Morris County Library New Non-Fiction
Newsletter # 433 - 11/18/2022
Here is a selection of new non-fiction that we have added to our collection. If any of these titles sparks your interest, just click on the title to be taken to our online catalog for more information. Happy reading!
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1) The 6 phase meditation method: the proven technique to supercharge your mind, manifest your goals, and make magic in minutes a day
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Lakhiani, Vishen
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Used daily by athletes, artists, rock stars, and CEOs, the 6 Phase Meditation is a magic-making, joy-creating, productivity-inducing protocol that empowers you to get focused, find peace, and manifest your goals. The key to unlocking all this magic? Six unique thought exercises that you run through your head as a hyper-efficient programming script. You can complete this meditation from the comfort of your bed, from your office or on your next flight,...
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2) A curious faith: the questions God asks, we ask, and we wish someone would ask us
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Wilbert, Lore Ferguson
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"A popular writer shows that the Bible is a permission slip to anyone who wants to ask questions-it is full of questions from God, to God, and among humans"--
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3) Alligators in the Arctic and how to avoid them: science, economics and the challenge of catastrophic climate change
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Dorman, Peter
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"Ellesmere Island is in the very far north of Canada, above the arctic circle. It lies just to the west of Greenland, and like its bigger neighbor it is almost entirely glaciated. If you are on your way to the North Pole by way of Canada, this will probably be your last stop. Few scientists had made their way to Ellesmere when Mary Dawson, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, launched her first expedition there in 1973. Dawson,...
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4) Asylum: a memoir & manifesto
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Okporo, Edafe
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"A poignant, moving memoir and urgent call to action for immigration justice by a Nigerian asylee and global gay rights and immigration activist Edafe Okporo. On the eve of Edafe Okporo's twenty-sixth birthday, he was awoken to a violent mob outside his window in Abuja, Nigeria. The mob threatened his life after discovering the secret Edafe had been hiding for years -- that he is a gay man. Left with no other choice, he purchased a one-way plane ticket...
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5) Buy this, not that: how to spend your way to wealth and freedom
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Dogen, Sam
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"Sam Dogen's Financial Samurai blog has helped over 70 million people achieve financial freedom. Now, he shares his no-nonsense playbook to build wealth and retire early through smarter spending. When it comes to our money, many of us believe that to acquire more we have to spend less. But the truth is that a mindset of skimping and frugality can lead you to miss opportunities for income growth and kill your dreams of early retirement. To live our...
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6) Celebrities for Jesus: how personas, platforms, and profits are hurting the church
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Beaty, Katelyn
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"An award-winning writer shows how and why celebrity is woven into the fabric of the evangelical movement, identifies many ways fame goes awry, shows us how we all unwittingly foster a celebrity culture, and offers a vision of faithfulness to the Messiah who was despised and rejected"--
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7) Christmas past: the fascinating stories behind our favorite holiday's traditions
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Earl, Brian
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"Behind every Christmas tradition is a story - usually, a forgotten one. Each year, as we decorate a tree, build a gingerbread house, and get ready for a visit from St. Nicholas, we're continuing generations-old narratives, while being largely unaware of their starting chapters. But knowing how these traditions began adds a new level of depth to our Christmas spirit, as well as an arsenal of anecdotes to share at Christmas parties. Christmas Past:...
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8) Clarity in crisis: leadership lessons from the CIA
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Polymeropoulos, Marc E
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658.4056 POL
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Meet your next crisis head on and come through it stronger than ever by using the hard-earned strategies and core principles from Marc Polymeropoulos, a highly decorated, 26-year operations officer with the CIA. Marc Polymeropoulos has had to live with the consequences of decisions made under the most high-stress circumstances you can imagine as a senior intelligence officer in the CIA, retiring from his 26 years of service as one of the CIA's most...
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9) Criminal (in)justice: what the push for decarceration and depolicing gets wrong and who it hurts most
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Mangual, Rafael
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In his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of "justice" through mass-decarceration and depolicing. After a summer of violent protests in 2020--sparked by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks--a dangerously false narrative gained mainstream acceptance: Criminal justice...
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10) Data algorithms with Spark: recipes and design patterns for scaling up using Pyspark
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Parsian, Mahmoud
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11) Evolution talk: the who, what, why, and how behind the oldest story ever told
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Coste, Rick
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"Based on the popular podcast of the same name, Evolution Talk reveals how the theory of evolution came to be and how it explains the world around us"--
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12) Force: what it means to push and pull, slip and grip, start and stop
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Petroski, Henry
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Force explores how humans interact with the material world in the course of their everyday activities. This book for the general reader also considers the significance of force in shaping societies and cultures. Celebrated author Henry Petroski delves into the ongoing physical interaction between people and things that enables them to stay put or causes them to move. He explores the range of daily human experience whereby we feel the sensations of...
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13) Get that job!: the quick and complete guide to a winning interview
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Kelley, Thea
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"[T]his concise interview guide gives readers proven tips and clear instructions to prepare for breakthrough interviews. Job seekers will learn to identify and communicate their unique strengths, their 'key selling points'; understand why employers ask many of the most common interview questions - and how to answer with confidence; succeed with video interviews, behavioral interviews and panels; build an arsenal of success stories; [and] ace every...
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14) Growth for good: reshaping capitalism to save humanity from climate catastrophe
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Terzi, Alessio
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"The current model of economic expansion driven by fossil fuels is unsustainable, leading many to toy with the idea of ditching growth to save the planet. But, as Alessio Terzi argues, a post-growth world would be prone to catastrophes no less serious than climate change itself. Luckily, with the right policies, growth can be made earth-friendly"--
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15) How am I doing?: 40 conversations to have with yourself
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Yeager, Corey
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"Life is hard. But it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out. Discover your purpose, honor your story, and explore who you want to be. Dr. Corey Yeager offers you 40 questions to help you develop positive mental health strategies for anxious moments while increasing your confidence." --publisher's website.
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16) How to inhabit time: understanding the past, facing the future, living faithfully now
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Smith, James K. A
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Many Christians live a faith that is "nowhen." They are disconnected from the past or imagine they are somehow "above" the flux of history, as if every generation starts with a clean state. They lack an awareness of time and the effects of history--both personal and collective--and thus are naive about current issues, prone to nostalgia, or fixated on the end times and other doomsday versions of the future. Popular speaker and award-winning author...
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17) Innovative B2B marketing: new models, processes and theory
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Hall, Simon
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"Navigate the B2B marketing sphere with this fully updated guide to better understanding new customer habits, the digital era and shifting away from outdated traditional practices using the latest models. Innovative B2B Marketing is an essential guide for marketers looking for new approaches, models and solutions for B2B marketing. Written by one of the leading voices in the B2B marketing sphere who works with the Chartered Institute of Marketing...
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18) Newsroom confidential: lessons (and worries) from an ink-stained life
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Sullivan, Margaret
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"Over her four decades of working in newsrooms big and small, Margaret Sullivan has become a trusted champion and critic of the American news media. In this bracing memoir, Sullivan traces her life in journalism and how trust in the mainstream press has steadily eroded. Sullivan began her career at the Buffalo News, where she rose from summer intern to editor in chief. In Newsroom Confidential she chronicles her years in the trenches battling sexism...
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19) Putin's trolls: on the frontlines of Russia's information war against the world
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Aro, Jessikka
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"A chilling account of Russian information warfare, Putin's Trolls exposes the individuals and organizations behind the Kremlin's coordinated, military-style social media operations against the West. In this courageous and unflinching book, award-winning journalist Jessikka Aro interweaves her own dramatic story as a target of Russian social media propaganda with accounts from many internationally known critics of the Kremlin, who share their own...
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20) Snowflake: the definitive guide : architecting, designing, and deploying on the Snowflake Data Cloud
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Avila, Joyce
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21) Spring Boot in practice
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Musib, Somnath
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With Spring Boot, it's a snap to crete standalone Spring applications that require minimal manual setup. Spring Boot directly embeds a server like Tomcat or Jetty into your project and preconfigures core Spring settings, third-party libraries, security, and other key elements. It's a big frameworks, with lots of powerful features. This book provides a rich collection of techniques to help you get the most out of Spring Boot. "Spring Boot in practice"...
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22) Take back your power: 10 new rules for women at work
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Liu, Deborah
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"In Take Back Your Power, president and CEO of Ancestry and former vice president of Facebook Deborah Liu breaks down the stereotypes and double standards that society imposes on women, equipping you with the tools to push back against them and achieve success, both in the workforce and at home"--
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23) The fight to save the town: reimagining discarded America
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Anderson, Michelle Wilde
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Decades of cuts to local government amidst rising concentrations of poverty have wreaked havoc on communities left behind by the modern economy. Some of these discarded places are rural. Others are big cities, small cities, or historic suburbs. Some vote blue, others red. Some are the most diverse communities in America, while others are nearly all white, all Latino, or all Black. All are routinely trashed by outsiders for their poverty and their...
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24) Wild + free book club: 28 activities to make books come alive
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Arment, Ainsley
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Foster a love of reading in your child with Wild + Free Book Club. An invaluable educational resource curated by Wild + Free families around the world, this full-color illustrated book offers imaginative suggestions for creating themed book clubs for kids. Here are hands-on activities, games, food, and decoration ideas inspired by a carefully chosen list of beloved classic novels, as well as discussion questions about plots and themes that engage...
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25) Wild new world: the epic story of animals and people in America
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Flores, Dan L
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"A deep-time history of how humans engaged wildlife in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America. In 1908, a cowboy discovered bones from an extinct giant bison near Folsom, New Mexico. When archeologists found handmade weapons embedded in the fossils, the discovery vastly expanded our continent's known human history, but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens have presented to their fellow animals....
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