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New Books: November 2022

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Creative conflict : a practical guide for business negotiators / Bill Sanders, Frank Mobus.

Slouching towards Utopia : an economic history of the twentieth century / J. Bradford DeLong.

Worn : a people's history of clothing / Sofi Thanhauser.

Education

The evidence liberal arts needs : lives of consequence, inquiry, and accomplishment / Richard A. Detweiler.

Fine Arts

Bach's musical universe : the composer and his work / Christoph Wolff.

The Beatles : all these years. Volume 1 : tune in / Mark Lewisohn.

Johann Sebastian Bach : the learned musician / Christoph Wolff.

Opera's first master : the musical dramas of Claudio Monteverdi / Mark Ringer.

The plain & simple guide to music publishing / by Randall D. Wixen ; [foreword by Tom Petty].

Punk crisis : the global punk rock revolution / Raymond A. Patton.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

Strength training anatomy / Frédéric Delavier.

Yoga anatomy / Leslie Kaminoff, Amy Matthews ; illustrated by Sharon Ellis and Lydia Mann.

History

A contest of civilizations : exposing the crisis of American exceptionalism in the Civil War era / Andrew F. Lang.

The arc of a covenant : the United States, Israel, and the fate of the Jewish people / Walter Russell Mead.

Putin / Philip Short.

Rethinking American grand strategy / edited by Elizabeth Borgwardt, Christopher McKnight Nichols, and Andrew Preston.

South to America : a journey below the Mason-Dixon to understand the soul of a nation / Imani Perry.

Southern journey : the migrations of the American South, 1790-2020 / Edward L. Ayers ; maps by Justin Madron and Nathaniel Ayers.

Tiananmen 1989 : our shattered hopes / written by Lun Zhang and Adrien Gombeaud ; art by Ameziane ; translation by Edward Gauvin ; letters by Frank Cvetkovic.

Until justice be done : America's first civil rights movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction / Kate Masur.

Language and Literature

A Hitch in time : writings from the London review of books / Christopher Hitchens ; [introduction by James Wolcott].

Fire season : selected essays 1984-2021 / Gary Indiana ; introduction by Christian Lorentzen.

Magill's literary annual, 2022 : essay-reviews of 150 outstanding books published in the United States during 2021, 2 volumes / edited by Jennifer Sawtelle.

Sontag : her life and work / Benjamin Moser.

The uncollected essays of Elizabeth Hardwick / edited and introduced by Alex Andriesse.

Math and Natural Sciences

How plants work : form, diversity, survival / edited by Stephen Blackmore ; with a foreword by Peter Crane.

The lives of fungi : a natural history of our planet's decomposers / Britt A. Bunyard.

The problem with science : the reproducibility crisis and what to do about it / R. Barker Bausell.

Regenesis : feeding the world without devouring the planet / George Monbiot.

Shape : the hidden geometry of information, biology, strategy, democracy, and everything else / Jordan Ellenberg.

Under a white sky : the nature of the future / Elizabeth Kolbert.

Nursing

Mosby's 2023 nursing drug reference / Linda Skidmore-Roth.

Religion and Philosophy

Future morality / edited by David Edmonds.

Social Sciences

The arts therapies : a revolution in healthcare / Phil Jones.

Chicken : a history from farmyard to factory / Paul R. Josephson.

Culturally speaking : the rhetoric of voice and identity in a mediated culture / Amanda Nell Edgar.

Diet for a large planet : industrial Britain, food systems, and world ecology / Chris Otter.

Parents' beliefs about children / Scott A. Miller.

The return of great power rivalry : democracy versus autocracy from the ancient world to the U.S. and China / Matthew Kroenig.

The shortest history of democracy : 4000 years of self-government-a retelling for our times / John Keane.

Uncertain ground : citizenship in an age of endless, invisible war / Phil Klay.

Understanding Japanese society / Joy Hendry.

Wastelands : the true story of farm country on trial / Corban Addison ; [foreword by John Grisham].

Curriculum

King and the dragonflies / Kacen Callender.

Mel fell / Corey R. Tabor.

Fiction

The books of Jacob / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft.

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

Exhalation / Ted Chiang.

Flights / Olga Tokarczuk ; translated by Jennifer Croft.

Flying solo : a novel / Linda Holmes.

Harrow : a novel / Joy Williams.

My struggle. Book 2 : man in love / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.

The orenda / Joseph Boyden.

The promise / Damon Galgut.

The prophets : a novel / Robert Jones, Jr.