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New Books: February 2022

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Developing management proficiency : a self-directed learning approach / Deb Cohen.

The double x economy : the epic potential of women's empowerment / Linda Scott.

Education

The burden of being a boy : bolstering educational achievement and emotional well-being in young males / Nicholas D. Young, Christine N. Michael, and Elizabeth Jean.

Hearing their voices : teaching history to students of color / Kay Traille.

Learning to connect : relationships, race, and teacher education / Victoria Theisen-Homer.

Fine Arts

All of the marvels : a journey to the ends of the biggest story ever told / Douglas Wolk.

Art & science in the choral rehearsal / Sharon J. Paul.

Johannes Brahms : a research and information guide / Heather Platt.

John Leslie Breck : American impressionist / Jonathan Stuhlman ; essays by Katherine Bourguignon, Jeffrey R. Brown, Erica E. Hirschler, Royal W. Leith and Jonathan Stuhlman.

Music is power : popular songs, social justice and the will to change / Brad Schreiber.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

The ridges of Madison County, NC : section hiking the Appalachian Trail & other local hikes / Sarah Jones Decker.

History

America for Americans : a history of xenophobia in the United States / Erika Lee.

American women's suffrage : voices from the long struggle for the vote 1776-1965 / Susan Ware, editor.

The color of the third degree : racism, police torture, and civil rights in the American South, 1930-1955 / Silvan Niedermeier ; translated by Paul Cohen.

The dawn of everything : a new history of humanity / David Graeber and David Wengrow.

Fear : Trump in the White House / Bob Woodward.

The fire is upon us : James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the debate over race in America / Nicholas Buccola.

Our history is the future : Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance / Nick Estes.

Prelude to Pearl Harbor : ideology and culture in US-Japan relations, 1919-1941 / John Gripentrog.

Screening reality : how documentary filmmakers reimagined America / Jon Wilkman.

Walk with me : a biography of Fannie Lou Hamer / Kate Clifford Larson.

Math and Natural Sciences

A most interesting problem : what Darwin's Descent of man got right and wrong about human evolution / edited by Jeremy M. DeSilva ; with an introduction by Janet Browne.

Advances in ecological research, volume 65 : the future of agricultural landscapes, part III / edited by David A. Bohan, Alex J. Dumbrell, Adam J. Vanbergen.

Artificial intelligence : a guide for thinking humans / Melanie Mitchell.

CRISPR people : the science and ethics of editing humans / Henry T. Greely.

The deep : the hidden wonders of our oceans and how we can protect them / Alex Rogers.

The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world / Peter Wohlleben ; foreword by Tim Flannery.

Nursing

ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription, 11th ed. / senior editor, Gary Liguori ; associate editors, Yuri Feito, Charles Fountaine, Brad A. Roy.

Dorland's illustrated medical dictionary, 33rd ed.

Williams' essentials of nutrition and diet therapy, 12th ed. / Eleanor D. Schlenker, PhD, RDN; Joyce Gilbert, PhD, RDN.

Religion and Philosophy

Judges 1 : a commentary on Judges 1:1-10:5 / by Mark S. Smith and Elizabeth M. Bloch-Smith ; edited by Sidnie White Crawford.

Ubuntu relational love : decolonizing Black masculinities / Devi Dee Mucina.

White evangelical racism : the politics of morality in America / Anthea Butler.

Social Sciences

Deaths of despair and the future of capitalism / Anne Case, Angus Deaton.

The deviant's war : the homosexual vs. the United States of America / Eric Cervini.

Humane : how the United States abandoned peace and reinvented war / Samuel Moyn.

Information wars : how we lost the global battle against disinformation & what we can do about it / Richard Stengel.

Intersectional tech : Black users in digital gaming / Kishonna L. Gray ; foreword by Anita Sarkeesian.

Invisible child : poverty, survival, and hope in an American city / Andrea Elliott.

Race after technology : abolitionist tools for the new Jim code / Ruha Benjamin.

Saving America's cities : Ed Logue and the struggle to renew urban America in the suburban age / Lizabeth Cohen.

This is what democracy looked like : a visual history of the printed ballot / Alicia Yin Cheng.

Women's liberation! : Feminist writings that inspired a revolution & still can / edited by Alix Kates Shulman & Honor Moore.

Curriculum

Five novels : Zeely; The House of Dies Drear; The Planet of Junior Brown; M. C. Higgins, the Great; Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush / Virginia Hamilton ; Julie K. Rubini, editor.

The sea-ringed world : sacred stories of the Americas / María García Esperón ; illustrated by Amanda Mijangos ; translated by David Bowles.

We are water protectors / written by Carole Lindstrom ; illustrated by Michaela Goade.

When you trap a tiger / Tae Keller.

Fiction

The best short stories 2021 : the O. Henry Prize winners / guest editor: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ; series editor, Jenny Minton Quigley.

Constance Fenimore Woolson : collected stories / [Constance Fenimore Woolson] ; Anne Boyd Rioux, editor.

Long division : a novel / Kiese Laymon.

The name of the wind : the kingkiller chronicle : day one / Patrick Rothfuss.

Octavia E. Butler : Kindred, Fledgling, collected stories / Gerry Canavan & Nisi Shawl, editors.

Real life / Brandon Taylor.

Shuggie Bain : a novel / by Douglas Stuart.

The story of the lost child / Elena Ferrante ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Where the line bleeds : a novel / Jesmyn Ward.

Whereabouts / Jhumpa Lahiri, written in Italian and translated by the author.