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The Old South's Modern Worlds: Slavery, Region, and Nation
in the Age of Progress
By: L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, and Frank Towers
Call #: F208.2 .S68 2011
The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular
and backward-looking society. The Old South's Modern Worlds
looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways
that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing
trends of their time.
Journal Writing in Second Language Education
By: Christine Pearson Casanave
Call #: P53.27 .C37 2011
This revisiting of journal writing from a 21st century perspective,
informed by relevant earlier literature, is what Christine
Pearson Casanave guides readers through in this first booklength
treatment of the use of journal writing in the contexts
of language learning, pre and in-service teaching, and research.
Visualizing Psychology
By: Siri Carpenter and Karen Huffman
Call #: BF121 .C354 2010
Combining Wiley’s name in Psychology with National Geographic’s
rich visual resources such as photographs, illustrations,
and videos, this second edition continues to offer professors
the opportunity to immerse their students in the world of
the psychology. Examples throughout Visualizing Psychology,
2nd edition show students how they can use psychology in
the workplace and in their personal relationships, while also
demonstrating the role psychology plays in other practical
everyday issues.
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Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian
Monarchy
By: Abbas Amanat
Call #: DS307.N38 A63 2008
When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had sat
on the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful,
complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and self
-indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who
displayed exceptional resilience in the face of dilemmas and
vulnerabilities shared by most monarchs of the Islamic world
in the nineteenth century.
Dissent from the Majority Report of the Financial Crisis Inquiry
Commission
By: Peter Wallison
Call #: HB3722 .W345 2011
Peter J. Wallison is the only member of the Financial Crisis
Inquiry Commission (FCIC) to release a formal dissent to the
FCIC’s official report on the causes of the financial crisis. Wallison,
codirector of financial policy studies at the American
Enterprise Institute, argues that the FCIC’s report fails to
address the cause of the deterioration in mortgage underwriting
standards that led to the housing bubble widely accepted
as the key factor in destabilizing the American economy.
Consumer Economics: Issues and Behaviors
By: Elizabeth B. Goldsmith
Call #: TX335 .G585 2009
Today's consumer is operating in a much more complex marketplace
than could ever have been envisioned by Adam
Smith, founding father of modern economics, who argued that
consumers—not kings or parliaments—should rule nations.
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