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Morris County Library New Non-Fiction

Newsletter # 436-  12/30/2022
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 demon: Eliot Ness and the hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
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Stashower, Daniel
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"New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Nes."--
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2) An introduction to the study of mysticism
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Jones, Richard H
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A comprehensive, concise, and easy-to-read introduction intended for undergraduates and general readers interested in the study of mysticism.
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3) A block in time: a New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third street
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Bird, Christiane
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"Gotham meets The Island at the Center of the World in this dazzling history of a single square block in Manhattan from the Age of Exploration to the present. This is the story of New York City, told through the prism of one block, bordered by Twenty-Third Street to the south, Twenty-Fourth Street to the north, Fifth Avenue to the east, and Sixth Avenue to the west. It's a story of forest and cement, bird cries and taxi horns, gambling dens and gourmet...
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4) Catastrophe!: how psychology explains why good people make bad situations worse
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Ferguson, Christopher J
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"This highly original book examines the personal and collective psychology behind the breakdown of rational decision-making during times of crisis and offers solutions to how we can be better prepared"--
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5) Chasing automation: the politics of technology and jobs from the roaring twenties to the Great Society
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Prout, Jerry
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"Chasing Automation describes how in the period from 1921 to 1966, despite the inherent limitations of politics to anticipate the effects of technology on jobs, an eclectic and fragile coalition of reform-minded politicians successfully erected a legal framework that mitigated the worst effects of technological unemployment"--
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6) Conversations with birds
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Kumar, Priyanka
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""Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself." So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar"--
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7) Denial: how we hide, ignore, and explain away problems
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Del Rosso, Jared
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"In this new book, Jared Del Rosso argues that to understand contemporary social problems we need to become aware of the strategies that people use to deny the existence of those very problems. Drawing on research in sociology, criminology, psychology, and communication studies, Del Rosso develops a new vocabulary for describing denial and its consequences. With examples from everyday observations, current events, and social scientific research, Del...
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8) Food, glorious food!: transcending obesity through the symbology of Freud and Jung
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Jacobs, Nadine
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9) Future skills: the 20 skills and competencies everyone needs to succeed in a digital world
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Marr, Bernard
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"The 4th industrial revolution is transforming the world of work. Digitization and technologies such as AI, robotic process automation, extended reality, cloud computing, big data, blockchains, etc. are automating, augmenting and adding jobs. The skills people will need to succeed in this new world of work are very different from the skills that made people succeed in the past. There is often a misconception that all we need in the future are coding...
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10) Global faith, worldly power: evangelical internationalism and U.S. empire
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"Assessing the grand American evangelical missionary venture to convert the world, this international group of leading scholars reveals how theological imperatives have intersected with worldly imaginaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Countering the stubborn notion that conservative Protestant groups have steadfastly maintained their distance from governmental and economic affairs, these experts show how believers' ambitious investments...
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11) Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the secret club that sparked modern feminism
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Scutts, Joanna
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"On a Saturday afternoon in New York in late 1912, around the plain wooden tables of Polly's Restaurant in Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all of them convinced that they were going to change the world. It was the first meeting of "Heterodoxy," a secret supper club. The goals of the group were simple: They would meet to talk about their lives, their politics, and the still-not widely recognized idea that women were fundamentally equal...
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12) How to have difficult conversations about race: practical tools for necessary change in the workplace and beyond
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Christian, Kwame
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"How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race equips you with the skills you need to make crucial conversations about race easier and more productive"--
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13) The joy of abstraction: an exploration of math, category theory, and life
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Cheng, Eugenia
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"Mathematician and popular science author Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to show you that mathematics can be flexible, creative, and visual. This joyful journey through the world of abstract mathematics into category theory will demystify mathematical thought processes and help you develop your own thinking, with no formal mathematical background needed. The book brings abstract mathematical ideas down to earth using examples of social justice, current...
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14) Lighter: let go of the past, connect with the present, and expand the future
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Yung Pueblo
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"A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting the heaviness that prevents us from healing ourselves and the world, from the New York Times bestselling author of Clarity & Connection"--
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15) Machine learning engineering in action
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Wilson, Ben
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Field-tested tips, tricks, and design patterns for building machine learning projects that are deployable, maintainable, and secure from concept to production. In Machine Learning Engineering in Action, you will learn: Evaluating data science problems to find the most effective solution Scoping a machine learning project for usage expectations and budget Process techniques that minimize wasted effort and speed up production Assessing a project using...
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16) Objects of love and regret: a Brooklyn story
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Rabinowitz, Richard
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"Acclaimed historian and museum curator Richard Rabinowitz tells the story of his immigrant Jewish family through the everyday objects in their lives, from chairs and bottle openers to jars of perfume. Vivid, absorbing, and powerfully honest, this is a story of one family and one community but also of the simple heirlooms that anchor us all"--
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17) Perpetual transformation: practical tools, inspiration and best practice to constantly transform your world
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18) Pests: how humans create animal villains
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Brookshire, Bethany
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"A squirrel in the garden. A rat in the wall. A pigeon on the street. Humans have spent so much of our history drawing a hard line between human spaces and wild places. When animals pop up where we don't expect or want them, we respond with fear, rage, or simple annoyance. It's no longer an animal. It's a pest. At the intersection of science, history, and narrative journalism, Pests is not a simple call to look closer at our urban ecosystem. It's...
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19) Rebel with a clause: tales and tips from a roving grammarian
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Jovin, Ellen
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"An unconventional guide to the English language drawn from the cross-country adventures of an itinerant grammarian"--Provided by publisher. When Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building and set up a folding table with a Grammar Table sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. Jovin soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from anyone who uses words...
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20) Secrets of the Barn Find Hunter: the art of finding lost collector cars
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Cotter, Tom
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"Automotive archaeologist Tom Cotter is "The Barn Find Hunter" in Hagerty's popular YouTube series. In Secrets of the Barn Find Hunter, he reveals how he finds amazing collector cars otherwise long forgotten"--
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21) So simple a beginning: how four physical principles shape our living world
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Parthasarathy, Raghuveer
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"A biophysicist reveals the hidden unity behind nature's breathtaking complexity. The form and function of a sprinting cheetah are quite unlike those of a rooted tree. A human being is very different from a bacterium or a zebra. The living world is a realm of dazzling variety, yet a shared set of physical principles shapes the forms and behaviors of every creature in it. So Simple a Beginning shows how the emerging new science of biophysics is transforming...
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22) Space craze: America's enduring fascination with real and imagined spaceflight
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Weitekamp, Margaret A
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"A space historian's tour through astounding spaceflight history and the Smithsonian's collection of space and science fiction memorabilia"--
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23) Stuff they don't want you to know
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Bowlin, Ben
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"Hosts of the podcast Stuff They Don't Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, & Noel Brown discern conspiracy fact from fiction regarding 'stuff' the government doesn't want you to know. Conspiracies didn't always seem so clear and present. It used to be that people with tin-foil hats who were convinced of secret messages coming through the radio were easily disregarded as kooks and looney tunes. But these days, conspiracies feel alive and...
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24) Sustainable & responsible investing 360°: lessons learned from world class investors
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Arnell, R. Scott
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"A must-read for anyone struggling to understand Impact Investing, ESG, SRI, and the myriad terms used to describe investing for positive impact. Hear from 27 experts managing trillions in funds about why sustainable and responsible investing matters, how they perform, and what the future of this investment strategy is"--
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25) Teach students how to learn: strategies you can incorporate into any course to improve student metacognition, study skills, and motivation
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McGuire, Saundra Yancy
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This book is written primarily for faculty but will be equally useful for TAs, tutors, and learning center professionals. For readers with no background in education or cognitive psychology, the book avoids jargon and esoteric theory.
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26) TensorFlow in action
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Ganegedara, Thushan
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Google's TensorFlow framework sits at the heart of modern deep learning. Boasting practical features like multi-GPU support, network data visualization, and easy production pipelines using TensorFlow Extended (TFX), TensorFlow provides the most efficient path to professional AI applications. And the keras library, fully integrated into TensorFlow 2, makes it a snap to build and train even complex models for vision, language, and more. "TensorFlow...
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27) The chaos machine: the inside story of how social media rewired our minds and our world
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Fisher, Max
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Max Fisher unfolds the definitive account of how the social-media harms that sometimes began in forgotten pockets of the world saw their dark culmination in American through the pandemic, the 2020 election, and Capitol Insurrection. The result is an intimately detailed account of the consequences of the polarization that social media incubates: the cancellations, the omnipotence of hate speech, and the spillover into real-world violence.
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28) The first advent in Palestine: reversals, resistance, and the ongoing complexity of hope
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Nikondeha, Kelley
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"When we picture the first Advent, we see Mary and Joseph huddled by a manger. We picture Gabriel, magi, and shepherds tending their flocks. A shining star against a midnight sky. But this harmonized version has lifted the Advent story out of its context--those who experienced the first Advent had to travel through great darkness to reach the hope that shining star announced. Trusted scholar and community organizer Kelley Nikondeha takes us back,...
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29) The hidden history of neoliberalism: how Reaganism gutted America and how to restore its greatness
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Hartmann, Thom
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"Progressive radio host Thom Hartmann reveals how and why neoliberalism became so prevalent in the United States and why it's time for us to turn our backs to it. While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don't fully understand how we got here. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neoliberalism and explains how we can use this pivotal point in time to create a more positive future. This book...
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30) The thinking strategist: unleashing the power of strategic management to identify, explore and solve problems
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Edmondson, Vickie Cox
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31) The wonderful circles of Oz: a circular economy story
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Webster, Ken
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"With the world's economies impacted by coronavirus, billions are acutely feeling social, environmental and economic injustices. The call for a new, more just, more distributive economic story and system is now louder and more urgent than ever. The Wonderful Circles of Oz provides both the framework and solutions for navigating us towards an effective circular economy - the gateway to an abundant, autonomous and democratic future. Widely regarded...
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32) Trino: the definitive guide: SQL at any scale, on any storage, in any environment
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Fuller, Matt
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33) What the children told us: the untold story of the famous "doll test" and the Black psychologists who changed the world
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Spofford, Tim
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"Dr. Kenneth Clark visited run-down and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. "Give me the doll you like to play with," he said. "Give me the doll that is a nice doll." The psychological experiment Kenneth developed with his wife, Mamie, designed to measure how segregation affected Black children's perceptions of themselves...
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34) Why we did it: a travelogue from the Republican road to Hell
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Miller, Tim
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"An account of a former Republican political activist's horror as the party he loves becomes the party of Trump"--
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35) Wise gals: the spies who built the CIA and changed the future of espionage
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Holt, Nathalia
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"In the wake of World War II, four agents were critical in helping build a new organization that we now know as the CIA. Adelaide Hawkins, Mary Hutchison, Eloise Page, and Elizabeth Sudmeier, called the "wise gals" by their male colleagues because of their sharp sense of humor and even quicker intelligence, were not the stereotypical femme fatale of spy novels. They were smart, courageous, and groundbreaking agents at the top of their class, instrumental...
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