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New and Notable NonfictionClick the title of any book to view additional information, including availability. |
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 Head and Heart: American Christianities by Garry Wills The struggle within American Christianity, Garry Wills argues, is between the head and the heart: between reason and emotion, Enlightenment and Evangelicalism. According to Wills, a religious revolution occurred in America in the eighteenth century, leading to an Enlightenment culture
marked by tolerance for other faiths and a belief that religion should be divorced from political institutions. Wills provides a grounding in the pre-Enlightenment religion that preceded this great leap, unpacks the steps by which church-state separation was enshrined in the Constitution, and makes the case that religion has flourished spectacularly in America precisely because of that separation. He concludes that we should guard against the triumph of emotion over reason, while knowing that the tension between the two is in fact necessary and unending.
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 Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) by David Cay Johnston How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch proposes answers to this economic
mystery, arguing that today’s government policies and spending reach into the wallets of the many for the benefit of the few. Among the results of this situation, according to Johnston, we have the most expensive yet least efficient health-care system in the world; homeowners’ title insurance has become an invisible oligopoly; our government subsidizes posh golf courses; and railroad corporation CSX escaped all liability when its failure to maintain equipment led to a fatal accident and a $50-million jury award. Johnston, a Pulitzer-winning reporter, also offers his views on how our society can put a stop to such arrangements.
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 Sacred Sea: A Journey to Lake Baikal by Peter Thomson A gargantuan crack in the Siberian plateau, Lake Baikal is the world’s largest body of fresh water, its deepest and oldest lake, and a cauldron of evolution, home to hundreds of unique creatures, including the world’s only freshwater seal. It’s also among the most pristine lakes on earth, with a legendary ability to protect itself from the growing human impact—a “perfect,” self-cleaning
ecosystem. But at Baikal, veteran environmental journalist Peter Thomson also found ominous signs that this perfect piece of nature could yet succumb to the even more powerful forces of human hubris, carelessness, and ignorance. Despite its isolation, he writes, Baikal is connected to everything else on earth, and it will need the love and devotion of people around the world to protect it..
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 Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home by David Shipley and Will Schwalbe
Trillions of emails are sent every week, yet we are still struggling to integrate this relatively new technology into our lives. When should you email, and when should you call, fax, or just show up? What is the crucial and most often overlooked line in an email? What is the best strategy when you send (in anger or error) a potentially career-ending bombshell? Whether you email
just a little or never stop, this book shows how to write the perfect email and points out the numerous times when email can be the worst option and might land you in hot water or even in jail. Send is filled with lessons from the authors’ own email experiences reinforcing the basic message: think before you click..
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 High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed by Michael Kodas
In 2004, Hartford Courant reporter Michael Kodas joined mountain climbers from New England on an expedition to Mount Everest. He anticipated an exhilarating and arduous adventure among a group of like-minded idealists that he could report to his readers back in Connecticut. But on the Himalayan mountain, he discovered thieves, prostitutes, con men, and
blackmailers. Equipment on which the team’s lives depended was stolen, and a climbing partner was beaten unconscious by another in base camp. Kodas returned from the Himalayas disillusioned, but a plea for help from the daughter of a mountaineer who vanished from Everest prompted him to return and uncover an underworld that preys on unsuspecting climbers around the world. High Crimes is an exposé of Everest’s dark underside. | ||
 Fire and Knowledge: Fiction and Essays by Péter Nádas
As a novelist, Péter Nádas has been compared to James Joyce and Thomas Mann. The essays and stories collected here reveal additional reasons for his commanding presence in European life and letters: he is also a trenchant commentator on current events, a literary critic, an interpreter of language and politics, and a moralist with an eye for the effects of deception and hypocrisy. Fire and Knowledge includes stories from the 1960s and 1970s—when Nádas wrote in stringent and sometimes dangerous circumstances and was often kept from publishing—as well as others from more recent years, allowing readers to become acquainted with his evolution as a writer of fiction.
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 Brothers in Battle, Best of Friends: Two WWII Paratroopers from the Original Band of Brothers Tell Their Story by William Guarnere and Edward Heffron with Robyn Post William “Wild Bill” Guarnere and Edward “Babe” Heffron, portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, were among the first paratroopers of the U.S. Army—members of an elite unit of the 101st Airborne Division called Easy Company. Arguably the bravest and most efficient, physically fit, and tight-knit group of soldiers the Army has ever produced, the unit was called upon for every high-risk operation of the war, including D-Day, Operation Market Garden in Holland, the Battle of the Bulge, and the capture of Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” in Berchtesgaden. Brothers in Battle is a tribute to the lasting bond forged between comrades in arms under fire and to all the brave men who fought fearlessly for freedom. |
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