Ray Recommends
For those of you who may not know me, I am the technical services librarian at the library. Throughout the semester I have sent out lists of new books to the faculty and staff, and I have been asked to write a piece on new books. This is the first, and hopefully not the last, new book column.
The library staff looks at possible books for purchase on a nearly daily basis, and we aim to add current, quality materials to the collection that will support the college community’s research needs.
One of the new books in the library that I am particularly excited about is “Day of Battle: the War in Italy and Sicily, 1943-1944” by Rick Atkinson. One of Mr. Atkinson’s previous books, “An Army at Dawn,” about the North African campaign in World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize for history. I read that previous book, and I have very high hopes for this new volume, which covers a theater of the war that is often overlooked in favor of D-Day and the action that followed.
A second book that we have just purchased that looks very interesting is “The Cult of Thinness” by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber. This is an update of the author’s earlier work, “Am I Thin Enough Yet.” Like the earlier work, the new book addresses the social and cultural forces that exist in the popular mind and the media that serve to drive the epidemic of eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia, which plague many young women in the United States.
Here is a sampling of some of the other items that we have added over the past several weeks.
Non-Fiction:
16 Ways to Love Your Lover by Otto Kroeger
Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre
Adult Art Psychotherapy: Issues and Applications edited by Helen Langarten
Ancient Egypt by John Baines
Art and Photography edited by David Campany
Art Photography Now by Susan Bright
Bernd and Hilla Becher: Life and Work by
Susanne Lange
The Body at Risk: Photography of Disorder, Illness, and
Healing by Carol Squiers
Burn the Town and Sack the Banks!: Confederates
Attack Vermont! by Cathryn J. Prince
Click Doubleclick: the Documentary Factor
The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt by
Richard H. Wilkinson
A Continuous Harmony: Essays Cultural and
Agricultural by Wendell Berry
A Critical Handbook of Children’s Literature by Rebecca
J. Lukens
Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice
The Encyclopedia of New England: the Culture and
History of an American Region
Forest explorer: a life-size field guide by Nic Bishop
Goddesses in Everywoman: a New Psychology of
Women by Jean Shinoda Bolen
The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of
Western Art
Harry Callahan: the Photographer at Work by Britt
Salvesen
Human Genome (CD-ROM)
Lee Friedlander at Work by Loretta Lux
Making It With Paper by Paul Jackson
Myths of the Greeks and Romans by Michael Grant
Nelson Mandela’s Favorite African Folktales
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution
of Cooperation by Matt Ridley
People of the 20th Century (7 vols.) by August Sander
The Photobook: a History (2 vols.) by Martin Parr
The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the
Taliban by Sarah Chayes
Quotations From Chairman Mao Tsetung
Reading American Photographs: Images as History, Mathew Brady to Walker Evans by Alan Trachtenberg
ReGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow, 2005-
2025
Rineke Dijkstra: Portraits
Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms (2007 edition)
The Troubled Roar of the Waters: Vermont in Flood and Recovery, 1927-1931 by Deborah Pickman Clifford
Violence in the Home: Multidisciplinary Perspectives by
Karel Kurst-Swanger
Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography
Waban-Aki: People From Where the Sun Rises (DVD)
The War (DVD): a Film by Ken Burns
Whiteout: the CIA, Drugs, and the Press by Alexander
Cockburn
World Hunger edited by Claire Stanford
Fiction
Secret Harmonies: a Novel by Andrea Barrett
Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood
The Seven Sisters by Margaret Drabble
The Riders by Tim Winton
The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran
The Pinch Runner Memorandum by Oe Kenzaburo
Should any of you wish to view the whole list or see new lists when they are ready, then please feel free to contact me at Raymond.Brior@jsc.edu.