Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
November 2014 - December 2014
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
Additional information about each title can be found in the catalog (click on the title). For older acquisition lists choose from Select another list. To request any of these titles please contact your local library branch.
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Miniature schnauzers and other terriers Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636.755 "An introduction to miniature schnauzers and other terriers, presented in a highly illustrated, question-and-answer format. Features include fun facts, glossary, resource list, index, and scientific classification list"--Provided by publisher. |
Cooked: a natural history of transformation By Pollan, Michael Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.5 POL "Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements--fire, water, air, and earth--to transform the stuff of nature into delicious things to eat and drink. Apprenticing himself to a succession of culinary masters, Pollan learns how to grill with fire, cook with liquid, bake bread, and ferment everything from cheese to beer. In the course of his journey, he discovers that the cook occupies a special place in the world, standing squarely between nature and culture. Both realms are transformed by cooking, and so, in the process, is the cook. Each section of Cooked tracks Pollan's effort to master a single classic recipe using one of the four elements. A North Carolina barbecue pit master tutors him in the primal magic of fire; a Chez Panisse-trained cook schools him in the art of braising; a celebratedbaker teaches him how air transforms grain and water into a fragrant loaf of bread; and finally, several mad-genius "fermentos" (a tribe that includes brewers, cheese makers, and all kinds of picklers) reveal how fungi and bacteria can perform the most amazing alchemies of all. The reader learns alongside Pollan, but the lessons move beyond the practical to become an investigation of how cooking involves us in a web of social and ecological relationships: with plants and animals, the soil, farmers, our history and culture, and, of course, the people our cooking nourishes and delights. Cooking, above all, connects us. The effects of not cooking are similarly far reaching. Relying upon corporations to process our food means we consume huge quantities of fat, sugar, and salt; disrupt an essential link to the natural world; and weaken our relationships with family and friends. In fact, Cooked argues, taking back control of cooking may be the single most important step anyone can take to help make the American food system healthier and more sustainable. Reclaiming cooking as an act of enjoyment and self-reliance, learning to perform the magic of these everyday transformations, opens the door to a more nourishing life. "-- Provided by publisher. |
The encore career handbook: how to make a living and a difference in the second half of life By Alboher, Marci Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 600 Call Number: 650.14 ALB Nine million baby boomers have already skipped retirement to enjoy meaningful work instead, and another 31 million are hoping to join them soon. Covering everything those readers will need to know, this road map points to passion, purpose, and a paycheck in the second half of life. |
By De Carlo, Yvonne Publishing Date: c1987 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.43 DEC Discussing her love affairs with Howard Hughes, Aly Khan, and the Shah of Iran's brother and her relationships with such well-known people as Jimmy Stewart, and Sophia Loren, Yvonne De Carlo chronicles her career as cabaret singer and dancer, opera singer, and actress - (Baker & Taylor) |
Nevada Belle & the forgotten women of the West: a collection of poems By Butler, Judith L. Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.6 BUT "This collection of poems by poet/writer Judith L. Butler were compiled to honor the strong women of the West who led remarkable lives in the rough and ready days of the emerging western territory"--Cover |
Social class in the writings of Mary Hallock Foote By Smith, Christine Hill Publishing Date: c2009 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.4 SMI With this look at Foote (1847-1938), Smith (Colorado Mountain College) provides a fine addition to Western studies. Born in Milton, New York, Foote had a sense of superiority about her eastern upbringing. And her lifelong friendship with artist Helena de Kay Gilder (carried on by correspondence) kept Foote anchored to upper-class prejudices. By the time she was 30, Foote was "exiled" with her engineer husband to the West. Foote rarely abided western manners, and the novels and short stories she wrote while in Colorado, Idaho, and California are marked by condescension to lower-class characters. For this she was well rewarded by popular eastern magazines--Century, Harper's, Scribner's, The Atlantic. The strengths of this book include Smith's excellent contextual discussions of relevant literature from the times, especially work by Willa Cather, Henry James, and Gertrude Atherton; her use of supporting studies, e.g., Richard Ohmann's Selling Culture: Magazines, Markets, and Class at the Turn of the Century (1996); and her chapter on "the new woman" as found in Foote's The Ground-Swell (1919). A superb companion to Darlis Miller's Mary Hallock Foote: Author-Illustrator of the American West (CH, Oct'02, 40-0770) and an excellent resource for students of western and women's literature. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. Copyright 2009 American Library Association. |
Literary life: a second memoir By McMurtry, Larry Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.54 MCM McMurtry has delighted generations with his witty and elegant prose. In "Literary Life", the sequel to "Books", McMurtry expounds on life on the private side: the trials and triumphs of being a writer. |
The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order By Huntington, Samuel P. Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 900 Call Number: 909.829 HUN Reissued with a new foreword, a classic study of international relations shares the author's provocative analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism, offering insight into his views about how civilizations replaced nations and ideologies became a driving force in global politics. - (Baker & Taylor) |
Salt to summit: a vagabond journey from Death Valley to Mount Whitney By Arnold, Daniel Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.9 ARN Describes the author's travels from Death Valley, the lowest point in the hemisphere, up to the peak of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States with only a backpack filled with empty two-liter bottles. |
NEW RELEASE Nordic, Central, & Southeastern Europe By Thompson, Wayne C. Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 900 Call Number: 940 THO |
NEW RELEASE By Thompson, Wayne C. Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 900 Call Number: 940 THO The World Today Series: Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present. |
By Mayeda, Mack Publishing Date: [2010] Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5317 MAY |
By Bender, Bryan Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.54 BEN Major George Eyster V comes from a long line of military officers, dating back to the Revolutionary War. Army service was George's family legacy, but his tour of duty in Iraq left him disillusioned and questioning. He was making plans to end his army career but was offered a posting to J-PAC, an elite division armed with the latest detection and forensic technology. J-PAC's sole mission is to fulfill a solemn promise at the heart of the military code: bring all fallen soldiers home to the country for which they gave their lives. |
NEW RELEASE By Russell, Malcolm B. Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 900 Call Number: 956 RUS This volume is designed to place in context the passionate controversies and emotional attachments of the two billion people who live, study, work, love, and die in the Middle East and South Asia. |
NEW RELEASE By Dickovick, James Tyler Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 900 Call Number: 960 DIC |
NEW RELEASE By Thompson, Wayne C. Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 900 Call Number: 971 THO |
NEW RELEASE By Brown, Charles Raymond Publishing Date: 2014, [1915] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.4 BRO |
A reforming people: Puritanism and the transformation of public life in New England By Hall, David D. Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 900 Call Number: 974.02 HAL This work is an account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. The author, a historian looks afresh at how the colonists set up churches, civil governments, and methods for distributing land. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority grounded in either church or state, these settlers based their churches on the participation of laypeople and insisted on consent as a premise of all civil governance. Encouraging broad participation and relying on the vigorous use of petitioning, they also transformed civil and criminal law and the workings of courts. The outcome was a civil society far less authoritarian and hierarchical than was customary in their age, indeed, a society so advanced that a few dared to describe it as "democratical." They were well ahead of their time in doing so. As Puritans, the colonists also hoped to exemplify a social ethics of equity, peace, and the common good. In a case study of a single town, the author follows a minister as he encourages the townspeople to live up to these high standards in their politics. This is a book that challenges us to discard long standing stereotypes of the Puritans as temperamentally authoritarian and their leadership as despotic. The author demonstrates exactly the opposite. Here, we watch the colonists as they insist on aligning institutions and social practice with equity and liberty. This re-evaluation of the earliest moments of New England's history, reveals the colonists to be the most effective and daring reformers of their day. |
NEW RELEASE Fish Springs and Black Rock: forgotten towns of Owens Valley By Bowers, Janice Emily Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 900 Call Number: 979.4 BOW |
NEW RELEASE By Buckman, Robert T. Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 900 Call Number: 980 BUC |
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