New Books: October 2022
Business/Commerce
Disabilities
Traveling Different
This book combines advice from certified autism travel professionals, parents, and advocates to restructure every aspect of vacations for those with autism/ASD or mood/distraction disorders, […]
Read MoreEducation
The Stolen Year
School has long meant much more than an education in America. 30 million children depend on free school meals. Schools are, statistically, the safest physical […]
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Dress Rehearsals for Gun Violence
Documenting the trauma and anxiety in our schools as a result of the constant threat of a school shooting, the authors of Dress Rehearsals for […]
Read MoreEnvironment/Agriculture/Natural Resources
To Have and Have Not
Tracing our energy usage from the Industrial era to modern times, Brian Black outlines the past, and point us towards the direction we need to […]
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Resilient Agriculture
Resilient Agriculture, Second Edition explores the latest science on climate risk and resilience through the adaptation stories of award-winning farmers and ranchers to explore the […]
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Tree Thieves
In Tree Thieves, Lyndsie Bourgon takes us deep into the underbelly of the illegal timber market. As she traces three timber theft cases, she introduces […]
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How Light Makes Life
An exploration of the science of photosynthesis, including how it can be harnessed to help save the world.
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Energy Resources
This text provides an authoritative, comprehensive overview of economic, political, and environmental drivers of America’s energy picture, from trends in the production and consumption of […]
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The Big Fix
Dozens of kids in Montgomery County, Maryland, agitated until their school board committed to electric school buses. Mothers in Colorado turned up in front of […]
Read MoreGeneral/Miscellaneous
Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint
Break free from patterns holding you back and open to your most extraordinary life with a groundbreaking approach to transformation. In Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint, […]
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Racial Innocence
The first comprehensive book about anti-Black bias in the Latino community that unpacks the misconception that Latinos are “exempt” from racism due to their ethnicity […]
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Take Back the Game
Athletics are training grounds for character, friendship, and connection; at their best, sports insulate kids from hardship and prepare them for adult life. But youth […]
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Do Hard Things
Toughness has long been held as the key to overcoming a challenge and achieving greatness, whether it is on the sports field, at a boardroom, […]
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Dollars for Life
The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and big business–two things so closely identified with the contemporary GOP that we hardly notice […]
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I Wish I’d Known This
Two executive coaches reveal the six blind spots that hobble women’s career paths and strategies to effectively overcome them. There are predictable blind spots that […]
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The Key to Inclusion
Understand how to build a culture of belonging, embrace diversity and achieve real inclusion as an individual, a team and an organization with this practical […]
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Deal With Stress
This handy guide offers practical solutions and step-by-step advice on combating and managing stress so that you can achieve the best work-life balance. While it’s […]
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Read Dangerously
What is the role of literature in an era when the president wages war on writers and the press? What is the connection between political […]
Read MoreHealth/Wellness/Medicine
Raising Lazarus
Nearly a decade into the second wave of America’s opioid epidemic, pharmaceutical companies are finally being forced to answer for the crisis they created. As […]
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Body Aware
An at-home mindful movement practice–cultivate resilience, dispel emotional blockages, and live your best life with the power of movement. When we talk about movement, most […]
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The Coping Long Term with Active Suicide Program (CLASP)
Coping Long-Term with Active Suicide Program (CLASP): Clinician Guide is an indispensable resource for clinicians, researchers and mental health practitioners who are interested in implementing […]
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A Molecule Away from Madness
Cognitive neurologist Sara Manning Peskin demystifies the most curious neurological phenomena through the perspective of patients, researchers, and science. She introduces us to a woman […]
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Owning the Sun
Since the Second World War, federally funded research has facilitated most major medical breakthroughs, yet these drugs are often wholly controlled by price-gouging corporations with […]
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The Anatomy of Anxiety
A new theory of understanding how anxiety manifests in the body and brain, and how it can be treated.
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Vaccination
This latest addition to the series is the first reference work on vaccines written through the lens of the Covid-19 pandemic. It asks–and answers–questions raised […]
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The Messenger
At the start of 2020, Moderna was a waning biotech unicorn, still years away from delivering its first product despite a decade of development of […]
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Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse
Eat Like a Pig, Run Like a Horse takes us on a fascinating journey that weaves together true confessions, mad(ish) scientists, and beguiling animal stories. […]
Read MoreHistory
Democracy’s Data
The census isn’t simply data; it’s a ritual of American democracy. And behind every neat grid of numbers is a messy, human story—you just have […]
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Free Speech
In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. Through captivating stories of free speech’s many defenders–from the […]
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A Brief History of Equality
Thomas Piketty guides us with elegance and concision through the great movements that have made the modern world for better and worse: the growth of […]
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Indigenous Continent
In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hämäläinen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless “victims” of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled […]
Read MoreLaw/Government
100% Democracy
Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver’s licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So […]
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The Blessings of Liberty
This concise, accessible text by historian Michael Benedict provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social […]
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Libraries/Archives
Librarian’s Guide to Games and Gamers
This book maps all types of games–board, roleplaying, digital and virtual reality–providing all the information needed to understand and appropriately recommend games to library users. […]
Read MoreManagement/Leadership
How the Future Works
The way we work has changed. The era of toiling from nine-to-five, five-days-a-week in the office is now a relic of the past, and is […]
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Smart growth
Learn. Leap. Repeat. Growth is the goal. Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable […]
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Mindset Matters
Develop mental agility and resilience to take on disruption and navigate change at work and with your teams.
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The Exceptional Leader
If you’re one of the many leaders who struggle with insecurity, it may be because you are either unrecognized, untested, or untrained. Though you haven’t […]
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
If you’ve never read The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, you’ve been missing out on one of the best-selling leadership books of all time. If […]
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The Culture Playbook
In The Culture Playbook, he distills everything he has learned into sixty concrete, actionable tips and exercises that will help your team build a cohesive, […]
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Think Like a Horse
In Think Like a Horse, veteran “horse whisperer” and leadership expert Grant Golliher applies his hard-won horse sense to teach invaluable lessons anyone can use […]
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How to Win Friends and Manage Remotely
A modern approach based on classic management styles for working and managing people remotely. How do you manage a poor performer over Zoom? How do […]
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