Spring 2018 - Week of June 4 - New Books in the Library 2018 - Research Guides at Honolulu Community College

FEATURED BOOKS

How America Got Its Guns: A History of the Gun Violence Crisis by William Briggs
Call Number: HV7436 .B75 2017
In the United States more than thirty thousand deaths each year can be attributed to firearms. This book on the history of guns in America examines the Second Amendment and the laws and court cases it has spawned. The author's thorough and objective account shows the complexities of the issue, which are so often reduced to bumper-sticker slogans, and suggests ways in which gun violence in this country can be reduced. Briggs profiles not only protagonists in the national gun debate but also ordinary people, showing the ways guns have become part of the lives of many Americans. Among them are gays and lesbians, women, competitive trapshooters, people in the gun-rights and gun-control trenches, the NRA's first female president, and the most successful gunsmith in American history. Balanced and painstakingly unbiased, Briggs's account provides the background needed to follow gun politics in America and to understand the gun culture in which we are likely to live for the foreseeable future. (EBOOK VERSION)

The Rise of Big Data Policing: Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
Call Number: HV8141 .F47 2017
In a high-tech command center in downtown Los Angeles, a digital map lights up with 911 calls, television monitors track breaking news stories, surveillance cameras sweep the streets, and rows of networked computers link analysts and police officers to a wealth of law enforcement intelligence. This is just a glimpse into a future where software predicts future crimes, algorithms generate virtual "most-wanted" lists, and databanks collect personal and biometric information. The Rise of Big Data Policing introduces the cutting-edge technology that is changing how the police do their jobs and shows why it is more important than ever that citizens understand the far-reaching consequences of big data surveillance as a law enforcement tool. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reveals how these new technologies - viewed as race-neutral and objective - have been eagerly adopted by police departments hoping to distance themselves from claims of racial bias and unconstitutional practices.

So You Want to Be a Cop by Alley Evola
Call Number: HV8143 .E96 2017
Many children, from the time they are old enough to be attracted to a siren and flashing lights, dream of becoming a police officer. As a retired police officer herself, Alley Evola looks at the daily ins and outs of the job of a police officer. Through recruitment, life at the academy, patrol, and eventually promotion, she provides a helpful understanding of what you can really expect. She also looks at current issues, including race and gender, and how these have shaped certain expectations from the public that a police officer needs to be prepared for when working in this field. When you're young and dreaming, you don't think about the process it will take to become a police officer. The many challenges and issues you will face in the field are not evident until after the police academy. [This book] is for everyone who secretly wishes they were a police officer or is pursuing their dream in the hope of transforming it into reality.

The Oxford Illustrated History of Science by Iwan Rhys Morus (Editor)
Call Number: Q125 .O94 2017
This book offers an accessible and entertaining introduction to the history of science as well as a valuable and authoritative reference work. Providing a chronological account of the variety of human efforts to understand the natural world over three millennia, it includes chapters on Islamic science, science in the medieval west, as well as detailed discussion of the Scientific Revolution.

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Call Number: RB155 .M854 2017
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Emperor of All Maladies, Mukherjee draws on his scientific knowledge and research to describe the magisterial history of a scientific idea. Woven through The Gene is the story of Mukherjee's own family and its recurring pattern of schizophrenia, a haunting reminder that the science of genetics is not confined to the laboratory but is vitally relevant to everyday lives. The moral complexity of genetics reverberates even more urgently today as we learn to "read" and "write" the human genome -- unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children and our children's children.

GENERAL COLLECTION

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell
Call Number: GC89 .G66 2017
An immersive, mildly gonzo and depressingly well-timed book about the drenching effects of global warming, and a powerful reminder that we can bury our heads in the sand about climate change for only so long before the sand itself disappears.
While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Wake-up Call for Mental Health Care in America by Eli Sanders
Call Number: HV6534.S43 S26 2017
In this riveting, probing, compassionate account of a murder in Seattle, Eli Sanders, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his newspaper coverage of the crime, offers a deeply reported portrait in microcosm of the state of mental health care in this country--as well as an inspiring story of love and forgiveness.
GED Test Prep Plus 2018-2019 by Caren Van Slyke
Call Number: LB3060.33.G45 G43 2018
Kaplan's GED Prep Plus 2018 provides expert strategies, online practice, and video tutorials to help you pass all four GED subject tests.
Nakama: Japanese Communication, Culture, Context by Seiichi Makino...
Call Number: PL535 .M34 1998
This proficiency-oriented introductory Japanese text emphasizes practical communication, the development of all four language skills, student interaction, and cultural awareness.
Fast Food Kids: French Fries, Lunch Lines and Social Ties by Amy L. Best
Call Number: TX361.Y6 B47 2017
A conceptually-driven, ethnographic account of youth and the places where they eat, Fast-Food Kids examines the complex relationship between youth identity and food consumption, offering answers to those straightforward questions that require crucial and comprehensive solutions.
Essential Type: An Illustrated Guide to Understanding and Using Fonts by Tony Seddon
Call Number: Z250 .S43 2016
A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated guide to fonts, essential for anyone who engages with type in their daily lives.
A New Earth: Create a Better Life by Eckhart Tolle
Call Number: BL624 .T635 2016
Shattering modern ideas of ego and entitlement, self and society, Tolle lifts the veil of fear that has hung over humanity during this new millennium, and shines an illuminating light that leads to happiness and health that every reader can follow.
Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World by Andrea Barnet
Call Number: HQ1123 .B3575 2018
While they came from different generations, Carson, Jacobs, Goodall, and Waters found their voices in the early sixties. At a time of enormous upheaval, all four stood as bulwarks against 1950s corporate culture and its war on nature. Consummate outsiders, they each prevailed against powerful and mostly male adversaries while also anticipating the disaffections of the emerging counterculture. All told, their efforts ignited a transformative progressive movement while offering people a new way to think about the world and a more positive way of living in it.
Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide, Second Edition by W. David Yates
Call Number: T55 .Y38 2017
While there are numerous technical resources available, often you have to search through a plethora of them to find the information you use on a daily basis. And maintaining a library suitable for a comprehensive practice can become quite costly. The new edition of a bestseller, Safety Professional's Reference and Study Guide, Second Edition provides a single-source reference that contains all the information required to handle the day-to-day tasks of a practicing industrial hygienist.

HAWAII PACIFIC COLLECTION

Ancient Sites of Oahu, Revised Edition by Van James
Call Number: DU624 .J36 2010
This Ka Palapala Po'okela award-winning guidebook increased the general public's awareness of O'ahu's ancient sites for the first time in the early 1990s. Now an entirely updated, full-color edition of the book includes numerous additional sites and expanded site descriptions. Although many remnants of ancient Hawai'i are accessible, ofthen they are hidden, and few sources provide such comprehensive interpretive information.
Wahine Holo Lio = Women on Horseback by Kimo Alama Keaulana
Call Number: GT5885 .K43
Presents the history of horseback riding in Hawaiʻi and the development of the pāʻū holo lio attire for Hawaiian women riders. Photocopy by author, 2018.
Liberate Hawai'i! by Jon D. Olsen
Call Number: DU627.8 .O47 2014
Subtitle: Renouncing and Defying the Continuing Fraudulent U. S. Claim to the Sovereignty of Hawai'i
The Best of Aloha Shorts
Call Number: PS571.H3 B35 no.112
Aloha Shorts contains poems and stories drawn from the pages of Bamboo Ridge that are not only excellent in themselves but also outstanding in performance.
Ho'ala Loko I'a: Permit Application Handbook by Trisha Watson; Michael Cain
Call Number: SH157.85.F52 W38 2016
This guidebook is intended to help cultural practitioners, landowners and community groups navigate a new streamlined application process for Hawaiian fishpond revitalization...

New Media on DVD

Second Chance Kids
Call Number: DVD 415
ISBN: 9781531702229
Publication Date: 2017
A fight over the fate of juveniles in prison for murder, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 2012. Looks at what happens when juveniles convicted of first degree murder are given the chance to re-enter society.
Poverty, Politics & Profits: The Housing Crisis
Call Number: DVD 416
ISBN: 9781531702243
Publication Date: 2017
Looks into reasons why despite billions of dollars going into subsidized housing for the poor, many in need experience difficulty acquiring adequate housing. Explores racial inequality in the housing market.
Poisoned Water
Call Number: DVD 417
ISBN: 9781531700270
Publication Date: 2017
In 2014, to reduce costs, city officials changed the source of Flint, Michigan's drinking water supply and as a result subjected its population to dangerous levels of lead contamination. This program looks at the logistics of the Flint water crisis and exposes vulnerabilities that exist in water systems throughout the county.
Africa's Great Civilizations
Call Number: DVD 418
ISBN: 9781531700065
Publication Date: 2017
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing, and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only their own rich civilizations, but also the wider world.
The African Americans : Many Rivers to Cross
Call Number: DVD 419
ISBN: 9781608839971
Publication Date: 2013
Explore the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed-forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds.
Black America Since MLK : And Still I Rise
Call Number: DVD 420
ISBN: 9781627898065
Publication Date: 2016
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. embarks on a deeply personal journey through the last fifty years of African American history. Joined by leading scholars, celebrities, and a dynamic cast of people who shaped these years, Gates travels from the victories of the civil rights movement up to today, asking profound questions about the state of black America, and our nation as a whole.

New Books in the Library 2018: Spring 2018 - Week of June 4

FEATURED BOOKS

GENERAL COLLECTION

HAWAII PACIFIC COLLECTION

New Media on DVD