Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
December 2023 - March 2024
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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By Knapp, Caroline Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.85 KNA "In Appetites, Caroline Knapp confronts Freud's famous question, 'What do women want?' and boldly reframes it, asking instead: How does a woman know, and then honor, what it is she wants in a culture bent on shaping, defining, and controlling her desires? Knapp, bestselling author of Drinking: A Love Story and Pack of Two: The Intricate Bond Between People and Dogs, has turned her brilliant eye towards how a woman's appetite - for food, love, work, and pleasure - has become a battlefield. She uses her own experiences with anorexia as a powerful exploration of what can happen when we are divorced from our most basic hungers - and offers her own success as testament to the joy of saying 'I want.' Provocative, important, and deeply familiar, Appetites beautifully - and urgently - challenges all women to learn what it is to feed both the body and the soul" -- |
By Rothschild, Babette Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.8521 ROT "For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiology of trauma and knowing what to do about its manifestations. This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory." "It is now thought that people who have been traumatized hold an implicit memory of traumatic events in their brains and bodies. That memory is often expressed in the symptomatology of posttraumatic stress disorder - nightmares, flashbacks, startle responses, and dissociative behaviors. In essence, the body of the traumatized individual refuses to be ignored." "Rothschild presents principles and non-touch techniques for giving the body its due. With an eye to its relevance for clinicians, she consolidates current knowledge about the psychobiology of the stress response both in normally challenging situations and during extreme and prolonged trauma." "Packed with engaging case studies, The Body Remembers integrates body and mind in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. It will appeal to clinicians, researchers, students, and general readers."--Jacket |
Extra focus: the quick start guide to adult ADHD By Anderson, Jesse J. Publishing Date: [2023] Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.8589 AND Extra Focus is your personal roadmap to understanding and living with adult ADHD. It's a no-judgement zone filled with understanding and guidance from someone who understands what it's like to live with ADHD (in a world that doesn't seem to understand it). |
The best minds: a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions By Rosen, Jonathan Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.89 ROS "When the Rosens moved to New Rochelle in 1973, Jonathan Rosen and Michael Laudor seemed destined to become inseparable. The boys, both children of college professors, grew up on the same street in intellectually vibrant homes shaped by ideas, liberal Jewish culture, the trauma of the Holocaust, and a shared love of basketball and standup comedy. But the two best friends were also keen competitors bearing the same great expectations, and when Michael and Jonathan both got into Yale, they seemed set to ascend to the heights of the American meritocratic elite. Leaving Jonathan behind, Michael blazed through college in three years, graduating summa cum laude and landing a top-flight consulting job for far more money than their parents had ever made. But all wasn't as it seemed. One day, Jonathan received the fateful call: Michael had suffered a serious psychotic break and was institutionalized at a New York City psychiatric hospital where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. He would stay there for nine months before transitioning to a halfway house. Facing the prospect of a life spent bagging groceries, Michael decided to play the one card left to him: just before his break, he had been accepted to Yale Law School, and now, against all odds, he planned to enroll. Still struggling mightily with schizophrenia, Michael made it through the top law school in the country. His extraordinary story soon made the front page of the New York Times; an agent sold his memoir to a major publisher for a large sum; Ron Howard swept in to acquire film rights, with Brad Pitt set to star. It was all a dream come true for Michael and his tirelessly supportive girlfriend Carrie. But then, the unimaginable happened: in the grip of an unshakable paranoid fantasy, Michael stabbed Carrie to death with a kitchen knife. To this day, Michael Laudor remains confined to a maximum-security forensic hospital in upstate New York. The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of what happened to Michael Laudor, and why. Exploring the dramatic transformation of American culture and of society's relationship to mental illness in the second half of the twentieth century, this is a story about the power and limits of the bonds of family, friendship, and community, the lure of the American dream and the promise of academic achievement. At times tender and hilarious, and at times harrowing and almost unbearably sad, The Best Minds is an extreme version of a story that is tragically familiar to all too many. In the hands of a writer of Jonathan Rosen's gifts and dedication, its significance will echo widely"-- |
By Jamison, Kay R. Publishing Date: c1995 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.895 JAM From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives. |
By Grandin, Temple Publishing Date: 1996 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.8982 GRA "A true story that is both uniquely moving and exceptionally inspiring, Emergence is the first-hand account of a courageous autistic woman who beat the odds and cured herself. As a child, Temple Grandin was forced to leave her "normal" school and enroll in a school for autistic children. This searingly honest account captures the isolation and fears suffered by autistics and their families and the quiet strength of one woman who insisted on a miracle."--Publisher's description. |
Your pregnancy and childbirth: month to month Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 600 Call Number: 618.2 Revision of: ACOG guide to planning for pregnancy, birth, and beyond. 1990. "Your pregnancy and childbirth: month to month was developed by a panel of experts working in consultation with staff of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)." |
By Mongan, Marie F Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 600 Call Number: 618.45 MON "HypnoBirthing helps women to become empowered by developing an awareness of the instinctive birthing capability of their bodies. It greatly reduces the pain of labor and childbirth; frequently eliminates the need for drugs; reduces the need for caesarian surgery or other doctor-controlled birth interventions; and it also shortens birthing and recovery time, allowing for better and earlier bonding with the baby, which has been proven to be vital to the mother-child bond. What's more, parents report that their infants sleep better and feed more easily when they haven't experienced birth trauma. HypnoBirthing founder Marie Mongan knows from her own four births that it is not necessary for childbirth to be a terribly painful experience. In this book she shows women how the Mongan Method works and how parents they can take control of the greatest and most important event of their lives --Provide by publisher". |
By Shanley, Laura Kaplan Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 600 Call Number: 618.45 SHA "Childbirth is inherently safe and relatively painless -- provided we refrain from physical or psychological interference. The problems often associated with birth can be traced to three main factors: poverty, unnecessary medical intervention, and fear. When these causes are eliminated, most women can give birth either alone or with the help of a partner, friends, or family."--Amazon.com |
The six: the untold story of America's first women astronauts By Grush, Loren Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 600 Call Number: 629.4097 GRU "When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space flight. Eventually, though, NASA recognized its blunder and opened the application process to a wider array of hopefuls, regardless of race or gender. From a candidate pool of 8,000 six elite women were selected in 1978--Sally Ride, Judy Resnik, Anna Fisher, Kathy Sullivan, Shannon Lucid, and Rhea Seddon. In The Six, acclaimed journalist Loren Grush shows these brilliant and courageous women enduring claustrophobic--and sometimes deeply sexist--media attention, undergoing rigorous survival training, and preparing for years to take multi-million-dollar payloads into orbit. Together, the Six helped build the tools that made the space program run. One of the group, Judy Resnik, sacrificed her life when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded at 46,000 feet. Everyone knows of Sally Ride's history-making first space ride, but each of the Six would make their mark" -- |
A city on Mars: can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through By Weinersmith, Kelly Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 600 Call Number: 629.4533 WEI The authors of the best-selling popular science book Soonish discuss the future of space settlements, explore what would be needed to have space kids, build space farms and create nations, ultimately questioning whether or not it<?char 146 ?>s actually a good idea. |
Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635.9 Presents simple skills to bring color, action, and beauty from planning the site to selecting a diversified collection of planting to attract wildlife. |
Mice: everything about care, nutrition, diseases, behavior, and breeding By Bielfeld, Horst Publishing Date: 1985, 1984 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636 BIE A pet owner's manual answers questions and contains drawings and photographs. |
By Paradise, Paul R Publishing Date: 1988 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636.6865 PAR Contains advice about selecting and caring for Amazon parrots. |
Unforgettable: the bold flavors of Paula Wolfert's renegade life By Thelin, Emily Kaiser Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.5092 THE "A biographical cookbook about legendary food authority Paula Wolfert, featuring 50+ of her most unforgettable recipes."--Publisher's description. |
By Collister, Linda Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.5123 COL |
By Kesselheim, Alan S Publishing Date: 2002 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.578 KES The Camp Cook's Companion offers a savory alternative to the bland, just-add-water fare to which most outdoor types resort after a long day in the woods. Acclaimed outdoor writer Alan Kesselheim serves up a delightfully varied menu of more than 150 recipes, made from both fresh and dehydrated ingredients. Proving one needn't sacrifice flavor for utility, Kesselheim describes easy-to-prepare recipes for everything from French toast to Basil Wrathboned chicken. He also offers the choice of a number of preparation methods from simple one-pan offerings to creative Dutch oven repasts and baked goods. - (McGraw Hill) |
Heartland: the best of the old and the new from Midwest kitchens By Adams, Marcia Publishing Date: 1991 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.5977 ADA America is coming back to basics, and nowhere is the art of transforming fresh, seasonal ingredients into appealingly homey dishes practiced with more flair than in Midwestern kitchens. A lifelong resident of the Midwest, award-winning author Marcia Adams celebrates this diverse and bountiful region with more than 200 recipes that capture the spirit of Heartland cooking. Heartland food conjures up delightfully nostalgic memories of pies cooling on a windowsill, silky preserves canned for the long cold winters, soft white sugar cookies bursting with raisins, generous breakfasts of farm-fresh eggs and country sausage, and hearty soups simmered to savory perfection. |
By Worthington, Diane Rossen Publishing Date: 1994 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.77 WOR Begin with a discussion of the kitchen equipment you'll need, along with step-by-step photographic guidelines to basic stir-frying techniques. the 45 recipes that follow are divided into chapters by their featured ingredients. All of the recipes can be made with a traditional wok or with an ordinary frying pan or saute pan. |
The home winemaker's companion: secrets, recipes, and know-how for making 115 great-tasting wines By Spaziani, Gene Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.8 SPA "Raise a glass of homemade burgundy and enjoy the fruits of your labor. This informative guide provides an overview of the entire home winemaking process, from the vine (or the boxed kit) to your glass. With more than 100 recipes for a wide range of delicious wines, ports, and champagnes, you?re sure to find a wine to suit your taste. Clear diagrams for setting up your equipment and fail-safe instructions ensure that your home winemaking will be a success"--Publisher's website. |