New summer books are continuing to arrive! Here are a few more interesting selections that can now be found in our New Books display cases and cart!
Sick by Jonathan Cohn. HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.
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“Cohn points out that managed care initially had an altruistic goal of making health-care affordable for all. But by 1997, two-thirds of HMOs were controlled by for-profit companies concerned with making money rather than preventing and easing sickness. The author convincingly argues that Medicare and universal health care in such countries as France, though not perfect, are far superior to the system most Americans face. Much of this is well-trod territory, but Cohn is eloquent, and he’s good at using case studies to dramatize and explain complex issues.” – Publisher’s Weekly
The Elephant’s Secret Sense: The Hidden Life of the Wild Herds of Africa by Caitlin O’Connell. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
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“Naturalist O’Connell’s memoir of her 14 years researching the complexities of elephant behavior is a successful combination of science and soulfulness, explaining her groundbreaking theory of how elephants use seismic communication; she also sympathetically illuminates current social and ecological conditions in Africa. O’Connell’s original goal in 1992 was to spend a year driving from South Africa to Kenya, but then she was hired for a three-year study of elephants in an area of northeastern Namibia, “where violent death is as much a part of the landscape as the capricious nature of rain.” Fascinated by the “particular way that elephants seemed to be listening with their feet,” she soon realized that the elephants were communicating with sound waves “that travel within the surface of the ground as opposed to the air.” Her efforts over the next decade to prove this “unexpected and controversial” hypothesis took her “to the bayous of Texas, the Nevada desert, southern India, northern Zimbabwe, the Oakland Zoo, and then back to the scrub desert” of Namibia.” – Publisher’s Weekly
Other new selections include:
Medieval Islamic Medicine by Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith. Georgetown University Press, 2007.
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Camouflage by Tim Newark and Jonathan Miller. Thames & Hudson, 2007. UG449 .N46
For more recent arrivals, refer to our New Books List, organized by subject. Make sure to check Bobcat for their availability before you check the shelf. Happy Summer Reading!
