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Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar - The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
This reissue of the groundbreaking study of female 19th-century writers contains a new introduction in which Gilbert and Guber address the origins of their own interest in feminist literary criticism.
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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Ted Conover - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
A journalist recounts the year he spent as a corrections officer at the notorious prison, offering a true insider's view of the culture of its guards--both idealistic "new jacks" like himself and brutally hardened veterans, prison rituals like strip frisks and cell searches, and the impasse between ... More
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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Elliott Currie - Crime and Punishment in America
Statistics reveal that there are five times as many Americans behind bars today as in 1970. Despite some recent declines in urban crime rates, we remain the most violent industrial society on earth. In a hard-hitting and accessible work, nationally acclaimed criminologist Elliott Currie lays out why ... More
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Richard Rodriguez - Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father
Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their ... More
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Ernest Becker - The Denial of Death
The culmination of his life's work, "The Denial of Death is renowned anthropologist Ernest Becker's inspiring and revolutionary answer to the "why" of human existence. In Becker's daring and convincing challenge to the classic Freudian school of thought, he sees his fellow humans as constant fighter ... More
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Richard White - The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815
This book seeks to step outside the simple stories of Indian/white relations--stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans and Indians met, regarding each other as alien, as virtu ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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B. Greene - Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Einstein was simply ahead of his time. More than a half a century later, his dream of a unified theory has become the Holy Grail of modern physics. And a sizeable part of the physics and mathematics community is becoming increasingly convinced that string theory may provide the answer. From one prin ... More
Score: 4.6 18 Reviews
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Stephen Jay Gould - Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History
"Luminous. . .Filled with profound and upsetting ideas like the Burgess Shale itself and just as solid. It is surely one of nature's best stories, told with a light touce by a master of the field".--Lewis Thomas, M.D.
Score: 4.0 4 Reviews
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Judith Rich Harris - The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
This work heightens factors other than parental influence as determinants of children's development. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
Score: 4.8 4 Reviews
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Maxine Kingston - China Men
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Heres a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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Peter Gay Ph.D. - The Cultivation of Hatred
The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression--and debate about aggression--that raged through the Victorian Age. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights.
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Francis Paul Prucha - The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians
'The author's detailed analysis of two centuries of federal policy makes The Great Father indispensable reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of American Indian policy.' - Journal of American History.
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Daniel K. Richter - Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America
Release Date: February 01, 2003
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Robert N. Bellah, William M. Sullivan, Steven M. Tipton, Ann Swidler, Richard Madsen - Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
Habits of the Heart, first published in 1985, rapidly became one of the most widely discussed interpretations of American society in the twentieth century, joining a small body of pivotal studies such as Middletown and The Lonely Crowd. Much of what Habits described, and which resonated so widely in ... More
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Robert Butler - Why Survive?: Being Old in America
Release Date: February 01, 2003
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Carl N. Degler - Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
Release Date: July 01, 1986
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Edward O. Wilson - On Human Nature
Release Date: September 01, 2004
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John E. MacK - A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence
Mack explores the relationship between Lawrence's inner life and his historically significant actions. Mack uses interviews, far-flung correspondence, access to War Office dispatches and unpublished letters for his basis.
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Gene Roberts Jr. and Hank Klibanoff - The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, And the Awakening of a Nation
Two journalists who covered the Civil Rights movement over two decades tell the stories behind the stories in this panoramic account of how reporters, photographers, editors, and others brought the events of that time to America?s homes through its newspapers, magazines, and television. The media we ... More
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Michael G. Kammen - People of Paradox: An Inquiry Concerning the Origins of American Civilization
From the beginning, what has given our culture its distinctive texture, pattern, and thrust, according to Michael Kammen, is the dynamic interaction of the imported and the indigenous.
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Martin Duberman - The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein
This remarkable biography, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, shines a light on one of America's greatest patrons of the arts, Lincoln Kirstein, who fought for and funded many of the greatest artists and institutions of the 20th century. Kirstein was a complicated and neurotic character whose aesthe ... More
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