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New Books: September 2023

Business and Fashion Merchandising

Chip war : the fight for the world's most critical technology / Chris Miller.

The price of peace : money, democracy, and the life of John Maynard Keynes / Zachary D. Carter.

When more is not better : overcoming America's obsession with economic efficiency / Roger L. Martin.

Criminal Justice

Catch and kill : lies, spies, and a conspiracy to protect predators / Ronan Farrow.

The other Dr. Gilmer : a murder, a mysterious illness, and an unlikely fight for justice / Benjamin Gilmer.

Radical enfranchisement in the jury room and public life / Sonali Chakravarti.

Understanding eyewitness memory : theory and applications / Sean M. Lane; Kate A. Houston.

Way down in the hole : race, intimacy, and the reproduction of racial ideologies in solitary confinement / Angela Hattery; Earl Smith.

Education

The child is the teacher : a life of Maria Montessori / Cristina De Stefano.

Fine Arts

Artists respond : American art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975 / Melissa Ho.

Benjamin Britten : a life for music / Neil Powell.

The history of jazz / Ted Gioia.

Listening to Bob Dylan / Larry Starr.

Health, Human Performance, and Recreation

Raye of light : Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the integration of college football, and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans / Tom Shanahan.

History

The abyss : nuclear crisis Cuba 1962 / Max Hastings.

American midnight : the Great War, a violent peace, and democracy's forgotten crisis / Adam Hochschild.

Covered with night : a story of murder and indigenous justice in early America / Nicole Eustace.

The failed promise : Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the impeachment of Andrew Johnson / Robert S. Levine.

Indigenous continent : the epic contest for North America / Pekka Hämäläinen.

Life on the Mississippi : an epic American adventure / Rinker Buck.

Nothing to envy : ordinary lives in North Korea / Barbara Demick.

On Juneteenth / Annette Gordon-Reed.

Run. Book one / John Lewis; Andrew Aydin; L. Fury; Nate Powell; Chris Ross.

Wake : the hidden history of women-led slave revolts / Rebecca Hall; Hugo Martínez; Sarula Bao.

Language and Literature

Asheville poetry review. Vol. 29, no.1 = issue 31 (2022) / editor, Keith Flynn.

Every day we get more illegal / Juan Felipe Herrera.

From slave cabins to the White House : homemade citizenship in African American culture / Koritha Mitchell.

Pessoa : a biography / Richard Zenith.

Punks : new & selected poems / John Keene.

Math and Natural Sciences

Functional microbiomes / edited by David A. Bohan, Alex Dumbrell.

The Internet is not what you think it is : a history, a philosophy, a warning / Justin E. H. Smith.

Islands of abandonment : nature rebounding in the post-human landscape / Cal Flyn.

Science denial : why it happens and what to do about it / Gale M. Sinatra; Barbara K. Hofer.

The social origins of language / Robert M. Seyfarth; Dorothy L. Cheney; Michael L. Platt.

Religion and Philosophy

The afterlife in popular culture : heaven, hell, and the underworld in the American imagination / Kevin O'Neill.

Breaking free : how I escaped polygamy, the FLDS cult, and my father, Warren Jeffs / Rachel Jeffs.

The color of compromise : the truth about the American church's complicity in racism / Jemar Tisby.

The Enlightenment : the pursuit of happiness, 1680-1790 / Ritchie Robertson.

Social Sciences

The age of surveillance capitalism : the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power / Shoshana Zuboff.

Black Panther : interrogating a cultural phenomenon / Terence McSweeney.

Black skinhead : reflections on Blackness and our political future / Brandi Collins-Dexter.

Gender : what everyone needs to know / Laura Erickson-Schroth; Benjamin Davis.

Love lives : from Cinderella to Frozen / Carol Dyhouse.

The nineties : a book / Chuck Klosterman.

Rules : a short history of what we live by / Lorraine Daston.

Sandy Hook : an American tragedy and the battle for truth / Elizabeth Williamson.

The Second : race and guns in a fatally unequal America / Carol Anderson.

U.S. national security : policymakers, processes, and politics / John Allen Williams; Stephen J. Cimbala; Sam C. Sarkesian.

Curriculum

Freewater / Amina Luqman-Dawson.

Hot dog / Doug Salati.

Fiction

Babel, or, The necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution / R. F. Kuang.

Crook manifesto : a novel / Colson Whitehead.

Foster / Claire Keegan.

The furrows : an elegy : a novel / Namwali Serpell.

How high we go in the dark : a novel / Sequoia Nagamatsu.

If I survive you / Jonathan Escoffery.

Lessons in chemistry / Bonnie Garmus.

My struggle, book 3 : boyhood / Karl Ove Knausgård.

The seven moons of Maali Almeida : a novel / Shehan Karunatilaka.

Weedeater : an illustrated novel / Robert Gipe.