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New Acquisitions (Updated 11/18/09)


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.

For more information on library acquisitions, see the Acquisitions & Collection Development page.
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

S: Agriculture

Blume Leisure Reading Collection - Main (Second) Floor
SB299.S9 P37 2008.
Sunflowers : the secret history : the unauthorized biography of the world's most beloved weed / Joe Pappalardo.
Woodstock, N.Y. : Overlook Press, 2008.

Blume Book Collection - Third Floor
SF413.M46 2007.
The Merck/Merial manual for pet health / Cynthia M. Kahn, editor ; Scott Line, associate editor.
Whitehouse Station, N.J. : Merck & Co., 2007.

Blume Leisure Reading Collection - Main (Second) Floor
SF745.W46 2009.
All my patients have tales : favorite stories from a vet's practice / Jeff Wells ; [illustrations by June Camerer].
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2009.

T: Technology, Engineering

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
T174.7.F86x 2009.
Fundamentals of nanotechnology / Gabor L. Hornyak, ... [et al.].
Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, c2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
TD899.F585 S78 2009.
Waste : uncovering the global food scandal / Tristram Stuart.
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
TK1087.E95 2009.
Got sun? Go solar : harness nature's free energy to heat and power your grid-tied home / Rex A. Ewing and Doug Pratt.
Masonville, Colo. : PixyJack Press, 2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
TK6681.M65 2009.
Racing the beam : the Atari Video Computer System / Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
TL540.S45 A3 2009.
Highest duty : my search for what really matters / Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow.
New York : William Morrow, c2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
TL867.M3625 2009.
Truth, lies, and o-rings : inside the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster / Allan J. McDonald with James R. Hansen.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
TR681.C5 K59 2001.
Children of Ceausescu / photographs by Kent Klich ; essay by Herta Muller.
New York : Umbrage Editions, c2001.

U-V Military & Naval Science

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
U167.G48 2009.
Getting out : historical perspectives on leaving Iraq / edited by Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
U241.M69 2009.
A question of command : counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq / Mark Moyar ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan.
New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
U264.H645 2009.
The Dead Hand : the untold story of the Cold War arms race and its dangerous legacy / David E. Hoffman.
New York : Doubleday, c2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
U394.A75 B45 2009.
The department of mad scientists : how DARPA is remaking our world, from the Internet to artificial limbs / Michael Belfiore.
[Washington, D.C.] : Smithsonian Books ; New York : Harper, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
UA840.S645 2009.
South Asian cultures of the bomb : atomic publics and the state in India and Pakistan / edited by Itty Abraham.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Z: Library and Information Science

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
Z116.A2 D37 2009.
The case for books : past, present, and future / Robert Darnton.
New York : PublicAffairs, c2009.

Blume Leisure 2d Flr.
Z657.B935 2009.
Burn this book : PEN writers speak out on the power of the word / edited by Toni Morrison.
New York : HarperStudio, c2009.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
Z678.L345 2008.
The quality library : a guide to staff-driven improvement, better efficiency, and happier customers / Sara Laughlin and Ray W. Wilson.
Chicago : American Library Association, 2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
Z710.G44 2008.
The elements of library research : what every student needs to know / Mary W. George.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.

Blume Monographs 3d Flr.
Z711.45.K47 2009.
Virtual reference best practices : tailoring services to your library / M. Kathleen Kern.
Chicago : American Library Association, c2009.

Blume Reference 2d Flr.
Z1035.W74.
Public library core collection. Nonfiction : a selection guide to reference books and adult nonfiction.
New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 2008-

Blume Reference 2d Flr.
Z1037.W765.
Middle and junior high core collection / edited by Anne Price ; assisted by Marguerita Rowland.
New York : H.W. Wilson Co., 2009-


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