Contents Cultural / Ethnic Studies . . . . . . . . . . .1
Economy, Labor & Society . . . . . . . . . . .32
American Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Political Sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
African / African American . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Asian Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Law and Legal Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Latina / Latino Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Criminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41
Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Intra / Inter Personal, the Mind . . .43
Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Psychosociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Organizations / Structures . . . . . . . .24
Gender & Sexuality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Sociology of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Marriage & the Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Science, Medicine and Sociology . . . . . .26
Education Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Food Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Environmental Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Title / Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Urban Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Ordering Information . . . . . . . . . . . .60
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DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS Dispatches from America’s Class War
By Peter Feldstein 2009 American Library Association ALEX Award Winner now in Paperback
By Joe Bageant Deer Hunting with Jesus is web columnist Joe Bageant’s report on what he learned when he moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia which, like countless American small towns, is fast becoming the bedrock of a permanent underclass. By turns brutal, tender, incendiary, and sometimes humorous, this book is a call to arms for fellow progressives with little real understanding of “the great beery, NASCAR-loving, church-going, gun-owning America that has never set foot in a Starbucks.” Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-33937-9 | 288pp. $13.95/$15.95C | Exam Copy: $3.00
BOOM! Talking About the Sixties: What Happened, How It Shaped Today, Lessons for Tomorrow
In 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every single resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa (pop. 676). Twenty years later, Feldstein decided to do it again. Only this time he invited writer Stephen G. Bloom to join him, and together they went in search of the same Oxford residents Feldstein had originally shot two decades earlier. Face after face, story after story, what quietly emerges is a living composite of a quintessential Midwestern community, told through the words and images of its residents. http://oxfordproject.com Welcome Books | HC | 978-1-59962-048-0 | 264pp. | $50.00/$57.50C Exam Copy: $25.00
FOOL’S PARADISE now in
Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
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By Steven Gaines
By Tom Brokaw In Boom!, Tom Brokaw, one of America’s premier journalists, gives us an epic portrait of a defining era in America: the tumultuous Sixties. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together in this “virtual reunion” as Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through a remarkable time, exploring how individuals and the national mood were affected by a controversial era and showing how the aftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound in our lives today.
Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up barrier reef, Miami Beach has always been one part driftermecca and one part fantasyland, simultaneously a catch basin for con men, fast-talk artists, and shameless self-promoters, and a Shangri-La for sun worshippers and hardcore hedonists. Fool’s Paradise is a journey back into the city’s social and cultural history, unearthing stories of the resort’s past that are every bit as absorbing—and jawdropping—as those of its present. Crown | HC | 978-0-307-34627-8 | 288pp. | $25.95/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
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AMERICAN STUDIES cont. LETTERS OF THE CENTURY America 1900-1999
Edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler “Letters,” write Grunwald and Adler, “give history a voice.” Arranged chronologically by decade, illustrated with over 100 photographs, Letters of the Century creates an extraordinary chronicle of our history, through the voices of the men and women who have lived its greatest moments: from Mark Twain’s hilarious letter of complaint to the head of Western Union to Einstein’s letter to Franklin Roosevelt warning about atomic warfare to Mark Rudd’s “generation gap” letter to the president of Columbia University during the student riots of the 60s, and more. Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-31593-7 | 752pp. | $18.00/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
EVERYDAY HOPES, UTOPIAN DREAMS Reflections on American Ideals
By Don Johnson Through stories about neighborhood, local churches, hunting and fishing, driving, cooking, heavy construction, and schools, Don Johnson examines what American ideals continue to nurture us and what aspects of those ideals carry germs of personal and social harm. Johnson’s descriptions offer a lens for recovering the deep soul of America—one that deserves attention as a model for progressives and is of interest to those concerned with the direction the U.S. has taken since 9/11. North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-55643-599-7 | 176pp. $14.95/$18.50C | Exam Copy: $3.00
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1968 The Year That Rocked the World
By Mark Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky has written a cultural and political history of a world-changing year of social upheaval, when television’s impact on global events first became apparent and spontaneous uprisings occurred around the world. Encompassing the diverse realms of youth, music, politics and war, economics, and the media, 1968 shows us how one volatile year has helped shape Americans into the people they are today. Random House | TR | 978-0-345-45582-6 | 480pp. | $15.95/$22.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
AMERICAN VERTIGO Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
By Bernard-Henri Lévy; Translated by Charlotte Mandell What does it mean to be an American, and what can America be today? To answer these questions, celebrated philosopher and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy spent a year traveling throughout the country in the footsteps of another great Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville. The result is American Vertigo, a fascinating, fresh look at a country we only think we know. At a time when Americans are anxious about how the world perceives them and, indeed are keen to make sense of themselves, Lévy begins a new conversation about the meaning of America. “Bernard-Henri Lévy does nothing that goes unnoticed. He is an intellectual adventuree who brings publicity to unfashionable political causes.” —The New York Times
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7471-3 | 320pp. | $14.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE DEVIL’S GENTLEMAN
American Discontent in the New Millennium
Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
By Dick Meyer In Why We Hate Us, Meyer details what he terms as America’s “early-twenty-first-century mood disorder.” He points out the most widespread carriers of the “why-wehate-us” germs, including the belligerence of partisan politics that obscures our democracy, the decline of once common manners, the vulgarity of Hollywood entertainment, the superficiality and untrustworthiness of the news media, the cult of celebrity, and the disappearance of authentic neighborhoods and voluntary organizations. Crown | HC | 978-0-307-40662-0 | 288pp. | $24.95/$27.95C Exam Copy: $12.50
THE DAY THE EARTH CAVED IN An American Mining Tragedy
By Harold Schechter The wayward son of a revered Civil War general, Roland Molineux enjoyed good looks, status, and fortune—hardly the qualities of a prime suspect in a series of shocking, merciless cyanide killings. Molineux’s subsequent indictment for murder led to two explosive trials. From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter comes the riveting exploration of a notorious New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an earlier time, and the grisly court case that became a tabloid spectacle. Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-47680-7 | 512pp. | $16.00/$19.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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BASEBALL
By Joan Quigley
A History of America’s Favorite Game
The Day the Earth Caved In is an unprecedented and riveting account of the worst mine fire in U.S. history. In astonishing detail, award-winning journalist Joan Quigley, the granddaughter of Centralia miners, ushers readers into the dramatic world of the underground blaze. Drawing on inter views with key participants and exclusive new research, Quigley paints unforgettable portraits of Centralia and its residents.
By George Vecsey
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One of the great bards of America’s Grand Old Game gives a rousing account of baseball, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day. George Vecsey casts a fresh eye on the sport, illuminates its foibles and triumphs, and performs a marvelous feat: making a classic story seem refreshingly new. Baseball is a testament to the unbreakable bond between our nation’s pastime and the fans. “Vivid, affectionate and clear-eyed, Vecsey’s account makes for an engaging sports history.” —Publishers Weekly Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7870-4 | 272pp. | $14.00/$16.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
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Paperback forthcoming February 2010 A Refugee Team, an American Town
A Black Athlete, a White Era, and the Fight to Be the World’s Fastest Human Being
By Warren St. John
By Todd Balf
Clarkston, Georgia, was a fading Southern town until it was designated a settlement center for refugees in the 1990s, becoming the first American home for scores of families in flight from the world’s war zones. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated woman from Jordan, who volunteered to coach a youth soccer program for Clarkston’s refugee children. They named themselves the Fugees. Originating in an acclaimed series of front-page articles in the New York Times, this is the long-awaited story of the Fugees, played out against the backdrop of an American town that, without its consent, had become a vast experiment in getting along. Outcasts United is a brilliantly reported, moving chronicle of a small town struggling to become a global community, the resilience and hope of a group of young refugees, and how we find home in a changing world.
One man was white, one black; one from a storied Virginia family, the other descended from Kentucky slaves. The only thing they had in common was the desire to be named the fastest man alive. In 1904 both men headed to Australia for a title match to decide who would claim the coveted title. Major is ultimately the story of a man who transcended the handicaps of race to become America’s first African American mega sports celebrity.
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Teacher’s Guide Available Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52203-8 | 320pp. | $24.95/$27.95C Exam Copy: $12.50 Do not order paperback before 2/10/2010. Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52204-5 | 320pp. | $14.00/$17.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-23659-3 | 320pp. | $13.95/$15.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
SLAVES IN THE FAMILY By Edward Ball Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Slaves in the Family is the story of one man’s exploration of his family’s slave-owning past and his search for descendants of the people his ancestors kept as slaves. A discussion guide is included in the back of this book. Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-43105-9 | 544pp. | $17.95/$23.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE TIES THAT BIND
NEW
RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER
A Memoir of Race, Memory and Redemption
A Road Trip into the Heart of Fan Mania
By Bertice Berry
By Warren St. John
When novelist Bertice Berry set out to write a history of her family, she initially believed she’d uncover a story of slavery, but the deeper she dug, the more surprises she found. In this poignant, reflective memoir, Berry skillfully relays the evolution of relations between the races, from slavery to the present day.
A Chronicle of Higher Education Top 10 Best College-Sports Books Ever
“St. John offers an unsurpassed blend of scholarly heft (he’s gathered all of the scattered research on sports fandom), superb reporting...and gemlike writing (St. John knew Alabama would beat Vanderbilt on a brutally hotday as soon as he saw Vandy’s ‘photon-slurping black je seys’).” —The Chronicle of Higher Education, Chronicle Review Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-609-80713-2 | 288pp. | $13.95/$15.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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OUR TOWN
By Abraham Bolden
A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America
Abraham Bolden was a young African American Secret Service agent in Chicago when he was asked by John F. Kennedy himself to join the White House Secret Service detail. Bolden found himself regularly subjected to open hostility and blatant racism, and he was appalled by the White House team’s irresponsible approach to security. In the wake of JFK’s assassination, Bolden sought to expose the agency’s negligence, only to find himself the victim of a sinister conspiracy. The Echo from Dealey Plaza is the story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-38202-3 | 320pp. | $13.95/$15.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
By Cynthia Carr The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers. It is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best forgotten. In Our Town journalist Cynthia Carr explores the issues of race, loyalty, and memory in America through the lens of a specific hate crime that occurred in Marion but could have happened anywhere. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-34188-4 | 512pp. | $14.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE
DUDE, WHERE’S MY BLACK STUDIES DEPARTMENT?
A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood
The Disappearance of Black Americans from U.S. Universities
now in Paperback
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
By Cecil Brown According to Dr. Cecil Brown, blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Here, Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting “disappearing act” head-on and contends that educators have ignored the importance of the oral tradition in African American upbringing, an oversight mirrored by the media. This book offers both a scorching critique and a plan for rethinking and reform of a crucial but largely unacknowledged problem in contemporary society. “[Brown’s] provocative analyses of contemporary black and American culture brim with insight. Unafraid to be controversial or to go against the grain, Brown never fails to make us think.” —Michael Eric Dyson, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Debating Race
Paul Coates’ mission was to carry his sons across the shoals of inner-city adolescence—and through the collapsing civilization of Baltimore in the Age of Crack—and into the safe arms of Howard University, where he worked so his children could attend for free. With a remarkable ability to reimagine both the lost world of his father’s generation and the terrors and wonders of his own youth, TaNehisi Coates offers readers a small and beautiful epic about boys trying to become men in black America and beyond. “Ta-Nehisi Coates is the young James Joyce of the hip-hop generation.” —Walter Mosley
“A searing and soulful memoir.” —Michael Eric Dyson, author of April 4, 1968 Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52746-0 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
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AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN cont. GHETTONATION Dispatches from America’s Culture War
AT THE HANDS OF PERSONS UNKNOWN The Lynching of Black America
now in Paperback
By Philip Dray
By Cora Daniels
Winner, The Southern Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
From an award-winning journalist and cultural commentator comes a provocative examination of the impact of “ghetto” mores, attitudes, and lifestyles on urban communities and American culture in general. Cora Daniels takes on one of the most explosive issues in the U.S. today in this thoughtful critique of America’s embrace of a ghetto persona that she argues, demeans women, devalues education, celebrates the worst African American stereotypes, and contributes to the destruction of civil peace.
Winner, The Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-2240-1 | 224pp. | $14.00/$16.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
HARD DRIVING The Wendell Scott Story
now in Paperback
By Brian Donovan Wendell Scott figured he was signing up for trouble when he became Nascar’s version of Jackie Robinson in the segregated 1950s. After a bigoted promoter refused to pay him, Scott appealed directly to the sport’s founder, Nascar czar Bill France Sr., who promised that Nascar would never treat him with prejudice. Hard Driving documents a previously untold and intriguing chapter in the history of integration, politics, and sports in America. Steerforth | TR | 978-1-58642-160-1 | 328pp. | $16.99/$21.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM By Frederick Douglass; Introduction by John Stauffer Set from the text of the 1855 first edition, this Modern Library Paperback Classic includes Douglass’s original Appendix, composed of excerpts from the author’s speeches as well as a letter he wrote to his former master. Reader’s Guide available. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7031-9 | 384pp. | $12.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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This extraordinary account of lynching in America, by acclaimed civil rights historian Philip Dray, shines a clear, bright light on American history’s darkest stain—illuminating its causes, perpetrators, apologists, and victims. Philip Dray also tells the story of the men and women who led the long and difficult fight to expose and eradicate lynching, including Ida B. Wells, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and W.E.B. Du Bois. “A landmark work of unflinching scholarship.” —The New York Times Modern Library | TR | 978-0-375-75445-6 | 544pp. | $16.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
JOHN BROWN By W.E.B. Du Bois Edited by David R. Roediger A moving cultural biography of abolitionist martyr John Brown, by one of the most important African-American intellectuals of the twentieth century. In the history of slavery and its legacy, John Brown looms large as a hero whose deeds partly precipitated the Civil War. As Frederick Douglass wrote: “When John Brown stretched forth his arm ...the clash of arms was at hand.” DuBois’s biography brings Brown stirringly to life and is an overlooked classic. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-679-78353-4 | 304pp. | $13.95/$18.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK By W.E.B. Du Bois Modern Library | HC | 978-0-375-50911-7 | 320pp. | $17.95/$23.00C Exam Copy: $9.00 Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-21336-2 | 240pp. | $5.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
Forthcoming January 2010
BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION 2010 Series edited by Gerald Early The second volume in a new annual series, that showcases each year’s best African American fiction. Like 2009’s edition, it will be a “treasure trove of discovery” (Kirkus Reviews) and a “masterful bouquet of literary flowers” (Publishers Weekly)—from the short story “Ghost” by Edwidge Danticat to an excerpt from “Yellow Moon” by Jewell Park Rhodes, and other stories and excepts by James McBride, John Edgar Wideman, Amina Gautier and many more. Do not order before 12/29/2009. One World | TR | 978-0-553-38535-9 | 288pp. | $16.00/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION 2009 Edited by E. Lynn Harris & Gerald Early This book includes work by both established names and up-and-comers, ranging from Walter Dean Myers to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mat Johnson, and Junot Díaz. They write about subjects as diverse as the complexities of black middle-class life and the challenges of interracial relationships, a modern-day lynching in the South and a young musician’s coming-of-age during the Harlem Renaissance. Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38534-2 | 336pp. | $16.00/$19.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAYS 2009 Edited by Debra J. Dickerson & Gerald Early
BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAYS 2010 Series edited by Gerald Early The second volume in a new annual series showcasing each year’s best African American essays. Like 2009’s edition, it will be “fascinating collection” (Booklist) with essays about pop culture (Tavis Smiley, Eartha Kitt, Amy “Whinehouse”), the presidential race (the Obamas, Reverend Wright), sports and much more, by writers ranging from Barack Obama to Colson Whitehead, Rita Dove to Margo Jefferson.
Selected from a diverse array of respected publications such as the New Yorker, the Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, and National Geographic, this exciting collection introduces the first-ever annual anthology of writing by African Americans. Here are remarkable essays on a variety of subjects informed by—but not necessarily about— the experience of blackness, as seen through the eyes of some of America’s finest writers. Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38536-6 | 320pp. | $16.00/$19.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
Do not order before 12/29/2009. One World | TR | 978-0-553-38537-3 | 288pp. | $16.00/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN cont. WHY SAVE AFRICA? Answers from Around the World
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Edited by June Eding Why Save Africa? is made up of short essays from large, internationally recognized non-profits; small grassroots charities; and everything in between. These groups have responded to the question with extraordinary vigor and compassion that will inform and inspire. Additionally, Why Save Africa? features true stories and testimonials from individuals who explain, in their own voices, why they have been drawn to helping this land. Hatherleigh Press | HC | 978-1-57826-308-0 | 140pp. | $12.00/$14.00C Exam Copy: $6.00
THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
COMPLICITY How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery
By Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank Using long-ignored documents bolstered by rarely seen photos, period drawings, maps, and publications, Complicity debunks the myths surrounding the history of slavery in America. In this important work, Farrow, Lang, and Frank, a group of veteran journalists from the Hartford Courant, the country’s oldest continuously published newspaper, illustrate the North’s deep dependence on slave commerce and its own exploitation of slave labor. “Essential reading. Belongs in any serious collection on U.S. or regional development, slavery, or New York history.” —Library Journal
“A startling new history exposes the plantations, slave ships, and rebellions in the North, upending the notion that slavery was a peculiarly Southern institution.... This is history at its best.”
—The Boston Globe
By Olaudah Equiano Edited by Shelly Eversley Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
Teacher’s Guide Available Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-46783-6 | 304pp. | $15.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
In his important slave memoir, Olaudah Equiano tells the story of a boy who was kidnapped in Africa and enslaved in America, who purchased his freedom and then became a major leader of the anti- slavery movement in England. Set from the 1793 edition. “Equiano’s Narrative was so richly structured that it became the prototype of the nineteenth-century slave narrative.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-375-76115-7 | 336pp. | $10.95/$16.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
IN SEARCH OF OUR ROOTS How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. For too long, African Americans’ family trees have been barren of branches but, very recently, advanced genetic testing techniques, combined with archival research, have begun to fill in the gaps. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes nineteen extraordinary African Americans on a once unimaginable journey, tracing family sagas through U.S. history and back to Africa. Crown | HC | 978-0-307-38240-5 | 448pp. | $27.50/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.75
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VOICES OF FREEDOM
African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement
An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
By Alan Govenar
By Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer
Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history—the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of frontier, both literally and metaphorically. Contributors include: the civil-rights attorney Oliver W. Hill, one of the architects of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case; and L. Douglas Wilder, the grandson of slaves who became the first African American governor of Virginia. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and featuring an incisive introduction by Alan Govenar, Untold Glory is both an important addition to the field of African American history and an engaging, eye-opening look at some of the nation’s most daring, innovative, and influential pioneers. Harlem Moon | TR | 978-0-7679-2117-6 | 432pp. | $15.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO By Sutton Griggs; Introduction by Cornel West; Preface by A.J. Verdelle This classic African-American novel is a gripping exploration of oppression, miscegenation, exploitation, and black empowerment. It is the dramatic story of two black men who grow up in racist America, one conciliatory and the other a mulatto nationalist, both of whom are driven to join a radical movement dedicated to the creation of an all-black country in Texas. Self-published in 1899, this book had a profound influence on the development of black nationalism. Preface by A. J. Verdelle; Introduction by Cornel West. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7160-6 | 208pp. | $13.95/$18.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
“An excellent example of solid oral history of a key movement in American history … A fine work for students of oral history, African-American history, and American social history.”
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UNTOLD GLORY
—Professor Andrew F. Clark, History, University of North Carolina-Wilmington Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-35232-0 | 720pp. | $24.00/$34.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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A Memoir
By Daoud Hari Common Reading Selection
Most of the reporting on the great tragedies of our day have been written by journalists, and after-the-fact. Rarely, in a conflict of this magnitude, has there been an eyewitness voice to the events as they are still happening. Daoud Hari is that voice. The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person can make a difference in the world—an on-the-ground account of one of the biggest stories of our time. Because he chose language and storytelling as his weapons—while others around him were taking up arms—Daoud has given us a true and necessary portrait of a deeply troubled region of our world. “I chose this book because The Translator offers American students a superb opportunity to hear about the realities of the Darfur situation through the voice of an African person. The book is both an excellent primer on the political situation in Darfur and a deeply moving personal story that gives students a sophisticated, yet accessible, view into the Darfur conflict.” —Zine Magubane, Associate Professor of Sociology, Boston College Teacher’s Guide Available Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7917-6 | 224pp. | $13.00/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
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AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN cont. THE BLACK WEST A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States
By William Katz This revised and expanded edition of a classic text abounds with enthralling new photographs—many never before seen—that deepen our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women in our early frontier societies. Inspired by a conversation between William Loren Katz and Langston Hughes, The Black West presents long-neglected stories of daring pioneers such as Deadwood Dick, Stagecoach Mary, and a host of other intrepid men and women who ventured into the wilderness alongside Chief Osceola, Billy the Kid, and Geronimo. Featuring an artful narrative and captivating historical accounts, The Black West enriches and expands our insight into the racially pluralistic and sociological aspects of the frontier saga. Harlem Moon | TR | 978-0-7679-1231-0 | 336pp. | $17.95/$25.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS
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A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
By Tracy Kidder Mountains Beyond Mountains author Tracy Kidder once again delivers the masterful story of a hero for these modern times. Deo grew up in the mountains of Burundi, and survived a civil war and genocide before seeking a new life in America. In New York City he lived homeless in Central Park before finding his way to Columbia University. But Deo’s story really begins with his will to turn his life into something truly remarkable; he returns to his native country to help people there, as well as people in the United States. An extraordinary writer, Kidder has the remarkable ability to show us what it means to be fully human, and to tell the unadorned story of a life based on hope. Teacher’s Guide Available Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6621-6 | 304pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00 See page 27 for Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
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THE BLACK BOOK 35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman Foreword by Toni Morrison In a new 35th anniversary edition, The Black Book, a classic collection of more than 500 images, detailing the rich cultural and social history of African Americans from the era of the transatlantic slave trade through the start of the Civil Rights movement, is being introduced to a new generation. Originally edited by Toni Morrison, she now contributes a new foreword. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6848-7 | 224pp. | $35.00/$43.00C Exam Copy: $17.50
A MIGHTY LONG WAY My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
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By Carlotta Walls LaNier with Lisa Frazier Page Foreword by Bill Clinton When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. “Carlotta Walls LaNier’s A Mighty Long Way is a riveting account of nine brave high school students and their families in a quest for quality desegregated public education. What happened in Little Rock in 1957 resulted in America’s greatest constitutional crisis since the Civil War. Carlotta’s account of events inside and outside Little Rock Central High School should be read and studied particularly by those who now walk through doors of opportunity which Carlotta and her schoolmates first opened over 50 years ago. When I started her book, I couldn’t put it down. It is a must-read.” —James L. “Skip” Rutherford III, Dean University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service One World | HC | 978-0-345-51100-3 | 304pp. | $26.00/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI
A Novel
By Susan Carol McCarthy
The Classic Autobiography of Growing up Poor and Black in the Rural South
Popular College Common Reading Selection
By Anne Moody
Based on real events, Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands is a story about a northern family, a southern town, and the senseless murder that sparks an extraordinary act of courage, just before the Civil Rights Movement. The arrival of noteworthy figures such as Thurgood Marshall, the NAACP, and Mr. Hoover’s FBI, to the expressed opinions and actions of the everyday town citizen, Lay That Trumpet In Our Hands gives students a solid sense of the events, people, and national mood of this volatile and chaotic period in American history.
A widely hailed and taught memoir with social and historical commentary, this contemporary classic is the autobiography of a young black girl growing up in the Deep South.
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VOICES IN OUR BLOOD America’s Best on the Civil Rights Movement
By Jon Meacham Voices in Our Blood is a literary anthology of the most important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement, past and present. This book showcases what forty of the nation’s best writers—including Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright—had to say about the central domestic drama of the American Century. “This admirable work is a solid collection of acclaimed ‘voices’ narrating the environment, origin, and progress of the civil rights movement.... Thoughtful, sensitive, rewarding, and groundbreaking, it belongs on the shelf of every civil rights movement scholar and in classrooms and libraries as well.” —Library Journal
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LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS
Forthcoming March 2010
FIERCE ANGELS: The Strong Black Woman in American Life and Culture
By Sheri Parks Fierce Angels explores the mythology of the “Strong Black Woman” in both black and mainstream cultures and the ways in which it both empowers and burdens black women and those around them. According to Dr. Parks in black life, black women exist the backbones of their families and communities. But assuming this mantle of the idealized “Strong Black Woman” comes at a cost and, as Dr. Parks argues, with standards that are humanly impossible to sustain over a lifetime without huge sacrfices. Do not order before 3/23/2010. One World | HC | 978-0-345-50314-5 | 256pp. | $25.00/$29.95C Exam Copy: $12.50
FORTY MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of the Black Athlete
By William C. Rhoden Provocative and controversial, Rhoden’s Forty Million Dollar Slaves weaves a compelling narrative of black athletes in the United States. Rhoden makes the cogent argument that black athletes’ “evolution” has merely been a journey from literal plantations—where sports were introduced as diversions to quell revolutionary stirrings—to today’s figurative ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. “Few writers can match Bill Rhoden as a commentator on the vexing subject of race and sports in America.” —Arnold Rampersad, author of Jackie Robinson: A Biography Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-35314-6 | 304pp. | $13.95/$17.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN cont. By Nigel Sadler This book gives an overview of the trans-Atlantic slave trade from its sixteenth century beginnings until its final abolition in the nineteenth century. It covers the main countries involved and explains the inner workings of the trade and the developments that made it easier and more profitable as the centuries passed. On the human level, the book uses the stories of the enslaved, often in their own words, to try to convey the horrors endured by these victims. Finally, it details the fight against slavery both by politicians such as William Wilberforce and by the military might of the Royal Navy.
David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter, and Edward Burns, a twenty-year police veteran of the urban drug war, take students to one of Baltimore’s most notorious corners—an open-air, twenty-four-hour narcotics market. Through the prism of one broken famly—two addicted parents and their vulnerable fifteen-year-old son—the authors tell a devastating story of neglect and offer chilling assessments of law enforcement policies, drug treatment programs, and the welfare system. Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-0031-7 | 576pp. | $16.95/$25.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN A Memoir
Shire | TR | 978-0-7478-0708-7 | 64pp. | $12.95/$14.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa
A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
By David Simon and Edward Burns
THE SLAVE TRADE
WILDFLOWER
THE CORNER
By Wole Soyinka NEW
By Mark Seal Veteran journalist Mark Seal takes us deep into Africa to tell the incredible life story and brutal death of naturalist, wildlife filmmaker, and conservationist Joan Root. She made headlines throughout her life for her activism in ecological preservation efforts, and her murder in 2006 sent shockwaves through her Kenyan neighborhood and the environmental community. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6736-7 | 256pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
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The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka here describes his turbulent life as an adult in (and in exile from) his beloved, beleaguered Nigeria. Soyinka captures the indomitable spirit of his homeland, bringing to life the friends and family who bolstered and inspired him. A work that discusses life during the terrible reign of General Sani Abacha, You Must Set Forth at Dawn is an intimate chronicle of Soyinka’s thrilling public life, a meditation on justice and tyranny, and a mesmerizing testament to a ravaged yet hopeful land. Random House | TR | 978-0-375-75514-9 | 528pp. | $16.95/$21.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
DEATH OF INNOCENCE
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The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
Paperback
By Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
By Thomas J. Sugrue The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7038-8 | 736pp. | $18.00/$22.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
In 1955, fourteen-year-old black Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi by two white men who wanted to “teach him a lesson” because he had allegedly whistled at a white woman. The trial became a media circus, and the acquittal of the accused murderers was met with jubilation by local whites. What followed would alter the course of events in this country, set in motion by the sheer will, determination, and courage of Mamie Till-Mobley, a young mother who refused to let go, even when those closest to her were urging her to do just that. One World | TR | 978-0-8129-7047-0 | 320pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
A HOPE IN THE UNSEEN
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An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League
SATCHEL
By Ron Suskind
By Larry Tye
Popular College Common Reading Selection
More than a fascinating account of a baseball odyssey, this book rewrites our history of the integration of baseball featuring Satchel Paige. This is a powerful portrait of an American hero who employed a shuffling stereotype to disarm critics and racists, floated comical legends about himself—including about his own age—to deflect inquiry and remain elusive, and in the process methodically built his own myth.
The Life and Times of an American Legend
Ron Suskind won the Pulitzer Prize for the pair of articles that form the seed of A Hope in the Unseen, which tells the story of Cedric Jennings, an African-American teenager who is ferociously determined to study his way out of the inner city and get his piece of the American dream. Suskind follows Jennings from his early years in high school through his first year at Brown University. “Suskind uses his reporter skills brilliantly, portraying Cedric’s outer and inner life and making an eloquent though unstated plea for affirmative action. Essential reading that provides some small hope for our social ills.” —Library Journal (starred review) Teacher’s Guide Available Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-0126-0 | 400pp. | $15.95/$22.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY
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Teacher’s Guide Forthcoming Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6651-3 | 416pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
Forthcoming January 2010
STREET SHADOWS A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
By Jerald Walker Masterfully told, Street Shadows tells the story of a young African American’s youthful descent into the “thug life” of the streets of Chicago, and the wake-up call that leads to his finding himself again. This stirring examination of one man’s experience of class and race in America helps to illuminate issues in the country’s past as well as present-day. Do not order before 1/26/2010. Bantam | HC | 978-0-553-80755-4 | 256pp. | $25.00/$29.95C Exam Copy: $12.50
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AFRICAN/AFRICAN AMERICAN cont. BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME
HURRICANE KATRINA Paperback forthcoming in February 2010
A True Story
NINE LIVES
By Timothy B. Tyson
Death and Life in New Orleans
Popular College Common Reading Selection
By Dan Baum
In the tradition of To Kill a Mockingbird, Blood Done Sign My Name is a classic work of conscience. Tim Tyson’s riveting narrative of a fiery summer of racial conflict and one family’s struggle to build bridges in a time of destruction is a complex rendering of a true story, in which violence and faith, courage and evil, despair and hope all mingle to powerful effect. “In this outstanding personal history, Tyson, a professor of African-American studies who’s white, unflinchingly examines the civil rights struggle in the South.... He also artfully interweaves the history of race relations in the South, carefully and convincingly rejecting less complex and self-serving versions.... Tyson’s avoidance of stereotypes and simple answers brings a shameful recent era in our country’s history to vivid life. This book deserves the largest possible audience.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-1-4000-8311-4 | 368pp. | $14.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X By Malcolm X This now-modern classic book is the result of a unique collaboration between Alex Haley and Malcolm X, whose voice and philosophy resonate from every page, just as his experience and his intelligence continue to speak to millions on the greatest issue of our day: the ongoing AfricanAmerican struggle for social and economic equality. Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-37671-8 | 544pp. | $15.00/$23.00C Exam Copy: $3.00 Ballantine Books | MM | 978-0-345-35068-8 | 496pp. | $7.99/$10.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
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After Hurricane Katrina, Dan Baum moved to New Orleans to write about the city’s response to the disaster for The New Yorker. He quickly realized that Katrina was not the most interesting thing about New Orleans. Nine Lives is a multi-voiced biography of this dazzling, surreal, and imperiled city through the lives of nine characters over forty years and bracketed by two epic storms: Hurricane Betsy, which transformed the city in the 1960’s, and Katrina, which nearly destroyed it. Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52319-6 | 352pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00 Do not order paperback before 2/16/2010. Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52320-2 | 352pp. | $14.00/$17.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
HURRICANE KATRINA Response and Responsibilities, Second Edition
Edited by John Brown Childs The voices gathered in this book represent critical and personal responses to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. They are a second volley following the immediate journalism, and suggest the kind of dialogue, critical analysis and hopeful spirit that will be necessary in the reconstruction of the Gulf Coast. All essays were donated; all proceeds will go to the Follow Your Heart Action Network. www.followyourheartactionnetwork.com North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-55643-792-2 | 224pp. | $10.00/$13.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
By Jed Horne Journalist Jed Horne, a French Quarter resident, was an up-close witness to the chaos and horror of Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on his two decades in the Big Easy, Horne steps back and locates the roots of the disaster in the culture of New Orleans; in the politics of this troubled city; and in the national politics of homeland security, poverty, and race relations. He addresses the government’s lackluster response to the crisis, the polarizing debate over whether to rebuild the city, and the initial reconstruction efforts. “[A] splendid mix of reporting and commentary…. Horne, with a sure grasp of local politics and culture, provides a [clear] sense of why things fell apart so completely in New Orleans.” —The New York Times Book Review
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ASIAN STUDIES INVENTING JAPAN 1853-1964
By Ian Buruma “Those familiar with Ian Buruma’s impressive body of work on Japan will not be disappointed by Inventing Japan. This compelling narrative captures the excitement, triumph, and failure of the century in which Japan abandoned its traditional ways and entered into the modern world.” —James L. McClain, Professor of History, Brown University and author of Japan: A Modern History Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7286-3 | 208pp. | $12.95/$17.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
From Village to City in a Changing China
now in Paperback
By Leslie T. Chang An eye-opening and previously untold story, Factory Girls is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they attempt to rise from the assembly lines of Dongguan, an industrial city in China’s Pearl River Delta.
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FACTORY GIRLS
BREACH OF FAITH
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NOTHING TO ENVY Ordinary Lives in North Korea
By Barbara Demick This riveting work of non-fiction follows the lives of six North Koreans over the past 15 years, a chaotic period in which one-fifth of the population died of starvation. Nothing to Envy ultimately addresses how human relationships remain intact in the most oppressive of environments and how darkness provides the only freedom in North Korea. Do not order before 12/29/2009. Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52390-5 | 288pp. | $26.00/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
CHINA ROAD A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
By Rob Gifford In China Road, acclaimed National Public Radio reporter Rob Gifford takes the dramatic journey along Route 312—China’s Route 66—from its origin burgeoning Shanghai to its end on the border with Kazakhstan. Gifford reveals the rich mosaic of modern Chinese life in all its contradictions, as he poses the crucial questions that so many are asking about China: Will it really be the next global superpower? Is it as solid and as powerful as it looks from the outside? And who are the ordinary Chinese people, to whom the twenty-first century is supposed to belong? Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7524-6 | 352pp. | $17.00/$20.00 Exam Copy: $3.00
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ASIAN STUDIES cont. LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram
By Dang Thuy Tram Brutally honest and rich in detail, this posthumously published diary of a twenty-seven-year-old Vietcong woman doctor, saved from destruction by an American soldier, gives us fresh insight into the lives of those fighting on the other side of the Vietnam War. It is a story of the struggle for one’s ideals amid the despair and grief of war, but most of all, it is a story of hope in the most dire circumstances. “A book to be read by and included in any course on the literature of the war…. A major contribution.” —Chicago Tribune Teacher’s Guide Available Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-34738-1 | 256pp. | $12.95/$14.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
LATINA / LATINO STUDIES CAPOEIRA BEYOND BRAZIL By Aniefre Essien This expansion from the favellas (slums) to the world stage has introduced a host of new capoeira practitioners with varied lineages, techniques, and traditions. In Capoeira Beyond Brazil, Aniefre Essien brings an international, political perspective to capoeira, speaking to both the novice and aficionado, as well as to historians, martial artists, social justice organizers, and youth development professionals. Blue Snake Books | TR | 978-1-58394-255-0 | 136pp. | $15.95/$18.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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HUGO! The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution
By Bart Jones Ruling elites in Venezuela, the United States and Europe, and even Hugo Chávez himself though for different reasons, have been eager to have the world view him as the heir to Fidel Castro. But the truth about this increasingly influential world leader is more complex, and more interesting. The Chávez that emerges from Bart Jones’ carefully researched and documented biography is neither a plaster saint nor a revolutionary tyrant. Steerforth | TR | 978-1-58642-145-8 | 600pp. | $22.95/$25.95C Exam Copy: $11.50
CONQUISTADOR Hernan Cortes, King Montezuma, and the Last Stand of the Aztecs
By Buddy Levy Acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day. In less than two years after his arrival on the shores of Mexico, Cortés defeated the Aztec king, Montezuma and his entire nation in one of the most astounding battles ever waged. The story of a lost kingdom, a relentless conqueror, and a doomed warrior, Conquistador is history at its most riveting. Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38471-0 | 448pp. | $18.00/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
HUNGER OF MEMORY
The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
The Education of Richard Rodriguez
By Sonia Nazario
Winner, Christopher Prize for Autobiography Winner, The Anisfeld-Wolf Prize for Civil Rights
Popular College Common Reading Selection
When Enrique was just five years old, his mother Lourdes, seeing no other way out of their poverty in Honduras, decided to make the hazardous trek north. Enrique and his siblings struggled without their mother, until he finally made his way from the rough streets of Tegucigalpa through Mexico and across the dangerous Texan border. Nazario’s expert reporting allows students to encounter each setback alongside Enrique, and the result is as suspenseful and harrowing as it is informative. Enrique’s Journey is a timely account of one anguished family’s experience with an issue of international scope and urgency—illegal immigration—but it is also a timeless, mythic story of a dangerous journey undertaken to make a broken family whole. “This portrait of poverty and family ties has the potential to reshape American conversations about immigration.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) www.enriquesjourney.com Teacher’s Guide Available Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7178-1 | 336pp. | $16.00/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
BORDER CROSSER One Gringo’s Illicit Passage from Mexico into America
By Richard Rodriguez
The poignant journey of a “minority student” who pays the cost of his social assimilation and academic success with painful alienation from his past, his parents, and his culture. Bantam | MM | 978-0-553-27293-2 | 224pp. | $6.99/$9.99C Exam Copy: $3.00 Dial Press | TR | 978-0-553-38251-8 | 224pp. | $15.00/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
SHORT STORIES BY LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN The Magic and the Real
By Celia Correas de Zapata Introduction by Isabel Allende Celia Correas de Zapata, an internationally recognized expert in the field of Latin American fiction written by women, has collected stories by thirty-one authors from fourteen countries, translated into English by such renowned scholars and writers as Gregory Rabassa and Margaret Sayers Peden. Contributors include Dora Alonso, Rosario Ferré, Elena Poniatowska, Ana Lydia Vega, and Luisa Valenzuela. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-6707-4 | 272pp. | $13.95/$17.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY
By Johnny Rico Posing as a journalist covering “that whole border issue,” Johnny Rico set out to cross the Mexican border as the natives do—over the fence and through the desert: a task that, in theory, seemed easy to execute, but was complicated by the messy reality of Border Patrol, drug cartels, and human-smuggling “coyotes.” Additionally, Rico rode along with and interviewed illegal immigrants, the citizen activists who patrol the border, and humanitarian groups. Ballantine Books | HC | 978-0-345-50383-1 | 288pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
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SISTERS IN WAR
MIDDLE EAST HOW TO WIN A COSMIC WAR God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
A Story of Love, Family, and Survival in the New Iraq NEW
By Reza Aslan How to Win a Cosmic War is both an in-depth study of the ideology fueling al-Qa‘ida, the Taliban, and like-minded militants throughout the Muslim world, and an exploration of religious violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Surveying the global scene from Israel to Iraq and from New York to the Netherlands, Aslan argues that religion is a stronger force today than it has been in a century. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6672-8 | 256pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
NO GOD BUT GOD The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
By Reza Aslan No god but God is a persuasive and elegantly written account of the roots of this reformation and the future of Islamic faith—and a compelling look at the future of the Middle Eastern society. “Aslan convincingly states that the bigotry, fanaticism, and fundamentalism now infecting Islam are the last gasps of small, doomed religious factions, not the beginning of a horrific future. His understanding of al-Qaeda, Saudi Arabia, and the insurgencies in Iraq; the differences between Islamic and American democracy; and the Sufi belief in love as the most important ethic of any religion are all reasons to put great stock in this excellent primer of Islam. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal
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By Christina Asquith In Sisters in War, journalist Christina Asquith tells the story of the Iraq war and its aftermath through the eyes of four women who survived it: Iraqi sisters Zia and Nunu, US reservist Heather Coyne, and Washington, D.C. women’s rights activist Manal Omar. Asquith weaves together their fascinating stories to create a larger picture of women’s experience in Iraq during the occupation. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6704-6 | 352pp. | $26.00/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
THE TRAGEDY OF ZIONISM How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy
By Bernard Avashai The subject of intense controversy when it was first published in 1985, The Tragedy of Zionism provides illuminating insight into the history behind the headlines. Now revised, this poignant chronicle addresses timely and compelling questions: could Israel be a democratic state if, in the name of being a Jewish state, it discriminated against non-Jews, including a fifth of its citizens who are of Palestinian Arab origin? Could it be a Jewish state without granting a privileged position to Jewish orthodoxy? The Tragedy of Zionism calls for democracy as an end in itself—not as a political luxury, but as an indispensable means to settle disputes nonviolently. Helios Press | TR | 978-1-5811-5258-6 | 400pp. | $27.50/NCR Exam Copy: $13.75
FUNNY IN FARSI
A New Vision of Israel and Palestine
By Firoozeh Dumas
By Kim Chernin
Popular College Common Reading Selection
The title of this book is a phrase often used to describe the fate of the Jewish people in the world and invokes one of the central arguments for the creation of the state of Israel. In this thoughtful collection of essays, Kim Chernin suggests that the Zionist struggle has left the Palestinian people in a similar predicament; now they, too, are merely guests in their former homeland.
Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Firoozeh Dumas’s wonderfully engaging family who moved from Iran to Southern California in the 1970s, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country.
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THE STRUGGLE FOR IRAN By Christopher de Bellaigue Who rules Iran, and how secure is their grip on a young and restless society? How should the world respond to allegations that the Islamic Republic is building nuclear weapons and supporting terrorists? Bellaigue addresses these and other questions in this essential guide to a nation at a crucial crossroads.
A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
“What’s charming beyond the humor of this memoir is that it remains affectionate even in the weakest, most tenuous moments for the culture. It’s the brilliance of true sophistication at work.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Today, as Middle Easterners in the United States are subject to racial profiling, stereotyping, and sometimes violence, this book provides a valuable glimpse into the immigrant experiences of one very entertaining family.” —Library Journal Teacher’s Guide Available Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6837-8 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
IRAN AWAKENING
“De Bellaigue’s… anecdotes and interviews provide tremendously valuable context for many of today’s headlines.”
One Woman’s Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country
New York Review Books | HC | 978-1-59017-238-4 | 224pp. $22.95/NCR | Exam Copy: $11.50
This is the moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite the challenges she has faced raising a family while pursuing her work.
—Washington Post Book World
CULTURAL / ETHNIC STUDIES
EVERYWHERE A GUEST, NOWHERE AT HOME
By Shirin Ebadi and Azadeh Moaveni
“The safety and freedom of citizens in democracies is irretrievably bound with the safety and freedom of people like Shirin Ebadi who are fighting to reassert the best achievements of mankind: universal human rights. One of the staunchest advocates for human rights in her country and beyond, Ms. Ebadi, herself a devout Muslim, represents hope for many in Muslim societies that Islam and democracy are indeed compatible.” —Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7528-4 | 256pp. | $14.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE CRISIS OF ISLAM
MIDDLE EAST cont.
Holy War and Unholy Terror
JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran
By Roya Hakakian This memoir of a young Iranian-American poet and journalist is the story of one deeply intelligent young girl’s attempt to find an authentic voice of her own during a time of familial and national upheaval. “Poet and documentary filmmaker Hakakian presents a lyrically poignant account of her coming-of-age years in revolution-beset Iran.... Reflecting on growing up both Jewish and female in an increasingly restrictive environment, she is able to offer a unique perspective on the search for spiritual sustenance in a rapidly constricting society. It is both a joy and a privilege to bear witness to one young girl’s remarkable emotional and artistic metamorphosis within a stunningly repressive culture.” —Booklist Teacher’s Guide Available Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-609-81030-9 | 272pp. | $13.00/$18.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
A MIDDLE EAST MOSAIC Fragments of Life, Letters and History
By Bernard Lewis From the time of the Roman Empire to the present day, Westerners have traveled to the lands of the Middle East, bringing back descriptions of their adventures and impressions. In this spirited collection of Western views of the Middle East (and vice versa), Bernard Lewis gives us a rich overview of two thousand years of East-West commerce, diplomacy, war and exploration: we peer into Queen Elizabeth’s business correspondence, strike oil with Freya Stark, and follow the footsteps of Mark Twain and Ibn Battuta, the Marco Polo of the East. A stunning success, this book is a treasury of stories drawn not only from letters, diaries, and histories, but also from unpublished archives and previously untranslated accounts. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-375-75837-9 | 496pp. | $20.00/$23.00C Exam Copy: $10.00
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By Bernard Lewis In The Crisis of Islam, Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today, and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. Ranging widely through thirteen centuries of history, Lewis looks at the theological origins of political Islam and takes readers through the rise of militant Islam in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. “Inestimable ... replete with the exceptional historical insight that one has come to expect from the world’s foremost Islamic scholar.”
—The Wall Street Journal
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INHERITING THE HOLY LAND An American’s Search for Hope in the Middle East
By Jennifer Miller Writing with fierce honesty, Jennifer Miller has created an extraordinary synthesis of history, reportage, and coming-of-age memoir. Inheriting the Holy Land, her groundbreaking perspective on the Middle East conflict, presents her insights through interviews with young Israelis and Palestinians and through conversations with some of the most influential officials involved, including Shimon Peres, Yasir Arafat, James Baker, Benjamin Netanyahu, Colin Powell, Ehud Barak, and Mahmoud Abbas. Teacher’s Guide Available Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-46925-0 | 320pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN
America’s Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace
A Memoir in Books
By Aaron David Miller
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By Azar Nafisi
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Having participated in every peace negotiation between Israel and the Arabs from Bush 41 to Clinton to Bush 43, and having served as a key advisor to six Secretaries of State, Miller has a unique and incomparable understanding of the Arab-Israeli peace process and America’s place in it. Now, using his own experience and new exclusive interviews with world leaders, he reflects on America’s role in the historic peace process and offers practical solutions for the future. Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38414-7 | 416pp. | $16.00/$19.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled artistic expression, the girls in Azar Nafisi’s living room risked removing their veils and immersed themselves in the worlds of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James, and Vladimir Nabokov. “A memoir about teaching Western literature in revolutionary Iran, with profound and fascinating insights into both. A masterpiece.”
HONEYMOON IN TEHRAN Two Years of Love and Danger in Iran
—Bernard Lewis, author of The Crisis of Islam
By Azadeh Moaveni Azadeh Moaveni returns to her homeland in Honeymoon in Tehran, a deeply personal chronicle of Iranian life in the turbulent era of President Ahmadinejad. “This perfect blend of political commentary and social observation is an excellent choice for readers interested in going beyond the headlines to gain an in-depth understanding of twenty-first-century Iran.” —Booklist
Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6645-2 | 352pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
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THINGS I’VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT Memories
By Azar Nafisi Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived against the background of a country’s political revolution, a girl’s pain over family secrets, and the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval. These and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6361-1 | 368pp. | $27.00/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.75
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ANTHROPOLOGY
THE ORIENTALIST
THE FIRST AMERICANS
Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
In Pursuit of Archaeology’s Greatest Mystery
By Tom Reiss
By James Adovasio and Jake Page
Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany.
Archaeologist J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7276-4 | 496pp. | $15.95/$20.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
EMBRACING THE INFIDEL
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Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West
By Behzad Yaghmaian Embracing the Infidel takes students on a journey through a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to London, tracing the paths of Muslim migrants on their journey to the West. Having lived for several months with many migrants on the road, Dr. Yaghmaian weaves together the migrants’ stories as they navigate alien social and political landscapes, make deals with smugglers and police, and cross borders on their way to their destinations. “Embracing the Infidel adds an entirely new and human dimension to our understanding of migration and asylum issues.” —Dr. Jeff Crisp, Director of Policy and Research, Global Commission on International Migration
“With none of the rambling typical of unedited oral histories, Yaghmaian tells these unforgettable stories with terse drama, combining his sympathetic commentary with the immediacy of rich, diverse voices.”
—Booklist
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“Timely and cogent in its aims and arguments, it should prompt new critical questions about the initial peopling of the Americas.” —Tom D. Dillehay, T. Marshall Hahn Professor of Anthropology, University of Kentucky Modern Library | TR | 978-0-375-75704-4 | 352pp. | $15.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE AMERICAS A Hemispheric History
By Felipe Fernández-Armesto The inhabitants of the landmass stretching from northern Canada to the southern tip of Argentina are complexly bound together, yet these connections, from food to the spread of political ideas, are generally ignored. In this groundbreaking and vividly rendered work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells, for the first time, the story of the American hemisphere as a whole, showing how it is impossible to understand North, Central, or South America in isolation, and looking instead to the intricate common forces that continue to shape the region. With his trademark rigor, imagination, and thematic breadth, Fernández-Armesto covers topics including commerce, religion, agriculture, the environment, the slave trade, culture, and politics. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7554-3 | 256pp. | $11.95/$16.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
INDIAN GIVERS
By Judith Nies
How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Offering a unique perspective on the history of Native American peoples—their culture, history, and politics— Judith Nies juxtaposes Native American history with the history of Western civilization, highlighting the Native American scientific knowledge and agricultural sophistication of the Native Americans. This historical and cultural narrative is presented in a timeline format. “...The author's political, social, religious, and military analyses are lucid and specific.... Several maps and plenty of dark but revealing black-and-white photos enhance this eye-opening survey.” —Library Journal
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By Jack Weatherford After 500 years, the world’s huge debt to the wisdom of the Indians of the Americas has finally been explored in all its vivid drama by anthropologist Jack Weatherford. He traces the crucial contributions made by the Indians to our federal system of government, our democratic institutions, modern medicine, agriculture, architecture, and ecology, and in this astonishing, ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward recovering a true American history. “As entertaining as it is thoughtful.... Few contemporary writers have Weatherford's talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate.” —The Washington Post
THE WOMAN IN THE SHAMAN’S BODY Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-449-90496-1 | 288pp. | $13.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
By Barbara Tedlock
THE WORLDING PROJECT
Shamanism was not only humankind’s first spiritual and healing practice, it was originally the domain of women: this is the claim of Barbara Tedlock’s provocative and myth-shattering book. Reinterpreting generations of scholarship, Tedlock—an anthropology professor and herself an expert in dreamwork, divination, and healing— explains how and why she believes the role of women in shamanism has been misinterpreted and suppressed, offering a dazzling array of evidence—from prehistoric African rock art to modern Mongolian ceremonies —for women’s shamanic powers.
Doing Cultural Studies in the Era of Globalization
“Her latest fascinating monograph is the mature work of a confident scholar, bringing many disparate pieces of evidence together in a sweeping summary of the integral role of women in religion and medicine through many centuries....Tedlock has shifted the way we view the feminine in diverse historical and current shamanic practices by daring to be strategically cross-cultural....[T]his book is likely to become a classic.”
Edited by Christopher Leigh and Connery and Rob Wilson Globalization discourse now presumes that the “world space” is entirely at the mercy of market norms and forms promulgated by reactionary U.S. policies. An academic but accessible set of studies, this wide range of essays by noted scholars challenges this paradigm with diverse and strong arguments. Taking on topics that range from the medieval Mediterranean to contemporary Jamaican music, from Hong Kong martial arts cinema to Taiwanese politics, writers such as David Palumbo-Liu, Meaghan Morris, James Clifford, and others use innovative cultural studies to challenge the globalization narrative with a new and trenchant tactic called “worlding.” North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-1-55643-680-2 | 256pp. | $16.00/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
—American Anthropologist
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SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION MORMON EXPERIENCES
LEAVING THE SAINTS
LOST BOY
How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
By Brent W. Jeffs with Maia Szalavitz
By Martha Beck
In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability. In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet’s compound—and the harsh exile existence that so many boys face once they have been expelled by the sect.
A former member of “Mormon Royalty”, Martha Beck became by the way the Church of Latter Day Saints’ elders silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs when she became a professor at Brigham Young University. Leaving the Saints chronicles Martha’s decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had cradled her for so long and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-33599-9 | 352pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE 19TH WIFE: A Novel By David Ebershoff
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“[A] moving debut memoir.... This hard-to-put-down, tightly woven account pulls back the curtain on what’s become a perennial news story, while illustrating the impiety of absolute power and the delicacy of innocence.”
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It is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young has recently separated from her powerful husband, Brigham Young, prophet and leader of the Mormon Church. Expelled and an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on a crusade to end polygamy in the United States. Yet soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, a second exquisite narrative unfolds—a tale of murder involving a polygamist family in present-day Utah. Based on extensive research, David Ebershoff’s New York Times best-selling novel takes us inside two worlds linked by one controversial practice. “This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult... Ebershoff brilliantly blends a haunting fictional narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th “rebel” wife of Mormon leader Brigham Young, with the equally compelling contemporary narrative of fictional Jordan Scott, a 20-year-old gay man…With the topic of plural marriage and its shattering impact on women and powerless children in today’s headlines, this novel is essential reading for anyone seeking understanding of the subject.” –Publishers Weekly, Starred and “Pick of the Week” Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7415-7 | 544pp. | $15.00/$17.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
NEW
—Publishers Weekly, starred review Broadway | HC | 978-0-7679-3177-9 | 256pp. | $24.95/$28.95C Exam Copy: $12.50
ESCAPE By Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer Escape is the dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, and one woman’s courageous flight to freedom with her eight children. “Escape provides an astonishing look behind the tightly drawn curtains of the FLDS Church, one of the most secretive religious groups in the United States. The story Carolyn Jessop tells is so weird and shocking that one hesitates to believe a sect like this, with 10,000 polygamous followers, could really exist in 21st-century America. But Jessop’s courageous, heart-wrenching account is absolutely factual. This riveting book reminds us that truth can indeed be much, much stranger than fiction.” —Jon Krakauer, Author of Under the Banner of Heaven, Into Thin Air, and Into the Wild
“Though Jessop’s circumstances were unusual—and particularly harrowing—her memoir will appeal to many women who have left abusive relationships.” —Kirkus Reviews Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-2757-4 | 448pp. | $14.95/$16.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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AMERICAN GOSPEL
By Karen Armstrong
God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
No religion in the modern world is as feared and misunderstood as Islam. It haunts the popular Western imagination as an extreme faith that promotes authoritarian government, female oppression, civil war, and terrorism. Karen Armstrong’s short history offers a vital corrective to this narrow view. The distillation of years of thinking and writing about Islam, it demonstrates that the world’s fastest-growing faith is a much richer and more complex phenomenon than its modern fundamentalist strain might suggest. “A valuable corrective to the hostile caricatures of Islam that circulate in the English-speaking world.... Engaging and provocative.” —The New York Times “Karen Armstrong, a respected and popular author of several books about religion…takes on a useful and formidable task in presenting the history of Islam in a single short volume. As many other such works have been written either by apologists or by those hostile to Islam, Armstrong’s comprehensive and sympathetic work is welcome.” —Los Angeles Times Teacher’s Guide Available Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-6618-3 | 272pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
OCCULT AMERICA: The Secret History
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of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation
By Mitch Horowitz From the meaning of the symbols on the one-dollar bill to the origins of the Ouija board, Occult America briskly sweeps from the nation’s earliest days to the birth of the New Age era. Here, too, are America’s homegrown religious movements, from transcendentalism to spiritualism to Christian Science to the positive-thinking philosophy that continues to exert such a powerful pull on the public today.
By Jon Meacham At a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American Gospel draws on the past to offer a new perspective. Meacham re-creates the fascinating history of a nation grappling with religion and politics—from John Winthrop’s “city on a hill” sermon to Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence; from the Revolution to the Civil War; from a proposed nineteenth-century Christian Amendment to the Constitution to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call for civil rights; from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7666-3 | 448pp. | $15.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
DEATH, TRUST AND SOCIETY Mapping Religion and Culture
By Lionel Rothkrug Lionel Rothkrug made his name 25 years ago by theorizing that just as a human personality is defined by how an individual organizes his or her powers to behave, so a society acquires personality in the exercise of its organizational powers. Death, Trust, and Society revisits and expands on this concept by focusing on how society’s attitudes toward the dead—seen in funerary rites, mortuary practices, and pilgrimage patterns—shape the formation of social structures and contribute to the development of cultural traits. North Atlantic Books | HC | 978-1-55643-551-5 | 192pp. | $25.00/$31.50C Exam Copy: $12.50
“A sparkling, down-to-earth and often deeply touching account of a powerful, much misunderstood force in the formation of America’s cultural and spiritual identity.” —Jacob Needleman, author of The American Soul and The New Religions Bantam | HC | 978-0-553-80675-5 | 304pp. | $27.00/$33.00C Exam Copy: $13.75
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SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION cont. FOUNDING FAITH How Our Founding Fathers Forged a Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty
By Steven Waldman Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state. Neither of these claims is true, argues Beliefnet.com editor in chief Steven Waldman. With refreshing objectivity, Waldman narrates a more accurate story of how our nation’s Founders forged a new approach to religious liberty. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7474-4 | 304pp. | $16.00/$19.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND SOCIOLOGY THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES By Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
By Charles Darwin Perhaps the most readable of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species set forth a theory of evolution and natural selection that challenged contemporary beliefs about divine providence and the immutability of species. This edition also includes an introductory sketch and a glossary Darwin later added to the original text. Bantam Classics | MM | 978-0-553-21463-5 | 512pp. | $5.95/$6.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE INTEGRAL VISION
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A Very Short Introduction to the Revolutionary Integral Approach to Life, God, the Universe, and Everything
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
By Ken Wilber Suppose we took everything that all the various world cultures have to tell us about human potential—about psychological, spiritual, and social growth—and identified the basic patterns that connect these pieces of knowledge. Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision provides such a map. Using all the known systems and models of human growth—from the ancient sages to the latest breakthroughs in cognitive science—it distills their major components into five simple elements. Shambhala | TR | 978-1-59030-475-4 | 224pp. | $15.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
By Charles Darwin; Foreword by Edward J. Larson Modern Library | TR | 978-0-375-75146-2 | 720pp. | $11.00/$13.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE SCIENTIST AS REBEL By Freeman J. Dyson From Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, writes Freeman J. Dyson, scientists have been rebels. Dyson tells stories of scientists at work, ranging from Isaac Newton’s absorption in physics, alchemy, theology, and politics, to Albert Einstein’s stubborn hostility to the idea of black holes. These essays, by a distinguished physicist who is also a prolific writer, offer informed insights into the history of science and fresh perspectives on contentious current debates about science, ethics, and faith. New York Review Books | TR | 978-1-59017-294-0 | 400pp. $17.95/$19.95C | Exam Copy: $3.00
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MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS
A Reporter’s Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial
The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
By H.L. Mencken Fiercely intelligent, scathingly honest, and hysterically funny, H.L. Mencken’s coverage of the Scopes Monkey Trial so galvanized the nation that it eventually inspired a Broadway play and the classic Hollywood movie Inherit the Wind. A Religious Orgy In Tennessee includes all of Mencken’s reports for The Baltimore Sun, The Nation, and The American Mercury. Also included is a complete transcript of the trial’s most legendary exchange: Darrow’s blistering cross-examination of Bryan. Melville House | TR | 978-1-9336-3317-6 | 176pp. | $16.95/$20.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS An Uncensored History of AIDS
By Celia Farber Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS asks important questions about the costs and results of the twodecade long “war on AIDS.” Here Farber conducts new interviews with controversial AIDS dissidents, including UC Berkeley’s Peter Duesberg, UNAM’s Harvey Bialy, and Nobelist Kary Mullis. Their views on HIV and cancer—rarely discussed in the mainstream press—are considered at length. Melville House | TR | 978-1-933-63301-5 | 300pp. | $16.95/$25.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
OUT OF THE BLUE A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival
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By John Friedman The odds of being hit by lightning each year are only about 1 in 750,000 in the U.S. And yet this rare phenomenon has inspired both fear and fascination for thousands of years. Out of the Blue attempts to understand this towering force of nature, exploring the changing perceptions of lightning from the earliest civilizations through Benjamin Franklin’s revolutionary experiments to the hairraising adventures of storm chasers like David Hoadley, who’s been chronicling extreme weather for half a century.
By Tracy Kidder Popular College Common Reading Selection An ALA Notable Book; A New York Times Notable book
Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Kidder tells the true story of Dr. Paul Farmer, Harvard professor, renowned infectiousdisease specialist, anthropologist, and recipient of a MacArthur “genius” grant. Dr. Farmer was in medical school when he found his life’s calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” “In this excellent work, Pulitzer Prize-winner Kidder immerses himself in and beautifully explores the rich drama that exists in the life of Dr. Paul Farmer… Throughout, Kidder captures the almost saintly effect Farmer has on those whom he treats.” —Publishers Weekly
“Kidder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, writes clearly and engagingly.... This book is being widely used in freshman seminars at colleges across the United States, and it will likely stir debates on such wide-ranging issues as the politics of health care, the role of government funding, and ethics. Highly recommended.” —Choice (American Library Association) Teacher’s Guide Available Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7301-3 | 352pp. | $15.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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NIM CHIMPSKY
SONGS OF THE GORILLA NATION
The Chimp Who Would Be Human
My Journey Through Autism
By Elizabeth Hess
By Dawn Prince-Hughes
Project Nim, the brainchild of a Columbia University psychologist, was designed to refute Noam Chomsky’s claim that language is an exclusively human trait. Nim Chimpsky was raised like a human child and taught American Sign Language. But when funding for the study ended Nim was exiled from the people he loved, put in a cage, and moved from one facility to another. His story raises the most profound questions of what it means to be human—and about what we owe to the animals who enrich our lives.
In this inspirational and moving story, Dawn Prince-Hughes explores the depths of her emotional and psychological transformation, from a child with AutismAsperger's Syndrome and agoraphobia, to an adult with strong bonds to friends and family, as well as a highly successful career as a primate anthropologist.
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THE WELL-DRESSED APE A Natural History of Myself
By Hannah Holmes Comparing and contrasting the biology and behavior of humans with that of other creatures, Holmes demonstrates our position as an animal among other animals, a product of—and subject to—the same evolutionary processes. And not only are we animals—we are, in some important ways (such as our senses of smell and of vision), pitiably inferior ones. That such an animal came to exist at all is unlikely. That we have survived and prospered is extraordinary. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6541-7 | 368pp. | $25.00/NCR Exam Copy: $12.50
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LUCY’S LEGACY The Quest for Human Origins
By Dr. Donald Johanson and Kate Wong In this sequel to the bestseller Lucy: The Beginnings of Mankind, renowned paleoanthropologist Donald C. Johanson explores the extraordinary discoveries since Lucy was unearthed more than three decades ago. “In this insightful book, Lucy's discoverer, Johanson, and coauthor Wong explore what we've learned about Lucy's ancestors and descendants in the decades following his groundbreaking find and examine the mysteries about our past that remain, such as the identity of our last common ancestor with the African apes.” —Discover magazine
Harmony | HC | 978-0-307-39639-6 | 320pp. $25.00/$28.00C | Exam Copy: $12.50 Paperback coming March 2010.
EVOLUTION FOR EVERYONE
Bringing Human Rights to Medicine
How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
By David J. Rothman and Sheila M. Rothman Two healthcare experts investigate the intersections of human rights and medicine, looking at case studies of such issues as AIDS, organ trafficking, healthcare rationing, medical research in the third world, and South Africa’s constitutionally guaranteed right of access to healthcare. New York Review Books | HC | 978-1-59017-140-0 | 240pp. $24.95/$32.95C | Exam Copy: $12.50
POISONED PROFITS The Toxic Assault on Our Children
By Philip Shabecoff and Alice Shabecoff In this deftly argued and well-researched book, two journalists directly and definitively link industrial toxins to the current rise in childhood disease and death. In the tradition of Silent Spring, Poisoned Profits reveals that the children of baby boomers—the first to be raised in a truly “toxified” world—have higher rates of birth defects, asthma, cancer, autism, and other serious illnesses than previous generations. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6430-4 | 368pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
BANQUET AT DELMONICO’S Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
By Barry Werth “A rich, entertaining slab of Victorian American history, focused on the debate over evolution … Histories of ideas are rarely page-turners, but Werth has done the trick.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Fascinating study… Werth elegantly reveals a firm philosophical foundation for all the antilabor excesses of the Industrial Age.”
By David Sloan Wilson Evolution, as Wilson explains, is not just about dinosaurs and human origins, but about why all species behave as they do—from beetles that devour their own young, to bees that function as a collective brain, to dogs that are smarter in some respects than our closest ape relatives. And basic evolutionary principles are also the foundation for humanity’s capacity for symbolic thought, culture, and morality. In example after example, Wilson sheds new light on Darwin’s grand theory and how it can be applied to daily life. Delta | TR | 978-0-385-34092-2 | 400pp. | $15.00/$20.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
FOOD STUDIES FEED ME! Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image
Edited by Harriet Brown This collection of essays, from some of the most talented and popular writers working today, tackle the universal subjects of eating and food obsession with humor, longing, and compassion. Joyce Maynard writes about learning to make pie with her complex but adored mother. Caroline Leavitt’s chilling piece describes the overlap between power and eating. Ophira Edut explains how an outspoken “body outlaw” wound up on Jenny Craig. Diana Abu-Jaber writes about abandoning her Bedouin customs for America’s silverware and table manners—and missing the physical, hands-on connection with food. Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-50088-5 | 272pp. | $15.00/$17.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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FOOD STUDIES cont. THE ONE-STRAW REVOLUTION An Introduction to Natural Farming
By Masanobu Fukuoka; Translated by Larry Korn; Introduction by Frances Moore Lappe; Preface by Wendell Berry; Afterword by Masanobu Fukuoka Masanobu Fukuoka’s book about growing food has been changing the lives of readers since it was first published in 1978. It is a call to arms, a manifesto, and a radical rethinking of the global systems we rely on to feed us all. At the same time, it is the memoir of a man whose spiritual beliefs underpin and inform every aspect of his innovative farming system. NYRB Classics | TR | 978-1-59017-313-8 | 200pp. | $15.95/$18.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
STUFFED AND STARVED The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
By Raj Patel There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while there are also more people overweight (1 billion). To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. What he found was shocking, from the false choices given us by supermarkets to the real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa. Patel explains the steps to regain control of the global food economy and rebalance global sustenance. Melville House | TR | 9781933633497 | 416pp. | $19.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
PLENTY Eating Locally on the 100-Mile Diet
By Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon
FAIR SHARES FOR ALL A Memoir of Family and Food
By John Haney In this beautifully written, vividly rendered memoir, John Haney, Gourmet magazine’s copy chief, describes his family’s day-to-day struggles, from the twilight of Queen Victoria’s reign to the dawn of the third millennium, in London’s least affluent working-class enclaves and suburbs, including a place called the Isle of Dogs—and reflects on how his family’s affection for the past and the food they loved kept them together. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7986-2 | 304pp. | $15.00/$17.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
When Alisa Smith and James MacKinnon learned that the average ingredient in a North American meal travels 1,500 miles from farm to plate, they decided to launch a simple experiment to reconnect with the people and places that produced what they ate. For one year, they would only consume food that came from within a 100mile radius of their Vancouver apartment. The 100-Mile Diet was born. www.100milediet.org Three Rivers Press | 978-0-307-34733-6 | 272pp. | $13.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
HEIRLOOM Notes from an Accidental Tomato Farmer
By Tim Stark Situated beautifully at the intersection of Michael Pollan, Ruth Reichl, and Barbara Kingsolver, Heirloom is an inspiring, elegiac, and well-written memoir about rediscovering an older and still vital way of life. Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-2707-9 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
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PLANETWALKER 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence.
now in Paperback
By John Francis, Ph.D. 2007 Gold Winner—Nautlilus Book Awards in the categories of Ecology/Environment and Independent Press Popular College Common Reading Selection
After witnessing the devastating effects of the 1971 oil spill in San Francisco Bay, John Francis began a remarkable, solitary pilgrimage that would irrevocably change his life. An amazing human-interest story, with a vital message about saving our environment, Planetwalker is also an engaging coming-of-age odyssey. www.planetwalker.org National Geographic | TR | 978-1-4262-0405-0 | 288pp. | $16.95/$20.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything
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By Daniel Goleman 2009 Freshman Year Reading Selection at Virginia Tech
In his new book, internationally known psychologist Daniel Goleman, bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence, reveals the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and shows how new market forces can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet. “The theme of ecological awareness and environmental sustainability emerged as we considered a variety of books. The selection committee felt that such a theme would offer many options for engagement and use of the book across all colleges and disciplines. It could connect with new university efforts in the area of heightened environmental awareness and action and provide opportunities to facilitate community service options for students and faculty.” —Ron Daniel, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Eduction, Virginia Tech www.danielgoleman.info Broadway Business | HC | 978-0-385-52782-8 | 288pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00 | Paperback coming April 2010. For more books by Daniel Goleman, go to page 44.
THE END OF THE LONG SUMMER Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth
By Dianne Dumanoski In The End of the Long Summer, award-winning environmental journalist Dianne Dumanoski provides an accessibly written view of the current planetary crisis and delivers an urgent warning that our civilization must prepare for a future of radical uncertainty. “Dianne Dumanoski understands, as few have, the scale of the changes coming at us from our warming planet, and the scale of the changes we must make in return. A timely book, and a deep one!” –Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature Crown | HC | 978-0-307-39607-5 | 320pp. | $25.00/$29.95C Exam Copy: $12.50
THE GREATEST GIFT: The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang By Binka Le Breton In 1982, Sister Dorothy Stang moved to a small town in the Amazon to work with an organization to protect poor farmers and their land from loggers and land developers. Inspired by deep religious conviction, Sister Dorothy gave of herself generously. The Greatest Gift presents not only the story of her tragic murder, but the powerful and beautiful lessons of her life. Doubleday Religion | HC | 978-0-385-52218-2 | 256pp. | $22.95/$27.95C Exam Copy: $11.50
THE END OF NATURE
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By Bill McKibben Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the earth. McKibben writes of our earth’s environmental cataclysm, addressing such core issues as the greenhouse effect, acid rain, and the depletion of the ozone layer and argues that the survival of the globe is dependent on a fundamental, philosophical shift in the way we relate to nature. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7608-3 | 224pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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LONDON: A History
URBAN STUDIES WRESTLING WITH MOSES
By A.N. Wilson NEW
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York’s Master Builder and Transformed the American City
By Anthony Flint To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But power broker Robert Moses saw things differently: neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village were badly in need of “urban renewal.” The epic rivalry of Jacobs and Moses, played out amid the struggle for the soul of a city. In Wrestling with Moses, acclaimed reporter and urban planning policy expert Anthony Flint recounts this important David-andGoliath story, the legacy of which echoes through our society today.
In its two thousand years of history, London has ruled a rainy island and a globe-spanning empire, it has endured plague and fire and bombing, it has nurtured and destroyed poets and kings, revolutionaries and financiers, geniuses and visionaries of every stripe. To distill the veritable majesty of this enthralling city into a single brief volume would seem an impossible task. Yet acclaimed biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson brilliantly accomplishes it here. Wilson gives us the essence of the people, architecture, art, literature and history that make London one of the most fascinating cities in the world. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7556-7 | 240pp. | $14.00/$16.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
ECONOMY, LABOR & SCIENCE
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OLD MONEY
THE CITY
By Nelson Aldrich
A Global History
This insider’s look at inherited wealth in the United States explores the complex meanings of money and success in American society with a new introduction that examines whether America’s privileged class will be willing or able to play a leadership role in the twenty-first century.
By Joel Kotkin In this authoritative and engagingly written account, Joel Kotkin, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author, examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old question: What makes a city great? Kotkin follows the evolution of the city from the early religious centers of Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and China, to the imperial centers of the Classical era, through the rise of the Islamic city and the European commercial capitals, ending with today’s postindustrial suburban metropolis. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-375-75651-1 | 256pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
The Mythology of Wealth in America
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RESET: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America
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By Kurt Andersen In this smart and refreshingly hopeful book, Andersen—a brilliant analyst and synthesizer of historical and cultural trends—shows us why the current economic crisis is actually a moment of great opportunity for the U.S. The present flux, Andersen argues, can enable a society to consolidate the enormous gains of the last several decades in areas such as technology, crime prevention, women’s and civil rights, and the democratization of the planet. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6898-2 | 96pp. | $15.00/$17.50C Exam Copy: $7.50
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BUYING IN
Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
By John Bowe
By Rob Walker
In Nobodies, John Bowe travels from the agricultural quagmires of Florida to the factories and brothels of Saipan, filing a first-hand report on the working conditions that our government and our corporations depend on but are trying their best to ignore. Bowe delivers a sobering look at the moral costs of the cheap goods— from orange juice to cut-rate fashions—to which the U.S. economy has grown so accustomed. This is rich and vibrant reporting—not a polemic but a presentation of things as they are on the underside of American commerce.
Brands are dead. Advertising no longer works. Weaned on TiVo, the Internet, and other emerging technologies, the short-attention-span generation has become immune to marketing. Consumers are “in control.” Or so we’re told. In Buying In, New York Times Magazine “Consumed” columnist Rob Walker argues that this accepted wisdom misses a much more important and lasting cultural shift. Part marketing primer, part work of cultural anthropology, Buying In reveals why now, more than ever, we are what we buy—and vice versa.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7184-2 | 336pp. | $15.00/$17.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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BUYING & THE BRAIN
BUYOLOGY Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
WHY SHE BUYS The New Strategy for Reaching the World’s Most Powerful Consumers
By Martin Lindstrom Foreword by Paco Underhill
By Bridget Brennan
In Buyology, Lindstrom, who was voted one of Time Magazine’s most influential people of 2009, presents the astonishing findings from his groundbreaking, threeyear, seven-million-dollar neuromarketing study, a cuttingedge experiment that peered inside the brains of 2,000 volunteers from all around the world as they encountered various ads, logos, commercials, brands, and products.
If the consumer economy had a sex, it would be female. If the business world had a sex, it would be male. And therein lies the pickle. Women are the engine of the global economy, driving 80 percent of consumer spending in the United States alone. Bridget Brennan’s Why She Buys shows how to bridge this gender specific divide and capture the business of the world’s most powerful consumers. Crown Business | HC | 978-0-307-45038-8 | 336pp. | $26.00/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
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WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE?
THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST
The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor—And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
By Po Bronson A meditation, a journey, and a triumph of story-telling, What Should I Do with My Life? is a life-changing book by a writer who brilliantly tackles the big questions. With nine new stories not included in the hardcover, this expanded edition explores the question of how we come to understand and establish our roles in society. Random House | TR | 978-0-375-75898-0 | 432pp. | $14.95/$22.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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By Tim Harford “The economy [isn’t] a bunch of rather dull statistics with names like GDP (gross domestic product),” notes Tim Harford, columnist and regular guest on NPR’s Marketplace, “economics is about who gets what and why.” In this acclaimed book from the astute and entertaining columnist from the Financial Times demystifies the ways in which money works in the world.
Ballantine Books | MM | 978-0-345-48592-2 | 464pp. | $7.99/$10.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
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WHY DO I LOVE THESE PEOPLE?
DEAR UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST
Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family
Priceless Advice on Money, Work, Sex, Kids, and Life’s Other Challenges
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7242-9 | 400pp. | $14.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE LOGIC OF LIFE
MADE TO STICK
The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
By Tim Harford
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent? In this deftly reasoned book, Tim Harford argues that life is logical after all. Under the surface of everyday insanity, Harford argues, hidden incentives are at work, and he shows these incentives emerging in the most unlikely of places.
Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas? In Made to Stick, accomplished business educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath tackle head-on these vexing questions. In this indispensable guide, we discover that sticky messages of all kinds—from the infamous “kidney theft ring” hoax to a coach’s lessons on sportsmanship to a vision for a new product at Sony—draw their power from the same six traits. Provocative, eye-opening, and often surprisingly funny, Made to Stick shows us the vital principles of winning ideas—and tells us how we can apply these rules to making our own messages stick.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7787-5 | 272pp. | $15.00/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
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THE INFLUENCE OF AFFLUENCE
SWITCH: HOW TO CHANGE THINGS WHEN CHANGE IS HARD
How the New Rich Are Changing America
now in Paperback
By Chip Heath and Dan Heath
By Russ Alan Prince and Lewis Schiff
In the tradition of Made to Stick and Blink, Chip and Dan Heath’s new book Switch is filled with engaging and entertaining stories of how companies and individuals have brought about and sustained significant change.
Based on extensive surveys and research into more than 3,600 middle-class millionaire households around the country, this book takes a compelling look at a new class of the affluent—the middle-class millionaires— whose attitudes and values are influencing and reshaping American life. From the products Americans buy, to the communities in which they live, to the aspirations and values of the broader middle class and American population as a whole, their spending choices affect the rest of the country—from home security systems to health care, technology to travel.
Do not order before 2/1/2010. Broadway Business | HC | 978-0-385-52875-7 | 304pp. | $26.00/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
REVOLT ON GOOSE ISLAND By Kari Lydersen Days after getting a $45 billion bailout from the US government, Bank of America closed a line credit for Chicago’s Republic Windows & Doors factory. The factory owner shut down the business. Then something strange happened: The workers refused to leave the factory. In Revolt on Goose Island, ward-winning journalist Kari Lydersen presents a narrative account of the takeover, in an elegant parable that entwines the housing industry collapse, the bailout, immigrant labor, and one of the most stirring acts of labor activism in US history. Melville House | TR | 978-1-933-63382-4 | 176pp. | $16.00/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
BRANDING THE MAN By Bertrand Pellegrin Men are purchasing more clothes, shoes, health and beauty products, and personal care services than ever before. A store must not simply provide, but educate the male customer, who is growing hungry for something more than the usual Blue Plate Special of khakis and polo shirts. The design and branding of a man’s store ought to make men want to go shopping. Branding the Man tells us why. Allworth | HC | 978-1-5115-663-8 | 224pp.| $27.50/$34.00C Exam Copy: $13.75
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LIFE INC. How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
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By Douglas Rushkoff In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from being convenient legal fictions to being the dominant fact of contemporary life. Indeed, as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it. This fascinating journey, from the late Middle Ages to today, reveals the roots of our debacle and shows how the current financial crisis is actually an opportunity to reverse this six-hundred-year-old trend. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6689-6 | 304pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
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NOTHING SACRED The Truth About Judaism Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-1-4000-5139-7 | 304pp. | $14.00/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY POLITICAL LEADERSHIP Stories of Power and Politics from Literature and Life
By Robert Coles From ancient times to the present day, here are indispensable insights on political power and leadership as expressed in the novels, plays, and poetry of the world’s greatest artists and intellectuals. Adapted from a course taught at Harvard by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles, Political Leadership features scenes, stories, and speeches that pierce to the core of how and why some lead and others follow. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7170-5 | 336pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
NONVIOLENCE The History of a Dangerous Idea
By Mark Kurlansky Foreword by Dalai Lama In this groundbreaking, controversial, and definitive history, The New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky proposes that nonviolence is a technique that can speak truth to power to right social injustice or end wars. Drawing 25 provocative lessons from history, he questions the necessity of war and persuasively argues that even America’s major wars could have been avoided by nonviolent means. In Nonviolence, Kurlansky offers a sweeping yet concise history of the nonviolent responses to conflict from ancient Hindu times to today. Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7447-8 | 224pp. | $14.00/$16.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
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LEFT IN DARK TIMES
TEACHING STORIES
A Stand Against the New Barbarism
An Anthology on the Power of Learning and Literature Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7169-9 | 304pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
LIVES OF MORAL LEADERSHIP Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference Random House | TR | 978-0-375-75835-5 | 272pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
FEAR Anti-Semitism in Poland After Auschwitz
By Jan T. Gross Jan T. Gross’s Fear attempts to answer a perplexing question: How was anti-Semitism possible in Nazi-ravaged Poland after World War II? For more than half a century, what happened to the Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland has been cloaked in guilt and shame. Writing with passion, brilliance, and fierce clarity, Gross at last brings the truth to light. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6746-3 | 336pp. | $15.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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By Bernard-Henri Levy In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s leading intellectuals scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. At a time of ideological and political transition in America, Left in Dark Times is a polemical, incendiary articulation of the threats we all face. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7472-0 | 256pp. | $16.00/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
DREAMS FROM MY FATHER
CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN
A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise
By Barack Obama
Foreword by Barack Obama
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Change We Can Believe In includes seven key speeches from the 2008 Presidential campaign and outlines Barack Obama’s vision for America. Chapters include: Hope for America; Reviving Our Economy: Strengthening the Middle Class; Investing In Our Prosperity: Creating our Economic Future; Rebuilding America’s Leadership: Restoring our Place in the World; and Perfecting Our Union: Embracing America’s Values. With clarity and wisdom, Change We Can Believe In, which was put together by Obama for America, offers his practical and bold vision of government that is more accessible to ordinary folks.
“Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.” —Marian Wright Edelman Teacher’s Guide and Free Poster Available Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-1-4000-8277-3 | 480pp. | $14.95/$16.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE AUDACITY OF HOPE Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
By Barack Obama The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama’s call for a different brand of politics—a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the “endless clash of armies” we see in congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of “our improbable experiment in democracy.” He explores those forces—from the fear of losing to the perpetual need to raise money to the power of the media—that can stifle even the best-intentioned politician. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-23770-5 | 384pp. | $14.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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BARACK OBAMA FOR BEGINNERS, UPDATED EDITION
NEW
An Essential Guide
By Bob Neer; Illustrated by Joe Lee Barack Obama For Beginners: An Essential Guide is the most concise and reliable short biography available on the 44th President of the United States—from his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, education at Columbia and Harvard, work as a community organizer, writer, teacher, lawyer, and politician in Illinois, to his historic campaign for President. www.forbeginners.com For Beginners | TR | 978-1-934-38944-7 | 128pp. | $12.95/$15.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
08 A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail
By Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman Informative and accessible for students, 08 is a stunning work in the popular graphic nonfiction genre. It is a fresh take on the 2008 election year’s campaigns and tells the unlikely, true story of what it takes to win a party’s nomination and the job of one of the most powerful people in the world. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-40511-1 | 160pp. | $17.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY cont.
MEDIA
DYING TO WIN
STEALING MYSPACE
The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism
The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
By Robert A. Pape University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected groundbreaking evidence to explain the strategic, social, and individual factors responsible for the growing threat of suicide terrorism. Pape created the first comprehensive database of every suicide-terrorist attack in the world from 1980 until today. With striking clarity and precision, Pape uses this unprecedented research to debunk widely held misconceptions about the nature of suicide terrorism and to provide a new lens that makes sense of the threat we face. Dying to Win transcends speculation with systematic scholarship, making it one of the most important political studies of recent time. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7338-9 | 368pp. | $16.00/$19.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE Acting Now to End World Poverty
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By Peter Singer Around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than many of us pay for bottled water. The people of the developed world face a profound choice: If we are not to turn our backs on a fifth of the world’s population, we must become part of the solution. In The Life You Can Save, philosopher Peter Singer uses ethical arguments, provocative thought experiments, illuminating examples, and case studies of charitable giving to show that our current response to world poverty is not only insufficient but ethically indefensible. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6710-7 | 224pp. | $22.00/$25.00C Exam Copy: $11.00
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By Julia Angwin In Stealing MySpace, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia Angwin chronicles the rise of this Internet powerhouse. With an unerring eye, Angwin details how MySpace took the Internet by storm by grabbing the best ideas from around the Web and resulted in the epic real-world battle for control of a virtual empire. In a savvy, smart, fast-paced narrative here is the whole gripping story behind a breakout cultural phenomenon. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6694-0 | 384pp. | $27.00/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.50
THE ELEMENTS OF JOURNALISM What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect
By Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel Drawn from of intensive research, dozens of surveys of readers, listeners, viewers, editors, and journalists, and more than one hundred intensive interviews with journalists and editors, The Elements of Journalism is the first book to spell out—both for those who create and those who consume the news—the principles and responsibilities of journalism. Written by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, two of the nation’s preeminent press critics, this is one of the most provocative books about the role of information in society in more than a generation and one of the most important ever written about news. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-34670-4 | 464 pp. | $13.95/$17.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
AGAINST THE MACHINE
By Bill McKibben
How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce—and Why It Matters
Subjecting himself to twenty-four hours of straight programming on each of the ninety-three cable stations in his hometown, acclaimed environmental writer and culture critic Bill McKibben took on brutal sensory overload in an experiment to verify whether we are truly better informed than previous generations. As relevant now as it was when originally written in 1992—and with new material from the author on the impact of the Internet age—this witty and astute book is certain to change the way you look at television and perceive media as a whole. “In turns humorous, wise, and troubling … a penetrating critique of technological society.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7607-6 | 288pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
SAY EVERYTHING How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters
By Lee Siegel Lee Siegel argues that our ever-deepening immersion in life online doesn’t just reshape the ordinary rhythms of our days; it also reshapes our minds and culture, in ways with which we haven’t yet reckoned. The web and its cultural correlatives and by-products—such as the dominance of reality television and the rise of the “bourgeois bohemian”—have turned privacy into performance, play into commerce, and confused “self-expression” with art. Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52266-3 | 192pp. | $14.00/$16.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE MAN WHO OWNS THE NEWS Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
By Michael Wolff NEW
By Scott Rosenberg In Say Everything, Scott Rosenberg chronicles blogging’s unplanned rise and improbable triumph, tracing its impact on politics, business, the media, and our personal lives. He offers close-ups of innovators such as Blogger founder Evan Williams, investigative journalist Josh Marshall, exhibitionist diarist Justin Hall, software visionary Dave Winer, “mommyblogger” Heather Armstrong, and many others.
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THE AGE OF MISSING INFORMATION
With unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch himself, and his associates and family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of Murdoch’s $70 billion media kingdom. In intimate detail, he probes the Murdoch family dynasty, from the battles that have threatened to destroy it to the reconciliations that seem to only make it stronger. Drawing upon hundreds of hours of interviews, he offers accounts of the Dow Jones takeover as well as plays for Yahoo! and Newsday as they’ve never been revealed before. Broadway Books | HC | 978-0-385-52612-8 | 464 pp. | $29.95/$34.00C Exam Copy: $15.00
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LAW & LEGAL STUDIES AMERICA’S CONSTITUTION A Biography
By Akhil Reed Amar In America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world’s great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this “biography” of America’s framing document explains not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it. “...[O]nly Yale Law School’s justly legendary Akhil Amar has undertaken to tell the story of the Constitution as a whole. And what a story he tells! What David McCullough is to John Adams, what Walter Isaacson is to Benjamin Franklin, Akhil Amar is to the Constitution of the United States. Marvelously readable and breathtakingly informative, Amar’s biography of our nation’s founding document fills a huge void—and fills it brilliantly.” —Laurence H. Tribe, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard University
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TORTURE AND TRUTH America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terrror
By Mark Danner In the spring of 2004, graphic photographs of Iraqi prisoners being tortured by American soldiers in Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison flashed around the world. In sifting through evidence, Danner traces the path by which harsh methods of interrogation approved for suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and Guantanamo “migrated” to Iraq as resistance to the US occupation grew and US casualties mounted. Includes the torture photographs in color and the full texts of the secret administration memos on torture and the investigative reports on the abuses at Abu Ghraib. New York Review Books | TR | 978-1-59017-152-3 | 600pp. $19.95/$26.95C | Exam Copy: $3.00
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LAW IN AMERICA A Short History
By Lawrence M. Friedman Throughout America’s history, our laws have been a reflection of who we are, of what we value, of who has control. They embody our society’s genetic code. In the masterful hands of Lawrence M. Friedman, the story of the evolution of our laws serves to lay bare the deciding struggles over power and justice that have shaped this country from its birth pangs to the present. Law in America is a supreme example of the historian’s art, its brevity a testament to the great elegance and wit of its composition. “[A] concise and lucid overview of the development of the law as it parallels the track of American social, economic, political, and cultural history.” —Booklist (American Library Association) Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7285-6 | 224pp. | $13.95/$18.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE TRIAL Four Thousand Years of Courtroom Drama
By Sadakat Kadri For as long as accuser and accused have faced each other in public, criminal trials have been establishing far more than who did what to whom. The Trial, by Sadakat Kadri, surveys 4,000 years of courtroom drama. Kadri asks, who has the right to judge, and why? “Kadri’s panoramic and, yes, pragmatic viewpoint leaves the reader with moral and political insights that equip us to understand better our own disquieting times.” —The Guardian (London)
“Sadakat Kadri traces the development of the criminal trial through the ages ... with verve, intelligence, humour, and clarity.” —The Times (London) Random House | TR | 978-0-375-75703-7 | 480pp. | $15.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
CRIMINOLOGY
Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice
By Sandra Day O’Connor “A marvelous collection of wide-ranging and plainspoken ruminations on the Constitution, constitutionalism, and the Supreme Court by the Court’s first female Justice. Justice O’Connor’s keen-wittedness, honesty, and common sense are revealed throughout. Although she eloquently reveals the majesty of the law, she also brings that majesty down to earth and makes it intelligible to all of us. It is her special genius.” —Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University, author of The American Revolution: A History Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-6747-0 | 352pp. | $16.00/$19.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
KAFKA COMES TO AMERICA Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror - A Public Defender’s Inside Account
By Steven T. Wax Winner of the American Bar Association’s 2009 Silver Gavel Award for Books
Federal public defender Steven T. Wax argues that under the Bush administration, not only have the civil rights of foreigners been in jeopardy, but also those of U.S. citizens. Wax interweaves the stories of two men he represented who were caught up in our government’s post-9/11 counterterrorism measures. Kafka Comes to America ultimately reveals where and how our civil liberties have been eroded in favor of a false security, and how each of us can make a difference. Other Press | HC | 978-1-590-51295-1 | 380pp. | $25.95/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
THE FIRST FAMILY
NEW
Terror, Extortion, Revenge, Murder, and the Birth of the American Mafia
By Mike Dash In The First Family, Mike Dash follows the birth of the American Mafia. Using previously untapped secret service archives, prison records, and interviews with surviving family members, The First Family is the first authoritative account of a particularly crucial period in American history, in which the modern American underworld was born. Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6722-0 | 416pp. | $27.00/NCR Exam Copy: $13.50
NO ANGEL My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels
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By Jay Dobyns Reminiscent of Donnie Brasco’s uncovering of the true Mafia, this is an eye-opening portrait of the world of bikers—the most in-depth since Hunter Thompson’s seminal work—one that fully describes the seductive lure criminal camaraderie has for men who would otherwise be powerless outsiders. Here is all the nihilism, hate, and intimidation, but also the freedom—and, yes, brotherhood—of a truly American form of organized crime. Crown | HC | 978-0-307-40585-2 | 352pp. | $25.95/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
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CRIMINOLOGY cont. GODFATHER OF NIGHT A Greek Mafia Father, a Drug Runner Son, and an Unexpected Shot at Redemption
By Kevin Pappas Godfather of Night unveils the Greek American crime syndicate and its close alignment to power and takes readers to a dark place where family secrets collide with high-level crime and corruption. Kevin Pappas’s story is a true-crime epic for a new generation of wiseguys—full of the war stories and hard-won wisdom of a man who lived by his own rules, broke everyone else’s, and dared the world to try to stop him. Ballantine | HC | 978-0-345-51223-9 | 272pp. | $25.00/$28.95C Exam Copy: $12.50
THE INNOCENT MAN By John Grisham On a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron Williamson’s home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The washedup small-town hero was charged, tried, and sentenced to death—in a trial littered with lying witnesses and tainted evidence that would shatter a man’s already broken life, and let a true killer go free. Impeccably researched and grippingly told John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction is required reading for anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence. Delta | TR | 978-0-385-34091-5 | 400pp. | $16.00/$20.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
WHILE THEY SLEPT An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family
By Kathryn Harrison New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2008.
In this eloquent and unflinching book, author Kathryn Harrison draws from exclusive interviews and research to present the compelling true story of the Gilley family murders. She describes the brutal killings of his parents and younger sister by eighteen-year-old Billy Gilley, Jr., and the aftermath of a crime that shocked a small Midwestern town. This study reflects on the deadly effects of abuse and violence within a family and the impact of the crime on both the perpetrator and the only other survivor, his teenage sister. Ballantine Books | MM | 978-0-345-51660-2 | 288pp. | $7.99/$10.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
LAST CHANCE IN TEXAS The Redemption of Criminal Youth
By John Hubner A powerful, bracing, and deeply spiritual look at intensely troubled youth, Last Chance in Texas gives a stirring account of the way one remarkable prison rehabilitates its inmates. While reporting on the juvenile court system, journalist John Hubner kept hearing about a facility in Texas that ran the most aggressive—and one of the most successful—treatment programs for violent young offenders in America. Cutting through the political platitudes surrounding the controversial issue of juvenile justice, Hubner lays bare the complex ties between abuse and violence. By turns wrenching and uplifting, Last Chance in Texas tells a profoundly moving story about the children who grow up to inflict on others the violence that they themselves have suffered. Random House | TR | 978-0-375-75998-7 | 304pp. | $16.00/$19.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler
PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGY
NEW
By Brian O’Dea In the early 1980s, Brian O’Dea was operating a $100 million a year, 120-man drug smuggling business, and had developed a terrifying cocaine addiction. Under increasing threat from the DEA he quit the trade—and the drugs— and began working with recovering addicts. The authorities caught up with him years later and O’Dea was arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten years in prison. Weaving together extracts from his prison diary with the vivid recounting of his outlaw years, High tells the remarkable story of the late-1980s drug business. Other Press | TR | 978-1-590-51310-1 | 368pp. | $14.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
INSIDE THE CRIMINAL MIND Revised and Updated Edition
RAISING A LEFT-BRAIN CHILD IN A RIGHT-BRAIN WORLD Strategies for Helping Bright, Quirky, Socially Awkward Children to Thrive at Home and at School
By Katharine Beals Bright, eccentric, and socially awkward, these are children whose talents and inclinations lean heavily toward the logical, linear, analytical, and introverted side of the human psyche—what is commonly referred to as the “left brain”—as opposed to the “right brain” which is our emotional, holistic, intuitive, and extroverted side. Drawing on research and interviews with parents and children, this book offers a new understanding of left-brain kids and practical strategies for nurturing and supporting them, both at school and at home. Trumpeter | TR | 978-1-59030-650-5 | 224pp. | $16.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
By Stanton Samenow Long-held myths defining the sources of and cures for crime are shattered in this ground-breaking and newly revised book—and a chilling profile of today’s criminal emerges. Based on results of more than a decade of criminal behavior study, Inside the Criminal Mind redefines what motivates criminals and explains what must be done to deal with them effectively. Crown | HC | 978-1-4000-4619-5 | 288pp. | $25.00/$38.00C Exam Copy: $12.50
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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK My Year in a Women’s Prison
JEALOUSY True Stories of Love’s Favorite Decoy
By Marcianne Blevis Translated by Olivia Heal In Jealousy, renowned psychoanalyst Marcianne Blevis reveals the multiple faces of jealousy and unmasks the unconscious triggers that prevent its victim from confronting this consuming torment. Divided by case study, each chapter unveils another trait of the jealous lover and deconstructs the origins of suffering, illuminating ways to put an end to the repeated patterns of self-destruction. Other Press | HC | 978-1-590-51257-9 | 160pp. | $14.95/$18.95C Exam Copy: $7.50
By Piper Kerman A bold and original entry in the canon of prison literature, Piper Kerman presents a compelling, first-hand, and richly detailed portrait of life inside a woman’s prison. Do not order before 4/20/2010 Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52338-7 | 208pp. | $25.00/$29.95C Exam Copy: $12.50
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PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGY cont. DANIEL GOLEMAN
ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE
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How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything 2009 Freshman Year Reading Title at Virginia Tech
We buy “herbal” shampoos that contain industrial chemicals that can threaten our health or contaminate the environment. We dive down to see coral reefs, not realizing that an ingredient in our sunscreen feeds a virus that kills the reef. We wear organic cotton t-shirts, but don’t know that its dyes may put factory workers at risk for leukemia. In Ecological Intelligence, Daniel Goleman reveals why so many of the products that are labeled green are a “mirage,” and illuminates our wild inconsistencies in response to the ecological crisis. “Drawing on his capacious intelligence Daniel Goleman dissects the issues involved in the attainment of long term sustainability and details promising and intriguing solutions. Once again, he has written an essential book.” —Howard Gardner, author and Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education
“The theme of ecological awareness and environmental sustainability emerged as we considered a variety of books. The selection committee felt that such a theme would offer many options for engagement and use of the book across all colleges and disciplines. It could connect with new university efforts in the area of heightened environmental awareness and action and provide opportunities to facilitate community service options for students and faculty.” —Ron Daniel, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, Virginia Tech
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EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ Drawing on groundbreaking brain and behavioral research, Goleman shows the factors at work when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well. These factors, which include self-awareness, self-discipline, and empathy, add up to a different way of being smart—and they aren’t fixed at birth. Although shaped by childhood experience, emotional intelligence can be nurtured and strengthened throughout adulthood—with immediate benefits to our health, our relationships, and our work. Daniel Goleman’s new introduction to the tenth anniversary edition traces the remarkable influence of Emotional Intelligence on our culture, on school programs, in business, and on psychological research. Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38371-3 | 384pp. | $18.00/$22.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE The New Science of Human Relationships In his follow-up to the hugely successful - Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing that we are “wired to connect” and the surprisingly deep impact of our relationships on every aspect of our lives. In Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman explores an emerging new science with startling implications for our interpersonal world. Its most fundamental discovery: we are designed for sociability, constantly engaged in a “neural ballet” that connects us brain to brain with those around us. Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38449-9 | 416pp. | $14.00/$18.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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How We Can Develop the Moral Intelligence to Do the Right Thing at the Right Time for the Right Reason
Reinventing Yourself through Mindful Creativity
By Ellen J. Langer
By John Bradshaw In Reclaiming Virtue John Bradshaw addresses the ideologies behind virtue—how we learn it, live it, and reclaim it. He offers a clear vision of a morality grounded in childhood, educated by the practice of both traditional and modern virtues, and culminating in the moment-tomoment ability to “do the right thing at the right time for the right reason.” This is an appeal to what Abraham Lincoln called “the better angels of our nature” and a wise guide to building a life of unshakable integrity and wellbeing. Bantam | HC | 978-0-553-09592-0 | 528pp. | $26.00/$30.00C Exam Copy: $13.00 For more books by John Bradshaw, see page 54.
COUNTERCLOCKWISE
ON BECOMING AN ARTIST
Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that creativity is not a rare gift that only some special few are born with, but rather an integral part of everyone’s makeup. She describes dozens of fascinating experiments—her own and those of her colleagues—that are designed to study mindfulness and its relation to human creativity, and she shares the profound implications of the results—for our well-being, health, and happiness. With the skill of a gifted logician, Langer demonstrates exactly how we undervalue ourselves and undermine our creativity. Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-45630-4 | 288pp. | $15.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE CULTURE OF WAR NEW
Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
By Ellen J. Langer Drawing on landmark work in the field and her own body of colorful and highly original experiments—including the first detailed discussion of her “counterclockwise” study, in which elderly men lived for a week as though it was 1959 and showed dramatic improvements in their hearing, memory, dexterity, appetite, and general wellbeing—Langer shows that the magic of rejuvenation and ongoing good health lies in being aware of the ways we mindlessly react to social and cultural cues.
By Martin van Creveld A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld recently explored the modern world’s shifting method of combat in The Changing Face of War. Here van Creveld argues that there is much more to war than just soldiers killing one another for whatever reason and addresses the unique culture of war; the traditions, laws and customs, rituals, ceremonies, music, art, literature, and monuments that have existed since the beginning of civilization. Presidio Press | HC | 978-0-345-50540-8 | 512pp. | $30.00/$34.00C Exam Copy: $15.00
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THE DILEMMA OF PSYCHOLOGY
THE UNSAYABLE
A Psychologist Looks at His Troubled Profession
The Hidden Language of Trauma
By Lawrence LeShan
By Annie G. Rogers, Ph.D.
Expanded and republished, The Dilemma of Psychology reveals why more than 100 years of psychology and armies of psychotherapists have not helped solve humanity’s most pressing issues. Uncompromising, yet with a deep passion for his field, LeShan talks about the expectations that rose with the birth of psychology, how the new science started off on the wrong foot, and why it might still be the only tool to solve the most urgent issues of our time: war, pollution, and overpopulation. In order to improve the human condition, LeShan argues, psychology has to make humanity and human life its focus. This visionary roadmap to a more authentic, more vital psychology will fascinate anyone concerned about the mental health of today’s society.
In her twenty years as a clinical psychologist, Annie G. Rogers has learned to understand the silent language of girls who will not or cannot speak about devastating sexual trauma. Abuse too painful to put into words does have a language, asserts Rogers, a language of coded signs and symptoms that conventional therapy fails to understand. In this luminous, deeply moving book, Rogers reveals how she has helped many girls find expression and healing for the sexual trauma that has shattered their childhoods. Like Judith Herman’s Trauma and Recovery and Kay Redfield Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind, The Unsayable is a book with the power to change the way we think about suffering and self-expression.
Helios Press | TR | 978-1-5811-5251-7 | 224pp. | $16.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR
NEW
Comprehending Its Mystique and Its Madness
By Lawrence Leshan Especially timely in view of the war against terrorism, this intriguing study provides a new understanding of why humans fight wars so frequently, passionately, and ferociously. Former military psychologist and multiple author Lawrence LeShan’s piercing analysis reveals why human beings have always been attracted to war, how it changes our perception of reality, why we often choose war over more peaceful conflict solutions, and why it is so easy to get into a war and so hard to get out. Helios Press | TR | 978-1-5811-5238-8 | 192pp. | $16.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
“Powerful and often tragic, Rogers conveys her stories with a poetic attention to words, making a compelling and heartbreaking case for the value of psychoanalysis and the restorative power of the human mind.”
—Publishers Weekly
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THIRTY-EIGHT WITNESSES The Kitty Genovese Case
By A.M. Rosenthal Introduction by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Preface by Samuel G. Freedman In 1964, Twenty-eight-year-old Kitty Genovese was brutally murdered, in an attack that took nearly thirty minutes and had thirty-eight witnesses ...not one of whom did a thing to stop the murderer or even call for help. ThirtyEight Witnesses is newspaper journalist A.M. Rosenthal’s part memoir, part investigative journalism, and part public service. Melville House | TR | 978-1-9336-3329-9 | 100pp. | $14.95/$18.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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OUT OF IT
A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love
A Cultural History of Intoxication
By Myron Uhlberg
From the everyday substances of alcohol, caffeine, and tobacco to the illicit realm of opiates, amphetamines, and hallucinogens, Stuart Walton’s book provides a smart, wry look at why intoxication has always been a part of the human experience—from our earliest Stone Age rituals to modern times—and more significantly, why the use of intoxicants is, and will continue to be, an essential part of being human.
By Stuart Walton
Myron Uhlberg’s memoir tells the story of growing up as the hearing son of deaf parents—and his life in a world that he found unaccountably beautiful, even as he longed to escape it. “Does sound have rhythm?” my father asked. “Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does it come and go like the wind?” Such were the kinds of questions that Myron Uhlberg’s deaf father asked him from earliest childhood, in his eternal quest to decipher, and to understand, the elusive nature of sound. Bantam | HC | 978-0-553-80688-5 | 256pp. | $23.00/$25.95C Exam Copy: $11.50
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THE LUCIFER EFFECT Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Forthcoming January 2010
By Philip Zimbardo
THE HIDDEN BRAIN
Popular College Common Reading Selection
How Our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives
Winner, the William James Book Award of the Society for General Psychology (Division 1 of the American Psychological Association)
By Shankar Vedantam Shankar Vedantam takes readers on a tour of the parts of their own brains they’ve never visited and the primal power this hidden brain has over our daily lives, our political and personal choices, and on the larger life of our societies. Vedantam’s core concern is how we assimilate and act on biases that never penetrate our awareness—not just in the obvious but in almost every act, from how we respond to moral dilemmas to how we raise our children to how we vote in elections. Do not order before 1/1/2010. Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52521-3 | 288pp. | $26.00/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
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HANDS OF MY FATHER
In The Lucifer Effect, Philip Zimbardo—creator of the Stanford Prison Experiment—tells the full story of this landmark study, in which a group of college-student volunteers was randomly divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a mock prison environment. Within a week the study was abandoned, as ordinary college students were transformed into either brutal, sadistic guards or emotionally broken prisoners. Illuminating the psychological causes behind such disturbing metamorphoses, Zimbardo enables us to better understand a variety of harrowing phenomena, from corporate malfeasance to organized genocide to the abuse and torture in Abu Ghraib. He presents an engrossing study of how situational forces and group dynamics can make monsters out of decent men and women. www.zimbardo.com www.lucifereffect.com Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7444-7 | 576pp. | $18.00/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
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GENDER & SEXUALITY BROTHEL
WOMEN DON’T ASK The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation—and Positive Strategies for Change
By Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Mustang Ranch and Its Women
By Alexa Albert When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study at the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result. Having worked with homeless prostitutes in Times Square, Albert was intimate with human devastation caused by the sex trade, and curious to see if Nevada’s brothels offered a less harmful model for a business that will always be with us. What began as a publichealth project evolved into something more intimate and ambitious, a six-year study of the brothel ecosystem, its lessons and significance. “A complex and all-too-human study... exhaustive and surprisingly compassionate research.”
—The Baltimore Sun
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AMERICA UNZIPPED
Drawing on research in psychology, sociology, economics, and organizational behavior, Women Don’t Ask is the first book to identify the dramatic difference between men and women in their propensity to negotiate for what they want. Professor Linda C. Babcock and Sara Laschever examine the barriers holding women back and the social forces constraining them. They show women how to reframe their interactions and more accurately evaluate their opportunities, and they also remind us how to recognize the ways in which our institutions, child-rearing practices, and unspoken assumptions perpetuate inequalities. With women’s progress toward full economic and social equality stalled, and with the structures of businesses changing, a woman’s ability to negotiate is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-38387-4 | 272pp. | $14.00/$18.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
ASK FOR IT
In Search of Sex and Satisfaction
How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want
By Brian Alexander
By Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
As award-winning journalist Brian Alexander uncovers, fringe experimentation has gone suburban. Stunned by the uninhibited questions from ordinary people on his web column, “Sexploration,” he was driven to understand Americans’ desire to get down and dirty—especially in an era where conservative family values dominate. The result was a sexual safari in modern America during which he found out what people are really doing behind closed doors.
From the authors of Women Don’t Ask, the groundbreaking book that revealed just how much women lose when they avoid negotiation, this guide is backed by years of research and challenges women to recognize their goals, maximize bargaining power and develop a strategy for obtaining that raise, overdue promotion or exciting new assignment.
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BODIES IN THE MAKING
Growing Up Haunted: A Memoir
Transgressions and Transformations
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
Edited by Nancy N. Chen and Helene Moglen
I’m Looking Through You is an engagingly candid investigation of what it means to be “haunted.” Looking back on the spirits who invaded her family home, Boylan launches a full investigation with the help of a group of earnest, if questionable, ghostbusters. Boylan also examines the ways we find connections between the people we once were and the people we become. With wit and eloquence, Boylan shows us how love, forgiveness, and humor help us find peace.
In the twenty-first century, the body is experienced less as a fixed entity than it is as a protean product and a project of technological, medical and artistic invention. The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and transsexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and life extension technologies.
Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-2175-6 | 288pp. | $14.95/$16.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
SHE’S NOT THERE
North Atlantic Books | TR | 978-0-9712-5463-3 | 216pp. | $12.00/$16.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
GENDER TALK
A Life in Two Genders
The Struggle For Women’s Equality in African American Communities
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
By Johnnetta B. Cole and Beverly Guy-Sheftall
She’s Not There is the unconventional memoir of a person who changes genders, a portrait of a loving marriage that withstands a radical change, and a revealing look at society’s folly in over-emphasizing the importance of fixed gender roles.
A powerful and controversial critique of sexism and gender politics within African American communities by two leading intellectuals on the subject.
“Beautifully crafted, fearless, painfully honest, inspiring and extremely witty. Jennifer Finney Boylan is an exquisite writer with a fascinating story and this combination has resulted in one of the most remarkable, moving, and unforgettable memoirs in recent history.”
—Nellie Y. McKay, Department of African American Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison
—Augusten Burroughs, author of Running With Scissors Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-1429-1 | 320pp. | $14.95/$22.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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“[O]nly the Black Woman can say—when and where I enter—the whole race enters with me.’”
“This book is a rich resource for teaching women’s studies and an original contribution to the political dialogue about race and sex.” —Estelle Freedman, Professor of History, Stanford University, Author of No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and The Future of Women One World | TR | 978-0-345-45413-3 | 336pp. | $14.95/$22.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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GENDER & SEXUALITY cont. THE GREEKS AND GREEK LOVE A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World
BACKLASH The Undeclared War Against American Women
By Susan Faludi NEW
By James Davidson For nearly two thousand years, historians have treated the subject of homosexuality in ancient Greece with apology, embarrassment, or outright denial. Using homosexuality as a lens, classics scholar Davidson sheds new light on every aspect of Greek culture, from politics and religion to art and war. Without moral judgment—Davidson has written the first major examination of homosexuality in ancient Greece since the dawn of the modern gay rights movement. Random House | HC | 978-0-375-50516-4 | 832pp. | $45.00/NCR Exam Copy: $22.50
THE GOOD BODY
When it was first published, Backlash made headlines for puncturing such favorite media myths as the “infertility epidemic” and the “man shortage,” myths that defied statistical realities. These willfully fictitious media campaigns added up to an antifeminist backlash. Now, the book that reignited the feminist movement is back in a fifteenth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author that brings backlash consciousness up to date, showing how the creators of commercial culture distort feminist concepts to sell products while selling women downstream, how the feminist ethic of economic independence is twisted into the consumer ethic of buying power, and how the feminist quest for self-determination is warped into a self-centered quest for self-improvement. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-34542-4 | 592pp. | $14.95/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
By Eve Ensler
NO TURNING BACK
Narrated through a series of journal entries and interviews, The Good Body investigates our most deep-seated social obsessions; Eve Ensler documents her own fixation with her stomach, recounting the numerous diets and personal trainers that failed miserably to yield self-acceptance.
The History of Feminism and the Future of Women
Villard Books | TR | 978-0-8129-7473-7 | 112pp. | $12.00/$14.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES By Eve Ensler This eye-opening tour into the last frontier addresses the forbidden zone at the heart of every woman. Adapted from the award-winning one-woman show that’s rocked audiences around the world, this groundbreaking book gives voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, and thoroughly human stories, transforming the question mark hovering over the female anatomy into a permanent victory sign. Villard Books | TR | 978-0-345-49860-1 | 272pp. | $13.95/$16.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
By Estelle B. Freedman Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title in History, Geography, & Area Studies A Library Journal Best Books
A sweeping narrative history written by the founder and current Chair of Feminist Studies at Stanford University, this unique work provides a readable, unified synthesis that moves across academic disciplines and includes an unprecedented amount of international and cross-cultural research. Drawing on examples from a variety of countries and cultures as well as from the past and the present, No Turning Back is a definitive work in the women’s studies cannon. “On the situations of women around the world today, this one book provides more illumination and insight than a dozen others combined. From history to economics, from race issues to feminism, from international development to cultural politics, Freedman’s survey is a triumph of global scope and informed precision.” —Nancy F. Cott, Professor of History, Harvard University Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-45053-1 | 464pp. | $15.95/$23.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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WOMEN’S LETTERS
Edited by Estelle B. Freedman
America from the Revolutionary War to the Present
The explosion of women’s studies and women’s history courses has created a demand for primary texts that document the origins and growth of feminist movements. As the field has matured, women’s studies and the history of feminism have become more international in scope and educators are eager to provide geographically and culturally diverse accounts of women’s movements. The Essential Feminist Reader is the first primary source collection to provide the full scope of feminist history within both global and historical frameworks. Including: Susan B. Anthony, Simone de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, Hélène Cixous, Betty Friedan, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emma Goldman, Guerrilla Girls, Ding Ling, Audre Lorde, John Stuart Mill, Christine de Pizan, Adrienne Rich, Margaret Sanger, Huda Shaarawi, Sojourner Truth, Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf
Edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler
Modern Library | TR | 978-0-8129-7460-7 | 496pp. | $17.95/$23.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE POLITICS OF REALITY Essays in Feminist Theory
By Marilyn Frye The main themes of these nine essays, addresses, and lectures examine sexism, the gay rights movement, the exploitation of women by men, and other topics from a feminist perspective. “For anyone first coming to feminism, these essays serve as a backdrop … for understanding the basic, early and continuing perspectives of feminists. And for all of us they provide a theoretical framework in which to read the present as well as the past.” —Women’s Review of Books
Crossing Press | TR | 978-0-895-94099-5 | 176pp. | $12.95/$15.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived—and made—history. Dial Press | TR | 978-0-385-33556-0 | 832pp. | $18.00/$21.00C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE TRIPLE BIND Saving Our Teenage Girls from Today’s Pressures
By Stephen Hinshaw and Rachel Kranz Dr. Stephen Hinshaw, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at UC Berkeley, reveals the hidden crisis facing girls today—that many girls, even the high-achievers, face impossible expectations and are in serious trouble—and offers innovative and workable solutions. Ballantine Books | TR | 978-0-345-50400-5 | 256pp. | $15.00/$18.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
A HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA By Carol Hymowitz and Michaele Weissman From colonial to modern-day times this narrative history, incorporating first-person accounts, traces the development of women’s roles in America. Against the backdrop of major historical events and movements, the authors examine the issues that changed the roles and lives of women in our society. Includes photographs. Bantam | MM | 978-0-553-26914-7 | 416pp. | $7.99/$9.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
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GENDER & SEXUALITY cont. SO SEXY SO SOON The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids
now in Paperback
By Diane E. Levin and Jean Kilbourne
HELL HATH NO FURY True Stories of Women at War from Antiquity to Iraq
By Rosalind Miles and Robin Cross Hell Hath No Fury is an engaging collection that uncovers injustices in history and overturns misconceptions about the role of women in war.
Popular culture and technology inundate our boys and girls with an onslaught of graphic sexual messages at earlier ages than ever before. Without the emotional sophistication to understand what they are doing and seeing, kids are getting into increasing trouble emotionally and socially. In this book, Diane E. Levin, Ph.D. and Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D.—internationally recognized experts in, respectively, early childhood development and the impact of the media on children and teens—counter the assault on childhood.
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THE BLUE NOTEBOOK
WHO COOKED THE LAST SUPPER? The Women’s History of the World
By Rosalind Miles Without politics or polemics, this brilliant and witty book overturns centuries of preconceptions to restore women to their rightful place at the center of culture, revolution, empire, war, and peace. Filled with tales of individual women who have shaped civilization, celebrating the work and lives of women around the world, distinguished by a wealth of research, Who Cooked the Last Supper? redefines our concept of historical reality. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-609-80695-1 | 352pp. | $14.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
“This encyclopedic collection of short, incisive essays is convincing in its portrayal of women as anything but ‘the gentle sex .’… [T]his collection about the noble, the fierce and the downright evil makes it clear that though there’s little record of women’s military feats, it’s because they have been written out of history, not because they never happened.” —BookPage
A Novel
By James A. Levine, M.D. The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious 15-year-old girl from rural India who was sold into sexual slavery by her father when she was nine. As she navigates the grim realities of the Common Street—a street of prostitution in Mumbai where children are kept in cages as they wait for customers to pay for sex—Batuk manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts and stories in a diary. The novel is powerfully told in Batuk’s voice, through the words she writes in her journal, where she finds hope and beauty in the bleakest circumstances. All of the U.S. proceeds from this novel will be donated to the International and National Centers for Missing and Exploited Children (http://www.icmec.org). Spiegel & Grau | HC | 978-0-385-52871-9 | 224pp. | $23.00/$26.95C Exam Copy: $11.50
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The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine
now in Paperback
By Somaly Mam; Introduction by Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foreword by Nicholas D. Kristof The Road of Lost Innocence recounts the experiences of Somaly Mam who was just a young girl when she was forced into Cambodia’s sex slave trade. Now working as an activist against the powerful and corrupt forces that stole her childhood, she has orchestrated raids on brothels and rescued sex workers, some as young as five and six; she has built shelters, started schools, and founded an organization that has so far saved more than four thousand women and children in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos. Spiegel & Grau | TR | 978-0-385-52622-7 | 224pp. | $15.00/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
THE HEART AND SOUL OF SEX Making the ISIS Connection
By Gina Ogden, Ph.D. Drawing on the results of her unique national sex survey —and on decades of clinical practice as a sex therapist— Gina Ogden offers a revolutionary exploration of women’s sexual experience. The best sex, say thousands of women, doesn’t just happen in the body. It is multidimensional, connecting body, mind, heart, and soul. In The Heart and Soul of Sex, Ogden discusses the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects of sex, making what she calls the “ISIS Connection.” Trumpeter | HC | 978-1-59030-294-1 | 288pp. | $22.95/$29.95C Exam Copy: $11.50
PRETTY IS WHAT CHANGES By Jessica Queller
now in Paperback
When genetics can predict how we may die, how then do we decide how to live? Eleven months after her mother succumbs to cancer, Jessica Queller has herself tested for the BRCA “breast cancer” gene mutation. The results come back positive, putting her at a terrifyingly elevated risk of developing breast cancer before the age of fifty and ovarian cancer in her lifetime. Thirty-four, unattached, and yearning for marriage and a family of her own, Queller chronicles her agonizing choice.
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THE ROAD OF LOST INNOCENCE
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THE FEMINIST PROMISE 1792 to the Present
By Christine Stansell In this sweeping, definitive volume, Christine Stansell, a leading historian, looks at feminism’s famous moments and overlooked chapters. The result is a book that vividly and authoritatively tells the story of one of the great emancipatory movements in history. The Feminist Promise explores the contributions and implications of various women’s movements through the ages: from the Enlightenment to abolition to the radical feminism of the ‘60s and anti-feminist backlash of the ‘80s to the global feminism of today. Do not order before 4/10/2010. Modern Library | HC | 978-0-679-64314-2 | 400pp. | $26.00/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.00
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GENDER & SEXUALITY cont. COVERING
MARRIAGE & THE FAMILY JOHN BRADSHAW
The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
By Kenji Yoshino Popular College Common Reading Selection Winner, 2006 American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award Winner, 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award
In Covering, acclaimed Yale Law Professor Kenji Yoshino presents a new paradigm of civil rights. Drawing on his experiences as a gay Asian American, Yoshino argues that the culturally sanctioned suppression of our authentic selves is a harm from which the law should sometimes protect us. More profoundly, he claims that law will be less important to the civil rights of the future than a common culture of authenticity. A moving memoir and a penetrating analysis, the publication of Covering heralds a new era of dialogue and thought about the right to individual freedom and expression in the new century. “Yoshino argues convincingly in this book, part luminous, moving memoir, part cogent, level-headed treatise, that covering is going to become more and more a civil rights issue as the nation (and the nation’s courts) struggle with an increasingly multiethnic America.” —San Francisco Chronicle
CREATING LOVE A New Way of Understanding Our Most Important Relationships “Why are so many of us at times completely baffled by a relationship? How can we think we know someone so well and admit in the end that we hardly knew that person at all? Why do many people who work diligently and strenuously to gain wholeness and balance still feel so frustrated about having a fulfilling relationship? Why have so many people given up on love?” —from the Prologue
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HOMECOMING Reclaiming and Healing Your Inner Child In this powerful book, John Bradshaw shows how we can learn to nurture that inner child, in essence offering ourselves the good parenting we needed and longed for. Homecoming includes a wealth of unique case histories and interactive techniques. Pioneering when introduced, these classic therapies are now being validated by new discoveries in attachment research and neuroscience.
Random House | TR | 978-0-375-76021-1 | 304pp. | $15.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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FLAPPER
FAMILY SECRETS
A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
By Joshua Zeitz Through the madcap lives of Zelda Fitzgerald, Lois Long, Coco Chanel, Clara Bow, and other Jazz Age luminaries, Flapper tells the fascinating story of the New Woman of the 1920s, who bobbed her hair, snuck gin, danced in a shockingly immodest fashion, and, more important, helped to usher in the recognizably modern and dynamic culture we know in America today. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-1-4000-8054-0 | 352pp. | $13.95/$17.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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The Path from Shame to Healing John Bradshaw has transformed our understanding of how we are shaped by our families. In this book he takes readers on a fascinating journey of discovery, which starts with their lives today and takes them back through the conflicts, the strengths, and the weaknesses of their parents’ and grandparents’ generations. Using a powerful technique for exploring one’s “family tree,” Bradshaw traces the visible and invisible patterns that have influenced us all. Bantam | TR | 978-0-553-37498-8 | 320pp. | $17.00/$24.00C Exam Copy: $3.00 See page 45 for more books by John Bradshaw.
UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS
Understanding, Surviving, and Creating Your Own Family
Seven Marriages
By Po Bronson In the pages of Why Do I Love These People?, Po Bronson explores the sociology of the family and the complicated interactions between family members. Each chapter introduces us to real families and their struggles through the kinds of hardships we all endure, uncovering what is elemental to the concept of the family and abolishing the fictions we have constructed about those we fight to stay connected to.
Katie Roiphe’s stimulating work has made her one of the most talked about cultural critics of her generation. Now this bracing young writer delves deeply into one of the most layered of subjects: marriage. Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and longforgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, here are seven “marriages à la mode”—each rising to the challenge of intimate relations in more or less creative ways.
Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7242-9 | 400pp. | $14.95/$19.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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By Katie Roiphe
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FAMILY WANTED
EDUCATION
Stories of Adoption
Edited by Sara Holloway Adoption, until recently a hidden subject, has become an open field of psychological study, policy debate, and ethical interest. Family Wanted is an honest, heartwarming, and heartbreaking collection featuring important authors personally involved in all sides of adoption. Here are more than twenty pieces, many published for the first time. Random House | TR | 978-0-8129-7547-5 | 320pp. | $14.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
GETTING TO 50/50 How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All
NEW
By Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober Sharon Meers and Joanna Strober are professionals, wives, and mothers with five young children between them. After interviewing hundreds of parents and employers, surveying more than a thousand working mothers, and combing through the latest government and social science research, the authors have discovered that families reap huge benefits when couples commit to share equally as breadwinners and caregivers. In this book they pinpoint an attitude shift that puts couples on the road to 50/50. www.gettingto5050.com Bantam | HC | 978-0-553-80655-7 | 320pp. | $24.00/$28.00C Exam Copy: $12.00
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“WHY DO I LOVE THESE PEOPLE?”
REAL EDUCATION Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality
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By Charles Murray With four simple truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor of The Bell Curve, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment. Real Education reviews what we know about the limits of what schools can do and the results of four decades of policies that require schools to divert huge resources to unattainable goals. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-40539-5 | 224pp. | $15.00/$18.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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ONE-PARTY CLASSROOM
NEW
How Radical Professors at America’s Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy
By David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin Crown Forum | HC | 978-0-307-45255-9 | 336pp. | $26.95/$32.00C Exam Copy: $13.50
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LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER
EDUCATION cont. TEACHING HOPE
By Jonathan Kozol NEW
Stories from the Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell
By The Freedom Writer Teachers and Erin Gruwell Ten years after the publication of The Freedom Writers Diary comes this collection of stories by an assembled group of 150 teachers throughout United States and Canada. Mirroring an academic year, these dispatches from the front lines of education take us from the anticipation of the first day to the disillusionment, challenges, and triumphs of the school year. These are the voices of teachers who persevere in the face of intolerance, rigid administration, and countless other challenges, and continue to reach out and teach those who are deemed unteachable. Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-3172-4 | 384pp. | $14.99/$18.99C Exam Copy: $3.00
TEACH WITH YOUR HEART Lessons I Learned from the Freedom Writers
By Erin Gruwell Teach With Your Heart chronicles what happened with a group of high school students known as the “Freedom Writers” as they made their way through college and beyond. Gruwell also focuses on what she learned from her remarkable band of students as she as they all navigated the American educational system. Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-1584-7 | 272 pp. | $13.95/$15.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
THE FREEDOM WRITERS DIARY How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
By The Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell This is a true account of an idealistic twenty-three-yearold teacher assigned to a room of ‘unreachable, at risk’ students. The Freedom Writers Diary is a social commentary on misunderstanding and ignorance and includes powerful excerpts from the students’ own diaries. Broadway | TR | 978-0-7679-1584-7 | 272 pp. | $13.95/$15.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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In this collection of letters, Jonathan Kozol tries to guide Francesca, a first-year teacher in a Boston elementary school through the unexpected challenges she encounters. Together they confront the disheartening resegregation of our schools and the obsessive testing mania that is turning many schools into little more than test-prep factories while at the same time sharing the happiness of teaching children. Letters to a Young Teacher is bound to become a classic among educators. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-39371-5 | 304pp. | $12.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
THE SHAME OF THE NATION The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
By Jonathan Kozol In The Shame of the Nation, Kozol makes a powerful and persuasive argument that America needs to finally face the ongoing problems with its urban schools. Filled with the passionate voices of children and their teachers and some of the most revered and trusted leaders in the black community, The Shame of the Nation is a triumph of firsthand reporting. “Segregation is back, and only a writer of Jonathon Kozol’s wisdom and passion can assess its terrible price, one child at a time. It isn’t easy, but before we can craft a solution, we have to feel the shame.” —Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-1-4000-5245-5 | 432pp. | $14.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
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RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN
now in Paperback
Homeless Families in America First published in 1988 and based on the months the author spent among America’s homeless, Rachel and Her Children is an unforgettable record of the desperate voices of men, women, and especially children flooding the nation’s shelters today. It is a unique look at homelessness that will resonate loudly with students. Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-34589-9 | 320pp. | $13.95/NCR Exam Copy: $3.00
One Man’s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
REFERENCE
now in Paperback
By Bill Strickland Over the past thirty years, Bill Strickland has been transforming the lives of thousands of people through the creation of Manchester Bidwell, a jobs training center and community arts program. Working with corporations, community leaders, and schools, he and his staff strive to give disadvantaged kids and adults the opportunities and tools they need to envision and built a better, brighter future. Through lessons from his own life experiences, and those of countless others who have overcome their circumstances and turned their lives around, MacArthur Fellowship “genius” award winner Bill Strickland’s Make the Impossible Possible shows how all of us can build on our passions and strengths, dream bigger and set the bar higher, achieve meaningful success and help mentor and inspire the lives of others. “Success is the point where your most authentic talents, passion, values, and experiences intersect with the chance to contribute to some greater good.” —Bill Strickland
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THE NEW GLOBAL STUDENT
NEW
Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education
By Maya Frost “The globalization of higher education is shaping a new borderless innovation economy in which talent, opportunities and resources can come from anywhere. The New Global Student provides a timely manual for those with the foresight to ride these waves of change and opportunity.”
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MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE
—John Kao, author, Innovation Nation and Chairman, Institute for Large Scale Innovation Three Rivers Press | TR | 978-0-307-45062-3 | 336pp. | $14.95/$17.50C Exam Copy: $3.00
WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR PSYCHOLOGY OR SOCIOLOGY DEGREE This unique and informative guide directs psychology and sociology majors to career paths that will make the most of their educational backgrounds. It includes chapters on further academic study, fellowship opportunities, and understanding career options, as well as practical and detailed job search tips and strategies. Princeton Review | TR | 978-0-375-76625-1 | 304pp. | $13.95/$17.95C Exam Copy: $3.00
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A Adovasio, James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 AGAINST THE MACHINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 AGE OF MISSING INFORMATION . . . . . . 39 Albert, Alexa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Aldrich, Nelson Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Alexander, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Amar, Akhil Reed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 AMERICA UNZIPPED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 AMERICAN GOSPEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 AMERICAN VERTIGO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 AMERICA'S CONSTITUTION . . . . . . . . . . 40 AMERICAS, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Andersen, Kurt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Angwin, Julia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Armstrong, Karen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 ASK FOR IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Aslan, Reza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Asquith, Christina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 AT HANDS OF PERSONS UNKNOWN. . . . 6 AUDACITY OF HOPE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X . . . . 14 Avashai, Bernard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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Babcock, Linda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 BACKLASH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Bageant, Joe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Balf, Todd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ball, Edward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 BANQUET AT DELMONICO’S . . . . . . . . . 29 BARACK OBAMA FOR BEGINNERS . . . . . 37 BASEBALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Baum, Dan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Beals, Katharine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Beck, Martha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Berry, Bertice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAYS: 2009 . . 7 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN ESSAYS: 2010 . . 7 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION: 2009 . 7 BEST AFRICAN AMERICAN FICTION 2010 . 7 BLACK BOOK, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 BLACK WEST, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Blevis, Marcianne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 BLOOD DONE SIGN MY NAME. . . . . . . . 14 BLUE NOTEBOOK, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BODIES IN THE MAKING . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Bolden, Abraham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 BOOM! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 BORDER CROSSER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Bowe, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Boylan, Jennifer Finney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Bradshaw, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 54 BREACH OF FAITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Brennan, Bridget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Brokaw, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Bronson, Po . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, 55 BROTHEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Brown, Cecil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Brown, Harriet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Buruma, Ian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 BUYING IN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 BUYOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
C CAPOEIRA BEYOND BRAZIL . . . . . . . . . . 16 Carr, Cynthia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Chang, Leslie T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN . . . . . . . . . 37 Chen, Nancy N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Chernin, Kim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Childs, John Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 CHINA ROAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 CITY, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Coates, Ta-Nehisi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Cole, Johnnetta B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Coles, Robert, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 COMING OF AGE IN MISSISSIPPI. . . . . . . 11 COMPLICITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 CONQUISTADOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 CORNER, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
COUNTERCLOCKWISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 COVERING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 CREATING LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 CRISIS OF ISLAM, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Crowley, Michael. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 CULTURE OF WAR, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
D Daniels, Cora. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Danner, Mark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Darwin, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Dash, Mike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Davidson, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 DAY THE EARTH CAVED IN, THE . . . . . . . . 3 De Bellaigue, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 DEAR UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST . . . . . 34 DEATH OF INNOCENCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 DEATH TRUST AND SOCIETY. . . . . . . . . . 25 DEER HUNTING WITH JESUS. . . . . . . . . . . 1 Demick, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 DEVIL'S GENTLEMAN, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Dickerson, Debra J., ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 DILEMMA OF PSYCHOLOGY . . . . . . . . . . 46 Dobyns, Jay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Doctor, Bernard Aquina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Donovan, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Douglass, Frederick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Dray, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 DREAMS FROM MY FATHER . . . . . . . . . . 37 Du Bois, W.E.B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 DUDE WHERE’S BLACK STUDIES DEPARTMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Dumanoski, Dianne. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Dumas, Firoozeh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 DYING TO WIN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Dyson, Freeman J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
E Early, Gerald, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Ebadi, Shirin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ebershoff, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 ECHO FROM DEALEY PLAZA, THE. . . . . . . 5 ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE. . . . . . . 31, 44 Eding, June. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ELEMENTS OF JOURNALISM, THE . . . . . . 38 EMBRACING THE INFIDEL . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE . . . . . . . . . . 44 END OF NATURE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 END OF THE LONG SUMMER, THE . . . . . 31 ENRIQUE'S JOURNEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Ensler, Eve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Equiano, Olaudah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ESCAPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 ESSENTIAL FEMINIST READER, THE . . . . . 51 Essien, Aniefre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 EVERYDAY HOPES UTOPIAN . . . . . . . . . . . 2 EVERYWHERE A GUEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 EVOLUTION FOR EVERYONE. . . . . . . . . . 29
F FACTORY GIRLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 FAIR SHARES FOR ALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Faludi, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 FAMILY SECRETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 FAMILY WANTED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Farber, Celia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Farrow, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 FEAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 FEED ME! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Feldstein, Peter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 FEMINIST PROMISE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe. . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 FIERCE ANGELS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 FIRST AMERICANS, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 FIRST FAMILY, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 FLAPPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Flint, Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 FOOL'S PARADISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 FORTY MILLION DOLLAR SLAVES . . . . . . 11 FOUNDING FAITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Francis, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Freedman, Estelle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50, 51 Freedom Writer Teachers, The and Erin Gruwell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Friedman, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Friedman, Lawrence M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Frost, Maya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Frye, Marilyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Fukuoka, Masanobu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 FUNNY IN FARSI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
G Gaines, Steven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Gates, Henry Louis Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 GENDER TALK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 GETTING TO 50/50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 GHETTONATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Gifford, Rob. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 GODFATHER OF NIGHT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Goleman, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31, 44 GOOD BODY, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Govenar, Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 GREATEST GIFT, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 GREEKS AND GREEK LOVE, THE . . . . . . . 50 Griggs, Sutton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Grisham, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Gross, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Grunwald, Lisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 51 Gruwell, Erin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
H Hakakian, Roya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Hampton, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 HANDS OF MY FATHER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Haney, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 HARD DRIVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Harford, Tim. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Hari, Daoud. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Harris, E. Lynn, ed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Harris, Middleton A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Harrison, Kathryn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 HEART AND SOUL OF SEX, THE . . . . . . . 53 Heath, Chip and Dan Heath . . . . . . . . 34, 35 HEIRLOOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 HELL HATH NO FURY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 HELL'S ANGELS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Hess, Elizabeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 HIDDEN BRAIN, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 HIGH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Hinshaw, Stephen PhD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA, A. . . 51 Holloway, Sara. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Holmes, Hannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 HOMECOMING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 HONEYMOON IN TEHRAN . . . . . . . . . . . 21 HOPE IN THE UNSEEN, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Horne, Jed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Horowitz, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Horowitz, Mitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 HOW TO WIN A COSMIC WAR . . . . . . . . 18 Hubner, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 HUGO! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 HUNGER OF MEMORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 HURRICANE KATRINA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Hymowitz, Carol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
I I’M LOOKING THROUGH YOU . . . . . . . . 49 IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 IN SEARCH OF OUR ROOTS . . . . . . . . . . . 8 INDIAN GIVERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 INFLUENCE OF AFFLUENCE, THE . . . . . . 35 INHERITING THE HOLY LAND . . . . . . . . . 20 INNOCENT MAN, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 INSIDE THE CRIMINAL MIND. . . . . . . . . . 43 INTEGRAL VISION, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 INTERESTING NARRATIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 INVENTING JAPAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 IRAN AWAKENING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 ISLAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
J JEALOUSY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Jeffs, Brent W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Jessop, Carolyn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Johanson, Donald, Dr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 JOHN BROWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Johnson, Don Hanlon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Jones, Bart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 JOURNEY FROM THE LAND OF NO . . . . 20
K Kadri, Sadakat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
L Langer, Ellen J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Lanier, Carlotta Walls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 LAST CHANCE IN TEXAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF PEACE . . . . 16 LAW IN AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 LAY THAT TRUMPET IN OUR HANDS . . . 11 Le Breton, Binka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 LEAVING THE SAINTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 LEFT IN DARK TIMES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Leigh Connery, Christopher . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 LeShan, Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 LETTERS OF THE CENTURY . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 LETTERS TO A YOUNG TEACHER . . . . . . . 56 Levin, Diane E. PhD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Levine, James MD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Levy, Bernard-Henri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 36 Levy, Buddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Lewis, Bernard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 LIFE INC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 LIFE YOU CAN SAVE, THE. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Lindstrom, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 LIVES OF MORAL LEADERSHIP . . . . . . . . 36 LOGIC OF LIFE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 LOST BOY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 LUCIFER EFFECT, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 LUCY’S LEGACY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Lydersen, Kari . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
M MADE TO STICK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 MAJESTY OF THE LAW, THE . . . . . . . . . . . 41 MAJOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 MAKE THE IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE . . . . . . 57 MALCOLM X FOR BEGINNERS. . . . . . . . . 14 Malcolm X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Mam, Somaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 MAN WHO OWNS THE NEWS, THE . . . . 39 McCarthy, Susan Carol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 McKibben, Bill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Meacham, Jon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 25 Meers, Sharon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Mencken, H.L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Meyer, Dick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 MIDDLE EAST MOSAIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 MIGHTY LONG WAY, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Miles, Rosalind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Miller, Aaron David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Miller, Jennifer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Moaveni, Azadeh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Moody, Anne . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS . . . 27 MUCH TOO PROMISED LAND, THE . . . . 21 Murray, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 MY BONDAGE & MY FREEDOM . . . . . . . . 6
N Nafisi, Azar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . 23 Nazario, Sonia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Neer, Bob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 NEW GLOBAL STUDENT, THE . . . . . . . . . 57 Nies, Judith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 NIM CHIMPSKY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 NINE LIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 NO ANGEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 NO GOD BUT GOD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 NO TURNING BACK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 NOBODIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 NONVIOLENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 NOTHING SACRED. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 NOTHING TO ENVY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
O Obama, Barack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 OCCULT AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
O’Connor, Sandra Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 O’Dea, Brian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Ogden, Gina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 OLD MONEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 ON BECOMING AN ARTIST . . . . . . . . . . . 45 ONE-PARTY CLASSROOM . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 ONE-STRAW REVOLUTION, THE . . . . . . . 30 ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK . . . . . . . . . 43 ORIENTALIST, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 ORIGIN OF SPECIES, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 OUR TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 OUT OF IT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 OUT OF THE BLUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 OUTCASTS UNITED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 OXFORD PROJECT, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Stark, Tim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 STEALING MYSPACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 STREET SHADOWS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 STRENGTH IN WHAT REMAINS . . . . . . . . 10 Strickland, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 STRUGGLE FOR IRAN, THE . . . . . . . . . . . 19 STUFFED AND STARVED . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Sugrue, Thomas J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Suskind, Ron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 SWITCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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Pape, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Pappas, Kevin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Parks, Sheri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Patel, Raj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 PLANETWALKER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 PLENTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 POISONED PROFITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 POLITICAL LEADERSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 POLITICS OF REALITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 PRETTY IS WHAT CHANGES. . . . . . . . . . . 53 Prince, Russ Alan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Prince-Hughes, Dawn PhD . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Princeton Review. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
TEACH WITH YOUR HEART . . . . . . . . . . . 56 TEACHING HOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 TEACHING STORIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Tedlock, Barbara PhD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 THINGS I'VE BEEN SILENT ABOUT . . . . . 21 THIRTY-EIGHT WITNESSES . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Thompson, Hunter S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 TIES THAT BIND, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Till-Mobley, Mamie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 TORTURE AND TRUTH. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 TRAGEDY OF ZIONISM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Tram, Dang Thuy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 TRANSLATOR, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 TRIAL, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 TRIPLE BIND, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 TRUST IS NOT ENOUGH . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Tye, Larry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Tyson, Timothy B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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Queller, Jessica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Quigley, Joan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Uhlberg, Myron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 UNCOMMON ARRANGEMENTS . . . . . . . 55 UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST, THE . . . . . . 34 UNSAYABLE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 UNTOLD GLORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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R RACHEL AND HER CHILDREN . . . . . . . . . 56 RAISING A LEFT-BRAIN CHILD . . . . . . . . . 43 RAMMER JAMMER YELLOW HAMMER. . . . 4 READING LOLITA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 REAL EDUCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 RECLAIMING VIRTUE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Reiss, Tom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 RELIGIOUS ORGY IN TENNESSEE, A . . . . 27 RESET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 REVOLT ON GOOSE ISLAND . . . . . . . . . . 35 Rhoden, William C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Rico, Johnny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 ROAD OF LOST INNOCENCE . . . . . . . . . 53 Rodriguez, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Rogers, Annie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Roiphe, Katie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Rosenberg, Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Rosenthal, A.M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Rothkrug, Lionel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Rothman, David J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Rushkoff, Douglas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
S Sadler, Nigel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Samenow, Stanton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 SATCHEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 SAY EVERYTHING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Schechter, Harold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 SCIENTIST AS REBEL, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Seal, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Shabecoff, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 SHAME OF THE NATION, THE . . . . . . . . . 56 SHE’S NOT THERE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 SHORT STORIES/LATIN AMER WOMEN . . 17 Siegel, Lee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Simon, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Singer, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 SISTERS IN WAR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 SLAVE TRADE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 SLAVES IN THE FAMILY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Smith, Alisa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 SO SEXY SO SOON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 SONGS OF THE GORILLA NATION . . . . . 28 SOULS OF BLACK FOLK, THE. . . . . . . . . . . 6 Soyinka, Wole . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 St. John, Warren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Stansell, Christine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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KAFKA COMES TO AMERICA . . . . . . . . . . 41 Katz, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Kerman, Piper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Kidder, Tracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10, 27 Kotkin, Joel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Kovach, Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Kozol, Jonathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Kurlansky, Mark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 36
V VAGINA MONOLOGUES . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Van Creveld, Martin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Vecsey, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Vedantam, Shankar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 VOICES IN OUR BLOOD . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 VOICES OF FREEDOM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
W Waldman, Steven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Walker, Jerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Walker, Rob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Walton, Stuart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Wax, Steven T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Weatherford, Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 WELL-DRESSED APE, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Werth, Barry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MY LIFE?. . . 34 WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR PSYCHOLOGY OR SOCIOLOGY DEGREE . . . . . . . . . . . 57 WHILE THEY SLEPT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 WHO COOKED THE LAST SUPPER? . . . . 52 WHY DO I LOVE THESE PEOPLE? . . . 34, 55 WHY SAVE AFRICA? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 WHY SHE BUYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 WHY WE HATE US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Wilber, Ken . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 WILDFLOWER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Wilson, A.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Wilson, David Sloan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Wolff, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 WOMAN IN THE SHAMAN’S BODY, THE . 23 WOMEN DON’T ASK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 WOMEN'S LETTERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 WORKING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 WORLDING PROJECT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 WRESTLING WITH MOSES . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Y Yaghmaian, Behzad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Yoshino, Kenji . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN . . . . . 12
Z Zapata, Celia Correas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Zeitz, Joshua . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Zimbardo, Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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