The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory : myths versus...
The Cuban Missile Crisis in American memory : myths versus reality / Sheldon M. Stern. This book exposes the misconceptions, half-truths, and outright lies that have shaped the still dominant but largely mythical version of what happened in the White House during those harrowing two weeks of secret Cuban missile crisis deliberations. A half-century after the event it is surely time to demonstrate, once and for all, that RFK’sThirteen Days and the personal memoirs of other ExComm members cannot be taken seriously as historically accurate accounts of the ExComm meetings.
From sit-ins to SNCC : the student civil rights movement in...
From sit-ins to SNCC : the student civil rights movement in the 1960s / edited by Iwan Morgan and Philip Davies. This collection of essays explores dynamics of student-centered civil rights activism of the 1960s and focuses especially on the role of grassroots protest and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), with emphasis on the impact of direct action on the white South, the internal culture of SNCC, and the ideological evolution of the organization. Essays discuss the effects of sit-ins in the American legal system, the white South, England, and in the general population in...
A convenient hatred : the history of antisemitism / Phyllis...
A convenient hatred : the history of antisemitism / Phyllis Goldstein ; foreword by Sir Harold Evans. A Convenient Hatred chronicles a very particular hatred through powerful stories that allow readers to see themselves in the tarnished mirror of history. It raises important questions about the consequences of our assumptions and beliefs and the ways we,as individuals and as members of a society, make distinctions between “us” and “them,” right and wrong, good and evil. These questions are both universal and particular.
Waiting to be heard : youth speak out about inheriting a...
Waiting to be heard : youth speak out about inheriting a violent world / written by the students of Thurgood Marshall Academic High School ; [with a foreword by Isabel Allende] The voices of students speaking about peace and violence are loud and clear, and they can be read in Waiting to Be Heard. This anthology by thirty-nine students of San Francisco’s Thurgood Marshall Academic High School, with a foreword by Isabel Allende, combines essays, fiction, poetry, and experimental writing to offer passionate, lucid staments about personal, local, and global issues ? the way high-schoolers ...
The universe within : discovering the common history of...
The universe within : discovering the common history of rocks, planets, and people / Neil Shubin. n Your Inner Fish, Neil Shubin delved into the amazing connections between human bodies—our hands, heads, and jaws—and the structures in fish and worms that lived hundreds of millions of years ago. In The Universe Within, with his trademark clarity and exuberance, Shubin takes an even more expansive approach to the question of why we look the way we do. Starting once again with fossils, he turns his gaze skyward, showing us how the entirety of the universe’s fourteen-billion-year histor...
The religious beliefs of America’s founders : reason,...
The religious beliefs of America’s founders : reason, revelation, and revolution / Gregg L. Frazer. Were America’s Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state should be. Now Gregg Frazer puts their arguments to rest in the first comprehensive analysis of the Founders’ beliefs as they themselves expressed them—showing that today’s political right and left are both wrong.
The righteous mind : why good people are divided by...
The righteous mind : why good people are divided by politics and religion / Jonathan Haidt. Why can’t our political leaders work together as threats loom and problems mount? Why do people so readily assume the worst about the motives of their fellow citizens? In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding.
Subliminal : how your unconscious mind rules your behavior...
Subliminal : how your unconscious mind rules your behavior / Leonard Mlodinow. Leonard Mlodinow gives us a startling and eye-opening examination of how the unconscious mind shapes our experience of the world and how, for instance, we often misperceive our relationships with family, friends, and business associates, misunderstand the reasons for our investment decisions, and misremember important events.
Tasting the good life : wine tourism in the Napa Valley /...
Tasting the good life : wine tourism in the Napa Valley / George Gmelch and Sharon Bohn Gmelch. Tasting the Good Life tells the story of Napa tourism through the words of the tourists who visit and the men and women who provide the products and services they rely on. The stories of 17 people — from winemaker to vineyard manager, from celebrity chef to wait staff, from hot air balloonist to masseuse — provide extraordinary insight into this new form of tourism and its impact on an iconic American place.
What matters now : how to win in a world of relentless...
What matters now : how to win in a world of relentless change, ferocious competition, and unstoppable innovation / Gary Hamel. This is not a book about one thing. It’s not a 250-page dissertation on leadership, teams or motivation. Instead, it’s an agenda for building organizations that can flourish in a world of diminished hopes, relentless change and ferocious competition. This is not a book about doing better. It’s not a manual for people who want to tinker at the margins. Instead, it’s an impassioned plea to reinvent management as we know it—to rethink the fundamental assumptio...
Art of the Andes : from Chávin to Inca / Rebecca R....
Art of the Andes : from Chávin to Inca / Rebecca R. Stone. This wide-ranging survey has established itself as the best singlevolumeintroduction to Andean art and architecture, and is anessential guide to pre-Columbian Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia forthe general reader, student, traveler, and artist alike. Describingthe strikingly varied artistic achievements of the Chavín, Paracas,Moche, Nasca, Chimu, and Inca cultures, among others, RebeccaStone has rewritten and expanded the text throughout, touchingon many of the recent discoveries and advances in the field.
Displaced : life in the Katrina diaspora / edited by Lynn...
Displaced : life in the Katrina diaspora / edited by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek. The contributors to Displaced have been following the lives of Katrina evacuees since 2005. In this illuminating book, they offer the first comprehensive analysis of the experiences of the displaced. Drawing on research in thirteen communities in seven states across the country, the contributors describe the struggles that evacuees have faced in securing life-sustaining resources and rebuilding their lives. They also recount the impact that the displaced have had on communities that initially welcomed them and then...
A woman in the crossfire : diaries of the Syrian revolution...
A woman in the crossfire : diaries of the Syrian revolution / Samar Yazbek ; translated from the Arabic by Max Weiss A well-known novelist and journalist from the coastal city of Jableh, Samar Yazbek witnessed in person and actively participated in the first four months of the Syrian intifada. Throughout she kept a diary of personal reflections. Her outspoken views published in print, online, and on Facebook quickly attracted the attention and fury of the regime, as vicious rumors spread about her disloyalty to the homeland and the Alawite community from which she comes. This narrative weav...
Nixon’s Court : his challenge to judicial liberalism...
Nixon’s Court : his challenge to judicial liberalism and its political consequences / Kevin J. McMahon. Most analysts have deemed Richard Nixon’s challenge to the judicial liberalism of the Warren Supreme Court a failure—“a counterrevolution that wasn’t.” Nixon’s Court offers an alternative assessment. Kevin J. McMahon reveals a Nixon whose public rhetoric was more conservative than his administration’s actions and whose policy towards the Court was more subtle than previously recognized. Viewing Nixon’s judicial strategy as part political and part legal, McMahon argues th...
The politics of sexuality in Latin America : a reader on...
The politics of sexuality in Latin America : a reader on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights / edited by Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny. The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America presents the first English-language reader on LGBT politics in Latin America. Representing a range of contemporary works by scholars, activists, analysts, and politicians, the chapters address LGBT issues in nations from Cuba to Argentina. In their many findings, two main themes emerge: the struggle for LGBT rights has made significant inroads in the first decade of the twenty-first century (though no...
Trust in Black America : race, discrimination, and politics...
Trust in Black America : race, discrimination, and politics / Shayla C. Nunnally The more citizens trust their government, the better democracy functions. However, African Americans have long suffered from the lack of equal protection by their government, and the racial discrimination they have faced breaks down their trust in democracy. Based on the premise that racial discrimination breaks down trust in a democracy, Trust in Black America examines the effect of race on African Americans’ lives.
Misunderstanding the Internet / James Curran, Natalie Fenton,...
Misunderstanding the Internet / James Curran, Natalie Fenton, and Des Freedman. Misunderstanding the Internet is a short introduction, encompassing the history, sociology, politics and economics of the internet and its impact on society. The book has a simple three part structure: Part 1 looks at the history of the internet, and offers an overview of the internet’s place in society Part 2 focuses on the control and economics of the internet Part 3 examines the internet’s political and cultural influence Misunderstanding the Internet is a polemical, sociologically and historically inform...
After Freud left : a century of psychoanalysis in America /...
After Freud left : a century of psychoanalysis in America / edited by John Burnham. There has been a flood of recent scholarship on Freud’s life and on the European and world history of psychoanalysis, but historians have produced relatively little on the proliferation of psychoanalytic thinking in the United States, where Freud’s work had monumental intellectual and social impact. The essays in After Freud Left provide readers with insights and perspectives to help them understand the uniqueness of Americans’ psychoanalytic thinking, as well as the forms in which the legacy of Freud ...
)((eco(lang)(uage(reader)) / edited by Brenda Iijima How can...
)((eco(lang)(uage(reader)) / edited by Brenda Iijima How can poetry engage with a global ecosystem under duress? How do poetic languages, forms, structures, syntaxes, and grammars contend or comply with the forces of environmental disaster? Can innovating languages forward the cause of living sustainably in a world of radical interconnectedness? In what ways do vectors of geography, race, gender, class, and culture intersect with the development of individual or collective ecopoetic projects?
Pay for play : a history of big-time college athletic...
Pay for play : a history of big-time college athletic reform / Ronald A. Smith. In an era when college football coaches frequently command higher salaries than university presidents, many call for reform to restore the balance between amateur athletics and the educational mission of schools. This book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the Supreme Court.