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The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women Best Price: $11.77 I very much wanted to love this book because its claims to rescue women and their stories lost...	Walden: Lessons for the New Millennium Best Price: $14.99 Henry David Thoreau's Walden is one of the great classics of American letters. Although its...	Reimagining Equality: Stories of Gender, Race, and Finding Home Best Price: $15.91 From the heroic lawyer who spoke out against Clarence Thomas in the historic confirmation...	The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward A Critique of Marxist Aesthetics Best Price: $16.00 Marcuse uses a critical approach, not to merely argue against a Marxist perspective on art, but...	Jurgen Habermas on Society and Politics: A Reader Best Price: $29.97 A naive but inventive work, Habermas extends positivism to reaffirm democracy and provide a...



The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American Family Best Price: $33.33 With his latest book, The Daddy Shift, Jeremy Adam Smith sets out to explore the "movement...	By Prescription Only: The Report of The United States Food and Drug Administration This book (originally "The Therapeutic Nightmare") will cause you great distress. Not...	Talking about Death: A Dialogue between Parent and Child Best Price: $12.21 Why do people die? How do you explain the loss of a loved one to a child? This book is a...	Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention Best Price: $5.00 Provides information on suicide statistics and gives advice on how to recognize the warning...	American Privacy: The 400-Year History of Our Most Contested Right Best Price: $11.70 An examination of privacy and the evolution of communication, from broken sealing wax to...



Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral Best Price: $13.95 I give PLUM BUN a positive review. I first noticed it at the bookstore where I work. The Harlem...	MY SOUL IS A WITNESS P Best Price: $2.96 _My Soul Is a Witness_ was an astounding collection of works -- narratives, poems, excerpted...	Speak My Name : Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream Best Price: $22.97 Including the work of Derrick Bell, Trey Ellis, Haki Madhubuti, Clarence Major, Walter Mosley,...	Santeria: An African religion in America	Jesus and The Disinherited Best Price: $8.56 I tracked down Jesus and the Disinherited after reading Richard Lischer's fine study of...

The Ethics of Necropolis: An Essay on the Military-Industrial Complex and the Quest for a Just Peace	Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora Best Price: $18.70 First of all I really do like both of Joseph Murphy's books. This one and Santeria African...	WOMANGUIDES :Readings toward a Feminist Theology Best Price: $3.98	The Blooming of a Lotus: Guided Meditations for Achieving the Miracle of Mindfulness Best Price: $2.18 I have enjoyed Thich Nhat Hanh's other books because (the translation of) his writing makes...	The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal A beautiful gift book celebrating the season of rebirth The Language of Spring collects some...

I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society Best Price: $344.48 "I don't like the basic philosophy that everyone is on their own, out for themselves, a...	Prejudice and your child Analyzes racial prejudice and its impact on white as well as black children, and provides wise...	The structure of behavior	Atomic soldiers: American victims of nuclear experiments	Father Divine

The ideal of the university	The Psychiatric Study of Jesus: Exposition and Criticism (The Beacon Press Schweitzer Series) At the turn of the 20th Century, Freud was (forever) changing our view of personality and the...	Legends from Genesis and the world today	Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy	Iola Leroy, or Shadows Uplifted (Black Women Writers) Best Price: $1.95 One of the most significant contributions to early Black literature, "Iola Leroy" is...

Kabir: Ecstatic Poems Best Price: $6.75 "We are all struggling; none of us has gone far." Perhaps not, but the world...	A Darker Ribbon: A Twentieth-Century Story of Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors Best Price: $10.67 I am a third generation breast cancer survivor. I am also a surgeon's daughter. Ellen...	I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performing between Cultures (Bluestreak) Best Price: $14.00 This extraordinary anthology brings together hilarious performance and film scripts, plays, and...	Mural Manual How to Paint Murals for the Classroom	Where Is Your Body?: And Other Essays on Race, Gender, and the Law Best Price: $8.49 in this volume, mari matusda continues her exploration of the intersection of race and gender,...

The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future Best Price: $24.95 Have not read this yet but looking forward to more thinking upon this subject. Having read...	Agua Santa: Holy Water Best Price: $3.00 Pat Mora's book of poetry, Agua Santa: Holy Water, beautifies the experience of the...	RENAISSANCE CL Best Price: $4.74 How does Ruth Forman sleep at night. She must have a guilty conscience, because she's...	The Story of Your Life: Writing A Spiritual Autobiography Best Price: $24.94 This book made me want to start a small writing group of my own. In a class such as this I...	Breakfast Epiphanies: Finding Wonder in the Everyday Best Price: $3.89 Breakfast Epiphanies is a nice, quick read. The kind of book which found its way into my...

The Man with the Beautiful Voice: And More Stories from the Other Side of the Couch Best Price: $11.71 Dr Rubin's stories are drawn from her clinical practice and her experience with her...	60 on Up: The Truth About Aging in America Best Price: $8.43 Psychologist Lillian B. Rubin is in her early eighties; her husband, over ninety, has early...	THE KNOWLEDGE FACTORY: DISMANTLING THE CORPORATE UNIVERSITY AND CREATING TRUE HIGHER LEARNING Best Price: $103.38 This is the best book on the crisis in higher education ever written. What makes it so...	In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization Best Price: $3.23 I chose this book as a class assignment. Our directive was to give a presentation on an...	Simone de Beauvoir, a life of freedom Best Price: $7.18

Teaching the Restless: One School's Remarkable no-Ritalin Approach to Helping Children Learn and Succeed Best Price: $4.70 This book is a caring, compassionate examination of what's amiss in our educational and...	Taught by America: A Story of Struggle and Hope in Compton Best Price: $13.94 A few years ago, at a point when I didn't know what my life's purpose was (I still...	LATINO CULTURAL CITIZEN Best Price: $29.99 While much of the debate about Latinos in the US is shrouded by this country's obsession...	The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death Best Price: $53.78 This book deals with the concept of death in the human experience, specifically how the living...	The Sounds of Slavery: Discover African American History through Songs, Sermons, and Speech Best Price: $15.75 White and White provide a great and useful book not only about slavery, but about African...

The Legacy Best Price: $8.00 This book stands as one of the best works on the surrounding issues of the war. If one wants to...	The amendment that refused to die Best Price: $16.79 Relying on both celebrated and little-known cases, this acclaimed chronicle of the Fourteenth...	The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico Best Price: $33.58 There are two sides to every story, and in history you usually only hear the victor's side....	The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation Best Price: $29.19 We make much of the Founding Fathers of our nation, with barely a nod to any founding mothers. ...	Peter The Great: The Classic Biography of Tsar Peter the Great Best Price: $19.73 Well-written, lively, and well-documented, this survey is perhaps most interesting for what it...

The Tiger Ladies (Bluestreak) Best Price: $14.60 A beautifully written book of the Kashmir valley before the invasion of the Mujahadin and other...	BEACON BEST OF 1999 (Beacon Best of ... Creative Writing by Women & Men of All Colors) Best Price: $17.99	Write These Laws on Your Children: Inside the World of Conservative Christian Homeschooling Best Price: $1.66 As someone homeschooled within America's conservative Christian subculture, I enjoyed Rob...	Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels Best Price: $15.87 I am a secular Jew with a great fascination and respect for Lubavitchers, and have read most of...	What Is Marriage For?: The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution Best Price: $14.99 E. J. Graff What Is Marriage For? (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1999) (ISBN: 0-8070-4114-9;...

The State of America's Children Yearbook 1999: A Report from the Children's Defense Fund (State of America's Children Yearbook: A Report from the Children's Defense Fund) Introduction by Marian Wright Edelman The flagship publication of "the most powerful...	FOR LOVE OF COUNTRY Best Price: $48.71 This book consists of a brief essay by Martha Nussbaum, 16 comments on it by various...	Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good Best Price: $59.99 Save your money. Not only does this book not offer any possible solutions, it doesn't even...	The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity Best Price: $6.73 While U.S. citizens like to think that they are residing in the "home of the brave,"...	A Queer History of the United States Best Price: $11.56 Co-recipient of the 2012 Stonewall Book Award in non-fiction Drawing on years of...

HOW WE WANT TO LIVE CL Best Price: $1.48 Before I read this book I read the two previous readers' reviews, which made me approach...	Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums (Bluestreak) Best Price: $3.84 Sonia Sanchez is truly a brilliant author. This book is filled with poems of love and passion,...	Dancing on the Edge Best Price: $4.00 In her haunting fourth collection, National Poetry Series winner Joan Murray takes the challenge...	The Boy from the Tower of the Moon Best Price: $74.00 Before World War II, life in the self-sufficient Lebanese farming village, Magdaluna (Tower of...	Approaching Eye Level Best Price: $19.99 I really enjoyed reading Vivian Gornick's Approaching Eye Level, and I don't even live...

Burned Child Seeks The Fire Best Price: $3.95 The author mesmerizes you with the simplicity and eloquence of her writing. She moves you with...	ANGELA THE UPSIDE-DOWN CL (Concord Library) Best Price: $3.00 [An] enchanting new book of essays.... Many personal essayists today try to capture our...	HOUSE OF HOUSES PA (Bluestreak) Best Price: $0.99 A family memoir told in the voices of ancestors, this book is about...	Revere Beach Elegy: A Memoir of Home and Beyond Best Price: $36.20 The author of the acclaimed novel Revere Beach Boulevard writes his own story of place, class,...	American Ghosts: A Memoir Best Price: $3.70 David Plante is a serious and committed writer who has over the years produced thirteen novels....

Incognegro: From Black Power to Apartheid and Back From 1991 through 1996, Frank Wilderson led a double life. By day he taught at universities in...	The Language of Spring: Poems for the Season of Renewal A beautiful gift book celebrating the season of rebirth The Language of Spring collects some...	I'll Be Short: Essentials for a Decent Working Society Best Price: $344.48 "I don't like the basic philosophy that everyone is on their own, out for themselves, a...	Prejudice and your child Analyzes racial prejudice and its impact on white as well as black children, and provides wise...	The structure of behavior

Atomic soldiers: American victims of nuclear experiments	Father Divine	The ideal of the university	The Psychiatric Study of Jesus: Exposition and Criticism (The Beacon Press Schweitzer Series) At the turn of the 20th Century, Freud was (forever) changing our view of personality and the...	Legends from Genesis and the world today

Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy	The Match: Savior Siblings and One Family's Battle to Heal Their Daughter Best Price: $0.30 This is the true story of a family in crisis. Steve & Stacy's only daughter has a rare...	The Political Emerson: Essential Writings on Politics and Social Reform Best Price: $3.92 Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) never considered himself a political thinker. And yet he rose to...	Women in the Grove: Stories Best Price: $0.87 Reading the description of this book of short stories as "women with HIV and AIDS just...	Buxton Spice (Bluestreak) Best Price: $16.00 I enjoyed this book immensely. It was very interesting and well-written. It helped me envision...

The Country: A Novel Best Price: $5.49 First published in 1981 to wide acclaim, a haunting family novel by'a daringly skillful...	Once in a Promised Land: A Novel Best Price: $3.98 Immediately after 9/11 a young Arab couple living in a comfortable but lackluster marriage in...	No One Gardens Alone: A Life of Elizabeth Lawrence (Concord Library) Best Price: $8.50 This biography of the great 20th century garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence is beautifully...	The Run Best Price: $18.64 I first read this book in the early 1970s when I was conducting my Ph.D. thesis research, which...	Finding Higher Ground: Adaptation in the Age of Warming Best Price: $14.00 An ecologist takes the uniquely positive--yet realistic--position that we can adapt and persist...

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