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New Books This Week

The ocean at the end of the lane
Broken words : the abuse of science and faith in American politics
A primer of botanical Latin with vocabulary
Preserving Western history
Up till now : the autobiography
The union of their dreams : power, hope, and struggle in Cesar Chavez’s farm worker movement
The collected stories of Lydia Davis
Surface for dummies
Erasing death : the science that is rewriting the boundaries between life and death
Payback : the case for revenge
Smart casual : the transformation of gourmet restaurant style in America
Odd couples : extraordinary differences between the sexes in the animal kingdom 
Brainwashed : the seductive appeal of mindless neuroscience
Ecology and management of forest soils
Assessment of climate change in the Southwest United States : a report prepared for the National Climate Assessment
Impact cratering : processes and products
The encyclopedia of early Earth
Life on the brink : environmentalists confront overpopulation
Degrees of inequality : how the politics of higher education sabotaged the American dream
Higgs force : cosmic symmetry shattered : the story of the greatest scientific discovery for 50 years
Math jokes 4 mathy folks
Controversies in cognitive neuroscience
The ethical project
The crusades of Cesar Chavez : a biography
Debating the ethics of immigration : is there a right to exclude?
The long and the short of it : the science of life span and aging
Geomorphic analysis of river systems : an approach to reading the landscape
The eagle and the virgin : nation and cultural revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940
A concise history of American music education
Seeking the significance of music education : essays and reflections
The Wiley-Blackwell companion to sociology
The logic of slavery : debt, technology, and pain in American literature
Each Hour Redeem : Time and Justice in African American Literature
The poor among us : a history of family poverty and homelessness in New York City
Looking for Information : a survey of research on information seeking, needs and behavior
Star trek. a trek from science fiction to science fact

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of April 21:

Colorado rocks & minerals : a field guide to the Centennial State
Mexican Americans, American Mexicans : from Conquistadors to Chicanos
Google Nexus 7 tablet
Apple TV portable genius
Kindle Fire HD for dummies
Give and take : a revolutionary approach to success
Reducing gun violence in America : informing policy with evidence and analysis
Tesla : inventor of the electrical age
Confessions of a bad teacher : the shocking truth from the front lines of American public education
Secret history : the story of cryptology
Frogs of the United States and Canada
The age of atheists : how we have sought to live since the death of God
An epidemic of rumors : how stories shape our perception of disease
The Harlem Hellfighters
Biology of aging
Ecological restoration : principles, values, and structure of an emerging profession
Conservation and the genetics of populations
Social learning : an introduction to mechanisms, methods, and models
The misrepresented minority : new insights on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and the implications for higher education
What I’ve stolen, what I’ve earned
The world of Wal-Mart : discounting the American dream
The frontier club : popular westerns and cultural power, 1880-1924
Sacred darkness : a global perspective on the ritual use of caves
Frozen earth : the once and future story of ice ages
Planetary climates
Art of intelligence : lessons from a life in the CIA’s clandestine service
Freedom with violence : race, sexuality, and the US state
The noble gases as geochemical tracers
Energy science : principles, technologies, and impacts
The professional barista’s handbook : an expert’s guide to preparing espresso, coffee, and tea
From Indians to Chicanos : the dynamics of Mexican-American culture
Naked statistics : stripping the dread from the data
How to fight presidents : defending yourself against the badasses who ran this country
The car in 2035 : mobility planning for the near future
Urban China
She’s not there : a life in two genders
The visual arts : a history
Marriage customs of the world : an encyclopedia of dating customs and wedding traditions
The Amish
Contested waters : an environmental history of the Colorado River
Front porch politics : the forgotten heyday of American activism in the 1970s and 1980s
The secret world of sleep : the surprising science of the mind at rest
Thank you for your service
The second machine age : work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies
Redefining girly : how parents can fight the stereotyping and sexualizing of girlhood, from birth to tween
The great Maya droughts in cultural context : case studies in resilience and vulnerability
Studying human behavior : how scientists investigate aggression and sexuality
Adventure time
Hyperbole and a half : unfortunate situations, flawed coping mechanisms, mayhem, and other things that happened
Evolution

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New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of April 14:

The walking dead
On looking : eleven walks with expert eyes
Streaming : movies, media, and instant access
The heart of the plate : vegetarian recipes for a new generation
Dogfight : how Apple and Google went to war and started a revolution
Memories and reflections of the dispossessed : a collection of memoirs for the 60th anniversary of the Czechoslovak-Hungarian population exchange
A field guide to American houses : the definitive guide to identifying and understanding America’s domestic architecture
From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg : disruptive innovation in the age of the Internet
It’s complicated : the social lives of networked teens
The Sibley guide to birds
Organic chemistry : breakthroughs and perspectives 
Age of context : mobile, sensors, data and the future of privacy
What the dormouse said : how the sixties counterculture shaped the personal computer industry
Assessment for counselors
Lost mountain : a year in the vanishing wilderness : radical strip mining and the devastation of Appalachia
Super graphic : a visual guide to the comic book universe
Smarter than you think : how technology is changing our minds for the better
Angry white men : American masculinity at the end of an era
Hearts and minds : a people’s history of counterinsurgency
Breakfast : a history
The next America : boomers, millennials, and the looming generational showdown
Ha! : the science of when we laugh and why
Shadow warfare : the history of America’s undeclared wars
Lunch : a history
People watching : Social Perceptual, and Neurophysiological Studies of Body Perception
Trinity : a graphic history of the first atomic bomb
Animal wise : how we know animals think and feel
How to fake a moon landing : exposing the myths of science denial
Student success in college : creating conditions that matter

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of April 7:

Five days at Memorial : life and death in a storm-ravaged hospital
Difficult men : behind the scenes of a creative revolution: from The Sopranos and The wire to Mad men and Breaking bad
Our America : a Hispanic history of the United States
Mapping Mormonism : an atlas of Latter-day Saint history
Nature’s noblemen : transatlantic masculinities and the nineteenth-century American West
Aging in America
Everyday Las Vegas : local life in a tourist town
Small cities USA : growth, diversity, and inequality
The power of the zoot : youth culture and resistance during World War II
Fast-forward family : home, work, and relationships in middle-class America
Women and wars
The other Wes Moore : one name, two fates
The year without summer : 1816 and the volcano that darkened the world and changed history
To the end of June : the intimate life of American foster care
My dog always eats first : homeless people and their animals
To sell is human : the surprising truth about moving others
Yoga in practice
Environmental flows : saving rivers in the third millennium
The feeling child : laying the foundations of confidence and resilience
Keys to the city : how economics, institutions, social interactions, and politics shape development
Walls and mirrors : Mexican Americans, Mexican immigrants, and the politics of ethnicity
Standard & Poor’s industry surveys
Remote sensing for geoscientists : image analysis and integration
Lonely planet Australia

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of March 31:

Portraits from North American Indian life
Historic preservation : an introduction to its history, principles, and practice
The book : a history of the Bible
Go : a Kidd’s guide to graphic design
Art detective : spot the difference!
Chasing literacy : reading and writing in an age of acceleration
Intimacy : Poems
Dream dog
Aztec philosophy : understanding a world in motion
Handbook of transnational crime and justice
New Mexico’s Crypto-Jews : image and memory
African exodus : the origins of modern humanity