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Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
Reuben Jonathan Miller - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record. Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and is now a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside... |
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Adults Just Wanna Have Fun: Programs for Emerging Adults
Audrey Barbakoff - ALA Editions
Format: Print book
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There are a wealth of resources out there geared towards serving the needs of toddlers, school age children, young adults, and senior citizens. But something's missing. Library users in their 20s and 30s constitute one of the most underserved populations for public libraries, and there's... |
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In Search of Perfumes: A Lifetime Journey to the Source of Nature's Scents
Dominique Roques - HarperVia
Format: Hardcover
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In this intoxicating concoction of history, travelogue, and memoir, one of the perfume industry's leading scouts of natural ingredients tells the story of the precious ingredients needed to make our favorite fragrances.Do you know how many flowers it takes to produce a kilo of rose... |
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Adventures in Human Being: A Grand Tour from the Cranium to the Calcaneum
Gavin Francis - Basic Books (AZ)
Format: Hardcover
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We assume we know our bodies intimately, but for many of us they remain uncharted territory, an enigma of bone and muscle, neurons and synapses. How many of us understand the way seizures affect the brain, how the heart is connected to well-being, or the why the foot holds the key to our humanity?... |
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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch - Viking Adult; First American Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A bold and all-embracing exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge from one of todays great thinkers. Throughout history, mankind has struggled to understand lifes mysteries, from the mundane to the seemingly... |
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Between Light and Storm: How We Live with Other Species
Esther Woolfson - Pegasus Books
Format: Hardcover
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A landmark examination of the fraught relationship between humans and animals, taking the reader from Genesis to climate change.. Beginning with the very origins of life on Earth, Woolfson considers prehistoric human-animal interaction and traces the millennia-long evolution of conceptions... |
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Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
Lee Berger - National Geographic
Format: Hardcover
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A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree.. In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small... |
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Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Daniel Tammet - Little, Brown and Company; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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The irresistibly engaging book that enlarges ones wonder at Tammets mind and his all-embracing vision of the world as grounded in numbers. --Oliver Sacks, MD THINKING IN NUMBERS is the book that Daniel Tammet, mathematical savant and bestselling author, was born to write. In Tammets world,... |
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