The library has purchased many new books so far this new year. You can view a handful here or click here to see the full listing. These books are on display in the lobby of the library’s lobby.
Title: Art in Time: a world history of styles and movements
Author: Bailey, Gauvin A.
Pub date: 2014.
Call No: N5303 .A755 2014
Art in Time is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative present & hyphen; to & hyphen; past arrangement, the book’s accessible text looks back on the most significant art styles and movements, from the present day to antiquity.
Title: Black : the history of a color
Author: Pastoureau, Michel, 1947-
Pub date: c2009
Call No: BF789 .C7 P3813 2009
Black–favorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascists–has always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad. In this beautiful and richly illustrated book, the acclaimed author of Blue now tells the fasc…
Title: Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present
Author: Porter, Jenelle,
Pub date: 2014.
Call No: NB1203 .F53 2014
This lavish book documents the developments in the field of fiber-related art over the past half century. The 1960s saw a revolution in fiber art. Where once the focus was on knotting, twining, and coiling thread into works that were immediately recognizable, and therefore connected to utilitarian crafts, fiber artists of the later 20th-centur …
Title: 8 weeks to SEALfit: a Navy SEAL’s guide to unconventional training for physical and mental toughness
Author: Divine, Mark.
Pub date: 2014.
Develop all of the qualities that make a Navy SEAL! SEALFIT was developed by retired Navy SEAL Commander Mark Divine for the unique and specialized needs of professionals seeking to reach their fullest potential. Mark Divine’s straightforward 8 WEEKS to SEALFIT program will give in-depth philosophy and training on how to develop the character...
Title: The beauty : poems
Author: Hirshfield, Jane, 1953-
Pub date: 2015.
The Beauty, an incandescent new collection from one of American poetry’s most distinctive and essential voices, opens with a series of dappled, ranging “My” poems–“My Skeleton,” “My Corkboard,” “My Species,” “My Weather”–using materials sometimes familiar, sometimes unexpected, to explore the magnitude, singularity, and permeability of our …
Title: The buried giant : a novel
Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-
Pub date: 2015.
From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across …
Title: The call of nursing : voices from the front lines of healthcare
Author: Patrick, William B., 1949-
Pub date: 2013
Twenty-three skilled, experienced nurses discuss how and why they do what they do, and reveal a compelling call to practice and an inside view of a profession that hides in plain sight.
Title: Failure to flourish : how law undermines family relationships
Author: Huntington, Clare,
Pub date: 2014
Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families. Strong, stable, positive relationships are essential for both individuals and society to flourish, but from transportation …
Title: The end of college : creating the future of learning and the university of everywhere
Author: Carey, Kevin, 1970-
Pub date: 2015
From a renowned education writer comes a paradigm-shifting examination of the rapidly changing world of college that every parent, student, educator, and investor needs to understand. Over the span of just nine months in 2011 and 2012, the world’s most famous universities and high-powered technology entrepreneurs began a race to revolutionize …
Title: Fashioning fat : inside plus-size modeling
Author: Czerniawski, Amanda M.
Pub date: 2015
For two and a half years, Amanda Czerniawski was a sociologist turned plus-size model. Journeying into a world where, as a size 10, she was not considered an average body type, but rather, for the fashion industry, “plus-sized,” Czerniawski studied the standards of work and image production in the plus-sized model industry. Fashioning Fat takes us …