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The outrun
By Amy Liptrot. 2017
Memoir of returning to live on the Orkney Islands, northeast of mainland Scotland. Discusses her family life, including her manic-depressive…
father; leaving the islands to live in London, where she realizes she's an alcoholic; and coming to terms with her past while surrounded by the Orkneys' raw beauty. 2016Atchafalaya houseboat: my years in the Louisiana swamp
By Gwen Roland, C. C. Lockwood. 2006
Collection of mostly previously published essays about living in the Atchafalaya swamp in the 1970s. Discusses building their houseboat from…
scrap supplies, growing and catching their food, the community of fellow swamp dwellers, and more. 2006The man with the poison gun: a Cold War spy story
By Serhii Plokhy. 2016
An account of KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky's defection to the West. Stashinsky's testimony, which implicated Kremlin rulers in political assassinations…
carried out abroad, had a significant impact on international politics. His story inspired many works of fiction, including Ian Fleming's last James Bond novel, The Man with the Golden Gun (DB 10777). 2016Julius Chambers: a life in the legal struggle for civil rights
By Richard A. Rosen, Joseph Mosnier. 2016
A biography recounting the attorney's struggle to secure racial equality through the development of modern civil rights law. Traces his…
path from childhood in the Jim Crow South all the way to the counsel's lectern at the Supreme Court and beyond. 2016The men in my life: a memoir of love and art in 1950s Manhattan
By Patricia Bosworth. 2017
Memoir by a journalist of the period of her life in the 1950s when she studied at the Actors Studio…
in New York and performed on stage and screen. Tells how her dysfunctional family life and the suicide of her brother haunted her and impacted her romantic choices. Strong language. 2017Historian chronicles African American high school football in Texas, in particular the Prairie View Interscholastic League. During the decades of…
segregation in the state, the PVIL nurtured the talent of countless players, many of whom went on to successful NFL careers. 2017Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism
By Daphne B., Alex Manley. 2021
A nuanced, feminist, and deeply personal take on beauty culture and YouTube consumerism, in the tradition of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets…
As Daphné B. obsessively watches YouTube makeup tutorials and haunts Sephora’s website, she’s increasingly troubled by the ways in which this obsession contradicts her anti-capitalist and intersectional feminist politics. In this poetic treatise, she rejects the false binaries of traditional beauty standards and delves into the celebrities and influencers, from Kylie to Grimes, and the poets and philosophers, from Anne Boyer to Audre Lorde, who have shaped the reflection she sees in the mirror. At once confessional and essayistic, Made-Up is a meditation on the makeup that colours, that obscures, that highlights who we are and who we wish we could be. The original French-language edition was a cult hit in Quebec. Translated by Alex Manley—like Daphné, a Montreal poet and essayist—the book’s English-language text crackles with life, retaining the flair and verve of the original, and ensuring that a book on beauty is no less beautiful than its subject matter. “The most radical book of 2020 talks about makeup. Radical in the intransigence with which Daphne B hunts down the parts of her imagination that capitalism has phagocytized. Radical also in its rejection of false binaries (the authentic and the fake, the futile and the essential) through the lens of which such a subject is generally considered. With the help of a heady combination of pop cultural criticism and autobiography, a poet scrutinizes her contradictions. They are also ours.” —Dominic Tardif, Le Devoir “[Made-Up] is a delight. I read it in one go. And when, out of necessity, I had to put it down, it was with regret and with the feeling that I was giving up what could save me from a catastrophe.” —Laurence Fournier, Lettres Québécoises, five stars "Made-Up is a radiant, shimmering blend of memoir and cultural criticism that uses beauty culture as an entry point to interrogating the ugly contradictions of late capitalism. In short, urgent chapters laced with humor and wide-ranging references, Daphné B. plumbs the depths of a rich topic that’s typically dismissed as shallow. I imagine her writing it in eye pencil, using makeup to tell the story of her life, as so many women do." —Amy Berkowitz, author of Tender Points "A companion through the thicket of late stage capitalism, a lucid and poetic mirror for anyone whose image exists on a screen." —Rachel Kauder Nalebuff "Made-Up is anything but—committed to the grit of our current realities, Daphné B directs her piercing eye on capitalism in an intimate portrayal of what it means to love, and how to paint ourselves in the process. Alex Manley has gifted English audiences with a nuanced translation of a critical feminist text, exploring love and make-up as a transformative social tool." —Sruti Islam "The book will leave you both laughing in recognition and wincing at the reality of the beauty world’s impact on our collective psyche." —Chatelaine d"[Made-Up] examines the intersection of beauty culture and consumer culture... Aided by the work of writers like Anne Carson, Anne Boyer, Amanda Hess, and Arabelle Sicardi... B. makes sharp observations about the ideologies behind both beauty [...] and consumerism." —Bitch Media "Made-Up: A True Story of Beauty Culture under Late Capitalism is well worth reading." —Literary Review of Canada "[Made-Up], newly translated by writer/poet Alex Manley from its original French, puts an iAutobiographies: narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave ; My bondage and my freedom ; Life and times of Frederick Douglass (The Library of America)
By Frederick Douglass, Henry Louis Gates. 1994
Collection of autobiographical writings by Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), abolitionist, orator, and social reformer. Includes Narrative of the Life of Frederick…
Douglas, an American Slave (1845); My Bondage and My Freedom (1855); and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1893). Edited with chronology and notes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 1994Island People: The Caribbean and the World
By Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. 2016
A geographer describes the culture and politics of many of the regions of the Caribbean, examining their common heritage and…
their collective identity and role in the larger world. Discusses Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Haiti, and Barbados, among others. 2016Author of The Geography of Bliss (DB 65862) travels around the world to Athens, Hangzhou, Florence, Edinburgh, Calcutta, Vienna, and…
Silicon Valley to investigate the ways creative geniuses have flourished in those environments. Profiles include Socrates, Jack Ma, the Medici dynasty, Beethoven, and more. 2016A luminous brotherhood: Afro-Creole spiritualism in nineteenth-century New Orleans
By Emily Suzanne Clark. 2016
Religious studies professor examines a Spiritualist group in New Orleans called the Cercle Harmonique, comprised primarily of African-descended men. Discusses…
the group's formation, intersection with race and religion in New Orleans, and its role in the greater movement of American Spiritualism. 2016Dark continent of our bodies: black feminism and the politics of respectability (Mapping racisms #15)
By E. Frances White. 2001
Four essays by historian interrogating respectability politics from the perspective of a black feminist. Topics include: understanding black feminist theory;…
the history and intersection of science, race, and womanhood; African American nationalism; and the impact of race on sexuality. 2001Adam's navel: a natural and cultural history of the human form
By Michael Sims. 2004
The author of Apollo's Fire (DB 66861) examines the human body from head to toe. Using examples from mythology, history,…
social lore, and the arts--from Charlton Heston's hair to Chinese foot binding--he discusses their relevance to various parts of the human body. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2003The lion in the living room: how house cats tamed us and took over the world
By Abigail Tucker. 2016
With help from archaeologists, veterinarians, ecologists, animal rights activists, and cat breeders, a science writer chronicles the history and evolution…
of cats. Examines the barely domesticated nature of pet cats from their place in Egyptian culture to their domination of the sphere of internet videos. Some violence. 2016Hungry heart: adventures in life, love, and writing
By Jennifer Weiner. 2016
Collection of twenty-nine essays, some previously published, by the author of Good in Bed (DB 54308) and Who Do You…
Love (DB 82702). Topics discussed include the importance of literature by and for women, parenting, writing, her Jewish culture and faith, literary influences, and more. Strong language. 2016Do parents matter?: why Japanese babies sleep well, Mexican siblings don't fight, and American parents should just relax
By Sarah LeVine, Robert A. LeVine. 2016
Harvard anthropologists discuss their decades-long study of global parenting styles and their discovery that culture may affect children more than…
individual parents. The implementation of particular practices in various cultures is examined, such as the Hausa tribe's avoidance of verbal and eye contact with infants. 2016White rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide
By Carol Anderson. 2016
Inspired by an op-ed piece by the author that was published in the Washington Post in 2014 as racial tensions…
erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, this book discusses race relations at various points in history. Examines how points of social progress for African Americans tend to face particular types of opposition. 2016Brown is the new white: how the demographic revolution has created a new American majority
By Steve Phillips. 2016
Political activist contends that it is foolhardy for politicians not to chase the votes of people of color, given the…
explosive population growth of these groups. The author draws on his own political experience to argue that progressives risk missing a crucial moment in history--and losing as a result. 2016Modern China: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By Rana Mitter. 2016
Director of Oxford University's China Centre sums up the political, economic, and cultural changes that have propelled the world's most…
populous country since the early 1900s. Examines the rule of Chiang Kaishek's Nationalists and Mao Zedong's Communists, China's expanding global footprint, and problems caused by its rapid growth. 2016Borders: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By Joshua Hagen, Alexander C. Diener. 2012
Borders play an integral role in human interactions and the exercise of power. Two geography professors offer a survey of…
borders' changing manifestations and maintain that territoriality will remain a force in human organization, even as boundaries are transformed in meaning and function. 2012