New Non-Fiction
July 2008
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All is Forgiven: Move On by Janice Taylor
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Publisher: Viking Studio
Pub Date: May 20 2008) ISBN-10: 014200524X ISBN-13: 978-0142005248 Self-Help / Weight Loss
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In Our Lady of Weight Loss, Janice Taylor put a new, creative spin on weight loss, offering humor and art projects to make slimming down fun. Now, in All Is Forgiven, Move On,
Taylor takes us on a journey to Sveltesville-the magical place where we
can free ourselves from the food and weight madness for good.
As Taylor explains, to change our bodies we need to radically shift our
attitude-get out of our ruts, forgive ourselves for past sins, and move
on with a positive outlook. Here she offers 101 forgiving, fun, and
fat-burning steps along the road to weight loss to help readers
recharge and stay inspired when the journey gets rocky. Each step ends
with a "new point of view"-a fresh perspective on weight loss.
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1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance by Gavin Menzies
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Publisher: Harper Collins Canada
Pub Date: May 26 2008 ISBN-10: 0061492175 ISBN-13: 978-0061492174 History / Renaissance
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Florence and Venice of the early fifteenth century were hubs of
world trade, attracting traders from across the globe. Based on years
of research, this marvelous history argues that a Chinese
fleet-official ambassadors of the emperor-arrived in Tuscany in 1434,
where they were received by Pope Eugenius IV in Florence. The
delegation presented the influential pope with a wealth of Chinese
learning from a diverse range of fields: art, geography (including
world maps that were passed on to Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand
Magellan), astronomy, mathematics, printing, architecture, steel
manufacturing, military weaponry, and more. This vast treasure trove of
knowledge spread across Europe, igniting the legendary inventiveness of
the Renaissance, including the work of such geniuses as da Vinci,
Copernicus, Galileo, and more.
In 1434, Gavin Menzies
combines this long-overdue historical reexamination with the excitement
of an investigative adventure. He brings the reader aboard the
remarkable Chinese fleet as it sails from China to Cairo and Florence,
and then back across the world. Erudite and brilliantly reasoned, 1434 will change the way we see ourselves, our history, and our world. |
The Doctor's Book of Food Remedies: The Newest Discoveries in the Power of Food by Selene Yeager
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Publisher: Rodale
Pub Date: May 27 2008 ISBN-10: 1594866635 ISBN-13: 978-1594866630 Health, Mind & Body / Alternative & Holistic
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In recent years, scientists have discovered thousands of
substances in foods that go way beyond vitamins and minerals for pure
healing power. The Doctors Book of Food Remedies shows how to
use Mother Nature's "healing foods" to lose weight, prevent cancer,
reverse heart disease, cleanse arteries, unleash an explosion of new
energy, lower cholesterol, look and feel years younger, and much, much
more. Here readers will discover how to:
- cut the risk of heart attack in half by snacking on nuts
- protect against colon cancer by eating grapefruit
- cool off hot flashes with flaxseed
- heal a wound with honey -fight diabetes with milk-and wine
- reduce cholesterol with cinnamon
Written in collaboration with the editors of Prevention
magazine, one of America's most trusted sources for health information,
the book covers 60 different ailments and 97 different healing foods,
and offers 100 delicious, nutrient-rich recipes. Newly researched,
every entry provides current information and the latest clinical
studies from real doctors and nutritionists working in some of the best
medical institutions in the United States. |
When You Are Engulfed in Flamesby David Sedaris
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Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Pub Date: Jun 3 2008 ISBN-10: 0316143472 ISBN-13: 978-0316143479
Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using
the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him
from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of
buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after
essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a
lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a
plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from
neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths.
Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to
quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new
masterpiece of comic writing
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One to Nine: The Inner Life of Numbers by Andrew Hodges
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Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Pub Date: Jun 3 2008 ISBN-10: 0385665768 ISBN-13: 978-0385665766 Popular Science / Mathematics
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Have you ever thought about the uniqueness and simplicity of One, or
what it means to be Two? Is Four really so square and why are there
Seven days of the week, Seven deadly sins, or even Seven wonders of the
world? In One to Nine,
Andrew Hodges brings numbers to life. Inspired by the popularity of
Sudoku-and millennia of human attempts to figure things out-this pithy,
kaleidoscopic book takes a fresh, witty and hands-on approach to such
various topics as musical harmony, code breaking, and probabilities in
poker and lotteries. It probes the surprising symmetries of time,
space, matter, and forces. It even goes to the heart of what computers
can do.
Andrew Hodges weaves together the inner life of
numbers-the patterns of primes and powers that we try to grasp, and
that have us in their grip. Accessible to anyone with a general
curiosity and interest in puzzles, One to Nine might even have you completing a fiendish Sudoku in record time.
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Simplexity by Jeffrey Kluger
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Publisher: Hyperion
Pub Date: May 26 2008 ISBN-10: 1401303013 ISBN-13: 978-1401303013 Popular Science / Philosophy
Just as Freakonomics took a unique look at issues, Simplexity
demonstrates how, in a world that has becoming an increasingly
confusing and complicated place, by adopting a fresh view and new
understanding of the patterns and processes that govern our planet and
society we can being to make sense of them and take control-often by
taking surprisingly simple steps. The
nature of the world isn't necessarily as it appears. Finding simple
solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems are often just a matter
of looking at the situation differently. Instead, people are confused
by complexity and intimidated by scale. But the world is a delicate
place filled with predictable patterns, and in anticipating and
understanding them we can harness the eloquent power of small things.
Simplexity elucidates dozens of situations where we are fooled by the
world around us. Kluger identifies the roots of poverty, and shows how
a hundred well-targeted micro loans can revitalize a community. He
shows how the well-being complex ecosystem with thousands of
relationships may in fact only depend on the health of a single
keystone species. He demonstrates how, in many ways, a truck driver's
job is far more complicated than that of a senior manager. There are
tremendous real life applications for the complexity processes examined
in Simplexity--and the world's visionaries are only just beginning to
realize it. |
Quantum Wellness: A Transformative Guide to Health, Happiness and a Better World by Kathy Freston
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Publisher: Weinstein Books
Due Date: May 20 2008 ISBN-10: 1602860181
Kathy Freston's Quantum Wellness teaches us that to be truly well means
much more than just not being sick-it means having energy to face both
everyday life and exceptional challenges. It also means having the
awareness that your life experience is part of a much larger picture,
one that involves the lives of everyone and everything else that
inhabits the world. This includes the importance of choosing our food
with integrity, keeping in mind all aspects of how the food arrives on
our table.
Freston shares the advantages of giving up meat in favor of
a healthy plant-based diet from ethical, dietary, and environmental
perspectives and stresses why conscious eating is essential to one's
health. To assist even the most hard-core carnivore move toward a more
plant-based diet, Freston also includes 45 vegetarian recipes, two
weeks of meal plans, a general shopping list, and an appendix of
beneficial vitamins and minerals.
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Bottomfeeder by Taras Grescoe
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Publisher: Harper Collins Canada
Pub Date: April 21 2008 ISBN-10: 0002007819
Taras Grescoe has gone fishing in the world's oceans and rivers, and
he's caught a big one - several of them in fact. In his epicurean and
ethically driven quest for the perfect seafood dish, Grescoe nets some
shocking discoveries about the fish we eat, where they come from and
the often slimy inner workings of the multi-billion dollar industry
that depends on them. Bottomfeeder
is designed, menu-style, as an account of Grescoe's globe-trotting,
seafood-eating journey. He takes us from the familiar - a deep-fried
visit to a Red Lobster franchise in North Carolina, where he chows down
on popcorn-battered shrimp laced with chemicals, imported as local Gulf
shrimp trawlers sat idle - to the foreign, such as a stay in Kochi,
India, where Grescoe discovers how the curry-simmered fish and prawns
he is enjoying have actually contributed to unprecedented ecological
and social devastation, including playing a role in the 2005 tsunami
disaster. Along the way, in a fork-to-fishing-line discourse, he tours
the world's largest fish market with a marine biologist, takes
celebrity chefs to task for putting threatened species on the menu and
partakes in a few once-in-a-lifetime meals guaranteed to shock - and
even kill - the palate. Much more than a screed against an often
slippery fishing industry, however, Bottomfeeder is a food lover's
highly entertaining and provocative delight, written by an intrepid
adventurer who loves to dish on what's delicious, exciting and
ethically digestible.
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From Harvey River by Lorna Goodison
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Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Pub Date: Feb 6 2007 ISBN-10: 0771033834
When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a
clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from
slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family's home for
generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the place she always called
home, the place where she was one of the "fabulous Harvey girls," and
where the rich local bounty of Lucea yams, pimentos, and mangoes went
hand in hand with the Victorian niceties of her parents' house. It is a
place she will return to in dreams when her fortunes change, years
later, and she and her husband, Marcus Goodison, relocate to "hard
life" Kingston and encounter the harsh realities of urban living in
close quarters.
In Lorna Goodison's spellbinding memoir of her
forebears, we meet a cast of wonderfully drawn characters, including
George O'Brian Wilson, the Irish patriarch of the family who married a
Guinea woman after coming to Jamaica in the mid-1800s; Doris's parents,
Margaret and David, childhood sweethearts who became the first family
of Harvey River; and their eight children, Cleodine, straight-backed
and imperious; serious Albertha, called "Miss Jo" because she was
missing all sense of joviality; beautiful Howard, who dies an early
death; Rose, whose loveliness inspires devotion but whose own heart is
never fulfilled; taxi-man Edmund, who yearns for the freedoms of the
big city; Flavius, who spends his life searching for the true church of
God; large-hearted, practical-minded Doris, whose bottomless cooking
pot often feeds more than just her family; and vivacious, hard-headed
Ann, whose gift of reading hair tells her the future. |
The Holistic Health Guide: Natural Care for the Whole Dog by Doug Kneuven
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Publisher: TFH
Pub Date:Jun 16 2008 ISBN-10: 0793836840 ISBN-13: 978-0793836840
Dogs - Health
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This book will guide you through the mysterious and sometimes confusing
world of holistic care for dogs. Demystifying the subject of holistic
medicine, you'll find how many alternative forms of medicine can
complement conventional veterinary practices, leading to integrated
veterinary care for dogs. Safe vaccination protocols and the importance
of proper nutrition and supplements are explored.
The most common
holistic treatment methods, including acupuncture, chiropractic care,
massage therapy, herbal medicine, and homeopathy, will be addressed in
detail, including tips on how to apply specific treatments to your dog. |
Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
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Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Pub Date: April 8 2008 ISBN-10: 0771035829 Little is known about the wife of the world's most famous playwright; a
great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of
her name from Shakespeare's will has been interpreted as evidence that
she was nothing more than an unfortunate mistake from which Shakespeare
did well to distance himself.
Yet Shakespeare is above all the
poet of marriage. Before him, there were few comedies or tragedies
about wooing or wedding. And yet he explored the sacrament in all its
aspects, spiritual, psychological, sexual, sociological, and was the
creator of some of the most tenacious and intelligent heroines in
English literature. Is it possible, therefore, that Ann, who has been
mocked and vilified by scholars for centuries, was the inspiration?
Until
now, there has been no serious critical scholarship devoted to the life
and career of the farmer's daughter who married England's greatest
poet. Part biography, part history, Shakespeare's Wife is a
fascinating reconstruction of Ann's life, and an illuminating look at
the daily lives of Elizabethan women, from their working routines to
the rituals of courtship and the minutiae of married life. In this
thoroughly researched and controversial book, Greer steps off the
well-trodden paths of orthodoxy, asks new questions, and begins to
right the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare. |
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor
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Publisher: Viking USA
Pub Date: May 13 2008 ISBN-10: 0670020745 ISBN-13: 978-0670020744
Biography & Memoir
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Jill
Bolte Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain
scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. Through the eyes
of a curious neuroanatomist, she watched her mind completely
deteriorate to the point where she could not walk, talk, read, write, or recall
any of her life. With the help of her understanding of how the brain works,
her respect for the cells composing her human form, and an amazing
mother, Jill completely recovered her mind, brain and body.
Jill shares with us her recommendations for recovery and the insight
she gained into the unique functions of the right and left halves of
her brain. Having lost the categorizing, organizing, describing,
judging and critically analyzing skills of her left brain, along with
its language centers and thus ego center, Jill's consciousness shifted
away from normal reality. In the absence of her left brain's neural
circuitry, her consciousness shifted into present moment thinking
whereby she experienced herself "at one with the universe." |
Murder of a Medici Princess by Caroline P. Murphy
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pub Date: Mar 15 2008 ISBN-10: 0195314395
Caroline Murphy illuminates the
brilliant life and tragic death of Isabella de Medici, one of the
brightest stars in the dazzling world of Renaissance Italy, the
daughter of Duke Cosimo I, ruler of Florence and Tuscany. Murphy is a
superb storyteller, and her fast-paced narrative captures the intrigue,
the scandal, the romantic affairs, and the violence that were
commonplace in the Florentine court. She brings to life an
extraordinary woman, fluent in five languages, a free-spirited patron
of the arts, a daredevil, a practical joker, and a passionate lover.
Isabella, in fact, conducted numerous affairs, including a ten-year
relationship with the cousin of her violent and possessive husband. Her
permissive lifestyle, however, came to an end upon the death of her
father, who was succeeded by her disapproving older brother Francesco.
Considering Isabella's ways to be licentious and a disgrace upon the
family, he permitted her increasingly enraged husband to murder her in
a remote Medici villa.
To tell this dramatic story, Murphy draws on a
vast trove of newly discovered and unpublished documents, ranging from
Isabella's own letters, to the loose-tongued dispatches of ambassadors
to Florence, to contemporary descriptions of the opulent parties and
balls, salons and hunts in which Isabella and her associates
participated. Murphy resurrects the exciting atmosphere of Renaissance
Florence, weaving Isabella's beloved city into her story, evoking the
intellectual and artistic community that thrived during her time.
Palaces and gardens in the city become places of creativity and
intrigue, sites of seduction, and grounds for betrayal. Here then is a
narrative of compelling and epic proportions, magnificent and alluring,
decadent and ultimately tragic. |
Speaking for Myself: The Autobiography by Cherie Blair
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Publisher: Little, Brown
Pub Date: May 27 2008 ISBN-10: 1408700980
Cherie Blair's much-anticipated autobiography takes the reader from
a childhood in working-class Liverpool to the heart of the British
legal system and then, as the wife of the Prime Minister, to 10 Downing
Street. It has been an astonishing journey for a woman whose
unconventional childhood was full of drama, and who grew up with a
fierce sense of justice.
Cherie Blair was the first British
Prime Minister's wife to have a serious career, rising to the top of
her profession at a young age, only to find herself in a new and
challenging role in the public eye. In her autobiography she will speak
for the first time about what it was like to combine this role with her
full and rewarding life as a working mother. As a barrister and a
judge, Cherie Blair is used to speaking on behalf of other people. At
last she speaks for herself, offering a warm, intimate and often very
funny portrait of a family living in extraordinary circumstances. |
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