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The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
Paul Tough - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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The best-selling author of How Children Succeed returns with a devastatingly powerful, mind-changing inquiry into higher education in the United States Does college work? Does it provide real opportunity for young people who want to improve themselves and their prospects? Or is it simply... |
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The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Seth Mnookin - Simon & Schuster; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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WHO DECIDES WHICH FACTS ARE TRUE? In 1998 Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist with a history of self-promotion, published a paper with a shocking allegation: the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine might cause autism. The media seized hold of the story and, in the process, helped to launch... |
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Spooky South: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
S. E. Schlosser - Globe Pequot
Format: Paperback
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Here we have a collection of unnerving tales of events that happened--and still do happen--in the collective back yard of the Deep South states. Accompanied by evocative illustrations, these compelling retellings of 30 popular folktales feature supernatural occurrences and ghosts of all sorts,... |
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
MARGARET A BURNHAM - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar.If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director... |
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The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria
Alia Malek - Nation Books
Format: Print book
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At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people... |
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The Agitator: William Bailey and the First American Uprising against Nazism
Peter Duffy - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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This story of an anti-fascist's dramatic and remarkable victory against Nazism in 1935 is an inspiration to anyone compelled to resist when signs of oppression are on the horizonBy 1935, Hitler had suppressed all internal opposition and established himself as Germany's unchallenged... |
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