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.
Non-Fiction | Computer science, information & general worksPhilosophy & psychologyReligionSocial sciencesLanguageScienceTechnologyArts & recreationLiterature History & geography |
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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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