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Reader's Advisory:
New & Noteworthy Non-Fiction
September 2007
You may check out or request any of these titles from the OCPL libraries. Call or visit your local library, or call Telephone Reference Service at Central Library (315-435-1900) to reserve library materials.
Only Connect – The Way to Save Our Schools
by Dr. Rudy Crew with Thomas Dyja.
The Superintendent of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools describes how we can improve schools and our children’s educational results.
Left for Dead: Surviving the Deadliest Storm in Modern Sailing History
by Nick Ward with Sinead O’Brien.
The Fastnet Race of 1979 started well but turned deadly when a violent storm hit—over 15 sailors died. Nick Ward tells how he survived.
We’re All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age
by Scott Gant.
Are bloggers journalists with the same rights and privileges? Gant says yes.
Fuseki Small Encyclopedia, vol. 2, translated and edited
by Max Golem.
The Syracuse Go Club recently donated this and other books on Go to OCPL. Learn how to play Go with these books which can be located in the catalog by using Go (Game) in a subject search.
DaCapo Best Music Writing : The Years’ Finest Writing on Rock, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Pop, Country, and More.. Mary Gaitskill, Guest Editor.
An eclectic collection of essays on, as the title says, a wide-range of music—something for all music fans.
The Tinkerer’s Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself by J. Scott Turner.
SUNY ESF Professor Turner connects environmental physiology to natural selection to “understand the beautiful fit between the form life takes and the way it works.”
Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, Forbidden Desires, (A Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage) by Pete Dexter, edited by Rob Fleder.
A collection of newspaper columns, covering life in Philadelphia and across the country by the author of Paris Trout and other novels.
The Bush Agenda –Invading the World, One Economy at a Time by Antonia Juhasz.
Examination of a “corporate globalization agenda” which the author believes was created and refined by Bush administration allies for decades.
Stone Canoe: A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate New York, editor: Robert Colley.
The inaugural issue of an annual publication of University College of Syracuse University includes poetry, art, photography, drama, fiction, and essays from 71 contributors, all from the area bounded by Albany - Buffalo and Binghamton – Canton.
Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding by Scott Weidensaul.
The author of Living on the Wind and other natural history books describes Americans’ fascination with birds, from frontier collectors of eggs to today’s “obsessive listers.”
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