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New Books: September 2022

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Discrimination and disparities / Thomas Sowell.

Dress codes : how the laws of fashion made history / Richard Thompson Ford.

The great lockdown : lessons learned during the pandemic from organizations around the world / Shivaji Das, Aroop Zutshi, Janesh Janardhanan.

Criminal Justice

Classic writings in anarchist criminology : a historical dismantling of punishment and domination / Edited by Anthony J. Nocella II, Mark Seis, and Jeff Shantz; Forward by Ruth Kinna; Afterword by Luis A. Fernandez.

Depolicing : when police officers disengage / Willard M. Oliver.

We do this 'til we free us : abolitionist organizing and transforming justice / Mariame Kaba ; foreword by Naomi Murakawa ; edited by Tamara K. Nopper.

Education

Culturally relevant teaching : making space for Indigenous peoples in the schoolhouse / Beverly J. Klug.

Educating through popular culture : you're not cool just because you teach with comics / edited by Edward A. Janak and Ludovic A. Sourdot.

Failure before success : teachers describe what they learned from mistakes / edited by Julie Warner.

Fine Arts

A history of emotion in Western music : a thousand years from chant to pop / Michael Spitzer.

I'd fight the world : a political history of old-time, hillbilly, and country music / Peter La Chapelle.

My melancholy baby : the first ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-1913 / Michael G. Garber.

Rural rhythm : the story of old-time country music in 78 records / Tony Russell.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

It's better to be feared : the New England Patriots dynasty and the pursuit of greatness / Seth Wickersham.

History

The age of wood : our most useful material and the construction of civilization / Roland Ennos.

All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler / Rebecca Donner.

Germany, a nation in its time : before, during, and after nationalism, 1500-2000 / Helmut Walser Smith.

Junaluska : oral histories of a Black Appalachian community / edited by Susan E. Keefe ; with assistance from the Junaluska Heritage Association.

Last best hope : America in crisis and renewal / George Packer.

Lost Cove, North Carolina : portrait of a vanished Appalachian community, 1864-1957 / Christy A. Smith.

Through the mountains : the French Broad River and time / John E. Ross.

White lawyer, Black power : a memoir of civil rights activism in the deep South / Donald A. Jelinek ; foreword by John Dittmer.

Language and Literature

Against sustainability : reading nineteenth-century America in the age of climate crisis / Michelle C. Neely.

Behold the land : the Black Arts movement in the South / James Smethurst.

Floaters : poems / Martín Espada.

The letters of Shirley Jackson / Shirley Jackson ; edited by Laurence Jackson Hyman in consultation with Bernice M. Murphy.

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be : essays / Nichole Perkins.

The unquiet Englishman : a life of Graham Greene / Richard Greene.

Math and Natural Sciences

A bigger picture : my fight to bring a new African voice to the climate crisis / Vanessa Nakate.

The climate change debate : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.

The discrete mathematical charms of Paul Erdős : a simple introduction / Vašek Chvátal.

The forgotten botanist : Sara Plummer Lemmon's life of science and art / Wynne Brown.

Geometry of grief : reflections on mathematics, loss, and life / Michael Frame.

Lives of weeds : opportunism, resistance, folly / John Cardina.

Rebugging the planet : the remarkable things that insects (and other invertebrates) do - and why we need to love them more / Vicki Hird.

Understanding development / Alessandro Minelli.

Nursing

Guynecology : the missing science of men's reproductive health / Rene Almeling.

Handbook of clinical skills / edited by Peter Kopelman, MD, DSc(Hon), FRCP, FFPH, FFacMEd(Hon), Dame Jane Dacre, BSc, MD, FRCP.

Understanding coronavirus / Raul Rabadan.

Religion and Philosophy

The Bible : what everyone needs to know® / Michael Coogan.

The blind storyteller : how we reason about human nature / Iris Berent.

Social Sciences

After the apocalypse : America's role in a world transformed / Andrew Bacevich.

Democracy, if we can keep it : the ACLU's 100-year fight for rights in America / Ellis Cose.

Girlhood : essays / Melissa Febos ; with illustrations by Forsyth Harmon.

Good reasons to run : women and political candidacy / edited by Shauna L. Shames, Rachel I. Bernhard, Mirya R. Holman, and Dawn Langan Teele.

It's a setup : fathering from the social and economic margins / Timothy Black and Sky Keyes.

The legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg / edited by Scott Dodson, University of California Hastings College of the Law.

The southern key : class, race, and radicalism in the 1930s and 1940s / Michael Goldfield.

Who's Black and why? : a hidden chapter from the eighteenth-century invention of race / edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Andrew S. Curran.

Social Work

Coming out to the streets : LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness / Brandon Andrew Robinson.

Curriculum

The last cuentista / Donna Barba Higuera.

Red, white, and whole / Rajani LaRocca.

Unspeakable : the Tulsa Race Massacre / Carole Boston Weatherford ; [illustrated by] Floyd Cooper.

Watercress / Andrea Wang ; illustrated by Jason Chin.

Fiction

A little life : a novel / Hanya Yanagihara.

A registry of my passage upon the earth : stories / Daniel Mason.

The best American short stories 2021 / Jesmyn Ward, editor.

How beautiful we were : a novel / Imbolo Mbue.

Lost children archive : a novel / Valeria Luiselli.

The office of historical corrections : a novella and stories / Danielle Evans.

The sentence : a novel / Louise Erdrich.

Slumberland : a novel / Paul Beatty.

To paradise / Hanya Yanagihara.

When we cease to understand the world / Benjamín Labatut ; translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West.