New Books at PEOSTA

Description: Tracing cakes chronologically from the dark, moist gingerbread of New England to the elegant pound cake, the hardscrabble Appalachian stack cake, war cakes, deep-South caramel, Hawaiian Chantilly, and the modern California cakes of orange and olive oil, Byrn shares recipes, stories, and a behind-the-scenes look into what cakes we were baking back in time. (publ.) Memorize your American presidents via their favorite cakes and pies! Fruitcake … Baked Alaska …Huguenot Torte …

Reviewed: Choice Nov 2016 vol. 54 no. 3 (Highly Recommended; Community College Top 75 Best Books)

Reviewed: CHE 14 Oct. 2016 p. B14; Choice Apr 2017 vol. 54 no. 8 (Highly Recommended; Community College Recommended)

Reviewed: Choice May 2017 vol. 54 no. 9 (Highly Recommended; Community College Recommendation)

Reviewed: CHE 21 May 2017 (new books)

Note: Access and full download available online.
URL: http://www.ilo.org/public/libdoc/ilo/2014/114B09_4_engl.pdf.
Description: This manual compiles 100 illustrated examples of practical ergonomic improvements that can be achieved at low or no cost. Each checkpoint describes an action, indicates why it is necessary and how to carry it out, and provides further hints and points to remember. The checkpoints focus on ergonomically designed tools and on best techniques for handling materials and arranging workstations, physical environments, welfare facilities, teamwork methods and community cooperation. This valuable training tool is designed for all those concerned with creating a better workplace in agriculture and rural settings: employers, supervisors, workers, inspectors, safety and health personnel, trainers and educators, engineers, ergonomists and designers.

Reviewed: NPR (12 Mar. 2017; “How Lemonade Helped Paris Fend Off Plague”)

Reviewed: Choice Oct 2016 vol. 54 no. 2 (Highly Recommended; Community College Recommended)

Note: Access and full download also available free online at http://www.nap.edu/23395.

Reviewed: CHE 21 May 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: CHE 10 Mar. 2017 (new books)

Contents: Homeless people and vacant land — The excess of capital — Some proposed extinguishers — The amphibian farmer.
Description: Edition of a previously unpublished work from 1932 that had been thought destroyed by Ransom when the Southern Agrarian poet and critic failed to find a publisher. The accomplished poet and scholar John Crowe Ransom made profound contributions to twentieth-century American literature. As a teacher at Vanderbilt University he was also a leading member of the Southern Agrarian movement and a contributor to the movement’s manifesto “I’ll Take My Stand.” Ransom’s Land! is a previously unpublished work that unites Ransom’s poetic sensibilities with an examination of economics at the height of the Great Depression. Politically charged with Ransom’s aesthetic beliefs about literature and his agrarian interpretation of economics, it was long thought to have been burned by its author after he failed to find a publisher.

Reviewed: CHE 28 Apr. 2017 (new books)
Description: Focuses on the marketing and labor strategies of local food farmers in Iowa, a state known for its large-scale industrial agriculture.

Reviewed: NYT/BR 16 Apr. 2017 p. 9

Reviewed: TLS 14 Apr. 2017 p. 36.

Reviewed: CHE 21 May 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: NPR (“Fresh Air” 15 Aug. 2016; “Creamed, Canned And Frozen: How The Great Depression Revamped U.S. Diets”)

Reviewed: Choice Jan 2017 vol. 54 no. 5 (Highly Recommended; Community College Recommendation).

Reviewed: NPR 30 June 2016 “What College Freshmen Are Reading”; 9 July 2017 ("All Things Considered") The Troubled History Of The Supermarket Tomato; & 28 June 2017 ("Fresh Air") How Industrial Farming 'Destroyed' The Tasty Tomato.

Reviewed: CHE 17 Mar. 2017 (new books)

Reviewed: WSJ 27/28 May 2017 p. C18