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New Books: January/February 2024

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Fabric : the hidden history of the material world / Victoria Finlay.

Fashion Killa : how hip-hop revolutionized high fashion / Sowmya Krishnamurthy.

The progress illusion : reclaiming our future from the fairytale of economics / Jon D. Erickson.

Criminal Justice

The jury : a very short introduction / Renée Lettow Lerner.

What's prison for? : punishment and rehabilitation in the age of mass incarceration / Bill Keller.

Education

Bankers in the ivory tower : the troubling rise of financiers in US higher education / Charlie Eaton.

The career arts : making the most of college, credentials, and connections / Ben Wildavsky.

The teachers : a year inside America's most vulnerable, important profession / Alexandra Robbins.

What we value : public health, social justice, and educating for democracy / Lynn Pasquerella.

Fine Arts

The hidden language of symbols / Matthew Wilson.

The Iron Mountain Review: Appalachian Theatre Issue.

Quartet : how four women changed the musical world / Leah Broad.

The story of art without men / Katy Hessel.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

The age of football : soccer and the 21st century / David Goldblatt.

History

An Amerikan family : the Shakurs and the nation they created / Santi Elijah Holley.

Black AF history : the un-whitewashed story of America / Michael Harriot.

Cherokee civil warrior : Chief John Ross and the struggle for tribal sovereignty / W. Dale Weeks.

Half American : the epic story of African Americans fighting World War II at home and abroad / Matthew F. Delmont.

King : a life / Jonathan Eig.

Life of Che : an impressionistic biography / written by H. G. Oesterheld; illustrated by Alberto Breccia and Enríque Breccia; translated by Erica Mena.

Manhattan phoenix : the great fire of 1835 and the emergence of modern New York / Daniel S. Levy.

The politics of succession : forging stable monarchies in Europe AD 1000-1800 / Andrej Kokkonen, Jørgen Møller, and Anders Sundell.

The Pope at war : the secret history of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler / David I Kertzer.

When crack was king : a people's history of a misunderstood era / Donovan X. Ramsey.

Language and Literature

Eliot after The waste land / Robert Crawford.

Highly irregular : why tough, through, and dough don't rhyme-and other oddities of the English language / Arika Okrent.

Remainders of the American century : post-apocalyptic novels in the age of US decline / Brent Ryan Bellamy.

Savage journey : Hunter S. Thompson and the weird road to Gonzo / Peter Richardson.

Spoken word : a cultural history / Joshua Bennett.

Nursing

Lessons from the COVID war : an investigative report / Covid Crisis Group.

Religion and Philosophy

Conflagration : how the Transcendentalists sparked the American struggle for racial, gender, and social justice / John A. Buehrens.

The death of Christ : the Bible and popular culture vs. archaelogical and historical evidence / Steven H Rutledge.

Magic : a history : from alchemy to witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the present / Chris Gosden.

Social Sciences

Algorithms for the people : democracy in the age of AI / Josh Simons.

Ducks : two years in the oil sands / written and illustrated by Kate Beaton.

Dynamic democracy : public opinion, elections, and policymaking in the American states / Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw.

Earthly order : how natural laws define human life / Saleem H Ali.

The great displacement : climate change and the next American migration / Jake Bittle.

It's lonely at the centre of the earth : an auto-bio-graphic-novel / Zoe Thorogood.

On madness : understanding the psychotic mind / Richard G. T. Gipps.

The self explained : why and how we become who we are / Roy F. Baumeister.

Slenderman : online obsession, mental illness, and the violent crime of two Midwestern girls / Kathleen Hale.

Worse than nothing : the dangerous fallacy of originalism / Erwin Chemerinsky.

Curriculum

America is immigrants / Sara Nović; illustrated by Alison Kolesar.

Loujain dreams of sunflowers / Lina AlHathloul and Uma Mishra-Newbery; illustrated by Rebecca Green.

Fiction

A guest in the house / Emily Carroll.

Apeirogon : a novel / Colum McCann.

The best American short stories 2023 / edited by Min Jin Lee and Heidi Pitlor.

The best short stories 2023 : the O. Henry Prize winners / edited by Lauren Groff and Jenny Minton Quigley.

Look for me and I'll be gone : stories / John Edgar Wideman.

Saga. Compendium one / writer, Brian K. Vaughan; artist, Fiona Staples.

The vaster wilds / Lauren Groff.

The women of Troy : a novel / Pat Barker.

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