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A 1960s Childhood: From Thunderbirds to Beatlemania

by Paul Feeney

With chapters on home and school life, games and hobbies, music and fashion, alongside a selection of charming illustrations, this compendium lets you take a nostalgic look at what it was like to grow up during...


Fool's Paradise: Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach

by Steven Gaines

From the acclaimed bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow comes a remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows–a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that...


Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho

by Jon Katz

Jesse and Eric were roommates in the tiny town of Caldwell, Idaho, nineteen-year-old working class kids eking out a living with their seven-dollar-an-hour jobs selling and fixing computers. College was never...


The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture

by Nerina Rustomji

Islamic conceptions of heaven and hell began in the seventh century as an early doctrinal innovation, but by the twelfth century, these notions had evolved into a highly formalized ideal of perfection. In tracking...


The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan

by Rebecca Copeland & Melek Ortabasi

The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have...


A Woman Soldier's Own Story: The Autobiography of Xie Bingying

by Bingying Xie & Barry Brissman

For the first time, a complete version of the autobiography of Xie Bingying (1906-2000) provides a fascinating portrayal of a woman fighting to free herself from the constraints of ancient Chinese tradition...


Rural Social Work Practice

by Roger A. A. Lohmann

Featuring contributions from practitioners, researchers, and academics, this volume synthesizes and analyzes current trends in rural social work practice and considers the most effective ways to serve rural...


Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

by Hunter S. Thompson

Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels--Hell's Angels, that is. He's lived with them, he knows them and their machines, he speaks their langauge,and he reports it back...


Lovin' Bloom: The Unauthorized Story of Orlando Bloom

by Heather Kranenburg

With his stunning good looks and dreamy brown eyes, British heartthrob Orlando Bloom has captured Hollywood’s spotlight—and the adoration of girls everywhere. After his award-winning performance in the Lord...


Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today's Changing Economy

by DW Gibson

Poignant true stories of resilience, determination, and the search for fulfillment

Inspired by Studs Terkel's Working and by James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, DW Gibson sets off on a...


Necessary Targets: A Story of Women and War

by Eve Ensler

In her first new work since The Vagina Monologues, her Obie Award-winning smash hit, Eve Ensler tells the story of two American women, a Park Avenue psychiatrist and a human rights worker, who go to Bosnia to...


Culture Warrior

by Bill O'Reilly

With three straight #1 bestsellers and more than 4 million copies of his books in print, the most powerful traditional force in the American media now takes off his gloves in the ongoing struggle for America’s...


Having It All?: Black Women and Success

by Veronica Chambers

A behind-the-scenes look into the lives of successful middle- and upper-middle class African American women, the groundbreaking HAVING IT ALL? is sure to spark discussions from cocktail parties to boardrooms....


The Midwest Farmer's Daughter: In Search of an American Icon

by Zachary Michael Jack

From yesterday's gingham girls to today's Google-era Farmer Janes, The Midwest Farmer's Daughter explores the resurgent role played by female agriculturalists at a time when fully 30 percent of new farms in...


Making Friends With Black People

by Nick Adams

White people of America, we know you've got it rough.

Sure, black men and women have been through four hundred years of slavery, oppression, murder, and watching white college students try to dance. But now...


Your Call Is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit

by Laura Penny

Every once in a while a truth-telling book appears out of nowhere, a book that crystallizes our darkest suspicions and makes us mad as hell—while we’re laughing like fiends. A book like this one.

Your Call...


Through Feminist Eyes

by Joan Sangster

Sangster sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians.


Women Still at Work: Professionals over Sixty and On the Job

by Elizabeth F. Fideler

The fastest growing segment of the workforce is women age sixty-five and older. Women Still at Work draws on national survey data and in-depth interviews to show the many reasons why women are working well past...


Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema

by Thomas G. Deveny

In Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema, Thomas Deveny takes the unique approach of looking at film and immigration with a global perspective, examining emigration and immigration films from Spain, Mexico,...


Godly Love: Impediments and Possibilities

by Amos Yong, Matthew T. Lee & Kimberly Ervin Alexander

This book offers new theological and social scientific perspectives on impediments to the experience and expression of the Christian Great Commandment (to love God and love neighbor as self), as well as possible...