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Thursday, January 17, 2008

New Book Arrivals - Non-Fiction

Next time you're in town, why don't you check out a new non-fiction book to while away the long, dark nights of winter!


031.02 BOT copy: MAIN
The ultimate book of useless information : a few thousand more things you might need to know (but probably don't) / Noel Botham.

102 KOL copy: MAIN
Why is there something rather than nothing? : 23 questions from great philosophers / Leszek Kolakowski ; translated by Agnieszka Kolakowska.

111.85 HIS copy: MAIN
History of beauty / edited by Umberto Eco ; translated by Alastair McEwen.

171 HAU copy: MAIN
Moral minds : how nature designed our universal sense of right and wrong / Marc D. Hauser.

181 CHI copy: MAIN
The authentic Confucius : a life of thought and politics / Annping Chin.

303.4 BEN copy: MAIN
Beyond human : living with robots and cyborgs / Gregory Benford and Elisabeth Malartre.

362.196 BUS copy: MAIN
Ana's story : a journey of hope / Jenna Bush, based on her work with UNICEF ; photographs by Mia Baxter.

364.973 CRI 2005 copy: MAIN
Crime in the United States, 2005 / edited by Daniel Coleman, Shana Hertz.

394.1 BAN copy: MAIN
Eating India : an odyssey into the food and culture of the land of spices / Chitrita Banerji.

508 PLA copy: MAIN
Planet Earth as you've never seen it before / Alastair Fothergill ... [et al.] ; foreword by David Attenborough.

532 NET copy: MAIN
The Archimedes codex : how a medieval prayer book is revealing the true genius of antiquity's greatest scientist / Reviel Netz, William Noel.

551.41 NIE copy: MAIN
Supercontinent : ten billion years in the life of our planet / Ted Nield.

576.509 END copy: MAIN
A guinea pig's history of biology / Jim Endersby.

616.02 VAN copy: MAIN
Mountain rescue doctor : wilderness medicine in the extremes of nature / Christopher Van Tilburg.

636.7 MIL copy: MAIN
Be the pack leader : use Cesar's way to transform your dog-- and your life / Cesar Millan with Melissa Jo Peltier.

636.7 SUM copy: MAIN
My life with George : what I learned about joy from one neurotic (and very expensive) dog / Judith Summers.

641.3 CHE copy: MAIN
Tea bliss : infuse your life with health, wisdom, and contentment / Theresa Cheung.

641.5 BIT copy: MAIN
How to cook everything vegetarian : simple meatless recipes for great food / Mark Bittman ; illustrations by Alan Witschonke.

641.5 GAZ copy:1 MAIN
The no-salt, lowest-sodium international cookbook / Donald A. Gazzaniga and Maureen A. Gazzaniga ; foreword by Dr. Michael B. Fowler.

641.509 MCG copy: MAIN
Eating royally / Darren McGrady.

641.8 FAL copy: MAIN
Ice cream and frozen desserts / Peggy Fallon.

642 HER copy: MAIN
Knife skills illustrated : a user's manual / Peter Hertzmann ; original art by Alan Witschonke Illustration.

663 TAB copy: MAIN
To cork or not to cork : tradition, romance, science, and the battle for the wine bottle / George M. Taber.

684 STO copy: MAIN
Basic box making / Doug Stowe.

811 HAS copy: MAIN
Time and materials : poems, 1997-2005 / Robert Hass.

813 SAU copy: MAIN
The braindead megaphone : essays / George Saunders.

818 QUI copy: MAIN
Good dog. Stay / Anna Quindlen.

894 PAM copy: MAIN
Other colors : essays and a story / Orhan Pamuk ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely.

930.1 HUN copy: MAIN
Ten discoveries that rewrote history / Patrick Hunt.

940.53 KUR copy: MAIN
The mascot : unraveling the mystery of my Jewish father's Nazi boyhood / Mark Kurzem.

973.7 BLI copy: MAIN
A slave no more : two men who escaped to freedom : including their own narratives of emancipation / David W. Blight.

973.709 CRA copy: MAIN
Stealing Lincoln's body / Thomas J. Craughwell.

973.91 SCH copy: MAIN
Journals, 1952-2000 / Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ; edited by Andrew Schlesinger and Stephen Schlesinger.

974.4 HEW copy: MAIN
A Mormon in the White House? : 10 things every American should know about Mitt Romney / Hugh Hewitt.

975.5 EUG copy: MAIN
Notes from Nethers / by Sandra Lee Eugster.

977.7 KAL copy: MAIN
Little heathens : hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression / Mildred Armstrong Kalish.

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