These are the books we received in August. Enjoy!

Concordia Campus

Book by book: notes on reading and life, by Michael Dirda. New York: Henry Holt, 2006, 2005. 028.9 D627

The elements of journalism: what speople should know and the public should expect, by Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001. 174.9 K849

A social history of the media: from Gutenberg to the Internet, by Asa Briggs and Peter Burke. Malden, MA: Polity, 2005. 302.23 B769

Taking sides: clashing views in mass media and society. Guilford, CT: Dushkin. 302.23 T139

Law without justice: why criminal law doesn't give people what they deserve, by Paul H. Robinson and Michael T. Cahil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 345.73 R565

The Wal-Mart effect: how the world's most powerful company really works, by Charles Fishman. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. 381.149 F539

Drinking cultures: alcohol and identity, edited by Thomas M. Wilson. New York: Berg, 2005. 394.13 D832

Animals in translation: using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behavior, by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006. 591.5 G763

Made to break: technology and obsolescence in America, by Giles Slade. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 609.73 SL12

All about joints: a maintenance guide, by Irwin M. Siegel. New York: DEMOS, 2002. 616.72 Si15

Good to great: why some companies make the leap--and others don't, by Jim Collins. New York: HarperBusiness, 2001. 658 C694

Body piercing saved my life: inside the phenomenon of Christian rock, by Andrew Beaujon. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006. 781.66 B383

The poem that changed America: "Howl" fifty years later, edited by Jason Shinder. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 811.009 P752

Howl, and other poems, by Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996. 811.54 G435

Collected poems, by Jane Kenyon. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2005. 811.54 K426

Flying at night: poems 1965-1985, by Ted Kooser. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 811.54 K837

Me talk pretty one day, by David Sedaris. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2001. 814 Se27

Reduced Shakespeare: the complete reader's guide for the attention-impaired [abridged], by Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor. New York: Hyperion, 2006. 822.33 M365

The monsters: Mary Shelley and the curse of Frankenstein, by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler. New York: Little, Brown, 2006. 823.009 Sh44h

As the Romans did: a sourcebook in Roman social history, by Jo-Ann Shelton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 937 Sh44

102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. New York: Times Books, 2006. 974.7 D978

The Da Vinci code, special illustrated ed., by Dan Brown. New York: Broadway Books, 2004. Fic B812da

Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. NewYork: Picador, 2006. Fic R564

Geary County Campus

Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. New York: HarperLargePrint, 2005. 330 L579

Tutankhamun, by T.G.H. James. Vercelli, Italy: Friedman/Fairfax Publishers, 2000. 932 J236

Downfall: the end of the Imperial Japanese Empire, by Richard B. Frank. New York: Penguin, 2001. 940.54 F851

The rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II, by Iris Chang. New York: Penguin Books, 1998. 951.042 C362

Eye of the storm: a Civil War odyssey, by Robert Knox Sneden. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 973.7 Sn22

Behind the facade of Fort Riley's hometown: the inside story of Junction City, Kansas, by Susan Lloyd Franzen. Ames, IA: Pivot Press, 1998. 978.1 F858

Garden of Eden, by John B. and Irene Jeffries. Junction City, KS: Geary County Historical Society, 1978. 978.1 G167

Our town on the Plains: J.J. Pennell's photographs of Junction City, Kansas, by James R. Shortridge. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 978.1 Sh81

Capote: a biography, by Gerald Clarke. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. 92 C173