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New Books: October 2023

Business and Fashion Merchandising

An illustrated business history of the United States / Richard Vague.

The capital order : how economists invented austerity and paved the way to fascism / Clara E. Mattei.

Financial failures and scandals : from Enron to Carillion / Krish N. Bhaskar; John Flower; Rod Sellers.

For profit : a history of corporations / William J. Magnuson.

The tragic science : how economists cause harm (even as they aspire to do good) / George DeMartino.

Criminal Justice

Captive market : accountability and state prison privatization / Anna Gunderson.

Neighborhood watch : policing white spaces in America / Shawn E. Fields.

Uniform feelings : scenes from the psychic life of policing / Jessi Lee Jackson.

Education

The stolen year : how COVID changed children's lives, and where we go now / Anya Kamenetz.

Fine Arts

A movement in every direction : legacies of the Great Migration / Jessica Bell Brown; Ryan N. Dennis.

Movements in art since 1945 / Edward Lucie-Smith.

Raphael / Paul Joannides.

Surrealism beyond borders / Stephanie D'Alessandro; Matthew Gale.

History

The Black Panther Party : a graphic novel history / David Walker; Marcus Kwame Anderson.

Bravo company : an Afghanistan deployment and its aftermath / Ben Kesling.

Freedom's dominion : a saga of white resistance to federal power / Jefferson Cowie.

G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century / Beverly Gage.

His name is George Floyd : one man's life and the struggle for racial justice / Robert Samuels; Toluse Olorunnipa.

Korea : a history / Eugene Y. Park.

Rage / Bob Woodward.

Russia : revolution and civil war, 1917-1921 / Antony Beevor.

We are not one people : secession and separatism in American politics since 1776 / Michael J. Lee; R. Jarrod Atchison.

The world : a family history of humanity / Simon Sebag Montefiore.

Language and Literature

Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English / Michael Montgomery; Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller; Joan Houston Hall; Joseph S. Hall.

Frank : sonnets / Diane Seuss.

The life of Mark Twain : the middle years, 1871-1891 / Gary Scharnhorst.

Magill's literary annual, 2023 : essay-reviews of 150 outstanding books published in the United States during 2022, 2 volumes / edited by Jennifer Sawtelle.

The modern myths : adventures in the machinery of the popular imagination / Philip Ball.

North Carolina literary review : NCLR. No. 32, 2023. Native American literature of North Carolina.

Of latitudes unknown : James Baldwin's radical imagination / Alice Mikal Craven; William E. Dow; Yoko Nakamura.

The sagas of Icelanders : a selection / preface by Jane Smiley; introduction by Robert L. Kellogg.

Math and Natural Sciences

The art of mathematics - take two : tea time in Cambridge / Béla Bollobás.

The bird name book : a history of English bird names / Susan Myers.

Effective conservation : parks, rewilding, & local development / Ignacio Jiménez Pérez.

The hidden universe : adventures in biodiversity / Alexandre Antonelli.

Homo sapiens rediscovered : the scientific revolution rewriting our origins / Paul Pettitt.

Technology and the public interest / Haochen Sun.

Nursing

Plagues upon the earth : disease and the course of human history / Kyle Harper.

Understanding cancer / Robin Hesketh.

Religion and Philosophy

Jonah : a commentary / Susan Niditch; David Stephen Vanderhooft.

Social Sciences

Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own / Eddie S. Glaude.

Cultural methods in psychology : describing and transforming cultures / Kate C. McLean.

Denial : how we hide, ignore, and explain away problems / Jared Del Rosso.

Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-5-TR / Michael B. First; American Psychiatric Association.

Dreams beyond time : on sacred encounter and spiritual transformation / Lee Irwin.

Our data, ourselves : a personal guide to digital privacy / Jacqueline D. Lipton.

The social media debate : unpacking the social, psychological, and cultural effects of social media / Devan Rosen.

The utopia of rules : on technology, stupidity, and the secret joys of bureaucracy / David Graeber.

What do dreams do? / Sue Llewellyn.

Why we hate : understanding the roots of human conflict / Michael Ruse.

Yes to the city : millennials and the fight for affordable housing / Max Holleran.

Curriculum

I rise / Marie Arnold.

When the angels left the old country / Sacha Lamb.

Fiction

A shadow all of light / Fred Chappell.

Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Age of vice / Deepti Kapoor.

The birdcatcher / Gayl Jones.

French braid / Anne Tyler.

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store / James McBride.

The last of the menu girls / Denise Chávez.

Pop : an illustrated novel / Robert Gipe.

Recitatif : a story / Toni Morrison; introduction by Zadie Smith.

Violeta : a novel / Isabel Allende.

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