A. E. Studzinski Library St. John’s Preparatory School New Book List

November, 2008

General Works, Psychology, Religion

031 G.94-g Guinness world records 2009. [London]: Guinness World Records, 2009.

031.02 F.24-d Farndon, John. Do not open. New York: DK, 2007. Presents a collection of unusual facts, secrets, and unsolved mysteries from around the world, from Paris' hidden tunnels, to the mystery of the the Roswell crash site in New Mexico, and to secret documents contained in the Vatican library.

150 G.82-p Green, Carl R. Psychology: a way to grow. New York: Amsco, c1983.

150.7 K.13-e Kantowitz, Barry H. Experimental psychology: understanding psychological research. 5th ed. Minneapolis/St. Paul: West Pub. Co, c1994.

155.2 Y.8-s Young-Eisendrath, Polly, 1947-. The self-esteem trap: raising confident and compassionate kids in an age of self-importance. 1st ed. New York: Little, Brown, 2008. The trouble with being special -- The roots of the problem -- The importance of adversity -- The necessity of conscience and virtue -- Autonomy and emotional maturity -- The value of being ordinary -- Religion and reverence -- Love and its near enemy -- The truth about happiness.

158.1 C.83-s Covey, Sean. The 6 most important decisions you'll ever make: a guide for teens. New York: Fireside, c2006.

Atlas 220.9 T.48-c The timechart of Biblical history: over 4000 years in charts, maps, lists and chronologies. Edison, N.J: Chartwell Books, 2003, c2002.

262.02 M.12-c McBrien, Richard P. The church: the evolution of Catholicism. 1st ed. New York: HarperOne, c2008.

262.52 V.45-c Vatican Council (2nd: 1962-1965). Vatican Council II: the basic sixteen documents: constitutions, decrees, declarations: a completely revised translation in inclusive language. Northport, N.Y: Costello, 2007, c1996.

273.6 F.86-g Frassetto, Michael. The great medieval heretics: five centuries of religious dissent. New York: BlueBridge, c2008. Introduction: Heribert's warning -- Pop Bogomil and Cosmas the Presbyter -- Stephen and Lisois: heretics in the eleventh century -- Henry the Monk and the twelfth century -- Valdes of Lyons and the Waldenses -- Raymond VI of Toulouse: the Cathars and the Albigensian Crusade -- Pierre Autier: the last Cathars -- Fra Dolcino and the Apostolici -- Marguerite Porete: mysticism, Beguines and heretics of the Free Spirit -- John Wyclif: England and the Lollards -- Jan Hus: reform and heresy in Bohemia.

282.092 K.38-b Cuomo, Kerry Kennedy. Being Catholic now: prominent Americans talk about change in the church and the quest for meaning. 1st ed. New York: Crown Publishers, c2008. Anna Quindlen -- Andrew Sullivan -- Bill O'Reilly -- Cokie Roberts -- Bill Maher -- E.J. Dionne, Jr. -- Sister Joan Chittister, O.S.B. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin -- James Carroll -- -- -- Frank McCourt -- Frank Butler-- Gabriel Byrne -- Susan Sarandon -- Grace Wright -- R. Scott Appleby -- Dan McNevin -- Laurie Brink, O.P. -- Ingrid Mattson -- J. Bryan Hehir -- Kiki Kennedy -- Anne Burke -- John Sweeney -- Robert Drinan -- Lucas Benitez -- Allouisa May Thames -- Dan Aykroyd -- Cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick -- Thomas S. Monaghan -- Mary Jo Bane -- Betsy Pawlicki, O.P. -- Douglas Brinkley -- Gay Talese -- Steven Otellini -- Martin Sheen -- Peggy Noonan.

289.12 B.86-c Buehrens, John A, 1947-. A chosen faith: an introduction to Unitarian Universalism. Rev. ed. : Beacon Press, c1998.

289.3 R.54-d Roberts, David, 1943-. Devil's gate: Brigham Young and the great Mormon handcart tragedy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

297 L.58-I Lewis, Bernard, 1916-. Islam: the religion and the people. Indianopolis: Wharton Press, c2009.

Social Sciences

303.66 P.76-w We who dared to say no to war: American antiwar writing from 1812 to now. New York: Basic Books, c2008.

305.31 K.57-g Kimmel, Michael S. Guyland: the perilous world where boys become men. 1st ed. New York: Harper, c2008.

305.4 B.56-j Fradin, Judith Bloom. Jane Addams: champion of democracy. New York: Clarion Books, c2006. Miss Addams, garbage inspector -- Laura Jane Addams, "ugly duckling" -- "Jennie and Georgie" -- Jane Addams, college graduate -- "Absolutely at sea" -- "I would begin to carry out the plan" -- "The shelter we together build" -- "A sense of fellowship" -- "Miss kind heart" -- "Let me hold your foot" -- "Because of what you are and stand for" -- "The cause of peace" -- "The most dangerous woman in America" -- "A mother for everyone" -- "The heart that beat for humankind". A look at the life of the "pacifist" Jane Addams.

306.3 D.28-t Davis, David Brion. Inhuman bondage: the rise and fall of slavery in the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of modern slavery -- The origins of antiblack racism in the New World -- How Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave system: Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America -- The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I: from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II: from slaveholder treatment and the nature of labor to slave culture, sex and religion, and free Blacks -- Some nineteenth- century slave conspiracies and revolts. 320.973 M.87-m Moyers, Bill D. Moyers on democracy. 1st ed. New York: Doubleday, c2008.

322.42 D.29-k Davis, Daryl. Klan-destine relationships: a black man's odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, c1998.

323.1 M.45-w Mayer, Robert H, 1950-. When the children marched: the Birmingham civil rights movement. Library ed. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, c2008. "Discusses the Birmingham civil rights movement, the great leaders of the movement, and the role of the children who helped fight for equal rights and to end segregation in Birmingham"--Provided by publisher.

327.51 J.56-m Ji, Chaozhu, 1929-. The man on Mao's right: from Harvard yard to Tiananmen Square, my life inside China's Foreign Ministry. 1st ed. New York: Random House, c2008. Having served Chairman Mao and the Communist leadership for two decades, and having become a key figure in China's foreign policy, Ji Chaozhu now provides a detailed account of the personalities and events that shaped today's People's Republic. Nine-year-old Ji and his family fled Japanese invaders to America in the late 1930s. Ji came of age in New York's East Village and attended Harvard University. But in 1950, he felt driven to volunteer to serve China in the Korean War. His mastery of the English language and American culture launched his improbable career, eventually winning him the role of English interpreter for China's two top leaders: Premier Zhou Enlai and Party Chairman Mao Zedong. With a unique blend of Chinese insight and American candor, Ji paints insightful portraits of the architects of modern China. Today, he says, "The Chinese know America better than the Americans know China. The risk is that we misperceive each other."--From publisher description.

333.72 Si.9-g Sivertsen, Linda, 1964-. Generation green: the ultimate teen guide to living an eco-friendly life. 1st Simon Pulse ed. New York: Simon Pulse, 2008. Provides information on issues such as global warming and overflowing landfills; offers tips on how to shop, dress, eat, and travel the green way; and shows that being environmentally conscious can be a natural part of life.

337.73 C.45-d Choate, Pat. Dangerous business: the risks of globalization for America. 1st ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. Introduction: and hold the melamine, please -- Three megaforces. Modern mercantilism. Corporatism. Elitism -- The path to globalism. Paradise. Friedman I (Milton). Friedman II (Thomas) -- Looking forward. Sovereignty. Security. Prosperity -- Epilogue. From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks, and social costs that now outweigh its advantages. He takes the long view of developments such as technology-driven progress, the offshoring of jobs, and open trade, arguing that current U.S. policies are leading to worldwide economic and political instability, in much the same way as before the Great Depression.

342.73 Z.3-b Zelden, Charles L, 1963-. Bush v. Gore: exposing the hidden crisis in American democracy. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, c2008. A vote too close to call -- Enter the lawyers -- Eye of the beholder -- The battlefield of litigation -- The ticking of the clock -- Ballots before the bench -- "A Florida hurricane heading to Washington" -- Headfirst into the political thicket -- A self-inflicted wound? -- The unlearned lessons of 2000. 344.73 N.85-i Nourse, Victoria F. In reckless hands: Skinner v. Oklahoma and the near triumph of American eugenics. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, c2008. Prologue: an intellectual seduction -- The justice, the governor, and the dictator -- The brain trust -- Thoroughbreds -- Heat and love -- White trash -- Skinner's trial -- The Supreme Court in 1937 -- Science in a foreign mirror: 1937-1941 -- Deciding Skinner -- Epilogue: failures of modern memory.

347.73 G.57-a Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-. The activist: John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, and the myth of judicial review. New York: Walker & Co, 2008.

362.82 W.15-g Walls, Jeannette. The glass castle: a memoir. 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed. New York: Scribner, 2006, c2005.

363.7 K.84-y Kostigen, Thomas. You are here: exposing the vital link between what we do and what that does to our planet. 1st ed. New York: HarperOne, c2008.

366.1 B.87-r Bullock, Steven C. Revolutionary brotherhood: Freemasonry and the transformation of the American social order, 1730-1840. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1996.

366.1 H.22-b Harland-Jacobs, Jessica. Builders of empire: Freemasons and British imperialism, 1717-1927. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c2007. Introduction: The ancient and honourable fraternity of free and accepted Masons -- A vast chain extending round the whole globe -- In every climate a home -- Resolv'd against all politics? -- Our first duty as Britons -- Men of the best standing -- A spirit of universal fraternity -- Loyal citizens of the empire -- Conclusion: The cosmopolitan order of the ages? -- Appendix: Royal Freemasons.

368.4 L.75-u Livingston, Steven Greene. U.S. social security: a reference handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, c2008.

370.1 Es.6-t Esquith, Rafe. Teach like your hair's on fire: the methods and madness inside room 56. New York: Penguin Books, 2007.

371.11 Es.6-t Esquith, Rafe. There are no shortcuts. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor Books, 2004.

371.782 F.26-c Fast, Jonathan. Ceremonial Violence: A Psychological Explanation of School Shootings. Overlook Press, 2008.

382.09 B.46-s Bernstein, William J. A splendid exchange: how trade shaped the world. 1st ed. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, c2008.

398.20951 Y.1-c Yang, Lihui. Handbook of Chinese mythology. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, c2005.

Technology and Fine Arts

614.1 D.36-g Denega, Danielle. Gut-eating bugs: maggots reveal the time of death! New York: Franklin Watts, c2007.

616.89 T.15-b Tammet, Daniel, 1979-. Born on a blue day: inside the extraordinary mind of an autistic savant: a memoir. 1st Free Press pbk. ed. New York: Free Press, 2007.

641.59 B.86-h Buford, Bill. Heat: an amateur's adventures as kitchen slave, line cook, pasta- maker, and apprentice to a Dante-quoting butcher in Tuscany. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage Books, 2007, c2006.

Off 709.73 P.58-n Picturing America: teachers’ resource book. Washington, D.C: National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008. Visual stimulation enhances learning and makes it more enjoyable. Art can introduce social studies, literature, civics, and even science and math in an immediate, tangible way. With Picturing America, students develop a deeper understanding of history and our shared human—and American—experience.

779.3 Ad.1-a Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984. Ansel Adams: the National Park Service photographs. 1st ed. New York: Artabras, c1995.

L 791.4572 Z.6-m Zimmerman, Keith. Mythbusters: the explosive truth behind 30 of the most perplexing urban legends of all time. 1st ed. New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, c2005. Killer robots, chicken guns and blueprints: week in the life of MythBusters -- Adam Savage: speed building and the vertical learning curve -- Jamie Hyneman: animatronics, robots, and MythBusters -- Elevator of death -- Buried alive! -- Case of exploding jawbreaker -- Is it worth running in the rain? -- Escape from Alcatraz -- Poppy seed drug test -- Medieval tree cannon -- Down with the Mythtanic! -- Midas myth of goldfinger -- Jet-assisted Chevy or JATO car -- Scuba diver forest fire myth -- Bug bomb! -- Ping-pong salvage, or how many ping-pong balls does it take to float your boat? -- Microwave madness -- Needle in the haystack -- Killer quicksand -- Rowing water skier -- Exploding implants! -- Killer playing card -- Penny drop! -- Mythbusters car capers -- Chicken gun: frozen or thawed? -- You can't beat the breath test! -- Great cement truck mix-up -- Mythbusters cola myth -- In search of the brown note -- Exploding CDs? -- Larry's lawn chair balloon -- Hammer bridge drop.

Literature

811.52 C91-m Reef, Catherine. E.E. Cummings. New York: Clarion Books, c2006. "A look into the life and poetry of E.E. Cummings."--From source other than the Library of Congress.

811.608 B.46-s The Best American Poetry 2008. Scribner, 2008.

L 813.54 D.77-i Doyle, Larry. I Love You, Beth Cooper. Reprint. Perennial, 2008.

813.54 En.3-p Enger, Leif. Peace like a river. 1st Grove Press ed. New York: Grove Press, c2001. L 813.6 F.95-t Fukui, Isamu, 1990-. Truancy. 1st ed. New York: Tor, 2008. In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, fifteen- year-old Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a death caused by a Truant.

L 813.6 G.92-w Gruen, Sara. Water for elephants: a novel. 1st pbk. ed. Chapel Hill, N.C: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007.

813.6 H.11-h Ha, Thu-Huong. Hail Caesar. New York: PUSH, c2007. As the most popular boy in school who is used to being admired and loved by his peers, Caesar gets a harsh dose of reality when a sixteen-year-old girl doesn't fall for his charms-- forcing him to see himself as he truly is for the first time.

L 813.6 V.89-b Voorhees, Coert. The brothers torres. 1st ed. New York, N.Y: Hyperion, 2008. Sophomore Frankie finally finds the courage to ask his long-term friend, Julianne, to the Homecoming dance, which ultimately leads to a face-off between a tough senior whose family owns most of their small, New Mexico town, and Frankie's soccer-star older brother and his gang-member friends.

814.54 Se.3-w Sedaris, David. When you are engulfed in flames. 1st ed. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2008. It's catching -- Keeping up -- The understudy -- This old house -- Buddy, can you spare a tie? -- Road trips -- What I learned -- That's amore -- The monster mash -- In the waiting room -- Solution to Saturday's puzzle -- Adult figures charging toward a concrete toadstool -- Memento mori -- All the beauty you will ever need -- Town and country -- Aerial -- The man in the hut -- Of mice and men -- April in Paris -- Crybaby -- Old Faithful -- The smoking section.

822.33 B P.61-q Pearce, Joseph, 1961-. The quest for Shakespeare. San Francisco [Calif.]: Ignatius Press, c2008.

823.912 W.88-zl Light, Alison, 1955-. Mrs. Woolf and the servants: an intimate history of domestic life in Bloomsbury. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008.

823.914 B.74-e Breem, Wallace. Eagle in the snow: a novel of General Maximus and 's last stand. New York: Rugged Land, [2004].

851.15 D.23-za Ascoli, Albert Russell, 1953-. Dante and the making of a modern author. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. The author in history -- An author in the works: Dante before the commedia -- Definitions: the vowels of authority -- Language: "neminem ante nos" -- Auto-commentary: dividing Dante -- Authority in person: Dante between monarchia and the commedia -- No judgment among equals: dividing authority in Dante's monarchia -- Palinode and history -- The author of the commedia.

869.3 Sa.7-b Saramago, José. Blindness. 1st Harvest ed. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1999, c1997.

Geography, History

909 Ax.2-p Axelrod, Alan, 1952-. Profiles in folly: history's worst decisions and why they went wrong. New York: Sterling, c2008. 917.3 St.3-h Stein, Mark, 1951-. How the states got their shapes. New York: Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2008.

930 An.2-t The ancient world at war: a global history. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008.

931.04 W.85-c Wood, Frances, 1948-. China's first emperor and his terracotta warriors. 1st U.S. ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. Introduction: elephants, steamed duck and warring states -- The heart of a tiger or wolf -- The grand scribe's records and the place of the sleeping tiger -- The cunning councillor -- Cowboys and indians or Confucianism and Legalism -- The height of legal responsibility -- This species of fortification: the Great Wall -- The burning of the books -- Making everything the same -- The supreme forest and the hall of 10,000 guests -- The drugs of immortality -- Seas of mercury, pearl stars and an army of 8,000 men -- The First Emperor and the Great Helmsman.

940.5318 D.45-h Desbois, Patrick. The Holocaust by bullets: a priest's journey to uncover the truth behind the murder of 1.5 million Jews. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, [2008]. Ukraine, Spring 2007 -- Origins -- A path -- From Auschwitz to Jerusalem -- The priest of Belzec – From one cemetery to another -- Our team and its ethic -- Discovering the truth.

941.501 Za.1-i Zaczek, Iain. Ireland: land of the Celts. London: Collins & Brown, 2000.

944.05 Za.1-m Zamoyski, Adam. Moscow 1812: Napoleon's fatal march. New York: Harper Perennial, 2005, c2004.

956.7044 F.26-w Fassihi, Farnaz. Waiting for an ordinary day: the unraveling of life in Iraq. New York: PublicAffairs, c2008.

958.1 Se.4-b Seierstad, Åsne, 1970-. The bookseller of Kabul. 1st Back Bay pbk. ed. New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, 2004.

966.404 B.36-l Beah, Ishmael, 1980-. A long way gone: memoirs of a boy soldier. 1st pbk. ed. New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008, c2007.

972.9 D.92-s Dunn, Richard S. Sugar and slaves: the rise of the planter class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [2000] c1972.

973.26 An.5-p Anderson, Fred, 1949-. A people's army: soldiers and society in the Seven Years' War. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, c1984.

973.26 C.13-s Calloway, Colin G, 1953- (Colin Gordon). The scratch of a pen: 1763 and the transformation of North America. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006.

973.3 M.58-s Morgan, Edmund Sears. The Stamp Act crisis: prologue to revolution. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, c1995.

973.31 B.74-m Breen, T. H. The marketplace of revolution: how consumer politics shaped American independence. New York: Oxford University Press, c2004. 973.31 C.22-r Carp, Benjamin L. Rebels rising: cities and the American Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Introduction: political mobilization in the urban landscape -- Port in a storm: the Boston waterfront as contested space, 1747-74 -- Orderly and disorderly mobilization in the taverns of New York City -- "And yet there is room": the religious landscape of Newport -- Changing our habitation: the revolutionary movement in Charleston's domestic spaces -- Philadelphia politics, in and out of doors, 1742-76 -- The forgotten city.

973.7 P.94-d Prokopowicz, Gerald J. Did Lincoln own slaves?: and other frequently asked questions about Abraham Lincoln. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, c2008. The boy Lincoln -- Rail-splitter -- Springfield -- Politician -- Speaker -- President -- Commander in chief -- Gettysburg -- Emancipation -- Lincoln the man -- Martyr -- Legacy.

973.9 L.62-b Century of change: America in pictures, 1900-2000. 1st ed. Boston: Bulfinch Press, c2000.

973.92 B.78-b Brokaw, Tom. Boom!: voices of the sixties: personal reflections on the '60s and today. 1st ed. New York: Random House, c2007.

974.44 M.87-l Mrozowski, Stephen A. Living on the Boott: historical archaeology at the Boott Mills Boardinghouses, Lowell, Massachusetts. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. Introduction -- Historical archaeology in context -- Lowell's urban landscape -- Living conditions of Boott Mills workers -- Mealtimes at the Boott -- Leisure time at the Boott -- Clothing and personal adornment -- Bigger picture.

974.451 Sw.1-s Swampscott, Massachusets celebrating 150 years: 1852-2002. Swampscott (Mass.): Swampscott Historical Commission, 2002. Topics include: how Swampscott became a town, notable residents, parks and monuments, rum-running, hotels, changes in the town since 1852.

974.7 R.41-o Richter, Daniel K. The ordeal of the longhouse: the peoples of the Iroquois League in the era of European colonization. Chapel Hill: Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, c1992.

976.9 B.77-f Brown, Meredith Mason, 1940-. Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the making of America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, c2008.

977.3 B.26-n Barnes, Harper, 1937-. Never been a time: the 1917 race riot that sparked the civil rights movement. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Walker & Co, 2008.

979.8 T.14-i Taliaferro, John, 1952-. In a far country: the true story of a mission, a marriage, a murder, and the remarkable reindeer rescue of 1898. 1st ed. New York: PublicAffairs, c2006.

996.9 Ok.3-i Okihiro, Gary Y, 1945-. Island world: a history of Hawai'i and the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2008.