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The Stories of J.F. Powers

The Stories of J.F. Powers

James Farl Powers & Denis Donoghue

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Beethoven: The Man Revealed

Beethoven: The Man Revealed

Long Trails

Long Trails

Backpacker Magazine & Liz Thomas

Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited: The Unraveling of the American Dream

Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity Revisited: The Unraveling ...

William Ophuls & A. Stephen Boyan

Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas

Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From ...

Marc Lamont Hill

The Vanishing American Dream: Immigration, Population, Debt, Scarcity

The Vanishing American Dream: Immigration, Population, Debt, ...

Virginia Deane Abernethy

Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream

Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal ...

Sara Goldrick-Rab

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the ...

Margot Lee Shetterly

Story Bridges: A Guide for Conducting Intergenerational Oral History Projects

Story Bridges: A Guide for Conducting Intergenerational Oral ...

Girl Positive: Supporting Girls to Shape a New World

Girl Positive: Supporting Girls to Shape a New World

Tatiana Fraser & Caia Hagel

Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine

Happy: Why More or Less Everything Is Absolutely Fine

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

Lillian Faderman

Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History

Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demogr[..] Analysis of American ...

Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, From Roman Times to the Modern Era

Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, From ...

The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century

The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification ...

The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

Courtney E. Martin

"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native ...

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz & Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings

Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings

Craig S. Simpson & Gregory S. Wilson

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our ...

Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South

Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led ...

Adrienne Berard

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York

Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay

Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay

Patrick Brantlinger

Fixing the Food System: Changing How We Produce and Consume Food

Fixing the Food System: Changing How We Produce and Consume ...

The Geography of Genius: Lessons From the World's Most Creative Places

The Geography of Genius: Lessons From the World's Most Creative ...

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists Tamed AIDS

How to Survive a Plague: The Story of How Activists and Scientists ...

Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca

Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of ...

Radicalization: Why Some People Choose the Path of Violence

Radicalization: Why Some People Choose the Path of Violence

Farhad Khosrokhavar

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From ...

Walter Scheidel

Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive

Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico ...

Camilla Townsend

The Hippies: A 1960s History

The Hippies: A 1960s History

John Anthony Moretta

Automatic Society: The Future of Work

Automatic Society: The Future of Work

Bernard Stiegler

International Money Laundering Through Real Estate and Agribusiness: A Criminal Justice Perspective From the “Panama Papers”

International Money Laundering Through Real Estate and Agribusiness: ...

Fausto Martin de Sanctis

The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference in World History

The Invention of Humanity: Equality and Cultural Difference ...

Café Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most Ancient Places

Café Neandertal: Excavating Our Past in One of Europe's Most ...

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Adrienne Maree Brown

Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America

Media Nation: The Political History of News in Modern America

Bruce J. Schulman & Julian E. Zelizer

Is Science Racist?

Is Science Racist?

The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American Dream

The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the American ...

Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era

Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post-Truth Era

Daniel J. Levitin

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

Peggy Orenstein

Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration ...

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions

Valeria Luiselli

It's Up to the Women

It's Up to the Women

Eleanor Roosevelt

Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory

Reconsidering Roots: Race, Politics, and Memory

Erica L. Ball & Kellie Carter Jackson

Since 1970: Histories of Contemporary America Ser. (1)

We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves

John Cheney-Lippold

Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America: Newcomers in Turbulent Times

Twenty-First-Century Immigration to North America: Newcomers ...

Donald E. Abelson & Victoria M. Esses

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government ...

Richard Rothstein

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can ...

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age

The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's ...

Robert Aquinas McNally

The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence

The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence

Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It

Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving ...

Richard V. Reeves

Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age

Digital Humanities: Knowledge and Critique in a Digital Age

David M. Berry & Anders Fagerjord

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanshing Land

American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanshing Land

Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen

Twilight of the Money Gods: Economics as a Religion and How It All Went Wrong

Twilight of the Money Gods: Economics as a Religion and How ...

Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

Rachel Ignotofsky