January 2012
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Opus vino
Opus vino / [editor-in-chief, Jim Gordon].
“Written by a new generation of wine critics with up-to-date, in-depth knowledge of the different wine regions, the wineries and their wines, Opus Vino provides greater coverage to the wine world than any other illustrated wine book. Organized by country, and then broken down into regions, districts, and wineries, the book looks at more than 4,500...
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Child exploitation and trafficking : examining the...
Child exploitation and trafficking : examining the global challenges and U.S. responses / Virginia M. Kendall and T. Markus Funk.
“Each year, more than two million children around the world fall victim to commercial sexual exploitation. The numbers of children sexually abused for non-commercial purposes are even higher. Put simply, the growing, increasingly-organized epidemic of child...
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Raising Elijah : protecting our children in an age...
Raising Elijah : protecting our children in an age of environmental crisis / Sandra Steingraber.
“Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called “a poet with a knife,” she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a...
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The visual food lover’s guide : includes essential...
The visual food lover’s guide : includes essential information on how to buy, prepare, and store over 1,000 types of food / QA International.
“An invaluable guide on how to identify, select, prepare, and store over 1,000 types of food
Small enough to carry everywhere, but packed with information, this practical and beautifully illustrated full-color guide covers almost every type of...
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The year of the flood : a novel
The year of the flood : a novel / Margaret Atwood..
“The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God’s Gardeners-a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life-has long predicted a natural...
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Celebrity in the 21st century : a reference...
Celebrity in the 21st century : a reference handbook / Larry Z. Leslie.
“Tabloid magazines, television shows, and Internet sites inundate us with daily updates about movie stars, musicians, athletes, and even those who have achieved celebrity status simply for being rich and extravagant. Disturbingly, it appears that the harder our celebrities fall, the more fascinating they are to...
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Stir-frying to the sky’s edge : the ultimate guide...
Stir-frying to the sky’s edge : the ultimate guide to mastery, with authentic recipes and stories / Grace Young ; photographs by Steven Mark Needham.
“The technique and tradition of stir-frying, which is at once simple yet subtly complex, is as vital today as it has been for hundreds of years. In Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge, James Beard Award-winning author Grace Young shares...
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Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the...
Blood work : a tale of medicine and murder in the scientific revolution / Holly Tucker.
“A sharp-eyed expose of the deadly politics, murderous plots, and cutthroat rivalries behind the first blood transfusions in seventeenth-century Europe.”—Summary.
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December 2011
8 posts
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Instant city : life and death in Karachi
Instant city : life and death in Karachi / Steve Inskeep.
“Analyzes the growing metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan, including the importance of regional stability to American security interests, the terrorist bombing of a Shia religious procession, and the challenging religious, ethnic, and political divides.”—Summary.
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The Elements of Graphic Design : Space, Unity,...
The Elements of Graphic Design : Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type / Alex W. White.
This design book has been revised and expanded to feature a new dimension of ideas to thinking about graphic design relationships. It is now in full color in a larger, 8 x 10-inch trim size, and contains 40 percent more content and over 750 images to enhance and better clarify the concepts in this...
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Tumford the terrible
Tumford the terrible / Nancy Tillman.
“Even though Tumford the cat is well loved by George and Violet Stoutt, they despair of ever teaching him to apologize when he does something wrong.”—Abstract.
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A discovery of witches
A discovery of witches / Deborah Harkness.
“Witch and Yale historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of...
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The very best of Recipes for health : 250 recipes...
The very best of Recipes for health : 250 recipes and more from the popular feature on NYTimes.com / Martha Rose Shulman ; photographs by Andrew Scrivani.
“From the celebrated NYTimes.com food columnist come her favorite ways to use seasonal produce and a well-stocked pantry to create easy, nutritious meals every day of the week
From its inception, “Recipes for Health” has been...
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Science ink : tattoos of the science obsessed
Science ink : tattoos of the science obsessed / Carl Zimmer ; foreword by Mary Roach.
“Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. This fascinating book showcases hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and neuroscience to mathematics...
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Peace meals : candy-wrapped Kalashnikovs and other...
Peace meals : candy-wrapped Kalashnikovs and other war stories / Anna Badkhen.
“A war correspondent describes her experiences in some of the world’s most dangerous regions and shares cultural recipes that she collected from the people she met.”—Summary.
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Radioactivity : a history of a mysterious science
Radioactivity : a history of a mysterious science / Marjorie C. Malley.
“This is the story of a new science. Beginning with an obscure discovery in 1896, radioactivity led researchers on a quest for understanding that ultimately confronted the intersection of knowledge and mystery. Mysterious from the start, radioactivity attracted researchers who struggled to understand it. What...
November 2011
15 posts
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1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created
1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created / Charles C. Mann.
“From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two...
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Advancing the ball : race, reformation, and the...
Advancing the ball : race, reformation, and the quest for equal coaching opportunity in the NFL / N. Jeremi Duru.
“Professional football is, without question, the most popular sport in America, and by a substantial margin. Yet few scholars who look at the role of race and sports in America focus on the NFL. Historically, racial relations in other sports — particularly baseball,...
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Kaufman field guide to advanced birding :...
Kaufman field guide to advanced birding : understanding what you see and hear / Kenn Kaufman ; illustrated with line drawings by the author and with more than 700 images based on photos by Kenn Kaufman … [et al.].
“Birders can memorize hundreds of details and still not be able to identify birds if they don’t really understand what’s in front of them.Today birders have access...
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The world according to Monsanto : pollution,...
The world according to Monsanto : pollution, corruption, and the control of the world’s food supply / Marie-Monique Robin ; translated from the French by George Holoch.
“As this powerful book makes clear, Monsanto’s innovations create more problems than they solve-above all by helping to concentrate the food system in ever fewer hands, with baleful consequences for the...
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Without Buddha I could not be a Christian
Without Buddha I could not be a Christian / Paul F. Knitter.
“Theologian Paul Knitter tells how Buddhism helped him through a crisis of faith, and explains how Buddhist perspectives can enliven Christianity.”—Abstract.
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Drive : the surprising truth about what motivates...
Drive : the surprising truth about what motivates us / Daniel H. Pink.
“As Daniel H. Pink explains in his new and paradigm- shattering book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, the secret to high performance and satisfaction in today’s world is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world....
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The glamour of grammar : a guide to the magic and...
The glamour of grammar : a guide to the magic and mystery of practical English / Roy Peter Clark.
“Early in the history of English, the words “grammar” and “glamour” meant the same thing: the power to charm. Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools, aims to put the glamour back in grammar with this fun, engaging alternative to stuffy instructionals. In this...
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101 quantum questions : what you need to know...
101 quantum questions : what you need to know about the world you can’t see / Kenneth W. Ford.
“Ken Ford’s mission is to help us understand the “great ideas” of quantum physics—ideas such as wave-particle duality, the uncertainty principle, superposition, and conservation. These fundamental concepts provide the structure for 101 Quantum Questions, an authoritative yet engaging book for...
Destroy all monsters, and other stories
Destroy all monsters, and other stories / Greg Hrbek..
“Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, Greg Hrbek’s Destroy All Monsters, and Other Stories is a collection that explores what it means to be human—and inhuman. These ten stories have won an array of honors—and whether set in the historical past or in a speculative future, each is wildly imaginative and shockingly real....
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The age of McCarthyism : a brief history with...
The age of McCarthyism : a brief history with documents / Ellen Schrecker.
“This documentary history fills a long-standing need for a short yet comprehensive treatment of McCarthyism. The book is divided into two sections. The first is a compelling essay of about one-hundred pages in which the author discusses the origins and escalation of the anti-Communist campaign in the U.S. in the...
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The meaning of the Holy Qur’an in today’s English
The meaning of the Holy Qur’an in today’s English / presented by Yahiya Emerick..
“This is a translation of the Qur’an into modern English with a complete suite of commentary, introductory materials, biographies and a multitude of other resources. The commentary is designed to bring the understanding of Islam into the modern era.”—Description.
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Outliers : the story of success
Outliers : the story of success / Malcolm Gladwell.
“In this provocative and inspiring book, Malcolm Gladwell examines everyone from business giants to scientific geniuses, sports stars to musicians, and reveals what they have in common. He looks behind the spectacular results, the myths and the legends to show what really explains exceptionally successful people.”...
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Icons of American cooking
Icons of American cooking / Victor W. Geraci and Elizabeth S. Demers, editors.
“Before 1946 and the advent of the first television cooking show, James Beard’s I Love to Eat, not many Americans were familiar with the finer aspects of French cuisine. Today, food in the United States has experienced multiple revolutions, having receivedand embracedinfluences from not only Europe, but...
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The night circus : a novel
The night circus : a novel / Erin Morgenstern.
“Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.”—Summary.
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1861 : the Civil War awakening
1861 : the Civil War awakening / Adam Goodheart.
“As the United States marks the 150th anniversary of our defining national drama, historian Adam Goodheart presents an original account of how the Civil War began. 1861 is an epic of courage and heroism beyond the battlefields. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded, inspiring a new generation to reject their...
October 2011
10 posts
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The end of country
The end of country / Seamus McGraw.
“The End of Country is the compelling story about the epic battle for control of one of the richest natural gas deposits the world has ever known: the Marcellus Shale, worth more than one trillion dollars. In a remote northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, an intense conflict begins, pitting the forces of corporate America against a community of stoic,...
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How to read a word
How to read a word / Elizabeth Knowles.
“Language is not fixed, but evolves over time, and exploring the routes taken by the words can lead us on fascinating journeys. How to Read a Word, written by the noted lexicographer Elizabeth Knowles, shows us how to explore the origins, associations, and evolution of words, focusing in particular on two points: what questions can be asked about a...
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How Italian food conquered the world
How Italian food conquered the world / John F. Mariani ; foreword by Lidia Bastianich.
“Not so long ago, Italian food was regarded as a poor man’s gruel—little more than pizza, macaroni with sauce, and red wines in a box. Here, John Mariani shows how the Italian immigrants to America created, through perseverance and sheer necessity, an Italian-American food culture, and how it became...
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A game of thrones
A game of thrones / George R.R. Martin.
“Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister forces are massing beyond the kingdom’s protective Wall. To the south, the king’s...
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That used to be us : how America fell behind in...
That used to be us : how America fell behind in the world it invented and how we can come back / Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.
“America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading...
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Robert’s rules of order : newly revised in brief
Robert’s rules of order : newly revised in brief / Henry M. Robert III, [et. al.]..
“Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised, In Brief was first published in 2005 to meet the need for a simple and short book on parliamentary procedure. This second edition of In Brief is now updated and revised to match the new full edition of Robert’s Rules of Order, Newly Revised, also published this...
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Fringe-ology : how I tried to explain away the...
Fringe-ology : how I tried to explain away the unexplainable—and couldn’t / Steve Volk.
“Fringe-ology is a rollicking narrative journey into the unexplored territory where modern science and the paranormal converge. In it, reporter Steve Volk peeks over an anesthesiologist’s shoulder as he claps a mask over a patient’s face and leads us on an exploration of the deepest realm of...
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Brandwashed : tricks companies use to manipulate...
Brandwashed : tricks companies use to manipulate our minds and persuade us to buy / Martin Lindstrom.
“In this shocking, no-holds-barred expos, Lindstrom draws on more than 20 years spent in the back rooms and board rooms to reveal all the manipulative ways marketers and advertisers tap into our most deeply seated fears, vulnerabilities, impulses, dreams, and desires—all in the...
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Ender’s game
Ender’s game / Orson Scott Card.
“Child hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.”—Summary.
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The idea of America : reflections on the birth of...
The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States / Gordon S. Wood.
“A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution—from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment—and the...
September 2011
10 posts
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Why we believe in god(s) : a concise guide to the...
Why we believe in god(s) : a concise guide to the science of faith / J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. with Clare Aukofer ; foreword by Richard Dawkins.
“In this groundbreaking volume, J. Anderson Thomson, Jr., MD, with Clare Aukofer, offers a succinct yet comprehensive study of how and why the human mind generates religious belief. Dr. Thomson, a highly respected practicing psychiatrist...
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Caffeine blues : wake up to the hidden dangers of...
Caffeine blues : wake up to the hidden dangers of America’s #1 drug / Stephen Cherniske.
“Reveals how this natural amphetamine wreaks havoc upon the body by increasing the risk of certain kinds of cancer, PMS, heart disease, ulcers, and other ailments, and includes valuable strategies for reducing caffeine intake and increasing energy levels with various nutrients....
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Ice : a memoir of gangster life and redemption--...
Ice : a memoir of gangster life and redemption— from South Central to Hollywood / Ice-T and Douglas Century.
“The hip-hop artist and television star shares the story of his early life, marked by the deaths of his parents, his involvement in gangs, and the single-minded work ethic that enabled his rise to international fame.”—Summary.
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The magicians : a novel
The magicians : a novel / Lev Grossman.
“Like everyone else, precocious high school senior Quentin Coldwater assumes that magic isn’t real, until he finds himself admitted to a very secretive and exclusive college of magic in upstate New York. There he indulges in joys of college-friendship, love, sex, and booze- and receives a rigorous education in modern sorcery. But magic...
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Caligula : a biography
Caligula : a biography / Aloys Winterling ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider, Glenn W. Most, and Paul Psoinos.
“The infamous emperor Caligula ruled Rome from A.D. 37 to 41 as a tyrant who ultimately became a monster. An exceptionally smart and cruelly witty man, Caligula made his contemporaries worship him as a god. He drank pearls dissolved in vinegar and ate food covered in...
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Unfamiliar fishes
Unfamiliar fishes / Sarah Vowell.
“From the bestselling author of “The Wordy Shipmates” comes an examination of Hawaii’s emblematic and exceptional history, retracing the impact of New England missionaries who began arriving in the early 1800s to remake the island paradise into a version of New England.”—Summary.
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The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama
The bridge : the life and rise of Barack Obama / David Remnick.
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as...
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The family Fang
The family Fang / Kevin Wilson.
“Performance artists Caleb and Camille Fang dedicated themselves to making great art. But when an artist’s work lies in subverting normality, it can be difficult to raise well-adjusted children. Just ask Buster and Annie Fang. For as long as they can remember, they starred (unwillingly) in their parents’ madcap pieces. But now that they are grown up, the...
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Wind turbine technology
Wind turbine technology / A.R. Jha.
“Highlighting the capabilities, limitations, and benefits of wind power, Wind Turbine Technology gives you a complete introduction and overview of wind turbine technology and wind farm design and development. It identifies the critical components of a wind turbine, describes the functional capabilities of each component, and examines the latest...