Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser
Library News and Notable New Books
New Crawfordsville Library Patrons Always Welcome - Often, visitors ask how non-residents can become patrons of the CDPL. Any family can become a one-year member and enjoy all library privileges for $52.50.
Sports figures' lives can be good reading. In "Yogi: Eternal Yankee" by Allen Barra, "Even if you hate the Yankees, you have to love Yogi (Berra)". "The Corporal Was a Pitcher" by Ira Berkow tells of the courage of Lou Brissie (forward by Tom Brokaw). "George" by Peter Golenbock tells about the "poor little rich boy who built the Yankee empire", one George Steinbrenner, of course.
The sport of fishing is well told in "The Big One" by David Kinney, when the tourists clear out in September, and thousands of fishermen take back the beaches for the (Martha's) Vineyard's annual Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby, 35 days of fish-addled hope and heartbreak. Kinney profiles the long-time competitors and their passions, obsessions, and dreams.
"Two different paths to God, money, and happiness", one path taken in peace by a Tenzin Tacho ordained by the Dalai Lama, and an opposite path taken by a warrior in Vietnam, make up "Rich Brother, Rich Sister" by Robert Kiyosaki. "Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs" is the making of a surgeon, the memoir of Michael Collins' journey from construction worker to medical student.
"The Wikipedia Revolution" by Andrew Lih tells how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia: "Imagine a world in which every single person…is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." "Born Digital" by John Palfrey asks our understanding of the first generation of digital natives. "Math Explains Your World" tells 100 essential things we don't know we don't know. John Barrow's book has angle points of the Eiffel tower on its cover. "Einstein's Telescope" by Evalyn Gates tells about the hunt for dark matter and dark energy in the universe.
"The Rise and Fall of Communism" by Archie Brown comes from 40 years of research. "Securing the City: going inside America's best counterterror force-the NYPD" by Christopher Dickey, says its "seat-of-the-pants intelligence is the gold standard for all others." "Witness Iraq" a war journal of February, March, and April 2003 is a picture book of experiences. The tests to enter the Armed Forces are explained in "Barron's Students' #1 Choice Pass Key to The ASVAB".
Margaret MacMillan's "Dangerous Games" records the uses and abuses of history and compels us to examine it anew, including our own understanding of it and our own permanently-held beliefs about it; she won many prizes for "Paris 1919". "The Duel" by Judith St. George records the parallel lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
Jonathan Lyons' "The House of Wisdom" tells how the Arabs transformed Western civilization, the age when Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning and their own innovations, which led to the Renaissance.
"God Speaks Again" is an introduction to the Baha'i faith by Kenneth Bowers. William Hatcher and Douglas Martin's "The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global Religion" is also an authentic statement of the world-wide religion that originated in Persia in the mid-1800s.
New Crawfordsville Library Patrons Always Welcome - Often, visitors ask how non-residents can become patrons of the CDPL. Any family can become a one-year member and enjoy all library privileges for $52.50.
Sports figures' lives can be good reading. In "Yogi: Eternal Yankee" by Allen Barra, "Even if you hate the Yankees, you have to love Yogi (Berra)". "The Corporal Was a Pitcher" by Ira Berkow tells of the courage of Lou Brissie (forward by Tom Brokaw). "George" by Peter Golenbock tells about the "poor little rich boy who built the Yankee empire", one George Steinbrenner, of course.
The sport of fishing is well told in "The Big One" by David Kinney, when the tourists clear out in September, and thousands of fishermen take back the beaches for the (Martha's) Vineyard's annual Striped Bass & Bluefish Derby, 35 days of fish-addled hope and heartbreak. Kinney profiles the long-time competitors and their passions, obsessions, and dreams.
"Two different paths to God, money, and happiness", one path taken in peace by a Tenzin Tacho ordained by the Dalai Lama, and an opposite path taken by a warrior in Vietnam, make up "Rich Brother, Rich Sister" by Robert Kiyosaki. "Blue Collar, Blue Scrubs" is the making of a surgeon, the memoir of Michael Collins' journey from construction worker to medical student.
"The Wikipedia Revolution" by Andrew Lih tells how a bunch of nobodies created the world's greatest encyclopedia: "Imagine a world in which every single person…is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." "Born Digital" by John Palfrey asks our understanding of the first generation of digital natives. "Math Explains Your World" tells 100 essential things we don't know we don't know. John Barrow's book has angle points of the Eiffel tower on its cover. "Einstein's Telescope" by Evalyn Gates tells about the hunt for dark matter and dark energy in the universe.
"The Rise and Fall of Communism" by Archie Brown comes from 40 years of research. "Securing the City: going inside America's best counterterror force-the NYPD" by Christopher Dickey, says its "seat-of-the-pants intelligence is the gold standard for all others." "Witness Iraq" a war journal of February, March, and April 2003 is a picture book of experiences. The tests to enter the Armed Forces are explained in "Barron's Students' #1 Choice Pass Key to The ASVAB".
Margaret MacMillan's "Dangerous Games" records the uses and abuses of history and compels us to examine it anew, including our own understanding of it and our own permanently-held beliefs about it; she won many prizes for "Paris 1919". "The Duel" by Judith St. George records the parallel lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
Jonathan Lyons' "The House of Wisdom" tells how the Arabs transformed Western civilization, the age when Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning and their own innovations, which led to the Renaissance.
"God Speaks Again" is an introduction to the Baha'i faith by Kenneth Bowers. William Hatcher and Douglas Martin's "The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global Religion" is also an authentic statement of the world-wide religion that originated in Persia in the mid-1800s.
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