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Los Angeles Valley College
New Additions to the Collection, November 2005


AGRICULTURE
ANTHROPOLOGY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHILDREN'S SECTION BOOKS
EDUCATION
FICTION SECTION BOOKS
FINE ARTS
GENERAL WORKS
GEOGRAPHY
HISTORY (EXCEPT AMERICAN)
HISTORY (GENERAL)
HISTORY: AMERICA
HISTORY: UNITED STATES LOCAL HISTORY, CANADA, LATIN AMERICA
LANGUAGE
LAW
LIBRARY SCIENCE
LITERATURE, POP AND PBK
MEDICINE
MILITARY SCIENCE
MUSIC
NAVAL SCIENCE
PHILOSOPHY
POLITICAL SCIENCE
PSYCHOLOGY
REFERENCE SECTION
RELIGION
SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCES
SPORTS
TECHNOLOGY

A - GENERAL WORKS

None.

B - PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND RELIGION


The Penguin dictionary of philosophy / Thomas Mautner. B41 .M38 2000

Confucius : Philosophy 01 / [Kelley L. Ross] B53.R677 C6

The Cambridge history of philosophy, 1870-1945 / edited by Thomas Baldwin. B72 .C35 2003

Chance : a guide to gambling, love, the stock market & just about everything else / Amir D. Aczel. BC141 .A25 2004

Travels in four dimensions : the enigmas of space and time / Robin Le Poidevin. BD632 .L46 2003

Human development across the lifespan / John S. Dacey, John F. Travers. BF713 .D33 2002

Baba : autobiography of a blue-eyed yogi / Rampuri. BL1175 .R34295 A3 2005

Classical Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism : comparing theologies / Bruce D. Chilton and Jacob Neusner. BM535 .C5157 2004

The Sufi book of life : 99 pathways of the heart for the modern dervish / Neil Douglas-Klotz. BP189.6 .D68 2005

The hidden words of Baha'u'llah./ Baha'u'llah ; translated by Shoghi Effendi. BP360 .B2884 2004

Bring me the rhinoceros and other Zen koans to bring you joy. BQ9289.5 .T37 2004

The biblical truth about America's death penalty / Dale S. Recinella. BS680 .C3 R43 2004

Pondering the Passion : what's at stake for Christians and Jews? / edited by Philip A. Cunningham. BT431.3 .P66 2004


C - HISTORY (GENERAL)

None.

D - HISTORY (EXCEPT AMERICAN)


The first crusade : a new history / Thomas Asbridge. D161.2 .A77 2004

The watery maze : the story of Combined Operations. D756 .F4

Envy of the gods : Alexander the Great's ill-fated journey across Asia / John Prevas. DF234 .P76 2004

A history of Spain / Simon Barton. DP66 .B37 2004

America's oil wars / Stephen Pelletiere. DS79.76 .P35 2004

Growing up Palestinian : Israeli occupation and the Intifada generation / Laetitia Bucaille ; translated by Anthony Roberts. DS119.75 .B8313 2004

The ransom of the Jews : the story of the extraordinary secret bargain between Romania and Israel / Radu Ioanid. DS135 .R7 I66 2005

The land of naked people : encounters with Stone Age islanders / Madhusree Mukerjee. DS432 .A54 M85 2003

A short history of Laos : the land in between / Grant Evans. DS555.5 .E93 2002

A short history of Malaysia : linking east and west / Virginia Matheson Hooker. DS596 .H66 2003

Indonesia : peoples and histories / Jean Gelman Taylor. DS634 .T39 2003

A short history of Bali : Indonesia's Hindu realm / Robert Pringle. DS647 .B2 P66 2004

Historical dictionary of Egypt / Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., Robert Johnston. DT75 .G65 2003

Cairo : a cultural history / Andrew Beattie. DT143 .B43 2005

Historical dictionary of Ethiopia / David H. Shinn, Thomas P. Ofcansky. DT381 .S55 2004

Historical dictionary of Somalia / Mohamed Haji Mukhtar. DT401.2 .M85 2003

The way of the elders : West African spirituality & tradition / Adama & Naomi Doumbia. DT474.6 .M36 D68 2004

Historical dictionary of the Central African Republic / Pierre Kalck ; translated by Xavier-Samuel Kalck. DT546.35 .K353 2005

Historical dictionary of Angola / W. Martin James. DT1264 .J36 2004

Historical dictionary of Lesotho / Scott Rosenberg, Richard F. Weisfelder, Michelle Frisbie-Fulton. DT2554 .R67 2004


E - HISTORY: AMERICA


Black Elk speaks : being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux / John G. Neihardt ; foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. ; with illustrations by Standing Bear ; essays by Alexis N. Petri and Lori Utecht. E99 .O3 B484 2004

Generations : the history of America's future, 1584 to 2069 / William Strauss and Neil Howe. E179 .S89 1992

Who's afraid of a large black man? / Charles Barkley ; edited and with an introduction by Michael Wilbon. E184 .A1 B2444 2005

Dark designs and visual culture / Michele Wallace. E185.86 .W344 2004

Ronnie & Nancy : their path to the White House, 1911 to 1980 / Bob Colacello. E877.2 .C65 2004

Deterring democracy / Noam Chomsky ; with a new afterword. E881 .C48 1992


F - HISTORY: UNITED STATES LOCAL HISTORY, CANADA, LATIN AMERICA


The Olmecs : America's first civilization / Richard A. Diehl. F1219.8 .O56 D54 2004


G - GEOGRAPHY, ANTHROPOLOGY, SPORTS


Introduction to remote sensing / James B. Campbell. G70.4 .C23 2002

Margaret Mead : coming of age in America / Joan Mark. GN21 .M36 M39 1999

Upright : the evolutionary key to becoming human / Craig Stanford. GN282.5 .S73 2003

The girl who married a lion and other tales from Africa / Alexander McCall Smith. GR358.62 .N34 M23 2004

Brand lands, hot spots & cool spaces : welcome to the third place and the total marketing experience / Christian Mikunda ; translated by Andrea Blomen. GT3405 .M5513 2004


H - SOCIAL SCIENCES


John Kenneth Galbraith : his life, his politics, his economics / Richard Parker. HB119 .G33 P37 2005

Spain and the European Union / Carlos Closa and Paul M. Heywood. HC240.25 .S7 C58 2004

Fired, laid off, out of a job : a manual for understanding, coping, surviving / B. Keith Simerson and Michael D. McCormick. HD5707.5 .S557 2003

Managing to stay out of court : how to avoid the 8 deadly sins of mismanagement / Jathan Janove. HD6971 .J36 2005

Defining the really great boss / M. David Dealy with Andrew R. Thomas ; foreword by Bill Lindig. HF5549.12 .D43 2004

Every man a speculator : a history of Wall Street in American life / Steve Fraser. HG4572 .F84 2005

Sociology matters / Richard T. Schaefer. HM447 .S33 2004

Family circle : the Boudins and the aristocracy of the Left / Susan Braudy. HN90 .R3 B73 2003

Gay and lesbian rights in the United States : a documentary history / edited by Walter L. Williams and Yolanda Retter. HQ76.8 .U5 G37 2003

The pro-life/choice debate / Mark Y. Herring. HQ767.5 .U5 H467 2003

Bring them back alive : helping teens get out and stay out of trouble / Jose M. de Olivares. HQ796 .O39 2004

Love signals : a practical field guide to the body language of courtship David Givens. HQ801 .G47 2005

Adoption matters : philosophical and feminist essays / edited by Sally Haslanger and Charlotte Witt. HV875 .A3425 2005

Animal experimentation / Cindy Mur, book editor. HV4915 .A634 2004

Terrorism's war with America : a history / Dennis Piszkiewicz. HV6432 .P57 2003

Terrorism and peacekeeping : new security challenges / edited by Volker Franke ; foreword by Joseph P. Hoar. HV6432 .T446 2005

The politics of gun control / Robert J. Spitzer. HV7436 .S68 2004

Teasing secrets from the dead : my investigations at America's most infamous crime scenes / Emily Craig ; foreword by Kathy Reichs. HV8073 .C65 2004


J - POLITICAL SCIENCE


The history of human rights : from ancient times to the globalization era / Micheline R. Ishay. JC571 .I73 2004

The story of Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party / Inez Hay[n]es Irwin. JK1901 .I7 1977


K - LAW


The American Bar Association legal guide for women. KF390 .W6 A46 2004

The legal guide to e-business / Jacqueline Klosek. KF390.5 .C6 K59 2003

Silent covenants : Brown v. Board of Education and the unfulfilled hopes for racial reform / Derrick Bell. KF4155 .B38 2004

All deliberate speed : reflections on the first half century of Brown v. Board of Education / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. KF4757 .O35 2004

Justice in a time of war : the true story behind the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia / by Pierre Hazan ; translated from the French by James Thomas Snyder ; foreword by M. Cherif Bassiouni. KZ1203 .A2 H3913 2004


L - EDUCATION


School choice and the question of accountability : the Milwaukee experience / Emily Van Dunk and Anneliese Dickman. LB1027.9 .V36 2003

Letters to a teacher / Sam Pickering. LB1775 .P56 2004

The good of this place : values and challenges in college education / Richard H. Brodhead. LB2324 .B76 2004


M - MUSIC


A dream of love fulfilled : an introduction to romantic opera as literature / William Wallis. ML1700 .W356 2004

Music of the counterculture era / James E. Perone. ML3918 .P67 P47 2004


N - FINE ARTS


De Kooning : an American master / Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. N6537.D43 S74 2004

Gabo : constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings [and] engravings / with introductory essays by Herbert Read and Leslie Martin. N6999 .G2 R4 1957a


P - LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, POP AND PBK


How children learn language / William O'Grady. P118 .O268 2005

The immigrants / Howard Fast. PBK-F

One child, two languages : a guide for preschool educators of children learning English as a second language / by Patton O. Tabors ; [foreword by Catherine E. Snow]. PE1128 .A2 T23 1997

The brief Penguin handbook / Lester Faigley. PE1408 .F24 2006

SF writer / John Ruszkiewicz, Maxine Hairston, Daniel E. Seward. PE1408 .R869 2005

Sin boldly! : Dr. Dave's guide to writing the college paper / David R. Williams. PE1408 .W589 2004

Frames of mind : a rhetorical reader with occasions for writing / Robert DiYanni, Pat C. Hoy II. PE1417 .D579 2005

The Prentice Hall guide for college writers / Stephen Reid. PE1408 .R424 2006

Elements of argument : a text and reader / Annette T. Rottenberg. PE1431 .R68 2006

Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs : a practical guide / Janice Kamrin ; illustrations by Gustavo Camps. PJ1097 .K28 2004

From daytime to primetime : the history of American television programs / James Roman. PN1992.3 .U5 R64 2005

Oprah Winfrey : a biography / Helen S. Garson. PN1992.4 .W56 G37 2004

Celluloid Indians : Native Americans and film / Jacquelyn Kilpatrick. PN1995.9 .I48 K56 1999

Jesus and Mel Gibson's The passion of the Christ : the film, the gospels and the claims of history / edited by Kathleen E. Corley and Robert L. Webb. PN1997.2 .P39 J47 2004

Acting that matters / Barry Pineo. PN2061 .P575 2004

The golden age of DC Comics : 365 days / written and selected by Les Daniels ; designed and selected by Chip Kidd ; photographed by Geoff Spear. PN6725 .D194 2004

Shakespeare after all / Marjorie Garber. PR2976 .G368 2004

The life you save may be your own : an American pilgrimage / Paul Elie. PS153 .C3 E45 2003

The Best American poetry. PS615 .B56 2005

Dinarzad's children : an anthology of contemporary Arab American fiction / edited by Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa. PS647 .A72 D56 2004

Complete stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe. PS2600 .F66 1966

Dress your family in corduroy and denim / David Sedaris. PS3569 .E314 R47 2004

Selected essays / William Wallis. PS3573 .A47 S43 2004


Q - SCIENCE


Louis Pasteur : and the hidden world of microbes / Louise E. Robbins. Q143 .P2 R56 2001

Potato radio, dizzy dice, and more wacky, weird, experiments from the mad scientist / Joey Green. Q164 .G735 2004

Weird science : 40 strange-acting, bizarre-looking, and barely believable activities for kids / Jim Wiese ; illustrations by Ed Shems. Q164 .W5345 2004

The one true platonic heaven : a scientific fiction on the limits of knowledge / John L. Casti. Q175 .C4339 2003

Ink sandwiches, electric worms, and 37 other experiments for Saturday science / Neil A. Downie. Q182.3 .D68 2003

Charles Babbage and the engines of perfection / Bruce Collier and James MacLachlan. QA29 .B2 C65 1998

Pre-algebra / Man M. Sharma, Asha Mittal. QA39.3 .S54 2002

The art of intrusion : the real stories behind the exploits of hackers, intruders, & deceivers / Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon. QA76.9 .A25 M587 2005

Across the board : the mathematics of chessboard problems / John J. Watkins. QA95 .W35 2004

Intermediate algebra / K. Elayn Martin-Gay. QA152.2 .M368 2001

Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy / James R. Voelkel. QB36 .K4 V64 1999

Sunquakes : probing the interior of the sun / J.B. Zirker. QB539 .I5 Z57 2003

The depths of space : the story of the Pioneer planetary probes / Mark Wolverton. QB661 .W75 2004

The edge of infinity : supermassive black holes in the universe / Fulvio Melia. QB843 .B55 M455 2003

The Orion Nebula : where stars are born / C. Robert O'Dell. QB855.9 .O75 O34 2003

Once upon a universe : not-so-Grimm tales of cosmology / Robert Gilmore. QB982 .G55 2003

Albert Einstein and the frontiers of physics / Jeremy Bernstein. QC16 .E5 B44 1996

Enrico Fermi : and the revolutions of modern physics / Dan Cooper. QC16 .F46 C66 1999

Pendulum : Leon Foucault and the triumph of science / Amir D. Aczel. QC16 .F626 A36 2003

Galileo Galilei : first physicist / James MacLachlan. QC16 .G35 M33 1997

Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution / Gale E. Christianson. QC16 .N7 C52 1996

College physics / Raymond A. Serway, Jerry S. Faughn. QC21.2 .S378 1999 v. 1 & v. 2

Schrodinger's rabbits : the many worlds of quantum / Colin Bruce. QC174.12 .B78 2004

Universe on a T-shirt : the quest for the theory of everything / Dan Falk. QC794.6 .G7 F35 2004

Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity / Naomi Pasachoff. QD22 .C8 P38 1996

Inorganic chemistry / P.A. Cox. QD153.5 .C69 2004

Organic chemistry / G.L. Patrick. QD256.5 .P37 2004

Evidence from the earth : forensic geology and criminal investigation / Raymond C. Murray. QE38.5 .M87 2004

Finding fault in California : an earthquake tourist's guide / Susan Elizabeth Hough. QE535.2 .U6 H68 2004

The big one : the earthquake that rocked early America and helped create a science / Jake Page and Charles Officer. QE535.2 .U6 P34 2004

Gregor Mendel and the roots of genetics / Edward Edelson. QH31 .M45 E34 1999

The biology of death : origins of mortality / Andre Klarsfeld & Frederic Revah ; translated from the French by Lydia Brady. QH530 .K5613 2004

Wild solutions : how biodiversity is money in the bank / Andrew Beattie, Paul Ehrlich ; with illustrations by Christine Turnbull. QH541.15 .B56 B42 2004

Wildlife-friendly plants : make your garden a haven for beneficial insects, amphibians and birds / Rosemary Creeser ; photography by Steve Wooster. QL59 .C74 2004

The earth moved : on the remarkable achievements of earthworms / by Amy Stewart. QL391 .A6 S733 2004

The geese of Beaver Bog / Bernd Heinrich. QL696 .A52 H439 2004

William Harvey : and the mechanics of the heart / Jole Shackelford. QP26 .H3 S53 2003

Ivan Pavlov : exploring the animal machine / Daniel Todes. QP26 .P35 T63 2000

On intelligence / Jeff Hawkins with Sandra Blakeslee. QP376 .H294 2004

Wider than the sky : the phenomenal gift of consciousness / Gerald M. Edelman. QP411 .E346 2004

Linus Pauling and the chemistry of life / Tom Hager. QP511.8 .P37 H34 1998

Instant notes : biochemistry / B.D. Hames & N.M. Hooper. QP518.3 .H355 2000


R - MEDICINE


Physician-assisted dying : the case for palliative care and patient choice / edited by Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin. R726 .P485 2004

Bob Greene's total body makeover / Bob Greene. RA776 .G7895 2005

Sleep disorders for dummies / by Max Hirshkowitz and Patricia B. Smith ; foreword by William C. Dement. RC547 .H576 2004

The Black person's guide to hepatitis C / Samuel J. Daniel, Temima Markovits, Vernon Williams. RC848 .H425 D36 2005

Dizzy : what you need to know about managing and treating balance disorders / Jack J. Wazen, with Deborah Mitchell. RF260 .W39 2004

Conquering your child's chronic pain : a pediatrician's guide for reclaiming a normal childhood / Lonnie K. Zeltzer and Christina Blackett Schlank. RJ365 .Z45 2005

The fat-free truth : 239 real answers to the fitness and weight-loss questions you wonder about most / Liz Neporent and Suzanne Schlosberg. RM222.2 .N46 2005

Better than Prozac : creating the next generation of psychiatric drugs / Samuel H. Barondes. RM332 .B37 2003


S - AGRICULTURE


Taylor's guide to orchids / Judy White. SB409 .W53 1996


T - TECHNOLOGY


Carpet monsters and killer spores : a natural history of toxic mold / Nicholas P. Money. TH9035 .M65 2004

Thomas Alva Edison : inventing the electric age / Gene Adair. TK140 .E3 A62 1996

Alexander Graham Bell : making connections / Naomi Pasachoff. TK6143 .B4 P38 1996

Gonzo gizmos : projects & devices to channel your inner geek / Simon Quellen Field. TK9965 .F47 2002

Bicycling science / David Gordon Wilson ; with contributions by Jim Papadopoulos. TL410 .W546 2004

The safe baby : a do-it-yourself guide to home safety / Debra Smiley Holtzman. TX150 .H652 2005


U - MILITARY SCIENCE


Confessions of an economic hit man / John Perkins. UB271 .U52 P47 2004

Biological weapons : from the invention of state-sponsored programs to contemporary bioterrorism / Jeanne Guillemin. UG447.8 .G85 2005


V - NAVAL SCIENCE

None.

Z - LIBRARY SCIENCE - BIBLIOGRAPHY


A splendor of letters : the permanence of books in an impermanent world / Nicholas A. Basbanes. Z4 .B397 2004


FICTION SECTION BOOKS


The early stories, 1953-1975 / John Updike. FICTION 2003

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell / Susanna Clarke ; illustrations by Portia Rosenberg. FICTION 2004


CHILDREN'S SECTION BOOKS


Less than zero / by Stuart J. Murphy ; illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz. JUVENILE Mur


REFERENCE SECTION BOOKS


Newsmakers. CT120 .C663 2005

The complete dictionary of symbols / Jack Tresidder, general editor. GR931 .T74 2005

The United States government manual. JK421 .A3 2005-06

Peterson's college money handbook. LB2337.4 .C66 2006

American writers : a collection of literary biographies / Leonard Unger, editor in chief. PS129 .A55 suppl. 15