Morris County Library New Non-Fiction
Newsletter # 434 - 12/2/2022
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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1) American cartel: inside the battle to bring down the opioid industry
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Higham, Scott
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"AMERICAN CARTEL is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows of a small band of DEA agents led by Joe Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied 30 years bringing down bad guys, along with a band of lawyers led by West Virginia native Paul Farrell Jr. who fought to hold the drug industry to account in the face of the...
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2) Begin boldly: how women can reimagine risk, embrace uncertainty, and launch a brilliant career
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Arscott, Christine Hunter
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"Too often, women hesitate to take career risks due to systemic workplace inequity. This book teaches women how to take the right risks for lasting career success. Many women enter the workforce feeling like they can never make a mistake, and as a result, they don't take risks in the crucial early stages of their careers. Women, and BIPOC women especially, are disproportionally penalized for mistakes, so any risk begins to feel like a bad risk. A...
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3) The best American science and nature writing
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4) Cloud native security cookbook: recipes for a secure cloud
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Armitage, Josh
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With the rise of the cloud, every aspect of IT has been shaken to its core. The fundamentals for building systems are changing, and although many of the principles that underpin security still ring true, their implementation has become unrecognizable. This practical book provides recipes for AWS, Azure, and GCP to help you enhance the security of your own cloud native systems.
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5) Dinner in one: exceptional & easy one-pan meals
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Clark, Melissa
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Melissa Clark brings her home cook's expertise and no-fuss approach to the world of one-pot/pan cooking. With nearly all of the recipes being made in under one hour, the streamlined steps ensure you are in and out of the kitchen without dirtying a multitude of pans or spending more time than you need to on dinner.
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6) Endure: how to work hard, outlast, and keep hammering
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Hanes, Cameron R
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158.1 HAN
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"ENDURE is the ultimate book on the necessity of setting higher goals and expecting more from yourself every day-written by one of the world's deadliest bowhunters. At 20 years old, nothing great was happening in Cameron Hanes' life. Living in a small town where dreams were dismissed and bouncing between the homes of divorced parents, he carried low expectations and no hope for a life of fulfilled potential. He wasn't looking down the road, nor was...
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7) Fully grown: why a stagnant economy is a sign of success
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Vollrath, Dietrich
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"It is widely assumed by economists that growth- an increase in GDP, or the value of our output and expenditure- is essential to thriving, developed economies. The more we produce and consume, the better our living standards, public resources, and employment options. While few would deny that growth is an important measure of economic success, many see it as just one window to a healthy economy. As co-author of a leading undergrad textbook, Dietrich...
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8) Go-to dinners: make ahead, freeze ahead, prep ahead, easy assembled
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Garten, Ina
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Barefoot Contessa cookbook
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The popular cooking show host and New York times bestselling author shares her strategies for making delicious, satisfying, and uncomplicated dinners, including such dishes as overnight mac & cheese, Tuscan white bean soup, chicken in a pot with orzo, and roasted vegetables with jammy eggs.
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9) John Constable: a portrait
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Hamilton, James
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John Constable, the revolutionary nineteenth-century painter of the landscapes and skies of southern England, is Britain's best-loved but perhaps least understood artist. His paintings reflect visions of landscape that shocked and perplexed his contemporaries: attentive to detail, spontaneous in gesture, brave in their use of colour. What we learn from his landscapes is that Constable had sharp local knowledge of Suffolk, a clarity of expression of...
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10) Mapping is elementary, my dear: 100 activities for teaching map skills to K-6 students
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Gandy, S. Kay
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"The book includes a suggested scope and sequence for teaching map skills in the elementary grades and a glossary of geographic terms"--
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11) Milk Street: cook what you have : make a meal out of almost anything
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Kimball, Christopher
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"The Milk Street team solves the problem of making dinner, starting with what you have on hand in the kitchen. Focusing on two dozen key kitchen ingredients such as couscous, tomato paste, canned beans, lentils, breadcrumbs or yogurt, the 225 featured recipes will demonstrate the endless possibilities that can be fashioned from just the ingredients you already have at home"--
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12) OCD for dummies
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Smith, Laura L
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616.85227 SMI
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Compassionate support for all forms of OCD OCD For Dummies creates a safe space for you to explore the skills and tools available to manage obsessive-compulsive disorder. You'll learn about the latest medications and treatments, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Find out how OCD works in the brain, and get ideas for supporting loved ones who might be displaying symptoms. OCD can trick the brain into resisting change, and this guide will...
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13) The other within: the genius of deformity in myth, culture, and psyche
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Deardorff, Daniel
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398.27 DEA
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"Reveals myth and "otherness" as keys to restoring self, nature, and society. Shows how myths contain medicine to restore wholeness amidst trauma, exile, sudden life change, disability, illness, death, or grief. Synthesizes lessons from shamanic practice, quantum physics, alchemy, soul poetry, wildness, social justice, and the author's lived experience. Discloses the blessings of outsiderhood and the gifts and insights gained and contributed to culture...
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14) Python for data analysis: data wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and Jupyter
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McKinney, Wes
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15) Running remote: master the lessons from the world's most successful remote-work pioneers
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Martin, Liam
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658.3123 MAR
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"Learn success secrets on the mindset and strategy needed to build and grow successful remote organizations from the ground up. With the unprecedented rise in remote work from the pandemic, many businesses have struggled with how to transition effectively to a distributed format. Meanwhile, companies who had always been remote-first had a unique advantage: a highly scalable set of work processes, a unique communication style, and the proper 'async...
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16) The song of the cell: an exploration of medicine and the new human
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Mukherjee, Siddhartha
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"The discovery of cells--and the reframing of the human body as a cellular ecosystem--announced the birth of a new kind of medicine based on the therapeutic manipulations of cells. A hip fracture, a cardiac arrest, Alzheimer's, dementia, AIDS, pneumonia, lung cancer, kidney failure, arthritis, COVID--all could be viewed as the results of cells, or systems of cells, functioning abnormally. And all could be perceived as loci of cellular therapies. In...
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17) Start more than you can finish: a creative permission slip to unleash your best ideas
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Blades, Becky
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"Starting is a skill. And like any other skill, it can be learned, practiced and mastered. When we do it right, we can go anywhere, start anything. We all need to start more. To imagine things and push the ignition switch to begin them. We need to start things that will take ten minutes and things that will take five years, and things we will never, ever finish. Because acting on our ideas is the best of who we are. Whether we finish them or not....
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18) Sweet in tooth and claw: stories of generosity and cooperation in the natural world
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Ohlson, Kristin
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"For centuries, people have debated whether nature is mostly competitive--as Darwin theorized and the poet Tennyson described as "red in tooth and claw"--or innately cooperative, as many ancient and indigenous peoples believed. In the last 100 or so years, a growing gang of scientists have studied the mutually beneficial interactions that are believed to benefit every species on earth. This book is full of stories of generosity--not competition--in...
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19) That is not your mind!: Zen reflections on the Surangama Sutra
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Rosenbaum, Robert
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"What does it mean to experience freedom in and through one's sensory life? In Seeing Freedom, Zen teacher Robert Rosenbaum explores this question by taking readers on a step-by-step journey through the Shurangama Sutra. This classic Zen sutra is known for its emphasis on practicing with the senses (sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, and the Buddhist "sixth sense" of mind or cognition), as well as its teachings on the necessity of basic ethical commitments,...
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20) The big miss: how organizations overlook the value of emotions
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Dobrev, Zhecho
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658.8342 DOB
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What are the emotional and subconscious drivers behind your customers' behavior? Do you have a science and data-based strategy to drive this in the direction you want? In The Big Miss: How Businesses Overlook the Value of Emotions, Zhecho Dobrev reveals how organizations are frequently deceived by customers and fail to act on what they fail to notice-thus are missing the biggest driver of profitable customer behavior! His extensive research shows...
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