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New Books: April 2023

Business and Fashion Merchandising

The digital mindset : what it really takes to thrive in the age of data, algorithms, and AI / Paul Leonardi & Tsedal Neeley.

Criminal Justice

Halfway house : prisoner reentry and the shadow of carceral care / Liam Martin.

Education

Homeschooling : the history and philosophy of a controversial practice / James G. Dwyer and Shawn F. Peters.

Fine Arts

Artful noise : percussion literature in the twentieth century / Thomas Siwe.

Beethoven : a political artist in revolutionary times / William Kinderman.

Comics : a global history, 1968 to the present / Dan Mazur & Alexander Danner.

The New Artisans II / Olivier Dupon.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

Doping : a sporting history / April Henning and Paul Dimeo.

Raise a fist, take a knee : race and the illusion of progress in modern sports / John Feinstein.

History

Animal, vegetable, junk : a history of food, from sustainable to suicidal / Mark Bittman.

Armed in America : a history of gun rights from colonial militias to concealed carry / Patrick J. Charles.

Campaign of the century : Kennedy, Nixon, and the election of 1960 / Irwin F. Gellman.

Free speech : a history from Socrates to social media / Jacob Mchangama.

Menace to empire : anticolonial solidarities and the transpacific origins of the US security state / Moon-Ho Jung.

Prosecution of an insurrection : the complete trial transcript of the second impeachment of Donald Trump / The House Impeachment Managers and the House Defense.

The storm is here : an American crucible / Luke Mogelson.

White trash : the 400-year untold history of class in America / Nancy Isenberg.

Language and Literature

The age of Phillis / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers.

Autumn / Karl Ove Knausgaard ; with illustrations by Vanessa Baird ; translated from the Norwegian by Ingvild Burkey.

The hard facts of the Grimms' fairy tales / Maria Tatar.

You don't know us Negroes : and other essays / Zora Neale Hurston ; edited and with an introduction by Genevieve West and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Math and Natural Sciences

99 variations on a proof / Philip Ording.

The American chestnut : an environmental history / Donald Edward Davis.

The art of statistics : how to learn from data / David Spiegelhalter.

Religion and Philosophy

An introduction to the study of mysticism / Richard H. Jones.

Secularism : the basics / Jacques Berlinerblau.

Social Sciences

A brief history of equality / Thomas Piketty ; translated by Steven Rendall.

American political parties and elections : a very short introduction / L. Sandy Maisel.

Civil resistance : what everyone needs to know / Erica Chenoweth.

From here to there : the art and science of finding and losing our way / Michael Bond.

Leadership : six studies in world strategy / Henry Kissinger.

Left behind : the Democrats' failed attempt to solve inequality / Lily Geismer.

The political voices of Generation Z / Laurie L. Rice and Kenneth W. Moffett.

Violence against women in politics / Mona Lena Krook.

Working memory : state of the science / edited by Robert H. Logie, Valérie Camos, and Nelson Cowan.

Social Work

Homelessness and mental health / edited by João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Antonio Ventriglio and Dinesh Bhugra.

Curriculum

Knight Owl / Christopher Denise.

Maizy Chen's last chance / Lisa Yee.

Fiction

All this could be different / Sarah Thankam Mathews.

The book of goose / Yiyun Li.

Grand union : stories / Zadie Smith.

Lesser known monsters of the 21st century : stories / Kim Fu.

The Netanyahus : an account of a minor and ultimately even negligible episode in the history of a very famous family / Joshua Cohen.

Novels 1987-1997 / Kurt Vonnegut ; Sidney Offit, editor.

The rabbit hutch / Tess Gunty.

The secret lives of church ladies / Deesha Philyaw.

Stories of your life and others / Ted Chiang.

Trust / Hernan Diaz.