New Books List

CONTENTS

1.  New from Humanities

2.  New in Short Loan 

2.1. Books

2.2. Pamphlets (RP)

3.  Reference

4.  Recreational Reads (RR)

5. School Textbooks (WHT)

6. UNESCO Collection (WHU)

7  Classroom Collection (WHJ)

8.  From the Commerce List

9.  From the Science List

9.1. Science Leisure Reading (DSL)

 

1.  NEW FROM HUMANITIES 
Taleb, Nassim.. : The black swan: the impact of the highly improbable / Nassim Nicholas Taleb. New York: Random House, c2007.
003.54 TALE

 

Vossen, Gottfried.. : Unleashing Web 2.0: from concepts to creativity / Gottfried Vossen, Stephan Hagemann. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, c2007.
004.678 VOSS

 

Walkenbach, John.. : Excel 2007 VBA programming for dummies / by John Walkenbach ; revised by Jan Karel Pieterse. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Pub., c2007.
005.369 MICR (WALK)

 

Kaushik, Avinash.. : Web analytics: an hour a day / Avinash Kaushik. Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley, c2007.
006.312 KAUS

 

Negotiating the net in Africa: the politics of internet diffusion / edited by Ernest J. Wilson III, Kelvin R. Wong. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2007.
025.04096 NEGO

 

Global ethics and civil society / edited by John Eade, Darren O'Byrne. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2005.
170 GLOB

 

Intersex in the age of ethics / edited by Alice Domurat Dreger. Hagerstown, M.D.: University Pub. Group, c1999.
174.2 INTE

 

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.. : Complete works / Spinoza; with translations by Samuel Shirley; edited, with introduction and notes, by Michael L. Morgan. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub., c2002.
199.492 SPIN

 

De Gruchy, John W.. : Being human: confessions of a Christian Humanist / John W. de Gruchy. London: SCM, 2006.
211.6 DEGR

 

Luxenberg, Christoph.. : The Syro-Aramaic reading of the Koran: a contribution to the decoding of the language of the Koran / Christoph Luxenberg. Berlin: H. Schiler, 2007.
297.122 LUXE

 

Koran. English. : The Quran / a new translation by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
297.122521 KORA

 

Elkaisy-Friemuth, Maha.. : God and humans in Islamic thought: Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and al-Ghazali / Maha Elkaisy-Friemuth. London; New York: Routledge, 2006.
297.211 ELKA

 

Katz, Marion Holmes, 1967-. : The birth of the prophet Muhammad: devotional piety in Sunni          Islam / Marion Holmes Katz. London; New York: Routledge, 2007.
297.36 KATZ

 

Weismann, Itzchak.. : The Naqshbandiyya: orthodoxy and activism in a worldwide Sufi tradition / Itzchak Weismann. London: Routledge, 2007.
297.48 WEIS

 

Allman, Jean Marie.. : Tongnaab: the history of a West African god / Jean Allman and John Parker.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2005.
299.6835 ALLM

 

Behling, Orlando.. : Translating questionnaires and other research instruments:problems and solutions / Orlando Behling, Kenneth S. Law. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c2000.
300.723 BEHL

 

Tilly, Charles.. : Why? / Charles Tilly. Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2006.
302.12 TILL

 

Connecting cultures / edited by Emma Bainbridge. London ; New York: Routledge, 2008 [i.e. 2007].
303.482 CONN

 

Dorrington, Rob.. : Estimation of mortality using the South African census 2001 data/ Rob Dorrington, Tom A. Moultrie, Ian M. Timæus. [Cape Town]: Centre for Actuarial Research, University of Cape Town, [2004?]
304.640968 DORR

 

Seekings, Jeremy. : Survey of residential and migration histories of residents of the shack areas of Khayelitsha / by Jeremy Seekings with Johann Graaff and Pieter Joubert. [Stellenbosch]: Research Unit for the Sociology of Development, University of Stellenbosch, 1990.
304.80968 SEEK

 

Hepburn, Stephanie, 1977-. : Women's roles and statuses the world over / Stephanie Hepburn and Rita J. Simon. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007, c2006.
305.4209 HEPB

 

Sisterhood, feminisms and power: from Africa to the diaspora / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, c1998.
305.42096 SIST

 

Hale, Sondra.. : Gender politics in Sudan: Islamism, socialism, and the state / Sondra Hale. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1997.
305.4209624 HALE

 

Fisher, Ryland.. : Race / Ryland Fisher. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2007.
305.800968 FISH

 

Zimmerer, Karl S.. : Changing fortunes: biodiversity and peasant livelihood in the Peruvian Andes / Karl S. Zimmerer. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996.
306.349098537 ZIMM

 

Taylor, Eric Robert, 1971-. : If we must die: shipboard insurrections in the era of the Atlantic slave trade / Eric Robert Taylor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c2006.
306.362 TAYL

 

Schoeman, Karel.. : Early slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1717 / Karel Schoeman. Pretoria: Protea Book House, 2007.
306.36209687 SCHO

 

Omoniyi, Tope.. : The sociolinguistics of borderlands: two nations, one community / Tope Omoniyi. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, c2004
306.4409669 OMON

 

Hite, Shere.. : The Hite report on the family: growing up under patriarchy / Shere Hite. New York: Grove Press, 1995.
306.85 HITE

 

Multi-level governance / edited by Ian Bache and Matthew Flinders. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
320.4 MULT

 

Lahoud, Nelly, 1972-. : Political thought in Islam: a study in intellectual boundaries / Nelly Lahoud. London ; New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
320.55 LAHO

 

Empire, Islam, and politics in Central Eurasia / edited by Uyama Tomohiko. Sapporo : Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, 2007.
320.550958 EMPI

 

African affairs. Number three / edited by Kenneth Kirkwood. London: Oxford University Press, 1969.
320.96 AFRI

 

Maliyamkono, T. L.. : The race for the presidency: the first multiparty democracy in Tanzania / [T.L. Maliyamkono]. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Tema Pub. Tanzania Pub. House [distributor], 1995
320.9678 MALI

 

Mmuya, Maximilian, 1948-. : Political parties and democracy in Tanzania / Max Mmuya, Amon Chaligha. Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press, c1994.
320.9678 MMUY

 

Essack, Karrim. : The struggle for people’s power in South Africa / Karrim Essack. Dar es Salaam: Thakers, [1987?]
322.420968 ESSA

 

Contemporary indigenous movements in Latin America / edited by Erick D. Langer with Elena Muñoz. Wilmington, Del.: SR Books, 2003.
323.1198 CONT

 

Indigenous movements, self-representation, and the State in Latin America / edited by Kay B. Warren & Jean E. Jackson. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002.
323.1198 INDI

 

The struggle for indigenous rights in Latin America / edited by Nancy Grey Postero and Leon Zamosc. Brighton [England]; Portland, Or.: Sussex Academic Press, 2004.
323.1198 STRU

 

Liberalization and politics: the 1990 elections in Tanzania / editors, Rwekaza S. Mukandala and Haroub Othman. Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press, c1994.
324.9678 LIBE

 

Ngoma, Naison.. : Prospects for a security community in Southern Africa: an analysis of regional security in the Southern African Development Community / Naison Ngoma. Pretoria, South Africa: Institute for Security Studies 2005.
327.1720968 NGOM

 

African perspectives on the Non-Aligned Movement / edited by L. Adele Jinadu & Ibbo Mandaza ; with a foreword by N.M. Shamuyarira. [Harare?]: African Association of Political Science, 1986.
327.6 AFRI

 

Slipchenko, S.. : In Southern Africa / S. Slipchenko; [translated from the Russian by Paula Garb]. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1987.
327.68 SLIP

 

New dimensions in African linguistics and languages / edited by Paul F.A. Kotey. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, c1999
496 NEW

 

Berndt, Jon.. : From weapon to ornament: the CAP Media Project posters (1982 to 1994) / Jon Berndt. Cape Town: Arts and Media Access Centre, 2007.
741.6740968 BERN

 

Morgan, Vivien, 1949-. : Practising videojournalism / Vivien Morgan. London ; New York: Routledge, 2008.
778.59 MORG

 

Teo, Stephen.. : Director in action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong action film / Stephen Teo. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, c2007.
790.2092 TO (TEO)

 

Virtual voyages: cinema and travel / Jeffrey Ruoff, editor. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
791.4362 VIRT

 

Hamilton, James R.. : The art of theater / James R. Hamilton. Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell Pub., 2007.
792.01 HAMI

 

Huddart, David.. : Homi K. Bhabha / David Huddart. London ; New York: Routledge, 2005.
801.95092 BHAB(HUDD)

 

Paradoxical citizenship: Edward Said / edited by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi. Lanham: Lexington Books, c2006.
801.95092 SAID(PARA)

 

Narrative across media: the languages of storytelling / edited by Marie-Laure Ryan. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2004.
808 NARR

 

Miller, R. Baxter.. : The art and imagination of Langston Hughes / R. Baxter Miller. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c2006.
811.5 HUGH (MILL)

 

Harris, E. Lynn.. : Invisible life: a novel / by E. Lynn Harris. London: Warner, 1997.
813.54 HARR

 

Hamilton, Masha.. : The camel bookmobile / Masha Hamilton. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.
813.6 HAMI

 

Melton, Jeffrey Alan, 1962-. : Mark Twain, travel books, and tourism: the tide of a great popular movement / Jeffrey Alan Melton. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c2002.
817.444 MELT

 

Patke, Rajeev S. (Rajeev Shridhar). : Postcolonial poetry in English / Rajeev S. Patke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
821.914099171241 PATK

 

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.. : Hard times / Charles Dickens; edited with an introduction and notes by Paul Schlicke. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
823.832 HARD

 

JoyceMedia: James Joyce, hypermedia & textual genetics / edited by Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2004.
823.91 JOYC (JOYC)

 

Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-. : The unconsoled / Kazuo Ishiguro. London: Faber and Faber, 2005.
823.914 ISHI

 

Achebe, Chinua.. : Home and exile / Chinua Achebe. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2003.
828.9665 ACHE

 

Miri, Angela.. : Running waters & other poems / by Angela Miri. Lagos: Malthouse Press, 2006.
828.9665 MIRI

 

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.. : Paradiso / Dante Alighieri; a verse translation by Robert & Jean Hollander; introduction & notes by Robert Hollander. New York: Doubleday, c2007.
851.152 DIVI

Buzzati, Dino, 1906-1972.. : La boutique del mistero / Dino Buzzati. Milano: Oscar Mondadori, 1992.
853.91 BUZZ

 

Kyriakou, Poulheria.. : A commentary on Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris / by Poulheria Kyriakou. Berlin ; New York: De Gruyer, 2006.
882.32 IPHI (KYRI)

 

Manguel, Alberto.. : Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: a biography / Alberto Manguel. London: Atlantic, 2007.
883.12 ILIA (MANG)

 

Solovÿev, Leonid Vasilÿevich, 1906-1962.. : Black sea sailor / Leonid Solovyev. Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1944.
891.73 SOLO

 

Israeli and Palestinian narratives of conflict: history's double helix / edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2006.
907.20956 ISRA

 

Galloway, Patricia Kay.. : Practicing ethnohistory: mining archives, hearing testimony, constructing narrative / Patricia Galloway. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
909.04 GALL

 

De Botton, Alain.. : The art of travel / Alain de Botton. London: Penguin, 2003.
910.01 DEBO

 

Cultural borrowings and ethnic appropriations in antiquity / Erich S. Gruen (ed.). Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 2005.
930 CULT

 

Mittag, Peter Franz.. : Antiochus IV. Epiphanes: eine politische Biographie / Peter Franz Mittag. Berlin: Akademie, c2006.
939.430092 ANTI (MITT)

 

Clegg, Arthur.. : The birth of a new China: a sketch of one hundred years, 1842-1942 / Arthur Clegg. London: Lawrence and Wishart Ltd., [1943].
951.03 CLEG

 

Kamukama, Dixon. : Rwanda conflict: its roots and regional implications / Dixon Kamukama. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, 1997.
967.571 KAMU

 

Shetler, Jan Bender.. : Imagining Serengeti: a history of landscape memory in Tanzania from earliest times to the present / Jan Bender Shetler. Athens: Ohio University Press, c2007.
967.8 SHET

 

Krikler, Jeremy.. : The Rand Revolt: the 1922 insurrection and racial killing in South Africa / Jeremy Krikler. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2005.
968.14 KRIK

 

Raeburn, Michael, 1943-. : Black fire! : accounts of the guerilla war in Zimbabwe / Michael Raeburn. Gwelo: Mambo Press, 1981.
968.9104 RAEB

 

A companion to the anthropology of American Indians / edited by Thomas Biolsi. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2004.
970.00497 COMP

 

Rebellion in Chiapas: an historical reader / [compilation, translations, and introductory material by] John Womack, Jr. New York: New Press, c1999.
972.75 REBE

 

2. SHORT LOAN

2.1. BOOKS

Jerslev, A..: Realism and reality in film and media: Northern Lights Film and Media Studies Yearbook.  Museum Tuscalanum Press, 2002.
791.43612 REAL

 

Merhrens, D..: Vom Gottlichen auftrag der literatur: Die Romane Joseph Roths, ein komentar.
Books on Demand, 2000
833.91 ROTH   

 

Kessler, M..: Joseph Rothz: interpretation, rezeption, kritik.  Staffenburg, 1994.
833.91 ROTH (JOSE)

 

Heizmann, J..: Joseph Roth und dei asthetik der neuen sachlichkeit.  Mattes Verlag, 1990.
833.91 ROTH    

 

2.2. PAMPHLET (RP)

Mattes, R..: Public opinion research in emerging democracies: are the processes different? Centre for Social Science Research, UCT, 2007
RP 303.38 MATT

 

 

3.  REFERENCE

 Pathways to action: HIV/AIDS prevention, children and young people in South Africa: a bibliography / developed by Kevin Kelly ... [et al.].  [South Africa?]: Save the Children, c2002.
R 362.1969792 PATH

 

Dictionary of Women Worldwide: 25 000 women through the ages (3 vols). Thomson Gale, 2007
R 920.72 DICT

 

4.  RECREATIONAL READS (RR)
Hardy, James Earl.. : B-boy blues: a seriously sexy, fiercely funny, Black-on-Black love story / by James Earl Hardy. Boston: Alyson, 1994.
RR 813.54 HARD

 

5.  SCHOOL TEXTBOOK COLLECTION (WHT)
All you need to know about HIV and AIDS. Grades 7-9, Senior phase / Liesa Jossel & Emma Durden. Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 2005.
WHT 96 ALL

 

6.  UNESCO COLLECTION (WHU)
Guidebook for planning education in emergencies and reconstruction. Paris: UNESCO, International Institute for Educational Planning, 2006.
WHU 371.207 GUID

 

7.  CLASSROOM COLLECTION
World Book's young scientist. Chicago: World Book, Inc., 2006 rev. printing, c2004. v. 1 – 10 .
WHJ 503 WORL

 

8.  FROM THE COMMERCE LIST 
Klein, Naomi, 1970-..: The shock doctrine: the rise of disaster capitalism / Naomi Klein. London: Allen Lane, 2007.
330.122 KLEI

 

Rosa Luxemburg Political Education Seminar (3rd : 2006 : Durban) : The accumulation of capital in Southern Africa: Rosa Luxemburg's contemporary relevance: proceedings of the Rosa Luxemburg Seminar 2006 and the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society's Colloquium on Economy, Society and Nature / edited by Patrick Bond, Horman Chitonge, and Arndt Hopfmann. Johannesburg: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, 2007.
330.1220968 ROSA

 

Galloway, Patricia Kay.. : Practicing ethnohistory: mining archives, hearing testimony, constructing narrative / Patricia Galloway. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
330.9 CLAR

 

Fairweather, Joan G., 1939-. : A common hunger: land rights in Canada and South Africa / Joan G. Fairweather. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2006.
333.2 FAIR

 

Mikesell, Raymond Frech.. : The economics of foreign aid / Raymond F. Mikesell. New Brunswick, N.J.: AldineTransaction, [2007].
338.91 MIKE

 

"Prohibited persons" : abuse of undocumented migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees in South Africa. New York: Human Rights Watch, c1998.
342.0850968 PROH

 

National budget book 2004/2005: ten years of democracy -- a better life for all? [Bellville?]: Fair Share, School of Government, University of the Western Cape, [2004?]
352.4968 NATI

 

Shulman, Lawrence.. : The skills of helping individuals, families, groups and communities / Lawrence Shulman. Belmont, CA.: Thomson-Brooks/Cole, c2006
361.3 SHUL

 

Home truths: the phenomenon of residential care for children in a time of AIDS / Helen Meintjes ... [et al.]. Rondebosch, South Africa: Children's Institute, University of Cape Town; [Pretoria]: Centre for the Study of AIDS, University of Pretoria, c2007.
362.1969792 HOME

 

Pathways to action: HIV/AIDS prevention, children and young people in South Africa: a literature review / written by Kevin Kelly, Warren Parker and Salome Oyosi; research assistant, Cally Fawcett. [South Africa?] : Save the Children, c2002.
362.1969792 PATH

 

Shell, Robert Carl-Heinz.. : HIV/AIDS: a threat to the African Renaissance? / Robert Shell (e.a.). Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 2000.
362.1969792 SHEL

 

Walden, Vivien Margaret.. : Humanitarian programmes and HIV and AIDS: a practical approach to mainstreaming / Vivien Margaret Walden, Marion O'Reilly, and Mary Yetter. Oxford: Oxfam GB; Herndon, VA: Stylus Publishing, 2007.
362.1969792 WALD

 

The political economy of AIDS in Africa / edited by Nana K. Poku and Alan Whiteside. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2004.
362.19697920096 POLI

 

Skills-building for gender mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: research and practice : seminar proceedings : from the 3rd African Conference of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance, Dakar,   2005 / edited by Bridgette Prince, Sarah Pugh & Sharon Kleintjes. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2007.
362.19697920096 SKIL

 

Tatz, Colin Martin.. : Aboriginal suicide is different: a portrait of life and self-destruction / Colin Tatz. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, c2005.
362.280899915 TATZ

 

Lind, Erika.. : Housing the nation? : post-apartheid public housing provision in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / Erika Lind. Uppsala: Uppsala University, Dept. of Social and Economic Geography, c2003.
363.5096875 LIND

 

A fearsome heritage: diverse legacies of the Cold War / John Schofield, Wayne Cocroft, editors. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press, c2007.
363.69 FEAR

 

Crawford-Browne, Terry.. : Eye on the money: one man's crusade against corruption / Terry Crawford-Browne. Roggebaai [South Africa]: Umuzi, 2007.
364.13230968 CRAW

 

Laurence, Patrick. : Death squads: apartheid's secret weapon / Patrick Laurence. London: Penguin, 1990.
364.1524 LAUR

 

Taylor, Jill. : Sexual and domestic violence: help, recovery and action in Zimbabwe / by Jill Taylor and Sheelagh Stewart; illustrated by Colleen Crawford Cousins. Harare: A. von Glehn and J. Taylor in collaboration with Women and Law in Southern Africa, 1991.
364.1532096891 TAYL

 

Jones, Emma. : Understanding the World Trade Organisation: implications and possibilities for the South / by Emma Jones and Paul Whittingham. Braamfontein: Foundation for Global Dialogue, 1998. 382.92 JONE

 

Cooper, Michael.. : In the zone with South Africa's sports heroes: how to achieve top performance in sport and life / Michael Cooper and Tim Goodenough. Cape Town: Zebra, 2007.
650.1 COOP

 

9. FROM THE SCIENCE LIST

Wexler, Bruce E.. : Brain and culture: neurobiology, ideology, and social change / Bruce E. Wexler. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2006
612.8 WEXL

 

Morrison, James R, 1940-. : DSM-IV made easy: the clinician's guide to diagnosis / James Morrison. New York: Guilford Press, c1995
616.89075 MORR

 

9.1. SCIENCE LEISURE READING (DSL)

Ronan, Mark.. : Symmetry and the monster: one of the greatest quests of mathematics / Mark Ronan. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006 (2007 printing)
DSL 516.1 RONA

 

Whitehouse, David.. : The sun: a biography / David Whitehouse. Chichester; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2006, c2005
DSL 523.7 WHIT

 

 

Lockwood, Michael.. : The labyrinth of time: introducing the universe / Michael Lockwood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, c2005
DSL 530.1 LOCK

 

Gribbin, John R.. : In search of superstrings: symmetry, membranes and the theory of everything / John Gribbin. Thriplow [England]: Icon, 2007
DSL 539.7258 GRIB