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New Books: Odds and Ends 64

20 Thursday Feb 2020

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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

Cover of Coddling of the American MindThe 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

Cover of First on the MoonFirst 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

Cover of A History of Czech LandsHomeschooling: 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

Cover of Student's Guide to Writing College PapersSuccess 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

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 62

13 Monday Jan 2020

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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.

1001 Ways to Pay for College (9th ed) by Gen and Kelly Tanabe, Call Number: 378.38 T161o

ADHD in the Schools: Assessment and Intervention Strategies by George J. DuPaul and Gary Stoner, Call Number: 371.93 D931a

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee, Call Number: 338.4 L478a

Billion-Dollar Ball: A Journey Through the Big-Money Culture of College Football by Gilbert M. Gaul, Call Number: 796.332 G269b

The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk, Call Number: 306.76 F982b

A Brief Introduction to Buddhism, Edited by Christopher Partridge and Tim Dowley, Call Number: 294.3 P853b

Can Science Make Sense of Life? by Shelia Jasanoff, Call Number: 501 J391c

Chihulty by Andreas Blühm, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, and Suzanne Rus, Call Number: 748.092 C534r

Commuter Spouses: New Families in a Changing World by Danielle J. Lindemann, Call Number: 306.36 L743c

The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time by Maria Konnikova, Call Number: 364.16 K825c

Critical Perspectives on Hazing in Colleges and Universities: A Guide to Disrupting Hazing Culture, Edited by Cristobal Salinas, Jr. and michelle l. Boettcher, Call Number: 378.198 C934

Cyber Smart: Five Habits to Protect Your Family, Money, and Identity from Cyber Criminals by Bart R. McDonough, Call Number: 005.8 M478c

Design for How People Learn (2nd ed) by Julie Dirksen, Call Number: 370.152 D599d 2016

Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, OWL LD, and Dyscalculia: Lessons from Science and Teaching (2nd ed), Call Number: 371.9 B528d

The English Civil Wars, 1640-1660 by Blair Worden, Call Number: 942.062 W924e

Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley, Call Number: 155.33 H332f

Fem-i-nism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement by Deborah Cameron, Call Number: 305.42C182f

The Financial Diaries: How American Families Cope in a World of Uncertainty by Jonathan Morduch and Rachel Schneider, Call Number: 332.024 M834f

A Guide to Effective Studying and Learning: Practical Strategies From the Science of Learning by Matthew G. Rodes, Anne M. Cleary, and Edward L. DeLosh, Call Number: 371.302 R477g

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

How the Special Needs Brain Learns (3rd ed) by David A. Sousa, Call Number: 371.9 S725h

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams, Call Number: 741.569 A217h
NOTE: Cartoonist Scott Adams of Dilbert fame talks about everything he had to overcome to reach success.

Inclusion Strategies That Work!: Research-Based Methods for the Classroom (3rd ed) by Toby J. Karten, Call Number: 371.9 K189i

Michael Jordan: The Life by Roland Lazenby, Call Number: 796.323 J824L

Sexploitation: Helping Kids Develop Healthy Sexuality in a Porn-Driven World by Cindy Pierce, Call Number: 176 P615a

Travel with Purpose: A Field Guide to Voluntourism by Jeff Blumenfeld, Call Number: 361.37 B658t

Working in the Gig Economy: How to Thrive and Succeed When You Choose to Work for Yourself by Thomas Oppong, Call Number: 650.1 O623w

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 61

07 Saturday Dec 2019

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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 Feelings Book: The Care and Keeping of Your Emotions by Dr. Lynda Madison, Call Number: CL 155.433 M182f

Cover of College RulesThe Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 813.6 D652r

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Call Number: 378.19 A793a

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

Anne of Green Gables, My Daughter, and Me: What My Favorite Book Taught Me about Grace, Belonging and the Orphan in Us All by Lorilee Craker, Call Number: 362.734 C888a

Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mary E. Wilson, Call Number: 615.329 W751a 2019

The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich (Expanded and Updated) by David Bach, Call Number: 332.024 B118a 2016

Been There Should’ve Done That: 995 Tips for Making the Most of College by Suzette Tyler, Call Number: 378.198 T984b

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis, Call Number: CL 813.54 E472b

China Smart: What You Don’t Know, What You Need to Know, A Past and Present Guide to History, Culture, Society, and Language by Larry Herzberg, Call Number: 651 H582c

The College Girl’s Survival Guide by Hanna Seymour, Call Number: 248.833 S521c

College Rules! How to Study, Survive, and Succeed in College by Sherrie Nist-Olejnik and Jodi Patrick Holschuh, Call Number: 378.198 N727c

Crash Course for the ACT (6th ed) by Jonathan Chiu, Call Number: 378.166 D673c

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar, Call Number: 914.743 E341d

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston, Call Number: 940.54 h843f
NOTE: A brand new copy of the classic story of life inside a Japanese American internment camp.

Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running From Madness by Suzy Favor Hamilton, Call Number: 796.42 F275f
NOTE: Hamilton was a natural athlete who was driven to win and became a track and field sweetheart. However, her undiagnosed mental illness led her to stage a fall and she later developed a double life before she found help.

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, Call Number: 616.89 K236g
NOTE: In 1967, Susanna Kaysen was committed to a mental institution against her will. This is her story.

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdurraqib, Call Number: 782.421 W734g
NOTE: About the groundbreaking Hip Hop group.

Graduate from College Debt-Free: Get Your Degree With Money in the Bank by Bart Astor, Call Number: 378.8 A858g

Great Plains Weather by Kenneth F. Dewey, Call Number: 551.55 D519g

The Her Campus Guide to College Life: How to Manage Relationships, Stay Safe and Healthy, Handle Stress, and Have the Best Years of Your Life! (Updated and Expanded ed.) by Stephanie Kaplan Lewis, Annie Chandler Wang, and Windsor Hanger Western, Call Number: 378.198 L676h

How to Survive Your Freshman Year (6th ed.), Edited by Alison Leigh Cowan, Call Number: 378.198 H847h

Intern: A Doctor’s Initiation by Sandeep Jauhar, Call Number: 610.92 J412i

Cover of the Joy of Missing OutThe Joy of Missing Out: The Art of Self-Restraint in an Age of Excess by Svend Brinkmann, Call Number: 179.9 B858i
NOTE: FOMO – Fear of Missing Out – has become an obsession in our culture, but self-restraint and moderation will lead to a better life according to Brinkmann.

The Last Season by Eric Blehm, Call Number: 333.78 M851b
NOTE: Randy Morgenson was legendary for finding people missing in the High Sierra. Then one day he went missing himself.

The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Small-Town America by Robert Wuthnow, Call Number: 307.72 W973L

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur, Call Number: 811.6 K217m

The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College by Harlan Cohen, Call Number: 378.198 C678n 2017

The Natural Superiority of Women (New and Revised) by Ashley Montagu, Call Number: 305.42 M758n

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, Edited by Roxane Gay, Call Number: 305.42 G295n

Cover of Opioid EpidemicThe Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know by Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein, Call Number: 362.293 O5240

The Psychology of Social Media by Ciaran Mc Mahon, Call Number: 302.231 M167p

A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Dugard, Call Number: 364.15 D866s
NOTE: Dugard was kidnapped, held captive, and repeated raped for 18 years.

The Secrets of College Success: Over 800 Tips, Techniques, and Strategies Revealed (3rd) by Lynn F. Jacobs and Jeremy S. Hyman, Call Number: 378.19 J174s

Taking Care of Your “Girls”: A Breast Health Guide for Girls, Teens, and In-Betweens by Marissa C. Weiss and Isabel Friedman, Call Number: 618.19 W431t

You Can’t Know It All: Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise by Wanda T. Wallace, Call Number: 658.409 W195y

The War That Forged A Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters by James McPherson, Call Number: 973.71 M172w

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 60

22 Tuesday Oct 2019

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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.

Cover of the 100 Worst Ideas in History100 of the Worst Ideas in History: Humanity’s Thundering Brainstorms Turned Blundering Brain Farts, Call Number: 909 S655o

Academic Leadership: A Practical Guide to Chairing the Department (2nd ed.) by Deryl R. Leaming, Call Number: 378.1 L436a

The All-American Cowboy Cookbook: Home Cooking on the Range – Over 300 Recipes from the World’s Greatest Cowboys by Ken Beck and Jim Clark, Call Number: 641.597 B393a

American Journal: Fifty Poems for Our Time by Tracy K. Smith, Call Number: 811.6 A512j

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Call Number: 303.3 E162b

Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton, Call Number: 641.509 H218b

College Cookbook: An Alternative Plan to the Meal Plan, 200 Quick, Cheap, Nutritious Recipes (Updated edition) by Geri Harrington, Call Number: 641.5 H299c

Emergency Doctor by Edward Ziegler in cooperation with Lewis A. Goldfrank, Call Number: 362.18 Z662e

Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation by William Hogeland, Call Number: 336.73 H715f

A History of Modern Italy: Transformation and Continuity, 1796 to the Present by Anthony L. Cardoza, Call Number: 945.09 C268h

How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler by Ryan North, Call Number: 609 N866h

Immigrant America: A Portrait (4th ed. Revised, Updated, and Expanded) by Alejandro Portes and Ruben G. Rumbaut, Call Number: 304.873 P849i

In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School by Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, Call Number: 373 M498i

Mandela: His Essential Life by Peter Hain, Call Number: 968.065 M271h

A Nation by Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America by Aristide R. Zolberg. Call Number: 325.73 Z86n

Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads With an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn, Call Number: 978.004 N443n

The New Childhood: Raising Kids to Thrive in a Connected World by Jordan Shapiro, Call Number: 302.231 S529n

Cover of How to Invent EverythingOutsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World (Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner) by Lyndall Gordon, Call Number: 820.992 G663o

Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen, Call Number: 371.782 C967p

Parkland Speaks: Survivors From Majory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories, Edited by Sarah Lerner, Call Number: CL 371.782 M344p

The Plot To Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West by Malcolm Nance, 324.973 N176

Social Skills: Developing Effective Interpersonal Communication by Alex Kelly, Call Number: 302 K295s

Topgun: An American Story by Dan Pedersen, Call Number: 358.4 P371t
NOTE: The story of the founder of the Topgun Program. Find out about being a naval aviator.

When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Mate, Call Number: 616.08 M425w 2011

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 59

10 Wednesday Jul 2019

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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.

Cover of Copyright What Everyone Needs to KnowArmies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War by Elizabeth R. Varon, Call Number: 973.7 V323a

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhil Plokhy, Call Number: 363.179P29c

A Concise History of Mexico (3rd ed) by Brian R. Hamnett, Call Number: 972 H227c 2019

Copyright: What Everyone Needs to Know by Neil Weinstock Netanel, Call Number: 346.04 N469c

Digital Renaissance: What Data and Economics Tell Us About the Future of Popular Culture by Joel Waldfogel, Call Number: 306 W163d

A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 by Claire Hartfield, Call Number: 305.896 H328f

Get Scrappy: Smarter Digital Marketing for Businesses Big and Small by Nick Westergaard, Call Number: 658.8 W526g

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King, Call Number: 791.45 R725k

Cover of Photography A Cultural HistoryThe Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics by Salena Zito and Brad Todd, Call Number: 306.209 Z822g

Health and Fitness Professionals: A Practical Career Guide by Kezia Endsley, Call Number: 610.73 E566h 2019

A History of Women Photographers (3rd ed) by Naomi Rosenblum, Call Number: 770.82 R813h 2010

The Human Brain Book: An Illustrated Guide to its Structure, Function, and Disorders (New ed., Revised and Updated) by Rita Carter, Call Number: 612.8 C324h 2019

An Illustrated Brief History of Western Philosophy (20th Anniversary Ed.) by Anthony Kenny, Call Number: 190 k367i

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, The First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway, Call Number: 323.119 C163i

Laugh Out Loud Jokes for Kids by Rob Elliott, Call Number: CL 808.882 E468L

Law 101: Everything You Need to Know about American Law (5th ed) by Jay M. Feinman, Call Number: 349.73 F299L

Madame Fourcade’s Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France’s Largest Spy Network Against Hitler by Lynne Olson, Call Number: 940.54 F773o

Medical Office Professionals: A Practical Career Guide by Marcia Santore, Call Number: 610.73 S237m 2019

Cover of The Personality BrokersMilk of Paradise: A History of Opium by Lucy Inglis, Call Number: 362.293 I52m

More Than Medicine: The Broken Promise of American Health by Robert M. Kaplan, Call Number: 362.109 K175m

Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction by Judith Grisel, Call Number: 362.29 G869n

No One Tells You This by Glynnis Macnicol, Call Number: 306.7 M169n
NOTE: “If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then? This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol on the eve of her 40th birthday. Despite a successful career as a writer, and an exciting life in New York City, Glynnis was constantly reminded she had neither of the things the world expected of a woman her age: a partner or a baby. She knew she was supposed to feel bad about this. After all, single women and those without children are often seen as objects of pity, relegated to the sidelines, or indulgent spoiled creatures who think only of themselves. Glynnis refused to be cast into either of those roles and yet the question remained: What now?There was no good blueprint for how to be a woman alone in the world. She concluded it was time to create one.”

On Her Own Terms: Annie Montague Alexander and the Rise of Science in the American West by Barbara R. Stein, Call Number: 570.92 A374s

Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, Vol. 3, Call Number: REF 423 O98ea
NOTE: We have the full set of OED in paper, now we have the update too!

Peak Plastic: The Rise or Fall of Our Synthetic World by Jack Buffington, Call Number: 363.738 B929p

The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre, Call Number: 155.28 E558p

Photography: A Cultural History (4th ed.) by Mary Warner Marien, Call Number: 770 M33rp

The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna Clark, Call Number: 363.6 C592p

The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black Physicians and the Struggle for Justice in Health Care, Edited by Richard D. deShazo, Call Number: 362.108 M169r

Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future… and What We Can Do About It by Leonardo Trasande, Call Number362.196 T775s

Cover of Storm LakeThe South vs The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War by William W. Freehling, Call Number: 973.71 F853s

Storm Lake: A Chronicle of Change, Resilience, and Hope from a Heartland Newspaper by Art Cullen, Call Number: 071.77 C967s

Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team by Steve Sheinkin, Call Number: 796.332 S543u

Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls by Lisa Damour, Call Number: 155.5 D164u

United in Autism: Finding Strength Inside the Spectrum by Julie Hornok, Call Number: 618.92 H816u 2018

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas, Call Number: 303.409 G525w

Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America by Joe William Trotter, Jr., Call Number: 331.6 T858w

You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want by Jesse Mecham, Call Number: 332.024 M486y

Your Baby’s Best Shot: Why Vaccines Are Safe and Save Lives by Stacy Mintzer Herlihy and E. Allison Hagood, Call Number: 614.4 H549y

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 58

20 Thursday Jun 2019

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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 American Indians in the Revolutionary War by Jack Darrell Crowder, Call Number: 973.308 C953a

Against All Odds: My Story by Chuck Norris with Ken Abraham, Call Number: 796.809 N854a
NOTE: Norris was both a star of both movies and TV, but also one of the top martial artists of the 20th century in real life. (He’s still around but retired from both activities.)

Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos, Call Number: 951.06 O834a

American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis – And How to End It by Ryan Hampton, Call Number: 362.29 H232a

American Journalism and “Fake News”: Examining the Facts by Seth Ashley, Jessica Roberts, and Adam Maksl, Call Number: 071.3 A826a

American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts by Chris McGreal, Call Number: 362.29 M147a

Blazing the Trail: Essays by Leading Women in Science by Emma Ideal and Rhiannon Meharchand, Call Number: 509.2 B645

Call Me American: A Memoir by Abdi Nor Iftin, Call Number: 305.89 I239c
NOTE: “Abdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed in Mogadishu to take on the warlords, Abdi cheered the arrival of these Americans, who seemed as heroic as those of the movies. Sporting American clothes and dance moves, he became known around Mogadishu as Abdi American, but when the radical Islamist group al-Shabaab rose to power in 2006, it became dangerous to celebrate Western culture. Desperate to make a living, Abdi used his language skills to post secret dispatches, which found an audience of worldwide listeners. Eventually, though, Abdi was forced to flee to Kenya.” And came to America.

Chrysalis by Maria Sibylla Merian by Kim Todd, Call Number: 508.092 T634c

A Concise History of Germany (3rd ed) by Mary Fulbrook, Call Number: 943 F962c

Cyberterrorism and Ransomware Attacks by Gary Weiner, Call Number: 363.325 C994

The Deadly Deep: The Definitive History of Submarine Warfare by Iain Ballantyne, Call Number: 359.93 B188d

Food Allergies and Sensitivities: Your Questions Answered by Alice C. Richer, Call Number: 616.975 R529f

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Who Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling, Call Number: 560.92 E539f

Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter by Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler, Call Number: 332.024 A698d

Ethics in Science: Ethical Misconduct in Scientific Research (2nd ed.) by John G. D’Angelo, Call Number: 174.95 D182e

Fail Until You Don’t: Find, Grind, Repeat by Bobby Bones, Call Number: 791.44 B712f

The First Ladies of the Republic: Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the Creation of an Iconic American Role by Jeanne E. Abrams, Call Number: 973.099 A161f

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education by Christopher Emdin, Call Number: 370.917 E533f

Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle by Sara Bullard, Call Number: 323.1 B935f

Generation Z: A Century in the Making by Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace, Call Number: 305.209 S453g

Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information by Kurt W. Beyer, Call Number: 0004.092 H798b
NOTE: “A Hollywood biopic about the life of computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992) would go like this: a young professor abandons the ivy-covered walls of academia to serve her country in the Navy after Pearl Harbor and finds herself on the front lines of the computer revolution. She works hard to succeed in the all-male computer industry, is almost brought down by personal problems but survives them, and ends her career as a celebrated elder stateswoman of computing, a heroine to thousands, hailed as the inventor of computer programming…Hopper’s greatest technical achievement was to create the tools that would allow humans to communicate with computers in terms other than ones and zeroes. This advance influenced all future programming and software design and laid the foundation for the development of user-friendly personal computers.”

The Great Stain: Witnessing American Slavery by Noel Rae, Call Number: 306.362 R134g

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer, Call Number: 970.004

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon, Call Number: 305.896 L427h
NOTE: A man born poor and black wrestles with the weight not only of his body, but with the legacy of history.

Hezbollah: A Short History (Updated and Expanded 3rd Ed.) by Augustus Richard Norton, Call Number: 324.256 N882h

A History of America in Ten Strikes by Erik Loomis, Call Number: 331.892 L863h

How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind Over Muscle by Matt Fitzgerald, Call Number: 796.01 F554h

Human Trafficking: Trade for Sex, Labor, and Organs by Bandana Purkayastha and Farhan Navid Yousaf, Call Number: 364.155 P985h

In a Day’s Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America’s Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung, Call Number: 362.88 Y48i

Knowing What to Say: Finding Words to Fit Any Situation by Patti Kelley Criswell, Call Number: CL 302.224 C933k

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish, Call Number: 792.7 H126L
NOTE: The story of a new comedian from foster child to TV star.

Latino Peoples in the New America: Radicalization and Resistance, Edited by Jose A. Cobas, Joe R. Feagin, Daniel J. Delgado and Maria Chavez, Call Number: 305.868 L357p

Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by Leta Hong Fincher, Call Number: 305.409 H772L

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

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land, Call Number: 331.4 L253m
NOTE: A promising writers plans are derailed by an unplanned pregnancy and her struggles to find her way back to her dreams and to support her daughter. It tells the story of some of the lowest paid people in society.

Marie Curie: A Life by Susan Quinn, Call Number: 540.92 C975q
NOTE: The noted scientist who overcame obstacles of country and gender to when multiple Nobel prizes and helped use her invention of X-Rays to the frontlines during World War I.

The Man Who Made the Movies: the Meteoric Rise and the Tragic Fall of William Fox by Vanda Krefft, Call Number: 791.43 F794k

The #MeToo Movement by Laurie Collier Hillstrom, Call Number: 362.88 H655m

Public Influence: A Guide to Op-Ed Writing and Social Media Engagement by Mira Sucharov, Call Number: 808.06 S942p

Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business (Revised and Updated 3rd ed.) by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner, Call Number: 658.4 T851r

School Choice by David R. Garcia, Call Number: 379.1 G216s

Smarter Workouts: The Science of Exercise made Simple by Pete McCall, Call Number: 613.7 M122s

The Spender’s Guide to Debt-Free Living: How a Spending Fast Helped Me Get From Broke to Badass in Record Time by Anna Newell Jones, Call Number: 332.024 3763s

Waiting on Retirement: Aging and Economic Insecurity in Low-Wage Work by Mary Gatta, Call Number: 306.38 G262w

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New Books: Odds and Ends 57

11 Tuesday Jun 2019

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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.

365 Ways to Live Cheap!: Your Everyday Guide to Saving Money by Trent Hamm, Call number: 332.024 H224t

Al’ America: Travels Through America’s Arab and Islamic Roots by Jonathan Curiel, Call Number: 909.097C975a
NOTE: Have you visited America’s Mother Mosque? It’s right here in Cedar Rapids.

Cover of Ask a ManagerAsk a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work by Alison Green, Call Number: 650.13 G795a

The Astonishing Power of Storytelling: Leading, Teaching, and Transforming in a New Way by Robert J. Garmston, Call Number: 372.67 G233a

Baseball: A History of America’s Game (4th ed.) by Benjamin G. Rader, Call Number: 796.357 R127b

The Best American Travel Writing by Bill Bryson, Call Number: 910.4 B561

Between Past and Future: Eight Exercise in Political Thought by Hannah Arendt, Call Number: 909.82 A681b

Demystifying Hospice: Inside the Stories of Patients and Caregivers by Karen J. Clayton, Call Number: 616.029 C622d

Digital Photography for Dummies (8th ed.) by Julie Adair King, Call Number: 778.3 K534d

Disrupt You! Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation by Jay Samit, Call Number: 650.1 S188d

Doing Harm: How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery, Call Number: 613.042 D972d

Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design by Perry Marshall, Call Number: 231.765 m369e

Free Public Transit: And Why We don’t Pay to Ride Elevators, Editors by Judith Dellheim and Jason Prince, Call Number: 388.4 F853

From Broken Glass: My Story of Finding Hope in Hitler’s Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation by Steve Ross, Call Number: 940.53 R826f

From Somalia to Snow: How Central Minnesota Became Home to Somalis by Hudda ibrahim, Call Number: 977.6 I14f

Get a Financial Life: Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties by Beth Kobliner, Call Number: 332.024 K758g 2017

The History of Great Britain (2nd ed – The Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Anne B. Rodrick, Call Number: 941 R696h

How to Be a Successful Student: 20 Study Habits Based on the Science of Learning by Richard E. Mayer, Call Number: 371.302 M468h

Leaders: Myth and Reality by General Stanley McChrystal, Jeff Eggers and Jason Mangone, Call Number: 303.34 M124L

Mascot Nation: The Controversy Over Native American Representations in Sports by Andrew C. Billings and jason Edward Black, Call Number: 305.897 B598m

Microsoft Office 2019 by Wallace Wang, Call number: 005.5 W246o

Minds at Work: Managing for Success in the Knowledge Economy by David Grewbow and Stephen J. Gill, Call Number: 658.3 G788m

Narrative History of the American Press by Gregory A. Borchard, Call Number: 071.3 B726n

National Geographic Guide to State Parks of the United States (5th ed.), Call Number: 917.3 N277n

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, Call Number: 364.973 A377n

The Psychology of School Bullying by Peter K. Smith, Call Number: 371.58 S656p

The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Tell Your Family History, Fight Smarter, go Out and Play, and Much More! by Bruce Feiler, Call Number: 306.85 F298s

The Social Impact of Advertising: Confessions of an (Ex-)Advertising Man by Tony Kelso, Call Number: 659.1 K299s

Student Plagiarism in Higher Education: Reflections on Teaching Practice, Edited by Diane Pecorari and Philip Shaw, Call Number: 808.02 S933s

Technology in America: A History of Individuals and Ideas (3rd ed.), Edited by Carroll Pursell), Call Number: 609.73 T255t

These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore, Call Number: 973 L598t

Understanding Animal Behavior by Rory Putman, Call Number: 591.5 P988u

Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism by ian Bremmer, Call number: 303.482 B836u

A Very Short, Fairly Interesting, and Reasonably Cheap Book about Globalization by Leo McCann, Call Number: 303.482 M122v

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New Books: Odds and Ends 56

29 Wednesday May 2019

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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.

1619: Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy by James Horn, Call Number: 975.5 H813s

Are u ok?: A Guide to Caring for Your Mental Health – How to Know if You Need Help and Where to Find It by Kati Morton, Call Number: 616.89 M889a 2018

Are You Fully Charged?: The Three Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life by Tom Rath, Call Number: 158.1 R234a

Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car – And How it will Reshape Our World by Lawrence D. Burns with Christopher Shulgan, Call Number: 388.342 B967a

The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak, Call Number: CL Easy Reading 813.6 N935b
NOTE: A picturebook with no pictures, but a great read aloud.

Busy: How to Thrive in a World of Too Much by Tony Crabbe, Call Number: 155.24 C883b

Can You Outsmart an Economist?: 100+ Puzzles to Train Your Brain by Steven E. Landsburg, Call Number: 330 L263c

Capitalism in America: A History by Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge, Call Number: 330.973 G815c

Cover of Are U OK?

China in Ten Words (People, Leader, Reading, Writing, Lu Xun, Revolution, Disparity, Grassroots, Copycat, Bamboozle) by Yu Hua, Call Number: 951 Y94c 2012

The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution by Julius S. Scott, Call Number: 972.94 S427c

Contemporary Africa (Contemporary States and Societies) by Matthew Graham, Call Number: 960.3 G741c

Craig and Fred: A Marine, A Stray Dog, and How They Rescued Each Other by Craig Grossi, Call Number: 636.7 G878c
NOTE: A marine in remote Afghanistan made friends with a stray dog. He was able to sneak the dog onto base and then got him into the United States to his family in Virginia. When Craig came home a few months later he credits the dog for saving him to Post-Traumatic Stress.

Finding a New Midwestern History, Edited by Jon K. Lauck, Gleaves Whitney, and Joseph Hogan, Call Number: 977 F494f

Geek Nation: How Indian Science is Taking Over the World by Angela Aini, Call Number: 509.54 S132g

Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister, Call Number: 305.42 T768g

Understanding Learning and Related Disabilities: Inconvenient Brains by Martha Bridge Denckla, Call Number: 618.92 D391u 2019

Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years by Chase F. Robinson, Call Number: 909.07R658i

Let the People See: The Story of Emmet Till by Elliott J. Gorn, Call Number: 364.134 T574g

LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, Call Number: 302.231 S617L

Cover of Islamic Civilization in 30 Lives

Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, Call Number: 650.11 K675m

Microsoft Office 2019: Step by Step by Joan Lambert and Curtis Frye, Call Number: 005.5 L222m

The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias by Dolly Chugh, Call Number: 303.3 C559p

To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey, Call Number: 323.092 H772t

Racing to the Finish: My Story by Dale Earnhardt, Jr. with Ryan McGee, Call Number: 796.72E127r
NOTE: One of the great NASCAR drivers, Earnhardt was also concerned about the effects of repeated race related concussions. He talks both about what the sport is like and his concerns to raise awareness about the issues behind concussions.

Small Fry: A Memoir by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, Call Number: 818.6 B838s
NOTE: This is the story of Lisa Brennan-Jobs, who is the daughter of artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs, growing up between her parents in California in the 70s and 80s.

Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press, Call Number: 791.45 P935s

The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah,Call Number: 302.5 A647L

To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey, Call Number: 323.092 H772t

Walls:a History of Civilization in Blood and Brick by David Frye, Call Number 909 F948w

What You Need to Know About Autism by Christopher M. Cumo, Call Number: 616.85 C971w 2019

What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape by Sohaila Abdulali, Call Number: 364.153 A136w

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney, Call Number: 932 C775w
NOTE: The great female Pharaohs.

Why They CAN’T Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities by John Warner, Call Number: 808.042 W282w

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New Books: Odds and Ends 52

08 Friday Feb 2019

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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.

Popular Books

Just One Day by Gayle Forman, Call Number: PB FOR

The Lost Queen of Crocker County: A Novel by Elizabeth Leiknes, Call Number: PB LEI

Nonfiction Books

Cover of The Addiction SolutionThe Addiction Solution: Treating Our Dependence On Opioids and Other Drugs by Lloyd I. Sederer, Call Number: 362.29 S447a

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse, Call Number: 364.164 H587s

Asperger’s Children: The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna by Edith Sheffer, Call Number: 618.92 S542a

Beauty in the Broken Places: A Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience by Allison Pataki, Call Number: PB PAT
NOTE: “Five months pregnant, on a flight to their “babymoon,” Allison Pataki turned to her husband when he asked if his eye looked strange and watched him suddenly lose consciousness. After an emergency landing, she discovered that Dave—a healthy thirty-year-old athlete and surgical resident—had suffered a rare and life-threatening stroke. Next thing Allison knew, she was sitting alone in the ER in Fargo, North Dakota, waiting to hear if her husband would survive the night. When Dave woke up, he could not carry memories from hour to hour, much less from one day to the next. Allison had lost the Dave she knew and loved when he lost consciousness on the plane. Within a few months, she found herself caring for both a newborn and a sick husband, struggling with the fear of what was to come.”

Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World by Joshua B. Freeman, Call Number: 338.6 F855b

Blind Justice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions by Mark Godsey, Call Number: 345.73 G589b

Blood and Ivy: The 1849 Murder that Scandalized Harvard by Paul Collins, Call Number: 364.152 C712B
NOTE: “On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city’s richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston’s West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered hefty rewards as leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never left the Medical School building alive….it became a landmark case in the use of medical forensics and the meaning of reasonable doubt.”

The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson, Call Number: 364.134 T994b

Cover of BuzzBuzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hansen, Call Number: 595.79 H251b

Careers in Media and Communication by Stephanie A. Smith, Call Number: 302.23 S661c

Corridor Rising: A Decade of Reinvestment Following the 2008 Floods, Call Number: 977.7 C825

Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee, Call Number: 808.08 P995d

Essential Type: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding and Using Fonts by Tony Seddon, Call Number: 686.224 S447e

Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by Robert L. O’Connell, Call Number: 973.709 O182f

Cover of George Washington Carver in his own wordsGeorge Washington Carver: In His Own Words (2nd ed.), Edited by Gary R. Kremer, Call Number: 630.92 C331kr

Guide to Financial Markets: Why They Exist and How They Work by Marc Levinson, Call Number: 332.64 L665g

Happy Brain: Where Happiness Comes From, and Why by Dean Burnett, Call Number: 612.82 B964h

In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology by George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch, Call Number: 306.072 G569i

Inc.: Start a Successful Business – Expert Advice To Take Your Startup From Idea to Empire by Colleen DeBaise, Call Number: 658.1 D286s

The Internet Trap: Five Costs of Living Online by Ashesh Mukherjee, Call Number: 302.23 M953i
NOTE: “Whether we are checking emails, following friends on Facebook and Twitter, catching up on gossip from TMZ, planning holidays on TripAdvisor, arranging dates on Match.com, watching videos on Youtube, or simply browsing for deals on Amazon, the internet pervades our professional and personal environments. The internet has revolutionized our lives, but at what cost? Mukherjee uses the latest research in consumer psychology to highlight five hidden costs of living online: too many temptations, too much information, too much customization, too many comparisons, and too little privacy.”

Life on Mars: What To Know Before We Go by David A. Weintraub, Call Number: 523.43 W424L

Cover of The Internet TrapLock, Stock, and Barrel: The Origins of American Gun Culture by Clayton E. Cramer, Call Number: 683.4 C889L

Master Thieves: The Boston Gangsters Who Pulled Off the World’s Greatest Art Heist by Stephen Kurkjian, Call Number: 364.16 K968m

Millennials and the Moments That Made Us: A Cultural History of the U.S. from 1982-Present by Shaun Scott, Call Number: 305.209 S429m

One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter (Essays) by Scaachi Koul, Call Number:813.6 K881o

Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War by Jorn Leonhard, Call Number: 940.3 L584p

The Power of Framing: Creating the Language of Leadership by Gail T. Fairhurst, Call Number: 658.4 F171
NOTE: Defining the meaning of a situation to gain control of it.

Practical English Usage (Fully Revised 4th ed.) by Michael Swan, Call Number: ELA 428.2 S972p

Psychology in the Classroom: A Teacher’s Guide to What Works by Marc Smith and Jonathan Firth, Call Number: 370.15 S655p

Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It’s Doing to Us by Will Stohr, Call Number: 155.2 S886

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson, Call Number: 599.5 P995s

A Student Guide to Study Abroad by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan, Allan Goodman, and Sir Cyril Taylor, Call Number: 370.116 B486s

Superbugs: An Arms Race Against Bacteria by William Hall, Anthony McDonnell, and Jim O’Neill, Call Number: 616.9 H181s

Superhero Ethics: 10 Comic Book Heroes, 10 Ways to Save the World, Which One Do We Need Most Now? by Travis Smith, Call Number 741.509 S662s

Cover of Super-BugsTwenty Years of Life: Why the Poor Die Earlier and How to Challenge Inequality by Suzanne Bohan, Call Number: 362.5 B676t

Undocumented by John Moore, Call Number: 304.873 M822u

Using Picture Books to Enhance Children’s Social and Emotional Literacy: Creative Activities and Programs for Parents and Professionals by Susan Elswick, Call Number: 372.133 E499u

Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World by Andrea Barnet, Call Number: 305.409 B261v

Weather: A Concise Introduction by Gregory Hakim and Jerome Patoux, Call Number: 551.5 H155w

Why? Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes, Call Number: 940.53

You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages (Essays) by Carina Chocano, Call Number: 305.42 C545Y

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New Books: Odds and Ends 51

17 Monday Dec 2018

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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.

Children’s Literature

Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat, Call Number: CL 940.53 B736s

 

Odds and Ends

Cover of The American Indian Integration of BaseballThe American Indian Integration of Baseball by Jeffrey Powers-Back, Call Number: 796.357 P888a

American Kingpin by Nick Bilton, Call Number: 364.16 B599a
NOTE: “In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark Web where anyone could trade anything — drugs, hacking software, forged passports, counterfeit cash, poisons — free of the government’s watchful eye. It wasn’t long before the media got wind of the new Web site where anyone — not just teenagers and weed dealers but terrorists and black hat hackers — could buy and sell contraband detection-free.”

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking by Saifedean Ammous, Call Number: 332.1 A521b

Brains on Fire: Igniting Powerful, Sustainable, Word of Mouth Movements by Robbin Phillips, Greg Cordell, Geno Church, and Spike Jones, Call Number: 659.13 B814b

Cedar Rapids: Downtown and Beyond by George T. Henry and Mark W. Hunter, Call Number: 977.762 H522c

Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond by Deborah Gold, Call Number: 362.73 G618c

Cover of Cedar Rapids Downtown and BeyondThe Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker, Call Number: 658 D794d

Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni, Call Number: 658.4 L563d

Don’t Bullsh*t Yourself! Crush the Excuses That Are Holding You Back by Jon Taffer, Call Number: 650.1 T124d
NOTE: The host of Bar Rescue explains how you need to step up to improve your life instead of making excuses about why you Cover of From the Warm Center to the Ragged Edgecan’t.

For the Love of Cities: The Love Affair Between People and Their Places by Peter Kageyama, Call Number: 307.76 K119f

From Warm Center to Ragged Edge: The Erosion of Midwestern Literary and Historical Regionalism, 1920-1965 by Jon K. Lauck, Call Number: 810.9 L366f

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil, Call Number: 967.571 W243g
NOTE: According to Alexis Okeowo of NYT Book Review this book: “describe Wamariya’s idyllic early childhood in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, and the madness that followed with an analytic eye and, at times, a lyrical honesty…. Wamariya is piercing about her alienation in America and her effort to combat the perception that she is an exotic figure, to be pitied or dismissed…. Wamariya tells her own story with feeling, in vivid prose. She has remade herself, as she explains was necessary to do, on her own terms.”

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

The Heritage: Black Athletes, A Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism by Howard Bryant, Call Number: 306.483 B915h

“I Could Write a Book…” by Roy Reiman, Call Number: 070.175 R363i

Cover of I'll Be Gone in the DarkI’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara, Call Number: 364.15 M169i

Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Call Number: 612.8 B636i

Korea Reborn: A Grateful Nation – Honors War Veterans for More Than 60 Years of Growth, Call Number: 951.904 R386

A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia by David G. Campbell, Call Number: 981 C187L

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression — and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari, Call Number: 616.85 H281L

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

Overcharged: Why Americans Pay Too Much for Health Care by Charles Silver and David A. Hyman, Call Number: 368.38 S587o

PowerPhrases!: The Perfect Words to Say it Right and Get the Results You Want by Meryl Runion, Call Number: 658.452 R942p

Cover of Magic BeanSyria: The Making and Unmaking of a Refugee State by Dawn Chatty, Call Number: 956.91 C495s

White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America by Joan C. Williams, Call Number: 305.5 W724w

The World on Time: The 11 Management Principles That Made FedEx An Overnight Sensation by James C. Wetherbe, Call Number: 388.044 W539w

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