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New Books This Week

New Books

Here’s what’s new for the week of March 17:

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An appetite for wonder : the making of a scientist : a memoir
Research design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches
Essential readings in wildlife management and conservation
Essential questions : opening doors to student understanding
Badluck Way : a year on theragged edge of the West
Happiness and poverty in developing countries : a global perspective
The behaviour of the domestic cat
Renewable energy : a first course
Bonsai : a patient art : the Bonsai Collection of the Chicago Botanic Garden
Marijuana : a reference handbook
Natural area tourism : ecology, impacts, and management
Learning targets : helping students aim for understanding in today’s lesson
What is history?
Jackson Pollock : a biography
Overcoming textbook fatigue : 21st century tools to revitalize teaching and learning
The low countries : arts and society in Flanders and Netherlands : [yearbook no.] 21
The geologic time scale 2012
The impact of the geological sciences on society
The web of geological sciences : advances, impacts, and interactions
The de-textbook : the stuff you didn’t know about the stuff you thought you knew
Money : the unauthorised biography
The anatomy of violence : the biological roots of crime
Drunk tank pink : and other unexpected forces that shape how we think, feel, and behave.
Assignments matter : making the connections that help students meet standards
Therapy with dreams and nightmares : theory, research & practice
The Chicano studies reader : an anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2000
Choice theory : a new psychology of personal freedom
Late Cretaceous to Quaternary strata and fossils of Texas : field excursions celebrating 125 years of GSA and Texas geology, GSA South-Central Section meeting, Austin, Texas, April 2013
Classic concepts and new directions : exploring 125 years of GSA discoveries in the Rocky Mountain Region
Do federal social programs work?
In watermelon sugar
Mexican American voices : a documentary reader

Should the Federal Government Increase its Investment in Early Learning Programs?

Resources

This April’s Congressional Digest discusses the history and current status of funding for preschool programs.  Find out more about those who argue for an expansion of preschool programs, and those who feel expanding such programs will detract from what is currently available.  Access to Congressional Digest is available to all on campus, and off-campus students, faculty, and staff.

New Books This Week

New Books

Here’s what’s new for the week of March 10:

Rio Grande narrow gauge : the final years, Alamosa to Chama
The power of the American presidency : 1789-2000
Sleepwalking through history : America in the Reagan years
Is God happy? : selected essays
Anxiety : a short history
Research design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches
My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind
The sixth extinction : an unnatural history
Letters to a young conservative
How the snake lost its legs : curious tales from the frontier of evo-devo
Presidencies derailed : why university leaders fail and how to prevent it

New Books This Week

New Books

Here’s what’s new for the week of March 3:

Salt, sugar, fat : how the food giants hooked us
Fortunately, the milk
Playing with books : the art of upcycling, deconstructing, & reimagining the book
The tower treasure
In the next room, or, The vibrator play
Becky Shaw
Lucretia Mott’s heresy : abolition and women’s rights in nineteenth-century America
Who says women can’t be doctors? : the story of Elizabeth Blackwell
Which is round? Which is bigger?
On a beam of light : a story of Albert Einstein
Beyond the solar system : exploring galaxies, black holes, alien planets, and more : a history with 21 activities
The tree lady : the true story of how one tree-loving woman changed a city forever
The tapir scientist
The boy who loved math : the improbable life of Paul Erdős
The animal book : a collection of the fastest, fiercest, toughest, cleverest, shyest–and most surprising–animals on earth
Frog trouble : deluxe songbook
Cool tools : a catalog of possibilities
The Carpet people
The kid’s book of simple everyday science
Parrots over Puerto Rico
Little poems for tiny ears
This
Next fall
Sick
The widow’s blind date
Back of the throat
Statebuilding from the margins : between Reconstruction and the New Deal
In defense of history
Montaillou : the promised land of error
Mister Max : the book of lost things
What makes different sounds?
Hand it over, Harry : don’t steal
Girl to girl : honest talk about growing up and your changing body
Inside the bees’ hive
Motherless daughters : the legacy of loss
Utes, the mountain people
Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space
International phonetic alphabet for singers : a manual for English and foreign language diction
The mystery and meaning of the Dead Sea scrolls
Stained glass basics : techniques, tools, projects
When character was king : a story of Ronald Reagan
More making books by hand : exploring miniature books, alternative structures, and found objects
American Medical Association girl’s guide to becoming a teen
American Medical Association boys’ guide to becoming a teen
The death of conservatism
Race to incarcerate : a graphic retelling
Hollow city
Retention and resistance : writing instruction and students who leave
Taming lust : crimes against nature in the early Republic
Space-time perspectives on early colonial Moquegua

Computers in the Study Rooms

Services

Computer lab too noisy? Want a little privacy?

We’ve recently added desktop computers to four of our individual study rooms. This is part of a trial program to evaluate demand for computer access in other parts of the library, so please let us know what you think.

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The computers are in rooms 221, 222, 309, & 321. They have the same software that is available in the computer labs, will print to the second floor lab, and can be used by Adams State students, faculty, and staff.

New Books This Week

New Books

Here’s what’s new for the week of February 24:

The drug book : from arsenic to Xanax, 250 milestones in the history of drugs
A Coney Island of the mind : poems
Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design
Real happiness at work : meditations for accomplishment, achievement, and peace
Material relations : the marriage figurines of prehispanic Honduras
Comparative criminal justice systems : global and local perspectives
Mountain geography : physical and human dimensions
Our hearts fell to the ground : Plains Indian views of how the West was lost
The Chrome book : the essential guide to cloud computing with Google Chrome and the Chromebook
The philosophy of Andy Warhol : from A to B and back again
A Confederate general from Big Sur
The sublime

New Books This Week

New Books

Here’s what’s new for the week of February 17:

Forces of habit : drugs and the making of the modern world
The quest for the Nazi personality : a psychological investigation of Nazi war criminals
A primer in positive psychology
ACSM’s guidelines for exercise testing and prescription
Head strong : how psychology is revolutionizing war
Applying social statistics : an introduction to quantitative reasoning in sociology
The theory toolbox : critical concepts for the humanities, arts, and social sciences
The meritocracy myth
Political rock
Electroboy : a memoir of mania
Smoke signals : a social history of marijuana– medical, recreational and scientific
The drowning girl : a memoir
Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice
Test anxiety : applied research, assessment, and treatment interventions
Measurement error and research design
Juvenile delinquency
Radical equations : civil rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
Transplantation, a sense of place and culture : a touring exhibition of contemporary narrative jewellery by British and Australian artists in conjunction with the National Centre for Craft and Design
Me & her : a memoir of madness
ACSM’s resource manual for Guidelines for exercise testing and prescription
Characters of the Old Spanish Trail
What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought
Once a warrior, always a warrior : navigating the transition from combat to home–including combat stress, PTSD, and mTBI
Gender and families
Perv : the sexual deviant in all of us
Ido in Autismland : climbing out of Autism’s silent prison
Lessons from the masters : current concepts in astronomical image processing
Arkham Asylum, living hell
Mass media and American politics
Principles of neurotheology
American cinema/American culture
Race, class, and gender in the United States : an integrated study
The new class society : goodbye American dream?
Data science for business : [what you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking]

New Books This Week

New Books

Here’s what’s new for the week of February 10:

The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
Reading the rocks : the autobiography of the earth
Free will and consciousness : a determinist account of the illusion of free will
Scarcity : why having too little means so much
The Montana vigilantes, 1863-1870 : gold, guns, and gallows
Fashion jewelry, the collection of Barbara Berger
Jesus the radical : the parables and modern morality
Quality education as a constitutional right : creating a grassroots movement to transform public schools
Naturalism’s philosophy of the sacred : Justus Buchler, Karl Jaspers, and George Santayana
Nature’s sublime : an essay in aesthetic naturalism
The marijuana conviction : a history of marijuana prohibition in the United States
Why God won’t go away : brain science and the biology of belief
An introduction to the rock-forming minerals
Bad boys, bad men : confronting antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy)
The goldfinch
My story
Changing the way we die : compassionate end-of-life care and the hospice movement
365 slow cooker suppers
Crack in America : demon drugs and social justice
Banished : the new social control in urban America
Punished : policing the lives of Black and Latino boys
Drug war Mexico : politics, neoliberalism and violence in the new narcoeconomy
Facundo : civilization and barbarism : the first complete English translation
Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America
On anger : race, cognition, narrative
God’s doodle : the life and times of the penis
The strange career of marihuana : politics and ideology of drug control in America
Papayalamb
The teachings of Don Juan : a Yaqui way of knowledge
The psychology of visual art : eye, brain and art