Big girls don’t cry : the election that changed...
Big girls don’t cry : the election that changed everything for American women / Rebecca Traister. Rebecca Traister, whose coverage of the 2008 presidential election for Salon confirmed her to be a gifted cultural observer, offers a startling appraisal of what the campaign meant for all of us. Though the election didn’t give us our first woman president or vice president, the exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. In Big Girls Don’t Cry, her electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, Traister tells a terrific story and ...
Fresh : a perishable history / Susanne Freidberg. We want...
Fresh : a perishable history / Susanne Freidberg. We want fresh foods to keep us healthy, and to connect us to nature and community. We also want them convenient, pretty, and cheap. Fresh traces our paradoxical hunger to its roots in the rise of mass consumption, when freshness seemed both proof of and an antidote to progress. Susanne Freidberg begins with refrigeration, a trend as controversial at the turn of the twentieth century as genetically modified crops are today. Consumers blamed cold storage for high prices and rotten eggs but, ultimately, aggressive marketing, advances in technol...
The environmental politics of sacrifice / edited by Michael...
The environmental politics of sacrifice / edited by Michael Maniates and John M. Meyer. The idea of sacrifice is the unspoken issue of environmental politics. Politicians,the media, and many environmentalists assume that well-off populations won’t make sacrifices now forfuture environmental benefits and won’t change their patterns and perceptions of consumption to makeecological room for the world’s three billion or so poor eager to improve their standard of living.The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice challenges these assumptions, arguing that they limit ourpolicy options, weaken our ...
Washed in blood : male sacrifice, trauma, and the cinema /...
Washed in blood : male sacrifice, trauma, and the cinema / Claire Sisco King. Claire Sisco King offers an in-depth study of three prominent cycles of Hollywood films that follow the sacrificial narrative: the early–to–mid 1970s, the mid–to–late 1990s, and the mid–to–late 2000s. From Vietnam-era disaster movies to post-9/11 apocalyptic thrillers, she examines how each film represents traumatized American masculinity and national identity. What she uncovers is a cinematic tendency to position straight white men as America’s most valuable citizens—and its noblest victims.
The joy of chemistry : the amazing science of familiar...
The joy of chemistry : the amazing science of familiar things / Cathy Cobb & Monty L. Fetterolf. This book challenges the perception of chemistry as too difficult to bother with and too clinical to be any fun. The authors introduce readers to the magic, elegance, and, yes, joy of chemistry. From the fascination of fall foliage and fireworks, to the functioning of smoke detectors and computers, to the fundamentals of digestion (as when good pizza goes bad!), the authors illustrate the concepts of chemistry in terms of everyday experience, using familiar materials. The authors begin with a ban...
True stories of censorship battles in America’s libraries...
True stories of censorship battles in America’s libraries / edited by Valerie Nye and Kathy Barco Librarians working in public, school, academic, and special libraries around the country tell their first-person stories of censorship in the library. While some essays portray brave librarians standing up for free speech, others give examples of silent censorship, when a librarian quietly withdraws a book from the collection or simply does not order a book because it might cause controversy. Some issues discussed include parent concerns in school libraries, pornography and erotica in the acad...
The rise of nuclear fear / Spencer R. Weart After the Fukushima...
The rise of nuclear fear / Spencer R. Weart After the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant had a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged nuclear power. Climate change has never aroused this visceral dread. Weart dissects this paradox, showing that powerful images surrounding nuclear energy hold us captive, allowing fear, rather than facts, to drive our thinking and public policy.
On the origin of planets: by means of natural simple processes /...
On the origin of planets: by means of natural simple processes / Michael M. Woolfson Recent observations that have revealed the existence of planets around many Sun-like stars are described in detail, followed by a clear exposition of the Capture Theory for the origin of planets. Many aspects of this theory are illustrated with sophisticated computer modelling that convincingly demonstrates the plausibility of the theory. The Capture Theory is in complete accord with all observations, including the estimate it gives for the proportion of Sun-like stars with planets. It is the only theory that ...
Meena, heroine of Afghanistan : the martyr who founded...
Meena, heroine of Afghanistan : the martyr who founded RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan / Melody Ermachild Chavis Meena founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan in 1977 as a twenty-year-old Kabul University student. She was assassinated in 1987 at age thirty and lives on in the hearts of all progressive Muslim women. Her voice, speaking for freedom, has never been silenced. The compelling story of Meena’s struggle for democracy and women’s rights in Afghanistan will inspire young women the world over. Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan i...
Red medicine : traditional indigenous rites of birthing and...
Red medicine : traditional indigenous rites of birthing and healing / Patrisia Gonzales. Patrisia Gonzales addresses “Red Medicine” as a system of healing that includes birthing practices, dreaming, and purification rites to re-establish personal and social equilibrium. The book explores Indigenous medicine across North America, with a special emphasis on how Indigenous knowledge has endured and persisted among peoples with a legacy to Mexico. Gonzales combines her lived experience in Red Medicine as an herbalist and traditional birth attendant ith in-depth research into oral traditions...
Religion, spirituality, and positive psychology :...
Religion, spirituality, and positive psychology : understanding the psychological fruits of faith / Thomas G. Plante, editor. Scholars and students of psychology consider the psychological benefit of religious and spiritual engagement, taking a phrase from the New Testament as a metaphor. Their topics include gratitude, humility, goodness, tolerance, finding joy and meaning in work, life contingencies and the psychosocial fruits of faith in late adulthood, temperance and addiction, reaping fruits of spirituality through psycho-spiritual integrative therapy during cancer recovery, and a leader...
For the love of physics : from the end of the rainbow to...
For the love of physics : from the end of the rainbow to the edge of time, a journey through the wonders of physics / Walter Lewin with Warren Goldstein. A tour of some of the most engaging discoveries in physics, presented by the famed MIT professor best known for his YouTube-aired lectures, includes coverage of such topics as why lightning strikes, how musical harmony happens and the incredible strength of a flea.
Shopper marketing : how to increase purchase decisions at...
Shopper marketing : how to increase purchase decisions at the point of sale / editors: Markus Stahlberg & Ville Maila. Marketing consultants Stahlberg and Maila gather recent work on shopper marketing in an accessible, visual layout with many b&w photos, screen shots, charts, and tables. This second edition contains a total of 12 new chapters offering an international perspective, with special focus on emerging economies, along with material on shopper marketing online. Chapters explain definitions and theories of shopper marketing, describe strategies for approaching shopper marketing, and p...
Learning through movement and music : exercise your...
Learning through movement and music : exercise your smarts / Debby Mitchell. Kids love to move and it is proven that children learn academic concepts better when those concepts are combined with music and movement. So Debby Mitchell created a book and DVD package that includes video clips that combine learning with music and movement. The DVD also includes reproducible assessments, lyrics, and posters that can be used in the classroom to facilitate learning.
Breakdowns : Portrait of the Artist As a Young %@&*!...
Breakdowns : Portrait of the Artist As a Young %@&*! / Art Spiegelman Breakdowns, the legendary and long out-of-print 1978 collection of comics by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, presents the seminal works that changed how comics are made and appreciated today. Innovative, serious, funny, and many decades ahead of its time, the book is presented here in its entirety…along with an introduction almost as long as the book it introduces that’s as autobiographically intimate and experimentally daring as everything else in Breakdowns.
The graphic canon. Volume 1 : from the epic of Gilgamesh to...
The graphic canon. Volume 1 : from the epic of Gilgamesh to Shakespeare to Dangerous liaisons / edited by Russ Kick. This is a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind trilogy that brings classic literatures of the world together with legendary graphic artists and illustrators. There are more than 130 illustrators represented and 190 literary works over three volumes—many newly commissioned, some hard to find—reinterpreted here for readers and collectors of all ages.Volume 1 takes us on a visual tour from the earliest literature through the end of the 1700s. Along the way, we’re treated to eye-popping ...
Economic anthropology : history, ethnography, critique /...
Economic anthropology : history, ethnography, critique / Chris Hann and Keith Hart. This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and one-world capitalism. In doing so, they connect economic anthropology to its roots in Western philosophy, social theory and world history.
The sciences of the soul : the early modern origins of...
The sciences of the soul : the early modern origins of psychology / Fernando Vidal ; translated by Saskia Brown. The Sciences of the Soul is the first attempt to explain the development of the disciplinary conception of psychology from its appearance in the late sixteenth century to its redefinition at the end of the seventeenth and its emergence as an institutionalized field in the eighteenth. Fernando Vidal traces this development through university courses and textbooks, encyclopedias, and nonacademic books, as well as through various histories of psychology.
Blackness and disability : critical examinations and...
Blackness and disability : critical examinations and cultural interventions / edited by Christopher M. Bell. This pivotal volume uncovers the misrepresentations of black disabled bodies and demonstrates how those bodies transform systems and culture. With an analysis of disability as a result of war, studies of cognitive impairment and slavery in fiction, representations of slavery and violence in photography, deconstructions of illness (cancer and AIDS) narratives, comparative analyses of black and Latina/o and black and African subjects, analysis of treatments of disability in hip-hop, and ...
Restless souls: the making of American spirituality / Leigh E....
Restless souls: the making of American spirituality / Leigh E. Schmidt Yoga classes and Zen meditation, New-Age retreats and nature mysticism all are part of an ongoing religious experimentation that has surprisingly deep roots in American history. Tracing out the country’s Transcendentalist and cosmopolitan religious impulses over the last two centuries, Restless Souls explores America’s abiding romance with spirituality as religion’s better half.