Non-Fiction Selections From Ann Arbor District Library's Staff Picks
by cecile
The Staff Picks shelf is downtown on the first floor. Here is a brief snapshot of what staff members of the Ann Arbor District Library are currently recommending:
American Rifle: A Biography by Alexander Rose is a fascinating look at how the rifle intertwines with the history of the United States. The Washington Post called it ““Marvelous…. Like David McCullough in The Great Bridge, Rose has the rare ability to make technology come alive…”
Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon by Craig Nelson “is particularly good at unpicking the tangle of motives behind Kennedy's decision to send a man to the moon...A punchy, popular history...gripping, geekily detailed accounts of what it was like to ride a Saturn V or walk on another planet are interspersed with an equally lively take on the cold war strategizing behind the mission.”—Financial Times.
Washington Post Book World praises Jonathan Weiner’s The Beak of the Finch "Evocative writing, exhaustive research, and Weiner's memorable portrait of the engaging Grants assure The Beak of the Finch membership in the select pantheon of science books that spark not just the intellect, but the imagination."
Gael Greene, Restaurant Critic, New York Magazine says Bobby Flay’s From My Kitchen to Your Table-- "Next best to having Bobby Flay himself rustling up the food at your next backyard barbecue is this collection of his bold and gutsy recipes, rave-winners from the menus of Mesa Grill and Bolo. I'd pay the price for my favorite lamb shanks alone."
Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer--“Boyd Haycock packs a lot into his short history of "prolongevism", taking us all the way from Francis Bacon's The History Natural and Experimental of Life and Death (1622) to the Human Genome Project and post-humanism.”--Guardian Book Review
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