Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
July 2023 - August 2023
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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NEW RELEASE The Earth transformed: an untold history By Frankopan, Peter Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 300 Call Number: 304.25 FRA "Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of the Moche civilization in South America that came about because of the cyclical pressures of El Nino to volcanic eruptions in Iceland that affected Egypt and helped bring the Ottoman empire to its knees, climate change and its influences have always been with us"-- |
By Kendi, Ibram X. Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 300 Call Number: 305.8009 KEN "The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While we work to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, readers asked Ibram Kendi, "How can I be antiracist?" After the bestsellers How to Be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby, readers began asking: "How do I raise an antiracist child?" Dr. Kendi had been pondering the same ever since he became a teacher--but the question became more personal and urgent when he found out his partner, Sadiqa, was pregnant. Like many parents, he didn't know how to answer the question--and wasn't sure he wanted to. He didn't want to educate his child on antiracism; he wanted to shield her from the toxicity of racism altogether. But research and experience helped him realize that antiracism has to be taught and modeled as early as possible--not just to armor our children against the racism still indoctrinated and normalized in their world, but to remind adults to build a more just future for us all. Following the model of his bestselling How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi combines vital scholarship with a compelling personal narrative of his own journey as a parent to create a work whose advice is grounded in research and relatable real-world experience. The chapters follow the stages of child development and don't just help parents to raise antiracists, but also to create an antiracist world for them to grow and thrive in"-- |
NEW RELEASE U.S. national debate topic, 2023-2024: Wealth & income inequality Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 300 Call Number: 339.2 In 2023, the United States had the highest level of income and wealth inequality of all the developed nations of the world, with the bottom 50 percent of workers controlling only 2 percent of the nation's wealth overall. While wealth inequality has been a core political and economic issue in America from the very beginning, each generation also grapples with emerging ideas about how to address this perennial economic justice issue and, in 2023, as inflation and rising costs of living brought this issue to a head again, economists, politicians, and American citizens were increasingly asking if radical solutions might we warranted in order to expand access to the American Dream. This volume of Reference Shelf introduces the idea of wealth distribution through tax restructuring, regulations on corporate profits, minimum wage laws, and more radical potential solutions like the establishment of a universal basic income. Articles from American periodicals, blogs, and magazines introduce readers to the various aspects of this debate and will tie the income inequality debate of the 2020s to the historic American struggle for economic equity. -- |
By United States Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 300 Call Number: 363.325 UNI "Presents the full text of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol's report, which addresses the origins of the insurrection, how it was organized and funded and the role of Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials"-- |
College admissions together: it takes a family By Goodman, Steven Roy Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 300 Call Number: 378.1 GOO "Shows parents, counselors, and teachers how to help students make wise college choices-together."--Cover. |
College success stories that inspire: lessons from inside and outside the classroom By Goodman, Steven Roy Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: 300 Call Number: 378.1 GOO "This collection of witty, inspiring, and thought-provoking eassays empowers prospective students and others eager to understand the complete college experience -- lessons learned from triumph and near disaster and from professors and peers, as well as the turning points that helped launch careers and define character." |
Supermarket USA: food and power in the Cold War farms race By Hamilton, Shane Publishing Date: [2018] Classification: 300 Call Number: 381.4564 HAM "Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist weapons during the Cold War, and how that has shaped our current food system. The widespread appeal of supermarkets as weapons of free enterprise contributed to a 'farms race' between the United States and the Soviet Union, as the superpowers vied to show that their contrasting approaches to food production and distribution were best suited to an abundant future. In the aftermath of the Cold War, U.S. food power was transformed into a global system of market power, laying the groundwork for the emergence of our contemporary world, in which transnational supermarkets operate as powerful institutions in a global food economy"--Dust jacket flaps. |
NEW RELEASE Tales of Polynesia: folktales from Hawai'i, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Samoa Publishing Date: [2023] Classification: 300 Call Number: 398.2099 "A woman falls in love with the king of the sharks. Two powerful sorcerers compete in a battle of magical wits. The king of Maui's fastest messenger races to bring a young woman back from the dead. Explore the enchanting folklore of the Polynesian islands. In these traditional stories, the borders blur between life and death, reality and magic, and land and sea. You'll encounter awe-inspiring warriors, tricky magicians, and fearsome creatures of the deep. Each tale is paired with evocative contemporary art in this special illustrated edition"-- |
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