Friends of the Weinberg Library Gift Books

This year, the Friends of the Weinberg Library gave a gift of $3500, which has enabled the purchase of the following 59 titles:;

 

Amory, Hugh and David D. Hall (eds). A History of the Book in America. Volume 1. [Worcester, Mass.] : American Antiquarian Society; Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000-.

 

Apel, Dora. Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2002.

 

Barber, Richard W. The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

 

Barry, John M. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History. New York : Viking, 2004.

 

Block, Peter. The Answer to How is Yes: Acting on What Matters. San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003.

 

Bollinger, Martin J. Stalin's Slave Ships: Kolyma, the Gulag Fleet, and the Role of the West. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

 

Bonney, Richard and Zaki Bedawi. Jihad : From Qu’ran to Bin Laden. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

 

Brauer, Norm. The Northern Electric: A Narrative of the Dalton Street Railway Company, Northern Electric Street Railway Co., Scranton & Binghamton Railway Company, Together With a Photo Trip Along the Northern Electric, Litigation and Financial Facts, Memorabilia and Map Section. [S.l. : s.n., 1987].

 

Britton, Wesley A. Spy Television. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

 

Burns, Kristine H. (ed.). Women and Music in America Since 1900: An Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002.

 

Callen, Anthea. The Art of Impressionism: Painting Technique & the Making of Modernity. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2000.

 

Charon, Rita and Martha Montello (eds.). Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics. New York : Routledge, 2002.

 

Chiasson, Jr., Lloyd (ed.). Illusive Shadows: Justice, Media, and Socially Significant American Trials. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

 

Clement, Russell T.; Annick Houze, and Christiane Erbolato-Ramsey. The Women Impressionists: A Sourcebook. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

 

Coffman, Edward M. The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.

 

Cordesman, Anthony H. The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons. Westport, Conn. : Praeger ; Washington, D.C. : Published in cooperation with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2003.

 

Dalton, Sharron. Our Overweight Children: What Parents, Schools, and Communities Can Do to Control the Fatness Epidemic. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2004.

 

DeDera, Lousie S. Scranton Road: The Life and Times of Edward Baker Sturges. Menlo Park, CA : Lousie Sturges DeDera, 2002.

 

Dow, Mark. American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration Prisons. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

 

Ellens, J. Harold (ed.). The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

 

Fields, Rona M. (ed.). Martyrdom: The Psychology, Theology, and Politics of Self-Sacrifice. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

 

Fisher, Erik A. The Art of Managing Everyday Conflict: Understanding Emotions and Power Struggles. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

 

Foley, Michael A. Arbitrary and Capricious: The Supreme Court, the Constitution, and the Death Penalty. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

 

Ford, Kenneth William. The Quantum World: Quantum Physics for Everyone. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

 

Fresonke, Kris and Mark Spence (eds.). Lewis & Clark: Legacies, Memories, and New Perspectives. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.

 

Friedman, Walter A. Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

 

Frugoni, Chiara. Books, Banks, Buttons, and Other Inventions from the Middle Ages. Trans. William McCuaig. New York : Columbia University Press, 2003.

 

Gabriel, Richard A. The Military History of Ancient Israel. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

 

Goodman, Susan T. (ed.). The Emergence of Jewish Artists in Nineteenth-Century Europe. London : Merrell ; New York : in association with the Jewish Museum under the auspices of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2001.

 

Goozner, Merrill. The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.

 

Gordon, R. Michael. The American Murders of Jack the Ripper. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

 

Greenleaf, Robert K. The Power of Servant-Leadership: Essays. Ed. Larry C. Spears. San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1998.

 

Harclerode, Peter and Brendan Pittaway. The Lost Masters: World War II and the Looting of Europe's Treasurehouses. New York : Welcome Rain Publishers, 2000.

 

Hellinga, Lotte, et al. (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume 3. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

 

Jason, Philip K. and Iris Posner. Don't Wave Goodbye: The Children's Flight from Nazi Persecution to American Freedom. Westport, CT : Praeger, 2004.

 

Johnstone, Pauline. High Fashion in the Church: The Place of Church Vestments in the History of Art, From the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century. Leeds, UK : Maney, 2002.

 

Kam, Ephraim. Surprise Attack: The Victim's Perspective. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

 

Kantor, Martin. Distancing: Avoidant Personality Disorder. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

 

Kaplan, Jane. Interfaith Families: Personal Stories of Jewish-Christian Intermarriage. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.

 

Kincheloe, Joe L. and Shirley R. Steinberg (eds.). The Miseducation of the West: How Schools and the Media Distort Our Understanding of the Islamic World. Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2004.

 

King, Rachel. Don't Kill in Our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2003. Leonardo, da Vinci.

 

Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman. Ed. Carmen C. Bambach. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, 2003.

 

Levinson, Paul. Cellphone: The Story of the World's Most Mobile Medium and How It Has Transformed Everything! New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

 

Levy, Evonne Anita. Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.

 

Lossky , Nicholas; [et al.] (eds.). Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement. Geneva, Switzerland : WCC Publications, 2002.

 

Michman, Ronald D., Edward M. Mazze, and Alan J. Greco. Lifestyle Marketing: Reaching the New American Consumer. Michman, Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003.

 

Mock, Douglas W. More Than Kin and Less Than Kind: The Evolution of Family Conflict. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.

 

Nozzi, Dom. Road to Ruin: An Introduction to Sprawl and How to Cure It. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2003.

 

Pohlmann, Marcus D. and Linda Vallar Whisenhunt. Student's Guide to Landmark Congressional Laws on Civil Rights. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002.

 

Prettejohn, Elizabeth. The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2000.

 

Richey, Stephen W. Joan of Arc: The Warrior Saint. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

 

Rouse, Carolyn Moxley. Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.

 

Shearman, John. Raphael in Early Modern Sources: 1483-1602. New Haven, Conn. : London : Yale University Press, 2003.

 

Sossinsky, Alexei. Knots: Mathematics with a Twist. Cambride, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

 

Streibel, Barbara J. The Manager's Guide to Effective Meetings. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2003.

 

Victor, Barbara. Army of Roses: Inside the World of Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers. [Emmaus Pa.] : Rodale : Distributed to the book trade by St. Martin's Press, 2003.

 

Von Baeyer, Hans Christian. Information: The New Language of Science. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.

 

Walker, J. Samuel. Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004.

 

Walls, Nina de Angeli. Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia. Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 2001.