Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
September 2015 - October 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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My California: journeys by great writers Publishing Date: c2004 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.9404 |
NEW RELEASE By Thompson, Wayne Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940 THO |
NEW RELEASE Nordic, Central, & Southeastern Europe 2015-2016 By Thompson, Wayne C. Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 900 Call Number: 940 THO |
The unquiet Nisei: an oral history of the life of Sue Kunitomi Embrey By Bahr, Diana Meyers Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.53 BAH An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of passionate advocacy on behalf of her fellow internees. - (McMillan Palgrave) |
Manzanar to Mount Whitney: the life and times of a lost hiker By Umemoto, Hank Publishing Date: c2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.53 UME A look at Nisei history as it is reflected in the life of the author who was incarcerated in the Manzanar Detention Center as a teenager. Part memoir and part hiker's diary. |
Her Majesty's royal palace and fortress of the Tower of London By Hammond, Peter Publishing Date: 1991, c1987 Classification: 900 Call Number: 942.15 HAM |
NEW RELEASE By Bidlack, Richard Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 900 Call Number: 947 BID |
By La Fay, Howard Publishing Date: 1972] Classification: 900 Call Number: 948.022 LAF |
Salonica, city of ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950 By Mazower, Mark Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: 900 Call Number: 949.565 MAZ Presents a history of Salonica, from its heyday as a Byzantine port, through its role as a progressive center of the Ottoman Empire, to its occupation during World War II by the Nazis and their deportation of its Jewish inhabitants. |
NEW RELEASE East and Southeast Asia, 2015-2016 By Leibo, Steven A. Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 900 Call Number: 950 LEI |
NEW RELEASE The Middle East and South Asia 2015-2016 By Russell, Malcolm B. Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 900 Call Number: 956 RUS |
NEW RELEASE By Wiafe-Amoako, Francis Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 900 Call Number: 960 WIA |
NEW RELEASE By Thompson, Wayne C. Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 900 Call Number: 971 THO |
NEW RELEASE By Keithly, David M. Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973 KEI |
Lies my teacher told me: everything your American history textbook got wrong By Loewen, James W. Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973 LOE Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history. |
By Catton, Bruce Publishing Date: 1953 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.7 CAT |
NEW RELEASE By Thomas, Evan Publishing Date: [2015] Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.924 THO Evan Thomas delivers the best single-volume biography of Richard Nixon to date, a radical, unique portrait of a complicated figure who was both determinedly optimistic and tragically flawed. The New York Times bestselling author of Ike?s Bluff and Sea of Thunder, Thomas brings new life to one of American history?s most infamous, paradoxical, and enigmatic politicians, dispensing with myths to achieve an intimate and evenhanded look at the actual man. What drove a painfully shy outcast in elite Washington society?a man so self-conscious he refused to make eye contact during meetings?to pursue power and public office? How did a president so attuned to the American political id that he won reelection in a historic landslide lack the self-awareness to recognize the gaping character flaws that would drive him from office and forever taint his legacy? In Being Nixon, Evan Thomas peels away the layers of the complex, confounding figure who became America?s thirty-seventh president. The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon (not unlike his rival John F. Kennedy) grew up in the shadow of an older, favored brother and thrived on conflict and opposition. Through high school and college, in the navy and in politics, he was constantly leading crusades and fighting off enemies real and imagined. As maudlin as he was Machiavellian, Nixon possessed the plainspoken eloquence to reduce American television audiences to tears with his career-saving ?Checkers? speech; meanwhile, his darker half hatched schemes designed to take down his political foes, earning him the notorious nickname ?Tricky Dick.? Drawing on a wide range of historical accounts, Thomas reveals the contradictions of a leader whose vision and foresight led him to achieve deĢtente with the Soviet Union and reestablish relations with communist China, but whose underhanded political tactics tainted his reputation long before the Watergate scandal. One of the principal architects of the modern Republican Party and its ?silent majority? of disaffected whites and conservative ex-Dixiecrats, Nixon was also deemed a liberal in some quarters for his efforts to desegregate Southern schools, create the Environmental Protection Agency, and end the draft. A deeply insightful character study as well as a brilliant political biography, Being Nixon offers a surprising look at a man capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousness?a balanced portrait of a president too often reduced to caricature. |
A journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier: with a statistical appendix By Olmsted, Frederick Law Publishing Date: [1981], c1980 Classification: 900 Call Number: 976.4 OLM |
The girls of Atomic City: the untold story of the women who helped win World War II By Kiernan, Denise Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 976.873 KIE In this book the author traces the story of the unsung World War II workers in Oak Ridge, Tennessee through interviews with dozens of surviving women and other Oak Ridge residents. This is the story of the young women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, who unwittingly played a crucial role in one of the most significant moments in U.S. history. The Tennessee town of Oak Ridge was created from scratch in 1942. One of the Manhattan Project's secret cities, it did not appear on any maps until 1949, and yet at the height of World War II it was using more electricity than New York City and was home to more than 75,000 people, many of them young women recruited from small towns across the South. Their jobs were shrouded in mystery, but they were buoyed by a sense of shared purpose, close friendships, and a surplus of handsome scientists and Army men. But against this wartime backdrop, a darker story was unfolding. The penalty for talking about their work, even the most innocuous details, was job loss and eviction. One woman was recruited to spy on her coworkers. They all knew something big was happening at Oak Ridge, but few could piece together the true nature of their work until the bomb "Little Boy" was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, and the secret was out. The shocking revelation: the residents of Oak Ridge were enriching uranium for the atomic bomb. Though the young women originally believed they would leave Oak Ridge after the war, many met husbands there, made lifelong friends, and still call the seventy-year-old town home. The reverberations from their work there, work they did not fully understand at the time, are still being felt today. |
The Sterling legend; the facts behind the Lost Dutchman Mine By Conatser, Estee Publishing Date: [1972] Classification: 900 Call Number: 979.175 CON |