New accessions: April 2013

Audio-Visual

  • AV General Interest BAK Chet Baker [sound recording] : eight classic albums/ [s.l.] : Real Gone Jazz, 2012
  • AV ML.bar Barenboim on Beethoven : masterclasses [DVD]/ directed by Allan Miller. [s.l.] : EMI Classics, 2006.
  • AV PN.bed Bed sitting room [DVD]/ a film by Richard Lester ; based on the play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. [s.l] : BFI, 1969.
  • AV PN.rus Russ Meyer collection [DVD]/ Russ Meyer. [s.l] : Arrow Films, 2011.
  • AV PT.cla Classic Bergman [DVD] : 5 films by the master of cinema/ Ingmar Bergman. [s.l] : Artificial Eye, 2012.

Education

  • LG 395.S55.W5 Eagle breeds a gryphon : the story of Raffles Institution 1823-1985/ E.Wijeysingha. Singapore : Pioneer Book Centre, 1989.

Engineering

  • TA 403.A8m.2013 Engineering materials 2 : an introduction to microstructures and processing/ Michael F. Ashby and David R.H. Jones. 4th ed. Oxford : Elsevier, 2013.
  • TA 455.P58.H4 Polymer films with embedded metal nanoparticles/ Andreas Heilmann. Berlin ; London : Springer, 2010.
  • TN 760.L6 Gold nanoparticles for physics, chemistry and biology/ Catherine Louis, Olivier Pluchery. London : Imperial College Press, 2012.

Fine Arts

  • N 6764.T7 Treasure island : British art from Holbein to Hockney : Fundación Juan March, 5 October 2012-20 January 2013/ concept and organization, Richard Humphreys, Manuel Fontán del Junco, María Zozaya. Madrid : Fundación Juan March, 2012.
  • N 72.R4.K3 Sacred Spain : art and belief in the Spanish world/ edited by Ronda Kasl. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2009.

General Interest

  • General Interest Biography EGG Heartbreaking work of staggering genius/ by Dave Eggers. London : Picador, 2007.
  • General Interest Biography HIT Hitch-22 : a memoir/ Christopher Hitchens. London : Atlantic Books, 2011.
  • General Interest Biography JOH Like a fiery elephant : the story of B.S. Johnson/ Jonathan Coe. London : Picador, 2004.
  • General Interest Biography SEW Outsider ; always almost: never quite : an autobiography/ Brian Sewell. London : Quartet, 2011.
  • General Interest Health and Wellbeing HIT Mortality/ Christopher Hitchens ; foreword by Graydon Carter ; afterword by Carol Blue. London : Atlantic Books, 2012.
  • General Interest Language SPA Collins pocket Spanish dictionary/ 7th ed. Glasgow : HarperCollins, 2013.
  • General Interest Non-Fiction HAR End of faith : religion, terror and the future of reason/ Sam Harris. London : Free Press, 2005.
  • General Interest Non-Fiction HIT Letters to a young contrarian/ Christopher Hitchens. New York : Basic Books, 2005.
  • General Interest Novels ATK Life after life/ Kate Atkinson. London : Doubleday, 2013.
  • General Interest Novels COL Artemis fowl and the last guardian/ Eoin Colfer. London : Puffin, 2013.
  • General Interest Novels DUM Rebecca/ Daphne du Maurier ; with an afterword by Sally Beauman. London : Virago, 2012.
  • General Interest Novels EUG Virgin suicides/ Jeffrey Eugenides. London : Bloomsbury, 2011.
  • General Interest Novels FEI Magician/ Raymond E. Feist. Revised ed. London : Harper Voyager, 2012.
  • General Interest Novels FOR Canada/ Richard Ford. London : Bloomsbury, 2012.
  • General Interest Novels HER Dune/ Frank Herbert. London : Gollancz, 2007.
  • General Interest Novels LAN Capital/ John Lanchester. London : Faber and Faber, 2012.
  • General Interest Novels LEE To kill a mockingbird/ Harper Lee. London : Arrow, 2006.
  • General Interest Novels LEW Chronicles of Narnia/ C.S. Lewis ; with illustrations by Pauline Baynes. London : HarperCollins, 2011.
  • General Interest Novels PRA Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch/ Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. London : Corgi, 2006.
  • General Interest Novels RAN Swallows and amazons/ Arthur Ransome ; illustrated by the author with help from Miss Nancy Blackett. London : Random House, 2001.
  • General Interest Novels SMI I capture the castle/ Dodie Smith ; with an introduction by Valerie Grove. London : Vintage, 2004.
  • General Interest Novels SMI NW/ Zadie Smith. London : Hamish Hamilton, 2012.
  • General Interest Novels STE Treasure Island/ Robert Louis Stevenson ; edited with an introduction and notes by Peter Hunt. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • General Interest Novels TRE Merivel : a man of his time/ Rose Tremain. London : Chatto & Windus, 2012.
  • General Interest Poetry ARM Short and sweet : 101 very short poems/ edited with an introduction by Simon Armitage. London : Faber and Faber, 2002.
  • General Interest Poetry HEN Mersey sound : revised edition/ Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten. London : Penguin, 2007.
  • General Interest Poetry HUG By heart : 101 poems to remember/ edited with an introduction by Ted Hughes. London : Faber and Faber, 1997.
  • General Interest Poetry PAT 101 sonnets : from Shakespeare to Heaney/ edited with an introduction by Don Paterson. London : Faber and Faber, 2002.
  • General Interest Short Stories GAI Smoke and mirrors : short fictions and illusions/ Neil Gaiman. London : Headline, 2005.
  • General Interest Short Stories TUG Everything is always wrong/ Graham Tugwell. [Dublin] : [s.n.], 2013.

Geography

  • GB 581.B4 Glaciers & glaciation/ Douglas I. Benn, David J.A. Evans. 2nd ed. London : Hodder Education, 2010.

History

  • DA 20.J3.2012 Bede's church/ Sarah Foot. Jarrow : [s.n.], 2012.
  • DA 87.M6 Foundations of British maritime ascendancy : resources, logistics and the state, 1755-1815/ Roger Morriss. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language & Literature

  • P 37.G34 Oxford handbook of psycholinguistics/ edited by M. Gareth Gaskell. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • PN 721.R4 Renaissance paratexts/ edited by Helen Smith and Louise Wilson. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • PQ 9261.V45.V4 Obra poética integral de Cesário Verde (1855-86) : texto definitivo/ organização, apresentação, tábua cronológica e cartas reunidas por Ricardo Daunt. Lisboa : Dinalivro, 2013.
  • PR 2043.S5 Morte darthur/ the text as written by Sir Thomas Malory now spelled in modern style ; with many original designs by Aubrey Beardsley ; edited by F.J. Simmons ; with an introduction by Professor John Rhys ; and a note on Aubrey Beardsley by Aymer Vallance 3rd ed. London : J. M. Dent & Sons, 1927.
  • PR 2894.V3 Shakespeare in company/ Bart van Es. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • PR 6023.A93.A17.L3 Cambridge edition of the works of D.H. Lawrence : the poems/ edited by Christopher Polinitz. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • PR 830.G45.H3 Visions of an unseen world : ghost beliefs and ghost stories in eighteenth-century England/ Sasha Handley. London : Pickering and Chatto, 2007.

Law

  • K 370.D3 Laws and societies in global contexts : contemporary approaches/ Eve Darian-Smith. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • KD 771.P7 Changing legal regulation of cohabitation : from fornicators to family, 1600-2010/ Rebecca Probert. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • KZ 3225.D5 Textbook on international law/ Martin Dixon. 7th ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • KZ 4012.Y3 State immunity international law/ Xiaodong, Yang. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • KZ 4041.S7 Statehood and self-determination : reconciling tradition and modernity in international law/ edited by Duncan French. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Medicine

  • RC 339.52.K3 In search of memory : the emergence of a new science of mind/ Eric R. Kandel. New York ; London : Norton, 2007.

Music

  • ML 3916.H5 Music between us : is music a universal language?/ Kathleen Marie Higgins. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Photography

  • TR 73.J3 Common ground : photography in German during the Cold War/ Sarah E. James. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.

Political Science

  • JZ 1310.B7 Great powers and the international system : systemic theory in empirical perspective/ Bear F. Braumoeller. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Psychology

  • BF 161.P7 Beyond human nature : how culture and experience shape our lives/ Jesse J. Prinz. London : Penguin, 2013.
  • BF 241.K5 Perceptual organization in vision : behavioral and neural perspectives/ edited by Ruth Kimchi, Marlene Behrmann, Carl R. Olson. Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.
  • BF 321.S8.2006 Psychology of attention/ Elizabeth A. Styles. 2nd ed. Hove : Psychology Press, 2006.
  • BF 431.C6 Intelligence and abilities/ Colin Cooper. London : Routledge, 1999.
  • BF 463.S64.L5 Listening to speech : an auditory perspective/ edited by Steven Greenberg, William A. Ainsworth. New Jersey : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
  • BF 76.8.S7.2010 Psychologist's companion : a guide to writing scientific papers for students and researchers/ Robert J. Sternberg and Karin Sternberg. 5th ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Religion

  • BM 755.S2.B6 Sa'adyah Gaon/ Robert Brody ; translated by Betsy Rosenberg. Oxford ; Portland, Or. : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013.
  • BR 60.C6.A6 Vita latina Adae et Evae/ cura e studio Jean-Pierre Pettorelli ; adivvante et opus perficiente Jean-Daniel Kaestli. Synopsis vitae Adae et Evae : Latine, Graece, Armeniace et Iberice/ cura Albert Frey ... [et al.]. Turnhout : Brepols, 2012.
  • BR 60.C6.L3 Rustici Diaconi Contra Acephalos/ cura e studio Sara Petri. Turnhout : Brepols, 2013.

Science

  • QA 401.K7 Advanced engineering mathematics : international student version/ Erwin Kreyszig ; in collaboration with Herbert Kreyszig, Edward J. Norminton. 10th ed. [Hoboken, N.J.] : Wiley, 2011.
  • QB 521.V5 Solar history : an introduction/ Claudio Vita-Finzi. London : Springer, 2013.
  • QH 541.C5.2012 Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology/ F. Stuart Chapin, III, Pamela A. Matson, Peter M. Vitousek ; illustrated by Melissa Chapin. 2nd ed. New York : Springer, [2012].
  • QP 121.W4.2012 Respiratory physiology : the essentials/ John B. West. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Penn. : Wolters Kluwet/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2012.
  • QP 355.2.K3.2013 Principles of neural science/ edited by Eric R. Kandel ... [et al.]. 5th ed. New York : McGraw-Hill, 2013.
  • QP 360.5.W3.2010 Student's guide to cognitive neuroscience/ Jamie Ward. 2nd ed. Hove : Psychology Press, 2010.
  • QP 361.C3.2012 Neurophysiology : a conceptual approach/ Roger Carpenter, Benjamin Reddi. 5th ed. London : Hodder Arnold, 2012.
  • QP 408.G8.2012 Learning and memory : from brain to behavior/ Mark A. Gluck, Eduardo mercado, Catherine E. Myers. 2nd ed., International ed. New York : Worth Publishers, 2012.

Social Science

  • H 62.T47 How to do your case study : a guide for students and researchers/ Gary Thomas. London : SAGE, 2012.
  • HA 29.A2 Statistics as principled argument/ Robert P. Abelson. New York ; London : Psychology Press, 2009.
  • HA 32.F5.2009 Discovering statistics using SPSS : (and sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll)/ Andy Field. 3rd ed. Los Angeles, Calif. : Sage, 2009.
  • HC 435.T6 New Cambridge history of India : the economy of modern India from 1860 to the twenty-first century/ B.R. Tomlinson. 2nd ed. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • HG 6024.A3.B5 Arbitrage theory in continuous time/ Tomas Björk. 3rd ed. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • HM 1041.F5b.2013 Social cognition : from brains to culture/ Susan T. Fiske and Shelley E. Taylor. 2nd ed. London : SAGE, 2013.
  • HM 554.B4 Shadows of war : a social history of silence in the twentieth century/ edited by Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, Ruth Gino and Jay Winter. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  • HQ 1236.O9 Oxford handbook of gender and politics/ edited by Georgina Waylen ... [et al.]. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Very short introduction series

  • VSI American Politics American politics : a very short introduction/ Richard M. Valelly. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • VSI Architecture Architecture : a very short introduction/ Andrew Ballantyne. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
  • VSI Art History Art history : a very short introduction/ Dana Arnold. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • VSI Beauty Beauty : a very short introduction/ Roger Scruton. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • VSI Brain Brain : a very short introduction/ Michael O'Shea. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • VSI Christianity Christianity : a very short introduction/ Linda Woodhead. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • VSI Classical Mythology Classical mythology : a very short introduction/ Helen Morales. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • VSI Comedy Comedy : a very short introduction/ Matthew Bevis. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
  • VSI Critical Theory Critical theory : a very short introduction/ Stephen Eric Bronner. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • VSI Evolution Evolution : a very short introduction/ Brian and Deborah Charlesworth. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • VSI Film Film : a very short introduction/ Michael Wood. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
  • VSI Freud Freud : a very short introduction/ Anthony Storr. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • VSI Human Rights Human rights : a very short introduction/ Andrew Clapham. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • VSI Law Law : a very short introduction/ Raymond Wacks. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • VSI Political Philosophy Political philosophy : a very short introduction/ David Miller. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • VSI Privacy Privacy : a very short introduction/ Raymond Wacks. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • VSI Relativity Relativity : a very short introduction/ Russell Stannard. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  • VSI Renaissance Renaissance : a very short introduction/ Jerry Brotton. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • VSI Shakespeare Shakespeare : a very short introduction/ Germaine Greer. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.