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New Acquisitions (Updated 2/2/10)


These are selected recent acquisitions of St. Mary's University Blume Library arranged by call number for browsing by subject. Check the online catalog before attempting to locate an item on the shelves to verify location and availability.

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A: General
B-BJ: Philosophy, Psychology
BL-BX: Religion, Theology
C-E: History
F-G: History, Geography, Anthropology, Recreation
H-HJ: Economics
HM-HT: Sociology
HV: Criminology
J: Political Science
K: Law
L: Education
M: Music
N: Fine Arts
P-PR: Language, Literature
PS-PZ: Literature, Juvenile Literature
Q: Science (Math, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Biology)
R: Medicine, Psychiatry
S: Agriculture
T: Technology, Engineering
U-V: Military & Naval Science
Z: Library and Information Science

C: History: Auxiliary Sciences of History

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
CB482.S65 2010.
Water : the epic struggle for wealth, power, and civilization / Steven Solomon.
New York : Harper, 2010.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
CR 4743 .H32 2009.
The Templars : the history and the myth / Michael Haag.
New York : Harper, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
CS 71 .H199 2010.
Middling folk : three seas, three centuries, one Scots-Irish family / Linda H. Matthews.
Chicago : Chicago Review Press, 2010.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
CT275.H38672 A3 2009.
Gringa : a contradictory girlhood / Melissa Hart.
Berkeley, Calif. : Seal Press, 2009.

D: History: General and Old World

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
D 16.8 .M251 2009.
Dangerous games : the uses and abuses of history / Margaret MacMillan.
New York : Modern Library, 2009, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D32.H87 2008.
The politics of secularism in international relations / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D 215 .C76 2009.
Empires of the sea : the Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the contest for the center of the world / Roger Crowley.
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D 568.4 .L45 H85 2009.
To begin the world over again : Lawrence of Arabia from Damascus to Baghdad / John C. Hulsman.
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D767.R69 2009.
The Pacific War and its political legacies / Denny Roy.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D767.99.I9 I95 2008.
Iwo Jima : World War II veterans remember the greatest battle of the Pacific / Larry Smith.
New York : W. W. Norton, 2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
D769.8.A6 A64 2009.
Moving images : photography and the Japanese American incarceration / Jasmine Alinder.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D 769.8 .A6 R64 2009.
A tragedy of democracy : Japanese confinement in North America / Greg Robinson.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D 804.196 .T53 A67 2009.
Approaching an Auschwitz survivor : Holocaust testimony and its transformations / edited by Jurgen Matthaus ; foreword by Mark Roseman.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Blume Juv. Lit. 1st Flr.
D804.65.R84 2008.
The Grand Mosque of Paris : a story of how Muslims rescued Jews during the Holocaust / by Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland DeSaix.
New York : Holiday House, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D 805 .G3 H77 2009.
Resistance : a woman's journal of struggle and defiance in occupied France / Agnes Humbert ; translated from the French and with notes by Barbara Mellor ; afterword by Julien Blanc.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D810.S8 D234 2009.
The irregulars : Roald Dahl and the British spy ring in wartime Washington / Jennet Conant.
New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2009, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D 842.5 .K35 2009.
1959 : the year everything changed / Fred Kaplan.
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
D862.M845 2007.
I wouldn't start from here : the 21st century and where it all went wrong / Andrew Mueller.
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Soft Skull, c2007.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
DA333.B6 W45 2010.
The lady in the tower : the fall of Anne Boleyn / Alison Weir.
New York : Ballantine Books, c2010.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DA 566.9 .C5 D47 2009.
Warlord : a life of Winston Churchill at war, 1874-1945 / Carlo D'Este.
New York : Harper Perennial, 2009, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DA585.A2 S46 2009.
The Queen Mother : the official biography / William Shawcross.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DA 670 .T2 A316 2009.
Thames : the biography / Peter Ackroyd.
New York : Anchor, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DC151.E83 2009.
Napoleon's wars : an international history, 1803-1815 / Charles Esdaile.
New York : Penguin Books, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DC 225 .S77 2009.
Napoleon in Egypt / Paul Strathern.
New York : Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks, 2009, c2007.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DD247.H5 K47 2009.
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution / Ian Kershaw.
Yad Vashem, Jerusalem : International Institute for Holocaust Research ; New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2009].

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DD256.35.G5213 2009.
Valkyrie : an insider's account of the plot to kill Hitler / Hans Bernd Gisevius ; translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston ; foreword by Allen W. Dulles ; introduction by Peter Hoffmann.
Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press/Perseus Books, 2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
DG70.P7 B43 2008.
The fires of Vesuvius : Pompeii lost and found / Mary Beard.
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DG 463.85 .B7 H53 2009.
The Borgias and their enemies : 1431-1519 / Christopher Hibbert.
Boston : Mariner Books, 2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
DK266.K456 2009.
Master of the house : Stalin and his inner circle / Oleg V. Khlevniuk ; translated by Nora Seligman Favorov.
New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DL 1099 .E39 2009.
The winter war : Russia's invasion of Finland, 1939-1940 / Robert Edwards.
New York : Pegasus Books, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DR1309.R64 2004.
The breakup of Yugoslavia and its aftermath / Carole Rogel.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.

Blume Audiovisual 2d Flr.
DVD DS 79.76 .H87 2010.
The hurt locker [videorecording] / Voltage Pictures presents in association with Grosvenor Park Media, LP. and F.C.E.F.SA., a Voltage Pictures/ First Light/Kingsgate Films production of a Kathryn Bigelow film ; produced by Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Nicolas Chartier, Greg Shapiro ; written by Mark Boal ; directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
[Santa Monica, Calif.] : Summit Entertainment, [2010].

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS79.76.M358 2008.
Baghdad at sunrise : a Brigade Commander's war in Iraq / Peter R. Mansoor ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan.
New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS 79.76 .M475 2009.
Sniper one : on scope and under siege with a sniper team in Iraq / Dan Mills.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2009, c2007.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS79.764.U6 F56 2009.
The good soldiers / David Finkel.
New York : Sarah Crichton Books, 2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
DS119.7.S29 2009.
Footnotes in Gaza / Joe Sacco.
New York : Metropolitan Books, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS 135 .U43 C533 2009.
The girl in the green sweater : a life in Holocaust's shadow / Krystyna Chiger with Daniel Paisner.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin ; Godalming : Melia [distributor], 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS 150.5 .S67 2009.
Evangelicals and Israel : the story of American Christian Zionism / Stephen Spector.
New York : Oxford University Press, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS156.P8 M39 2010.
The Poison King : the life and legend of Mithradates, Rome's deadliest enemy / Adrienne Mayor.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2010.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS244.63.L33 2009.
Inside the kingdom : kings, clerics, modernists, terrorists, and the struggle for Saudi Arabia / Robert Lacey.
New York : Viking, 2009.

Blume Juv. Lit. 1st Flr.
DS318.8.J345 2008.
The Iranian Revolution / Brendan January.
Minneapolis : Twenty-First Century Books, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS 318.83 .T36 2009.
Guardians of the revolution : Iran and the world in the age of the Ayatollahs / Ray Takeyh.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS 318.9 .A74 2009.
After Khomeini : Iran under his successors / Said Amir Arjomand.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS 357.5 .F58 2009.
Invisible history : Afghanistan's untold story / by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould.
San Francisco : City Lights Books, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS 371.4 .S36 2009.
Reconciliation in Afghanistan / Michael Semple.
Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS371.43.J69 A3 2009.
A woman among warlords : the extraordinary story of an Afghan who dared to raise her voice / Malalai Joya with Derrick O'Keefe.
New York : Scribner, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS394.5.S34 2009.
A history of Bangladesh / Willem van Schendel.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
DS557.7.L378 2008.
The Vietnam War : a concise international history / Mark Atwood Lawrence.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS 557.7 .M64 2009.
We are soldiers still : a journey back to the battlefields of Vietnam / by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.
New York : HarperPerennial, 2009, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS706.F3 2009.
Postcards from Tomorrow Square : reports from China / James Fallows.
New York : Vintage Books, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS735.K43 2009.
China : a history / John Keay.
New York : Basic Books 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS737.F73 2008.
Strong borders, secure nation : cooperation and conflict in China's territorial disputes / M. Taylor Fravel.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS775.2.C45 2008.
The Cambridge companion to modern Chinese culture / edited by Kam Louie.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS777.488.C515 P35 2009.
The last empress : Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the birth of modern China / Hannah Pakula.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS779.43.M49 2009.
China underground / Zachary Mexico.
Brooklyn, [N.Y.] : Soft Skull Press, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DS 795.7 .A2 M46 2009.
The last days of old Beijing : life in the vanishing backstreets of a city transformed / Michael Meyer.
New York : Walker & Company, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
DT29.D47 2008.
Africa's "agitators" : militant anti-colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939 / Jonathan Derrick.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

Blume Audiovisual 2d Flr.
DVD DT 551.9 .T55 L67 2009.
The lost libraries of Timbuktu [videorecording] / a Film for the Humanities & Sciences presentation ; production of BBC ; and Cymru Wales ; executive producer, Adrian Davies ; produced and directed by, Richard Trayler- Smith.
Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c2009.

E: History: Americas

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E164.W63 2009.
Empire of liberty : a history of the early Republic, 1789-1815 / Gordon S. Wood.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 169 .Z83 S69 2009.
State by state : a panoramic portrait of America / edited by Matt Weiland & Sean Wilsey.
New York : Ecco, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E181.I26 2008.
If we must die : African American voices on war and peace / edited by Karin L. Stanford.
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E183.8.G7 B87 2009.
Old world, new world : Great Britain and America from the beginning / Kathleen Burk.
New York : Grove Press, [2009], c2007.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E183.8.M6 M827 2008.
The borders within : encounters between Mexico and the U.S. / Douglas Monroy.
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E183.8.S65 D385 2009.
Distorted mirrors : Americans and their relations with Russia and China in the twentieth century / Donald E. Davis, Eugene P. Trani.
Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 184 .A1 M357 2009.
Racism and sexual oppression in Anglo-America : a genealogy / Ladelle McWhorter.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E184.A65 E34 2009.
Zeitoun / by Dave Eggers.
San Francisco : McSweeney's Books, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 184 .A75 A8415 2009.
Asian American psychology : current perspectives / edited by Nita Tewari & Alvin N. Alvarez.
New York : Psychology Press, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E184.M5 F694 2009.
Four generations of nortenos : new research from the cradle of Mexican migration / edited by Wayne A. Cornelius, David S. Fitzgerald, Scott Borger.
La Jolla, Calif., : Center For Comparative Immigration Studies, UCSD, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E184.M88 C877 2009.
Muslims in America : a short history / Edward E. Curtis IV.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E184.S75 O276 2009.
Latino in America / Soledad O'Brien with Rose Marie Arce.
New York : New American Library, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E185.61.C779 2009.
Becoming African Americans : Black public life in Harlem, 1919-1939 / Clare Corbould.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 185.61 .D39 2009.
If we could change the world : young people and America's long struggle for racial equality / Rebecca de Schweinitz.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
E185.86.R52 2009.
Wrong place, wrong time : trauma and violence in the lives of young Black men / John A. Rich.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 185.9 .S95 2009.
Sweet land of liberty : the forgotten struggle for civil rights in the \ North / Thomas J. Sugrue.
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2009, c2008.

Blume Juv. Lit. 1st Flr.
JuvLit E 185.93 .A3 P37 2009.
Marching for freedom : walk together, children, and don't you grow weary / Elizabeth Partridge.
New York : Viking, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E185.93.S7 T69 2008.
Toward the meeting of the waters : currents in the civil rights movement of South Carolina during the twentieth century / edited by Winfred B. Moore Jr. and Orville Vernon Burton.
Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 185.97 .D73 K34 2009.
Divine discontent : the religious imagination of W.E.B. Du Bois / Jonathon S. Kahn.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E185.97.H367 P47 2009.
Hubert Harrison : the voice of Harlem radicalism, 1883-1918 / Jeffrey B. Perry.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 208 .R248 2009.
Founders : the people who brought you a nation / Ray Raphael.
New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E211.P143 B43 2009.
Glenn Beck's common sense : the case against an out-of-control government, inspired by Thomas Paine / Glenn Beck with Joseph Kerry.
New York : Mercury Radio Arts/Threshold Editions, 2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
E267.S66 2008.
With zeal and with bayonets only : the British Army on campaign in North America, 1775-1783 / Matthew H. Spring.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E312.F46 2009.
The ascent of George Washington : the hidden political genius of an American icon / John Ferling.
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E322.1.A38 H65 2009.
Abigail Adams / Woody Holton.
New York : Free Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E417.M1153 2009.
A country of vast designs : James K. Polk, the Mexican War, and the conquest of the American continent / Robert W. Merry.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E444.S53 A3 2009.
The odyssey of an African slave / by Sitiki ; edited by Patricia C. Griffin.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

Blume Juv. Lit. 1st Flr.
JuvLit E 451 .H46 2009.
John Brown : his fight for freedom / John Hendrix.
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 451 .M37 2009.
John Brown's war against slavery / Robert E. McGlone.
Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 457 .O97 2009.
Our Lincoln : new perspectives on Lincoln and his world / edited by Eric Foner.
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E467.1 .S9 W47 2009.
Cavalryman of the lost cause : a biography of J. E. B. Stuart / Jeffry D. Wert.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009, c2008.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
E468.9.C67 2008.
Heroes & cowards : the social face of war / Dora L. Costa & Matthew E. Kahn.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
E580.F37 2008.
The fate of Texas : the Civil War and the Lone Star State / edited by Charles D. Grear.
Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2008.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
E628.O33 2009.
Occupied women : gender, military occupation, and the American Civil War / edited by LeeAnn Whites and Alecia P. Long.
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 744 .B6977 2009.
Why America fights : patriotism and war propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq / Susan A. Brewer.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 757 .B856 2009.
The wilderness warrior : Theodore Roosevelt and the crusade for America / Douglas Brinkley.
New York : HarperCollins, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 807.1 .R345 A3 2009.
Too close to the sun : growing up in the glorious shadow of my grandparents, Franklin and Eleanor / Curtis Roosevelt.
New York : PublicAffairs ; London : Perseus Running [distributor], 2009, c2008.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
E839.H39 2009.
The long sixties : from 1960 to Barack Obama / by Tom Hayden.
Boulder, Colo. : Paradigm Publishers, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 840.8 .K58 H67 2009.
Kissinger : 1973, the crucial year / Alistair Horne.
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E840.8 .R84 G73 2009.
By his own rules : the ambitions, successes, and ultimate failures of Donald Rumsfeld / Bradley Graham.
New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E842.9.G55 2009.
The Kennedy assassination : 24 hours after ; Lyndon B. Johnson's pivotal first day as president / Steven M. Gillon.
New York : Basic Books, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E851.C63 2009.
The last campaign : Robert F. Kennedy and 82 days that inspired America / Thurston Clarke.
New York : Henry Holt, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 873.2 .M386 2009.
"What the heck are you up to, Mr. President?" : Jimmy Carter, America's "malaise," and the speech that should have changed the country / Kevin Mattson.
New York : Bloomsbury, 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E 877 .E78 2009.
The enduring Reagan / edited by Charles W. Dunn.
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
E901.1.O23 M34 2009.
Destiny calling : how the people elected Barack Obama / Charles M. Madigan.
Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
E908.3.A26 2009.
Inside Obama's brain / Sasha Abramsky.
New York : Portfolio, c2009.

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