with staycation as a buzz word…

offer these books up to patrons when the budget is tight and vacation is just not possible.  in reading books that include all sorts of travel horror stories from critters to mold to infectious diseases spread on cruise ships, one will definitely feel better about just hanging around the house.  i don’t know that the same could be said for one of the suggested books, a National Geographic coffee table book, “Visions of Paradise,” which certainly inspires wanderlust.

(via Shelf Awareness)

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New Adult Nonfiction 000-399

Annotations from Baker & Taylor

 

 

 

 

Clean Money: Picking Winners in the Green Tech Boom

Rubino, John

A comprehensive guide to green investing explains how investors can capitalize on the growing trend of companies working to solve a variety of environmental crises, from new energy sources to waste management, with an overview of promising new technologies and helpful advice on how to separate winners from losers and build a portfolio of green-tech stocks.

 

Colin Cowie Wedding Chic: 1,001 Ideas for Every Moment of Your Celebration

Cowie, Colin

The renowned stylist and lifestyle expert provides a complete guide to planning the perfect wedding with more than one thousand illustrated ideas and suggestions, organized into sections that cover every facet of the celebration, including flowers, cakes, food, fashion, invitations, and reception décor.

 

The Element

Robinson, Ken

A respected speaker on creativity and self-fulfillment describes the inspiring potential of living in accordance with humanity’s talents and passions, drawing on the examples of renowned cultural artists while making recommendations for transforming education, business, and communities.

 

How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People While They Are Still on This Earth

Alford, Henry

Draws on the author’s interviews with famous, accomplished, and everyday people who have lived happily into their senior years to present an optimistic assessment of the end of life that also reveals how his research affected members of his own family.

 

The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging

Huffington Post (EDT) / Huffington, Adrianna (FRW)

An A-to-Z guide to blogging by the editors of The Huffington Post identifies what a blog is and how to create one, in a guide that includes information on getting noticed, building an effective community, and understanding online terms.

 

Rich Like Them: My Door-to-door Search for the Secrets of Wealth in America’s Richest Neighborhoods

D’agostino, Ryan

A former senior editor at Money magazine draws on interviews with five hundred residents from America’s most affluent areas to reveal the financial decisions, setbacks, and strategies that enabled financially successful people to achieve their wealth.

 

The Secret Lives of Men: What Men Want You to Know About Love, Sex, and Relationships

Blazina, Christopher, Ph.d.

Licensed psychologist and university professor Christopher Blazina, Ph.D., offers an exploration, explanation, and clarification into the hidden realm of the male psyche.

 

Voluntary Madness

Vincent, Norah

A follow-up to Self-Made Man traces the author’s commitment to a mental institution, where she embraced health and made observations about the effect of institutionalization and medication on the depressed and insane.

 

Becky Buckingham

 

 

 

 

Cookbooks you can really use

Jamie Oliver, David Tanis set their sights on the home front with cookbooks for fall

By Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times Staff Write, , Los Angeles Times
September 17, 2008

Encapsulated beet-juice spheres under verjuice ice and lemon thyme froth. TorchonTorchon of monkfish liver cooked sous vide in an immersion circulator at 64 degrees Celsius. Jamón ibérico consommé.

But entertaining as it may be to leaf through hotly anticipated new books by Thomas Keller and Ferran Adrià, Grant Achatz of Alinea and the Fat Duck’s Heston Blumenthal, the home cook is likely to leave the cooking of the complex recipes in those volumes to the professionals.

So instead of enrolling in culinary school and purchasing the special equipment and ingredients (liquid nitrogen canisters, toad skin melons) called for by some chef-authors, consider that this fall’s dazzling cookbook lineup has many impressive offerings for the amateur. Six books, some debuts and some by chefs who’ve penned previous cookbooks, are welcome additions to any home cook’s working library.

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/la-fo-watch17-2008sep17,0,915240.story

 

Becky Buckingham