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Check out our list of new books for December. To search for the call number and location, type the book title into the Search@UW box on the library homepage.
Transformational self : attachment and the end of the adolescent phase / Harold K. Bendicsen.
Europe : the struggle for supremacy, from 1453 to the present / Brendan Simms.
Unsettling America : the uses of Indianness in the 21st century / C. Richard King.
November’s fury : the deadly Great Lakes hurricane of 1913 / Michael Schumacher.
Segregation : a global history of divided cities / Carl H. Nightingale.
End of prisons : reflections from the decarceration movement / edited by Mechthild E. Nagel and Anthony J. Nocella II.
Changing politics of education : privatization and the dispossessed lives left behind / Michael Fabricant and Michelle Fine.
Natural history of Selborne / Gilbert White.
Only one chance : how environmental pollution impairs brain development–and how to protect the brains of the next generation / Philippe Grandjean.
Essential readings in wildlife management & conservation / edited by Paul R. Krausman and Bruce D. Leopold.
Nanotechnology : the whole story / Ben Rogers, Jesse Adams, Sumita Pennathur.
Food safety : the science of keeping food safe / Ian C. Shaw.
Heidegger, an introduction / J. Jeremy Wisnewski.
From Gabriel to Lucifer : a cultural history of angels / Valery Rees.
Gettysburg : the last invasion / Allen C. Guelzo.
Consoling ghosts : stories of medicine and mourning from Southeast Asians in exile / Jean M. Langford.
Marijuana is safer : so why are we driving people to drink? / Steve Fox, National Policy Director, MPP, Paul Armentano, Deputy Director, NORML, Mason Tvert, Director of Communications, MPP.
Race for the White House from Reagan to Clinton : reforming old systems, building new coalitions / Anthony J. Bennett.
Model immigrants and undesirable aliens : the cost of immigration reform in the 1990s / Christina Gerken.
Electronic and experimental music : technology, music, and culture / Thom Holmes ; with contributions by Terence M. Pender.
Charles Ives in the mirror : American histories of an iconic composer / David C. Paul.
Truth’s ragged edge : the rise of the American novel / Philip F. Gura.
Letting in the wild edges / by Glennie Kindred.
Mind, modernity, madness : the impact of culture on human experience / Liah Greenfeld.
Sites of the unconscious : hypnosis and the emergence of the psychoanalytic setting / Andreas Mayer.
Zero waste solution : untrashing the planet one community at a time / Paul Connett.
Seeing what others don’t : the remarkable ways we gain insights / Gary Klein.
Global crisis : war, climate change and catastrophe in the seventeenth century / Geoffrey Parker.
Rebranding rule : the restoration and revolution monarchy, 1660-1714 / Kevin Sharpe.
Niccolo Machiavelli : an intellectual biography / Corrado Vivanti ; translated by Simon MacMichael.
Channeling the past : politicizing history in postwar America / Erik Christiansen.
Amish / Donald B. Kraybill, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, and Steven M. Nolt.
Imagining Geronimo : an Apache icon in popular culture / William M. Clements.
Devouring dragon : how China’s rise threatens our natural world / Craig Simons.
Sexual minorities in sports : prejudice at play / edited by Melanie L. Sartore-Baldwin.
Sustainability / Leslie Paul Thiele.
Modern girls on the go : gender, mobility, and labor in Japan / edited by Alisa Freedman, Laura Miller, and Christine R. Yano.
Working hard for the American dream : workers and their unions, World War I to the present / Randi Storch.
US politics and generation Y : engaging the millennials / David Rankin.
Mating intelligence unleashed : the role of the mind in sex, dating, and love / Glenn Geher and Scott Barry Kaufman.
Voices for children : rhetoric and public policy / William T. Gormley Jr.
Barack Obama and the new America : the 2012 election and the changing face of politics / edited by Larry J. Sabato.
Fourth dimension and non-Euclidean geometry in modern art / Linda Dalrymple Henderson.
Seeing red : Hollywood’s pixeled skins : American Indians and film / edited by LeAnne Howe, Harvey Markowitz, and Denise K. Cummings.
In dialogue with Godot : waiting and other thoughts / edited by Ranjan Ghosh.
There was a country : a personal history of Biafra / Chinua Achebe.
Estimating Emerson : an anthology of criticism from Carlyle to Cavell / edited by David LaRocca.
Novel ecosystems : intervening in the new ecological world order / edited by Richard J. Hobbs, Eric S. Higgs, Carol M. Hall.
Spine of the continent : the most ambitious wildlife conservation project ever undertaken / Mary Ellen Hannibal.
Flying blind : one man’s adventures battling buckthorn, making peace with authority, and creating a home for endangered bats / Don Mitchell.
Whole : rethinking the science of nutrition / T. Colin Campbell, PhD ; with Howard Jacobson, PhD.
Erasing death : the science that is rewriting the boundaries between life and death / Dr. Sam Parnia with Josh Young.
Resilient farm and homestead : an innovative permaculture and whole systems design approach / Ben Falk.
Market farming success : the business of growing and selling local food / Lynn Byczynski.
New vegetable growers handbook / by Frank Tozer.
Tesla : inventor of the electrical age / W. Bernard Carlson.