New Books in the Library 2016: Week of March 28

In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world's foremost conservation biologists—leads readers on a fascinating tour of mankind's relationship to the sea, from the earliest traces of water on earth to the oceans as we know them today. In the process, Roberts looks at how the taming of the oceans has shaped human civilization and affected marine life.

In this volume, the author sifts the facts from legends and rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover(s) over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams."

This fully rounded biography of America's sixteenth President is the product of Donald's half-century of study of Lincoln and his times. In preparing it, Donald has drawn more extensively than any previous writer on Lincoln's personal papers and those of his contemporaries, and he has taken full advantage of the voluminous newly discovered records of Lincoln's legal practice.

In this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history that places the environment at the very center of the narrative. It reveals how focusing on plants, animals, climate, and other ecological factors can radically change the way that we think about the past.

In this brief, clearly written book, the essentials of geometry, algebra, and trigonometry are pulled together into three complementary and convenient small packages, providing an excellent preview and review for anyone who wishes to prepare to master calculus with a minimum of misunderstanding and wasted time and effort.

These books are designed from the ground up to be concise and focused, resulting in a book less intimidating and easier to use, with well-coordinated explanations, art, worked examples, and end-of-chapter problems.

Stress -- Strain -- Mechanical properties of materials -- Axial load -- Torsion -- Bending -- Transverse shear -- Combined loadings -- Stress transformation -- Strain transformation -- Design of beams and shafts -- Deflection of beams and shafts -- Buckling of columns -- Energy methods.

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, this book takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events. Chapters cover the transsexual and transvestite communities in the years following World War II; trans radicalism and social change, which spanned from 1966 with the publication of The Transsexual Phenomenon, and lasted through the early 1970s; the mid-’70s to 1990—the era of identity politics and the changes witnessed in trans circles through these years; and the gender issues witnessed through the ’90s and ’00s.

Provides disaggregated data on discrete Asian American and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander ethnic groups where available. Compiles key measures of well-being drawn from a variety of government and academic sources in an attempt to make data on immigration, language, education, income, employment, housing, and health more accessible. *Click for PDF*

Using a combination of satellite imagery, related geospatial datasets, and statewide farm interviews, they produced a new digital GIS layer to identify commercial agricultural crops grown in the state. Intended as a tool to promote a shared understanding of where and what Hawaii currently farms and ranches... *Click for PDF*

The story of modern Hawai'i is really the story of the sugar industry--an epic history that continues to affect the land and the people of the 50th State. From bullock carts and ox-powered mills to the most efficient plantations in the world, the production of Hawaiian sugar was a dramatic, colorful panorama spanning 165 years.

The largest and most extensive public works project of its time in Hawaiʻi, the H-3 freeway drew more protest and opposition than any other project in the islands before it or since. Ē Luku Wale Ē is a lament, in words and images, for what has been lost in the wake of the construction of the massive freeway on the island of Oʻahu.