NEW ACQUISITIONS
APRIL-MAY 2019
COON RAPIDS
AFRICA
African Religions: Beliefs and Practices through History
Africa’s International Relations: Balancing Domestic & Global Interests
Language in Contemporary African Cultures and Societies
The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
ARCHAEOLOGY
The Archaeology of the Holocaust: Vilna, Rhodes, and Escape Tunnels
ART
Michael Graves: Design for Life
New Wave Clay: Ceramic Design, Art, and Architecture
Paradise Gardens: The World’s Most Beautiful Islamic Gardens
BUSINESS
Broken Business: Seven Steps to Reform Good Companies Gone Bad
The CIDER Method: A Human Resource Approach to Handling Employee Complaints, by ARCC Faculty, Jon Gallop
The Essential HR Handbook
EDUCATION
Education Professionals: a Practical Career Guide
Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education
Fraternity: An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming Men
Storytelling in a Culturally Responsive Classroom: Opening Minds, Shifting Perspectives, and Transforming Imaginations
FILM
Transgender Cinema
GEOGRAPHY
History of the World, Map by Map
HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Diabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with Diabetes
The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
HISTORY
Arabs: A 3,000 Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
The Archaeology of the Holocaust: Vilna, Rhodes, and Escape Tunnels
Egypt: Lost Civilizations
A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, by Claire Hartfield (2019 Coretta Scott King Author Award)
Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him
Marie of France: Countess of Champagne, 1145-1198
A People’s History of the Seward Neighborhood
Problems in Modern Latin American History: Sources and Interpretations
Soldier, Priest, and God: A Life of Alexander the Great
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
When the War Came Home: The Ottomans’ Great War and the Devastation of an Empire
LAW
Domestic Abuse, Child Custody, and Visitation: Winning in Family Court
LITERATURE
Black Klansman: A Memoir, by Ron Stallworth
The Body of the World, by Mary Moore Easter (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Poetry)
The Dragonfly Sea: A Novel, by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
A Heart in a Body in the World, by Deb Caletti (2019 Michael L. Printz Award for a Book that Exemplifies Literary Excellence in Young Adult Literature)
Hello Lighthouse, by Sophie Blackall (2019 Caldecott Medal)
Hooper, by Geoff Herbach (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Young Adult Literature)
Let the Children March, by Monica Clark-Robinson, illustrated by Frank Morrison (2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book)
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968, by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie (2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book)
Merci Suarez Changes Gears, by Meg Medina (2019 Newbery Medal)
The Night Diary, by Veera Hiranandani (2019 Newbery Honor Book)
Not Here: Poems, by Hieu Minh Nguyen (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Poetry)
Parable of the Sower: A Novel, by Octavia E. Butler
A Place for Us: A Novel, by Fatima Farheen Mirza
The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity, and Ownership
The Rough Patch, by Brian Lies (2019 Caldecott Honor Book)
We’ll Fly Away, by Bryan Bliss (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Young Adult Literature)
What I Leave Behind, by Alison McGhee (2019 Minnesota Book Award Finalist for Young Adult Literature)
Zora and Langston: a Story of Friendship and Betrayal
MATHEMATICS
The Math Behind…Discover the Mathematics of Everyday Events
MEDIA
Race, Gender, and Image Repair Theory: How Digital Media Change the Landscape
Young People and the Future of News: Social Media and the Rise of Connective Journalism
MUSIC
Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work
The Happiness Playlist: The True Story of Healing my Heart with Feel-Good Music
Using Music in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
NURSING
Diabetes Head to Toe: Everything You Need to Know about Diagnosis, Treatment, and Living with Diabetes
Learning about Your Genes: A Primer for Non-Biologists
Nursing Drug Handbook 2020
Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Africa’s International Relations: Balancing Domestic & Global Interests
PSYCHOLOGY
The Basics of Psychotherapy: An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Designing and Proposing Your Research Project: Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research
Managing Your Research Data and Documentation
Our Psychiatric Future: The Politics of Mental Health
Parenting Children with Mental Health Challenges: A Guide to Life with Emotionally Complex Kids
Personality Disorders: Elements, History, Examples, and Research
Using Music in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy
RELIGION
African Religions: Beliefs and Practices through History
SCIENCE
Conversations with Trees: An Intimate Ecology
Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education
A Field Guide to the Natural World of the Twin Cities
Learning about Your Genes: A Primer for Non-Biologists
Planet Hunters: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Renewable Energy: A Primer for the 21st Century
The Story of Soy
SOCIOLOGY
After Virginia Tech: Guns, Safety, and Healing in the Era of Mass Shootings
Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times
Guided by the Spirits: The Meanings of Life, Death, and Youth Suicide in an Ojibwa Community
Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland
SUSTAINABILITY
Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States
Agricultural Transformation in Ethiopia: State Policy and Smallholder Farming
Environment and Pedagogy in Higher Education
Organic Sovereignties: Struggles over Farming in an Age of Free Trade
Renewable Energy: A Primer for the 21st Century
WOMEN’S STUDIES
Marie of France: Countess of Champagne, 1145-1198
The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
