North to the Future: Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives at the University of Alaska Fairbanks | Archives Deep Dive By Elisa Shoenberger It sounds like a story from Jack London or Jon Krakauer: In 1966, two men traveled down the Yukon River in Alaska by canoe to recover papers from abandoned cabins. Paul McCarthy and H. Theodore “Ted” Ryberg were concerned that the generation of former gold miners who came to Alaska in the late 19th century were dying off, and they wanted to preserve that piece of Alaska history. Those explorations would prove pivotal to the Alaska and Polar Regions Collections & Archives formally founded by McCarthy in 1965 at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. |
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Women Film Pioneers | Performing Arts By Carol J. Binkowski and Kathleen McCallister These biographies of Candida Royalle and Anna May Wong explore 20th-century feminism, the film industry, sex, race, and gender. |
History | Prepub Alert, October 2024 Titles By Melissa DeWild and Neal Wyatt History highlights include books about the social and economic impacts of the Freedman’s Bank, the creation of Handel’s Messiah, an exploration of how Black Americans have sought to transform their lives, and a history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. |
SOCIAL SCIENCES Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity By James D. Gwartney & others This reader-friendly work concisely explains vital economic principles. The section on personal finance should be required reading for everyone. The superb electronic supplemental material package can be used to structure any introduction to economics course, and this work nicely supplements the fifth edition of Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics. Highly recommended for public libraries and all high school and university economics instructors. PREMIUM Red Helicopter—A Parable for Our Times: Lead Change with Kindness (Plus a Little Math) ]by James Rhee A well-crafted narrative with a genuine and heartfelt approach. Nominally a business title, but it will have a broad general appeal for readers looking to rediscover simple yet powerful principles that can lead to a more fulfilling and meaningful life. |
Literary Fiction | Prepub Alert, October 2024 Titles By Melissa DeWild and Neal Wyatt Award-winning Alan Hollinghurst, Christian Kracht, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Susan Minot, and John Edgar Wideman have new offerings; two Japanese bestsellers are now available in English; and translators Mike Fu and Bruna Dantas Lobato debut with their own novels. |
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winners | Book Pulse By Kate Merlene The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners are announced, including books by Ned Blackhawk, Teju Cole, and Monica Youn, plus a lifetime achievement award for Maxine Hong Kingston. Paul Yoon wins the Story Prize for The Hive and the Honey. Shortlists for the Dublin Literary Award, James Tait Black Prizes, Australian Book Industry Awards, and Dinesh Allirajah Prize are announced. |
National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Are Announced | Book Pulse By Sarah Wolberg The National Book Critics Circle Award winners are announced. Daniel Finkelstein wins the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize for Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival. Chris Newens’s Moveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals wins the Jane Grigson Trust Award for New Food and Drink Writers. |
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