'UConn Torrington Library New Books June 2007 to the present' by torrrcl

Guelzo, A. C. (2008). Lincoln and Douglas: The debates that defined America. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Hunt, L. A. (2008). Inventing human rights: A history. New York: W. W. Norton.

Harford, T. (2008). The logic of life: The rational economics of an irrational world. New York: Random House.

Faust, D. G. (2008). This republic of suffering: Death and the American Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Holton, W. (2007). Unruly Americans and the origins of the Constitution. New York: Hill and Wang.

Dyson, M. E. (2008). April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s death and how it changed America. New York: Basic Civitas Books.

Jellison, K. (2008). It's our day: America's love affair with the white wedding, 1945-2005. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas.

Van Doren, C. L. (2008). The joy of reading: A passionate guide to 182 of the world's best authors and their works. Naperville, Ill: Sourcebooks.

Eaklor, V. L. (2008). Queer America: A GLBT history of the 20th century. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press.

Waldman, S. (2008). Founding faith: Providence, politics, and the birth of religious freedom in America. New York: Random House.

Venkatesh, S. A. (2008). Gang leader for a day: A rogue sociologist takes to the streets. New York: Penguin Press.

Taylor, N. (2008). American made: The enduring legacy of the WPA: when FDR put the nation to work. New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books.

Blackmon, D. A. (2008). Slavery by another name: The re-enslavement of of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. New York: Doubleday.

Baker, N. (2008). Human smoke: The beginnings of World War II, the end of civilization. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Ifill, S. A. (2007). On the courthouse lawn: Confronting the legacy of lynching in the twenty-first century. Boston: Beacon Press.

DeWolf, T. N. (2008). Inheriting the trade: A Northern family confronts its legacy as the largest slave-trading dynasty in U.S. history. Boston: Beacon Press.

Rauchway, E. (2008). The Great Depression & the New Deal: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Murray, A. Y. (2008). Historical memories of the Japanese American internment and the struggle for redress. Asian America. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press.

Watson, M. A. (2008). Defining visions: Television and the American experience in the 20th century. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.

Dawes, J. (2007). That the world may know: Bearing witness to atrocity. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Soga, K. (2008). Life behind barbed wire: The World War II internment memoirs of a Hawaiʻi Issei. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press.

Weinberg, S. (2008). Taking on the trust: The epic battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller. New York: W.W. Norton.

Brecher, R. (2007). Torture and the ticking bomb. Blackwell public philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub.

Eisgruber, C. L., & Sager, L. G. (2007). Religious freedom and the constitution. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Long, R. E. (2008). Writing. New York: Continuum.

Forbes, R. P. (2007). The Missouri Compromise and its aftermath: Slavery & the meaning of America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Eggers, D., & Stevens, S. (2007). The best American nonrequired reading 2007. The best American series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Ulrich, L. (2007). Well-behaved women seldom make history. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Greer, M. (2007). What every student should know about citing sources with MLA documentation. New York: Pearson Longman.

Harris, M. (2008). Pictures at a revolution: Five movies and the birth of the new Hollywood. New York: Penguin Press.

Hillel, D. (2008). Soil in the environment: Crucible of terrestrial life. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Academic Press.

Doyle, L. (2008). Freedom's empire: Race and the rise of the novel in Atlantic modernity, 1640-1940. Durham: Duke University Press.

Howe, D. W. (2007). What hath God wrought: The transformation of America, 1815-1848. New York: Oxford University Press.

Gura, P. F. (2007). American transcendentalism: A history. New York: Hill and Wang.

Ross, A. (2007). The rest is noise: Listening to the twentieth century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Alvarez, J. (2007). Once upon a quinceañera: Coming of age in the USA. New York: Viking.

Pollan, M. (2008). In defense of food: An eater's manifesto. New York: Penguin Press.

Larson, K. C. (2004). Bound for the promised land: Harriet Tubman, portrait of an American hero. New York: Ballantine.

Yang, G. L., & Pien, L. (2006). American born Chinese. New York: First Second.

Miller, K. (2008). Family. Detroit: Greenhaven Press.

Grinker, R. R. (2008). Unstrange minds: Remapping the world of autism. New York: Basic Books.

Latimer, J. (2007). 1812: War with America. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

Chirot, D., & McCauley, C. R. (2006). Why not kill them all?: The logic and prevention of mass political murder. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Pfaelzer, J. (2007). Driven out: The forgotten war against Chinese Americans. New York: Random House.

Hamilton, N. (2007). Biography: A brief history. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Lehman, D. (2006). The Oxford book of American poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

30,000 years of art: The story of human creativity across time and space. (2007). London: Phaidon.

Rediker, M. (2007). The slave ship: A human history. New York: Viking.

Sandoval-Strausz, A. K. (2007). Hotel: An American history. New Haven: Yale University Press.

LaPlante, E. (2007). Witch judge: The life and repentance of Samuel Sewall. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco.

Fong, T. P. (2008). The contemporary Asian American experience: Beyond the model minority. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Thornicroft, G. (2006). Shunned: Discrimination against people with mental illness. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Newman, K. S., & Chen, V. T. (2007). The missing class: Portraits of the near poor in America. Boston: Beacon Press.

Newman, K. S. (2006). Chutes and ladders: Navigating the low-wage labor market. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Venkatesh, S. A. (2006). Off the books: The underground economy of the urban poor. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.

Thompson, A. C. (2008). Releasing prisoners, redeeming communities: Reentry, race, and politics. New York: New York University Press.

Brockett, O. G., & Hildy, F. J. (2008). History of the theatre. Boston: Pearson.

McDonagh, E. L., & Pappano, L. (2008). Playing with the boys: Why separate is not equal in sports. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Smelser, N. J. (2007). The faces of terrorism: Social and psychological dimensions. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Arrighi, G. (2007). Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the twenty-first century. London: Verso.

Brunsma, D. L., Overfelt, D., & Picou, J. S. (2007). The sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a modern catastrophe. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.

Rosenblatt, P. C. (2006). Two in a bed: The social system of couple bed sharing. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Roy, O. (2004). Globalized Islam: The search for a new Ummah. The CERI series in comparative politics and international studies. New York: Columbia University Press.

Bulman, R. C. (2005). Hollywood goes to high school: Cinema, schools, and American culture. New York: Worth Pub.

Renteln, A. D. (2004). The cultural defense. New York: Oxford University Press.

Smith, D. E. (2005). Institutional ethnography: A sociology for people. The gender lens series. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Campbell, M. L., & Gregor, F. M. (2004). Mapping social relations: A primer in doing institutional ethnography. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Marvasti, A. B., & McKinney, K. D. (2004). Middle Eastern lives in America. Perspectives on a multiracial America series. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield.

Rich, A. C. (2007). Poetry & commitment: An essay. New York: W.W. Norton &.

Ferlinghetti, L. (2007). Poetry as insurgent art. New York: New Directions.

Verklin, D., & Kanner, B. (2007). Watch this, listen up, click here: Inside the 300 billion dollar business behind the media you constantly consume. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons.

Sullivan, L. (2008). Hey, Whipple, squeeze this: A guide to creating great ads. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley.

Shiach, M. (2007). The Cambridge companion to the modernist novel. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Salbi, Z., & Becklund, L. (2006). Between two worlds: Escape from tyranny : growing up in the shadow of Saddam. New York, N.Y.: Gotham Books.

Jackson, B., & Jamieson, K. H. (2007). UnSpun: Finding facts in a world of disinformation. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks.

Asimow, M., & Mader, S. (2004). Law and popular culture: A course book. Politics, media & popular culture, v. 8. New York: P. Lang.

Pinker, S. (2007). The stuff of thought: Language as a window into human nature. New York: Viking.

Kerouac, J., & Cunnell, H. (2007). On the road: The original scroll. New York: Viking.

Lamb, W. (2007). I'll fly away: Further testimonies from the women of York Prison. New York: Harper.

Schama, S. (2006). The power of art. New York: Ecco.

Hemingway, E. (1995). A farewell to arms. New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction.

Crusie, J. (2005). Flirting with Pride & prejudice: Fresh perspectives on the original chick-lit masterpiece. Smart pop series. Dallas, Tex: BenBella Books.

Bloom, H. (2007). The best poems of the English language: From Chaucer through Robert Frost. New York: Harper Perennial.

Cotterell, J., & Cotterell, J. (2007). Social networks in youth and adolescence. London: Routledge.

Fernández-Armesto, F. (2006). Pathfinders: A global history of exploration. New York: W. W. Norton.