CONTENTS

1.       NEW IN HUMANITIES

2.       SHORT LOAN BOOK

3.       SHORT LOAN DVDs

4.       PAMPHLETS (RP) (housed at Short Loan)

5.       MAIN LIBRARY DVDS (housed at Loans Desk)

6.       BOOKS STRAIGHT TO SHELVES

7.       RECREATIONAL READS (RR)

8.       FROM THE COMMERCE LIBRARY LIST

9.       FROM THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIST

10.   SCIENCE LEISURE READING (DSL)

 

 

 

1.       NEW IN HUMANITIES

Knowlton, Jim..: Python : create-modify-reuse / Jim Knowlton. Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., c2008  

005.133 PYTH(KNOW)

 

Metaethics / edited by Ernest Sosa and Enrique Villanueva. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009      

170.42 META

 

Religions of late antiquity in practice / Richard Valantasis, editor. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000           

200.9015 RELI

 

Ancient religions / Sarah Iles Johnston, general editor. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007   

200.93 ANCI

 

Religion and the self in antiquity / edited by David Brakke, Michael L. Satlow, Steven Weitzman. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2005         

202.2 RELI

 

Allen, John, 1952-..: Rabble-rouser for peace : the authorized biography of Desmond Tutu/ John Allen. New York : Free Press, c2006   

283.092 TUTU(ALLE)

 

Marshall, Ruth, 1964-..: Political spiritualities : the Pentecostal revolution in Nigeria / Ruth Marshall. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.

289.9409669 MARS

 

Ebrahim, Mogamat Hoosain..: The Cape hajj tradition : past and present / Mogamat Hoosain Ebrahim. Primrose Park, South Africa : Mogamat Hoosain Ebrahim; International Peace University South Africa, 2009

297.352 EBRA

 

Finucci, Valeria..: The manly masquerade : masculinity, paternity, and castration in the Italian Renaissance / Valeria Finucci. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2003

305.310945 FINU

 

Masquelier, Adeline Marie, 1960-..: Women and Islamic revival in a West African town / Adeline Masquelier. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2009

305.48697096626 MASQ

 

Contesting knowledge : museums and indigenous perspectives / edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009       

305.80074 CONT

 

Davies, Merryl Wyn..: Barbaric others : a manifesto on Western racism / Merryl Wyn Davies, Ashis Nandy and Ziauddin Sardar. London : Pluto Press, 1993    

305.80094 DAVI

 

Britishness : perspectives on the Britishness question / edited by Andrew Gamble and Tony Wright. Chichester, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell in association with The political quarterly, 2009

305.821 BRIT

 

Imagining, writing, (re)reading the black body / edited by Sandra Jackson, Fassil Demissie, Michele Goodwin. Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2009     

305.896 IMAG

 

Holomisa, Nkosi S. P. (Nkosi Sango Phathekile), 1959-..: According to tradition / S.P. Holomisa. [South Africa] : Essential Books; Somerset West : Distributed by African Minds, 2009           

305.8968 HOLO

 

The changing realities of work and family : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Amy Marcus-Newhall, Diane F. Halpern, and Sherylle J. Tan. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell Pub, 2008           

306.36 CHAN

 

Handbook of work-family integration : research, theory, and best practices / edited by Karen Korabik, Donna S. Lero and Denise L. Whitehead. Amsterdam : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2008         

306.36 HAND

 

The individual in the changing working life / edited by Katharina Näswall, Johnny Hellgren and Magnus Sverke. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.         

306.36 INDI

 

Drescher, Seymour..: Abolition : a history of slavery and antislavery / Seymour Drescher. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009      

306.36209 DRES

 

African systems of slavery / edited by Stephanie Beswick and Jay Spaulding. Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, c2010           

306.362096 AFRI

 

Swenson, Don..: Society, spirituality, and the sacred : a social scientific introduction / Donald S. Swenson. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009     

306.6 SWEN

 

Trans : transgender life stories from South Africa / edited by Ruth Morgan, Charl Marais and Joy Rosemary Wellbeloved. Auckland Park, South Africa : Jacana Media, 2009         

306.768 TRAN

 

The study of dying : from autonomy to transformation / edited by Allan Kellehear. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2009   

306.9 STUD

 

Lessnoff, Michael H. (Michael Harry)..: Social contract / Michael Lessnoff. Atlantic Highlands, NJ : Humanities Press International, 1986     

320.11 LESS

 

Nigeria's stumbling democracy and its implications for Africa's democratic movement / edited by Victor Oguejiofor Okafor; foreword by Toyin Falola. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2008   

320.9669 NIGE

 

Bobbitt, Philip..: The shield of Achilles : war, peace and the course of history / Philip Bobbitt. London : Penguin, 2003           

327 BOBB

 

Slabbert, Johannes A..: The brave 'new' world of education : creating a unique professionalism / Johannes A. Slabbert, Dorothea M. de Kock, Annemarie Hattingh. Cape Town, South Africa : Juta, 2009     

370.71168 SLAB

 

Presence : the inherence of the prototype within images and other objects / edited by Robert Maniura and Rupert Shepherd. Aldershot, England : Ashgate, c2006        

701.15 PRES

 

Lloyd, Angela Read..: The artist in the garden : the quest for Moses Tladi / Angela Read Lloyd. Noordhoek, South Africa : Print Matters, 2009   

709.9681 TLAD(LLOY)

 

Grote, David..: The best actors in the world : Shakespeare and his acting company / David Grote. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002         

792.0942 GROT

 

Hirsch, Edward..: How to read a poem : and fall in love with poetry / Edward Hirsch. San Diego : Harcourt, c1999  

808.1 HIRS

 

War in African literature today : a review / editor, Ernest N. Emenyonu; deputy editor, Nana Wilson-Tagoe; assistant editor, Patricia T. Emenyonu; associate editors, Francis Imbuga ... [et al.] ; reviews editor, James Gibbs. Oxford : James Currey; Ibadan, Nigeria : HEBN, 2008  

809.896 AFRI

 

Nadel, Alan, 1947-..: Invisible criticism : Ralph Ellison and the American canon / by Alan Nadel. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c1988      

813.54 ELLI(NADE)

 

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.. : The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain; introduced by Darren Shan. London : Puffin, 2008    

817.442 HUCK

 

Charlton, H. B. (Henry Buckley), 1890-..: Shakespearian comedy / H.B. Charlton. London : Methuen, 1966  

822.334 CHAR

 

Knapp, Jeffrey..: Shakespeare only / Jeffrey Knapp. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.    

822.334 KNAP

 

Orwell, George, 1903-1950..: Nineteen eighty-four / George Orwell; with an introduction by Thomas Pynchon and a note on the text by Peter Davison. London : Penguin, 2000

824.91 ORWE

 

Austen, Gillian..: George Gascoigne / Gillian Austen. Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2008.

827.314 AUST

 

Didur, Jill, 1965-..: Unsettling partition : literature, gender, memory / Jill Didur. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2006.

828.954 DIDU

 

Amitav Ghosh : a critical companion / edited by Tabish Khair. Delhi : Permanent Black, c2003           

828.9545 GHOS(AMIT)

 

Coetzee, J. M., 1940-..: Age of iron / J.M. Coetzee. New York : Penguin Books, 1998

828.9685 COET

 

Ferguson, Gus..: Holding pattern : poems and drawings / Gus Ferguson. Parkhurst [South Africa] : Quartz Press, 2009

828.9685 FERG

 

Stangerup, Helle..: In the courts of power / Helle Stangerup; translated from the Danish by Anne Born. London : Macmillan, 1987          

839.81374 STAN

 

Calvino, Italo..: If on a winter's night a traveler / Italo Calvino; translated from the Italian by William Weaver; with an introduction by Peter Washington. [London] : Everyman's Library, 1993       

853.914 CALV

 

Aesop's fables. English. Selections. : Fables / Aesop; translated by Sir Roger L'Estrange; with illustrations by Stephen Gooden. New York : Knopf, 1992        

888.6 FABL

 

Fowler, Douglas..: Reading Nabokov / Douglas Fowler. Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, [1982], c1974           

891.734 NABO(FOWL)

 

Kundera, Milan..: The book of laughter and forgetting / Milan Kundera; translated from the French by Aaron Asher. London : Faber and Faber, 1996        

891.8635 KUND

 

Mgqwetho, Nontsizi..: Hayi usizi kwizwe lenu, Nontsizi! / nguNontsizi Mgqetho; ihlelwe nguJeff Opland noAbner Nyamende. Johannesburg : Wits University Press ; Northlands [South Africa] : Macmillan, 2009       

896.398511 MGQW

 

Mqhayi, S. E. K..: Abantu besizwe : historical and biographical writings / S. E. K. Mqhayi; edited and translated by Jeff Opland. Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2009    

896.398511 MQHA

 

Archives of Empire. Volume I, From the East India Company to the Suez Canal / edited by Mia Carter with Barbara Harlow. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2003.

909.0971241 ARCH

 

Archives of Empire. Volume II, The scramble for Africa / edited by Barbara Harlow with Mia Carter. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2003

909.0971241 ARCH

 

Ephesos, metropolis of Asia : an interdisciplinary approach to its archaeology, religion, and culture / edited by Helmut Koester. Cambridge, Mass ; London : Harvard University Press, 2004           

913.3923 EPHE

 

Harrison, Richard J. (Richard John), 1949-..: Spain at the dawn of history : Iberians, Phoenicians and Greeks / Richard J. Harrison. London : Thames and Hudson, c1988.     

936.602 HARR

 

Dallas, Gregor..: 1918 : war and peace / Gregor Dallas. London : Pimlico, 2002        

940.439 DALL

 

Fichtenau, Heinrich..: Living in the tenth century : mentalities and social orders / Heinrich Fichtenau; translated by Patrick J. Geary. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991 

943.022 FICH

 

Norwich, John Julius, 1929-..: Venice : the greatness and the fall / John Julius Norwich. London : Allen Lane, 1981 

945.31 NORW

 

Polk, William Roe, 1929-..: Understanding Iran : everything you need to know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Ahmadinejad / William R. Polk. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009   

955 POLK

 

Del Boca, Angelo, 1925-..: La disfatta di Gasr bu Hàdi : 1915 : il colonnello Miani e il più grande disastro dell'Italia coloniale / Angelo Del Boca. Milano : Oscar Mondadori, 2004 

961.203 DEL

 

Ross, Robert, 1949 July 26-..: Status and respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870 :

a tragedy of manners / Robert Ross. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999

968.2 ROSS

 

Newton-King, Susan..: Masters and servants on the Cape Eastern frontier, 1760-1803 / Susan Newton-King. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999          

968.204 NEWT

 

Mann, Charles C..: 1491 : new revelations of the Americas before Columbus / Charles C. Mann. New York : Knopf, 2005   

970.011 MANN

 

 

2.      SHORT LOAN BOOKS

Erza, E..:  Transnational cinema: the film reader.  Routledge, 2006.

791.43 TRAN

 

Cook, P..:  Cinema Book. 3rd ed.  BFI, 2007.

791.4309 CINE

 

 

3.      SHORT LOAN DVDs

Zimmerman, F..:  High Noon.

RZDV 791.73 HIGH

 

Godard, J-L..:  Notre musique. 

RZDV 791.43 NOTR

 

Bunuel, L..:  Viridiana. 

RZDV 791.43 VIRI

 

Peck, R..:  Lumumba.  Film Resource Unit, 2001. 

RZDV 967.5102 LUMU

 

 

4.      PAMPHLETS (RP)

Different fight for freedom.  Gala, 2008.

RP 306.7660968 DIFF

 

Naidoo, Jesse..:  Finite-sample bias and inconsistency in the estimation of poverty maps.  Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009.

RP 339.20968 NAID

 

Branson, Nicola..: Re-weighting the OHS and LFS national household survey data to create a consistent series over time :  a cross entropy estimation approach. Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009.

RP 339.47 BRAN

 

Zuze, Tia Linda..: UPE and social inequality in Uganda :  a step backward or a step in the right direction? Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit, 2009.

RP 372.96761 ZUZE

 

 

 

5.      DVDs IN MAIN LIBRARY

Polanski, R..:  Macbeth.  Sony. 

RZDV 822 MACB

 

 

6.      BOOKS SENT STRAIGHT TO THE MAIN LIBRARY SHELVES

Wheatland, T..:  Frankfurt School in Exile.  University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

301.01 WHEA

 

Weis, L..:  The Way Class works : readings on school, family and the economy. Routledge, 2008.

305.50973 WAY

 

Ballantyne, T..:  Moving subjects : gender, mobility, and intimacy in an age of global empire. University of Illinois, 2009.

306.4 MOVI

 

Cohen, E..:  Commandos and politicians : elite military units in modern democracies. Harvard University Press, 1978.

306.27 COHE

 

Kimanuka, O..:  Sub-Saharan Africa’s development challenges : a case study of Rwanda’s post-genocide experience.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

338.967571 KIMA

 

Nedwek, B..:  Doing academic planning : effective tools for decision making. Society for College and University, 1996.

378.101 DOIN

 

Garland, C..:  Understanding trauma : a psychoanalytic perspective. 2nd ed.  Karnac Books, 2002.

616.8521 UNDE

 

Powell, J..:  Logos : rational argument in classical rhetoric. University of London Institute, 2007.

808.00938 LOGO

 

Nardizzi, V..:  Queer renaissance historiography : backward gaze.  Ashgate, 2009.

820.9353 QUEE

 

Greenstadt, A..:  Rape and the rise of the author: gendering intention in early modern England.  Ashgate, 2009.

820.9355 GREE

 

Dimmock, M..:  Literature and popular culture in early modern England.  Ashgate, 2009.

820.9355 LITE

 

Riley, D..: Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals and Kings : the real history behind the plays. Continuum, 2008.

822.334 RILE

 

Bradshaw, G..:  Shakespearean international yearbook 9 : special section: South African Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century.  Ashgate, 2009.

822.334 SHAK

 

Raber, K..:  Elizabeth Cary.  Ashgate, 2009.

822.39 CARY(ELIZ)

 

Jeannett, A..:  Natalia Ginzburg: a voice of the twentieth century.  University of Toronto Press, 2000.

853.91 GINZ(NATA)

 

 

7.      RECREATIONAL READS (RR)

Juan, José Luis de, 1956-..: This breathing world / José Luis de Juan; translated from the Spanish by Martin Schifino and Selina Packard. London : Arcadia, 2008   

RR 863.64 JUAN

 

 

 

8.      FROM THE COMMERCE LIBRARY LIST

Akerlof, George A., 1940-..: Animal spirits : how human psychology drives the economy, and why it matters for global capitalism / George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller.  Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.

330.122019 AKER

 

Bauder, Harald, 1969-..: Labor movement : how migration regulates labor markets / Harald Bauder. New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

331.62 BAUD

 

Rusjdi, Muhammad..: Quantitative exchange rate economics in developing countries :

a new pragmatic decision-making approach / M. Rusydi and Sardar M.N. Islam. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.  

332.456091724 RUSJ

 

Environment, development, and sustainability : perspectives and cases from around the world / edited by Gordon Wilson, Pamela Furniss, Richard Kimbowa. Oxford : Oxford University Press; Milton Keynes : In association with The Open University, 2010

333.7 ENVI

 

Thinking through the environment : a reader / edited by Mark J. Smith. London : Routledge; London : Open University, 1999   

333.7 THIN

 

Jacobson, Susan Kay..: Communication skills for conservation professionals / Susan K. Jacobson. Washington, DC : Island Press, 2009      

333.72014 JACO

 

Cowling, R. M. (Richard M.)..: East of the Cape : conserving Eden / Richard Cowling and Shirley Pierce. Simon's Town : Fernwood Press, 2009

333.7209687 COWL

 

Homewood, Katherine..: Ecology of African pastoralist societies / Katherine Homewood; with a chapter by Sara Randall. Oxford : James Currey; Athens, OH : Ohio University Press; Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2008  

333.74096 HOME

           

Clements, Kenneth W., 1950-..: Economics and marijuana : consumption, pricing and legislation / Kenneth W. Clements, Xueyan Zhao. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2009

338.13379 CLEM

           

Brautigam, Deborah..: The dragon's gift : the real story of China in Africa / Deborah Brautigam. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009

338.915106 BRAU

 

Child soldiers / edited by Leora Kahn; introduction by Luis Moreno-Ocampo. New York : PowerHouse, 2008           

355.0083 CHIL

 

Diedericks, André, 1955-2005.. : Journey without boundaries : the operational life and experiences of a SA Special Forces small team operator : the personal memoirs of Colonel André Diedericks HCS, HC, SM, MMM. Durban : Just Done Productions Pub., 2007           

356.160968 DIED(DIED)

 

 

State, power, crime / edited by Roy Coleman ... [et al.]. Los Angeles : SAGE, 2009.  

364 STAT

 

Khouri, Norma..: Forbidden love / Norma Khouri. London; New York : Doubleday, 2003.

364.1523095695 KHOU

 

Moe, Karine S..: Glass ceilings and 100-hour couples : what the opt-out phenomenon can teach us about work and family / Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2010           

650.1 MOE

           

Harmonizing work, family, and personal life : from policy to practice / [edited by] Steven A.Y. Poelmans and Paula Caligiuri. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008

658.312 HARM

           

Hoopen, Peter ten..: The enlightened leader : an introduction to the chakras of leadership/ Peter ten Hoopen and Fons Trompenaars. Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ : Jossey-Bass, c2009.

658.4092 HOOP

           

Patton, Erin O..: Under the influence : tracing the hip-hop generation's impact on brands, sports, & pop culture / Erin O. Patton. Ithaca, NY : Paramount Market Publishing, c2009

658.8343 PATT

 

 

9.      FROM THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING LIST        

Viane, R..: Flowers in history : Gentse Floraliën 1808-2008 / Ronald Viane, René De Herdt, Lucien Debersaques. Tielt : Lannoo, 2008 

582.1309493 VIAN

           

Looking inside : five South African stories of people living with albinism [editors, Shirley Gunn and Zukiswa Puwana]. [Cape Town] : Human Rights Media Centre in collaboration with the Western Cape Blind Association, 2009.           

616.55092 LOOK

 

 

10. SCIENCE LEISURE READING (DSL)

Gisel, Bonnie Johanna, 1948-..: Nature's beloved son : rediscovering John Muir's botanical legacy / Bonnie J. Gisel; with images by Stephen J. Joseph; foreword by David Rains Wallace. Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books, c2008      

DSL 333.72092 MUIR(GISE)

           

Suplee, Curt..: The plasma universe / Curt Suplee; edited by Amitava Bhattacharjee; designed by Kristi Donahue. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009          

DSL 530.44 SUPL