New Books

American apartheid : segregation and the making of the underclass
Massey, Douglas S.
Argues that segregation has continued in housing

Looking out, looking in
Adler, Ronald B. 1946- author. (Ronald Brian),
A longtime favorite with millions of readers, LOOKING OUT, LOOKING IN, 15th Edition maintains its market-leading tradition of linking the latest research and theory to learners everyday lives. Its accessible approach motivates readers to learn and apply communication principles in both personal relationships and on the job. Expanded emphasis on social media includes an all-new chapter devoted to the role of mediated communication in interpersonal relationships as well as integrated coverage throughout the book. In addition, diverse examples, new readings, compelling cartoons, lively photos, and popular culture references bring principles to life. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Racism : science & tools for the public health professional

This important publication builds on the racial health equity work that public health advocates and others have been doing for decades. They have documented the existence of health inequities and have combatted health inequities stemming from racism. This book, which targets racism directly and includes the word squarely in its title, marks an important shift in the field's antiracism struggle for racial health equity. It is intended for use in a wide range of settings including health departments, schools, and in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors where public health professionals work. It will also benefit students still in training and will also serve as a practical reference text for courses and workshops. In this way, this book anticipates acting as a bridge connecting public health professionals, students, community members, as well as policymakers.--Publisher's website

Teach like a pirate : increase student engagement, boost your creativity, and transform your life as an educator
Burgess, Dave, author.
In this book you'll learn how to: tap into your passion as a teacher - even when you're less than excited about the subject; develop creative presentations that capture your students' interest; establish rapport and a sense of camaraderie in your classroom; transform your class into a life-changing experience for your students. --from back cover.

The content of our caricature : African American comic art and political belonging
Wanzo, Rebecca Ann, 1975- author.
Traces the history of racial caricature and the ways that Black cartoonists have turned this visual grammar on its head Revealing the long aesthetic tradition of African American cartoonists who have made use of racist caricature as a black diasporic art practice, Rebecca Wanzo demonstrates how these artists have resisted histories of visual imperialism and their legacies. Moving beyond binaries of positive and negative representation, many black cartoonists have used caricatures to criticize constructions of ideal citizenship in the United States, as well as the alienation of African Americans from such imaginaries. The Content of Our Caricature urges readers to recognize how the wide circulation of comic and cartoon art contributes to a common language of both national belonging and exclusion in the United States. Historically, white artists have rendered white caricatures as virtuous representations of American identity, while their caricatures of African Americans are excluded from these kinds of idealized discourses. Employing a rich illustration program of color and black-and-white reproductions, Wanzo explores the works of artists such as Sam Milai, Larry Fuller, Richard Grass Green, Brumsic Brandon Jr., Jennifer Crut, Aaron McGruder, Kyle Baker, Ollie Harrington, and George Herriman, all of whom negotiate and navigate this troublesome history of caricature. The Content of Our Caricature arrives at a gateway to understanding how a visual grammar of citizenship, and hence American identity itself, has been constructed.

Underground, Monroe, and The Mamalogues : three plays
Thompson, Lisa B., 1965- author.
"This book features three new plays exploring family and race by Lisa B. Thompson, the feminist author of Single Black Female"--

Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor
Saad, Layla F, author.
"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too"--Provided by publisher.

1,001 meditations
George, Mike.
A colorful guide to the art of meditation furnishes techniques, spiritual insights, and tips, along with more than one thousand meditations, visualizations, affirmations, and inspirational quotations for use any time of the day, organized according to such themes as true love, coping with adversity, how to be good, and more. Original.

100 selected poems
Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962. (Edward Estlin),
Lyrical verses span the career of a twentieth-century American poet, and illuminate his concern for the future of humanity

5-minute massage : quick & simple exercises to reduce tension & stress
Thé, Robert.
Think you're too busy to enjoy a massage? Not anymore! If you have five minutes, you have enough time to rejuvenate your body and mind naturally with short, simple self-massage sequences that you can do fully clothed, anytime, anywhere -- at home, in the office, and even while travelling. -- back cover.

A book of reasons
Vernon, John, 1943-
The author chronicles his brother's tragic and mostly concealed descent into a reclusive lifestyle, living in squalor with his own trash and seldom leaving the house, in a moving memoir of a life gone wrong. Tour.

A new earth : awakening to your life's purpose
Tolle, Eckhart, 1948- author.
Contends that humanity has an unprecedented opportunity to shift from its dangerous, ego-based state of consciousness to a saner, more loving existence, and offers practical advice on how to promote kindness and freedom.

A pocket mirror for heroes
Gracián y Morales, Baltasar, 1601-1658.
Offers a collection of aphorisms from the records of a seventeenth-century Jesuit, designed to inspire leaders to new heights

A short history of the movies
Mast, Gerald, 1940-1988.
Bu003e The seventh edition of A Short History of the Movies continues the tradition that has made it one of the most popular books ever in film history. This volume offers students a panoramic overview of the worldwide development of film, from the early Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin shorts, through the studio heyday of the 1930s and 1940s and the Hollywood Renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s, to the pictures and their technology appearing in the multiplexes of today. This new edition, which has been revised and rewritten to reflect current scholarship and recent industry developments, and new films and filmmakers, represents an accurate, scrupulous updating of a classic. Features an emphasis on key historical and aesthetic principles provides solid scholarship in an accessible, intelligent, and readable format. Inlcudes almost 500 color and black-and-white photographs including frame enlargements and production stills. Includes evaluations of great works from such directors as Griffith, Ford, Scorsese, and Hitchcock illuminates conflicts and controversies in many areas of filmmaking. Also features extensive treatment of international film enables comparison and contrast between American films and those of other countries, particularly Germany, Russia, France, Italy, and China. For anyone interested in the history of film.

A thousand acres
Smiley, Jane.
On a prospering Iowa farm in the 1970s, wealthy farmer Lawrence Cook announces his intentions to divide the farm among his daughters, setting off a family crisis reminiscent of Shakespeare's

Aitana
Espinosa, Germán, 1938-2007.
"El crescendo de horror y de suspenso, unido a la ternura que el relator siente hacia Aitana, su esposa, a quien considera alma gemela, establecen un contraste conmovedor y de alto poder dramático en una historia que se disarrolla en medio de la aparente cotidianidad de la Bogotá del siglo XXI"--Page 4 of cover.

Alive together : new and selected poems
Mueller, Lisel.
A collection of poems addresses such topics as family history, music, language, art, and mortality

All is well : heal your body with medicine, affirmations, and intuition
Hay, Louise L.
In a book that divides the body into seven

Amazing Grace : William Wilberforce and the heroic campaign to end slavery
Metaxas, Eric, author.
A companion to the Walden Media film traces the life story of England's foremost abolitionist, from the religious conversion in 1784 that led to his life of activism, to his twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, to his successful role in ending slavery in the British colonies. By the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know About God.

At a journal workshop : writing to access the power of the unconscious and evoke creative ability
Progoff, Ira.
Teaches how to use a journal to gain insight on and overcome inhibitions and stumbling blocks to happiness.

Big night : a novel with recipes
Tropiano, Joseph.
Set during the early 1950s, this story of love and linguini, purity and compromise--soon to be a major motion picture from MGM--takes a poignant and pointed look at Old World vs. New World values and provides a rueful assessment of the American Dream. In a New Jersey town, two Italian immigrant brothers stuggle to keep their restaurant afloat. Includes recipes.

Blessed unrest : how the largest social movement in history is restoring grace, justice, and beauty to the world
Hawken, Paul.
The New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media. Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries of hidden history. A culmination of Hawken?s many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire all who despair of the world?s fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself.

Call me Ishmael : 801 memorable first and last lines in literature

Although the printed word has been with us for nearly six hundred years, most books have long been forgotten. Those that have lasted contain powerful insights, dramatic narrative, incisive wit, or linguistic surprises that have earned them a place in Call Me Ishmael. The memorable opening and closing lines here are culled from all of the world's great literature: from the Bible to Homer, from Shakespeare to nineteenth-century novelists, and from the works of such varied contemporary writers as James Baldwin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Woody Allen, and A. A. Milne. Sprinkled throughout the quotes from fiction are lines from famous plays and biographies, from classics of poetry and philosophy.

Ceremony for the choking ghost
Finneyfrock, Karen.
After losing her sister to heart failure, Karen Finneyfrock was unable to write poems for three years. Her voice came back, whispering at first, then screaming. Ceremony for the Choking Ghost contains the sound of that voice returning, bringing poems about grief and its effect on the body, the body politic, memory and, of course, poems about love. From the intensely personal,

Christmas

An illustrated collection of Christmas stories, songs, poems, and other writings, presented in a scented book

Codex
Grossman, Lev, author.
An investment banker is sent by his firm to organize a collection of rare books for a mysterious, important client and realizes that there may be a medieval codex hidden among the volumes that surprisingly parallels a computer game's addictive virtual reality world. Reprint.

Collected poems
Seferis, George, 1900-1971, author.
{This is a} translation worthy of Seferis, which is to praise it as highly as it could be praised. -- Archibald MacLeish.

Como un mensajero tuyo
Montero, Mayra, 1952-
Haba gran expectacin la noche del 13 de junio de 1920 en el Teatro Nacional de la Habana : Enrico Caruso , el legendario tenor, cantara Ada . Corra el rumor de que, aunque todava fuera una de las voces ms privilegiadas de su tiempo, y pese a su agitado ritmo de vida y su irrefrenable talante mujeriego, el gran Caruso padeca una extraa enfermedad y era asediado por matones de la temible Mano Negra. Apenas empezada la funcin, estalla una bomba en el teatro. Al decir de la prensa, Caruso sali corriendo, vestido de Radams, y desapareci en las calles de La Habana. Nadie sabe hasta hoy qu ocurri exactamente. El caso es que Caruso no volvi a resurgir de las sombras hasta unos das despus. Dnde estuvo durante ese tiempo ? Slo Aida Petrirena Cheng , hija del chino Noro Cheng Po , conoca el secreto. Lo guard celosamente hasta 1952, cuando se lo cont a su hija, quien ahora nos ilumina acerca de uno de los misterios mejor guardados de la historia del bel canto .

Cuentistas hispanoamericanos de entresiglo
Corral, Wilfrido H. (Wilfrido Howard)
This exciting new literary anthology comprises 32 Latin American short stories. Intended primarily for advanced students of Spanish, the rich collection includes writers from the literary canon as well as contemporary authors. Pre- and post-reading activities facilitate the reading experience and provide the appropriate guidance for students at this level.

Dark harbor : a poem
Strand, Mark, 1934-2014, author.
A collection of interconnected poems reflects a wide range of moods and changes of tone