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palatka campus library acquisitions
fiscal year 2007 - 2008
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| That
Might Be Useful - Publisher's Marketing:
" Several years ago, author Naton Leslie decided to opt out
of America's dizzying array of retail goods and buy used necessities
whenever possible. What he discovered in his meanderings was a characteristically
American secondhand culture, replete with a cast of fascinating
characters, goods, and venues ranging from the sublime to the bizarre.
In the humorous and eminently readable manner of Tony Horwitz and
Jonathan Raban, That Might Be Useful recounts his varied journey
from well-heeled auction houses dealing exclusively with the estates
of the famous, where he finds a desiccated mummy's hand under glass,
to
suburban tag sales, antiques stores, and a rural auction house where
the motormouthing auctioneer relies heavily on humor and brevity
to move objects he is at a loss for words to describe.
While retailers have moved out of downtowns and into malls, and
then out into big-box stores, secondhand commerce has remained in
communities, and off the radar screens of giant corporations. Sales
tax records from antiques stores, auctions, and eBay might give
some measure of the billions of dollars engaged in this commerce
of broken farm tractors, American primitive art, and nineteenthcentury
French bronzes. But the many transactions made under the table through
yard sales, flea markets, and other less visible settings are unquantifiable.
It is a facet of American culture that pays scant attention to new
retail advertising,
that mocks mainstream megacapitalism by thriving on the American
tradition of reuse rooted in practicality, frugality, and ingenuity.
That Might Be Useful will appeal to antiques collectors, junk pickers,
tool collectors, lovers of PBS's "Antiques Roadshow, andall
who like entertaining stories about people passionate for the buying
and selling of items from our distant and recent past."
Call number: HF5482.15.L47 2005 Naton, Leslie
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| Theodore
Rex - Publisher's
Marketing: " In the long-awaited sequel to "The
Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, " which won the Pulitzer Prize
and the American Book Award for biography, Morris tells the story
of Teddy Roosevelt's two successful terms as president of the United
States. Photos throughout."
Call number: E757.M885 2001
|
| The
Thirteenth Tale - Publisher's
Marketing: ""All children mythologize their birth...
"So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection
of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth
tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the 12 that
do exist."
Call number: PS3619.E86 T48 2006
|
| This
I Believe - Publisher's Marketing:
" Based on the NPR series of the same name, "This I Believe"
is an inspiring collection of the personal philosophies and core
values of a fascinating group of Americans."
Call number: BD215.T46 2006
|
| Three
New Deals - Publisher's
Marketing: " From a world-renowned cultural historian,
an original look at the hidden commonalities among Fascism, Nazism,
and the New Deal
Today Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal is regarded as the democratic
ideal, the positive American response to an economic crisis that
propelled Germany and Italy toward Fascism. Yet in the 1930s, shocking
as it may seem, these regimes were hardly considered antithetical.
Now, Wolfgang Schivelbusch investigates the shared elements of these
three "new deals" to offer a striking explanation for
the popularity of Europe's totalitarian systems.
Returning to the Depression, Schivelbusch traces the emergence of
a new type of state: bolstered by mass propaganda, led by a charismatic
figure, and projecting stability and power. He uncovers stunning
similarities among the three regimes: the symbolic importance of
gigantic public works programs like the TVA dams and the German
autobahn, which not only put people back to work but embodied the
state's authority; the seductive persuasiveness of Roosevelt's fireside
chats and Mussolini's radio talks; the vogue for monumental architecture
stamped on Washington, as on Berlin; and the omnipresent banners
enlisting citizens as loyal followers of the state.
Far from equating Roosevelt, Hitler, and Mussolini or minimizing
their acute differences, Schivelbusch proposes that the populist
and paternalist qualities common to their states hold the key to
the puzzling allegiance once granted to Europe's most tyrannical
regimes."
Call number: RC106.3.S3246 2006
|
Tiger
Traits - Publisher's Marketing:
"Tiger Woods' success in golf and in lifeis not an accident.
There's no doubt that he was born with a special talent, but Tiger
also has nine traits that have allowed him to express that talent
in extraordinary ways. These nine traits have helped Tiger become
a champion, and they can help you lay a solid foundation for an
outstanding business career and a fulfilling life. Each chapter
contains stories from Tiger's life that exemplify one of the traits,
a practical discussion about how each trait plays out in the business
world, and exercises that will help you put the lesson into practice
in your personal life. Tiger Traits describes how Tiger developed
his natural talents and created a compelling dream for his life,
who his heroes and mentors were, and how all of this helped him
not just on the golf course but also in his journey to become a
top entrepreneur in the world of sports. The lesson's Tiger's life
teaches us?how to acquire confidence, use mental models to create
success."
Call number: HF5386.B66 2007 |
To
Have and To Hurt - Publisher's Marketing:
" When Cathy and John married 20 years ago, the relationship
seemed almost charmed. But over the years as John's career became
more established and Cathy raised the family of three children,
things changed. First angry fights developed, followed by verbal
and gestured threats of violence, and later, actual physical attacks
and injuries. Several times Cathy called police, but when they arrived,
fearing the social stigma as well as John's retribution, she would
explain her injuries as dealt out by a prowler. When friends or
family asked, she would claim the cuts or bruises were due to a
fall or some other accident. But eventually, when her arm had been
broken, a tooth knocked out, and her face bruised so badly she could
not cover it up with makeup, she finally left the house and her
husband--only to be stalked. Cathy and John are one couple that
Angela Browne-Miller introduces us to in this book that looks at
the increasingly publicized incidence of "intimate partner
violence," abuse that takes place behind closed doors, inside
marriages and other "loving" relationships. Only a fraction
of this abuse is ever reported, so just a fragment of the problem
is reflected in national statistics that show nearly 2 million injuries
and some 1,300 deaths annually caused by this so-called intimate
partner violence. In this work, Browne-Miller uses vignettes, as
well as standing and emerging research, to help us recognize the
difference between a relationship being effected by normal stressors,
and one that is abusive, or perhaps even deadly. Psychotherapist
Browne-Miller details both healthy and hurtful relationships and
shows partners how to recognize and change relationships on, or
headed down, thepath to abuse. And she also explains when we should
leave a relationship, as well as how to do that to disentangle without
further harm. This is a book that will interest not only lay readers
who are involved in, or know of someone who is or might be involved
in, an abusive relationship, but also students and scholars of psychology,
counseling, social work, women's studies, and men's studies."
Call number: HV6626.B77 2007
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Today’s
The Day: Winner's Wisdom to Succeed in Every Situation
Call number: BJ1611.2.S755 2007
|
The
Unnatural History of the Sea - Publisher's
Marketing: "Humanity can make short work of the oceans'
creatures. In 1741, hungry explorers discovered herds of Steller's
sea cow in the Bering Strait, and in less than thirty years, the amiable
beast had been harpooned into extinction. It's a classic story, but
a key fact is often omitted. Bering Islannd was the last redoubt of
a species that had been decimated by hunting and habitat loss years
before the explorers set sail.
As Callum M. Roberts reveals in THE UNNATURAL HISTORY OF THE SEA,
the oceans' bounty didn't disappear overnight. While today's fishing
industry is ruthlessly efficient, intense exploitation began not
in the modern era, or even with the dawn of industrialization, but
in the 11th century in medieval Europe. Roberts explores this long
and colorful history of commercial fishing, taking readers around
the world and through the centuries to witness the transformation
of the seas.
Drawing on firsthand accounts of early explorers, pirates, merchants,
fishers, and travelers, the book recreates the oceans of the past:
waters teeming with whales, sea lions, sea otters, turtles, and
giant fish. The abundance of marine life described by 15th century
seafarers is almost unimaginable today, but Roberts both brings
it alive and artfully traces its depletion. Collapsing fisheries,
he shows, are simply latest chapter in a long history of unfettered
commercialization of the seas.
The story does not end with an empty ocean. Instead, Roberts describes
how we might restore the splendor and prosperity of the seas through
smarter management of our resources and some simple restraint. From
the coasts of Florida to New Zealand, marine reserves have fostered
spectacular recovery of plants and animals to levels not seen in
a century. They prove that history need not repeat itself: we can
leave the oceans richer than we found them."
Call number: CB465.R63 2007 Roberts, Callum |
Victorian
Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907
- Publisher's Marketing: "Three
men and three woman -- a plant collector, a merchant and his novelist
wife, a military officer, and two famous women travelers -- went
to China between the Opium War and the formal end of the opium trade,
1842-1907. Their range of perspectives, their acquaintance with
one another and their similar scope of travel to Hong Kong, the
treaty ports, and Sichuan lend intensity to their picture of China
and the Western presence there."
Call number: DS709 .T49 1999
|
Violence
in America’s Schools: Understanding, Prevention, and Responses
- Publisher's Marketing:
"The problem of violence in schools has not gone away despite
radical reductions in violent crimes throughout the country over
the last decade. Students continue to harrass, haze, and harm each
other in a variety of ways, disrupting classrooms and whole schools.
In the wake of the Columbine massacre, many focused on the worst
kind of school violence: deadly assaults with dangerous weapons.
But other forms of violence are more persistent, common, and just
as destructive in many ways: fighting, sexual abuse, carrying weapons
to school, vandalism, and assorted other crimes that happen behind
the closed doors of elementary, middle, and high schools across
the country. The consequences range from violent victimization and
death, to the disruption of learning and fear among student bodies
and teaching staffs. Here, Thomas provides a foundation for understanding
why the violence occurs, preventing it from happening, and treating
both offenders and victims after it happens. Using scores of case
descriptions to illustrate the types of school violence and their
treatment in recent years, the author skillfully shows readers how
the problem of violence and crime in schools is an insidious issue
that cannot go untreated. He offers both tested and proposed methods
for dealing with a host of violence issues and a guide to planning
treatment of the problem and its associated consequences. He answers
the questions: What are prominent types of violence in American
schools? What conditions contribute to those types of violence?
What methods can be applied in an effort to reduce school violence?
Readers will come away from this book with a greater understanding
of the scope of violence in America's schools, and the myriad ways
of addressing it. "
Call number: LB3013.32 .T46 2006
|
| Absolute
Power - Summary: "Absolute
Power is the first-rate thriller about a master thief who witnesses
a strange murder at the home of a Washington power player. Because
of his occupation, he can't reveal his own identity or the killers'.
It's a suspenseful showdown as the thief and conspirators head for
confrontation."
Call number: PN
1997 Absol P69 2000 DVD
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Air
America - Summary:
"CIA-funded pilots hit drug traffic while flying supplies
for the covert war effort in Laos."
Call number: PN
1997 Air A64 2004 DVD
|
The
Animal - Summary: "Marvin
wants to fulfill his life-long dream of becoming a cop, but helacks
the fearless fortitude required for the job. That all changes whena
freak accident leaves him near death and a quack doctor performs
lifesaving surgery on Marvin, substituting animal organs for human
organs.Now, Marvin must find the right balance with his animal instincts
tokeep up his persona as Supercop and to woo the heart of his newlybeloved
Rianna."
Call number: PN
1997 Anim 2004 DVD
|
Art
of War - Summary: "During
a UN trade meeting, the Ambassador to China is assassinated. Top
covert agent Neil Shaw, framed for the murder, is now on the run
to prove his innocence and unravel a conspiracy."
Call number: PN
1997 Art O93 2000 DVD
|
| Astronaut’s
Wife - Summary: "In the
tradition of "Rosemary's Baby," NASA astronaut Spencer
Armacost and his wife Jillian are a seemingly perfect couple whose
lives are momentarily shattered when Spencer's mission mysteriously
loses contact with Earth for two minutes."
Call number: PN
1997 Astron 2000 DVD
|
Atonement
- Summary: "Shot on location
in the U.K., the film","s story spans several decades.
In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan)
and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous
mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes
on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony","s
vivid imagination. Robbie Turner (McAvoy), the educated son of the
family","s housekeeper, carries a torch for Briony","s
headstrong older sister Cecilia (Knightley). Cecilia, he hopes,
has comparable feelings; all it will take is one spark for this
relationship to combust. When it does, Briony ", who has a
crush on Robbie ", is compelled to interfere, going so far
as accusing Robbie of a crime he did not commit. Cecilia and Robbie
declare their love for each other, but he is arrested ", and
with Briony bearing false witness, the course of three lives is
changed forever. Briony continues to seek forgiveness for her childhood
misdeed. Through a terrible and courageous act of imagination, she
finds the path to her uncertain atonement, and to an understanding
of the power of enduring love."
Call number: PN
1997 Atone 2008 DVD |
| Aviator
- Summary: "Eccentric millionaire
Howard Hughes inherits his money from his family's tool business
and decides to branch out into movies and the airline industry.
Howard Hughes takes on Pan-Am and their monopoly of the Trans-Atlantic
routes while trying to keep a handle on his fragile mental state."
Call number: PN
1997 Avia 2005 DVD |
| Be
Cool - Summary: "Chili
Palmer is back. After his successful movie producing venture takes
off, he decides that he wants out of the movie business. When his
friend, and record producer, is killed by the Russian mafia, Chili
helps his friend's widow with their music label. After being floored
with an up-and-coming singer, Chili moves to sign her to his friend's
label dispite the fact that she is under contract with another company."
Call number: PN
1997 Be C66 2006 DVD
|
| Best
Man - Summary: "A wedding
is a joyous occasion--it's time when lifelong friends get together
to celebrate. But for the best man, fledgling writer Harper Stewart,
this might just be a reunion to forget! His new book chronicles
his college life with his friends in a less than perfect light and
emotions, laughter and secrets are soon revealed."
Call number: PN
1997 Best M36 2000 DVD
|
| Bringing
Down The House - Summary: "Lawyer
Peter Sanderson's life is turned upside down when his online relationship
turns out to be a parolee in need of a good defense."
Call number: PN
1997 Bring D69 2003 DVD |
Deep
Blue Sea - Summary: "In
the Aquatica Research Laboratory, Dr. Susan McAlester is experimenting
with the brain tissue found in a small group of mako sharks in hopes
of irradiating Alzheimer's Disease. But as a tropical storm brews
overhead, McAlester and her team find themselves stalked by a terrifying
new generation of predators."
Call number: PN
1997 Deep B35 1999 DVD
|
Disclosure
- Summary: "A
computer-firm boss seduces her married co-worker, then accuses him
of sexual harassment. From the Michael Crichton novel."
Call number: PN
1997 Discl 1997 DVD
|
| The
Letters of Martin Buber: A Life Dialogue -
Publisher's Marketing: "This carefully
edited selection of correspondence includes letters both to - and
from - Martin Buber from world-renowned scholars, thinkers, and
philosophers. This edition contains the Preface to the German edition,
as well as a Biographical Sketch by Grete Schaeder."
Call number: B3213.B84 A4 1996
|
| The
Macintyre Reader
Call number: B1647.M121 M33 1998
|
The
New Quantum Universe - Publisher's
Marketing: " The principles of quantum mechanics are
the basis of everything in the physical world--from atoms to stars,
from nuclei to lasers. Quantum paradoxes and the eventful life of
Schroedinger's Cat are explained, along with the Many Universe explanation
of quantum measurement in this newly revised edition. Updated throughout,
the book also looks ahead to the nanotechnology revolution and describes
quantum cryptography, computing and teleportation. Including an
account of quantum mechanics and science fiction, this accessible
book is geared to the general reader. Anthony Hey teaches at the
University of Southampton, UK, and is the co-author of several books,
including two with Patrick Walters, The Quantum Universe (Cambridge,
1987), and Einstein's Mirror (Cambridge, 1997). Patrick Walters
is a Lecturer in Continuing Education at the University of Wales
at Swansea. He co-ordinates the Physical Science Programme in DACE
which includes the Astronomy Programme. His research interests include
science education, and he also writes non-technical books on science
for the general reader and beginning undergraduates."
Call number: QC174.12.H478 2003
|
Passion
Test - Publisher's Marketing:
" Combining powerful storytelling, a life-transforming program
of action, and profound expert wisdom from successful leaders, this
book shows readers, step by step, how to identify their top five
passions and determine what really matters most to them."
Call number: BF 637.S4 A885 2007
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| Spice
Box - Publisher's Marketing:
" This first in new series about crimes solved by female chefs
introduces Bridget Heaney, who escaped the Irish Famine to become
a cook in Isaac Gold's household in New York City. On her first
day, she finds the body of the Golds' infant son hidden in the bread
dough box. Includes recipes."
Call number: PS 3570.E535 S65 2005 |
Stop
Aging, Start Living: The Revolutionary 2-Week PH Diet That Erases
Wrinkles, Beautifies Skin, and Makes You Feel Fantastic -
Publisher's Marketing: " Though
other skin-care experts have identified free radicals and cellular
inflammation as key triggers to the breakdown of healthy skin, renowned
dermatologist and former National Institutes of Health fellow Jeannette
Graf, M.D., has discovered a way to prevent these saboteurs from
developing in the first place--rather than just treating the symptoms
they've caused.
Based on the scientifically groundbreaking premise that our cells--and
consequently our skin--can only function best when the pH balance
of our body is at its proper level, Dr. Graf's four-part plan focuses
on changing your body's ratio of acids to alkalines. Most of us
tend to eat three acidic-building foods (like sugar, refined carbs,
meat, and dairy) for every one alkalinizing food (dark green leafy
vegetables, garlic, onions, olive oil, lemon, fruit, nuts and seeds,
and whole grains)--the reverse of the ideal ratio. And while changing
your diet is important, food is not the only way to shift this ratio
or reverse the cell aging that's affecting your skin. The plan also
includes detailed information on:
- daily alkalinizing "cocktails"
- quality calcium-mineral supplements
- probiotic supplements (good bacteria in a bottle)
- how to assess your skin and care for it accordingly--choosing
the right cleansers, moisturizers, and treatments that will give
you the most noticeable results (hint: many of these products line
the shelves of your local drugstore)
- the joy prescription: activities that can add exhilaration and
laughter to your life and increase the neuropeptides in the brain
that actually rejuvenate skin cells
- nutrients in foods that enhance cell energy production and cell
signaling
But don't just take her word for it: "Stop Aging, Start Living
"is filled with testimonials from her patients. Whether you
want to see results fast (with her twenty-four-hour kickstart plan),
ease into it (with the two-week prescription), or just incorporate
a few "Stop Aging, Start Living" strategies into your
life as they suit you, you'll come away looking and feeling incredibly
younger."
Call number: RA784.G688 2007
|
| Suite
Francaise - Publisher's Marketing:
"An extraordinary novel of life under Nazi occupation--discovered
and published 62 years after the author's tragic death at Auschwitz.
Subtle, often fiercely ironic, and deeply compassionate, "Suite
Fran
aise" is both a piercing record of its time and a brilliant,
profoundly moving work of art."
Call number: PQ2627.E4 S8513 2006 |
Supreme
Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas
- Publisher's Marketing: "
SUPREME DISCOMFORT "originated from a much-commented-upon profile
of Clarence Thomas that appeared in an August 2002 issue of "The
Washington Post Magazine". In it, Kevin Merida and Michael
Fletcher, both "Post" staffers, both black, crafted a
haunting portrait of an isolated and bitter man, savagely reviled
by much of the black community, not entirely comfortable in white
society, internally wounded by his passage from a broken family
and rural poverty in Georgia to elite educational institutions to
the pinnacle of judicial power. He has clearly never recovered from
the searing experience of his Senate confirmation hearings and the
"he said/she said" drama of the accusations of sexual
harassment by Anita Hill.
SUPREME DISCOMFORT tracks the personal odyssey of perhaps the least
understood man in Washington, from his poor childhood in Pin Point
and Savannah, Georgia, to his educational experiences in a Catholic
seminary and Holy Cross, to his law school years at Yale during
the black power era, to his rise within the Republican political
establishment. It offers a window into a man who straddles two different
worlds and is uneasy in both--and whose divided personality and
conservative political philosophy will deeply influence American
life for years to come."
Call number: KF8745.T48 M47 2007
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| Teach
Like Your Hair’s On Fire - Publisher's
Marketing: "From the man whom "The New York Times"
calls "a genius and a saint" comes a revelatory program
for educating today's youth. This work is a brilliant and inspiring
road map for parents, teachers, and anyone who cares about the future
success of children."
Call number: LB41.E48 2007
|
Technology
in Postwar America - Publisher's
Marketing: "Carroll Pursell tells the story of the evolution
of American technology since World War II. His fascinating and surprising
history links pop culture icons with landmarks in technological innovation
and shows how postwar politics left their mark on everything from
television, automobiles, and genetically engineered crops to contraceptives,
Tupperware, and the Veg-O-Matic. Just as America's domestic and
international policies became inextricably linked during the Cold
War, so did the nation's public and private technologies. The spread
of the suburbs fed into demands for an interstate highway system,
which itself became implicated in urban renewal projects. Fear of
slipping into a postwar economic depression was offset by the creation
of "a consumers' republic" in which buying and using consumer
goods became the ultimate act of citizenship and a symbol of an
"American Way of Life."
Pursell begins with the events of World War II and the increasing
belief that technological progress and the science that supported
it held the key to a stronger, richer, and happier America. He looks
at the effect of returning American servicemen and servicewomen
and the Marshall Plan, which sought to integrate Western Europe
into America's economic, business, and technological structure.
He considers the accumulating "problems" associated with
American technological supremacy, which, by the end of the 1960s,
led to a crisis of confidence.
Pursell concludes with an analysis of how consumer technologies
create a cultural understanding that makes political technologies
acceptable and even seem inevitable, while those same political
technologies provide both form and content for the technologies
foundat home and at work. By understanding this history, Pursell
hopes to advance a better understanding of the postwar American
self. "
Call number: T21.P83 2007 |
Technology
Matters - Publisher's
Marketing: "Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006
Technology matters, writes David Nye, because it is inseparable
from being human. We have used tools for more than 100,000 years,
and their central purpose has not always been to provide necessities.
People excel at using old tools to solve new problems and at inventing
new tools for more elegant solutions to old tasks. Perhaps this
is because we are intimate with devices and machines from an early
age--as children, we play with technological toys: trucks, cars,
stoves, telephones, model railroads, Playstations. Through these
machines we imagine ourselves into a creative relationship with
the world. As adults, we retain this technological playfulness with
gadgets and appliances--Blackberries, cell phones, GPS navigation
systems in our cars. We use technology to shape our world, yet we
think little about the choices we are making. In "Technology
Matters," Nye tackles ten central questions about our relationship
to technology, integrating a half-century of ideas about technology
into ten cogent and concise chapters, with wide-ranging historical
examples from many societies. He asks: Can we define technology?
Does technology shape us, or do we shape it? Is technology inevitable
or unpredictable? (Why do experts often fail to get it right?)?
How do historians understand it? Are we using modern technology
to create cultural uniformity, or diversity? To create abundance,
or an ecological crisis? To destroy jobs or create new opportunities?
Should "the market" choose our technologies? Do advanced
technologies make us more secure, or escalate dangers? Does ubiquitous
technology expand our mental horizons, or encapsulate us in artifice?
These largequestions may have no final answers yet, but we need
to wrestle with them--to live them, so that we may, as Rilke puts
it, "live along some distant day into the answers.""
Call number: T14.N88 2006
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Teenagers
HIV and AIDS Insights From Youths Living With the Virus
- Publisher's Marketing:
"Including vignettes with teen-agers in treatment, explains
the psychological, social and medical issues adolescents face when
infected with HIV and later fighting AIDS. Also gives attention
to end-of-life issues, and how caring adults can offer support."
RJ387.A25 T442 2006 |
The
Wednesday Letters - Publisher's Marketing:
"Jack and Laurel have been married for 39 years. Theyve lived
a good life and appear to have had the perfect marriage. With his
wife cradled in his arms, and before Jack takes his last breath,
he scribbles his last Wednesday Letter. When their adult children
arrive to arrange the funeral, they discover boxes and boxes full
of love letters that their father wrote to their mother each week
on Wednesday. As they begin to open and read the letters, the children
uncover the shocking truth about the past. In addition, each one
must deal with present- day challenges. Matthew has a troubled marriage,
Samantha is a single mother, and Malcolm is the black sheep of the
family who has returned home after a mysterious two- year absence.
The Wednesday Letters has a powerful message about forgiveness and
quietly beckons for readers to start writing their own Wednesday
Letters."
Call number: PS3623.R539 W44 2007
|
We’re
All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping
of the Law in the Internet Age - Publisher's
Marketing: "A provocative and engaging argument for
affording bloggers and everyone else who disseminates information
in the U.S. the same rights and privileges that traditional journalists
enjoy."
Call number: KF2750 .G36 2007
|
What Good is Journalism?: How Reporters and Editors Are
Saving America’s Way of Life - Publisher's
Marketing: "To go by today's critics of media bias--who
have created a virtual cottage industry--American journalism has
reached a nadir, yet with all its well-documented faults, journalism
is vital to the health of our democracy, the glue of information
that holds this complex nation together. This book shows the most
important roles that journalism plays in the world's oldest democracy.
Two seasoned educators and practitioners of journalism have assembled
a team of writers who look beyond the critics to show that there
is much to be praised about the state of American journalism today.
Journalism tells us most of what we know about the world beyond
our own experience by going where its audience cannot or will not.
It keeps watch on the government and other powerful institutions,
exposes wrongdoing and injustice, and shares the endless fascinations
of everyday life. Through stories of real people, this book forcefully
argues that American journalism is better than its critics admit
and a force for good in the lives of both individuals and the nation.
Like the exemplary journalism it describes, it offers dozens of
instances that show how good journalistic practices enrich the daily
lives of citizens and enable them to play their own roles in the
democracy. These essays offer a multifaceted view of the press,
tracing the development of free expression through American history
and showing how the principles of journalism that we take for granted
are playing a revolutionary role in emerging democracies. They report
the results of a unique national survey--undertaken for this book--revealing
how Americans really view and use the press and cite the successes
of good reporting, from hometown newspapersto NPR. They show how
investigative journalism and computer-assisted reporting unearth
important truths and even create new knowledge and how citizens
can demand the good journalism they need. What good is journalism?
This book spells out the answer through a conversation about journalism
and democracy that offers both an antidote to the recent storm of
ideologically based criticism of "liberal media" and a
demonstration of the true worth of an institution essential to the
protection of freedom. It provides today's readers--and tomorrow's
journalists--a fresh perspective on the press to remind us all where
we would be without it."
Call number: PN4888.S6 W53 2007
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What Happy Women Know: How New Findings in Positive Psychology Can
Change Women’s Lives for the Better - Publisher's
Marketing: "The director of Canyon Ranch's award-winning
Life Enhancement Program draws on the latest discoveries in psychology
and gender-specific medicine to help all women enjoy richer, healthier,
more fulfilling lives.
In this innovative book about what brings women happiness, Dr. Dan
Baker focuses on the five traps that can compromise happiness and
leave women yearning for a better life.
Unlike clinical psychology, which focuses on trying to fix what's
wrong with an individual, positive psychology builds on a person's
natural strengths. The root of most unhappiness, fear, finds a special
expression in women, who too often succumb to the happiness traps
of perfectionism, wanton wanting, people pleasing, seeking revenge,
thinking I'm nothing without X, and overinvesting in their careers.
In What Happy Women Know, Dr. Baker synthesizes a wide range of
current research on how women uniquely respond to life's slings
and arrows and how they can best bounce back from them. The book
offers women a compelling set of tools that will help them accept
the past and actively move toward a happier future of their own
design."
Call number: HQ1206 .B213 2007
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When a Family Member Has Dementia: Steps to Becoming a Resilient
Caregiver - Publisher's Marketing:
"Caring for a person with dementia is a difficult and often-
overwhelming task. In addition to the inevitable decline in memory
and physical function, most persons with dementia develop one or
more troublesome behavior problems, such as depression, fearfulness,
sleep disturbances, paranoia, or physical aggression at some point
in their disease. Behavioral challenges in dementia are highly idiosyncratic.
No two patients are alike, and interventions that work well with
one person are often ineffective with another. Caregivers often
become stuck: either unable to figure out how best to help their
loved one, or unable to consistently implement positive practices
they know would improve their situation. This book offers caregivers
a set of practical and flexible tools to enable them become more
resilient in the face of difficulty and change. McCurry teaches
caregivers how to take advantage of their own creativity and inner
resources to develop strategies that will work in their unique situations.
She presents her set of five core principles and then brings them
to life through vignettes. Anyone who lives, works, or comes in
contact with a person who has dementia will benefit from this volume."
Call number: RC521 .M39 2006
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| When
Nature Strikes: Weather Disasters and the Law - Publisher's
Marketing: "Both law and weather affect us every day
of our modern lives, yet most people do not know how the weather
has affected developments in the law, nor are they aware of how
the law has attempted to develop ways to affect the weather. When
Nature Strikes is the first book to examine the various areas in
which law and weather meet and affect each other. This one-of-a-kind
work describes the law related to weather in the United States in
the context of specific cases, legislation, and administrative legal
action. For example, weather can be the means to commit a crime
or the factor that turns an event from a terrible accident into
a criminal act. Weather can be a defense against liability in both
civil and criminal cases. People seek relief in court from the harm
caused by weather events, whether a slip on the ice or the horrible
devastation wrought by a deadly hurricane. Courts and the criminal
justice system can be affected by weather events that prevent physical
access to the courthouse or that destroy evidence. Through laws
passed by Congress, U.S. weather services have evolved from simply
weather recording into weather forecasting and warning systems.
Federal patent law offers monopolies over inventions to encourage
inventors to develop new devices that increase human safety in extreme
weather or to improve methods such as cloud seeding or wind energy."
Call number: KF3750 .B38 2007
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| Where
Valor Rests: Arlington National Cemetery - Publisher's
Marketing: "Arlington National Cemetery spreads across
the rolling hills west of the Potomac, a serene and reverent sanctuary
for the presidents, soldiers, and heroes--famous and unsung alike--who
lie in eternal rest among its green lawns and quiet glades, a roster
dating back to America's birth and including many of the foremost
names in our history. A national monument in the truest sense, Arlington's
solemn beauty embraces a brave legacy--a heritage remembered and
renewed every day as the military buries its own.
Bittersweet, breath-taking, sometimes heart-wrenching, always deeply
respectful, this commemorative book guides readers gently over tree-lined
slopes to share the ceremonies observed throughout the year, from
the traditional wreath-laying on Memorial Day, which enshrines centuries
of courage with a formality at once austere and profoundly emotional,
to the moving graveside services that honor individual men and women
who served our country. Captured in stunning color by a select group
of gifted photographers, 220 unforgettable images create a portrait
as poignant as it is proud.
Archival photographs also trace the history of the cemetery from
the early National Historic Monument, "Arlington House,"
to the eternal flame at the Kennedy grave to sections for the lost
astronauts and victims of the 9/11 Pentagon attack. With an Introduction
by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rick Atkinson, this lovely volume
is both a fitting tribute and a stirring reminder of the values
we Americans hold dear."
Call number: F234.A7 W48 2007
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| The
Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood - Publisher's
Marketing: "A magnificent history of Hollywood from
the invention of film to the present day, by the everywhere acclaimed
David Thomson, who has established himself as the "greatest
living film critic and historian" "(The Atlantic Monthly),
"irreplaceable" "(The "New York Times), and
simply "the best writer about the movies" "(San Francisco
Chronicle).
Now we have his master work, "The Whole Equation, which, in
his own words, embraces "the murder and the majesty, the business
statistics and millions of us being moved, the art and the awfulness."
It accommodates "the artistic careers, the lives of the pirates,
the ebb and flow if business, the sociological impact-in short,
the wonder in the dark, the calculation in the offices, and the
staggering impact on America of moving pictures. Which is also the
thunderous artillery of America unleashed on the world."
Thomson tells us how D. W. Griffith and Charlie Chaplin created
the first movies of mass appeal. He writes about Louis B. Mayer,
who understood the whole equation and reaped the profits. He shows
us how David O. Selznick exemplified the vanity and passion that
gets memorable movies made; how the movies, offering a sense of
common experience, helped Americans through the difficult years
of the 1930s and '40s; how and why the quest for the blockbuster
changed the industry.
He examines the films of Capra, Wilder, Hitchcock, Spielberg; of
Gable, Cagney, Monroe, Crawford, Brando, Bogart, Nicholson, Kidman;
of Irving Thalberg, Lew Wasserman, Harvey Weinstein-and scores more.
He considers noir films, the blacklist, agents, method acting. He
tells us the stories behind "The Godfather, Chinatown, and"
Jaws. And he follows the money-a tripessential to understanding
Hollywood at its most thrilling and most disappointing.
David Thomson has given us a one-volume history of Hollywood that
is as well one of the most brilliant, most insightful, entertaining,
and illuminating books ever written on American film."
Call number: PN1993.5.U65 T56 2005
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With
Love From Spain, Melanie Martin - Publisher's
Marketing: "The third of the popular Melanie Martin
books finds Melanie in Spain and caught up in her first romance.
Written in a popular diary format, Melanie's adventure is fun and
accessible for middle-graders."
Call number: PZ7.W526285 Wi 2004
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A
Woman’s Guide to Living With HIV Infection - Publisher's
Marketing: "Written by three experts with extensive experience
helping people with HIV/AIDS, A Woman's Guide to Living with HIV Infection
is a medically informational, comprehensive, and deeply compassionate
resource for women with HIV and their families and friends. While
addressing the entire range of health and emotional issues faced by
people with HIV, the authors cover topics of special interest to women
-- gynecologic disorders, reproductive choices, contraception, and
pregnancy.
The authors offer clear advice on these and other crucial topics:
Testing for HIV and coping with the diagnosisFinding a physician
and preparing for the first visitRecognizing symptoms and preventing
complicationsUnderstanding the latest treatment options, including
new medical research and clinical trialsCoping with gynecological
infections and STDsConsidering pregnancy and birth controlAssuring
breast, bone, and heart healthTreating drug and alcohol dependenceDealing
with partner violence and abuse
Also included are lists of recommended books, support groups, Web
sites, and other resources for people with HIV. The practical advice
in this book can help the thousands of women diagnosed with HIV
every year lead to fuller and healthier lives."
Call number: RC607.A26 C5685 2004
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| Words,
Words, Words - Publisher's Marketing:
""Lexicography is not just an exercise in linguistic accounting,"
writes preeminent English language scholar David Crystal in this
exceptionally lively and erudite little book. "It is a voyage
of lexical exploration and discovery."
In Words, Words, Words, Crystal takes readers on a fascinating linguistic
adventure, exploring the English language in all its oddity, complexity,
and ever-changing beauty. Traveling from word origins and word evolution
to wordgangs, wordrisks, wordplay, wordgames and beyond, Crystal
shares his immense knowledge of, and equally immense delight in,
language. He celebrates new words, old words, words that "snarl"
and words that "purr," elegant words and taboo words,
plain English words and convoluted gobbledegook, eponyms and antonyms,
spoonerisms and malapropisms, and a host of other written and spoken
forms and variations.
Words, Words, Words offers invaluable insight on such subjects as
how to estimate the size of your vocabulary
the functions of jargon
when cliches are necessary
the value of slang words ("the chief use of slang/is to show
you're one of the gang")
how to create your own "semantic field"
dialect humor
how to become a word detective
how to keep a record of your child's words
and much more!
With illuminating sidebars featuring everything from common word
origins and sample definitions from the dictionaries of Samuel Johnson
and Ambrose Bierce to a passage from Finnegan's Wake and the winning
entries of The Guardian Text Message Poetry Competition, Words,
Words, Words will both satisfy and spark the curiosity of anyone
who has ever been intrigued, befuddled, or awed by words and myriad
ways we usethem."
Call number: P326 .C79 2006
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A
World of Ways to Say “I Do”: Wedding Vows, Reading, Poems
and Customs form Different Traditions and Cultures - Publisher's
Marketing: " The words we choose with which to say "I
do" reflect a couple's individual love and expresses their innermost
hopes for what their marriage and commitment will be for their lifetime.
Today's modern bride and groom want to incorporate tradition, eloquence,
and faithful promises into their vows, and this beautiful book offers
ideas and inspirations for incorporating meaningful words and thoughts
of love into their special day.
In this book couples will discover how others from around the world
and across time have chosen to say "I do" as well as the
derivatives and customs behind these words.
More than simply a guide to writing wedding vows, this beautifully
packaged collection includes: Dozens of diverse vows, poems, and
readings from a range of cultural and religious traditions Includes
customs from Catholicism, Protestant, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Baha'i,
Hispanic, Native American, Asian, European, and other religions
and cultures Tips on crafting vows that reflect the couple's singular
style and honor the sacredness of their commitment."
Call number: BL619.M37 B47 2005
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You,
On a Diet: The Owner’s Manual for Waist Management -
Publisher's Marketing: "For the first
time in our history, scientists are uncovering astounding medical
evidence about dieting -- and why so many of us struggle with our
weight and the size of our waists. Now researchers are unraveling
biological secrets about such things as why you crave chocolate or
gorge at buffets or store so much fat.
Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, America's most trusted doctor team
and authors of the bestselling "YOU" series, are now translating
this cutting-edge information to help you shave inches off your
waist. They're going to do it by giving you the best weapon against
fat: knowledge. By understanding how your body's fat-storing and
fat-burning systems work, you're going to learn how to crack the
code on true and lifelong waist management.
Roizen and Oz will invigorate you with equal parts information,
motivation, and change-your-life action to show you how your brain,
stomach, hormones, muscles, heart, genetics, and stress levels all
interact biologically to determine if your body is the size of a
baseball bat or of a baseball stadium. In "YOU: On a Diet,"
Roizen and Oz will redefine what a healthy figure is, then take
you through an under-theskin tour of the organs that influence your
body's size and its health. You'll even be convinced that the key
number to fixate on is not your weight, but your waist size, which
best indicates the medical risks of storing too much fat.
Because the world has almost as many diet plans as it has e-mail
spammers, you'd think that just about all of us would know everything
there is to know about dieting, about fat, and about the reasons
why our bellies have grown so large. "YOU: On a Diet"
is much more than a diet plan or a series ofinstructions and guidelines
or a faddish berries-only eating plan. It's a complete manual for
waist management. It will show you how to achieve and maintain an
ideal and healthy body size by providing a lexicon according to
which any weight-loss system can be explained. "YOU: On a Diet"
will serve as the operating system that facilitates future evolution
in our dieting software. After you learn about the biology of your
body and the biology and psychology of fat, you'll be given the
YOU Diet and YOU Workout. Both are easy to learn, follow, and maintain.
Following a two-week rebooting program will help you lose up to
two inches from your waist right from the start.
With Roizen and Oz's signature accessibility, wit, and humor, "YOU:
On a Diet -- The Owner's Manual for Waist Management" will
revolutionize the way you think about yourself and the food you
consume, so that you'll diet smart, not hard. Welcome to your body
on a diet."
Call number: RM237.5 .R65 2006
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The
Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story -
Publisher's Marketing: "A true story--as
powerful as "Schindler's List"--in which the keepers of
the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands.
When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and
the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers
Jan and Antonina Zabinski began smuggling Jews into empty cages.
Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Zabinskis' villa,
emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments
of calm, piano concerts. Jan, active in the Polish resistance, kept
ammunition buried in the elephant enclosure and stashed explosives
in the animal hospital. Meanwhile, Antonina kept her unusual household
afloat, caring for both its human and its animal inhabitants--otters,
a badger, hyena pups, lynxes.
With her exuberant prose and exquisite sensitivity to the natural
world, Diane Ackerman engages us viscerally in the lives of the
zoo animals, their keepers, and their hidden visitors. She shows
us how Antonina refused to give in to the penetrating fear of discovery,
keeping alive an atmosphere of play and innocence even as Europe
crumbled around her. 8 pages of illustrations."
Call number: DS134.64 .A25 2007 Ackerman, Diane |
America’s
War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty
- Publisher's Marketing: ""In
our free society, people have the right to choose how they live
their lives."-- President George Bush, June 3, 2006 So why
does our government want to censor what you read, hear, and see?
try to limit your access to contraception? attempt to legislate
"good moral values"? try to brainwash your kids about
"abstinence"? These are the kinds of questions Dr. Marty
Klein asks--and answers--in his new book, America's War on Sex.
With hundreds of examples ripped from today's headlines, he names
names, challenges political hypocrisy, and shows the financial connections
between government and conservative religious groups that are systematically
taking away your rights. Dr. Klein isn't shy about it. He demands
to know--as you should demand to know-- If 50 million Americans
consume pornography, why does the government dare to regulate it
without consulting any consumers? Why do Congressmen listen to "victims
of porn" but not healthy adults who use porn? Now that "abstinence-only"
sex education has been proven a failure, why does the government
still give it $200 million each year? And how can most of that money
go to "faith-based" groups who tell your kids how God
feels about their sexual choices? Why do hundreds of American communities
feel they have the right to eliminate legal adult entertainment,
claiming "we're not that kind of city"? Why do family
courts have the right to judge the private sexual habits of each
parent when making custody decisions? How can licensed pharmacists
and physicians claim they have the right to deny you legal medical
care if it violates their "conscience"? Our glorious Constitution
guarantees us the widest range of rights civilization has ever seen.
Why arethose rights systematically undermined and revoked when it
comes to sexual expression? Is there a conspiracy to deny us our
sexual rights? No, says Marty Klein: "It's worse than a conspiracy.
It's a war. They're very open about it--it's a War on Sex."
It's a war that threatens the very fabric of our secular democracy.
The American Taliban, our own sexual jihadists, want to replace
our government with laws based on the Bible, creating a country
in which "normal sex" is narrowly defined and no one has
the right to alternative sexual information, health care, or personal
expression. America is fighting a war on terror to prevent the overthrow
of our way of life by fanatics who want to base all law on their
strict religious beliefs. It is completely unacceptable that a group
of conservative Americans is trying to accomplish the same thing
right here."
Call number: HQ18.U5 K645 2006
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s
Slaves - Publisher's Marketing:
"From the author of the prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost
comes a taut, thrilling account of the first grass-roots human rights
campaign, which freed hundreds of thousands of slaves around the
world.
In 1787, twelve men gathered in a London printing shop to pursue
a seemingly impossible goal: ending slavery in the largest empire
on earth. Along the way, they would pioneer most of the tools citizen
activists still rely on today, from wall posters and mass mailings
to boycotts and lapel pins. This talented group combined a hatred
of injustice with uncanny skill in promoting their cause. Within
five years, more than 300,000 Britons were refusing to eat the chief
slave-grown product, sugar; London's smart set was sporting antislavery
badges created by Josiah Wedgwood; and the House of Commons had
passed the first law banning the slave trade.
However, the House of Lords, where slavery backers were more powerful,
voted down the bill. But the crusade refused to die, fueled by remarkable
figures like Olaudah Equiano, a brilliant ex-slave who enthralled
audiences throughout the British Isles; John Newton, the former
slave ship captain who wrote "Amazing Grace"; Granville
Sharp, an eccentric musician and self-taught lawyer; and Thomas
Clarkson, a fiery organizer who repeatedly crisscrossed Britain
on horseback, devoting his life to the cause. He and his fellow
activists brought slavery in the British Empire to an end in the
1830s, long before it died in the United States. The only survivor
of the printing shop meeting half a century earlier, Clarkson lived
to see the day when a slave whip and chains were formally buried
in a Jamaican churchyard.
Like Hochschild's classic King Leopold'sGhost, Bury the Chains abounds
in atmosphere, high drama, and nuanced portraits of unsung heroes
and colorful villains. Again Hochschild gives a little-celebrated
historical watershed its due at last."
Call number: HT1163 .H63 2005
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Last
Dance in Havana: The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New
Cuban Revolution - Publisher's Marketing:
"In power for forty-four years and counting, Fidel Castro has
done everything possible to define Cuba to the world and to itself
-- yet not even he has been able to control the thoughts and dreams
of his people. Those thoughts and dreams are the basis for what may
become a post-Castro Cuba. To more fully understand the future of
America's near neighbor, veteran reporter Eugene Robinson knew exactly
where to look -- or rather, to listen. In this provocative work, Robinson
takes us on a sweaty, pulsating, and lyrical tour of a country on
the verge of revolution, using its musicians as a window into its
present and future.
Music is the mother's milk of Cuban culture. Cubans express their
fondest hopes, their frustrations, even their political dissent,
through music. Most Americans think only of salsa and the "Buena
Vista Social Club" when they think of the music of Cuba, yet
those styles are but a piece of a broad musical spectrum. Just as
the West learned more about China after the Cultural Revolution
by watching "From Mao to Mozart," so will readers discover
the real Cuba -- the living, breathing, dying, yet striving Cuba.
Cuban music is both wildly exuberant and achingly melancholy. A
thick stew of African and European elements, it is astoundingly
rich and influential to have come from such a tiny island. From
rap stars who defy the government in their lyrics to violinists
and pianists who attend the world's last Soviet-style conservatory
to international pop stars who could make millions abroad yet choose
to stay and work for peanuts, Robinson introduces us to unforgettable
characters who happily bring him into their homes and backstage
discussions.
Despite Castro's attemptsto shut down nightclubs, obstruct artists,
and subsidize only what he wants, the musicians and dancers of Cuba
cannot stop, much less behave. Cubans move through their complicated
lives the way they move on the dance floor, dashing and darting
and spinning on a dime, seducing joy and fulfillment and next week's
supply of food out of a broken system. Then at night they take to
the real dance floors and invent fantastic new steps. "Last
Dance in Havana" is heartwrenching, yet ultimately as joyous
and hopeful as a rocking club late on a Saturday night."
Call number: F1765.3 .R63 2004
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The
Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic -
Publisher's Marketing: "At 16, Maurice
impulsively signed up with the Hudson's Bay Company and was sent
to an isolated trading post in the Canadian Arctic, where he immersed
himself in the Inuit people's culture and way of life. Through deadly
epidemics and the struggle to survive, the young man from England
came of age."
Call number: F1090.5 .M38 2005
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The
Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the great Captain’s
Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Swordfight, Mutiny, Shipwreck,
Gold, War, Hurricane, and Discovery - Publisher's
Marketing: "Columbus' fourth voyage is a saga of shipwreck,
mutiny, discovery, and political treachery, yet his quest to find
a passage to the Orient drove him onward in the face of peril."
Call number: E118 .D84 2005
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| The
Leadership Advantage: How the Best Companies are Developing Their
Talent to Pave the Way for Future Success
Call number: HD30.4 .F83 2008
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| The
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir - Publisher's
Marketing: "From one of the most beloved and bestselling
authors in the English language, a vivid, nostalgic and utterly
hilarious memoir of growing up in the middle of the United States
in the middle of the last century. A book that delivers on the promise
that it is "laugh-out-loud funny."
Some say that the first hints that Bill Bryson was not of Planet
Earth came from his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey
of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt.
It may have looked like an old college football sweater, but young
Bryson knew better. It was obviously the Sacred Jersey of Zap, and
proved that he had been placed with this innocuous family in the
middle of America to fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people's
hands from a distance, and wear his underpants over his jeans in
the manner of Superman.
Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, "I
come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." In this hilarious new
memoir, he travels back to explore the kid he once was and the weird
and wonderful world of 1950s America. He modestly claims that this
is a book about not very much: about being small and getting much
larger slowly. But for the rest of us, it is a laugh-out-loud book
that will speak volumes - especially to anyone who has ever been
young."
Call number: G154.B79 A3 2006
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The
Life of David - Publisher's Marketing:
"Poet, warrior, and king, David has loomed large in myth and
legend through the centuries, and he continues to haunt our collective
imagination, his flaws and inconsistencies making him the most approachable
of biblical heroes. Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United
States, plumbs the depths of David's life: his triumphs and his
failures, his charm and his cruelty, his divine destiny and his
human humiliations. Drawing on the biblical chronicle of David's
life as well as on the later commentaries and the Psalms----traditionally
considered to be David's own words----Pinsky teases apart the many
strands of David's story and reweaves them into a glorious narrative.
Under the clarifying and captivating light of Pinsky's erudition
and imagination, and his mastery of image and expression, King David----both
the man and the idea of the man----is brought brilliantly to life."
Call number: BS580.D3 P56 2005
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The
Light Inside: Abakua Society Arts and Cuban Cultural History
Call number: HS1355.S64 C84 2003
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The
Literary Guide & Companion to Southern England
- Publisher's Marketing: "In
a series of intriguing routes through the English countryside, Professor
robert Cooper notes those attractions that the casual tourist might
unknowingly pass by, such as the house where Dickens wrote. A Tale
of Two Cities, or the windswept quay where John Fowles's French
Lieutenant's woman walked. Maps and information about restaurants
and accommodations give the traveler the opportunity of having pints
of "half and half" where Jane Austen dined or visiting
the pub where Blake's scuffle led to his trial for treason.
This newly revised and updated edition of Robert Cooper's acclaimed
handbook combines the utility of current travel information with
the appeal of literary history, biography, and anecdote in a leisurely
and flavorful guide to the broad sweep of southern England outside
of London. A rich and reliable guide to the landscape that fostered
one of our most cherished cultures, The Literary Guide & Companion
to Southern England is an indispensable resource for those who wish
to experience literature firsthand. "
Call number: PR109 .C6 1998
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The
Little Book That Makes You Rich: A Proven Market-Beating Formula for
Growth Investing - Publisher's Marketing:
"Louis Navellier is one of the most well-respected growth investors
of our day. He's pulled impressive profits from the stock market for
over twenty-seven years, he has also helped investors beat the market
by nearly a 4-to-1 margin. Now, with The Little Book That Makes You
Rich, he'll show you how to do the same.
Growth investing--which aims to produce capital gains rather than
income--is one of the best ways to invest for success. Best of all,
Navellier has created a proven and easy-to-follow approach to growth
investing that offers you a rare opportunity to outperform the market
without taking on excessive risk. In The Little Book That Makes
You Rich, Navellier explains exactly why this proactive approach
works and skillfully shows you how it can be used to find stocks
that are poised for rapid price increases--regardless of overall
stock market direction.
Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, The Little
Book That Makes You Rich details a proven formula for finding growth
stocks that beat the market, which combines eight powerful fundamentals--such
as sales growth and cash flow--with key quantitative ratings that
measure the risk versus reward of buying a stock. It also outlines
specific tools that take the guesswork out of when to buy and when
to sell any stock on Wall Street.
You'll learn precisely what to do to best maximize your returns,
including how to structure a winning growth portfolio. And perhaps,
most importantly, you'll discover how to monitor and maintain the
overall strength and quality of your portfolio without spending
excessive amounts of time doing so.
Louis Navellier has made his living by investing in healthy, vital,
growing companies.This approach allowed him to turn his financial
dreams into a reality, and it could empower you to do the same.
Written in an accessible and engaging style, The Little Book That
Makes You Rich outlines an effective approach to building true wealth
in today's markets--and proves you don't need the resources of a
powerful Wall Street firm to achieve unparalleled investment success."
Call number: HG4661 .N385 2007
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The
Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 - Publisher's
Marketing: "This sweeping narrative history of 9/11
includes important new information about the people, ideas, events,
and intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks, told for
the first time from both the American and Arab sides of the story."
Call number: HV6432.7 .W75 2006
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Looks:
Why They Matter More Than You Ever Imagined - Publisher's
Marketing: "Very few of us realize just how much looks
affect every aspect of our lives. People blessed with good looks
earn more than their average-looking colleagues and are more likely
to get hired and promoted at work. They also tend to be luckier
in love, more popular, and get better grades in school. What exactly
is this "physical attractiveness" phenomenon and how does
it affect every one of us? Dr. Gordon L. Patzer has devoted the
last 30 years to investigating this unsettling trend, and in this
eye-opening new book, he proves once and for all that when it comes
to success, it's what's on the outside that counts."
Call number: HM1151 .P36 2008
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The
Luckiest Unlucky Man Alive: A Wild Ride Overcoming Life’s Greatest
Challenges -- and How You Can Too! - Publisher's
Marketing: "Extensive pre-publication publicity. Goss
regularly appears on radio in major markets and has been featured
on the TV show EXTRA.
- More than an inspirational biography--The Luckiest Unlucky Man
Alive shows readers how they can be lucky too and overcome the greatest
challenges in life.
Now a 42-year old retired Navy pilot, Lt. Commander Bill Goss was
a garbageman, a golden glove boxer, a dynamiter in an underground
copper mine, and an expert in underwater explosives in the U.S.
Navy -- all while he worked his way through college. He served as
a reconnaissance pilot specializing in spying on Russia's stealthiest
and deadliest Soviet missile submarines. Bill has navigated the
giant nuclear aircraft cartier USS Carl Vinson, cruised 1000 feet
below the Mediterranean Sea in a nuclear submarine and flown 20
types of high-performance aircraft, including the sound barrier
breaking F-18 Hornet.
But he considers diagnosis with cancer his greatest challenge of
all when he was given only six months to live. Bill chose to undergo
twelve hours of disfiguring surgery to overcome his incredibly low
odds. It wasn't only his decisions but his attitude that made him
a cancer survivor. The hilarious stories of his reconstructive surgeries
will educate and inspire."
Call number: BF1045.N4 G67 1998
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Magnum
Ireland - Publisher's Marketing:
"The changing faces of Ireland--social, political, and cultural--documented
by some of the greatest photographers of the modern era.
Since the invention of photography, Ireland has been a magnet for
photographers, but this book is unique in bringing together the
work done by the unrivaled talents of the members of Magnum. From
Ireland's first attempts to forge a modern identity in the 1950s
to the confident country of the twenty-first century, here is a
stunning survey of a beautiful and complex place and people, through
times of peace as well as trouble.
The photographs reflect the extraordinary insights of Henri Cartier-Bresson,
Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Inge Morath, Erich Lessing, Eve
Arnold, Martine Franck, Martin Parr, Bruce Gilden, Donovan Wylie,
Stuart Franklin, and others. They bring a truly international perspective
to the book, reflecting the sensibilities of America, France, Germany,
Iran, Japan, Morocco--and, of course, Ireland itself.
Organized decade by decade, the images show the lingering influence
of rural life in the 1950s; the hidden story of ordinary Irish men
and women--as well as the sectarian conflict--during the uneasy
1960s and 1970s; renewed confidence and the growth of prosperity
and peace as the century passed through its last two decades; and
the robust "Celtic tiger" of today. Each decade has commentary
and context supplied by one of the most notable Irish writers of
our time. With texts by: John Banville, Anthony Cronin, Anne Enright,
Eamonn McCann, Nuala O'Faolain, Fintan O'Toole, and Colm Toibin.
Over 250 photographs in color and duotone.
A touring exhibition of the photographs in Magnum Ireland will begin
in Ireland in Spring 2006before continuing in the United States."
Call number: DA982 .M34 2005
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March:
A Novel - Publisher's Marketing:
"As the North reels under a series of unexpected defeats during
the dark first year of the war, one man leaves behind his family
to aid the Union cause. His experiences will utterly change his
marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. Riveting
and elegant as it is meticulously researched, "March"
is an extraordinary novel woven out of the lore of American history.
From Louisa May Alcotts beloved classic "Little Women,"
Geraldine Brooks has taken the character of the absent father, March,
who has gone off to war, leaving his wife and daughters to make
do in mean times. To evoke him, Brooks turned to the journals and
letters of Bronson Alcott, Louisa Mays fathera friend and confidant
of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. In her telling,
March emerges as an idealistic chaplain in the little known backwaters
of a war that will test his faith in himself and in the Union cause
as he learns that his side, too, is capable of acts of barbarism
and racism. As he recovers from a near mortal illness, he must reassemble
his shattered mind and body and find a way to reconnect with a wife
and daughters who have no idea of the ordeals he has been through.
Spanning the vibrant intellectual world of Concord and the sensuous
antebellum South, "March" adds adult resonance to Alcotts
optimistic childrens tale to portray the moral complexity of war,
and a marriage tested by the demands of extreme idealismand by a
dangerous and illicit attraction. A lushly written, wholly original
tale steeped in the details of another time, "March" secures
Geraldine Brookss place as an internationally renowned author of
historical fiction."
Call number: PR9619.3.B7153 M37 2005 Brooks, Geraldine
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Math
Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing
Your Mind or Breaking a Nail - Publisher's
Marketing: "From a well-known actress and math genius
a groundbreaking guide to mathematics for middle school girls, their
parents, and educators
As the math education crisis in this country continues to make headlines,
research continues to prove that it is in middle school when math
scores begin to dropaespecially for girlsain large part due to the
relentless social conditioning that tells girls they acanat doa
math, and that math is auncool.a Young girls today need strong female
role models to embrace the idea that itas okay to be smartain fact,
itas sexy to be smart!
Itas Danica McKellaras mission to be this role model, and demonstrate
on a large scale that "math doesnat suck," In this fun
and accessible guide, McKellaradubbed a amath superstara by "The
New York Times"agives girls and their parents the tools they
need to master the math concepts that confuse middle-schoolers most,
including fractions, percentages, pre-algebra, and more. The book
features hip, real-world examples, step-by-step instruction, and
engaging stories of Danicaas own childhood struggles in math (and
stardom). In addition, borrowing from the style of todayas teen
magazines, it even includes a Math Horoscope section, Math Personality
Quizzes, and Real-Life Testimonialsaultimately revealing why math
is easier and cooler than readers think."
Call number: QA13 .M319 2007
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The
Media Effect: How the News Influences Politics and Government -
Publisher's Marketing: "In a postmodern
age where the media's depictions of reality serve as stand-ins for
the real thing for so many Americans, how much government policy
is being made on the basis of those mediated realities and on the
public reaction to them? When those mediated depictions deviate
from the truth of the actual situation, how serious a situation
is that? Time and again, both anecdotal evidence and scientific
research seem to confirm that the news media often influence government
action. At the least, they speed up policy making that would otherwise
take a slower, more reasoned course. Sometimes the media serve as
the communication link among world leaders who may be ideological
enemies. Because of the enduring popularity of television news,
government leaders monitor the networks' story selections and track
public opinion trends generated by interviews done in these stories.
These then become the substance of proposed legislation and/or executive
action, as politicians strive to prove themselves able listeners
to the heartland of America and also prove themselves worthy of
re-election. This book examines many specific events that show how
major news operations either painted a truthful or distorted picture
of national and international events, and how governmental leaders
responded following those representations."
Call number: PN4738 .W55 2007
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A
Mediterranean Feast: The Story of the Birth of the Celebrated Cuisines
of the Mediterranean, From the Merchants of Venice to the Barbary
Corsairs, with More Than 500 Recipes -
Publisher's Marketing: "A groundbreaking
culinary work of extraordinary depth and scope that spans more than
one thousand years of history, "A Mediterranean Feast"
tells the sweeping story of the birth of the venerated and diverse
cuisines of the Mediterranean. Author Clifford A. Wright weaves
together historical and culinary strands from Moorish Spain to North
Africa, from coastal France to the Balearic Islands, from Sicily
and the kingdoms of Italy to Greece, the Balkan coast, Turkey, and
the Near East.
The evolution of these cuisines is not simply the story of farming,
herding, and fishing; rather, the story encompasses wars and plagues,
political intrigue and pirates, the Silk Road and the discovery
of the New World, the rise of capitalism and the birth of city-states,
the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition, and the obsession with
spices. The ebb and flow of empires, the movement of populations
from country to city, and religion have all played a determining
role in making each of these cuisines unique.
In "A Mediterranean Feast," Wright also shows how the
cuisines of the Mediterranean have been indelibly stamped with the
uncompromising geography and climate of the area and a past marked
by both unrelenting poverty and outrageous wealth. The book's more
than five hundred contemporary recipes (which have been adapted
for today's kitchen) are the end point of centuries of evolution
and show the full range of culinary ingenuity and indulgence, from
the peasant kitchen to the merchant pantry. They also illustrate
the migration of local culinary predilections, tastes for food and
methods of preparation carried from home to new lands and back by
conquerors, seafarers, soldiers, merchants, andreligious pilgrims.
"A Mediterranean Feast" includes fourteen original maps
of the contemporary and historical Mediterranean, a guide to the
Mediterranean pantry, food products resources, a complete bibliography,
and a recipe and general index, in addition to a pronunciation key.
An astonishing accomplishment of culinary and historical research
and detective work in eight languages, "A Mediterranean Feast"
is required--and intriguing--reading for any cook, armchair or otherwise."
Call number: TX641 .W75 1999
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Reef
- Publisher's Marketing: "This
unique pictorial celebration of the worlds reefs progresses through
an ecological chain that goes from algae, sponges, and mollusks
to the thousands of fish that make their homes there. This vivid
collection of photographs reveals reefs as theyve never been seen
before."
Call number: G8461 .R39 2007
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Royal
Gardeners: The History of Britain’s Royal Gardens -
Publisher's Marketing: "In this
lavish book, a companion to the acclaimed BBC series, one of Britain's
most celebrated gardening experts takes us on a breathtaking tour
through the history of Britain's royal gardens, from medieval times
to the present day. Taking in existing royal gardens as well as
those that now only exist in paintings, Alan Titchmarsh uncovers
the stories behind the gardens and the colorful monarchs who created
them. From Hampton Court Palace and Gardens to the modern-day developments
at the Prince of Wales' home at Highgrove, Titchmarsh takes a highly
personal excursion through Britain's gardening heritage. Richly
illustrated with color photos, original plans, letters, planting
records, and full-color diagrams of the major surviving gardens,
this is a glorious record of some of the world's most remarkable
gardens. Alan Titchmarsh--horticulturist, well-known BBC TV presenter,
and author of more than 30 books--has twice been named Britain's
Gardening Writer of the Year."
Call number: SB466.G7 T58 2003
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Stalin and the Jews: The Tragedy of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee
and the Soviet Jews - Publisher's Marketing:
"An in-depth study of the secret pogroms in Stalin's Russia
and the consequences they were to have on the Jews, especially the
prominent writers and artists that were to suffer so harshly because
of the dictator's paranoid obsessions. An encyclopedia of the people
and the events that took place until Stalin's death and beyond."
Call number: DS135.R92 L87 2003
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Sweet
Deception: Why Splenda, NutraSweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous
to Your Health - Publisher's Marketing:
"Most people believe that sucralose (Splenda) is a perfectly
safe artificial sweetener. Big business and the FDA have fostered
that dangerous misconception. Dr. Mercola--supported by extensive
studies and research--exposes the fact that Splenda actually contributes
to a host of serious diseases."
Call number: RA1242.A73 M47 2006
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Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre: Relativism,
Thomism, and Philosophy - Publisher's
Marketing: "Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre
presents a stimulating intellectual history and expertly reasoned
defense of this towering figure in contemporary American philosophy.
Drawing on interviews and published works, Christopher Lutz traces
MacIntyreAIs philosophical development and refutes the criticisms
of the major thinkers--including Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Nagel--who
have most vocally attacked him. Permanently shifting the debate
on MacIntyreAIs oeuvre, Lutz convincingly demonstrates how MacIntyreAIs
neo-Aristotelian ethical thought provides an essential corrective
to the contemporary discussions of relativism and ideology, while
successfully drawing on the objectivity of Thomistic natural law."
Call number: B1647.M124 L88 2004
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More
Than Skin Deep: Exploring the Real Reasons Why Women Go Under the
Knife - Publisher's
Marketing: "Dr. Eskenazi, a nationally recognized expert
on breast reconstruction after cancer, began her medical career
believing that she would become a psychiatrist. Her interest in
psychology combined with a lifelong study of art, mythology, and
anthropology has given her an unusual window into the interior landscape
of her patients. What she has found is that the desire for external
transformation through surgery is connected to internal transformation,
most particularly at key moments of transition in a woman's life.
Although some eight million women a year have some sort of procedure
done, cosmetic surgery is still identified with excessive vanity,
narcissism, lack of authenticity, and psychological weakness with
the path of least resistance being to deny having had it. By framing
cosmetic surgery in a more deeply spiritual and psychological way,
Eskenazi takes on this culture of shame and refutes the idea that
cosmetic surgery and internal change are antithetical. Whether women
decide to have cosmetic surgery or not, this book will provide them
with a different vision and a context for understanding their decision."
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