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Mothers in Academia

by Maria Castaneda & Kirsten Isgro

While more mothers are increasingly occupying institutions of higher learning, they still struggle to make headway in a world that privileges a commitment to countless hours of scholarly research and study....


Cool War: The Future of Global Competition

by Noah Feldman

A bold and thought-provoking look at the future of U.S.-China relations, and how their coming power struggle will reshape the competitive playing field for nations around the world

 

The Cold War seemingly...


The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature

by Franco Moretti

Who - and what - are the Bourgeois?

"The bourgeois ... Not so long ago, this notion seemed indispensable to social analysis; these days, one might go years without hearing it mentioned. Capitalism is more powerful...


The Suffragette Derby

by Michael Tanner

On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250,000 people thronging Epsom Downs carried with...


Classic Candy: America's Favorite Sweets, 1950-80

by Darlene Lacey

Candy may well have its origins in medicine (think peppermint sticks), and many Americans still think of candy as an edible salve with which to cure and to celebrate. Today, Americans consume more than 600 billion...


Extinct for a Reason: A Field Guide to Failimals and Evolosers

by Scott Cooney & Aaron Adler

Before there was Darwin, before there was man’s best friend, there were . . . Failimals.

The Royal Failimal Society presents the Unchameleon, Bipolar Bear, Emo Emu, and other Darwin-defiant animals that, though...


To Sin Against Hope: How America Has Failed Its Immigrants: A Personal History

by Alfredo Gutierrez

A moving life story from a leading voice in America's immigrant rights struggle.Alfredo Gutierrez’s father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown—the mining town where Alfredo grew...


The Northern Farm

by Henry Beston

In the tradition of his well-loved The Outermost House, Henry Beston's Northern Farm captures "the elusive magic of a year on a Kennebee farm...in truly beautiful prose" (Kirkus Reviews).  Among the blue-white...


American Exceptionalism: The Origins, History, and Future of the Nation's Greatest Strength

by Charles W. Dunn

American Exceptionalism provokes intense debates culturally, economically, politically, and socially. This collection, edited by Charles W. Dunn of Regent University's Robertson School of Government, brings...


Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism

by Dawn Keetley & John Pettegrew

This final volume in the Public Women, Public Words series focuses on what has come to be called the second wave of American feminism. It traces the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s, reflects the unprecedented...


Winchell and Runyon: The True Untold Story

by Trustin Howard

This book is about the bond between two legendary journalists, Walter Winchell and Damon Runyon, during the unforgettable era of World War II and the years following. Winchell was a popular radio personality...


Listening to Sea Lions: Currents of Change from Galapagos to Patagonia

Steve Magnante's 1001 Muscle Car Facts

by Steve Magnante

This book contains 1001 well-researched muscle car facts that even the most esteemed experts would be surprised to learn.


The Social Work Interview

by Alfred Kadushin & Goldie Kadushin

For twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human service courses, as well as an essential professional resource for practitioners. This new edition,...


Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

by Annalee Newitz

In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful...


The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change

by Roger Thurow

The story of a group of Kenyan farmers working to transcend lives of dire poverty and hunger illuminates the challenges, and vital necessity, of transforming Africa’s agriculture sector


Fighting for Common Ground: How We Can Fix the Stalemate in Congress

by Olympia Snowe

A spirited call to action by Olympia J. Snowe, the iconic moderate and three-term Republican senator from Maine


For God, Country, and Coca-Cola

by Mark Pendergrast

Now fully updated, the classic account of how a bottle of sweetened caramel-colored soda water became synonymous with American capitalism


Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry

by Paul Ingrassia & Joseph B. White

In Comeback, Pulitzer Prize-winners Paul Ingrassia and Joseph B. White take us to the boardrooms, the executive offices, and the shop floors of the auto business to reconstruct, in riveting detail, how America's...


A Bad Day On The Romney Campaign: An Insider's Account

by Gabriel Schoenfeld

Why did Romney lose? How can Republicans win?

In A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign, Gabriel Schoenfeld, a senior adviser to presidential nominee Mitt Romney for nearly two years, is the first insider to speak...