Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions
May 2014 - June 2014
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.
Time, love, memory: a great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior By Weiner, Jonathan Publishing Date: 1999 Classification: 500 Call Number: 591.5 WEI The story of a biologist's search for the foundations of behavior. Looking over the shoulder of some of the premier scientists in the field, biologist Weiner takes us into their laboratories to show us how pieces of DNA actually shape behavior. He focuses on the work of Seymour Benzer, who, decades ago, with James Watson and Francis Crick, helped to crack the genetic code. Then, in a simple experiment using a few test tubes, a light bulb, and 100 fruit flies, Benzer invented the genetic dissection of behavior. Now we see how he and his students find and study genes that build our inner clocks, genes that shape the way we love, and genes that decide what we can (or cannot) remember. These breakthroughs help explain secrets of human behavior and may lead to advance treatments for behavioral disorders ranging from rage to autism to schizophrenia.--From publisher description. |
Art & architecture of the late Middle Ages: 1350 to the advent of the Renaissance By Swaan, Wim Publishing Date: [1982] c1977 Classification: 700 Call Number: 709.023 SWA Traces the growth and characteristics of medieval art and architecture, focusing attention on the individual Gothic styles that evolved throughout Europe. |
Are you my mother: a comic drama By Bechdel, Alison Publishing Date: 2012 Classification: 700 Call Number: 741.5 BEC Writer and cartoonist Alison Bechdel writes about her relationship with her mother. |
By Millar, Oliver Publishing Date: 1977 Classification: 700 Call Number: 750.7402 MIL |
Visions of adventure: N.C. Wyeth and the Brandywine artists Publishing Date: 2000 Classification: 700 Call Number: 759.13 This collection contains examples of the work of Howard Pyle, N.C. Wyeth, and four other exceptional painters from the Brandywine school of illustration, which opened in 1900. The 45-plus color illustrations, selected from magazines and books published throughout the 20th century, are accompanied by commentary discussing each work and illustrator. Five sections present chivalry, pirates, the American Indian, the frontier, and the art of illustration a personal journey. Edited by art collector Dell in association with Walt Reed, who has chronicled the history of American illustration in several books and articles. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News) |
By Croall, Jonathan Publishing Date: 2001 Classification: 700 Call Number: 792.028 CRO Chronicles the nearly 80 year career of John Gielgud in film, radio, television, and theater. In researching Gielgud's life, Croall interviewed more than 100 of the actor's friends and colleagues, including actors Alec Guinness and Peter Ustinov, playwrights Edward Albee and Christopher Fry, director Peter Brook, and designer Jocelyn Herbert. Coverage includes Gielgud's childhood, his Shakespearean acting, his achievements as a director and manager, and his influences. Croall is editor of the National Theater's magazine, StageWrite . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) - (Book News) |
Shakespeare's Globe: a theatrical experiment Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 700 Call Number: 792.95 "From 1997 Shakespeare's Globe flourished once more on London's South Bank after an absence of four hundred years. The playhouse is now a major attraction for theater goers, scholars, tourists, teachers and students of all ages, who come to experience Shakespeare'seare's plays and those of his contemporaries performed in their original conditions. The team of artists and education specialists who made this happen come together here to reflect on their ten-year experiment. Principal actors, designers, musicians and Globe education staff engage with international scholars in a lively debate about the impact of this extraordinary building. Featuring an in-depth interview with former Artistic Director Mark Rylance and a contribution from Patrick Spottiswoode, Founder and Director of Globe Education, the book highlights the complex relationship between designer, composer, actor and audience that give energy to this thrShakespearianperian centre." - p. i. |
Forests: the shadow of civilization By Harrison, Robert Pogue Publishing Date: c1992 Classification: 800 Call Number: 809.9336 HAR "As Western civilization cleared its space in the midst of the forests, it projected into the sylvan darkness its secret and innermost anxieties; in the forest's shadow we find enchantment, terror, and irony. In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently." "Harrison offers a richly detailed account of how the governing institutions of the West--from religion to law, family to city--established themselves in opposition to the forests, where the distinctions of civilization go astray. In sources ranging from Gilgamesh and the myths of ancient Greece and Rome to twentieth-century writers like Conrad, Sartre, and Beckett, Harrison finds the forest to be an enigma and paradox: a place of lawlessness, yet a haven for the unjustly treated; a place of profanity yet sacred ground; a world of darkness and obscurity, yet a stage for revelation." "The word forest derives from the Latin for outside. Harrison comes to terms with the radical nature of this outsidedness and the way it grounds human life on the earth. What, he asks, does it mean to "be at home" while estranged from the physical world in which we dwell?" "Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth."--BOOK JACKET. |
By Zapruder, Matthew Publishing Date: c2010 Classification: 800 Call Number: 811.6 ZAP A third collection of poems mixes humor with themes of love and loss and draws upon past personal experiences in a search for self-revelation. - (Baker & Taylor) |
The world of Christopher Marlowe By Riggs, David Publishing Date: 2005 Classification: 800 Call Number: 822.3 RIG "The World of Christopher Marlowe is the story of the troubled genius, raised in the stench and poverty of Canterbury's abattoirs, who revolutionized English drama and poetry, challenging and scandalizing English society before he was murdered in his prime. David Riggs, a prizewinning Elizabethan scholar, evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life in Elizabethan England, from his birth (in 1564, the same year as Shakespeare's) to his ties to the London underworld and his triumphs on the stage." "Ben Jonson celebrated Marlowe's "mighty line," which brought lightness and musicality to English verse. Though he was the greatest dramatist the English had ever known, Marlowe lived on the margins of London life, among prostitutes and thieves, and attracted a new class of theatergoers with a repertory that spoke to their most urgent concerns - class conflict, erotic desire, religious dissent." "Among the scenes of conflict and intrigue that inspired him, Marlowe would find his way into the spy rings that dominated the Elizabethan state, and their influence would loom over his life and work from the time he left Cambridge University. His undercover missions brought him into contact with Roman Catholic conspirators who were plotting to kill the queen, while his private deliberations led him to an idea even more threatening to the monarchy - atheism. No one knows to this day whether his murder was the act of a sovereign power or the result of a tavern brawl." "In a period of eight years, Christopher Marlowe's masterpieces, Dr. Faustus, Tamburlaine the Great, and The Jew of Malta, transformed the Elizabethan stage into a place of astonishing creativity. Shakespeare mourned his passing: "Dear shepherd, now I find thy saw of might/Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight.""--BOOK JACKET. |
By Honan, Park Publishing Date: 1998 Classification: 800 Call Number: 822.33 HON A biography of Shakespeare, the 16th century English actor, playwright and wise investor--investing first in the Globe Theater, where he became director, later in the Blackfriars Theater. While tracing Shakespeare's career, the author analyzes his plays, particularly the tragedies, and describes the carnival atmosphere which surrounded their performance. |
By Pennington, Michael Publishing Date: 1996 Classification: 800 Call Number: 822.33 PEN Written by a British actor who has performed in Hamlet many times throughout his thirty-year career, this "user's guide" offers an intensely practical chronicle of how the drama actually works on stage, first scene by scene, then character by character. Michael Pennington opens and closes his book with a more personal account of his own encounters with the play and with a variety of approaches to Shakespeare in production. In all, this serious but lively and witty book will surely be of immense value to teachers, students, actors and directors. For everyone else it enriches the Hamlet experience with the professional insight that only a leading actor can provide. - (Blackwell North Amer) |
Why be happy when you could be normal By Winterson, Jeanette Publishing Date: c2011 Classification: 800 Call Number: 823.914 WIN This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges." |
Dead Mountain: the true story of the Dyatlov Pass incident By Eichar, Donnie Publishing Date: 2013 Classification: 900 Call Number: 914.743 EIC The author delves into the mystery of what happened to nine experienced hikers who died in 1959 in the Russian Ural Mountains. Eichar retraces the hikers' journey and provides an account, aided by access to the hikers' own journals and photographs, government records, and dozens of interviews. |
By Huxley, Elspeth Publishing Date: 1978, c1977 Classification: 900 Call Number: 919.89 HUX |
From mist and stone: the folklore of the Celts and Vikings By Stone, George M. Publishing Date: c2005 Classification: 900 Call Number: 936 STO |
Solving Stonehenge: the new key to an ancient enigma By Johnson, Anthony Publishing Date: 2008 Classification: 900 Call Number: 936.2319 JOH From the Publisher: A completely new and convincing solution to the key puzzles of Stonehenge. As Anthony Johnson reveals in this astonishing book, patient detective work and detailed computer analysis of clues hidden within this famous monument can be made to yield remarkable new insights into how the earthwork and stone circle were conceived and laid out. The story begins with a reappraisal of over 250 years of fieldwork, excavation, and speculation, including John Wood's highly accurate but often overlooked survey of 1740. It is the most important record of Stonehenge ever made, and the only reliable plan of the monument before the fall of several major stones and their subsequent re-erection in the twentieth century. The prehistoric engineering skills involved in the construction of Stonehenge have long been recognized, but Johnson presents for the first time tangible evidence to show that locked within the symmetry of the stones are precise formulae that determined their numbers, spacing, and relationships. He explains how the Neolithic surveyors set out the fifty-six Aubrey Holes, four Station Stones, and the thirty stones in the Sarsen Circle; and the significance of the horseshoe arrangement of massive trilithons at the heart of the monument. The implications are far reaching, demonstrating that the people who designed Stonehenge in all its phases of construction, spanning over 1,000 years, employed simple and elegant geometric rules. Elaborate sightline theories, alignments, and astronomical computations are questioned, allowing the rationale behind Stonehenge and other prehistoric sites, some of which conformed to the same model, to be reassessed. 135 illustrations, 35 in color. |
The Bog people: iron-age man preserved By Glob, P. V. Publishing Date: 1997, c1969 Classification: 900 Call Number: 936.3 GLO "One spring morning two men cutting peat in a Danish bog uncovered a well-preserved body of a man with a noose around his neck. Thinking they had stumbled upon a murder victim, they reported their discovery to the police, who were baffled until they consulted the famous archaeologist P.V. Glob. Glob identified the body as that of a two-thousand-year-old man, ritually murdered and thrown in the bag as a sacrifice to the goddess of fertility." "Written in the guise of a scientific defective story, this classic of archaeological history - a best-seller when it was published in England but out of print for many years - is a thoroughly engrossing and still reliable account of the religion, culture, and daily life of the European Iron Age."--Jacket. |
By Gilbert, Martin Publishing Date: 1991 Classification: 900 Call Number: 941.084 GIL |
The life of Edward the Black prince, 1330-1376: the flower of knighthood out of all the world By Sedgwick, Henry Dwight Publishing Date: 1993 Classification: 900 Call Number: 942.037 SED |