephen R. Covey. Simon & Schuster, 1992. NEW 158.4 C838

The search: the inside story of how Google and its rivals changed everything, by John Battelle. Portfolio, 2005. NEW 338.761 B321

Searching & researching on the Internet & the World Wide Web, by Karen Hartman, Ernest Ackermann. Franklin, Beedle, 2005. NEW 025.04 H255

Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures, by Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, & Melody V.S. Siegler. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. NEW 595.7 Ei87

Student development in the first college year: a primer for college educators, by Tracy L. Skipper. National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2005. NEW 378.194 Sk36

Supremely American: popular song in the 20th century: styles and singers and what they said about America, by Nicholas Tawa. Scarecrow Press, 2005. NEW 782.42 T199

Terrors of the table: the curious history of nutrition, by Walter Gratzer. Oxford University Press, 2005. NEW 613.2 G775

Type & typography, by Phil Baines & Andrew Haslam. Watson-Guptill, 2005. NEW 686.22 B161

Wind and solar power systems: design, analysis, and operation, by Mukund R. Patel. Taylor & Francis, 2006. NEW 621.31 P272



GEARY COUNTY CAMPUS --

Alexander the conqueror: the epic story of the warrior king, by Laura Foreman. Da Capo Press, 2004. 938.07 F748

Ancient Rome, by Timothy R. Roberts. Metro Books, 2000. 937 R548

At Canaan's edge: America in the King years, 1965-68, by Taylor Branch. Simon & Schuster, 2006. 973.04 B732t

The beak of the finch: a story of evolution in our time, by Jonathan Weiner. Vintage Books, 1995. 598.88 W431

Beloved: a novel, by Toni Morrison. Plume, 1988. Fic M834b

Carry me home: Birmingham, Alabama: the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution, by Diane McWhorter. Simon & Schuster, 2002. 976.1 M258

Ghost wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001, by Steve Coll. Penguin Books, 2005. 958.104 C683

The great mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time, by John Kelly. Harper Perennial, 2006. 940.17 K297

The Holocaust encyclopedia, edited by Walter Laqueur. Yale University Press, 2001. REF 940.5318 H741

The making of the atomic bomb, by Richard Rhodes. Simon & Schuster, 1988. 623.451 R346

Military intelligence blunders and cover-ups, by John Hughes-Wilson. Carroll & Graf, 2004. 355.3432 H874

Oceans of Kansas: a natural history of the western interior sea, by Michael J. Everhart. Indiana University Press, 2005. 560.45 Ev27

A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide, by Samantha Power. Perennial, 2003. 304.663 P871

Public enemies, by Bryan Burrough. Penguin Press, 2005. 364.973 B945

The seven habits of highly effective people: restoring the character ethic, by Stephen R. Covey. Free Press, 2003. 158 C838s

Summer for the gods: the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion, by Edward J. Larson. Harvard University Press, 1998. 345.73 L329

What's the matter with Kansas?: how conservatives won the heart of America, by Thomas Frank. Metropolitan/Owl Book, 2005. 978.1 F851