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Check out our list of new books for November. To search for the call number and location, type the book title into the Search@UW box on the library homepage.
David and Goliath : underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants / Malcolm Gladwell.
Tie that bound us : the women of John Brown’s family and the legacy of radical abolitionism / Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz.
Rethinking the 1950s : how anticommunism and the Cold War made America liberal / Jennifer A. Delton, Skidmore College.
Falling sky : words of a Yanomami shaman / Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert ; translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy.
Out on a limb : what black bears taught me about intelligence and intuition / Benjamin Kilham.
Fields of farmers : interning, mentoring, partnering, germinating / by Joel Salatin.
Securing water and wastewater systems : global experiences / Robert M. Clark, Simon Hakim, editors.
Refrigeration nation : a history of ice, appliances, and enterprise in America / Jonathan Rees.
Farm-fresh and fast : easy recipes and tips for making the most of fresh, seasonal foods.
American sniper : the autobiography of SEAL Chris Kyle, (USN 1999-2009), the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history / Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice ; foreword by Marcus Luttrell.
Animal cruelty : a multidisciplinary approach to understanding / edited by Mary P. Brewster, Cassandra L. Reyes.
Adoption : a brief social and cultural history / Peter Conn.
No votes for women : the New York state anti-suffrage movement / Susan Goodier.
Living the questions : a guide for teacher-researchers / Ruth Shagoury & Brenda Miller Power.
Word nerds : teaching all students to learn and love vocabulary / Brenda J. Overturf, Leslie H. Montgomery, Margot Holmes Smith.
I do and I don’t : a history of marriage in the movies / Jeanine Basinger.
Millennials, news, and social media : is news engagement a thing of the past? / Paula M. Poindexter.
C.S. Lewis : a life : eccentric genius, reluctant prophet / Alister McGrath.
Roald Dahl / edited by Ann Alston & Catherine Butler.
American Isis : the life and art of Sylvia Plath / Carl Rollyson.
Franz Kafka : the poet of shame and guilt / Saul Friedländer.
Small steps, big changes : eight essential practices for transforming schools through mathematics / Chris Confer & Marco Ramirez ; foreword by Steven Leinwand.
Education of an anti-imperialist : Robert La Follette and U.S. expansion / Richard Drake.
Long reconstruction : the post-Civil War South in history, film, and memory / Frank J. Wetta and Martin A. Novelli.
Rebuilding the foodshed : how to create local, sustainable, and secure food systems / Philip Ackerman-Leist ; foreword by Deborah Madison.
Caring hearts & critical minds : literature, inquiry, and social responsibility / Steven Wolk.
Academic profiling : Latinos, Asian Americans, and the achievement gap / Gilda L. Ochoa.
Philosophy of stem cell biology : knowledge in flesh and blood / Melinda Bonnie Fagan, Rice University, USA.
Michael Galinsky : malls across America / Michael Galinsky.
End of the Roman Republic, 146 to 44 BC : conquest and crisis / Catherine Steel.
Digital state : the story of Minnesota’s computing industry / Thomas J. Misa.
Harriman vs. Hill : Wall Street’s great railroad war / Larry Haeg.
Without their permission : how the 21st century will be made, not managed / Alexis Ohanian.
Exploration of effectiveness in the regulation of federal depository institutions, 1989-2008 : striving for balance / Mike Potter.
Do Muslim women need saving? / Lila Abu-Lughod.
What’s wrong with homosexuality? / John Corvino.
Society of equals / Pierre Rosanvallon ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Celebrating Bird : the triumph of Charlie Parker / Gary Giddins.
Fritz Lang : the nature of the beast / Patrick McGilligan.
Year without pants : WordPress.com and the future of work / Scott Berkun.
Serving at-risk teens : proven strategies and programs for bridging the gap / Angela Craig, Chantell L. McDowell.
Remote : office not required / Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson.
Servants : a downstairs history of Britain from the nineteenth century to modern times / Lucy Lethbridge.
Johnny Cash : the life / Robert Hilburn.
Hyperobjects : philosophy and ecology after the end of the world / Timothy Morton.
Infant mind : origins of the social brain / edited by Maria Legerstee, David W. Haley, Marc H. Bornstein.
Origins of the world’s mythologies / E.J. Michael Witzel.
Catholic Church : what everyone needs to know / John L. Allen Jr.
Student activism and civil rights in Mississippi : protest politics and the struggle for racial justice, 1960-1965 / James P. Marshall ; with a foreword by Staughton Lynd.
Center holds : Obama and his enemies / Jonathan Alter.
After the music stopped : the financial crisis, the response, and the work ahead / Alan S. Blinder.
Kosher : private regulation in the age of industrial food / Timothy D. Lytton.
Homeless : poverty and place in urban America / Ella Howard.
American politics in the age of ignorance : why lawmakers choose belief over research / David Schultz.
Opening minds : using language to change lives / Peter H. Johnston.
Making sense of phonics : the hows and whys / Isabel L. Beck, Mark E. Beck.
Teaching with the common core standards for English language arts, grades 3-5 / edited by Lesley Mandel Morrow, Karen K. Wixson, Timothy Shanahan ; foreword by Susan B. Neuman.
Teaching with the common core standards for English language arts, preK-2 / edited by Lesley Mandel Morrow, Timothy Shanahan, Karen K. Wixson ; foreword by Susan B. Neuman.
What every middle school teacher needs to know about reading tests (from someone who has written them) / Charles Fuhrken.
Teaching academic vocabulary K-8 : effective practices across the curriculum / Camille Blachowicz, Peter Fisher, Donna Ogle, Susan Watts Taffe.
Cambrian explosion : the construction of animal biodiversity / Douglas H. Erwin, Department of
Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC and Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, James W. Valentine
Erasmus Darwin : sex, science, and serendipity / Patricia Fara.
Bioluminescence : living lights, lights for living / Therese Wilson, J. Woodland Hastings.
Always the fat kid : the truth about the enduring effects of childhood obesity / Jacob C. Warren, PhD, K. Bryant Smalley, PhD, PsyD.
Know soil, know life / David L. Lindbo, Deb A. Kozlowski, and Clay Robinson, editors.
Renewable energy : sustainable concepts for the energy change / edited by Roland Wengenmayr and Thomas Bührke.
On becoming God : late medieval mysticism and the modern Western self / Ben Morgan.
Coup : 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.-Iranian relations / Ervand Abrahamian.
George Washington : the crossing / written and designed by Jack E. Levin ; preface by Mark R. Levin.
Escape from New York : the New Negro Renaissance beyond Harlem / Davarian L. Baldwin and Minkah Makalani, editors ; foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley.
Politics and civics of national service : lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, Vista, and AmeriCorps / Melissa Bass.
Transport beyond oil : policy choices for a multimodal future / edited by John L. Renne and Billy Fields.
Coming home to New Orleans : neighborhood rebuilding after Katrina / Karl F. Seidman.
Children’s chances : how countries can move from surviving to thriving / Jody Heymann, with Kristen McNeill.
From Gutenberg to the internet : free speech, advancing technology, and the implications for democracy / Russell L. Weaver.
Reading with meaning : teaching comprehension in the primary grades / Debbie Miller.
Many texts, many voices : teaching literacy and social justice to young learners in the digital age / Penny Silvers & Mary C. Shorey ; foreword by Linda K. Crafton.
Nonfiction notebooks : strategies for informational writing / Aimee Buckner.
When writing with technology matters / Carol Bedard & Charles Fuhrken.
Race-baiter : how the media wields dangerous words to divide a nation / Eric Deggans.
Spitting blood : the history of tuberculosis / Helen Bynum.
Librarian’s nitty-gritty guide to social media / Laura Solomon.
Library marketing toolkit / Ned Potter.
When the beat was born : DJ Kool Herc and the creation of hip hop / Laban Carrick Hill ; illustrated by Theodore Taylor III.
Day the crayons quit / by Drew Daywalt ; pictures by Oliver Jeffers.
Don’t say a word, mamá = No digas nada, mamá / by Joe Hayes ; illustrations by Esau Andrade Valencia.
What teachers need to know about social and emotional development / Ros Leyden and Erin Shale.
Theology of Augustine : an introductory guide to his most important works / Matthew Levering.
Inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America / Thomas King.
Who owns the future? / Jaron Lanier.
Conserving contemporary art : issues, methods, materials, and research / preface by Francesco Poli ; with a contribution by Valeria Dell’Aquila, Massimo Ferronato, Luca Lampo, and Alessandro Mininno.
On poetry / Glyn Maxwell.
Becoming John Updike : critical reception, 1958-2010 / Laurence W. Mazzeno.
Land use and the carbon cycle : advances in integrated science, management, and policy / edited by Daniel G. Brown … [et al.].
Medieval medicine : the art of healing, from head to toe / Luke Demaitre.