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The Library has updated the best seller collection. You'll find a diverse collection of new books such as The Downstairs Girl, which is being developed into a film. Come and see!
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Everyone Counts! Understanding and Changing the World with Mathematics
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Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsTo consider these paratexts - recalling them from the margins, letting them take centre stage - is to be reminded that no book is the sole work of the author whose name appears on the cover; rather, every book is the sum of a series of collaborations. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsRevealing the ways Black women remained independent in their ideas and their organization, Jones shows how Black women were again and again the American vanguard of women’s rights, setting the pace in the quest for justice and collective liberation. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksHow May I Help You? is Deepak Singh’s insightful and thought-provoking account of disillusionment when, as an educated upper-class Indian, he moves with his American wife to the United States and discovers that America doesn’t care if he has an MBA from India or had worked for the BBC. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksA series of case studies of some of the most controversial (and for the judging public, deeply vexing) topics in the natural and social sciences, Ehrlich’s book serves as a primer for evaluating the evidence for the sort of strange-sounding ideas that can shape our lives. 
Cheered on by thousands of men and women who joined his cause, Bergh fought with robber barons, Five Points gangs, and legendary impresario P.T. Barnum, as they pushed for new laws to protect trolley horses, livestock, stray dogs, and other animals. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksWhy does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies? 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksShowing that these immigrants belie American stereotypes, Margolis reveals that they are largely from the middle strata of Brazilian society: many, in fact, have university educations. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksEthnography in the Raw describes the author’s encounters with the Philippine family into which he has married, his wife’s friends and acquaintances, and their lives in a remote rural village in the rice basin of Luzon, about 130 miles northeast of Manila. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksMarginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America’s dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksApricot wine and stewed calf’s head, melancholy medicine and “ointment of roses.” Welcome to the cookbook Shakespeare would have recognized. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksExamining the late 1940s to early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood details these changes, showing how film companies exported production around the world and the effect of this move on visual style. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksIn our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of icons, symbols, graphs, charts, diagrams and visualisations as part of the vocabulary of communication. But this rich ecosystem is far from a modern phenomenon. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooks“Making space for that which is other than myself is not a doctrine of religious relativism. It is, rather, the humility that says there are things I will not, cannot, understand and that I must leave to God.” 
Saint Mary’s College Library / AllBooksApple, Volkswagen, Investment banking, and big tobacco all deal with their own forms of negative social evaluation, to varying impact, as illustrated in this new book 
Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsIt turns out our sexual development is changing in broader ways, for both men and women and even other species, and that the modern world is on pace to become an infertile one. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsCovered with Deep Mist provides the first book-length treatment of the history of quantum gravity, focusing on its origins and earliest stages of development until the mid-1950s. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsPaying particular attention to developments after World War II, Esperdy creates a narrative that extends from U.S. Routes 1 and 66 to the Las Vegas Strip to California freeways, with stops at gas stations, diners, main drags, shopping centers, and parking lots along the way. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsFollowing the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the re-introduction of Sharica law relating to gender and the family, women’s rights in Iran suffered a major setback. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsThe most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. 
Saint Mary’s College Library / All LocationsIn Black Smoke, Miller chronicles how Black barbecuers, pitmasters, and restaurateurs helped develop this cornerstone of American foodways and how they are coming into their own today