New Books, Films, Databases, and other Resources: May 2013

Gifted Sid Lanier of Macon plays flute easy as breathing but there is no money in it. The 19-year-old is busy pursuing an academic career when Secession comes down. Sid and his friends head off in ecstasy to join the brief frolic for Southern independence but find it quite different from what they had envisioned. When Lanier’s musical talent gains the notice of Confederate brass, he and his band win transfer to lighter duty. With the War winding down, however, Lanier’s overpowering love for a Virginia beauty pushes the cash-strapped idealist into the blunder of his life.

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Duguid's heralded cookbooks have always transcended the category. And as Burma opens up after a half century of seclusion, who better than Duguid--the esteemed author of "Hot Sour Salty Sweet"--to introduce the country and its food and flavors to the West.

Your indispensable guide to the best that Chile has to offer. It includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of all the major sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns of Chile. It is also packed with photographs and illustrations leading you straight to the best attractions this diverse country has to offer, so you won't miss out on anything!

"DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: The Caribbean" will lead you straight to the best attractions this island paradise has to offer. Packed with photographs, illustrations, and detailed mapping of 130 Caribbean islands, the guide explores every facet of the irresistible islands, from Harrisons Caves in Barbados to Nelsons Dockyard in Antigua, as well as the best beaches of the Dominican Republic and the best Caribbean islands for history and architecture and hiking.

Illuminating text written by expert, local writers accompanies more than 250 inspiring full-color photos that will bring Israel's people and places to life, at the turn of a page.

Presents a lively and readable analysis of the empress and her time, of her family life and her relationships with her advisors. Deals particularly with the loss of Silesia to Frederick II of Prussia and the divisions of Poland.

Real-estate entrepreneur Bill Dallas's charmed life changed dramatically when he was charged, convicted, and sentenced to five years in prison for grand-theft embezzlement. Lessons from San Quentintells the amazing true story of how one man's life was changed for the better due to the hardships encountered at the legendary maximum-security prison. Using stories and reflections from life on the inside, Bill teaches 12 core principles that will inspire readers to use tough times to develop the character God wants them to have.

A cookbook designed to recreate the atmosphere of dining on the famous, doomed luxury liner serves up such recipes as Lobster Thermidor, Quail's Eggs in Aspic with Caviar, and Poached Salmon with Dilled Mousseline Sauce and Cucumber.

H. W. Wilson's Current Biography Yearbook combines a full year of the monthly Current Biography magazine into a single hardcover volume. Current Biography has been delivering up-to-date biographies of men and women of contemporary importance since 1940 and is renowned for its unfailing accuracy, insightful selection, and the wide scope of influence of its subjects. The Yearbook is an invaluable source for researchers, teachers, students, and librarians.

These guides are the only genuine all-in-one guides that provide detailed information on sights, history, entertainment, shopping, and more. Durable and detachable maps are now included in all the city guidebooks for comfortable traveling, and readers will find the complete redesign of the OSurvival GuideO section reflects the changing needs of today's society.

'Intellectuals and Race' is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light.The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these radically different views of race in these two eras were held by intellectuals whose views on other issues were very similar in both eras. 'Intellectuals and Race' is not, however, a book about history, even though it has much historical evidence, as well as demographic, geographic, economic and statistical evidence - all of it directed toward testing the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed at times among intellectuals in general, and especially intellectuals at the highest levels. Nor is this simply a theoretical exercise. The impact of intellectuals' ideas and crusades on the larger society, both past and present, is the ultimateconcern. These ideas and crusades have ranged widely from racial theories of intelligence to eugenics to "social justice" and multiculturalism.In addition to in-depth examinations of these and other issues, 'Intellectuals and Race' explores the incentives, the visions and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups, but for societies as a whole.

As the world around us changes and information comes at warp speed, it is more important than ever to be quantitatively literate. Yet most U.S. students leave high school with quantitative skills far below what they need and what employers are seeking, and virtually every college finds that many students need remedial mathematics.