Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2015 - February 2015
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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Attracting beneficial bugs to your garden: a natural approach to pest control By Walliser, Jessica Publishing Date: c2014 Classification: 600 Call Number: 628.96 WAL Profiles nineteen bugs which are helpful to gardeners, with descriptions, illustrations, and a list of their benefits, along with planting and zone details about thirty-nine plants which can be used to attract them. |
Airbrush painting: advanced techniques By Bortles, JoAnn Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: 600 Call Number: 629.262 BOR A full range of airbrushing techniques and applications, with directions for painting everything from cityscapes and machinery to animal subjects and human features on virtually any surface. - (Mbi Pub Co) |
NEW RELEASE A Gardener's companion for the Eastern Sierra, Topaz to Tecopa Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635 |
The four season farm gardener's cookbook: from the garden to the table in 120 recipes By Damrosch, Barbara Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635 DAM A combination cook book and garden guide that teaches readers how to grow their own food and then cook them in different recipes. |
Saxifrages: a definitive guide to the 2000 species, hybrids & cultivars By McGregor, Malcolm Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635.9 MCG Written by the world's foremost specialist, this appealing volume contains a wealth of information on this plant, and includes as well accounts of the author's travels to the alpine areas where they originate, including the Himalayas, the Cascades, Alaska, and the Rif of Morocco. Chapters are included on each of the sections, with an overview of their history, habitat, and characteristics, and detailed discussion of each of the subsections. An overview of the species, growing tips, and an annotated list of 100 garden cultivars are included. The book is oversized (7.5x10.75") and beautifully illustrated, including many photos of plants in the wild, as well as those in gardens and rock gardens. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News) |
The unexpected houseplant: 220 extraordinary choices for every room in your home By Martin, Tovah Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635.965 MAR A guide to raising house plants with information on two hundred and twenty different plants. |
The new horse-powered farm: tools and systems for the small-scale, sustainable market grower By Leslie, Stephen Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636.15 LES The New Horse-Powered Farm is the first book of its kind, offering wisdom and techniques for using horse power on the small farm or homestead. It sets the stage for incorporating draft power on the farm by presenting necessary information for experienced and novice teamsters alike, including getting started with workhorses; the merits of different draft breeds; various training systems for the horse and teamster; haying with horses, seeding crops, and raising small grains; in-depth coverage of tools and systems; and managing a woodlot, farm economics, education, agritourism, and more. It's a must-have resource for any farmer, homesteader, or teamster seeking to work with draft power in a closed-loop farming system. |
By Green-Armytage, Stephen Publishing Date: 2008, c2000 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636.5 GRE Introducing the bizarre and beautiful world of exotic ornamental chickens. |
Dog-gone good cuisine: more healthy, fast, and easy recipes for you and your pooch By Pruitt, Gayle Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636.7083 PRU "Dog-Gone Good Cuisine is a fun, healthy recipe book for humans and their canine kids. While there are other, successful doggie cookbooks in the marketplace, Pruitt's second offering is unique in that the dishes are intended to be enjoyed by chef and pup together. It includes more than 100 balanced, delicious recipes that are corn, sugar, soy, and gluten free and is sprinkled with gorgeous, full color images of absolutely adorable rescue dogs. The recipes are human, canine, and kid friendly and are easy -- even for the beginner cook. The book will include a chapter on holiday dishes, as well as special recipes to address illnessses. Sample recipes include: Individual Spinach Kale Lasagna, Spiced Stuffed Peppers, Twice Baked Broccoli, Asparagus Soufflés w/ Raspberry Sauce, Cream of Cinderella Pumpkin Soup, Chicken Pot Pie cooked in Sweet Pepper Tomato Carrot Soup, Curried Beef Sliders Manicotti, Salmon Florentine and many more!"-- |
Keeping bees in towns & cities By Dixon, Luke Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 600 Call Number: 638.1 DIX Presents a guide to urban bee farming, including instructions on how to select the perfect hive, care for a colony, harvest honey, and maintain a safe colony for neighbors. |
Edible: an adventure into the world of eating insects and the last great hope to save the planet By Martin, Daniella Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.3 MAR " Edible offers a fascinating look into the world of entomophagy and how eating bugs may save the planet. Martin takes readers to the front lines of the next big trend in the global food movement. She argues that bugs have long been an important part of indigenous diets and cuisines around the world, and that insects are an efficient and sustainable food source. Daniella travels to Thailand where the government is subsidizing local farmers to raise crickets, meets with Dutch researchers who have received a $4 million euro grant to study the potential of insects as food, and introduces readers to world class chefs like Jose Andres who are already incorporating bugs into their elegant dishes. She profiles entomophagist pioneers like Monica Martinez, who is launching the first all-bug street food cart. Whether you love or hate them, Edible will radically change the way you think about the global food movement and, perhaps, persuade you that they're much more than a common pest. "-- |
By Chase, Erin Publishing Date: 2010, c2009 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.552 CHA This work is born out of Chase's own need to feed a family of two adults and two young children--on no more than five dollars per dinner. This, her first cookbook, features 200 recipes along with shopping advice. |
Enough for all: foods of my Dry Creek Pomo and Bodega Miwuk people By Smith, Kathleen Rose Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.59 SMI |
Publishing Date: [1996] Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.5945 "Appetisers, sauces for meat and pasta dishes, baked and stuffed pasta, soups, meat and game, fish and shellfish, omlettes, salads and vegetable dishes, desserts and confectionery, as well as a rich selection of quickly-prepared, care-free appetising one-plate meals."--Title page. |
Plum gorgeous: recipes and memories from the orchard By Steele, Romney Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.64 STE Inside Plum Gorgeous, Romney "Nani" Steele follows her successful cookbook-memoir My Nepenthe with 60 seasonally inspired recipes that celebrate the "romance of fruit." Capturing the essence, beauty, and deliciousness of cooking with seasonal fruits, Steele offers simple and seductive recipes that intertwine with the seasons in which each fruit is harvested. Savory recipes like Coriander Steak with Blackberry Vinaigrette and Kumquat Couscous Salad with Fried Haloumi Cheese are presented alongside sweet treats like Passionfruit Chocolate Truffles and Plum Soup with Basil Ice Cream. Interspersed throughout Plum Gorgeous are beautiful, full-color photographs by Sara Remington and reminiscences from the year that Steele spent living in an orchard in Big Sur, along with fruit lore and select notes on handling and preserving fruit. In an accessible but imaginative way, Plum Gorgeous beautifully reveals the many layers and flavor profiles of fruit while celebrating the memories inspired by each season's beauty and bounty. - (Simon and Schuster) |
By Vance, Glenna Publishing Date: c2001 Classification: 600 Call Number: 641.815 VAN |
Lean in: women, work, and the will to lead By Sandberg, Sheryl Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 600 Call Number: 658.4092 SAN In "Lean In", Sheryl Sandberg -- Facebook COO and one of "Fortune" magazine's most powerful women in business -- looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. She draws on her own experiences working in some of the world's most successful businesses, as well as academic research, to find practical answers to the problems facing women in the workplace. |
By Fletcher, Alan Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 700 Call Number: 700 FLE The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. It is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information, oddities, serious science, jokes and memories, all concerned with the interplay between the verbal and the visual, and the limitless resources of the human mind. Loosely arranged in 72 chapters, all this material is presented in a wonderfully inventive series of pages that are themselves masterly demonstrations of the expressive use of type, space, color and imagery. This book does not set out to teach lessons, but it is full of wisdom and insight collected from all over the world. Describing himself as a visual jackdaw, master designer Alan Fletcher has distilled a lifetime of experience and reflection into a brilliantly witty and inimitable exploration of such subjects as perception, color, pattern, proportion, paradox, illusion, language, alphabets, words, letters, ideas, creativity, culture, style, aesthetics and value. The Art of Looking Sideways is the ultimate guide to visual awareness, a magical compilation that will entertain and inspire all those who enjoy the interplay between word and image, and who relish the odd and the unexpected. - (Grand Central Pub) |
Henry Darger, throw away boy: the tragic life of an outsider artist By Elledge, Jim Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 700 Call Number: 700.92 ELL "Henry Darger was utterly unknown during his lifetime, keeping a quiet, secluded existence as a janitor on Chicago's North Side. When he died his landlord discovered a treasure trove of more than three hundred canvases and more than 30,000 manuscript pages depicting a rich, shocking fantasy world-many showing hermaphroditic children being eviscerated, crucified and strangled. While some art historians tend to dismiss Darger as an unhinged psychopath, in Henry Darger, Throw-Away Boy, Jim Elledge cuts through the cloud of controversy and rediscovers Darger as a damaged, fearful, gay man, raised in a world unaware of the consequences of child abuse or gay shame. This thoughtful, sympathetic biography tells the true story of a tragically misunderstood artist. Drawn from fascinating histories of the vice-ridden districts of 1900s Chicago, tens of thousands of pages of primary source material, and Elledge's own work in queer history, the book also features a full-color reproduction of a never-before-seen canvas from a private gallery in New York, as well as a previously undiscovered photograph of Darger with his life-partner Whillie. Engaging and arresting, Henry Darger, Throw-Away Boy brings alive a complex, brave, and compelling man whose outsider art is both challenging and a triumph over trauma"-- |
By Yang, Gene Luen Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5 YAN In China in 1898, bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants. Little Bao has had enough: harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu who fight to free China from "foreign devils." |