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June 13, 2005
NEW NON-FICTION--MAY & JUNE ( PT I)
More recently added books in Adult Services:
Building Research Tools with Google for Dummies by Harold Davis (NEW 025.04 DAV)--hints and techniques for improving search results when using Google
Teleportation: The Impossible Leap by David Darling (NEW 133.8 DAR)--"Beam Me Up, Scotty" technology may be possible sooner than we realize due to ongoing research in quantum mechanics and other "new" sciences
Perfecting Your Purpose: 40 Days to a More Meaningful Life by David D. Ireland (NEW 298.4 IRE)--Christian approach to self-discovery and to discovering ways to carry out a newly defined "purpose"
Caring for Your Parents: The Complete AARP Guide by Hugh Delehanty & Elinor Ginzler (NEW 306.874 DEL)--"field-tested" approaches and solutions to problems that come up when children have to take responsibility for their elderly parents, i.e., re-organizing a home to accommodate lessened mobility or finding a good nursing home, etc.
The City: A Global History by Joel Kotkin (NEW 307.7609 KOT)--a history of "urbanism" from 5000 BC to the 21st Century
The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations Against Cuba, 1959-1965 by Don Bohning (NEW 327.1273 BOH)--an account of the longstanding--but unsuccessful--attempt by the large, rich United states to oust Fidel Castro from poor, tiny Cuba
The Rise and Fall of HMOs: An American Health Care Revolution by Jane Gregoire Coombs (NEW 367.1042 COO)--using the Marshfield Clinic in Wisconsin as an example, the author covers the history of HMOs and and the problems leading to their decline in popularity
Good Luck Life: The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations and Culture by Rosemary Gong (NEW 394.2089 GON)--covers etiquette for weddings, eating at Chinese restaurants, buying appropriate gifts, legends and poems, recipes, and much, much more
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