NEW BOOKS OF INTEREST TO THE HUMANITIES FACULTY, 29th July, 2008

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  1. NEW IN HUMANITIES
  2. NEW BOOKS IN SHORT LOAN
  3. NEW DVDs/VIDEOS IN SHORT LOAN
  4. NEW DVDs/VIDEOS ON OPEN SHELVES
  5. RECREATIONAL READS (RR)
  6. CLASSROOM COLLECTION (WHJ)
  7. FROM THE COMMERCE LIST
  8. FROM THE SCIENCE LIST
  9. SCIENCE LEISURE READING

 

 

1.  NEW IN HUMANITIES

The transmission of learning in Islamic Africa / edited by Scott S. Reese. Leiden: Brill, 2004   

001.2096091767 TRAN

 

Visual research with children and young people / edited by Pat Thomson. London: Routledge, 2008  

001.4083 VISU

 

Szpankowski, Wojciech, 1952-.: Average case analysis of algorithms on sequences / Wojciech Szpankowski. New York: John Wiley, c2001        

005.1 SZPA

 

Matthews, Joseph R..: Library assessment in higher education / Joseph R. Matthews. Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited, 2007        

027.7 MATT

 

Information literacy instruction handbook / edited by Christopher N. Cox, Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay. Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2008)

028.7071 INFO

 

Philosophy in schools / edited by Michael Hand and Carrie Winstanley. London: Continuum, c2008    

107.1 PHIL

 

Kline, Theresa, 1960-.: Psychological testing: a practical approach to design and evaluation / Theresa J.B. Kline. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c2005

150.287 KLIN

 

Linden, Wim J. van der..: Linear models of optimal test design / W.J. Van der Linden; foreword by Ronald K. Hambleton. New York, NY: Springer, c2005

150.287 LIND

 

Landy, Frank J..: Work in the 21st century: an introduction to industrial and organizational psychology / Frank J. Landy, Jeffrey M. Conte. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2007       

158.7 LAND

 

Lechte, John..: Fifty key contemporary thinkers: from structuralism to post-humanism / John Lechte. London: Routledge, 2008

190.904 LECH

 

Cerbone, David R..: Heidegger: a guide for the perplexed / David R. Cerbone. London: Continuum, c2008     

193.9 HEID(CERB)

 

Masaryk, T. G. (Tomáš Garrigue), 1850-1937..: Humanistic ideals Thomas Garrigue Masaryk; translation and preface by W. Preston Warren; with a foreword by Hubert H. Humphrey. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press c1971.[ 4)    

199.437 MASA

 

Refusing holy orders: women and fundamentalism in Britain / [edited by Gita Sahgal and Nira Yuval-Davis]. London: Women LIving Under Muslim Laws, 2000, c1992  

200.82 REFU

 

Reading other-wise: socially engaged biblical scholars reading with their local communities / edited by Gerald O. West. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, c2007        

220.6 READ

 

Gaventa, Beverly Roberts..: Our mother Saint Paul / Beverly Roberts Gaventa. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, c2007 

225.92 GAVE

 

Illich, Ivan, 1926-.: The rivers north of the future: the testament of Ivan Illich / as told to David Cayley; foreword by Charles Taylor. Toronto, Ont.: House of Anansi Press, 2005

230.2 ILLI

 

Classical Islam: a sourcebook of religious literature / edited and translated by Norman Calder, Jawid Mojaddedi and Andrew Rippin. New York; London: Routledge, 2003  

297 CLAS

 

Weismann, Itzchak..: Taste of modernity: Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in late Ottoman Damascus / by Itzchak Weismann. Leiden: Brill, 2001       

297.09569144 WEIS

 

Aziz Ahmad..: An intellectual history of Islam in India. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1969   

297.2720954 AZIZ

 

Mojaddedi, J. A. (Jawid Ahmad).: The biographical tradition in sufism: the tabaqāt genre from al-Sulamĩ to Jāmĩ / Jawid A. Mojaddedi. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001        

297.4 MOJA

 

Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara, 1944-.: The art and science of portraiture / Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Jessica Hoffmann Davis. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, c1997

300.72 LAWR

 

The social sciences and Africa's future: 30th anniversary essay competition winners / Knowledge Rajohane Matshedisho ... [et al.] Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2005 

300.96 SOCI

         

Literacies, global and local / edited by Mastin Prinsloo, Mike Baynham. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008       

302.2244 LITE

 

Building civil societies: a guide for social and political activism / Homa Hoodfar and Nelofer Pazira. Grabels Cedex, France: Women Living Under Muslim Laws, 2000

303.4 BUIL

 

Shirky, Clay..: Here comes everybody: the power of organizing without organizations/ Clay Shirky. [London]: Allen Lane, 2008      

303.4833 SHIR

 

Psychology of terrorism: coping with the continuing threat / edited by Chris E. Stout. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, c2004     

303.625 PSYC

 

Gender, globalization, and democratization / edited by Rita Mae Kelly ... [et al.]. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2001 

305.3 GEND

 

Subtle sexism: current practice and prospects for change / [edited by] Nijole V. Benokraitis. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c1997     

305.3 SUBT

 

Cortese, Delia..: Women and the Fatimids in the world of Islam / Delia Cortese and Simonetta Calderini. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, c2006      

305.48697 CORT

 

Ahmed, Amineh, 1972-.: Sorrow and joy among Muslim women:  the Pukhtuns of northern Pakistan / Amineh Ahmed. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006    

305.48891593 AHME

 

Peasant organisations and the democratisation process in Africa / edited by Mahmoud Ben Romdhane & Sam Moyo. Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2002        

305.5633096 PEAS

 

Magubane, Bernard..: Race and the construction of the dispensable other / Bernard M. Magubane. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, c2007     

305.8 MAGU

 

Gillette, Aaron, 1964-.: Racial theories in fascist Italy / Aaron Gillette. London: Routledge, 2002      

305.800945 GILL

 

White reign: deploying whiteness in America / edited by Joe L. Kincheloe ... [et al.]. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000, c1998  

305.800973 WHIT

 

Rapoport, Yossef, 1968-.: Marriage, money and divorce in medieval Islamic society / Yossef Rapoport. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007      

306.091767 RAPO

 

Discourses on difference: discourses on oppression / edited by Norman Duncan ... [et al.] Cape Town: CASAS, 2002.

306.0968 DISC

 

Lloyd, Richard D. (Richard Douglas), 1967-.: Neo-bohemia: art and commerce in the postindustrial city / Richard Lloyd. New York: Routledge, 2006  

306.1 LLOY

 

Postma, Johannes..: Slave revolts / Johannes Postma. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008.    

306.36209 POST

 

Holsey, Bayo..: Routes of remembrance: refashioning the slave trade in Ghana / Bayo Holsey. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008   

306.36209667 HOLS

 

Lippi-Green, Rosina..: English with an accent: language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States / Rosina Lippi-Green. London: Routledge, 1997       

306.440973 LIPP

 

Language and national identity in Africa / edited by Andrew Simpson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

306.4496 LANG

 

Jeater, Diana..: Law, language, and science: the invention of the "native mind" in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930 / Diana Jeater. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, c2007 

306.4496891 JEAT

 

Wilson, Bryan R..: Magic and the millennium: a sociolgical study of religious movements of protest among tribal and third-world peoples / Bryan R. Wilson. London: Heinemann, 1973    

306.6 WILS

 

Manuel, Sandra..: Love and desire: concepts, narratives and practices of sex amongst youths in Maputo city / by Sandra Manuel. Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa, 2008  

306.7096791 MANU

 

Gould, Chandré..: Selling sex in Cape Town: sex work and human trafficking in a South African city / Chandré Gould in collaboration with Nicolé Fick (SWEAT). Pretoria/Tshwane, South Africa: Institute for Security Studies, c2008 

306.740968 G0UL

 

Borneman, John, 1952-.: Syrian episodes: sons, fathers, and an anthropologist in Aleppo / John Borneman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2007       

306.8742095691 BORN

 

Diaz, David R., 1951-.: Barrio urbanism: Chicanos, planning, and American cities / David Ralph Diaz. New York: Routledge, 2005      

307.1160973 DIAZ

 

Forman, Richard T. T..: Urban regions: ecology and planning beyond the city / Richard T.T. Forman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008   

307.1216 FORM

 

Teaford, Jon C..: The American suburb: the basics / Jon C. Teaford. New York: Routledge, c2008    

307.740973 TEAF

 

Hutton, T. A. (Thomas A.).: The new economy of the inner city: restructuring, regeneration and dislocation in the twenty-first-century metropolis / Thomas A. Hutton. London; New York: Routledge, 2008

307.76 HUTT

 

Naqavĩ, Alĩ Muhammad..: Islam and nationalism / by Ali Muhammad Naqavi; translated by Alaedin Pazargadi. Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran: Islamic Propagation Organization, 1984.        

320.557 NAQA

 

Reclaiming development agendas: knowledge, power and international policy making/ edited by Peter Utting. Basingstoke [England]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006  

320.6 RECL

 

Wieland, Carsten..: Syria: ballots or bullets, democracy, islamism, and secularism in the Levant / Carsten Wieland. [Seattle, Wash.]: Cune, 2006     

320.95691042 WIEL

 

Zisser, Eyal..: Commanding Syria: Bashar al-Asad and the first years in power / Eyal Zisser. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007  

320.95691042 ZISS

 

Quimpo, Nathan Gilbert..: Contested democracy and the left in the Philippines after Marcos / Nathan Gilbert Quimpo. New Haven, CT: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2008 

320.9599047 QUIM

 

East Africa in search of national and regional renewal / edited by Felicia Arudo Yieke. Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2005 

320.967604 EAST

         

Democracy under construction: patterns from four continents / Ursula J. van Beek, editor; [contributions from] Berg-Schlosser, [Dirk]... [et al.]. Pretoria: Van Schaik, 2006      

321.8 DEMO

 

Governance in ethnically mixed cities / edited by Sherrill Stroschein. London: Routledge, 2007

323.11 GOVE

 

Racial redress & citizenship in South Africa / edited by Adam Habib & Kristina Bentley. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2008  

323.168 RACI

 

Dealing with the past: truth and reconciliation in South Africa / edited by Alex Boraine, Janet Levy & Ronel Scheffer. Cape Town: IDASA, 1997

323.490968 DEAL

 

Jeffery, Anthea, 1951-.: The truth about The Truth Commission / by Anthea Jeffery. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations, 1999   

323.490968 JEFF

 

Jefferess, David, 1971-.: Postcolonial resistance: culture, liberation, and transformation / David Jefferess. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c2008        

325.3 JEFF

 

Moellendorf, Darrel..: Cosmopolitan justice / Darrel Moellendorf. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, c2002

327.1701 MOEL

 

Agbu, Osita..: West Africa's trouble spots and the imperative for peace-building / Osita Agbu. Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2006         

327.1720966 AGBU

         

Rabil, Robert G..: Syria, the United States, and the war on terror in the Middle East / Robert G. Rabil; foreword by Walid Phares. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2006

327.7305691 RABI

 

Brandt, Godfrey L..: The realization of anti-racist teaching / Godfrey L. Brandt. London; New York: Falmer Press, 1986   

370.115 BRAN

 

Multi-cultural and anti-racist education today: an AMMA statement. London: AMMA, 1987    

370.115 MULT

 

Cizek, Gregory J..: Standard setting: a guide to establishing and evaluating performance standards on tests / Gregory J. Cizek, Michael B. Bunch. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c2007

371.262 CIZE

 

Kelly, Michael S. (Michael Stokely), 1968-.: Solution-focused brief therapy in schools: a 360-degree view of research and practice / Michael S. Kelly, Johnny S. Kim, Cynthia Franklin. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008   

371.46 KELL

 

Gereluk, Dianne..: Symbolic clothing in schools / Dianne Gereluk. London; New York: Continuum International Pub. Group, c2008   

371.51 GERE

 

McVarish, Judith..: Where's the wonder in elementary math?: encouraging mathematical reasoning in the classroom / Judith McVarish. New York: Routledge, c2008

372.70973 MACV

 

Eco, Umberto..: Serendipities: language & lunacy / Umberto Eco; translated by William Weaver. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, c1998        

401 ECO

 

Byram, Michael..: From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship: essays and reflections / Michael Byram. Clevedon; Buffalo: Multilingual Matters Ltd., c2008

418.0071 BYRA

 

Poehner, Matthew E..: Dynamic assessment: a Vygotskian approach to understanding and promoting L2 development / Matthew E. Poehner. [Berlin?]: Springer, c2008   

418.0071 POEH

 

Greek historical inscriptions, 404-323 BC / edited with introduction, translations, and commentaries by P.J. Rhodes and Robin Osborne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2003       

481.7 GREE

 

Exiles, diasporas & strangers / edited by Kobena Mercer. London: Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts); Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2008        

709.04 EXIL

 

Wylie, Diana, 1948-.: Art + revolution: the life and death of Thami Mnyele, South African artist / Diana Wylie. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana, 2008.         

709.9681 MNYE(WYLI)

 

The SAGE handbook of film studies / edited by James Donald and Michael Renov. Los Angeles; London: SAGE, 2008  

791.43 SAGE

 

Wood, Houston, 1944-.: Native features: indigenous films from around the world / Houston Wood. New York: Continuum, 2008      

791.436552 WOOD

 

Lane, Richard J., 1966-.: Fifty key literary theorists / Richard J. Lane. New York: Routledge, 2006    

801.95092 LANE

 

Sutherland-Smith, Wendy..: Plagiarism, the Internet, and student learning: improving academic integrity / Wendy Sutherland-Smith. New York: Routledge, 2008  

808 SUTH

 

Walliman, Nicholas S. R..: Your dissertation in education / Nicholas Walliman and Scott Buckler. Los Angeles; London: SAGE, 2008 

808.066378 WALL

 

Longenbach, James..: The art of the poetic line / James Longenbach. Saint Paul, Minn.: Graywolf, c2008    

808.1 LONG

 

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977..: The letters of Robert Lowell / edited by Saskia Hamilton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007      

811.5 LOWE

 

Longenbach, James..: Draft of a letter / James Longenbach. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007     

811.54 LONG

 

Bellow, Saul..: Henderson the rain king / Saul Bellow. London: Penguin, 2007

813.5 BELL

 

Malcolm, Janet..: Two lives: Gertrude and Alice / Janet Malcolm. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2007

813.5 STEI(MALC)

 

Vidal, Gore, 1925-.: Empire: a novel / Gore Vidal. London: Abacus, 1994

813.54 VIDA

 

Larkin, Philip..: Collected poems / Philip Larkin; edited with an introduction by Anthony Thwaite. London: Marvell Faber, 1988  

821.914 LARK

 

Gross, Kenneth..: Shakespeare's noise / Kenneth Gross. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

822.335 GROS

 

Harris, Jocelyn..: A revolution almost beyond expression: Jane Austen's Persuasion / Jocelyn Harris. Newark: University of Delaware Press, c2007

823.742 PERS(HARR)

 

Ki, Wing-chi..: Jane Austen and the dialectic of misrecognition / Wing-chi Ki. Frankfurt am Main; New York: Peter Lang, c2005    

823.744 KI

 

Barnes, Julian..: Nothing to be frightened of / Julian Barnes. London: Jonathan Cape, 2008    

823.914 BARN

 

Hensher, Philip..: The Mulberry Empire, or, The two virtuous journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan / Philip Hensher. London: Flamingo, 2002   

823.914 HENS

 

Ali, Monica, 1967-.: Brick Lane / Monica Ali. London: Black Swan, 2007 

823.92 ALI

 

Bandele-Thomas, Biyi, 1967-.: Burma boy / Biyi Bandele. London: Vintage, 2008

828.9665 BAND

 

Doris Lessing / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, c2003         

828.9685 LESS(DORI)

 

Xaba, Makhosazana..: Tongues of their mothers / Makhosazana Xaba. Scottsville, South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2008

828.9685 XABA

 

Saramago, José..: The double / José Saramago; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. London: Vintage, 2005

869.342 SARA

 

Saramago, José.: The history of the siege of Lisbon / José Saramago; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Ponteiro. London: Harvill Press, 1996

869.342 SARA

 

Saramago, José..: Death at intervals / José Saramago; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. London: Harvill Secker, 2008

869.342 SARA

 

Saramago, José.: The cave / José Saramago; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. London: Vintage, 2003

869.342 SARA

 

Saramago, José..: The Gospel according to Jesus Christ / Jose Saramago; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. London: Harvill Press, 1999

869.342 SARA

 

Saramago, José.: The stone raft / José Saramago; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. London: Harvill, 2000

869.342 SARA

 

Traverso, Enzo..: The Jews & Germany: from the "Judeo-German symbiosis" to the memory of Auschwitz / by Enzo Traverso; translated by Daniel Weissbort. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1995

909.04924043 TRAV

 

The British world: diaspora, culture, and identity / editors, Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich. London; Portland, OR: F. Cass, c2003  

909.0971241 BRIT

 

Pagden, Anthony..: Worlds at war: the 2,500-year struggle between East and West / Anthony Pagden. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008        

909.09821 PAGD

 

Ponting, Clive..: The Pimlico history of the twentieth century / Clive Ponting. London: Pimlico, 1999 

909.82 PONT

 

International Workshop on 3D Geo-Information (2nd: 2007: Delft, Netherlands): Advances in 3D geoinformation systems / Peter van Oosterom ... [et al.] (eds.) Berlin: Springer, c2008

910.2856693 INTE

 

In pursuit of gender: worldwide archaeological approaches / edited by Sarah Milledge Nelson and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, c2002

913.031003053 IN

Polelle, Mark Robert, 1964-.: Leadership: fifty great leaders and the worlds they made / Mark Robert Polelle. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008  

920.02 POLE

 

Traverso, Enzo..: The origins of Nazi violence / Enzo Traverso; translated by Janet Lloyd. New York: New Press, c2003 

940.531811 TRAV

 

Kassow, Samuel D..: Who will write our history?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive / Samuel D. Kassow. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2007     

940.5318538 KASS

 

Agapov, Boris N..: After the battle: Stalingrad sketches / by Boris Agapov. And, Notes of a guerilla fighter / by Ilya Kuzin. London: Hutchinson, 1943.

940.54217 AGAP

 

Atlantic bridge: the official account of R.A.F. Transport Command's ocean ferry / prepared for the Air Ministry by the Ministry of Information. London: H.M.S.O., 1945) 

940.544941 ATLA

 

Harrison, Mark, 1964-.: Medicine and victory: British military medicine in the Second World War / Mark Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004       

940.547541 HARR

 

Ó Gráda, Cormac..: Black '47 and beyond: the Great Irish Famine in history, economy, and memory / Cormac Ó Gráda. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1999

941.5081 OGRA

 

Kenney, Padraic, 1963-.: A carnival of revolution: Central Europe 1989 / Padraic Kenney. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2002   

943.0009048 KENN

 

Ball, Warwick..: Syria: a historical and architectural guide / Warwick Ball. Northampton, Mass.: Interlink Books, 2007  

956.91 BALL

 

Batatu, Hanna, 1926-.: Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics / Hanna Batatu. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1999

956.9104 BATA

 

Maier, Karl, 1957-.: Angola: promises and lies / Karl Maier. London: Serif, 2007

967.3042 MAIE

 

Butler, Anthony, 1964-.: Contemporary South Africa / Anthony Butler. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004       

968.19 BUTL

 

Price, Richard, 1941-.: The convict and the colonel: a story of colonialism and resistance in the Caribbean / Richard Price. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006        

972.982 PRIC

 

2.  BOOKS IN SHORT LOAN

Keohane, R.  After hegemony: cooperation and discord in the world political economy.  Princeton U P. 1984.

337 KEO


TCM International film guide 2008:  the definitive annual review of world cinema/edited by Ian Hadyn Smith.  Wallflower, 2008

791.4375 TCM

 

Juliet, J:  Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist: a sourcebook.  Routledge, 2006

823.832 OLIV(CHAR)

 

Switser, L:  power and resistance in an African society: the Ciskei Xhosa and the making of South Africa.  University of Natal Press, 1993

968.27 SWIT

 

 

3.     DVDs/VIDEOS IN SHORT LOAN

Alien (DVD) RZDV 791.43 ALIE

Eyes Wide Shut (DVD)  RZDV 791.43 EYES

Living End (DVD)  RZDV 791.43 LIVI

Man of Ashes  (DVD)  RZDV 791.43 MAN

Red Road (DVD)  RZDV 791.43 RED

Ring (DVD)  RZDV 791.43 RING

Royal Tenenbaums (DVD)  RZDV 791.43 ROYA

Shaun of the Dead (DVD)  RZDV 791.43 SHAU

Celluloid Closet (DVD)  RZDV 791.43653 CELL

Wyler, William:  Wuthering Heights (DVD) RZDV 823 WUTH

 

 

4.  DVDs/VIDEOS ON OPEN SHELVES (at the Circulation Desk)

Priscilla Queen of the Desert (DVD)  RZDV 791.43 ADVE

 

 

5.  RECREATIONAL READS (RR)

Lin, Tao, 1983-.: Eeeee eee eeee: a novel / by Tao Lin. Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House, c2007

RR 813.6 LIN

 

Smith, Ali, 1962-.: Girl meets boy / Ali Smith. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2008      

RR 823.914 SMIT

 

Bradby, Tom..: The god of chaos / Tom Bradby. London: Corgi, 2006    

RR 823.92 BRAD

 

Drake, Nick, 1961-.: Nefertiti: the book of the dead / Nick Drake. London: Black Swan, 2007 

RR 823.92 DRAK

 

Mason, Richard..: The lighted rooms / Richard Mason. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008   

NEW BOOKS OF INTEREST TO THE HUMANITIES FACULTY, 22nd July, 2008

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CONTENTS

 

  1. NEW IN HUMANITIES
  2. REFERENCE
  3. SHORT LOAN BOOKS
  4. SHORT LOAN DVDs/VIDEOS
  5. FROM THE COMMERCE LIST
  6. FROM THE SCIENCE LIST

 

1.  NEW IN HUMANITIES

Love, Robert..: Linux system programming / Robert Love. Beijing: O'Reilly, c2007

005.446 LINU(LOVE)

 

Rowley, J. E..: Organizing knowledge: an introduction to managing access to information / Jennifer Rowley and Richard Hartley. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2008     

025.3 ROWL

 

Currey, James..: Africa writes back: the African writers series & the launch of African literature / James Currey. Oxford: James Currey; Johannesburg: Wits University Press; Athens: Ohio University Press; Ibadan: HEBN; Harare: Weaver Press, 2008

070.50941 CURR

 

Drysdale, Andrew..: My neighbour Madiba -- and others: journeys into journalism / Andrew Drysdale. Cape Town: Lion's Head Pub., 2007

070.92 DRYS(DRYS)

 

McIntire, Sandra A., 1944-.: Foundations of psychological testing: a practical approach / Sandra A. McIntire, Leslie A. Miller. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, c2007

150.287 MACI

 

Meyers, Lawrence S..: Applied multivariate research: design and interpretation / Lawrence S. Meyers, Glenn Gamst, A.J. Guarino. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, c2006  

300.1519535 MEYE

 

Renn, Ortwin..: Risk governance: coping with uncertainty in a complex world / Ortwin Renn. London: Earthscan, 2008

302.12 RENN

 

Sonic interventions / editors, Sylvia Mieszkowski, Joy Smith, Marijke de Valck. Amsterdam: Rodopi, c2007   

302.23 SONI

 

Savage, Jon..: Teenage: the creation of youth culture / Jon Savage. London: Pimlico, 2008  

305.235 SAVA

 

Hale, Dana S..: Races on display: French representations of colonized peoples 1886-1940 / Dana S. Hale. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c2008       

305.8009171244 HALE

 

Young, Robert, 1950-.: The idea of English ethnicity / Robert J.C. Young. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2008

305.821 YOUN

 

Cosmopatriots: on distant belongings and close encounters / editors, Edwin Jurriëns and Jeroen de Kloet. Amsterdam: Rodopi, c2007  

306.01 COSM

 

Hansen, Thorkild, 1927-.: Coast of slaves =(Slavernes kyst) / Thorkild Hansen; translated by Kari Dako; illustrations by Birte Lund. Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2002

306.36209667 HANS

 

Hansen, Thorkild, 1927-.: Ships of slaves =(Slavernes skibe) / Thorkild Hansen; translated by Kari Dako; illustrations by Birte Lund. Accra, Ghana: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2003

306.36209667 HANS

 

Hansen, Thorkild, 1927-.: Islands of slaves =(Slavernes øer) / Thorkild Hansen; translated by Kari Dako; illustrations by Birte Lund. Accra: Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2005.

306.36209729722 HANS

 

Manela, Erez..: The Wilsonian moment: self-determination and the international origins of anticolonial nationalism / Erez Manela. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007     

320.5409 MANE

 

Raaflaub, Kurt A..: Origins of democracy in ancient Greece / Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, and Robert W. Wallace; with chapters by Paul Cartledge and Cynthia Farrar. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2007)         

320.9385 RAAF

 

Basson, Japie..: State of the nation: as viewed from a front bench in Parliament, 1969-1981 / Japie Basson. Camps Bay [South Africa]: Politika, 2008   

320.968018 BASS

 

Democratisation processes in Africa: problems and prospects / edited by Jibrin Ibrahim and Eshetu Chole. [Dakar]: Codesria, 1995      

321.8096 DEMO

 

Governance and democratisation in West Africa / edited by Dele Olowu, Adebayo Williams and Kayode Soremekun. Dakar: Codesria Oxford: African Books Collective, 1999      

321.80966 GOVE

         

Understanding human rights violations: new systematic studies / edited by Sabine C. Carey and Steven C. Poe. Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2004       

323.044 UNDE

 

O'Loughlin, Marjorie..: Embodiment and education: exploring creatural existence / by Marjorie O'Loughlin. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006

370.1 OLOU

 

Tamboukou, Maria, 1958-.: Women, education, and the self: a Foucauldian perspective / Maria Tamboukou. Houndmills [England]; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003        

370.82 TAMB

 

Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946-.: Scholars in the marketplace: the dilemmas of neo-liberal reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005 / Mahmood Mamdani. Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, c2007    

378.6761 MAMD

 

Efland, Arthur, 1929-.: Art and cognition: integrating the visual arts in the curriculum / Arthur D. Efland. New York: Teachers College Press; Reston, VA: National Art Education Association, c2002 

707.1073 EFLA

 

Ravetto, Kriss..: The unmaking of fascist aesthetics / Kriss Ravetto. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2001 

791.43658 RAVE

 

Gee, James Paul..: What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy / James Paul Gee. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007    

794.8019 GEE

 

Paulin, Tom..: The secret life of poems: a poetry primer / Tom Paulin. London: Faber and Faber, 2008        

821.09 PAUL

 

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870..: The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit / by Charles Dickens; with forty illustrations by "Phiz"; and an introduction by Geoffrey Russell. London: Oxford University Press, 1951         

823.832 MART

 

The mines of his mind: critical reflections on the works of Tayo Olafioye / edited by Beth L. Virtanen and Sola Owonibi. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, c2008  

828.9665 OLAF(MINE)

 

Paton, Alan..: The hero of Currie Road: complete short pieces / Alan Paton. Roggebaai [South Africa]: Umuzi, 2008

828.9685 PATO

 

French, Patrick, 1966-.: The world is what it is: the authorized biography of V.S. Naipaul / Patrick French. London: Picador, 2008        

828.9725 NAIP(FREN)

 

Walser, Martin, 1927-.: Angstblüte: Roman / Martin Walser. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2008     

833.914 WALS

 

Schlink, Bernhard..: Homecoming / Bernhard Schlink; translated from the German by Michael Henry Heim. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008        

833.914 SCHL

 

Wu, Ming..: Manituana / Wu Ming. Torino: Einaudi, c2007

853.92 WU

 

Benchouiha, Lucie..: Primo Levi: rewriting the Holocaust / Lucie Benchouiha. Leicester: Troubador, c2006

854.914 LEVI(BENC)

 

A companion to the Greek lyric poets / edited by Douglas E. Gerber. Leiden: Brill, 1997

884.0109 COMP

 

Moses, A. Dirk..: German intellectuals and the Nazi past / A. Dirk Moses. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007        

907.20943 MOSE

 

Hong, Lysa..: The scripting of a national history: Singapore and its pasts / Hong Lysa and Huang Jianli. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, c2008  

907.2095957 HONG

 

Traverso, Enzo..: Understanding the Nazi genocide: Marxism after Auschwitz / Enzo Traverso; translated by Peter Drucker. London: Pluto Press, 1999  

940.5318072 TRAV

 

Transnational moments of change: Europe 1945, 1968, 1989 / edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn and Padraic Kenney. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, c2004 

940.55 TRAN

 

Kinealy, Christine..: The Great Irish Famine: impact, ideology and rebellion / Christine Kinealy. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2002  

941.5081 KINE

 

Flint, Julie..: Darfur: a new history of a long war / Julie Flint & Axel de Waal. London: Zed, c2008

962.7043 FLIN

 

Hayward, Alan, 1916-.: Africa called: science and development in Nigeria / Alan Hayward. London; New York: Radcliffe Press, 2008

966.903092 HAYW

 

Shlaes, Amity..: The forgotten man: a new history of the Great Depression / Amity Shlaes. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008       

973.916 SHLA

 

 

2.     REFERENCE

Trillo, R:  Rough guide to West Africa.  Rough Guides, 2008. 

R 916.6 TRIL

 

3.     SHORT LOAN BOOKS

Koskinen, M.:  Ingmar Bergman revisited: performance, cinema and the arts / edited by Maaret Koskinen. Wallflower, 2008.

790.2092 BERG

 

Dyer, Richard:  Matter of images: essays on representations. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2002.

791.43653 DYER

 

 

4.     SHORT LOAN DVDs/VIDEOS

Franklin, C.:  Devil in a blue dress (DVD)

RZDV 791.43 DEVI

 

Fassbinder:  Querelle (DVD)

RZDV 791.43 QUER

 

Svankmajer, J.:  Collected shorts of Jan Svankmajer.  (DVD)

RZDV 791.43 SVAN

 

 

5.  FROM THE COMMERCE LIST

Understanding and reducing persistent poverty in Africa / edited by Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter and Peter D. Little. London; New York: Routledge, 2008

339.46096 UNDE

 

Barber, Benjamin R., 1939-.: Con$umed: how markets corrupt children, infantilize adults, and swallow citizens whole / Benjamin R. Barber. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.       

339.470973 BARB

 

Situational analysis of orphans and vulnerable children in four districts of South Africa / Alicia Davids ... [et al.]; edited by Donald Skinner & Alicia Davids. [Cape Town: HSRC Press, c2006      

362.196979200968 SITU

 

Blanden, Jo..: The persistence of poverty across generations: a view from two British cohorts / Jo Blanden and Steve Gibbons. Bristol: Polity Press, 2006  

362.520941 BLAN

 

Jowell, Joanne..: On the other side of shame: an extraordinary account of adoption and reunion / Joanne Jowell. Johannesburg: Macmillan, 2008      

362.734092 EGNA(JOWE)

 

 

5.     FROM THE SCIENCE LIST

Spiegler, Michael D..: Contemporary behavior therapy / Michael D. Spiegler, David C. Guevremont. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, c2003)        

616.89142 SPIE

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  5. FROM THE COMMERCE LIST
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1.   NEW IN HUMANITIES

McMillan, Michael, 1957-.: Data structures and algorithms using C / Michael McMillan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007

005.133(MACM)

Flower, Michael A..: The seer in ancient Greece / Michael Attyah Flower. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2008 

133.30938 FLOW

Mosteller, Timothy..: Relativism: a guide for the perplexed / Timothy Mosteller. London: Continuum, c2008  

149.75 MOST

Fotion, N..: War and ethics: a new just war theory / Nicholas Fotion. London: Continuum, 2007       

172.42 FOTI

Pence, Gregory E..: Re-creating medicine: ethical issues at the frontiers of medicine / Gregory E. Pence. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, c2000  

174.2 PENC

Robertson, John A. (John Ancona), 1943-.: Children of choice: freedom and the new reproductive technologies / John A. Robertson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996, c1994  

176 ROBE

Proclus, ca. 410-485..: Procli In Platonis Parmenidem commentaria / edidit Carlos Steel. Oxonii [Oxford, England]: E Typographeo Clarendoniano; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007      

184.12 PARM(PROC)

Wolfsdorf, David, 1969-.: Trials of reason: Plato and the crafting of philosophy / David Wolfsdorf. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008        

184.14 WOLF

Crook, Zeba A..: Reconceptualising conversion: patronage, loyalty, and conversion in the religions of the ancient Mediterranean / Zeba A. Crook. Berlin; New York: W. de Gruyter, c2004

204.20901 CROO

Naming and thinking God in Europe today: theology in global dialogue / edited by Norbert Hintersteiner. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi, 2007        

231 NAMI

From communication to presence: cognition, emotions, and culture towards the ultimate communicative experience: festschrift in honor of Luigi Anolli / [edited by] Giuseppe Riva ... [et al.]. Amsterdam; Washington, DC: IOS Press, c2006         

302.2 FROM

The multilingual Internet: language, culture, and communication online / edited by Brenda Danet and Susan C. Herring. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007

302.20285 MULT

Power, politics and indentity in South African media: selected seminar papers / edited by Adrian Hadland ... [et al.]. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2008

302.230968 POWE

         

Glenn, Phillip J..: Laughter in interaction / by Phillip Glenn. New York: Cambridge University Press, c2003     

302.346 GLEN

Sternberg, Rachel Hall..: Tragedy offstage: suffering and sympathy in ancient Athens / Rachel Hall Sternberg. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006    

303.37209385 STER

Conflict resolution, identity crisis, and development in Africa / edited by Celestine Oyom Bassey & Oshita O. Oshita. Lagos: Malthouse Press, 2007       

303.69096 CONF

Trotter, Henry.: Sugar girls & seamen: a journey into the world of dockside prostitution in South Africa / Henry Trotter. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana, 2008        

306.740968 TROT

Venter, Al J..: How South Africa built six atom bombs and then abandoned its nuclear weapons program / Al J. Venter in association with Nicholas Paul Badenhorst and Pierre Lowe Victor (illustrations). Kyalami Estate [South Africa]: Ashanti, c2008.      

327.17470968 VENT

Okwach, Anyango..: Schooling, education, and underdevelopment: the paradox of western-oriented education in Africa / Anyango Okwach and Okwach Abagi. [Nairobi]: Romix Services, 2005        

370.96 OKWA

The scholarship of teaching and learning in higher education: an evidence-based perspective / edited by Raymond P. Perry, John C. Smart. Dordrecht: Springer, c2007    

378.125 SCHO

Beyond descriptive translation studies: investigations in homage to Gideon Toury / edited by Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger, Daniel Simeoni. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing, c2008

418.02 BEYO

Germanic standardizations: past to present / edited by Ana Deumert, Wim Vandenbussche. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, c2003   

430 GERM

Deumert, Ana..: Language standardization and language change: the dynamics of Cape Dutch / Ana Deumert. Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, c2004

439.368 DEUM

Supplementum epigraphicum Graecum. Alphen aan den Rijn: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1923

481.7 SUPP

Enticknap, Leo Douglas Graham..: Moving image technology: from zoetrope to digital / Leo Enticknap. London: Wallflower, 2005      

778.5 ENTI

Chouikh, Mohamed, 1943-.: Mohamed Chouikh: [un entretien entre Mohamad Chouikh et Camille Taboulay]. Paris: K Films Editions, 1997

790.2092 CHOU

Letters to the world: poems from the Wom-po listserv / editors in chief, Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, Lesley Wheeler; preface by Annie Finch; introduction by D'Arcy Randall; editors, Margo Berdeshevsky ... [et al.]. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, c2008    

811.60809287 LETT

Henkin, Joshua..: Matrimony / Joshua Henkin. New York: Pantheon Books, c2007

813.54 HENK

Theroux, Paul..: Sir Vidia's shadow: a friendship across five continents / Paul Theroux. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998

813.54 THER(THER)

Meihuizen, Nicholas..: Ordering empire: the poetry of Camões, Pringle and Campbell/ Nicholas Meihuizen. Bern: Peter Lang, c2007    

821.09358 MEIH

Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993..: Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare / edited by Scott L. Newstok. West Lafayette, Ind.: Parlor Press, c2007     

822.334 BURK

Gale, Patrick, 1962-.: Facing the tank / Patrick Gale. London: Flamingo, 1993

823.914 GALE

Bradford, Sarah, 1938-.: Splendours and miseries: a life of Sacheverell Sitwell / Sarah Bradford. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1993 

824.91 SITW(BRAD)

Jing, Thomas..: Tale of an African woman / Thomas Jing. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2007     

828.9665 JING

Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-.: Souls forgotten / Francis B Nyamnjoh. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2008 

828.9665 NYAM

Govinden, Devarakshanam Betty..: "Sister outsiders' : the representation of identity and difference in selected writings by South African Indian women / Devarakshanam Govinden. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, c2008 

828.968 GOVI

Appollis, Tyrone, 1957-.: Train to Mitchells Plain / Tyrone Appollis. Bridgetown, South Africa: T. Appollis, [2008]         

828.9685 APPO

Boehmer, Elleke, 1961-.: Nile baby / Elleke Boehmer. Banbury, Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke, 2008       

828.9685 BOEH

Govender, Ronnie..: in the manure: memories and reflections / Ronnie Govender. Claremont, South Africa: David Philip, 2008   

828.9685 GOVE(GOVE)

Lewis, Heather Parker..: The interloper: arrivals, journeys, departures / H. Parker. Cape Town: Ihilihili Press, c2008

828.9685 LEWI

Miyeni, Eric..: O'Mandingo!: a poetic journey with Eric Miyeni. Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2008

828.9685 MIYE

Morrissey, Norman..: Dog Latin / Norman Morrissey. Empangeni, South Africa: Echoing Green Press, c2006) 

828.9685 MORR

Hambidge, Joan, 1956-.: Kladboek: 'n hibridiese roman / Joan Hambidge. Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis, 2008     

839.3614 HAMB

Van Aswegen, Sjané..: Onthoupad na die see / Sjane van Aswegen. Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis, 2008

839.3636 VANA

Anouilh, Jean, 1910-1987..: Becket, ou, L'honneur de Dieu / by Jean Anouilh. [S.l.]: Éditions Gallimard Jeunesse, c2006 

842.91 ANOU

Tadjo, Véronique, 1955-.: The blind kingdom / Véronique Tadjo; translated from the French by Janis A. Mayes. Banbury, Oxfordshire: Ayebia Clarke, 2008

848.9665 TADJ

Arslan, Antonia..: La masseria delle allodole / Antonia Arslan. Milano: BUR, 2007

853.914 ARSL

Tamaro, Susanna, 1957-.: Ascolta la mia voce / Susanna Tamaro. Milano: Libri Oro Rizzoli, 2007, c2006.

853.914 TAMA

Camilleri, Andrea..: Maruzza Musumeci / Andrea Camilleri. Palermo: Sellerio, c2007

853.914 CAMI

Abate, Francesco, 1964-.: Il cattivo cronista / Francesco Abate. Nuoro: Il maestrale, 2003   

853.92 ABAT

Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003..: Nazi literature in the Americas / Roberto Bolaño; translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. New York: New Directions, 2008

863.64 BOLA

Virgil..: The Aeneid / Vergil; translated by Sarah Ruden. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2008.

873.12 AENE

Gildenhard, Ingo, 1970-.: Paideia Romana: Cicero's Tusculan disputations / Ingo Gildenhard. Cambridge: Cambridge Philological Society, c2007       

875.4 TUSC(GILD)

Corpus rhetoricum / textes établis et traduits par Michel Patillon. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2008      

880.08 CORP

Groningen Workshops on Hellenistic Poetry (7th: 2004: Groningen, Netherlands): Beyond the canon / edited by M.A. Harder, R.F. Regtuit, G.C. Wakker. Leuven: Peeters, 2006

881.0109 GRON

Goldhill, Simon..: How to stage Greek tragedy today / Simon Goldhill. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007         

882.01 GOLD

Dalby, Andrew, 1947-.: Rediscovering Homer: inside the origins of the epic / Andrew Dalby. New York: W.W. Norton, c2006

883.14 DALB

Aristaenetus..: Lettere d'amore / Aristeneto; introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento a cura di Anna Tiziana Drago. Lecce: Pensa multimedia, 2007      

886.4 ARIS

Binyon, T. J..: Pushkin: a biography / T.J. Binyon. New York: Vintage Books, 2004      

891.71 PUSH(BINY)

Afigbo, A. E. (Adiele Eberechukwu).: Myth, history and society: the collected works of Adiele Afigbo / edited by Toyin Falola. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, c2006

907.2096 AFIG

Clothier, Norman..: Black valour: the South African Native Labour Contingent, 1916-1918, and the sinking of the Mendi / Norman Clothier. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1987

940.368 CLOT

Jong, L. de (Louis), 1914-.: The collapse of a colonial society: the Dutch in Indonesia during the Second World War / L. de Jong; with an introduction by Jeroen Kemperman; [translated by Jennifer Kilian, Cornelia Kist and John Rudge]. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2002        

959.8022 JONG

Okello, Benson..: A history of East Africa / Benson Okello. Kampala, Uganda: Fountain Publishers, 2002       

967.6 OKEL

500 Year Initiative. Conference (1st: 2007: University of the Witwatersrand): Five hundred years rediscovered: southern African precedents and prospects: 500 Year Initiative 2007 conference proceedings / edited by Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuysen and Philip Bonner. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, c2008      

968 FIVE

2.  BOOKS IN SHORT LOAN

Zimmerer, J: Genocide in German South West Africa: the Colonial Walr (1904 – 1908) in Namibia and its aftermath.  Merling, 2008.

968.8102 VOLK

3. SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS (WHT)

Focus on computer applications technology. Grade 12, Exam practice book / Maresa Williams ... [et al.]. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 2007        

WHT 001.6 FOCU

4. RECREATIONAL READS (RR)

Arruda, Suzanne Middendorf, 1954-.: The serpent's daughter: a Jade del Cameron mystery / Suzanne Arruda. New York: Obsidian, c2008  

RR 813.6 ARRU

5.  FROM THE COMMERCE LIST

Thaler, Richard H., 1945-.: Nudge: improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness / Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2008       

330.019 THAL

         

Nazareth, Linda, 1963-.: The leisure economy: how changing demographics, economics, and generational attitudes will reshape our lives and our industries / Linda Nazareth. Mississauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons Canada, c2007.       

330.97100112 NAZA

         

Adams, Jonathan S..: The future of the wild: radical conservation for a crowded world / Jonathan S. Adams. Boston: Beacon Press, [2007], c2006       

333.72 ADAM

         

Handbook of the economics of art and culture / edited by Victor A. Ginsburgh and David Throsby. Amsterdam: Elsevier North-Holland, 2006

338.477 HAND

         

Global knowledge networks and international development: bridges across boundaries / edited by Diane Stone and Simon Maxwell. London: Routledge, 2005      

338.926 GLOB

         

Readings in local government management and development: a Southern African perspective / P.S. Reddy, editor. Kenwyn, C.T.: Juta, 1996

352.140968 READ

Fotion, N..: Terrorism: the new world disorder / Nicholas Fotion, Boris Kashnikov and Joanne K. Lekea. London: Continuum, c2007    

363.325 FOTI

Parikh, Ashok K..: Trade liberalisation: impact on growth and trade in developing countries / Ashok Parikh. [Hackensack] N.J.: World Scientific, c2007

382.3091724 PARI

         

Salkowitz, Rob, 1967-.: Generation blend: managing across the technology age gap/ Rob Salkowitz. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, c2008      

658.30084 SALK

Clark, Timothy R., 1964-.: Epic change: how to lead change in the global age / Timothy R. Clark. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, c2008  

658.4092 CLAR

Quelch, John A..: Greater good: how good marketing makes for better democracy / John A. Quelch, Katherine E. Jocz. Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Press, c2007       

658.8 QUEL

6.  FROM THE SCIENCE LIST

Brewin, Chris..: Posttraumatic stress disorder: malady or myth? / Chris R. Brewin. New Haven: Yale University Press, [2007] 616.8521 BREW

Smith, Peter D. (Peter Daniel), 1965-.: Doomsday men: the real Dr Strangelove and the dream of the superweapon / P.D. Smith. London: Allen Lane, 2007

623.45119 SMIT

7.  SCIENCE LEISURE READING (DSL)

Nye, Mary Jo..: Blackett: physics, war, and politics in the twentieth century / Mary Jo Nye. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004      

DSL 539.7092 BLAC(NYE)

         

Essential skills for science and technology / Peter Zeegers ... [et al.]. South Melbourne, Vic.: Oxford University Press, 2007   

DSL 607.11 ESSE

 

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  3. FROM THE COMMERCE LIST
  4. FROM THE SCIENCE LIST
  5. SCIENCE LEISURE READING (DSL)

 

1.  NEW IN HUMANITIES

Kleinberg, Jon...: Algorithm design / Jon Kleinberg, Éva Tardos. Boston: Pearson/Addison-Wesley, c2006.

005.1 KLEI

 

Guzdial, Mark...: Introduction to computing and programming in Python: a multimedia approach / Mark Guzdial. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2005      

005.133 PYTH(GUZD)

 

Landau, Iddo, 1958-..: Is philosophy androcentric? / Iddo Landau. University Park, Pa..: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2006      

108.2 LAND

 

Siegel, Daniel J., 1957-..: The developing mind: how relationships and the brain interact to shape who we are / Daniel J. Siegel. New York: Guilford Press, c1999  

155 SIEG

 

Appiah, Anthony...: Experiments in ethics / Kwame Anthony Appiah. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008   

170 APPI

 

Morton, Adam...: On evil / Adam Morton. New York: Routledge, 2004    

170 MORT

 

Cusset, François...: French theory: how Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. transformed the intellectual life of the United States / François Cusset; translated by Jeff Fort with Josephine Berganza and Marlon Jones. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, c2008

194 CUSS

 

Bruce, Steve, 1954-..: Fundamentalism / Steve Bruce. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity, 2008      

200.904 BRUC

 

Blaikie, Norman W. H., 1933-..: Designing social research: the logic of anticipation / Norman Blaikie. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2000

300.72 BLAI

 

Greenwood, Davydd J..: Introduction to action research: social research for social change / Davydd J. Greenwood, Morten Levin. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, c2007     

300.72 GREE

 

Larkin, Brian...: Signal and noise: media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria / Brian Larkin. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008        

302.2309669 LARK

 

Wise, J. Macgregor (John Macgregor)..: Cultural globalization: a user's guide / J. Macgregor Wise. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2008       

303.482 WISE

 

Salzman, Philip Carl..: Culture and conflict in the Middle East / Philip Carl Salzman. Amherst, N.Y.: Humanity Books, 2008  

303.60956 SALZ

 

Finnström, Sverker..: Living with bad surroundings: war, history, and everyday moments in northern Uganda / Sverker Finnström. Durham: Duke University Press, 2008 

303.66096761 FINN

 

German scholars and ethnic cleansing, 1919-1945 / edited by Ingo Haar and Michael Fahlbusch; foreword by Georg G. Iggers. New York: Berghahn Books, 2006

304.6630943 GERM

 

Badran, Margot..: Feminism beyond east and west: new gender talk and practice in global Islam / Margot Badran. New Delhi: Global Media Publications, 2007        

305.48697 BADR

 

Remembering elites / edited by Mike Savage and Karel Williams. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2008    

305.5201 REME

 

Watson, Tony J..: Sociology, work and industry / Tony J. Watson. London; New York: Routledge, 2008      

306.36 WATS

 

Buying freedom: the ethics and economics of slave redemption / edited by Kwame Anthony Appiah and Martin Bunzl; with a foreword by Kevin Bales. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2007      

306.362 BUYI

 

Sutton, Philip W..: Resurgent Islam: a sociological approach / Philip W. Sutton and Stephen Vertigans. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity, 2005  

306.697 SUTT

 

Tonkiss, Fran..: Space, the city and social theory: social relations and urban forms / Fran Tonkiss. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2005       

307.76 TONK

 

Wacquant, Loïc J. D..: Urban outcasts: a comparative sociology of advanced marginality / Loïc Wacquant. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2008 

307.76 WACQ

 

Postcolonial African cities: imperial legacies and postcolonial predicaments / edited by Fassil Demissie. London; New York: Routledge, 2007 

307.76096 POST

 

Murray, Martin J..: Taming the disorderly city: the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin J. Murray. Cape Town: UCT Press, 2008       

307.760968221 MURR

 

Estlund, David M..: Democratic authority: a philosophical framework / David M. Estlund. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2008   

321.8 ESTL

 

Stein, Pippa..: Multimodal Pedagogies in Diverse classrooms: representations, rights and resources.  Routledge, 2008

370.117 STEI

 

Eckel, Peter D..: Taking the reins: institutional transformation in higher education / Peter D. Eckel and Adrianna Kezar. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003

378.1010973 ECKE

 

Christie, Pam..: Opening the doors of learning: changing schools in South Africa / Pam Christie. Johannnesburg, South Africa: Heinemann, 2008      

379.68 CHRI

         

Crawford, James, 1949-..: Advocating for English learners: selected essays / James Crawford. Clevedon; Buffalo: Multilingual Matters, c2008

428.24 CRAW

 

Bock, Charles..: Beautiful children: a novel / Charles Bock. New York: Random House, c2008  

813.6 BOCK

 

Erasmus, Barbara..: Chameleon / Barbara Erasmus. Cape Town: Barbara Erasmus in association with Book SA, 2008  

828.9685 ERAS

 

Wanner, Zukiswa..: Behind every successful man / Zukiswa Wanner. Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2008

828.9685 WANN

 

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-..: Life before man / Margaret Atwood. London: Vintage, 1996       

828.9715 ATWO

 

Bezmozgis, David, 1973-..: Natasha and other stories / David Bezmozgis. Toronto: HarperPerennial, 2005    

828.9715 BEZM

 

Cronjé, Karin..: Alles mooi weer / Karin Cronjé. Parklands: Genugtig! Uitgewers, 2008  

839.3636 CRON

 

Steyn, Piet..: Snoeiskêr / Piet Steyn. Kaapstad: Tafelberg, 2008.        

839.3636 STEY

 

Bolaño, Roberto, 1953-2003..: The savage detectives / Roberto Bolaño; translated from the Spanish and with an introduction by Natasha Wimmer. New York: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008        

863.64 BOLA

 

Sánchez, Albert, 1965-..: Pandora in the Congo / Albert Sánchez Piñol; translated from the Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem. Edinburgh: Canongate, 2008

863.7 SANC

 

Herbert, Zbigniew..: The collected poems, 1956-1998 / Zbigniew Herbert; translated and edited by Alissa Valles; with additional translations by Czeslaw Milosz and Peter Dale Scott; introduction by Adam Zagajewski. New York: Ecco, c2007

891.8517 HERB

 

Fernández-Armesto, Felipe..: Pathfinders: a global history of exploration / Felipe Fernández-Armesto. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006        

910.9 FERN

 

Martin, Julia, 1959-..: A millimetre of dust: visiting ancestral sites / Julia Martin. Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2008         

913.68711 MART

 

Rosenblad, Eberhard, b. 1861..: Adventure in South-West Africa (1894-1898) / by Eberhard Rosenblad; translated from the original Swedish edition and edited by Ione & Jalmar Rudner. Windhoek, Namibia: Namibia Scientific Society, 2007

916.881042 ROSE

 

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell..: Black potatoes: the story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 / Susan Campbell Bartoletti. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, c2001

941.5081 BART

 

Anderson, Benedict R. O'G. (Benedict Richard O'Gorman), 1936-..: Java in a time of revolution: occupation and resistance, 1944-1946 / Benedict R. O'G. Anderson. Jakarta: Equinox, 2006     

959.8022 ANDE

 

Dowty, Alan, 1940-..: Israel/Palestine / Alan Dowty. Cambridge; Malden, MA: Polity, 2008     

965.94 DOWT

 

Scott, Robyn..: Twenty chickens for a saddle: the story of an African childhood / Robyn Scott; illustrations by Lulu Scott. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2008

968.8303092 SCOT(SCOT)

 

St. John, Lauren, 1966-..: Rainbow's End: a memoir of childhood, war & an African farm / Lauren St John. London: Penguin, 2008.      

968.9104092 STJO(STJO)

 

George, Susan..: Hijacking America / Susan George. Cambridge: Polity, 2008.

973.931 GEOR

 

 

2.     PAMPHLETS (RP)

Voices from our Valley Poetry Competition, Franschhoek Valley 2008 Winning Poems. Franschhoek Literary Festival, 2008.

RP 808.819968734 VOIC

 

 

3. FROM THE COMMERCE LIST

Yun, Lisa, 1963-..: The coolie speaks: Chinese indentured laborers and African slaves in Cuba / Lisa Yun. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008

331.625107291 YUN

 

Kwartler, Michael..: Visioning and visualization: people, pixels, and plans / Michael Kwartler and Gianni Longo. Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, c2008

333.730285 KWAR

 

Haynes, Jeffrey..: Development studies / Jeffrey Haynes. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity, 2008  

338.9 HAYN

 

Platt, Lucinda..: Poverty and ethnicity in the UK / Lucinda Platt. Bristol, UK: Published for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by the Policy Press, 2007

339.20941 PLAT

 

Osiel, Mark..: Mass atrocity, ordinary evil, and Hannah Arendt: criminal consciousness in Argentina's Dirty War / Mark J. Osiel. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2001   

341.69 OSIE

         

Kadri, Sadakat..: The trial: a history, from Socrates to O.J. Simpson / Sadakat Kadri. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006     

345.0709 KADR

 

Grossman, Dave..: On killing: the psychological cost of learning to kill in war and society / Dave Grossman. Boston: Little, Brown, c1996

355.0019 GROS

 

Changing administration, changing society: challenges for current social policy / Peter Herrmann, Sabine Herrenbrueck, editors. New York: Nova Science Publishers, c2007        

361.61 CHAN

 

Conrad, Peter, 1945-..: The medicalization of society: on the transformation of human conditions into treatable disorders / Peter Conrad. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007       

362.1 CONR

 

Child sexual abuse: disclosure, delay, and denial / edited by Margaret-Ellen Pipe ... [et al.]. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2007        

362.76 CHIL

 

Straus, Murray A. (Murray Arnold), 1926-..: Behind closed doors: violence in the American family / Murray A. Straus, Richard J. Gelles, Suzanne K. Steinmetz; with a new introduction by Murray A. Straus and Richard J. Gelles. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, c2006       

362.8292 STRA

 

Al-Qaida dans le texte. English: Al Qaeda in its own words / edited by Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli; translated by Pascale Ghazaleh. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008 

363.325 AL

 

Rogers, Paul, 1943-..: Why we're losing the war on terror / Paul Rogers. Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity, 2008  

363.325 ROGE

 

Roberts, J. Timmons..: A climate of injustice: global inequality, North-South politics, and climate policy / J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, c2007    

363.73874 ROBE

 

Carlen, Pat..: Analysing women's imprisonment / Pat Carlen and Anne Worrall. Cullompton, Devon; Portland, Or.: Willan Pub., 2004     

365.42 CARL

 

Gilbert, Erik..: Trading tastes: commodity and culture exchange to 1750 / Erik Gilbert, Jonathan T. Reynolds. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, c2006    

382.45664 GILB

 

 

4.  FROM THE SCIENCE LIST

LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole..: Random family: love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx / Adrian Nicole LeBlanc. New York: Scribner, 2004 

974.7275043 LEBL

 

Hedeker, Donald R., 1958-..: Longitudinal data analysis / Donald Hedeker, Robert D. Gibbons. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, c2006   

610.727 HEDE

 

International handbook of cross-cultural neuropsychology / edited by Barbara P. Uzzell, Marcel O. Pontón, Alfredo Ardila. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007        

612.8 INTE

 

Healy, David,.: Let them eat Prozac: the unhealthy relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and depression / David Healy. New York: New York University Press, c2004 

616.8527061 HEAL

 

Diamond, Jonathan,.: Narrative means to sober ends: treating addiction and its aftermath / Jonathan Diamond; foreword by David Treadway. New York: Guilford Press, c2000   

616.8606 DIAM

 

Horwitz, Allan V..: Creating mental illness / Allan V. Horwitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, c2002         

616.89 HORW

 

Lane, Christopher, 1966-..: Shyness: how normal behavior became a sickness / Christopher Lane. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2007

616.89075 LANE

 

Healy, David..: The creation of psychopharmacology / David Healy. Cambridge, Mass.; London: Harvard University Press, 2002        

616.891809 HEAL

 

The 21st-Century engineer: a proposal for engineering education reform / Patricia D. Galloway. Reston, VA: ASCE Press, c2008   

620.00711 TWEN

 

Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929-..: Nuclear weapons: what you need to know / Jeremy Bernstein. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008     

623.45119 BERN

         

 

5.  SCIENCE LEISURE READING (DSL)

Frenay, Robert, 1946-..: Pulse: the coming age of systems and machines inspired by living things / Robert Frenay. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c2008      

DSL 660.6 FREN