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  • SENSATIONAL FLESH
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    SENSATIONAL FLESH
    AMBER JAMILLA MUSSER
    This “lively and enlightening contribution to queer studies” investigates power, race, and gender through the lens of masochism (Darieck Scott, author of Extravagant Abjection).   In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation—pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where p...

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  • THE CASE FOR PRAGMATIC PSYCHOLOGY
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    THE CASE FOR PRAGMATIC PSYCHOLOGY
    DANIEL FISHMAN
    The best method is the one that works: “Should be read not only by professional psychologists but by anyone interested in the future of mind-related science.” —John Horgan, author of The End of Science   A cursory survey of the field of psychology reveals raging debate among psychologists about the methods, goals, and significance of the discipline—psychology’s own version of t...

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  • FOUR STEEPLES OVER THE CITY STREETS
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    FOUR STEEPLES OVER THE CITY STREETS
    KYLE T BULTHUIS
    Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. In the fifty years after the Constitution was signed in 1787, New York City grew from a port town of 30,000 to a metropolis of over half a million residents. This rapid development transformed a once tightknit com...

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  • VIOLENT ACCOUNTS
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    VIOLENT ACCOUNTS
    ROBERT N KRAFT
    Violent Accounts presents a compelling study of how ordinary people commit extraordinary acts of violence and how perpetrators and victims manage in the aftermath. Grounded in extensive, qualitative analysis of perpetrator testimony, the volume reveals the individual experiences of perpetrators as well as general patterns of influence that lead to collective violence. Drawing o...

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  • REBELS AT THE BAR
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    REBELS AT THE BAR
    JILL NORGREN
    An engaging history of women's rights and the legal profession in the nineteenth century Long before Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg earned their positions on the Supreme Court, they were preceded in their goal of legal excellence by several intrepid trailblazers. In Rebels at the Bar, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts the life stories of a small g...

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  • WHY JURY DUTY MATTERS
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    WHY JURY DUTY MATTERS
    ANDREW GUTHRIE FERGUSON
    An argument for the constitutional responsibility to participate in jury duty It’s easy to forget how important the jury really is to America. The right to be a juror is one of the fundamental rights guaranteed to all eligible citizens. The right to trial by jury helped spark the American Revolution, was quickly adopted at the Constitutional Convention, and is the only right th...

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  • LEGALIZING PROSTITUTION
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    LEGALIZING PROSTITUTION
    RONALD WEITZER
    “Weitzer provides an in-depth examination of legalized prostitution systems, while also proposing a new paradigm for understanding sex work.” —Qualitative Criminology   While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices have become more repressive in many nations, partly as a result of ...

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  • THE MAID'S DAUGHTER
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    THE MAID'S DAUGHTER
    MARY ROMERO
    A “detailed, intimate” account of a Mexican American girl growing up in the luxurious Los Angeles home where her mother is a live-in maid (Publishers Weekly).   Born in Los Angeles, Olivia was taken to Mexico to live with her extended family until age three. Then she returned to L.A. to be with her mother, a live-in maid to a wealthy family. Mother and daughter sleep in the mai...

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  • GALLATIN
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    GALLATIN
    NICHOLAS DUNGAN
    You won’t find his portrait on our currency anymore and his signature isn’t penned on the Constitution, but former statesman Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) contributed immeasurably to the formation of America. Gallatin was the first president of the council of New York University and his name lives on at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, so it is with pride that New Y...

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  • PROPHETS AND PROTONS
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    PROPHETS AND PROTONS
    BENJAMIN E ZELLER
    This in-depth study shows how new religious movements offer a variety of strategies for reconciling science and religious faith. By the twentieth century, established religious traditions were forced to grappled with the challenges presented by scientific knowledge and innovation. But emerging religions, still led by a living founder to guide them, found news ways to respond to...

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  • SELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
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    SELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
    RYAN MOORE
    This account of modern rock music “skillfully articulates the brutal social truths that compel young people to create meaning and subculture out of chaos” (Donna Gaines, author of Teenage Wasteland).   In Sells Like Teen Spirit, Ryan Moore tells the story of how music and youth culture have changed along with the economic, political, and cultural transformations of American soc...

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  • SHI'ISM IN AMERICA
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    SHI'ISM IN AMERICA
    LIYAKAT NATHANI TAKIM
    An authoritative introduction to the Shi’i community in America, tracing its history, composition, and the development of American Shi’i identity. There are over two million Shi’is Muslims in the United States. With community roots going back sometimes close to one hundred years, Shi’is can be found in major cities like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, and Dearborn, ...

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  • BLOODY LOWNDES
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    BLOODY LOWNDES
    HASAN KWAME JEFFRIES
    Bloody Lowndes is the true story of the people of rural Lowndes County, Alabama, who organized a radical experiment in democratic politics in 1966. Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the Best Book on local history from the Alabama Historical Association   Early in 1966, African Americans in Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent...

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  • BLOOD AND BELIEF
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    BLOOD AND BELIEF
    ALIZA MARCUS
    This in-depth study of the Kurdistan Workers' Party combines reportage and scholarship for “a scholarly, gripping account” (The Economist). The Kurds, who number some twenty-eight million people in the Middle East, have no country to call their own. Yet today, they are highly visible actors on the world's political stage. To understand modern-day Kurds—and their continuing dema...

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  • THE SHTETL
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    THE SHTETL
    STEVEN T KATZ
    “Anyone looking to really understand the Jewish past, not just the romanticized version of it, will find this book a perfect antidote.” ―The Reporter   Dating from the sixteenth century, there were hundreds of shtetls—Jewish settlements—in Eastern Europe that were home to a large and compact population that differed from their gentile, mostly peasant neighbors in religion, occu...

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  • LIBERTY TREE
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    LIBERTY TREE
    ALFRED F YOUNG
    The renowned historian offers a “subtle, complex, and bold” reassessment of the American Revolution in this acclaimed essay collection (Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States). In Liberty Tree, Alfred F. Young presents a selection of his seminal writing as well as two provocative, never-before-published essays. Together, they take the reader on a journey...

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  • AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE BEYOND RACE
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    AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE BEYOND RACE
    GENE ANDREW JARRETT
    Fiction by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Octavia E. Butler, and others that isn’t focused on race—with original introductions by leading scholars.   It is widely accepted that the canon of African American literature has racial realism at its core: African American protagonists, social settings, cultural symbols, and racial-political discourse. As a result, writings that are no...

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  • NEW YORK STORIES
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    NEW YORK STORIES
    CONSTANCE ROSENBLUM
    These forty essays from the New York Times’ City section tell “stories of human life in all its quirky richness” (The Boston Globe).   Featuring a cast of stellar writers, this collection brings some of the best essays from the City section to readers beyond the five boroughs. New York Stories profiles people like sixteen-year-old Barbara Ott, who surfs the waters off Rockaway ...

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  • MYSTICS, MAVERICKS, AND MERRYMAKERS
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    MYSTICS, MAVERICKS, AND MERRYMAKERS
    STEPHANIE WELLEN LEVINE / CAROL GILLIGAN
    “Absorbing . . . one subculture’s corrective to Reviving Ophelia, in that it offers a refreshing portrait of adolescent girls who are far from insecure.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) From the ardently religious young woman who longs for the life of a male scholar to the young rebel who visits a strip club, smokes pot, and agonizes over her loss of faith to the proud Luba...

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  • PAGAN THEOLOGY
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    PAGAN THEOLOGY
    MICHAEL YORK
    This study identifies paganism as a viable religion, exploring its practices and theology as they are expressed in religious communities across the world. Long dismissed as a miscellany of fringe ideas and practices, Paganism is one of the fastest-growing spiritual orientations in the West. In Pagan Theology, Michael York reframes Paganism as a world religion. He provides an ov...

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  • A COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY OF WORLD RELIGIONS
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    A COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY OF WORLD RELIGIONS
    STEPHEN SHAROT
    “This book belongs in libraries of all sorts. It strikes me as a paradigm of analytical comprehension that should set a standard for the field.” ― Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion    A Comparative Sociology of World Religions presents an analysis of the world's religions, focusing on the differences and interrelationships between religious elites and lay masses. In ...

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  • DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GIRL WHO . . . ?
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    DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE GIRL WHO . . . ?
    MARIANNE H WHATLEY / ELISSA R HENKEN
    “Takes the reality of boys and girls seriously, while never flinching from providing the best health information available.” —Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University, author of Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends   Ever hear the one about the man who wakes up after a chance sexual encounter to discover he's been involuntarily relieved of one of his kidney...

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  • GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER NOW?
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    GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER NOW?
    ANGELA D DILLARD
    “An excellent overview” of African American, LGBT, and other minority-group conservatives (The New Republic).   In Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner Now? Angela Dillard offers the first comparative analysis of a modern conservatism that cuts across boundaries of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.   To be an African-American and a conservative, or a Latino who is also a conserva...

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  • DANCE HALL DAYS
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    DANCE HALL DAYS
    RANDY MCBEE
    “A very important book . . . After you read it, you will never look into faces on the old dance photos in the same way.” ―American Historical Review   The rise of commercialized leisure coincided with the arrival of millions of immigrants to America's cities. Conflict was inevitable, as older generations attempted to preserve their traditions, values, and ethnic identities, whi...

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  • WILLIAM M. KUNSTLER
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    WILLIAM M. KUNSTLER
    DAVID J LANGUM
    “A vivid, thoughtfully enthusiastic [biography] of the radical lawyer who defended such diverse clients as the Chicago Seven . . . John Gotti” (Kirkus). Throughout his career, legendary civil rights lawyer William Kunstler has been alternately vilified as a publicity-seeking egoist and lauded as a fearless advocate. In this critical biography, David Langum demonstrates that Kun...

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  • THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
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    THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
    DANIEL N WOJCIK
    “A marvelous book, at once comprehensive and highly readable, a fascinating analysis of doomsday cults and apocalyptic anxiety.” —Michael Owen Jones, University of California, Los Angeles   From religious tomes to current folk prophesies, recorded history reveals a plethora of narratives predicting or showcasing the end of the world. The incident at Waco, the subway bombing by ...

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  • JUST THE FACTS
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    JUST THE FACTS
    DAVID T.Z. MINDICH
    A “superb” history of journalism’s most respected tenet—objectivity—and the challenges of achieving it in today’s world (Christian Science Monitor).   If American journalism were a religion, as it has been called, then its supreme deity would be “objectivity.” The high priests of the profession worship the concept, while the iconoclasts of advocacy journalism, new journalism, a...

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  • AMERICAN COOL
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    AMERICAN COOL
    PETER N STEARNS
    “Compels us to rethink our . . . understanding of the American character. . . . [S]hould be read by all . . . concerned about the current crisis in American values.” —Kevin White, University of Sussex, author of The First Sexual Revolution   Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigar...

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  • THE BETA ISRAEL
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    THE BETA ISRAEL
    STEVEN B KAPLAN
    This “balanced and well informed” historical study is “a striking piece of scholarship aimed at demythologizing the origins of the Ethiopian Falasha” (Foreign Affairs). The origin of the “Black Jews” of Ethiopia has long been a source of fascination and controversy. The culmination of almost a decade of research, The Beta Israel (Falasha) in Ethiopia is the first comprehensive ...

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