March 2012
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The elements : a visual exploration of every known...
The elements : a visual exploration of every known atom in the universe / Theodore Gray ; photographs by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann.
“The elements are what we - and everything around us - are made of. But how many elements have you seen in their pure, raw, uncombined form? This book presents photographic representations of the 118 elements in the period table, along with facts,...
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Space chronicles : facing the ultimate frontier
Space chronicles : facing the ultimate frontier / Neil deGrasse Tyson ; edited by Avis Lang.
“Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson presents his views on the future of space travel and America’s role in that future, giving his readers an eye-opening manifesto on the importance of space exploration for America’s economy, security, and morale.”—Summary.
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Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures
Wonderstruck : a novel in words and pictures / Brian Selznick.
“Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben’s story is told in words; Rose’s in pictures.”—Summary.
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Raylan
Raylan / Elmore Leonard.
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“When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, “If I have to pull my gun I’ll shoot to kill.” Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there’s big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked...
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The Civil War : the second year told by those who...
The Civil War : the second year told by those who lived it / Stephen W. Sears, editor..
“The Library of America’s ambitious four-volume series continues with this volume that traces events from January 1862 to January 1863, an unforgettable portrait of the crucial year that turned a secessionist rebellion into a war of emancipation. Including eleven never-before- published...
February 2012
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Fermat’s enigma : the epic quest to solve the...
Fermat’s enigma : the epic quest to solve the world’s greatest mathematical problem / Simon Singh ; foreword by John Lynch..
“xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, …no solution “I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.” With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician...
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The real Romney
The real Romney / Michael Kranish and Scott Helman..
“From the investigative reporters who have tracked his career for years comes a riveting, no-holds-barred biography of Mitt Romney, the early frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president.”—Abstract.
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The Obamas
The Obamas / Jodi Kantor..
“Kantor takes readers deep inside the White House as the Obamas try to grapple with their new roles, change the country, raise children, maintain friendships, and figure out what it means to be the first black President and First Lady.”—Abstract.
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I want my hat back
I want my hat back / Jon Klassen..
“A bear almost gives up his search for his missing hat until he remembers something important.”—Summary.
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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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Goodnight, goodnight, construction site
Goodnight, goodnight, construction site / Sherri Duskey Rinker and [illustrated by] Tom Lichtenheld.
“At sunset, when their work is done for the day, a crane truck, a cement mixer, and other pieces of construction equipment make their way to their resting places and go to sleep.”—Summary.
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Eruptions that shook the world
Eruptions that shook the world / Clive Oppenheimer.
“What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago? Did they contribute to the ebb and flow of ancient empires, the French Revolution and the rise of fascism in Europe in...
January 2012
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The modern café / Francisco Migoya
The modern café / Francisco Migoya ; photography by Ben Fink.
“A professional guide to every aspect of the launch and management of a modern, upscale caf . The Modern Café is the first comprehensive, must-have reference for the aspiring restaurateur or café owner who wants to make sure he gets every detail right. This exquisitely illustrated volume is packed with professional...
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The panic virus : a true story of medicine,...
The panic virus : a true story of medicine, science, and fear / Seth Mnookin.
“WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch one of the...
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Salted : a manifesto on the world’s most essential...
Salted : a manifesto on the world’s most essential mineral, with recipes / Mark Bitterman ; photography by Mark Bitterman and Jennifer Martiné.
“An authoritative field guide to an indispensable and increasingly fashionable ingredient—featuring 80 salt profiles, a reference guide with 160 salts, and more than 50 recipes—written by the country’s top purveyor of artisanal...
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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
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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
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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
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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...