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New Books - Non Fiction

Recent Additions to the Ferguson Library Collection.

338.766854 B968p The Perfect Scent: a Year Inside the Perfume Industry Burr, Chandler   Review New York Times perfume critic Chandler Burr follows the creation of two new scents, “Un Jardin sur le Nil” by French luxury house Hermes, and “Lovely”, a celebrity fragrance by Sarah Jessica Parker. In a kind of travelogue of the international perfume industry, one of the most insular, glamorous, strange, paranoid, and lucrative worlds is revealed. Burr's is a thorough and often hilarious account of perfumery's colorful characters, the science and art of fragrance creation and the human experience of scent itself. Source: Publishers Weekly, Nov 05, 2007       796.357 B533D Yogi: The Life and Times of an American Original DeVito, Carlo   Summary Starting out in the sandlots of St. Louis, a young baseball legend was born. The Yankees beloved Yogi Berra is perhaps the greatest catcher to ever play the game. Yogi had a relentless attitude to make it as a professional baseball player despite the odds, and this new biography describes his World Series games and elections to the All-Star Team, as well as special moments such as his meeting with the Pope on behalf of Baseballs for Italy, and the fight that made him stay away from Yankee Stadium for 14 years. Source: From the Publisher     690.8927 B218d Designer Birdhouses : 20 Upscale Homes Banks, Richard T.   Review These colorful wooden houses provide decorative garden accents as well as homes for a variety of cavity-nesting birds. Banks, an architect and commercial birdhouse builder, uses a basic box design that is varied with the addition of easily obtained wood elements. The key is in his creative designs, contemporary and brightly painted. In addition to step-by-step instructions, he includes tips for mounting and locating houses for different species of birds. Source: Library Journal, Feb 15, 2008     940.415 B268s Setting the Desert on Fire: T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War Barr, James.   Review British historian Barr re-examines World War I's " Great Arab Revolt " led by the legendary Lawrence of Arabia in this exhaustively researched and vividly narrated history. Thomas Edward Lawrence was a young British intelligence officer when he undertook to organize Arab resistance to the Ottoman Empire, a German ally. Led by Lawrence, an eccentric amateur who adopted the flowing robes of his desert allies, the Arabs began a guerrilla campaign against the Hijaz Railway, the Turks' supply line between Damascus and Medina. Source: Publishers Weekly, Nov 26, 2007     641.5676 S399A Jewish Home Cooking: Yiddish Recipes Revisited Schwartz, Arthur.   Review Schwartz breathes life into Yiddish cooking traditions now missing from most cities' main streets as well as many Jewish tables. His colorful stories are so distinctive and charming that even someone who has never heard Schwartz's radio show or seen him on TV will feel his warm personality and love for food radiating from the page. Dishes run the gamut from beloved appetizers like gefilte fish to classic dairy main items like blintzes, plus less familiar items like Hungarian shlishkas (light potato dumplings). Source: Publishers Weekly, Dec 17, 2007     333.72 B417l Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life Begley, Ed Jr.   Review Actor Begley is best known for his television and movie roles but if you have seen his cable show, Living with Ed, on HGTV, you know that his true passion is environmentalism. This companion book serves as a cheat sheet to all things green. In six chapters, plus a workbook, Begley covers nearly everything a human could do to lessen one's impact on the environment. Great for Earth Day, this is it is a witty and easy-to-use manual to environmentally friendly living. Source: Library Journal, Jan 01, 2008     616.1205 M632h Heart Smart for Black Women and Latinas Mieres, Jennifer H.   Summary This groundbreaking book is the first to take into consideration the heart health of women of color and provide an action plan to overcome the unique cultural and genetic challenges they face in staying heart healthy. It doesn’t merely present generic information on diet, exercise and eliminating stress, but highlights the importance of community, culture and lifestyle. Author Mieres is a cardiologist at NYU School of Medicine and was an Emmy nominee for the PBS documentary, "A Woman's Heart." Source: From the Publisher     658.314 M681h Hug Your People: the Proven Way to Hire, Inspire, and Recognize Employees Mitchell, Jack   Review Reading a book with the word "hug" in the title that basically advises on how to be nice to other people makes one realize that there ought to be more books like this on the shelves. Mitchell, CEO of the clothing stores Mitchells/Richards/Marshs focuses on how to hire and maintain a happy staff. He looks at how creating a niceness culture can help to create employees that stick around the company and take a personal interest in the organization. Source: Publishers Weekly, Feb 04, 2008     615.856 B858B Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster Brock, Pope.   Review Quackery's P. T. Barnum strides through Brock's raucous yarn of John Brinkley, MD. Recounting the antics of Brinkley's medicine show, which flourished in 1920s America, Brock underpins the whirlwind of Brinkley's myriad enterprises with the human credulity that made them all possible. In a pre-Viagra age, Brinkley's racket was brilliant: he promised to restore male virility by suturing goat gonads into the skin. He also pioneered radio advertising, which successfully lured hundreds of marks to his Kansas hospital before his medical license was finally revoked. Source: Booklist, Dec 15, 2007