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| Book
Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
- Publisher's Marketing:
"What to read next is every book lover's greatest
dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging
and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who
inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All
(name the city) Read the Same Book," has devised reading
lists that cater to every mood, occasion, and personality.
These annotated lists cover such topics as mother-daughter
relationships, science for nonscientists, mysteries of all
stripes, African-American fiction from a female point of
view, must-reads for kids, books on bicycling, "chick-lit,"
and many more. Pearl's enthusiasm and taste shine throughout."
Call number: Z1035.9.P38 2003
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| Laurel
Canyon: The Inside Story of Rock-And-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood
- Publisher's Marketing:
"In the late sixties and early seventies, an
impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented
canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and melded
folk, rock, and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered
the world as thoroughly as the songs of the Beatles and
the Rolling Stones had before them. Thirty years later,
the music made in Laurel Canyon continues to pour from radios,
iPods, and concert stages around the world. During the canyon's
golden era, the musicians who lived and worked there scored
dozens of landmark hits, from "California Dreamin'"
to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" to "It's Too Late,"
selling tens of millions of records and resetting the thermostat
of pop culture.
In "Laurel Canyon," veteran journalist Michael
Walker tells the inside story of this unprecedented gathering
of some of the baby boom's leading musical lights--including
Joni Mitchell; Jim Morrison; Crosby, Stills, and Nash; John
Mayall; the Mamas and the Papas; Carole King; the Eagles;
and Frank Zappa, to name just a few--who turned Los Angeles
into the music capital of the world and forever changed
the way popular music is recorded, marketed, and consumed."
Call number: ML3534.W285 2006
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| In
the Merde for Love - Publisher's
Marketing: "The
sequel to the international bestseller "A Year in the
Merde" continues the hilarious saga of Paul West's
misadventures in "l'amour ""("this title
was originally published as "Merde, Actually"
in the UK")."""
The latest episode in Stephen Clarke's almost-true account
of his adventures as an expat in France is just as delightful
as the original--and already a #1 bestseller in the UK.
A year after arriving in France, Englishman Paul West is
still struggling with some questions. What is the best way
to scare a "gendarme"? Why are there no health
warnings on French nudist beaches? Is it really polite to
sleep with your boss's mistress? And how do you cope with
a plague of ripe garden vegetables? Paul discovers how to
judge a French vacationer by the rustiness of his bicycle;
opens his English tea room and finally understands why Parisian
waiters are so cranky; and, on a return visit to the UK,
sees the full horror of a British office party through Parisian
eyes. Meanwhile, he continues his search for the perfect
French mademoiselle. Will Paul find "l'amour eternel,"
or will it all end in merde?"
Call number: PR6103.L3748 I5 2006
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Man
Ray
Call number: N6537.R3 A4 2001
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The Words and Music of Frank Zappa - Publisher's
Marketing: "The
Words and Music of Frank Zappa is the first book to move
beyond the details of Zappa's biography toward a focused
treatment of the rock and pop songs of this great American
composer. Frank Zappa worked in a musical realm that is
unfamiliar to many radio listeners, but today his music
can be appreciated as a whole, allowing it to emerge as
a coherent, thoughtful, innovative--if somewhat daunting--body
of work. Author Kelly Lowe has left no aspect of that work
unexamined, from Zappa's role as a satirist of the highest
order, to his place in the genre of "progressive rock,"
and his importance as one of the foremost critics of American
culture and society. Like those of many satirists, Frank
Zappa's messages--musical and lyrical--may not always be
clear, but they are well worth considering. Kelly Lowe has
provided an excellent guide to aid readers in that endeavor."
Call number: ML410.Z285 L68 2006
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| Looking
for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain -
Publisher's Marketing:
"Joy, sorrow, jealousy, and awe--these and other
feelings are the stuff of our daily lives. Thought to be
too private for science to explain and not essential for
understanding cognition, they have largely been ignored.
But not by Spinoza, and not by Antonio Damasio. Here, in
a humane work of science, Damasio draws on his innovative
research and on his experience with neurological patients
to examine how feelings and the emotions that underlie them
support human survival and enable the spirit's greatest
creations.
"Looking for Spinoza reveals the biology of our sophisticated
survival mechanisms. It rediscovers a thinker whose work
prefigures modern neuroscience, not only in his emphasis
on emotions and feelings, but also in his refusal to separate
mind and body. Together, the scientist and the philosopher
help us understand what we're made of, and what we're here
for. Based on laboratory investigations but moving beyond
those to society and culture, "Looking for Spinoza
is a master work of science and writing.
Antonio Damasio, widely recognized as one of the world's
leading neuroscientists, has for decades been investigating
the neurobiological foundations of human life. In "Descartes'
Error he explored the importance of emotion in rational
behavior, and in "The Feeling of What Happens he developed
the neurobiology of the self. Damasio's new book on feeling
and emotion offers unexpected grounds for optimism about
our survival and the human condition."
Call number: QP401.D203 2003
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| The
Late Great Allen Ginsberg: A Photo Biography -
Publisher's Marketing:
"Many of the seminal figures of contemporary
culture knew and worked with Allen Ginsberg and have a place
in this book. Among them are Cecil Taylor, David Amram,
Philip Glass, Ray Manzarek, Ed Sanders, Czeslaw Milosz,
Norman Mailer, Robert Frank, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
Michael McClure, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs, Philip
Whalen, Peter Orlovsky, and Robert Creeley. In this book
we truly see Allen Ginsberg as a poet, a spiritualist, a
friend, a lover, a performer, a teacher, and a lover of
good times. A complex and many-faceted life is given its
due in this inspired photographic history of Ginsbergs life
from 1980 through 1997. The Late Great Allen Ginsberg is
a deeply moving recollection of Americas most important
post-World War II poet, informed by Ginsbergs sensitivity,
his love of life, and his humanitarianism. Allen Ginsberg
spent hardly any time alone. We see him giving poetry readings
and workshops, chatting with friends, pursued by admirers
on the street, in group meditation, talking with Peter Orlovsky.
The special power of Christopher Felvers photographs comes
from his ability to accurately and reverentially document
Ginsbergs intense network of social relations at the heart
of the Beat universe."
Call number: PS3513.I74 Z6 2002
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The
Rabbit Factory - Publisher's
Marketing: "Larry
Brown's idiosyncratic and powerful Southern novels have earned
him widespread critical acclaim. Now, in an ambitious narrative
structure reminiscent of Robert Altman's classic film "Nashville,"
this "true original" "(Chicago Tribune)"
weaves together the stories of a sprawling cast of eccentric
and lovable characters, each embarked on a quest for meaning,
fulfillment, and love -- with poignant and uproarious results.
Set in Memphis and north Mississippi, "The Rabbit
Factory" follows the colliding lives of, among others,
Arthur, an older, socially ill-at-ease man of considerable
wealth married to the much younger Helen, whose desperate
need for satisfaction sweeps her into the arms of other
men; Eric, who has run away from home thinking his father
doesn't want him and becomes Arthur's unlikely surrogate
son; Domino, an ex-con now involved in the drug trade, who
runs afoul of a twisted cop; and Anjalee, a big-hearted
prostitute with her own set of troubles, who crashes into
the lives of the others like a one-woman hurricane.
Teeming with pitch-perfect creations that include quirky
gangsters, colorful locals, seemingly straitlaced professors,
and fast-and-loose police officers, Brown tells a spellbinding
and often hilarious story about the botched choices and
missed chances that separate people -- and the tenuous threads
of love and coincidence that connect them. With all the
subtlety and surprise of life itself, the story turns on
a dime from comical to violent to moving. Masterful, profound,
and full of spirit, "The Rabbit Factory" is literary
entertainment of the highest order."
Call number: PS3552.R6927 R33 2003
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| When
Blanche Met Brando: The Scandalous Story of "A Streetcard
Named Desire" - Publisher's
Marketing: "Exhaustively
researched and almost flirtatiously opinionated, When Blanche
Met Brando is everything a fan needs to know about the ground-breaking
New York and London stage productions of Williams' "Streetcar"
as well as the classic Brando/Leigh film. Sam Staggs' interviews
with all the living cast members of each production will
enhance what's known about the play and movie, and help
make this book satisfying as both a pop culture read and
as a deeper piece of thinking about a well-known story.
Readers will come away from this book delighted with the
juicy behind-the-scenes stories about cast, director, playwright
and the various productions and will also renew their curiosity
about the connection between the role of Blanche and Viven
Leigh's insatiable sexual appetite and later descent into
breakdown. They may also-for the first time-question whether
the character of Blanche was actually "mad" or
whether her anxiousness was symptomatic of another disorder.
"A Streetcar Named Desire" is one of the most
haunting and most-studied modern plays. Staggs' new book
will fascinate fans and richen newcomers' understanding
of its importance in American theater and movie history."
Call number: PS3545.I5365 S83 2005
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| A
G-Man's Life: The FBI, Being 'Deep Throat, ' and the Struggle
for Honor in Washington - Publisher's
Marketing: "For
more than 30 years, the identity of Deep Throat, the Watergate
informer, was a mystery--until former FBI deputy director
Mark Felt stepped forward in 2005 and admitted he was Deep
Throat. This work offers the first full portrait of one
of the most enduring mysterious public figures of the 20th
century."
Call number: HV7911 .F446 2006
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| Alpha
& Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the
Universe - Publisher's Marketing:
"Humankind has grappled for millennia with the
fundamental questions of the origin and end of the universe--it
was a focus of ancient religions and myths and of the inquiries
of Aristotle, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Today
we are at the brink of discoveries that should soon reveal
the deepest secrets of the universe. Alpha and Omega is
a dispatch from the front lines of the cosmological revolution
that is being waged at observatories and laboratories around
the world--in Europe, in America, and even in Antarctica--where
scientists are actually peering into both the cradle of
the universe and its grave. Scientists--including galaxy
hunters and microwave eavesdroppers, gravity theorists and
atom smashers, all of whom are on the trail of dark matter,
dark energy, and the growing inhabitants of the particle
zoo--now know how the universe will end and are on the brink
of understanding its beginning. Their findings will be among
the greatest triumphs of science, even towering above the
deciphering of the human genome. This is the book you need
to help understand the frequent front-page headlines heralding
dramatic cosmological discoveries. It makes cutting-edge
science both crystal clear and wonderfully exciting."
Call number: QB981 .S446 2003
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| How
to Read a French Fry: And Other Stories of Intriguing Kitchen
Science - Publisher's Marketing:
"Why can you stick your hand into a 450-degree
oven but not into 212-degree boiling water without burning
it? Why does fish taste different from meat? Why do you
cook pork differently from beef? Why should you always start
cooking dried beans in cold water, not warm? Why should
you never cook a Vidalia onion?
What's the only kind of marinade that's really an effective
tenderizer? Why is strawberry-rhubarb a good combination,
scientifically speaking? And why don't potatoes fried in
fresh oil ever brown completely, no matter how long they're
cooked?
"Cooking is full of questions that science can help
you answer, questions that can make you a better cook,"
writes the award-winning Los Angeles Times food editor,
Russ Parsons.
In this entertaining book packed with fascinating tidbits,
Parsons explores the science behind such basic cooking methods
as chopping, mixing, frying, roasting, boiling, and baking.
You'll learn why soaking beans can't offset their gaseous
effects, why green vegetables shouldn't be cooked under
a lid for long, which fruits you can buy unripe and which
you should buy fully ripened, which thickener to choose
for your turkey gravy, which piecrust is foolproof for a
beginner.
Along the way, Parsons slips in hundreds of cooking tips,
provocative trivia, and touches of wit that make his scientific
explanations go down smoothly. He also includes more than
a hundred recipes that deliciously exemplify the principles
he describes, from Tuscan Potato Chips and Crisp-Skinned
Salmon on Creamy Leeks and Cabbage to Chocolate Pots de
Creme and Ultimate Strawberry Shortcake."
Call number: TX651 .P36 2001
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| How
to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life -
Publisher's Marketing:
"From "the man who put the fun into physics"
(International Herald Tribune), an entertaining and accessible
look at the science behind our daily activities."
Call number: Q162 .F53 2004
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| The
Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories - Publisher's
Marketing: "Donoghue
finds her inspiration for these wry, robust tales in obscure
scraps of historical records: an engraving of a woman giving
birth to rabbits; a plague ballad; surgical case notes;
theological pamphlets; an articulated skeleton. Here kings,
surgeons, soldiers, and ladies of leisure rub shoulders
with cross-dressers, cult leaders, poisoners, and arsonists.
Whether she's spinning the tale of an Irish soldier tricked
into marrying a dowdy spinster, a Victorian surgeon's attempts
to "improve" women, a seventeenth-century countess
who ran away to Italy disguised as a man, or an "undead"
murderess returning for the maid she left behind to be executed
in her place, Emma Donoghue brings to her stories an "elegant,
colorful prose filled with unforgettable sights, sounds
and smells" ("Elle"). Here she summons the
ghosts of those women who counted for nothing in their own
day, but who come to unforgettable life in fiction."
Call number: PR6054.O547 W66 2002
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| Bay
of Souls - Publisher's Marketing:
"A new novel from an American master, Bay of
Souls is a gripping tale of romantic obsession set against
the backdrop of an island revolution. Michael Ahearn is
a midwestern English professor who abandons his comfortable
life when he becomes obsessed with a new colleague from
the Caribbean, Lara Purcell. When Lara claims a vodoun spirit
has taken possession of her soul, Michael follows her to
her native St. Trinity, only to find himself in a whirlpool
of Third World corruption. A finely wrought tale of one
man"s moral dissolution, Bay of Souls showcases Robert
Stone at his most provocative and psychologically acute."
Call number: PS3569.T6418 B3 2003
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| Why
Do Men Have Nipples?: Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask
a Doctor After Your Third Martini - Publisher's
Marketing: "Say
you're at a party. You've had a martini or three, and you
mingle through the crowd, wondering how long you need to
stay before going out for pizza. Suddenly you're introduced
to someone new, Dr. Nice Tomeetya. You forget the pizza.
Now is the perfect time to bring up all those strange questions
you'd like to ask during an office visit with your own doctor
but haven't had the guts (or more likely the time) to do
so. You're filled with liquid courage . . . now is your
chance! If you've ever wanted to ask a doctor . . .
-How do people in wheelchairs have sex?
-Why do I get a killer headache when I suck down my milkshake
too fast?
-Can I lose my contact lens inside my head forever?
-Why does asparagus make my pee smell?
-Why do old people grow hair on their ears?
-Is the old adage "beer before liquor, never sicker,
liquor before beer . . ." really true?
. . . then "Why Do Men Have Nipples? is the book for
you.
Compiled by Billy Goldberg, an emergency medicine physician,
and Mark Leyner, bestselling author and well-known satirist,
"Why Do Men Have Nipples? offers real factual and really
funny answers to some of the big questions about the oddities
of our bodies."
Call number: R706 .L49 2005
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| Art:
From Impressionism to the Internet - Publisher's
Marketing: "The
complexities of recent art history can overwhelm even the
most knowledgeable art insider. Art: From Impressionism
to the Internet is a portable, up-to-date and easy to use
guide to the art of the last 100 years. Beautifully designed
and illustrated, the book devotes double-page spreads to
each of fifty art movements, and discusses the key artists,
concepts, and works of this highly creative period. The
first volume in the new "Prestel Sightlines" series,
Art: From Impressionism to the Internet provides an overview
of modern art that is both authoritative and accessible."
Call number: N6490 .R5347 2001
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| The
Art of the Lord of the Rings - Publisher's
Marketing: "This
full-color book features images from The Lord of the Rings
film trilogy depicting pivotal scenes and characters that
were previously embargoed and have never appeared in book
form. The work of Alan Lee and John Howe, the two artists
most closely associated with Tolkien's world, is featured,
along with that of many other talented artists and designers."
Call number: PN1995.9.L58 R87 2004
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| Edvard
Munch: Theme and Variation - Publisher's
Marketing: "Loneliness,
jealousy, love, death. Hardly any other artist has explored
the basic experiences of human life and personal angst more
forcefully and with such unsettling images as the Norwegian
painter and graphic artist Edvard Munch. His depiction of
the crisis of the individual makes Much a representative
of modern consciousness, and the form he uses to express
this inner drama makes him a precursor and founder of Expressionism.
Munch's entire creative period is characterized by a continuous
return to his mental motifs. On the basis of more than 70
paintings and 140 works on paper shown at the exhibition,
this Albertina publication contains essays by well-known
authors in the field, and for the first time provides an
analysis of the emergence, development and inner fabric
of theme and variation in Munch's oeuvre. Different versions
and renditions of paintings like "The Scream, Melancholy,
Jealousy--all icons of Modernism--are presented side by
side. Additionally, the book shows the close relationship
between the artist's graphic and painterly works, for Munch's
interest in a motif was not only restrained to painting.
He also transformed his themes into printed media such as
lithographs, etchings and woodcuts, all impressively documented
in this book."
Call number: N7073.M8 A4 2003
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| Francesco
Clemente: A Portrait - Publisher's
Marketing: "
A rare glimpse into the life and work of an enigmatic master.
Photographer and filmmaker Luca Babini affords us unprecedented
access to the life and work of the extraordinary Italian
painter Francesco Clemente. One of the painters who achieved
remarkable fame in the eighties-and one of the few to sustain
his reputation-Clemente rarely gives interviews and dislikes
being photographed. But when his dear friend Babini asked
if he would let himself be photographed informally, on a
day-to-day basis, Clemente agreed in the name of friendship
and collaboration.
Since then, Babini has compiled an intimate and beautiful
chronicle of Clemente's life and work. Francesco Clemente:
Art and Life shows the artist in his studio-in New York,
Amalfi, Taos, and Madras. This photographic record of Clemente's
working process is as extraordinary as it is enlightening.
Poet and arts writer Rene Ricard traces the evolution of
the artist's studio through time, while simultaneously acting
as a contemporary Giorgio Vasari in his more personal discussion
of Clemente, his art, and his life. The first book of its
kind, Babini's photo journal will be published in conjunction
with the retrospective of Francesco Clemente's work at the
Guggenheim Museum in New York City in the fall of 1999."
Call number: ND623.C673 B33 1999
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| A
Year in the Life of Andy Warhol - Publisher's
Marketing: "Photographic
diary of 1964-5, one of the most productive and eventful
years in Warhol's life- A significant majority of these
photographs have never been published before and are presented
together for the first time- Unique photographic documentation
of Warhol, his world and the New York art scene of the mid-1960s-
Many original quotes from celebrities and Warhol's friends,
based on interviews conducted by Dalton"
Call number: N6537.W28 M4 2003
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| California
Pottery: From Missions to Modernism - Publisher's
Marketing: "Pottery
was for the patio, porcelain for the dinner table until
the kilns of California began mass-producing and distributing
imaginative, brightly colored tableware in the late 1920s.
Today, the inventive forms and playful shapes of Calfironia
pottery make it a much sought-after and highly prized collectible.
Published to coincide with an exhitibiton at SF MOMA, California
Pottery is the ultimate guide to the cultural forces and
talented designers that shaped this movement. Their work
includes not only the dishware we have come to associate
with Calfornia, but also garden and agricultural pottery
and iconic decorative tiles. Each piece reflects the falvor
of the times--from the sober Arts and Crafts style of the
'20s right through to the aerodynamic Modernist styles of
the '50s. With beautiful photographs featuring hundreds
of unique pieces, California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism
is an exquisite gallery showcasing the beauty and originality
of California pottery."
Call number: NK4025.C2 S74 2001
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| Baudolino
- Publisher's Marketing:
"It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid
capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned
by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and
confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court
official from certain death at the hands of the crusading
warriors and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.
Born a simple peasant in northern Italy, Baudolino has two
major gifts--a talent for learning languages and a skill
in telling lies. When still a boy he meets a foreign commander
in the woods, charming him with his quick wit and lively
mind. The commander--who proves to be Emperor Frederick
Barbarossa--adopts Baudolino and sends him to the university
in Paris, where he makes a number of fearless, adventurous
friends.
Spurred on by myths and their own reveries, this merry band
sets out in search of Prester John, a legendary priest-king
said to rule over a vast kingdom in the East--a phantasmagorical
land of strange creatures with eyes on their shoulders and
mouths on their stomachs, of eunuchs, unicorns, and lovely
maidens.
As always with Eco, this abundant novel includes dazzling
digressions, outrageous tricks, extraordinary feeling, and
vicarious reflections on our postmodern age. This is Eco
the storyteller at his brilliant best."
Call number: PQ4865.C6 B3813 2002
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| Antonakos
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Stephen Antonakos has been a pioneer in the
use of neon in fine art. His work includes sculpture and
environments; large-scale architectural commissions; pictorial
wall pieces with neon, paint, and metal leaf; and meditation
rooms and chapels. Antonakos "draws" with light,
but also sees it as a source of spirituality. This stunning
new book covers not only his neon works but also other mediums,
including drawings and artist's books."
Call number: N6537.A53 A4 1999
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| God
Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That
Changed History - Publisher's
Marketing: "Bestselling
author and physicist Stephen Hawking explores the "masterpieces"
of mathematics, 25 landmarks spanning 2,500 years and representing
the work of 15 mathematicians, including Augustin Cauchy,
Bernard Riemann, and Alan Turing. This extensive anthology
allows readers to peer into the mind of genius by providing
them with excerpts from the original mathematical proofs
and results. It also helps them understand the progression
of mathematical thought, and the very foundations of our
present-day technologies. Each chapter begins with a biography
of the featured mathematician, clearly explaining the significance
of the result, followed by the full proof of the work, reproduced
from the original publication. Physicist Stephen Hawking
has been described as "the most intelligent man in
the world today" by the Chicago Sun-Times, and as "the
scientific heir, to Einstein, Newton ... and Galileo"
by People magazine. Hawking's A Brief History of Time sold
more than 10 million copies in 40 different languages."
Call number: QA21 .G63 2005
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Our
Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis - Publisher's
Marketing: "President
Carter has written importantly about his spiritual life and
faith. In "Living Faith," a huge bestseller, he
recounted the values and experiences that shaped his personal
and political life. In his companion book "Sources of
Strength," also a bestseller, he meditated on fifty-two
of the favorite Bible lessons he has taught.
In "Our Endangered Values," Carter offers a personal
consideration of "moral values" as they relate
to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate
defense of separation of church and state, and a strong
warning of where the country is heading as the lines between
politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred.
Now, he describes his own involvement and reactions to
some disturbing societal trends that have taken place during
the last few years. These changes involve both the religious
and the political worlds as they have increasingly become
intertwined, and include some of the most crucial and controversial
issues of the day -- frequently encapsulated under "moral
values."
Many of these matters are under fierce debate. They include
preemptive war, women's rights, terrorism, civil liberties,
homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, science and
religion, environmental degradation, nuclear arsenals, America's
global image, fundamentalism, and the melding of religion
and politics.
Sustained by his lifelong faith, Jimmy Carter assesses
these issues in a forceful and unequivocal but balanced
and courageous way. "Our Endangered Values" is
a book that his millions of readers have eagerly awaited."
Call number: HN90.M6 C37 2005
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American
Pictures: A Reflection on Mid-Twentieth Century America
- Publisher's Marketing:
"In 1993, Jeff Dunas set out on the first of many
trips crisscrossing the country to photograph scenes representative
of small-town America in the 1950s, revisiting the country
of his youth after spending the previous two decades in Paris.
The stunning result is the American Pictures series documenting
the architecture, landscape, and people simply living their
American dream.
"Visually speaking," Dunas observes, "the
texture of this country has evolved from wood-and-brick
buildings to glass structures that don't open. Air-conditioning
runs in place of fresh air, which in itself is sometimes
difficult to find. I wanted to take an archive of work from
the last century into this century while I still could.""
Call number: TR654 .D86 2001
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| Margrethe
Mather & Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Margrethe Mather has been remembered mostly through
the commentary of fellow photographer Edward Weston, who
referred to her as "the first important person"
in his life. In fact, Mather was probably the greatest influence
on the development of Weston's early career. They first
met in 1913 and soon developed a close relationship, eventually
working together as full-fledged artistic partners and even
co-signing the photographs they produced. Weston was also
madly in love with Mather, and the two engaged in a brief
affair during his first marriage. This book, which features
work by both artists, chronicles their twelve-year association
and sheds light on Mather, whose artistry, sexual identity,
and mysterious past were overshadowed by the massive reputation
of Edward Weston and his subsequent association with Tina
Modotti."
Call number: TR140.M353 W83 2001
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| Michiko
Kon: Still Lifes - Publisher's
Marketing: "Michiko
Kon: Still Lifes presents a unique artist's photographs
of the impossible objects she has created in her studio.
Kon skillfully creates a permanent record of impermanent
objects: a garter belt fashioned from fish; a pair of melons
covered with octopus tentacles; a mid-calf boot made of
shrimp, among many other nondelectables. An exhibition is
currently touring worldwide."
Call number: TR654.K648 1997
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| The
Silver Age of Comic Book Art - Publisher's
Marketing: "Taking
comic book art to an astonishing new level and paving the
way for future artists, the artists of the Silver Age of
comics (1956-1970) and their work are celebrated in the
The Silver Age of Comic Book Art. The first book dedicated
to the Silver Age and the artists that defined it, author
Arlen Schumer highlights the careers of eight acknowledged
Hall of Fame artists who drew definitive versions of the
industry's great characters such as Batman, Spiderman and
Superman."
Call number: PN6725.S38 2003
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The
Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot
- Publisher's Marketing:
" William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) is best
remembered as the scientist who invented photography. Others
had tried recording the images projected by a lens, but Talbot
was the first to grasp the physical basis for realizing this
dream and to conceive of a practical means for fixing these
ephemeral images permanently onto a sheet of paper. But Talbot's
considerable technical achievements have often overshadowed
his growth as an artist. Larry Schaaf examines this artistic
growth by bringing together for the first time high quality
reproductions of one hundred photographs representing the
full sweep of Talbot's work. These beautiful images are not
only records of scientific triumphs, but also the evidence
of the first steps in shaping a totally new type of vision.
A classicist, physicist, and mathematician by training,
Talbot originally viewed his new invention as a means of
visual documentation, particularly of the botanical specimens
he loved so dearly. But gradually his new technology taught
him to see, and the growth of Talbot's personal vision defined
the beginnings of modern photography. The resulting corpus
of work ranged from seminal early images rich in primal
beauty to later, fully sophisticated photographs. Illuminating
these images with excerpts from Talbot's own writings and
those of his contemporaries, this book is a visual celebration
of the early days of photography.
The one hundred plates are reproduced in the actual size
of the originals and in all the subtle colors that comprised
Talbot's early work. They range from Talbot's Lilliputian
pre-1839 negatives (made in "mousetrap" cameras)
through botanical photograms to mid-1840s calotypes that
demonstrate a surecommand of the new art. Each plate is
discussed in detail, drawing on important new research conducted
by the author.
Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Talbot's
birth, "The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot"
will not only deepen our understanding of early photography
but will also serve as an important archive for those who
may never have the pleasure to witness firsthand these rare
and fragile works. As such, this beautifully produced book
is an essential addition to the library of anyone who collects,
studies, and admires photography."
Call number: TR651.S33 2000
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| Belushi:
A Biography - Publisher's Marketing:
"On the day he turned thirty, John starred in
America's number-one movie ("Animal House), starred
in the number-one late-night show ("Saturday Night
Live) and had recorded the number-one album ("Briefcase
Full of Blues). All from a guy who was never supposed to
make it out from behind the cash register of his family's
Chicago diner. How did this Albanian immigrant's son capture
a nation's imagination and come to embody all the glory
and tragedy of the American dream? It was one high-price,
high-speed, short-lived wild ride.
BELUSHI is a whirlwind of a book, filled with never-before-seen
photos and provocative, intensely personal testimonials
by just about every major comedic figure of the last half
century. Here is the remarkable and raucous story of a larger-than-life
figure who danced out at the precipice of American fame."
Call number: PN2287.B423 B45 2005
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| Woody
Guthrie Art Works - Publisher's
Marketing: "Contrary
to popular mythology, it was with paint brushes in hand,
not a guitar, that Guthrie hit the road for California.
He had hocked his guitar . . . and it was his artistic skills
that he brokered for room and board." So begins Nora's
fascinating revelations about her father's vast body of
artwork. Other than the drawings for his autobiography,
Bound for Glory, few have seen Guthrie's art. This is because
much of it is inextricably bound into diaries and work books
into which he poured his images, and which are presented
here for the first time. Guthrie worked as a commercial
artist, illustrating album covers, books, and newspaper
columns, and kept a daily record of his life, and of American
life, in thousands of pictures. Some complement song-writing
in such a fluid way that they often appear interwoven with
handwritten lyrics. The stinging honesty, humor, and wit
found in his music are also to be found in his art, layering
our understanding of his social, political, and spiritual
life. In more than 300 examples, his visual creativity is
apparent, from political cartoons to bawdy and comical gouaches
to children's art to abstract emotional outpourings. Drawing
extensively on Guthrie's words, Brower unveils an enhanced
portrait of one of America's greatest creative forces."
Call number: NC139.G88 A4 2005
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The
Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics - Publisher's
Marketing: "When
the Grateful Dead's in-house publishing company, Ice Nine,
decided that the band's fortieth anniversary was a good time
to publish their entire lyric catalog, a wave of excitement
swept across the world of Deadheads, or would have had they
known. What was that unclear word in "Uncle John's Band"?
Would "Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues" be included?
Which Cassidy is John Barlow writing about? Would Robert Hunter
reveal the meaning of anything at all? These questions are
finally answered with the publication of this book, but in
true Grateful Dead fashion you'll have to dig around to find
the answers and have fun doing it.
"The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics"
is an authoritative text, providing standard versions of
all the original songs so that you can win an occasional
bar bet. Or not. There are songs you've never heard and
others you've never heard right and still others you didn't
know existed, and some, indeed, that may not exist at all.
To provide a context for this formidable body of work, of
which his part is primary, Robert Hunter has written a foreword
that goes to the heart of the matter.
With the addition of artist Jim Carpenter's illustrations,
whimsical elements in the lyrics, aspects cognitively unreferenceable,
and imagery often repeated are brought to light. What he
has seen to illustrate itself illustrates the American legend
that is present in "The Complete Annotated Grateful
Dead Lyrics." You won't think of the cultural icon
that is the Grateful Dead the sameway again."
Call number: ML54.6.C62 2005
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Into
the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964-1977
- Publisher's Marketing:
"By transforming the traditionally static viewing
space into an active participatory field, experiments with
the moving image dramatically expanded the parameters of modern
art in the 1960s and '70s. But due to their ephemeral nature,
many such classic installation works, while remembered, have
not been widely witnessed. Into the Light accompanies the
Whitney Museum of American Art's re-creation of 19 landmark
film, video, and slide installations from this prescient era.
Along with new color and duotone photographs of reconstructed
installations by Michael Heizer, Dan Graham, Bruce Nauman,
and Andy Warhol, among others, this volume includes previously
unpublished diagrams and other documentation from the period.
Each project is described in detail and situated in both
a cinematic and art historical context."
Call number: N6512.5.V53 I43 2001
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| Public
Radio: Behind the Voices - Publisher's
Marketing: "A
collection of personal stories from more than 40 of the
most listened to voices in public radio provides insight
into their lives, loves, and professional journeys inside
and outside of radio."
Call number: PN1991.4.P45 2006
|
Stranger
Passing - Publisher's Marketing:
"The long awaited follow-up to Sternfeld's classic
American Prospects, "Stranger Passing" is a fresh
view of contemporary society that accompanies a major new
exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
With an essay by celebrated novelist and humor writer Ian
Frazier and another by Douglas R. Nickel, of San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, "Stranger Passing" is an
in-depth look at the art of Joel Sternfeld."
Call number: TR680.S916 2001
|
| Cottage:
America's Favorite Home Inside and Out - Publisher's
Marketing: "Cottage:
America's Favorite Home Inside and Out celebrates the romance
and simplicity that give cottage homes their endless appeal.
With inspiring locations, colorful gardens, cozy interiors,
and intriguing nooks and crannies, the 24 cottages featured
in this unique collection are sure to delight with equal
measures of charm and diversity. Illustrated with spectacular
photographs and watercolor drawings, the cottages span the
country from Florida to the Pacific Northwest, with stops
along the way at a converted schoolhouse in Missouri, a
prefab cottage in Wisconsin, a straw-bale cottage in California,
and a cottage community in Washington state.
Whether new or remodeled, permanent home or weekend getaway,
each of the cottages is intimately scaled, seamlessly linked
to the landscape, and brimming with personal detail...all
good reasons why the cottage remains America's favorite
home, inside and out."
Call number: NA7561.C655 2005
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| At
Home with Michael Chiarello: Easy Entertaining, Recipes,
Ideas, Inspiration - Publisher's
Marketing: "Celebrated
television, cookbook, and restaurant chef Michael Chiarello
is a master of simple, casually elegant cooking--"and
a fabulous host. In this cookbook--"packed with great
recipes, gorgeous photographs, and inspiring entertaining
ideas--"he shares his secrets for celebrating in style
(and having fun doing it too!). Whether hosting four around
the kitchen counter or a hundred for a cocktail party, readers
will find everything from appetizers and main courses to
desserts and drinks (over 130 recipes in all), time-saving
tips, an all-important section on stocking the pantry (great
for impromptu gatherings!), whimsical menus, and creative
settings and table arrangements. A holiday cocktail party
throws together quickly with bowls of crunchy Fusilli Snack
Mix and Crispy Sausage-Stuffed Olives, all washed down with
citrusy margaritas. Roll out the red carpet for an at-home
movie night featuring Pop Culture Popcorn, Giant Bean Cassoulet
with Fennel-Spiced Chicken, and Chocolate Mousse Cannolis
along with the latest video release. Even a sit-down dinner
can be a relaxing affair with Forever Roasted Lamb with
Herbes de Provence, Lemon-Oil Smashed Potatoes, Garlicky
Vegetables Primavera, and, for dessert, Molton Flourless
Chocolate Cupcakes. Uber-casual Chiarello inspires calm
and confidence in even the most jangle-nerved hosts, inviting
everyone to think like an entertainer--"and relax like
a guest."
Call number: TX723.2.S65 C45 2000
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| Fifth
Life of the Cat Woman - Publisher's
Marketing: "The
Catwoman is on her fifth life. She has survived witch hunts,
ignorance, and poverty. And now, she seeks refuge amidst
the company of fifty cats on her own private oasis, a mirage.
But when a stranger named Angelo enters her isolated world,
Kat is forced to face her fear. Sweetly and subtly, he courts
and coaxes her back into the real world, convincing her
to become a teacher of history. And Kat, ready to embrace
this new struggle, falls hopelessly in love with life, with
teaching, and with Angelo."
Call number: PS3604.E88 F44 2002
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| The
Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism - Publisher's
Marketing: "For
five long years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and
his anti-Communist crusade dominated the American scene,
terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands
of our citizens. In this masterful history, Haynes Johnson
re-creates that time of crisis-of President Eisenhower,
who hated McCarthy but would not attack him; of the Republican
senators who cynically used McCarthy to win their own elections;
of Edward R. Murrow, whose courageous TV broadcast began
McCarthy's downfall; and of mild-mannered lawyer Joseph
Welch, who finally shamed McCarthy into silence.
Johnson tells this monumental story through the lens of
its relevance to our own time, when fear again affects American
behavior and attitudes, for he believes now, as then, that
our civil liberties, our Constitution, and our nation are
at stake as we confront the ever more difficult task of
balancing the need for national security with that of personal
liberty.
Compelling narrative history, insightful political commentary,
and intimate personal remembrance combine to make The Age
of Anxiety a vitally important book for our time.
"Extremism-and the suspicion and hatred it engenders-may
be Joe McCarthy's most lasting legacy . . . For these and
other reasons, while McCarthy and the leading players of
his time- Truman and Acheson, Eisenhower and Nixon, the
Kennedy brothers and LBJ, Cohn and Schine, Stalin and Mao-have
long since passed from the scene, McCarthyism remains a
story without an end." -from the book."
Call number: E748.M143 J64 2005
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| Drop
City - Publisher's Marketing:
"T.C. Boyle has proven himself to be a master
storyteller who can do just about anything. But even his
most ardent admirers may be caught off guard by his ninth
novel, for Boyle has delivered something completely unexpected:
a serious and richly rewarding character study that is his
most accomplished and deeply satisfying work to date. It
is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune has
decided to relocate to the last frontier--the unforgiving
landscape of interior Alaska--in the ultimate expression
of going back to the land. The novel opposes two groups
of characters: Sess Harder, his wife Pamela, and other young
Alaskans who are already homesteading in the wilderness
and the brothers and sisters of Drop City, who, despite
their devotion to peace, free love, and the simple life,
find their commune riven by tensions. As these two communities
collide, their alliances shift and unexpected friendships
and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with
the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof
over one's head. Drop City is not a satire or a nostalgic
look at the sixties, though its evocation of the period
is presented with a truth and clarity that no book on that
era has achieved. This is a surprising book, a rich, allusive,
and nonsentimental look at the ideals of a generation and
their impact on today's radically transformed world. Above
all, it is a novel infused with the lyricism and take-no-prisoners
storytelling for which T.C. Boyle is justly famous."
Call number: PS3552.O932 D76 2003
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| Child
of My Heart - Publisher's Marketing:
" A young girl's astonishing, poignant first
look into the turbulent heart of things
"I had in my care that summer four dogs, three cats,
the Moran kids, Daisy, my eight-year-old cousin, and Flora,
the toddler child of a local artist. There was also, for
a while, a litter of wild rabbits, three of them, that had
been left under our back steps...."
Alice McDermott's haunting and enchanting new work of fiction--her
first since the bestselling "Charming Billy,"
winner of the 1998 National Book Award--is narrated by a
woman who was born beautiful. Her parents decided that her
best chance in life was to marry a wealthy man, so she was
raised on the east end of Long Island, among the country
houses of the rich. On the cusp of fifteen, she is the town's
most sought-after babysitter--cheerful, beloved, a wonder
with children and animals, but also a solitary soul with
an already complex understanding of human nature--when her
favorite cousin, Daisy, comes to spend the summer.
The narrator's witty, piquant, deeply etched evocation of
all that was really transpiring under the surface during
that seemingly idyllic season gives her wry tale--infused
with suppressed passion, disappointment, and enduring hope--its
remarkable vividness and impact. Once again, Alice McDermott
explores the mysterious depths of what seems like everyday
life with unforgettable insight and resonant emotional power."
Call number: PS3563.C355 C49 2002
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Memories
of John Lennon - Publisher's
Marketing: " John
Lennon . . . as much a part of our world today as he ever
was
He touched many lives in his brief forty years, and continues
to move and inspire millions more to this day. Now, invited
by Yoko Ono, friends, family, and fans from all walks of
life -- including some of the great artists of our day --
reminisce about Lennon as a visionary and friend, musician
and performer, husband and father, activist and jokester.
In their own words and drawings, poems and photos, Lennon's
life from his childhood through the Beatles years to the
happiness and tragedy of his final days become stunningly
vivid.
Intimate glimpses gathered from musicians who knew John,
such as Pete Townshend, Sir Elton John, Billy Preston, and
Joan Baez; friends and relatives such as producer David
Geffen, publicist Elliot Mintz, and cousin Mike Cadwallader;
and artists who followed him such as Bono, Alicia Keys,
Steve Earle, Jello Biafra, and Carlos Santana.
And, for the first time, renowned photographer Annie Liebovitz
presents every frame of the historic last session with John
and Yoko.
Memories of John Lennon is a rich and deeply felt appreciation
of a truly great man."
Call number: ML420.L38 M46 2005
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| Crome
Yellow - Publisher's Marketing:
"One of the greatest prose writers and social
commentators of the 20th century, Aldous Huxley here introduces
us to a delightfully cynical, comic and severe group of
artists and intellectuals engaged in the most free-thinking
and modern kind of talk imaginable."
Call number: PR6015.U9 C76 2001
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| Francisco
Goya - Publisher's Marketing:
"From the critically acclaimed and best-selling
author of Son of the Morning Star and Deus Lo Volt! comes
a biography that breaks the mold--recounting with stunning
immediacy the uncommon genius behind the renowned Spanish
painter. Darkly brilliant and casually masterful in turn,
Francisco Goya changed art forever. During the days of the
Spanish Inquisition, Goya painted royalty, street urchins,
and demons with the same brush, bringing his own distinctive
touch to each. This unusual man and his ghastly times are
the perfect subject for Evan S. Connell, one of our greatest
and least conventional writers. Introducing a wealth of
detail and a cast of comic characters--a motley group of
dukes, queens, and artists, as lewd and incorrigible a crew
as history has ever produced--Connell has conjured Goya's
life with wit, erudition, and a sparkling imagination."
Call number: N7113.G68 C647 2004
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Dead
Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way out West - Publisher's
Marketing: "When Ferdinand "Jelly Roll"
Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May
of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with
Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with
the nostalgia of a man recalling a golden age, a lost Eden.
He had arrived in Los Angeles more than twenty years earlier,
but he recounted his losses as vividly as though they had
occurred just recently. The greatest loss was his separation
from Anita Gonzales, by his own account "the only woman
I ever loved," to whom he left almost all of his royalties
in his will.
In "Dead Man Blues, "Phil Pastras sets the record
straight on the two periods (1917-1923 and 1940-1941) that
Jelly Roll Morton spent on the West Coast. In addition to
rechecking sources, correcting mistakes in scholarly accounts,
and situating eyewitness narratives within the histories
of New Orleans or Los Angeles, Pastras offers a fresh interpretation
of the life and work of Morton, one of the most important
and influential early practitioners of jazz. Pastras's discovery
of a previously unknown collection of memorabilia--including
a 58-page scrapbook compiled by Morton himself--sheds new
light on Morton's personal and artistic development, as
well as on the crucial role played by Anita Gonzales.
In a rich, fast-moving, and fascinating narrative, Pastras
traces Morton's artistic development as a pianist, composer,
and bandleader. Among many other topics, Pastras discusses
the complexities of racial identity for Morton and his circle,
his belief in voodoo, his relationships with women, his
style of performance, and his roots in black musical traditions.
Not only does "Dead Man Blues "restore to the
historical recordinvaluable information about one of the
great innovators of jazz, it also brings to life one of
the most colorful and fascinating periods of musical transformation
on the West Coast."
Call number: ML410.M82 P37 2002
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| The
Complete Stories of Truman Capote - Publisher's
Marketing: "Most
readers know Truman Capote as the author of "Breakfast
at Tiffany's and "In Cold Blood; or they remember his
notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances.
But he was also the author of superb short tales that were
as elegant as they were heartfelt, as grotesque as they
were compassionate. Now, on the occasion of what would have
been his eightieth birthday, the Modern Library presents
the first collection that includes all of Capote's short
fiction-a volume that confirms his status as one of the
masters of this form.
Among the selections are "A Tree of Night," in
which an innocent student, sitting on a train beside a slatternly
woman and her deaf-mute companion, enters a seductive nightmare
that brings back the deepest fears of childhood . . . "House
of Flowers," the inspiration for a celebrated Broadway
musical, which tells of a superstitious prostitute who learns
to love in a way no one else can ever understand . . . the
holiday perennial "A Christmas Memory," famously
adapted into a superb made-for-TV movie . . . and "The
Bargain," Capote's melancholy, never-before-published
1950 story about a suburban housewife's shifting fortunes.
From the gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural
children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable
places and people of Capote's oeuvre are captured in this
first-ever compendium. The Collected Stories of Truman Capote
should restore its author to a place above mere celebrity,
to the highest levels of American letters."
Call number: PS3505.A59 A6 2004
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| Galileo's
Children: Tales of Science Vs. Superstition - Publisher's
Marketing: "From
the most celebrated editor in science fiction comes an anthology
of stories about the persecution of scientists. Each of
the thirteen tales depicts the struggle to make progress
against the dead blank wall of superstition and fear, showing
how scientists struggle toward the truth in spite of opposition
from religious and political forces arrayed against them,
from the Inquisition to the current suppression of stem-cell
research. Galileo's Children contains many of the best-known
and best-selling science fiction authors of all time: Robert
Silverberg, winner of the prestigious Grandmaster Award
given by the Science Fiction Writers of America; National
Book Award-winner Ursula K. Le Guin; multiple Hugo and Nebula
Award-winners Arthur C. Clarke, Mike Resnick, George R.
R. Martin, and James Tiptree, Jr; best-selling author and
Hugo Award-winner Greg Egan; the late Keith Roberts (author
of Pavane) and Edgar Pangborn (winner of the Cordwainer
Smith Rediscovery Award); and other lesser known but up-and-coming
authors."
Call number: PS648.S3 G35 2005
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| Arthur
Miller: Collected Plays 1944-1961 (Library of America)
Call number: PS3525.I5156 A6 2006
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| Boys
of Few Words: Raising Our Sons to Communicate and Connect
- Publisher's Marketing:
"When parents feel separated from their sons
by a curtain of silence or a wall of resistance, they're
right to be concerned. Boys of few words--the ones who limit
their expression to a timid shrug or an indifferent grunt--need
our help. Whether the problem is rooted in "nature"
or "nurture," boys who grow up unable to talk
about their thoughts and feelings find it hard to connect
with others at school, home, and eventually in business
and personal relationships. Psychologist Adam Cox helps
parents understand all the factors that may be limiting
their son's ability or willingness to communicate--from
social pressures to brain differences, from personality
traits to a simple lack of vocabulary. Based on these insights,
parents can choose specific strategies to help their son
improve the language and social skills needed to express
himself. Mothers and fathers everywhere will see their own
boys in this book, and will come away prepared to help them
overcome obstacles, connect with others, and succeed in
school and beyond."
Call number: HQ775.C68 2006
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| The
Wall Between Women: The Conflict Between Stay-At-Home and
Employed Mothers - Publisher's
Marketing: "This
insightful discussion of contemporary motherhood reveals
the many challenges facing women and offers creative solutions
for overcoming those challenges."
Call number: HQ759.48.B78 2006
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| Baseball
and Philosophy - Publisher's
Marketing: "William
Irwin has taken philosophy out of the academy and put it
on the bestseller list. The series has been featured in
The New York Times and People, and on NPR's All Things Considered.
Now philosophy finds its real home - in the dugout. In Baseball
and Philosophy, 18 professors - some from the new field
devoted to the philosophy of sport, others unapologetic
baseball fans - explore the sport's deeper aspects. How
can Zen be applied to hitting? Do you play to win or play
by the rules? Is it ethical to employ deception in sports?
Can a game be defined by its written rules or are there
also other constraints? What can the U.S. Supreme Court
learn from umpiring? Why should baseball be the only industry
exempt from antitrust laws? These are some of the questions
addressed in this witty, provocative blend of two major
American pastimes: watching baseball and thinking about
it."
Call number: GV867.64.B365 2004
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| Beyond
Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century
- Publisher's Marketing:
"The Chair of the International Planned Parenthood
Council, former President of Planned Parenthood of New York
City--and grandson of Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth
control movement--offers a controversial new argument and
call-to-arms for the prochoice movement."
Call number: HQ767.S26 2004
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| Confederate
Money - Publisher's Marketing:
"In 1861, as this story opens with the Yankee
raid on the salt works at Cedar Key, Florida, a Confederate
dollar is worth 90 cents in gold or silver. The Yankee soldiers,
in their zeal to destroy the important Confederate salt
works, kill young Henry Fern's step-pa, who has brought
Henry to the Gulf Coast town on his first train ride. From
that moment on, Henry's mind is locked on revenge. His goal
to find the Yankee killers leads him throughout the South
and much of the North as the war spreads. He studies medicine
and offers aid to whichever side he needs to move through
at the time. Through shrewd dealings he manages to amass
$40,000 in Confederate paper money. Henry realizes that
the Yankees are going to win the war or, at best, the South
will end it a draw. In either case, the Confederate money
will not be worth as much as silver or gold, so he sets
out to change it into specie. Henery's adventures take him
into both sides of the Battles of Shiloh Church, Chickamauga,
and Olustee. With his charismatic personality and keen judgment,
Henry manages to thrive even as the war rages, persisting
in changing his paper fortune into silver and gold. He is
as generous with his family, friends, and those he perceives
to be in need as he is ruthless with those he knows to be
his enemies. By the time Sherman marches through Atlanta
in late 1864, the Confederate dollar has declined to 28
for one in silver or gold. When Sherman reaches Savannah,
its worth is 45 to one. When Lee surrenders the next April,
its worth is 80 to one. One month later it has fallen to
1,000 to one. Shortly after this, Henry undertakes a daring
raid on the hidden Confederate treasury to bring him to
his financial goal."
Call number: PS3622.A75 C66 2003
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| The
Strength Not to Fight: Conscientious Objectors of the Vietnam
War - In Their Own Words - Publisher's
Marketing: "An
oral history that has the compelling drama of the best fiction.
Conscientious objectors tell the stories behind the classification:
the depth of their conviction, their efforts to prove sincere
opposition in the face of persecution and criminal prosecution."
Call number: DS 559.8.C63 T65 2000
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| How
to Get Ideas - Publisher's
Marketing: "How
to Get Ideas shows you - no matter your age or skill, your
job or training - how to come up with more ideas, faster
and easier. First, Jack Foster tells you how to condition
your mind and become "idea-prone; " how to make
the child within you and your sense of humor work for you;
how to develop your curiosity, visualize your goals, rethink
your thinking, combine different ideas, and overcome your
fear of rejection. Then, Foster gives you a five-step procedure
for solving problems and getting ideas, a proven procedure
that takes the mystery and anxiety out of the idea-generating
process, a procedure that works. Learn how easy it is to
become more creative. Read the book you're holding."
Call number: PN147 .F66 1996
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| Accidental
Genius: Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Private writing enables businesspeople to get
at their best, most creative, and most practical thinking.
Mark Levy advocates writing without concern for grammar,
punctuation, or style to achieve expressions of pure thought.
He urges readers to write quickly on the theory that fast
is honest. He also encourages writers to identify energy
sources, follow digressions in thinking, investigate multiple
perspectives, and translate written wisdom into real action."
Call number: PE1479.B87 L48 2000
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and
the Wardrobe (DVD) - Vendor's
Marketing "Director Andrew Adamson gives a new
dimension to C.S. Lewis's enchanting story with this long-awaited
Disney adaptation. As the story begins, Mrs. Pevensie--in
order to keep her children safe during World War II--sends
Lucy (Georgie Henley), Edmond (Skandar Keynes), Susan (Anna
Popplewell), and Peter (William Moseley) off to stay at a
professor's country estate. Away from London and under the
care of a strict housekeeper, they are instructed to stick
to themselves and stay out of trouble. But when an innocent
game of hide-and-seek leads young Lucy to a spare room containing
a large wardrobe, she discovers something that will change
their lives forever.
Inside the wardrobe there is a world frosted with ice and
filled with magical beings. Known as Narnia, the land is
stuck in eternal winter at the hands of the cruel White
Witch, played with great force by the pale, strong-featured
Tilda Swinton. When she steps back into reality, Lucy struggles
to convince her skeptical siblings of the things she's seen.
After much disbelief, the others finally enter the world
as well, learning that the creatures of Narnia have long
been waiting for humans like themselves to appear and break
the witch's spell. But in order to be of any help to the
lovable talking beavers, fawns, foxes, and centaurs that
they meet, the four will have to face betrayal by one of
their own as Edmond cracks under the witch’s tempting
offer of unlimited Turkish Delights. Under the leadership
of the great lion Aslan (voice of Liam Neeson), can Lucy,
Edmond, Susan, and the oldest, Peter, prove themselves heroes
in the ultimate battle of good vs. evil? High-budget special
effects, impressive performances by the film’s young
newcomers, and beautiful set design move this film far beyond
previous television adaptations."
Call number: A/V PN1997.2 .C47 2006 DVD
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| The
Essential Guide to Making Handmade Books - Publisher's
Marketing: "Through
11 projects, crafters learn how to indulge their self-expressive
creativity in making their own books. Includes step-by-step
instructions, a visual materials list, and ideas for uses
and variations."
Call number: Z271 .F78 2000
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Raisin in the Sun - Vendor's
Marketing "The Younger family, frustrated with
living in their crowded Chicago apartment, sees the arrival
of a $10,000 insurance check as the answer to their prayers.
Matriarch Lena Younger promptly puts a down payment on a
house in an all-white suburban neighborhood. Based on the
play by Lorraine Hansberry."
Call number: A/V PN1997 .R159 1999 DVD
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Cameras
in Narnia: How the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Came to
Life - Publisher's Marketing:
"There are a thousand stories in the land of Narnia --
how Andrew Adamson brought "The Lion, The Witch and The
Wardrobe" to the big screen is one of them.
How do you turn a book into a movie? How did the moviemakers
capture the magic of Narnia? How did they bring its mystical
beasts and creatures to life? What special skills do you
need on a movie set? Ian Brodie, author of "The Lord
of the Rings Location Guidebook," has gone behind the
cameras to find the answers.
Using skills from the movie, his own photographs and interviews
with key cast and crew, he describes the journey form book
to screen, explaining how modern technology enabled director
Andrew Adamson and his team to bring this ageless children's
classic to breathtaking life.
If you love movies and want to find out more about how
they are made, then come behind the "Cameras in Narnia"
and see for yourself."
Call number: TR880 .B76 2005
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| Indicators
of Children's Well-Being
Call number: HV741 .I537 1997
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| Memoirs
of a Geisha (Audiobook) - Publisher's
Marketing: "An alluring tour de force: a brilliant
debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite
lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most
celebrated geisha.
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at
once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells
the story of her life as a geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha,
we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where
a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where
women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and
where love, always elusive, is scorned as illusion.
Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929,
when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she
is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned
geisha house. Through her eyes, we see the decadent heart
of Gion--the geisha district of Kyoto--with its marvelous
teahouses and theaters, narrow back alleys, ornate temples,
and artists' streets. And we witness her transformation
as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and
music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup and hair; pouring
sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with
a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that
goes with it. But as World War II erupts and the geisha
houses are forced to close, Sayuri, with little money and
even less food, must reinvent herself all over again to
find a rare kind of freedom on her own terms.
Memoirs of a Geisha is a book of nuances and vivid metaphor,
of memorable characters rendered with humor and pathos.
And though the story is rich with detail and a vast knowledge
of history, it is the transparent, seductive voice of Sayuri
that the reader remembers.
A dazzling literary achievement of empathy and grace by
an extraordinary new writer."
Call number: A/V PS3557.O35926 M45 2005 Audbks.
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| Harry
Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Publisher's
Marketing: "Harry struggles to uncover the identity
of the Half-Blood Prince, the past owner of a potions textbook
he now possesses that is filled with ingenious, potentially
deadly, spells. But Harry's life is suddenly changed forever
when someone close to him is heinously murdered right before
his eyes."
Call number: PR6068.O93 H354 2005
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| The
World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
- Publisher's Marketing:
""The World Is Flat" is Thomas L. Friedman's
account of the great changes taking place in our time, as
lightning-swift advances in technology and communications
put people all over the globe in touch as never before--creating
an explosion of wealth in India and China, and challenging
the rest of us to run even faster just to stay in place.
This updated and expanded edition features more than a hundred
pages of fresh reporting and commentary, drawn from Friedman's
travels around the world and across the American heartland--from
anyplace where the flattening of the world is being felt.
In "The World Is Flat," Friedman at once shows
"how and why globalization has now shifted into warp
drive" (Robert Wright, Slate) and brilliantly demystifies
the new flat world for readers, allowing them to make sense
of the often bewildering scene unfolding before their eyes.
With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign
policy and economic issues, he explains how the flattening
of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century;
what it means to countries, companies, communities, and
individuals; how governments and societies can, and must,
adapt; and why terrorists want to stand in the way. More
than ever, "The World Is Flat" is an essential
update on globalization, its successes and discontents,
powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists."
Call number: HM846 .F47 2006
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| Good
Poems for Hard Times - Publisher's
Marketing: "This eclectic anthology includes
works by Raymond Carver, Emily Dickinson, Charles Simic,
Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Kenneth Rexroth, and many more
that fit Keillor's definition of "good.""
Call number: PS586 .G59 2005
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| Are
Men Necessary?: When Sexes Collide - Publisher's
Marketing: "Four decades after the sexual revolution,
nothing has worked out the way it was supposed to. The sexes
are circling each other as uneasily and comically as ever,
from the bedroom to the boardroom to the Situation Room.
Dowd explores the mysteries and muddles of sexual combat
in America."
Call number: HQ1075.5.U6 D68 2005
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| Get
a Life - Publisher's Marketing:
"Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in South Africa, believes
he understands the trajectory of his life, with the usual
markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed
with thyroid cancer and, after surgery, prescribed treatment
that will leave him radioactive, for a period a danger to
others, he begins to question, as Auden wrote, "what
Authority gives / existence its surprise."
In the garden of his childhood home, where his businessman
father, Adrian, and prominent civil rights lawyer mother,
Lyndsay, take him in to protect his wife and child from
radiation, he enters an unthinkable existence and another
kind of illumination: the contradiction between the values
of his work and those of his wife, Benni, an ad agency executive.
His mother is transformed by the strange state of her son's
existence to face her own past. Meanwhile, projects to build
a nuclear reactor and drain vital wetlands preoccupy Paul
as if he were at work. By the time he is cured, both families
have been changed. On his return to his home and career,
his parents go to Mexico to fulfill the archaeological vocation
Adrian sacrificed to support his family. The consequence
of this trip is the final surprise in this extraordinary
exploration of passionate individual existences."
Call number: PR9369.3.G6 G48 2005
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