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Feminism: a very short introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By Margaret Walters. 2005
History of the women's movement from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century--when, after winning the fight for suffrage, feminists…
turned their attention to issues such as contraception, abortion rights, and sexual violence. Focuses on England but includes a chapter on feminism in developing countries. 2005The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race
By Jesmyn Ward. 2016
Collection of seventeen essays addressing the experience of race and racism in twenty-first century America, edited by the author of…
Salvage the Bones (DB 74033). Includes pieces by Claudia Rankine, Natasha Trethewey--former United States Poet Laureate--Daniel José Older, and Edwidge Danticat. 2016Talentos ocultos: basada en la historia real Jamás Contada
By Margot Lee Shetterly. 2017
The daughter of a NASA research scientist and a university professor profiles the African-American women who worked for NASA and…
its predecessor NACA as human computers. Discusses their lives prior to joining NACA/NASA, the challenges they faced due to gender and race discrimination, and their impact on the space program. Basis for the 2016 movie. Spanish language. 2017Policing the Black man: arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment
By Angela J. Davis. 2017
A collection of eleven essays exploring the many facets of the American justice system's impact on the lives of black…
men and boys. Particularly discusses the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and others at the hands of police officers. Some violence. 20171493 for young people: from Columbus's voyage to globalization (For young people series)
By Charles C. Mann. 2014
Adaptation for a younger audience by Rebecca Stefoff of bestselling history 1493 (DB 73773). Analyzes globalization from fifteenth-century European exploration…
and colonization to early-twenty-first century economies and cultures. Highlights the benefits and unforeseen consequences. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2014African 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. 2016