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Silenced in the Library: Banned Books in America
Zeke Jarvis · Greenwood
Pages: 289
Format: Hardcover
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Censorship has been an ongoing phenomenon even in "the land of the free." This examination of banned books across U.S. history examines the motivations and effects of censorship, shows us how our view of right and wrong has evolved over the years, and helps readers to understand... |
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Parkland
Vincent Bugliosi · W. W. Norton & Company; Movie Tie-In Edition edition
Format: Paperback
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“Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America.” —Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times Book Review“As good a second-by-second reconstruction of the assassination and its aftermath as I’ve read.” Bryan Burrough, The New York... |
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We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century
Erwin Chemerinsky · Picador
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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"Over the course of American history, there have been great gains in individual freedom and enormous advances in equality for racial minorities, women, and gays and lesbians, though obviously much remains to be done. Now we are at a moment with a president who is not committed to these... |
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Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir
NGUGI WA THIONG'O · The New Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An unforgettable chronicle of the year the brilliant novelist and memoirist, long favored for the Nobel Prize, was thrown in a Kenyan jail without charge Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release... |
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The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 - 2006
Edward W. Said · Vintage
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback
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The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Reader, now draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously... |
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The Fate of Gender: Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future
Frank Browning · Bloomsbury
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Frank Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to femminielli weather casters in Naples, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. As he shares specific... |
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The Front Runner
Matt Bai · Vintage
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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Now a major motion picture "The Front Runner" starring Hugh JackmanAn NPR Best Book of the YearIn May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart - a dashing, reform-minded Democrat - seemed a lock for the party's presidential nomination and led George H. W. Bush by double digits in the polls.... |
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Proud Raven, Panting Wolf: Carving Alaska's New Deal Totem Parks
Moore · University of Washington Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Among Southeast Alaska's best-known tourist attractions are its totem parks, showcases for monumental wood sculptures by Tlingit and Haida artists. Although the art form is centuries old, the parks date back only to the waning years of the Great Depression, when the US government reversed... |
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The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
Jay Bahadur · Pantheon; First American Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Somalia on the tip of the Horn of Africa has been inhabited as far back as BC Its history is as rich as the country is old Caught up in a decades-long civil war Somalia along with Iraq and Afghanistan has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world Getting there from North... |
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