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The Dixon Collection
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The Dixon Collection contains current books of both fiction and nonfiction illustrative of contemporary life and thought. The Dixon Fund, which supports the collection, was given in the memory of William Boulton Dixon '15. These books circulate for four weeks. For questions or suggestions, contact Carol Murphy cwmurphy@princeton.edu or (609) 258-5307.
New Arrivals: January
A Private History of Awe Scott Russell Sanders (Dixon)PS3569.A5137Z47 2006 |
My Colombian War: A Journey Through the Country I Left Behind Silvana Paternostro (Dixon)F2264.2.P38 2007 |
Walking on Tiptoe and Other Poems Elizabeth Barrett (Dixon)PR6052.A717W35 2007 |
Spelling Love with an X: A Mother, a Son, and the Gene That Binds Them Clare Dunsford (Dixon)RJ506.F73D86 2007 |
Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age Jeff Gomez (Dixon)Z116.A2G66 2008 |
The Letters of Noel Coward Barry Day, ed. (Dixon)PR6005.O85Z48 2007 |
On the Edge: Collected Long Poems Kenneth Koch (Dixon)PS3521.O27O49 2007 |
Iconic America: A Roller-Coaster Ride Through the Eye-Popping Panorama of American Pop Culture Tommy Hilfiger with George Lois (Dixon)E169.12.H55 2007q |
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play Joan Didion (Dixon)PS3554.I33Y43 2007 |
The Book about Blanche and Marie Per Olov Enquist (Dixon)PT9876.15.N78B66 2006 |
Moth Catcher: An Evolutionist's Journey Through Canyon and Pass Michael M. Collins (Dixon)QH31.C57A3 2007 |
How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, From the Board to the Boardroom Garry Kasparov (Dixon)GV1439.K38A3 2007 |
I Think of You Ahdaf Soueif (Dixon)PR6069.O78I18 2007b |
Outlaw Style: Poems R.T. Smith (Dixon)PS3569.M537914O87 2007 |
No Real Light Joe Wenderoth (Dixon)PS3573.E515N6 2007 |
Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community Bill McKibben (Dixon)QC981.8.G56M35 2007 |
Music's Mask and Measure Jay Wright (Dixon)PS3573.R5364M874 2007 |
Mere Anarchy Woody Allen (Dixon)PS3551.L44M47 2007 |
The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose Woody Allen (Dixon)PS3551.L44A6 2007 |
Star Wars:Death Star Michael Reaves and Steve Perry (Dixon)PN1995.9.S695R43 2007 |
December
Time of Grace: Thoughts on Nature, Family, and the Politics of Crime and Punishment Ken Lamberton (Dixon)HV9481.T83L358 2007
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Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman Caryl Flink (Dixon)ML420.M495F55 2007 |
The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland Barbara Sjoholm (Dixon)DL971.L2S746 2007 |
Happy Tails Across New Jersey: Things to See and Do With Your Dog Diane Goodspeed (Dixon)SF427.4574.N5G66 2006 |
Flying to America: 45 More Stories Donald Barthelme (Dixon)PS3552.A76F59 2007 |
Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes and Asides from National Review William F. Buckley Jr. (Dixon)PN4874.B796A3 2007 |
Now Voyagers: The Night Sea Journey James McCourt (Dixon)PS3563.A266N68 2007 |
Dark Victory: The Life of Bette Davis Ed Sikov (Dixon)PN2287.D32S55 2007 |
A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life J. Craig Venter (Dixon)QH31.V385A3 2007 |
Listening to Cougar Marc Bekoff and Cara Blessley Lowe, eds. Foreword by Jane Goodall (Dixon)QL737.C23L57 2007 |
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever David M. Friedman (Dixon)R855.3.F75 2007 |
On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters Matthew Desmond (Dixon)SD421.24.D47 2007 |
Martha: On Trial, In Jail, and On a Comeback Robert Slater (Dixon)TX140.S74S77 2006 |
Guilty Anna Kavan (Dixon)PR6009.D63G844 2007 |
The Officer's Daughter Zina Rohan (Dixon)PR6068.O357O33 2007 |
Don't Stop Me Now Jeremy Clarkson (Dixon)TL146.5.C563 2007 |
Hotel: An American History A.K. Sandoval-Strauss (Dixon)TX909.S25 2007 |
Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency, From the Cold War Through the Dawn of a New Century James Bamford (Dixon)UB256.U6B36 2001 |
Children of Jihad: A Young American's Traels Among the Youth of the Middle East Jared Cohen (Dixon)DS49.7.C64 2007 |
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible Robert J. Hutchinson (Dixon)BS480.H88 2007 |
Gonzo: The Live of Hunter S. Thompson Jann S. Wenner & Corey Seymour (Dixon)PN4874.T444W38 2007 |
For Love of Politics: Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years Sally Bedell Smith (Dixon)E886.2.S555 2007 |
The Fall of the House of Bush Craig Unger (Dixon)E902.U53 2007 |
A Man's Life: Dispatches From Dangerous Places Mark Jenkins (Dixon)G226.J46A3 2007 |
The Buffalo, Ben and Me Todd Parnell (Dixon)CT275.P354A3 2007 |
The Human, The Orchid, and the Octopus: Exploring and Conserving Our Natural World Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein (Dixon)GC30.C68A3 2007 |
Carlisle vs. Army: Jim Thorpe, Dwight Eisenhower, Pop Warner, {and the Forgotten Story of Football's Greatest Battle} Lars Anderson (Dixon)GV958.U33A53 2007 |
Basic Black: The Essential Guide for Getting Ahead at Work (and in Life) Cathie Black (Dixon)HF5381.B448 2007 |
Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist Richard Feldman (Dixon) HV7436.F45 2008 |
Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America's Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail if They Don't) Michael J. Gerson (Dixon)JC573.2.U6G47 2007 |
Great Pretenders: My Strange Love Affair with '50s Pop Music Karen Schoemer (Dixon)ML3477.S36G74 2006 |
"You Can't Air That": Four Cases of Controversy and Censorship in American Television Programming David S. Silverman (Dixon)PN1992.3.U5S555 2007 |
America's Child: A Woman's Journey Through the Radical Sixties: A Memoir Susan Sherman (Dixon)PS3569.H434Z46 2007 |
Whispers in the Pines: A Naturalist in the Northeast Joanna Burger (Dixon)QH104.5.N58B87 2006 |
The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two Jay Wright (Dixon)PS3573.R5364G85 2007 |
Who Stole The Funny?: A Novel of Hollywood Robby Benson (Dixon)PS3602.E6956W48 2007 |
October
Mind Bombs: Exploring Conventional Wisdom Garrick Alder (Dixon)AG243.A423 2007 |
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram Dang Thuy Tram (Dixon)DS559.44.D36 2007 |
Takeover: the Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy Charlie Savage (Dixon)E902.S38 2007 |
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism Robert P. Murphy (Dixon)HB501.M88 2007 |
Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World Bill Clinton (Dixon)HN18.C477 2007 |
God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir John Bul Dau (Dixon)HV640.5.S9D38 2007 |
From Baghdad Bedlam Maged Kadar (Dixon)CT1919.I78K323 2007 |
That Mean Old Yesterday Stacey Patton (Dixon)HV6626.23.N43P38 200 2007 |
Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist Tyler Cowen (Dixon)HB74.P8C69 2007 |
In the Footsteps of George Borrow: A Journey through Spain and Portugal Guy Arnold (Dixon)DP43.2.A766 2007 |
That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity James Dawes (Dixon)HV6322.7.D39 2007 |
Ike: An American Hero Michael Korda (Dixon)E836.K67 2007 |
The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing Greg Anrig (Dixon)JC573.2.U6A57 2007 |
Los Republicanos: Why Hispanics and Republicans Need Each Other Leslie Sanchez (Dixon)JK2356.S28 2007 |
Oppenheimer is Watching Me Jeff Porter (Dixon)E169.Z8P5924 2007 |
Nabeel's Song: The Story of the Poet of Baghdad Jo Tatchell (Dixon)DS79.66.Y36T38 2006b |
The Sister Knot: Why We Fight, Why We're Jealous, and Why We'll Love Each Other No Matter What Terri Apter (Dixon)BF723.S43.A67 2007
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The Bluest State: How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster Jon Keller (Dixon)F71.K45 2007 |
Defy the Stars: The Life and Tragic Death of Tom Hurndall Jocelyn Hurndall (Dixon)DS119.76.H848H847 2007 |
Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites Mitchell L. Stevens (Dixon)LB2351.2.S755 2007 |
September
Porcupine, Pacayune & Post: How Newspapers Get Their Names James Bernhard (Dixon)PN4888.T58B47 2007 |
Accidental Revolution: The Story of Grunge Kyle Anderson (Dixon)ML3534.A49 2007 |
Safe World Gone: Short Stories by Women from Wales Patrick Duncker and Janet Thomas, eds. (Dixon) PR1286.W6S24 2007 |
Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls Danielle Wood (Dixon)PR9619.4.W656R67 2006 |
Parcel: Poems Sarah Anne Cox (Dixon)PS3553.0943P37 2006 |
A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency Glenn Greenwald (Dixon)E903.3.G74 2007 |
Asboville: A Novel Danny Rhodes (Dixon)PR6118.H477A726 2006 |
The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Sphere Robert Finch (Dixon)F1122.F56 2007 |
The Shepherd Boy: A Novel Darick Allan (Dixon) PS3601.L414S54 2006 |
The Office of Desire: A Novel Martha Moody (Dixon)PS3563.O553O45 2007 |
Radio Freefall Matthew Jarpe (Dixon)PS3610.A75R33 2007 |
Bride Island: A Novel Alexandra Enders (Dixon) PS3605.N423B75 2007 |
The Gonzo Way Anita Thompson (Dixon) PN4874.T444T46 2007 |
Hurricane Moon Alesis Glynn Latner (Dixon)PS3612.A9H87 2007 |
Red Seas Under Red Skies Scott Lynch (Dixon)PS3612.Y5427R43 2007 |
Burma Boy Biyi Bandele (Dixon)PR9387.9.B36B86 2007 |
The Rash Adventurer: A Life of John Pendlebury Imogen Grundon (Dixon)DF212.P46G78 2007 |
Boundary Country Tom Wayman (Dixon)PR9199.3.W39B68 2007 |
Spaceman Blues: A Love Song Brian Francis Slattery (Dixon) PS3619.L375S63 2007 |
Red Rover Deirdre McNamer (Dixon)PS3563.C38838R43 2007 |
August 2007
Dalai Lama: Man, Monk, Mystic Mayank Chhaya (Dixon)BQ7935.B777C44 2007 |
To Follow the Water: Exploring the Ocean to Discover Climate Dallas Murphy (Dixon)GC190.2.M87 2007 |
Ending the War in Iraq Tom Hayden (Dixon)DS79.76.H3854 2007 |
The Ordinary Sublime: Poems Patricia Waters (Dixon)PS3623.A868O73 2006 |
Plain Secrets: An Outsider Among the Amish Joe Mackall (Dixon)BX8129.A5M33 2007 |
Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists Michael Hamilton Morgan (Dixon)DS36.85M75 2007 |
Nervous Systems William Stobb (Dixon)PS3619.T625N47 2007 |
Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency Nigel Hamilton (Dixon)E886.H365 2007
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1001 Nights in Iraq Shant Kenderian (Dixon)DS318.85.K44 2007 |
Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond Don Cheadle and John Prendergast (Dixon)DT159.6.D27C44 2007 |
Dr. Livingston, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers & Empire Clare Pettitt (Dixon)DT731.L8P48 2007b |
Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm Lauren St. John (Dixon)DT2984.S725.A3 2007 |
The Fire This Time Randall Kenan (Dixon)E185.615.K3747 2007 |
Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life Beverly Lowry (Dixon)E444.T82.L68 2007 |
Breaking the Fever: Poems Mary Mackey (Dixon)PS3563.A3165B74 2006
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Feasting on the Spoils: The Life and Times of Randy "Duke" Cunningham, History's Most Corrupt Congressman Seth Hettena (Dixon)E840.8.C86H48 2007 |
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years David Talbot (Dixon)E841.T29 2007 |
Interventions Noam Chomsky (Dixon)E902.C476 2007 |
What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers Brian Kim Stefans (Dixon)PS3619.T44W43 2006 |
Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation Eboo Patel (Dixon)E184.M88P38 2007 |
July 2007
Einstein: A Biography Jurgen Neffe, trans.by Shelley Frisch (Dixon)QC16.E5N4413 2007 |
Bed: Stories Tao Lin (Dixon)PS3612.I517B44 2007 |
New Poems Tadeusz Rozewicz, trans. by Bill Johnston (Dixon)PG7158.R63A2 2007 |
The Half-Life of an American Essayist Arthur Krystal (Dixon)PS3611.R96H36 2007 |
Richard M. Nixon Elizabeth Drew (Dixon)E856.D74 2007 |
Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking Our Declaration of Independence Alan Dershowitz (Dixon)BR520.D47 2007 |
The Thorn of Lion City: A Memoir Lucy Lum (Dixon)CT1578.L86A3 2007 |
Karma Queens, Geek Gods & Innerpreneurs: Meet the 9 Consumer Types Shaping Today's Marketplace Ron Rentel with Joe Zellnik (Dixon)HC79.C6R45 2007 |
Mike Horn (Dixon)G850.2002.H67H67 2007 |
Body Surfing: A Novel Anita Shreve (Dixon)PS3569.H7385B63 2007 |
Little Black Dress Susie Maguire, ed. (Dixon)PR1286.W6L58 2006 |
This Time, This Place: My Life in War, the White House, and Hollywood Jack Valenti (Dixon)E840.V35A3 2007 |
Footsteps on the Ice: The Antarctic Diaries of Stuart D. Pain, Second Byrd Expedition M.L. Paine, edited with Introduction (Dixon)G875.P35A3 2007 |
Five Skies: A Novel Ron Carlson (Dixon)PS3553.A733F58 2007 |
The Collected Stories Leonard Michaels (Dixon)PS3563I273A17 2007 |
DS (2): Dreamstories Kamau Brathwaite (Dixon)PR9230.9.B68D73 2007 |
The Uncertain Hour: A Novel Jesse Browner (Dixon)PS3552.R774U53 2007 |
The Extinction of Desire: A Tale of Enlightenment Michael Boylan (Dixon)PS3552.L27E96 2007 |
Whistling in the Dark: A Novel Lesley Kagen (Dixon)PS3611.A344W48 2007 |
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology Bernd Heinrich (Dixon)QH31.H356A3 2007 |
June 2007
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success Sylvia Ann Hewlett (Dixon)HD6054.2.U6H49 2007 |
A Noble Function: How U-Haul Moved America Luke Krueger (Dixon)HF5488.U4K78 2007 |
Road From Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia Camilo Mejia (Dixon)DS79.76.M544 2007 |
Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement Scott Ritter (Dixon)E840.R54 2007 |
Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now George McGovern and William R. Polk (Dixon)DS79.76.M39 2006 |
And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress Charles B. Rangel with Leon Wynter (Dixon)E840.8.R36A3 2007 |
Thick as Theieves: A Brother, A Sistr--A True Story of Two Turbulent Lives Steve Geng (Dixon)CT275.G356.A3 2007 |
Brothers on the Bashkaus: A Siberian Paddling Adventure Eugene Buchanan (Dixon)DK756.2.B825 2007 |
Locke: A Biography Roger Woolhouse (Dixon)B1296.W66 2007 |
Edinburg Days or Doing What I Want to Do Sam Pickering (Dixon)DA890.E3P53 2007 |
Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir Marina Nemat (Dixon)DS318.84.N46A3 2007 |
Tales From the Middle Border Richard Quinney (Dixon)CT275.Q554A3 2007 |
A Brief History of the Future: How Visionary Thinkers Changed the World and Tomorrow's Trends are "Made" and Marketed Oona Strathern (Dixon)CB158.S77 2007 |
Hunting and Gathering Anna Gavalda, Translated from the French by Alison Anderson (Dixon)PQ2667.A97472E5713 2007 |
Reading Life: Books for the Ages Sven Birkerts (Dixon)PN771.B48 2007 |
Blog!: How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture David Kline and Dan Burstein (Dixon)TK5105.8884.K55 2005 |
Cape Wind: Money Celebrity, Class, Politics and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound Wendy Williams & Robert Whitcomb (Dixon)HD9502.5.W554C37 2007 |
The House of Clay: Poems Peter McDonald (Dixon)PR6063.C382H68 2007 |
Urban Sound Environment Jian Kang (Dixon)TD892.K29 2007 |
Distant Train Ibrahim Abdel Megid (Dixon)PJ7804.M323M3713 2007 |
La Nilsson: My Life in Opera Birgit Nilsson (Dixon)ML420.N697.A313 2007 |
How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems Gillian Allnutt (Dixon)PR6051.L549H69 2007 |
White Walls: Collected Stories Tatyana Tolstaya (Dixon)PG3489.O476A2 2007 |
American Visa: A Novel Juan de Recacoechea, translated by Adrian Althoff (Dixon)PQ7820.R37A7513 2007 |
100 Great Poems of Love & Lust Compiled & Introduction by Dannie Abse (Dixon)PN6110.L6)494 2006 |
The Fragile Edge: Diving and Othr Adventures in the South Pacific Julia Whitty (Dixon)QH198.F74W48 2007 |
The Captain's Swallow Andrew Waterman (Dixon)PR6073.A823C37 2007 |
Cold, Clear, and Deadly: Unraveling a Toxic Legacy Melvin J. Visser (Dixon)RA1242.C436V57 2007 |
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers Politicos Polluters and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas Diane Wilson (Dixon)SH20.W55A3 2005
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28 Stories of AIDS in Africa Stephanie Nolen (Dixon)RA643.86.A357N65 2007 |
The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg: The Creators of Les Meserables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre, and The Pirate Queen Margaret Vermette (Dixon)ML385.V398 2006 |
California Transit: Stories Diane Lefer (Dixon)PS3562.E37385.C35 2007 |
Willow Room, Green Door: New and Selected Poems Deborah Keenan (Dixon)PS3561.E36W55 2007 |
Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story with 190 of Her Own Photographs Ruth Gruber (Dixon)TR820.5.G78 2007 |
My Soviet Union Michael Dumanis (Dixon)PS3604.U46M9 2007 |
The Last Enemy Grace Brophy (Dixon)PS3602.R6463L37 2007 |
The Cure Varley O'Connor (Dixon)PS3565.C655C683 2007 |
Slow Food Nation: Why Our Good Should Be Good, Clean, and Fair Carlo Petrini (Dixon)TX631.P47313 2007 |
Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA'S War on a Family Farm Linda Faillace (Dixon)SF375.4.V5F35 2006 |
A Day at the Beach Helen Schulman (Dixon)PS3569.C5385D39 2007 |