Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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The art of seduction

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.

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Immigration

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.

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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"--

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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.

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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.

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U.S. national debate topic, 2016-2017: U.S.-China relations

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 300

Call Number: 337.73

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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"--

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Boy scout handbook

By Boy Scouts of America

Publishing Date: 2016

Classification: 300

Call Number: 369.4309 BOY

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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)

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