2016 First Year Common Reads Catalog

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First Year
Com m on
Read s
2016
Recommended
Titles
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Perseus Books Group
First Year Common Reads
Dear First Year Common Reads Committee:
I am pleased to present the Perseus Books Group 2016 First Year Common Reads Recommended Titles
catalog.
This specially curated list of titles includes the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Friday Night Lights
and the tenth anniversary edition of They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky, one of our most top-picked titles
for First-Year! Kate Harding’s Asking for It looks at the rise in rape culture on college campuses, in the
military as well as in the boardroom. Invisible Man Got the Whole World Watching by Mychal Denzel Smith
looks at the scope of Black manhood through the lens of Ferguson, Trayvon Martin, and the election of
our first African-American president.
Susan E. Eaton’s Integration Nation is a welcome addition to the case of integrating, and not assimilating, immigrants into American culture. Another popular First-Year pick, Michelle Alexander’s The New
Jim Crow, continues to change the world and our view of it while sparking a nationwide social movement.
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen recently won the 2016 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk is a New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year and
continues to land on the bestseller lists.
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From the thousands of books we publish each year, we’ve selected those that will inspire your students
as well as spark lively debate online and in the classroom. Many of our titles are now available in an
e-book format and most authors are willing to come and speak at your institution.
I am happy to send you exam copies to review, and for your convenience, an exam copy request form is
included in the back of the catalog. Please take a moment to browse the catalog and don’t hesitate to
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Table of Contents
Business & Economics...................................... 2
Cultural Studies.............................................. 13
History............................................................ 27
Inspiring Change............................................. 33
Islam & the Middle East.................................. 38
Literary Fiction................................................ 39
Memoir........................................................... 52
Politics............................................................ 56
Science .......................................................... 57
Sports ............................................................ 62
Stories from Africa........................................... 63
Technology...................................................... 65
War................................................................. 67
Recommended First Year Reads....................... 70
Title Index....................................................... 71
Author Index.................................................... 72
Contact Information........................................ 73
Exam Copy Request Form................................ 74
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
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Brookings Institution Press
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An Economy of Well-Being
CAROL L. GRAHAM
In The Pursuit of Happiness, renowned economist Carol Graham explores
what we know about the determinants of happiness and clearly presents
both the promise and the potential pitfalls of injecting the “economics
of happiness” into public policymaking. While the book spotlights the
innovative contributions of happiness research to the dismal science,
it also raises a cautionary note about the issues that still need to be
addressed before policymakers can make best use of them.
CAROL GRAHAM is the Leo Pasvolsky
Senior Fellow in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution. She is
also College Park Professor at the University of
Maryland’s School of Public Policy.
CIRCUS MAXIMUS
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The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the
Olympics and the World Cup
ANDREW ZIMBALIST
In the updated and expanded edition of his bestselling book, Circus
Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the
World Cup, Zimbalist tackles the bogus claim that cities chosen to host
these high-profile sporting events experience an economic windfall. In
this new edition, he takes aim at the outrageous FIFA scandal, Boston’s
bid for the 2024 summer Olympics, and the criticism surrounding the
2015 Women’s World Cup.
Circus Maximus focuses on major cities, like London and Barcelona,
which have previously hosted these sporting events, to provide context
for cities like Tokyo and Rio de Janerio, which are currently bearing the
weight of exploding expenses, corruption, and protests. Zimbalist offers
a sobering and candid look at the Olympics and the World Cup from
outside the echo chamber.
ANDREW ZIMBALIST earned a BA
from the University of Wisconsin at Madison
and an MA and PhD from Harvard University
and has been in the economics department at
Smith College since 1974. Zimbalist has consulted in Latin America for the United Nations
Development Program, the U.S. Agency for
International Development, and numerous
companies. He lives in Northampton, MA.
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A Game Plan for Success by Putting Passion
into Your Life and Work
JOE PLUMERI
Now in paperback! A national bestseller, The Power of Being Yourself
offers simple yet profound guidance on how to stay positive, motivate
yourself and others, and achieve success in your life and work, from a
renowned business leader.
NYP 3/22/2016
Also Available:
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By sharing his own experiences—and candidly exploring high-stakes
business decisions along with many personal triumphs and tragedies—
Plumeri explains that the secret to success is found not in boardroom
strategy or corporate philosophy, but rather in allowing passion, purpose,
and true emotions to inform your approach and guide your relationships.
USA TODAY
“TOP 50”
BESTSELLER
“Ultimately the stronger message is not about being your most
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“Plumeri’s story offers us all lessons for succeeding in all areas of
life today. The Power of Being Yourself is an inspirational read for
—800-CEO-READ
our times.”
JOE PLUMERI is vice chairman of the First
Data Board of Directors and served as CEO
of Willis Group, Citibank North America, and
Primerica. He also serves on the boards of the
National Center on Addiction and Substance
Abuse, Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the
Jackie Robinson Foundation, among others.
He lives in New York City.
A HIGHER STANDARD
DENVER POST
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THE POWER OF BEING YOURSELF
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Leadership Strategies from America’s
First Female Four-Star General
ANN DUNWOODY
On June 23, 2008, President George W. Bush nominated Ann Dunwoody
as a four-star general in the US Army—the first time a woman had ever
achieved that rank. The news generated excitement around the world.
Now retired after nearly four decades in the Army, Dunwoody shares
what she learned along the way, from her first command leading 100
soldiers to her final assignment, in which she led a 60 billion dollar
enterprise of over 69,000 employees, including the Army’s global supply
chain in support of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Forthcoming:
$15.99 Trade Paperback
978-0-306-82442-5
9/12/2017
Now in paperback, A Higher Standard, details Dunwoody’s evolution
as a soldier and reveals the core leadership principles that helped her
achieve her historic appointment.
“A straight shooter who tells it like it is, [Dunwoody] is uniquely
qualified to teach, inspire, empower and entertain.”—800-CEO-READ
“General Dunwoody’s book, A Higher Standard, provides inspiring
military philosophy and on-the-ground leadership experience.”
—Frances Hesselbein, President/CEO, The Frances Hesselbein Leadership
Institute and 1998 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
Selected by UNIVERSITY of FLORIDA
GENERAL ANN DUNWOODY is the
former commanding general of one of the
Army’s largest commands, the US Army Materiel Command. In addition to becoming the
first woman in US military history to achieve
the rank of four-star general, she was also the
first woman to command a battalion in the
82nd Airborne Division and Fort Bragg’s first
female general officer.
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THE BUSINESS OF GOOD
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Social Entrepreneurship and the New
Bottom Line
JASON HABER
The groundbreaking story of why and how social entrepreneurship is
changing everything we know about business and everything we thought
we knew about ourselves. For the first time, the incredible story of why
this movement has emerged as a transformative business model is
revealed and how to be a part of this growing social entrepreneurial
trend. From billions invested via Wall Street to millions endowed on
college campuses, The Business of Good illustrates all the newfound
opportunities that can be harnessed by those interested in social
entrepreneurship. All the secrets to success a social entrepreneur
needs to know are laid out in this book: from divulging their true D.N.A,
(Dogmatic, Nerve, Authenticity), to the three rules that must be followed
to the keys to hiring the right team to the best way to use social media
and how to leverage free media.
NYP 5/10/2016
JASON HABER is a serial and social entrepreneur. In 2010, he co-founded Rubicon
Property, a social entrepreneurial real estate
firm based in Manhattan. Warburg Realty,
one of New York’s premier firms, purchased
Rubicon in 2013. He has also served as an
adjunct professor at John Jay College. Haber
is a frequent commentator on cable news
networks. He currently lives in New York City.
$21.95
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978-1-59918-563-7
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Entrepreneur Press
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FUELED BY FAILURE
Using Detours and Defeats to Power Progress
JEREMY BLOOM
Professional athlete turned CEO and philanthropist Jeremy Bloom
guides aspiring and startup entrepreneurs in using defeats—big and
small—to drive, not derail, success.
JEREMY BLOOM, is a co-founder and
CEO of Integrate, a marketing software and
media services provider. He is a member of
the United States Skiing Hall of Fame, a twotime Olympian and 11-time FIS Freestyle
World Cup gold medalist, as well as a former
football player for the Philadelphia Eagles and
the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Captivating readers with anecdotes and takeaways from his success
missions in athletics and business, Bloom makes the case that
success is never linear, he introduces tactics for managing expectations
for ourselves and our team, recovering and rebounding and/or
reprogramming after defeat, knowing what to keep and what to toss
when it comes to failure’s lessons, and plotting a new course. Lessons
and practices are illustrated by Jeremy’s own story, which include NFL
Hall-of-Famers John Elway and Mike Tomlin and Olympic champions
Sasha Cohen and Apolo Ohno, and insights and advice from business
leaders including Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google; Chad Hurley, cofounder of YouTube; and entrepreneur and venture capitalist Brad Feld.
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Proven Techniques for Achieving Success
in Business and Life
IVAN MISNER AND DON MORGAN
Success! The Magic Word. The Holy Grail. The American Dream.
Stories of daunting hardships and unexpected success through examples
set by successful people: discover Brian Tracy’s insights into the laws of
success, learn from Tony Allessandra the importance of passion, hear
Lou Holtz’s advice on visualizing success, and discover what drove Erin
Brockovich to triumph over great odds. Contributors include Buzz Aldrin,
Wayne Dyer, Larry Elder, Michael Gerber, John Gray, Mark Victor Hansen,
Tom Hopkins, Vince Lombardi Jr., Tony Robbins, and many others. From
one story to the next, both motivation and encouragement can be found.
Co-authors DR. IVAN MISNER and
DON MORGAN live actively in business,
their families, the community and athletics.
Misner is Founder and CEO of BNI, a global
business referral company. Morgan represents
the Canadian interests in the company. Misner,
a black belt in Karate and Morgan a master
sailboat racer understand the requirements to
succeed in both business and sports.
NO ONE UNDERSTANDS YOU
AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON
MASTERS OF SUCCESS
$22.00
224 pages
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Have you ever had the feeling that you’re just not getting through to the
person you’re talking with, or coming across the way you intend to?
You’re not alone. Our usual approach is to just talk louder, to try harder
to get our message through. This is almost always the wrong approach.
Why? Because other people almost never see us the way we see
ourselves. Fortunately, these distortions in perception are systematic,
understandable, and surmountable.
Heidi Grant Halvorson, bestselling author of Nine Things Successful
People Do Differently and Focus, now shows you how to communicate
effectively—despite these unintentional (yet widespread) distortions of
perception. By better understanding how communication and perception
really work, you’ll learn to send the right signals at the right time, no
matter who you’re communicating with.
HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON, PhD,
is a social psychologist and Associate Director
of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia Business School. She is the author of
four bestselling books, including Nine Things
Successful People Do Differently, as well as
a regular contributor to leading publications,
including Harvard Business Review, Fast
Company, WSJ.com, and Psychology Today.
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FORGET A MENTOR, FIND A SPONSOR
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The New Way to Fast-Track Your Career
SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT
Traditional pathways to career progression have all but diminished.
Mentors used to be the answer but in today’s world, research shows that
they are not enough to help you advance.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett—economist, prolific author, and originator of
such prominent ideas as off-ramping and on-ramping—shows why
sponsorship is the new route to success. What makes a sponsor
different from a mentor is critical in terms of getting you into the role you
covet and deserve.
SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT is the founding president of the Center for Talent Innovation, a nonprofit think tank where she chairs
a task force of 75 global companies focused
on fully realizing the new streams of high echelon labor in the global marketplace. She is
currently ranked #11 on the Thinkers 50 list of
the world’s most influential business thinkers.
Combining real examples with practical advice, Forget a Mentor, Find
a Sponsor shows how to build this important professional relationship,
position yourself for leadership, and effectively work with your sponsor
to achieve career success.
REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE
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15 Harvard Professors Tell Life Stories
That Inspire the Heart and Mind
EDITED BY DAISY WADEMAN
Leadership requires many attributes besides intelligence and business
savvy—courage, character, compassion, and respect are just a few. New
managers learn concrete skills in the classroom or on the job, but where
do they hone the equally important human values that will guide them
through a career that is both successful and meaningful?
DAISY WADEMAN D OWLING
graduated from Harvard Business School in
2002, was formerly an Associate in the Investment Banking unit of J.P. Morgan & Co., and
currently is the head of talent development
at the Blackstone Group, a global alternative
asset-management firm.
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A sponsor serves as your advocate—not just doling out advice but also
offering the powerful backing inside the organization to get you where
you want to go. From making important introductions to senior leaders
to expanding the perception of what you can offer the organization,
sponsors are your personal brand advocates in the workplace and in
your industry at large. They inspire, propel, and protect—to help you
progress.
In this inspirational book, Daisy Wademan gathers lessons on balancing
the personal and professional responsibilities of leadership from faculty
members of Harvard Business School. Offering a rare glimpse inside the
classrooms in which many of the world’s prominent leaders are trained,
Remember Who You Are imparts lessons learned not in business, but in
life. From the revelations on luck and obligation brought by a terrifying
mountain accident to a widowed mother’s lesson of respect for people
rather than job titles, these unforgettable stories and reflections, shared
by renowned contributors from Rosabeth Moss Kanter to former HBS
Dean Kim Clark, remind us that great leadership is not only about the
mind, but the heart.
Lessons from the Front Lines of Business
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW,
EDITED BY DANIEL McGINN
From the pages of Harvard Business Review, How I Did It brings to life
the real challenges faced in some of today’s best-known companies—
straight from the CEOs who successfully met and overcame them.
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Practical and eminently usable, this collection of first-person narratives
by renowned CEOs—including GE’s Jeff Immelt, Xerox’s Anne Mulcahy,
Prada’s Patrizio Bertelli, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and others—tells how
each overcame a management or organizational challenge that had
their company stumped. Engaging and entertaining, these powerful
global business leaders explain how they solved the problem and
share the lessons they learned in the process. From handling a difficult
succession, succeeding in emerging markets, creating lean growth, and
innovating business models to issues involving customers, employees,
and partners, these stories illustrate how successful leaders manage
complex issues while working in the trenches.
If you’re a manager, in any country, looking for guidance, inspiration, and
a good read, Harvard Business Review’s How I Did It will help you make
better decisions in the face of big problems in your own workplace.
HBR’S 10 MUST READS
ON MANAGING YOURSELF
PETER FERDINAND DRUCKER,
CLAYTON M. CHRISTENSEN,
AND DANIEL GOLEMAN
HOW I DID IT
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The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the
mirror. If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10
articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review
articles to select the most important ones to help you maximize yourself.
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to stay
engaged throughout your 50+ year work life, tap into your deepest
values, solicit candid feedback, delegate and develop employees’
initiative, and more.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, twelve
international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard
Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
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ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
DANIEL GOLEMAN,
RICHARD E. BOYATZIS,
ANNIE McKEE, AND
SYDNEY FINKELSTEIN
In his defining work on emotional intelligence, Dan Goleman has found
that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining
outstanding leadership. These are the Harvard Business Review’s articles
that best help you learn how to monitor and manage your emotions to
boost your success. This book will inspire you to deeply understand your
own emotions, strengths, weaknesses, and goals; find ways to control
and channel bad moods and emotional impulses; empathize the right
way to make intelligent decisions; manage your relationships with
others; and more.
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ON MAKING SMART DECISIONS
DANIEL KAHNEMAN,
AND RAM CHARAN
Want to make better choices and avoid common traps? These ten
essential Harvard Business Review articles show you how to overcome
cognitive biases, back up decisions with data and analytics, and weigh
risks and benefits. Leading global experts will provide the insights and
advice you need to make bold decisions that challenge the status quo,
test your decisions with experiments, defeat indecisiveness, and more.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, twelve
international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard
Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
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In the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done, you’ll discover how to
focus your time and energy where they will yield the greatest reward. Not
only will you end each day knowing you made progress, your improved
productivity will also set you apart from the pack. For both new and
experienced professionals, this guide will help you to prioritize and stay
focused, work less but accomplish more, write to-do lists that actually
work, and more.
HBR GUIDE TO PERSUASIVE
PRESENTATIONS
NANCY DUARTE
HBR GUIDE TO GETTING
THE RIGHT WORK DONE
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
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Terrified of speaking in front of a group? Or simply looking to polish your
skills? Wherever you are on the spectrum, this guide will give you the
confidence and tools you need to get results. Written by presentation
expert Nancy Duarte, this guide will help you win over tough crowds,
organize a coherent narrative, create powerful messages and visuals,
strike the right tone for any situation, and more.
“This concise, yet packed little book might contain all you need to
know about giving a better presentation.… If you do any kind of
public speaking, or want to, this book will be extremely helpful and
useful.”
—800 CEO READ
NANCY DUARTE is a skilled CEO,
inspired presenter, and gifted educator. Principal of Duarte Design since 1990, Nancy
Duarte is a sought-after speaker whose own
presentations live up to the expectations
established in her books. Those books include
slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating
Great Presentations and Resonate: Present
Visual Stories That Transform Audiences.
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HBR GUIDE TO GETTING
THE MENTORING YOU NEED
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW PRESS
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Whether you’re eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance
your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network,
you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior manager to
come looking for you—and you’ll probably be waiting forever. Instead,
you need to find the mentoring that will help you achieve your goals.
With this guide, you’ll learn how to find new ways to stand out in your
organization, set clear and realistic development goals, identify and
build relationships with influential sponsors, and more.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW is
the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine,
twelve international licensed editions, books
from Harvard Business Review Press, and
digital content and tools published on HBR.org,
Harvard Business Review provides rigorous
insights and best practices to lead themselves
and their organizations more effectively.
CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM
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Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
JOHN MACKEY
AND RAJENDRA SISODIA
WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORS
At once a bold defense and reimagining of capitalism and a blueprint
for a new system for doing business, Conscious Capitalism is for anyone
hoping to build a more cooperative, humane, and positive future.
WALL STREET
JOURNAL
Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and
Conscious Capitalism, Inc. cofounder Raj Sisodia argue that both
business and capitalism are inherently good, and they use some of
today’s best-known and most successful companies to illustrate their
point. From Southwest Airlines, UPS, and Tata to Costco, Panera, Google,
the Container Store, and Amazon, today’s organizations are creating
value for all stakeholders—including customers, employees, suppliers,
investors, society, and the environment.
BESTSELLER
JOHN MACKEY is co-CEO and cofounder
of Whole Foods Market and cofounder of the
nonprofit Conscious Capitalism, Inc. He has
devoted his life to selling natural and organic
foods and to building a better business model.
DR. RAJENDRA (RAJ) SISODIA is
cofounder and trustee of Conscious Capitalism, Inc. and professor of marketing at Bentley
University.
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“Conscious Capitalism is full of thoughtful insights and original
observations that could help organizations from start-ups to
multinationals become better at creating financial and social
wealth for all their stakeholders.… I strongly suspect it will be
one of the outstanding business books of the year.”
—Financial Times
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Are you at the top of your game—or still trying to get there?
Take your cues from the short, powerful Nine Things Successful People
Do Differently, where the strategies and goals of the world’s most
successful people are on display—backed by research that shows
exactly what has the biggest impact on performance. Here’s a hint:
accomplished people reach their goals because of what they do, not
just who they are.
Readers have called this “a gem of a book.” Get ready to accomplish
your goals at last.
HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON, PhD
is a motivational psychologist and author of
Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals. She
blogs on motivation and leadership for the websites of several leading publications, including
Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and
Psychology Today.
HeidiGrantHalvorson.com
Twitter: @hghalvorson
HOW TO BE A PRODUCTIVITY NINJA
NINE THINGS SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
DO DIFFERENTLY
HEIDI GRANT HALVORSON
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Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What
You Do
GRAHAM ALLCOTT
In the age of information overload, traditional time management
techniques simply don’t cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes,
ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings. Thankfully
there is a better way: The Way of the Productivity Ninja.
NYP 3/15/2016
Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm
and Stealth & Camouflage you will get your inbox down to zero, make the
most of your attention, beat procrastination and learn to work smarter,
not harder.
Written by one of the world’s foremost productivity experts, How to Be
a Productivity Ninja is a fun, accessible and practical guide to staying
cool, calm and collected, getting more done, and learning to love your
work again.
“[Allcott] has distilled the wisdom of hundreds of business seminars
into this handy little book to help us get organised, de-clutter
our minds and desks and become altogether calmer, happier and
more productive…this book makes for a well-rounded manual to
sharpen up your work methods.”
—Claudia Sunderhauf, Waterstones.com
GRAHAM ALLCOTT is a productivity
trainer, social entrepreneur and founder of
Think Productive. His company runs public
workshops throughout the world and also
run in-house workshops for staff at a range
of organizations, including eBay, the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, American Express,
and GlaxoSmithKline.
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TOM RATH
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TOM RATH is an expert on the role of
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Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving
immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics,
Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working
toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground.
In a book the Wall Street Journal called “marvelous, rewarding,” the
authors tell how the stress of living on less than ninety-nine cents per
day encourages the poor to make questionable decisions that feed—
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ESTHER DUFLO is the Abdul Latif Jameel
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“This guide to tackling poverty based on research, suggests ways
of overcoming the inertia ideology and ignorance that so often
reduce the effectiveness of aid spending.”
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MIKA BRZEZINSKI
Now in paperback! New York Times bestseller Knowing Your Value, the
prequel to Mika Brzezinski’s new book, Grow Your Value, is a brutally
honest, funny, and self-deprecating in-depth look at how women today
achieve their deserved recognition and financial worth.
Prompted by her own experience as co-host of Morning Joe, Brzezinski
interviewed a number of prominent women across a wide range of
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personal stories with the latest research on why many women don’t
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can be done about it. Knowing Your Value is a vital book for professional
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MIKA BRZEZINSKI is a co-host of
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ROSALYN STORY
When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, chef and widower Simon
Fortier knows how he plans to face the storm—riding it out inside his
long-time home in the city’s Treme neighborhood, just as he has through
so many storms before. But when the levees break and the city is torn
apart, Simon disappears. His son, Julian, a celebrated jazz trumpeter,
rushes home to a New Orleans he left years before to search for his
father. As Julian crisscrosses the city, fearing the worst, he reconnects
with Sylvia, Simon’s companion of many years; Parmenter, his father’s
erstwhile business partner and one of the most successful restaurateurs
in New Orleans; and Velmyra, the woman Julian left behind when he
moved to New York. Julian’s search for Simon deepens as he finds
himself drawn into the troubled history of Silver Creek, the extravagantly
beautiful piece of land where his father grew up, and closer once again
to Velmyra. As he tries to come to grips with his father’s likely fate, Julian
slowly gains a deeper, richer understanding of his father and the city he
loved so much, while unraveling the mysteries of Silver Creek.
“New Orleans natives struggle to recover their lives as well as their
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CULTURAL STUDIES
THE CULTURE OF FEAR
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Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things:
Crime, Drugs, Minorities, Teen Moms, Killer
Kids, Mutant Microbes, Plane Crashes, Road
Rage, & So Much More
BARRY GLASSNER
BARRY GLASSNER is professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. He
is the author of seven books and countless
articles that have appeared in magazines and
newspapers around the world. His academic
research has appeared in the most prestigious
journals in sociology and psychiatry. He lives
in Los Angeles.
WHY ARE ALL THE BLACK KIDS
SITTING TOGETHER IN THE
CAFETERIA?
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BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM, PhD, is a
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Holyoke College as well as a psychologist in
private practice.
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In the age of 9/11, the Iraq War, financial collapse, and Amber Alerts,
our society is defined by fear. So it’s not surprising that three out of four
Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years
ago. In The Culture of Fear, sociologist Barry Glassner demonstrates that
it is our perception of danger that has increased, not the actual level of
risk. Glassner exposes the people and organizations that manipulate our
perceptions and profit from our fears, including advocacy groups that
raise money by exaggerating the prevalence of particular diseases and
politicians who win elections by heightening concerns about crime, drug
use, and terrorism. Revised for the first time in ten years, an update of
the classic book—more relevant now than when it was first published—
Glassner exposes the administration of George W. Bush and the use of
fear in the war on terror.
Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth
seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it’s not just the black kids
sitting together—the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions,
American Indian youth are clustered in their own groups, too. The same
phenomenon can be observed in college dining halls, faculty lounges,
and corporate cafeterias. Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority
on the psychology of racism, asserts that we do not know how to talk
about our racial differences: Whites are afraid of using the wrong words
and being perceived as “racist” while parents of color are afraid of
exposing their children to painful racial realities too soon. Using reallife examples and the latest research, Tatum presents strong evidence
that straight talk about our racial identities—whatever they may be—is
essential for facilitating communication across racial and ethnic divides.
This remarkable book, infused with great wisdom and humanity, has
already helped hundreds of thousands of readers figure out where to
start the conversation.
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In the book that he was born to write, provocateur and best-selling author
Christopher Hitchens inspires future generations of radicals, gadflies,
mavericks, rebels, angry young (wo)men, and dissidents. Who better to
speak to that person who finds him or herself in a contrarian position
than Hitchens, who has made a career of disagreeing in profound and
entertaining ways? This book explores the entire range of “contrary
positions”—from noble dissident to gratuitous pain in the butt. In an
age of overly polite debate bending over backward to reach a happy
consensus within an increasingly centrist political dialogue, Hitchens
pointedly pitches himself in contrast. He bemoans the loss of the skills
of dialectical thinking evident in contemporary society. He understands
the importance of disagreement—to personal integrity, to informed
discussion, to true progress—heck, to democracy itself. Epigrammatic,
spunky, witty, in your face, timeless and timely, this book is everything
you would expect from a mentoring contrarian.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS was an
English author, essayist, orator, religious and
literary critic, and journalist. His numerous
books include Letters to a Young Contrarian
and Why Orwell Matters.
THE HIP HOP WARS
CULTURAL STUDIES
LETTERS TO A YOUNG CONTRARIAN
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
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What We Talk about When We Talk
about Hip Hop and Why It Matters
TRICIA ROSE
Hip-hop is in crisis. Scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues that
hip-hop has evolved into a “means by which we talk about race in the
United States” and therefore worth attending to and examining with a
critical eye.
In The Hip-Hop Wars, Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying
the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip-hop cause
violence, or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture? Is hip-hop sexist, or
are its detractors simply anti-sex? Does the portrayal of black culture in
hip-hop undermine black advancement?
A potent exploration of a divisive and important subject, The Hip-Hop
Wars concludes with a call for the regalvanization of the progressive and
creative heart of hip-hop. What Rose calls for is not a sanitized vision of
the form, but one that more accurately reflects a much richer space of
culture, politics, anger, and yes, sex, than the current ubiquitous images
in sound and video currently provide.
TRICIA ROSE is a professor of Africana
Studies at Brown University. She specializes
in twentieth- and twenty-first-century African-
American culture and politics, social thought,
popular culture, and gender issues. The author
of the seminal Black Noise, she lives in
Providence, Rhode Island.
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CULTURAL STUDIES
CONFRONTING SUBURBAN POVERTY
IN AMERICA
ELIZABETH KNEEBONE
AND ALAN BERUBE
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It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson
declared war on poverty. In the 1960s, tackling poverty “in place” meant
focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were
seen as home to middle- and upper-class families—affluent commuters
and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in
which to raise their kids. But today’s America is a very different place.
Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem, but increasingly
a suburban one as well. In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America,
Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of
metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America.
ELIZABETH KNEEBONE is a fellow
in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the
Brookings Institution.
ALAN BERUBE is a senior fellow and
deputy director at the Metropolitan Policy
Program.
The spread of suburban poverty has many causes, including shifts
in affordable housing and jobs, population dynamics, immigration,
and a struggling economy. The phenomenon raises several daunting
challenges, such as the need for more transportation options, services,
and financial resources. But necessity also produces opportunity—
in this case, the opportunity to rethink and modernize services,
structures, and procedures so that they work in more scaled, crosscutting, and resource-efficient ways to address widespread need. This
book embraces that opportunity, painting a new picture of poverty in
America as well as the best ways to combat it.
EQUALITY AND EFFICIENCY
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The Big Tradeoff
ARTHUR M. OKUN
FOREWORD BY LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS
Originally published in 1975, Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff is
a very personal work from one of the most important macroeconomists
of the last hundred years. In classrooms, Arthur M. Okun may be best
remembered for Okun’s Law, but his lasting legacy is the respect and
admiration he earned from economists, practitioners, and policymakers.
Equality and Efficiency is the perfect embodiment of that legacy, valued
both by professional economists and those readers with a keen interest
in social policy. To his fellow economists, Okun presents messages, in
the form of additional comments and select citations, in his footnotes.
To all readers, Okun presents an engaging dual theme: the market needs
a place, and the market needs to be kept in its place.
ARTHUR OKUN is widely considered
to be among the most important macro
economists of the twentieth century. He
received his AB and his PhD from Columbia
University and went on to teach economics
at Yale University. He served as the chairman
of the Council of Economic Advisers in the
Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and
later went on to join the Brookings Administration. Okun is deceased.
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In his new foreword, Lawrence H. Summers declares: On what one might
think of as questions of “economic philosophy,” I doubt that Okun has
been improved on in the subsequent interval. His discussion of how
societies rely on rights as well as markets should be required reading
for all young economists who are enamored with market solutions to all
problems.
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The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What
We Can Do about It
KATE HARDING
Just in the last few years, a series of Republican politicians have
introduced memorable phrases into the American lexicon that reveal
their automatic suspicion of women who report rape: “forcible rape,”
“honest rape,” “legitimate rape,” and “emergency rape” are some choice
favorites.
Noted blogger and author, Kate Harding, examines sexual assault as a
social phenomenon manifesting itself via media narratives about sexual
assault victims and perpetrators—and how those change, depending
on the age, race, sexual orientation, gender identity and fame of both
victim and offender. Through that lens, she takes a close look at the
three pillars of rape culture—excusing the accused, blaming the victim,
and insisting that individual women can and must protect themselves
from rape. Provocative, sharp, and b.s.-free, Asking for It tackles rape
culture and also offers suggestions for moving toward a culture that
fully respects and supports victims, while protecting the rights of the
accused.
“[A] deft and timely book…. Informative and informal, the book is
a smart, impassioned and well-researched agenda for a strictly
no-nonsense understanding of rape culture.” —Los Angeles Times
KATE HARDING is the coauthor of
Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere and a contributor to The Book of Jezebel. A columnist for
DAME Magazine, she lives in Minnesota.
CULTURAL STUDIES
ASKING FOR IT
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IRON JOHN, 25TH ANNIVERSARY
EDITION
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A Book about Men
ROBERT BLY
The 25th anniversary edition of this timeless and deeply learned classic,
poet and translator Robert Bly offers a pioneering work in the men’s
movement, combining myth, psychology, and anthropology to offer
important lessons on what it means to be a man.
Bly’s vision is based on his ongoing work with men, as well as on
reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of
remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in
our culture. Using rich meaning in ancient stories and legends to remind
us of ways of knowing long forgotten, images of deep and vigorous
masculinity centered in feeling and protective of the young.
At once down-to-earth and elevated, combining the grandeur of myth
with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, Iron
John is an astonishing work that will continue to guide and inspire men—
and women—for years to come.
“A brilliantly eclectic written meditation…an invisible contribution
to the gathering public conversation about what it means to be
male—or female.”
—Deborah Tannen, Washington Post
“Important…timely…powerful.”
—New York Times
ROBERT BLY is a poet, author, translator,
activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men’s
movement. Bly has received many awards,
including the National Book Award, for his
poetry; in 2013, he was awarded the Poetry
Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal, a
lifetime achievement award. He lives in Moose
Lake, Minnesota.
RobertBly.com
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CULTURAL STUDIES
ROOTS
The Saga of an American Family
ALEX HALEY
T
he winner of the Pulitzer Prize, reissued to tie in
with an all-new four-night, eight-hour miniseries.
When Roots was first published forty years ago,
it electrified the nation—and was a #1 New York Times
bestseller for 22 weeks. The celebrated miniseries that
followed a year later was likewise a coast-to-coast event—
over 130 million Americans watched some or all of the
broadcast. In the four decades since then, the story of the
young African slave Kunta Kinte and his descendants has lost
none of its power to enthrall and provoke. Now, with an all-new
television miniseries premiering this winter on Lifetime, A&E,
and The History Channel, Roots once again bursts onto the
national scene, and at a time when the race conversation has
never been more charged—a book for the legions of earlier
readers to revisit and for a new generation to discover.
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The epic eight-hour miniseries will star Oscar winners Forest
Whitaker and Anna Paquin, as well as Laurence Fishburne,
Jonathan Rys Meyers, and others.
“The book is an act of love, and it is this which makes it
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haunting.”
“A gripping mixture of urban confessional and political
manifesto, it not only inspired a generation of black
activists, but drove home the bitter realities of racism
to a mainstream white liberal audience.” —Observer
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ALEX HALEY served for twenty years in the United States
Coast Guard, was a longtime writer and editor for Reader’s Digest,
and compiled The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He died in 1992.
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How America Throws Away Nearly Half of Its
Food (and What We Can Do About It)
JONATHAN BLOOM
An eye-opening account of our culture of excess and waste—and what
we can do to change it. Grocery prices and the forsaken foods at the
back of your fridge seem to increase weekly. Shopping lists, refrigerators,
plates, and wallets will never be looked at the same way again. Jonathan
Bloom wades into the garbage heap to unearth what our squandered
food says about us, why it matters, and how you can make a difference
starting in your own kitchen—reducing waste and saving money.
Interviews with experts such as chef Alice Waters and food psychologist
Brian Wansink, among others, uncover not only how and why we waste,
but, most importantly, what we can do about it.
“With so many American children going hungry, this book should be
required reading.” —Mario Batali
JONATHAN BLOOM is a journalist
whose work has appeared in the New York
Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe.
He lives with his wife and son in Durham,
North Carolina.
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AMERICAN WASTELAND
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WHEN I WAS PUERTO RICAN
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A Memoir
ESMERELDA SANTIAGO
Esmerelda Santiago’s story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her
childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical
sounds and sights, as well as poverty. When her mother moves the
family to New York, we see the clash, both hilarious and fierce, of Puerto
Rican and Yankee culture. Esmerelda, the eldest of eleven, must learn
new rules, a new language, and eventually take on a new identity. In
this first volume of her much-praised, bestselling trilogy, Santiago
brilliantly recreates the idyllic landscape and tumultuous family life of
her tremendous journey from barrio to Brooklyn, from translating for her
mother at the welfare office to high honors at Harvard.
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“The American story of immigration, this time with unique Latin
flavor.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Santiago is a welcome new voice, full of passion and authority.”
—Washington Post Book World
ESMERALDA SANTIAGO is also the
author of two highly acclaimed memoirs, The
Turkish Lover and Almost a Woman, which
was made into a film for PBS’s Masterpiece
Theatre. She has also written a novel, Amer
ica’s Dream, and has co-edited two anthologies of Latino literature. She lives in Westchester County, New York.
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CULTURAL STUDIES
PLEASE STOP HELPING US
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How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks
to Succeed
JASON L. RILEY
Why is it that so many efforts by liberals to lift the black underclass not
only fail, but often harm the intended beneficiaries?
JASON L. RILEY is a senior fellow at the
Manhattan Institute and a columnist for the
Wall Street Journal. He lives in suburban New
York City.
In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned
welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back. Minimumwage laws may lift earnings for people who are already employed, but
they price a disproportionate number of blacks out of the labor force.
Affirmative action in higher education is intended to address past
discrimination, but the result is fewer black college graduates than
would otherwise exist. And so it goes with everything from soft-on-crime
laws, which make black neighborhoods more dangerous, to policies that
limit school choice out of a mistaken belief that charter schools and
voucher programs harm the traditional public schools that most lowincome students attend. In theory these efforts are intended to help the
poor—and poor minorities in particular. In practice they become massive
barriers to moving forward.
Please Stop Helping Us lays bare these counterproductive results.
People of goodwill want to see more black socioeconomic advancement,
but in too many instances the current methods and approaches aren’t
working. Acknowledging this is an important first step.
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How Washington Is Betraying America’s Young
DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH
AND JARED MEYER
Tens of millions of Americans are between the ages of 18 and 30. These
Americans, known as millennials, are, or soon will be, entering the
workforce. For them, achieving success will be more difficult than it was
for young people in the past. This is not because they are less intelligent,
they have worked less hard, or they are any less deserving of the
American dream. It is because Washington made decisions that render
their lives more difficult than those of their parents or grandparents. Their
younger siblings and their children will be even worse off, all because
Washington has refused to fix the problem.
This book describes the personal stories of several members of this
disinherited generation.
DIANA FURCHTGOTT-ROTH, former
chief economist of the U.S. Department of
Labor, is director of Economics21 and senior
fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy
Research.
JARED MEYER is a fellow at the
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. He
is a regular contributor to Economics21, The
Federalist, RealClearEnergy, and City Journal.
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The future of America can be saved, but only if our government’s betrayal
comes to an end. It is a war without victors, only victims. The birthright
of the America’s young must be restored, and the time to do so is now.
This book explains how.
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Campus Censorship and the End of
American Debate
GREG LUKIANOFF
For more than a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America’s
colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about
living in a free society. Drawing on a decade of experience battling for
freedom of speech on campus, First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff
reveals how higher education fails to teach students to become critical
thinkers: by stifling open debate, our campuses are supercharging
ideological divisions, promoting groupthink, and encouraging an
unscholarly certainty about complex issues.
Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day college
student, from orientation to the end of freshman year. Through this lens,
he describes startling violations of free speech rights. But Lukianoff
goes further, demonstrating how this culture of censorship is bleeding
into the larger society. As he explores public controversies involving
Juan Williams, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Larry
Summers—even Dave Barry and Jon Stewart—Lukianoff paints a stark
picture of our ability as a nation to discuss important issues rationally.
Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American
Debate illuminates how intolerance for dissent and debate on today’s
campus threatens the freedom of every citizen and makes us all just a
little bit dumber.
GREG LUKIANOFF is an attorney and
president of the Foundation for Individual
Rights in Education. His writings on campus
free speech have appeared in the Wall Street
Journal, the New York Times, and the Washing
ton Post, in addition to dozens of other publications. A regular columnist for the Huffing
ton Post, he is a frequent guest on nationally
syndicated radio and television programs.
REDEFINING MANHOOD
CULTURAL STUDIES
UNLEARNING LIBERTY
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A Guide for Men and Those Who Love Them
JIM PATHFINDER EWING
While women have forged ahead in the workplace and society, men are
finding themselves increasingly marginalized, socially and professionally.
This has led to calls for a men’s movement and courses are being taught,
but they are failing to find traction among men. The old archetypes of
manhood no longer apply.
In this book, the author outlines why the current courses on men’s
empowerment are failing and offers a new way of looking at male roles
that predates the modern era. It is a “back to the future” approach
to manhood that actually is better suited for the male psyche, having
existed for thousands of years in all parts of the globe. This “survival
kit” for the male gender can revitalize male and female relations on a
more balanced and time-honored footing. This book serves as a selfhelp manual for men, a guide for men’s retreats, and a primer for wives,
daughters, mothers, and female friends to help the men in their lives
adopt a newer, healthier way of living in balance with a society that is
rapidly shifting its roles.
JIM PATHFINDER EWING is an
award-winning journalist, workshop leader,
inspirational speaker, and author in the fields
of mind-body medicine, organic farming, and
eco-spirituality. His writing has appeared in
Inner Self magazine, Sacred Hoop, Daily Om,
and other publications, and he is a perennial favorite in About.com’s Readers Choice
Awards.
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CULTURAL STUDIES
MY BROTHER’S NAME
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A Novel
LAURA KRUGHOFF
Surrendering to John’s schizophrenic and elliptical logic, Jane assumes
her older brother’s identity, and begins to make a life for herself as a
young man named John. Jane interacts with the world as John, and then
comes home to tell her brother the stories of his own life, under the
naïve and perhaps mad hope that these stories will help John remember.
But in the act of being John, Jane runs the risk of becoming him. Jane
soon identifies more strongly with the man she’s become than the
overshadowed woman she once was. When John begins to demand that
Jane give up certain aspects of the life she’s built under her assumed
identity, particularly a romance, Jane’s double life threatens to collapse.
Jane and John are forced to confront the limits of their ability to control
each other, and the world around them, through the stories they tell-but
just how deep into mental illness can Jane slide?
FINALIST
LAMBDA LITERARY
AWARD LGBT
DEBUT FICTION
LAURA KRUGHOFF is an award-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in
literary magazines and journals over the past
decade. She is a recipient of the Washington
Square Prize for Fiction and a Pushcart Prize.
Laura is a writer, scholar, and teacher, living in
Chicago, Illinois.
“Identity is a slippery slope in this GLBT novel written as a
young woman’s memoir-like tale of assuming her look-alike,
schizophrenic brother’s identity. Jane goes far beyond an
exterior resemblance as she mirrors John, reaching into deeper,
more mysterious realms. Inevitably, romantic entanglement and
pain result in Krughoff’s fast-paced read that’s as daring and
provocative as it is entertaining.” —Booklist
LauraKrughoff.com
THE NATURE OF COLLEGE
JAMES J. FARRELL
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Exploring one day in the life of an average student, The Nature of
College questions what “natural” is and what “common sense” is really
good for, weighing the collective impacts of the everyday. Stately oaks,
ivy-covered walls, the opposite sex—these are the things that likely
come to mind for most Americans when they think about the “nature” of
college. But the real nature of college is hidden in plain sight: it’s flowing
out of the keg, it’s woven into the mascots on our t-shirts. In short,
nature is forming and being formed by the habits of our hearts and
minds. In the end, this fascinating, highly original book engaging in a
deep and richly entertaining study of “campus ecology” rediscovers and
repurposes the great and timeless opportunity presented by college:
to study the American way of life, and to develop a more sustainable,
better way to live.
Selected by the COLLEGE of NEW JERSEY
JAMES FARRELL is the author of numerous books that examine the American way
of life, from One Nation Under Goods: The
Malling of America to Inventing the American
Way of Death. He is the Boldt Distinguished
Teaching Professor in the Humanities at
St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
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American Masculinity at the End of an Era
MICHAEL KIMMEL
One of the enduring legacies of the 2012 Presidential campaign was
the demise of the white American male voter as a dominant force in
the political landscape. On election night, after Obama was announced
the winner, a distressed Bill O’Reilly lamented that he didn’t live in “a
traditional America anymore.” He was joined by others who bellowed
their grief on the talk radio airwaves, the traditional redoubt of angry
white men. Why were they so angry? Sociologist Michael Kimmel, one
of the leading writers on men and masculinity in the world today, has
spent hundreds of hours in the company of America’s angry white men—
from white supremacists to men’s rights activists to young students—
in pursuit of an answer. Angry White Men presents a comprehensive
diagnosis of their fears, anxieties, and rage.
Kimmel locates this increase in anger in the seismic economic, social,
and political shifts that have so transformed the American landscape.
Downward mobility, increased racial and gender equality, and a tenacious
clinging to an anachronistic ideology of masculinity has left many men
feeling betrayed and bewildered. Raised to expect unparalleled social
and economic privilege, white men are suffering today from what Kimmel
calls “aggrieved entitlement”: a sense that those benefits that white men
believed were their due have been snatched away from them.
MICHAEL KIMMEL is Distinguished
Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at
Stony Brook University in New York. An author
or editor of more than twenty books, including
Manhood in America, The Gendered Society,
The History of Men, and Guyland, he lives with
his family in Brooklyn, New York.
THE AMERICAN WAY OF POVERTY
SASHA ABRAMSKY
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Fifty years after Michael Harrington published his groundbreaking book
The Other America, in which he chronicled the lives of people excluded
from the Age of Affluence, poverty in America is back with a vengeance.
It is made up of both the long-term chronically poor and new working
poor-the tens of millions of victims of a broken economy and an ever
more dysfunctional political system. In many ways, for the majority of
Americans, financial insecurity has become the new norm.
NEW YORK
TIMES
The American Way of Poverty shines a light on this travesty. Sasha
Abramsky brings the effects of economic inequality out of the shadows
and, ultimately, suggests ways for moving toward a fairer and more
equitable social contract. Exploring everything from housing policy to
wage protections and affordable higher education, Abramsky lays out a
panoramic blueprint for a reinvigorated political process that, in turn, will
pave the way for a renewed War on Poverty.
It is, Harrington believed, a moral outrage that in a country as wealthy
as America, so many people could be so poor. Written in the wake of
the 2008 financial collapse, in an era of grotesque economic extremes,
The American Way of Poverty brings that same powerful indignation to
the topic.
CULTURAL STUDIES
ANGRY WHITE MEN
NOTABLE BOOK
OF THE YEAR
SASHA ABRAMSKY is an award-winning freelance journalist and a part-time lecturer in the University Writing Program, at the
University of California, Davis. His work has
appeared in the Nation, Atlantic Monthly, New
York, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and many
other publications. He is currently a Senior
Fellow at Demos, the New York City-based
think tank. He lives in Sacramento, California.
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CULTURAL STUDIES
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
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The End of Juvenile Prison
NELL BERNSTEIN
In what the San Francisco Chronicle called “an epic work of investigative
journalism that lays bare our nation’s brutal and counterproductive
juvenile prisons and is a clarion call to bring our children home,” Nell
Bernstein eloquently argues that there is no good way to lock up a child.
Making the radical argument that state-run detention centers should
be abolished completely, her “passionate and convincing” (Kirkus)
book points out that our system of juvenile justice flies in the face of
everything we know about what motivates young people to change.
Called “a devastating read” by Truthout, Burning Down the House
received a starred Publishers Weekly review and was an In These Times
recommended summer read. Bernstein’s heartrending portraits of young
people abused by the system intended to protect and “rehabilitate”
them are interwoven with reporting on innovative programs that provide
effective alternatives to putting children behind bars.
NELL BERNSTEIN is the author of All
Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcer
ated, a Newsweek “Book of the Week.” She
is a former Soros Justice Media Fellow and a
winner of a White House Champion of Change
award. Her articles have appeared in News
day, Salon, Mother Jones, and The Washington
Post, among other publications. She lives in
Albany, California.
“Passionate, thoughtful, and well-researched, this is a resounding
call to action.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
INTEGRATION NATION
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Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best
SUSAN E. EATON
Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling crosscountry journey, introducing us to the people challenging America’s
xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and collaborating
with the foreign-born as they become integral members of their new
communities. In Utah, we meet educators who connect newly arrived
Spanish-speaking students and U.S.-born English-speaking students,
who share classrooms and learn in two languages. In North Carolina,
we visit the nation’s fastest-growing community-development credit
union, serving immigrants and U.S.-born depositors and helping to lower
borrowing thresholds and crime rates alike.
SUSAN E. EATON is the research director
at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for
Race and Justice at Harvard Law School. She
is the author, most recently, of the Children
in Room E4. Her writing has appeared in the
New York Times, The Nation, and many other
publications. She lives in Boston.
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The result is a work that the Philadelphia Inquirer called “a searing
indictment and a deft strike at the heart of America’s centuries-old
practice of locking children away in institution”—a landmark book that
has already launched a new national conversation.
Integration Nation movingly reminds us that we each have choices
to make about how to think and act in the face of the rapid cultural
transformation that has reshaped the United States. Giving voice
to people who choose integration over exclusion, who opt for openheartedness instead of fear, Integration Nation is a desperately needed
road map for a nation still finding its way beyond anti-immigrant hysteria
to higher ground.
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Dispatches from a Gated Continent
MATTHEW CARR
Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on “the brutal frontiers
of new Europe,” Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most
affluent region—and history’s greatest experiment with globalization—
has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have
died in a humanitarian crisis that has galvanized the world’s attention.
Journalist Matthew Carr brings to life remarkable human dramas,
based on extensive interviews and firsthand reporting from the hot
zones of Europe’s immigration battles, in a narrative that moves from
the desperate immigrant camps at the mouth of the Channel Tunnel in
Calais, France, to the chaotic Mediterranean sea, where African migrants
have drowned by the thousands. Speaking with key European policy
makers, police, soldiers on the front lines, immigrant rights activists,
and an astonishing range of migrants themselves, Carr offers a lucid
account both of the broad issues at stake in the crisis and its exorbitant
human costs.
The paperback edition includes a new afterword by the author, which
offers an up-to-the-minute assessment of the 2015 crisis and a searing
critique of Europe’s response to the new waves of refugees.
MATTHEW CARR is a writer, broadcaster, and journalist. He is the author of several works of nonfiction, including Blood and
Faith, The Infernal Machine, and Sherman’s
Ghosts, as well as the acclaimed memoir My
Father’s House. He lives in Britain.
WE TOO SING AMERICA
CULTURAL STUDIES
FORTRESS EUROPE
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South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh
Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
DEEPA IYER
Many of us can recall the targeting of South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and
Sikh people in the wake of 9/11. We may be less aware, however, of
the ongoing racism directed against these groups in the past decade
and a half.
In We Too Sing America, nationally renowned activist Deepa Iyer catalogs
recent racial flashpoints, from the 2012 massacre at the Sikh gurdwara
in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, to the violent opposition to the Islamic Center
of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and to the Park 51 Community Center in
Lower Manhattan.
Iyer asks whether hate crimes should be considered domestic terrorism
and explores the role of the state in perpetuating racism through
detentions, national registration programs, police profiling, and constant
surveillance. In a book that reframes the discussion of race in America,
a brilliant young activist provides ideas from the front lines of post-9/11
America.
DEEPA IYER is a leading racial justice
activist. She teaches in the Asian American
studies program at the University of Maryland
and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
MICHEL MARTIN can be heard across
NPR news programs, bringing her deep reporting and interviewing experience to NPR’s coverage of education, families, faith, race and
social issues. She lives in Washington, DC.
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CULTURAL STUDIES
RIGHT OUT OF CALIFORNIA
$27.95
288 pages
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The 1930s and the Big Business Roots
of Modern Conservatism
KATHRYN S. OLMSTED
In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian
Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the
agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired
a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of
FDR’s New Deal. Right Out of California tells how this brief moment of
upheaval terrified business leaders into rethinking their relationship to
American politics—a narrative that pits a ruthless generation of growers
against a passionate cast of reformers, writers, and revolutionaries.
KATHRYN S. OLMSTED is chair of
the history department at the University of
California, Davis. A noted historian of anticommunism, she is the author of several books,
including Challenging the Secret Government,
Red Spy Queen, and Real Enemies. She lives
in Davis, California.
Olmsted reveals how California’s businessmen learned the language
of populism with the help of allies in the media and entertainment
industries, and in the process created a new style of politics: corporate
funding of grassroots groups, military-style intelligence gathering against
political enemies, professional campaign consultants, and alliances
between religious and economic conservatives. The business leaders
who battled for the hearts and minds of Depression-era California,
moreover, would go on to create the organizations that launched the
careers of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. A riveting history in its
own right, Right Out of California is also a vital chapter in our nation’s
political transformation whose echoes are still felt today.
THE NEW JIM CROW
MICHELLE ALEXANDER
FOREWORD BY CORNELL WEST
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In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to
use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and
social contempt. Yet, as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals, today it
is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in nearly
all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African
Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination,
denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of
food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—
are suddenly legal.
NEW YORK
TIMES
BESTSELLER
“Devastating…. Alexander does a fine job of truth-telling.”
—Forbes
“A ‘much-needed conversation’ about the wide-ranging social costs
and divisive racial impact of our criminal-justice policies.
NAACP IMAGE
AWARD
MICHELLE ALEXANDER is an associate professor of law at Ohio State University
and holds a joint appointment at the Kirwan
Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.
Alexander served as a law clerk for U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.
CORNEL WEST is the Class of 1943
University Professor at Princeton University.
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—Newsweek
Selected by BROWN UNIVERSITY, TULANE UNIVERSITY,
UNIVERSITY of COLORADO, and PHILANDER SMITH
COLLEGE
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On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder
KENT NERBURN
With a new introduction by the author, this 1996 Minnesota Book
Award winner, draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder
known only as Dan. Neither Wolf nor Dog takes readers to the heart
of the Native American experience—it’s a world of Indian towns, white
roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of
the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull—meeting vivid characters like Jumbo,
a 400-pound mechanic, and Annie, an 80-year-old Lakota woman
living in a log cabin. As the story unfolds, Dan speaks eloquently on
the difference between land and property, the power of silence, and the
selling of sacred ceremonies.
“This is a sobering, humbling, cleansing, loving book, one that every
American should read.”
—Yoga Journal
Selected by the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
KENT NERBURN is one of the few
authors who can respectfully bridge the gap
between the Native and non-Native cultures.
He attended graduate school at Stanford
University from 1969-1970 and later Graduate Theological Union and the University of
California, Berkeley. He graduated with a PhD
with distinction in religion and art in 1980.
Kent Nerburn lives in Bemidji, Minnesota.
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How Corporate America Invented
Christian America
KEVIN M. KRUSE
We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been
a Christian nation. However, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that idea
of a “Christian America” originated in the 1930s when businessmen
enlisted religious activists in their fight against FDR’s New Deal. Their
campaign for “freedom under God” culminated in the election of their
close ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. In Eisenhower’s hands, a religious
movement born in opposition to the government was transformed into
one that fused faith and the federal government as never before. During
the Eisenhower administration, virtually all Americans—across the
religious and political spectrum—believed that their country was “one
nation under God.” But as Americans moved from broad generalities
to the details of issues such as school prayer, cracks began to appear.
All too soon, a politics that conflated piety and patriotism became sole
property of the conservative right.
“Kruse tells a big and important story about the mingling of
religiosity and politics since the 1930s.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Kruse addresses how corporations used clergymen in their PR
war against Roosevelt’s New Deal and how evangelist Billy Graham
helped Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon use religion as the
‘lowest-common denominator,’” —Library Journal, Editors’ Spring Picks
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HISTORY
ONE NATION UNDER GOD
CULTURAL STUDIES
NEITHER WOLF NOR DOG
NYP 5/3/2016
KEVIN M. KRUSE is a professor of history at Princeton University and the author
or co-editor of four books, including the
award-winning White Flight. Kruse lives in
Princeton, New Jersey.
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HISTORY
THE HALF HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD
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Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
EDWARD E. BAPTIST
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution which robs
the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian
Edward Baptist reveals, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades
after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of
the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a
narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations into a continental
cotton empire—allowing the United States to grow into a modern,
industrial, and capitalist economy. Through forced migration and torture,
slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from enslaved
African Americans. Thus the United States seized control of the world
market for cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and
became a wealthy nation with global influence.
BLOOMBERG
VIEW
TOP TEN NONFICTION
BOOKS OF 2014
DAILY BEAST
BEST NONFICTION
BOOKS OF 2014
EDWARD E. BAPTIST is an associate professor of history at Cornell University.
Author of the award-winning Creating an Old
South, he grew up in Durham, North Carolina.
He lives in Ithaca, New York.
“In this assiduously researched and tightly argued volume, Baptist
gives us what is by far the finest account of the deep interplay
of the slave trade (especially within the nation’s borders) and the
development of the U.S. economy.”
—Bloomberg View Top Ten Nonfiction Books of 2014
“Baptist’s work is a valuable addition to the growing literature
on slavery and American development…Baptist has a knack for
explaining complex financial matters in lucid prose.… [The Half
Has Never Been Told’s] underlying argument is persuasive.”
THE TYRANNY OF EXPERTS
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Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten
Rights of the Poor
WILLIAM EASTERLY
Renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to
fight global poverty, and argues that the “expert approved” top-down
approach to development has not only made little lasting progress,
but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights
violations perpetrated by colonialists, post-colonial dictators, and US
foreign policymakers seeking autocratic allies. Demonstrating how
our traditional anti-poverty tactics have both trampled the freedom
of the world’s poor and suppressed a vital debate about alternative
approaches to solving poverty, Easterly presents a devastating critique
of the blighted record of authoritarian development. In this masterful
work, Easterly reveals the fundamental errors inherent in this approach,
and offers a new model for Western agencies and developing countries
alike: a model that, because it is predicated on respect for the rights
of poor people, has the power to end global poverty once and for all. WILLIAM EASTERLY is a professor of
economics at New York University and a senior
fellow at the Center for Global Development.
He has written widely in recent years for
the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal,
Financial Times, and Forbes, among other
prominent publications. He is the author of
The White Man’s Burden and The Elusive
Quest for Growth.
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“In his bracingly iconoclastic The Tyranny of Experts, William
Easterly weaves together a number of sophisticated arguments….
Easterly’s stories unfailingly reinforce a select number of crucial
themes, the boldest being that the people of the so-called
underdeveloped world have been systematically betrayed by the
technocrats in charge of the global development agenda.”
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American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
STEPHANIE COONTZ
Acclaimed historian Stephanie Coontz provides a myth-shattering
examination of two centuries of the American family, banishing the
misconceptions about the past that cloud current debates about
domestic life. Without minimizing the serious new problems facing
modern American families, Coontz warns that nostalgia for a largely
mythical age of “traditional values” is a trap that can only cripple our
capacity to solve today’s problems. This revised edition includes a
new introduction and epilogue, looking at how well the original 1992
publication predicted current trends and how the clash between growing
gender equality and growing economic inequality is reshaping family
life, marriage, and male-female relationships in our modern era. Now
more relevant than ever, The Way We Never Were continues to be a
potent corrective to our dangerous nostalgia for an American tradition
that never really existed.
“Often brilliant and invariably provocative…. Pick a favorite
presumption about American families during better times…and
Coontz proceeds to unravel the mythical conceit.”
“[Coontz] persuasively dispels the myths and stereotypes of
‘traditional’ family values as the product of the postwar era.”
HISTORY
THE WAY WE NEVER WERE
STEPHANIE COONTZ teaches history
and family studies at The Evergreen State
College in Olympia, Washington, and is Director of Research and Public Education at the
Council on Contemporary Families.
—Library Journal
THE RAPE OF NANKING
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The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
IRIS CHANG
In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city
of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and
soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered—a death
toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly
discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of
this horrifying episode.
NEW YORK
TIMES
BESTSELLER
“Anyone interested in the relation between war, self-righteousness,
and the human spirit will find The Rape of Nanking of fundamental
importance. It is scholarly, an exciting investigation, and a work of
passion. In places it is almost unbearable to read, but it should be
read—only if the past is understood can the future be navigated.”
—Ross Terrill, author of Mao, China in Our Time, and Madame Mao
IRIS CHANG graduated from the University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked
briefly as a reporter before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminars program
at the Johns Hopkins University. She received
numerous honors and her work appeared in
many publications, including Newsweek, the
New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
She died in 2004.
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HISTORY
THE WISDOM OF THE BEGUINES
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The Forgotten Story of a Medieval
Women’s Movement
LAURA SWAN
NYP 6/14/2016
The beguines were a phenomenal movement that swept across Europe,
yet they were never a religious order or a formalized movement. These
women were essentially self-defined, in opposition to the many attempts
to control and define them.
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Among the beguines were celebrated spiritual writers and mystics,
including Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beatrijs of Nazareth, Hadewijch of
Brabant, and Marguerite Porete, who was condemned as a heretic and
burned at the stake in Paris in 1310. She was not the only beguine
suspected of heresy, and often politics were the driving force behind
such charges. Certain clerics defended beguines against charges of
heresy, while other women had to go undercover by joining a Benedictine
or Cistercian monastery.
US CATHOLIC
MAGAZINE
FEBRUARY 2015
BOOK CLUB
SELECTION
LAURA SWAN writes about the history of
women’s spirituality and the monastic life. She
is the associate editor of Magistra: A Journal
of Women’s Spirituality in History and adjunct
professor of religious studies at Saint Martin’s
University in Washington State.
ISLAND
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How Islands Transform the World
J. EDWARD CHAMBERLIN
Islands are everywhere—in the oceans of the world, in the seas and
sounds, and on lakes and rivers inland—and they have been at the heart
of our desires, and our fears, forever. Drawing on history, literature, art,
anthropology, biology, and earth science, Island explores the human
settlement of islands—including the seafaring skills required to cross the
seas—and describes in vivid detail the spectacular flora and fauna of
islands as well as their earth-shattering geology. It shows that ever since
humans have been traveling and telling tales, they have been fascinated
by islands. Creation stories around the world speak of land rising out
of the water, and there are many literary island encounters—from Noah
to Prospero and Gulliver, and from Ulysses to Robinson Crusoe and the
Count of Monte Cristo. In real life, too, sailors and settlers, explorers
and scientists, pirates and artists, have all been drawn to islands. The
story of islands is also the story of our planet, from its beginning as an
island in space to the contemporary appearance and disappearance of
islands in the cycles of climate change and seismic upheavals.
J. EDWARD CHAMBERLIN is University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
and was the Senior Research Associate with
the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
in Canada.
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Amazingly, many beguine communities survived for a long time
despite oppression, wars, the plague, and other human and natural
disasters. Beguines courageously spoke to power and corruption, never
despairing of God’s compassion for humanity. They used their business
acumen to establish and support ministries that extended education,
health care, and other social services to the vulnerable. And they
preached and taught of a loving God who desired a relationship with
each individual person while calling to reform those who used God’s
name for personal gain.
One thing is certain: large or small, flat or mountainous, barren or
beautiful, far out at sea or close to shore, islands are a central part of
the world we live in. And since so many of our thoughts and feelings
have an island counterpart, they may well define what it is to be human.
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Great Ideas from the Past for Everyday Life
ROMAN KRZNARIC
There are many ways to try to improve our lives—we can turn to the
wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of spiritual guides, or the
latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely look to history for
inspiration—and when we do, it can be surprisingly powerful. In How
Should We Live? the cultural historian Roman Krznaric explores twelve
universal topics—including love, family, and empathy; work, time, and
money—by illuminating the past and revealing the wisdom we have been
missing. There is much to be learned from the ancient Greeks about the
different varieties of love, for example, from medieval and Renaissance
Europeans about living with passion and facing the realities of death,
from various indigenous cultures on bringing up our children, and from
Japanese pilgrims on the art of travel. Whether it is the different uses of
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“An intriguing upmarket self-help guide…. The virtue of this book
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HISTORY
HOW SHOULD WE LIVE?
ROMAN KRZNARIC is a cultural thinker,
writer, and founding faculty member of The
School of Life in London. He has taught sociology and politics at Cambridge University and
City University, London and advises organizations including Oxfam and the United Nations
on using empathy and conversation to create
social change. He has been named by The
Observer as one of Britain’s leading lifestyle
philosophers.
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What would the father of the Constitution think of contemporary
developments in American politics and public policy?
Constitutional scholars have long debated whether the American political
system, which was so influenced by the thinking of James Madison,
has in fact grown outmoded. But if Madison himself could peer at the
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produce? In What Would Madison Do?, ten prominent scholars explore
the contemporary performance of Madison’s constitutional legacy and
how much would have surprised him.
BENJAMIN WITTES is a senior fellow
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He is the author of The Future of Violence,
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PIETRO NIVOLA is a senior fellow emeritus at the Brookings Institution. His most
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coedited with Peter J. Kastor.
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HISTORY
THE PROFESSOR AND THE PRESIDENT
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon
White House
STEPHEN HESS
What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor
from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? The president is
Richard Nixon, the professor is Harvard’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Of all the odd couples in American public life, they are probably the
oddest. Add another Ivy League professor to the White House staff when
Nixon appoints Columbia’s Arthur Burns, a conservative economist, as
domestic policy adviser. The year is 1969, and what follows behind
closed doors is a passionate debate of conflicting ideologies and
personalities.
Who won? How? Why? Now nearly a half-century later, Stephen Hess,
who was Nixon’s biographer and Moynihan’s deputy, recounts this
fascinating story as if from his office in the West Wing.
STEPHEN HESS, senior fellow emeritus
in Governance Studies at Brookings, began
his career in Washington as a young speechwriter for President Eisenhower (1958–1961).
He was Distinguished Research Professor of
Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University (2004–2009). His numerous
books, now translated into thirty languages,
include the acclaimed seven-volume Newswork series (1981–2012).
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The Untold Story of American
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SHERRY SONTAG AND
CHRISTOPHER DREW
NYP 4/5/2016
Now in paperback! A New York Times bestseller, Blind Man’s Bluff,
reveals the secret espionage mission involving the Navy sending
submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of the Soviet
seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. Veteran investigative
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courage, and disaster beneath the sea with new evidence that the
Navy’s own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the
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SHERRY SONTAG is a former staff writer
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“Brilliant…full of hair-raising stories of men in peril under the sea.”
CHRISTOPHER DREW is a special
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“Hard-core investigative reporting at its crispest…. The stories
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those often top-secret submarine activities make for intriguing
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How One Company’s Extraordinary Workforce
Changed the Way We Look at Disability Today
NANCY HENDERSON
In a time when companies are outsourcing abroad, Habitat Inter
national, a Tennessee-based carpet manufacturer, has managed to
achieve superior levels of productivity at home, often two to three times
greater than its competition. Habitat’s secret: they hire the people no
one else will.
At Habitat three out of every four workers have a physical or mental
disability. They earn normal wages and are cross-trained on every
job. They work harder, with less supervision, lower turnover, and an
unparalleled level of loyalty. The challenges have been significant; the
rewards extraordinary.
This is Habitat’s story. It’s a powerful and moving tale of personal
courage, deep commitment, and challenging expectations. It’s a story
of success and personal triumph. It’ll change the way you think about
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NANCY HENDERSON WURST has
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Independence Awards from Easter Seals. She
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DAVID MORRIS is the CEO of Habitat Inter
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THE FUTURE OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
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New Paths to Higher Education Diversity
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EDITED BY RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG
As the United States experiences dramatic demographic change—and
as our society’s income inequality continues to rise—promoting racial,
ethnic, and economic inclusion at selective colleges has become
more important than ever. The Court’s decision in Fisher v. University
of Texas emphasized that universities can use race in admissions only
when “necessary,” and that universities bear “the ultimate burden of
demonstrating, before turning to racial classifications, that available,
workable race-neutral alternatives do not suffice.”
With race-based admission programs increasingly curtailed, The Future
of Affirmative Action explores race-neutral approaches as a method
of promoting college diversity after the Fisher decision. This volume
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the use of racial criteria in admissions, but on the other presents a new
opportunity to tackle, at long last, the burgeoning economic divisions in
our system of higher education, and in society as a whole.
RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG is a
senior fellow at The Century Foundation, where
he writes about education, equal opportunity,
and civil rights.
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DIVERSITY EXPLOSION
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How New Racial Demographics Are
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WILLIAM H. FREY
Through a compelling narrative and eye-catching charts and maps,
eminent demographer William H. Frey interprets and expounds on
the dramatic growth of minority populations in the United States. He
finds that America could face a bleak future: this new generation of
young minorities, who are having children at a faster rate than whites,
is infusing our aging labor force with vitality and innovation. In contrast
with the labor force-age population of Japan, Germany, Italy, and the
United Kingdom, the U.S. labor force-age population is set to grow five
percent by 2030.
Diversity Explosion shares the good news about diversity in the coming
decades, and the more globalized, multiracial country that the U.S. is
becoming.
WILLIAM H. FREY is a senior fellow
in the Metropolitan Policy program at the
Brookings Institution and Research Professor in Population Studies at the University of
Michigan. An internationally regarded demographer, his research has been written about
in The Economist, New Yorker, and New York
Times Magazine.
A CHANT TO SOOTHE WILD ELEPHANTS
JAED COFFIN
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At the age of twenty-one, Jaed Muncharoen Coffin, a half-Thai American
man, left New England’s privileged Middlebury College to be ordained
as a Buddhist monk in his mother’s native village of Panomsarakram—
thus fulfilling a familial obligation. While addressing the notions of
displacement, ethnic identity, and cultural belonging, A Chant to Soothe
Wild Elephants chronicles his time at the temple that rain season—
receiving alms in the streets in saffron robes; bathing in the canals;
learning to meditate in a mountaintop hut; and falling in love with Lek,
a beautiful Thai woman who comes to represent the life he can have
if he stays. Part armchair travel, part coming-of-age story, this debut
work transcends the memoir genre and ushers in a brave new voice in
American nonfiction.
“Well worth the journey.”
JAED COFFIN holds a BA in philosophy
from Middlebury College and an MFA from
the University of Southern Maine’s Stonecoast
Writing Program. He lives in Brunswick, Maine.
—Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Jaed Coffin’s memoir A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants is both
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Americans alike will genuinely enjoy reading. It will inspire others
to do what Coffin has done: to find who they are and not fear what
they may discover in their journey.”
—Asians in America
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A Manifesto of Love, Invitation and Invocation
to Humanity
COURTNEY A. WALSH
NYP 3/15/2016
Refreshingly candid, hilarious and insightful, Dear Human is the key
necessary to unlock a whole new way of thinking. We learn through pain;
we remember through joy.
Dear Human asks the reader to embrace humanity’s glorious messiness,
to love to the best of our ability, to continue to learn and grow, learning
to let go of spiritual perfectionism, and embrace humanity. It asks us to
merge and honor our divinity and humanity equally.
These chapters resonate what it means to be whole, real, authentic
and loved while simultaneously showing the pathway to the freedom of
enlightened empowerment. This creation strives to have the population
rethink their inner workings, conditioned responses and self-imposed
limitations. Dear Human elevates the spirit to an accomplished, soulfilling and revered place—a place of light.
“Courtney A. Walsh knows what’s up! She also knows what’s down,
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knows what it is to be HUMAN. I am deeply impressed with her
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—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
COURTNEY A. WALSH has been a professional writer and inspirational speaker for
fifteen years. With an extensive background
in marketing, creative writing, film, and cultural studies, Courtney has worked with the
United States National Park Service to review,
research and co-write a technical report on
the origins of the Statue of Liberty.
DAYS OF DESTRUCTION,
DAYS OF REVOLT
CHRIS HEDGES AND JOE SACCO
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Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and
journalist Joe Sacco take a look at the sacrifice zones, those areas
in America that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of
profit, progress, and technological advancement. They show in words
and drawings what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules
without constraints, where human beings and the natural world are used
and then discarded to maximize profit.
Starting in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed
for land and empire then moving to old manufacturing centers and
coal fields that fueled the industrial revolution, but now lie depleted
and in decay. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt follows the steady
downward spiral of American labor into the nation’s produce fields and
ends in Zuccotti Park where a new generation revolts against a corporate
state that has handed to the young an economic, political, cultural, and
environmental catastrophe.
“Sacco’s sections are uniformly brilliant. The tone is controlled, the
writing smart, the narration neutral…. This is an important book.”
“An unabashedly polemic, angry manifesto that is certain to open
eyes, intensify outrage and incite argument about corporate greed.”
—Kirkus (starred review)
Selected by BLOOMFIELD COLLEGE
CHRIS HEDGES is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist. He spent nearly two decades
as a correspondent in Central America, the
Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, with fifteen years at the New York Times. He lives in
Princeton, New Jersey.
JOE SACCO has gained widespread praise
for his dynamic, sophisticated layouts and
bold narrative. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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INSPIRING CHANGE
INVISIBLE MAN, GOT THE WHOLE
WORLD WATCHING
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A Young Black Man’s Education
MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH
An account of how, politically and culturally, the existing script for black
manhood has been rewritten for the millennial generation. From Barack
Obama’s landmark speech at the Democratic National Convention
in 2004 to the recent and widely reported cases of violence against
women, from powerful moments of black self-determination to the
mobilization of thousands of young black men in the wake of Trayvon
Martin’s death, award-winning journalist and thought-leader on race
and social justice chronicles his personal and political education during
these tumultuous years, narrating his own coming-of-age story and his
struggles to come into his own at a time when too many black men do
not survive into adulthood.
NYP 6/14/2016
MYCHAL DE NZEL SMITH is a
Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute, a contributing writer for The Nation magazine, and
a contributor to Feministing.com and Salon.
He has also written for the New York Times,
The Atlantic, the Guardian, The Root, theGrio,
ThinkProgress, and The Huffington Post, and
he has been a featured commentator on radio
and television. He lives in New York.
Part memoir, part political tract, this book is an unprecedented and
intimate glimpse into what it means to be young, black, and male in
America today—and what it means to be treated as a human in a society
dependent on your subjugation.
WAGES OF REBELLION
CHRIS HEDGES
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Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges investigates
what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion,
and resistance. Drawing on an ambitious overview of prominent
philosophers, historians, and literary figures, he shows not only the
harbingers of a coming crisis but also the nascent seeds of rebellion.
Hedges’ message is clear: popular uprisings in the United States and
around the world are inevitable in the face of environmental destruction
and wealth polarization.
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Focusing on the stories of rebels from around the world and throughout
history, Hedges investigates what it takes to be a rebel in modern
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apartheid, to contemporary anti-fracking protests in Alberta, Canada, to
whistleblowers in pursuit of transparency, Wages of Rebellion shows the
cost of a life committed to speaking the truth and demanding justice.
For Hedges, resistance is carried out not for its success, but as a moral
imperative that affirms life.
CHRIS HEDGES is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He spent nearly two decades
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Class, and War Is a Force That Gives Us Mean
ing. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Hedges has penned an indispensable guide to rebellion.
“A call for a new American revolution.… Like early-20th-century
muckraking journalists and, more recently, I.F. Stone, Hedges
makes a boisterous, outspoken contribution to revolutionizing the
national conversation.”
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The Four Cornerstones of All Great Pursuits
RANDALL BELL, PhD
Rich Habits Rich Life is the result of research that has spanned 25
years at the intersection of sociology and economics. Dr. Randall Bell
masterfully interweaves classic behavioral research with his highprofile cases—including Chernobyl, the World Trade Center, and the
O. J. Simpson case—to reveal why some dive, some survive, and while
others thrive.
Using landmark research surveying more than 5,000 professionals,
students, stay-at-home moms, retirees, unemployed and millionaires
around the world, to scientifically correlate everyday habits with various
measures of success such as education, wealth, quality relationships,
and an overall sense of happiness, making it one of the most important
sociological studies ever conducted.
Rich Habits, Rich Life delivers fun, and interesting and intelligent insights
into those behaviors that lead to disaster, recovery, or prosperity.
“Eyeopening…. Randall Bell’s Rich Habits, Rich Life is as inspiring
as Napoleon Hill’s classic Think & Grow Rich.”
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RANDALL BELL, PhD, is a socio-economist and the CEO of Landmark Research
Group, LLC. Prior to this, he led a national
practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, the
world’s largest consulting firm. He has been
profiled in the Wall Street Journal, People mag
azine, the New York Times, Chicago Tribune,
Los Angeles Times, CNN, and on national television. He lives in Laguna Beach, California.
INTO THE RIVER
TED DAWE
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The award-winning and highly controversial novel—the first book banned
in New Zealand in over 20 years—about a young man who leaves behind
his ancestral tribe to accept a scholarship at a prestigious school, where
he finds that in order to fit in he may lose himself in the process.
Although Te Arepa is bound to the ancient customs of his maori
ancestors, he is filled with curiosity about the world beyond the reach of
his tribe. When his intelligence and ingenuity lands him a scholarship at
Barwell’s, a prestigious private school on the other side of the country,
he leaves his family, their traditions and rituals to discover a brand new
future—to see if he can thrive beyond the tribal community.
When he arrives at Barwell’s, Te Arepa finds that in order to fit in he must
shun his heritage, turn his back on his ancestors, and even adopt a new
name. At first he enjoys the freedom, the intoxicating new experiences.
But the more he struggles to fit in, the more Te Arepa finds that he is
losing himself piece by piece.
“Both daring and compulsively readable, in Into the River Ted Dawe
combines mythology, history and gritty realism into a powerful
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
TED DAWE has worked as an insurance
clerk, store man, builder’s laborer and fitter’s
mate, and flown hot air balloons over Hyde
Park. He’s also been a university student,
world traveler, and teacher. His first novel,
Thunder Road, won both the Young Adult
Fiction section and the Best First Book award
at the New Zealand Post Book Awards for
Children & Young Adults.
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INSPIRING CHANGE
ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST
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WEIRD GIRL AND WHAT’S HIS NAME
MEAGAN BROTHERS
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Seventeen-year-old geeks Lula and Rory share everything—sci-fi and
fantasy fandom, Friday night binge-watching of old X-Files episodes, and
resentment toward parents that abandoned them. Lula knows she and
Rory have no secrets from each other; after all, he came out to her years
ago, and she’s shared with him her “sacred texts”—the acting books her
mother left behind after she walked out of Lula’s life.
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But then Lula discovers that Rory has not only tried out for the Hawthorne
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on a journey to find her mother. With their friendship disrupted, Lula
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MEAGAN BROTHERS is best known for
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ALA Best Book for Young Adults, which won a
GLBT Round Table ALA Award, and was named
a New York Public Library Book for the Teen
Age. She lives in New York City.
“Voices are crisply and intimately drawn. Minor characters are
equally vibrant.… Carefully and subtly imagined.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“What really shines in Meagan Brothers’ novel is the voices and the
characters; they feel authentically human and vibrant and you’ll
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THE GIRL IN THE TANGERINE SCARF
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A Novel
MOJHA KAHF
Syrian immigrant Khadra Shamy is growing up in a devout, tightly knit
Muslim family in 1970s Indiana, at the crossroads of bad polyester
and Islamic dress codes. Along with her brother Eyad and her AfricanAmerican friends, Hakim and Hanifa, she bikes the Indianapolis streets
exploring the fault-lines between “Muslim” and “American.”
When her picture-perfect marriage goes sour, Khadra flees to Syria
and learns how to pray again. On returning to America she works in an
eastern state—taking care to stay away from Indiana, where the murder
of her friend Tayiba’s sister by Klan violence years before still haunts her.
But when her job sends her to cover a national Islamic conference in
Indianapolis, she’s back on familiar ground: Attending a concert by her
brother’s interfaith band The Clash of Civilizations, dodging questions
from the “aunties” and “uncles,” and running into the recently divorced
Hakim everywhere.
MOHJA KAHF is an associate professor
of comparative literature at Rutgers. Kahf is a
member of the national group Radius of Arab
American Writers (RAWI).
Beautifully written and featuring an exuberant cast of characters, The
Girl in the Tangerine Scarf charts the spiritual and social landscape of
Muslims in middle America, from five daily prayers to the Indy 500 car
race. It is a riveting debut from an important new voice.
“Mohja Kahf is a clear-eyed, nervy, and passionate writer.… This is
a bright, vivid, and important book.”
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A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America
and American in Iran
AZADEH MOAVENI
As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds
with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In the story of her
search for identity, Moaveni’s homecoming falls in the heady days of
the country’s reform movement, when young people demonstrated in
the streets and shouted for the Islamic regime to end. As she leads
us through the drug-soaked, underground parties of Tehran, into the
hedonistic lives of young people desperate for change, Moaveni paints
a rare portrait of Iran’s rebellious next generation.
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“A compelling…guided tour through the underground youth culture
in Tehran…an illuminating book.”
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“Lipstick Jihad’s tug between objective repertory and Moaveni’s
subjectivity as an Iranian woman shines a fascinating light on a
nation at odds with itself.”
—Entertainment Weekly
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AZADEH MOAVENI grew up in San
Jose and studied politics at the University of
California, Santa Cruz. She won a Fulbright
fellowship to Egypt, and studied Arabic at
the American University in Cairo. For three
years she worked across the Middle East as a
reporter for Time magazine, before joining the
Los Angeles Times to cover the war in Iraq. She
lives in Beirut.
GRANT PARK
LEONARD PITTS, Jr.
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Grant Park begins in 1968, with Martin Luther King’s final days in
Memphis. The story then moves to the eve of the 2008 presidential
election, and cuts back and forth between the two eras as it unfolds.
Disillusioned and weary, columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet
another report of unarmed black men gunned down by police, hacks
into his newspaper’s computer system to post an incendiary column
that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and
his longtime editor, Bob Carson, is summarily fired within hours of the
column’s publication.
While a furious Carson tries to find Toussaint—at the same time dealing
with the reappearance of a lost love from his days as a 60s peace
activist—Toussaint is abducted by two improbable but still-dangerous
white supremacists plotting to explode a bomb at Obama’s planned
rally in Grant Park. Grant Park is an audacious and eloquent take on
politics, race, and history, and yet another demonstration that Pitts,
beyond his identity as a lauded journalist, has emerged as an important
voice in contemporary American fiction.
BESTSELLER
LEONARD PITTS, Jr. is a nationally
syndicated columnist for the Miami Herald
and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, in addition to many other awards.
He is also the author of the novels Freeman
and Before I Forget. Born and raised in Southern California, Pitts now lives in suburban
Washington, DC.
ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST LITERARY FICTION
LIPSTICK JIHAD
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LITERARY FICTION
FRESHWATER ROAD
DENISE NICHOLAS
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From award-winning actress Denise Nicholas: a ten-year anniversary
reissue of a dramatic coming of age story set in Mississippi during the
Freedom Summer of 1964 and one of the most highly praised works of
fiction ever published about the Civil Rights Movement.
NYP 4/12/2016
University of Michigan sophomore Celeste Tyree volunteers her efforts in
Freedom Summer helping register voters in the small town of Pineyville,
Mississippi, a place best known for a notorious lynching that occurred
only a few years earlier. Finding inner strength as she helps lift the veil
of oppression and learns valuable lessons about race, social change,
and violence, Celeste prepares her adult students for their showdown
with the county registrar. All the while, she struggles with loneliness,
a worried father in Detroit, and her burgeoning feelings for Ed Jolivette,
a young man also in Mississippi for the summer.
DENISE NICHOLAS is an actor and
writer who has starred in numerous films and
TV shows, including Room 222, for which she
earned three Golden Globe nominations, and
In the Heat of the Night, for which she also
wrote several episodes. She lives in Southern
California and is currently at work on a memoir.
By summer’s end, Celeste learns there are no easy answers to the
questions that preoccupy her—about violence and nonviolence, about
race, identity, and color, and about the strength of love and family bonds.
“Sometimes gorgeous, sometimes terrifying, this novel marks the
debut of a talented writer.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
LONG DIVISION
KIESE LAYMON
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Kiese Laymon’s debut novel is a Twain-esque exploration of celebrity,
authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in Post-Katrina
Mississippi, written in a voice that’s alternately funny, lacerating, and
wise. The book contains two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013:
after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest,
fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube
celebrity. The next day, he’s sent to stay with his grandmother in the
small coastal community of Melahatchie, where a young girl named
Baize Shephard has recently disappeared.
City’s two stories ultimately converge in the mysterious work shed behind
his grandmother’s, where he discovers the key to Baize’s disappearance.
“At times touching, at times poignant, Laymon more than once
strikes a beautiful chord in the midst of what often feels gritty and
intentionally provocative.”
—Chicago Book Review
KIESE LAYMON is a black southern
writer, born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi.
He graduated from Oberlin College in 1998
and earned an MFA from Indiana University
in 2003. Laymon is a contributing editor at
Gawker.com and has written for numerous
publications including Esquire, NPR.org, and
ESPN.com. He is an associate professor at
Vassar College.
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Selected by COLGATE UNIVERSITY and ALBION COLLEGE
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Jabari Asim’s debut novel returns readers to Gateway City, the fictional
Midwestern city first explored in his acclaimed short story collection,
Taste of Honey. Against a 1970s backdrop of rapid social and political
change, Only the Strong explores the challenges and rewards of love in
a quintessential American community where heartbreak and violence
are seldom far away.
Moved by the death of Martin Luther King Jr., Lorenzo “Guts” Tolliver
decides to abandon his career as a professional leg-breaker and pursue
a life of quiet moments and generous helpings of banana pudding in
the company of his new love. His boss, local kingpin Ananias Goode, is
also thinking about slowing down—but his illicit, tempestuous affair with
Dr. Artinces Noel, a prominent do-gooder pediatrician, complicates his
retirement plans. Meanwhile, Charlotte Divine, the doctor’s headstrong
protégée, struggles with trials of her own.
With prose that is at once sharp, humorous, discursive, and poetic, Asim
renders a compelling portrait of urban life during the first years after the
passage of the last major civil-rights bill.
“[A] heartfelt, polyphonic ode to 1970s black America.… Asim
manages the highbrow without it ever feeling forced or pedantic.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“An intelligent, superbly executed and gripping masterpiece.”
JABARI ASIM is a journalist and author
of many works of fiction, nonfiction, essays,
poetry, and drama. He is currently the executive editor of The Crisis, the official magazine
of the NAACP. He contributes to the Washing
ton Post and Bookforum, and is as an associate professor of creative writing at Emerson
College. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
LITERARY FICTION
ONLY THE STRONG
JABARI ASIM
—The Root
WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS
JESMYN WARD
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Joshua and Christophe are twins, raised by a blind grandmother and
a large extended family in a rural town on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.
They’ve just finished high school and need to find jobs, but in a failing
post-Katrina economy, it’s not easy. Joshua gets work on the docks, but
Christophe’s not so lucky. Desperate to alleviate the family’s poverty, he
starts to sell drugs. He can hide it from his grandmother but not his twin,
and the two grow increasingly estranged. Christophe’s downward spiral
is accelerated first by crack, then by the reappearance of the twins’
parents: Cille, who abandoned them, and Sandman, a creepy, predatory
addict. Sandman taunts Christophe, eventually provoking a shocking
confrontation that will ultimately damn or save both twins. Ward inhabits
these characters, and this world—black Creole, poor, and drug-riddled,
yet shored by family and community—to a rare degree, without a trace
of irony or distance.
“An emotionally honest snapshot of an overlooked America: smalltown, economically stagnant, and black.” —Dallas Morning News
The first person in her family to earn a college degree, JESMYN WARD received her
BA in English and MA in Communication from
Stanford University, and an MFA from the
University of Michigan. She is the National Book
Award winning author of Salvage the Bones.
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LITERARY FICTION
FREEMAN
LEONARD PITTS, Jr.
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At its core, Freeman is a love story—sweeping, generous, brutal,
compassionate, patient—about the feelings people were determined to
honor, despite the enormous constraints of the times. At the same time,
this book addresses several themes that are still hotly debated today,
some 145 years after the official end of the Civil War. It has the potential
to become a classic addition to the literature dealing with this period.
Few other novels so powerfully capture the pathos and possibility of the
era particularly as it reflects the ordeal of the black slaves grappling
with the promise—and the terror—of their new status as free men and
women.
“A uniquely American epic.... Freeman is an important addition to
the literature of slavery and the Civil War, by a knowledgeable,
compassionate and relentlessly truthful writer determined to
explore both enslavement in all its malignancy and also what it
truly means to be free.”
—The Washington Post
LEONARD PITTS, Jr. is a columnist for
the Miami Herald and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He is also the author
of the novel Before I Forget, the collection
Forward from This Moment, and Becoming
Dad. He lives in suburban Washington, DC.
THE CARNIVORE
MARK SINNETT
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When Hurricane Hazel tore through Toronto on October 15, 1954, it left
its mark on both the city and its inhabitants. In the aftermath, a young
cop named Ray Townes emerges as a hero, and his story is featured
prominently in the newspapers, thrusting him into the spotlight as a
local celebrity. Meanwhile, his wife Mary is wrestling with doubts about
her husband’s heroism. While performing her own miracles the night
of the storm as a nurse at a mud-filled, overcrowded emergency room,
Mary met a woman—disoriented and near death—with a disturbingly
peculiar recollection of events. While Mary tries to shake her suspicions
about Ray as they rebuild their life in the shell-shocked city, she can’t
help but wonder about her husband and that fateful night. When a
reporter comes knocking fifty years later to revisit that horrendous night,
the truth begins to surface and threatens to destroy them.
2010
TORONTO
BOOK AWARD
WINNER
“Weds the pinprick domestic intimacy of Alice Munro with the flopsweat extra-marital intrigue of James M. Cain.”
—Toronto Star
MARK SINNETT, is the author of The
Border Guards, which was short-listed for the
Arthur Ellis Award; Bull; The Landing, winner
of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award; and
Some Late Adventure of the Feelings. He lives
in Kingston, Ontario.
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“A cleverly constructed and evocatively written novel.” —Booklist
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Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield. Chris Lane is
fourteen and he’s sure that he can see the future—or at least guess
what’s inside of Christie Brinkley’s mind. But he can’t foresee the closing
of Joyland, the town’s only video arcade.
With the arcade’s passing comes a summer of teenage lust, violence,
and a search for new entertainment. Never far away is Chris’s younger
sister, Tammy, who plays spy to the events that will change the lives of
her family and town forever. Joyland is a novel about the impossibility of
knowing the future. Schultz brings the Cold War home in a novel set to
the digital pulse of video games and the echoes of hair metal.
“This is recommended reading, nostalgic technicolour at its
sharpest. Joyland maps a believable world that depicts the grit and
glitz of teenaged life in the small-town 1980s.” —Matrix magazine
EMILY SCHULTZ is the author of Black
Coffee Night, which was short-listed for the
Danuta Gleed Award for Best First Fiction,
Heaven is Small, and Songs for the Danc
ing Chicken. She lives in Toronto. NATE
POWELL is a graphic novelist and illustrator
whose work includes Swallow Me Whole,
which won the Eisener Award for Best Graphic
Novel and was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Finalist. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
ENTITLEMENT
JONATHAN BENNETT
LITERARY FICTION
JOYLAND
EMILY SCHULTZ
ILLUSTRATED BY NATE POWELL
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A story about identity—about who we think we are and where we really
stand—set in rural Ontario, this novel takes a provocative and honest
look at class, power, male relationships, death, and the familial bonds
that protect and harm us most. After a lifetime intertwined with the
Aspinalls, one of Canada’s wealthiest families, Andy Kronk has finally
forged a clean break. Mere months pass, however, before his past
returns in the form of Trudy Clark. She’s writing a tell-all biography of
the Aspinall family and wants Andy’s perspective. Over the course of
a weekend, Andy unravels his knotted mess of a life and begins to
wonder if he’s revealed too much information. Written in forceful prose,
this novel opens up the world of power to reveal something essentially
heartbreakingly human. This reissue includes a special section with
author interviews, new insights, and a bonus work from the author.
“Entitlement is an attractive read, and nicely covers a world that
goes often uncovered in our own literatures.”
—National Post
“[Bennett] can weave a tale and has the chops to keep it all in a
literary vein…. [T]his is a good book with a crackerjack ending.”
—Globe and Mail
JONATHAN BENNETT is the author of
the novel After Battersea Park and Verandah
People, runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His writing has appeared in many
periodicals and journals, including Antipodes,
Descant, Globe and Mail, and Quill & Quire.
He teaches writing at Trent University. He lives
in Peterborough, Ontario.
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LITERARY FICTION
CHAI TEA SUNDAY
HEATHER A CLARK
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Thirty-three year old Nicky Fowler thought her whole life was mapped
out—a rewarding career as a third grade teacher, an adoring husband,
and the perfect house in the suburbs—but complicated fertility issues
lead to a devastating tragedy. Nicky’s marriage crumbles and she’s left
unable to cope with her upended life. When Nicky accepts a volunteer
teaching position at an orphanage in Kenya, she finds that life there is
unlike the world she’s known. Drought has brought famine, violence is
everywhere, and the jaded orphanage director takes out her hatred on
the parentless children. But Nicky finds strength in Mama Bu, her host
mother, who provides wisdom and strength over cups of chai, Kenya’s
signature drink. Nicky comes to realize that she must do much more
than teach the orphans—she must save them.
HEATHER A. CLARK works in the marketing department at one of Canada’s largest
media outlets. She lives in Oakville, Ontario.
GIRL IN SHADES
ALLISON BAGGIO
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Eleven-year-old Maya Devine has grown up with a warped view of reality.
For one, she sees colour around people’s bodies and can sometimes
hear what’s going on inside their heads. These insights make everyone
a bit more interesting, but the one person she’ll never figure out is her
mother. When her mom, Marigold, is diagnosed with cancer and vows to
spend her final days in the teepee she’s set up in the backyard, Maya’s
life quickly becomes unbearable. Neighbours and strangers, believing
Marigold a prophet, camp out in the front yard, and Maya’s father grows
ever more distant. Thankfully Maya has Corey Hart, from whose pouty
lips “Never Surrender” seems to issue for her and her alone. But Marigold’s
death leaves questions unanswered, and there are some wrongs that
even Corey Hart can’t right. Moving from mid-1980s Saskatoon to the
Indian countryside almost a decade later, Girl in Shades follows Maya’s
search for her mother, her father, and above all, herself. Sweetly funny
and deeply perceptive, Girl in Shades offers a fresh take on what it is to
grow up and discover who you really are.
ALLISON BAGGIO’S fiction and commentaries have appeared in publications all
across Canada, including Room, Sub-Terrain,
Today’s Parent, and the Toronto Star. She is
a graduate of York University and the Humber
School for Writers.
AllisonBaggio.com
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A Novel
JENNIFER LOVEGROVE
When Emily was a little girl, all she wanted to be when she grew up was
a Full-Time Pioneer; in her Jehovah’s Witness family, the only imaginable
future is a life of knocking on doors and handing out Watchtower
magazines. But Emily starts to challenge her upbringing. She becomes
closer to her closeted uncle, Tyler, as her older sister, Lenora, hangs out
with boys, wears makeup, and gets a startling new haircut. After Lenora
disappears, everything changes for Emily, and as she deals with her
mental devastation she is forced to consider a different future.
Alternating between Emily’s life as a child and her adult life in the
city, Watch How We Walk offers a haunting, cutting exploration of
“disfellowshipping,” proselytization, and cultural abstinence, as well
as the Jehovah’s Witness attitude towards the “worldlings” outside of
their faith. Sparse, vivid, suspenseful, and darkly humorous, Jennifer
LoveGrove’s debut novel is an emotional and visceral look inside an
isolationist religion through the eyes of the unforgettable Emily.
“Watch How We Walk is a thoughtful, well-crafted and impressive
debut, and one of my favourite reads of 2013.” —Globe and Mail
“There’s blisteringly gorgeous prose in the novel, and the firstperson chapters are riveting.”
—Publishers Weekly
JENNIFER LOVEGROVE is the author
of the poetry collections The Dagger Between
Her Teeth and I Should Never Have Fired the
Sentinel. Her writing has been published
widely, and she studied creative writing at
York University. She divides her time between
downtown Toronto and rural Haliburton.
JAM ON THE VINE
LITERARY FICTION
WATCH HOW WE WALK
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A Novel
LASHONDA KATRICE BARNETT
Ivoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a
metalsmith from central-east Texas, first ignites her lifelong obsession
with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her mother’s
white employer. Living in the poor, segregated quarter of Little Tunis,
Ivoe immerses herself in printed matter as an escape from her dour
surroundings. She earns a scholarship to the prestigious Willetson
College in Austin, only to return over-qualified to the menial labor offered
by her hometown’s racially-biased employers.
Ivoe eventually flees the Jim Crow South with her family and settles in
Kansas City, where she and her former teacher and lover, Ona, found the
first female-run African American newspaper, Jam! On the Vine. In the
throes of the Red Summer—the 1919 outbreak of lynchings and race
riots across the Midwest—Ivoe risks her freedom, and her life, to call
attention to the atrocities of segregation in the American prison system.
“Jam on the Vine is a wonder of a first novel. Following the struggles
of one remarkable family through generations of adversity, this
powerful and beautifully-written story resonates with historical
significance and shines in the end with the triumph of the human
spirit.”
—Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot and Long Man
LASHONDA KATRICE BARNETT is
the author and editor of I Got Thunder: Black
Women Songwriters on Their Craft and Off
the Record: Conversations with African Amer
ican & Brazilian Women Musicians. She has
taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence
College, Hunter College, and Brown University.
LashondaBarnett.com
Twitter: @LaShondaKatrice
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LITERARY FICTION
EUPHORIA
LILY KING
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Lauded on the cover of the New York Times Book Review and winner
of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction, Euphoria is Lily
King’s nationally bestselling breakout novel of three young, gifted
anthropologists of the ’30’s caught in a passionate love triangle
that threatens their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives.
Set between two World Wars and inspired by events in the life of
revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is an enthralling
story of passion, possession, exploration, and sacrifice.
KIRKUS PRIZE
WINNER 2014
“A taut, witty, fiercely intelligent tale of competing egos and desires
in a landscape of exotic menace—a love triangle in extremis…
The steam the book emits is as much intellectual as erotic.”
—New York Times Book Review (cover review)
NEW ENGLAND
BOOK AWARD:
FICTION
WINNER 2014
NEW YORK
TIMES BOOK
REVIEW
10 BEST BOOKS
OF 2014
LILY KING is the author of the novels
The Pleasing Hour, The English Teacher, and
Father of the Rain, a New York Times Editor’s
Choice and winner of the New England Book
Award for Fiction. King is the recipient of a
Whiting Writers’ Award and the Maine Fiction
Award twice. She lives in Maine.
LilyKingBooks.com
THE SYMPATHIZER
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A Novel
VIET THANH NGUYEN
The bestselling, critically acclaimed debut novel from a powerful voice,
The Sympathizer is a Vietnam War novel unlike any other. The narrator,
one of the most arresting of recent fiction, is a man of two minds and
divided loyalties, a half-French half-Vietnamese communist sleeper
agent living in America after the end of the war.
NYP 4/12/2016
ANDREW
CARNEGIE
MEDAL
EXCELLENCE IN
FICTION 2016
WINNER
CENTER FOR
FICTION
FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
2015 WINNER
NEW YORK
TIMES
100 NOTABLE
BOOKS OF 2015
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Escaping to Los Angeles in April 1975, a general of the South Vietnamese
army brings along his trusted captain, an undercover operative for the
communists. As the general and his compatriots start a new life, the
captain continues sending coded letters to an old friend who is now
a higher-up within the communist administration. Under suspicion,
the captain is forced to contemplate terrible acts in order to remain
undetected. And when he falls in love, he finds that his lofty ideals clash
violently with his loyalties to the people close to him, a contradiction
that may prove unresolvable.
VIET THANH NGUYEN was born in
Vietnam and raised in America. His stories
have appeared in Best New American Voices,
TriQuarterly, Narrative, and the Chicago
Tribune and he is the author of the academic
book Race and Resistance. He teaches
English and American Studies at the University of Southern California and lives in
Los Angeles.
“[A] remarkable debut novel.… [Nguyen] brings a distinctive
perspective to the war and its aftermath. His book fills a void in the
literature, giving voice to the previously voiceless.”
—Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover review)
“This is more than a fresh perspective on a familiar subject. [The
Sympathizer] is intelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny.”
—Wall Street Journal (Best Books of 2015)
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A Novel
ELNATHAN JOHN
From a two-time Caine Prize finalist, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring,
starkly rendered novel about an intelligent Muslim boy struggling to find
his purpose in a society that is fracturing along extreme religious and
political lines.
NYP 5/3/2016
In the far reaches of northwestern Nigeria, Dantala lives among a gang
of street boys who sleep under a kuka tree. During the election, the boys
are paid by the Small Party to cause trouble. When their attempt to
burn down the opposition’s local headquarters ends in disaster, Dantala
must run for his life, leaving his best friend behind. He makes his way
to a mosque that provides him with food, shelter, and guidance. Before
long, he is faced with a terrible conflict of loyalties—his mother is dying
in his native village, his brothers have joined a rival sect, and one of the
sheikh’s closest advisors begins to raise his own radical movement. As
bloodshed erupts in the city around him, Dantala must decide what kind
of Muslim—and what kind of man—he wants to be.
“With brave, unflinching candor expressed through spare,
unadorned prose, Elnathan John considers the rise of Islamic
extremism in Nigeria as experienced by one young man. Anyone
seeking to peer beyond the media’s portrayals of Boko Haram
must read this book, not because it offers a hopeful account but
because it offers a human one.”
—Taiye Selasi, author of Ghana Must Go
ELNATHAN JOHN was short-listed for
the Caine Prize for African Writing for his story
“Bayan Layi” and named a finalist in 2015.
He is a 2015 Civitella Ranieri Fellow, writes a
satiric column for a Nigerian weekly newspaper, and has written for Per Contra, Financial
Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, Chimurenga’s
Chronic, Hazlitt, and the Evergreen Review. He
lives in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja.
WASH
MARGARET WRINKLE
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In this luminous debut, Margaret Wrinkle takes us on an unforgettable
journey across continents and through time, from the burgeoning
American South to West Africa and deep into the ancestral stories that
reside in the soul. Wash introduces a remarkable new voice in American
literature.
In early 1800s Tennessee, two men find themselves locked in an intimate
power struggle. Richardson, a troubled Revolutionary War veteran, has
spent his life fighting not only for his country but also for wealth and
status. When the pressures of westward expansion and debt threaten to
destroy everything he’s built, he sets Washington, a young man he owns,
to work as his breeding sire. Wash, the first member of his family to be
born into slavery, struggles to hold onto his only solace: the spirituality
inherited from his shamanic mother. As he navigates the treacherous
currents of his position, despair and disease lead him to a potent healer
named Pallas. Their tender love unfolds against this turbulent backdrop
while she inspires him to forge a new understanding of his heritage
and his place in it. Once Richardson and Wash find themselves at a
crossroads, all three lives are pushed to the brink.
“A masterly literary work…. Haunting, tender, and superbly
measured, Wash is both redemptive and affirming.”
LITERARY FICTION
BORN ON A TUESDAY
FLAHERTYDUNNAN
FIRST NOVEL
PRIZE
Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama,MARGARET WRINKLE, is a writer,
filmmaker, educator, and visual artist. Her
award-winning documentary, Broken Ground,
about the racial divide in her historically
conflicted hometown, was featured on NPR’s
Morning Edition and was a winner of the
Council on Foundations Film Festival.
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LITERARY FICTION
$16.00
304 pages
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THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO
FISTFIGHT IN HEAVEN
Twentieth Anniversary Edition
SHERMAN ALEXIE
Sherman Alexie’s celebrated first collection, The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Fistfight in Heaven, established its author as one of America’s most
important and provocative voices. The basis for the award-winning movie
Smoke Signals, it remains one of his best loved and widely praised
books twenty years after its initial publication.
Vividly weaving memory, fantasy, and stark reality to paint a portrait of
life in and around the Spokane Indian reservation, this book introduces
some of Alexie’s most beloved characters, including Thomas Builds-theFire, the storyteller who no one seems to listen to, and his compatriot,
Victor, the sports hero who turned into a recovering alcoholic. Now with
an updated introduction from Alexie, these twenty-four tales are narrated
by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and
yet they are filled with passion and affection, myth, and charm. Against
a backdrop of addiction, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie
depicts the distances between men and women, Indians and whites,
reservation Indians and urban Indians, and, most poetically, modern
Indians and the traditions of the past.
“Poetic and unremittingly honest…. The Lone Ranger and Tonto
Fistfight in Heaven is for the American Indian what Richard
Wright’s Native Son was for the black American in 1940.”
—Chicago Tribune
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PEN/FAULKNER
AWARD WINNER
WAR DANCES
SHERMAN ALEXIE
In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman
Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories
that expertly capture modern relationships from the most diverse
angles. War Dances brims with Alexie’s poetic and revolutionary prose,
and reminds us once again why he ranks as one of our country’s finest
writers.
With bright insight into the minds of artists, entrepreneurs, fathers,
husbands, and sons, Alexie populates his stories with average men
on the brink of exceptional change: In the title story, a son recalls his
father’s “natural Indian death” from alcohol and diabetes, just as he
learns that he himself may have a brain tumor; “The Ballad of Paul
Nonetheless,” dissects a vintage clothing store owner’s failing marriage
and courtship of a Puma-clad stranger in airports across the country;
and “Breaking and Entering” recounts a film editor’s fateful confrontation
with an thieving adolescent.
“War Dances is Alexie’s fiercely freewheeling collection of stories
and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives.”
—O, the Oprah Magazine
SHERMAN ALEXIE is a Native American poet, novelist, and screenwriter. He has won the National Book Award, Pen/Faulkner Award,
Stranger Genius Award in Literature, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children’s Literature, and the Malamud Award.
He lives in Seattle.
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MEGAN KRUSE
INTRODUCTION BY ELIZABETH GILBERT
An epic scope in the tradition of Louise Erdrich’s The Plague of Doves
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in three distinct voices: Amy, who leaves her Texas home at nineteen
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other, she must retrace the steps in the life she has chosen. Jackson,
eighteen and made visible by his sexuality, leaves home and eventually
finds work on a construction crew in the Idaho mountains, where he
begins a potentially ruinous affair with Don, the married foreman of
his crew. Lydia, his twelve-year-old sister, returns with her mother to
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selfishness. At its heart, this is a novel about family, choices and how
to live with them, what it means to be queer in the rural West, and the
changing idea of home.
“Megan Kruse is a young writer of raw and fearless talent and Call
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—Elizabeth Gilbert, Author of Eat, Pray, Love
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MEGAN KRUSE is a fiction and creative
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She studied creative writing at Oberlin College and earned her MFA at the University of
Montana, where she was awarded a Bertha
Morton scholarship. Her creative writing has
appeared in Narrative Magazine, The Sun, Wit
ness Magazine, Thumbnail Magazine, Belling
ham Review, and Phoebe, among others. She
lives in Seattle.
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SETH KANTNER
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Born and raised in the Arctic, he has learned to provide for himself by
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“A magnificently realized story.”
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SETH KANTNER was born in a sod
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and photographs have appeared in Outside,
Prairie Schooner, Alaska, and Reader’s Digest,
among other anthologies and publications. He
lives in northwest Alaska.
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LITERARY FICTION
ISHMAEL’S ORANGES
CLAIRE HAJAJ
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It’s April 1948, and war hangs over Jaffa. One minute, seven-yearold Salim is dreaming of taking his first harvest from the family’s
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Seeking a new beginning in swinging-1960s London, Salim finds an
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CLAIRE HAJAJ shares both Palestinian
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She has lived on four continents and worked
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BENEATH THE DARKENING SKY
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On the day that Obinna’s village is savagely attacked by the rebel army
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the soldiers leave, to be shaped into an agent of horror—a child soldier.
Marched through minefields and forced into battle, enduring a brutal
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and which to sacrifice in this world turned upside down.
“In clear, direct prose true to the boy’s viewpoint, the writer, who
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MAJOK TULBA fled war-torn South
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SHANN RAY
Set in early 20th century Montana, this is a powerful novel that explores
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An epic that runs from the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the ore
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the ultimate cost of forgiveness and the demands of atonement. It also
explores the genocidal colonization of the Cheyenne, the rise of big
copper, and the unrelenting ascent of dominant culture. Evelynne’s story
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the stubbornness of racism, and the entanglements of modern humanity.
“Beautifully told.… Ray’s poetic sensibility shows in his careful
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literary readers, this seems likely to become a classic Montana
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SHANN RAY grew up in Montana, played
college basketball at Montana State University and Pepperdine University, and professional basketball in Germany. His work has
appeared in the Best New Poets and The Bet
ter of McSweeney’s Anthologies. He now lives
in Spokane, Washington where he teaches
leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University.
DREAMS OF THE RED PHOENIX
VIRGINIA PYE
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From the author of the critically-acclaimed novel, River of Dust, a
stunning new novel of Americans in China on the cusp of World War II
inspired by her own grandmother’s life.
During the dangerous summer of 1937, a newly widowed American
missionary finds herself and her teenage son caught up in the midst
of a Japanese invasion of North China and the simultaneous rise of
Communism. Meanwhile a charismatic Red Army officer requests her
help and seems to have shared some surprising secret about her
husband. Shirley must manage her grief even as she navigates between
her desire to help the idealistic Chinese Reds fight the Japanese by
serving as a nurse and the need to save both herself and her son by
escaping the war-ravaged country before it’s too late.
“There’s a comparison to Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, but this
unflinching look at a brutal era in a faraway place shares truth in
its own way.”
—Kirkus Reviews
VIRGINIA PYE holds an MFA from Sarah
Lawrence College and has taught writing at
the University of Pennsylvania and New York
University. Her highly acclaimed first novel,
River of Dust, is also a historical novel set in
China. Pye currently divides her time between
Richmond, Virginia, and Boston, Massachusetts.
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MEMOIR
THE BOOK OF COLORS
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RAYMOND BARFIELD
How can a 19-year-old, mixed-race girl who grew up in a crack house and
is now pregnant be so innocent? Yslea is full of contradictions, though,
seeming both young and old, innocent and wise. Her spirit is surprising,
given all the pain she has endured, and that’s the counterpoint this
story offers—while she sees pain and suffering all around her, Yslea
overcomes in her own quiet way. What Yslea struggles with is expressing
her thoughts. And she wonders if she will have something of substance
to say to her baby. It’s the baby growing inside her that begins to wake
her up, that causes her to start thinking about things in a different way.
Yslea drifts into the lives of four people who occupy three dilapidated
row houses along the train tracks outside of Memphis: “The way their
three little row houses sort of leaned in toward each other and the way
the paint peeled and some of the windows were covered with cardboard,
the row might as easily have been empty.”
DR. RAYMOND BARFIELD is a pediatric oncologist at Duke University School of
Medicine and Associate Professor of philosophy at Duke Divinity School. He also works
with the Institute on Care at the End of Life at
Duke Divinity School.
“A life-affirming novel about love and second chances.”
BUT YOU DID NOT COME BACK
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A Memoir
MARCELINE LORIDAN-IVENS
TRANSLATED BY SANDRA SMITH
As France and Europe face growing anti-Semitism, a haunting and
challenging reminder of one of the worst crimes humanity has ever
seen—a deeply affecting personal story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau
survivor whose life was shattered and never totally rebuilt.
Marceline Loridan-Ivens, fifteen, and her father were arrested by the
Vichy government’s militia. On their arrival at the camps, they were
separated—her father sent to Auschwitz, she to the neighboring camp
of Birkenau. Despite the distance, her father managed to send her a
small note, via an electrician in the camp. In But You Did Not Come
Back, Marceline writes back to her father—a letter to the man she would
never know as an adult, to the person whose death overshadowed her
whole life.
MARCELINE LORIDAN-IVENS was
born in 1928. She has worked as an actress, a
screenwriter, and a director. She directed The
Birch-Tree Meadow in 2003, starring Anouk
Aimée, as well as several documentaries with
Joris Ivens.
SANDRA SMITH is the translator of
Suite Française and eleven other novels by
Irène Némirovsky. She lives in New York.
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“Despite its gruesome subject matter, the book has moments of
bleak humour and its affirmation of human tenderness instills a
kind of joy in the reader.… In just 100 pages, Loridan-Ivens goes to
the heart of father-daughter relations; the result is a masterpiece
of restraint and luminous precision.… Exquisitely translated by
Sandra Smith, But You Did Not Come Back is a human chronicle of
rare power.”
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The award-winning, New York Times bestselling international sensation
hailed as an “instant classic,” now available in paperback.
NYP 3/8/2016
After the devastation of her father’s sudden death, Helen MacDonald,
an experienced falconer, saw the fierce and feral temperament of
the goshawk—one of the most vicious predators—mirrored her own.
Resolving to purchase and raise the deadly creature as a means to
cope with her loss, she adopted Mabel, and turned to the guidance of
The Once and Future King author T.H. White’s chronicle The Goshawk
to begin her challenging endeavor. Projecting herself “in the hawk’s
wild mind to tame her” tested the limits of Macdonald’s humanity and
changed her life.
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10 BEST BOOKS
OF 2015
Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve
a distinctive blend of nature writing and memoir from an outstanding
literary innovator.
“Breathtaking.… Helen Macdonald renders an indelible impression
of a raptor’s fierce essence—and her own—with words that mimic
feathers, so impossibly pretty we don’t notice their astonishing
engineering.”
—Vicki Constantine Croke, New York Times Book Review (cover review)
“Captivating and beautifully written, it’s a meditation on the bond
between beasts and humans and the pain and beauty of being
alive.” —People (book of the week)
MEMOIR
H IS FOR HAWK
HELEN MACDONALD
KIRKUS
HELEN MACDONALD is a writer,
poet, illustrator and naturalist, and an affiliated research scholar at the University of
Cambridge. She was a Research Fellow at
Jesus College, Cambridge, and has worked as
a professional falconer. She now writes for the
New York Times Magazine.
Twitter: @HelenJMacdonald
A PLACE TO STAND
JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA
PRIZE IN
NONFICTION:
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ANDREW
CARNEGIE
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Jimmy Santiago Baca’s harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before,
during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security
prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to win the
prestigious 2001 International Prize. Long considered one of the best
poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one
and facing five to ten years behind bars for selling drugs. A Place to
Stand is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the
penitentiary—much of it spent in isolation— with the ability to read and
a passion for writing poetry. A vivid portrait of life inside a maximumsecurity prison and an affirmation of one man’s spirit in overcoming
the most brutal adversity, A Place to Stand “stands as proof there is
always hope in even the most desperate lives” (Fort Worth Morning StarTelegram).
“A Place to Stand is a hell of a book, quite literally. You won’t soon
forget it.”
—Luis Urrea, the San Diego Union-Tribune
“This book will have a permanent place in American letters.”
—Jim Harrison
JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA was born in
Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has written several
books of poetry and a number of screenplays.
His awards include the National Endowment
of Poetry Award, Vogelstein Foundation Award,
National Hispanic Heritage Award, Berkeley
Regents Award, Pushcart Prize, Southwest
Book Award, and American Book Award.
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STORIES FOR BOYS
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A Memoir
GREGORY MARTIN
In this memoir of fathers and sons, Gregory Martin struggles to reconcile
the father he thought he knew with a man who has just survived a
suicide attempt; a man who had been having anonymous affairs with
men throughout his thirty-nine years of marriage; and who now must
begin his life as a gay man.
NEW YORK
TIMES
Quirky and compelling with its amateur photos and grab-bag social
science and literary analyses, Martin explores the impact his father’s
lifelong secrets have upon his life now as a husband and father of two
young boys with humor and bracing candor. Resonant with conflicting
emotions and the complexities of family sympathy, a story about a
father and a son finding a way to build a new relationship with one
another after years of suppression and denial are given air and light.
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GREGORY MARTIN is the author of
Mountain City, which received a Washington
State Book Award, was named a New York
Times Notable Book of the Year. Martin’s work
has appeared in The Sun, Kenyon Review
Online, Creative Nonfiction, Storyquarterly,
and Orion. He teaches creative writing at the
University of New Mexico. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Mountain City…is the winter view from northern Nevada. More
than anything, the old need to be touched.”
—Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review
“A crisp elegy to an almost-vanished American West.”
—Megan Harlan, Entertainment Weekly
THE TIME IN BETWEEN
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NANCY TUCKER
A remarkable memoir charting the teenage years of a girl with anorexia
nervosa and bulimia nervosa told with insight, dark humor, and acute
intelligence.
NYP 5/10/2016
When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about
what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though
she didn’t know why, she wrote: ‘I want to be thin.’
Over the next twelve years, she developed anorexia nervosa, was
hospitalized, and finally swung the other way towards bulimia nervosa.
She left school, rejoined school; went in and out of therapy; ebbed in
and out of life. From the bleak reality of a body breaking down to the
electric mental highs of starvation, hers has been a life held in thrall
by food.
NANCY TUCKER is a 20-year-old author
and nanny. She suffered from both anorexia
and bulimia nervosa throughout her teens,
but is now on the road to recovery and has
just started at Oxford studying Experimental
Psychology in 2015. She lives in Oxford.
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The Time in Between is a profound, important window into the workings
of an unquiet mind—a Wasted for the 21st century.
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BRUNO CÉNOU AND DAVID CÉNOU
In this hard-hitting exposé of a social justice outrage, the real-life story
of the Angola 3: three Americans, Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodbox,
and Herman Wallace, kept in solitary confinement for over 40 years in
the Louisiana State Penitentiary known as Angola Prison, after being
convicted under questionable circumstances for the killing of a prison
guard.
NYP 6/14/2016
MEMOIR
PANTHERS IN THE HOLE
King spent 29 years in solitary confinement before he was released.
Wallace was released in 2013, after more than 41 years in prison, and
died three days later of liver cancer. In November of 2014, Woodfox had
his conviction overturned by the US Court of Appeals, and in April 2015
his lawyer applied for an unconditional writ for his release. As of June of
2015, that release has been blocked by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Despite two documentary films, a long-running campaign by Amnesty
International, and appeals from the murdered prison guard’s widow,
Albert Woodfox remains the longest-serving U.S. prisoner in solitary
confinement.
BRUNO CÉNOU currently works for the
National Center for Scientific Research. He
lives in Marseille. Panthers in the Hole is his
first graphic novel.
DAVID CÉNOU’S first graphic novel was
Mirador, tete de mort (2011), a memoir about
his past as a skinhead. He is a nurse in Agen.
Panthers in the Hole is his second book.
THE JOURNAL OF HÉLÈNE BERR
HÉLÈNE BERR
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On April 7, 1942, Hélène Berr, a 21-year-old Jewish student of English
literature at the Sorbonne, took up her pen and started to keep a
journal, writing with verve and style about her everyday life in Paris—
about her studies, her friends, her growing affection for the “boy with the
grey eyes,” about the sun in the dewdrops, and about the effect of the
growing restrictions imposed by France’s Nazi occupiers. Berr brought a
keen literary sensibility to her writing, a talent that renders the story it
relates all the more rich, all the more heartbreaking.
The final entry is dated February 15, 1944, and ends with the chilling
words: “Horror! Horror! Horror!” Berr and her family were arrested three
weeks later. She went—as was discovered later—on the death march
from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen, where she died of typhus in April
1945, within a month of Anne Frank and just days before the liberation
of the camp.
HÉLÈNE BERR was a French woman of
Jewish faith, who documented her life in a
diary during the Nazi occupation of France.
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GET OUT THE VOTE
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How to Increase Voter Turnout
DONALD P. GREEN
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As the country gears up for the 2016 presidential campaign, this
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for consultants, candidates, and grassroots organizations, as well as a
valuable teaching tool in courses on campaigns and elections. The most
important element in every election is getting voters to the polls—these
get-out-the-vote efforts make the difference between winning and losing
office.
Previous editions of this book introduced a new scientific approach
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how campaigns operate. In this expanded and updated edition, data
from more than 100 new studies are incorporated that shed new light
on the cost effectiveness, efficiency of various campaign tactics, the
effectiveness of registration drives, and messaging tactics.
DONALD P. GREEN is professor of political science at Columbia University. He is the
coauthor, with Bradley Palmquist and Eric
Schickler, of Partisan Hearts and Minds: Polit
ical Parties and the Social Identities of Voters.
ALAN S. GERBER is Charles C. and
Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political
Science and director of the Center for the
Study of American Politics at Yale University.
PRIMARY POLITICS, SECOND EDITION
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Everything You Need to Know about How
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ELAINE C. KAMARCK
In Primary Politics, political insider Elaine Kamarck explains how the
presidential nomination process became the often baffling system we
have today. Her focus is the largely untold story of how presidential
candidates since the early 1970s have sought to alter the rules in
their favor and how their failures and successes have led to even more
change. She describes how candidates have attempted to manipulate
the sequencing of primaries to their advantage and how Iowa and New
Hampshire came to dominate the system. She analyzes the rules that
are used to translate votes into delegates, paying special attention to
the Democrats’ twenty-year fight over proportional representation.
Drawing on meticulous research, interviews with key figures in both
parties, and decades of experience, Primary Politics explores one of the
most important questions in American politics—how we arrive to the list
of presidential candidates every four years.
ELAINE C. KAMARCK is a senior fellow
in the Governance Studies program at Brookings and the founding director of the Center
for Effective Public Management. Kamarck
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The Militarization of America’s Police Forces
RADLEY BALKO
The last days of colonialism taught America’s revolutionaries that
soldiers in the streets bring conflict and tyranny. As a result, our country
has generally worked to keep the military out of law enforcement. But
according to investigative reporter Radley Balko, over the last several
decades, America’s cops have increasingly come to resemble ground
troops.
POLITICS
RISE OF THE WARRIOR COP
Today’s armored-up policemen are a far cry from the constables of
early America. The unrest of the 1960s brought about the invention
of the SWAT unit—which in turn led to the debut of military tactics in
the ranks of police officers. Nixon’s War on Drugs, Reagan’s War on
Poverty, Clinton’s COPS program, the post-9/11 security state under
Bush and Obama: by degrees, each of these innovations expanded and
empowered police forces, always at the expense of civil liberties. And
these are just four among a slew of reckless programs.
In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Balko shows how politicians’ ill-considered
policies and relentless declarations of war against vague enemies
like crime, drugs, and terror have blurred the distinction between cop
and soldier. His fascinating, frightening narrative shows how over a
generation, a creeping battlefield mentality has isolated and alienated
American police officers and put them on a collision course with the
values of a free society.
RADLEY BALKO is an award-winning
investigative reporter for the Washington
Post. Previously, he was a senior writer and
investigative reporter for the Huffington Post,
senior editor for Reason magazine, and a
policy analyst for the Cato Institute.
Twitter: @RadleyBalko
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How Cooking Made Us Human
RICHARD WRANGHAM
Ever since Darwin and The Descent of Man, the existence of humans has
been attributed to our intelligence and adaptability. But in Catching Fire,
renowned primatologist Richard Wrangham presents a groundbreaking
theory of our origins: our evolutionary success is the result of cooking.
Once our hominid ancestors discovered fire and began cooking their
food, the human digestive tract shrank and the brain grew. Time once
spent chewing tough raw food could be used instead to hunt and to
tend camp. Cooking became the basis for pair bonding and marriage,
created the household, and even led to a sexual division of labor.
Tracing the contemporary implications of our ancestors’ diets, Catching
Fire sheds new light on how we came to be the social, intelligent, and
sexual species we are today. Catching Fire will provoke controversy and
fascinate anyone interested in our ancient origins—or in our modern
eating habits.
SCIENCE
CATCHING FIRE
RICHARD WRANGHAM is the Ruth
Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology
at Harvard University and Curator of Primate
Behavioral Biology at the Peabody Museum.
He is the co-author of Demonic Males and
co-editor of Chimpanzee Cultures. He lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Basic Science and Technological Innovation
DONALD E. STOKES
More than fifty years ago, Vannevar Bush released his enormously
influential report, Science, the Endless Frontier, which asserted a
dichotomy between basic and applied science. This view was at the
core of the compact between government and science that led to the
golden age of scientific research after World War II—a compact that is
currently under severe stress. In this book, Donald Stokes challenges
Bush’s view and maintains that we can only rebuild the relationship
between government and the scientific community when we understand
what is wrong with that view.
DONALD E. STOKES was professor
of politics and public affairs in the Woodrow
Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs at Princeton University.
On this revised, interactive view of science and technology, Stokes
builds a convincing case that by recognizing the importance of useinspired basic research we can frame a new compact between science
and government. His conclusions have major implications for both the
scientific and policy communities and will be of great interest to those in
the broader public who are troubled by the current role of basic science
in American democracy.
THE ORIGIN OF FECES
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What Excrement Tells Us About Evolution,
Ecology, and a Sustainable Society
DAVID WALTNER-TOEWS
An entertaining and enlightening exploration of why waste matters, The
Origin of Feces takes an important subject out of locker-rooms, pottytraining manuals, and bio-solids management boardrooms into the fresh
air of everyone’s lives. With insight and wit, David Waltner-Toews explores
what has been too often ignored and makes a compelling argument
for a deeper understanding of human and animal waste. Approaching
the subject from a variety of perspectives—evolutionary, ecological, and
cultural—The Origin of Feces shows us how integral excrement is to
biodiversity, agriculture, public health, food production and distribution,
and global ecosystems. From the primordial ooze to dung beetles, from
bug frass, cat scats, and flush toilets to global trade, pandemics, and
energy, this is the awesome, troubled, unexpurgated story of feces.
“Until you read this, you really won’t know sh*t.”
DAVID WALTNER-TOEWS is a veterinarian and epidemiologist. He is the author
of The Chickens Fight Back: Pandemic Panics
and Deadly Diseases That Jump from Animals
to People and Food, Sex and Salmonella:
Why Our Food Is Making Us Sick. He lives in
Kitchener, Ontario.
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“This is a rare book in that it offers something for everyone on
your Christmas book list: the epidemiologist, the economist, the
microbiologist, the anthropologist, sociologist and historian. The
classicist will appreciate the numerous knowledgeable references
to Roman, Greek, and Babylonian culture and mythology, the
literary scholar the etymologies and derivations, as well as the
quotations from Blake.” —Tim Sly, Literary Review of Canada
THAT’S THE WAY THE COOKIE CRUMBLES
62 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating
Chemistry of Everyday Life
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Interesting anecdotes and engaging tales make science fun, meaningful, and
accessible. Separating sense from nonsense and fact from myth, these essays
cover everything from the ups of helium to the downs of drain cleaners and provide
answers to numerous mysteries, such as why bug juice is used to color ice cream
and how spies used secret inks. Mercury in teeth, arsenic in water, lead in the
environment, and aspartame in food are discussed. Mythbusters include the fact
that Edison did not invent the light bulb and that walking on hot coals does not
require paranormal powers. The secret life of bagels is revealed, and airbags, beer,
and soap yield their mysteries. These and many more surprising, educational, and
entertaining commentaries show the relevance of science to everyday life.
THE FLY IN THE OINTMENT
70 Fascinating Commentaries on the Science of
Everyday Life
Hot on the heels of his previous bestsellers, award-winning author Dr. Joe Schwarcz’s
latest book, The Fly in the Ointment, doesn’t disappoint. From pesticides and
environmental estrogens to lipsticks and garlic, Dr. Joe is back to demystify the
science that surrounds us. Why do some people drill holes in their heads for
“enlightenment”? How did a small chemical error nearly convict the unfortunate
Patricia Stallings for murdering her son? Where does the expression “take a bromide”
come from? Schwarcz investigates aphrodisiacs, DDT, bottled water, vitamins,
barbiturates, plastic wrap, and smoked meat. He puts worries about acrylamide,
preservatives, and waxed fruit into perspective and unravels the mysteries of
bulletproof vests, weight loss diets, and “mad honey.” From the fanciful to the factual,
Dr. Joe Schwarcz enlightens us all—no drills attached.
SCIENCE
JOE SCHWARCZ
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IS THAT A FACT?
Frauds, Quacks, and the Real Science of Everyday Life
Eat this and live to 100. Don’t, and die. Today, hyperboles dominate the media,
which makes parsing science from fiction an arduous task when deciding what to
eat, what chemicals to avoid, and what’s best for the environment. In Is That a
Fact?, bestselling author Dr. Joe Schwarcz carefully navigates through the storm of
misinformation to help us separate fact from folly and shrewdness from foolishness.
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Are GMOs really harmful? Or could they help developing countries? Which “miracle
weight-loss foods” gained popularity through exuberant data dredging? Is BPA
dangerous or just a victim of unforgiving media hype? Is organic better? Dr. Joe
questions the reliability and motives of “experts” in this lighthearted but critical look
at what’s fact and what’s plain nonsense.
“[Schwarcz’s] choice of subjects is so wide-ranging that there is really
something for everyone here.”
—Booklist
DR. JOE SCHWARCZ is director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society and the author of thirteen bestselling books.
Well known for his informative and entertaining lectures, Dr. Schwarcz has received numerous awards for teaching and deciphering
science for the public. He is the host of the radio program The Dr. Joe Show, and has appeared hundreds of times on television. He lives
in Montreal, Quebec.
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SCIENCE
THE WAR ON SCIENCE
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Who Is Waging It, Why It’s Dangerous,
and What We Can Do about It
SHAWN LAWRENCE OTTO
Shawn Lawrence Otto’s provocative book reopens the necessary public
conversation on science and the common good. Ever since Galileo’s
clash with the Roman Catholic Church, advances in scientific knowledge
have had a strained relationship with powerful interests. Today, however,
in the midst of an unprecedented expansion of scientific progress,
science governs everything from transport to technology, health care to
national defense.
NYP 5/10/2016
Otto argues that too frequently scientists fail the engage in public
dialogue that would benefit from their reasonable perspective. With
the intention of enhancing that dialogue by investigating the priorities
of science—and the governments that ignore its implications to their
peril—The War on Science is an impassioned appeal to reason, before
it’s too late.
SHAWN LAWRENCE OTTO was the
co-founder and CEO of Science Debate 2008,
the largest political initiative in the history of
science. He is also an award-winning screenwriter best known for writing and co-producing the Academy Award-nominated House
of Sand and Fog. His work has appeared in
Rolling Stone, Science, Salon, and Scientific
American. He lives in Minnesota.
“Tough-minded.”
—Rolling Stone
“The solutions Otto suggests require a great deal of dedication and
optimism. Nonetheless, the problems he identifies are quite real.
Fool Me Twice offers a compelling consideration of the United
States’ political estrangement from science. One would very much
like to attend to Otto’s equally compelling hopes.”
—Science Magazine
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
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Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and
the Teachings of Plants
ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has
spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools
of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family,
and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures
indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our oldest
teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of
knowing together to reveal what it means to see humans as the “younger
brothers of creation.”
ROBIN WALL KIMMERER is a scientist, decorated professor, and an enrolled
member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Her
writings have appeared in Orion, Whole Ter
rain, and Stone Canoe amongst many others.
She lives in Fabius, NY where she is a SUNY
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology.
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In essays that range from a retelling of the creation of Turtle Island,
through the author’s childhood, to her struggles as a female, indigenous
scientist; to her evolution as a mother and her current fight for the rights
of all beings living around her upstate New York home, the book returns
continually to plants, animals, and indigenous stories for guidance.
As she explores these themes, she circles toward a central argument:
the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the
acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the
world. Once we begin to listen for the languages of other beings, we can
begin to understand the innumerable life-giving gifts the world provides
us and learn to offer our thanks, our care, and our own gifts in return.
Selected by NORTHLAND COLLEGE
and NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY
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978-1-57131-314-0
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Finding Wild Mercy in the Outback
RAFAEL de GRENADE
Rafael de Grenade was twelve years old when she quit school and soon
began to work on a rough-country mountain ranch in Arizona. There she
learned how to sleep out when there was no fast way home; how to
track her way by familiar mountains and canyons; how to survive off
the water that seeped from moss hidden springs. But when she heard
about cattlemen working the far edges of the Australian outback, they
sparked a dream in her far wilder than anything she had ever known.
A little over a decade later she arrived on Stilwater Station with two
shirts, two pairs of jeans, cowboy boots, and some doubt that she would
ever come home.
A deeply poetic inquiry into our desire to make order where we find
wildness, Stilwater: Finding Mercy in the Outback suffuses us with salt
and scrub and blood, blurring the line between domestic and feral in
wondrous, unsettling ways. This is a whirlwind of men, women, cattle,
horses, machines and landscape in collaborative evolution, all becoming
different manifestations of the same entity—the Australian Wild.
RAFAEL de GRENADE grew up on a
rural farm in the foothills of the Santa Maria
Mountains outside of Prescott, Arizona.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
environmental studies from Prescott College,
plus a Master of Fine Arts in creative nonfiction
and a PhD in Geography from the University of
Arizona. Rafael divides her time between the
Southwest of the United States and Chile.
ECOLOGY OF A CRACKER CHILDHOOD
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978-1-57131-325-6
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Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
JANISSE RAY
Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along US Highway 1, hidden from
Florida-bound travelers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by
hulks of old cars, stacks of blown-out tires, and primeval jumbles of
rusted metal. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood tells how a childhood
spent in rural isolation—living in the country but not even knowing how
to swim—grew into a passion to save the almost vanished longleaf pine
ecosystem that existed before the region was ever called the South.
NEW YORK
TIMES
NOTABLE BOOK
In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems
two Souths. She shows the world perceived from a junkyard by a child
reared in a fundamentalist religion with relatives as colorful as any
character from fiction. She also catalogs the Edenic beauty of longleaf
pine forests, where orchids grow amid wiregrass at the feet of widely
spaced, lofty trees. Today, both worlds exist in fragments, cherished and
threatened.
“Ray’s passion for preserving and restoring this unsung landscape
is heartfelt and refreshing.”
“Ray laments the ‘daily erosion of unique folkways as our native
ecosystems and all their inhabitants disappear.’ What remains
most memorable are the sections where Ray describes, and
attempts to prevent, her own disconnection from the Georgia
landscape.”
SCIENCE
STILWATER
JANISSE RAY is naturalist and an activist
who has spent her life fighting to protect pine
forests and rural communities, both of which
are the places she grew up in. Her books present a passionate and unique experience of
the South that is frequently hidden from the
national view.
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SCIENCE
OUR DAILY POISON
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From Pesticides to Packaging: How Chemicals
Have Contaminated the Food Chain and Are
Making Us Sick
MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN
TRANSLATED BY ALLISON SCHEIN
AND LARA VERGNAUD
NYP 4/5/2016
Called “terrifying” by L’Express and “a gripping and urgent book for
anyone concerned about democracy, corporate power or public health”
by Stuffed and Starved author Raj Patel, Our Daily Poison takes awardwinning journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin across North
America, Europe, and Asia. The book documents the many ways in which
we encounter a shocking array of chemicals in our everyday lives—from
the pesticides that blanket our crops to the additives and plastics that
contaminate our food—and their effects over time.
MARIE-MONIQUE ROBIN is an
award-winning French journalist and filmmaker. She received the 1995 Albert-Londres
Prize, awarded to investigative journalists in
France. She lives outside Paris.
SPORTS
Both ALLISON SCHEIN and LARA
VERGNAUD hold Master’s degrees in
French-English literary translation from New
York University. They live in New York City.
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS,
25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
25th Anniversary Edition
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A Town, a Team, and a Dream
H. G. BISSINGER
The classic, best-selling story of life in the football-driven town of
Odessa, Texas, with a new afterword that looks at the players and the
town ten years later.
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLER
H. G. BISSINGER has won the Pulitzer
Prize, the Livingston Award, the National Headliner Award, and the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel for his reporting. The author
of the highly acclaimed A Prayer for the City,
he has written for the television series NYPD
Blue and is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.
He lives in Philadelphia.
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Our Daily Poison follows the trail of the synthetic molecules in our
environment and our food, tracing the ugly history of industrial chemical
production, as well as the shoddy regulatory system for chemical
products that still operates today—to the detriment of consumers and
factory workers alike. Mustering scientific studies, expert testimony, and
interviews with farmworkers suffering from acute chronic poisoning,
Robin makes a shocking case for how corporate interests and our
ignorance may be costing us our lives.
Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers
of Odessa—the winningest high-school football team in Texas history.
Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help
keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and
racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust
path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels
out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday
night from September to December, when the Permian High School
Panthers play football, this West Texas town becomes a place where
dreams can come true. With frankness and compassion, H. G. Bissinger
chronicles a season in the life of Odessa and shows how singleminded devotion to the team shapes the community and inspires—and
sometimes shatters—the teenagers who wear the Panthers’ uniforms.
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A Coach’s Wisdom on Character, Faith,
Family, and Love
BILL COURTNEY
WITH MICHAEL ARKUSH
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Bill Courtney—entrepreneur, football coach, and subject of the 2011
Oscar-winning documentary Undefeated—shares his hard-won lessons
on discipline, success, teamwork and triumph over adversity.
In Against the Grain, Bill Courtney shares his convictions on the
fundamental tenets of character, commitment, service, leadership,
civility, and others that, in his decades of success as an entrepreneur
and educator, have proven to be the keys to a winning and meaningful
life and career. Each chapter tells the story of one of these tenets
through compelling anecdotes of the colorful characters in Bill’s life,
leading to a deeper understand of the meaning of each and how to
employee these fundamentals in all aspects of one’s life. Against the
Grain intertwines inspiring and thought-provoking anecdotes, lessons,
and amazing real life examples. Bill’s passion for us all to reconsider
our own approach to life and constantly improve upon it comes across
on every page.
BILL COURTNEY is a volunteer football
coach and owner of Classic American Hardwoods, a forty-million-dollar lumber company.
He is also a 2013 inductee into the Society
of Entrepreneurs. He lives in Memphis, Tennessee. MICHAEL ARKUSH has written
twelve books, including three New York Times
bestsellers. He lives in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Stories of Survival
JEN MARLOWE WITH AISHA BAIN
AND ADAM SHAPIRO
In February 2003, the Sudanese Liberation Army in Darfur (the western
region of Sudan) after years of oppression took up arms against the
Sudanese government. The government and allied militias answered
the rebellion with mass murder, rape, and the wholesale destruction of
villages and livelihood, resulting in one of the world’s largest humanitarian
and political crises. Up to two million people were displaced; 400,000
people killed.
In October and November, 2004, after watching woefully inadequate
media coverage on the crisis in Darfur, a team of three independent
filmmakers trekked to Darfurian refugee camps in eastern Chad and
crept across the border into Darfur. They met dozens of Darfurians, and
spoke with them about their history, hopes and fears, and the tragedy
they are living.
Refugees and displaced peoples, civilians and fighters resisting the
Sudanese government, teachers, students, parents, children, and
community leaders provide the heart of Darfur Diaries. Their stories
and testimonies, woven together through the personal experience
of the filmmakers, and conveyed with political and historical context,
provide a much-needed account to help understand Darfur. These are
people whose lives, homes, safety, and rights deserve to be protected as
vigilantly as those of peoples all over the world.
AISHA BAIN served as Deputy Director
at the Center for the Prevention of Genocide.
JEN MARLOWE spent the last four years
coordinating and directing the program at the
Seeds of Peace Center for Coexistence in Jerusalem. ADAM SHAPIRO is a founding
member of InCounter Productions that produced the documentary film, About Baghdad.
STORIES FROM AFRICA
DARFUR DIARIES
SPORTS AGAINST THE GRAIN
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STORIES FROM AFRICA
THEY POURED FIRE ON US FROM THE
SKY, TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
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The Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
BENJAMIN AJAK, BENSON DENG,
AND ALEPHONSIAN DENG
WITH JUDY BERNSTEIN
Teacher’s Guide Available
Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of
Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grassroofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions that
prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew.
All that changed the night the government-armed Murahiliin began
attacking their villages. Amid the chaos, screams, conflagration, and
gunfire, five-year-old Benson and seven-year-old Benjamin fled into the
dark night. Two years later, Alepho, age seven, was forced to do the same.
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ALEPHONSION and BENSON DENG,
and their cousin BENJAMIN AJAK were
relocated from the Kakuma refugee camp in
Kenya to the United States as part of an international refugee relief program. They arrived in
2001. Now all in their mid-twenties, Benjamin,
Benson, and Alephonsion live in San Diego,
California.
TheyPouredFire.com
In They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky, Alepho, Benson, and Benjamin,
by turn, recount their experiences along this unthinkable journey. They
vividly recall the family, friends, and tribal world they left far behind
them. And it is, in the end, an inspiring and unforgettable tribute to the
tenacity of even the youngest human spirits.
Selected by AVILA UNIVERSITY, BUENA VISTA UNIVERSITY,
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA STATE
UNIVERSITY, MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE and
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UNIVERSITY, and ROLLINS UNIVERSITY
THE LAST HUNGER SEASON
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A Year in an African Farm Community
on the Brink of Change
ROGER THUROW
With tired seeds, meager soil nutrition, primitive storage facilities,
wretched roads, and no capital or credit, Africa’s smallholder farmers
harvest less than one-quarter the yields of Western farmers. Award-winning author and world hunger activist Roger Thurow spent a year with
four of them to intimately chronicle their efforts. In The Last Hunger
Season, he illuminates the profound challenges these farmers and their
families face, and follows them through the seasons to see whether, with
a little bit of help from a new social enterprise organization called One
Acre Fund, they might transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger.
Selected by NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
ROGER THUROW is a senior fellow
for Global Agriculture and Food Policy at the
Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He was a
reporter at the Wall Street Journal, and is the
author of Enough: Why the World’s Poorest
Starve in an Age of Plenty (with Scott Kilman).
A 2009 recipient of the Action Against Hunger
Humanitarian Award, he lives near Chicago.
OutrageAndInspire.com
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Why We Expect More from Technology
and Less from Each Other
SHERRY TURKLE
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall
prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and
Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic
communication. But this relentless connection leads to a new solitude.
We turn to new technology to fill the void, but as MIT technology and
society specialist Sherry Turkle argues, as technology ramps up, our
emotional lives ramp down. Alone Together is the result of Turkle’s
nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. Based
on interviews with hundreds of children and adults, it describes new,
unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children,
and new instabilities in how we understand privacy and community,
intimacy and solitude.
TECHNOLOGY
ALONE TOGETHER
“A fascinating portrait of our changing relationship with technology.”
—Newsweek.com
SHERRY TURKLE is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of
Science and Technology at MIT. She received
a joint doctorate in sociology and personality
from Harvard University.
THE END OF POWER
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From Boardrooms to Battlefields and
Churches to States, Why Being in Charge
Isn’t What It Used to Be
MOISÉS NAÍM
Power is shifting—from large, stable armies to loose bands of
insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from
presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing,
becoming harder to use and easier to lose. As a result, award-winning
columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím argues, all
leaders have less power than their predecessors, and the potential
for upheaval is unprecedented. In The End of Power, Naím illuminates
the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new
micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. The
anti-establishment drive of micropowers can topple tyrants, dislodge
monopolies, and open remarkable new opportunities, but it can also
lead to chaos and paralysis. Drawing on provocative, original research
and a lifetime of experience in global affairs, Naím explains how the end
of power is reconfiguring our world.
“The End of Power makes a truly important contribution,
persuasively portraying a compelling dynamic of change cutting
across multiple game-boards of the global power matrix.”
—Washington Post
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MOISÉS NAÍM is a scholar at the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
and an internationally syndicated columnist.
He served as editor in chief of Foreign Policy,
as Venezuela’s trade minister, and as executive director of the World Bank.
www.MosesNaim.com
Twitter: @mosesnaim
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TECHNOLOGY
RISE OF THE ROBOTS
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Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
MARTIN FORD
In Rise of the Robots, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Martin Ford argues
as technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care
of themselves, fewer jobs will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is
already well on its way to making “good jobs” obsolete: many paralegals,
journalists, physicians, and even computer programmers are poised to
be replaced by robots. More progress simply means that more white
and blue collar jobs alike will disappear. Ford details what artificially
intelligent automation and robotics can accomplish, and implores
employers, scholars, and government agencies alike to face this reality.
More education will not be enough, and we must decide—now—whether
the future will see prosperity or catastrophe. Rise of the Robots is
essential reading for anyone wanting to secure their future economic
prospects—not to mention those of their children—and find out what
they can do to make them brighter.
NYP 7/12/2016
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MARTIN FORD, the founder of a Silicon
Valley–based software development firm, has
over twenty-five years of experience in computer design and software development. The
author of The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation,
Accelerating Technology, and the Economy of
the Future, he lives in Sunnyvale, California.
BORN DIGITAL
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Understanding the First Generation
of Digital Natives
JOHN PALFREY AND URS GASSER
The first generation of “Digital Natives”—children who were born into and
raised in the digital world—are coming of age, and soon our world will
be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture, and
even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed. But who
are these Digital Natives? And what is the world they’re creating going
to look like?
In Born Digital, leading Internet and technology experts John Palfrey
and Urs Gasser offer a sociological portrait of these young people, who
can seem, even to those merely a generation older, both extraordinarily
sophisticated and strangely narrow. Exploring a broad range of issues,
from the highly philosophical to the purely practical, Born Digital will
be essential reading for parents, teachers, and the myriad of confused
adults who want to understand the digital present and shape the digital
future.
JOHN PALFREY is Professor of Law and
a Vice Dean at Harvard Law School. He is a
regular commentator on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC,
Fox News, NPR, and BBC. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. URS GASSER is
the Executive Director of the Berkman Center
for Internet & Society. He lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
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“A well-reasoned, thorough synthesis of some momentous, if
familiar, ideas.”
—New Scientist
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The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
REBECCA MacKINNON
The expectation was that the Internet would liberate us, but in truth
it has not. For every story about the web’s empowering role in events
such as the Arab Spring, there are many more about the quiet corrosion
of civil liberties by companies and governments using the same
digital technologies we have come to depend upon. In Consent of the
Networked, journalist and Internet policy specialist Rebecca MacKinnon
argues that it is time to fight for our rights before they are sold, legislated,
programmed, and engineered away. Every day, the corporate sovereigns
of cyberspace, including Google and Facebook, make decisions that
affect our physical freedom, but they do so without our consent. Yet the
traditional solution to unaccountable corporate behavior—government
regulation—cannot stop the abuse of digital power on its own, and
sometimes even contributes to it.
A clarion call to action, Consent of the Networked shows that it is time
to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers people, and address
the urgent question of how technology should be governed to support
the rights and liberties of users around the world.
“Consent of the Networked is an excellent survey of the Internet’s
major fault lines.”
—Wall Street Journal
“A vitally important analysis of Internet manipulation that should be
read by anyone relying on the web for work or pleasure.”—Booklist
REBECCA MacKINNON is a Schwartz
Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.
She is co-founder of Global Voices Online, a
global citizen media network that amplifies
online citizen voices from around the world.
MacKinnon is frequently interviewed in the
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washing
ton Post, The Financial Times, NPR, and other
news outlets. She lives in Washington, DC.
FIRE AND FORGET
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Short Stories from the Long War
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are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable.
Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this
collection offers voices—powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that
only fiction can offer.
What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories
are written by those who were there, or waited for them at home. The
anthology, which features a Foreword by National Book Award winner
Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the wars’ generation: awardwinning author Phil Klay’s “Redeployment;” Brian Turner, whose poem
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War resonates with countless veterans; Siobhan Fallon, whose book You
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left behind; Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity
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WAR
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MATTHEW ECK
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In this adrenalized debut novel, Matthew Eck puts readers inside the
mind of one young confused soldier caught in the fog of unexpected
warfare.
When a small unit of soldiers from the US Army is separated from their
command and left for dead, their only option is to keep moving, in hope
that they will escape the marauding gangs and clansmen who appear
to rule the city. Josh, a young soldier, and his “battle buddies” are left
to wander in hostile territory. After a series of horrifying, often violent
encounters along the way, only a few of them survive. In this short war
novel, the characters, both natives and invaders alike, are haunting—
almost inhuman—and the emerging story reflects a new kind of military
engagement, with all the attendant horrors and difficulties.
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pandemonium of war in an age of high-tech weaponry and
low-grade morality.” —Booklist (starred review)
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In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the
longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100,000
African soldiers were taken from Britain’s colonies to fight the Japanese
in the Burmese jungles. They performed heroically, yet their contribution
has been largely ignored. Barnaby Phillips traveled to Nigeria and Burma
in search of “Burma Boy” Isaac Fadoyebo, the family who saved his life,
and the legacy of an Empire. This is Isaac’s story.
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“Riveting. It’s an extraordinary story, well-researched, and
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perspective of a Nigerian soldier whose forgotten colonial unit
fought for the British Empire in then-Burma…. Phillips delves
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WHAT IT IS LIKE TO GO TO WAR
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In What It Is Like to Go to War, Karl Marlantes takes a deeply personal
and candid look at the experience and ordeal of combat, critically
examining how we might better prepare our young soldiers for war.
In a compelling narrative, Marlantes weaves riveting accounts of his
combat experiences with thoughtful analysis, self-examination, and his
readings—from Homer to the Mahabharata to Jung. He makes it clear
just how poorly prepared our nineteen-year-old warriors—mainly men
but increasingly women—are for the psychological and spiritual aspects
of their journey.
“What It Is Like to Go to War is a well-crafted and forcefully argued
work that contains fresh and important insights into what it’s like
to be in a war and what it does to the human psyche.”
—The Washington Post
KARL MARLANTES is a graduate of Yale
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where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the
Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Meals
for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals.
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O
Able!..............................................................33
Get Out the Vote..............................................56
One Nation Under God....................................27
Against the Grain............................................63
Girl in Shades.................................................44
Only the Strong...............................................41
Alone Together................................................65
Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, The.........................38
Ordinary Wolves..............................................49
American Copper............................................51
Grant Park.......................................................39
Origin of Feces, The.........................................58
American Wasteland.......................................19
American Way of Poverty, The...........................23
H
Our Daily Poison.............................................62
H Is for Hawk..................................................53
P
Half Has Never Been Told, The.........................28
Panthers in the Hole........................................55
Are You Fully Charged?....................................12
HBR Guide to Getting
the Mentoring You Need................................10
Pasteur’s Quadrant..........................................58
Asking for It....................................................17
HBR Guide to Getting the Right Work Done........9
Please Stop Helping Us...................................20
B
HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations.............9
Angry White Men.............................................23
Another Man’s War..........................................69
Beneath the Darkening Sky.............................50
Blind Man’s Bluff.............................................32
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on
Emotional Intelligence....................................8
Place to Stand, A............................................53
Poor Economics..............................................12
Power of Being Yourself, The...............................3
Primary Politics...............................................56
Book of Colors, The.........................................52
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on
Making Smart Decisions.................................8
Born Digital.....................................................66
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself......7
Pursuit of Happiness, The..................................2
Born on a Tuesday...........................................47
Higher Standard, A............................................3
Braiding Sweetgrass........................................60
Hip Hop Wars, The...........................................15
R
Burning Down the House.................................24
How I Did It.......................................................7
Business of Good, The.......................................4
How Should We Live?......................................31
But You Did Not Come Back............................52
How to Be a Productivty Ninja.........................11
Rich Habits, Rich Life......................................37
C
I
Right Out of California.....................................26
Call Me Home.................................................49
Integration Nation...........................................24
Rise of the Robots..........................................66
Carnivore, The.................................................42
Into The River..................................................37
Rise of the Warrior Cop....................................57
Catching Fire...................................................57
Roots..............................................................18
Chai Tea Sunday..............................................44
Invisible Man, Got the Whole
World Watching.............................................36
Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants, A..................34
Iron John.........................................................17
Circus Maximus.................................................2
Is That a Fact?................................................59
Confronting Suburban Poverty in America........16
Ishmael’s Oranges...........................................50
Conscious Capitalism......................................10
Island.............................................................30
Consent of the Networked...............................67
J
Culture of Fear, The.........................................14
Jam on the Vine..............................................45
D
Journal of Hélène Berr, The.............................55
Darfur Diaries..................................................63
Joyland...........................................................43
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.................35
K
Dear Human...................................................35
Disinherited....................................................20
Knowing Your Value.........................................13
Diversity Explosion..........................................34
L
Dreams of the Red Phoenix.............................51
Last Hunger Season, The.................................64
E
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood.......................61
Letters to a Young Contrarian...........................15
Lipstick Jihad..................................................39
End of Power, The............................................65
Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight
in Heaven, The..............................................48
Entitlement.....................................................43
Long Division..................................................40
Equality and Efficiency....................................16
Euphoria.........................................................46
F
Fire and Forget................................................67
Fly in the Ointment, The...................................59
Forget a Mentor, Find a Sponsor........................6
Fortress Europe...............................................25
Freeman.........................................................42
Freshwater Road.............................................40
Friday Night Lights...........................................62
Fueled by Failure...............................................4
Future of Affirmative Action, The.......................33
M
Masters of Success...........................................5
My Brother’s Name.........................................22
Professor and the President............................32
Rape of Nanking, The .....................................29
Redefining Manhood.......................................21
Remember Who You Are....................................6
S
Stillwater........................................................61
Stories for Boys ..............................................54
Sympathizer, The.............................................46
T
That’s the Way the Cookie Crumbles................59
The Farther Shore............................................68
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky...............64
Time in Between, The......................................54
Tyranny of Experts, The.....................................28
U
Unlearning Liberty...........................................21
W
Wading Home.................................................13
Wages of Rebellion.........................................36
War Dances ...................................................48
War on Science, The........................................60
Wash..............................................................47
Watch How We Walk........................................45
Way We Never Were, The..................................29
We Too Sing America.......................................25
N
Weird Girl and What’s His Name......................38
Nature of College, The.....................................22
What It Is Like to Go to War.............................69
Neither Wolf Nor Dog.......................................27
What Would Madison Do?...............................31
New Jim Crow, The...........................................26
When I Was Puerto Rican................................19
Nine Things Succesful People Do Differently....11
Where the Line Bleeds....................................41
No One Understands You and What
to Do About It.................................................5
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting
Together in the Cafeteria...............................14
Wisdom of Beguines, The................................30
TITLE INDEX
A
AUTHOR INDEX
A
G
N
Abramsky, Sasha.............................................23
Glassner, Barry...............................................14
Naim, Moises..................................................65
Alexander, Michelle.........................................26
Graham, L., Carol..............................................2
Neburn, Kent...................................................27
Alexie, Sherman..............................................48
Grant, Heidi....................................................11
Nguyen, Viet....................................................46
Allcott, Graham...............................................11
Green, Donald.................................................56
Nicholas, Denise.............................................40
Asim, Jabari....................................................41
Grenade, Rafael..............................................61
B
H
Okun, Arthur....................................................16
Baca, Jimmy...................................................53
Haber, Jason.....................................................4
Olmsted, Kathryn............................................26
Baggio, Allison................................................44
Hajaj, Calire....................................................50
Otto, Shawn....................................................60
Balko, Radley..................................................57
Haley, Alex.......................................................18
Banerjee, Abhijit..............................................12
Halvorson, Heidi Grant .....................................5
Baptist, Edward...............................................28
Harding, Kate..................................................17
Barfield, Raymond...........................................52
Harvard Business Review..........................7, 8, 9
Barnett, LaShinda...........................................45
Hedges, Chris........................................... 35, 36
Bell, Randall...................................................37
Henderson, Nancy...........................................33
Bennett, Jonathan...........................................43
Hess, Stephen................................................32
P
Palfrey, John....................................................66
Phillips, Barnaby.............................................69
Pitts Jr, Leonard....................................... 39, 42
Plumeri, Joe......................................................3
Pye, Virginia....................................................51
Bernstein, Nell................................................24
Hewlett, Sylvia Ann............................................6
R
Berr, Helene....................................................55
Hitchens, Christopher......................................15
Rath, Tom........................................................12
Bissinger, H.G..................................................62
Bloom, Jeremy..................................................4
Bloom, Jonathan.............................................19
I
Iyer, Deepa......................................................25
Ray, Janisse....................................................61
Ray, Shann......................................................51
Riley, Jason.....................................................20
Bly, Robert......................................................17
K
Robin, Marie...................................................62
Brothers, Meagan............................................38
Kahf, Mojha....................................................38
Rose, Tricia......................................................15
Brzezinski, Mika..............................................13
Kahlenberg, Richard........................................33
Business, Harvard...........................................10
Kamarck, Elaine..............................................56
C
Carr, Matthew..................................................25
Cénou, Bruno..................................................55
Chamberlin, J..................................................30
Chang, Iris......................................................29
Clark, Heather.................................................44
Coffin, Jaed.....................................................34
Coontz, Stephanie...........................................29
Courtney, Bill...................................................63
D
Dawe, Ted........................................................37
Dend, Deng.....................................................64
Duarte, Nancy...................................................9
Dunwoody, Ann..................................................3
E
Easterly, William..............................................28
Eaton, Susan..................................................24
Eck, Matthew..................................................68
Elnathan, John................................................47
Ewing, Jim PathFinder.....................................21
Kantner, Seth..................................................49
Kimerer, Robin................................................60
Kimmel, Michael.............................................23
King, Lily.........................................................46
Kneebone, Elizabeth........................................16
Krughoff, Laura...............................................22
Kruse, Kevin....................................................27
Kruse, Megan..................................................49
Krznaric, Roman..............................................31
L
Laymon, Kiese.................................................40
Loridan-Ivens, Marcelinen...............................52
LoveGrove, Jennifer..........................................45
Lukianoff, Greg................................................21
M
Mackey, John...................................................10
Mackinnon, Rebecca.......................................67
Marlantes, Karl...............................................69
Marlowe, Jen...................................................63
Martin, Gregory...............................................54
McDonald, Helen............................................53
F
Misner, Ivan......................................................5
Farrell, Jamed.................................................22
Moaveni, Azadeh.............................................39
Ford, Martin....................................................66
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S
Santiago, Esmeralda.......................................19
Schultz, Emily..................................................43
Schwarcz, Joe.................................................59
Scranton, Roy.................................................67
Sinnett, Mark..................................................42
Smith, Mychal.................................................36
Sontag, Sherry................................................32
Stokes, Donald...............................................58
Story, Rosalyn.................................................13
Swan, Laura....................................................30
T
Tatum, Beverly.................................................14
Thurow, Roger..................................................64
Tucker, Nancy..................................................54
Tulba, Majok....................................................50
Turkle, Sherry..................................................65
W
Wademan, Daisy...............................................6
Walsh, Courtney..............................................35
Waltner-Toews, David.......................................58
Ward, Jesmyn..................................................41
Winkle, Margaret.............................................47
Wittes, Benjamin.............................................31
Wrangham, Richard.........................................57
Frey, William....................................................34
Z
Furchtgott-Roth, Diana....................................20
Zimbalist, Andrew..............................................2
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