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New Print Non-Fiction for December 2023

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Arts, Architecture & Crafts

Murakami : unfamiliar people, swelling of monsterized human ego 709.2 M972
Ken Grossinger Art works : how organizers and artists are creating a better world together 700.1 G878
Aperture. 251, summer 2023 770 A641
Robert B. Kozma Make the world a better place : design with passion, purpose, and values 745.2 K889
Scott Powell Frances Elkins : visionary American designer 747.092 E438
Karen Nepacena Midcentury modern style : an approachable guide to inspired rooms 747 N439
Deborah Turbeville : photocollage 779.092 T93
Knitting for Olive Knitting for Olive : classic, timeless knitting patterns 746.43 K719kn
The grain of the present. 779 G743
This land : June 1, 2018-March 31, 2019, Pier 24 Photography. 779 T448
Fraenkel Gallery The plot thickens 779 P729
J. F. Turner Create and be recognized : photography on the edge 779 T944
Diane Arbus Diane Arbus : in the beginning, 1956-1962 770.92 A66i
Jim Goggin The great jazz revival : a pictorial celebration of traditional jazz 781.65 G613

Biography & Genealogy

Jack Kelly God save Benedict Arnold : the true story of America's most hated man 973.3 A752

Business & Economics

Jordan Belfort The wolf of investing : my insider's playbook for making a fortune on Wall Street 332.62 B428w
Ed Conway Material world : the six raw materials that shape modern civilization 333.7 C767
William F. Meehan Engine of impact : essentials of strategic leadership in the nonprofit sector 658.048 M494
Dave Kerpen The art of people : 11 simple people skills that will get you everything you want 650.13 K399
Thomas J. Neff You're in charge, now what? : the 8 point plan 658.4 N383
Christine. Comaford-Lynch Smarttribes : how teams become brilliant together 658.4 C728
Achieving excellence in fundraising 658.152 A178
Marcus Buckingham Nine lies about work : a freethinking leader's guide to the real world 658.4 B923ni

Food & Drink

Joseph Geha Kitchen Arabic : how my family came to America and the recipes we brought with us 641.5929 G311
Angela Dimayuga Filipinx : heritage recipes from the diaspora 641.5959 D582
Viola Buitoni Italy by ingredient : artisanal foods, modern recipes 641.5945 B932

History

Iván de la Nuez Cubanthropy : between the Cold War's socialist promise and a capitalist future 972.91 N964
Daniel Finkelstein Two roads home : Hitler, Stalin, and the miraculous survival of my family 940.5318 F499
A republic of scoundrels : the schemers, intriguers & adventurers who created a new American nation 973.3 R426
The making of the West : peoples and cultures : a concise history 909.0982 M235
Medea Isphording Bern San Francisco jazz 979.461 B5171s
Charles Freeman The children of Athena : Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD 938 F855c
Rebecca Clarren The cost of free land : Jews, Lakota, and an American inheritance 978.3 C613
Scott Martelle 1932 : FDR, Hoover and the dawn of a New America 973.917 M376
Edward L. Ayers American visions : the United States, 1800-1860 973.5 A977

Literature & Writing

Tongo Eisen-Martin Blood on the fog 811.6 E361b
Tim Z. Hernandez Some of the light : new and selected poems 811.6 H557s
Joshua Bennett Spoken word : a cultural history 808.545 B471
Jed Munson Commentary on the birds 814 M969
Craig Santos Perez From unincorporated territory [åmot] 811.6 S237
Pathetic literature : an anthology 808.8 P297
Gabrielle Octavia Rucker Dereliction 811 R911
Sunjata : Gambian versions of the Mande epic by Bamba Suso and Banna Kanute 896 S958
Melissa Crowe Lo : poems 811.6 C953
Georgia Douglas Johnson After a thousand tears : poems 811 J661
Brandon Som Tripas : poems 811.6 S693
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach 40 weeks : poems 811.6 D229
Leah Nieboer Soft apocalypse 811.6 N665
Ru Freeman Bon courage : essays on inheritance, citizenship, and a creative life 814.6 F855
Jay Wright Soul and substance : a poet's examination papers 814 W947

Natural Sciences & Mathematics

Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology All about birds : California 598.0979 A416
Kevin Hobbs Edible : 70 sustainable plants that are changing how we eat 581.632 H682

Performing Arts & Music

Makana Eyre Sing, memory : the remarkable story of the man who saved the music of the Nazi camps 780.89 K962
Louis Niebur Menergy : San Francisco's gay disco sound 781.648 N665

Philosophy, Psychology & Religion

Julie Ingersoll Building God's kingdom : inside the world of Christian reconstruction 230 I47
Empty the pews : stories of leaving the church 277.3 E558
Ludwig Wittgenstein Über Gewissheit = On certainty 121.6 W83
Carlos M. N. Eire They flew : a history of the impossible 133.8 E359

Social Sciences & Current Events

Alex Espinoza Cruising : an intimate history of a radical pastime 306.76 E776
David Pietrusza Gangsterland : a tour through the dark heart of jazz-age New York City 364.106 P626
Geoff White The Lazarus heist : from Hollywood to high finance : inside North Korea's global cyber war 364.168 W582
Grace E. Lavery Pleasure and efficacy : of pen names, cover versions, and other trans techniques 306.76 L399
Michael Gross Flight of the WASP : the rise, fall, and future of America's original ruling class 305.8 G87
Schuyler Bailar He 306.76 B153
Yascha Mounk The identity trap : a story of ideas and power in our time 305 M928
Jeremy Heimans New power : how power works in our hyperconnected world --and how to make it work for you 303.48 H467
Robert F. Dalzell The good rich and what they cost us 305.52 D153
Dana Brakman Reiser For-profit philanthropy : elite power and the threat of limited liability companies, donor-advised funds, and strategic corporate giving 361.74 R375
Rob Reich Just giving : why philanthropy is failing democracy and how it can do better 361.7 R34j
Equal Justice Initiative The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. 305.896 E647
Danny. Lyon Like a thief's dream 365.6 L991
Shanterra McBride Courageous discomfort : how to have important, brave, life-changing conversations about race and racism : 20 questions about race and racism answered 305.8 M1191
Maribel Morey White philanthropy : Carnegie Corporation's An American dilemma and the making of a white world order 305.8 M845

Travel & Geography

Lonely planet Vietnam. 915.97 L847
Tom Lutz The kindness of strangers 910.4 L975k
Scotland. 914.11 L847
Las Vegas. 917.931 F653

Posted on Jan. 19, 2024 by Heather Miles