New Reference Books

Health Care Policy and Politics A to Z, third edition
LAM REF ROOM RA395 .A3 R685 2009

New Approaches to the Study of Religion, 2 volumes
LAM REF ROOM BL41 .N49 2008x

Religion and Everyday Life and Culture, 3 volumes
LAM REF ROOM BL74 .R36 2010

New Reference Book

The Handbook of the Gothic
edited by Marie Mulvey-Roberts, 2nd ed.
LAM REF ROOM PN3435 H35 2009

New Reference Set

The Healing Power of Spirituality:  How Faith Helps Humans Thrive
LAM REF ROOM BL624 .H3795 2010  3 volumes

New Reference Books

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum encyclopedia of camps and ghettos, 1933-1945. Volume 1, Early camps, youth camps, and concentration camps and subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA)
LAM REF ROOM D805 A2 U55 2009

Hip Hop in America:  A Regional Guide
LAM REF ROOM ML3531 H573 2010  2 volumes

Winning the White House 2008:  The Gallup Poll, Public Opinion, and the Presidency
LAM REF ROOM JK526 2008 W56 2009

New Reference Book

e-Government and Web Directory: U.S. Federal Government Online  Doc Ref ZA5075 G68

New Reference Book

Outbreak:  The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior
LAM REF. ROOM HM866 E93 2009
(Do not click on the cover to look inside.)

Sue didn't order this book, so somebody must have noticed its referencey quality and sent it our way.  It lists instances of mass hysteria, significant persons or organizations involved in mass hysteric stuff, and theories of mass hysteria.  However, its defination of mass hysteria is surprisingly broad; there are entries such as Oat Bran Craze, Miniature Golf Fad, Russian Sectarianism, Fashion, and Virtual Life.  I learned that oat bran doesn't really help lower my cholesterol any better than white bread--even though the nutritionist at UHS and a number of recent articles on PubMed say different!  Well, there is room for debate.  Many entries list numerous sources.

New Reference Set

 Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society
LAM REF. ROOM GV11 .E555 2009 (2 volumes)

New Reference Set

American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History (3 volumes)
LAM REF. ROOM HM647 A44 2009

New Reference Book

The New York times : the complete front pages 1851-2008 / introduction by Bill Keller ; essays by Richard Bernstein ... [et al.] ; front page news summaries by James Barron.

LAM REF. ROOM D351 N53 2008
includes magnifying bookmark and 3 DVD-ROMS (which haven't shown up yet)

Home, Sweet Home

New Reference Book:

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Homes Through World History
REF ROOM NA 7105 .S74 2009
3 volumes

New Reference Set

Encyclopedia of Energy Engineering and Technology, 3 volumes
REF. ROOM TJ163.2 E385 2007

2 New Reference Books

Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire
REF. ROOM DR486 A375 2009x

Handbook of Families & Poverty
REF. ROOM HC110 P6 H36 2008

New Reference Books

Encyclopedia of Sports in America: A History from Foot Races to Extreme Sports
2 volumes
REF. ROOM GV583 E64 2009


The Routledge Companion to Central and Eastern Europe since 1919
REF. ROOM DJK48.5 W43 2008

New Reference Books

Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999
REF. ROOM PJ7525.2 .D413 2008x

The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945
REF. ROOM PQ7082 .N7 W546 2007

The Printed Picture
REF. ROOM TR15 .B46 2008x

Words, words, words

An article from the July/August 2009 Humanities (the magazine of the NEH), recalls the importance (and reception) of a familiar friend:

Ain’t That the Truth. Webster’s Third: The Most Controversial Dictionary in the World

The story is probably familiar already to Chris, our in-house historian of lexicography, but may be interesting to those of us (including me) who are reading it for the first time. Enjoy!

Much-needed reference set has arrived!

Thanks to Friends Funds, we have been able to add the International Encyclopedia of Public Health, 6 v. to our Reference collection.

IEPH will be shelved at REF ROOM RA 423 .I68 2008x

More New Reference Books!

For your perusal on the cart behind the Reference desk:

• The Measure of America: American human development report, 2008-2009 | Ref HN59.2. B865

• Handbook of emotions | Ref BF 561 .H35

• The Princeton Dictionary of Ancient Egypt | REF DT58 .S55 2008x

• The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons | REF NC 1766 .U5 L46 2009

• The Nonprofit Almanac | REF HD2769.2.U6 N64

• Minders of Make-Believe: Idealists, Entrepreneurs, and the Shaping of American Children's Literature | REF Z 480 .C48 M37
  

New Reference Set

A Cultural History of Animals, 6 v.
Lamont REFERENCE QL85 .C85 2007

(A Choice "Outstanding Academic Title," 2008)

New Reference Books

Cultural History of Reading (2 vols.)
REF. ROOM Z1003 .C89 2009

The New Encyclopdia of Southern Culture, vols 9-13 (vols. 1-8 already received)
REF. ROOM F209 .N47 2006

New Reference Set

Iran Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic (2 v.)
REF ROOM DS 253 .I69 20008