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John Ross
A journalistic account of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, told through both local life and international politics. It follows issues of Indigenous land, autonomy, and violence as they unfold on the ground.
Willetta L. Heising
A reader's guide and checklist for mystery series written by women.
William H. Tucker
A historical examination of how scientific research about racial difference has been used to justify political inequality. From slavery to eugenics and the Jensen controversy, it criticizes the biases that were advanced in the name of research.
Jackson Lears
A cultural history of advertising in America that traces how advertising has shaped consumer culture and social values.
John Updike
A quiet story about an old sandstone farmhouse, family memory, and the passing of generations. The feel of disappearing time lingers in the background with gentle ache.
Doris Lessing
The first volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography, following her life from childhood to 1949.
John Egerton
A historical study that recovers Black resistance, organizing, and local memory in the South before the civil-rights era. It shows how struggles outside the formal system created the foundation for later movement politics.
David Malouf
In the mid-1840s, thirteen-year-old Gemmy Fairley is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by Aboriginals.
Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson's autobiography, tracing his path from an insect-obsessed boyhood to a leading figure in evolutionary biology.
Sandra Martz
An anthology of poems, short prose, and photographs about women’s bodies, memory, age, sexuality, childbirth, and menopause. Through personal voices, it quietly explores how women come to understand their own physical selves.
Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
A memoir in which the author, raised in a Brooklyn Italian-American community, searches for a place in the world through education, marriage, and class mobility. One street becomes the axis around which ethnicity, family, and ambition are mapped.
Anatol Lieven
A political-history nonfiction work that traces how the Baltic states won independence from Soviet rule through both historical analysis and on-the-ground reporting. It follows national movements, state-building, and relations with Russia in a layered way.