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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise June 2018
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Summer Reading Program Begins June 11
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The Summer Reading Program is coming soon! Celebrate the joy of reading and earn fun rewards along the way. You can sign up at the library’s Youth Services Desk beginning Monday, June 11. Everyone is welcome to participate--children, teens, and adults.
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| I Feel You: The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy by Cris BeamWhat it is: a well-rounded and in-depth examination of the meaning, history, and practice of empathy.
What sets it apart: Journalist Cris Beam also discusses how empathy can be exploited -- whether in corporate monetizing endeavors (such as targeted marketing) or in situations where empathy may be viewed as oppressive (such as "helping" non-trafficked sex workers who do not wish to leave the trade). |
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| The Lyme Solution: A 5-Part Plan to Fight the Inflammatory Auto-Immune Response and... by Darin IngelsWhat it is: a patient-focused book exploring treatment options for Lyme Disease -- including lifestyle changes and supplements -- that are outside the scope of the Center for Disease Control's guidelines.
About the author: Darin Ingels is a naturopathic physician and a Lyme Disease patient.
Further reading: Readers looking for a more science-based book may want to try Conquering Lyme Disease by Brian Fallon and Jennifer Sotsky.
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Own the Day, Own Your Life: Optimized Practices for Waking, Working, Learning, Eating, Training, Playing, Sleeping and Sex
by Aubrey Marcus
The founder of the Onnit lifestyle brand draws on cutting-edge studies and traditional world practices to demonstrate how a single day of positive fitness choices can lead to a lifetime of working strategies for optimal performance, mental clarity and overall better health. From workouts and diet to inbox triage, mindfulness, shower temperature, and sex, this manual provides simple strategies for each element of your day. Own the Day, Own Your Life delivers an optimization philosophy, including cutting-edge life-hacking tips, nutritional expertise, brain upgrades, and fitness regiments.
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Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process
by Sheryl Ziegler
What it is: a reassuring guide to help mitigate mental and physical exhaustion in mothers (though it's primarily aimed at heterosexual middle-class women).
About the author: Child psychologist and mother of three Sheryl Ziegler draws upon her professional and personal experiences to provide a variety of perspectives for both stay-at-home and working moms.
Chapters include: Case studies from Ziegler's practice and detailed strategies to effectively combat mommy burnout.
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Focus on: Technology and Digital Literacy
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Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations
by Nicholas Carr
With razor wit, Nicholas Carr cuts through Silicon Valley’s unsettlingly cheery vision of the technological future to ask a hard question: Have we been seduced by a lie? Gathering a decade’s worth of posts from his blog, Rough Type, as well as his seminal essays, Utopia Is Creepy is “Carr’s best hits for those who missed the last decade of his stream of thoughtful commentary about our love affair with technology and its effect on our relationships” (Richard Cytowic, New York Journal of Books). Utopia Is Creepy compels us to question the technological momentum that has trapped us in its flow.
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Zero to Maker: A Beginner's Guide to the Skills, Tools, and Ideas of the Maker Movement
by David Lang
The way we make things has changed. A new generation of tinkerers have emerged through online communities and powerful digital fabrication tools, and their creations are changing the world. This book follows the author's personal journey of transformation into a maker-entrepreneur. It is everyone's guide to combining inspiration and resources to effectively navigate this exciting new world. Lang reveals how he became a maker pro after losing his job and how the experience helped him start OpenROV, a DIY community and product line focused on underwater robotics. It all happened once he became an active member of the maker movement. Ready to take the plunge into the next Industrial Revolution? This guide provides a clear and inspiring roadmap.
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| SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver, and More... by Jane McGonigalWhat it's about: To aid in her post-concussion recovery, game designer Jane McGonigal created SuperBetter, a series of motivational "quests" based on video game strategies. Now a digital game, SuperBetter has been played by over half a million people.
Why it's significant: SuperBetter spawned a National Institutes of Health study, which found that the game improves participants' mental health and strengthens interpersonal relationships. |
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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson
t’s undeniable—technology is changing the way we think. But is it for the better? Amid a chorus of doomsayers, Clive Thompson delivers a resounding “yes.” In Smarter Than You Think, Thompson argues that every technological innovation—from the written word to the printing press to the telegraph—has provoked the very same anxieties that plague us today. We panic that life will never be the same, that our attentions are eroding, that culture is being trivialized. But, as in the past, we adapt—learning to use the new and retaining what is good of the old.Smarter Than You Think embraces and extols this transformation, presenting an exciting vision of the present and the future.
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Movies in Washington Park: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Friday, June 8, 8:30 pm
North Pointe Pavilion, Washington Park
The Michigan City Parks and Recreation Department and the library collaborate for summer Movies in Washington Park. The first showing is Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, about four high school kids who discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game’s jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose. What they discover is that you don’t just play Jumanji – you must survive it. The movies are shown in the North Pointe Pavilion. Mark your calendar for July 20 (Coco) and August 17 (to be announced).
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Axis 360 eBooks
Find popular fiction, non-fiction, and picture e-books and e-audiobooks for children, teens, and adults! It's simple--just download the app on your device, search for "Michigan City Public Library", and log in with your library card number and PIN.
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Business & Investing Resources
Find information and library resources on investing, starting and operating a business, business skills & training, forms, economic data, and grants & financing. Also includes contact information for local/national organizations.
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Health Source: Consumer Edition
A collection of more than 300 consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Fit Pregnancy, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. Also includes current health-related pamphlets, health reference books, Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish) and Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary. Log in with your library card number.
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Library Catalog
Look up books and other materials, place items on hold, and more.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Michigan City Public Library 100 E. 4th Street Michigan City, Indiana 46360 219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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