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New Books: November 2023

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Like, comment, subscribe : inside YouTube's chaotic rise to world domination / Mark Bergen.

Criminal Justice

The plea of innocence : restoring truth to the American justice system / Tim Bakken.

Rikers : an oral history / Graham A. Rayman; Reuven Blau.

You might go to prison, even though you're innocent / Justin Brooks.

Education

Punished for dreaming : how school reform harms Black children and how we heal / Bettina L. Love.

Fine Arts

The unfinished business of unsettled things : art from an African American South / Bernard L. Herman.

Walter Scott Lenox and American Belleek / Brian D. Gallagher.

Wild things are happening : the art of Maurice Sendak / Maurice Sendak; edited by Jonathan Weinberg with an analysis by Thomas E. Crow.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

The brain on youth sports : the science, the myths, and the future / Julie M. Stamm.

Path lit by lightning : the life of Jim Thorpe / David Maraniss.

History

A most tolerant little town : the explosive beginning of school desegregation / Rachel Louise Martin.

Being somebody & Black besides : an untold memoir of midcentury Black life / George B. Nesbitt; edited by Prexy Nesbitt and Zeb Larson.

Black folk : the roots of the Black working class / Blair Murphy Kelley.

The Black president : hope and fury in the age of Obama / Claude A. Clegg.

Confidence man : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America / Maggie Haberman.

Continental reckoning : the American West in the age of expansion / Elliott West.

Hearts torn asunder : trauma in the Civil War's final campaign in North Carolina / Ernest A. Dollar.

Peril / Bob Woodward; Robert Costa.

Scotland : the global history 1603 to the present / Murray Pittock.

The trials of Harry S. Truman : the extraordinary presidency of an ordinary man, 1945-1953 / Jeffrey Frank.

Language and Literature

Arthur Miller : American witness / John Lahr.

The diaries / Franz Kafka; translated by Ross Benjamin.

The life of Mark Twain : the final years, 1891-1910 / Gary Scharnhorst.

Winter recipes from the collective / Louise Glück.

Young Eliot : from St. Louis to The Waste Land / Robert Crawford.

Math and Natural Sciences

Planta sapiens : the new science of plant intelligence / Paco Calvo with Natalie Lawrence.

Phylogenetic trees made easy : a how-to manual / Barry G. Hall.

Rethinking coal : chemicals and carbon-based materials in the 21st century / Harold H. Schobert.

To have and have not : energy in world history / Brian Black.

TouchIT : understanding design in a physical-digital world / Alan Dix; Stephen Gill; Jo Hare; Devina Ramduny-Ellis.

Tree thinking : an introduction to phylogenetic biology / David A. Baum; Stacey D. Smith.

Nursing

The remarkable story of vaccines : milkmaid to genome / Norman T. Begg.

The song of the cell : an exploration of medicine and the new human / Siddhartha Mukherjee.

Religion and Philosophy

The book of all books / Roberto Calasso; translated by Tim Parks.

Introduction to metaphysics / Martin Heidegger; translated by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt.

Outsourcing duty : the moral exploitation of the American soldier / Michael Robillard; Bradley Jay Strawser.

The Transcendentalists : the classic anthology / edited by Perry Miller.

Social Sciences

Appalachia on the table : representing mountain food and people / Erica Abrams Locklear.

Before we were trans : a new history of gender / Kit Heyam.

Capitalism in the Anthropocene : ecological ruin or ecological revolution / John Bellamy Foster.

Cobalt red : how the blood of the Congo powers our lives / Siddharth Kara.

Data cartels : the companies that control and monopolize our information / Sarah Lamdan.

Not too late : changing the climate story from despair to possibility / edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young Lutunatabua.

Our migrant souls : a meditation on race and the meanings and myths of "Latino" / Héctor Tobar.

Ritual : what it is, how it works, and why / Robbie Davis-Floyd; Charles D. Laughlin.

The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League / Jeff Hobbs.

Who we are now : stories of what Americans lost and found during the COVID-19 pandemic / Michelle Fishburne.

Curriculum

Ain't burned all the bright / Jason Reynolds; Jason Griffin.

Iveliz explains it all / Andrea Beatriz Arango.

Fiction

The caretaker : a novel / Ron Rash.

The fraud / Zadie Smith.

Illuminations : stories / Alan Moore.

The man in the McIntosh suit / Rina Ayuyang.

Mimosa / Archie Bongiovanni.

My struggle, book 4 / Karl Ove Knausgård.

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