Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser
Library News and Notable New Books
The next special event at the Crawfordville Library is the upcoming book-signing session
Saturday (September 10th) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to meet author Angie Klink of Lafayette. In "Divided Paths, Common Ground" Angie has brought back to life two pioneering Purdue educators, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, who "introduced science into the home" improving the lives of American women. She has also written the popular children's books "Purdue Pete Finds His Hammer" and "I Found U", and is a contributing author in "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Just for Preteens" released in July. She has won 40 American Advertising Federation ADDY awards and an honorable mention in the 2007 Erma Bombeck Essay Contest. The public is invited to attend, buy a book or just meet the author!
"Changing Planet, Changing Health" by Paul Epstein offers innovative solutions for a healthy global economic order. The Hazardous Earth series volume called "Tsunamis: Giant Waves from the Sea" by Timothy Kusky offers comprehensive information on geologic processes that are hazardous to society and the environment. Richard Alley's "Earth: the Operators' Manual" offers options for a future through energy innovation in spite of the CO 3 buildup causing global warming.
A slightly different subject is Stephen Baker's "Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Que
st to Know Everything". It's about Watson, the computer that has played against contestants on the TV show Jeopardy. The art of storytelling is being reinvented in new forms, told through multiple media forms at once in "The Art of Immersion" by Frank Rose. "Life without Oil" by Purdue plant pathology teacher Steve Hallett discusses why we must shift to new kinds of energy. An amusing book about the lunatic fringe is "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson. Adrian Praetzellis' "Death by Theory" covers mystery and archaeology.
A few different kinds of histories are "The World of King Arthur" illustrated, interpreted, and made into art by author Christopher Snyder, and "How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead" by Dambisa Moyo. "Common Sense" by Sophia Rosenfeld is a political history of the pamphlet that sparked the American Revolution; the phrase remains a powerful ideal, and how that populist logic has shaped modern democracy is the book's thrust.
"Brilliant" is the evolution of artificial light discussed by Jane Brox. She starts with the stone lamps of the Pleistocene era, and even covers LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. "Drive" by Daniel Pink is about what motivates us. Is it money? Is it satisfaction? Or, is it the need to direct our lives to creating new things, to do better by ourselves and our world?
Two revolutions appear in book titles: "Denim Revolution" shows Nancy Minsky's designs turning denim cast-offs into fashion must haves, while "33 Revolutions per Minute" by Dorian Lynskey is the history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day.
The next special event at the Crawfordville Library is the upcoming book-signing session
Saturday (September 10th) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to meet author Angie Klink of Lafayette. In "Divided Paths, Common Ground" Angie has brought back to life two pioneering Purdue educators, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, who "introduced science into the home" improving the lives of American women. She has also written the popular children's books "Purdue Pete Finds His Hammer" and "I Found U", and is a contributing author in "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Just for Preteens" released in July. She has won 40 American Advertising Federation ADDY awards and an honorable mention in the 2007 Erma Bombeck Essay Contest. The public is invited to attend, buy a book or just meet the author!
"Changing Planet, Changing Health" by Paul Epstein offers innovative solutions for a healthy global economic order. The Hazardous Earth series volume called "Tsunamis: Giant Waves from the Sea" by Timothy Kusky offers comprehensive information on geologic processes that are hazardous to society and the environment. Richard Alley's "Earth: the Operators' Manual" offers options for a future through energy innovation in spite of the CO 3 buildup causing global warming.
A slightly different subject is Stephen Baker's "Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Que
st to Know Everything". It's about Watson, the computer that has played against contestants on the TV show Jeopardy. The art of storytelling is being reinvented in new forms, told through multiple media forms at once in "The Art of Immersion" by Frank Rose. "Life without Oil" by Purdue plant pathology teacher Steve Hallett discusses why we must shift to new kinds of energy. An amusing book about the lunatic fringe is "The Psychopath Test" by Jon Ronson. Adrian Praetzellis' "Death by Theory" covers mystery and archaeology.
A few different kinds of histories are "The World of King Arthur" illustrated, interpreted, and made into art by author Christopher Snyder, and "How the West was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead" by Dambisa Moyo. "Common Sense" by Sophia Rosenfeld is a political history of the pamphlet that sparked the American Revolution; the phrase remains a powerful ideal, and how that populist logic has shaped modern democracy is the book's thrust.
"Brilliant" is the evolution of artificial light discussed by Jane Brox. She starts with the stone lamps of the Pleistocene era, and even covers LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future. "Drive" by Daniel Pink is about what motivates us. Is it money? Is it satisfaction? Or, is it the need to direct our lives to creating new things, to do better by ourselves and our world?
Two revolutions appear in book titles: "Denim Revolution" shows Nancy Minsky's designs turning denim cast-offs into fashion must haves, while "33 Revolutions per Minute" by Dorian Lynskey is the history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day.
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