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: Andy Warhol : the complete commissioned record covers, 1949-1987 : catalogue raisonné
Author: Maréchal, Paul, 1965-
Now available in an expanded edition, this landmark collection presents all of the record covers designed by Andy Warhol between 1949 and 1987, charting the Pop icon’s lifelong engagement with music and casting a new light on his enormously diverse oeuvre. Count Basie, Tchaikovsky, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Diana Ross, John Lennon, and the Ro …
Title: Chopsticks : a cultural and culinary history
Author: Wang, Q. Edward, 1958-
Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Japanese, Chinese and Korean culinary experience across the globe, with more than one fifth of the world’s population using them daily to eat. In this vibrant, highly original account of the history of chopsticks, Q. Edward Wang charts their evolution from a simple eating implement in ancient …
Title: Clothing poverty : the hidden world of fast fashion and second-hand clothes
Author: Brooks, Andrew
You look good in those jeans. But are those jeans themselves good ? Have you ever looked into where they came from and who made them? Andrew Brooks has, and with Clothing Poverty he takes readers on a global journey, from fabric to fashion show, to reveal the worldwide commodity chains and hidden trade networks that transect the globe …
Title: Debussy
Author: Jensen, Eric Frederick, 1951-
Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its breadth of appeal. With the rareability to entice listeners on many levels, at its heart lies anengaging simplicity-one which defies traditional analysis and lendsmystery to what ultimately is an extremely refined and highly personalapproa …
Title: The end game : how inequality shapes our final years
Author: Abramson, Corey M., 1980-
Senior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent seniors converge at some point? The End Game investigates wheth …
Title: Google hacking for penetration testers
Author: Long, Johnny
Google is the most popular search engine ever created, but Google’s search capabilities are so powerful, they sometimes discover content that no one ever intended to be publicly available on the Web, including social security numbers, credit card numbers, trade secrets, and federally classified documents. Google Hacking for Penetration Test …
Title: The guest room : a novel
Author: Bohjalian, Chris, 1960-
From the New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls comes the spellbinding tale of a party gone horribly wrong: two men lie dead in a suburban living room, two women are on the run from police, and a marriage is ripping apart at the seams. When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host his br …
Title: An indomitable beast : the remarkable journey of the jaguar
Author: Rabinowitz, Alan, 1953-
The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an evolutionary history unique among wild felines, but also because of a power and indomitable spirit so strong, the jaguar has shaped indigenous cult …
Title: Black man in a white coat : a doctor’s reflections on race and medicine
Author: Tweedy, Damon.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR One doctor’s passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans When Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segrega … (to read more see “A Look Inside”)
Title: The allure of order : high hopes, dashed expectations, and the troubled quest to remake American schooling
Author: Mehta, Jal.
Ted Kennedy and George W. Bush agreed on little, but united behind the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Passed in late 2001, it was hailed as a dramatic new departure in school reform. It would make the states set high standards, measure student progress, and hold failing schools accountable. A decade later, NCLB has been repudiated on both si …