Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
December 2023 - March 2024
These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.
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Young Bloomsbury: the generation that redefined love, freedom, and self-expression in 1920s England By Strachey, Nino Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 700 Call Number: 700.92 STR Revealing an aspect of history not yet explored, this illuminating and thought-provoking book brings to vibrant life the second generation of the iconic Bloomsbury Group who inspired their elders to new heights of creativity and passion while also pushing the boundaries of sexual freedom and gender norms in 1920s England. |
By De Botton, Alain Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 700 Call Number: 710.103 DEB A study of architecture examines how we both shape and are shaped by our private homes and public edifices and explains how our stylistic choices can be used to increase our chances of happiness. |
Sakuteiki, visions of the Japanese garden: a modern translation of Japan's gardening classic By Takei, Jiro Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 700 Call Number: 712 TAK The Sakuteiki, or "Records of Garden Making," was written nearly one thousand years ago. It is the oldest existing text on Japanese gardening—or any kind of gardening—in the world. In this edition of the Sakuteiki the authors provide an English-language translation of this classic work and an introduction to the cultural and historical context that led to the development of Japanese gardening. Central to this explanation is an understanding of the sacred importance of stones in Japanese culture and Japanese garden design. Written by a Japanese court noble during the Heian period (794-1184), the Sakuteiki includes both technical advice on gardening—much of which is still followed in today's Japanese gardens—and an examination of the four central threads of allegorical meaning, which were integral features of Heian-era garden design. For those seeking inspiration to build a rock garden or just better understand the Japanese stone garden, the Sakuteiki is an enduring classic. - (Tuttle Pub) A 1,000 year old gardening classic, Sakuteiki or "Records of Garden Making," is the oldest surviving work on Japanese gardening - (Tuttle Pub) |
Japanese gardens: an illustrated guide to their design and history By Conder, J Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 700 Call Number: 712.0952 CON Classic study of gardening techniques and artistic principles involved. Includes analysis of five main garden types, plus important components: stones, lanterns, pagodas, ornamental water. Over 50 sketches, layouts, and diagrams, plus 37 full-page plates, many based on early woodcuts. Also, 40 annotated full-page photographic plates of famous examples of Japanese landscaping. -- Book Description. |
By Beneke, Jeff Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: 700 Call Number: 717 BEN A hands-on home improvement expert provides a comprehensive how-to encyclopedia that enables homeowners to choose and build the fences and gates that are best for their landscape. Step-by-step illustrated instructions are provided for planning, building, maintaining, and repairing any style of fence. |
By Powell, Jane Publishing Date: ©2006 Classification: 700 Call Number: 728 POW A companion volume to Bungalow Details: Exterior looks at the unique interior details that exemplify an authentic bungalow-style home, including such features as wood detailing, art glass, inlaid floors, beamed ceilings, unique tile work, and impressive fireplaces, in a guide designed to be an informative resource for restoring or re-creating period details of an Arts & Crafts-era home. |
Sculpting wood: contemporary tools & techniques By Lindquist, Mark Publishing Date: 1986 Classification: 700 Call Number: 731.462 LIN Teaches basic and advanced techniques for sculpting wood, with discussion of traditional and nontraditional tools, and step-by-step instructions for completing a variety of projects, including a puzzle, bowl, and vase. |
By Halat, Eva Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: 700 Call Number: 736.69 HAL |
By Gaiman, Neil Publishing Date: [2019] Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 GAI "In the longest Sandman story, Morpheus becomes the prey of the Furies--avenging spirits who torment those who spill family blood. A journey both begins and ends for the Lord of Dreams as threads and pieces building since the beginning of the series finally come together in a thrilling climax that forever changes the world of The Sandman. The ninth installment of Neil Gaiman's seminal, New York Times best-selling series, The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones, celebrates its 30th anniversary with an all-new edition, featuring a new cover from artist Dave McKean! Friends, foes and unexpected betrayers return in the last major story arc of The Sandman!"-- |
By Gaiman, Neil Publishing Date: [2019] Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 GAI "The seventh installment of Neil Gaiman's seminal, New York Times best-selling series, The Sandman Vol. 7: Brief Lives, celebrates its 30th anniversary with an all-new edition, featuring a new cover from artist Dave McKean! Older and more powerful than the gods themselves, the Endless are a dysfunctional family of cosmic beings who have ruled over the realms of dream, desire, despair, destiny, destruction, death and delirium since the beginning of time. But 300 years ago, one of the mythical beings gave up his duties and left his realm, never to be seen again. Now on a mission to find their missing sibling, Delirium and older brother Dream encounter immortal humans and various deities as they try to locate the prodigal Destruction. But as their adventure draws Dream into a final, tragic confrontation with his son Orpheus, the eternal being learns the true meaning of fate and consequences."-- |
By Gaiman, Neil Publishing Date: c1994 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5973 GAI A graphic novel that includes six intertwining stories told by travelers stranded at the World's End inn. |
By Bennett, Jim Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 700 Call Number: 745.61 BEN Presents an introduction to the basic techniques of writing calligraphy, describing the tools and the Italic, Blackletter, and Roman alphabets, and containing instructions on how to create documents, invitations, certificates, and other projects. |
The portable crafter: Knitting By Bennett, Leanne Publishing Date: [2004] Classification: 700 Call Number: 746.43 BEN Work on a great knitting project while you're on the go! Whether you're traveling on the bus, waiting for an appointment, or taking a lunch break, these lovely, portable knitting projects are just what you need to happily pass the time. Looking for a quick gift? Knit a "Striped Baby Sweater" for your favorite little one. Is winter rapidly approaching? Create a "Fast Fluffy Hat" to keep you warm. Need to complete an outfit? Make a "Felted Purse" that's the perfect finishing touch. Just because you're away from home doesn't mean that you can't knit something special for yourself and those you love--back cover. |
Time exposure: the autobiography of William Henry Jackson ; with an introduction by Ferenc M. Szasz By Jackson, William Henry Publishing Date: [1986?] Classification: 700 Call Number: 770.924 JAC |
1966: the year the decade exploded By Savage, Jon Publishing Date: 2015 Classification: 700 Call Number: 781.6609 SAV 1966 was a year of noise and tumult, of brightly colored patterns clashing with black and white politics, of furious forward motion and an outraged, awakening reaction. There remains an urgency that marks the music and movies of that year, counterbalanced by traces of loss, disconnection and deep melancholy. |
By Streisand, Barbra Publishing Date: [2023] Classification: 700 Call Number: 782.421 STR "The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment. She is among the handful of EGOT winners (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and has one of the greatest and most recognizable voices in popular music. She has been nominated for a Grammy 46 times, and with Yentl she became the first woman to write, produce, direct, and star in a major motion picture. In My Name Is Barbra, she tells her own story about her life and extraordinary career, from growing up in Brooklyn to her first star-making appearances in New York nightclubs to her breakout performance in Funny Girl (musical and film) to the long string of successes in every medium in the years that followed. The book is, like Barbra herself, frank, funny, opinionated, and charming. She recounts her early struggles to become an actress, eventually turning to singing to earn a living; the recording of some of her acclaimed albums; the years of effort involved in making Yentl; her direction of The Prince of Tides; her friendships with figures ranging from Marlon Brando to Madeleine Albright; her political advocacy; and the fulfillment she's found in her marriage to James Brolin. No entertainer's memoir has been more anticipated than Barbra Streisand's, and this engrossing and delightful book will be eagerly welcomed by her millions of fans"-- |
By Brown, Peter H Publishing Date: 1992 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.43 BRO At last, the true and complete story of Marilyn Monroe's final days can be told. This riveting, headline-making, myth-shattering book, based on thousands of newly discovered documents, hours of newly available footage from her final film, and over 300 revealing new interviews, is a detailed and astonishing account of what really happened during the last fourteen weeks in the life of Hollywood's legendary sex goddess. Recreating the drama of a bygone era of glamour and. |
Hitchcock's blondes: the unforgettable women behind the legendary director's dark obsession By Leamer, Laurence Publishing Date: [2023] Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.4302 LEA "Alfred Hitchcock was fixated--not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also by the blond actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window, and other classic films didn't much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle, or were the rarest human specimen--a natural blonde--as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. The lengths he went to in order to showcase (and often manipulate) these women would become the stuff of movie legend. But the women themselves have rarely been at the center of the story, until now. In Hitchcock's Blondes, bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the troubled, talented director's career--from his early days in the British film industry, to his triumphant American debut, to his Hollywood heyday and beyond. Through the stories of June Howard-Tripp, Madeleine Carroll, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint, and Tippi Hedren--who starred in fourteen of Hitchcock's most notable films and who bore the brunt of his fondness and sometimes fixation--we can finally start to see the enigmatic man himself. After all, "his" blondes (as he thought of them) knew the truths of his art, his obsessions and desires, as well as anyone. From the acclaimed author of Capote's Women comes an intimate, revealing, and thoroughly modern look at both the enduring art created by a man obsessed...and the private toll that fixation took on the women in his orbit." -- |
The beginning or the end: how Hollywood-and America-learned to stop worrying and love the bomb By Mitchell, Greg Publishing Date: 2020 Classification: 700 Call Number: 791.4372 MIT "Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called "the most important story" he would ever film: a big budget dramatization of the Manhattan Project and the invention and use of the revolutionary new weapon. Over at Paramount, Hal B. Wallis was ramping up his own film version. His screenwriter: the novelist Ayn Rand, who saw in physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer the model for a character she was sketching for Atlas Shrugged. Greg Mitchell's The Beginning or the End chronicles the first efforts of American media and culture to process the Atomic Age. A movie that began as a cautionary tale inspired by atomic scientists aiming to warn the world against a nuclear arms race would be drained of all impact due to revisions and retakes ordered by President Truman and the military-for reasons of propaganda, politics, and petty human vanity (this was Hollywood). Mitchell has found his way into the lofty rooms, from Washington to California, where it happened, unearthing hundreds of letters and dozens of scripts that show how wise intentions were compromised in favor of defending the use of the bomb and the imperatives of postwar politics. As in his acclaimed Cold War true-life thriller The Tunnels, he exposes how our implacable American myth-making mechanisms distort our history"-- |
By Mendenhall, Ruth Publishing Date: 1967 Classification: 700 Call Number: 796.5 MEN 796.5 |
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