Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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Mentats of Dune

By Herbert, Brian

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: SF

Call Number: SF

"The sequel to Sisterhood of Dune...The thinking machines have been defeated but the struggle for humanity's future continues. Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen, who also has another goal--to exact revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, whom she blames for her family's downfall. Meanwhile, Josef Venport conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo's anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fanatics rarely surrender easily . . . The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but each group knows that as Butlerian fanaticism grows stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity's future--whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless dark age"--

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Greasy grass: a story of the Little Big Horn

By Boggs, Johnny D.

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

Boggs brings the events and personalities of Little Big Horn to life in a series of first-hand accounts.

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Stagecoach: a western story

By Brand, Max

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

Sammy Greeg is a tenderfoot from New York City on the frontier to make his fortune. He has a fearless determination to succeed no matter the cost, and that makes Sammy a formidable adversary to horse thieves, robbers, and killers. When the lead starts flying, it turns out Sammy has a lot more grit than folks thought.

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The wolf and the man: a western story

By Brand, Max

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: W

Call Number: W

There is a $2,500 reward for the head of the killer wolf, Gray Cloud. When Dave Reagan, considered little better than a half-wit by all who know him, finds the wolf held in his traps, something in the fearless animal's eyes keeps Dave from killing him. Instead, he releases Gray Cloud and carries him on his back to save the wolf from a prairie fire that is threatening them both. Dave brings Gray Cloud home and chains him in a shed that he uses as a blacksmith shop. Dave expects now that, as a result of this feat, his cousins who have always called him a dummy will for the first time come to respect him. But his cousins don't feel anything of the kind. As far as they are concerned, this is the time to put a bullet in Gray Cloud and claim the $2,500 reward. Dave escapes with Gray Cloud to live in the wilderness, away from humans . . .

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Ride the man down

By Brooks, Bill

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

John Henry Cole, working as a deputy U.S. marshal out of Judge Isaac Parker's court in Arkansas, was on assignment in the Indian Nations, in pursuit of a group of white renegades who were in hiding there above all a particularly vicious renegade named Caddo Pierce. He had a wagon of captive renegades when he was shot and seriously injured. He managed to come out of the Nations with his prisoners, but decided that he had enough of that job and so resigned. Now fifteen years later, employed as a deputy for Judge Roy Bean in Texas, Cole receives a personal summons from Judge Parker. He learns that Caddo Pierce and his gang are systematically murdering Indian law enforcement officers and their families in the Nations. By treaty, Parker cannot send any officer into the Nations to pursue a killer unless that killer has killed a white man, so Cole is without backing in his pursuit of Pierce.

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War in Lincoln County: a western story

By Coolidge, Dane

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

Curly Wells knew there was something off about the young gunfighter who nearly took his life during a simple trip to find a stolen horse. A suspected rustler, the gunfighter, named Tuffy Malone, has been harassing Melissa McCoy. When Curly's horse again goes missing, Curly faces a group of renegade rustlers who seem bent on war.

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Jury of six

By Fisher, Dave P.

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: W

Call Number: W

"Jury of Six is a steadily moving western set against the backdrop of 1880 Nebraska. Families like the MacMahons were the backbone of the developing west. It was a time when the law was spread thin and honest men and women took care of difficulties in black and white. Good men were respected; bad men were dealt with by the law of rope and gun. For eight years the disappearance of Niobrara ranchers Owen and Aiden MacMahon remained a mystery. When an outlaw gang begins running roughshod over the country leaving another MacMahon for dead, the hard-as-nails MacMahons go hunting for those responsible only to find an old enemy and the answer to the eight-year-old mystery"--

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The story of Buckhorn: a western duo

By Paine, Lauran

Publishing Date: 2013

Classification: W

Call Number: W

Saturday night for the town of Dunnigan, Wyoming in The Valley of Thunder is something to be dreaded. For months now hoorawing range men have been bursting into Dunnigan, bringing fear to its citizens. Now that Hugh Mitchell, the new town marshall, has come to Dunnigan, his job is to put an end to this chaos. But the problem is not simply the rowdy range men, but the owners of the ranches where they work. The Story of Buckhorn is the story of a ranch. The Buckhorn is owned by two brothers, opposites in all things. Gard Ashley is like steel in his determination to keep the Buckhorn the best cattle ranch in the Dakota Territory. Court Ashley, Gard's massive, truculent brother, sees Buckhorn's prestige and wealth as an excuse to dissipate and swagger. Elisa Benton, a dance-hall singer, loved by Court and intensely disliked by Gard, is able to see through them both. If anything, this tension is only increased when Court is murdered and robbed. Gard is bent on personal vengeance, but Elisa Benton seems only to want to protect the criminals from Gard's wrath.

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Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature

By Pesic, Peter

Publishing Date: 2002

Classification: 100

Call Number: 111.82 PES

This delightful treatise addresses questions having to do with identity, individuality, and distinguishability. Trained as a physicist, Pesic (tutor and musician-in-residence, St. John's College) takes his readers on a dazzling ride through history, literature, physics, chemistry, and philosophy. When the ship in which the Athenians sailed every year to the isle of Delos to pay homage to Apollo needed repair and the Greek citizens decided to replace worn parts with identical pieces, would the ship, though indistinguishable from its original, still be the same ship after every part had been replaced? If electrons cannot be distinguished from one another, how is it possible to count them? In what lies the identity of an object if not in its individuality, i.e., its distinguishability from all others? Pesic offers no final answers to these riddles, but the implications are staggering. Does the absence of individuality at the quantum level apply at the macro level? If so, how is the cloned animal distinguished from the original? In the last two pages Pesic touches on the issue of identity in humans and suggests that perhaps individuals gain their identity through participation in the existence of the other. Highly recommended for upper-division undergraduates and above in psychology and a variety of disciplines. Copyright 2002 American Library Association

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What makes your brain happy and why you should do the opposite

By DiSalvo, David

Publishing Date: 2011

Classification: 100

Call Number: 152.42 DIS

Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine. The problem is that our brains' evolved capacity for avoiding and defending against threats has a slew of by-products, all tightly woven into our day-to-day thinking and behavior, that ensnare us while making our threat-anticipating brains "happy."

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The moral landscape: how science can determine human values

By Harris, Sam

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: 100

Call Number: 171.2 HAR

Bestselling author Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science.

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Supernatural selection: how religion evolved

By Rossano, Matthew J.

Publishing Date: 2010

Classification: 200

Call Number: 200.9 ROS

In 2006, scientist Richard Dawkins published a blockbuster best-seller, The God Delusion. This atheist manifesto sparked a furious reaction from believers, who have responded with numerous books of their own. By pitting science against religion, however, this debate overlooks what science can tell us about religion. According to evolutionary psychologist Maul Rossano, what science reveals is that religion made us human. --

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Jesus and Muhammad: parallel tracks, parallel lives

By Peters, F. E.

Publishing Date: 2011

Classification: 200

Call Number: 200.922 PET

"Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Now, in this intriguing volume, F.E. Peters offers a clear and compelling analysis of the parallel lives of Jesus and Muhammad, the first such in-depth comparison in print." "Like a detective, Peters compiles "dossiers of what we do and do not know about the lives and portraits of these towering figures, drawing on the views of modern historians and the evidence of the Gospels and the Quran. With erudition and wit, the author nimbly leads the reader through drama and dogma to reveal surprising similarities between the two leaders and their messages Each had a public career as a semi-sucessful preacher Both encountered opposition that threatened their lives and those of their followers. Each left a body of teaching purported to be their very words, with an urgent imperative that all must become believers in the face of the approaching apacalypse. Both are symbols of hope on the one hand and of God's terrible judgment on the other. They are bringers of peace--and the sword. There is, however a fundamental difference. Muslims tevere Muhammad ibn Abdullah of Mecca as a mortal prophet. Although known as a prophet in his day, the Galilean Jew Jesus was and is believed by his followers to have been the promised Messiah, indeed the son of God The Quran records revelations received by Muhammad as the messenger of God, whereas the revelations of the Gospels focus on Jesus and the events of his life and death." "A lasting contribution to interfaith understanding, Jesus and Muhammad offers lucid, intelligent answers to questions that underlie some of the world's most intractable conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.

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American grace: how religion divides and unites us

By Putnam, Robert D.

Publishing Date: 2010

Classification: 200

Call Number: 201 PUT

Examines the impact of religion on American life and how that impact has changed in the last half-century.

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Atoms and Eden: conversations on religion and science

By Paulson, Steve

Publishing Date: 2010

Classification: 200

Call Number: 202.4 PAU

A series of interviews, conducted by Paulson, each preceeded by a short introduction.

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Radical: taking back your faith from the American Dream

By Platt, David

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: 200

Call Number: 261.109 PLA

Examines the ways in which the gospel is contradicted by the American dream and challenges Christians to join in a one-year experiment in authentic discipleship that promises spiritual transformation through the word of God.

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The abacus and the cross: the story of the Pope who brought the light of science to the Dark Ages

By Brown, Nancy Marie

Publishing Date: c2010

Classification: 200

Call Number: 270.3092 BRO

Traces the achievements of medieval Pope Sylvester II, revealing his lesser-known role in promoting scientific awareness throughout turn-of-the-first-millennium Catholicism and his introduction of Arabic numerals to Europe.

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The only negotiating guide you'll ever need: 101 ways to win every time in any situation

By Stark, Peter B.

Publishing Date: 2003

Classification: 300

Call Number: 302.3 STA

Identifies a set of simple principles for negotiating in any situation, sharing one-page lessons designed to take the dread out of persuasion and to minimize the risks in important relationships. - (Baker & Taylor)

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Alone together: why we expect more from technology and less from each other

By Turkle, Sherry

Publishing Date: c2011

Classification: 300

Call Number: 303.4833 TUR

In "Alone Together," MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It's a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for--and sacrificing--in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today's self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.

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Aging in America

Publishing Date: 2014

Classification: 300

Call Number: 305.26