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New Books: November 2021

Business and Fashion Merchandising

The context marketing revolution : how to motivate buyers in the age of infinite media / Mathew Sweezey.

Debt : the first 5,000 years / David Graeber ; with a preface by Thomas Piketty.

Fashion criticism : an anthology / edited by Francesca Granata.

The power of strategic listening / Laurie Lewis.

Fine Arts

Prosperity gospel : portraits of the Great Recession / [written by] Keith Flynn and [photographed by] Charter Weeks.

Stan Lee : a life in comics / Liel Leibovitz.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

No game for boys to play : the history of youth football and the origins of a public health crisis / Kathleen Bachynski.

The top of his game : the best sportswriting of W.C. Heinz / edited and with an introduction by Bill Littlefield.

History

America on fire : the untold history of police violence and Black rebellion since the 1960s / Elizabeth Hinton.

American democracy : 21 historic answers to 5 urgent questions / Nicholas Lemann, editor.

Arabs : a 3,000-year history of peoples, tribes and empires / Tim Mackintosh-Smith.

The end of the myth : from the frontier to the border wall in the mind of America / Greg Grandin.

Fake news nation : the long history of lies and misinterpretations in America / James W. Cortada and William Aspray.

Homo deus : a brief history of tomorrow / Yuval Noah Harari ; translated by the author.

Learning from the Germans : race and the memory of evil / Susan Neiman.

Native Americans of New England / Christoph Strobel.

This land is their land : the Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the troubled history of Thanksgiving / David J. Silverman.

Women in world history : 1450 to the present / Bonnie G. Smith.

Language and Literature

The five-minute linguist : bite-sized essays on language and languages / edited by Caroline Myrick and Walt Wolfram.

Irony and sarcasm / Roger Kreuz.

Wonderworks : the 25 most powerful inventions in the history of literature / Angus Fletcher.

Math and Natural Sciences

American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic / Victoria Johnson.

Killer apps : war, media, machine / Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves.

Nursing

Racism : science & tools for the public health professional / edited by Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS, Derek M. Griffith, PhD, Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv, Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH, MPA, MA.

The remarkable life of the skin : an intimate journey across our largest organ / Monty Lyman.

Sex matters : how male-centric medicine endangers women's health and what we can do about it / Alyson J. McGregor, MD, MA, FACEP.

Social Sciences

A lot of people are saying : the new conspiracism and the assault on democracy / Russell Muirhead, Nancy L. Rosenblum.

Barrio America : how Latino immigrants saved the American city / A. K. Sandoval-Strausz.

Bathroom battlegrounds : how public restrooms shape the gender order / Alexander K. Davis.

The displaced : refugee writers on refugee lives / edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

The engagement : America's quarter-century struggle over same-sex marriage / Sasha Issenberg.

Looking for Miss America : a pageant's 100-year quest to define womanhood / Margot Mifflin.

The lost soul of the American presidency : the decline into demagoguery and the prospects for renewal / Stephen F. Knott.

The South and the transformation of U.S. politics / Charles S. Bullock III, Susan A. MacManus, Jeremy D. Mayer, Mark J. Rozell.

The sum of the people : how the census has shaped nations, from the ancient world to the modern age / Andrew Whitby.

White rage : the unspoken truth of our racial divide / Carol Anderson.

Social Work

The problem of Alzheimer's : how science, culture, and politics turned a rare disease into a crisis and what we can do about it / Jason Karlawish.

Social work speaks : National Association of Social Workers policy statements, 2021-2023 / Mildred C. Joyner, DPS, LCSW, President ; Angelo McClain, PhD, LICSW, Chief Executive Officer.

Curriculum

Black heroes of the wild west / a toon graphic by James Otis Smith, introduction by Kadir Nelson.

Chance : escape from the Holocaust / Uri Shulevitz.

Concrete rose / Angie Thomas.

This is your brain on stereotypes : how science is tackling unconscious bias / Tanya Lloyd Kyi ; Drew Shannon.

Fiction

Burnt sugar / Avni Doshi.

City of Bohane : a novel / Kevin Barry.

The committed / Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Hieroglyphics : a novel / Jill McCorkle.

Klara and the sun / Kazuo Ishiguro.

The stone sky / N.K. Jemisin.

The sweetness of water : a novel / Nathan Harris.

Those who leave and those who stay / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.