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|  | Consumer Reports New Car Buying Guide, 2002 by Consumer Reports Books Editors
Description not available.An annual resource on new vehicles provides detailed reliability histories, more than two hundred expert reviews, lists of top picks, ratings, safety equipment recommendations, safety assessments, and price-saving strategies. Original. AUTHOR: Consumer Reports Books Editors
PUBLISHER: Consumer Reports Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Geometry by Barnett Rich
Concise, easy-to-use versions of the biggest and best-selling classics in the Schaum's Outline series. AUTHOR: Barnett Rich
PUBLISHER: McGraw-Hill
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Small Acts by Paul Gilroy
Small Acts charts the emergence of a distinctive cultural sensibility that accomplishes the difficult task of being simultaneously both black and English. Straddling the field of popular cultural forms, Paul Gilroy shows how the African diaspora born from slavery has given rise to a web of intimate social relationships in which African-American, Caribbean and now black English elements combine. Discussions of Spike Lee and Frank Bruno, record sleeves, photographs, film and literature from Beloved to Yardie are used to show how new and exciting possibilities have arisen from the transnational flows that create cultural links between the global African diaspora. Small Acts is a seminal work by an important young critic that changes the terms on which black culture will be understood and argued about. AUTHOR: Paul Gilroy
PUBLISHER: Serpent's Tail Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Yell-Oh Girls! by Phoebe Eng, Vickie Nam
This volume collects autobiographical essays by young Asian-American women, many in their early 20s and younger. Reflecting on family, dating, friendship, and other themes, the work expresses the difficulties of growing up Asian and female in a white man's world. AUTHOR: Phoebe Eng, Vickie Nam
PUBLISHER: HarperTrade
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | A Round-Heeled Woman by Jane Juska
Jane Juska is a writer and English teacher, and at the age of 66--divorced, retired, in analysis--she decides that what she needs in her life is more sex. With the help of a personal ad in the New York Review of Books, she has a variety of sexual and romantic encounters. As she talks about them, she also delves into her background, which includes a sexually repressive upbringing, a troubled marriage, and a bout with obesity. AUTHOR: Jane Juska
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Measure of All Things
Description not available.The story of the creation of the metric system in 1792 traces the endeavors of Delambre and MTchain, the backlash of superstitious contemporaries, the impact of the French Revolution, and the mistake that drove MTchain to the brink of madness. 100,000 first printing.
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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