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February 15, 2013

Book by President-Elect Alison Byerly among library acquisitions

Are we there yet?: Virtual travel and Victorian realism by Lafayette President-Elect Alison Byerly is among the new library acquisitions.

Some of the many others include:

  • Innovations in sustainable agriculture: supporting climate-friendly food production
  • Extreme bodies: the use and abuse of the body in art
  • Encyclopedia of biodiversity
  • Good prose: the art of nonfiction
  • Understanding Alzheimer’s: an introduction for patients and caregivers
  • The music of James Bond
  • Six ideas that shaped physics. Unit N. The laws of physics are universal
  • Memo to a new president: the art and science of presidential leadership
  • Game over: how politics has turned the sports world upside down
  • Spirit cure: a history of pentecostal healing
  • The visioneers: how a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future
  • A history of future cities

View the full list of recent acquisitions
View a separate list of recent video acquisitions

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