Research Guides: New Books in the Library 2016: Week of September 26

FEATURED BOOKS

The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore
Call Number: PN6728.W6 L48 2015
Wonder Woman, created in 1941, on the brink of World War II, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, she has lasted the longest and commanded the most vast and wildly passionate following. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike others, she also has a secret history. In Jill Lepore's riveting work of historical detection, Wonder Woman's story provides the missing link in the history of the struggle for women's rights--a chain of events that begins with the women's suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. This edition includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family's papers. With 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott
Call Number: E608 .A25 2014
Karen Abbott, the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City, tells the spellbinding true story of four women who risked everything to become spies during the Civil War. The author illuminates one of the most fascinating yet little known aspects of the Civil War: the stories of four courageous women--a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow--who were spies. Using a wealth of primary source material and interviews with the spies' descendants, Abbott seamlessly weaves the adventures of these four heroines throughout the tumultuous years of the war. With a cast of real-life characters including Walt Whitman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, General Stonewall Jackson, detective Allan Pinkerton, Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and Emperor Napoleon III, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy draws you into the war as these daring women lived it...

My Brother My Sister: Story of a Transformation by Molly Haskell
Call Number: HQ77.8 .H375 2014
Nearing age sixty and married, the brother of celebrated film critic Molly Haskell dropeed a bombshell: he had decided to undergo surgery to become a woman. Despite Haskell's liberal views on gender roles, she was dumbfounded by her brother's decision. In this frank and moving memoir, Haskell chronicles her brother Chevey's journey through a series of psychological evaluations, grueling surgeries, drug regimens, and comportment and fashion lessions to become Ellen. Haskell also widens the lens on Chevey's story to include scientific and psychoanalytic views on the controversial world of gender reassignment and transsexuals.

Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin by David Ritz
Call Number: ML420.F778 R57 2015
Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. She found fame, fortune, and that remarkable voice in 1967 with "Respect" and a rapid-fire string of hits. Aretha turned the industry on its head by refueling pop with heavy soul. The Queen of Soul had survived, and arrived.

Jim Henson: The Biography
Call Number: PN1982.H46 J66 2013
For the first time ever--a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irreplaceable Jim Henson. He was a gentle dreamer whose genial bearded visage was recognized around the world, but most people got to know him only through the iconic characters born of his fertile imagination: Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, Miss Piggy, Big Bird. The Muppets made Jim Henson a household name, but they were just part of his remarkable story.

History

A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
Call Number: KFM2478.8.W5 B35 2015
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. This book puts Salem's storm into its broader context as a part of the ongoing narrative of American history and the history of the Atlantic World.
Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
Call Number: D805.5.R38 H45 2016
Months before the outbreak of World War II, Heinrich Himmler--prime architect of the Holocaust--designed a special concentration camp for women, located fifty miles north of Berlin. Ravensbrück was primarily a place for the Nazis to hold other inferior beings: Jehovah's Witnesses, Resistance fighters, lesbians, prostitutes, and aristocrats--even the sister of New York's Mayor LaGuardia. For decades the story of Ravensbrück was hidden behind the Iron Curtain...

Plants

The Mythology of Plants: Botanical Lore from Ancient Greece and Rome
Call Number: QK83 .G54 2014
This engaging book focuses on the perennially fascinating topic of plants in Greek and Roman myth. The author, an authority on the gardens, art, and literature of the classical world, introduces the book's main themes with a discussion of gods and heroes in ancient Greek and Roman gardens.
Seven Flowers: And How They Shaped Our World
Call Number: SB404.5.P68 S48 2015
Drawing on sources both ancient and modern, and featuring lush full-color illustrations and gorgeous line art throughout, Potter examines our changing relationship with these potent plants and the effects they had on civilizations through the ages.

Reference

Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines
Call Number: BL473.5 .M663 2014
More Than 1,000 Goddesses and Heroines from around the world. Groundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe. This accessible encyclopedia covers female deities from Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, Asia and Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, as well as every major religious tradition.

Education

Lost and Found: Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students
Call Number: LC4801 .G7245 2016
The discipline systems used in most K-12 schools are obsolete, and aren't working for the kids to whom they're most often applied: those with behavioral challenges. Lost & Found provides a roadmap to a different paradigm, helping educators radically transform the way they go about helping their most challenging students.
Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them
Call Number: LC4801 .G725 2014
From the renowned authority on education and parenting, this an in-depth approach to aid parents and teachers to work together with behaviorally challenging students; now revised and updated.

Psychology & Religion

Relationship Skills 101 for Teens by Sheri Van Dijk
Call Number: BF511 .V366 2015
In Relationship Skills 101 for Teens, Sheri Van Dijk offers powerful tools based in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you regulate your emotions so you can build better relationships with your parents, friends, and peers.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain
Call Number: BF698.35.I59 C35 2013
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts--Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak-- that we owe many of the great contributions to society...The author argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so.
The Religions Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
Call Number: BL80.3 .R442 2013
This book explains in a clear, accessible way more than 100 of the most important theological ideas, from those bound up in the earliest cultures to others that have emerged in the last few hundred years, along with all of the main tenets of the world's major faiths. In doing so, it considers key issues such as the problem of defining good and evil, the significance of suffering, creation and the afterlife, and the nature of god.
The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad by Lesley Hazleton
Call Number: BP75 .H39 2014
The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited--and remade. Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion, and psychology, she renders him as a man in full, in all his complexity and vitality.
Qur'an in Conversation by Michael Birkel
Call Number: BP130.45 .B57 2014
The Qur'an is God's verbatim speech for most traditional Muslims. Qur'an in Conversation reflects how this sacred text of Islam comes into dialogue with the contemporary world through the voices of the eloquent interpreters gathered in this volume. The discussions directly address key issues in Muslim theology--good versus evil, the nature of God, and the future of Islam.
No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam by Reza Aslan
Call Number: BP161.3 .A7913 2011
Internationally acclaimed scholar Reza Aslan explains Islam—the origins and evolution of the faith—in all its beauty and complexity. This updated edition addresses the events of the past decade, analyzing how they have influenced Islam’s position in modern culture.

Visual Arts & Cartoonists

Arts and Crafts of the Islamic Lands
Call Number: N6260 .A77 2013
This book combines detailed information on techniques and materials with discussion of the philosophical and historical background of the cultures that have contributed to Islamic arts.
Heroes of the Comics
Call Number: NC1305 .F75 2014
Heroes of the Comic Books includes publishers, editors and artists from the industry's birth in the '30s, through the brilliant artists and writers behind EC Comics in the '50s.

Gardening

Ask the Garden Guy: Science Based Answers to Garden Questions
Call Number: SB453.2.H3 S24 2013 (Hawaii Pacific)
The information the author conveys is either based on research he has conducted or is familiar with or information which he has gathered from various university websites. This material is mostly applicable to the tropical and subtropical world.

Social Sciences

Quick and Nimble: Lessons from Leading CEOs on How to Create a Culture of Innovation by Adam Bryant More than two hundred CEOs reveal their candid insights on how to build and foster a corporate culture that encourages innovation and drives results.
Call Number: HD58.7 .B797 2015
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age by Astra Taylor From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, this work is a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age. The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim?
Call Number: HM851 .T39 2015
Breaking Free: True Stories of Girls Who Escaped Modern Slavery by Abby Sher Tells the stories of three girls who survived sexual slavery and how they are now working to help others who face the same struggle.
Call Number: HQ281 .S64 2014
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris Beam An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
Call Number: HV881 .B4193 2014
Hate Crimes in Cyberspace by Danielle Keats Citron In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media, Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment.
Call Number: HV6773.15.C92 C57 2014

Nuclear Accidents

Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
Call Number: TK1365.J3 L63 2014
In the first definitive account of the Fukushima disaster, two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, team up with journalist Susan Q. Stranahan, the lead reporter of the Philadelphia Inquirer's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Three Mile Island accident, to tell this harrowing story.

Veterans - Mental Health

Military Mental Health Care: A Guide for Service Members, Veterans, Families, and Community
Call Number: UH629.3 .L39 2015
Too often American veterans return from combat and spiral into depression, anger and loneliness they can neither share nor tackle on their own. This book seeks to aid our troubled, returning forces by dissecting the numerous mental health problems they face upon arriving stateside.