the institute library New Haven, Connecticut
Recent Acquisitions p September 2012
All titles listed were published in 2012 unless otherwise specified. Nonfiction titles have been
listed under their classes in the Borden Classification System, which was established by librarian
William A. Borden in 1887 and is unique to the Institute Library. Italicized portions of the classification
represent recent additions or amendments to the Borden system (based, whenever possible, upon its
original principles).
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fiction
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos. The Prisoner of Heaven.
Auster, Paul. Winter Journal.
Serber, Natalie. Shout Her Lovely Name.
Chabon, Michael. Telegraph Avenue.
Silva, Daniel. The Fallen Angel.
Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire (2009), Mockingjay (2010).
Smith, Zadie. NW, On Beauty (2005).
Coulter, Catherine. Backfire.
Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest (2006).
Cumming, Charles. A Foreign Country.
Walter, Jess. Beautiful Ruins.
Duncan, Glen. Talulla Rising.
Wilson, G. Willow. Alif the Unseen.
Eggers, Dave. A Hologram for the King.
Evanovich, Janet. Wicked Business.
nonfiction
Flynn, Gillian. Gone Girl.
b1 philosophy—general works
Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants (2006).
De Botton, Alain. The Consolations of Philosophy (2001).
Harkness, Deborah. Shadow of Night.
Heller, Peter. The Dog Stars.
b2 philosophy—mind, psychology
Macomber, Debbie. The Inn at Rose Harbor.
Duhigg, Charles. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We
Do in Life and Business.
Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies.
Marangell, Virginia J. Wooster Square (2004).
Gottschall, Jonathan. The Storytelling Animal: How Stories
Make Us Human.
McDermid, Val. A Place of Execution (2000).
Patterson, James. 11th Hour, I, Michael Bennett.
b63 philosophy—ethics—social ethics
Pessl, Marisha. Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006).
Magill, R. Jay, Jr. Sincerity: How a Moral Ideal Born Five
Hundred Years Ago Inspired Religious Wars, Modern Art,
Hipster Chic, and the Curious Notion That We All Have
Powers, Kevin. The Yellow Birds.
Rendell, Ruth. The St. Zita Society.
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Something to Say (No Matter How Dull).
Silliman, Matthew R. Sentience and Sensibility: A
Conversation About Moral Philosophy (2006).
d37 sociology—government & law—cities &
towns
b65 philosophy—ethics—personal ethics
Ehrenhalt, Alan. The Great Inversion and the Future of the
American City.
Mendelson, Cheryl. The Good Life: The Moral Individual in
an Antimoral World.
d58 sociology—demotics—education
(colleges)
b71 philosophy—modern philosophers—
american
Farnham, Thomas J. Southern Connecticut State University:
A Centennial History, 1893-1993 (1993).
Romano, Carlin. America the Philosophical.
d61 sociology—political economy;
economics—general works
b78 philosophy—modern philosophers—
scandinavian
Stiglitz, Joseph E. The Price of Inequality: How Today’s
Divided Society Endangers Our Future.
Kierkegaard, Søren. Parables of Kierkegaard (1978).
d63 sociology—political economy;
economics— capital vs. labor, trade unions,
etc.
b79 philosophy—modern philosophers—
other
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen =
Philosophical Investigations (2009).
Annunziato, Frank R. Labor Almanac: New Haven’s Unions
in the 1990s (1995).
d732 sociology­— associations &
institutions—Museums—Early & Unusual
Museums, Cabinets & Galleries
c14 religion—religion, in general—
Anthropology & Sociology of Religion
Nussbaum, Martha Craven. The New Religious Intolerance:
Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age.
Gould, Stephen Jay & Rosamond Purcell. Finders, Keepers:
Eight Collectors (1992).
Sappol, Michael. Hidden Treasure: The National Library of
Medicine.
c18 religion—religion, in general—
Comparative Religion & Theology
d733 sociology­— associations &
institutions—Museums—Natural History & Science
Museums
Burrell, David B. Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina,
Maimonides, Aquinas (1992).
Franke, William (ed.). On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic
Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts:
Volume 1: Classic Formulations (2007).
Wallace, Joseph. A Gathering of Wonders: Behind the Scenes at
the American Museum of Natural History (2000).
Franke, William (ed.). On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic
Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts:
Volume 2: Modern and Contemporary Transformations
(2007).
d74 sociology—associations &
institutions—Libraries
Knuth, Rebecca. Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored
Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century
(2003).
c6 religion—brahmanism & buddhism
Dalrymple, William. Nine Lives: in Search of the Sacred in
Modern India (2010).
d916 sociology—miscellaneous—Social
Identity—Sexuality
c9 religion—miscellaneous
Boswell, John. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe
(1994).
Gagné, Laurie Brands. The Uses of Darkness: Women’s
Underworld Journeys, Ancient and Modern (2000).
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j9 fine arts—miscellaneous
e791 arts & trades—general works
Livingstone, Margaret. Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
(2002).
Singer, Charles. A History of Technology Volume IV (1958).
k21 philology—english—General Works
e791 arts & trades—recording arts—
miscellaneous—Cartography
Michaels, Leonard. The State of the Language (1980).
Virga, Vincent. Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
(2007).
l2 general literature—production of
literature, authorship
f24 amusements—public entertainments—
Circus & Allied Arts
Card, Orson Scott. How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy
(1990).
Wilson, Gahan. The Big Book of Freaks (1996).
m9 prinicpal continental literatures—
literature in italian or spanish
g41 science (general, mathematical &
physical)—physics—general works
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Don Quijote De La Mancha
(2007).
Gimbel, Steven. Einstein’s Jewish Science: Physics at the
Intersection of Politics and Religion.
o2 literature in english—collections
h53 natural science—biology—evolution
Kick, Russ. The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From the Epic of
Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous Liaisons.
Stott, Rebecca. Darwin’s Ghosts: The Secret History of
Evolution.
o4 literature in english—history of
english literature
j52 fine arts—Graphic Arts—Graphic Design
Alkon, Paul K. Origins of Futuristic Fiction (2010).
Heller, Steven. 100 Ideas That Changed Graphic Design.
o5 literature in english—essays
j61 fine arts—painting & decoration—General
Works, History & Criticism
Frye, Northrup. Anatomy of Criticism (1957).
Weschler, Lawrence. Everything That Rises: A Book of
Convergences (2006).
Agee, William C. Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to
1950s (2006).
Weschler, Lawrence. Vermeer in Bosnia: A Reader (2004).
Lake, Carlton. Dictionary of Modern Painting (1964).
o8 literature in english—wit & humor
j8 fine arts—music
Abel, Alan. How to Thrive on Rejection: A Manual for
Survival (1984).
Forte, Mr. Allen. Listening to Classic American Popular Songs
(2001).
Colbert, Stephen. I Am America (And So Can You!) (2007).
Roberts, Helen H. A History of the New Haven Symphony
Orchestra Celebrating Its Seventy-fifth Season, 1894-1969
(1969).
Harry, Lou. Warning: Don’t Try This at Home: 50 Dangerous
and Nerve Racking Stunts to Avoid (2009).
National Lampoon. 1964 High School Yearbook: 39th
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Reunion Edition (2003).
Curiously Obsessed (2005).
The Onion. Dispatches from the Tenth Circle (2001).
Singer, Mark. Somewhere in America: Under the Radar with
Chicken Warriors, Left-wing Patriots, Angry Nudists, and
Others (2004).
The Onion. Embedded in America (2005).
The Onion. Homeland Insecurity (2006).
The Onion. The Onion Ad Nauseam (2003).
The Onion. Our Dumb Century (1999).
v individual biography
Rivers, Joan. I Hate Everyone. . . Starting with Me.
De Waal, Edmund. The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Family’s
Century of Art and Loss (2010).
Stewart, Jon. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents
America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
(2004).
Grant, Ulysses S. Memoirs and Selected Letters: Personal
Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Selected Letters 1839-1865 (1990).
Guy, John. Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel.
Lanzmann, Claude. The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir.
p poetry in english
Maraniss, David. Barack Obama: The Story.
Borsuk, Amaranth. Handiwork.
Borsuk, Amaranth & Brad Bouse. Between Page and Screen.
Max, D. T. Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of
David Foster Wallace.
Clampitt, Amy. The Kingfisher: Poems (1983).
Rothbart, Davy. My Heart Is an Idiot: Essays.
Goodman, Paul. The Lordly Hudson, Collected Poems (1962).
Slawenski, Kenneth. J. D. Salinger: A Life (2010).
Larkin, Philip. The Complete Poems.
Smith, Daniel. Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety.
Morris, Stephen. Nil Carborundum (2010).
Salter, Mary Jo. Henry Purcell in Japan: Poems (1985).
y22 european history—great britain
Wilson, A. N. The Elizabethans.
q drama in english
Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and Her Children: A
Chronicle of the Thirty Years’ War (1991).
z32 american history—united states—
colonies
Carson, Anne. Antigonick.
Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and
the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
(2000).
q2 drama in english—collections
Tichler, Rosemarie & Barry Kaplan. The Playwright at
Work: Conversations.
z33 american history—united states—
revolution & confederation
Cutler, Charles L. Connecticut’s Revolutionary Press (1975).
s51 geography, description & travel—asia—
general works
z34 american history—united states—
constitution to civil war
Byron, Robert. The Road to Oxiana (2000).
Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The
Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (2007).
t7 collected biography (arranged by
country)—north & central america & west
indies
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America (2004).
Singer, Mark. Character Studies: Encounters with the
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z35 american history—united states—civil
war
The library would like to express its sincere appreciation to the
donors of the books recently incorporated into our collection:
Debby Applegate, Atticus Books, Megan Black, Colin Caplan,
Arnold H. Chadderdon, Barbara and Gerald Gaab, Lou Harry,
Stephen V. Kobasa, Nathan Lewis, Joanne Saddler, Anne
Somsel, Bruce Tulgan, and Thomas M. Wood.
Guelzo, Allen C. Fateful Lightning: A New History of the
Civil War and Reconstruction.
z36 american history—united states—
Reconstruction to 1900
If you are interested in donating books, please be advised that
the library is currently accepting gifts of hardcover volumes in
new or otherwise excellent condition in the areas of local and
regional history, the book arts, poetry, and classic literature. To
discuss a possible gift, please contact Executive Director Will
Baker.
Wilson, Robert. The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and
the Great Diamond Hoax­—Clarence King in the Old West
(2006).
z38 american history­— united states—
political, constitutional & social histories
Conant, Jennet. A Covert Affair (2011).
Hitt, Jack. Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American
Character.
Howe, Daniel Walker. The American Whigs: An Anthology
(1973).
Howe, Daniel Walker. The Political Culture of the American
Whigs (1979).
Keniston, Kenneth. Young Radicals: Notes on Committed
Youth (1968).
Robbins, Alexandra. Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the
Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power (2002).
z44 american history­— u.s. northern
states—connecticut
Caplan, Colin M. 101 Glimpses of New Haven (2008).
Caplan, Colin M. A Guide to Historic New Haven,
Connecticut (2007).
Caplan, Colin M. Westville: Tales from a Connecticut Hamlet
(2009).
O’Nan, Stewart. The Circus Fire: A True Story (2000).
Pagliuco, Christopher. The Great Escape of Edward Whalley
and William Goffe: Smuggled Through Connecticut.
z46 american history­— u.s. northern
states—new york
Von Drehle, Dave. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
(2003).
Zacks, Richard. Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt’s Doomed
Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York.
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