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August 2012

New to our collection

The following books were recently added to our library collection. Scroll down or click on the category links to view the list.

Agriculture and Food
Children & Adolescents
Communication
Criminal Justice
Education
Employee Performance
Energy & Environment

Energy & Environment
General/Miscellaneous
Healthcare & Medicine
Housing
Law
Libraries & Archives
 

Politics & Government
Psychology
Society & Citizenship
Technology
 

Want to know more about a book or to borrow it? Click on the book jacket or title below and link to our library catalog.

Agriculture and Food

Energy & Environment

Politics & Government

Book cover - Agriculture and Food

Agriculture and Food, Claus Schafer Editor

The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food by Josh Schonwald


Children & Adolescents

Book cover - Barriers and Success

Barriers and Success Factors in Adoptions from Foster Care, Bradley J. Carson Editor

 

Book cover - Bird Sense

Bird Sense: What It's Like to Be a Bird by Tim Birkhead and Katrina van Grouw

Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World by John Broome

Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future by Climate Central, Inc.

River Republic: The Fall and Rise of America's Rivers by Daniel McCool

American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation by Eric Rutkow

The Natural Gas Industry in Appalachia: A History from the First Discovery to the Tapping of the Marcellus Shale by David A. Waples

Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability by Philip Warburg

Book cover - Law, Government & Public Safety

Law, Government, & Public Safety by Pamela Fehl

The Betrayal of the American Dream: What Went Wrong by Donald Barlett and James Steele

The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown by Richard L. Hasen

Public Service, Governance and Web 2.0 Technologies: Future Trends in Social Media by Ed Downey, and Matt Jones, editors

Collaboration Nation: How Public-Private Ventures Are Revolutionizing the Business of Government by Mary Scott Nabers

Friends, Followers and the Future: How Social Media Are Changing Politics, Threatening Big Brands, and Killing Traditional Media by Rory O'Connor

Communication

General/Miscellaneous

Psychology

Book cover - Crucial Conversations

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler

Book cover - Desert Rose

Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King by Edythe Scott Bagley and Joe Hilley

Book cover - The Side of Normal

The Other Side of Normal: How Biology Is Providing the Clues to Unlock the Secrets of Normal and Abnormal Behavior by Jordan Smoller

Criminal Justice

Healthcare & Medicine

Society & Citizenship

book cover - Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed-and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles

book cover - American Pandemic

American Pandemic: The Lost Worlds of the 1918 Influenza Epidemic by Nancy K. Bristow

The Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease, and Inheritance by Nessa Carey

Medicare Part D and Prescription Drugs, edited by Joshua L. Davies and Benjamin A. Mason

Betrayed by Nature: The War on Cancer by Robin Hesketh

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

Book cover - Our Divided Political Heart

Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent by E. J. Dionne and Scott P. Smiley

So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America by Peter Edelman

Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile by Taras Grescoe,

City: A User's Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of Urban Life by P. D.Smith and Bill Swainson

Education

Housing

Technology

Book cover - LGBT Youth in America's Schools

A Year Up: How a Pioneering Program Teaches Young Adults Real Skills for Real Jobs-with Real

Success by Gerald Chertavian

LGBT Youth in America's Schools by Jason Cianciotto, Sean Cahill

Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen and Michael W. Allen, Ph.D.

Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Secondary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact by Judi Moreillon

Searching for Hope: Life at a Failing School in the Heart of America by Matthew Tully

Closing Chapters: Urban Change, Religious Reform, and the Decline of Youngstown's Catholic Elementary Schools, 1960-2006, by Thomas G. Welsh

 

book cover - Building Codes

Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2012 International Building Code by Francis D. K. Ching and Steven R. Winkel

 

Law

Book cover - At Liberty to Die

At Liberty to Die: The Battle for Death With Dignity in America by Howard Ball

Book cover - Wiki at War

Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World by James Jay Carafano

How to Find Out Anything: From Extreme Google Searches to Scouring Government Documents, a Guide to Uncovering Anything About Everyone and Everything by Don MacLeod

Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom by Marc Prensky

Employee Performance

Libraries & Archives

 

book cover - Improving Performance

Improving the Performance of Government Employees: A Manager's Guide by Stewart Liff

book cover - Joint Libraries

Joint Libraries: Models That Work by Claire B. Gunnels, Susan E. Green, Patricia M. Butler

Picture Books for Children: Fiction, Folktales, and Poetry by Mary Northrup

The Library Catalogue As Social Space: Promoting Patron Driven Collections Online Communities, and Enhanced Reference and Readers' Services by Laurel Tarulli