Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2025 - May 2025
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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NEW RELEASE The sirens' call: how attention became the world's most endangered resource By Hayes, Chris Publishing Date: 2025 Classification: 300 Call Number: 306.342 HAY "From the NYT-bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society"-- |
The interesting narrative and other writings By Equiano, Olaudah Publishing Date: 2003 Classification: 300 Call Number: 306.362 EQU Relates the experiences of an African prince who was kidnapped into slavery in 1755 and followed his various masters from the Americas to Europe and through the Caribbean. |
Building a wholesome family in a broken world: Habsburg lessons from the centuries By Habsburg-Lothringen, Eduard Publishing Date: [2024] Classification: 300 Call Number: 306.85 HAB "Let Archduke Eduard Habsburg guide you on the ultimate adventure of building a family. As a father of six and now a grandfather, the Archduke of Austria shares his own experiences and recipes for a wholesome family life, bolstered by 850 years of Habsburg family history. With his humorous and relatable style, Eduard dives deep into his family's storied past to give you true principles to live by and a Great Plan for lifelong joy. You will journey with the Habsburgs step-by-step through the centuries -- from falling in love to engagement, marriage, pregnancy, birth and Baptism, and everyday life, to seeing your children grow up and start families of their own. Through fascinating real-life stories and examples, he explores: Ways to strengthen family life through traditions -- The benefits of having a large family -- How to care for each other -- even in sickness and at the end of life -- Practical advice for new parents" -- Back cover. |
Lucid dying: the new science revolutionizing how we understand life and death By Parnia, Sam Publishing Date: 2024 Classification: 300 Call Number: 306.903 PAR "From internationally renowned expert in resuscitation and New York Times bestselling author Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, comes a From internationally renowned expert in resuscitation and New York Times bestselling author Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, comes a groundbreaking look at what happens to us when we die, based on the largest-ever research study run on recalled experiences of death" -- |
Drawing the line once again: Paul Goodman's anarchist writings By Goodman, Paul Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 300 Call Number: 320.57 GOO "To me, the chief principle of anarchism is not freedom but autonomy...behavior is more graceful, forceful, and discriminating without the intervention of top-down authorities, whether State, collective, democracy, corporate bureaucracy, prison wardens, deans, prearranged curricula, or central planning. These may be necessary in certain emergencies, but it is at a cost to vitality... By and large, the use of power to do a job is inefficient in the fairly short run. Extrinsic power inhibits intrinsic function."--From Drawing the Line Once Again. |
By Schwartz, Elaine Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 300 Call Number: 330 SCH A concise and fascinating guide to the areas covered by a first degree in economics. Fully illustrated with fascinating photographs and images. Handy timelines, information boxes, feature spreads and margin annotations will aid the reader in understanding terms and concepts easily and quickly. The Degree in a Book series has sold over 118,000 copies worldwide and has been published in 10 different languages. |
Who cooked Adam Smith's dinner: a story about women and economics By Marcal, Katrine Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 300 Call Number: 330.082 MAR "When philosopher Adam Smith proclaimed that our actions are motivated by self-interest, he used the example of the baker and the butcher to lay the foundations for his "economic man." He argued that they gave bread and meat for profit, not out of the goodness of their hearts. It's an ironic point of view coming from a bachelor who lived with his mother for most of his life--a woman who cooked his dinner every night. Nevertheless, Smith's economic man has dominated our understanding of modern-day capitalism. Such a viewpoint disregards the unpaid work of mothering, caring, cleaning, and cooking. Essentially, the father of modern economics has based our whole concept of capitalism on a system that ignores half of its participants. ... Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? charts the myth of the economic man, from its origins at Adam Smith's dinner table to its adaptation by the Chicago School to its disastrous role in the 2008 Global Financial Crisis."--Jacket. |
NEW RELEASE Publishing Date: 2025 Classification: 300 Call Number: 331.8809 "Labor unions created and fueled the workers? rights movement that has resulted in a minimum wage, the five-day workweek, the right to take time off for illness or family emergencies without being penalized, and access to many other benefits. Some politicians now claim that labor unions are corrupt and only interfere with the relationship between management and labor, but supporters argue that unions still have an important role to play and may be essential in the effort to combat income inequality. This issue of The Reference Shelf takes a look at labor unions and their evolving role in American politics and the economy."-- |
By Trump, Donald Publishing Date: 1988 Classification: 300 Call Number: 333.33 TRU In this coast-to-coast bestseller, America's most glamorous tycoon offers a no-holds-barred account of how he runs his businesses, makes hisls and manages his life. A main selection of the Fortune Book Club. "Unrestrained Trump . . . his blueprint for rising to the top".--Philadelphia Inquirer. |
Ratification: the people debate the Constitution, 1787-1788 By Maier, Pauline Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 300 Call Number: 342.7302 MAI The dramatic story of the debate over the ratification of the Constitution, the first new account of this seminal moment in American history in years. |
Keeping the faith: God, democracy, and the trial that riveted a nation By Wineapple, Brenda Publishing Date: [2024] Classification: 300 Call Number: 344.768 WIN "In 1925, hundreds of people descended on the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, where a young schoolteacher named John T. Scopes was put on trial for including a reference to evolution in his teaching. Darwin's concept that species evolved over time through natural selection was misunderstood as challenging the Bible, faith in God, and as suggesting that men were descended from monkeys. Two legendary men, Clarence Darrow for the defense, and William Jennings Bryan for the prosecution, drew massive crowds in a trial that quickly became a circus-like media sensation. Darrow argued for individual freedom including in religion and education, and Bryan argued from a fundamentalist Christian perspective that evolution undermined faith in God and the literal truth of the Bible. Historian Brenda Wineapple brings to life the entirety of this dramatic and colorful period that exposed foundation divisions in America across race, class, and religion. Bryan had run several times, unsuccessfully, for President, and his political efforts and ambitions, vividly chronicled in this book, culminated in Dayton. Darrow was a leader of the ACLU and known as a fervent defender of laborers, and his long history of legal defense in matters of individual rights also reached its apogee in this trial of the century. In his defense of Scopes and the First Amendment protection of individual liberty, Darrow said: 'No subject possesses the minds of men like religious bigotry, and hate, and these fires are being lighted today in America'"-- |
NEW RELEASE Califailure: reversing the ruin of America's worst-run state By Hilton, Steve Publishing Date: [2025] Classification: 300 Call Number: 351.794 HIL "An examination of the failures of governance in California"-- |
Addiction by design: machine gambling in Las Vegas By Schüll, Natasha Dow Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 300 Call Number: 362.25 SCH Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot machines, revamped by ever more compelling digital and video technology, have unseated traditional casino games as the gambling industry's revenue mainstay. 'Addiction by design' takes readers into the intriguing world of machine gambling, an increasingly popular and absorbing form of play that blurs the line between human and machine, compulsion and control, risk and reward. Drawing on fifteen years of field research in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Dow Schull shows how the mechanical rhythm of electronic gambling pulls players into a trancelike state they call the 'machine zone', in which daily worries, social demands, and even bodily awareness fade away. Once in the zone, gambling addicts play not to win but simply to keep playing, for as long as possible--even at the cost of physical and economic exhaustion. In continuous machine play, gamblers seek to lose themselves while the gambling industry seeks profit. Schull describes the strategic calculations behind game algorithms and machine ergonomics, casino architecture and 'ambience management', player tracking and cash access systems--all designed to meet the market's desire for maximum 'time on device'. Her account moves from casino floors into gamblers' everyday lives, from gambling industry conventions and Gamblers Anonymous meetings to regulatory debates over whether addiction to gambling machines stems from the consumer, the product, or the interplay between the two. 'Addiction by design' is a compelling inquiry into the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance, offering clues to some of the broader anxieties and predicaments of contemporary life. At stake in Schull's account of the intensifying traffic between people and machines of chance is a blurring of the line between design and experience, profit and loss, control and compulsion. |
Relinquished: the politics of adoption and the privilege of American motherhood By Sisson, Gretchen Publishing Date: 2024 Classification: 300 Call Number: 362.734 SIS "A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mothers for whom the choice to parent was never real. Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace an individual, private solution to a large-scale, social problem. With the recent decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization revoking abortion protections and the upcoming decision in Brackeen v. Haaland likely to revoke the Indian Child Welfare Act, we are in a political moment in which adoption is, increasingly, being revealed as an institution devoted to separating families and policing parenthood under the guise of feel-good family-building. Rooted in a long-term study, Relinquished is an analysis of hundreds of in-depth interviews with American mothers who placed their children for domestic adoption. The voices of these women are powerful and heartrending; they deserve to be heard as a response to this moment"-- |
Out of the wilderness: escaping my father's prison and my journey to forgiveness By Doerksen, Elishaba Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 300 Call Number: 362.8292 DOE "Elishaba Doerksen was the oldest of fifteen children born to ex-hippies Robert and Kurina Hale, also known as Papa Pilgrim and Country Rose. Elishaba grew up in a dilapidated 340-square-foot log cabin in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico, isolated from civilization by a fundamentalist father intent on keeping his large family cloistered from a godless world. When she was nineteen, Papa Pilgrim began taking liberties with Elishaba in unimaginable ways and beating her, and her siblings, when he judged them to be "rebellious." The horrific sexual and physical abuse continued after the family moved to a remote valley in the Alaska wilderness. After ten years of terrifying mistreatment, Elishaba gathered her courage to make a run for it on a snowmobile. What happens next is the basis for a powerful, dramatic story about perseverance, faith, and redemption, as well as forgiveness."--Back cover. |
By Olejniczak, Stephen P Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: 300 Call Number: 384 OLE |
Worn: a people's history of clothing By Thanhauser, Sofi Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 300 Call Number: 391.009 THA "In this ambitious, panoramic social history, Sofi Thanhauser brilliantly tells five stories--Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool--about the clothes we wear and where they come from, illuminating our world in unexpected ways. She takes us from the opulent court of Louis Quatorze to the labor camps in modern-day Chinese-occupied Xinjiang. We see how textiles were once dyed from lichen, shells, bark, saffron, and beetles, displaying distinctive regional weaves and knits, and how the modern Western garment industry has refashioned our attire into the homogeneous and disposable uniforms popularized by fast fashion brands. Thanhauser makes clear how the clothing industry has become one of the planet's worst polluters, relying on chronically underpaid and exploited laborers. But she also shows us how micro-communities and companies of textile and clothing makers in every corner of the world are rediscovering ancestral and ethical methods for making what we wear. Drawn from years of intensive research and reporting from around the world, and brimming with fascinating anecdotal material, Worn reveals to us that our clothing comes not just from the countries listed on the tags or ready-made from our factories--it comes, as well, from deep in our histories"-- |
By Campos-Duffy, Rachel Publishing Date: [2021] Classification: 300 Call Number: 394.2663 ALL From the wind-swept, snowy ranges of Wyoming to Florida beaches glowing with Christmas lights, All American Christmas traces holiday traditions across the United States. In this beautiful personal keepsake, Rachel Campos-Duffy and Sean Duffy present a dazzling collection of emotional stories, treasured family photographs, and homegrown Christmas recipes from some of Fox News' most beloved personalities. |
Goldilocks and the three bears By Marshall, James Publishing Date: [1988] Classification: 300 Call Number: 398.2 MAR Three bears return home from a walk to find a little girl asleep in baby bear's bed. |
Sentence diagramming reference manual: how to diagram anything By O'Brien, Elizabeth Publishing Date: 2013, 2012 Classification: 400 Call Number: 428.2 OBR |