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Gary Meisner, “The Golden Ratio: The Divine Beauty of Mathematics” (Race Point Press, 2018)
Gary Meisner
The Golden Ratio
The Divine Beauty of Mathematics
Race Point Press, 2018

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in ArtNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in MathematicsNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network November 22, 2019 Tricia Keffer

From the pyramids of Giza, to quasicrystals, to the proportions of the human face, the golden ratio has an infinite capacity to generate shapes with exquisite properties. This book invites you to take a new look at this timeless topic, with a compilation of research and information worthy of a... Read More
Sarah Pinsker, “A Song for a New Day” (Berkley, 2019)
Sarah Pinsker
A Song for a New Day

Berkley, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Science Fiction November 21, 2019 Rob Wolf

Sarah Pinsker’s A Song for a New Day (Berkley, 2019) explores how society changes following two plausible disasters: a surge in terrorism and a deadly epidemic. In the Before, people brush against each other in crowded cities, gather in stadiums to watch baseball games, and hang out in clubs to... Read More
Lincoln A. Mitchell, “San Francisco Year Zero” (Rutgers UP, 2019)
Lincoln A. Mitchell
San Francisco Year Zero
Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team
Rutgers University Press, 2019

New Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in MusicNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in SportsNew Books in the American WestNew Books Network November 21, 2019 Stephen Hausmann

1978 was the year that changed San Francisco forever, writes Lincoln A. Mitchell in San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third-Place Baseball Team (Rutgers University Press, 2019). After the long hangover from the heady 1960s and summer of love, San Francisco was, by the late ‘70s,... Read More
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev, “The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great” (Liverpool UP, 2019)
Kelsey Rubin-Detlev
The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great

Liverpool University Press, 2019

New Books in European StudiesNew Books in Gender StudiesNew Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Russian and Eurasian StudiesNew Books Network November 20, 2019 Diana Dukhanova

The Epistolary Art of Catherine the Great (Liverpool University Press, 2019) is the first scholarly monograph devoted to the comprehensive analysis of the letters of Empress Catherine the Great of Russia (r. 1762-1796), as well as the first to examine the conventions of letter-writing by an 18th-century monarch after Louis... Read More
Dewey Thorbeck, “Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design” (Routledge, 2019)
Dewey Thorbeck
Agricultural Landscapes
Seeing Rural Through Design
Routledge, 2019

New Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & Letters November 19, 2019 Tricia Keffer

Dewey Thorbeck‘s new book Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design (Routledge, 2019) follows on from the author’s previous books, Rural Design and Architecture and Agriculture, to encourage using design thinking to provide greater meaning and understanding of places where humans live and work with the rural landscape. Rural areas around... Read More
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne, “Holding Onto Nothing” (Blair, 2019)
Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne
Holding Onto Nothing

Blair, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in LiteratureNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books Network November 19, 2019 GP Gottlieb

Lucy Kilgore has her bags packed for her escape from her rural Tennessee upbringing, but a drunken mistake forever tethers her to the town and one of its least-admired residents, Jeptha Taylor, who becomes the father of her child. Together, these two young people work to form a family, though... Read More
Mark Alizart, “Dogs” (Polity, 2019)
Mark Alizart
Dogs

Polity, 2019

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in Literary StudiesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Popular CultureNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network November 18, 2019 Marshall Poe

Man’s best friend, domesticated since prehistoric times, a travelling companion for explorers and artists, thinkers and walkers, equally happy curled up by the fire and bounding through the great outdoors―dogs matter to us because we love them. But is that all there is to the canine’s good-natured voracity and affectionate... Read More
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