Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
May 2016 - June 2016
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
Additional information about each title can be found in the catalog (click on the title). For older acquisition lists choose from Select another list. To request any of these titles please contact your local library branch.
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Six women of Salem: the untold story of the accused and their accusers in the Salem Witch Trials By Roach, Marilynne K. Publishing Date: [2013] Classification: 100 Call Number: 133.43 ROA "What was it like to be there and, if you were lucky, to live through it? In a compelling combination of narrative and groundbreaking historical research, Salem Witch Trial scholar Marilynne K. Roach vividly brings the terrifying times to life while skillfully illuminating the lives of the accused, the accusers, and the afflicted."--Back cover. |
You are a bad ass: how to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life By Sincero, Jen Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 100 Call Number: 158.1 SIN Offers a blunt and irreverent guide to achieving the money, relationships, career, and happiness that one desires through recognizing and doing away with self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors. |
In search of myths & heroes: exploring four epic legends of the world By Wood, Michael Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: 200 Call Number: 201.3 WOO Encounters with the living descendants of the ancient cultures that produced the four legends of Shangri-La, the Golden Fleece, the Queen of Sheba, and the Holy Grail are captured in an account of the author's real journeys to real places in search of the origins of ancient myths. - (Baker & Taylor) |
Ladies of gold: the remarkable ministry of the golden candlestick By Metcalfe, Frances Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 200 Call Number: 231.7 MET |
By Greene, Robert Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: 300 Call Number: 306.7 GRE Presents a historical survey and analysis of the relationship of seduction and power. |
NEW RELEASE Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 300 Call Number: 325.73 "Presidential candidate Donald Trumps recent proposals to devote large amounts of federal spending into deporting all undocumented immigrants and to build a wall between the United States and Mexico are only two of the latest controversial ideas in the ongoing discussion over immigration. Historically, there have been two sides to the debate. One side tends to blame immigration for societys economic and social troubles and calls for restricting and reversing the numbers of immigrants to the United States, while the other side contends that the United States is a nation of immigrants and condemns anti-immigrant rhetoric as racist and xenophobic. This volume will explore the various aspects of the conversation, including such hot-button talking points as so-called ́anchor babies,́ as well as recent policy discussions related to the DREAM Act, counter-terrorism, the policing of borders, and education." -- Publisher's website. |
NEW RELEASE Missing man: the American spy who vanished in Iran By Meier, Barry Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 300 Call Number: 327.12 MEI "A real-life thriller about a CIA contractor who vanished in Iran and the international manhunt to find him"-- |
The real crash: America's coming bankruptcy-- how to save yourself and your country By Schiff, Peter D. Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 300 Call Number: 330.973 SCH Predicts a worse crash if key economic changes cannot be made, arguing that American consumer habits are at the heart of today's problems and recommends that the nation declare bankruptcy and rebuild broken systems from scratch. |
When the rivers run dry: water, the defining crisis of the twenty-first century By Pearce, Fred Publishing Date: c2006 Classification: 300 Call Number: 333.91 PEA It was with the Colorado River that engineers first learned to control great rivers. But now the Colorado"s reservoirs are two-thirds empty. Great rivers like the Indus and the Nile, the Rio Grande and the Yellow River are running on empty. And economists say that by 2025, water scarcity will cut global food production by more than the current U.S. grain harvest. Veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce traveled to more than thirty countries while researching When the Rivers Run Dry; it is our most complete portrait yet of the growing world water crisis. Deftly weaving together the complicated scientific, economic, and historical dimensions of the crisis, he shows us its complex origins, from waste to wrong-headed engineering projects to high-yield crop varieties that have kept developing countries from starvation but are now emptying their water reserves. And Pearce"s vivid reportage reveals the personal stories behind failing rivers, barren fields, desertification, water wars, floods, and even the death of cultures. Finally, Pearce argues that the solution to the growing worldwide water shortage is not more and bigger dams but greater efficiency and a new water ethic based on managing the water cycle for maximum social benefit rather than narrow self-interest. |
NEW RELEASE U.S. national debate topic, 2016-2017: U.S.-China relations Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 300 Call Number: 337.73 |
NEW RELEASE Pandemic: tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond By Shah, Sonia Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 300 Call Number: 362.1 SHA "From the author of The Fever, a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of pandemics Interweaving history, original reportage, and personal narrative, Pandemic explores the origins of epidemics, drawing parallels between the story of cholera-one of history's most disruptive and deadly pathogens-and the new pathogens that stalk humankind today, from Ebola and avian influenza to drug-resistant superbugs. More than three hundred infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in new territory during the past fifty years, and 90 percent of epidemiologists expect that one of them will cause a disruptive, deadly pandemic sometime in the next two generations. To reveal how that might happen, Sonia Shah tracks each stage of cholera's dramatic journey from harmless microbe to world-changing pandemic, from its 1817 emergence in the South Asian hinterlands to its rapid dispersal across the nineteenth-century world and its latest beachhead in Haiti. She reports on the pathogens following in cholera's footsteps, from the MRSA bacterium that besieges her own family to the never-before-seen killers emerging from China's wet markets, the surgical wards of New Delhi, the slums of Port-au-Prince, and the suburban backyards of the East Coast. By delving into the convoluted science, strange politics, and checkered history of one of the world's deadliest diseases, Pandemic reveals what the next epidemic might look like-and what we can do to prevent it"-- |
NEW RELEASE By Boy Scouts of America Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 300 Call Number: 369.4309 BOY |
Cliffnotes CSET, Multiple Subjects with CD-ROM By Bobrow, Jerry Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 300 Call Number: 371.1209 BOB A new edition of one of the bestselling CSET products on the market •Reflects the latest changes in the California CSET Multiple Subjects teacher-certification test, which is now computer-based only •The book includes diagnostic tests for every domain included in the test, detailed subject review chapters, and 2 full-length practice tests with in-depth answer explanations •The CD contains all of the book's subject review chapters in searchable PDF format, the book's 2 practice tests, plus a third full-length practice test- (Houghton) |
NEW RELEASE By Jahren, Hope Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 500 Call Number: 570.92 JAH Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done "with both the heart and the hands"; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home. Jahren's probing look at plants, her astonishing tenacity of spirit, and her acute insights on nature enliven every page of this extraordinary book. Lab Girl opens your eyes to the beautiful, sophisticated mechanisms within every leaf, blade of grass, and flower petal. Here is an eloquent demonstration of what can happen when you find the stamina, passion, and sense of sacrifice needed to make a life out of what you truly love, as you discover along the way the person you were meant to be. |
Welcome to subirdia: sharing our neighborhoods with wrens, robins, woodpeckers, and other wildlife By Marzluff, John M. Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 500 Call Number: 598.072 MAR "Welcome to Subirdia presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of our increasingly developed world. In this fascinating and optimistic book, John Marzluff reveals how our own actions affect the birds and animals that live in our cities and towns, and he provides ten specific strategies everyone can use to make human environments friendlier for our natural neighbors. Over many years of research and fieldwork, Marzluff and student assistants have closely followed the lives of thousands of tagged birds seeking food, mates, and shelter in cities and surrounding areas. From tiny Pacific wrens to grand pileated woodpeckers, diverse species now compatibly share human surroundings. By practicing careful stewardship with the biological riches in our cities and towns, Marzluff explains, we can foster a new relationship between humans and other living creatures--one that honors and enhances our mutual destiny." -- |
By Sax, Boria Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: 500 Call Number: 598.864 SAX This book considers crows, ravens, magpies and their relatives in myth, literature and life. It ranges from the raven sent out by Noah to the corvid deities of the Eskimo, to Daoist legends, Victorian novels and recent films. It will be of interest to anyone who has ever been intrigued, puzzled, annoyed or charmed by these wonderfully intelligent birds. - (Blackwell North Amer) |
The laws of medicine: field notes from an uncertain science By Mukherjee, Siddhartha Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 600 Call Number: 610.1 MUK One of the world's premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicine--and how understanding these principles can empower everyone. -- |
Muses, madmen, and prophets: hearing voices and the borders of sanity By Smith, Daniel B. Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.89 SMI Auditory hallucination is one of the most awe-inspiring, terrifying, and ill- understood tricks of which the human psyche is capable. In the age of modern medical science, we have relegated this experience to nothing more than a biological glitch. Yet as Daniel B. Smith puts forth in Muses, Madmen, and Prophets, some of the greatest thinkers, leaders, and prophets in history heard, listened to, and had dialogues with voices inside their heads. In a fascinating quest for understanding, Smith examines the history of this powerful phenomenon, and delivers a ringing defense of the validity of unusual human experiences.- (Penguin Putnam) |
By Uppgaard, Robert O. Publishing Date: c1999 Classification: 600 Call Number: 617.522 UPP Discusses TMJ disorders and offers information on seeking dental and medical assistance while suggesting special exercises and relaxation techniques that may provide relief. |
Deep in the green: an exploration of country pleasures By Raver, Anne Publishing Date: 1996, c1995 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635.0974 RAV As gardening columnist for The New York Times, Anne Raver is one of our foremost authorities on making things grow. Even non-gardeners will find this book of essays a source of profound pleasure, for Raver is a writer who transcends her subject even as she illuminates it, writing with such passion, wisdom and stylishmess that her book will enchant anyone who reads it. |
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