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…and we’re back! Physically in the library that is, which also means we can get back to adding print books to the collection. It has been too long since our last new books update. We have lots of catching up to do. Let’s start with these heavy-hitters that were released during lockdown:
- The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
- Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story
- Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine
- The Organ Thieves: The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant In the Segregated South
- Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History
- The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last
- The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
- Viral BS: Medical Myths and Why We Fall for Them
- Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions
- Bad Medicine: Catching New York’s Deadliest Pill Pusher
- Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity
- Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means To Be Alive
- Editing Humanity: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
- Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
- The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars In a Small American Town
You can find the titles above and all other new releases on the 4th floor of HHSL across from the Library Service Desk. As always, if there’s a book we don’t have that you would like to recommend for purchase, please let us know by filling out the form at this link.
What is the recipe for making a successful cookbook? Join HHSL and Friedman Masters student Suzi Gerber, aka Chef Suzi, for a discussion and Q&A about her new cookbook, Plant-Based Gourmet.
Join us as we explore what goes into making a successful cookbook, how Suzi’s Friedman education impacts her work as an author/chef, and, of course, FOOD ! We’ll also learn more about how Suzi’s life experiences have shaped her perspectives on cooking, health and the power of plant-based eating. We will open the floor to any questions you might have!
Two lucky attendees (the first to sign up and attend, and a random attendee) will win a complimentary copy of Plant-Based Gourmet. As an “appetizer,” we hope you enjoy Suzi’s *fabulous* “Bourbon Chocolate Pecan Pie” recipe!
To register for this event, please visit: https://tufts.libcal.com/event/7307846?hs=a
A Zoom link and password will be sent to registrants one hour prior to the start time of the event. Join us at the table!
Here is a quick update on newly acquired eBooks that are now ready for use. A mixed bag of valuable and important titles which needed to be highlighted. Hope there is one that interests you. As always, if there is a book we don’t have that you think should be in our collection, please let us know by recommending a purchase.
So You Want to Talk About Race
Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction (2nd Edition)
50 Studies Every Neurologist Should Know
Debating Cancer : The Paradox in Cancer Research
Our Graphic Medicine collection has been steadily growing with a number of new releases, and some old favorites that we’ve recently acquired. The HHSL Graphic Medicine collection can be found on the 4th floor across from the Library Service desk. Since the section’s inception in the summer of 2018, the collection has grown to include titles dealing with a wide range of healthcare issues; including, addiction, Alzheimer’s, bipolar disorder, breast cancer, down syndrome, epilepsy, LGBTQ health, OCD, and Parkinson’s disease. Graphic Medicine divulges the lived experiences of patients dealing with illness, as well as personal accounts of the challenges faced by medical professionals.
Below is a list of recent titles added to our collection:
- In-between days : a memoir about living with cancer
- Moose
- Pregnant butch : nine long months spent in drag
- What’s normal anyway? : a comic about being trans male
- Kid gloves : nine months of careful chaos
- A puff of smoke
- The lady doctor
- Fun home : a family tragicomic
I had the pleasure of discussing the value of Graphic Medicine as a format in healthcare communication at the Charleston Library Conference this past fall. The poster presentation is available at this link.
If there is a Graphic Medicine novel that we don’t have which you would like to read, please let us know by recommending a purchase.
Below are just a few of the books on the long list of new non-fiction titles to hit our shelves. Be sure to stop by the NEW BOOKS display on the 4th floor where the latest are featured.
- Chasing my cure : a doctor’s race to turn hope into action : a memoir / David Fajgenbaum.
- Caring for equality : a history of African American health and healthcare / David McBride.
- Plagues and the paradox of progress : why the world Is getting healthier in worrisome ways
- How the brain lost its mind : sex, hysteria, and the riddle of mental illness
- Polio : the odyssey of eradication / Thomas Abraham.
- Formerly known as food : how the industrial food system is changing our minds, bodies, and culture
- The racial divide in American medicine : Black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care
- The reality bubble / Ziya Tong
As always, if there’s a book we don’t have that you think we should own, please do let us know by recommending a purchase.
If you haven’t stopped by the New Books display recently, you are missing out on some great new titles that have come in! This summer I have been actively adding new releases to the collection, from leisure reading to graphic medicine to non-fiction books; including, GMO’s Decoded by Tufts faculty member, Dr. Sheldon Krimsky. Below is a selection of the latest books to hit our shelves. As always, if there’s a book we don’t have that you would like to recommend, please let us know by using this link to recommend a purchase.
GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods
Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again
Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles: A True Story of Love, Science, and Cancer
The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
How We Teach Science: What’s Changed, and Why It Matters
Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight over Women’s Work
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life
Leisure Reading
The DNA of You and Me: A Novel
Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Graphic Medicine
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Looking for a book to take home for Thanksgiving weekend? Well, then you can be thankful to have a library like Hirsh. Because we have lots of new releases to choose from; whether you prefer leisure reading, graphic medicine, or non-fiction, stop by the new release section on the 4th floor of Sackler to browse through the latest titles to come in. Below are a select few titles to tempt you in:
LEISURE READING
In Pieces by Sally Field
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Home After Dark by David Small
Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
NON-FICTION
The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It by Jonathan D. Quick, Bronwyn Fryer
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
If you haven’t had a chance to stop by the new books display on the 4th floor, here are a few titles you’ve been missing out on. While these books may not make your light-summer-reading list, they are most engrossing and perfect for the days when you’re hiding in from the heat.
THE FOOD EXPLORER : The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone.
DOING HARM : The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick by Maya Dusenbery.
HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND : What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan.
SUGAR : The World Corrupted: From Slavery to Obesity by James Walvin.
THE SMILE STEALERS : The Fine + Foul Art of Dentistry by Richard Barnett.
NATURAL CAUSES : An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer by Barbara Ehrenreich.
As always, if there’s a book we don’t have that you think we should own, please do let us know by recommending a purchase.
The “first day of spring” has come and gone, but there’s no sign of spring in the air. Good news is we’ve got plenty of new books to help you weather the last days of winter. Here is a small selection of the latest non-fiction titles to have come in:
- Enlightenment Now : The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
- Tears of Salt : A Doctor’s Story by Pietro Bartolo & Lidia Tilotta
- The Woman Who Smashed Codes by Jason Fagone
- This Narrow Space : A Pediatric Oncologist, His Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Patients, and a Hospital in Jerusalem by Elisha Waldman
- Becoming Myself : A Psychiatrist’s Memoir by Irvin D. Yalom
- The Culture Code : The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
- Acute Medicine : A Practical Guide to the Management of Medical Emergencies
- The Future of Humanity : Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth by Michio Kaku
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On March 14th the world lost one of the great thinkers of the last century and indeed of all time, the physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking (1942-2018).
If you would like to venture out into the universe, read up on the big bang, back holes and cosmic time, we also have in our collection two of Professor Hawking’s renowned works:
- A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
As always, you are welcome to recommend a purchase for our collection.
The holiday season is the perfect time for some leisure reading. Whether you need something to read on the plane, train or bus ride home, or if you get to stay in town and rest, there’s plenty here at Hirsh for you to choose from. Make sure to stop by our newly expanded leisure reading section the next time you’re on the 4th floor of the Sackler building. Below are the latest titles to be added to our collection:
FICTION
- In the Midst of Winter : A Novel by Isabel Allende
- Seven Days of Us : A Novel by Francesca Hornak
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The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott
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The Stars are Fire by Anita Shreve
- Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochoda
- The Locals : A Novel by Jonathan Dee
- Fresh Complaint : Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
NON-FICTION
- Code girls : The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy
- Hostage by Guy Delisle
- It’s Not Yet Dark by Simon Fitzmaurice
- Where the Past Begins : A Writer’s Memoir by Amy Tan
As always, if there’s a book we don’t have that you think we should own, please do let us know by recommending a purchase.
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