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April 2024

A selection of books added to the Library in April

Social media, freedom of speech, and the future of our democracy
305.5 BOL:Soc
The hollow hope : can courts bring about social change? / by Gerald N. Rosenberg
352.3 ROS:Hol
Baptized in PCBs : race, pollution, and justice in an all-American town / by Ellen Griffith Spears
363.73 SPE:Bap
Reading lessons : the books we read at school, the conversations they spark and why they matter / by Carol Atherton
374.98 ATH:Rea
Language city : the fight to preserve endangered mother tongues / by Ross Perlin
408.9 PER:Lan
The Routledge handbook of political ecology
552 PER:Rou
Low end theory : bass, bodies and the materiality of sonic experience / by Paul C. Jasen
781.23 JAS:Low
A sonata theory handbook / by James A. Hepokoski
784.183 HEP:Son
My dark room : spaces of the inner self in eighteenth-century England / by Julie Park
820.94 PAR:Myd
Chaucer's early modern readers : reception in print and manuscript / by Devani Singh
821.171 / 176
Daniel Defoe in context
823.052 / 43
James Joyce and the Irish revolution : the Easter Rising as modern event / by Luke Gibbons
823.47 / 64
Knife : meditations after an attempted murder / by Salman Rushdie
827.74 RUS:Kni
The blue house : collected works of Tomas Tranströmer / by Tomas Tranströmer
839.7 TRA:Blu
A travel guide to the Middle Ages : the world through medieval eyes / by Anthony Bale
909.07 BAL:Tra
Forgotten lunatics of the Great War / by Peter Barham
940.347 BAR:For
Storm's edge : life, death and magic on the Islands of Orkney / by Peter Marshall
941.4 MAR:Sto
Mediaeval inscriptions : the epigraphy of the county of Oxfordshire
942.0058 / 77
The Soviet sixties / by Robert Hornsby
947.085 HOR:Sov
Ukraine : the forging of a nation / by I︠A︡roslav Hryt︠s︡ak
947.7 HRY:Ukr
Three worlds : memoirs of an Arab-Jew / by Avi Shlaim
956.7 SHL:Thr
A secret among the Blacks : slave resistance before the Haitian Revolution / by John D. Garrigus
972.94 GAR:Sec
Scattered and fugitive things : how Black collectors created archives and remade history / by Laura E. Helton
973.04 HEL:Sca
Politics and philosophy at Rome : collected papers / by Miriam T. Griffin
ANNE GRIF-M:Pol

Easter Vacation 2024

A selection of books added to the Library over Easter Vacation

Re-using Manuscripts in Late Medieval England : Repairing, Recycling, Sharing by Hannah Ryley
091 RYL:Reu
How Plato Writes : Perspective and Problems by Malcolm Schofield
154.11 / 87
Identity : Community, Culture, Difference edited by Jonathan Rutherford
303.1 RUT:Ide
Jackson, 1964 : And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America
352.9 TRI:Jac
The Microstructure of Superalloys by Madeleine Durand-Charre
546.3 DUR:Mic
An Ecological History of Modern China by Steven Harrell
552 HARR:Eco
Qualitiative Research in Health Care by Catherine Pope and Nicholas Mays
610.72 POP:Qua
A Brief History of Intelligence : Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of AI by Max Bennett
612.8 BEN:Bri
Neurology (PreTest) by David Anschel and Daniel DiCapua
616.8 ANS:Neu
The Photographer of Mauthausen by Salva Rubio, Pedro J. Colombo and Aintzane Landa
741.5 RUB:Pho
Aso Ebi : Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa by Okechukwu Nwafor
746.9 NWA:Aso
She's So Fine : Reflections on Whiteness, Feminity, Adolescence and Class in 1960s Music edited by Laurie Stras
780.82 STR:She
Music, Politics, and Violence edited by Susan Fast and Kip Peoley
781.1 FAS:Mus
Henry James and the Promise of Fiction by Stuart Burrows
812 JAM:BUR
Watch your Language : Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry by Terrance Hayes
815 HAY:Wat
Shakespeare's Tercentenary : Staging Nations and Performing Idenitities in 1916 by Monika Smialkowska
822.29 / 63
Gone Girls : Flights of Feminist Resistance in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel by Nora Gilbert
823.05 / 42
The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis
823.51 AMI-M:Zon
Eight Lives of a Century-Old Trickster by Mirinae Lee
828.998 LEE:Eig
Journal du dehors by Annie Ernaux
842.6 ERN:Jou
Sor Juana's Dream translated by Luis Harss
866.32 JUA:Dre ed.HAR
Bacchae by Euripides (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) edited by William Allan and Laura Swift
882.32 / 4
Making Empire : Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World by Jane Ohlmeyer
941.5 OHL:Mak
Beyond Katrina : a Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Natasha Trethewey
976.2 TRE:Bey