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New York

Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism

The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.

White Fragility

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#hardcover #theview #gossip #non-fiction #television 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

The Explosive Inside Story of the View

Like Fire & Fury, the gossipy real-life soap opera behind a serious show. When Barbara Walters launched The View, network executives told her that hosting it would tarnish her reputation. Instead, within ten years, she’d revolutionized morning TV and made household names of her co-hosts: Joy Behar, Star Jones, Meredith Vieira and Elisabeth Hasselbeck. But the daily chatfest didn’t just comment on the news. It became the news. And the headlines barely scratched the surface. Based on stunning interviews with nearly every host and unprecedented access, award-winning journalist Ramin Setoodeh takes you backstage where the stars really spoke their minds. Here's the full story of how Star, then Rosie, then Whoopi tried to take over the show, while Barbara struggled to maintain control of it all, a modern-day Lear with her media-savvy daughters. You'll read about how so many co-hosts had a tough time fitting in, suffered humiliations at the table, then pushed themselves away, feeling betrayed—one nearly quitting during a commercial. Meanwhile, the director was being driven insane, especially by Rosie. Setoodeh uncovers the truth about Star’s weight loss and wedding madness. Rosie’s feud with Trump. Whoopi’s toxic relationship with Rosie. Barbara’s difficulty stepping away. Plus, all the unseen hugs, snubs, tears—and one dead rodent. Ladies Who Punch shows why The View can be mimicked and mocked, but it can never be matched.

Ladies Who Punch

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California

It's a coast to coast roller coaster ride of emotions, as Fast Eddie has love in NY burbs lost to cancer. He searches for the ultimate in Sonoma Co, SF's North Bay, success, failure and a 2nd chance at love are at stake in this search for the ultimate.

Directions to the Dumpster

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#hardcover #socialscience #behaviorism #nonverbalcommunication #bodylanguage #cognitivescience

Missouri

The Illusion of Honesty and the Evolution of Deceit

Decoding how we behave, Aja Raden's The Truth About Lies illuminates situations where we are better off lying—to ourselves and at times to others—and why it can be a healthy psychological mechanism...

The Truth About Lies

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Wyoming

27 Men Try Really Hard to Explain Their Feelings about Love, Loss, Fatherhood, and Freedom

The husband of the author of The Bitch in the House presents a collection of straight-talking, original essays by such contributors as David Gates, Vince Passaro, and Anthony Swofford on the motivations and pet peeves of today's men. 50,000 first printing.

The Bastard on the Couch

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The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. The book does not romanticize or soften the effects of violence and sickness. One fourth of the child-bearing women in the neighborhoods where these children live test positive for HIV. Pediatric AIDs, life-consuming fires and gang rivalries take a high toll. Several children die during the year in which this narrative takes place. A gently written work, Amazing Grace asks questions that are at once political and theological. What is the value of a child's life? What exactly do we plan to do with those whom we appear to have defined as economically and humanly superfluous? How cold -- how cruel, how tough -- do we dare be?

Amazing Grace

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New Jersey

A Smart Guide for Surviving Prison

The Ten Prison Commandments 

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Children in America's Schools

National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American educational system in this stunning New York Times bestseller, which has sold more than 250,000 hardcover copies.

Savage Inequalities

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Washington

The school and society ; and, The child and the curriculum

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#paperback #popculture #christian #funny #memoir #personalgrowth #podcast #religion 

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Texas

How Pop Culture Helped Me Answer Life's Biggest Questions

The Wondering Years

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Connecticut

America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000

From the narcotic allure of the bebop and Beat generations to the psychedelic 1960s, Vietnam, the cocaine-fueled disco era, the crack epidemic, and the ecstasy-induced rave culture, illegal drugs have profoundly shaped America's cultural landscape. In Can't Find My Way Home, journalist and filmmaker Martin Torgoff chronicles what a long strange trip it's been as the American Century became the Great Stoned Age. Weaving together first-person accounts and historical background, Can't Find My Way Home is a narrative vast in scope yet rich in intimate detail. Torgoff tells the stories of those whose lives became synonymous with the drug culture, from Charlie Parker, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and John Belushi to ordinary people who felt their consciousness "expanded" or who plumbed the depths of addiction. He also examines the broader impact of drugs on society and politics, from the war on drugs to the recovery movement, and the continuing debate over drug policy. A vivid work of cultural history that neither demonizes nor romanticizes its subject, Can't Find My Way Home is a provocative and fascinating look at how drugs have entered the American mainstream.

Can't Find My Way Home

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#paperback #nonfiction #honduras #biography 

The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother

An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more—the definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for feature writing and another for feature photography, this page-turner about the power of family is a popular text in classrooms and a touchstone for communities across the country to engage in meaningful discussions about this essential American subject. Enrique’s Journey recounts the unforgettable quest of a Honduran boy looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States. Braving unimaginable peril, often clinging to the sides and tops of freight trains, Enrique travels through hostile worlds full of thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. But he pushes forward, relying on his wit, courage, hope, and the kindness of strangers. As Isabel Allende writes: “This is a twenty-first-century Odyssey. If you are going to read only one nonfiction book this year, it has to be this one.” Praise for Enrique’s Journey “Magnificent . . . Enrique’s Journey is about love. It’s about family. It’s about home.”—The Washington Post Book World “[A] searing report from the immigration frontlines . . . as harrowing as it is heartbreaking.”—People (four stars) “Stunning . . . As an adventure narrative alone, Enrique’s Journey is a worthy read. . . . Nazario’s impressive piece of reporting [turns] the current immigration controversy from a political story into a personal one.”—Entertainment Weekly “Gripping and harrowing . . . a story begging to be told.”—The Christian Science Monitor “[A] prodigious feat of reporting . . . [Sonia Nazario is] amazingly thorough and intrepid.”—Newsday

Enrique's Journey

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26 Women Tell the Truth about Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage

Virginia Woolf introduced us to the “Angel in the House”, now prepare to meet... The Bitch In the House. Women today have more choices than at any time in history, yet many smart, ambitious, contemporary women are finding themselves angry, dissatisfied, stressed out. Why are they dissatisfied? And what do they really want? These questions form the premise of this passionate, provocative, funny, searingly honest collection of original essays in which twenty-six women writers—ranging in age from twenty-four to sixty-five, single and childless or married with children or four times divorced—invite readers into their lives, minds, and bedrooms to talk about the choices they’ve made, what’s working, and what’s not. With wit and humor, in prose as poetic and powerful as it is blunt and dead-on, these intriguing women offer details of their lives that they’ve never publicly revealed before, candidly sounding off on: • The difficult decisions and compromises of living with lovers, marrying, staying single and having children • The perpetual tug of war between love and work, family and career • The struggle to simultaneously care for ailing parents and a young family • The myth of co-parenting • Dealing with helpless mates and needy toddlers • The constrictions of traditional women’s roles as well as the cliches of feminism • Anger at laid-back live-in lovers content to live off a hardworking woman’s checkbook • Anger at being criticized for one’s weight • Anger directed at their mothers, right and wrong • And–well–more anger... “This book was born out of anger,” begins Cathi Hanauer, but the end result is an intimate sharing of experience that will move, amuse, and enlighten. The Bitch in the House is a perfect companion for your students as they plot a course through the many voices of modern feminism. This is the sound of the collective voice of successful women today-in all their anger, grace, and glory. From The Bitch In the House: “I believed myself to be a feminist, and I vowed never to fall into the same trap of domestic boredom and servitude that I saw my mother as being fully entrenched in; never to settle for a life that was, as I saw it, lacking independence, authority, and respect.” –E.S. Maduro, page 5 “Here are a few things people have said about me at the office: ‘You’re unflappable.’ ‘Are you ever in a bad mood?’ Here are things people—okay, the members of my family—have said about me at home: ‘‘Mommy is always grumpy.’ ‘Why are you so tense?’ ‘You’re too mean to live in this house and I want you to go back to work for the rest of your life!’” –Kristin van Ogtrop, page 161 “I didn’t want to be a bad mother I wanted to be my mother-safe, protective, rational, calm-without giving up all my anger, because my anger fueled me.” – Elissa Schappell, page 195

The Bitch in the House

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An economist examines the markets, power, and politics of the world trade

The Travels of a t-shirt in the global economy

Chronicles the journey of the author and a band of UCLA students #nonfiction #nativeamerican 

Iowa

Passages into Native America

The Good Red Road

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On (Not) Getting By in America

Nickel and Dimed 

#currentaffairs #nonfiction #popular-culture #womenstudies

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ten years of cultural criticism from the pages of Bitch magazine

Bitchfest

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#nonfiction #socialscience #hardcover #psychology

Pennsylvania

A History of Xenophobia

Of Fear and Strangers

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#nonfiction #socialscience #paperback #environmental #sustainability

Uncomfortable Truths about Our Air-Conditioned World (And Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)

Losing Our Cool exposes the surprising ways in which air conditioning changes human experience: giving a boost to global warming that it is designed to help humans endure; enabling an otherwise impossible commuter economy; and altering human migration patterns. Stan Cox argues that by reintroducing traditional cooling methods and putting newer technologies into practice - and by moving beyond industrial definitions of comfort - people can keep themselves comfortable and keep the planet comfortable too.

Losing Our Cool

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#diversity #bias #behavior #socialscience #hardcover #nonfiction 

hidden biases of good people

Blindspot

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Massachusetts

Inside an American Tragedy

Separated

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Hearing the voices of Jonestown

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#nonfiction #socialscience #hardcover #Amish #rumspringa #beingAmish #amishlife

Georgia

To Be or Not to Be Amish

Rumspringa

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Like new, read once. #nonfiction #socialscience #paperback 

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Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)

White Fragility

Ramin Setoodeh

Ladies Who Punch

Edward Campagnola

Directions to the Dumpster

Aja Raden

The Truth About Lies

Daniel Jones; Cathi Hanauer (Foreword by)

The Bastard on the Couch

Jonathan Kozol

Amazing Grace

William R. Conway

The Ten Prison Commandments

Jonathan Kozol

Savage Inequalities

John Dewey

The school and society ; and, The child and the curriculum

Knox McCoy

The Wondering Years

Martin Torgoff

Can't Find My Way Home

Sonia Nazario

Enrique's Journey

Cathi Hanauer

The Bitch in the House

Pietra Rivoli

The Travels of a t-shirt in the global economy

Kenneth Lincoln, Al Logan Slagle

The Good Red Road

Barbara Ehrenreich

Nickel and Dimed

Andi Zeisler

Bitchfest

George Makari

Of Fear and Strangers

Stan Cox

Losing Our Cool

Mahzarin R. Banaji

Blindspot

Jacob Soboroff

Separated

Mary McCormick Maaga

Hearing the voices of Jonestown

Tom Shachtman

Rumspringa

Nick Rosen

Off the Grid