NEW BOOKS OF INTEREST TO THE HUMANITIES FACULTY, 20th October 2009

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CONTENTS

1.       NEW IN HUMANITIES

2.       BOOKS IN SHORT LOAN

3.       DVDs  (Housed at the Loans Desk)

4.       RECREATIONAL READS (RR)

5.       FROM THE COMMERCE LIST

6.       FROM THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIST

7.       SCIENCE LEISURE READING (DSL)

 

 

 

1.     NEW IN HUMANITIES

 

Wisker, Gina, 1951-.. : The undergraduate research handbook / Gina Wisker. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. 

001.42 WISK

         

Allan, R. J. (Robert John), 1957-.. : Virtual research environments : from portals to science gateways / Robert Allan. Oxford : Chandos Publishing, 2009
001.4202854678 ALLA

 

Tanenbaum, Andrew S., 1944-.. : Computer networks / Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall PTR, c2003.

004.6 TANE

 

Davis, Christopher.. : Eyewitness : the rise and fall of Dorling Kindersley / Christopher Davis. Petersfield : Harriman House, 2009         

070.509421 DAVI

 

Passions and moral progress in Greco-Roman thought / edited by John T. Fitzgerald. London; New York : Routledge, 2008      

128.370938 PASS

 

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)

 

Ansell-Pearson, Keith, 1960-. : Germinal life : the difference and repetition of Deleuze / Keith Ansell Pearson. London : Routledge, 1999.  

194.9 DELE(ANSE)

 

Religion, class coalitions, and welfare states / edited by Kees van Kersbergen, Philip Manow. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

261.832 RELI

 

Gordon, Bruce, 1962-. : Calvin / Bruce Gordon. New Haven [Conn.]; London : Yale University Press, c2009  

284.2092 CALV(GORD)

 

Klar, Marianna, 1970-. : Interpreting al-Tha'labī's Tales of the prophets : temptation, responsibility and loss / M.O. Klar. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: New York, NY : Routledge, 2009         

297.246 KLAR

 

Joas, Hans, 1948-.. : Social theory : twenty introductory lectures / Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl; translated by Alex Skinner. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009       

300.1 JOAS

 

A quantitative tour of the Social Sciences / edited by Andrew Gelman, Jeronimo Cortina. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.  

300.72 QUAN

 

Mouzelis, Nicos P.. : Modern and postmodern social theorizing : bridging the divide / Nicos P. Mouzelis. Cambridge, UK; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.    

301.01 MOUZ

 

Applied social psychology : understanding and managing social problems / edited by Linda Steg, Abraham P. Buunk and Talib Rothengatter. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

302 APPL

 

The Youtube reader / eds., Pelle Snickars, Patrick Vonderau. Stockholm : National Library of Sweden, 2009 

302.231 YOUT

 

Globalizing resistance : the state of struggle / edited by Francois Polet; with translations by Victoria Bawtree. London; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press in association with the Tricontinental Centre (CENTRI), 2004    

303.484 GLOB

 

Ways of walking : ethnography and practice on foot / edited by Tim Ingold and Jo Lee Vergunst. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2008  

304.2 WAYS

 

Halimi, Gisèle.. : La cause des femmes; précédé de, Le temps des malentendus / Gisèle Halimi. [Paris] : Gallimard, 1992        

304.6670944 HALI

 

Halimi, Gisèle.. : Ne vous résignez jamais / Gisèle Halimi. Paris : Plon, 2009.

305.420944 HALI

 

Nicholson, Linda J.. : Identity before identity politics / Linda Nicholson. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008        

305.48896073 NICH

 

McCarthy, Thomas, 1940-.. : Race, empire, and the idea of human development / Thomas McCarthy. Cambridge, UK; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009

305.8009 MACC

 

Facts, fiction, and African creative imaginations / edited by Toyin Falola and Fallou Ngom. New York : Routledge, 2010.     

306.096 FACT

 

Making towns and cities work for people : Planact in South Africa, 1985-2005 / compiled by Lauren Royston; edited by Sean Fraser and Lynne Smit. Johannesburg, South Africa : Planact, c2009

307.760968 MAKI

 

Beckett, Denis.. : Themba's head / Denis Beckett. Johannesburg : Saga Press, c2009 

320.968 BECK

 

Van Cott, Donna Lee.. : Radical democracy in the Andes / Donna Lee Van Cott. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009   

320.984 VANC

 

Rosanvallon, Pierre, 1948-. : Counter-democracy : politics in an age of distrust / Pierre Rosanvallon; translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, UK; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2008

321.8 ROSA

 

Smith, Graham, 1966-.. : Democratic innovations : designing institutions for citizen participation / Graham Smith. Cambridge, UK; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009)    

321.8 SMIT

 

Kuru, Ahmet T.. : Secularism and state policies toward religion : the United States, France, and Turkey / Ahmet T. Kuru. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009        

322.109 KURU

 

Smith, Janet , 1967-. : Hani : a life too short : a biography / Janet Smith and Beauregard Tromp. Johannesburg : Jonathan Ball, 2009

322.420968 HANI(SMIT)

         

Hlalethwa, Ramaphakela Hans.. : I listen, I learn, I grow : my autobiography / by Ramaphakla Hans Hlalethwa. Pretoria : Unisa Press, c2008         

323.168 HLAL(HLAL)

 

Somers, Margaret R.. : Genealogies of citizenship : markets, statelessness, and the right to have rights / Margaret R. Somers. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 

323.6 SOME

 

Scholte, Jan Aart.. : Globalization : a critical introduction / Jan Aart Scholte. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005  

327 SCHO

 

Theories of international relations / Scott Burchill ... [et al.]. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009    

327.101 THEO

 

Betcher, Chris.. : The interactive whiteboard revolution : teaching with IWBs / Chris Betcher and Mal Lee. Camberwell, Vic. : ACER Press, 2009        

371.334 BETC

 

Improving classroom learning with ICT / Rosamund Sutherland ... [et al.]. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009 

371.334 IMPR

 

Primary mathematics : teaching for understanding / Patrick Barmby ... [et al.]. Maidenhead, England : Open University Press, 2009        

372.7044 PRIM

 

Fullan, Michael.. : Turnaround leadership for higher education / Michael Fullan, Geoff Scott. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009  

378.101 FULL

 

Kelshaw, Todd Spencer.. : Partnerships for service-learning : impacts on communities and students / Todd Kelshaw, Freyda Lazarus, Judy Minier, and associates; foreword by Frank Alvarez. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2009

378.103 KELS

 

The Routledge companion to English language studies / edited by Janet Maybin and Joan Swann. London : Routledge, 2010      

420 ROUT

 

Katz, Dovid.. : Words on fire : the unfinished story of Yiddish / Dovid Katz. New York : Basic Books, c2004

439.109 KATZ

 

Wim Wenders / edited by Jason Wood and Ian Haydn Smith. London : Axiom Books, 2008      

790.2092 WEND(WIM)

 

The ghosts of songs : the film art of the Black Audio Film Collective, 1982-1998 / edited by Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar of the Otolith Group. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press : Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, 2007    

791.43652 GHOS

 

The SAGE handbook of writing development / edited by Roger Beard ... [et al.]. Los Angeles; London : SAGE, 2009. 

808.042071 SAGE

 

Logan, William, 1950 Nov. 16-.. : Desperate measures / William Logan. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2002 

811.5409 LOGA

 

Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975-.. : Tomboys : a literary and cultural history / Michelle Ann Abate. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008       

813.093522 ABAT

 

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.. : Another country / James Baldwin; with an introduction by Colm Tóibín. London : Penguin, 2001

813.54 BALD

 

Empire writing : an anthology of colonial literature, 1870-1918 / edited with an introduction and notes by Elleke Boehmer. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009

820.809171241 EMPI

 

Between "race" and culture : representations of "the Jew" in English and American literature / edited by Bryan Cheyette. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996      

820.93529924 BETW

 

Kerr, Douglas.. : Eastern figures : Orient and empire in British writing / Douglas Kerr. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2008      

820.9358 KERR

 

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.. : The general prologue to the Canterbury tales / edited by David Kirkham and Valerie Allen. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999       

821.172 CANT

 

New South African plays / edited by Charles J. Fourie; with a foreword by Gcina Mhlophe; Rehane Abrahams ... [et al.]. London : Aurora Metro Press, 2006

828.968208 NEW

 

Lee, Sumayya.. : Maha, ever after / Sumayya Lee. Cape Town : Kwela Books, 2009.

828.9685 LEE

 

Bouillier, Grégoire.. : The mystery guest / Grégoire Bouillier; translated from the French by Lorin Stein. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, c2006   

843.92 BOUI

 

Taïa, Abdellah, 1973-. : Salvation Army : a novel / Abdellah Taïa; introduction by Edmund White; translated from the French by Frank Stock. Los Angeles, CA : Semiotext(e); Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by the MIT Press, c2009 

848.9655 TAIA

 

Kalonji, M. T. Zezeze.. : Une écriture de la passion chez Pius Ngandu Nkashama / M.T. Zezeze Kalonji. Paris : L'Harmattan, c1992  

848.9665 PIUS(KALO)

 

Laferrière, Dany.. : La chair du maître : roman / Dany Laferrière. Paris : Serpent à plumes, [2000?]  

848.9725 LAFE

 

Laferrière, Dany.. : Le goût des jeunes filles / Dany Laferrière. Paris : Gallimard, c2007

848.9725 LAFE

 

Duncan, Derek.. : Reading and writing Italian homosexuality : a case of possible difference / Derek Duncan. Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006 

850.9353 DUNC

 

Riley, Kathleen, 1974-.. : The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles : reasoning madness / Kathleen Riley.   Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008

882.32 HERA(RILE)

 

Baragwanath, Emily, 1977-.. : Motivation and narrative in Herodotus / Emily Baragwanath. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008        

888.14 BARA

 

Murakami, Haruki, 1949-.. : Sputnik sweetheart / Haruki Murakami; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. London : Vintage, 2002.    

895.635 MURA

 

Dietl, Holger.. : Die Freilandfundstellen von Geelbek und Anyskop in Südafrika : das Siedlungsverhalten während des Middle Stone Age / vorgelegt von Holger Dietl. 2004.     

913.687320313 DIET

 

Szpek, Ervin E.. : Shadows of Slaughterhouse Five : reflections and recollections of the American ex-POWs of Schlachthof Fünf, Dresden, Germany / Ervin E. Szpek, Jr., Frank J. Idzikowski; edited by Heidi M. Szpek; foreword by Lloyd Gabriel. New York : iUniverse, c2008   

940.547243 SZPE

 

Vercoe, Tony, 1919-.. : Yesterday's drums / Tony Vercoe. Wellington, N.Z. : Steele Roberts, c2001 

940.548193 VERC

 

The Oxford handbook of Byzantine studies / edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys with John Haldon and Robin Cormack. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008      

949.502 OXFO

 

Barkey, Karen, 1958-.. : Empire of difference : the Ottomans in comparative perspective / Karen Barkey. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008

956.015 BARK

 

Lambert, David.. : White Creole culture, politics and identity during the age of abolition / David Lambert. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005

972.981 LAMB

 

 

2.  BOOKS IN SHORT LOAN

Burns, Y.. :  Communications Law.  2nd edition.  Lexis Nexis Butterworths, 2009.

343.0990968 BURN

 

Gandhi, M.. : Autobiography: or the story of my experiments with truth.  Penguin, 2001.

354.035092 GAND (GAND)

 

 

3.      DVDs (Housed at the Loans Desk)

 

Harris, Kevin.. :  Cry of reason:  Beyers Naude, an Afrikaner speaks out. 

RZDV 261.83 NAUD (CRY)

 

El-Tahri, J.. :  Behind the rainbow : will power consume the dream? Big World Cinema, 2009. 

RZDV 324.268 BEHI

 

Makarere University. Faculty of Law, Refugee. Gender against men : nobody is immune. 

RZDV  364.1532 GEND

 

Residential schools.  First Nations Film. 

RZDV 371.82997 RESI

 

Crystal, David.. :  Future of Language 

RZDV 400 CRYS

 

Spielberg, S.. :  Hook 

RZDV 791.43 HOOK

 

Richard, Chantal.. :  Lili and the Baobab (Lili et le Baobab). 

RZDV 791.43 LILI

 

Bleak House – 3 Disc BBC Production. 

RZDV 823 BLEA

 

 

4.     RECREATIONAL READS (RR)

 

Khadra, Yasmina.. : The attack / Yasmina Khadra; translated from the French by John Cullen. London : Vintage, 2007  

RR 848.9655 KHAD

 

 

5.      FROM THE COMMERCE LIST

 

Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969-.. : Financial founding fathers : the men who made America rich / Robert E. Wright & David J. Cowen. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, c2006 

330.973092 WRIG

 

Bell, Terry, 1942-.. : Comrade Moss : a political journey / [Terry Bell] Muizenberg, South Africa : RedWorks, 2009

331.88171092 MAYE(BELL)

 

Governing sustainability / edited by W. Neil Adger and Andrew Jordan. Cambridge, UK; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.       

333.7 GOVE

 

Ophuls, William, 1934-.. : Ecology and the politics of scarcity : prologue to a political theory of the steady state / William Ophuls. San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1977   

333.72 OPHU

 

Guyot, Sylvain.. : Zulu shores, South Africa : green disputes in black and white / Sylvain Guyot. Saarbrücken : VDM, Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008.        

333.7309684 GUYO

 

Cohn, Theodore H., 1940-.. : Global political economy / Theodore H. Cohn. Upper Saddle River, N.J. ; Harlow : Pearson Education, 2009     

337 COHN

         

Kressel, Henry.. : Competing for the future : how digital innovations are changing the world / Henry Kressel with Thomas V. Lento. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.    

338.064 KRES

 

OECD territorial reviews. Cape Town, South Africa. Paris : OECD, c2008

338.604209687 OECD

 

Dickson, Bruce J.. : Wealth into power : the Communist Party's embrace of China's private sector / Bruce J. Dickson. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.       

338.951 DICK

 

Chirambo, Kondwani.. : AIDS and local government in South Africa : examining the impact of an epidemic on ward councillors / by Kondwani Chirambo and Justin Steyn; with additional research by Christele Diwouta and Njinga Kankinza. Pretoria : Idasa, 2009.    

362.196979200968 CHIR

 

Larsson, Anneli S.. : Interviewing child witnesses / Anneli S. Larsson. Göteborg : Dept. of Psychology, Göteborg Univ., 2005   

363.254083 LARS

 

Global corruption report 2008 : corruption in the water sector / [compiled by] Transparency International. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2008    

364.1323 GLOB

 

Linking destinies : trade, towns and kin in Asian history / edited by Peter Boomgaard, Dick Kooiman and Henk Schulte Nordholt. Leiden : KITLV Press, 2008.      

381.095 LINK

 

Engeström, Yrjö, 1948-.. : From teams to knots : activity-theoretical studies of collaboration and learning at work / Yrjö Engeström. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008       

658.4022 ENGE

 

 

6.      FROM THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIST

 

Aronowitz, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1953-.. : Unnatural history : breast cancer and American society / Robert A. Aronowitz. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

614.5999449 ARON

 

Ekeroth, Kerstin 1975-.. : Psychological problems in adolescents and young women with eating disturbances / Kestin Ekeroth. Göteborg : Department of Psychology, Göteborg University, 2005       

616.8526 EKER

         

 

7.      SCIENCE LEISURE READING COLLECTION (DSL)    

      

Charles Darwin : an Australian selection. Canberra, A.C.T. : National Museum of Australia Press, 2008

DSL 576.82092 DARW(CHAR)

NEW BOOKS OF INTEREST TO THE HUMANITIES FACULTY, 13th October 2009-10-13

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CONTENTS

1.       NEW IN HUMANITIES

2.       SHORT LOAN BOOKS

3.       SHORT LOAN PAMPHLETS (RP)

4.       CLASSROOM COLLECTION (WHJ)

5.       FROM THE COMMERCE LIST

6.       FROM THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIST

 

 

 

1.       NEW IN HUMANITIES

Safonov, V. O. (Vladimir Olegovich). : Using aspect-oriented programming for trustworthy software development / Vladimir O. Safonov. Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2008

005.1 SAFO

 

Gurtov, Andrei.. : Host Identity Protocol (HIP) : towards the secure mobile    Internet / Andrei Gurtov. Chichester, U.K. : Wiley, 2008)

005.8 GURT

 

Shoham, Yoav.. : Multiagent systems : algorithmic, game-theoretic, and logical foundations / Yoav Shoham, Kevin Leyton-Brown. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009          

006.3 SHOH

 

Ware, Colin.. : Visual thinking for design / Colin Ware. Burlington, Mass. : Morgan Kaufmann ; Amsterdam : Elsevier Science & Technology, c2008. 

152.14 WARE

 

Humanism in business / edited by Heiko Spitzeck ... [et al.]. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c2009                                                              174.4 HUMA

 

Reflecting theologically on AIDS : a global challenge / edited by Robin Gill. London : SCM Press, 2007         

261.8321969792 REFL

 

Sajoo, Amyn B.. : Muslim ethics : emerging vistas / Amyn B. Sajoo. London : I. B. Tauris, 2009         

297.5 SAJO

 

Teaching Islam : textbooks and religion in the Middle East / edited by Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Gregory Starrett. Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007        

297.77 TEAC

 

Robinson, Andrew, 1957-. : Writing and script : a very short introduction / Andrew Robinson. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

302.2244 ROBI

 

Burn, Andrew.. : Making new media : creative production and digital literacies / Andrew Burn. New York : Peter Lang, c2009. 

302.23 BURN

 

Methods in human geography : a guide for students doing a research project / edited by Robin Flowerdew and David Martin. Harlow : Prentice Hall, 2005.   

304.2072 METH

 

A companion to feminist geography / edited by Lise Nelson & Joni Seager. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2005         

305.4201 COMP

 

Development, women, and war : feminist perspectives / edited and introduced by Haleh Afshar and Deborah Eade. Oxford : Oxfam, c2004

305.42091724 DEVE

 

Violence : ethnographic encounters / edited by Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2009 

305.8 VIOL

 

Blackmon, Douglas A.. : Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon. New York : Anchor Books, 2009

305.896073 BLAC

 

Stourton, Edward.. : It's a PC world : what it means to live in a land gone politically correct / Edward Stourton. London : Hodder Paperbacks, 2009    

306 STOU

 

Lal, Vinay.. : Empire of knowledge : culture and plurality in the global economy / Vinay Lal. London; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2002    

306.0904 LAL

 

Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.). Meeting (2006 : Ventura, Calif.) : Economics and morality : anthropological approaches / edited by Katherine E. Browne and B. Lynne Milgram. Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2009.          

306.3 SOCI

 

Farmer, Paul, 1959-. : Aids and accusation : Haiti and the geography of blame / Paul Farmer. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006           

306.461097294 FARM

 

Arnott, Jayne.. : Rights not rescue : a report on female, male, and trans sex workers' human rights in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa / by Jayne Arnott and Anna-Louise Cargo. [New York, N.Y.] : Open Society Institute, c2009           

306.74096883 ARNO

 

Gaudio, Rudolf Pell.. : Allah made us : sexual outlaws in an Islamic African city / Rudolf Pell Gaudio. Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009    

306.76088297 GAUD

 

Hijāb : unveiling queer Muslim lives / edited by Pepe Hendricks. Cape Town : Inner Circle, 2009.

306.766088297 HIJA

 

Montgomery, J. R. (John R.). : The new wealth of cities : city dynamics and the fifth  wave / John Montgomery. Aldershot : Ashgate, c2007

307.116 MONT

 

Beyond totalitarianism : Stalinism and Nazism compared / [edited by] Michael Geyer, Sheila Fitzpatrick. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009

320.532 BEYO

 

Holmes, Leslie.. : Communism : a very short introduction / Leslie Holmes. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009   

320.532 HOLM

 

Knox, MacGregor.. : To the threshold of power, 1922/33 : origins and dynamics of the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships / MacGregor Knox. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007  

320.533 KNOX

 

Kapstein, Ethan B.. : The fate of young democracies / Ethan B. Kapstein, Nathan Converse. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008      

320.8091724 KAPS

 

New race politics in America : understanding minority and immigrant politics / [edited by] Jane Junn, Kerry L. Haynie. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

324.08900973 NEW

 

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1938-. : Something torn and new : an African renaissance / Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. New York : BasicCivitas Books, c2009

325.6096 NGUG

 

Nederveen Pieterse, Jan.. : Globalization or empire? / Jan Nederveen Pieterse. New York : Routledge, 2004.          

327.73 NEDE

 

Davies, Julia (Julia Alison). : Web 2.0 for schools : learning and social  participation / Julia Davies, Guy Merchant. New York : Peter Lang, c2009.        371.3344678 DAVI

 

Bloch, Graeme.. : The toxic mix : what's wrong with South Africa's schools and how to fix it / Graeme Bloch. Cape Town : Tafelberg, 2009.       

379.68 BLOC

           

International L.A.U.D.-Symposium (29th : 2002 : Landau, Germany) : Cognitive models in language and thought : ideology, metaphors and meanings / edited by René Dirven, Roslyn Frank, Martin Pütz. Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003   

415 INTE

 

Prinsloo, A. F.. : 13 klutse kwyt : van Saambou tot die SAUK : werksherinneringe van Dr. Anton / Anton F. Prinsloo. Pretoria : Protea Boekhuis, 2009        

439.36092 PRIN

 

Berry, Jedediah.. : The manual of detection / Jedediah Berry. London : William Heinemann, 2009    

813.6 BERR

 

Dolin, Tim, 1959-. : George Eliot / Tim Dolin. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

823.884 DOLI

 

Renault, Mary, 1905-1983.. : The praise singer / Mary Renault. London : Arrow Books, 2004           

823.91 RENA

 

Renault, Mary.. : The last of the wine / Mary Renault. London : Arrow Books, 2004

823.91 RENA

 

Stanley, Michael.. : A carrion death / Michael Stanley. London : Headline, 2008.

828.9685 STAN

 

Bareiss, Andreas Friedrich, 1980-. : Herschel Feibel Grynszpan : der Attentäter und die "Reichskristallnacht" : eine Tatsachenerzählung / Andreas Friedrich Bareiss. Giessen : Haland & Wirth im Psychosozial-Verlag, c2005  

833.92 BARE

 

Kombuis, Koos.. : Seks & drugs & boeremusiek : die memoires van 'n  volksverraaier / Koos A. Kombuis. Kaapstad : Human & Rousseau, 2000      

839.3614 LETO(LETO)

 

Queer italia : same-sex desire in Italian literature and film / [edited by] Gary P. Cestaro. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004          

850.9353 QUEE

 

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.. : The comedies of Machiavelli / edited and translated by David Sices and James B. Atkinson. Indianapolis, IN : Hackett Pub., [2007].

854.312 MACH

 

The comedy and tragedy of Machiavelli : essays on the literary works / edited by Vickie B. Sullivan. New Haven; London : Yale University Press, c2000

854.314 COME

 

Aswānī, ʻAlā', 1957-. : The Yacoubian Building / Alaa Al Aswany; translated by Humphrey Davies. London : Harper Perennial, 2007          

892.737 ASWA

 

Between the Middle Ages and modernity : individual and community in the early modern world / edited by Charles H. Parker and Jerry H. Bentley. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, c2007   

909 BETW

 

Elusive peace : negotiating an end to civil wars / I. William Zartman, editor. Washington, D.C : Brookings Institution, c1995  

909.82 ELUS

 

Hester, Thomas R., 1946-. : Field methods in archaeology / Thomas R. Hester, Harry J. Shafer, Kenneth L. Feder. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2009.          

913.031028 HEST

 

Retsö, Jan.. : The Arabs in antiquity : their history from the Assyrians to the Umayyads / Jan Retsö. London : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003          

930.04927 RETS

 

Bosma, Ulbe, 1962-. : Being "Dutch" in the Indies : a history of creolisation and empire, 1500-1920 / Ulbe Bosma and Remco Raben; translated by Wendie Shaffer. Singapore : NUS Press; Athens : Ohio University, c2008

959.802 BOSM

 

Cloete, Stuart, 1897-1976. : African portraits : a biography of Paul Kruger, Cecil Rhodes and Lobengula / Stuart Cloete. London : Collins, 1946.           

968.1 CLOE

 

Pottinger, Brian.. : The Mbeki legacy / Brian Pottinger. Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2008968.19 POTT

 

Matshazi, Meshack Jongilanga.. : Zimbabwe : with Robert Mugabe to the brink of the  abyss / by M.J. Matshazi. Alice [South Africa] : University of Fort Hare Press, 2007    

968.91051 MATS

 

Macintyre, Stuart, 1947-.. : A concise history of Australia / Stuart Macintyre. Cambridge; Port Melbourne, VIC : Cambridge University Press, 2009      

994 MACI

 

 

2.       SHORT LOAN BOOKS

Brathwaite, E.. :  Arrivants : a new world triology : rights of passage, islands, masks. Oxford University Press, 1981.

828.9725 BRAT

 

 

3.      SHORT LOAN PAMPHLETS (RP)

Nattrass, Nicoli.. : Government leadership and ARV provision in developing countries / Nicoli Nattrass. Cape Town : Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, 2008.

RP 362.1969792 NATT

 

 

4.      CLASSROOM COLLECTION (WHJ)

Swart, Nico, 1959-.. : Money skills for learners : how to create your own positive financial future / by Nico Swart. [South Africa : s.n.], 2009      

WHJ 332.024 SWAR

           

Somali, Sicelo Cromwell.. : African streams : English short stories / Sicelo Cromwell Somali. [South Africa] : Crink, c2008           

WHJ 828.9685 SOMA

 

Du Toit, C. M. (Cecilia Magdalena). : Boetie Beter Bester / C. du Toit; aantekeninge en aktiwiteite deur Marianne Peacock. Kaapstad : Maskew Miller Longman, 2008   

WHJ 839.3626 DUTO

 

Sussie Veer is dood, en ander verhale / saamgestel deur Riana Scheepers en Rachelle Greef; vrae en aktiwiteite deur Ronél Gouws en Marianne Peacock. Kaapstad : Maskew Miller Longman, 2009         

WHJ 839.36308 SUSS

 

 

5.      SCHOOL TEXTBOOKS (WHT)

English matters. Grade 4, Learner's book / Karen Montgomery, Sue Ollerhead, Glynis Lloyd. Cape Town : Cambridge University Press, 2004

WHT 42.2 ENGL

 

Technology matters. Grade 6,Teacher's guide / Lin Bassett ... [et. al]. Cape Town; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.   

WHT 62 TECH

 

 

6.      FROM THE COMMERCE LIST

Janoski, Thomas.. : The comparative political economy of the welfare state / Thomas Janoski, Alexander M. Hicks. Cambridge, UK; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1994        

330.126 JANO

 

Panagariya, Arvind.. : India : the emerging giant / Arvind Panagariya. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2008.

330.95405 PANA

 

Hutchings, Victoria.. : Messrs Hoare bankers : a history of the Hoare banking dynasty / Victoria Hutchings. London : Constable, 2005

332.123 HOAR

 

Bordo, Michael D.. : The gold standard and related regimes : collected essays / Michael D. Bordo. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, c1999

332.4222 BORD

 

Goldberg, Richard (Richard S.), 1952-.. : The battle for Wall Street : behind the Lines in the struggle that pushed an industry into turmoil / Richard Goldberg. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009   

332.64273 GOLD

           

Tett, Gillian.. : Fool's gold : how unrestrained greed corrupted a dream, shattered global markets and unleashed a catastrophe / Gillian Tett. London : Little, Brown, 2009          

332.660973 TETT

 

The rules of globalization : case book / editor, Rawi Abdelal. Singapore; Hackensack,   N.J. : World Scientific, c2008

337 RULE

 

Michel, Serge.. : China safari : on the trail of Beijing's expansion in Africa / Serge Michel and Michel Beuret; photographs by Paolo Woods; translated by Raymond Valley. New York : Nation Books, 2009

337.5106 MICH

           

Venter, Bill.. : In pursuit of a dream : Bill Venter and the Altron story; [editor, Charlene Smith]. Parktown : Shinglewood Press, 2009       

338.092 VENT

           

Pepper, John, 1938-. : What really matters : service, leadership, people, and   values / John Pepper. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2007

338.767092 PEPP

 

Joubert, H. J.. : The law of education in South Africa / Rika Joubert & Sakkie Prinsloo. Pretoria : Van Schaik Publishers, 2009.  

344.070968 JOUB

 

Fung, Archon, 1968-. : Full disclosure : the perils and promise of transparency / Archon Fung, Mary Graham, David Weil. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007   

352.38 FUNG

           

Holt-Giménez, Eric.. : Food rebellions! : crisis and the hunger for justice / Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel; with Annie Shattuck. Cape Town : Pambazuka Press; Oakland, CA : Food First Books; Boston, MA : Grassroots International, 2009   

363.8 HOLT

 

Comaroff, Jean.. : An excursion into the criminal anthropology of the brave neo South Africa / Jean and John Comaroff. Berlin : Lit, c2006.       

364.968 COMA

 

 

7.      FROM THE SCIENCE LIST

Prebiotics and probiotics science and technology / Dimitris Charalampopoulos, Robert A. Rastall (eds.). New York : Springer, c2009.         

615.329 PREB

 

GM human vaccines in South Africa : a case for the precautionary principle. Melville, South Africa : African Centre for Biosafety, c2008.        

615.372 GM

           

Rose, Sarah.. : For all the tea in China : espionage, empire and the secret formula for the world's favourite drink / Sarah Rose. London : Hutchinson, 2009         

633.72 ROSE

 

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1.      NEW IN HUMANITIES

Newman, Isadore.. : Qualitative-quantitative research methodology : exploring the interactive continuum / Isadore Newman and Carolyn R. Benz. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1998  

001.42 NEWM

Morley, Deborah.. : Understanding computers in a changing society / Deborah

Morley. Boston, Mass. : Course Technology, Cengage Learning, 2009    

004 MORL

Weill, Peter.. : IT savvy : what top executives must know to go from pain to    gain / Peter Weill, Jeanne W. Ross. Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2009      

004.0684 WEIL

Theodoridis, Sergios, 1951-. : Pattern recognition / Sergios Theodoridis, Konstantinos Koutroumbas. Burlington : Academic Press, c2009       

006.4 THEO

Teaching Generation M : a handbook for librarians and educators / edited by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Robert J. Lackie. New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2009    

027.626 TEAC

Bayard, Pierre, 1954-. : How to talk about books you haven't read / Pierre Bayard; translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman. London : Granta, 2008.

028 BAYA

The state of scholarly publishing : challenges and opportunities / Albert N. Greco, editor. New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c2009       

070.5 STAT

Distributed cognition and the will : individual volition and social context / edited by Don Ross ... [et al.]. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007       

128.3 DIST

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535.. : Three books of occult philosophy / written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa of Nettesheim, completely annotated with modern commentary; translated by James Freake; edited and annotated by Donald Tyson. St. Paul, MN, U.S.A. : Llewellyn, 1993 

133 AGRI

Panksepp, Jaak, 1943-. : Affective neuroscience : the foundations of human and animal emotions / Jaak Panksepp. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.    

156.24 PANK

Teaching research methods in the social sciences / edited by Mark Garner, Claire Wagner, and Barbara Kawulich. Farnham : Ashgate, c2009.       

300.72 TEAC

Tredinnick, Luke.. : Digital information culture : the individual and society in the digital age / Luke Tredinnick. Oxford, England : Chandos, 2008   

303.4833 TRED

African women and ICTs : Investigating technology, gender and empowerment / edited by Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb. London; New York : Zed Books;  Ottawa : International Development Research Centre; Pretoria, South Africa : Unisa Press; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009    

303.4833082 AFRI

Strengthening the women's sector : an evaluation of organisations involved in addressing women's issues in South Africa / [study commissioned by the Foundation for Human Rights (FHR/the Foundation) and funded by Irish Aid]. Braamfontein [South Africa] : Foundation for Human Rights, 2009.   

305.420968 STRE

Bawer, Bruce, 1956-. : Surrender : appeasing Islam, sacrificing freedom / Bruce Bawer. New York : Doubleday, c2009 

305.697 BAWE

Majid, Anouar, 1960-. : Unveiling traditions : postcolonial Islam in a polycentric world / Anouar Majid. Durham : Duke University Press, 2000 

306.091767 MAJI

Long, Carol.. : Contradicting maternity : HIV-positive motherhood in South   Africa / Carol Long. Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2009 

306.87430968 LONG

Sivaramakrishnan, K. C. (Kallidaikurichi Chidambarakrishnan) 1935-. : Handbook of urbanization in India : an analysis of trends and processes / K.C. Sivaramakrishnan, Amitabh Kundu, B.N. Singh. New Delhi; New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2007     

307.760954 SIVA

Sen, Amartya, 1933-. : The idea of justice / Amartya Sen. London ; New York : Allen Lane, 2009.   

320.011 SEN

Smith, Nico.. : Die Afrikaner Broederbond : belewinge van die binnekant / Nico Smit. Pretoria : LAPA Uitgewers, 2009

320.540968 SMIT

Brown, Chris, 1945-. : Understanding international relations / Chris Brown and Kirsten Ainley. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2009   

327 BROW

Byman, Daniel, 1967-. : Deadly connections : states that sponsor terrorism / Daniel Byman. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007    

327.117 BYMA

Humanist educational treatises / translated by Craig W. Kallendorf. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008  

370.1120945 HUMA

Davies, Lloyd, 1935-. : Informal learning : a new model for making sense of experience / Lloyd Davies. Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT : Gower, c2008

370.1523 DAVI

Chisholm, Linda.. : An overview of research, policy and practice in teacher supply and demand, 1994-2008 / Linda Chisholm. Cape Town : HSRC Press, 2009

371.100968 CHIS

Cullingford, Cedric.. : Computers, schools and students : the effects of  technology / Cedric Cullingford and Nusrat Haq. Farnham, England; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2009   

373.1334 CULL

Cosser, Michael.. : Ambitions revised : Grade 12 learner destinations : one year on / Michael Cosser with Sekinah Sehlola. Cape Town : HSRC, 2009.

378.68 COSS

Hartshorne, K. B. (Kenneth Brown). : The making of education policy in South Africa / Ken Hartshorne. Cape Town : Oxford University Press, 1999.      

379.68 HART

Language teaching : integrational linguistic approaches / edited by Michael Toolan. New York; London : Routledge, 2009      

418.0071 LANG

Halala Afrikaans / Daniel Hugo (redakteur); Andries "Roof" Bezuidenhout ... [et al.].  Pretoria : Protea Boekhuis, 2009  

439.3609 HALA

Gooding, Francis.. : Black light : myth and meaning in modern painting / Francis Gooding. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009        

704.947 GOOD

Peffer, John.. : Art and the end of apartheid / John Peffer. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009         

709.968 PEFF

Vigran, Tor Erik.. : Building acoustics / Tor Erik Vigran. London : Taylor & Francis, 2008         729.29 VIGR

The handbook to literary research / edited by Delia da Sousa Correa and W.R. Owens. London : Routledge, 2010         

807.2 HAND

Bending the bow : an anthology of African love poetry / edited by Frank M. Chipasula. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2009       

808.8193543 BEND

The English "Loathly Lady" tales : boundaries, traditions, motifs / edited by S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter. Kalamazoo, Mich. : Medieval Institute Publications, c2007

821.1093522 ENGL

Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924.. : Heart of darkness / Joseph Conrad. London : Penguin, 1973.  

823.91 CONR

Marciano, Francesca.. : The end of manners / Francesca Marciano. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2009.         

828.9675 MARC

Bosman, Herman Charles, 1905-1951.. : The complete Oom Schalk Lourens stories / Herman Charles Bosman  edited by Craig Mackenzie. Cape Town : Human & Rousseau, 2006       

828.9685 BOSM

Van Coller, H. P.. : Tussenstand : letterkundige opstelle / H.P. van Coller. Pretoria : Van Schaik, 2009        

839.3609 VANC

Breytenbach, Breyten.. : A veil of footsteps : (memoir of a nomadic fictional character) / Breyten Breytenbach. Cape Town : Human & Rousseau, 2008     

839.3614 BREY

Breytenbach, Breyten.. : Oorblyfsel : op reis in gesprek met Magmoed Darwiesj = Voice over : the nomadic conversation with Mahmoud Darwish / Breyten Breytenbach. Kaapstad : Human & Rousseau, 2009   

839.3614 BREY

Barnard, Chris, 1939-. : Mahala / Chris Barnard; translated by Luzette Strauss. Laverstock, Wiltshire, U.K. : Aflame Books, 2009  

839.3634 BARN

Meyer, Deon.. : Heart of the hunter / Deon Meyer  translated by K.L. Seegers. London : Hodder, 2007       

839.3634 MEYE

Meyer, Deon.. : Dead at daybreak / Deon Meyer; translated by Madeleine van Biljon. London : Coronet, c2000.         

839.3634 MEYE

Wyngaard, Bettina.. : Troos vir die gebrokenes / Bettina Wyngaard. Kaapstad : Umuzi, 2009 

839.3636 WYNG

Hawes, Elizabeth, 1940-. : Camus, a romance / Elizabeth Hawes. New York, NY : Grove Press, c2009         

843.91 CAMU(HAWE)

Gunzberg, Lynn M.. : Strangers at home : Jews in the Italian literary imagination/ Lynn M. Gunzberg. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992

850.9352 GUNZ

Cox, Virginia.. : Women's writing in Italy, 1400-1650 / Virginia Cox. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008  

850.99287 COX

Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.. : Invectives / Francesco Petrarca; translated by David Marsh. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008     

851.181 INVE

Recent themes in historical thinking : historians in conversation / edited by Donald A. Yerxa. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2008

901 RECE

Recent themes in world history and the history of the West : historians in conversation / edited by Donald A. Yerxa. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2009.       

907.2 RECE

Recent themes on historians and the public : historians in conversation / edited by Donald A. Yerxa. Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, c2009

907.2 RECE

Murland, Jerry.. : Departed warriors : the story of a family in war / Jerry Murland. Leicester : Matador, c2008.

941.082092 MURL(MURL)

Lal, Vinay.. : Of cricket, Guinness and Gandhi : essays on Indian history and culture / Vinay Lal. Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2003 

954.035 LAL

Keim, Curtis A.. : Mistaking Africa : curiosities and inventions of the American mind / Curtis Keim. Boulder, CO : Westview Press, c2009.      

960 KEIM

2.      DVDS IN SHORT LOAN

Chahine, Y:  Alexandria why?  

RZDV 791.43 ALEX

Marker,C:  la Jetee  

RZDV 791.43 JETE

First Australians : the untold story of Australia (2 Disc DVD)

RZDV 994 FIRS

3.      BOOKS IN SHORT LOAN

Agamben, G.. :  Means without end: notes on  politics.  University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

320.1 AGAM

4.     CLASSROOM COLLECTION (WHJ)

Bloemhof, François.. : Stad aan die einde van die wêreld / François Bloemhof. Kaapstad : Maskew Miller Longman, 2007.       

WHJ 839.363 BLOE

Maartens, Maretha.. : In die hemel eet 'n mens mieliepap / Maretha Maartens. Kaapstad : Maskew Miller Longman, 2007.

WHJ 839.363 MAAR

5.     FROM THE COMMERCE LIST

Gamble, Andrew. : The spectre at the feast : capitalist crisis and the politics of recession / Andrew Gamble. Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

330.90511 GAMB

Advances in development economics / editor, Dipak Basu. Singapore : World Scientific, c2009.        

330.91724 ADVA

The economy of Ghana : analytical perspectives on stability, growth and poverty / edited by Ernest Aryeetey and Ravi Kanbur. Oxford : James Currey; Accra,  Ghana : Woeli Publishing Services, 2008.     

330.966705 ECON

         

Wessel, David.. : In Fed we trust : Ben Bernanke's war on the great panic / David Wessel. New York : Crown Business, c2009       

332.110973 WESS

Environmental valuation in developed countries : case studies / edited by David Pearce. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, c2006

333.7 ENVI

         

The Bethal trial story : 'where do we begin -- ' / Templeton 'Pops' Mageza ... [et al.]  Johannesburg : Class of 76, 2009       

345.02310968 BETH

Bhatnagar, Subhash C.. : Unlocking e-government potential : concepts, cases and practical insights / Subhash Bhatnagar. New Delhi, India : SAGE, 2009

352.3802854678 BHAT

Blake, Cameron.. : Troepie :from call-up to camps / Cameron Blake. Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2009.

355.00968 BLAK

Morgan, Patrick M., 1940-. : Deterrence now / Patrick M. Morgan. Cambridge [England]; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003        

355.0217 MORG

Adapting health communication to cultural needs : optimizing documents in South-African health communication on HIV and AIDS / edited by Piet Swanepoel, Hans Hoeken. Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008   

362.1969792 ADAP

Quigley, Fran, 1962-. : Walking together, walking far : how a U.S. and African medical school partnership is winning the fight against HIV/AIDS / Fran Quigley ; foreword by Paul Farmer. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009 

362.1969792 QUIG 

Violence against women : a study of women's experiences and views of men post 1994 / [study commissioned by the Foundation for Human Rights (FHR/the Foundation) and funded by Irish Aid]. Braamfontein [South Africa] : Foundation for Human Rights, 2009

362.830968 VIOL

         

Fair trade : the challenges of transforming globalization / edited by Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas L. Murray, and John Wilkinson. London : Routledge, 2007  

382.3 FAIR

Free trade and uneven development : the North American apparel industry after NAFTA / edited by Gary Gereffi, David Spener, and Jennifer Bair. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2002

382.45687 FREE

6.     FROM THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING LIST

Snieder, Roel, 1958-. : The art of being a scientist : a guide for graduate students and their mentors / Roel Snieder and Ken Larner. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.     

502.3 SNIE

         

Sousa, David A.. : How the brain learns mathematics / David A. Sousa. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2008.

510.71 SOUS

Pilone, Tracey.. : Head first algebra / Tracey Pilone, Dan Pilone. Sebastopol, CA : O'Reilly, c2009     

512 PILO

Coyne, Jerry A., 1949-. : Why evolution is true / Jerry A. Coyne. New York : Viking, 2009)    

576.8 COYN

         

         

7.     FROM THE SCIENCE LEISURE READING (DSL)    

Nicholson, Martin.. : Energy in a changing climate / Martin Nicholson. Dural Delivery Centre, NSW : Rosenberg, 2009  

DSL 333.794 NICH

Freely, John.. : Aladdin's lamp : how Greek science came to Europe through the Islamic world / John Freely. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009   

DSL 509 FREE

Livio, Mario, 1945-. : Is God a mathematician? / Mario Livio. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009      

DSL 510 LIVI

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.. : On the origin of species / Charles Darwin ; David Quammen, general editor. New York : Sterling, c2008        

DSL 576.82 DARW

Aitken, Richard.. : Botanical riches : stories of botanical exploration / Richard Aitken. Aldershot : Lund Humphries/Ashgate, 2008    

DSL 580.9 AITK

Crouch, Tom D.. : Lighter than air : an illustrated history of balloons and  airships / Tom D. Crouch. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, in association with the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, c2009 

DSL 629.133209 CROU

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1. Humanities New Books


Younker, Jeff.. : Foundations of agile Python development / Jeff Younker. Berkeley, CA : Apress, c2008.
005.133 PYTH(YOUN)

Ziadé, Tarek.. : Expert Python programming : learn best practices to designing, coding, and distributing your Python software / Tarek Ziadé; foreword by Shannon Behrens. Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2008
005.133 PYTH(ZIAD)

Ethical leadership and the challenges of moral transformation / editor, Gordon E. Dames. Stellenbosch : SUN Press, 2009.
174 ETHI

Godman, Peter.. : Paradoxes of conscience in the High Middle Ages : Abelard, Heloise, and the Archpoet / Peter Godman. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
189.4 GODM

Stone, Merlin.. : The Paradise papers : the suppression of women's rites / Merlin Stone. London : Virago ; Quartet Books, 1976.
200.82 STON

Kearney, Paddy.. : Guardian of the light : Denis Hurley : renewing the church, opposing apartheid / Paddy Kearney. Scotsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009.
282.092 HURL(KEAR)

New perspectives on Islam in Senegal : conversion, migration, wealth, power, and femininity / edited by Mamadou Diouf and Mara A. Leichtman. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
297.09663 NEW

Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-. : Islamic liberation theology : resisting the empire / Hamid Dabashi. London; New York : Routledge, 2008.
297.272 DABA

Burke, Peter.. : Cultural hybridity / Peter Burke. Cambridge : Polity Press, 2009.
303.482 BURK

Ommer, Rosemary.. : Coasts under stress : restructuring and social-ecological health / Rosemary E. Ommer and the Coasts Under Stress Research Project team. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007.
304.20971 OMME

Genocide : truth, memory, and representation / edited by Alexander Laban Hinton and Kevin Lewis O'Neill. Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
304.663 GENO

Nagar, Richa.. : Playing with fire : feminist thought and activism through seven lives in India / Sangtin Writers, Anupamlata ... [et al.], and Richa Nagar; foreword by Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, c2006.
305.420954 NAGA

Questions of modernity / Timothy Mitchell, editor. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.
306.091724 QUES

Alvesson, Mats, 1956-. : Understanding gender and organizations / Mats Alvesson and Yvonne Due Billing. London : SAGE, 2009.
306.3615 ALVE

Davie, Grace.. : The sociology of religion / Grace Davie. Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2007.
306.6 DAVI

Adolescent sexuality : a historical handbook and guide / edited by Carolyn Cocca. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.
306.70835 ADOL

African city textualities / edited by Ranka Primorac. London : Routledge, 2010.
307.76096 AFRI

Feinstein, Andrew, 1964-. : After the party : a personal and political journey inside the
ANC / Andrew Feinstein. Johannesburg : Jonathan Ball, 2009.
320.968 FEIN

Advancing a human rights agenda in South Africa : perspectives from civil society. Braamfontein [South Africa] : Foundation for Human Rights, c2009.
323.0968 ADVA

Hughes, Mike, 1961-. : Closing the learning gap / Mike Hughes; [edited by Gina Walker]. London : Network Continuum, 1999 (2008 printing)
370.1523 HUGH

Wedell, Martin.. : Planning for educational change : putting people and their contexts first / Martin We dell. London; New York, NY : Continuum, c2009.
371.200941 WEDE

The design of instruction and evaluation : affordances of using media and technology / edited by Mitchell Rabinowitz, Fran C. Blumberg, Howard T. Everson. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2004.
371.33 DESI

Bird, Ronit.. : The dyscalculia toolkit : supporting learning difficulties in maths / Ronit Bird. London : Paul Chapman, 2007.
371.90447 BIRD

Gifford, Susan.. : Teaching mathematics 3-5 : developing learning in the foundation stage / Sue Gifford. Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2005.
372.7044 GIFF

Compton, Ashley.. : Supporting numeracy : a guide for school support staff / Ashley Compton, Helen Fielding and Mike Scott. London : Paul Chapman Publishing, 2007.
372.72044 COMP

Asher, Donald.. : Graduate admissions essays : write your way into the graduate school of your choice / Donald Asher. Berkeley, CA : Ten Speed Press, c2008.
378.161 ASHE

The future of higher education : policy, pedagogy and the student experience / edited by Les Bell, Mike Neary and Howard Stevenson. London; New York, NY : Continuum, c2009.
378.41 FUTU

Sammons, Pam.. : School effectiveness : coming of age in the twenty-first century / Pam Sammons. Lisse : Swets & Zeitlinger, c1999.
379.158 SAMM

Yudelson, Jerry.. : Green building through integrated design / Jerry Yudelson. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2009.
721.0467 YUDE

Photographies East : the camera and its histories in East and Southeast Asia / edited by Rosalind C. Morris. Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2009.
770.95 PHOT

Drabble, Margaret, 1939-. : The pattern in the carpet : a personal history with jigsaws / Margaret Drabble. London : Atlantic Books, 2009.
793.73 DRAB

How to write / edited by Philip Oltermann. London : Guardian Books, 2009.
808.02 HOW

Northey, Margot, 1940-. : Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing : geography and environmental sciences / Margot Northey, David B. Knight, Dianne Draper. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2009.
808.0666 NORT

Northey, Margot, 1940-. : Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing : engineering and the technical sciences / Margot Northey, Judi Jewinski. Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2009.
808.0666 NORT

English, Barbara.. : Putting it into words : how to write a great research report / Barbara English, Susan van Tonder. Wandsbeck, South Africa : Reach Publishers, c2009.
808.06661 ENGL

The other side of terror : an anthology of writings on terrorism in South Asia / edited by Nivedita Majumdar. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009.
808.80358 OTHE

Warren, Rosanna.. : Fables of the self : studies in lyric poetry / Rosanna Warren. New
York : W.W. Norton, c2008.
809.14 WARR

Varisco, Daniel Martin.. : Reading orientalism : Said and the unsaid / Daniel Martin Varisco. Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.
809.93325 SAID(VARI)

Hall, Donald, 1928-. : Unpacking the boxes : a memoir of a life in poetry / Donald Hall. Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009.
811.54 HALL(HALL)

Barczewski, Stephanie L.. : Myth and national identity in nineteenth-century Britain : the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood / Stephanie L. Barczewski. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2000.
820.9358 BARC

Donne, John, 1572-1631.. : The poems of John Donne / edited by Robin Robbins. Harlow, England : Pearson/Longman, 2008.
821.352 POEM

Jackson, Michael, 1940-. : The palm at the end of the mind : relatedness, religiosity, and the real / Michael Jackson. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, c2009.
828.91409 JACK

Brodrick, S. I.. : Unwanted : a novel based on historic events / S.I. Brodrick. Cape Town : S.I. Brodrick, 2009
828.9685 BROD

Coetzee, J. M., 1940-. : Summertime : scenes from provincial life / J.M. Coetzee. London : Harvill Secker, 2009.
828.9685 COET

Emdon, Erica.. : Jelly dog days / Erica Emdon. Johannesburg : Penguin, 2009.
828.9685 EMDO

Paton, Alan.. : Alan Paton : selected letters / edited and introduced by Peter F. Alexander. Cape Town : Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2009.
828.9685 PATO

Van Schalkwyk, Tania.. : Hyphen / Tania van Schalkwyk. [Cape Town] : Centre for Creative Writing, University of Cape Town : Electric Book Works, 2009.
828.9685 VANS

Le Clézio, J.-M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave), 1940-. : Onitsha / J.M.G. Le Clézio; translated by Alison Anderson. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1997.
843.914 LECL

Tadjo, Véronique, 1955-. : As the crow flies / Véronique Tadjo; translated from the French by Wangäui wa Goro. Johannesburg : Penguin Books, 2009.
848.9665 TADJ

Marsili Antonetti, Renata.. : Lina e Luigi Pirandello : una vita straordinaria / Renata Marsili Antonetti. Roma : Azimut, c2007.
852.912 PIRA(MARS)

Pirandello, Luigi, 1867-1936.. : Aforismi / Luigi Pirandello ; a cura di Gino Ruozzi. Milano : Biblioteca universale  Rizzoli, 2007.
852.912 PIRA

Santeramo, Donato, 1959-. : Luigi Pirandello : la parola, la scena e il mito / Donato Santeramo. Roma : NEU, c2007.
852.912 PIRA(SANT)

Pressburger, Giorgio, 1937-. : Nel regno oscuro / Giorgio Pressburger. [Milan, Italy] : Bompiani, 2008.
853.914 PRES

Briscoe, John, 1938-. : A commentary on Livy, books 38-40 / by John Briscoe. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
878.4 B 38-40

Lev Kenaan, Vered.. : Pandora's senses : the feminine character of the ancient text / Vered Lev Kenaan. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.
 880.9351 LEV

An Oresteia / translated by Anne Carson. New York : Faber and Faber, 2009.
882.0108 AN

Barczewski, Stephanie L.. : Antarctic destinies : Scott, Shackleton and the changing face of heroism / Stephanie Barczewski. London : Hambledon Continuum, 2007.
919.8904092 SCOT(BARC)

Jacoby, Susan, 1945-. : The age of American unreason / Susan Jacoby. London : Old Street Pub., c2008.
973.92 JACO

 

2. Reference Books


Touliatos, John (ED): Handbook of Family Measurement Techniques.  3 Volumes
R 306.85 HAND

Bramwell, David: Mellifluous Book of Hard Words: Read it, Know it, Use it.
R 823.1 BRAM

Benson, Eugene (ED): Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature.
R 828.97103 OXFO


3. DVDs in Short Loan


Kubrick, S: Barry Lyndon
RZDV 823 BARR

Spielberg, Steven: Amistad
RZDV 791.43 AMIS

4. Books in Short Loan


Offiong, Daniel: Globalisation: Post-Neodependency and Poverty on Africa.
337 GLOB

Shiel, Mark: Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City.
791.430945 SHIE

Odell, Colin: Studio Ghibli: The Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata.
791.73340952 ODEL


5. Recreational Reading (RR)


Taggart, Caroline.. : A classical education : the stuff you wish you'd been taught at school / Caroline Taggart. London : Michael O'Mara, 2009.
RR 032.02 TAGG

Kleist, Heinrich von, 1777-1811.. : Michael Kohlhaas / by Heinrich von Kleist; translated by Martin Greenberg. Hoboken, NJ : Melville House Publishing, 2004.
RR 832.682 MICH


6. Classroom Collection

De Villiers, Leon, 1960-. : Shorn / Leon de Villiers; [translated by Elsa Silke]. Pretoria : LAPA, 2009.
WHJ 839.363 DEVI

 

7. Commerce Books


Critical realism in economics :development and debate / edited by Steve Fleetwood.
London : Routledge, 1999.
330 CRIT


Beyond varieties of capitalism : conflict, contradictions, and complementarities in the European economy / edited by Boe Hancké, Martin Rhodes, and Mark Thatcher. Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007.
330.94 BEYO

Reshaping the American workforce in a changing economy / edited by Harry J. Holzer and Demetra Smith Nightingale. Washington, D.C. : Urban Institute Press, c2007.
331.10973 RESH


Critical realism and Marxism / edited by Andrew Brown, Steve Fleetwood, and John Michael Roberts. London; New York : Routledge, 2002.
335.401 CRIT


Boadway, Robin W., 1943-. : Fiscal federalism : principles and practices of multiorder governance / Robin Boadway, Anwar Shah. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
336 BOAD


Osirim, Mary Johnson.. : Enterprising women in urban Zimbabwe : gender, microbusiness, and globalization / Mary Johnson Osirim. Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.
338.04082 OSIR


Coordination and growth : essays in honour of Simon K. Kuipers / edited by Gerard H. Kuper, Elmer Sterken, Els Wester.  Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2001.
338.9 COOR

Economic geography and public policy / Richard Baldwin ... [et al.].  Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2003.
338.9 ECON

 

The politics of service delivery / edited by Anne Mc Lennan and Barry Munslow. Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, 2009.
352.140968 POLI


The politics of service delivery / edited by Anne Mc Lennan and Barry Munslow. Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, 2009.
352.140968 POLI

 

Breytenbach, Jan. : They live by the sword / Jan Breytenbach. Alberton, South Africa : Lemur, 1990.
355.4768 BREY


HIV/AIDS financing and spending in Eastern and Southern Africa / edited by Vailet Mukotsanjera. Pretoria : IDASA, 2008.
362.19697920096 HIV

 

Mugyenyi, Peter.. : Genocide by denial : how profiteering from HIV/AIDS killed millions / Peter Mugyenyi.  Kampala : Fountain Publishers; East Lansing, MI : Distributed by Michigan State Univ. Press, 2008.
362.196979200967 MUGY

 

Preserving the cultural heritage of Africa : crisis or renaissance? / edited by Kenji Yoshida & John Mack.  Suffolk; Rochester, NY : James Currey; [Pretoria] : Unisa Press, 2008.
363.69096 PRES


Bell, Michael, 1957-. : An invitation to environmental sociology. Los Angeles : Pine Forge Press, c2009.
363.7 BELL


Franchetti, Matthew J.. : Solid waste analysis and minimization : a systems approach / Matthew J. Franchetti.  New York : McGraw-Hill, c2009.
363.7285 FRAN


Gadd, David, 1975-. : Psychosocial criminology / David Gadd and Tony Jefferson.  Los Angeles : SAGE, 2007.
364.3 GADD


Grava, Sigurd.. : Urban transportation systems : choices for communities / Sigurd Grava. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2003.
388.4 GRAV


Bus rapid transit planning guide / [editors, Lloyd Wright, Walter Hook]. New York, NY : Institute for Transportation & Development Policy, 2007.
388.41322 BUS


King, Mervyn E.. : The corporate citizen : governance for all entities / Mervyn E. King. Johannesburg : Penguin Books, c2006.
658.4 KING



8. Science and Engineering Books


Hargittai, Magdolna.. : Visual symmetry / Magdolna Hargittai, István Hargittai. Singapore; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2009.
500 HARG

Nanda, Meera.. : Prophets facing backward : postmodern critiques of science and Hindu nationalism in India / Meera Nanda.  New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003.
509.54 NAND

Sutherland, Rosamund, 1947-. : Teaching for learning mathematics / Rosamund Sutherland.  Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2007.
510.71 SUTH

Heun's differential equations / edited by A. Ronveaux; with contributions by F.M. Arscott ... [et al.].  Oxford : Oxford University Press, c1995.
515.354 HEUN

Linder, Wilfried, 1959-. : Digital photogrammetry : a practical course / Wilfried Linder. Berlin : Springer, c2009.
526.982 LIND

Hopley, David.. : The geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef : development, diversity, and change / David Hopley, Scott G. Smithers, Kevin E. Parnell.  Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
551.42409943 HOPL

Clift, P. D. (Peter D.). : The Asian monsoon : causes, history and effects / Peter D. Clift, R. Alan Plumb.  Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
551.5184 CLIF

Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.. : Evolutionary writings / Charles Darwin; edited by James A. Secord. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
576.82092 DARW(DARW)

Minelli, Alessandro.. : Perspectives in animal phylogeny and evolution / Alessandro Minelli. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
591.38 MINE

Du Preez, L. H. (Louis H.). : A complete guide to the frogs of southern Africa / Louis du Preez, Vincent Carruthers; with advice from Marius Berger ... [et al.].  Cape Town, South Africa : Struik Nature, 2009.
597.80968 DUPR

Naono, Atsuko.. : State of vaccination : the fight against smallpox in colonial Burma / Atsuko Naono.  Hyderabad : Orient BlackSwan, 2009.
614.52109591 NAON

Packard, Randall M., 1945-. : The making of a tropical disease : a short history of malaria / Randall M. Packard.  Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
614.532 PACK

Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita.. : Old potions, new bottles : recasting indigenious medicine in colonial Punjab (1850-1945) / Kavita Sivaramakrishnan.  New Delhi : Orient Longman, 2006.
615.538 SIVA

Mental zoo : animals in the human mind and its pathology / edited by Salman Akhtar and Vamik Volkan.  Madison, Conn. : International Universities Press, c2005.
616.89 MENT

Xenopoulos, Rahla.. : A memoir of love and madness : living with bipolar disorder / Rahla Xenopoulos ; [foreword by Ruby Wax].  Cape Town, South Africa : Oshun Books, 2009.
616.895092 XENO(XENO)