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Recent Titles in Print

This is a sampling of the some of the newer volumes found on the shelves in the Circulating collections on Montgomery Library's first floor.

JUDAISM    
BM 538 .H84 J8813 2021                             The Jewish Body: A History
BM 723 .S93 2020   Jewish Mysticism: From Ancient Times through Today
KBM 524 .L5313 2019   An Introduction to Jewish Law
     
ISLAM    
BP 63 .A1 F67 2020   Islam and Asia
BP 172 .A273 2019   Sacred Misinterpretation: Reaching across the Christian-Muslim Divide
BP 194.16 .L6813 2020   Sunnis and Shi'a: A Political History of Discord
DS 56 .O924 2020   The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Archaeology
     
BUDDHISM    
BQ 9265.4 .V36 2018   The Spirit of Zen
     
CHRISTIANITY    
BR 115 .A8 A7755 2019   The Arts as Witness in Multifaith Contexts
BR 127 .B534 2018   When One Religion Isn't Enough: The Lives of Spiritually Fluid People
BR 160 .E5 E5 2019   The History of the Church: Eusebius of Caesarea
BR 165 .S235 2024   The First Christian Communities, 32--380 CE: Quiet Christians, Visible Martyrs, and Compelling Texts
BR 195 .M65 S93 2022   The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women
BR 516 .P7 2020   Preaching in /and the Borderlands
BR 1369 .W44 2018   Being Christians in Vandal Africa: The Politics of Orthodoxy in Post-Imperial West
     
HISTORY (GENERAL)    
D 13 .B26 2021   The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History is Revisionist History
D 25 .M285 2020   War: How Conflict Shaped Us
D 756.5 .N6 R93 2019   Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far
D 767.99 .I9 R544 2020   Flamethrower: Iwo Jima Medal of Honor Recipient and U.S. Marine Woody Williams and His Controversial Award, Japan's Holocaust and the Pacific War
D 804.348 .83 2019   Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance After Communism
D 810 .C4 A44313 2019   Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II 
D 810 .H4 R63 2021   Sheer Misery: Soldiers in Battle in WWII
D 810 .S8 M337 2019   Return to the Reich
     
HISTORY OF EUROPE    
D 383 .S58 2021   The Invention of International Order: Remaking of Europe after Napoleon
DA 16 .B85 2023   Internal Empire: The Rise and Fall of English Imperialism
DA 30 .S77 2019   The Story of Britain: A History of the Great Ages
DD 180.5 .P37 2020   Emperor: A New Life of Charles V
DF 211 .E77 2022   The Essential Greek Historians
DF 531 .B48 2020   Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages
DG 82 .K66 2020   Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine
DG 445 .C378 2021   The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800
DG 806.2 .M345 2020   The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps
DK 293 .A44 2020   Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World
DK 508.8 .B835 2020   The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary Ukraine
DK 651 .K2 R67 2020   Tatar Empire: Kazan's Muslims and the Making of Imperial Russia
     
HISTORY OF ASIA & THE MIDDLE EAST    
DS 33.4 .U6 B53 2024   Lost Decade: The US Pivot to Asia and the Rise of Chinese Power
DS 38.4 .S2 P45 2019   The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
DS 62.2 .U G594 2020   Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East
DS 119.76 .T488 2023   A Day in the Life of Abed Salama (Pulitzer Prize Winner - General Nonfiction)
DS 126.6 .A97 H44 2020   The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad
DS 128.2 .O547 2019   Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians
DS 218 .M28 2019     Arabs
DS 341 .M43 2020   Indo-Pacific Empire: China, America and the Contest for the World's Pivotal Region
DS 436 .Z835 2023     The Shortest History of India: From the World’s Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy―A Retelling for Our Times
DS 556.54 .G67 2022   The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
DS 778.7 .W325 2019   Agents of Disorder: Inside China's Cultural Revolution
DS 799.818 .K49 2024   The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
DS 919 .C55 2021     Twice Forgotten: African Americans and the Korean War, an Oral History
     
HISTORY OF AFRICA    
DT 154 .A4 I87 2024     Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
DT 352.65 .T56 2020   A History of West Central Africa to 1850
DT 352.7 .H373 2019   Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
DT 476 .G74 2019   A Fistful of Shells
PR 447 .F39 2021   Romantic Egypt: Abyssal Ground of British Romanticism
     
HISTORY: THE AMERICAS    
E 40 .G53 2019   El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
E 77 .T797 2019   The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
E 87 .B66 P43 2021   The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap that Shaped America
E 93 .O78 2019   Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
E 98 .S67 M55 2019   Indians on the Move: Native American Mobility and Urbanization in the Twentieth Century
E 99 .S54 H28 2020   Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877
E 99 .T34 H35 2019   Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power
E 99 .W2 S545 2019   This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
     
UNITED STATES      
E 184 .M5 Z36 2022   Racial Baggage: Mexican Immigrants and Race Across the Border
E 441 .A15 2021   The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
E 744.5 .G55 2022   Global Perceptions of the United States: The Trump Effect
E 745 .T317 T73 2019   Maxwell Taylor's Cold War: From Berlin to Vietnam
E 748 .G296 C63 2019   A Giant from Georgia: The Life of U.S. Senator Walter F. George, 1878-1957
E 813 .B86 2023   In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
     
UNITED STATES LOCAL HISTORY      
F 229 .K88 2019   Pocahontas and the English Boys
F 460 .A24 M87 2019   Voices of African Immigrants in Kentucky: Migration, Identity, and Transnationality
F 869 .S39 J3586 2019   The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco
     
CANADA, LATIN AMERICA, CARIBBEAN AREA    
F 1219.76 .S64 B47 2021   Everyday Life in the Aztec World
F 1226 .H36 2019   A Concise History of Mexico
F 1465.3 .R4 R45 2021   Religious Transformation in Maya Guatemala: Cultural Collapse and Christian Pentecostal Revitalization
F 1621 .D83 2019   Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean
F 1776 .F397 2020   Cuba : An American History
F 2169 .C3677 2021   Caribbean Migrations: The Legacies of Colonialism
F 2521 .B768 2019   The Brazil Reader
     
GEOGRAPHY    
G 246 .C7 N53 2020   Captain Cook Rediscovered: Voyaging to the Icy Latitudes
G 535 .L45 2019   Pirates: A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders
     
SOCIAL SCIENCES    
HD 75 .H84 2021   A Behavioural Theory of Economic Development: The Uneven Evolution of Cities and Regions 
HD 9710 .J32 G74 2021   Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars that Upended an Auto Empire
HG 171 .H233 2022   Sticky Power: Global Financial Networks in the World Economy
HM 756 .F85 2022   Community in Urban–Rural Systems
HQ 1597 .C464 2019   The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women's Movement
HT 1523 .D55 2021   Antiracist Discourse: Theory and History of a Macromovement
HV 2113 .T26 2022   Blind in Early Modern Japan: Disability, Medicine, and Identity
     
MUSIC    
ML 3916 .F693 2021   Sampling Politics: Music and the Geocultural
     
TV & COMMUNICATIONS    
PN 1992.8 .H54 L38 2022   Latinx TV in the Twenty-First Century
     
HISTORY--MILITARY    
UA 10 .U54 2022   Paramilitarism: Mass Violence in the Shadow of the State
     

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Library of Congress Classification Guide for Education Resources:

                          L             General
  LA History of Education
  LB Theory and Practice of Education
  LC Special Aspects of Education
  LD Individual Institutions - U.S.
  LE    Individual Institutions - Other Americas         
  LF Individual Institutions - Europe
  LG Individual Institutions - Asia/Africa/Oceania
  LH College Publications
  LJ Student Fraternities and Sororities
  LT Textbooks
  PZ Children's Literature