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K-State First Book for 2024 is Deaf Utopia by Nyle DiMarco
DiMarco was born deaf, attended Gallaudet (as a math major), traveled the world, won "America's Top Model" and "Dancing with the Star," has acted in and produced television shows and movies, and is a fierce advocate for the Deaf community. He was an executive director for the Netflix series "Deaf U" and for an Oscar-nominated documentary "Audible."
10 copies are available on reserve at the library front desk.
DiMarco will be giving a live talk at McCain Auditorium (and streamed to our campus) on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 7:00 p.m. Watch Party location TBA
Salina Campus Book Discussions!
Monday, Oct. 7, 7:30 on Zoom (first half of book) -- Zoom link
Monday, Oct. 14, 7:30 on Zoom (2nd half of book) -- Zoom link
Blurb and short audio sample from the publisher
Video Interview with DiMarco from the 2022 National Book Festival
Essay by DiMarco about Deaf representation in Hollywood
New York Times interview article from 2022 (you'll need to sign into Hale Library resources to access)
Looking for the latest materials in your field? Need ideas for a current issues paper? The lists below shows recent books and materials available in our library at K-State Salina. Most of these books are located on the display shelves as you walk into the library. You can also search for recent books available at both Manhattan and Salina campuses: Use Search It and sort by "date--newest."
Aviation--Aerospace--UAS
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel by ISBN: 9780063141971Publication Date: 2023
The Science of Spin: How Rotational Forces Affect Everything from Your Body to Jet Engines to the Weather by
From the masterful author of The Age of Wood, a "fascinating" (The Wall Street Journal), "original and highly engaging insight into how our universe works, encompassing black holes, the cotton mills of the industrial revolution, the biomechanics of walking, and more" (Paul Sen, author of Einstein's Fridge). From the time humans first used rotating bobbins to twist thread or whirled slings around their heads to throw stones, people have found spin fascinating and baffling in equal measure. Now, in The Science of Spin, Roland Ennos shows how rotational motion dominates the workings of the world around us. It has shaped the solar system, galaxies, and black holes. It controls our climate and weather--from the pattern of trade winds to the local formation of hurricanes and tornadoes. Harnessing the power of spin helped launch civilization, from the first developments of the wheel to the systems that now add force the industrial world--propellers, turbines, centrifugal pumps, electric motors, and computer disk drives. Even our own bodies are complex systems of rotating joints and levers. Yet scientists tend to ignore the simple and straightforward. So, in the 17th-century they developed the science of mechanics to explain the phenomenon of the orbit of the planets rather than how machines work. But few people realize how spin makes our planet habitable, or how it has been tamed by engineers to make our lives more comfortable. With "lucid and clear" (Mark Miodownik, author of Stuff Matters) explanations, Ennos presents a new approach to mechanics that not only helps us better understand the world, but also reveals unlikely links between tightrope walkers and tyrannosaurs, catapults and tennis players, stunt cars and long jumpers. He shows us that by opening our minds, we can all learn to move about more gracefully, play sports more successfully and safely--and ensure that, like cats, be sure to always land on our feet. "There's plenty to ponder" (Kirkus Reviews) in this highly entertaining and informative read demonstrating that, whether it be natural or engineered, spin is what really makes the world go round.
ISBN: 9781982196523Publication Date: 2023
Flight Paths to Success by
Flight Paths to Success profiles the personal journeys of 33 women who have been, and continue to be, successful in aviation, space, and academia. Each woman was asked to select one question of several questions in five categories: personal career insight, work-life balance, mentorship/sponsorship, avoiding a career stall, and powering through challenging situations. Each woman shared her unique experiences about work-life integration, resilience, career changes, relocation, continuing education, and career advancement. While reading their stories, we saw that there were many flight paths to success and each woman navigated her own way by charting her own course and committing to it. Their stories were published as they wrote them-in their own words.
ISBN: 9781468602562Publication Date: 2021
Space Is Open for Business by
For hundreds of thousands of years, humanity focused on space as a location. Today, space is not just a destination-it is a domain, an ecosystem, an enabler of progress, and quite possibly the most valuable industry of the twenty-first century.Three things you need to know: Space as an industry is notoriously complex-which means it's misunderstood. Space influences and benefits nearly every other industry on the planet. Accessing space has never been easier.Space investor and entrepreneur Robert C. Jacobson provides a comprehensive overview of this spectacular industry, allowing everyone on Earth to understand the integral role space plays in our lives and how it will continue to transform the world. Over one hundred industry experts share exclusive insights, presenting a 360-degree view of the wide-ranging space industry, its emerging opportunities, investment potential, benefits on Earth, and more.Space Is Open for Business provides a framework for those outside of the industry to understand the critical context that led to the commercial movement known as NewSpace, illustrating how private sector trailblazers have evolved this $350 billion global industry and how NewSpace's exponential growth will lead our world into a new era of progress.
ISBN: 9781734205114Publication Date: 2020
Cybersystems--Engineering
What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? by
In this short book, prominent scientist and computation pioneer Stephen Wolfram provides a readable and engaging explanation that draws on his decades-long unique experience at the frontiers of science and technology. Find out how the success of ChatGPT brings together the latest neural net technology with foundational questions about language and human thought posed by Aristotle more than two thousand years ago.
ISBN: 9781579550813Publication Date: 2023
How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms by ISBN: 9781324006732Publication Date: 2023
Not with a Bug, but with a Sticker: Attacks on Machine Learning Systems and What To Do About Them by ISBN: 9781119883999Publication Date: 2023
You Are Not Expected to Understand This: How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World by
Leading technologists, historians, and journalists reveal the stories behind the computer coding that touches all aspects of life--for better or worse Few of us give much thought to computer code or how it comes to be. The very word "code" makes it sound immutable or even inevitable. "You Are Not Expected to Understand This" demonstrates that, far from being preordained, computer code is the result of very human decisions, ones we all live with when we use social media, take photos, drive our cars, and engage in a host of other activities. Everything from law enforcement to space exploration relies on code written by people who, at the time, made choices and assumptions that would have long-lasting, profound implications for society. Torie Bosch brings together many of today's leading technology experts to provide new perspectives on the code that shapes our lives.
ISBN: 9780691208480Publication Date: 2022
Business--Economics--Leadership
The LEGO Story by
The definitive history of LEGO, based on unprecedented access to the company's archives and rare interviews with the founding family who still owns the company. It's estimated that each year between eighty and ninety million children around the globe are given a box of LEGO, while up to ten million adults buy sets for themselves. Yet LEGO is much more than a dizzying number of plastic bricks that can be put together and combined in countless ways. LEGO is also a vision of the significance of what play can mean for humanity. This book tells the extraordinary story of a global company and a Danish family who for ninety years have defended children's right to play--and who believe grown-ups, too, should make the time to nurture their inner child.
ISBN: 9780063258020Publication Date: 2022
Communication--Writing--Speaking--Storytelling
I Think and Write Therefore You Are Confused: Technical Writing and the Language Interface by
The importance of good documentation can build a strong foundation for any thriving organization. This reference text provides a detailed and practical treatment of technical writing in an easy to understand manner. The text covers important topics including neuro-linguistics programming (NLP), experimental writing against technical writing, writing and unity of effect, five elements of communication process, human information processing, nonverbal communication and types of technical manuals. Aimed at professionals and graduate students working in the fields of ergonomics, aerospace engineering, aviation industry, and human factors, this book: Provides a detailed and practical treatment of technical writing. Discusses several personal anecdotes that serve as real-work examples. Explores communications techniques in a way that considers the psychology of what "works" Discusses in an easy to understand language, stories, and examples, the correct steps to create technical documents.
ISBN: 9781032048390Publication Date: 2021
Social Work--Communities--Health
Enduring Shame: A Recent History of Unwed Pregnancy and Righteous Reproduction by
A study of the rhetorical power of shame and its effect on reproductive politics Not long ago, unmarried pregnant women in the United States hid in maternity homes and relinquished their "illegitimate" children to more "deserving" two-parent families-all to conceal "shameful" pregnancies. Although times have changed, reproductive politics remain fraught. In Enduring Shame Heather Brook Adams recasts the 1960s and '70s-an era of presumed progress-as a time when expanding reproductive rights were paralleled by communicative practices of shame that cultivated increasingly public interventions into unwed and teen pregnancy and new forms of injustice. Drawing from personal interviews, archival documents, legal decisions, public policy, journalism, memoirs, and advocacy writing, Adams articulates how the rhetorical power of shame persuaded the American public to think about reproduction, sexual righteousness, and unwed pregnancy.
ISBN: 9781643362946Publication Date: 2022
Cool Books -- Multidisciplinary
Investigating Google's Search Engine: Ethics, Algorithms, and the Machines Built to Read Us by
What do search engines do? And what should they do? These questions seem relatively simple but are actually urgent social and ethical issues. The influence of Google's search engine is enormous. It does not only shape how Internet users find pages on the World Wide Web, but how we think as individuals, how we collectively remember the past, and how we communicate with one another. This book explores the impact of search engines within contemporary digital culture, focusing on the social, cultural, and philosophical influence of Google.Using case studies like Google's role in the rise of fake news, instances of sexist and misogynistic Autocomplete suggestions, and search queries relating to LGBTQ+ values, it offers original evidence to intervene practically in existing debates. It also addresses other understudied aspects of Google's influence, including the profound implications of its revenue generation for wider society. In doing this, this important book helps to evaluate the real cost of search engines on an individual and global scale.
ISBN: 9781350325197Publication Date: 2023
Previously Featured
Peruse materials in the library added in the last two years.
Secret Kansas: a Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure by ISBN: 9781681064376Publication Date: 2023
The Greatest Adventure: A History of Human Space Exploration by
The Greatest Adventure explores the past, present, and future of the space race. The space race was perhaps the greatest technological contest of the twentieth century. It was a thrilling era of innovation, discovery, and exploration, as astronauts and cosmonauts were launched on space missions of increasing length, complexity, and danger. The Greatest Adventure traces the events of this extraordinary period, describing the initial string of Soviet achievements: the first satellite in orbit; the first animal, man, and woman in space; the first spacewalk; as well as the ultimate US victory in the race to land on the moon. The book then takes the reader on a journey through the following decades of space exploration to the present time, detailing the many successes, tragedies, risks, and rewards of space exploration.
ISBN: 9781789144604Publication Date: 2021
