[bksvol-discuss] New Books (109) for 09-02
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=====FICTION, 48
ARTHUR, FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME, BY PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
After a summer visit to his aunt and uncle's farm, Arthur begins to
understand there is more than one way of seeing and doing and
loving--that there is a world waiting for him to discover. An ALA
Notable Children's Book.
Excellent Quality, 127 Pages
Copyright 1980
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112369/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0064402886/
A BOOK THAT WAS LOST, BY INTRODUCTION BY AND ANNE GOLOMB HOFFMAN EDITOR
AND INTRODUCTION BY AND ALAN MINTZ EDITOR AND SHMUEL YOSEF AGNON
This broad selection of the short stories of SY Agnon, winner of the
1966 Nobel prize for literature, presents a panoramic and probing vision
of the writer as chronicler of the lost world of Eastern European Jewry
and the emergent society of modern Israel.
Excellent Quality, 437 Pages
Copyright 1995
History, Literature and Fiction, Religion and Spirituality
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112402/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805210660/
BEST DESTINY (STAR TREK), BY KEVIN RYAN AND DIANE L. CAREY
As Kirk prepares to retire from a long and illustrious Starfleet career,
events in a distant part of the Federation draw him back to a part of
the galaxy he had visited as a young man -- a mysterious world called
Faramond.
Excellent Quality, 398 Pages
Copyright 1992
Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/109102/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671795872/
CONTINENTAL DRIFT, BY JAMES D. HOUSTON
The San Andreas Fault is both a real and a metaphorical player in this
novel of northern California in the early 70s.
Excellent Quality, 338 Pages
Copyright 1987
History, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112425/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0070304882/
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, BY DON LEE
A U.S. tourist disappears in Tokyo in the year 1980.
Excellent Quality, 317 Pages
Copyright 2004
Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112423/
CROOKED LITTLE HEART, BY ANNE LAMOTT
With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her
recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird,
Anne Lamott's new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait
of a family for whom the joys and and sorrows of everyday life are
magnified under the glare of the unexpected.
Excellent Quality, 327 Pages
Copyright 1997
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112357/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385491808/
DAVE AT NIGHT, BY GAIL CARSON LEVINE
The next song was slow, and the trumpet was more important than the
piano. I closed my eyes. The trumpet purred and hummed, and sometimes it
sang so sweetly it could have been a lullaby.
Excellent Quality, 281 Pages
Copyright 1999
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112380/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060281537/
DIAMOND DOGS, BY ALAN WATT
Seventeen-year-old Neil Garvin lives in a small town outside Las Vegas.
Abandoned by his mother when he was three, he blames his abusive father,
the local sheriff, for driving her away.
Excellent Quality, 244 Pages
Copyright 2000
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112373/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316925810/
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: AN ECHO FALLS MYSTERY, BY PETER ABRAHAMS
Welcome to Echo Falls. Home of a thousand secrets, where Ingrid
Levin-Hill, super sleuth, never knows what will happen next. Ingrid is
in the wrong place at the wrong time. Or at least her shoes are.
Excellent Quality, 375 Pages
Copyright 2005
Mystery and Thrillers
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112381/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060737018/
DREAMS OF THE CENTAUR, BY MONTSERRAT FONTES
"With his bare hands and stubborn drive, Jose Durcal has built the ranch
in Sonora where he and his family live.
Excellent Quality, 351 Pages
Copyright 1996
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112429/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393038475/
DUGAN UNDER GROUND, BY TOM DE HAVEN
In This Issue: Sex! Drugs! Kosmic Trooths! And a Comic Book Rebel Named
Looby!
Excellent Quality, 286 Pages
Copyright 2001
History, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112430/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805057412/
EMPIRE OF THE SUN, BY J. G. BALLARD
The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's
film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in
China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war.
Excellent Quality, 277 Pages
Copyright 1984
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112384/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671530518/
FINDING MIRACLES, BY JULIA ALVAREZ
MILLY KAUFMAN IS an ordinary American teenager living in Vermont--until
she meets Pablo, a new student at her high school.
Excellent Quality, 266 Pages
Copyright 2004
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112385/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0375827609/
GABRIEL'S STORY, BY DAVID ANTHONY DURHAM
David Anthony Durham makes his literary debut with a haunting novel
which, in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses,
views the American West through a refreshingly original lens.
Excellent Quality, 304 Pages
Copyright 2001
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112386/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385498144/
GORKY PARK, BY MARTIN CRUZ SMITH
"Brilliant...One of the best books of the season." ASSOCIATED PRESS A
triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen
in the snow, faces and fingers missing.
Excellent Quality, 365 Pages
Copyright 1981
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112351/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0394517482/
HEADS BY HARRY, BY LOIS-ANN YAMANAKA
Lois-Ann Yamanaka's new novel tells the story of the Yagyuu family, who
live in Hilo above Heads by Harry, the family's taxidermy shop. Every
day a group of opinionated old futs from the neighborhood gathers
outside Harry O.
Excellent Quality, 314 Pages
Copyright 1999
Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112434/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0374168504/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XIV, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
Sizzling with raunchy revelations and torrid titillations, this all-new
collection of letters to "Penthouse" magazine's "Forum" section proves
once again that naughty is nice, and offbeat can be even better.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2001
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87906/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XIX, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
Another in the series of collections of erotic tales from Penthouse
magazine.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2003
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88254/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XVIII: THE HOTTEST SEX JUST THIS SIDE OF LEGAL!, BY
PENTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL
Another collection of erotic stories from Penthouse magazine.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2003
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/91276/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE V, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
This collection of actual letters written by readers is more
stimulating, satisfying and fascinating than any piece of fiction.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 1995
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89470/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XXIX: TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, BY PENTHOUSE
INTERNATIONAL
More erotic stories from Penthouse magazine.
Publisher Quality, 56 Pages
Copyright 2007
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87570/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XX: GIRL ON GIRL, BY PENTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL
More erotic stories from Penthouse magazine.
Publisher Quality, 55 Pages
Copyright 2004
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88931/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE VII: CELEBRATE THE RITES OF PASSION, BY THE EDITORS
OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
The bestselling "Penthouse Letters" series continues with this book, the
latest steamy collection of erotic stories originally featured in
"Penthouse" magazine.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 1997
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87706/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE VI: FEEL THE HEAT, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
In letters to Penthouse magazine the nation's hottest forum of
contemporary sexual issues are covered--or uncovered.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 1996
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88684/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XIII: FEELING LUCKY?, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE
MAGAZINE
Sizzling with raunchy revelations and torrid titillations, this all-new
collection of letters to "Penthouse" magazine's "Forum" section proves
once again that naughty is nice, and offbeat can be even better.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2001
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89626/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XII: IT JUST GETS HOTTER, BY THE EDITORS OF
PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
This collection of erotic stories from the pages of "Penthouse"
magazine, sent in by uninhibited readers, reveal everything that goes on
behind closed bedroom doors--and other locations.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2001
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87164/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE III: HOT, BOTHERED, AND READY, BY THE EDITORS OF
PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
Another edition in the series of erotic tales from Penthouse magazine.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 1992
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89237/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XXVI: DESTINATION S-E-X, BY THE EDITORS OF
PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
More erotic stories from Penthouse magazine.
Publisher Quality, 49 Pages
Copyright 2006
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87915/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XXI, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
More erotic stories from Penthouse magazine.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2004
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89308/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE IV, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
How do Americans make love? Let Letters to Penthouse count the ways!
Every month readers with a sizzling story to tell celebrate the
unbounded joys of sexuality in the nation's hottest and boldest magazine.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 1994
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87256/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XI, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
Straight from the "Forum" section of "Penthouse" magazine comes the 11th
volume in the highly successful, bestselling series of uninhibited
letters revealing everything that goes on behind closed bedroom doors --
as well as in cars, locked corporate
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2000
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89683/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XV, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
Another collection of erotic stories from Penthouse magazine.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2002
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88914/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XXXIII, BY THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
TIE ME UP! TURN ME ON! If the scent of well-oiled leather and the crack
of a whip get you hot, you've come to the right place.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2009
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89651/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XXVIII: THREESOMES, FOURSOMES, AND MORESOMES, BY
THE EDITORS OF PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE
In the sensual, sizzling world of Penthouse, a threesome is hotter than
a twosome, foursomes are a scorcher, and more is a dream come true!
Readers of the world?
Publisher Quality, 41 Pages
Copyright 2007
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88159/
LETTERS TO PENTHOUSE XXVII: THE FIRST TIME IS THE HOTTEST, BY PENTHOUSE
INTERNATIONAL
More erotic stories from Penthouse magazine.
Publisher Quality, 58 Pages
Copyright 2006
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/89734/
LIBERATION: A NOVEL, BY JOANNA SCOTT
An old woman remembers her life as a young girl on Elba during World War II.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2005
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/88657/
LOUISE BOGAN: A PORTRAIT, BY ELIZABETH FRANK
The biography of poet Louise Bogan, who died in 1971, and whose poems,
collected in The Blue Estuaries, were first published in the 1920s.
Excellent Quality, 476 Pages
Copyright 1985
Nonfiction, Poetry, Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112444/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0394524845/
MODERN POEMS, BY RICHARD ELLMANN AND ROBERT O'CLAIR
Anthology designed for undergraduate poetry courses. Drawn from modern
verse in English, covering Walt Whitman to the present.
Excellent Quality, 526 Pages
Copyright 1976
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112445/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393091872/
MODERN CHINESE LITERARY THOUGHT, BY KIRK A. DENTON
This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the
period of the inception of literary modernity in China.
Excellent Quality, 535 Pages
Copyright 1996
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112338/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0804725594/
OPENED GROUND: SELECTED POEMS, 1966-1996, BY SEAMUS HEANEY
As selected by the author, Opened Ground includes the essential work
from Heaney's twelve previous books of poetry, as well as new sequences
drawn from two of his landmark translations, The Cure at Troy and
Sweeney Astray, and several previously uncollected poems.
Excellent Quality, 462 Pages
Copyright 1998
Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112375/
PLANET OF THE APES, BY PIERRE BOULLE
Before you see the movie, read the original novel!
Excellent Quality, 268 Pages
Copyright 1963
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112361/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0345447980/
THE BUFFALO PEOPLE (THE MAKING OF AMERICA, BOOK 17), BY LEE DAVIS WILLOUGHBY
CAVE OF DESIRE, CAVE OF DOOM. Birdie Jacobs tried to avert his eyes from
the naked, golden body of Jody Robb as they huddled in the cave. Outside
the storm still raged--the night cold, dark and threatening.
Excellent Quality, 414 Pages
Copyright 1981
History, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/111834/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0440007763/
THE COLLECTED STORIES OF DOROTHY PARKER, BY DOROTHY PARKER
As one of the most popular authors of the interwar era, Dorothy Parker
came to be celebrated as one of the few recognizable female 'wits'.
Excellent Quality, 361 Pages
Copyright 1942
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112410/
THE COLUMBIA ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE, BY HOWARD GOLDBLATT
AND JOSEPH S. M. LAU
This collection of 20th century Chinese literature offers short fiction,
poetry, and essays from 1918 to the communist takeover in 1949, and from
that period to the present.
Excellent Quality, 772 Pages
Copyright 2006
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112370/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0231138415/
THE INLAND WHALE, BY THEODORA KROEBER
Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author
Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword
by her son.
Excellent Quality, 207 Pages
Copyright 1959
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112378/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0520006763/
THE LITERATURE OF CHINA IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, BY BONNIE S. MCDOUGALL
AND KAM LOUIE
General history of modern Chinese literature.
Excellent Quality, 468 Pages
Copyright 1997
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112391/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0231110847/
THE LINCOLN LAWYER, BY MICHAEL CONNELLY
They're called Lincoln Lawyers: the bottom of the legal food chain, the
criminal defence attorneys who operate out of the back of a Lincoln car,
travelling between the courthouses of Los Angeles county to take
whatever cases the system throws in
Publisher Quality, 48 Pages
Copyright 2006
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87776/
THE VOICES OF SILENCE, BY BEL MOONEY
Romania, 1989. It is unthinkable for anyone to criticize the leader of
the country.
Excellent Quality, 183 Pages
Copyright 1997
Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112382/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385323263/
=====NONFICTION, 44
101 CHAMBERS: CONGRESS, STATE LEGISLATURES, AND THE FUTURE OF
LEGISLATIVE STUDIES, BY KEITH E. HAMM AND PEVERILL SQUIRE
The book compares and contrasts Congress and the state legislatures on
histories, fundamental structures, institutional and organizational
characteristics, and members. By highlighting the vast array of
organizational schemes and behavioral patterns evidenced in state
legislatures, the authors demonstrate that the potential for the study
of American legislatures, as opposed to the separate efforts of
Congressional and state legislative scholars, is too great to leave
unexplored.
Excellent Quality, 213 Pages
Copyright 2005
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112403/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0814209386/
ACTING IS BELIEVING, BY KENNETH L. STILSON AND LARRY D. CLARK AND
CHARLES MCGAW
The authors bring the traditional methods of Stanislavski in line with
more contemporary schools.
Excellent Quality, 333 Pages
Copyright 2007
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112392/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0495050334/
AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC: FROM MINSTRELSY TO MP3, BY CHRISTOPHER WATERMAN
AND LARRY STARR
Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman examine popular music in the United
States from its beginnings into the 21st century, offering a
comprehensive look at the music, the cultural history of the times, and
the connections between them.
Excellent Quality, 442 Pages
Copyright 2006
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Entertainment, Art and Architecture
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112405/
AN ACTOR PREPARES, BY CONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI
The first volume of Stanislavski's enduring trilogy on the art of acting
defines the "System", a means of mastering the craft of acting and of
stimulating the actor's individual creativeness and imagination.
Excellent Quality, 339 Pages
Copyright 1964
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Art and Architecture
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112404/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0878309837/
AN INTRODUCTION TO PRAGMATICS, BY VIRGINIA LOCASTRO
An Introduction to Pragmatics is designed for use in introductory
courses in pragmatics (both undergraduate and graduate level) for
students preparing to teach.
Excellent Quality, 378 Pages
Copyright 2003
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112371/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/047208822X/
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM, BY JERRY G. PETROFF AND DEBORAH
A. NEWTON AND AMY G. DELL
With an emphasis on the integration of assistive technology into the
curriculum, this text focuses on how assistive technology can be used in
schools to enhance the teaching and learning of students with disabilities.
Excellent Quality, 340 Pages
Copyright 2008
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112336/
A CONCISE HISTORY OF GERMANY, BY MARY FULBROOK
A new edition of Mary Fulbrook's history of Germany from the middle ages
to today.
Excellent Quality, 292 Pages
Copyright 2004
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112346/
A CULTURAL APPROACH TO INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION, BY JANE E. GOODMAN
AND LEILA FRANCES MONAGHAN
This reader connects interpersonal communication and culture, primarily
but not exclusively through an anthropological, ethnographic lens.
Excellent Quality, 502 Pages
Copyright 2007
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112393/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1405125942/
A HISTORY OF EUROPE, 1648-1815, BY MAURICE ASHLEY
A college level textbook on the history of Western Europe, with
additional references for follow-up reading.
Excellent Quality, 295 Pages
Copyright 1973
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/66488/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0133900703/
CHINA: A TRAVELER'S LITERARY COMPANION, BY KIRK A. DENTON
Whether revealing small-town superstitions or exposing Beijing's
underworld, these works of literary fiction offer insights to modern
China and its myriad of social, cultural, and human concerns.
Excellent Quality, 236 Pages
Copyright 2008
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Travel
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112337/
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS, BY CAROLYN M. EVERTSON
AND EDMUND T. EMMER
Evertson (Peabody College, Vanderbilt U.) and Emmer (U. of Texas at
Austin) provide a handbook on establishing and maintaining a
comprehensive classroom management plan.
Excellent Quality, 281 Pages
Copyright 2009
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112344/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0205578624/
CRIME PREVENTION THROUGH HOUSING DESIGN, BY PAUL STOLLARD EDITOR
This book provides specific guidance for architects, planners, and
housing managers on designing to deter crime.
Excellent Quality, 103 Pages
Copyright 2004
Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112352/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0419153705/
DIRECT SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE, BY JO ANN LARSEN AND KIM STROM-GOTTFRIED
AND RONALD H. ROONEY AND DEAN H. HEPWORTH AND GLENDA DEWBERRY ROONEY
A text for social work students, detailing basic skills for effective
practice in an ecological systems framework.
Excellent Quality, 654 Pages
Copyright 2006
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112367/
ELEVATING THE GAME, BY NELSON GEORGE
The author of "The Michael Jackson Story" argues that Black basketball
players have reinvented the game. By researching the history of
Basketball George exposes African American icons who have revolutionized
dribbling. He tells the stories of those Black individuals who advanced
the sport's technique, and who influenced its strategy.
Excellent Quality, 278 Pages
Copyright 1993
History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112432/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671797123/
EXPLAINING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SINCE 1945, BY NGAIRE WOODS
This book covers a number of theories and authors of the international
relations field since 1945.
Excellent Quality, 345 Pages
Copyright 1996
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/34632/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0198741952/
FORGING FREEDOM: THE FORMATION OF PHILADELPHIA'S BLACK COMMUNITY,
1720-1840, BY GARY B. NASH
This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more
than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United
States.
Excellent Quality, 360 Pages
Copyright 1988
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112394/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0674309340/
GENERALIST CASE MANAGEMENT: A METHOD OF HUMAN SERVICE DELIVERY, BY
TRICIA MCCLAM AND MARIANNE R. WOODSIDE
Going beyond traditional definitions of case management, the authors (of
the U. of Tennessee) suggest a broader perspective that sees a greater
emphasis on its role in service delivery in the human services.
Excellent Quality, 337 Pages
Copyright 2006
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112422/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/049500488X/
GUIDE TO CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION, BY DEBORAH VALENTINE AND SANA
REYNOLDS
This concise, practical book will help you communicate successfully in
culturally diverse workplaces at home and abroad.
Excellent Quality, 150 Pages
Copyright 2004
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112399/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0130497843/
HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL WORK WITH GROUPS, BY LORRAINE M. GUTIERREZ AND MAEDA
J. GALINSKY AND CHARLES D. GARVIN
Garvin (social work, University of Michigan) presents work by
contributors in social work and public health describing current
approaches to working with groups in a range of settings and for a
variety of purposes.
Excellent Quality, 531 Pages
Copyright 2004
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112350/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1593850042/
HANDBOOK OF COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION SKILLS, BY BRANT RANEY
BURLESON AND JOHN O. GREENE
This volume contains 24 papers on theoretical and methodological
concerns in research, fundamental interaction skills, function-focused
skills, the management of diverse personal relationships, and the sills
required by public and professional life.
Excellent Quality, 105 Pages
Copyright 2003
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112355/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805834176/
HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, BY BELLA MODY
AND WILLIAM B. GUDYKUNST
Twenty-nine chapters were contributed by 42 accomplished scholars. Where
the first edition focused primarily on intercultural communication, this
new edition gives equal coverage to four areas: cross-cultural,
intercultural, international, and developmental communication.
Excellent Quality, 855 Pages
Copyright 2002
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112358/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0761920900/
INCLUDING STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, BY WILLIAM D. BURSUCK AND
MARILYN FRIEND
This single most-adopted Inclusion text worldwide continues to provide
the best source of practical strategies for teaching students with
special needs in inclusive settings.
Excellent Quality, 572 Pages
Copyright 2009
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Disability-Related
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112345/
INTELLIGENCE AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIST: ENDURING ISSUES AND
CHALLENGES, BY ROBERT D. KLINE AND ROGER Z. GEORGE
This timely reissue of the 2004 edition (National Defense U. Press),
with a new introduction by the assistant director of Central
Intelligence for Analysis and Production, targets a broad audience.
Excellent Quality, 603 Pages
Copyright 2006
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112353/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0742540383/
INTELLIGENCE: FROM SECRETS TO POLICY, BY MARK M. LOWENTHAL
This book is intended to provide an understanding of the role of
intelligence in creating national security policy and the strengths and
weaknesses of the intelligence community.
Excellent Quality, 379 Pages
Copyright 2009
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112376/
INTIMATE VOICES FROM THE FIRST WORLD WAR, BY SVETLANA PALMER AND SARAH
WALLIS
In the tradition of the work of Studs Turkel and Ken Burns' "The Civil
War," this book is the companion volume to a major television series--a
compelling, personal account of World War I and its devastating
aftermath. Photos & maps throughout.
Excellent Quality, 386 Pages
Copyright 2004
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112396/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060582596/
IN THE FIELD, BY WILLIAM A. DANOWSKI
To help students make the transition from the classroom to the
workplace, Danowski (Dominican College) takes the prospective intern
through the entire process, from the placement interview to the
termination of the client/intern relationship.
Excellent Quality, 104 Pages
Copyright 2005
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112335/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0205376002/
KNOWLEDGE, COMPETENCE, AND COMMUNICATION: CHOMSKY, FREIRE, SEARLE, AND
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING , BY WILLIAM H. WALCOTT
In Knowledge, Competence, and Communication, author William H. Walcott
debates the meaning of creating equitable and critical instructional
practices by exploring diverse representations of knowledge.
Excellent Quality, 233 Pages
Copyright 2007
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112412/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1551642875/
LIFE BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: TRANSITION STRATEGIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WITH
DISABILITIES, BY PAUL WEHMAN
This classic text, adopted by educators in special and vocational
education programs across the country, provides a framework for defining
and planning transition, addresses facilitation and support, and
discusses ways to individualize transition service delivery for people
with specific types of disabilities.
Excellent Quality, 742 Pages
Copyright 2006
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Disability-Related
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112414/
LINCOLN ON LEADERSHIP, BY DONALD T. PHILLIPS
This book applies Lincoln's leadership practices during war to today's
business environment.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 1992
Nonfiction, Business and Finance
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/87123/
MANY AMERICAS: READING AND WRITING ACROSS THE CULTURAL DIVIDES, BY
GILBERT H. MULLER
From provocative op-ed pieces and contemporary essays by some of
today's most gifted masters to editorial cartoons and clever satire, the
105 selections in Many Americas engage students and invite them to think
critically about the political and cultural fault lines that divide our
country.
Excellent Quality, 793 Pages
Copyright 2006
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112329/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0618608281/
NEITHER WHITE NOR MALE: FEMALE FACULTY OF COLOR, BY KATHERINE GRACE HENDRIX
The scholars in this issue have come together to begin the process of
articulating the academic experiences of female professors of color.
Excellent Quality, 111 Pages
Copyright 2007
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112363/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470176865/
POPULAR JUSTICE: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE, BY SAMUEL WALKER
This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal
justice places contemporary issues of crime and justice in historical
perspective.
Excellent Quality, 277 Pages
Copyright 1998
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112413/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195074513/
SOCIAL WORK MACRO PRACTICE, BY STEVE MCMURTRY AND PETER M. KETTNER AND
F. ELLEN NETTING
This undergraduate textbook challenges social workers accustomed to
working with individuals and families to expand their efforts at
generating change at the community and organizational level.
Excellent Quality, 427 Pages
Copyright 2008
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112395/
STASILAND: TRUE STORIES FROM BEHIND THE BERLIN WALL, BY ANNA FUNDER
It's Berlin in the 1990s. A city split for forty years by the Wall is
trying to knit itself back together - a city where former Stasi men and
their victims now pass one another in the street, and where, just under
the surface, the Nazi past now lies buried.
Excellent Quality, 296 Pages
Copyright 2003
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112348/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1862075808/
TEACHING COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO STUDENTS WITH SEVERE DISABILITIES, BY
JUNE E. DOWNING
Writing for both in-service and pre-service teachers, Downing (special
education, California State U., Northridge) provides strategies they can
use to develop confidence in their skills as assessors of communication
skills and needs and providers of instruction geared toward the needs of
learners.
Excellent Quality, 267 Pages
Copyright 2005
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112343/
THE FIX, BY MICHAEL MASSING
Massing confronts the failure of the "war on drugs."
Excellent Quality, 336 Pages
Copyright 1998
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Nonfiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112390/
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF GROUP COUNSELING, BY GERALD COREY
This text outlines the basic elements of group process, deals with
ethical and professional issues of group work, and overviews the key
concepts and techniques of ten approaches to group counseling.
Excellent Quality, 531 Pages
Copyright 2008
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112332/
THE FIRST WORLD WAR, BY HEW STRACHAN
A significant addition to the literature on World War I, which takes a
global view of what has frequently been misperceived as a prolonged
skirmish on the Western Front.
Excellent Quality, 343 Pages
Copyright 2003
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112406/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743239598/
THE JEWISH CULTURAL TAPESTRY: INTERNATIONAL JEWISH FOLK TRADITIONS, BY
STEVEN M. LOWENSTEIN
Here, in one compact volume, is an illuminating survey of Jewish
folkways on five continents.
Excellent Quality, 286 Pages
Copyright 2000
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112374/
THE ROUTLEDGEFALMER READER IN MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION, BY DAVID GILLBORN
AND GLORIA LADSON-BILLINGS
This unique publication brings together scholarship from both sides of
the Atlantic, focusing on the central questions that shape the field of
Multicultural Education.
Excellent Quality, 275 Pages
Copyright 2004
Textbooks and Educational Materials
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112368/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415336627/
THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION AND LENINISM OR MARXISM?, BY ROSA LUXEMBURG
A controversial Marxist, Luxemburg here opposes the Bolsheviks' quest
for power.
Excellent Quality, 108 Pages
Copyright 1961
Textbooks and Educational Materials, History
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112377/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0472060570/
VANDER'S HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, BY KEVIN T. STRANG AND HERSHEL RAFF AND
ERIC P. WIDMAIER
The fundamental purpose of this textbook is to present the principles
and facts of human physiology in a format that is suitable for
undergraduates regardless of academic background or field of study.
Excellent Quality, 791 Pages
Copyright 2008
Textbooks and Educational Materials, Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112417/
WHY DO MEN HAVE NIPPLES?, BY BILLY GOLDBERG AND MARK LEYNER
Is There a Doctor in the House? Say you're at a party. You've had a
martini or three, and you mingle through the crowd, wondering how long
you need to stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you're introduced
to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza. Now is the
perfect time to bring up all those strange questions you'd like to ask
during an office visit with your own doctor but haven't had the guts (or
more likely the time) to do so.
Excellent Quality, 218 Pages
Copyright 2005
Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112347/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1400082315/
YOUNG, BLACK AND DETERMINED: A BIOGRAPHY OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY, BY
FREDRICK L. MCKISSACK AND PATRICIA C. MCKISSACK
Here is the remarkable story of the first African-American woman to open
a play, A Raisin in the Sun, on Broadway.
Excellent Quality, 150 Pages
Copyright 1998
Biographies and Memoirs
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112364/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0823413004/
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FRIENDS LIKE THESE: MY WORLDWIDE QUEST TO FIND MY BEST CHILDHOOD
FRIENDS, KNOCK ON THEIR DOORS, AND ASK THEM TO COME OUT AND PLAY, BY
DANNY WALLACE
Danny Wallace has friends. He has a wife and goes to brunch, and his new
house has a couch with throw pillows. But as he nears 30, he can't help
wondering about his best childhood friends, whose names he finds in a
long-forgotten address book.
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2009
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112452/
HOPE FOR ANIMALS AND THEIR WORLD: HOW ENDANGERED SPECIES ARE BEING
RESCUED FROM THE BRINK, BY GAIL HUDSON AND THANE MAYNARD AND JANE GOODALL
At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent
and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every
day, Jane Goodall, one of the world's most renowned scientists, brings
us inspiring news about the future of
Publisher Quality
Copyright 2009
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112451/
SECULAR SABOTAGE: HOW LIBERALS ARE DESTROYING RELIGION AND CULTURE IN
AMERICA, BY WILLIAM A. DONOHUE
This assault is not happening from accident or whim. It is happening
because disaffected liberals have deliberately set out to upend our
Judeo-Christian traditions.
Publisher Quality, 619 Pages
Copyright 2009
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112453/
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AIRHEAD, BY MEG CABOT
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a
disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and
finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen
supermodels.
Excellent Quality, 340 Pages
Copyright 2008
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112447/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0545040523/
AWAKENING, BY ROBIN WASSERMAN
Found: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified.
Lost: Everything. JD may not know the truth about her past, but she
knows she's in danger, and she can't shake the dark visions haunting her
dreams.
Excellent Quality, 217 Pages
Copyright 2007
Horror, Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112446/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0439933382/
BIG FAT MANIFESTO, BY SUSAN VAUGHT
Jamie is a senior in high school and, like so many kids in that year,
doing too much--including trying to change the world--and fighting for
her rights as a very fat girl.
Excellent Quality, 319 Pages
Copyright 2008
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112415/
GO, GIRL, GO!, BY JEANNE BETANCOURT
This new cheerleading series starts with seventh-grade tryouts at
Claymore Middle School in Florida. Not everyone in the incoming class
will make the team, but four fiercely determined girls will give it
their 150 percent best.
Excellent Quality, 126 Pages
Copyright 1998
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112449/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0590978063/
KILLING TIME WITH STRANGERS, BY W. S. PENN
Young Pal needs help with his dreaming.Palimony Blue Larue, a mixblood
growing up in a small California town, suffers from a painful shyness
and wants more than anything to be liked.
Excellent Quality, 283 Pages
Copyright 2000
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112437/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0816520526/
THE FIRE-EATERS, BY DAVID ALMOND
Bobby Burns knows he's a lucky lad. Growing up in sleepy Keely Bay,
Bobby is exposed to all manner of wondrous things: stars reflecting off
the icy sea, a friend that can heal injured fawns with her dreams, a man
who can eat fire.
Excellent Quality, 218 Pages
Copyright 2004
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112398/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385731701/
THE GIRL FROM CHARNELLE, BY K. L. COOK
It's 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas -- a year and a half
since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate's mother boarded a bus and
mysteriously disappeared.
Excellent Quality, 400 Pages
Copyright 2006
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112426/
THE UNEXPECTED (ANIMORPHS #44), BY K. A. APPLEGATE
After a mission takes a bad turn, Cassie ends up in the Australian
Outback alone, with no one to help her, and no knowledge of terrain. Her
only company is Visser Three.
Excellent Quality, 149 Pages
Copyright 2000
Teens, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112362/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0439115183/
DON'T READ THIS BOOK , WHATEVER YOU DO! , BY KALLI DAKOS
For every student who's ever wondered what would happen "If Kids Were
Put In Charge of Schools" or "Needed Cures for a Boring School Day,"
here are thirty-seven poems that capture the funny, wondrous, and
sometimes horryfying moments that can happen only in a classroom.--From
back cover
Excellent Quality, 64 Pages
Copyright 1993
Children's Books, Poetry
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112360/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/059016256X/
PENDRAGON: THE GUIDE TO THE TERRITORIES OF HALLA (PENDRAGON: JOURNEY OF
AN ADVENTURE THROUGH TIME AND SPACE), BY D. J. MACHALE
All there ever was; all that will be. For the first time, see the
amazing sights of Halla as only Bobby Pendragon has. A guide to the
world of the popular series, "Pendragon: Journey of an Adventure Through
Time and Space."
Excellent Quality, 48 Pages
Copyright 2005
Children's Books, Science Fiction and Fantasy
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112460/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1416900144/
REMEMBER: THE JOURNEY TO SCHOOL INTEGRATION, BY TONI MORRISON
Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photographs
that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation.
These unforgettable images serve as the inspiration for Ms. Morrison's
text, a fictional account of the dialogue and emotions of the children
who lived during the era of separate but equal schooling.
Excellent Quality, 80 Pages
Copyright 2004
Children's Books, History, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112330/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/061839740X/
THE ISLAND PICNIC, BY BEVERLEY RANDELL
Sally, her father, and her dog Red Boy go up the river in a boat to a
small island for a picnic.
Excellent Quality, 17 Pages
Copyright 1996
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112442/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0435049283/
TOADS (NATURE'S CHILDREN), BY AMANDA HARMAN
Describes the physical features, habits and natural environments of
toads and their differences from frogs.
Excellent Quality, 48 Pages
Copyright 2001
Children's Books, Nonfiction, Animals, Outdoors and Nature
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/111388/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0717255492/
WORKING COTTON, BY SHERLEY ANNE WILLIAMS
A young black girl relates the daily events of her family's migrant life
in the cotton fields of central California.
Excellent Quality, 32 Pages
Copyright 1992
Children's Books, Literature and Fiction
http://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/112331/
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0152996249/
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