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: Becoming vegan : the complete reference to plant-based nutrition
Author: Davis, Brenda, 1959-
Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive Edition is considered the authoritative reference on how to adopt a plant-based diet. Internationally acclaimed vegan dietitians Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina specifically designed this fully referenced, comprehensive edition to meet the needs of health professionals, academic librarians, and curriculum develope …
Title: Chuck Close, photographer
Author: Close, Chuck, 1940-
Filled with images from every stage of Chuck Close’s distinguished career, this volume surveys the entirety of the artist’s photographic oeuvre for the very first time. Documenting Chuck Close’s vital engagement with photography over the course of many decades, this book offers the first full critical assessment of his work behind the camera. …
Title: A country called childhood : children and the exuberant world
Author: Griffiths, Jay.
While traveling the world in order to write her award winning book Wild , Jay Griffiths became increasingly aware of the huge differences in how childhood is experienced in various cultures. One central riddle, in particular captured her imagination: why are so many children in Euro-American cultures unhappy – and why is it that children in tr …
Title: Alcohol : a history
Author: Phillips, Roderick.
Whether as wine, beer, or spirits, alcohol has had a constant and often controversial role in social life. In his innovative book on the attitudes toward and consumption of alcohol, Rod Phillips surveys a 9,000-year cultural and economic history, uncovering the tensions between alcoholic drinks as healthy staples of daily diets and as objects …
Title: Channeling wonder : fairy tales on television
Author: Greenhill, Pauline
Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes, schools, and workplaces. Even apparently realistic forms, like the nightly news, routinely …
Title: Forgetting : myths, perils and compensations
Author: Draaisma, D.
In his highly praised book The Nostalgia Factory , renowned memory scholar Douwe Draaisma explored the puzzling logic of memory in later life with humor and deep insight. In this compelling new book he turns to the “miracle” of forgetting. Far from being a defect that may indicate Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia, Draaisma claims, forge …
Title: The teacher’s guide to student mental health
Author: Dikel, William.
Twenty percent of children and adolescents have a mental health disorder and in five percent, the disorder is severe. Chances are that every classroom in America will have at least one student who has a mental health disorder, possibly even in the severe range. These students often have symptoms that interfere with their ability to learn. From …
Title: This present moment : new poems
Author: Snyder, Gary, 1930-
“This present moment That lives on To become Long ago.” For his first collection of new poems since his celebrated Danger on Peaks , published in 2004, Gary Snyder finds himself ranging over the planet. Journeys to the Dolomites, to the north shore of Lake Tahoe, from Paris and Tuscany to the shrine at Delphi, from Santa Fe to Sella Pass, Snyd …
Title: Writing local history today : a guide to researching, publishing, and marketing your book
Author: Mason, Thomas A.
Writing Local History Today guides local historians through the process of researching, writing, and publishing their work. Mason & Calder present step-by-step advice to guide aspiring authors to a successful publication and focus not only on how to write well but also how to market and sell their work. Highlights include: .Discussion of how t …
Title: Battle lines : a graphic history of the Civil War
Author: Kelman, Ari, 1968-
Featuring breathtaking panoramas and revelatory, unforgettable images, Battle Lines is an utterly original graphic history of the Civil War. A collaboration between the award-winning historian Ari Kelman and the acclaimed graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm, Battle Lines showcases various objects from the conflict (a tattered American flag f …