New Books: Earth Day 2020

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Earth Day, New Books

Happy Earth Day! Although we’re not in our physical library right now, we work on keeping our collections strong all year. Check out our books when we return and for right now be sure to check our databases of articles, e-books, and videos online.

Every year we like to share some good news as the bad gets a lot more press than the good when it comes to ecology.

California Condor chicks make a soaring comeback.

The Farm Bureau share their accomplishments and plans for Ecology and Farming this year.

Amazon fires aren’t as bad as you think.

Kirkwood’s Newest Ecology Books

Earthdance by Joanne Ryder, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 577 R992e

Don’t Let Them Disappear: 12 Endangered Species Across the Globe by Chelsea Clinton, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 591.68 C641d

 

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West by Nate Blakeslee, Call Number: 599.773 B637a

Antarctica: What Everyone Needs to Know by David Day, Call Number: 998 D273a

A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvisit, Call Number: 363.738 G624b

Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner, Call Number: 615.902 G221c

Climate and Society:Transforming the Future by Robin Leichenko and Karen O’Brien, Call Number: 304.2 L526c

Coal by Mark C. Thurber, Call Number: 333.822 T536c

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks – the Ocean’s Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever, Call Number: 597.3 M154e

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, Call Number: 304.62 B849

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben, Call Number: 304.28 M158e

Energy and Civilization: A History by Vaclav Smil, Call Number: 333.79 S641en

Everglades: America’s Wetland by Mac Stone, Call Number: 975.939 S879e

Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer’s Twenty-Year Battle Against Dupont by Robert Bilott
NOTE: The story behind the movie Dark Waters.

Extinction: A Very Short Introduction by Paul B. Wignall, Call Number: 576.84 W661e

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by Bill McKibben, Call Number: 909.83 M158f

The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years by Sonia Shah, Call Number: 614.532 S525f

Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants by Jacob Shell, Call Number: 599.67 S544g

Good Enough to Eat?: Next Generation GM Crops by Ian D. Godwin, Call Number: 631.523 G591g

Human Impact on the Natural Environment: Past, Present, and Future by Andrew S. Goudie, Call Number: 304.2 G688h

Indivisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution – and How We Can Fight Back by Gary Fuller, Call Number: 363.739 F965i

The Living Forest: A Visual Journey into the Heart of the Woods by Joan Maloof, Call Number: 634.902 M257L

Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich, Call Number: 363.738 R499L

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future by Kate Brown, Call Number: 323.179 B878m

The Pig: A Natural History by Richard Lutwyche, Call Number: 636.4 L974p

A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, Call Number: 363.7 A769p

Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution by Michiel Roscam Abbing, Call Number: 363.738 R791p

Sustainable Materials Without the Hot Air: Making Buildings, Vehicles and Products Efficiently and With Less New Material by Julian M. Allwood and Jonathan M. Cullen, Call Number: 620.11 S553s

The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change (2nd ed.) by Robert Henson, Call Number: 363.738 H526t

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, Call Number: 304.2 W195u

Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baseline and the Future of Global Fisheries by Daniel Pauly, Call Number: 338.372 P333v

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane, Call Number: 576.83 L266v

Wading Right In: Discovering the Nature of Wetlands by Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth, Call Number: 577.68 K824w

When Everything Beyond the Walls is Wild: Being a Woman Outdoors in America by Lilace Mellin Guignard, Call Number: 796.082 G951w

The Wind Power Story: A Century of Innovation that Reshaped the Global Energy Landscape by Brandon N. Owens, Call Number: 621.45 O976w

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New Books: Odds and Ends 66

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From time to time, when we get a collection of related books into the library we like to share a list on a particular topic, but lately we’ve had some books  come in that are too good not to share, even if they don’t fit with a particular theme. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

African Americans and Africa: A New History by Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden, Call Number: 305.896 B661a

Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak, Call Number: 930.1 P225a

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch, Call Number: 302.231 M133b

Borrowed Time: The Science of How and Why We Age by Sue Armstrong, Call Number: 612.67 A738b

Columbine: 20 Years Later and Beyond by Jaclyn Schildkraut and Glenn W. Muschert, Call Number: 371.782 S334c

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks – the Ocean’s Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever, Call Number: 597.3 M154e

The Ethics of Universal Health Insurance by Alex Rajczi, Call Number: 368.42 R161e

The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis, Call Number: 320.973 L675f

Gardentopia: Design Basics for Creating Beautiful Outdoor Spaces by Jan Johnsen, Call Number: 635.9 J659g

Gender and Our Brains: How New Neuroscience Explodes the Myths of the Male and Female Minds by Gina Rippon, Call Number: 612.823 R593g 2019

Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Gordon H. Chang, Call Number: 331.625 C456g

Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kim McLarin, Call number: 320.54 S524g

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America by Daniel Okrent, Call Number: 344.73 O418g

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan, Call Number: 615.788 P771h

Immune System Disorders Sourcebook (4th ed.): Basic Consumer Health Information about Disorders of the Immune System, Including Immune System Function and Response, Diagnosis of Immune disorders, Information about Inherited Immune Disease, Acquired Immune Disease, and Autoimmune Diseases , Including Primary Immune Deficiency, Aquired Immunodeficienty Systemdrome (AIDS), Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Graves Disease, Call Number: 616.97 I336 2020

Iran Rising: The Survival and Future of the Islamic Republic by Amin Saikal, Call Number: 955.054 S132i

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen, Call Number: 973 L827L

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Call Number: 968.065 m271L
NOTE: The long time leader of the resistance, imprisoned for decades, and his lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.

Making Motherhood Work: How Women Manage Careers and Caregiving by Caitlyn Collins, Call Number: 306.874 C712m

The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making by Jared Yates Sexton, Call Number: 305.31 S518m

Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness by Anne Harrington, Call Number: 616.89 H299m 2019

MLA Guide to Digital Literacy by Ellen C. Carillo, Call Number: 025.042 C277d

The Nocturnal Brain: Nightmares, Neuroscience, and the Secret World of Sleep by Guy Leschziner, Call Number: 616.849 L625n

Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World by John H. Halpern and David Blistein, Call Number: 362.293 M195o

The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina, Call Number: 364.164 U730

Presidential Misconduct: From George Washington to Today, Edited by James M. Banner, Jr., Call Number: 973.099 P33

Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment by Linda Hirshman, Call Number: 305.42 H669r

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin, Call Number: 973.308 B512r

Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin by Simon Jenkins, Call Number: 940 J528s

Smart Cities Smart Future: Showcasing Tomorrow by Mike Barlow and Cornelia Levy-Bencheton, Call Number: 307.76 B258s

Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature and the Need for Diverse Books by Philip Nel, Call Number: 810.9 N419w

Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump by Allison Stanger, Call Number: 353.46 S785w

Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the American Civil War by Stephanie McCurry, Call Number: 973.708 M133w

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

New Books: Agriculture and Agribusiness 2020

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Agribusiness, Agriculture, New Books

In honor of Kirkwood Community College’s first in the nation agriculture program, here are some books about agriculture we’ve recently added to our collection.

Good Enough to Eat?: Next Generation GM Crops by Ian D. Godwin, Call Number: 631.523 G591g

Grain by Grain: A Quest to Revive Ancient Wheat, Rural Jobs, and Healthy Food by Bob Quinn and Liz Carlisle, Call Number: 631.584 Q73g

The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are by Paul Bogard, Call Number: 631.4 B674g

Growing a Sustainable City? The Question of Urban Agriculture by Christina D. Rosan and Hamil Pearsall, Call Number: 630.917 R788g

A History of Iowa Wine: Vines on the Prairie by John N. Peragine, Call Number: 634.809 P426h

The International Harvester Company: A History of the Founding Families and Their Machines by Chaim M. Rosenberg, Call Number: 338.763 R813.3i

Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in America by Matthew Roth, Call Number: 633.3 R845m

This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm by Ted Genoways, Call Number: 630.978 G335t
*All Iowa Reads Book 2019

Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food by Pamela C. Ronald and Raoul W. Adamchak, Call Number: 664 R768t

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

New Books: Odds and Ends 65

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From time to time, when we get a collection of related books into the library we like to share a list on a particular topic, but lately we’ve had some books  come in that are too good not to share, even if they don’t fit with a particular theme. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of the Equal Partnership by Darcy Lockman, Call Number: 306.874 L816a

An American Sunrise: Poems by Joy Harjo (Poet Laureate of the United States), Call Number: 811.54 H232a

Are We There Yet? The American Automobile Past, Present, and Driverless by Dan Albert, Call Number: 303.483 A333a

Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media by Nicholas Diakopoulos, Call Number: 070.43 D536a

Birth Control: Your Questions Answered by Paul Quinn, Call Number: 613.9 Q75b

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson, Call Number: 973.3 A877b

The Civil Rights Movement: Guides to Historic Events in America (2nd ed.) by Peter B. Levy, Call Number: 323.119 L668c

Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems by Stephanie Burt, Call Number: 811.009 B973d

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl, Call Number: 362.108 M596d

Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise Create Multiple Income Streams and Thrive by Dorie Clark, Call Number: 650.1 C592e

The Ethics of Migration: An Introduction by Adam Hosein, Call Number: 172.1 H825e

Gender: The Basics (2nd ed.) by Hilary M. Lips, Call Number: 305.3 L767g

Germany: Eyewitness, Call Number: 943 G373

Getting from College to Career: 90 Things to Do Before You Join the Real World by Lindsey Pollak, Call Number: 378.198 p771g

Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes, Call Number: 364.152 H391g

The Harm in Hate Speech by Jeremy Waldron, Call Number: 345.73 W167h

Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship by Nadine Strossen, Call Number: 342.73 S924h

The History of Afghanistan (2nd ed.) by Meredith L. Runion, Call Number: 958.1 R942h

The History of France (2nd ed.) by W. Scott Haine, Call Number: 944 H152h

The History of Libya by Bukola A. Oyeniyi, Call Number: 961.2 O989h

A History of Medical Spain by Joseph f. O’Callaghan, Call Number: 946.02 O151h

The Holocaust: The Basics by Paul R. Bartrop, Call Number: 940.531 B294h

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, Call Number: 305.8 K335h

How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms by Carol Ann Tomlinson, Call Number: 371.394 T659h

How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching by Joshua R. Eyler, Call Number: 378.125 E977h

Iowa Valor: A Compilation of Civil War Combat Experiences from Soldiers of the State Distinguished as the Most Patriotic of the Patriotic by Steve Meyer, Call Number: 973.7 M613io

Ireland 2019 by Darragh Geraghty, Lisa Gerard-Sharp, Tim Perry, Call Number:  941.5 I654

Making Sense of Phonics: The Hows and Whys (2nd ed.) by Isabel L. Beck and mark e. Beck, Call Number: 372.465 B393m

Meat Planet: Artificial Flesh and the Future of Food by Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft, Call Number: 664.929 W967m

The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table by Minda Harts, Call Number: 650.108 H335m

Microsoft Project 2019: Step by Step by Cindy Lewis, Carl Chatfield, and Timothy Johnson, Call Number: 658.404 L673m

The Mongols by Timothy May, Call Number 950.2 M467m

Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn, Call Number: 570 D923n

Photoshop Elements 2019 by Barbara Obermeier and Ted Padova, Call Number: 006.686 O125p

Prague and the Czech Republic: Lonely Planet, Call Number: 943.71 B168p

The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students by Anthony Abraham Jack, Call Number: 378.198 J121p

Python by Example: learning to Program in 150 Challenges by Nichola Lacey, Call Number: 005.133 L131p

Rick Steves Germany 2019 by Rick Steves, Call Number: 943 S848g

Russia by Dmitri Trenin, Call Number: 947.084 T794r

School Shootings and the Never Again Movement by Laurie Collier Hillstrom, Call Number: 371.782 H655s

See Jane Win: The Inspiring Story of the Women Changing American Politics by Caitlin Moscatello, Call Number: 320.082 M894s

Stem Cells: Health and Medical Issues Today (2nd ed.) by Evelyn B. Kelly, Call Number: 616.027 K296s

This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore, Call Number: 320.973 L598t

Three Germanies: West Germany, East Germany, and the Berlin Republic by Michael Gehler, Call Number: 943.087 G311t

U.S. Politics Today (4th ed.) by Edward Ashbee, Call Number: 320.973 A819u

We the People: The 500-Year Battle Over Who is American by Ben Railton, Call Number: 305.8 R152w

When Nothing Else Matters: Michael Jordan’s Last Comeback by Michael Leahy, Call Number: 796.323 J824w

World War I: A Short History by Tammy M. Proctor, Call Number: 940.3 P964w

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

Two Books to Point Out 2020

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Faculty Services, New Books

Recently we had two books come in that I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention as much as possible. I think both are great books that would be good for everyone at Kirkwood to read.

 

 

 

 

 

 

13 Ideas That Are Transforming the Community College World, Edited by Terry U. O’Banion, Call Number: 378.1 T447

Introduction: the continuing evolution of the American community college / Terry U. O’Banion.

— Part I: Ideas as National Initiatives : The learning paradigm / George Boggs.
— Community colleges and the ladder of student success / Suzanne Walsh and Mark Milliron.
— The college promise: transforming the lives of community college students / Martha Kamper and Andra Armstrong.
— Guided pathways to college completion and equity / Kay M. McClenney.
— The community college baccalaureate movement: evolutionary and revolutionary / Deborah L. Floyd and Michael L. Skolnik.

— Part II: Ideas as Internal Functions : Institutional effectiveness: from intuition to evidence / Barbara Gellman-Danley and Eric V. Martin.
— Recognition, reform, and convergence in developmental education / Bruce Vandad.
— The evolving mission of workforce development in the community college / James Jacobs and Jennifer Worth.
— Eliminating the gap between high school and college: what the next generation of transition programs must do / Joel Vargas, Sarah Hooker, Michael Collins, and Ana Bertha Gutierrez.
— Demography as opportunity / Nikki Edgecombe.

— Part III: Enabling Ideas : Catching the waves: technology and the community college / Mark Milliron and John O’Brien.
— Transformative leadership wanted: making good on the promise of the open door / Margaretta B. Mathis and John E. Roueche.
— Using data to monitor what matters: a new role for trustees / Bryon McClenney.

— Epilogue: the missing transformative idea / Terry U. O’Banion.

Universities, Pedagogical Encounters, Openness, and Free Speech : Reconfiguring Democratic Education by Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid, Call Number: 378.68 D251u

On freedom, openness and the ecological university
— Free speech and its limitations : towards democratic justice
— On non-technicist thinking and risks
— Illocutionary and perlocutionary speech, academic freedom, and free speech — On the fallacy of regulating speech
— On free speech and openness
— Free speech, recognition and democratic education reconsidered
— Case studies on free speech
— A reconfigured democratic education and free speech : going ‘against an ebbing tide’ — Coda.

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

New Books: Odds and Ends 64

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From time to time, when we get a collection of related books into the library we like to share a list on a particular topic, but lately we’ve had some books  come in that are too good not to share, even if they don’t fit with a particular theme. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

The 100 Greatest American Athletes by Martin Gitlin, Call Number: 796.092 G536o

Aging in the Family by George E. Dickinson and Brenda S. Sanders, Call Number: 305.26 D553a

Bats: An Illustrated Guide to All Species by Marianne Taylor and Merlin D. Tuttle, Call Number: 599.4 T244b

CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping by Kerry Brown, Call Number: 951.06 B878ce

Choked: Life and Breath in the Age of Air Pollution by Beth Gardiner, Call Number: 615.902 G221c

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, Call Number: 306.209 L954c

Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America by Chris Arnade, Call Number: 352.509 A742d

The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture by Heather Mac Donald, Call Number: 370.11 M135d

Eating Disorders in America: Contemporary World Issues by David E. Newton, Call Number: 362.196 N562e

Eclipses: What Everyone Needs to Know by Frank Close, Call Number: 523.78 C645e

Everglades: America’s Wetland by Mac Stone, Call Number: 975.939 S879e

Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne B. Freeman, Call Number: 973.7 F855f

First on the Moon: The Apollo 11 – 50th Anniversary Experience by Rod Pyle, Call Number: 629.454 P996f

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw, Call Number: 940.55 K417g

History of American Indians: Exploring Diverse Roots by Robert R. McCoy and Steven M. Fountain, Call Number: 970.004 M131h

A History of Hinduism: The Past, Present, and Future by R. Racmachandran, Call Number: 294.5 R165h

A History of the Czech Lands (2nd ed.)  by Jaroslav Panek, Oldrich Tuma, and Et Alii, Call Number: 943.7 P191h

A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns that Defined a Nation by Scott Nations, Call Number: 330.973 N277h

A History of Women: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints, Edited by Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, Call Number: 305.409 H673

Homeschooling: The History and Philosophy of a Controversial Practice by James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters, Call Number: 371.042 D993h

How to be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal M. Fleming, Call Number: 305.8 E597h

Ireland: Lonely Planet by Neil Wilson, Isabel Albiston, Fiorlin Davenport, Damian Harper, and Catherine Le Nevez, Call Number: 941.5 W751i

Irish Iowa by Timothy Walch, Call Number: 977.7 W154i

Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower by Roseann Lake, Call Number: 305.409 L192L

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo, Call Number: 648 K821L

The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty by Susan Page, Call Number: 973.928 B978pa

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan, Call Number: 813.52 R186m

Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States (3rd ed., Revised & Expanded) by Manuel G. Gonzales, Call Number: 973.046 G643m 2019

Misogyny: The New Activism by Gail Ukockis by 303.385 U34m

Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East by Valentine M. Moghadam, Call Number: 305.486 M696m

The Nature of Plants: An Introduction to How Plants Work by Craig N. Huegel, Call Number: 580 H887n

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us by Rachel Louise Snyder, Call Number: 362.829 S675n

The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking ahead in a Reckless Age by Bina Venkataraman, Call Number: 153.83 V461

Our Universe: An Astronomer’s Guide by Jo Dunkley, Call Number: 523.1 D919o

Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care by Uwe E. Reinhardt, Call Number: 362.104 R369p

Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy, Call Number: 941.105 M393g

Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care by Uwe E. Reinhardt, Call Number: 362.104 R369p

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne, Call Number: 973.7 J143G

The Rough Guide to Scotland (11th ed.), Call Number: 941.1 D553r

Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War’s Most Persistent Myth by Kevin M. Levin, Call Number: 973.742 L665s

Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future by Pete Buttigieg, Call Number: 977.2 B988s

Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues by Monique W. Morris, Call Number: 371.829 M877s

Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers (5th ed.), Call Number: 808.06 T929s

Students with Interrupted Formal Education: Bridging Where They Are and What They Need by Brenda Custodio and Judith B. O’Loughlin, Call Number: 371.826 C987s

Success Through Diversity: Why the Most Inclusive Companies Will Win by Carol Fulp, Call Number: 658.3 F973s

The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood, Call Number: 940.24 W393t

Vegetarianism and Veganism: Contemporary World Issues by David E. Newton, Call Number: 613.262 n562v

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware, Call Number: 324.623 W272w

Will This Be On the Test?: What Your Professors Really Want You to Know About Succeeding in College by Dana T. Johnson, Call Number; 378.17 J666w

Women in the American Revolution by Sudie Doggett Wike, Call Number: 973.308 W663w

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Public Speaking Books

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New Books, Public Speaking

Worried about public speaking? These books will help you handle it like an old pro.

These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

The Art of Public Speaking (9th ed.) by Stephen E. Lucas, Call Number: 302.2 L933a

Communication in Our Lives (5th ed.) by Julia T. Wood, Call Number: 302.2 W876co

Communication Works by Teri Kwal Gamble and Michael Gamble, Call Number: 302.2 G191c

iSpeak (2010 ed.) by Paul E. Nelson, Scott Titsworth and Judy C. Pearson, Call Number: 808.51 N428is

Public Speaking (8th ed.) Authors: Michael Osborn, Suzanne Osborn, and Randall Osborn, Call Number: 808.51 O813p

Public Speaking: The Evolving Art (A Student Workbook) by Stephanie J. Coopman, James Lull, and Matt McGarrity, Call Number: 302.2 C778p

Real Communication: An Introduction by Dan O’Hair and Mary Wiemann, Call Number: 302.2 O362r

Speak Up! An Illustrated Guide to Public Speaking by Douglas M. Fraleigh and Joseph S. Tuman, Call Number: 808.51 F812s

Understanding Human Communication (12th ed.) by Ronald B. Adler , George Rodman, and Athena du Pre, Call Number: 302.2 A237u 2014

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

New Books Student Life Part 7

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New Books, Student Life

Check out this collection of new books addressing the particular interests and issues of students. Check out our past lists from 2015,  2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2019b. Today we add some more titles to the list and if you hear of a book or think of a particular topic you think we should add to the collection, please let us know. 🙂

There are more books on these topics available in the circulating collection at the same call numbers. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

Calculus Simplified by Oscar E. Fernandez, Call Number: 615. F363c

Education Roads Less Traveled: Solving America’s Fixation on Four-Year Degrees by Mitch Pearlstein, Call Number: 378.73 P359e

Financial Literacy for Generation Z: A Practical Guide to Managing Your Financial Life by Kenneth O. Doyle, Call Number: 332.024 D754f

Getting from College to Career: 90 things to Do Before You Join the Real World by Lindsey Pollak, Call Number: 378.198 P771g

How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching by Joshua R. Eyler, Call Number: 378.125 E977h

PTSD and Coping with Trauma Sourcebook (1st ed.), Call Number: 616.852 P858p 2020

Safe Enough Spaces: A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech, and Political Correction on College Campuses by Michael S. Roth, Call Number: 378.01 R845s

Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers (5th ed.), Call Number: 808.06 T929s

Study with Me: Effective Bullet Journaling Techniques, Habits, and Hacks to be Successful, Productive, and Organized by Jasmine Shao and Alyssa Jagan, Call Number: 371.302 S528s

Will This Be On the Test?: What Your Professors Really Want You to Know About Succeeding in College by Dana T. Johnson, Call Number: 378.17 J666w

The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes Or Breaks Us by Paul Tough, Call Number: 378.198 T722y

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New Books: Odds and Ends 63

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From time to time, when we get a collection of related books into the library we like to share a list on a particular topic, but lately we’ve had some books  come in that are too good not to share, even if they don’t fit with a particular theme. These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

Picture Books

Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing by Dean Robbins, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 629.45 R632m

Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre by Anika Aldamuy Denise and Paola Escobar, Call Number: CL Easy Reader 020.92 D395p

Raise Your Hand by Alice Paul Tapper, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 155.2 T175r

Non-Fiction

Becoming a Restaurateur by Patric Kuh, Call Number: 647.95 K961b

Becoming A Teacher by William Ayers, Call Number: 371.1 A977a

A Brief Introduction to Islam by Christopher Partridge, Call Number: 297 B853

A Brief Introduction to Jainism and Sikhism, Edited by Christopher Partridge, Call Number: 294 B853

Engaging African-American Males in Community College by Ted N. Ingram and james Coaxum, Call Number: 378.198 E571

Sex and Gender in the 2016 Presidential Election by Caroline Heldman, Meredith Conroy, and Alissa R. Ackerman, Call Number: 324.973 H474s

Great Myths of Adolescence by Jeremy D. Jewell, Michael I. Axelrod, Mitchell J. Prinstein, and Stephen Hupp, Call Number: 305.235 J591g

Hazing: Destroying Young Lives, Edited by Hank Nuwer, Call Number: 371.58 H429

HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance: Set Boundaries, Manage Competing Demands, Be Present, Call Number: 650.1 H339

How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy by Mehrsa Baradaran, Call Number: 332.109 B223h

How to Write a Winning Scholarship Essay (7th ed.) by Gen and Kelly Tanabe, Call Number: 378.34 T161

The Information-Literate Historian: A Guide to Research for History Students (3rd ed.) by Jenny L. Presnell, Call Number: 907.2 P934i

Ivan the Terrible by Robert Payne and Nihita Romanoff, Call Number: 947.04 Z932p

Migraine: A History by Katherine Foxhall, Call Number: 616.849 F795m

Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S. by Annie Isabel, Fukushima, Call Number: 306.362

The Oxford History of Britain (Updated Edition) by Kenneth O. Morgan, Call Number: 941 O98 2010

The Penland Book of Glass: Master Classes in Flamework Techniques, Call Number: 748.2 P411

The Shift: How Seeing People as People Changes Everything by Kimberly White, Call Number: 158.2 W585

Smart Women Finish Rich (20th Anniversary Edition – Expanded and Updated) by David Bach, Call Number: 332.024 B118sm

Student’s Guide to Writing College Papers (5th ed.) by Kate L. Turabian, Gregory G Colomb, Joseph M Williams, Joseph Bizup, and William T FitzGerald, Call Number: 808.06 T929s

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt, Call Number: 940.21 G798s

Teaching at its Best: A Research-Based Resource for College Instructors (4th ed) by Linda B. Nilson, Call Number: 378.17 N712t 2016

Violence Against Women: Global Viewpoints, Edited by Kathryn Roberts, Call Number: 362.88 V795a

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim, Call Number: 810.8 W447

Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter by Scott Adams, Call Number: 303.342 A217w

The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill, Call Number: 322.42 H645w

The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, Call Number: 330.92 H466w

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.

New Books: History

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Check out these titles of history books! These titles are housed in Cedar Rapids, but you can request them to be delivered to any of the other centers at any time.

African Americans and Africa: A New History by Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden, Call Number: 305.896 B661a

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson, Call Number: 973.3 A877b

CEO, China: The Rise of Xi Jinping by Kerry Brown, Call Number: 951.06 B878ce

China: A 5,000-Year Odyssey by Tan Chung, Call Number: 951 C559c

The Civil Rights Movement: Guides to Historic Events in America (2nd ed.) by Peter B. Levy, Call Number: 323.119 L668c

The English Civil War: A People’s History by Diane Purkiss, Call Number: 942.062 P985e

First on the Moon: The Apollo 11 – 50th Anniversary Experience by Rod Pyle, Call Number: 629.454 P996f

Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad by Gordon H. Chang, Call Number: 331.625 C456g

The Global Age: Europe 1950-2017 by Ian Kershaw, Call Number: 940.55 K417g

Growing Up X: A Memoir by the Daughter of Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Kim McLarin, Call number: 320.54 S524g

History of American Indians: Exploring Diverse Roots by Robert R. McCoy and Steven M. Fountain, Call Number: 970.004 M131h

A History of Hinduism: The Past, Present, and Future by R. Racmachandran, Call Number: 294.5 R165h

A History of the Czech Lands (2nd ed.)  by Jaroslav Panek, Oldrich Tuma, and Et Alii, Call Number: 943.7 P191h

A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns that Defined a Nation by Scott Nations, Call Number: 330.973 N277h

A History of Women: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints, Edited by Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, Call Number: 305.409 H673

The History of Afghanistan (2nd ed.) by Meredith L. Runion, Call Number: 958.1 R942h

The History of France (2nd ed.) by W. Scott Haine, Call Number: 944 H152h

The History of Libya by Bukola A. Oyeniyi, Call Number: 961.2 O989h

A History of Medical Spain by Joseph f. O’Callaghan, Call Number: 946.02 O151h

The Holocaust: The Basics by Paul R. Bartrop, Call Number: 940.531 B294h

Iowa Valor: A Compilation of Civil War Combat Experiences from Soldiers of the State Distinguished as the Most Patriotic of the Patriotic by Steve Meyer, Call Number: 973.7 M613io

Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen, Call Number: 973 L827L

The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty by Susan Page, Call Number: 973.928 B978pa

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan, Call Number: 813.52 R186m

The Mongols by Timothy May, Call Number 950.2 M467m

Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World by John H. Halpern and David Blistein, Call Number: 362.293 M195o

The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris by Mark Honigsbaum, Call Number: 614.49 H773p

Prague in Black and Gold: The History of a City by Peter Demetz, Call Number: 943.712 D377p

Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy, Call Number: 941.105 M393g

Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne, Call Number: 973.7 J143G

Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America’s Independence by Carol Berkin, Call Number: 973.308 B512r

The Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Mediterranean: From Alexander to Caesar by Joel Allen, Call Number: 937.02 A427r

The Thirty Years War by C.V. Wedgwood, Call Number: 940.24 W393t

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (Weimar Centennial Edition with a New Preface by the Author) by Eric D. Weitz, Call Number: 943.085 W436w

Women in the American Revolution by Sudie Doggett Wike, Call Number: 973.308 W663w

World War I: A Short History by Tammy M. Proctor, Call Number: 940.3 P964w

Sarah Uthoff is a reference library at Kirkwood Community College. LIKE the Kirkwood Community College Library on Facebook and find links to Sarah all over the web at her About Me Profile.