Morris County Library New Non-Fiction
Newsletter # 407 - 11/19/2021
Here is a selection of new non-fiction that we have added to our collection. If any of these titles sparks your interest, just click on the title to be taken to our online catalog for more information. Happy reading!
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Chicago : Northfield Publishing, [2021]
Description: 135 pages ; 18 cm
Summary: "Combining theology, cutting-edge brain science, and decades of counseling and consulting experience, Rare Leadership shows you how to take your leadership and team to the next level. Whether you are burnt out or just looking to improve, it will revive your leadership and equip you to lead healthy, happy, and effective teams"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: New York : Kogan Page Inc, 2021.
Description: 271 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "How can I develop a team if they're not in the same place? How can I build a company culture that works for employees in an office, working at home and in co-work spaces? How can I maintain organizational oversight if I can't see my employees? Remote Work answers all these questions and more and provides guidance on how to build a successful remote working strategy that engages employees, allows them to perform to their full potential and improves business performance. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, demand from employees to work remotely was high with a 2019 report stating that 34% people would even take a pay cut if they could work remotely part of the time. HR professionals and business leaders need to address this demand to attract and retain the talent the business needs. Remote Work is written by two industry experts who have successfully transitioned their workforces to remote and includes essential guidance on how to implement policies, processes and strategies for remote working and realise the benefits of this. From advice on technological solutions to adapting processes and driving engagement, this book also outlines the business benefits of a remote workforce including improved productivity and output and how it allows faster expansion and execution. Remote Work is also supported by insights from global thought leaders such as Marshall Goldsmith and David Marquet as well as leading HR professionals including the Director of People at Buffer, CHRO at Niemen Marcus and Senior Director of HR Excellence at Taco Bell"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: [United States] : Lioncrest Publishing, 2020.
Description: 181 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 4 (of 5)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Crown, [2021]
Description: xxv, 468 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this corporate exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided-and the vaping epidemic was born. Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris's parent company, and a veteran of the industry's long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his company-the e-cigarette, a product with all the addictive upside of the original without the same apparent health risks and bad press. Meanwhile, in Silicon Valley, Adam Bowen and James Monsees began work on a device meant to save lives and destroy Big Tobacco, only to end up baking the industry's DNA into their invention's science and marketing. Ultimately, Juul's e-cigarette was so effective, so market-dominating, that it put the company on a collision course with Philip Morris and sparked one of the most explosive public health crises in recent memory. In a deeply reported account, award-winning journalist Lauren Etter tells a riveting story of greed and deception in one of the biggest botched deals in business history. Etter shows how Philip Morris's struggle to innovate left Willard desperate to acquire Juul, even as his own team sounded alarms about the startup's reliance on underage customers. And she shows how Juul's executives negotiated a lavish deal that let them pocket the lion's share of Philip Morris's $12.8 billion investment while government regulators and furious parents mounted a campaign to hold the company's feet to the fire. The Devil's Playbook is the inside story of how Juul's embodiment of Silicon Valley's "move fast and break things" ethos wrought havoc on American health, and how a beleaguered tobacco company was seduced by the promise of a new generation of addicted customers. With both companies' eyes on the financial prize, neither anticipated the sudden outbreak of vaping-linked deaths that would terrorize a nation, crater Juul's value, end Willard's career, and show the costs in human life of the rush to riches--while Juul's founders, investors, and employees walked away with a windfall"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 3)
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Publisher, Date: [New York] : Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2021]
Description: xxii, 182 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The new depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Most fired employees will remain redundant. Bankruptcies will be common, and banks will buckle under the weight of bad debts. Deflation, debt, and demography will wreck any chance of recovery, and social disorder will follow closely on the heels of market chaos. The happy talk from Wall Street and the White House is an illusion. The worst is yet to come."--Amazon. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021.
Description: 350 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary: "This is the first comprehensive account of the health care workers who have been at the forefront of our fight against COVID-19. In fact, America's economy and politics have been, for years, increasingly defined by the growth of the healthcare industry, yet we have lacked convincing accounts of its rise and make-up. Winant delivers an incisive investigation of this new world"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 19 (of 19)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Crown. [2020]
Description: 308 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary: "Governor Andrew Cuomo tells the riveting story of how he took charge in the fight against COVID-19 as New York became the epicenter of the pandemic, offering hard-won lessons in leadership and his vision for the path forward."-- Publisher's description. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 7 (of 8)
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Publisher, Date: New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Description: 386 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary: From the author of El Narco, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 10 (of 10)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, [2021]
Description: viii, 278 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "CNN legal analyst Elie Honig analyzes how Attorney General William Barr has demolished norms and destroyed faith in the Department of Justice, turning one of the most apolitical and respected American institutions into a private law firm supporting and protecting its client: Donald Trump"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Brooklyn, NY : Melville House, [2021]
Description: 290 pages ; 23 cm
Summary: The moment you check your phone in the morning you are giving away data. Before you've even switched off your alarm, a whole host of organizations have been alerted to when you woke up, where you slept, and with whom. As you check the weather, scroll through your 'suggested friends' on Facebook, you continually compromise your privacy. Without your permission, or even your awareness, tech companies are harvesting your information, your location, your likes, your habits, and sharing it amongst themselves. They're not just selling your data. They're selling the power to influence you. Even when you've explicitly asked them not to. And it's not just you. It's all your contacts too. Digital technology is stealing our personal data and with it our power to make free choices. To reclaim that power and democracy, we must protect our privacy. What can we do? So much is at stake. Our phones, our TVs, even our washing machines are spies in our own homes. We need new regulation. We need to pressure policy-makers for red lines on the data economy. And we need to stop sharing and to adopt privacy-friendly alternatives to Google, WhatsApp and other online platforms. Short, terrifying, practical: Privacy is Power highlights the implications of our laid-back attitudes to data, and sets out how we can reclaim control. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]
Description: 142 pages ; 23 cm
Summary: ""Radicalizing Her" draws on the lives and experiences of female fighters to illuminate the limits of our thinking on gender, violence, and resistance"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Austin, TX : Kallisto Gaia Press, 2021.
Description: 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 3)
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Publisher, Date: Hoboken, NJ : For Dummies, 2021.
Description: 462 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Summary: "Your gateway to the world of finance is the Series 7 Exam: pass it and you're in for a rewarding career as a stockbroker. You don't have to study for this important exam alone-Series 7 Exam For Dummies gives you all the tips, tricks, and practice you need to obtain your required certification."--Amazon.com. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: [New York, New York] : HarperCollins Leadership, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus LLC, [2021]
Description: xviii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "The forty-five percent of American women who take career breaks know better than anyone that searching for a job---with its new modes of communication, new rules of discoverability, and new expectations---has changed rapidly in the last decade. This book lays out a clear path for anyone ready to re-enter the workforce"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: London ; New York : Kogan Page Inspire, 2021.
Description: xxii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "There's no such thing as a pre-set path to career success. Following the footsteps of others can only get you so far - and for women, there are often additional obstacles. But what if you could design your own path to your career goals? What if you could Make Your Own Map? Based on material from the popular Women Transforming Leadership course from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Make Your Own Map will help you develop a resilient and aspirational strategy for your career - whatever your starting point. Effective methods of strategic planning have been tried and tested in the corporate business world, and this book shows you how to repurpose those methods for yourself, even if you're not in the corporate world. Packed with strategic tools and practical exercises, this book will help you: -Assess and define your career goals -Make a plan -Implement your plan to find the work that fits your needs, your skills, and your direction. With your best career as the goal, this book will help you forge your own path and Make Your Own Map"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Convergent, [2021]
Description: xviii, 264 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "The activist, nun, and esteemed spiritual voice who has twice appeared on Oprah's Super Soul Sunday sounds the call to create a monastery within ourselves--to cultivate wisdom and resilience so that we may join God in the work of renewal, restoration, and justice right where we are. "In every beating heart is a silent undercurrent that calls each of us to a place unknown, to the vision of a wiser life, to become what we feel we must be--but cannot name." So begins Sister Joan Chittister's words on monasticism, offering a way of living and seeing life that brings deep human satisfaction. Amid the astounding disruptions of normalcy that have unfolded in our world, Sister Joan calls readers to cultivate the spiritual seeker within all of us, however that may look across our diverse journeys: "It is only the depth of the spiritual well in us that can save us from the fear of our own frailty." This book carries the weight and wisdom of the monastic spiritual tradition into the twenty-first century. Sister Joan leans into Saint Benedict, a young man who sought moral integrity in the face of an empire in the sixth century, not by conquering or overpowering the empire, but by simply living an ordinary life extraordinarily well. This same monastic mindset can help us grow in wisdom, equanimity, and strength of soul as we seek restoration and renewal both at home and in the world. At a time when people around the world are bearing witness to human frailty--and, simultaneously, the endurance of the human spirit--The Monastic Heart invites readers of all walks to welcome this end of certainty and embrace a new beginning of our faith. Without stepping foot in a monastery, we can become, like those before us, a deeper, freer self, a richer soul--and, as a result, a true monastic: "that in all things God may be glorified.""-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2021]
Description: xviii, 600 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "In Cross Examined, John Campbell applies his almost thirty years of experience as a trial lawyer to dissecting Christianity and the case of apologists for the Christian God. He addresses the best arguments for Christianity, those against it, and the reasons people should care about these questions. His purpose is to fill a void in books on atheism and Christianity by systematically taking Christian claims to task and making a full-throated argument for atheism from the perspective of a trial lawyer making a case"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 3)
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Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Simon and Schuster, 2021.
Description: ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "Drawing on a wealth of new evidence, pioneering research psychologist David DeSteno shows why religious practices and rituals are so beneficial to those who follow them - and to anyone, regardless of their faith (or lack thereof)"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: Eighth edition.
Publisher, Date: Cambridge : O'Reilly, 2021.
Description: 371 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2021.
Description: xv, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: Kubernetes is a modern cloud native container archestration tool and one of the most popular open source projects worldwide. In addition to the technology being powerful and highly flexible, Kubernetes engineers are in high demand across the industry. This book is a comprehensive guide to deploying, securing, and operating modern cloud native applications on Kubernetes. From the fundamentals to Kubernetes best practices, the book covers essential aspects of configuring applications. You'll even explore real-world techniques for running clusters in production, tips for setting up observability for cluster resources, and valuable troubleshooting techniques. Finally, you'll learn how to extend and customize Kubernetes, as well as gaining tips for deploying service meshes, serverless tooling, and more on your cluster. By the end of this Kubernetes book, you'll be equipped with the tools you need to confidently run and extend modern applications on Kubernetes. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Fresno, CA : Mike Murach & Associates, Inc., [2021]
Description: 559 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series: Training & Reference |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Edition: Prima edizione ne "I narratori.".
Publisher, Date: Milano : Giangiacomo Feltrinelli editore, ottobre 2020.
Description: 219 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary: "La donna è sola, inquieta, in fuga: non vuole più restare dove non cè amore. Ha lasciato la città, nella quale tutto è frenetico e in vendita, ed è tornata nella vecchia baita dell, infanzia, sul Monte. Qui vive senza passato, aspetta che la neve seppellisca i ricordi e segue il ritmo della natura. Cè un inverno da attraversare, il freddo da combattere, la solitudine da farsi amica. Ci sono i rumori e le creature del bosco, una volpe curiosa e un gufo reale che bubola sotto il tetto. E cè luomo dal giaccone rosso, che arriva e che va, come il vento. A valle lo chiamano lo Straniero: vuole risistemare il rifugio e piantare abeti sul versante nord della montagna, per aiutarla a resistere e a tornare fertile. Una notte terribile riporta la paura, ma la donna si accorge che ci sono persone che vegliano su di lei: la Guaritrice, muta dalla nascita, che comprende il linguaggio delle piante e fa nascere i bambini; la Rossa, che gestisce la locanda del paese; la Benefattrice, che la nutre di cibo e premure. Donne che sanno dare riparo alle anime rotte, e che come lei cercano di vivere pienamente nel loro angolo di mondo. Mentre la montagna si prepara al disgelo e a rifiorire, anche la donna si rimette in cammino. Arriverà un altro inverno, ma ora il Monte la chiama." -- flap of the back cover
Series: Narratori (Feltrinelli editore)
Language: In Italian. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: [Paris] : Fayard, [2020]
Access Online: Bibliothèque Nationale de France catalog record and holdings — Bibliothèque Nationale de France catalog record and holdings
Description: 345 pages
Summary: L'une vient de donner naissance à une petite fille arrivée trop tôt. Elle est minuscule, pourtant elle prend déjà tellement de place. L'autre vient de voir ses grands enfants quitter le nid. Son fils laisse un vide immense, mais aussi son chien farfelu. L'une doit apprendre à être mère à temps plein, l'autre doit apprendre à être mère à la retraite. C'est l'histoire universelle de ces moments qui font basculer la vie, de ces vagues d'émotions qui balaient tout sur leur passage, et de ces rencontres indélébiles qui changent un destin. Avec une infinie justesse et beaucoup d'humour, Virginie Grimaldi déroule le fil de leur existence et nous invite à partager leurs joies et leurs angoisses, mais aussi les souvenirs, les rêves et les espoirs.(Payot)
Target Audience: Adultes |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Lévis, Québec, Canada : Alire, 2021.
Description: 365 pages ; 23 cm
Summary: "Bonjour. Je m'appelle Florence Roberge et j'ai huit ans. J'ai commencé un journal intime. Je trouve que c'est une bonne idée parce que je peux parler de mes amies Emma, Charlie et Ling. Il y a Félix aussi qui vient jouer avec nous même si c'est un gars. Et je peux aussi parler de mes parents. Il y a papa qui travaille dans son dépanneur. Il me montre comment marche la caisse et il me fait rire. Il y a maman qui me donne souvent plein de becs et avec qui je regarde plein de films d'horreur même si papa n'aime pas ça. Des fois, papa et maman se chicanent fort parce qu'ils parlent de moi. Papa dit que je suis bizarre et qu'on aurait dû écouter le docteur que j'ai vu l'année passée. Maman n'est pas d'accord, elle dit que je ne suis pas bizarre et elle traite papa de panaro, ou un mot comme ça. C'est là qu'ils se chicanent. Moi, je ne comprends rien de ce qu'ils disent. Mononcle Hubert m'a dit que personne n'a le droit de lire le journal intime des autres. Ça, c'est le fun, parce que je vais pouvoir tout écrire, même les affaires que je me ferais chicaner si on savait que je les avais faites. Comme ce qui est arrivé quand je suis allée voir le rat mort dans la poubelle..." Back cover.
Language: In French. |
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2018
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Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher, Date: Barcelona : Debolsillo, 2018.
Description: 829 pages ; 19 cm.
Summary: Brings together all the short story work of Sergio Ramírez. His stories narrate with ironic tone the most common events of Latin American culture.
Series: Contemporánea (Debolsillo (Firm)) |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: New York : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description: viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]
Description: 282 pages : illustrations, ; 23 cm
Summary: "A provocative look at late 19th-century French fashion, which discredits the couturier as "genius creator" and makes you think differently about the impact of the American women who influenced the market"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2021]
Description: viii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "What is the soundtrack for a nuclear war? During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, uranium mining, the space race, espionage, the Berlin Wall, and glasnost. This music uncovers aspects of the world-changing events that documentaries and history books cannot. In Atomic Tunes, Tim and Joanna Smolko explore everything from the serious to the comical, the morbid to the crude, showing the widespread concern among musicians who were trying to cope with the effect of communism on American society and the consequences of a potential nuclear conflict of global proportions. Atomic Tunes presents a musical history of the Cold War, offering insight into the songs that capture the fear of those who lived under the shadow of Stalin, Sputnik, mushroom clouds, and missiles"-- Back cover. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: New York : New York Review Books, [2021]
Description: 258 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Summary: "Finding the Raga is more than a book that tries to make sense of the raga, of Indian classical music, and of how Indian music challenges Western notions of what music might be. It is a work of self-inquiry, as might be expected from Amit Chaudhuri, a musician who is also a novelist; a novelist who is also a critic and essayist; a trained and recorded performer in the Indian classical vocal tradition who was also, once, a guitarist and songwriter in the American folk music style and is now a composer and recorded performer in experimental music. Each one of these undertakings and selves signifies turns at different points in life, and each turn and change of direction brings a fresh perspective on music, writing, and what it means to take on and do these things. No category-Indian, Western-is a given in this book. Partly a record of one of the most important turns in the author's life, toward North Indian music, and of its long aftermath, Finding the Raga is also part autobiography set in 1970s Bombay, part essay, and part detailed analysis of how we might grasp the conceptual underpinnings as well as the experience of music. It explores the different ways in which music relates to the world-whether it's through representation or evocation, as in Western music, or through the raga being sung at different times of day and in different seasons, as in Indian music-and also tries to understand what the act of listening involves for individuals and cultures"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2021]
Description: xiii, 217 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "From Geoffrey A. Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm, which has sold more than 1 million copies, The Infinite Staircase is a bold new book that combines science and philosophy to answer two fundamental questions for humanity: the metaphysical "where do I fit in the grand scheme of things?" and the ethical "how should I behave?""-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Description: xxiii, 313 pages ; 21 cm
Summary: "Thirty leading women philosophers draw on and advance the rich heritage of the philosophical tradition to explore topics of pressing interest for today. Women of Ideas is edited by Suki Finn, based upon interviews by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton, from Philosophy Bites, the world's foremost philosophy podcast. These conversations illuminate diverse aspects of being human: personal, social, ethical, and political. The contributors discuss the relations between humans and animals, between genders, between tastes, between cultures, and between nations. They look at some of the things that are wrong with our world, such as injustice, deprivation, and bias; they consider the role of civility, trust, and consent in our interactions. There are reflections on the history of philosophy from Plato to Beauvoir, comparisons between Western philosophy and Buddhist philosophy, and discussion of philosophy in Africa. The volume concludes by investigating how philosophy works, how it makes progress, and its role in public life. Anyone interested in philosophical reflection on themselves and our world will find much to stimulate them here"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Brighton : Leaping Hare Press, 2021.
Description: 1 volume : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, 2020.
Description: ii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "These stories take readers where they cannot go, be it out into space, back in time, deep under the ocean, down to the microscopic level, and up to the scale of geologic plate tectonics. Squid turn themselves inside-out when disturbed by predators hunting through the darkness with sonar. Beneficial microbes spend their summer living in flower nectar, being transferred between blooms by the bees; then they spend their winter living within those bees. Between the Rocks and the Stars follows the relationships that shape the natural world. The book presents twenty-four vignettes from the wild, each of which describes the natural advantage of a particular organism. These true-to-life accounts are then posed in particular circumstances that illustrate the principles -- commensalism, speciation -- that shape the niches those organisms occupy. Some stories cover topics in geology and cosmology, describing the physical context through which the living world progresses across the eons. Underlying themes in the book include the network of connections that link all these organisms together and the adaptations they make to the physical world in order to secure a home for themselves." -- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Gainesville, FL : University of Florida Press, 2021
Description: xi, 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Summary: This book brings alive the richly diverse world of an underwater paradise, the second largest coral structure on the planet: the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: London : Watkins, 2021.
Description: 256 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary: "Presents a beginner's guide to the extremely small and utterly strange life that surrounds us"-- Provided by publisher |
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2000
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Publisher, Date: Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000-
Description: volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2021]
Description: 365 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary: "A guide for English teachers from middle school through freshman college comp, on how to help students master the art of writing great sentences"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Norton books in education. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 7 (of 14)
Current Holds: 1 |
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Edition: First American edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Description: xxi, 433 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary: "A gripping group portrait of six revolutionary women writers during World War II "I am going to Spain with the boys," Martha Gellhorn wrote. "I don't know who the boys are but I am going with them." On the front lines of the Second World War, the lives of six remarkable women intertwined: Lee Miller, the Vogue cover model and photographer who lived in Paris as Man Ray's lover before becoming a war correspondent for the magazine; Martha Gellhorn, the third wife of Ernest Hemingway and a novelist in her own right; Sigrid Schultz, an indisputably brave journalist who withstood surveillance, interrogation, and death threats in order to publish the truth from Berlin; Virginia Cowles, whose career as a 'society girl columnist' turned combat reporter began with an exclusive interview with Mussolini; Clare Hollingworth, who had almost no professional experience when she became the first correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II; and Helen Kirkpatrick, a reporter so admired by the military that at the order of General Eisenhower she was the first woman to report from an Allied war zone with equal privileges to men. The Correspondents paints a vivid, intimate, and nuanced portrait of these pioneering women, from chasing down sources to conducting clandestine love affairs. With her riveting and meticulous history, Judith Mackrell reconsiders the narrative of the war from a new perspective"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Description: 312 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "A lively account of our age-old quest for brighter colors, which changed the way we see the world, from the best-selling author of Proof: The Science of Booze"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First Picador paperback edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Picador : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Description: xvii, 680 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm
Summary: "Harvard University's Joseph Henrich, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, delivers a bold, epic investigation into the development of the Western mind, global psychological diversity, and its impact on the world"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2021]
Description: ix, 288 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: Anna Sale wants you to have that conversation. You know the one. The one that you've been avoiding or putting off, maybe for years. The one that you've thought "they'll never understand" or "do I really want to bring that up?" or "It's not going to go well, so why even try?". Sale is the founder and host of WNYCs popular, award-winning podcast 'Death, Sex, & Money', and in 'Lets Talk About Hard Things', she uses the best of what shes learned from her podcast to discuss the tough topics that all of us encounter. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Description: viii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "Stoicism has made a comeback as the ideal ancient philosophy for those seeking calm in times of stress and uncertainty. For many, it has become the new Zen, with meditation techniques that help us face whatever life throws our way. The Stoics address a key question of our time: how can we be masters of our fate when the outside world threatens to unmoor our well-being? Making Stoic wisdom relevant and accessible, Sherman distils time-honored techniques for building modern resilience. Drawing on the thought of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca, and others, Sherman argues that Stoic resilience is miscast as rugged self-reliance. We are at home in the world, the Stoics taught, when we are connected to each other in cooperative efforts. While self-mastery is essential, we draw on our deepest relationships for true strength and resilience. Bringing ancient wisdom to bear on 21st century settings-from Silicon Valley leaders in search of lifehacks, to first responders in a pandemic, to soldiers on the battlefield-Sherman shows how Stoicism can both prepare us for an uncertain future and help us reduce the stress and anxiety of modern life. Stoic Wisdom will appeal to anyone feeling helpless or looking for deeper, meaningful strength and goodness in addressing life's biggest and smallest challenges"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021]
Description: xxviii, 271 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary: "From cookbook author Julia Turshen comes a new collection of simple yet inspired recipes, in her most personal and visually arresting book to date"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: Second edition.
Publisher, Date: Munich : Prestel Verlag, 2021.
Description: 255 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary: "A celebration of the exciting and delicious possibilities of modern Asian cooking"--Back cover. |
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2021
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Edition: First.
Publisher, Date: New York : Workman Publishing, [2021]
Description: 336 pages : full-color photos throughout ; 24 cm.
Summary: "America's grilling guru offers a primer for how to grill vegetables - with lots of creative flavors and techniques - whether you're eating main dishes that highlight vegetables, or you're rounding out the barbecue menu with grilled garden-fresh sides. Not a vegetarian book, but vegetable-forward (and with vegetarian and vegan adaptations)"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Abrams, [2021]
Description: 267 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary: "In his comprehensive first book, legendary pizza czar Anthony Falco teaches you everything you need to know to make pizza wherever you are, drawing from his singular experience opening pizzerias around the globe. If there's one thing the entire world can agree on, it's pizza. It just might be the world's favorite food. In every climate, in every region, in every kind of kitchen, there's pizza to be had, infused with local flavor. In this definitive book, filled with hacks, tips, and secret techniques never before shared, International Pizza Consultant Anthony Falco brings the world of pizza to your kitchen, wherever you are. After eight years at the famous Brooklyn restaurant Roberta's, culminating with his position as Pizza Czar, Falco pivoted from the New York City food scene to the world, traveling to Brazil, Colombia, Kuwait, Panama, Canada, Japan, India, Thailand, and all across the United States. His mission? To discover the secrets and spread the gospel of making the world's favorite food better. Now the planet's leading expert pizza consultant, he can make great pizza 8,000 feet above sea level in Bogotá or in subtropical India, and he can certainly help you do it at home. An exhaustive resource for absolutely any pizza cook, teaching mastery of the classics and tricks of the trade as well as completely unique takes on styles and recipes from around the globe, Pizza Czar is here to help you make world-class pizza from anywhere on the map."--Publisher's website. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Voracious/Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Description: 255 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Summary: "Join the McCartney family for a feast of nearly 100 sustainable, plant-based recipes to save the planet and nourish the soul, in this deeply personal cookbook from Paul, Mary, and Stella honoring their late wife and mother, Linda McCartney." -- Amazon.com. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Crown, 2021.
Description: xix, 233 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "An urgent, on-the-ground account of chaos and compassion from the front lines of COVID-19, from a New York Times journalist and a senior doctor at New York City's busiest emergency room. When Dan Koeppel texted his cousin Robert Meyer, a twenty-year veteran of the emergency room at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis in the United States, he expected to hear that things were hectic. On a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being overwhelmed, where do you think you are? Koeppel asked. Meyer's grave reply--100--was merely the cusp of the crisis that has since touched every part of the globe. In need of an outlet to process the trauma of his working life over the coming months, Meyer continued to update Koeppel with what he'd seen and whom he'd treated, their exchanges acting as part diary, part family therapy, and eventually a document of historic chaos and grief. Combining the frontline perspective of an ER doctor and a journalist's discerning research and reporting, Every Minute Is a Day takes us into a hospital ravaged by COVID-19, filled with the stories of promises made that may be impossible to keep, of life and death choices for patients and their families, and of selflessness on the part of medical professionals who put themselves at incalculable risk. As fast-paced and high-tempo as the ER in which it takes place, Every Minute Is a Day is at its core an incomparable firsthand account of unrelenting compassion and a reminder that every human life deserves a chance to be saved"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Random House, 2021.
Description: xvi, 202 pages ; 20 cm
Summary: "We all know, intellectually, that our time on earth is limited. What would we change if we knew it viscerally? Kate Bowler was thirty-five when she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. Now that she's responded to immunotherapy Kate has to figure out how to make a new life between CT scans. Before she got sick, she'd accepted the very American idea that life was an endless horizon of possibilities. Now she has to figure out what to do within the limits of the time she has left. In No Cure for Being Human, Kate, hailed by Glennon Doyle as "the Christian Joan Didion," looks at the ways she has tried to wring meaning from her remaining time through anecdotes that range from the hilariously absurd--as when she attempts to rid the hospital gift shop of its copies of prosperity gospel guru Joel Osteen's Your Best Life Now to the seriously painful. Breaking down time into efficient segments--"gather round and watch how this woman can take a solitary moment and divide it into a million uses!"--trying to live in the moment, weighing the meaning of work, and learning to discover what "enough" feels like, Kate asks one of the most fundamental questions of all: How do we create meaning in our lives as we race against the clock?"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Description: x, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "From Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow, a powerful portrait of a country grappling with the pandemic, told through voices of people from all across America The Covid-19 pandemic was a world-shattering event, affecting everyone inthe nation. From its first ominous stirrings, renowned journalist Eli Saslow began interviewing a cross-section of Americans, capturing their experiences in real time: An exhausted and anguished EMT risking his life in New York City; a grocery store owner feeding his neighborhood for free in locked-down New Orleans; an overwhelmed coroner in Georgia; a Maryland restaurateur forced to close his family business after forty-six years; an Arizona teacher wrestling with her fears and her obligations to her students; rural citizens adamant that the whole thing is a hoax, and retail workers attacked for asking people to wear masks; patients struggling to breathe and doctors desperately trying to save them. Through Saslow's masterful, empathetic interviewing, weare given a kaleidoscopic picture of a people dealing with the unimaginable. These deeply personal accounts make for cathartic reading, as we see Americans at their worst, and at their resilient best"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2021]
Description: xiv, 362 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary: "Empowering strategies for anyone who works with children and teens on the spectrum. International best-selling writer and autist Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work withyoung people on the autism spectrum. Examples and stories bring the approaches to life, and detailed suggestions and checklists help readers put them to practical use. Temple Grandin shares personal experiences and anecdotes from the thousands of parentsand professionals who have sought her advice, while Debra Moore draws on more than three decades of work as a psychologist with kids on the spectrum and those who love and care for them. So many people support the lives of these kids, and this book is for all of them: teachers; special education staff; mental health clinicians; physical, occupational, and speech therapists; parents; and anyone interacting with autistic children or teens. Readers will come away with new, empowering mindsets they can applyto develop the full potential of every child"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Description: xx, 281 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It's also my love letter to autistic people. For too long, we have been forced to navigate a world where allthe road signs are written in another language."-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: [New York, New York] : Dutton, [2021]
Description: xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: With wit, heartwarming stories and a keen insight into new and exciting ways to see both the past and the future of the country, the actor, writer and woodworker takes a literary journey to America's frontier to celebrate the people and landscape that have made it great. |
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2021
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Edition: Second edition.
Publisher, Date: London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2021.
Description: 438 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary: "The most comprehensive, practical, and highly illustrated book Monty has ever written, it covers what he believes are the most important aspects of gardening. Organic techniques have always been at the core of his practice, but this new edition picks up on another key principle: the need to provide habitats in your garden for local wildlife"--Publisher marketing. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: New York : Skyhorse Publishing, 2021.
Description: xiii, 442 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Summary: The definitive biography of Al Hirschfeld, renowned caricaturist and artist. Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. Hirschfeld: The Biography is the first portrait of the renowned artist's life-as spirited and unique as his pen-and-ink drawings. Beginning in the 1920s, he caricatured Hollywood actors, Washington politicians, and-his favorite-celebrities of the stage. Broadway belonged to Hirschfeld. His work appeared in the New York Times and other publications, as well as on book jackets, album covers, posters, and postage stamps, for more than seventy-five years. He lived in Paris, Moscow, and Bali, and in a pink New York townhouse on a star-studded block where his closest friends-Carol Channing, S. J. Perelman, Gloria Vanderbilt, Brooks Atkinson, Elia Kazan, Marlene Dietrich, and William Saroyan-flocked in and out. He played the piano, went to jazz joints with Eugene O'Neill, and wrote a musical that bombed. He drove until he was ninety-eight years old and always found a parking space. He worked every day, threw dinner parties twice a week, and hosted New Year's Eve soirees that were legendary. He had three wives, a formidable agent, and a daughter, Nina, the most famous little girl that no one knows. Hirschfeld died in 2003, at the age of ninety-nine. "If you live long enough," he liked to say, "everything happens." For him, it did. And good and bad-it's all here. Through interviews with Hirschfeld himself, his friends and family (including the mysterious Nina), and his famous subjects, as well as through letters, scrapbooks, and home movies, Ellen Stern has crafted a delightful, detailed, and definitive portrait of Al Hirschfeld, one of our most beloved, and most influential, artists. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2021]
Description: 653 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Summary: "This book aims to restore and recreate the life, work, and milieu of certain Jews who became arbiters of taste. Exploring how, against the odds, outsiders on the margins of European high culture, suddenly became the Old Masters' new masters and the modernists' champions"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series (Unnumbered) |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: [Toronto] : Viking, 2021.
Description: xv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "An inspiring story of resilience and bravery by the Canadian woman who became the linchpin of the case to bring Bill Cosby to justice. Andrea Constand did the right thing, not just for herself, but for sixty other women. When Bill Cosby was convicted on three counts of sexual assault in 2018, the verdict sent shock waves around the globe. Some were outraged that a beloved icon of family values, the man dubbed "America's dad," had been accused, let alone convicted. Others were stunned because they had waited so long to see justice; in accusations going back decades, sixty women recounted how they'd been drugged, raped and assaulted at Cosby's hands. Andrea Constand is just one of these women, but she was the only one with the power to bring him to justice. Constand's decade-long legal marathon required her to endure an excruciating civil suit, and two harrowing criminal trials. It was her deep sense of personal and social responsibility, fostered by her close-knit immigrant family and values earned through team sports, that gave her the courage to testify at the criminal trial--something she agreed to do not for herself, but for the sixty other women whose stories would never be told in court. In The Moment, Constand opens up about the emotional and spiritual work she did to recover from the assault and the psychological regimen she developed to strengthen herself for the courtroom. Ultimately, Constand's testimony brought a powerful man to account. She also gained a new understanding of the resiliency of human spirit, and the affirming knowledge that stepping up and doing the right thing, even when the outcome is uncertain, is the surest path to true healing. From the woman who has been called "the true hero of #MeToo," The Moment is a memoir about the moment a life changes, as hers did when she was raped; about the moment, nearly a decade later, when she stood up for victims without a voice and put herself through an arduous criminal trial; and about the cultural moment, signified by the #MeToo movement, that made justice possible."-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: New York : Convergent, 2021.
Description: 292 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now, in this unforgettable memoir, a pioneering lawyer recalls the journey that led to his exoneration-and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who brought him back from the edge of despair through letters of prayer and encouragement, Adams became obsessed with our legal system in all its damaged glory. After studying how his constitutional rights to effective counsel had been violated, he solicited the help of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, an organization that exonerates the wrongfully convicted, and won his release after nearly ten years in prison. But the journey was far from over. Adams took the lessons he learned through his incarceration and worked his way through law school with the goal of helping those who, like himself, had faced our legal system at its worst. After earning his law degree, he worked with the New York Innocence Project, becoming the first exoneree ever hired by the nonprofit as a lawyer. In his first case with the Innocence Project, he argued before the same court that had convicted him a decade earlier-and won. In this cinematic story of hope and full-circle redemption, Adams draws on his life and the cases of his clients to show the racist tactics used to convict young men of color, the unique challenges facing exonerees once released, and how the lack of equal representation in our courts is a failure not only of empathy but of our collective ability to uncover the truth. Justice for Sale is an unforgettable firsthand account of the limits-and possibilities-of our country's system of law"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2021]
Description: 184 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "This short, accessible volume unlocks the dynamics of human reason, helping readers to think well and to use reason confidently to solve problems"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Pantheon Books, [2021]
Description: xiv, 378 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Summary: "In this richly narrated and authoritative work--combining environmental and societal history--Giulio Boccaletti begins with the earliest civilizations of sedentary farmers on the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates. He describes how these societies were made possible by sea level changes from the last glacial melt. He examines how this sedentary farming led to irrigation and multiple cropping, which, in turn, resulted in an explosion in population and the specialization of labor. We see howirrigation structure led to social structure--inventions like the calendar sprung from agricultural necessity; how, in Ancient Greece, communal ownership of wells laid the groundwork for democracy; how the Greek and Roman experience dealing with water security was the seed for tax systems. And he makes clear how the modern world as we know it began with a legal structure for the development of water infrastructure. In its scope and clarity, Water: A Biography provides a fascinating framework through whichwe can more fully understand society's relationship to, and fundamental reliance on, the most elemental substance on our planet"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Scribner, 2020.
Description: 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "In history, myth often abides. It was long assumed that the centuries immediately prior to AD 1000 were lacking in any major cultural developments or geopolitical encounters, that the Europeans hadn't yet discovered North America, that the farthest anyone had traveled over sea was the Vikings' invasion of Britain. But how, then, to explain the presence of blonde-haired people in Mayan temple murals in Chichen Itza, Mexico? Could it be possible that the Vikings had found their way to the Americas during the height of the Mayan empire? Valerie Hansen, a much-honored historian, argues that the year 1000 was the world's first point of major cultural exchange and exploration. Drawing on nearly thirty years of research on medieval China and global history, shepresents a compelling account of first encounters between disparate societies. As people on at least five continents ventured outward, they spread technology, new crops, and religion. These encounters, she shows, made it possible for Christopher Columbusto reach the Americas in 1492, and set the stage for the process of globalization that so dominates the modern era. For readers of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel and Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens, The Year 1000 is an intellectually daring, provocative account that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about how the modern world came to be. It will also hold up a mirror to the hopes and fears we experience today."-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
Description: 262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "Eminent historian Paul Strathern opens the history of Empire with the Akkadian civilization, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our Western and Eastern roots. Next the narrative describes how a great deal of Western Classical culture was developed in the Abbasid and Umayyad Caliphates. Then, while Europe was beginning to emerge from a period of cultural stagnation, it almost fell to a whirlwind invasion from the East, at which point we meet the Emperors of the Mongol Empire... Combining breathtaking scope with masterful narrative control, Paul Strathern traces these connections across five millenia and sheds new light on these major civilizations, from the Mongol Empire and the Yuan Dynasty to the Aztec and Ottoman, through to the most recent and biggest empires: the British, Russo-Soviet, and American."--from inside cover. |
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2021
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Edition: First Tiller Press hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Tiller Press, 2021.
Description: xxii, 194 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Summary: "Grab your magical sword and take the place of your favorite fantasy character with this fun and historically accurate how-to guide to solving epic quests"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Publisher, Date: [New York] : Penguin Books, [2020]
Description: xxiv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary: "Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations. Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in the first murder mystery, who was the first surgeon, who sparked the first fire--and most critically, who was the first to brave the slimy, pale oyster? In this book, writer Cody Cassidy digs deep into the latest research to uncover the untold stories of some of these incredible innovators (or participants in lucky accidents). With a sharp sense of humor and boundless enthusiasm for the wonders of our ancient ancestors, Who Ate the First Oyster? profiles the perpetrators of the greatest firsts and catastrophes of prehistory, using the lives of individuals to provide a glimpse into ancient cultures, show how and why these critical developments occurred,and educate us on a period of time that until recently we've known almost nothing about"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Edition: American edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2020.
Description: 352 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Summary: "Written in plain English, The history book is packed with short, pithy explanations of the ideologies behind the events that have shaped our world, step-by-step diagrams that untangle knotty concepts, and witty illustrations that play with our ideas about the past. Whether you're new to the subject, an avid student, or an armchair historian, you'll find plenty to intrigue and engage you in this book"--Back cover.
Series: Big ideas simply explained. |
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2021
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Edition: Updated edition.
Publisher, Date: Boston : Mariner Books : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Description: pages cm
Summary: "By one of the world's foremost psychologists, a groundbreaking and award-winning study updated for the 20th anniversary with new research that delves into the complex behavior of memory"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: [New York, New York] : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
Description: xvii, 412 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "Can reading a book make you more rational? Can it explain why there seems to be so much irrationality in the world, including, let's be honest, in each of us? These are the goals of Steven Pinker's follow-up to Enlightenment Now (Bill Gates's "new favorite book of all time"). Humans today are often portrayed as cavemen out of time, poised to react to a lion in the grass with a suite of biases, blind spots, fallacies, and illusions. But this, Pinker a cognitive scientist and rational optimist argues, cannot be the whole picture. Hunter-gatherers--our ancestors and contemporaries--are not nervous rabbits but cerebral problem-solvers. A list of the ways in which we are stupid cannot explain how we're so smart: how we discovered the laws of nature, transformed the planet, and lengthened and enriched our lives. Indeed, if humans were fundamentally irrational, how did they discover the benchmarks for rationality against which humans fall short? The topic could not be more timely. In the 21st century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding--and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that sequenced the genome and detected the Big Bang produce so much fake news, quack cures, conspiracy theories, and "post-truth" rhetoric? A big part of Rationality is to explain these tools--to inspire an intuitive understanding of the benchmarks of rationality, so you can understand the basics of logic, critical thinking, probability, correlation and causation, the optimal ways to adjust our beliefs and commit to decisions with uncertain evidence, and the yardsticks for making rational choices alone and with others. Rationality matters. As the world reels from foolish choices made in the past and dreads a future that may be shaped by senseless choices in the present, rationality may be the most important asset that citizens and influencers command. Steven Pinker, the great defender of human progress, having documented how the world is not falling apart, now shows how we can enhance rationality in our lives and in the public sphere. Rationality is the perfect toolkit to seize our own fates"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: London : Watkins, 2021.
Description: 150 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "There is no one-size-fits-all recovery process for bereavement. Understanding that each experience of grief is unique, you can stop worrying about how you should be feeling. This interactive journal offers you room to explore your feelings at your own pace, helping you not to shy away from the enormity of your heartbreak. To be able to move through grief we need to understand our emotions, tune into our needs and know that what we are feeling is normal. Grief isn't something to "get over", but a loss to honour and live with. This gentle book shows us how"-- Provided by publisher |
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2021
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Random House, 2021.
Description: xii, 272 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "Spirituality is the birthright of every human on earth. Whether it's saying a prayer or doing a meditation, whether you walk in nature or read inspirational books, there are many ways to tap into a heightened awareness. No matter what age you're at or what walk of life, you can start your spiritual quest at any time, and in The Awakened Brain psychologist Dr. Lisa Miller shows you how. Based on groundbreaking findings and years of clinical study, The Awakened Brain reveals how humans are not only universally equipped with the capacity to tap into spiritual awareness, but that people with a positive, active relationship to spirituality are 40% less likely to use and abuse substances, 60% less likely to be depressed, and more likely to have a significantly increased sense of meaning and purpose, in addition to higher levels of academic success. Combining cutting-edge research with on the ground application by people from all walks of life from students and doctors to veterans, monks, and parents, Dr. Miller has discovered that: there's a biological clock on spiritual awakening that starts in adolescence genetic variability accounts for 25% of the difference in people's inclination toward spiritual seeking a woman who recovers from depression with spirituality gives off the same brain waves as if she had recovered by using Prozac"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Publisher, Date: Nashville, Tennessee : W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, 2021.
Description: xx, 201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "From the moment Chris Nikic was born, his parents knew he could achieve anything he set his mind to do. So when he became involved in triathlons with the Special Olympics, his dad, Nik, took on the role of coach and encouraged Chris to aim even higher. Together, they set their sights on making history--Chris becoming the first person with Down syndrome to complete an IRONMAN® triathlon."--Amazon. |
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Publisher, Date: Coral Gables, FL : Mango Publishing Group, 2021.
Description: 286 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "Don't just change what you think, change how you think. Philosophers from Marcus Aurelius to the Buddha have concerned themselves with the idea that "you are what you think." Today, this age-old notion is explored via complex cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques. Dr. Eric Maisel moves cognitive change a giant step forward by analyzing and explaining the room that is your mind--what it is and how human consciousness is experienced there. Your mind is yours to redesign, redecorate, and recreate! Packed with visualization exercises, this accessible guide makes it easy to redesign your mind and change what you think. You can decorate, air out, furnish, and turn the room that is your mind into a truly congenial place. These techniques address major challenges like depression, addiction, procrastination, and loneliness, and promote cognitive growth, trauma healing, and fundamental change"--Back cover. |
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