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Living in Spanglish
The Search for Latino Identity in America
Ed Morales
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"
Living in Spanglish
is a timely book as [this country] confronts a fragmented racial and ethnic future and as the influence of Latinos grows. Morales takes us on a tour that ranges from music to movies to literature, highlighting how Latinos have striven to integrate their native roots with their experience in the United States. This is a fascinating read, and Morales is a bright thinker."—
The Boston Globe
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Our Boys Speak
Adolescent Boys Write About Their Inner Lives
John Nikkah
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John Nikkah asked one simple question: What do the boys think? From the best-selling Ophelia Speaks to the "girl power" movement, teenage girls are speaking...
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The Soul Beneath the Skin
The Unseen Hearts and Habits of Gay Men
David Nimmons
St. Martin's Griffin
"Breathtaking in its scope and originality, this book offers a radical reassessment of the moral character of contemporary gay male life. Imaginatively researched and forcefully argued, its optimistic conclusions are bound to provoke controversy and a vitally important debate about the state of Gay America.
The Soul Beneath the Skin
immediately establishes Nimmons as a major new voice in the culture."—
George Chauncey, University of Chicago, author of
Gay New York, 1890-1940
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The Great Divergence
America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
Timothy Noah
Bloomsbury Press
For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly drastically unequal: the top 1% of...
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Slanted and Enchanted
The Evolution of Indie Culture
Kaya Oakes
Holt Paperbacks
“Relays indie's development . . . with uncommon insight . . . [and] makes an impassioned, optimistic case for indie's vitality that doesn't assume readers are coming to [the] book already well versed in the subject . . . A comprehensive approach to a subject that is too often reduced to discrete parts . . . Fresh and perceptive.”—
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Bodies
Big Ideas/Small Books
Susie Orbach
Picador
"There was a time, believe it or not, when our bodies worked for us, instead of the other way around. In her new book,
Bodies
, British author and psychologist Susie Orbach examines how science, culture and globalization have upended our relationships to our corporeal selves, turning us from master into slave. Good looks and peak fitness are no longer a happy biological gift, she argues, but a ceaseless pursuit. The idea: People around the world—men included—now treat their bodies as vanity projects: every pore, curve and feature is an opportunity for self-improvement. Instead of a tool for production, the body is a production in itself. In our culture, beauty is an ambition like any other metric of success, and body hatred is the West's silent export. The evidence: How much do you need? When Orbach penned her first book 31 years ago, the bestseller
Fat Is a Feminist Issue
, bulimia and anorexia were barely on the radar. Now parents digitally enhance their kids' baby pictures, the cosmetic-surgery industry is growing by $1 billion a year, we can genetically screen our embryos, and scientists grow bioengineered organs in labs. The conclusion: As nips and tucks and tweaks become more acceptable, we may no longer treat the human body as a God-given accident of biology, but Orbach implores us to take some pleasure in our bodies as they are—to take them, she writes repeatedly, 'for granted.'"—
Jesse Ellison,
Newsweek
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An Imperfect Offering
Humanitarian Action for the Twenty-First Century
James Orbinski
Walker & Company
From one of the world’s greatest humanitarian activists comes a searing personal memoir that is also an urgent call to confront suffering in all its many...
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Pornified
How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families
Pamela Paul
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"[Paul] has stripped porn of its culture war claptrap . . .
Pornified
may stand as a Kinsey report for our time."—
San Francisco Chronicle
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Tested
One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
Linda Perlstein
Holt Paperbacks
“Deploying the fine fly-on-the-wall reporting skills that made her previous book,
Not Much Just Chillin’
, so uncannily evocative of the lives of middle school kids, she opens a window into a school that has become over-the-top test obsessed. She weaves in extensive discussions of federal education policy, pushing readers to the conclusion that the standards and accountability movement in general, and No Child Left Behind in particular, have gone badly awry. Perlstein paints a sobering portrait of Tyler Heights.”—
Ben Wildavsky,
The Miami Herald
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Our Daily Meds
How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs
Melody Petersen
Picador
"Everyone talks about health care, but few ask why we're so sick to begin with. Melody Petersen's book goes a long way toward explaining that the people who came up with the 'cures' are actually the problem."—
Bill Maher,
Real Time
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The Spirit Level
Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Kate Pickett Richard Wilkinson
Bloomsbury Press
It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on...
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Absolute Convictions
My Father, a City, and the Conflict That Divided America
Eyal Press
Picador
A Booklist Editors' Choice of the Year On October 23, 1998, Barnett Slepian, an abortion provider in Buffalo, New York, was killed by a sniper's bullet....
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Beautiful Souls
Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times
Eyal Press
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“An act of conscience describes an action motivated by loyalty to a conviction, but it usually requires the defiance of other loyalties . . . Press's real achievement in this short book is not in his research or analysis, but in his refusal to flinch from that disquieting fact . . . He knows that those who act bravely are all the more likely to feel anguished, since they know what's at stake. In some ways this book is a thoughtful gesture of support. That might sound like a small thing, but it's not.”—
Louisa Thomas,
The New York Times Book Review
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American Jesus
How the Son of God Became a National Icon
Stephen Prothero
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"[Prothero presents] a cultural history of Jesus as American image and icon [in] vivid, engrossing detail . . . Within his narrative, ostensibly a popular and often entertaining account of the rendering of Jesus in song, story, and spirituality, [the author] has embedded a fairly detailed history of American religion itself."—
R. Scott Appleby,
The New York Times
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I Am the Market
How to Smuggle Cocaine by the Ton, in Five Easy Lessons
Luca Rastello; Translated from the Italian by Jonathan Hunt
Faber and Faber, Inc.
A page-turning account of the international cocaine trade, presented as five lessons in how to move tons of the drug across borders Forget about cocaine...
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Methland
The Death and Life of an American Small Town
Nick Reding
Bloomsbury USA
“This is a strong book, and it tells a complicated story in comprehensible, human dimensions. Like all good journalism, it’s the hand holding up the mirror, the friend telling us to take a cold, hard look at ourselves.”—
Los Angeles Times
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Somebody Scream!
Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Marcus Reeves
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"A strong and timely book for the new day in hip-hop. Don't miss it!"—Cornel West For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and...
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Exiles in Eden
Life Among the Ruins of Florida's Great Recession
Paul Reyes
Henry Holt and Co.
An on-the-ground, intimate tour of the human toll of the nation's foreclosure crisis While working with his father's small company that "trashes out"— enters...
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Retromania
Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past
Simon Reynolds
Faber and Faber, Inc.
One of The Telegraph’s Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours,...
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Opting In
Having a Child Without Losing Yourself
Amy Richards
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"With
Opting In
, Amy Richards does an impressive job of showing just how many ways there are for modern women to make motherhood work for them. Richards powerfully reminds us that although these are seemingly isolated 'domestic' negotiations, women open up the work-life balance not only for other women, but for men and for generations of young people to come."—
Veronica Chambers, author of
Having It All? Black Women and Success
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Longing to Tell
Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy
Tricia Rose
Picador
"Tricia Rose's
Longing to Tell
is a powerful and pioneering work. For the first time we hear the painful and poignant voices of black women in all their humanity and complexity. Do not miss this pathblazing book."—
Cornel West, Princeton University, and author of
Race Matters
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Superclass
The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
David Rothkopf
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"Mr. Rothkopf's book argues that on many of the most critical issues of our time, the influence of all nation-states is waning, the system for addressing global issues among nation-states is more ineffective than ever, and therefore a power void is being created. This void is often being filled by a small group of players—'the superclass'—a new global elite, who are much better suited to operating on the global stage and influencing global outcomes than the vast majority of national political leaders." —
Thomas L. Friedman,
The New York Times
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Low Life
Lures and Snares of Old New York
Luc Sante; With a New Afterword by the Author
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"Fascinating . . . We should all be grateful to Luc Sante [for] this entertaining and sobering history of New York's 'dark side' . . . [
Low Life
] delights the reader with constant felicities . . . Replete not only with wit, but with feeling."—
Jim Holt,
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Life Behind Bars in America
Michael G.Santos
St. Martin's Griffin
"[A] revealing, compelling book . . . At the heart of Santos's frequently harrowing book is a simple argument: Prisons have become places where crime does pay."—
Edward Humes,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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