Photography

Willis, Deborah. Posing beauty: African American images, from the 1890s to the present. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Siegel, Elizabeth. Playing with pictures: the art of Victorian photocollage. Chicago, Ill.: Art Institute of Chicago, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Photographing America, 1929-1947: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans. London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Gordon, Linda. Dorothea Lange: a life beyond limits. London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. (Publisher’s description)

World literature

Némirovsky, Irène. Dimanche and other stories. Trans. Bridget Patterson. New York: Vintage Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Grossi, Pietro. Fists. Trans. Howard Curtis. London: Pushkin Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Kureishi, Hanif. Collected stories. London: Faber and Faber, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Economic history and financial crises

Appleby, Joyce. The relentless revolution: a history of capitalism. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Mellyn, Kevin. Financial market meltdown: everything you need to know to understand and survive the global credit crisis. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Reinhart, Carmen M., and Kenneth S. Rogoff. This time is different: eight centuries of financial folly. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Art: Chicana and Chicano art; Cézanne; Michelangelo

Jackson, Carlos Francisco. Chicana and Chicano art: ProtestArte. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Stavitsky, Fail, and Katherine Rothkopf, eds. Cézanne and American modernism. Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Art Museum, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Wallace, William E. Michelangelo: the artist, the man, and his times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

American history

Whites, LeeAnn, Alecia P. Long, eds. Occupied women: gender, military occupation, and the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Frank, Robert. The Americans. Gottingen: Steidl, 2008. (Publisher’s description)

Rohs, Stephen. Eccentric nation: Irish performance in nineteenth-century New York City. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Horn, James. A kingdom strange: the brief and tragic history of the lost colony of Roanoke. New York: Basic Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Film studies and international studies

Frindéthié , K. Martial. Francophone African cinema: history, culture, politics and theory. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Chan, Kenneth. Remade in Hollywood: the global Chinese presence in transnational cinemas. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Sadlier, Darlene J., ed. Latin American melodrama: passion, pathos, and entertainment. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Macnab, Geoffrey. Ingmar Bergman: the life and films of the last great European director. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Administration of justice, law

Pratt, John. Penal populism. London; New York: Routledge, 2007. (Publisher’s description)

Bantekas, Ilias, and Susan Nash. International criminal law. 3^rd ed. London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2007. (Publisher’s description)

Native Americans: literature, history, women’s studies

Zitkala-Sa. American Indian stories, legends, and other writings. Edited with an introduction and notes by Cathy N. Davidson and Ada Norris. New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books, 2003. (Publisher’s description)

Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie, Madeleine Dion Stout, and Eric Guimond, eds. Restoring the balance: First Nations women, community, and culture. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Lowery, Malinda Maynor. Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: race, identity, and the making of a nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

History: Paris, Rome, and the space race

Robb, Graham. Parisians: an adventure history of Paris. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Watkin, David. The Roman Forum. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

O’Donnell, James J. The ruin of the Roman Empire. New York: Ecco, 2008. (Publisher’s description) *Selected by the Times Literary Supplement for inclusion in its “Books of the Year 2008″ feature.

Biddle, Wayne. Dark side of the moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the space race. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Women’s studies

Stansell, Christine. The feminist promise: 1792 to the present. New York: Modern Library, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

McHugh, Nancy Arden. Feminist philosophies A-Z. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. (Publisher’s description)

Schwarzenbach, Sibyl A. On civic friendship: including women in the state. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Rhode, Deborah L. The beauty bias: the injustice of appearance in life and law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)