New Books: Aug 2022

One of the Wall Street Journal's Ten Best Books of the Year • One of the Best Books of the Year: TIME, The Washington Post
“Simard creates her own complex network in this memoir, by weaving the story of [her] discoveries with vignettes from her past. The themes of her research—cooperation, the legacies that one generation leaves for the next, the ways in which organisms react to and recover from stress and disease—are also themes in her own life. The network of friends, family and colleagues who support Simard, as a scientist and as a woman, is visible throughout . . . It feels like a privilege to be let into her life.”—Emma Marris, Nature

A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER

Published by the British Library
"The remarkable success of the rescue and conservation by British Library staff, and of the decipherment and reconstruction by the team in Seattle, hold a promise of yet more revolutionary insights into the construction and meaning of the early Buddhist texts."―Bu"A rare example of a book that appeals equally to the specialist . . . as well as to the general reader interested in archaeology or in Buddhist thought and practice."―Choicelletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

“The general principle of this book is excellent and provides a much–needed overview ... [It] is a perfect introduction to the world of dress history and provides a good stimulus for further study. For those with specialist knowledge of particular periods, it provides a quick and easily accessed reference for the main points of other periods.” ―The Journal of Dress History

“A fascinating tome that examines changes in men's fashion in a vibrant and visually striking way ... From the styles of political movements in the French Revolution to the famous 'Palm Beach' suits of America in the 1930s, this is a rich and extensive study of the suit and men's fashion.” ―All About History

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A Smithsonian Book of the Year
A New York Review of Books “Best of 2020” Selection
A New York Times Best Art Book of the Year
An Art Newspaper Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Current Events & Public Affairs

"Inspirational, intriguing and practical, Finney’s toolkit is especially good for would-be entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs who have recently started a business, and business students. Highly recommended.” - Library Journal
Wall Street Journal bestseller

“[A] concise and highly readable assessment of where we are now, how we got here and where we might go.”―Forbes

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020.

Rowman and Littlefield
Highly Recommended for all levels - Choice Reviews

Rutgers University Press
James M. Thomas (JT) is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi in Oxford
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

"Monumental and rapturous" —The New York Times

Highly recommended - CHOICE
"[A]n extraordinary publication, combining archival research with remarkably accomplished translations.... [B]rings to light a little-known tradition of political poetry by Afro-Creole poets of Louisiana... a handsomely produced book, with annotations, illustrations, and a beautifully written historical and literary introduction." —MLA Lois Roth Award Selection Committee

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

"This enemies-to-lovers romance is fun, family-driven and heartfelt."—Washington Post

Choice 2021 Outstanding Academic Title

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF NPR’s BEST BOOKS OF 2022
“In Garmus’s debut novel, a frustrated chemist finds herself at the helm of a cooking show that sparks a revolution. Welcome to the 1960s, where a woman’s arsenal of tools was often limited to the kitchen—and where Elizabeth Zott is hellbent on overturning the status quo one meal at a time.”
—New York Times

"Strikingly relevant...Darkly funny and poignant...Lessons in Chemistry’s excellent experiment [is] quirky and heartwarming."
—The Atlantic

“Raquel V. Reyes’s series debut, MANGO, MAMBO, AND MURDER, furthers my belief that the cozy mystery has become one of the most diverse, and most vibrant, in contemporary crime fiction.”
—The New York Times
"A vibrant, diverse, LGBTQ-inclusive cast and Raquel Reyes’s deft balance of sensitive topics and frothy intrigue make this a standout."
—BookRiot

A Library Journal Editor's Pick for Spring 2022
“Terrific . . . What makes One-Shot Harry a standout is the cityscape of mid-century L.A it summons up — its music, chromium cars, hateful slurs, “invisible” racial boundaries and cautious hopes.”
—NPR's Fresh Air

New York Times Bestseller
"The thefts are engaging and surprising, and the narrative brims with international intrigue. Li, however, has delivered more than a straight thriller here, especially in the parts that depict the despair Will and his pals feel at being displaced, overlooked, underestimated and discriminated against. This is as much a novel as a reckoning."
—New York Times Book Review

Library Journal Book of the Year. A Time Recommended Book. Recommended by Elle, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, O, the Oprah Magazine, and other publications

Library Journal Book of the Year.
"It's character driven, creepy, gory and all things scary . . . it will have you turning pages." — TODAY
“Insightful and gripping . . " Victor LaValle, New York Times Book Review

Library Journal Book of the Year

“Buzzy and enthralling …A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery…Fun as hell to read.” —Oprah Daily

New York Times bestseller

Outstanding Academic Title - CHOICE Reviews

Oxford University Press.
Highly Recommended - CHOICE REVIEW
Melvin Delgado, PhD, is Professor in the School of Social Work at Boston University

"Traveling through the American heartland, a physician deconstructs how right-wing policies have fatal consequences, even for the voters they purport to help. Metzl paints a blistering portrait of a subculture so in thrall to racist ideology that they willingly invite raising gun suicides, poor healthcare, and falling life expectancies."―Esquire

"Remarkable...Through field interviews, research and public-health data, Metzl shows that whites are harming themselves along with everyone else, and in drastic ways...A weighty but smooth read, devoid of polemics or jargon."―Minneapolis Star Tribune

7th ed.

"Those interested in understanding how feelings unconsciously steer thought ... are in for a stimulating read. Mlodinow handles this topic astutely with compelling examples and attention to the latest research, which is quite spectacular. . . . A lively exposé of the growing consensus about the limited power of rationality and decision-making."
—The New York Times Book Review

3rd edition

Recommended for all libraries.” —Library Journal

“Timely . . . Brown’s clear-eyed and eloquent examination of illness—from the inside and from the outside—is illuminating… moving and enlightening.”
—Library Journal

Highly recommended - CHOICE Reviews
"An innovative and engaging historical study of deafness cures, Hearing Happiness details the complex relationship between deaf people, technology industries, medical specialists and consumer culture. . . .This refreshingly accessible work will likely become a durable historical resource inside and outside of classrooms." ― Social History of Medicine
"Offers a well-illustrated history of the marketing of hearing aids, particularly in North America. The material proves to be remarkably rich, and also rather troubling. . . . An enlightening book." ― Times Literary Supplement

2nd edition

4th ed.

The book is highly readable, effectively communicating the benefits and logic of such an all-encompassing [precision community health] model.” ― Library Journal

Highly Recommended - CHOICE REVIEWS

10th edition

“A thrilling and often terrifying ride through transplantation and the theories and techniques that made it possible.” –The New York Times Book Review

University of North Carolina Press
Highly recommended.--CHOICE Reviews

“Doggedly researched, layered with empathy, The Urge pulls back multiple curtains at once in examining an ailment that will likely never go away . . . The Urge contains a wealth of such research and insight, rendered with a gimlet eye and a physician’s care. Addicts who make it to the other side often feel they have survived to fulfill a higher purpose. The Urge qualifies as just such an accomplishment, an inspired dive into a condition that, in one way or another, touches us all.” —The Boston Globe

"An enlightening glimpse into the complex interface between public health and private industry, chronicling the ability of a singularly tenacious person to save more lives than perhaps any other scientist in history." -- New England Journal of Medicine
"Offit gives the reader a window into the key scientific advances that have led to the modern age of vaccines. . . . [It] is a compelling story. . . . Offit brings interesting perspective to the characters of the time." -- Journal of the American Medical Association

Rev. 3rd ed.

“Extraordinary and wide-ranging . . . a literary feat that simultaneously builds and excavates identity.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)

Cambridge University Press

NYT bestseller. “Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation….Sullivan circles all of these possibilities like Agatha Christie with Zoom and a time machine.” — New York Times

"Deeply researched and crisply written, Blood at the Root is an impressive and timely case study of the racial violence and historical amnesia that characterize much of American history. Phillips…is a gifted storyteller."
― Matthew Delmont, Boston Globe

"Small, powerful and deeply observed...Perhaps the most remarkable part of Carry On is the way Lewis deftly converges the emotional with the intellectual, the personal with the political, freedom dreams with pragmatic calls for major policy innovation...As he did for his entire life, Lewis, through his words in this volume after his death, offers us sustenance, faith and hope for the battles that lie ahead."―Washington Post

"A detailed and compelling account of the presidential period in the political career of Bill Clinton. Highly recommended."--Choice
Nelson’s book stands as an excellent account of how, beginning with the Clinton elections, American governance reached this troubling state."—Journal of Southern History

LSU Press. Author is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War Emeritus at the University of Virginia
Highly recommended. All levels - CHOICE REVIEWS

New York Times bestseller

New York Times Bestseller
"Browder has made his story into a real page-turner. Amid the horrors being reported every day from Ukraine, it also provides a highly readable insight into the true nature of the regime that is responsible for them." — The Sunday Times (UK)

University of Illinois Press
Highly recommended." --Choice Reviews
"The greatest strength of this collection is the diversity that it represents . . . worth a slot on the bookshelf of any supporter of women's rights who realize the fight still rages on." --American Journalism

New York Times Bestseller
New York Review of Books
“Elegantly written.”

Essential. General readers through faculty. CHOICE REVIEWS
Author is the Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship

“Herman’s book tells an exciting story with gusto . . . its range and narrative verve make it an entertaining and illuminating read.”—Sunday Times (London)

Highly recommended - CHOICE Reviews

***2017 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction***

Highly recommended - CHOICE
"Masters of the Pearl: A History of Qatar deftly tracks the emergence of the Al Thani dynasty from its merchant roots in the Gulf’s mid-nineteenth century pearling industry to ruling one the richest nations in the world by per capita income. It is a well-told story that peels off the wrapping, to paraphrase Churchill, to the mystery inside an enigma that is the riddle of Qatar. . . . It is a story of many moving parts but Morton obligingly provides potted profiles of the main characters, genealogical tables of the Al Thani and Al Khalifa dynasties, as well as a useful glossary of Arabic terms to help the reader through the mind-numbing intricacies of the region’s tribal interactions." ― Asian Affairs

Essential - Choice Reviews. Praeger Publications. Author is professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

University of Virginia Press
Highly recommended - CHOICE

NYT bestseller. “In The Nineties, Klosterman examines the social, political and cultural history of the era with his signature wit. It’s a fascinating trip down memory lane.” —Time

“Dunbar-Ortiz’s message is clear: uplifting narratives about the United States as a ‘nation of immigrants’ allow the country to hide from its history of colonialism, genocide, slavery, and racism . . . . [T]his thought-provoking account will prove insightful for all.”
—Library Journal

University of Chicago Press
“Gradert’s voice is earnest and engaging, and his analysis is deft throughout. . . The book’s most significant contribution rests in its archive and Gradert’s skill at identifying striking moments in it and teasing out their meanings. . . . In Gradert’s careful curation and illumination of primary texts, Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination makes abolitionist Puritanism a usable past for early Americanists.” ― Early American Literature
Gradert deftly weaves together such literary critical interpretation with biographical narrative to explicate the political positions and rhetorical choices of the many writers he discusses." ― American Literary History

"Seminal" —Washington Post

Yale University Press
Highly Recommended - CHOICE Reviews
Received the CT Award of Merit for the history/ biography category, sponsored by Christianity Today
Finalist for the 2020 TGC History Book Prize, sponsored by The Gospel Coalition

Highly recommended - CHOICE Reviews

“Lowenstein’s book is a compelling account of how the United States acquired and exploited the stunning power that modern statehood delivers.” —The Washington Post

“Ways and Means represents nonfiction writing at its best, using an easy prose to enlighten with thought provoking, sometimes controversial, ideas from the very beginning.” —New York Journal of Books

Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through graduate students." - CHOICE

New York Times bestseller

“Bone Black is a lucid, challenging, and entrancing read.” ―The Washington Post Book World
“A canvas of vividly impressionistic splashes of growing up young, gifted, black, and female.” ―The Philadelphia Inquirer

“A powerful story of how, exactly, we fool ourselves into thinking the past is past . . . an account that is both riveting and thorough, taking us across a century of spinout marketing campaigns, protests and versions that emerged from Foster’s lyrics. Shirley Temple, Colonel Sanders, the country of Japan, Henrietta Vinton Davis, J.K. Lilly, Marian Anderson, Richard M. Nixon, the 31W Highway, “Mad Men”—and yes, the Kentucky Derby—are all summoned . . . Bingham’s research is finely detailed, extensive, complex. Further, her identity—and its many complications—is vital to her authority as a needed writer of this book.”—The Washington Post

2022 NAACP Image Award Winner

Join award-winning author Richard Parker as he takes you on a journey through fifteen of Western Kentucky's most nefarious people, places and events.

University Press of Kansas

"This is a history that demands reading. Highly recommended."--Choice Reviews

"Pritikin’s compelling series of testimonies from the Hanford plaintiffs greatly enhances our understanding of the lived experience and human cost of nuclear weapons development and testing."—Pacific Historical Review

University of Michigan Press
Essential - CHOICE Reviews

Essential - CHOICE Reviews

2nd edition. "This book, unlike the manual that comes with your TV set, is utterly readable, highly engaging, and worth referring back to, long after you've switched on your favorite channel. . . . Regardless of which essay one chooses to tune in to, How to Watch Television is an accessible and impressive group of essays by a powerhouse cast of television scholars." -- Journal of American Culture

Essential - CHOICE Reviews

Winner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award
"One of the most interesting books on military affairs that I have read in some time." ― Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review
"An authoritative and sobering perspective on the automated battlefields that will very soon come to characterize military conflict."
― Science

Essential, all readers. CHOICE Reviews

Highly recommended - CHOICE Reviews
“Brown shows how for persecuted and imprisoned Jews, music became a way to preserve their humanity and at times even their lives. ... Brown has succeeded admirably in bringing together in one volume so much important research.”―The Washington Post

Oxford University Press
Essential, all readers - CHOICE REVIEWS

Best known of the Hindu scriptures, 5th to 2nd century BCE

Highly recommended - all readers. CHOICE REVIEWS. Author is professor emeritus of Near Eastern archaeology and anthropology at the University of Arizona in Tucson

"Without the scout mindset's attitude of curiosity and truth-seeking to undergird knowledge and the tools of science and reason, mental fitness will elude us. The Scout Mindset describes how to cultivate those virtues in an engaging and enlightening account from which we all can benefit."—The Wall Street Journal

Highly recommended - CHOICE
“Makes a powerful argument for building, as early as possible, the ability to stand up for what's right in the face of peer pressure, corrupt authority, and even family apathy. Citing case after case revealing how easy it is for people’s moral instincts to be muted, and detailing how that silence is visible on brain scans, Sanderson guides readers toward her inevitable conclusion: We can do better, we know how, and the tipping point to convert a virtue-challenged culture into a virtuous one is closer than we think.”―Psychology Today

Routledge. Recommended by CHOICE

Open Book Publishers.
Stephen Robertson was a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge University. He is now retired, Professor Emeritus at City University, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at UCL

Cambridge University Press
Essential, all readers - CHOICE REVIEWS

Muhammad H. Zaman, PhD, is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University
A useful, engaging opus — New York Times Book Review
Recommended, all readers - CHOICE REVIEW

“Part introduction to quantum mechanics and cosmology, part memoir, and part sociological study, this work challenges readers to question the nature of how science is done in contemporary society, as well as what it means when everyone has a seat at the cosmological table. For general science readers, gender and feminist studies students, and those concerned about the role feminist and racial politics plays in STEM professions.”―Library Journal

Princeton University Press
"Casual science readers will be hooked from page one; for those contemplating careers in the sciences, this should be required reading." ― Library Journal, starred review

Highly recommended for all readers - CHOICE Reviews

*** Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Students enrolled in two-year technical programs. CHOICE Reviews

“Mr. Waldman follows all the drama like a fly on a brick wall, richly reporting scenes and conversations, many on job sites where both circuitry and civility break down. The book is reminiscent of a reality-TV show about a scrappy startup, complete with backstory segments as we learn the pasts and personalities of each new hire. . . . None of it is boring.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Megan Kate Nelson’s great gift as a historian and as a writer is finding the connected threads of the sprawling story of the place we call the United States.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
“Deeply informative, while being a joy to read … One of the book’s strengths is Nelson’s telling of the story from both the white and Native points of view … That Nelson covers so much history in relatively few pages is testament to her mastery of the subject and storytelling skill.”
—Natural Resources Management Today

“Scrupulously researched and written in appealing journalistic style, this book should attract enthusiasts of Western and U.S. history.” —Library Journal

Highly recommended - CHOICE Reviews

Princeton University Press. Highly recommended - CHOICE Reviews.
"A history book about humanity told with wit and style."---John Brandon, Forbes
"Carroll takes readers on an entertaining tour of biological discovery that emphasizes the dominant role played by chance in shaping the conditions for life on Earth. Along the way, he provides insights and humor that make the book a quick, lively read that both educates and entertains. . . . Books such as this remind us to make our unlikely time here count."---Ivor Knight, Science

“E

ngaging and entertaining; of interest to anyone who wants to better understand the behavior of social animals, including humans.”―Library Journal
“Exhilarating…Ward has an irrepressible and infectious interest in virtually everything that creeps, crawls, climbs, swims, jumps, runs or flies, from bumblebees to baboons to African elephants…Reading Mr. Ward’s book is like entering a maze, too, with surprises awaiting the reader at every turn. What holds it all together is the author’s natural gift for storytelling and penchant for punchy, provocative one-liners.”―Wall Street Journal

A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year

"Will have you marveling at nature…Barnett’s account remarkably spirals out, appropriately, to become a much larger story about the sea, about global history and about environmental crises and preservation."
― John Williams, New York Times Book Review

"One of Waterstones' Books of the Year 2020: Popular Science"
"One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2020: Science"
"One of Symmetry Magazine's Top Physics Books of 2020"

New York Times Bestseller
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A Library Journal Best Science and Technology Book of the Year

University of Chicago Press
“Each chapter opens with a story that brings the material to life, and the details of the statistical analyses are reserved for the appendix of each chapter, making the book quite readable. Well written and insightful, Bankrupt in America is an excellent resource for readers at all levels.” ― Choice Reviews

FOREWORD INDIES FINALIST — POLITICAL & SOCIAL SCIENCES;
NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDALIST — SOCIAL CHANGE & SOCIAL JUSTICE;
ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARD 1ST RUNNER UP — CULTURE & MONTAIGNE MEDAL NOMINEE
"Written for the benefit of economic and governmental policy makers, Broke in America is thoroughly accessible to the non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject of poverty in the United States and what can be done about it—especially in the light of the new incoming Biden administration and its approach to improving economic conditions for the working poor and the middle class.”
—Midwest Book Review

The first edition won the 2012 Green Book Festival Award

SUNY Press
Highly recommended. General readers through graduate students - CHOICE REVIEWS

NYU Press

Cambridge University Press.
Highly Recommended - CHOICE REVIEW

NYU Press
2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

“The book is a lucid look at rural America, and reads as a thrilling political story, told with warmth and smarts.”
—The Boston Globe

New York Times bestseller. “[A] bracing manual . . . Walter’s book lays out America’s possible roads to dystopia with impressive concision. Her synthesis of the various barometers of a country heading to civil war is hard to refute when applied to the U.S. . . . Indispensable.”—Financial Times

Highly recommended. All levels - CHOICE Reviews

“Engrossing… [Hiltzik is] an able narrator, with an eye for telling detail.”—New York Times Book Review

"An accomplished journalist with a knack for storytelling, Mr Hiltzik delves into dense financial details to present an engaging read about the beginnings of America Inc." —The Economist

Oxford University Press. Author is professor of philosophy at Stanford University

NYU Press
"Thoroughly researched and clearly organized, the book provides an ethnographic view of how women of color engage in social activism through reproductive justice organizations ... A well-appreciated addition to the literature on RJ." ― Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

"Intersectionality is a popular concept, but this terrific study of the practical uses of an intersectional approach to organizing for social change goes far beyond the usual invocations of the term, actually illuminating its strengths and challenges ... Exhaustively researched, beautifully detailed, and theoretically powerful." ― Choice

Praeger
Highly recommended - CHOICE

University of Virginia Press
"Highly Recommended" - CHOICE Reviews

USA Today bestseller

Cambridge University Press
"Highly recommended" CHOICE Reviews

“Mr. Continetti captures beautifully the ad hoc, rearguard nature of American conservatism.”―Wall Street Journal
“Matthew Continetti’s The Right is a rich and detailed survey from the 1920s to now.”―Financial Times

“An important book that is recommended for anyone concerned about the rise conspiracy theories in American society, and how families are working to preserve their children’s legacies in the aftermath of tragedy.”—Library Journal (starred)

"Disturbing and important...A feature writer at The New York Times, Williamson is a compassionate story-teller and a thorough reporter who never loses sight of the larger issues Newtown presents."—NPR

New York Times Bestseller
“A robust and meaningful history...Smartly written with a flexible aperture for capturing the big picture of a moment and narrowing in on the tiniest of details.”
―TIME

“A thrilling book about the lengths to which investigators went to catch an elusive killer and a pivotal moment in the history of criminal investigation.”—Library Journal

Rowman and Littelfield
Highly recommended, all levels - CHOICE REVIEWS

"Timely and eye-opening... An important, accessible, and engaging book that will find a varied audience from readers of political science, history, economics, and national security."―Library Journal

New York Times Bestseller
“One recent history makes different points and has larger themes. This Will Not Pass by Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns captures the insularity of Washington and the closed-off nature of the conversations that consume it. It is deeply reported, with sourcing from both parties and criticisms of both, which is refreshing. It also captures both parties’ refusal to be honest with their own voters."
— The Wall Street Journal
"A blockbuster. Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns deliver 473 pages of essential reading."— The Guardian

“This is a thorough, groundbreaking work … A gripping book that will captivate anyone seeking to understand why mass shootings occur and what might be done to recognize and intervene with potential shooters before they act.”―Library Journal (starred review)

“One of the most comprehensive studies of the subject”―Wall Street Journal

Wiley-Blackwell
Essential - CHOICE Reviews

"We learn that, if we were a bit more curious about our clothes, they would offer us rich, interesting and often surprising insights into human history...a deep and sustained inquiry into the origins of what we wear, and what we have worn for the past 500 years, as well as into the material conditions and social consequences of their production...Read this book. As an argument against the horrors of fast fashion and the social and environmental disasters it provokes, it is powerful and persuasive."
—The Washington Post

Highly recommended - CHOICE Reviews

Temple University Press
Rebecca Joyce Kissane is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Lafayette College. Sarah Winslow is Senior Associate Director of the Honors College, Director of the National Scholars Program, and Associate Professor of Sociology at Clemson University,