Category Archives: New Books

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

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

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of March 17:

Owls
An appetite for wonder : the making of a scientist : a memoir
Research design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches
Essential readings in wildlife management and conservation
Essential questions : opening doors to student understanding
Badluck Way : a year on theragged edge of the West
Happiness and poverty in developing countries : a global perspective
The behaviour of the domestic cat
Renewable energy : a first course
Bonsai : a patient art : the Bonsai Collection of the Chicago Botanic Garden
Marijuana : a reference handbook
Natural area tourism : ecology, impacts, and management
Learning targets : helping students aim for understanding in today’s lesson
What is history?
Jackson Pollock : a biography
Overcoming textbook fatigue : 21st century tools to revitalize teaching and learning
The low countries : arts and society in Flanders and Netherlands : [yearbook no.] 21
The geologic time scale 2012
The impact of the geological sciences on society
The web of geological sciences : advances, impacts, and interactions
The de-textbook : the stuff you didn’t know about the stuff you thought you knew
Money : the unauthorised biography
The anatomy of violence : the biological roots of crime
Drunk tank pink : and other unexpected forces that shape how we think, feel, and behave.
Assignments matter : making the connections that help students meet standards
Therapy with dreams and nightmares : theory, research & practice
The Chicano studies reader : an anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2000
Choice theory : a new psychology of personal freedom
Late Cretaceous to Quaternary strata and fossils of Texas : field excursions celebrating 125 years of GSA and Texas geology, GSA South-Central Section meeting, Austin, Texas, April 2013
Classic concepts and new directions : exploring 125 years of GSA discoveries in the Rocky Mountain Region
Do federal social programs work?
In watermelon sugar
Mexican American voices : a documentary reader

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of March 10:

Rio Grande narrow gauge : the final years, Alamosa to Chama
The power of the American presidency : 1789-2000
Sleepwalking through history : America in the Reagan years
Is God happy? : selected essays
Anxiety : a short history
Research design : qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches
My age of anxiety : fear, hope, dread, and the search for peace of mind
The sixth extinction : an unnatural history
Letters to a young conservative
How the snake lost its legs : curious tales from the frontier of evo-devo
Presidencies derailed : why university leaders fail and how to prevent it

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of March 3:

Salt, sugar, fat : how the food giants hooked us
Fortunately, the milk
Playing with books : the art of upcycling, deconstructing, & reimagining the book
The tower treasure
In the next room, or, The vibrator play
Becky Shaw
Lucretia Mott’s heresy : abolition and women’s rights in nineteenth-century America
Who says women can’t be doctors? : the story of Elizabeth Blackwell
Which is round? Which is bigger?
On a beam of light : a story of Albert Einstein
Beyond the solar system : exploring galaxies, black holes, alien planets, and more : a history with 21 activities
The tree lady : the true story of how one tree-loving woman changed a city forever
The tapir scientist
The boy who loved math : the improbable life of Paul Erdős
The animal book : a collection of the fastest, fiercest, toughest, cleverest, shyest–and most surprising–animals on earth
Frog trouble : deluxe songbook
Cool tools : a catalog of possibilities
The Carpet people
The kid’s book of simple everyday science
Parrots over Puerto Rico
Little poems for tiny ears
This
Next fall
Sick
The widow’s blind date
Back of the throat
Statebuilding from the margins : between Reconstruction and the New Deal
In defense of history
Montaillou : the promised land of error
Mister Max : the book of lost things
What makes different sounds?
Hand it over, Harry : don’t steal
Girl to girl : honest talk about growing up and your changing body
Inside the bees’ hive
Motherless daughters : the legacy of loss
Utes, the mountain people
Pale blue dot : a vision of the human future in space
International phonetic alphabet for singers : a manual for English and foreign language diction
The mystery and meaning of the Dead Sea scrolls
Stained glass basics : techniques, tools, projects
When character was king : a story of Ronald Reagan
More making books by hand : exploring miniature books, alternative structures, and found objects
American Medical Association girl’s guide to becoming a teen
American Medical Association boys’ guide to becoming a teen
The death of conservatism
Race to incarcerate : a graphic retelling
Hollow city
Retention and resistance : writing instruction and students who leave
Taming lust : crimes against nature in the early Republic
Space-time perspectives on early colonial Moquegua

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of February 24:

The drug book : from arsenic to Xanax, 250 milestones in the history of drugs
A Coney Island of the mind : poems
Happy city : transforming our lives through urban design
Real happiness at work : meditations for accomplishment, achievement, and peace
Material relations : the marriage figurines of prehispanic Honduras
Comparative criminal justice systems : global and local perspectives
Mountain geography : physical and human dimensions
Our hearts fell to the ground : Plains Indian views of how the West was lost
The Chrome book : the essential guide to cloud computing with Google Chrome and the Chromebook
The philosophy of Andy Warhol : from A to B and back again
A Confederate general from Big Sur
The sublime

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of February 17:

Forces of habit : drugs and the making of the modern world
The quest for the Nazi personality : a psychological investigation of Nazi war criminals
A primer in positive psychology
ACSM’s guidelines for exercise testing and prescription
Head strong : how psychology is revolutionizing war
Applying social statistics : an introduction to quantitative reasoning in sociology
The theory toolbox : critical concepts for the humanities, arts, and social sciences
The meritocracy myth
Political rock
Electroboy : a memoir of mania
Smoke signals : a social history of marijuana– medical, recreational and scientific
The drowning girl : a memoir
Girls, delinquency, and juvenile justice
Test anxiety : applied research, assessment, and treatment interventions
Measurement error and research design
Juvenile delinquency
Radical equations : civil rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project
Transplantation, a sense of place and culture : a touring exhibition of contemporary narrative jewellery by British and Australian artists in conjunction with the National Centre for Craft and Design
Me & her : a memoir of madness
ACSM’s resource manual for Guidelines for exercise testing and prescription
Characters of the Old Spanish Trail
What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought
Once a warrior, always a warrior : navigating the transition from combat to home–including combat stress, PTSD, and mTBI
Gender and families
Perv : the sexual deviant in all of us
Ido in Autismland : climbing out of Autism’s silent prison
Lessons from the masters : current concepts in astronomical image processing
Arkham Asylum, living hell
Mass media and American politics
Principles of neurotheology
American cinema/American culture
Race, class, and gender in the United States : an integrated study
The new class society : goodbye American dream?
Data science for business : [what you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking]

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of February 10:

The new Jim Crow : mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
Reading the rocks : the autobiography of the earth
Free will and consciousness : a determinist account of the illusion of free will
Scarcity : why having too little means so much
The Montana vigilantes, 1863-1870 : gold, guns, and gallows
Fashion jewelry, the collection of Barbara Berger
Jesus the radical : the parables and modern morality
Quality education as a constitutional right : creating a grassroots movement to transform public schools
Naturalism’s philosophy of the sacred : Justus Buchler, Karl Jaspers, and George Santayana
Nature’s sublime : an essay in aesthetic naturalism
The marijuana conviction : a history of marijuana prohibition in the United States
Why God won’t go away : brain science and the biology of belief
An introduction to the rock-forming minerals
Bad boys, bad men : confronting antisocial personality disorder (sociopathy)
The goldfinch
My story
Changing the way we die : compassionate end-of-life care and the hospice movement
365 slow cooker suppers
Crack in America : demon drugs and social justice
Banished : the new social control in urban America
Punished : policing the lives of Black and Latino boys
Drug war Mexico : politics, neoliberalism and violence in the new narcoeconomy
Facundo : civilization and barbarism : the first complete English translation
Racism without racists : color-blind racism and the persistence of racial inequality in America
On anger : race, cognition, narrative
God’s doodle : the life and times of the penis
The strange career of marihuana : politics and ideology of drug control in America
Papayalamb
The teachings of Don Juan : a Yaqui way of knowledge
The psychology of visual art : eye, brain and art