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New Books: March 2023

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Strategic creativity : a business field guide to advertising, branding, and design / Robin Landa.

Criminal Justice

Indefinite : doing time in jail / Michael L. Walker.

Education

Educating the top 100 percent : policy pathways for public higher education / Stephen G. Katsinas, Nathaniel J. Bray, and Martha J. Kanter.

Fine Arts

Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South / Winfred Rembert, as told to Erin I. Kelly ; foreword by Bryan Stevenson.

Music is history / Questlove ; with Ben Greenman.

My soul has grown deep : Black art from the American South / Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey, Amelia Peck, Darryl Pinckney.

History

The Afghanistan papers : a secret history of the war / Craig Whitlock.

Asian American histories of the United States / Catherine Ceniza Choy.

Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands / Kelly Lytle Hernández.

The cause of freedom : a concise history of African Americans / Jonathan Scott Holloway.

The fifth act : America's end in Afghanistan / Elliot Ackerman.

Legacy of violence : a history of the British empire / Caroline Elkins.

The Routledge companion to Black women's cultural histories / edited by Janell Hobson.

The story of Russia / Orlando Figes.

Watergate : a new history / Garrett M. Graff.

Woman : the American history of an idea / Lillian Faderman.

Language and Literature

Burning boy : the life and work of Stephen Crane / Paul Auster.

Dante / John Took.

Joan Didion : substance and style / Kathleen M. Vandenberg.

Toni Morrison and the natural world : an ecology of color / Anissa Janine Wardi.

The writer's crusade : Kurt Vonnegut and the many lives of Slaughterhouse-five / Tom Roston.

Math and Natural Sciences

Bugs rule! : an introduction to the world of insects / Whitney Cranshaw and Richard Redak.

The climate demon : past, present, and future of climate prediction / R. Saravanan, Texas A&M University.

Different : gender through the eyes of a primatologist / Frans de Waal; with drawings & photographs by the author.

Habitats of the world : a field guide for birders, naturalists and ecologists / Iain Campbell, Ken Behrens, Charley Hesse, Phil Chaon ; special contributors, Sam Woods, Pablo Cervantes, and Anais Campbell.

Much like us : what science reveals about the thoughts, feelings, and behaviour of animals / Norbert Sachser, [editor], University of Münster ; translated from the German by Ruby Bilger.

Thorp and Covich's Freshwater invertebrates, volume 2 : keys to nearctic fauna / edited by James H. Thorp, D. Christopher Rogers.

Nursing

Breathless : the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus / David Quammen.

Under the skin : the hidden toll of racism on American lives and on the health of our nation / Linda Villarosa.

Religion and Philosophy

A billion years : my escape from a life in the highest ranks of Scientology / Mike Rinder.

Apples and oranges : explorations in, on, and with comparison / Bruce Lincoln.

Circles in the stream : index, identification, and intertext : reading and preaching the story of Judah in Genesis 37-50 / Paul E. Koptak ; foreword by Rebekah Eklund.

God in the Qur'an / Jack Miles.

The Japanese myths : a guide to gods, heroes and spirits / Joshua Frydman.

Reality+ : virtual worlds and the problems of philosophy / David J. Chalmers ; illustrations by Tim Peacock.

Thought under threat : on superstition, spite, and stupidity / Miguel de Beistegui.

Social Sciences

American democratic socialism : history, politics, religion, and theory / Gary Dorrien.

Hate groups : a reference handbook / David E. Newton.

Hatred : understanding our most dangerous emotion / Berit Brogaard.

Home, land, security : deradicalization and the journey back from extremism / Carla Power.

Pirate enlightenment, or, The real Libertalia / David Graeber.

Republic of lies : American conspiracy theorists and their surprising rise to power / Anna Merlan.

The shame machine : who profits in the new age of humiliation / Cathy O'Neil, with Stephen Baker.

Streets of gold : America's untold story of immigrant success / Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan.

Curriculum

All my rage / Sabaa Tahir.

Fiction

Beautiful world, where are you / Sally Rooney.

The best American short stories 2022 / selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Andrew Sean Greer with Heidi Pitlor ; with an introduction by Andrew Sean Greer.

Exciting times : a novel / Naoise Dolan.

Liberation day : stories / George Saunders.

Normal people : a novel / Sally Rooney.

The only story / Julian Barnes.

The passenger / Cormac McCarthy.

The perfect nanny : a novel / Leila Slimani ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

Stella Maris / Cormac McCarthy.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Gabrielle Zevin.