Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
May 2023 - June 2023
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.
Alchemy of herbs: transform everyday ingredients into foods & remedies that heal By Forêt, Rosalee de la Publishing Date: [2017] Classification: 600 Call Number: 615.321 FOR "Just as alchemists transform the ordinary into the extraordinary, with this book you can transform everyday herbs and spices into effective healing herbal remedies. Rosalee de la Foret, a clinical herbalist and education director at LearningHerbs.com, examines the history and modern-day use of 29 herbs, offering clinical studies to support their healing properties. She also dives into the energetics of herbalism, teaching readers how to match the properties of each plant to their unique needs, for a truly personalized approach to health. The recipes in this book take a variety of forms--from teas, salves, and pastilles to beauty products and delicious foods--to show how easy it is to incorporate the healing power of herbs into your everyday life. You could start your day with Spiced Cold Brew Coffee, pamper your skin with Green Tea and Rose Facial Cream, make a meal of Astragalus Bone Broth and Sage Chicken, then treat yourself to Cardamom Chocolate Mousse Cake and a Holy Basil-Ginger Julep. Beautiful photos taken by the author of the herbs and recipes complement each chapter. This book will appeal to those interested in natural health and herbalism, and the recipes offer an easy entry for beginners. Readers will never look at cinnamon, coffee, parsley, lavender, or even chocolate the same way as they realize the kitchen can be their medicine cabinet"-- |
The autistic brain: thinking across the spectrum By Grandin, Temple Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 600 Call Number: 616.85 GRA "A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate Temple Grandin is a star, a Time Magazine top 100 Hero and an inspiration to millions worldwide. Since she started writing and speaking about autism, the number of people diagnosed with it has skyrocketed--but so has the research that is transforming our understanding of the autistic brain. Now she brings her singular perspective to a thrilling journey through the autism revolution. Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, she introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scans from numerous studies. We meet the scientists and self-advocates who are introducing innovative theories of what causes, how we diagnose, and how best to treat autism. She highlights long-ignored sensory problems and the treatments that might help them, and warns of the dangers of politics defining the diagnosis of autism spectrum. Most exciting, in the science that has begun to reveal the long-overlooked strengths conferred by autism, she finds a route to more effective mainstreaming and a way to unleash the unique advantages of autistic people. From the "aspies" in Silicon Valley to the five-year-old without language, Grandin understands the true meaning of the word spectrum. The Autistic Brain is essential reading from the most respected and beloved voices in the field"-- |
By Smith, Graham Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: 600 Call Number: 623.4 SMI |
Two wheels good: the history and mystery of the bicycle By Rosen, Jody Publishing Date: [2022] Classification: 600 Call Number: 629.2272 ROS "The bicycle is a vestige of the Victorian era, seemingly out of pace with our age of smartphones and ridesharing apps and driverless cars. Yet we live on a bicycle planet. Across the world, more people travel by bicycle than by any other form of transportation. Almost anyone can learn to ride a bike-and nearly everyone does. In Two Wheels Good, writer and critic Jody Rosen reshapes our understanding of this ubiquitous machine, an ever-present force in humanity's life and dream life-and a flashpoint in culture wars-for more for than two hundred years. Combining history, reportage, travelogue, and memoir, Rosen sweeps across centuries and around the globe, unfolding the bicycle's saga from its invention in 1817 to its present-day renaissance as a 'green machine,' an emblem of sustainability in a world afflicted by pandemic and climate change. Readers meet unforgettable characters: feminist rebels who steered bikes to the barricades in the 1890s, a prospector who pedaled across the frozen Yukon to join the Klondike gold rush, a Bhutanese king who races mountain bikes in the Himalayas, a cycle rickshaw driver who navigates the seething streets of the world's fastest-growing megacity, astronauts who ride a floating bicycle in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. Two Wheels Good examines the bicycle's past and peers into its future, challenging myths and cliches while uncovering cycling's connection to colonial conquest and the gentrification of cities. But the book is also a love letter: a reflection on the sensual and spiritual pleasures of bike riding and an ode to an engineering marvel--a wondrous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine."-- |
Over the rainbow: a gardener's guide to creating light-filled gardens By Brettell-Vaughn, Marianne Publishing Date: 2017 Classification: 600 Call Number: 635 BRE Preface / Part I, The Opening: Over the rainbow; It starts with the heart; The communication begins; Let’s talk to the garden / Part II, Getting down to business: the nuts and bolts of gardening: “Dishing the dirt”: it all begins with the soil; The scoop on soil tests; Soil amendments 101; Let’s plant a garden; Planting for pollinators; Children in the garden; Our animal friends; Honoring nature’s cycles; The harvest; Love, not poison: shining the light on chemical pesticides and GMOs; Gardening in climate change; An introduction to flower essences; A meditation for you; An attitude of reverence / Part III, Conversations with nature. |
Working dogs of the Eastern Sierra By Crittenden, Jennifer K. Publishing Date: 2019 Classification: 600 Call Number: 636.7 CRI Meet the real dogs who work on the east side of the Sierra Nevada in California: Rusty, the cattle dog with grit, who relishes his work in the dust and heat. King, the first avalanche rescue dog on Mammoth Mountain. Willow, who has been winning agility championships for the past five years. Tinker, the yellow Lab puppy already in training as a guide dog for the blind. Globe-trotting Buster who traveled for his job as a human remains detection dog. Smalls the Singer whose vocal talents keep his humans entertained. Whoopi who started the therapy dog program on the Eastside. Katie, the Great Pyrenees whose adventures took her far up and down US Highway 395. Tara, who found a loving family when she retired after years as a police dog, and many more...--Back cover. |
Connections with wildlife and nature By Kamler, Cindy Publishing Date: 2020 Classification: 600 Call Number: 639.96 KAM Connections chronicles the stories and journeys of wildlife rehabilitator Cindy Kamler. The book follows Cindy from her early connections with nature and wildlife, along a formative mid-life trip around the world, and into the Eastern Sierra where she currently directs the wildlife rehabilitation center that she founded. Fascinated by the animals she helps and the natural environments she experiences, Cindy weaves poetry throughout this narrative. Called to share her passion for wildlife with people of all ages, Connections also contains five tales for kids that are based on actual wildlife rescues. |
The attention merchants: the epic scramble to get inside our heads By Wu, Tim Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 600 Call Number: 659.1042 WU "From Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--A revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves. Attention merchant: an industrial-scale harvester of human attention. A firm whose business model is the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials and other efforts to harvest our attention. Over the last century, few times or spaces have remained uncultivated by the "attention merchants," contributing to the distracted, unfocused tenor of our times. Tim Wu argues that this is not simply the byproduct of recent inventions but the end result of more than a century's growth and expansion in the industries that feed on human attention. From the pre-Madison Avenue birth of advertising to TV's golden age to our present age of radically individualized choices, the business model of "attention merchants" has always been the same. He describes the revolts that have risen against these relentless attempts to influence our consumption, from the remote control to FDA regulations to Apple's ad-blocking OS. But he makes clear that attention merchants grow ever-new heads, and their means of harvesting our attention have given rise to the defining industries of our time, changing our nature--cognitive, social, and otherwise--in ways unimaginable even a generation ago."--Publisher information. |
About time: a history of civilization in twelve clocks By Rooney, David Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 600 Call Number: 681.113 ROO "A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives-and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari's castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries-and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization"-- |
Rock art: east of the Range of Light By Lee, David M. Publishing Date: 2016 Classification: 700 Call Number: 709.07 LEE “For thousands of years Native Americans living in and around the Owens Valley of Eastern California carved images onto wind sculpted rock walls and boulders. Careful documentation can reveal details that photography cannot, and provides valuable insights into how these images fit into the lives of those who made them. This volume combines scale drawings and information collected during twenty years of research with a complete overview of the rock art East of the Range of Light.”—cover. |
By Walton, Natalie Publishing Date: 2020 Classification: 700 Call Number: 747 WAL "Still" invites readers to take on the philosophy of the Slow movement: Living Sustainable. Local. Organic. And Whole. Our homes are ideally placed to support and promote this philosophy, through everything from the materials we source in construction to how we fit-out and furnish them. The choices we make don't have to be at the expense of creating a space that feels warm and welcoming, though. Instead, it can actually make us feel better about how and where we live. This beautiful book explores the homes of twenty people from around the world -- across four continents and thirteen countries -- enlightening readers as to why they chose the Slow path and how it has benefited their lives. There is no one way, but many paths that are leading to more awareness and a greater conversation |
At first sight: photography and the Smithsonian By Smithsonian Institution Publishing Date: ©2003 Classification: 700 Call Number: 770.7475 SMI "Photography and the Smithsonian were invented at the same time, and both were instrumental in revealing the modern world to itself. The Smithsonian holds more than 13 million images spanning over 150 years of taking and collecting photographs." "The book contains photographs that span the medium's history and record science, geography, history, the arts, and cultural events, from the first photographs ever made to digital views beamed back from Mars. The famous, the infamous, and the never-before-seen are here in a remarkable "democracy of images": Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, Greta Garbo, Babe Ruth; the earliest views of the moon and the earliest panoramic view of Damascus; rare Native American photography; views of Asia, Africa, and the American West; photographs of early flight, and much, much more. By recording the act of seeing, and of what was seen, both photography and the Smithsonian have shaped our sense of ourselves, as individuals, as a people, as a country."--Jacket. |
Lewis Hine: passionate journey, photographs 1905-1937 By Hine, Lewis Wickes Publishing Date: ©1996 Classification: 700 Call Number: 779 HIN "Lewis Hine (1874-1940) was a sociologist, as his preference for themes related to immigrants and the working class in his photographs would clearly suggest. Having studied in Chicago and New York, he became a teacher of geography at the private Ethical Culture School in New York in 1901. An assignment to teach photography as well led him to that medium in 1903. In 1908 Hinbe gave up teaching and became a professional photographer." "This volume presents a selection of photographs chosen from among nearly 11,000 negatives, a cross-section of Hine's creative work. It celebrates one of the truly great pioneers of documentary photography, an artist who left his mark in subsequent generations of photographers in this genre. Lewis Hine's influence upon the great documentary photographers of our time is undeniable."--Jacket. |
By Smith, Will Publishing Date: 2021 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.4302 SMI A product of a profound journey of self-knowledge, and a reckoning with all that your will can get you and all that it can leave behind, in this memoir, one of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life. |
A history of golf in Bishop, 1948-1998 By Taylor, Kay Publishing Date: [199?] Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.352 TAY This history covers the development and evolution of golf clubs in Bishop, California, from the earliest Eastern Sierra Golf Club, through the Bishop Golf Club to the current Bishop Country Club. Details of the construction and management of the golf courses and facilities used are presented. Includes chronological lists of country club management, record of fees, and Bishop Country Club champions. |
Mover and shaker: Walter O'Malley, the Dodgers, & baseball's westward expansion By McCue, Andy Publishing Date: [2014] Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.357 MCC In Mover and Shaker Andy McCue presents for the first time an objective, complete, and nuanced account of O'Malley's life. He also departs from the overly sentimentalized accounts of O'Malley as either villain or angel and reveals him first and foremost as a rational, hardheaded businessman, who was a major force in baseball for three decades and whose management and marketing practices radically changed the shape of the game. |
The Colorado Trail: the official guidebook of the Colorado Trail Foundation Publishing Date: [2016] Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.51 The Colorado Trail is, mile for mile, the most beautiful trail in America. It winds its way through fields of wildflowers to high mountains passes, from wild mountains streams to quiet trails through old-growth forests. The Colorado Trails crosses eight mountain ranges, six National Forests, Six Wilderness Areas, and five river systems. The official guidebook includes everything you need to enjoy all 567 miles of the trail, whether out for a day, a weekend backpack, or a complete thru-hike of the trails that starts near Denver and ends near Durango, 486 miles distant. The ninth edition was written by The Colorado Trail Foundation, the nonprofit and volunteers that built and maintain The Colorado Trail. The all new Ninth Edition includes: Detailed information for the entire Colorado Trail, including the new Collegiate West trail addition, Expert advice on planning, Full-Color maps for every segment, Elevation profiles, Information for resupply at nearby towns Book jacket. |
Publishing Date: 1995 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.52 This volume combines two Boardman titles:The Shining Mountain (1982) and Sacred Summits (1982), with two of Tasker's Savage Arena (1982) and Everest the Cruel Way (1980), all out of print. The two men gained fame for several daring ascents of Mt. Everest, the last of which cost both of them their lives. LJ's reviewer praised Savage Arena for relating why climbers feel the "price is worth paying" for reaching the top (LJ 11/15/82). Copyright 1995 Cahners Business Information. |
Epic: stories of survival from the world's highest peaks Publishing Date: 1997 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.522 A collection of fifteen memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks, often in the world's worst possible conditions. |
Mountaineer: thirty years of climbing on the world's great peaks By Bonington, Chris Publishing Date: 1990 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.522 BON The author recounts his participation in many mountain climbing expeditions from Great Britain and the Alps to the Himalayas, and describes how mountaineering has changed over the years - (Baker & Taylor) |