Category Archives: New Books

New Books This Week

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

David and Goliath : underdogs, misfits, and the art of battling giants
Free to learn : why unleashing the instinct to play will make our children happier, more self-reliant, and better students for life
Social media and the value of truth
High price : a neuroscientist’s journey of self-discovery that challenges everything you know about drugs and society
When the money runs out : the end of western affluence
Looks like daylight : voices of indigenous kids
Talking to your doctor : a patient’s guide to communication in the exam room and beyond
Out on a limb : what black bears taught me about intelligence and intuition
A big fat crisis : the hidden forces behind the obesity epidemic – and how we can end it
Counterpoint
How to fail at almost everything and still win big : kind of the story of my life
Meanings of Ripley : the Alien quadrilogy and gender
Stay : a history of suicide and the philosophies against it
Viva la raza! The struggle of the Mexican-American people
Home grown : marijuana and the origins of Mexico’s war on drugs
Emotion and decision making explained
Learning from data : a short course
Artificial intelligence : a modern approach
Handbook of LGBT-affirmative couple and family therapy
Emotions in politics : the affect dimension in political tension
The feeling body : affective science meets the enactive mind
Creative metal forming
Machine learning : a probabilistic perspective
Exploring the illusion of free will and moral responsibility
The individual without passions : modern individualism and the loss of the social bond

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of January 27:

The circle : a novel
The invention of wings
When the king took flight
The autistic brain : thinking across the spectrum
Lexicon
The rational animal : how evolution made us smarter than we think
Coping with concussion and mild traumatic brain injury : a guide to living with the challenges associated with post concussion syndrome and brain trauma
Manifesta : young women, feminism, and the future
Amazing amber
An introduction to statistical learning : with applications in R
Applied predictive modeling
The elements of statistical learning : data mining, inference, and prediction
The architect’s brother
Showcase 500 art necklaces
Redshirts
Is there anything good about men? : how cultures flourish by exploiting men
More than nature needs : language, mind, and evolution
They were soldiers : how the wounded return from America’s wars–the untold story
Culture reexamined : broadening our understanding of social and evolutionary influences
The Rorschach Inkblot Test : an interpretive guide for clinicians
Contemporary jewelry in perspective
21st century jewellery designers. An inspired style

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of January 20:

We are all completely beside ourselves
Politics, culture, and class in the French Revolution
Emmet Gowin : changing the earth : aerial photographs
Advanced sports nutrition
Sports and exercise nutrition
New earrings : 500+ designs from around the world
1,227 quite interesting facts to blow your socks off
Nancy Clark’s sports nutrition guidebook
The neo-Indians : a religion of the third millennium
The new jewelers : desirable, collectable, contemporary
Representative American Speeches 2012-2013
Constructing history : a requiem to mark the moment
Physical education for students with autism spectrum disorders : a comprehensive approach
Affordable, do-able, easy to make, adapted equipment ideas
A certain alchemy
Holding Venus
Sport public relations : managing stakeholder communication
Escrito en el cuerpo = Written on the body
Projects
Parts
Emmet Gowin : photographs
Ceramics in the environment : an international review
Waterline
Saga : the journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen : thirty-five years of photographs
No ordinary days

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of January 13:

From Redstone to Ludlow : John Cleveland Osgood’s struggle against the United Mine Workers of America
Making sense of data II : a practical guide to data visualization, advanced data mining methods, and applications
An introduction to community health
The universe in the rearview mirror : how hidden symmetries shape reality
The death of Artemio Cruz
Graph-based clustering and data visualization algorithms
Teaching and learning emergent research methodologies in art education
Physical activities in the wheelchair and out : an illustrated guide to personalizing participation
Teaching personal and social responsibility through physical activity
The butcher’s tale : murder and anti-semitism in a German town
Sustainable ceramics : a practical approach
Pumpkin : the curious history of an American icon 

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of December 16:

Australia.
Physicians Desk Reference 2014.
A fragile balance : the extraordinary story of Australian marsupials
The Great Barrier Reef : biology, environment and management
Australia’s biodiversity and climate change
Inventing the French Revolution : essays on French political culture in the eighteenth century
Modern Latin America
The French Revolution : a document collection
Work and revolution in France : the language of labor from the Old Regime to 1848
The vanishing children of Paris : rumor and politics before the French Revolution
Napoleon and his collaborators : the making of a dictatorship
Causes & cures in the classroom : getting to the root of academic and behavior problems

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of December 2:

Ballots and barricades : class formation and republican politics in France, 1830-1871
The new trailside cookbook : 100 delicious recipes for the camp chef
How to brew : ingredients, methods, recipes, and equipment for brewing beer at home
Radical brewing : recipes, tales, and world-altering meditations in a glass
Religion, revolution, and regional culture in eighteenth-century France : the ecclesiastical oath of 1791
The family romance of the French Revolution
Killing for coal : America’s deadliest labor war
The geology of Australia
International education : an encyclopedia of contemporary issues and systems

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of November 25:
The island of lost maps : a true story of cartographic crime
The stories that shape us : contemporary women write about the West : an anthology
Sudden origins : fossils, genes, and the emergence of species
The reader’s companion to U.S. women’s history
Portrait of the artist as a young dog
Skeletons on the Zahara : a true story of survival
Vintage Baldwin
Gilgamesh : a new English version
What went wrong? : the clash between Islam and modernity in the Middle East
The first human : the race to discover our earliest ancestors
The social life of information
Why evolution is true
Citizen-in-chief : the second lives of the American presidents
Hadrian and the triumph of Rome
Merchants of doubt : how a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian myth
Brewing
Love is strange : stories of postmodern romance
A quick start guide to mobile marketing : how to create a dynamic campaign and improve your competitive advantage
The elements of metaphysics
Lysistrata
Twilight of the Habsburgs : the life and times of Emperor Francis Joseph
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Beyond cosmic dice : moral life in a random world
Managing innovation : integrating technological, market and organizational change
Applying innovation
San Luis Valley Pioneers
Where rivers change direction
Moosewood Restaurant favorites : the 250 most-requested, naturally delicious recipes from one of America’s best-loved restaurants

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of November 11:

Adventures of an American composer : an autobiography Michael Colgrass ; edited by Neal and Ulla Colgrass.
Timpani tone and the interpretation of baroque and classical music
Footprints in the trail
Autobiography of Mark Twain
Balancing the books : accounting for librarians
Encyclopedia of percussion
Encyclopedia of the history of astronomy and astrophysics
The balanced musician : integrating mind and body for peak performance
Jazz : essential listening
What’s that sound? : an introduction to rock and its history
The recording secrets behind 50 great albums
Frontiers of astrobiology
The making of a drum company : the autobiography of William F. Ludwig II
An analytical index to American literature
Book review index : a master cumulation 1965-1984: a cumulated index to more than 1,650,000 reviews of approximtely 740,500 titles
The view from planet Earth : man looks at the cosmos
The performing life : a singer’s guide to survival
I am Malala : the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban

New Books This Week

Here’s what’s new for the week of October 28:

Volcanic eruptions of 1980 at Mount St. Helens : the first 100 days
Just one evil act
Spiritual questions for the twenty-first century : essays in honor of Joan D. Chittister
Slaughterhouse-five, or, The children’s crusade : a duty-dance with death
The ACS style guide : effective communication of scientific information
Innocent victims in the global war on terror
Alien life imagined : communicating the science and culture of Astrobiology
No place like home : a new beginning with the dogs of Afghanistan
Grating spectroscopes and how to use them
Deep-sky wonders
Astronomical spectroscopy for amateurs
Scientific astrophotography : how amateurs can generate and use professional imaging data
Comets : visitors from deep space
Assessment and student success in a differentiated classroom
National Geographic global atlas : [a comprehensive picture of today with more than 300 new maps, infographics, and illustrations
Global climate change
Stars and their spectra : an introduction to the spectral sequence
Discovery and classification in astronomy : controversy and consensus
The exoplanet handbook
An introduction to the solar system
The so-called historical Jesus and the historic, Biblical Christ
Basketry : a world guide to traditional techniques
The jewels of the Madonna : opera in three acts on Neapolitan life