Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
January 2013 - February 2013
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.
500 cameras: 170 years of photographic innovation By Gustavson, Todd Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 700 Call Number: 771.309 GUS "Drawing upon the archives of the George Eastman House Collection, 500 Cameras takes a unique approach to the fascinating story of photography. Tracing the medium's history through some of the most important equipment ever used by professionals and amateurs, this remarkable survey presents 500 cameras, all beautifully illustrated in spectacular images."--P. [2] of cover. |
By Isacoff, Stuart Publishing Date: 2011 Classification: 700 Call Number: 786.209 ISA Unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. |
NEW RELEASE Beautiful thing: inside the secret world of Bombay's dance bars By Faleiro, Sonia Publishing Date: [2012], c2010 Classification: 700 Call Number: 792.7092 FAL Offers first-hand insight into Bombay's sex industry and traces the author's experiences with a charismatic teenage exotic dancer whose independence was challenged by an ambitious politician's campaign of false morality. |
By James, Henry Publishing Date: c1984 Classification: 800 Call Number: 809.034 JAM v. 1 |
By James, Henry Publishing Date: c1984 Classification: 800 Call Number: 809.034 JAM v. 2 |
By Crane, Stephen Publishing Date: c1984 Classification: 800 Call Number: 813.4 CRA |
By Adams, Henry Publishing Date: c1983 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.409 ADA The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone. |
Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays-1852-1890 By Twain, Mark Publishing Date: c1992 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.409 TWA v.1 A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain. |
Collected tales, sketches, speeches, & essays-1891-1910 By Twain, Mark Publishing Date: c1992 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.409 TWA v.2 A two-volume set that contains more than 270 speeches, sketches, short stories, maxims, and other writings by Mark Twain. |
By Kirsch, Adam Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5209 KIR "Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual life of the country. In this eloquent book, Adam Kirsch shows that Trilling, far from being obsolete, is essential to understanding our current crisis of literary confidence--and to overcoming it. By reading Trilling primarily as a writer and thinker, Kirsch demonstrates how Trilling's original and moving work continues to provide an inspiring example of a mind creating itself through its encounters with texts. Why Trilling Matters introduces all of Trilling's major writings and situates him in the intellectual landscape of his century, from Communism in the 1930s to neoconservatism in the 1970s. But Kirsch goes deeper, addressing today's concerns about the decline of literature, reading, and even the book itself, and finds that Trilling has more to teach us now than ever before. As Kirsch writes, "Trilling's essays are not exactly literary criticism" but, like all literature, "ends in themselves.""-- |
Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and other early writings By Stein, Gertrude Publishing Date: [1971] Classification: 800 Call Number: 818.5209 STE |
By Pastoriza Iyodo, Benito Publishing Date: [2003] Classification: 800 Call Number: 861.64 PAS "El presente poemario es una muestra exploratoria de signo contrario, una visualización de los pantanos en los que se ha sumergido el hombre. Es, al decir del propio poeta, 'un libro del desamor, de la tración del hombre al hombre mismo, de la desacralización de la inocencia y del la naturaleza'"--forro. |
NEW RELEASE The invisible Arab: the promise and peril of the Arab revolutions By Bisharah, Marwan Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 909.0974 BIS "The Invisible Arab is a brilliant analysis from Marwan Bishara, one of the Arab world's leading public intellectuals, on how the Arabs broke their own psychological barrier of fear to kindle one of the first significant revolutionary transformations of the twenty-first century."--Jacket. |
NEW RELEASE Beyond the blue horizon: how the earliest mariners unlocked the secrets of the oceans By Fagan, Brian M. Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 910.45 FAG Looks at the early development of navigation, examining how ancient humans discovered the secrets of wind, tides, and stars that allowed them to make long voyages that profoundly changed human civilization. |
Yank: the story of World War II as written by the soldiers Publishing Date: 1984 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5373 |
By Rizzuto, Rahna R. Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.54 RIZ In this National Book Critics Award finalist memoir, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto wrestles with the most personal and epic issues of our time. In June 2001 she travels to Hiroshima to interview survivors of the atomic bomb, while her husband and two young sons remain in New York. But initial interviews feel rehearsed, and the survivors reveal little beyond already published accounts. Then September 11 changes everything. The vulnerability exposed by the attacks shatters the survivor's carefully constructed narratives. They open up to Rizzuto in astonishing ways, describing in detail their agonizing experiences. Separated from family as her world seems to be falling apart, Rizzuto sees her marriage begin to crumble as she questions her role as a wife and mother. The parallel narratives of Hiroshima in the survivors' own words, and of Rizzuto's personal awakening, show memory not as history, but as a story we tell ourselves to explain who we are. Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's highly acclaimed first novel, Why She Left Us, won an American Book Award in 2000. She is a faculty member in the MFA in creative writing program at Goddard College, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
NEW RELEASE Outlaw platoon: heroes, renegades, infidels, and the brotherhood of war in Afghanistan By Parnell, Sean Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 958.1047 PAR A lieutenant's gripping, personal account of the legendary U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan--a vivid, action-packed, and highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery. |
NEW RELEASE Two Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a dangerous world By Miller, William Lee Publishing Date: c2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.099 MIL Presents a dual examination of Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower to analyze their similarities and differences, covering their roles in the high politics of their time and their respective experiences during and between the world wars. |
By Chernow, Ron Publishing Date: 2010 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.41 CHE In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people. |
The destiny of the republic: a tale of medicine, madness and the murder of a president By Millard, Candice Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 900 Call Number: 973.84 MIL A narrative account of the twentieth president's political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bell's failed attempt to save him from an assassin's bullet. |