Morris County Library New Non-Fiction
Newsletter #395 - 5/7/2021
OUR BOOK BUDGET HAS RESUMED! ALL NEW PURCHASES BELOW!!!
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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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: Boulder, Colorado : Shambhala Publications, Inc., [2020]
Description: x, 219 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "An introductory guide to cultivating patience and opening your heart to difficult circumstances from leading Buddhist teacher, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche. Patience is one of the most important qualities we can develop, as it represents our mind's ability to work positively with anything that bothers us, including anger, loss, jealousy, and helplessness. We are consistently confronted with situations or outcomes we weren't expecting or didn't want, and our default response is to reject what happened with feelings of mild irritation, inward complaining, self-aggression, or seething resentment. Patience is an antidote to all these forms of rejection. Those who have mastered patience have learned to welcome all challenging situations, people, and emotions as opportunities to open their hearts rather than close them. Based on the teachings of the sixth chapter of Shantideva's The Way of the Bodhisattva, Peaceful Heart explores how Buddhist teachings on patience can help you work with whatever disturbances arise in your life and in your mind. Dzigar Kongtrul provides practices and examples throughout the book to challenge readers on the path to developing a more patient heart"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 6)
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Publisher, Date: Nashville, Tennessee : Thomas Nelson, [2020]
Description: xii, 219 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: Offers a guide to finding biblical inspiration, strength, and comfort in the face of life's more daunting challenges. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 14 (of 16)
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Publisher, Date: New York : Penguin Press, 2021.
Description: xxiv, 278 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary: From the earliest days of slavery, when enslaved people were allowed to worship at all, their meetinghouses were subject to surveillance and destruction. Church burnings and bombings by anti-Black racists have continued to the present day, a hallmark of the violent effort to suppress the African American struggle for equality. Gates takes us on a journey spanning more than five centuries, from the intersection of Christianity and the transatlantic slave trade to today's political landscape. We emerge with a new understanding of the importance of African American religion to the larger national narrative: as a center of resistance to slavery and white supremacy, as a magnet for political mobilization, as an incubator of musical and oratorical talent that would transform the culture, and as a crucible for working through the Black community's most critical personal and social issues. -- adapted from jacket |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2021]
Description: xii, 449 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary: Shows how to use Photoshop Elements 2021 for everything from common image fixes to detailed retouching of photographs utilizing more creative techniques such as image layers, and includes tips on building and managing complex photograph projects.
Series: --For dummies. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 2)
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Edition: 3rd edition.
Publisher, Date: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2021]
Description: xii, 417 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary: "This book helps you gain an understanding of Photoshop CC and take charge of the tools, menu commands, and shortcuts that will help you perfect your photos and designs."--Page 4 of cover.
Series: --For dummies. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: San Jose, California : Adobe Press, [2021]
Description: xii, 451 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Series: Classroom in a book. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 15 (of 22)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: Minneapolis : Milkweed Editions, 2020.
Description: 165 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary: "From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction-a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
Description: xviii, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "Chris Dubbs tells the dramatic stories of more than thirty women who traveled to Europe to write about World War I for America's newspapers and magazines"-- 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, IN : Solution Tree Press, [2021]
Description: xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Summary: "Kindergarten is a vital time in a child's life, serving as the foundation upon which all future education is built. Kindergarten Konfidential seeks to help kindergarten teachers across the country transform their classrooms into thriving learning environments for eager young learners. With decades of experience under his belt, author and kindergarten teacher Alan J. Cohen explains his unique perspective on Kindergarten and his classroom methods that make him such an effective instructor. From having the right attitude and mindset to understanding the most basic principles of literacy and mathematics, Kindergarten Konfidential is the all-inclusive guide to bring kindergarten to the next level"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 8 (of 8)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2020]
Description: xvi, 291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Summary: "The best-selling author of Policy Paradox, a classic on politics, delivers a pathbreaking work on the simple act of counting. Early in her extraordinary career, Deborah Stone wrote Policy Paradox, a landmark work on politics. Now, in Counting, she revolutionizes how we approach numbers and shows how counting shapes the way we see the world. Most of us think of counting as a skill so basic that we see numbers as objective, indisputable facts. Not so, says Stone. In this playful-yet-probing work, Stone reveals the inescapable link between quantifying and classifying, and explains how counting determines almost every facet of our lives-from how we are evaluated at work to how our political opinions are polled to whether we get into college or even out of prison. But numbers, Stone insists, need not rule our lives. Especially in this age of big data, Stone's work is a pressing and spirited call to reclaim our authority over numbers, and to take responsibility for how we use them"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 7)
Current Holds: 2 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Description: x, 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Summary: "An enthralling account of a modern voyage of discovery as we meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey--the caracara--that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-day falconers, and carries secrets of our planet's deep past in its family history. In 1833, Charles Darwin was astonished by an animal he met in the Falkland Islands: handsome, social, and oddly crow-like falcons that were "tame and inquisitive ... quarrelsome and passionate," and so insatiably curious that they stole hats, compasses, and other valuables from the crew of the Beagle. Darwin wondered why these birds were confined to remote islands at the tip of South America, sensing a larger story, but he set this mystery aside and never returned to it. Almost two hundred years later, Jonathan Meiburg takes up this chase. He takes us through South America, from the fog-bound coasts of Tierra del Fuego to the tropical forests of Guyana, in search of these birds: striated caracaras, which still exist, though they're very rare. He reveals the wild, fascinating story of their history, origins, and possible futures. And along the way, he draws us into the life and work of William Henry Hudson, the Victorian writer and naturalist who championed caracaras as an unsung wonder of the natural world, and to falconry parks in the English countryside, where captive caracaras perform incredible feats of memory and problem-solving. A Most Remarkable Creature is a hybrid of science writing, travelogue, and biography, as generous and accessible as it is sophisticated, and absolutely riveting."-- 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: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2021.
Description: 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "Volcanologist and natural hazards expert Jess Phoenix has dedicated her life to scientific exploration. Her career path--hard earned in the still male-dominated world of science--has shoved her headlong into deep-sea submersibles, congressional races, glittering cocktail parties at Manhattan's elite Explorers Club, and numerous pairs of Caterpillar work boots. Ms. Adventure is her riveting, rolling blend of personal memoir, daring adventure, scientific exploration, and girl power."--Back cover. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 3)
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Edition: Second edition.
Publisher, Date: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2020]
Description: viii, 505 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Summary: "A new edition of the best-selling field guide with 25 all-new plates covering the birds of Hawaii"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Peterson field guide series. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 3)
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Publisher, Date: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, [2020]
Description: 188 pages ; 23 cm
Summary: "Bestselling author and executive coach shows that effective leadership boils down to two, simple components: decisions and influence. To make the best decisions and have the most influence, leaders must employ seven principles of simple leadership that will have immediate impact on their organization's performance, morale, productivity, and profits"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 5 (of 6)
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Edition: First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Gallery Books, 2021.
Description: xx, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: "From career coach and founder of the startup Ladies Get Paid-the eponymous organization leading the fight for equality in the workplace-comes an empowering guide to provide you with the tools to strategically navigate the workplace, achieve success, andbecome a true leader. Claire Wasserman has one goal for women: Rise up and get paid. As the founder of Ladies Get Paid, Claire has worked her entire adult life to promote gender equality in the workplace. If you're looking to navigate a promotion or breakthe glass ceiling, Ladies Get Paid is your essential toolkit for achieving success. Filled with straightforward advice and inspiring stories, Ladies Get Paid encourages self-advocacy and activism as a way to advance your career and make more money. Covering topics as crucial and varied as how to find the perfect mentor, how to negotiate a raise, and how to become a leader, Ladies Get Paid is a reminder that you are valuable-both as an individual woman and as part of the female community. And ultimately,it's about more than your wallet-it's about your worth"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 5 (of 6)
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Edition: First HarperOne edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
Description: xiv, 189 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary: "The recent coronavirus outbreak has proven what Annie Auerbach has long championed: working 9-5 in an office doesn't work for most us. It's time to change the rules. We can be efficient and productive when we're allowed the freedom of flexibility-to meet deadlines working during the hours and in the places we choose. But before the coronavirus pandemic, only 47 percent of American workers had access to flexible working options. Annie Auerbach advises major corporations, including Nike, Google, Unilever, and Pepsico. She understands work culture and the needs of employees. The world is changing for working women, but until the recent pandemic, companies turned a blind eye. Now, it's time to make this change routine. Auerbach reiterates the importance of leaving the office cubicle behind and explores the realities many women experience working from home and the changes to their daily lives, including the trickle-down effects, from emotional labor to balancing childcare and education with work, to even biohacking the female body's unique rhythms. What happens when women embrace the concept of flex? We become more creative, more strategic with our time and energy, and more engaged with our personal lives. As Auerbach makes clear, we reject "our toxic culture of presenteeism, time-pressure, and ultimately burnout. It helps us escape the army of octopus lady jugglers, crazed with the exhaustion of "having it all." It allows us to live longer lives more sustainably. It gives us self-worth."-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 9 (of 30)
Current Holds: 6 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
Description: v, 404 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: Shares firsthand wartime accounts describing the courageous battlefield sacrifices of men and women from every branch and operational specialty of the U.S. military, from the Vietnam War through the present. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 48)
Current Holds: 19 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : The Dial Press, [2020]
Description: xvi, 333 pages ; 22 cm
Summary: "There is a voice of longing inside every woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good mothers, daughters, partners, employees, citizens, and friends. We believe all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives, relationships, and world, and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful. We hide our simmering discontent--even from ourselves. Until we reach our boiling point. Four years ago, Glennon Doyle--bestselling Oprah-endorsed author, renowned activist and humanitarian, wife and mother of three--was speaking at a conference when a woman entered the room. Glennon looked at her and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. Soon she realized that they came to her from within. Glennon was finally hearing her own voice--the voice that had been silenced by decades of cultural conditioning, numbing addictions, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl Glennon had been before the world told her who to be. She vowed to never again abandon herself. She decided to build a life of her own--one based on her individual desire, intuition, and imagination. She would reclaim her true, untamed self. Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both a memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It offers a piercing, electrifying examination of the restrictive expectations women are issued from birth; shows how hustling to meet those expectations leaves women feeling dissatisfied and lost; and reveals that when we quit abandoning ourselves and instead abandon the world's expectations of us, we become women who can finally look at our lives and recognize: There She Is. Untamed shows us how to be brave. As Glennon insists: The braver we are, the luckier we get"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 5 (of 8)
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Edition: First 37 INK/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2020]
Description: xii, 322 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Alex Tresniowski comes a page-turning, remarkable true-crime thriller recounting the 1910 murder of ten-year-old Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection and the launch of the NAACP. In the tranquil seaside town of Asbury Park, New Jersey, ten-year-old schoolgirl Marie Smith is brutally murdered. Small town officials, unable to find the culprit, call upon the young manager of a New York detective agency for help. It is the detective's first murder case, and now, the specifics of the investigation and daring sting operation that caught the killer is captured in all its rich detail for the first time. Occurring exactly halfway between the end of the Civil War in 1865 and the formal beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in 1954, the brutal murder and its highly-covered investigation sits at the historic intersection of sweeping national forces-religious extremism, class struggle, the infancy of criminal forensics, and America's Jim Crow racial violence. History and true crime collide in this sensational murder mystery featuring characters as complex and colorful as those found in the best psychological thrillers-the unconventional truth-seeking detective Ray Schindler; the sinister pedophile Frank Heidemann;the ambitious Asbury Park Sheriff Clarence Hetrick; the mysterious "sting artist," Carl Neumeister; the indomitable crusader Ida Wells; and the victim, Marie Smith, who represented all the innocent and vulnerable children living in turn-of-the-century America. Gripping and powerful, The Rope is an important piece of history that gives a voice to the voiceless and resurrects a long-forgotten true crime story that speaks to the very divisions tearing at the nation's fabric today"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 6)
Current Holds: 2 |
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Publisher, Date: North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2020]
Description: 205 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary: "Plant Partners delivers a research-based rationale for companion planting, offering gardeners dozens of ways they can use scientifically tested plant partnerships to benefit the garden as a whole"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 4)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2020]
Description: 215 pages : color illustrations, color portraits, color charts ; 28 cm
Summary: "Increasingly unpredictable weather patterns and pest infestations are challenging today's vegetable gardeners. But best-selling author Niki Jabbour has a solution: Growing Under Cover. In this in-depth guide, Jabbour shows how to use small solutions like cloches, row covers, shade cloth, cold frames, and hoophouses, as well as larger protective structures like greenhouses and polytunnels, to create controlled growing spaces for vegetables to thrive. Photographed in her own super-productive garden, Jabbour highlights the many benefits of using protective covers to plant earlier, eliminate pests, and harvest a healthier, heartier bounty year round. With enthusiasm, inventive techniques, and proven, firsthand knowledge, this book provides invaluable advice from a popular and widely respected gardening authority." -- Amazon.com. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 18)
Current Holds: 36 |
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Random House, [2021]
Description: xxviii, 274 pages ; 25 cm
Summary: "Everyone knows how hard it can be to maintain a healthy diet. But what if some of the decisions we make about what to eat are beyond our control? Is it possible that processed food is addictive, like drugs or alcohol? Motivated by these questions, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss began searching for answers, to find the true peril in our food. In Hooked, Moss explores the science of addiction and uncovers what the scientific and medical communities--as well as food manufacturers--already know, which is that food can, in some cases, be even more addictive than alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs. Our bodies are hard-wired for sweets, so food manufacturers have deployed fifty-six types of sugar to add to their products, creating in us the expectation that everything should be cloying; we've evolved to prefer convenient meals, so three-fourths of the calories we get from groceries come from ready-to-eat foods. Moss goes on to show how the processed food industry has not only tried to deny this troubling discovery, but exploit it to its advantage. For instance, in a response to recent dieting trends, food manufacturers have simply turned junk food into junk diets, filling grocery stores with "diet" foods that are hardly distinguishable from the products that got us into trouble in the first place. With more people unable to make dieting work for them, manufacturers are now claiming to add ingredients that can effortlessly cure our compulsive eating habits. A gripping account of the legal battles, insidious marketing campaigns, and cutting-edge food science that have brought us to our current public health crisis, Hooked lays out all that the food industry is doing to exploit and deepen our addictions, and shows us what we can do so that we can one again seize control"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 2)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Flatiron Books, 2021.
Description: viii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary: "Sexually transmitted diseases have been hidden players in our lives for the whole of human history, with roles in everything from World War II to the growth of the Internet to The Bachelor. But despite their prominence, STDs have been shrouded in mystery and taboo for centuries, which begs the question: why do we know so little about them? Enter Ina Park, MD, who has been pushing boundaries to empower and inform others about sexual health for decades. With Strange Bedfellows, she ventures far beyond the bedroom to examine the hidden role and influence of these widely misunderstood infections and share their untold stories. Covering everything from AIDS to Zika, Park explores STDs on the cellular, individual, and population-level. She blends science and storytelling with historical tales, real life sexual escapades, and interviews with leading scientists--weaving in a healthy dose of hilarity along the way." -- Provided by publisher. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: New York : Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2021.
Description: xvii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
Summary: "The personally devastating and medically enthralling story of a child who is cured of a deadly immune deficiency. It's a parent's worst nightmare: a child's apparently ordinary symptoms turn out to signal a serious illness. This is what happened to Miguel Sancho when his son Sebastian was only 6 months old. The discovery that he had a fatal immune deficiency known as Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) left the family with few and terrifying options. Sancho's riveting tale of the diagnosis and treatment of his son's illness takes us deep inside the workings of the immune system, which influences every part of the body, and into the cutting-edge treatments that border on the miraculous. Ultimately Sebastian is saved with a bone marrow transplant using discarded umbilical cord blood, a cutting-edge technique pioneered and practiced by the medical wizards at Duke"-- Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 0 (of 2)
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Publisher, Date: California : Ten Speed Press, 2020.
Description: 281 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 27 cm
Summary: "Grandmothers from eight eastern African countries welcome you into their kitchens to share flavorful recipes and stories of family, love, and tradition in this transporting cookbook-meets-travelogue"-- 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: Northampton, Massachusetts : Interlink Books, 2021.
Description: 224 pages ; color illustrations ; 27 cm
Summary: "Marianna Leivaditaki is a natural storyteller. She grew up in Chania, on the Greek island of Crete, and spent her childhood helping out in the family-run taverna. After school, she carried around her blue notebook, writing down all the recipes she would like to cook, helped by the kitchen wisdom of her Greek grandmothers. Marianna's love for the food of her heritage flows through every page, but she brings it her own contemporary style, honed through an illustrious career in professional restaurant kitchens. As head chef of the celebrated London restaurant Morito, she has championed high-quality ingredients, presenting them in simple, beautiful sharing plates. The recipes in her book, inspired by the Sea, the Land, and the Mountains of the Aegean islands, celebrate the wealth of the Mediterranean diet, rich in olive oil, fresh vegetables and fruit, nuts, fish, and whole grains, and a passion for good food and shared meals. Marianna offers achievable, delicious dishes celebrating fresh, seasonal ingredients that you can take time to enjoy with friends and family"--Provided by publisher. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: Philadelphia : Running Press, 2020.
Description: 215 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary: Expand your recipe collection with dishes that focus on cross-cultural flavors, rainbows of vegetables, gem-toned desserts, and spice-forward twists from the author of the critically acclaimed cookbook My Two Souths. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 1)
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Publisher, Date: Newark : University of Delaware Press, 2020.
Description: xxi, 328 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary: Incorporating copious archival research and original close readings of American artist Grant Wood's iconic as well as lesser-known works, Grant Wood's Secrets reveals how his sometimes anguished psychology was shaped by his close relationship with his mother and how he channeled his lifelong oedipal guilt into his art. Presenting Wood's abortive autobiography "Return from Bohemia" for the first time ever, Sue Taylor integrates the artist's own recollections into interpretations of his art. As Wood dressed in overalls and boasted about his beloved Midwest, he consciously engaged in regionalist strategies, performing a farmer masquerade of sorts. In doing so, he also posed as conventionally masculine, hiding his homosexuality from his rural community. Thus, he came to experience himself as a double man. This book conveys the very real threats under which Wood lived and pays tribute to his resourceful responses, which were often duplicitous and have baffled art historians who typically take them at face value. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 1 (of 2)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Description: 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary: Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated for his consummate genius. He was the painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and the inventor who anticipated the advent of airplanes, hot air balloons, and other technological marvels. But what was the connection between Leonardo the painter and Leonardo the scientist? Historians of Renaissance art have long supposed that Leonardo became increasingly interested in science as he grew older and turned his insatiable curiosity in new directions. They have argued that there are, in effect, two Leonardos--an artist and an inventor. In this pathbreaking new interpretation, the art historian Francesca Fiorani offers a different view. Taking a fresh look at Leonardo's celebrated but challenging notebooks, as well as other sources, Fiorani argues that Leonardo became familiar with advanced thinking about human vision when he was still an apprentice in a Florence studio, and used his understanding of optical science to develop and perfect his painting techniques. For Leonardo, the task of the painter was to capture the interior life of a human subject, to paint the soul. And even at the outset of his career, he believed that mastering the scientific study of light, shadow, and the atmosphere was essential to doing so. Eventually, he set down these ideas in a book--A Treatise on Painting--that he considered his greatest achievement, though it would be disfigured, ignored, and lost in subsequent centuries. |
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2020
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Copies in all libraries: 3 (of 4)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover edition.
Publisher, Date: New York : Pegasus Books, 2020.
Description: xxiii, 440 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Summary: A history of the rich and diverse civilizations over fifteen centuries of Islam seen through its greatest cities. |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Description: xii, 173 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary: "Liars are causing devastating problems. They are endangering public health. They are threatening self-government. They are destroying the reputation of good people - and inflating the reputation of people who are not so good. Nonetheless, falsehoods ought not to be censored or regulated, even if they are lies. Free societies allow them. Public officials should not be allowed to act as the truth police. A key reason is that we cannot trust officials to separate truth from falsehood; their own judgments are unreliable, and their own biases get in the way. If officials are licensed to punish falsehoods, they will end up punishing dissent. The best response to falsehoods is usually to correct them, rather than to punish or censor them. At the same time, governments should have the power to regulate the most harmful lies and falsehoods. In brief: False statements are not constitutionally protected if the government can show that they threaten to cause serious harm. Public officials should be able to restrict and punish lies and falsehoods that pose serious threats to public health and safety. To protect the democratic process, public officials should be able to restrict certain lies and falsehoods. They should be able to safeguard people's reputations. Private institutions, including television networks, magazines, and newspapers, and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, should be doing much more to slow or stop the spread of lies and falsehoods"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Inalienable rights series |
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2021
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Copies in all libraries: 2 (of 2)
Current Holds: 0 |
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Publisher, Date: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2021.
Description: 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary: "Before the 1960s, the distinction between violent and nonviolent crime played hardly any role in the law. Since then, the number of crimes deemed violent has skyrocketed. David Alan Sklansky shows how shifting and inconsistent legal definitions of violence have fueled mass incarceration, protected abusive police, and undermined criminal justice"-- Provided by the publisher. |
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Publisher, Date: [S.l.] : Random House Publishing Group, 2020.
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2021
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Publisher, Date: [New York] : Penguin Books, [2021]
Description: xlii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary: "A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new one-volume translation A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of subterfuge, he can transform himself into whomever or whatever he chooses and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones. But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain, freeing him only five hundred years later, for a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his fourteen-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire. Joined by two other fallen immortals--Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster--Monkey King undergoes eighty-one trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and femmes fatales, navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the Water-Crystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sautéed, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam. Monkey King: Journey to the West is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Penguin classics. |
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