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African religions: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By Jacob K. Olupona. 2014
Harvard University scholar examines the role religion plays in African life and culture. Topics include indigenous myths and traditions, Christianity,…
and Islam; ceremonies and rituals; and the adaptation of African religious practices in the Americas. 2014The body: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By Chris Shilling. 2016
Sociologist emphasizes the necessity of studying humans as embodied beings, beyond physiology and biology, in order to understand society, identity,…
culture, and history. Illustrates the many ways the physical self has been valued or managed, and how it has influenced and been influenced by social and technological forces. 2016Every Frenchman has one
By Olivia De Havilland. 2016
In 1953, Academy Award-winning actress Olivia de Havilland married a Frenchman and moved to Paris. She shares stories of her…
experiences in the City of Light, her adaptation to life in France, and the culture shock of being a Hollywood actress in Paris in the 1950s. 1961The Love of Strangers: what six Muslim students learned in Jane Austen's London
By Nile Green. 2016
A description of the lives of six Iranian students sent to study in England in 1815. The author depicts the…
four years they spent in Regency London, including the abandonment by their chaperone, their entrance into society, and their efforts to acquire the technology to defend Iran against Russia. 2015A discussion of how leaders of the American Revolution united the thirteen colonies by using propaganda to link British tyranny…
to colonial prejudices and fears about insurrectionary slaves and violent Native Americans. 2016How the word is passed: a reckoning with the history of slavery across America
By Clint Smith. 2021
Poet and educator Clint Smith explores the places where the history of slavery has been preserved, if not fully reckoned…
with. Included are New Orleans, Monticello Plantation, Angola Prison, Blandford Cemetery, and others hidden in plain view. This book offers a new understanding of the role that memory and history can play in understanding our countryPrey: immigration, Islam, and the erosion of women's rights
By Ayaan Hirsi Ali. 2021
Ali analyzes the regressive gender politics inherent in Islamic extremism and explains the systemic causes of sexual violence in the…
Muslim world. Taking on the issue of immigration, she exposes the ways Europe is failing to successfully integrate refugees, particularly for gender issuesMy sisters the saints: a spiritual memoir
By Colleen Carroll Campbell. 2012
Collection of six essays by journalist reflecting on her spiritual journey and reconciling her faith with an identity influenced by…
modern feminism. Discusses learning about saints' lives, her relationship with her family--especially after her father's Alzheimer's diagnosis--and her struggle with infertility and strict Catholic teachings. 2012How to be a woman
By Caitlin Moran. 2012
A British TV writer combines humorous stories from her own life with observations on what it means to be a…
woman in today's society. She discusses feminism and women's rights, but also her own experiences with body issues and motherhood. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2011Cultish: the language of fanaticism
By Amanda Montell. 2021
The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe: a biography
By Elaine Showalter. 2016
Biography of the woman who wrote the lyrics to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Through letters and journals, explores…
how her literary ambitions and fight for women's rights led to conflict with her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, founder of the Perkins School for the Blind. 2016The Silk Roads: a new history of the world
By Peter Frankopan. 2016
Frankopan realigns world history to an eastward orientation, examining the crucial role of the trade routes that connected the East…
and West in the rise of civilization. He begins with the first cities in Mesopotamia and covers significant phenomena such as the Roman Empire, the fall of Communism, and more. 2015White trash: the 400-year untold history of class in America
By Nancy Isenberg. 2016
Historian looks at the role of the white poor in American history. Examines both public policy and popular opinion about…
poverty, from early settlers through the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Great Depression, and even early twenty-first-century reality TV, disproving the myth of America as a class-free society. Bestseller. 2016The author of Lone Survivor (DB 64802) (which told the story of U. S. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell's harrowing escape…
after a maneuver against Al Qaeda operatives) recounts the story of Pashtun tribesman Mohammed Gulab, the Afghan man who saved Luttrell's life. Violence. 2015100 million years of food: what our ancestors ate and why it matters today
By Stephen Le. 2016
Biological anthropologist examines the evolution of the human diet and the ways modern methods of nutrition have led to a…
rise in diseases such as type 2 diabetes, gout, hypertension, breast cancer, and more. Argues the rise is due to straying from the diets developed by ancient ancestors. 2016Chariots of the gods?: unsolved mysteries of the past
By Erich Von Däniken, Erich Von Daniken. 1999
Presents theories of extraterrestrial life influencing events and societal developments on Earth. Discusses the creation and use of Egyptian pyramids,…
Biblical stories such as Ezekiel's witnessing of God and Cherubim, archaeological discoveries in South America, and more. Originally translated from the 1968 German edition. 1969Reporting always: writings from the New Yorker
By Lillian Ross. 2015
Collection of thirty-two pieces by Lillian Ross (born c. 1918), previously published in The New Yorker, dated between 1947 and…
2005. Includes works about the famous, infamous, and non-famous, including Maggie Smith and Judi Dench, Ernest Hemingway, and a school teacher instructing students on folk dancing. 2015Paradise now: the story of American Utopianism
By Chris Jennings. 2016
An examination of five American utopian movements during the nineteenth century. Discusses Mother Ann Lee and the Shakers, Welsh industrialist…
Robert Owen's New Moral World in Indiana, Charles Fourier's colonies scattered about the country, Étienne Cabet's communist paradise in Texas, and New York's Oneida Community. 2016Havana real: one woman fights to tell the truth about Cuba today
By Yoani Sanchez, Yoani Sánchez, M. J. Porter. 2011
Vignettes by the journalist, blogger, and Cuban dissident Yoani Sánchez. Explores the nuances of life on the Caribbean island and…
the experiences of the Cuban people resolving day-to-day problems, against the backdrop of a larger social-political reality. Originally published as Cuba Libre in 2009; translated from the Spanish. 2011Girls & sex: navigating the complicated new landscape
By Peggy Orenstein. 2016
Journalist analyzes the sexual landscape faced by young women in twenty-first-century high schools and colleges through a collection of frank…
interviews about their sexual encounters, revealing hidden truths, hard lessons, and pressures. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. For senior high and older readers. 2016