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The Year in Architecture 2019
By LJ Staff
If you’re looking for drama, you’ll find it in some of the stunning design on display in the 2019 Year in Architecture roundup. Among them:
Temple University’s new 220,000 square foot Charles Library, among others, is Taking the Long View
The Jack R. Hunt Library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL; Princeton University’s Firestone Library; and the Cheryl and Philip Milstein Center for Teaching and Learning at Barnard College, NY Bring the Outside In |
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How to Build a Database
By Jennifer A. Dixon
Digitizing, organizing, and contextualizing primary sources from libraries and archives presents unique challenges and rich opportunities. |
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Barbara’s Picks (MS-13, the Nonlinear Life, the Paradise Fire, Conditional Citizenship, Galileo, & Parenting and Grandparenting), Plus Self-Help and Final Nonfiction Titles: Nonfiction Previews, May 2020. Pt. 4 | Prepub Alert
By Barbara Hoffert
Veteran journalist Steven Dudley on a notorious street gang, Bay Area reporters Gee and Anguiano on the Paradise Fire, award-winning novelist Laila Lalami on an immigrant’s sense of conditional citizenship, astrophysicist Mario Livio on Galileo defying science deniers, and more. |
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| "Our background is really in book publishing, [which] is quite straightforward and linear. With digital, you’re always having to think in 3-D, and reprogramming yourself to think in a different way, which is a challenge" | | From "How to Build a Database" |
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Branching Out, November 2019
By Lisa Peet
Philadelphia’s Temple University unveils its state-of-the-art Charles Library; Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning completes the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library; and more new construction and renovation news from the November 2019 issue of Library Journal. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCES
All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator
By Barry Levine & Monique El-Faizy
While many of the most shocking incidents discussed here are public knowledge, the significant new material and the book’s usefulness as a single-volume source on the topic make this not only a critical current read but one likely to become even more important in the future. |
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PREMIUM
Long Way Round: Through the Heartland by River
By John Hildebrand
Rivers were once the major highway systems of this country and Hildebrand’s rediscovery of this history feels so foreign to the point of near exposé. A must for Wisconsinites, but a recommended journey for socioculturalists in general. |
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SCIENCES
PREMIUM
Marfa Garden: The Wonders of Dry Desert Plants
By Jim Fissel & others
Readers will be attracted to the surprising beauty of these dry desert plants and should consider using them to promote water conservation. An appealing choice for garden artists, landscapers, and home gardeners in the Southwest and elsewhere. |
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: Chemistry
By LJ Reviews
1. African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era
Brown, Jeannette E.
Oxford University Press
2018. ISBN 9780190615178. $34.95
2. Carbon Ervine, Kate
Polity Press
2018. ISBN 9781509501113. $59.95
3. Fables and Futures: Biotechnology, Disability, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves Estreich, George
MIT Press
2019. ISBN 9780262039567. $27.95 |
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