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Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library

Broadly representative of important perspectives and aspects within the profession as well as featuring important voices beyond the professional realm, Library 2020 presents thought-provoking and illuminating visions from many points of view. It is both required reading for library leaders and trustees as well as an ideal supplemental text for LIS classes looking at the future of the profession.
Man Bites Dog: Hot Dog Culture in America

Man Bites Dog explores the meaning of the great democratic food, the hot dog, in American culture and will serve as the definitive pop culture book for the general public on the history, people, décor, and venues associated with various styles of hot dogs in this country. The gustatory, cultural, social, economic, and imaginative aspects of the hot dog phenomena are revealed in a meaty, authoritative narrative.
Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy

This book offers a sustained engagement with the political philosophy of Paul Ricoeur and demonstrates both the significance of the political in his own thinking throughout his career, and how his understanding of the political offers something valuable to current discussions of issues in political philosophy.
Final Voyage: The World's Worst Maritime Disasters

Final Voyage: The World's Worst Maritime Disasters tells the stories of the deadliest and most often forgotten maritime tragedies in the history of seafaring.
The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age

While many books have addressed visual effects in Hollywood cinema, The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood’s Coming of Age, by Rama Venkatasawmy, fills an important gap in cinematic analysis and film history by providing a periodization and techno-historical account of visual effects in Hollywood cinema.
A Year in Food and Beer: Recipes and Beer Pairings for Every Season

With the explosion in craft beers and interest in seasonal cuisine, A Year in Food and Beer perfectly fills a niche. Boasting 40 enticing recipes and more than 100 beer-pairing suggestions, it instructs readers how to identify flavors in specific beers and how to complement those with gourmet foods and cooking techniques by season.
Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America

Using the East Baltimore community as an example this book examines historical and current rebuilding practices in abandoned communities in urban America, their structural causes, and outcomes on the health of the place and the people. The role of community organizing as a necessary means to assure benefit during and after resident displacement, its challenges and successes, are described in the context of a current eminent domain-driven rebuilding project in East Baltimore.
Customer Service in Libraries: Best Practices

In this book, nine librarians from across the country describe their libraries’ best practices in this key area. Their contributions range from all-encompassing customer service policies and models any library can both adapt and be proud of to micro-approaches that emphasize offering excellent user-focused technology planning, picture book arrangement with patrons in mind, Web 2.0 tools to connect users with the library, establishing good service delivery chains, and making your library fantastic for homeschoolers.
Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West

Powder papers, booty balls, and sugar tits—Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs has a cure for whatever ails! These quaint names were given to medicines during America's frontier era. Grandmas, mommas, and even certified physicians treated the sick, lame, and unlucky with what was available. Here, a practicing pharmacist takes a light-hearted look at the popular medicines.
Getting Your Child Ready for Kindergarten

This publication shares with parents everything they’ll need to know to help their child be successful from Day One. Based on the latest research, this booklet also includes a section on how communities can make kindergarten more ready for today’s children.
Museum Exhibition Planning and Design

Museum Exhibition Planning and Design is a comprehensive introduction and reference to exhibition planning and design. This book focuses on both the procedural elements of successful planning, like the phases of exhibit design and all associated tasks and issues, and on the design elements that make up the realized exhibit itself, such as color, light, shape, form, space, and building materials.
All in the Family: A Practical Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living

Many families are creating multigenerational households to consolidate resources and save money. This book covers the financial and emotional benefits of living together, proximity and privacy, designing and remodeling your home to accommodate adult children or elderly parents, overcoming cultural stigmas, financial and legal planning, and making cohabitation agreements.
Mastery Teaching Skills: A Resource for Implementing the Common Core State Standards

Mastery Teaching Skills is a professional development book that will help teachers and principals implement the Common Core State Standards. This book will help you to achieve a comprehensive set of pedagogical skills to deliver successfully the Common Core Standards.
After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics

As they have every four years since 1992, James W. Ceaser and Andrew E. Busch—joined in 2008 by John J. Pitney Jr.—once again provide the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, including the presidential nomination process and election and congressional elections. As always Ceaser, Busch, and Pitney combine a concise account of the elections as well as its broader context for American politics and institutions.
Breakfast: A History

From corn flakes to pancakes, Breakfast: A History explores this “most important meal of the day” as a social and gastronomic phenomenon. It explains how and why the meal emerged, what is eaten commonly in this meal across the globe, why certain foods are considered indispensable, and how it has been depicted in art and media. Heather Arndt Anderson’s detail-rich, culturally revealing, and entertaining narrative thoroughly satisfies.
This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits

This Music Leaves Stains presents the full story behind the Misfits and their ubiquitous, haunting skull logo, a story of unique talent, strange timing, clashing personalities, and incredible music that helped shape rock as we know it today. James Greene, Jr., maps this narrative from the band's birth at the tail end of the original punk movement through their messy dissolve at the dawn of the 1980s right on through the legal warring and inexplicable reunions that helped carry the band into the 21st century.
Mom in the Mirror: Body Image, Beauty, and Life after Pregnancy

Mom in the Mirror provides insight, support, and the information necessary to help overcome damaging lifestyle habits and self-esteem struggles post-pregnancy. Readers will learn how to improve the way they eat, live, feel, and parent, thereby increasing their happiness, confidence, and self-esteem both as mothers and women.
Mobile Library Services: Best Practices

Mobile Library Services provides 11 proven ways to reach out to mobile users and increase your library’s relevance to their day-to-day lives. Librarians detail how they created mobile apps to how they went mobile on a shoestring budget. Written by public, academic, and special librarians, these 11 best practices offer models for libraries of every type and size.
The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

Open adoption has become more popular in the United States as domestic closed adoptions have become more difficult to arrange, and as restrictions on international adoptions continue to be drawn. The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption is a guide for those involved in adoption – domestic, international and foster, as well as those who come to parenting via assisted reproduction – as it helps readers create and sustain a positive and workable open adoption arrangement that puts the child at the center.
What to Feed Your Baby: Cost-Conscious Nutrition for Your Infant

When a baby is born, new parents are bombarded with a variety of feeding choices. Sorting through the different options can be confusing and intimidating. Here, a seasoned pediatrician offers clear and accessible advice about the various feeding options that considers not just the nutritional value of those options but also the costs involved, so that parents can make informed budget-conscious decisions for their precious newborns.
Ground-Penetrating Radar for Archaeology, 3rd Edition

A concise and easy-to-read summary of all the latest and crucial aspects of ground-penetrating radar uses and data collection, analysis, and processing for archaeological mapping and exploration
That Broader Definition of Liberty: The Theory and Practice of the New Deal

Stipelman offers a comprehensive theory of the New Deal, covering both the ends it hoped to achieve and the means it used to achieve them. It draws upon a mixture of history, American political development, and political theory, and hopes to both fill a critical gap in scholarship and provide a theoretical framework for contemporary progressive political actors.
The Teacher's Journal: A Workbook for Self -Discovery

In this innovative workbook you’ll be expertly guided through a journey of self-discovery, back to the roots of your story, your evolution as a teacher, and the rituals and routines that help or hurt. You’ll take time out to remember the ways that teaching blesses you. You’ll learn to confront the inner critic and push back against the voice that tells you to do more, more, more. You’ll discover the legacy you leave with your students. You’ll fall in love with teaching all over again.
Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex

From depictions in Paleolithic cave art to the Playboy mansion, Plays Well in Groups delves into the fields of sociology, biology, anthropology, and psychology to provide explanations for both participation in group sex and the complex reactions to it – from fascination to fear. The book draws on survey research, ethnographic observation around the world, and delves into the unique experiences of participants to offer a cross-cultural look at the manifestations and meanings of group sex; who has it, and why.
Life After the Military: A Handbook for Transitioning Veterans

Life After the Military discusses the many issues that transitioning veterans are faced with such as finding employment, going back to school, managing finances, special benefits available to veterans, and a host of other issues the transitioning veteran is likely to face when making the move to civilian life. It also discusses the emotional and psychological challenges that come with leaving the military and settling into life as a civilian. This book is essential for all who are transitioning out of the military and their loved ones.

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MEET OUR AUTHORS:

Man Bites Dog: Hot Dog Culture in America

Meet authors Bruce Kraig and Patty Carroll, Saturday, June 29th & Sunday, June 30th at 11am

Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library

Meet author, Joseph Janes, Saturday, June 29th at 2pm

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Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library

Man Bites Dog: Hot Dog Culture in America

Paul Ricoeur and the Task of Political Philosophy

Final Voyage: The World's Worst Maritime Disasters

The Digitization of Cinematic Visual Effects: Hollywood's Coming of Age

A Year in Food and Beer: Recipes and Beer Pairings for Every Season

Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America

Customer Service in Libraries: Best Practices

Lotions, Potions, and Deadly Elixirs: Frontier Medicine in the American West

Getting Your Child Ready for Kindergarten

Museum Exhibition Planning and Design

All in the Family: A Practical Guide to Successful Multigenerational Living

Mastery Teaching Skills: A Resource for Implementing the Common Core State Standards

After Hope and Change: The 2012 Elections and American Politics

Breakfast: A History

This Music Leaves Stains: The Complete Story of the Misfits

Mom in the Mirror: Body Image, Beauty, and Life after Pregnancy

Mobile Library Services: Best Practices

The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole

What to Feed Your Baby: Cost-Conscious Nutrition for Your Infant

Ground-Penetrating Radar for Archaeology, 3rd Edition

That Broader Definition of Liberty: The Theory and Practice of the New Deal

The Teacher's Journal: A Workbook for Self -Discovery

Plays Well in Groups: A Journey Through the World of Group Sex

Life After the Military: A Handbook for Transitioning Veterans