November New Books

November 2016 New Books

Business and AIM

• Game-changer : game theory and the art of transforming strategic situations / David McAdams.

• The needlepoint book / Jo Ippolito Christensen.

Criminal Justice

• Bad girls at Samarcand : sexuality and sterilization in a southern juvenile reformatory / Karin L. Zipf.

• Latino young men and boys in search of justice : testimonies / edited by Frank de Jesús Acosta ; co-edited: Henry A.J. Ramos ; foreword: Luis J. Rodríguez.

• Rethinking prison reentry : transforming humiliation into humility / Tony Gaskew.

• Son of a gun : a memoir / Justin St. Germain.

• Unfair : the new science of criminal injustice / Adam Benforado.

Education

• Deskbook encyclopedia of American school law, 2017.

• The musical experience : rethinking music teaching and learning / edited by Janet R. Barrett and Peter R. Webster.

• The teacher’s guide to student mental health / William Dikel, MD.

• Why are so many minority students in special education? : understanding race & disability in schools / Beth Harry, Janette Klingner ; forewords by Lisa D. Delpit and Alfredo Artiles.

Fine Arts

• Art of McSweeney’s / by the editors of McSweeney’s.

• Art since 1960 / Michael Archer.

• British ceramics, 1675-1825 / Mint Museum.

• Carnet de voyage : a graphic memoir / Craig Thompson.

• Doonesbury and the art of G.B. Trudeau / Brian Walker.

• Drawing blood : a memoir / Molly Crabapple.

• Rich community : an anthology of Appalachian photographers / David Underwood, editor.

• Storyteller : the photographs of Duane Michals / Linda Benedict-Jones ; with contributions by Allen Ellenzweig [and three others] ; with additional texts by William Jenkins, Max Kozloff, and Enrica Viganò.

• Thomas Hart Benton : discoveries and interpretations / Henry Adams.

• Through the woods : illustrated stories / Emily Carroll.

• Useful work : photographs of Hickory Nut Gap Farm / Ken Abbott ; essays by Rob Neufeld.

Health and P.E.

• Concussion / Jeanne Marie Laskas.

• Fastpitch : the untold history of softball and the women who made the game / Erica Westly.

• The field guide to knots : how to identify, tie, and untie over 80 essential knots for outdoor pursuits / Bob Holtzman.

History

• The age of the Vikings / Anders Winroth.

• Backwater blues : the Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American imagination / Richard M. Mizelle Jr.

• Code warriors : NSA’s codebreakers and the secret intelligence war against the Soviet Union / Stephen Budiansky.

• The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice / Patricia Bell-Scott.

• The land shall be deluged in blood : a new history of the Nat Turner Revolt / Patrick H. Breen.

• The making of Victorian values : decency and dissent in Britain, 1789-1837 / Ben Wilson.

• Notes from a colored girl : the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis / Karsonya Wise Whitehead.

• Paradise now : the story of American Utopianism / Chris Jennings.

• Pushing the Indians out : early movers & shakers in western North Carolina (and Tennessee Territory) / Charles R. Haller.

• Women in ancient America / Karen Olsen Bruhns and Karen E. Stothert.

Language and Literature

• Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart / Claire Harman.

• Constellarium : poems / Jordan Rice.

• The divine magnet : Herman Melville’s letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne / edited with an introduction by Mark Niemeyer ; foreword by Paul Harding.

• On the pleasure of hating / William Hazlitt.

• Rebel souls : Walt Whitman and America’s first Bohemians / Justin Martin.

• Religion around Emily Dickinson / W. Clark Gilpin.

• Todos somos Whitman / por Luis Alberto Ambroggio ; traducido por Brett Alan Sanders = We Are All Whitman / by Alberto Ambroggio ; translated by Brett Alan Sanders.

• Truth of my songs : poems of the Trobairitz / translated and with an introduction by Claudia Keelan.

• Writings on landscape, culture, and society / Frederick Law Olmsted ; Charles E. Beveridge, editor.

Math and Natural Sciences

• 100 ideas that changed the web / Jim Boulton.

• A history of life in 100 fossils / Paul D. Taylor & Aaron O’Dea.

• Are libraries obsolete? : an argument for relevance in the digital age / Mark Y. Herring.

• Biology and conservation of North American tortoises / edited by David C. Rostal, Earl D. McCoy, and Henry R. Mushinsky.

• The improbability principle : why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day / David J. Hand.

• Long-term response of a forest watershed ecosystem : clearcutting in the southern Appalachians / edited by Wayne T. Swank and Jackson R. Webster.

• The permaculture city : regenerative design for urban, suburban, and town resilience / Toby Hemenway.

• Pit bull : the battle over an American icon / Bronwen Dickey.

• The secret war between downloading and uploading : tales of the computer as culture machine / Peter Lunenfeld.

Nursing

• Death before dying / Gary S. Belkin.

• Enigmas of health and disease : how epidemiology helps unravel scientific mysteries / Alfredo Morabia.

• Precarious prescriptions : contested histories of race and health in North America / Laurie B. Green, John Mckiernan-González, and Martin Summers, editors.

Social Sciences

• A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement / Maegan Parker Brooks.

• The anatomy of addiction : what science and research tell us about the true causes, best preventive techniques, and most successful treatments / Akikur Mohammad, MD.

• Because of sex : one law, ten cases, and fifty years that changed American women’s lives at work / Gillian Thomas.

• Civil rights and the making of the modern American state / Megan Ming Francis, Pepperdine University.

• Coping with BPD : DBT and CBT skills to soothe the symptoms of borderline personality disorder / Blaise Aguirre, MD, Gillian Galen, PsyD ; foreword by Alec Miller, PsyD.

• Cowardice : a brief history / Chris Walsh.

• Good white people : the problem with middle-class white anti-racism / Shannon Sullivan.

• Let’s keep talking : Lacanian tales of love, sex, and other catastrophes / Yael Baldwin.

• Liberated threads : Black women, style, and the global politics of soul / Tanisha C. Ford.

• The reproach of hunger : food, justice, and money in the twenty-first century / David Rieff.

• The rise and fall of American growth : the U.S. standard of living since the Civil War / Robert J. Gordon.

• Sex workers unite : a history of the movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk / Melinda Chateauvert.

• Surprise attack : from Pearl Harbor to 9/11 to Benghazi / Larry Hancock.

• Viktor Frankl’s search for meaning : an emblematic 20th-century life / Timothy E. Pytell.

• You may also like : taste in an age of endless choice / Tom Vanderbilt.

Curriculum

• Jackaby / William Ritter.

• The very hungry caterpillar / by Eric Carle.

Fiction

• Barkskins : a novel / Annie Proulx.

• The best American short stories 2016 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Junot Díaz with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Junot Díaz.

• The nix / Nathan Hill.

• The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 / chosen and with an introduction by Laura Furman ; with essays by jurors Molly Antopol, Peter Cameron, Lionel Shriver on the stories they admire most.

• Razor girl / Carl Hiaasen.

• Three novels of the early 1960s / Ross Macdonald ; Tom Nolan, editor.