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By Cynthia MacGregor, Susan Norberg Farias. 2003
Advice on handling difficult situations concerning manners and morals. Poses dilemmas involving friends, family, grownups, and school. Examines the idea…
behind the problem, provides possible solutions, and calls for action based on judgment. For grades 4-7. 2003By John H Richardson. 2001
Reporter's assignment to cover the Little People of America convention leads him to develop relationships with a group of dwarfs.…
He reveals intimate portraits of these men and women, including their reactions to his writing. Explores genetic factors and cultural stereotypes surrounding dwarfism. Some strong language. 2001By Bill O'Reilly, Charles Flowers. 2004
Conservative television talk-show host, former teacher, and author of The O'Reilly Factor (DB 51053) offers guidance in the form of…
a "survival guide" for young people. Topics range from school and friendship to sex, drinking, and bullies. Advises on facing challenges and making correct choices. For junior and senior high readers. 2004By Various. 2006
Essays on issues facing African Americans, including criminal and environmental justice, education, employment, health care, and housing. Provides a plan…
of action for helping communities progress socially, politically, and economically. Introduction by talk show host Tavis Smiley, author of How to Make Black America Better (DB 53011). Bestseller. 2006By Felipe Fernández-Armesto. 2002
Oxford historian presents a global perspective of food as a theme of world history, "inseparable from all other interactions of…
human beings with one another...and nature." He has classified his topic into eight "revolutions," including cooking, food as more than sustenance, and food as an indicator of rank. 2002By Orlando Patterson. 1998
In three essays, National Book Award-winner Orlando Patterson examines the adverse effects of slavery and discriminatory laws on both African…
Americans and the broader U.S. society. Topics include strained relationships between black men and women, lynching, and images of black men in the twentieth century. Strong language. 1998By Drew Pinsky. 2003
Radio show advice doctor details his work as medical director of a Southern California drug addiction rehabilitation facility. Pinsky clinically…
describes the frightening process of detoxification, patients' underlying physical and psychiatric problems, the raw emotions displayed in the clinic, and his own recurrent struggles with despair. Some strong language. 2003By David Carter. 2004
Chronicles six days of violent protests in June 1969, when homosexuals fought police during a routine raid at the Stonewall…
Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. Examines events leading up to the riots, key demonstrators, and the uprising's aftermath that prompted the gay rights movement. 2004By Edward Humes. 2003
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist spends a year with the faculty, staff, and students of California's top-ranked public high school, Whitney High…
in Cerritos. Commenting on his observations, Humes heralds the school's social and academic achievements, but also examines some unintended consequences of such a high-pressure learning environment. 2003By Samuel P. Huntington, Samuel P Huntington. 2004
Scholar and bestselling author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (DB 53800) contends that cultural…
differences resulting from an increasingly multiethnic, multiracial U.S. society are eroding American nationalism. Urges a return to the country's founding Anglo-Protestant culture, traditions, and values to preserve national identity. 2004By Michael F. Brown, Michael F Brown. 2003
Anthropologist uses court cases to show the conflict between indigenous peoples' claims to their cultural artifacts and the rights of…
liberal democracies. Suggests that resolution lies not in litigation but in compromise between the parties, affording mutual respect and balanced proprietary interests in art, symbols, land sites, wildlife, and botanic species. 2003By Sandra Blakeslee, Judith S Wallerstein. 2003
A guide to helping children of all ages cope with the process of divorce and remarried family life. Authors identify…
the three major challenges facing parents: getting their own lives in order, preparing their kids for and supporting them through the breakup, and building a new relationship with the ex-spouse. 2003By Karen Hunter, J. L. King, J. L King. 2004
HIV-prevention educator exposes a hidden problem in African American culture: men who deny their bisexuality to their female partners--and to…
themselves. Warns unsuspecting women about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases and encourages honesty and acceptance. Acknowledges his own double lifestyle. Explicit descriptions of sex and strong language. Bestseller. 2004By Caroline Knapp. 2003
Posthumous memoir from the author of Drinking: A Love Story (RC 42791). To exemplify the conflict between female desires and…
cultural expectations of femininity, author presents her personal battle with anorexia. Holds that society inhibits natural longing for food, love, and work, preventing women from experiencing fulfillment. Some strong language. 2003By Eric Burns. 2004
Broadcast journalist briefly summarizes alcohol's history prior to American colonization, then traces to modern times the role of America's "first…
national pastime." Describes early medicinal uses and draws on anecdotes of bootleggers, temperance advocates, and other notable characters to explore political and economic motivations behind prohibition. 2004Vivid, minute-by-minute account of the 1999 three-alarm, six-story abandoned warehouse blaze that claimed six firefighters' lives. Depicts efforts to extinguish…
the Worcester, Massachusetts, "building from hell" inferno and profiles the firemen and their families. Based on an award-winning Esquire magazine article. Strong language. 2002By John D'Emilio, John D Emilio. 2003
Chronicles the life (1912-1987) and accomplishments of a pivotal civil rights figure. Covers his influential activism in prison reform, military…
desegregation, the Montgomery bus boycott, the 1963 March on Washington, and LBJ's Great Society. Also notes Rustin's homosexuality and its impact on his career. Some descriptions of sex. 2003By Richard B Drake. 2001
A social history of the North America region that ranges from Alabama to Pennsylvania. Drake discusses the characteristics that make…
the region distinct, the various ethnicities that have contributed to Appalachian diversity, and the unique cultural patterns that evolved between the precolonial Native American era and the late twentieth century. 2001By Neal Rawls, Sue Kovach. 2002
Former police officer's advice for individual and family security in any situation. Includes tips on travel, workplace safety, self-defense, and…
teaching kids self-protection; guidelines for preventing credit card fraud, road rage, and carjackings; and recommendations for responding to natural disasters and terrorist attacks. Resources provided. 2002By Douglas Thomas. 2002
Communications professor traces the history and evolution of the "computer underground" from its mainly university graduate student origins in the…
1950s and 1960s to its wider spread with home computers today. Thomas analyzes media representation and mainstream opinion of hacking and explores the relationship between the subculture and computer industry. 2002