New Books: March 21, 2012

Title	Author(s)	Call Number	ISBN
Black Boy (American Hunger):  A Record of Childhood and Youth	Richard Wright	PS3545 .R815 Z5 1993	0060812508
Dental Terminology	Charline M. Dofka	RK28 .D64 2012	9781133019718
A Documentary History of the United States	Richard D. Heffner	E173 .H5 1965	None, LCCN 65004162
Don Quixote, of La Mancha	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, translated and edited with an introduction by Walter Starkie	PQ6329 .A2 1957	0451626842
The Hunt for Bin Laden:  Task Force Dagger	Robin Moore	HV6432 .M65 2003	0375508619
Unto the Sons	Gay Talese	E184.I8 T35 1992	0679410341

A Documentary History of the United States features the texts from many of the most important documents and speeches in the country’s history, from The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution to John F. Kennedy’s speeches.  Do you think this book will have the text Barack Obama’s inaugural address?   Hint:  Look at the call number.  This book has had several editions over the years and been continuously updated, but its call number shows that this particular edition was published and/or copywritten in 1965.  Similarly, if you have been following the news over the past few years, you can see that The Hunt for Bin Laden:  Task Force Dagger could not possibly end with the death of Osama Bin Laden because it had not yet happened in 2003.

In certain cases, the date does not matter as much.  Black Boy (American Hunger):  A Record of Childhood and Youth and Don Quixote, of La Mancha are classic works of literature, so it would not matter if these books were published in 2012 or 1912—as long as they were still in good condition.

Which of these books was published the most recently?  Answer: Dental Terminology.   We have an earlier edition of this book from 2000, but the facts in it have been updated since it was first published.  If you compare the 2000 and 2012 editions, you would find some differences.  To find out more about these differences, you can visit the publisher’s website at http://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?N=16&Ntk=P_Isbn13&Ntt=9781133019718#mainTab_2.