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Auxiliary Sciences of History World History History of the Americas Geography Social Sciences Political Science Law Language & Literature Science Medicine Technology Bibliography

New Acquisitions

April 2009

Auxiliary Sciences of History

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History of Civilization

  • Civilisation. The Complete Series (DVD)

World History

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History (General)

  • Nuremberg: Tyranny on Trial (DVD)
  • Time of Fear (DVD)
  • White Light, Black Rain: the Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (DVD)

Germany

  • The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler in Nazi Germany (DVD)

Balkan Peninsula

  • Milosevic on Trial (DVD)

Asia

  • Frontline/World: Stories from a Small Planet, January 24, 2006 (DVD)
  • Journey to the Occupied Lands (DVD)
  • Truth, War, and Consequences (DVD)

Africa

  • The Devil Came on Horseback (DVD)

History of the Americas

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America

  • Silent Victims: Hate Crimes Against Native Americans by Barbara Perry

United States

  • Balseros (DVD)
  • A History of the Civil Rights Movement (DVD)
  • A History of Slavery in America (DVD)
  • In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed (DVD)
  • I've Been Black in Two Countries: Black Cuban Views on Race in the U.S. by Curtis Stokes
  • Latino/a Rights and Justice in the United States: Perspectives and Approaches by Jose Louis-Moran
  • Liberty Bound (DVD)
  • Race and Human Rights by Michelle A. Hay
  • Richard B. Cheney and the Rise of the Imperial Vice Presidency by Bruce P. Montgomery
  • A Time for Burning (DVD)

United States Local History

  • Cubans of Union City: Immigrants and Exiles in a New Jersey Community by Yolanda Prieto

Latin America. Spanish America.

  • Denial (DVD)
  • El dia que me quieras (The Day You'll Love Me) (DVD)
  • Scars of Memory (DVD)
  • Separate and Unequal (DVD)
  • The World Stopped Watching (DVD)

Geography

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Environnmental Sciences

  • Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues by Howard Margolis

Social Sciences

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Industries, Labor, & Land Use

  • Corruption in International Business: the Challenge of Cultural and Legal Diversity by Sharon Eicher
  • Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos: the Corporate Scandal Reader by Nancy B. Rapoport...[et al.]
  • For a Man Must Work, or the End of Work (DVD)
  • The Mind and Heart of the Negotiator by Leigh L. Thompson

Transportation & Communications

  • Review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Restructured Upper Mississippi-Illinois River Waterway Feasibility Study (DVD)

Commerce

  • The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies by Scott E. Page

Finance

  • Damages (DVD)

Sociology (General)

  • A Class Apart: a Mexican Civil Rights Story (DVD)
  • Justice edited by Karen A. Hegtvedt, Jody Clay-Warner

The Family, Marriage, & Women

  • Fatal Impact (DVD)
  • Forensic and Medico-Legal Aspects of Sexual Crimes and Unusual Sexual Practices by Anil Aggrawal
  • Lives for Sale (DVD)
  • Making Marriage Work: a History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth Century United States by Kristin Celello
  • Marry Me: Stories from the San Fransico Weddings (DVD)
  • The Sexuality of Migration: Border Crossings and Mexican Immigrant Men by Lionel Cantú, Jr. ; edited by Nancy A. Naples and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz
  • Toolkit to Combat Trafficking in Persons by the Global Programme Against Trafficking in Human Beings

Secret Societies

  • Ku Klux Klan: a Secret History (DVD)

Communities, Classes, & Race

  • The Colour of Money (DVD)
  • Racism: the Essential Reader edited by Ellis Cashmore and James Jennings

Social Pathology, Public Welfare, & Criminology

  • Children in State Care edited by Mark Courtney and June Thoburn
  • Foster Care: a System in Crisis (DVD)
  • How to Kill a Human Being (DVD)
  • Justice and the Generals (DVD)
  • Legal Limbo: the War on Terror and the Judicial Process (DVD)
  • On Native Soil (DVD)
  • No Winners Here Tonight: Race, Politics, and Geography in One of the Country's Busiest Death Penaly States by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
  • Now. March 7, 2008 (DVD)
  • Race on Trial (DVD)
  • Special Circumstances (DVD)
  • Strenghening Forensic Scienc in the United States: a Path Forwoard edited by Paul Knepper, Jonathan Doak, Joanna
  • Thanatos Rx (DVD)
  • Urban Crime Prevention, Surveillance, and Restorative Justice: Effects of Social Technologies by the Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community, Committee on Science, Technology, and Law Policy and Global Affairs, and the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies
  • What in the World?: Black Death in Dixie (DVD)
  • Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice edited by Barry Goldson and John Muncie

Political Science

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Political Theory

  • Human Rights: a Very Short Introduction by Andrew Clapham
  • Unconstiutional: the War on Our Civil Liberites (DVD)

Political Institutions & Public Administration (United States)

  • De nadie (Border Crossing) (DVD)
  • On the Side of Angels (DVD)

International Relations

  • Peace: a World History by Antony Adolf

Law

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Law (General)

  • Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy by Steven R. Ratner, Jason S. Abrams, James L. Bischoff
  • Arguing About the Law edited by Aileen Kavanagh and John Oberdiek
  • Causation and Resonsibility: an Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics by
  • Crime, Addiction, and the Regulation of Gambling edited by Toine Spapens, Alan Littler and Cyrille Fijnaut
  • Cross-Border Consumer Contracts by Jonathan Hill
  • The Employment Rights of Teachers: Exploring Education Law Worldwide edited by Charles J. Russo and Jan DeGroof
  • Epistemic Uncertainty and Legal Theory by Brian Burge-Hendrix
  • Facing the Limits of the Law edited by Erik Claes, Wouter Devroe, Bert Keirsbilck
  • Feminist Legal Studies: Critical Concepts in Law edited by Joanne Conaghan
  • Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations
  • Honouring Social Justice: Honouring Dianne Martin edited by Margaret E. Beare
  • The Human Rights to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice by Richard P. Hiskes
  • The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law edited by Nita A. Farahany
  • Law and Agonistic Politics edited by Andrew Schaap
  • Law and Bioethics edited by Michael Freeman
  • The Limits of Consent: a Socio-Ethical Approach to Human Subject Research in Medicine edited by Oonagh Corrigan ... [et al.]
  • Mental Disorder and Criminal Law: Responsibility, Punishment, and Competence edited by Robert F. Schopp ... [et al.]
  • Multinational Enterprises and Tort Liabilities by Muzaffer Eroglu
  • The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History edited by Stanley N. Katz
  • A Sourcebook on International Human Rights Materials by Aphrodite Smagadi. Translated to Farsi byReza Eslami
  • Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics edited by Mark D. White
  • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: a Common Standard of Achievement edited by Gudmundur Alfredsson and Asbjorn Eide
  • Understanding Jurisprudence: an Introduction to Legal Theory by Raymond Wacks
  • The Voice of a Child in Family Law Disputes by Patrick Parkinson, Judy Cashmore

United Kingdom & Ireland

  • Pinochet Case (DVD)
  • Secrets of the Dead. Executed in Error (DVD)

Administrative Law

  • Administrative Law Cases and Comments by Walter Gellhorn and Clark Byse
  • Developments in Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice, 2007-2008 edited by Jeffrey S. Lubbers

Civil Rights

  • There is a Fountain: the Autobiography of a Civil Rights Lawyer by Conrad Lynn

Constitutional Law

  • Amending the Constitution (DVD)
  • The Bill of Rights: a Living Document (DVD)
  • A Constitution of Many Minds: Why the Founding Document Doesn’t Mean What It Meant Before by Cara R. Sunstein
  • The Constitution, Race, and Renewed Relevance of Original Intent: Reclaiming the Lost Opportunity of Federalism by Donald Lively
  • The First Amendment Project (DVD)
  • Law’s Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics by Gordon Silverstein
  • Living Constitution, Dying Faith: Progressivism and the New Science of Jurisprudence by Bradley C.S. Watson
  • The Making of the Constitution (DVD)
  • Modern Power and Free Speech: Contemporary Culture and Issues of Equality by Chris Demaske
  • Plain, Honest Men: the Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman

Contracts

  • Contract Law: Flowcharts and Cases: a Student’s Visual Guide to Understanding Contracts by Frank J. Doti
  • Elements of Contract Interpretation by Steven J. Burton

Corporations

  • Antitrust and Associations Handbook by

Criminal Law

  • Arson Law and Prosecution by John F. Decker, Bruce L. Ottley
  • Battered Women and the Law by Clare Dalton, Elizabeth M. Schneider
  • Criminal Procedure in Practice text by Paul Marcus. Practice commentary by Jack Zimmermann
  • The Future of America’s Death Penalty: an Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research edited by Charles S. Lanier…[et al.]
  • In the Name of Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine the Classic Article “The Aims of Criminal Law” by edited by Timothy Lynch

Disability Law

  • Disability Law: Cases, Materials, Problems by Laura Rothstein
  • Reassignment Under the ADA: Must an Employer Hire a Minimally Qualified, Disabled Employee Over a More Qualified, Non-Disabled Applicant?: a Legal Research Guide by Amy Stein

Education

  • For the Common Good: Principles of American Academic Freedom Matthew W. Finkin and Robert C. Post
  • The Law of Schools, Students, and Teachers in a Nutshell by Kern Alexander and M. David Alexander

Elder Law

  • Elder Law: Cases and Materials by Lawrence A. Frolik, Alison McChrystal Barnes
  • Elder Law: Readings, Cases, and Materials by Kimberley Dayton…[et al.]

Estate Planning

  • Teaching Materials on Estate Planning by Gerry W. Beyer
  • Wealth Transfer Planning and Drafting by Jeffrey N. Pennell
  • Wills, Trusts and Estates by Jeffrey N. Pennell, Alan Newman
  • Wills, Trusts, and Future Interest by Lawrence H. Averill, Jr.

Evidence

  • Chasing Paper: the Keys to Learning About and Loving Discovery by Janet S. Kole
  • Demonstrative and Real Evidence by Ashley S. Lipson
  • Discovery by Arthur Ian Miltz
  • Evidence by Michael H. Graham
  • Evidence by Christopher B. Mueller…[et al.]
  • Evidence: Text, Problems, and Cases by Ronald J. Allen…[et al.]
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  • Problems in Evidence by Kenneth S. Broun…[et al.]

Family Law

  • Cases and Problems on Domestic Relations by Homer H. Clark, Jr., Ann Laquer Estin
  • Child, Family, and State: Problems and Materials on Children and the Law by Robert H. Mnooking, D. Kelly Weisberg
  • Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy, and Practice by Douglas E. Abrams, Sarah H. Ramsey
  • Family Law: Cases and Materials by Judith Areen, Milton C. Regan, Jr.
  • Slovin v. Solvin by Barbara S. Barron, Lawrence Kessler

Immigration

  • Immigration Law and Practice
  • Well-Founded Fear

Intellectual Property

  • Copyright: Examples and Explanations by Stephen M. McJohn
  • Intellectual Property: Examples and Explanations by Stephen M. McJohn

Judiciary

  • Black Robes, Whit Coats: the Puzzle of Judicial Policymaking and Scientific Evidence by Rebecca C. Harris

Juvenile Justice

  • Cases and Materials on Juvenile Justice Administration by Barry C. Feld
  • The Juvenile Justice Process: Cases and Materials by Frank W. Miller…[et al.]

Land Use

  • Cases and Materials on Land Use by Robert R. Wright, Mortn Gitelman
  • Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials by Robert C. Ellickson, Vicki L. Beer
  • Land Use Regulation: Cases and Materials by Danile P. Selmi, James A. Kushner
  • Planning and Control of Land Development: Cases and Materials by Daniel R. Mandelker…[et al.]

Leases

  • Manual on Commercial Leasing in Troubled Times: Forms, Checklists and Advice
  • Sales and Leases: Examples & Explanations by James Brook

Legal Education

  • Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School: Strategies for Success by Ruta K. Stropus, Charlotte D. Taylor
  • Get into Law School: a Strategic Approach by Ruth Lammert-Reeves

Legal Profession

  • Lawyers and the Legal Profession: Cases and Materials by Roy D. Simon…[et al.]
  • Lawyers Guide to Practice Management Systems Software by Andrew Z. Adkins, III
  • The Organized Lawyer by Kelly Lynn Anders
  • Practical Lawyering: the Skills You Did Not Learn in Law School by Gerald G. Goldberg

Legal Research

  • Effective Legal Research by Miles O. Price, Harry Bitner
  • What Can Lawyers Learn from Actors? (DVD)

Legal Writing

  • The Lawyer’s Editing Manual by Joan Ames Magat

Miscellaneous

  • And That’s How a Bill Becomes a Law (DVD)
  • Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute: Outlines of Papers
  • Cases and Materials on Poverty Law: Theory and Practice by Julie A. Nice, Louise G. Trubek
  • Consumer Protection Law Development edited by August Horvath…[et al.]
  • Forms Under Article 9 of the UCC by the Uniform Commercial Code Committee
  • The Law of Fundraising by Bruce R. Hopkins
  • The Law of Schools, Students, and Teachers in a Nutshell by Kern Alexander and M. David Alexander
  • Litigating the Nursing Home Case by James T. O’Reilly
  • The Middle Voice: Mediating Conflict Successfully by Joseph B. Stulberg and Lela P. Love
  • The Regulation of Boxing: a History and Comparative Analysis of Policies Among American States by Robert G. Rodriguez. Foreword by George Kimball
  • Wildlife Law: a Primer by Eric T. Freyfogle, Dale D. Goble

Property

  • Cases and Materials on American Property Law by Sheldon F. Kurtz, Herbert Hovenkamp
  • Cases and Materials on Modern Property Law by Jon W. Bruce, James W. Ely, Jr.
  • Contemporary Property by Grant S. Nelson…[et al.]
  • Property: Cases and Materials on American Property Law by John E. Cribbet…[et al.]
  • Questions and Answers. Property: Multiple Choice and Short Answer Questions and Answers by John Copeland

Real Estate

  • Cases and Materials on Real Estate Transfer, Finance, and Development by Grant S. Nelson, Dale Whitman
  • Real Estate Transactions by George Lefcoe

Supreme Court

  • Federalism as Seen by the U.S. Supreme Court by Richard H.W. Maloy
  • The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, the Battle for the Supreme Court by Cliff Sloan and David McKean
  • Supreme Court Justices: Sandra Day O’Connor and Stephen Breyer (DVD)

Tax

  • Estate Tax Credits and Computations by Laura H. Peebles
  • Private Foundations—Taxable Expenditures (Sec. 4945) by Michael I. Sanders, Celia Roady as revised by Turney P. Berry
  • Tax Issues of Religious Organizations by Nina J. Crimm

Terrorism

  • Anti-Terrorism and Criminal Enforcement by Norman Abrams
  • The Constitution and 9/11: Recurring Threats to America’s Freedoms by Louis Fisher
  • Our Nation Unhinged: the Human Consequences of the War on Terror by Peter Jan Honigsber. Foreword by Erwin Chemerinsky

Torts

  • Summation by Lawrence J. Smith
  • Torts by Steven L. Emanuel
  • Trial Technique and Evidence by Michael R. Fontham

Trials

  • Appeals by Marshall Housts, Walter Rogosheske
  • Cross Examination of Medical Experts by Robert L. Habush
  • Cross Examination of Non-Medical Experts by Robert L. Habush
  • The Death of the American Trial by Robert P. Burns
  • Federal Courts by Larry W. Yackle
  • In Confidence: When to Protect Secrecy and When to Require Disclosure by Ronald Goldfarb
  • Model Jury Instructions in Criminal Antitrust Cases by
  • Objections at Trial by Myron H. Bright…[et al.]
  • Winning at Deposition (DVD)

Water Law

  • 11th Water Law Conference: February 11-12, 1993
  • 12th Water Law Conference: February 10-11, 1994
  • 13th Water Law Conference: February 2-3, 1995
  • 14th Water Law Conference: February 8-9, 1996
  • 15th Water Law Conference: February 20-21, 1997
  • 17th Water Law Conference: February 25-26, 1999
  • 18th Water Law Conference: February 24-25, 2000
  • 20th Water Law Conference: February 21-22, 2002
  • 21st Water Law Conference: 2003
  • 22nd Water Law Conference: 2004
  • 23rd Water Law Conference: 2005
  • Water Marketing 1987: Profits, Problems, and Policies in the Western United States: Collected Essays on the Marketing & Transfer of Western Water Rights
  • Water Marketing 1988: the Move to Innovation edited by Steven J. Shupe

Nevada

  • Build Your Civil Trial Skills by Pat J. Fitzgibbons, ... [et al.]
  • Construction Defect Litigation: from A to Z by Steven R. Bartell ... [et al.]
  • Gaming Regulation and Gaming Law in Nevada: as Remembered by Robert D. Faiss from oral history interviews by Dwayne Kling edited by R.T. King
  • Gaming Regulation in Nevada: the First Sawyer Administration as remembered by Guy W. Farmer from oral history interviews by Dwayne Kling edited by R.T. King
  • Limited Liability Companies by Robert C. Anderson, Gregg P. Benson
  • Nevada Environmental Law Handbook by the law firm of Lionel, Sawyer, & Collins editors and authors, Paul R. Hejmanowski ... [et al.]
  • Race to Injustice: Lessons Learned from the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case edited by edited by Michael L. Seigel
  • Working with Experts in Estate Planning and Administration by Anthony L. Barney, Richard P. Schulze, Elyse M. Tyrell

International Law

  • Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals edited by André Klip and Göran Sluiter
  • The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court by Carsten Stahn and Göran Sluiter. Foreword by Adriaan Bos
  • International Law in Contemporary Perspective by W. Michael Reisman ... [et al.]
  • International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Daniel H. Joyner
  • The Reckoning: the Battle for the International Criminal Court (DVD)
  • World's Major Rivers: an Introduction to International Water Law with Case Studies by Daniel Seligman (primary author)

Language & Literature

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English Language

  • Elements of Style by by William Strunk Jr.with revisions, an introduction, and a chapter on writing by E.B. White

DVDs of Interest

  • Hurricane on the Bayou (DVD)
  • Live Nude Girls Unite! (DVD)
  • El norte (The North) (DVD)
  • Paradise Now (DVD)
  • Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (DVD)
  • El silencio de Neto (The Silence of Neto (DVD)
  • Rumpole of the Bailey. Rumpole and the Confession of Guilt (DVD)
  • La tragedia de Macario (The Tragedy of Macario) (DVD)

Science

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Physics

  • Hurricane Katrina: the Storm that Drowned a City (DVD)

Natural History

  • The Missouri River Ecosystem: Exploring the Prospects for Recovery by the Committee on Missouri River Ecosystem Science, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council

Medicine

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Public Aspects of Medicine

  • NOW Hosted by David Brancaccio: August 22, 2008: Health Care Solutions (DVD)
  • Living in the Shadow of Zonolite Mountain (DVD)

Technology

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Hydraulic & Ocean Engineering

  • Inside the Hoover Dam Scrapbooks by Weber State University, Stewart Library Special Collections

Environmental Technology & Sanitary Engineering

  • Draft Alternatives Working Paper: Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport Environmental Impact Statement prepared by VHB/Vanesse Hangen Brustlin, Inc
  • New Concepts in Water Purification by Gordon L. Culp and Russell L. Culp

Bibliography

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Books in General

  • Library World Records by Godfrey Oswald
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