Recent Acquisitions March 2008

Subject	Call No. and Title

Cartography -- North America -- History
	271371 Schwartz, Seymour I. and Ralph E. Ehrenberg. The Mapping of America. Edison, N.J.: Wellfleet, 2001. The authors of this book have combined a rich collection of American maps, from the first tentative chartings of a new land to contemporary satellite photographs, tracking the development of the nation as it has been explored, its boundaries established, and its resources charted. Never before has a project of these dimensions been undertaken.

Chicago (Ill.) -- Historical geography
	271384 Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America’s most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, William Cronon opens a new window onto our national past. This is the story of city and country becoming ever more tightly bound in a system so powerful that it reshaped the American landscape and transformed American culture.

City planning -- United States -- Case studies
	181616 Alexander Garvin. The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t. 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. This comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to urban planning and design in America analyzes key projects initiated in 250 U.S. urban areas and details which strategies and programs were successful and which failed. Whether your interest is government, the nonprofit sector, or the private market -- if the subject is cities and how they work -- this book is the place to begin.

	181617 Bunnell, Gene. Making Places Special: Stories of Real Places Made Better by Planning. Chicago: Planning Press, 2002. Communities, like individuals, make choices that shape their futures. When those communities succeed, the choices they made are considered the root of their success. Rarely is good planning among them. In Making Places Special, Gene Bunnell works to correct that, offering a survey of ten exceptional places--from tiny Block Island, Rhode Island, to booming San Diego, California--where good planning played a critical role in making them special.

Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Evaluation
	030819 The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. The degree to which human conditions and the natural environment are vulnerable to the potential effects of climate change is a key concern for governments and the environmental science community worldwide. This book from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides the best available base of scientific information for policymakers and public use.

Climatic changes -- United States
	030821 Burt, Christopher C. and Mark Stroud. Extreme Weather: A Guide and Record Book. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007. Recent evidence suggests that aspects of the climate are becoming more extreme. The facts are in this book, including a detailed analysis of extreme weather trends in the United States going back to the nineteenth century. Also included are historical examples of some of the more bizarre weather events observed.

Creative ability -- Economic aspects
	201654 Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It’s Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 2004. The Rise of the Creative Class chronicles the ongoing sea of change in people's choices and attitudes, and shows not only what's happening but also how it stems from a fundamental economic change. The Creative Class now comprises more than thirty percent of the entire workforce. Their choices have had a huge economic impact. In the future they will determine how the workplace is organized, what companies will prosper or go bankrupt, and even which cities will thrive or wither.

Environmental policy -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
	181619 Daniels, Tom and Katherine Daniels. The Environmental Planning Handbook for Sustainable Communities and Regions. Chicago: Planners Press, 2003. Protecting air quality, watersheds, natural landscapes, wildlife habitats, farmland, and forests largely depends on effective and timely action at the local level. The Environmental Planning Handbook clarifies complex environmental issues, examines current sustainability efforts, and offers guidance for local governments to incorporate sustainable environmental quality into local and regional planning.

Environmental policy -- United States -- History
	201649 Gottleib, Robert. Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement. Updated ed. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2005. Originally published in 1993, Forcing the Spring was quickly recognized as a seminal work in the field of environmental history. The book links the environmental movement that emerged in the 1960s to earlier movements that had not previously been defined as environmental. It was the first to consider the importance of race, ethnicity, class, and gender issues in the history and evolution of environmentalism.

Flood control -- Mississippi River -- History
	020571 Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known -- the Mississippi flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of nearly one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of blacks north, and transformed American society and politics forever.

Metropolitan areas -- United States
	152302 Garreau, Joel. Edge City: Life on the New Frontier. New York: Anchor Books, 1992. First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. Joel Garreau explores the forces that have shaped the new way of urbanization and implies that the importance of such cities will grow with time.

Nature conservation -- United States -- Finance
	191128 Clark, Story. A Field Guide to Conservation Finance. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2007. Story Clark dispels the myths that conservationists can access only private funds controlled by individuals or that only large conservation organizations have clout with big capital markets. She shows how small land conservation organizations can achieve conservation goals using both traditional and cutting-edge financial strategies.

Ocean
	110235 Ocean: The World’s Last Wilderness Revealed. London: Dorling Kindersley, 2006. As the site where life first formed on Earth, a key element of the climate, and a continuing but fragile resource, oceans are of vital importance to our planet. From the geological and physical processes that affect the ocean floor to the key habitat zones, flora, and fauna, this is the definitive reference to the world's oceans for the entire family.

Political participation -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
	201655 Creighton, James L. The Public Participation Handbook: Making Better Decisions Through Citizen Involvement. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005. James L. Creighton offers a practical guide to designing and facilitating public participation of the public in environmental and public policy decision making. Written for government officials, public and community leaders, and professional facilitators, The Public Participation Handbook is a toolkit for designing a participation process, selecting techniques to encourage participation, facilitating successful public meetings, working with the media, and evaluating the program.

Urbanization -- United States
	271381 Grimm, Joe, ed. Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2005. Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors living along the shores of the Great Lakes in the 1930s. His collection is unique in the annals of Great Lakes folklore. It began as a search for songs but broadened into a collection of weather signs, shipboard beliefs, greenhorn tales, and stories of the intense rivalry between sailors and the steamboat men who replaced them.

Water conservation
	130573 Wyland with Steve Creech. Hold Your Water!: 68 Things to Need to Know to Keep Our Planet Blue. Kansas City, MO: Andrews-McMeel Publishing, 2006. This book offers easy ways for people to help preserve water and other related precious resources. Divided into more than 30 sections, this compendium illustrates how everyday activities such as car washing, showering, fertilizing-even 'pet poop' cleanup-can negatively impact the environment. It then delivers more than 100 tips and tidbits that will help you protect your planet.

Water consumption -- Florida
	130574 Barnett, Cynthia. Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 2007. Part investigative journalism, part environmental history, Mirage reveals how the eastern half of the nation—historically so wet that early settlers predicted it would never even need irrigation—has squandered so much of its abundant freshwater that it now faces shortages and conflicts once unique to the arid West.

Water supply -- Ireland -- Dublin -- History
	130577 Corcoran, Michael. Our Good Health: A History of Dublin’s Water and Drainage. Dublin: Dublin City Council, 2005. Dublin has had a supply of piped water since the thirteenth century and a drainage service since the late eighteenth century. This book relates the history of these two services against the backdrop of the city’s growth over eight centuries and the struggle to provide clean water and hygienic drainage, the twin elements for public health.

Waterfronts -- Design and construction -- Environmental aspects
	152308 Otto, Betsy, Kathleen McCormick and Michael Leccese. Ecological Riverfront Design: Restoring Rivers, Connecting Communities. Chicago: American Planning Association, 2004. Ecological Riverfront Design puts forth a new vision for the nation's urban riverfronts. It provides a set of planning and design principles that will allow communities to reclaim urban river edges in the most ecologically sound and economically viable manner possible. The report will guide planners, mayors, public works and environmental officials, river advocates, and the general public in their search for effective, ecological riverfront design.


Other new books
	030815 U.S. Climate Change Science Program. U.S. Climate Change Science Program Workshop: Climate Science in Support of Decision Making Abstract Book. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Climate Change Science Program, 2005.

	030816 Arctic Science Conference. State of the Arctic: Current State of the Arctic Observations and Evaluations of Arctic Change. Fairbanks, AK: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Arctic Division, 2006.

	061405 Syverson, Kent M. Pleistocene Geology of Chippewa County, Wisconsin. Madison: Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, 2007.

	162683 Karthikeyan, K. G. and Joel A. Pedersen. Fate of Representative Fluoroquinolone, Macrolide, Sulfonamide and Tetracycline Antibiotics in Subsurface Environments. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2005.

	162684 Metz, Stacy E. and Craig H. Benson. Iron Foundry Slags for Removing Arsenic from Water. Madison: University of Wisconsin Water Resources Institute, 2006.

	191124 Moore, Rebecca L. Essays on Non-Market Valuation: Innovations in Theory and Methods. Madison: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.

	290252 A Joint Investigation of Evapotranspiration Depletion of Treated and Non-Treated Saltcedar at the Elephant Butte Delta, New Mexico. Las Cruces, N.M.: New Mexico Water Resources Institute, 2006.

SELECTED RECENT ACQUISITIONS - March 2008