New Arrivals 2015 / 2016: Non Fiction - January

In a bold and innovative argument, Michelle Alexander, a rising legal star, shows readers how the mass incarceration of a disproportionate number of black men amounts to a devastating system of racial control in the US.

Dr Robert Cialdini explains the six psychological principles that drive the human impulse to comply to the pressures of others and reveals how to defend oneself against manipulation.

Comprehensively revised and updated, this edition provides a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture.

"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police. In his trademark style -- a mix of lyrical personal narrative, reimagined history, essayistic argument, and reportage -- Coates provides readers a thrillingly illuminating new framework for understanding race: its history, our contemporary dilemma, and where we go from here"-- Provided by publisher.

Visual messages are omnipresent in our daily life. They are constantly attempting to persuade us to buy, learn and act. Some are more successful than others in influencing our behaviour and choices. What is the secret power of these messages? How do they succeed in changing our behavior? The techniques range from influence essentials to more obscure and insidious ones. The reader will gain deep insights into how visual means are constructed to influence behaviour and decision making on an unconscious level. All techniques are supported by rich visual references and additional information on the psychology of behaviour change.

We live in epoch-making times. Literally. The changes we humans have made in recent decades have altered our world beyond anything it has experienced in its 4.5 billion-year history - we have become a force on a par with earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes. As a result, our planet is said to be crossing a geological boundary - from the Holocene into the Anthropocene, or Age of Man. Quitting her job at science journal 'Nature', Gaia Vince decided to travel the world at the start of this new age, to explore what all these changes really mean for the people living on the frontline of the planet we've made. She found ordinary people solving severe crises in ingenious, effective ways.

Sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade living with the Black Kings gang in Chicago's south side. His research later became famous in 'Freakonomics.' This is his account of his time with the gang.

This is the inspiring true story of a transgender girl, her identical twin brother, and an ordinary American family's extraordinary journey to understand, nurture, and celebrate the uniqueness in us all.

Cybercrime is a worldwide problem of rapidly increasingly magnitude and, of the countries in the Asia Pacific region, Taiwan and China are suffering most. This book discusses the extent and nature of cybercrime in and between Taiwan and China, focusing especially on the prevalence of botnets.

Knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient of personal success in the 21st century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers? This book shows us how to use social media intelligently.

Like Richard Dawkins' 'The Selfish Gene' which provided a new perspective on evolution by shifting our focus on natural selection. This book alters our understanding of life's dynamics. From this new angle, the creation of life makes more sense as its missing ingredient is revealed to be quantum mechanics and the strange phenomena that lie at the heart of this most mysterious of sciences.

From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating and extremely accessible, and how they have changed our world. He turns even the dreaded calculus into an easy-to-grasp mathematical exposition, and sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to reveal the world's favourite number.

In this book Phil Beadle shows teachers, and anyone interested in writing, the webbed feet paddling furiously below the waterline 'neath the apparently gliding swan; and translates this in such a way as to make it accessible to even the lowest attaining student. Filled with ideas and activities, this book gives teachers all the tools they need to transform literacy standards in their classroom, and will give teachers access to the rules they need to know without ever lapsing into dry didacticism.

This work provides a fresh vision for education in schools based on new research from in-depth studies of technology integration in exemplary teachers' classrooms. It meets the demand for more examples of effective technology integration by providing a new conceptual understanding that builds on the popular and highly influential theoretical framework of technological, pedagogical and content knowledge (TPACK).