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CLIPPED WINGS

MOLLY MERRYMAN

This "excellent study" shines a light on America's pioneering women aviators and their forgotten contributions during WWII ( American Historical Review). During the Second World War, the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program was unique among women's auxiliaries. It was made up entirely of women who undertook dangerous missions more commonly associated with men. WASPs cha...

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WHAT WORKS FOR WOMEN AT WORK

JOAN C. WILLIAMS / RACHEL DEMPSEY / ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER

A mother-daughter legal scholar team "offers unabashedly straightforward advice in a how-to primer for ambitious women . . . [A]ttention-grabbing revelations" (Debora L. Spar, The New York Times Book Review) What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cite...

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SCENTS AND FLAVORS

CHARLES PERRY / CLAUDIA RODEN

Delectable recipes from the medieval Middle East This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the "greater part of the pleasure of this life," namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the fragrances that garnish the meals and the diners who enjoy them. Organized like a meal, Scents and Flavors opens with appetizers and...

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1929

HASIA R DINER / GENNADY ESTRAIKH

Winner of the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, Anthologies and Collections The year 1929 represents a major turning point in interwar Jewish society, proving to be a year when Jews, regardless of where they lived, saw themselves affected by developments that took place around the world, as the crises endured by other Jews became part of the transnational Jewish consciousness. I...

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BLACK MOSAIC

CANDIS WATTS SMITH

Historically, Black Americans have easily found common ground on political, social, and economic goals. Yet, there are signs of increasing variety of opinion among Blacks in the United States, due in large part to the influx of Afro-Latino, Afro-Caribbean, and African immigrants to the United States. In fact, the very definition of "African American" as well as who can self-ide...

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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 ...

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FAITHFUL BODIES

HEATHER MIYANO KOPELSON

In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing pr...

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HANUKKAH IN AMERICA

DIANNE ASHTON

Explores the ways American Jews have reshaped Hanukkah traditions across the country In New Orleans, Hanukkah means decorating your door with a menorah made of hominy grits. Latkes in Texas are seasoned with cilantro and cayenne pepper. Children in Cincinnati sing Hanukkah songs and eat oranges and ice cream. While each tradition springs from its own unique set of cultural refe...

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CHILDREN AND YOUTH DURING THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA

JAMES MARTEN / PAULA S FASS

In the decades after the Civil War, urbanization, industrialization, and immigration marked the start of the Gilded Age, a period of rapid economic growth but also social upheaval. Reformers responded to the social and economic chaos with a "search for order," as famously described by historian Robert Wiebe. Most reformers agreed that one of the nation's top priorities should b...

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MISSISSIPPI RIVER TRAGEDIES

CHRISTINE A KLEIN / SANDRA B ZELLMER

"A stunning and important book. It tells a sweeping tale of folly, greed, ignorance, injustice, and unintended consequences. We all should heed its lessons." —David Baron, award-winning author of The Beast in the Garden American engineers have done astounding things to bend the Mississippi River to their will: forcing one of its tributaries to flow uphill, transforming over a t...

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UNFREEDOM

JARED ROSS HARDESTY

"The most significant contribution to slavery studies in New England since the publication of Joanne Pope Melish's seminal Disowning Slavery in 1998." —Harvey Amani Whitfield, University of Vermont Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year. Instead of relying on the traditional dichotomy of slavery and freedom, Hardesty argues we should understand slavery in Boston as part ...

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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...

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FIGHTING OVER THE FOUNDERS

ANDREW M SCHOCKET

Explores how politicians, screenwriters, activists, biographers, jurists, museum professionals, and reenactors portray the American Revolution. The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation's...

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IN THE SHADOW OF ZION

ADAM L ROVNER

From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish populations and those that refused to let them in. The plight of these traumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals for Jewish states. Jews and Christians, authors and adventurers, politicians and playwrights, and rabbis and revolutionari...

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PREACHING ON WAX

LERONE A MARTIN

The overlooked African American religious history of the phonograph industry Winner of the 2015 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize for outstanding scholarship in church history by a first-time author presented by the American Society of Church History Certificate of Merit, 2015 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research presented by the Association for Recor...

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HEAVEN'S GATE

BENJAMIN E ZELLER / ROBERT W BALCH

The captivating story of the religious group focused on transcending humanity and the Earth— and seeking salvation in the literal heavens on board a UFO. 2015 Best Book Award from the Communal Studies Association In March 1997, thirty-nine people in Rancho Santa Fe, California, ritually terminated their lives. To outsiders, it was a mass suicide. To insiders, it was a gradu...

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FORGOTTEN TRIALS OF THE HOLOCAUST

MICHAEL J BAZYLER / FRANK M TUERKHEIMER

Legal scholars shed light on the enormous impact of the Holocaust through analysis of ten important yet underreported Nazi trials. In the wake of the Second World War, the Allies faced the dilemma of how to respond to the unimaginable crime of the Holocaust. Even in an ideal world, it would have been impossible to bring all the perpetrators to trial. Nevertheless, an attempt wa...

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AGAINST WIND AND TIDE

OUSMANE K POWER-GREENE

How, and why, free blacks resisted relocation to Liberia: "A fine contribution to the story of African colonization movements in early American history" ( The Journal of American History). Against Wind and Tide tells the story of African Americans' battle against the American Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 with the intention to return free blacks to its colony, L...

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KIDS GONE WILD

JOEL BEST / KATHLEEN A BOGLE

The myths and truths of teen's sexual behavior. Winner of the 2015 Brian McConnell Book Award presented by the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research To hear mainstream media sources tell it, the sex lives of modern teenagers outpace even the smuttiest of cable television shows. Teen girls "sext" explicit photos to boys they like; they wear "sex bracelets" that ...

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WOMEN OF THE NATION

DAWN-MARIE GIBSON / JAMILLAH KARIM

Presents oral histories and interviews of women who belong to Nation of Islam With vocal public figures such as Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, and Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam often appears to be a male-centric religious movement, and over 60 years of scholarship have perpetuated that notion. Yet, women have been pivotal in the NOI's development, playing a major role in cr...

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THE DELECTABLE NEGRO

VINCENT WOODARD / DWIGHT MCBRIDE / JUSTIN A JOYCE / E. PATRICK JOHNSON

A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture. Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both th...

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CARING ACROSS GENERATIONS

GRACE J YOO / BARBARA W KIM

More than 1.3 million Korean Americans live in the United States, the majority of them foreign-born immigrants and their children, the so-called 1.5 and second generations. While many sons and daughters of Korean immigrants outwardly conform to the stereotyped image of the upwardly mobile, highly educated super-achiever, the realities and challenges that the children of Korean ...

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GRANDMOTHERS AT WORK

MADONNA HARRINGTON MEYER

A study of the lived experience of working grandmothers in early twenty-first–century America. Young working mothers are not the only ones who are struggling to balance family life and careers. Many middle-aged American women face this dilemma as they provide routine childcare for their grandchildren while pursuing careers and trying to make ends meet. Madonna Harrington Meyer'...

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THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION OF 1776

GERALD HORNE

How the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War: "Meticulous, thorough, fascinating, and thought-provoking." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly...

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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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PSYCHOPATHY

ADRIAN RAINE / ANDREA L GLENN

Written in layman's terms by accredited scholars, Psychopathy is a concise overview of the neuropsychology of this mental disorder. There has been tremendous growth in biological research on psychopathy, a mental disorder distinguished by traits including a lack of empathy or emotional response, egocentricity, impulsivity, and stimulation seeking. But how does a psychopath's...

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EVERYONE EATS

E. N. ANDERSON

An illuminating anthropological study of the ways that cultures and political systems structure the edible environment. Everyone eats, but rarely do we investigate why we eat what we eat. Why do we love spices, sweets, coffee? How did rice become such a staple food throughout so much of eastern Asia? Everyone Eats examines the social and cultural reasons for our food choices an...

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REPRODUCING RACISM

DARIA ROITHMAYR

Argues that racial inequality reproduces itself automatically over time because early unfair advantage for whites has paved the way for continuing advantage This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made...

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THE PRICE OF PARADISE

DAVID DANTE TROUTT

American communities are facing chronic problems: fiscal stress, urban decline, environmental sprawl, mass incarceration, political isolation, disproportionate foreclosures and severe public health risks. In The Price of Paradise, David Troutt argues that it is a lack of mutuality in our local decision making that has led to this looming crisis facing cities and local governmen...

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SLAVERY'S EXILES

SYLVIANE A DIOUF

Sylviane A. Diouf's Slavery's Exiles reveals the forgotten stories of America maroons―wilderness settlers evading discovery after escaping slavery. Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or...

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