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New Books: April 2024

Business and Fashion Merchandising

We need to talk about inflation : 14 urgent lessons from the last 2,000 years / Stephen D. King.

Criminal Justice

Nobody is protected : how the Border Patrol became the most dangerous police force in the United States / Reece Jones.

The riders come out at night : brutality, corruption, and cover-up in Oakland / Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham.

Sentence : ten years and a thousand books in prison / Daniel Genis.

Education

The mindful college student : how to succeed, boost well-being, & build the life you want at university & beyond / Eric B. Loucks; foreword by Judson Brewer.

The student : a short history / Michael S. Roth.

Teach for climate justice : a vision for transforming education / Tom Roderick.

Fine Arts

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald : the jazz singer who transformed American song / Judith Tick.

Craft across continents : contemporary Japanese and Western objects : the Lassiter/Ferraro Collection / Annie Carlano, editor.

Singular sensation : the triumph of Broadway / Michael Riedel.

The writer's brush : paintings, drawings, and sculpture by writers / Donald Friedman.

Solutions for singers : tools for performers and teachers / Richard Miller.

The slip : the New York City street that changed American art forever / Prudence Peiffer.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

Althea : the life of tennis champion Althea Gibson / Sally H. Jacobs.

History

A place for everything : the curious history of alphabetical order / Judith Flanders.

An assassin in utopia : the true story of a nineteenth-century sex cult and a president's murder / Susan Wels.

American anarchy : the epic struggle between immigrant radicals and the US government at the dawn of the twentieth century / Michael Willrich.

American inheritance : liberty and slavery in the birth of a nation, 1765-1795 / Edward J. Larson.

Central Asia : a new history from the imperial conquests to the present / Adeeb Khalid.

China's leaders : from Mao to now / David L. Shambaugh.

The Civil War political tradition : ten portraits of those who formed it / Paul D. Escott.

The humanity archive : recovering the soul of Black history from a whitewashed American myth / Jermaine Fowler.

The hundred years' war on Palestine : a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017 / Rashid Khalidi.

Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom / Ilyon Woo.

Language and Literature

A darker wilderness : Black nature writing from soil to stars / edited by Erin Sharkey.

The great white bard : how to love Shakespeare while talking about race / Farah Karim-Cooper.

True west : Sam Shepard's life, work, and times / Robert Greenfield.

Math and Natural Sciences

A molecule away from madness : tales of the hijacked brain / Sara Manning Peskin.

Blight : fungi and the coming pandemic / Emily Monosson.

Brave the wild river : the untold story of two women who mapped the botany of the Grand Canyon / Melissa L. Sevigny.

Crossings : how road ecology is shaping the future of our planet / Ben Goldfarb.

The exceptions : Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the fight for women in science / Kate Zernike.

Extinctions : living and dying in the margin of error / Michael Hannah.

Wasteland : the secret world of waste and the urgent search for a cleaner future / Oliver Franklin-Wallis.

Nursing

Next generation NCLEX-PN prep 2023-2024 : practice test + proven strategies / Barbara J. Irwin; Patricia A. Yock; Judith A. Burckhardt.

Next generation NCLEX-RN prep 2023-2024 : practice tests + proven strategies / Barbara J. Irwin; Judith A. Burckhardt.

Outlive : the science & art of longevity / Peter Attia with Bill Gifford.

The people's hospital : hope and peril in American medicine / Ricardo Nuila.

Social Sciences

A fabulous failure : the Clinton presidency and the transformation of American capitalism / Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein.

A very nervous person's guide to horror movies / Mathias F. Clasen.

The age of guilt : the super-ego in the online world / Mark Edmundson.

Believability : sexual violence, media, and the politics of doubt / Sarah Banet-Weiser and Kathryn Claire Higgins.

The bitter end : the 2020 presidential campaign and the challenge to American democracy / John Sides, Chris Tausanovitch, and Lynn Vavreck.

Fine : a comic about gender / Rhea Ewing.

On disinformation : how to fight for truth and protect democracy / Lee C. McIntyre.

One person, one vote : a surprising history of gerrymandering in America / Nick Seabrook.

Spin dictators : the changing face of tyranny in the 21st century / S. M. Guriev and Daniel Treisman.

The undertow : scenes from a slow civil war / Jeff Sharlet.

Curriculum

A first time for everything : a true story / Dan Santat.

Victory. Stand! : raising my fist for justice / Tommie Smith; Derrick Barnes; Dawud Anyabwile.

Fiction

Babysitter / Joyce Carol Oates.

Study for obedience / Sarah Bernstein.

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