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1493

By Charles Mann
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. … (From the Publisher).”

A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge

By Josh Neufeld

A.D. follows six ordinary people from the hours before Katrina struck to its horrific aftermath.

Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America

By Ernest Freeberg

A history of the culture of invention as epitomized by Thomas Edison demonstrates how America's lead in the electric light revolution of the late-nineteenth century transformed the country.

Alzheimer's in America: The Shriver Report on Women and Alzheimer's: A Study

By Maria Shriver and the Alzheimer's Association

Offers the latest research about the disease, proposals on ways to support both the patient and caregiver, and essays written by patients, family members, and caregivers about living with the disease.

Alzheimer's Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life

By Gary Small

Offers a complete plan for the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, covering nutrition, exercise, and stress reduction and including memory-boosting workout, puzzles, and games.

Among the Islands

By Tim Flannery

Twenty-five years ago, young Australian museum curator Tim Flannery set out to research the fauna of the Pacific Islands. He shares his accounts of discovering, naming, and sometimes eating new mammal species, being thwarted or aided by local customs, and undertaking historic scientific expeditions.

Animals Make Us Human

By Temple Grandin

Drawing on the latest research and her own work, Grandin identifies the core emotional needs of animals and explains how to fulfill them.

Antarctica: An Intimate Portrait of a Mysteries Continent

By Gabrielle Walker

A profile of Antarctica and its indigenous life traces the history of regional exploration and the science currently being conducted there while explaining how Antarctica reveals key insights into the planet’s environmental future.

Anthropologist on Mars

By Oliver W. Sacks

“Profiles seven neurological patients, including a surgeon with Tourette's syndrome and an artist whose color sense is destroyed in an accident... (From the Publisher).”

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

By Neil deGrasse Tyson
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The notable host of StarTalk reveals just what people need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.

AWOL on the Appalachian Trail

By David Miller
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

“In 2003, David Miller left his job, family, and friends to fulfill a dream and hike the Appalachian Trail. AWOL on the Appalachian Trail is Miller’s account of this thru-hike along the entire 2,172 miles from Georgia to Maine (From the Publisher).”

Basic Physics for All

By B.N. Kumar

This is a simple, concise book for both students and non-physics students, presenting basic facts in straightforward form and conveying fundamental principles and theories of physics. This book will be helpful as a supplement to class teaching and to aid those who have difficulty in mastering concepts and principles.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

By Atul Gawande

A prominent surgeon argues against modern medical practices that extend life at the expense of quality of life.

Betty and Friends

By Betty White
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

“The popular actress and animal welfare advocate offers personal stories of the zoo animals she has known and loved through the years... (From the Publisher).”

Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

By Carl Safina

Explores the lives and minds of animals, drawing on observations of elephants in Kenya, wolves in Yellowstone National Park, and whales in the Pacific Northwest to describe their profound capacity for perception, thought, and emotion.

Blue Horses: Poems

By Mary Oliver
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Presents a collection of poems that reflects the author’s signature imagery-based language and her observations of the unaffected beauty of nature.

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

By Susannah Cahalan

An account of the author's struggle with a rare brain-attacking autoimmune disease traces how she woke up in a hospital room with no memory of baffling psychotic symptoms, describing the last-minute intervention by a doctor who identified the source of her illness.

Breaking Open the Head

By Daniel Pinchbeck

A study of contemporary shamanism draws on the works of top thinkers while sharing the author's research.

Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

By Michael D. Leinbach
Recommended By Neela Vass, Head of Acquisitions

Presents the story of the Columbia space shuttle disaster, the extensive ground search undertaken to recover the remains of the crew and over forty percent of the vehicle, and the initial look at how the tragedy happened.

Cabin Fever: A Suburban Father’s Search for the Wild

By Tom Montgomery Fate

A modern Walden - if Thoreau had had three kids and a minivan - Cabin Fever is a serious yet irreverent take on living in a cabin in the woods while also living within our high-tech, materialist culture.

Cartoon Guide to Chemistry

By Larry Gonick

Uses cartoons to discuss chemistry, covering the history of the field and examining such topics as acids, solutions, biochemistry, thermodynamics, logarithms, and physical and organic chemistry.

Charles and Emma: the Darwin's Leap of Faith

By Deborah Heiligman

Charles Darwin and his wife, Emma, were deeply in love and very supportive of each other, but their opinions often clashed. Emma was extremely religious, and Charles questioned God’s very existence.

Cod : A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World

By Mark Kurlansky

A history of the fish that has led to wars, stirred revolutions, sustained economies and diets, and helped in the settlement of North America features photographs, drawings, and recipes, as well as the natural history of this much sought after fish.

Complete Outdoors Encyclopedia

By Vin T. Sparano

A comprehensive encyclopedia for surviving the outdoor world. Includes reference on outdoor sports like boating, archery, kayaking, etc. as well as valuable skills such as fishing, hunting, and first aid.

Creations of Fire

By Cathy Cobb

More than any other science, the history of chemistry is intimately linked to human history. Chemical technology has fostered the development of civilizations, altered the course of wars, generated the industrial revolution, and created the petroleum and plastics that fuel and shape our modern world.

Death and Life of the Great Lakes

By Dan Egan

Traces the scientific, historical, and ecological factors endangering the Great Lakes, discussing late–nineteenth century efforts to connect the lakes to the Atlantic, which unexpectedly introduced invasive species from the natural world.

Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales

By Bill Bass

Dr. Bill Bass, one of the world's leading forensic anthropologists, gained international attention when he built a forensic lab like no other: The Body Farm. Now, this master scientist unlocks the gates of his lab to reveal his most intriguing cases-and to revisit the Lindbergh kidnapping and murder, fifty years after the fact.

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

By Cal Newport
Recommended By Ralph Guiteau, Readers' Services Librarian

Argues that the world urgently needs a reduction of personal online time as part of a healthy lifestyle choice and offers a thirty-day digital declutter process that helps people feel less overwhelmed and more in control.

Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

By Sam Kean

A text centered around the periodic table explores intriguing tales about every element of the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, evil, love, the arts, and the lives of the colorful scientists who discovered them.

Drinking and Driving

By Holly Cefrey

An introduction to the effects of alcohol abuse, with particular focus on the dangers of drinking and driving.

Drop Dead Healthy

By A.J. Jacobs
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

"Documents the author's effort to follow a complicated two-year program of dubious diet and exercise practices in a wayward effort to promote perfect health that tests the patience of his long-suffering wife (From the Publisher)."

Elegant Universe

By Brian Greene

Introduces the superstring theory that attempts to unite general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science

By Edward J. Larson

Examines the pioneering Antarctic expeditions of the early twentieth century within the context of a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.

Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem

By Simon Singh
Recommended By Sue Ann R., Head of Children's Services

"The story of Fermat's Last Theorem, devised by the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat, recounts the struggles of three and a half centuries of scientists to devise a proof for it (From the Publisher)."

First Man

By James R. Hansen
With Barney Levantino, Reference Librarian

Friday, July 19, 2019. 2:00 PM.

Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Read the book, then see how it is interpreted and adapted for screen. A short discussion will follow the film, starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy and Jason Clarke. This film is rated PG-13.

First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius

By Joyce E. Chaplin

A biography of the brilliant founding father concentrates on Franklin's scientific career and the impact of his intellectual gifts on America's development.

Flight Behavior

By Barbara Kingsolver

Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.

For the Love of Physics: from the end of the rainbow to the edge of time, a journey through the wonders of physics

By Walter Lewin

A tour of some of the most engaging discoveries in physics, presented by the famed MIT professor best known for his YouTube-aired lectures, includes coverage of such topics as why lightning strikes, how musical harmony happens and the incredible strength of a flea.

Founding Gardeners

By Andrea Wulf
Recommended By Brenda Cherry, Reference Librarian

“The award-winning author presents a tour of the lives of the founding fathers from their perspectives as gardeners, farmers and plantsmen, revealing how a shared passion for agriculture shaped their beliefs and decisions (From the Publisher).”

From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg: Disruptive Innovation in the Age of the Internet

By John Naughton

A history of the Internet traces its rise from a technological novelty to the essential utility of the Information Age to consider how society takes for granted a basic component that it barely understands, distilling the Internet’s evolution into nine essential areas of understanding to lend insight into the information economy and how it can be more effectively used.

Gene: An Intimate History

By Siddhartha Mukherjee

A history of the gene draws on science, social history, and the author's family medical history to explore the centuries of research into the science of genetics and the quest to understand human heredity.

Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life

By Max Lugavere
Recommended By Sonia Grgas, Reference Librarian

Draws on the author's in-depth research into dementia in the wake of his own mother's mysterious diagnosis to outline practical recommendations for optimizing mental performance and balance through a high-nutrition diet tailored specifically for brain health.

Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars

By Dava Sobel

Shares the story of the scientific contributions of a group of women working at the Harvard College Observatory from the late 1800s through the mid-twentieth century, tracing their collection of star observations captured nightly on glass photographic plates.

Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

Delves into the dark side of Google, discussing issues of intellectual property, how to avoid a Google dominated internet, and how the search engine is changing the way people think.

Grand Design

By Stephen Hawking

Presents a new study of the cosmos that explains the latest theories on why the universe and life exist and why they work the way they do, through the concept of the multiverse, or “m-theory,” that attempts to construct a grand unified design.

Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail

By Ben Montgomery

Drawing from Gatewood’s diaries, journals, and correspondence, documents the life of the first woman to hike the Appalachian Trail alone in 1955 as well as her efforts to bring public attention to the once little-known footpath.

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science--and the World

Profiles over fifty of history’s most remarkable women scientists, including Rachel Carson, Rosalind Franklin, Sally Ride, and Ada Lovelace.

Hidden Figures:  The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

Tuesday, July 25, 2017. 1:30 PM.

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space.