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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Practicing history: selected essays By Tuchman, Barbara W Publishing Date: 1981 Classification: 900 Call Number: 907.2 TUC From thoughtful pieces on the historian's role to striking insights into America's past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. Here is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent "practicing history." |
Tuiavii's way: a south sea chief's comments on western society By Tuiavii Publishing Date: 2007 Classification: 900 Call Number: 909.0981 TUI "Tuiavii, a Samoan chief, traveled to Europe at the turn of the 20th century and wrote a commentary condemning the very foundations of Western society. Today, at the dawn of the millenium, his words promise to cast a spell over a new generation of readers. By looking at ourselves through Tuiavii's eyes we are saddened by the loss of simplicity and humanity in our society. Yet each page, filled with Tuiavii's insight, brings us a step closer to the truth and, ultimately, to understanding ourselves. Masterfully translated; with a cultural and literary perspective by Peter C. Cavelti."--Publisher's description. |
The best American travel writing Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 900 Call Number: 910.4 Collects pieces that represent the best works in travel writing, edited by William T. Vollman, an American author. |
The best American travel writing Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 900 Call Number: 910.4 |
The best American travel writing 2006 Publishing Date: 2006 Classification: 900 Call Number: 910.4 |
By Willis, William Publishing Date: [1967] Classification: 900 Call Number: 910.4 WIL |
Cold: adventures in the world's frozen places By Streever, Bill Publishing Date: 2009 Classification: 900 Call Number: 910.911 STR A narrative account of the author's forays into some of the world's coldest regions describes his encounter with an Arctic swimming hole, investigations into ancient and more recent ice ages, and examinations of animal hibernation habits. |
On the map: a mind-expanding exploration of the way the world looks By Garfield, Simon Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 912.09 GAR Examines the pivotal relationship between mapping and civilization, demonstrating the unique ways that maps relate and realign history, and shares engaging cartography stories and map lore. |
Venice is a fish: a sensual guide By Scarpa, Tiziano Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 900 Call Number: 914.531 SCA Prolific Venetian writer Scarpa pledges not to name a single hotel, restaurant, bar or shop in this delicate yet supple book, a chain of linked and sensuously translated essays about the one of the world's most unusual and historical cities. He focuses each chapter of his tour through different parts of the body. He begins with the feet before moving up to the legs and heart. The translation renders even the most basic descriptions wonderfully tactile. Only eventually does Scarpa move on to the more obvious sights, sounds, tastes and smells.--Publishers Weekly. |
By Troost, J. Maarten Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 900 Call Number: 915.1046 TRO A humorous account of several weeks Troost spent traveling in China. |
Traders to the Navajos: the story of the Wetherills of Kayenta By Gillmor, Frances Publishing Date: ©1953 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.8 GIL |
By Hamilton, Linda Parker Publishing Date: [2009] Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.94 HAM Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike? In Best Hikes Near San Francisco & nbsp;Linda Hamilton & nbsp;details the best hikes within an hour's drive of San Francisco perfect for the urban and suburbanite & nbsp;hard-pressed to find great outdoor activites close to home. & nbsp;Each featured hike includes detailed hike specs, a brief hike description, trailhead location, directional cues, and a detailed map. |
California in the 1930s: the WPA guide to the Golden State Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 917.9403 Alive with the exuberance, contradictions, and variety of the Golden State, this Depression-era guide to California is more than 700 pages of information that is, as David Kipen writes in his spirited introduction, "anecdotal, opinionated, and altogether habit-forming." Describing the history, culture, and roadside attractions of the 1930s, the WPA Guide to California features some of the very best anonymous literature of its era, with writing by luminaries such as San Francisco poet Kenneth Rexroth, composer-writer- hobo Harry Partch, and authors Tillie Olsen and Kenneth Patchen |
Thirty years in the Arctic regions By Franklin, John Publishing Date: ©1988 Classification: 900 Call Number: 919.8 FRA In 1845 Sir John Franklin and his expedition, sailing on the Erebus and the Terror, set out in search of the Northwest Passage. In their pursuit of that elusive water route across North America they all perished, their fate remaining unknown for many years. Franklin and his crew inspired a spate of books on exploration in the nineteenth century, and interest in his expedition has revived with the recent discovery of the bodies of several of its members, perfectly preserved by ice for nearly a century and half. Thirty Years in the Arctic Regions, originally published in 1859, is Franklin's own record of his earlier explorations that put the high arctic on the map, and includes his last letter and reports tracing the expedition's last movements. He describes the daily progress of his two overland expeditions from 1818 to 1827, which covered a thousand miles between the Great Slave Lake and the Arctic Ocean and charted fourteen hundred miles of coastline between Cape Beechey in present-day Alaska and Bathurst Inlet, to the north of Hudson Bay. It is a narrative filled with the exhilarating strangeness of everything about the Far North and unimaginable hardship endured heroically. Bil Gilbert's introduction is informed by a first-hand feeling for what Franklin was up against. Several years ago he followed much of the explorer's route, an experience that is described in Our Nature (Nebraska, 1986).- (Univ of Nebraska) |
NEW RELEASE By Zed, Tyler Publishing Date: [2024] Classification: 900 Call Number: 920 ZED Growing up amid addiction and chaos in a Minnesota trailer park, Tyler Zed and his two brothers broke the cycle of abuse and forged a different path. "Attempted murder victim told the Brainerd Dispatch she believes her sixteen-year-old son saved her." This is the news article detailing the event that would drastically change Tyler Zed's life and that of his family forever. Growing up in a small town in Minnesota, Tyler and his two brothers filled their days with chaotic fun, from playing hockey to building forts to making their own home movies. The household was also full of addiction and abuse that ultimately led to their father attempting to murder their mother on Christmas Eve 2007. Trailer Park Parable follows Tyler and his family before Christmas Eve 2007, the events leading to that night, and the years afterward. It trails the boys as they deal with varying degrees of PTSD and their own battles with addiction, before they eventually turned their creative coping mechanisms, like their YouTube channels, into million-subscriber successes. From living in a trailer park to running a multi-million-dollar business, Trailer Park Parable highlights a true, American-dream story, countering a popular narrative that tells us you may as well not even try, the system is rigged against you. |
By Thompson, Wayne Publishing Date: 2023 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940 THO "The World Today Series: Western Europe is an annually updated presentation of each sovereign country in Western Europe, past and present. It is organized by individual chapters for each country expertly covering the region's geography, people, history, political system, constitution, parliament, parties, political leaders, and elections. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail along with its informed projections make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors, and students."--Publisher website. |
Jerome and Rohwer: memories of Japanese American internment in World War II Arkansas Publishing Date: 2022 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.53 "Collection of autobiographical remembrances related to life in the Jerome and Rohwer Japanese American internment camps during World War II"-- |
Publishing Date: 2014 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5309 Breaking the Silence: Lessons of Democracy from the World War II Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp in Hawai’i is a collection of articles authored by University of Hawai’i-West O’ahu faculty from eight different academic disciplines and scholars and community partners from Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai’i, Densho, King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, and the National Park Service. The research amassed from oral histories, archival collections, and field work examines the archaeological, historical, sociological, political, psychological, and cultural aspects and impacts of World War II confinement in Honouliuli. The physical remains of Honouliuli Internment and POW Camp still lie hidden deep within a gulch located just a few miles inland from the famed World War II site of Pearl Harbor. That is not all that is hidden. The stories, experiences, and lasting influence of the internment of American civilians and resident aliens of Japanese and Okinawan ancestry, local “suspect” Europeans categorized as “Germans” and “Italians,” as well as POWS of Japanese, Okinawan, Korean, Italian and Filipino origin remain largely unknown and untold. In this special issue of Social Process in Hawai’i we aim to uncover the facts of the Honouliuli internment and imprisonment experiences and the valuable lessons that can be learned, so that these harrowing injustices might never be repeated again. - (Univ Of Hawaii Pr) |
Road to surrender: three men and the countdown to the end of World War II By Thomas, Evan Publishing Date: [2023] Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5312 THO "This suspenseful and propulsive account of the days leading up to the end of World War II, is told through the stories of three men: Henry Stimson, the Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atomic bomb; Gen. Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in Europe and the Pacific, who was in charge of actually dropping the bombs; and Shigenori Togo, the Japanese Foreign Minister, who was the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Court and Supreme War Council who knew and believed that Japan must surrender. 1945 was Stimson's last year of his career as a statesman in the administrations of five presidents. When Truman, a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson's recommendation to drop the bomb, you are there as Army Air Force commander General Spaatz accepts the order, gets into one of the planes, and the planes take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war, and that a prolonged war would cause even greater destruction. But Spaatz and Stimson were on only one side of the story. On the other side of the world was a commander whom they would never meet. From the start of the Pacific war, Foreign Minister Togo worked to mediate negotiations between the Japanese Prime Minister, the Emperor, and his Court, all of whom believed surrender was impossible. Finally, Togo convinced the Emperor that surrender was the best option for Hirohito, and for Japan"-- |
Second Kinenhi, reflections on Tule Lake Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: 900 Call Number: 940.5317 |
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