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Friday, February 5
10:50 a.m. - Convocation
Booksigning to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South
by E. Patrick Johnson
Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in writings about the South, Sweet
Tea collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the southern United States. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive," suggesting that these men draw upon the performance of "southernness"—politeness, coded speech, and religiosity, for example—to
legitimate themselves as members of both southern and black cultures.
University of North Carolina Press.
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Friday, February 19
10:50 a.m. - Convocation
Booksigning to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
Charles Johnson's Novels: Writing the American
Palimpsest
by Rudolph Byrd
Charles Johnson came of age during the Black Arts Movement of the
1960s and 1970s. His fiction bears the imprint of his formal training
as a philosopher and his work as a journalist and cartoonist with
a well-honed interest in political satire. In this book, Rudolph
Byrd examines Johnson's four novels under the rubric of philosophical
black fiction, as art that interrogates experience. Byrd contends
that Johnson suspends, shelves, and brackets all presuppositions
regarding African American life. This bracketing accomplished, the
African American experience becomes a pure field of appearances
within two poles: consciousness and the people or phenomena to which
it is related.
Indiana University Press.
Paperback. $21.95 |
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Tuesday, February 23
3:30 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
Carleton College
This Brightness: Poems
by William Reichard
"'The soul conspires at last,' William Reichard writes, 'to throw us into a world where we belong .' But the home the poet finds, in mid-life, is no position of ease but instead a center for the search for what will suffice—a quest mirrored in the heroic life of the early twentieth-century painter, Marsden Hartley, who saw himself in the lineage of Walt Whitman and Hart Crane. Reichard's homage to Hartley is a way, in these searching poems, to 'stitch the broken world back together.'"—Mark Doty
Mid-List Press. Paperback. $13.00 |
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Undoing: Poems
by James Cihlar
"In James Cihlar's collection, Undoing, we find an emotional
richness and range convincingly authenticated by details of domestic
disarray–a
father’s absence, a mother’s rage, a child’s retreat into the language
of his imagination. The result is a deepening meditation snipped
into lyrics, measures that mirror the quiet immediacy of their white
space, that move with unflinching precision, picking through the
difficult remnants, transmuting alienation into lineage, heartbreak
into grace, undoing into understanding. Never showy, ever poised
and clear, this is a brave, forthright, and moving book."
—Bruce Bond, author of The Anteroom of Paradise and Cinder
Little Pear Press. Paperback. $15.00
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Friday, January 29
10:50 a.m. - Convocation
Booksigning to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
The Great American Detox Diet: Feel Better,
Look Better, and Lose Weight by Cleaning Up Your Diet
by Alexandra Jamieson
What would happen if you ate nothing but fast food for an entire
month? That's what filmmaker Morgan Spurlock attempted to find
out by making his scathing tongue-in-cheek documentary Super Size
Me. A 33-year-old New Yorker in excellent health, he would eat
nothing but McDonald's for 30 days, to gauge the effects on his
body. The results were shocking: He gained almost 30 pounds, saw
his cholesterol skyrocket, and developed chest pains and dangerously
high blood pressure. The Great American Detox is an everyman's
version of Spurlock's detox diet.
Rodale Books. Paperback. $15.95 |
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Friday, January 8
10:50 a.m. - Convocation
Booksigning to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female
with the Mass Media
by Susan Douglas
Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to
American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and
nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their
influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries.
Crown Publishing. Paperback. $16.00 |
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Friday, October 30
10:50 a.m. - Convocation
Booksigning to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's
Poor Live on $2 a Day
by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda
Ruthven
About forty percent of the world's people live on incomes of two
dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income
so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the
table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you
handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion
people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios
of the Poor is the first book to explain systematically how the
poor find solutions. The authors report on the yearlong "financial
diaries" of villagers and slum dwellers in Bangladesh, India,
and South Africa--records that track penny by penny how specific
households manage their money.
Princeton University Press. Hardcover. $29.95 |
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Friday, October 16
10:50 a.m. - Convocation
Booksigning to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital
Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or,
Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
by Mark Bauerlein
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual
nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing
and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning
us into a society of know-nothings.
Penguin. Paperback. $15.95 |
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Friday, October 9
10:50 a.m. - Convocation
Booksigning to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
Latino Spin: Public Image and the Whitewashing
of Race
by Arlene Dávila
Latino Spin cuts through the spin about Latinos' supposed
values, political attitudes, and impact on U.S. national identity
to ask what these caricatures suggest about Latinos' shifting place
in the popular and political imaginary. Noted scholar Arlene Dávila
illustrates the growing consensus among pundits, advocates, and
scholars that Latinos are not a social liability, that they are
moving up and contributing, and that, in fact, they are more American
than 'the Americans.'
New York University Press. Paperback. $19.00 |
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Barrio Dreams:
Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City
by Arlene Dávila
Arlene Dávila brilliantly considers the cultural politics
of urban space in this lively exploration of Puerto Rican and Latino
experience in New York, the global center of culture and consumption,
where Latinos are now the biggest minority group. Analyzing the simultaneous
gentrification and Latinization of what is known as El Barrio or
Spanish Harlem, Barrio Dreams makes a compelling case that--despite
neoliberalism's race-and ethnicity-free tenets--dreams of economic
empowerment are never devoid of distinct racial and ethnic considerations.
University of California Press. Paperback. $23.95 |
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Latinos, Inc.:
The Marketing and Making of a People
by Arlene Dávila
Both Hollywood and corporate America are taking note of the marketing
power of the growing Latino population in the United States. And
as salsa takes over both the dance floor and the condiment shelf,
the influence of Latin culture is gaining momentum in American society
as a whole. Yet the increasing visibility of Latinos in mainstream
culture has not been accompanied by a similar level of economic parity
or political enfranchisement. In this important, original, and entertaining
book, Arlene Dávila provides a critical examination of the
Hispanic marketing industry and of its role in the making and marketing
of U.S. Latinos.
University of California Press. Paperback. $25.95 |
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Booksigning:
Monday, September 14, 11:00 a.m.
Carleton Bookstore
Opening Convocation:
Monday, September 14, 3:00 p.m.
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay
Vavilov's Quest to End Famine
by Gary Paul Nabhan
The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields
the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognize this fact,
the great botanist Nikolay Vavilov, lay dying of starvation in
a Soviet prison. But in the years before Stalin jailed him as a
scapegoat for the country’s famines, Vavilov had traveled
over five continents, collecting hundreds of thousands of seeds
in an effort to outline the ancient centers of agricultural diversity
and guard against widespread hunger. Now, another remarkable scientist—and
vivid storyteller—has retraced his footsteps.
Shearwater Press. Hardcover. $24.95 |
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Renewing America's
Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's 100 Most
Endangered Foods
edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
Renewing America's Food Traditions is a dramatic call to recognize,
celebrate, and conserve the great diversity of foods that give North
America the distinctive culinary identity that reflects its multi-cultural
heritage. It offers us rich natural and cultural histories as well
as recipes and folk traditions associated with one hundred of the
rarest food plants and animals in North America. In doing so, it
reminds us that what we choose to eat can either conserve or deplete
the cornucopia of our continent.
Chelsea Green Publishing Company.
Paperback. $35.00 |
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Coming Home
to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods
edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
In the tradition of M. F. K. Fisher and Henry David Thoreau, Gary
Paul Nabhan relates how his experience with food permeates his life
as an avid gardener and forager, as an ethnobotanist and farmland
conservation advocate, and as an activist devoted to recovering place-based
heritage foods. Nabhan spent a year trying to eat only foods grown,
fished, or gathered within 220 miles of his home—with surprising
results.
W. W. Norton & Company. Paperback. $16.95 |
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Saturday, June 20
12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Sayles-Hill Great Space
More than 25 authors are expected to take part in the annual
Reunion Weekend Faculty and Alumni Book & CD signing.
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Job
Search Navigator
by Martha Adamson, Class of '74
and Linda Henderson
This self-paced, stand-alone job-search guide features a hands-on
workbook format and a clear focus on the job search process. Practical,
comprehensive, and contemporary, it appeals to a wide range of job-searchers
with varying backgrounds, ages, and experiences, and is filled with
real-life techniques, relevant exercises, and numerous samples of
successful cover letters and resumés appropriate for a variety
of industries and employment situations.
Success Press. Paperback. $19.95 |
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Sock
Monkey (CD)
composed by Mark Applebaum, Class of '89
Applebaum is the prolific Stanford composer who might show up with
his amplified odds-and-ends contraption known as the Mouseketier,
or with sheaves of complex musical notation for some oftoday's most
undauntable new-music performers. Often both, in fact. Sock Monkey
is every bit as cuddly and mischievous as the title suggests. Innova
Recordings. CD. $15.00 |
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Daughter
of Kura
by Debra (Grubb) Austin, Class of '79
On the parched African earth more than half a million years ago sits
the village of Kura, a matriarchal society of Homo erectus. Snap
-- a young, passionate woman of Kura -- is destined to lead her people,
and this year she must select a mate for the first time. Both imaginative
and believable, Daughter of Kura astonishingly brings to life
an ancient and untamed world. Austin has created an unforgettable
heroine who comes of age in a thrilling tale of courage, loyalty,
and passion.
Touchstone. Hardcover. $25.00 |
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Openwork:
A Novel
by Adria Bernardi, Class of '79
In hauntingly evocative prose, Adria Bernardi creates a finely stitched
fabric depicting the intertwined lives of three generations of closely
related Italian families.
"Openwork is glorious! The fine poetic intelligence that
guides it, the humor, the sadness, and Bernardi's overarching knowledge
of so many times and places and peoples. A remarkable book, a beautiful
book."
—Jane Hamilton
Southern Methodist University Press. Hardcover. $22.50 |
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In the Gathering
Woods
by Adria Bernardi, Class of '79
Winner of the 2000 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Frank
Conroy. These are inter-connected short stories about a family with
roots in a remote Italian mountain village.
University of Pittsburg Press. Paperback. $14.00 |
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The Milk of
Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture
edited by Louise DeSalvo and Edvige Giunta
contributor: Adria Bernardi, Class of '79
Now in paperback, this spirited and groundbreaking anthology defies
generations of stereotypes about Italian American women. Here, more
than fifty writers respond to and explode the familiar stock images:
the nurturant grandmother lovingly stirring the sauce, the domineering
mother wielding wooden spoon and garlic press. In place of these
clichés, they offer a sumptuous communal feast of poetry,
stories, and memoir.
The Feminist Press at the City University of New York. Paperback.
$16.95 |
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Let
There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf of the Dark
edited by Paul Bogard, Class of '89
The development of the modern world has brought with it rampant light
pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night and exacting a
terrible price—wasted energy, damage to human health, and the
sometimes fatal interruption of the life patterns of many species
of wildlife. In Let There Be Night, twenty-nine writers, scientists,
poets, and scholars share their personal experiences of night and
help us to understand what we miss when dark skies and nocturnal
wildness vanish. Let There Be Night is an engaging examination, both
intimate and enlightening, of a precious aspect of the natural world.
Paperback. $21.95 |
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William
F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows
by Robert Bonner, Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of History and
the Liberal Arts, Emeritus
Celebrated showman of the Old West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
took on another role unknown to most Americans, that of the western
land developer and town promoter. In this captivating study, Robert
E. Bonner demonstrates that the skills Cody acquired from decades
in show business failed to prepare him for the demanding arena of
business and finance.
Hardcover. $32.95 |
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Designing
an Anthropology Career: Professional Development Exercises
by Sherylyn Briller, Class of '89
This workbook contains a series of professional development exercises
for students developing a career in anthropology.
AltaMira Press. Paperback. $24.95 |
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End-Of-Life
Stories: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries
edited by Sherylyn Briller, Class of '89;
Donald E. Gelfand; Richard Raspa; and Stephanie Myers Schim
End-of-life experiences are often viewed in terms of only one perspective
such as medicine. In this volume, a variety of end-of life experiences
are presented and each case is analyzed from a variety of disciplinary
perspectives. These range across a broad array of the helping professions,
and disciplines such as information, law and the social sciences.
The book provides a variety of narratives about end-of-life experiences
contributed by members of the Wayne State University End-of-Life
Interdisciplinary Project.
Springer Publishing. Paperback. $60.00 |
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Banjo
Granny
by Sarah Martin Busse, Class of '94
and Jacqueline Briggs Martin
illustrated by Barry Root
Granny’s heart is set to see her new grandbaby, but how can
she ford a fast river, climb a steep mountain, and cross a wide desert?
With a dose of determination, a well-stocked banjo case, and the
charm of a simple bluegrass song—that’s how! Part tall
tale, part lullaby, this rhythmic story, illustrated with warm pastoral
paintings, celebrates the meeting of grandmothers and grandbabies
everywhere.
Houghton Miffin Co. Paperback. $16.00 |
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Andrew
Jackson and the Search for Vindication
by James Curtis, Class of '59
A biography from the Library of American Biography Series.
Longman. Paperback. $21.95 |
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The
First to Cry Down Injustice?: Western Jews and Japanese Removal
During WWII
by Ellen Eisenberg, Class of '84
Although American Jews had already embraced the principle of fighting
prejudice in all forms, western Jews often did not apply it to specific
local issues involving Japanese Americans during World War II. In
The First to Cry Down Injustice, Eisenberg analyzes the range of
Jewish responses including silence, opposition to, and support for
the policy to the mass removal of Japanese Americans as the product
of a distinctive western ethnic landscape.
Lexington Books. Paperback. $24.95 |
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Jewish Agricultural
Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920
by Ellen Eisenberg, Class of '84
The Salem and Cumberland counties of southern New Jersey once contained
active Jewish colonies -- the largest and most successful, in fact,
of the settlment experiements undertaken by Russian-Jewish immigrants
in America during the late nineteenth century. Ellen Eisenberg analyzes
the impact of premigration origins, post-migration experiences, and
sponsor policies.
Syracuse University Press. Hardcover. $20.00 |
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The
Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion After the Black
Death
by Katherine French, Class of '84
There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black
Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often
equated this upheaval with immorality, singling out women's behavior
for particular blame. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly
connected good behavior for women with Christianity, and their failure
to conform to sin. Katherine L. French argues, however, that medieval
laywomen both coped with the chaotic changes following the plague
and justified their own changing behavior by participating in local
religion. Through active engagement in the parish church, the basic
unit of public worship, women promoted and validated their own interests
and responsibilities.
University of Pennsylvania Press. Hardcover. $69.95 |
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Women and Gender
in the Western Past: Prehistory-1815, Vol. 1 and 2
by Katherine French, Class of '84 and Allyson Poska
This two-volume survey of the history of women in western civilization
spans prehistory to the present. While devoting attention to women
of all classes, religions, and ethnicities, the text examines political,
economic, intellectual, and social history through the lens of gender.
The narrative emphasizes women's agency over oppression and makes
cutting-edge scholarship in women's history accessible to a wide
audience. Five major themes run throughout the narrative: the relationship
between key historical events and ideas and women's lives, the history
of the family and sexuality, the social construction of gender, cultural
assumptions about women (versus their actual lives), and self perception
and women's place in western societies. A rich collection of primary
sources and biographies reinforces these themes.
Volume 1: Houghton Mifflin. Paperback. $59.95
Volume 2: Houghton Mifflin. Paperback. $59.95 |
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Whistling
Wings
by Laura Goering, Carleton Faculty
Marcel, a young tundra swan, is tired from the first half of a winter
migration. One thousand miles is a long way to fly - too long for
Marcel, so he hides in the rushes to stay behind while his parents
and the flock continue south. But with the lake nearly frozen over,
he soon realizes that he is not cut out for life on ice. Other animals
offer advice about how to survive the winter, but their ways of living
aren’t right for the swan. Hungry and scared, he falls asleep
- only to be awakened by a big surprise!
Paperback. $8.95 |
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The
Teenagers' Guide to School Outside the Box
by Rebecca Fae (Freeman) Greene, Class of '99
Greene encourages readers to think about what they are interested
in and choose an opportunity to learn about it outside the classroom.
Chapters explore a variety of traditional and nontraditional environments
for volunteering, mentoring, alternative classes (dual enrollment,
distance learning, etc.), job shadowing, internships, apprenticeships,
camps, and study abroad. Scattered throughout are tidbits of information
in "F.Y.I." boxes, personal narratives highlighting teens'
experiences, and lists of books and organizations. The clear layout
is peppered with humorous spot art. This book will be a valuable
resource for librarians and counselors, and students will come away
from it with lots of ideas about how they can enrich their futures.-
— Jana R. Fine, Clearwater Public Library System,
FL
Free Spirit Publishing. Paperback. $15.95 |
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Journeywell:
A Guide to Quality Aging
by Patricia Herbert, Class of '59
You are on a journey from the moment you are born. You move through
life in cycles of beginnings and endings, experiencing and changing
as you go. this is not a how-to-do-aging book. There is no "right
way" to grow old. There is no lock-step path. What is "right" for
me may not fit for you at all. It is about possibilities and making
good choices. Journeywell helps you reflect on how to be the
person you want to be.
Beaver's Pond Press. Paperback. $24.95 |
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The Vintage
Journey: A Guide to Artful Aging
by Patricia Herbert, Class of '59
A practical guide for people to use in examining and evaluating their
journey through life, this book challenges readers to look ahead
toward the future and urges them to reflect on and understand their
past. "It is full of the usable truth." --May Sarton
Pilgrim Press. Paperback. $16.00 |
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Letters
Home: An American in China, 1939 to 1944
by John Hlavacek, Class of '39
Immediately after graduating from Carleton College in June 1939,
John Hlavacek sailed for China to teach English at the Carleton-in-China
Middle School in Fenchow, Shansi Province. After five weeks of training
in Chinese at a language school in Peking, John and a fellow teacher
traveled to the mission compound in what was then Japanese-occupied
China. John spent two years teaching English in Shansi and Szechwan,
then took a job driving RedCross trucks to deliver medical supplies
to foreign mission hospitals.
iUniverse. Paperback. $17.95 |
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Adobe
(CD)
by Roger Lasley, Carleton Staff
View Roger Lasley's other recordings available
on our website.
CD. $15.00 |
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Lies
My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook
Got Wrong
by James W. Loewen, Class of '64
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher
Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen
leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that
not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable.
Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless
optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit
almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past.
Touchstone Books. Paperback. $16.00 |
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Lies Across
America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
by James W. Loewen, Class of '64
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher
Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen
leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that
not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable.
Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless
optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit
almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past.
Touchstone Books. Paperback. $16.00 |
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Sundown Towns:
A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
by James W. Loewen, Class of '64
No blacks allowed, especially after dark. This was the unwritten
rule in a "sundown" town. In his trademark revelatory style,
bestselling author James W. Loewen explores one of America's best-kept
secrets as he unearths the making of sundown towns and discloses
the fact that many white neighborhoods and suburbs are the result
of years of racism and segregation. Powerful and unprecedented, Sundown
Towns tells the story of how these towns came into existence, what
maintains them, and what to do about them.
Touchstone Books. Paperback. $17.00 |
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Rambling
Down Life's Road... With a Brain Injury
by Kevin Pettit, Class of '89
This book provides you with a view of what it is like to have a traumatic
brain injury (TBI). It contains unedited excerpts from the diary
of someone who underwent a TBI. TBIs occur frequently these days
and affect more than 1.5 million people in America each year. This
book is meant to give you a view from the inside out of what it’s
like to have a TBI, encourage you find ways to avoid having or causing
a TBI, and to make you laugh a little.
Paperback. $20.99 |
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Snapshots
of the Kingdom: Communicating the Parables of Jesus
by David Powers, Class of '64
However we approach the parables of Jesus, these brief, pithy stories
at the center of his teaching are of vital importance for communicating
his message in our world today. Snapshots of the Kingdom presents
Jesus’ parables in such a way as to invite all who read – or
all who hear – into the drama each story contains. As combinations
of clarity and mystery, the parables offer unique insights into Jesus’ message
and his take on the world. This book is for all who would like to
know more about the teachings of Christ, and those who want to understand
more deeply the link between his stories and present-day life, as
well as those who teach or preach from those parables.
Xlibris. Paperback. $20.99 |
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Dim
and Flaring Lamps: America's Story Through Its State Flags
by Robert Richardson, Class of '54
Paperback. $17.95 |
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In
Full Circle: The Japanese-Style Garden As a Work of Art in
Progress (DVD)
produced by Bardwell Smith
In Full Circle features Carleton's renowned "Garden of
Quiet Listening." Recognized as one of the top ten Japanese
style gardens outside of Japan, the garden exemplifies the best practices
and principles of design and maintenance. The video not only explores
how these time honored principles find expression in the Carleton
garden but the process by which the garden was created and has evolved
since 1974. Included on the DVD is a lecture on the principles of
Japanese style garden design given recently at Carleton by David
Slawson, the garden's eminent designer. This engaging video will
appeal to both the seasoned professional and the amateur gardener
as well. Produced by Bardwell Smith.
DVD. $29.95 |
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Knights
of the Gridiron: A History of Carleton College Football, 1883-2005
by Robert Sullivan, Former Carleton College football coach
Bob Sullivan, former Carleton football coach (1979-2000) and professor
emeritus, has written a book on the history of Carleton football
from 1883-2005. "This book is filled with pictures, anecdotes,
and interviews with former players, as well as a complete history
of Carleton football," Sullivan says. "Carleton has enjoyed
a long, glorious and winning football tradition and it has been a
labor of love, as well as therapeutic, for me to write about it." All
former Knights and their families will find Knights of the Gridiron to
be a must have.
$29.95 |
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Coach
Jack: The Life and Times of Carleton's Jack Thurnblad
by David G. Lavender
"Jack and Jinny Thurnblad are a great Carleton story spanning
remarkably different eras in the College's history from the 1940s
to the present day. Campus leaders as students, 'glue' in the alumni
body for fifty-five years, respected and effective coach from 1960
to 1984, ambassadors to Northfield, to collegiate athletics, and
to young athletes outside the U.S. — what joy they have given
to all who have known them. This thoroughly researched and well written
account of their lives by Dave Lavender is a welcome addition to
Carleton's historical record."
— Stephen R. Lewis, Jr., Carleton's ninth president
$21.95 |
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Free
Market Madness: Why Human Nature Is at Odds with Economics--and
Why It Matters
by Peter Ubel, Class of '84
Humans just aren't entirely rational creatures. We decide to roll
over and hit the snooze button instead of going to the gym. We take
out home loans we can't possibly afford. And did you know that people
named Paul are more likely to move to St. Paul than other cities?
All too often, our subconscious causes us to act against our own
self-interest. But our free-market economy is based on the assumption
that we always do act in our own self-interest. In this provocative
book, physician Peter Ubel uses his understanding of psychology and
behavior to show that in some cases government must regulate markets
for our own health and well-being.
Harvard Business Press. Hardcover. $26.95 |
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Pricing Life:
Why It's Time for Health Care Rationing
by Peter Ubel, Class of '84
A rational look at health care rationing, from ethical, economic,
psychological, and clinical perspectives.
MIT Press. Paperback. $20.00 |
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Dangerous
Economies: Status and Commerce in Imperial New York
by Serena Zabin, St. Olaf College Faculty
We are much more accustomed to thinking of eighteenth-century New
York as a colonial rather than imperial city. Before the American
Revolution, however, those who lived in British North America were
not just colonists, but also subjects of the British Empire. The
British Empire in its turn has usually connoted more or less competent
government officials, a bewigged and distant Board of Trade, and
an enormous British military humming the chorus of Rule Britannia: "Britons
never shall be slaves." Yet all empires, regardless of their
modes of administration or control, consist at heart of individuals
living their daily lives and often unconscious of what it might mean
to live in an empire.
University of Pennsylvania Press. Hardcover. $37.50 |
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Wednesday, May 6
7:30 p.m.
Boliou Auditorium
Carleton College
True to Life: Twenty-five Years of Conversations
with David Hockney
by Lawrence Weschler
Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney
read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the
Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and
invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, initiating a series
of engrossing dialogues, gathered here for the first time. Weschler
chronicles Hockney's protean production and speculations, including
his scenic designs for opera, his homemade xerographic prints,
his exploration of physics in relation to Chinese landscape painting,
his investigations into optical devices, his taking up of watercolor--and
then his spectacular return to oil painting, around 2005, with
a series of landscapes of the East Yorkshire countryside of his
youth. These conversations provide an astonishing record of what
has been Hockney's grand endeavor, nothing less than an exploration
of "the structure of seeing" itself.
University of California Press. Paperback. $24.95 |
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Seeing Is Forgetting
the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations
with Robert Irwin
by Lawrence Weschler
When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert
Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his
own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include
six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, Seeing
Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three
decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space
master Irwin. It surveys many of Irwin's site-conditioned projects--in
particular the Central Gardens at the Getty Museum (the subject of
an epic battle with the site's principal architect, Richard Meier)
and the design that transformed an abandoned Hudson Valley factory
into Dia's new Beacon campus--enhancing what many had already considered
the best book ever on an artist.
University of California Press. Paperback. $24.95 |
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Mr. Wilson's
Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast,
and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
by Lawrence Weschler
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some
of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are
hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual
hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder
cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to
examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
Vintage Books. Paperback. $13.95 |
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Everything
That Rises: A Book of Convergences
by Lawrence Weschler
Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some
of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are
hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual
hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder
cabinets" that were the first museums and compels readers to
examine the imaginative origins of both art and science.
McSweeney's Books. Hardcover. $22.00 |
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Convocation & Booksigning
Friday, May 1
10:50 a.m.
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
Part Asian, 100% Hapa
by Kip Fulbeck
Originally a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for
half, Hapa is now being embraced as a term of pride by many people
of Asian or Pacific Rim mixed-race heritage. Award-winning film
producer and artist Kip Fulbeck has created a forum in word and
image for Hapas to answer the question they're nearly always asked: "What
are you?" Fulbeck's frank, head-on portraits are paired with
the sitters' own statements of identity. A work of intimacy, beauty,
and powerful self-expression, Part Asian, 100% Hapa is the
book Fulbeck says he wishes he had growing up.
Chronicle Books. Paperback. $19.95 |
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Permanence:
Tattoo Portraits
by Kip Fulbeck
Once a fringe phenomenon, tattooing is now a full-blown cultural
fact. More than 40 million people in the U.S. alone have tattoos,
all with unique stories about why they chose to indelibly mark their
bodies. Permanence combines photographic tattoo portraits
with these stories, told in the subjects' own words and handwriting.
Kip Fulbeck brings together young and old of all races, religions,
and political persuasions—from celebrities to suburban moms
to Hells Angels.
Chronicle Books. Paperback. $19.95 |
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Paper Bullets:
A Fictional Autobiography
by Kip Fulbeck
Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur
Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of
high comedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets, his
first novel, Fulbeck taps into his Cantonese, English, Irish, and
Welsh heritage, weaving a fictional autobiography from 27 closely
linked stories, essays, and confessions. By turns sensitive and forceful,
passionate and callous, Fulbeck confronts the politics of race, sex,
and Asian American masculinity head-on without apology, constantly
questioning where Hapas fit in a country that ignores multiracial
identity.
University of Washington Press. Paperback. $18.95 |
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Discussion & Booksigning
Thursday, April 23
7:30 p.m.
Boliou, Room 104
Carleton College
Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
by Fritz Haeg
The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic
front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. It was initiated
by architect and artist Fritz Haeg on Independence Day 2005, with
the planting of the first regional prototype garden in the geographic
center of the United States, Salina, Kansas. Since then three more
prototype gardens have been created, in Lakewood, California; Maplewood,
New Jersey and London, England. Edible Estates regional prototype
gardens will ultimately be established in nine cities across the
United States.
Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn documents the first four
gardens with personal accounts written by the owners, garden plans
and photographs illustrating the creation of the gardens.
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.
Paperback. $24.95 |
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Baseball Event
Monday, April 20
4:00 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
Carleton College
Baseball in Minnesota: The Definitive History
by Stew Thornley
Beginning with the sunny August afternoon in 1857 when Minnesota's
first ball club was organized in Nininger and continuing through
the Twins' latest season, Baseball in Minnesota is the first
comprehensive history of America's Pastime in the North Star State.
Encompassing the rich heritage of minor league baseball, town teams,
the Minnesota Gophers, the Saint Paul Saints, and the Minnesota
Twins, this encyclopedic volume delivers exceptionally detailed
stories of the games, the ball parks, and the larger-than-life
personalities, all woven with carefully researched statistics,
eyewitness accounts, and vintage photos.
Minnesota Historical Society Press. Hardcover.
$29.95 |
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Baseball Event
Monday, April 20
4:00 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
Carleton College
Ed Barrow: The Bulldog Who Built the Yankees'
First Dynasty
by Daniel Levitt
Before the feuding owners turned to Ed Barrow to be general manager
in 1920, the Yankees had never won a pennant. They won their first
in 1921 and during Barrow’s tenure went on to win thirteen
more as well as ten World Series. This biography of the incomparable
Barrow is also the story of how he built the most successful sports
franchise in American history. Barrow spent fifty years in baseball.
He was in the middle of virtually every major conflict and held
practically every job except player. A complex portrait of a larger-than-life
character in the annals of baseball, this book is also an inside
history of how the sport’s competitive environment evolved
and how the Yankees came to dominate it.
University of Nebraska Press. Hardcover. $29.95 |
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Paths to Glory:
How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way
by Daniel Levitt and Mark Armour
An essential experience of being a baseball fan is the hopeful anticipation
of seeing the hometown nine make a run at winning the World Series.
In Paths to Glory, Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt review
how teams build themselves up into winners. What makes a winning
team like the 1900 Brooklyn Superbas or the 1917 White Sox or the
1997 Florida Marlins? And how are these teams different? What makes
each championship team a unique product of its time? Armour and Levitt
provide the historical context to show how the sport's business side
has changed dramatically but its competitive environment remains
the same.
Potomac Books. Paperback. $18.95 |
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Friday, April 17
10:50 a.m. - Convocation
Booksigning to follow
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
SignSpotting: Absurd and Amusing Signs
from Around the World
by Doug Lansky
As anyone who has spent time on the road knows, you often have
to depend on signs...to navigate through a town, locate your hotel,
even obey the law - a scary thought if you've ever come across
any of the publicly posted absurdities that appear in this book.
Signs about as easy to understand as a Swahili auctioneer (to a
non-Swahili speaker) or as well-planned as the dance steps in a
mosh pit with the help of signspotters around the globe, we've
assembled a collection of some of the most unintentionally entertaining
postings on the planet - we hope they confuse and amuse you!
Lonely Planet Publications. Paperback. $7.99 |
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Lonely Planet
SignSpotting 2: More Absurd and Amusing Signs from Around the
World
by Doug Lansky
So, you're back on the road, it's getting dark and you've lost your
spot on the map - this is one way to get off the beaten tourist track!
Unless, of course, you're willing to take directions from the signs
found within these covers. Perhaps you fancy a weekend at the George
Bush Centre for Intelligence, or are willing to navigate your way
around a city despite the 'Explosion!' signs on every corner. Whatever
adventure you're after - whether it be a trip to the Curry Prevention
Services Unit in Oregon or the Ha Ha Cemetary in New Brunswick, Canada
- let our new collection of signs from around the globe guide, confuse
and amuse you!
Lonely Planet Publications. Paperback. $9.99 |
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The Rough Guide
to Travel Survival
by Doug Lansky
This is the essential field manual for every adventurous traveller,
or those that just want to feel a little safe while away. This book
is arranged into easy-to-read chapters covering preparation, basic
travel, survival strategies, environment-specific situations (arctic
and mountain, sea, political hotspots, natural disaster, desert,
jungle) with easy-to-follow diagrams throughout. Each of the main
chapters has step-by-step, practical advice for all situations, in
all environments, from surviving an avalanche or navigating in the
desert to coping with an ambush or a hostage situation. The book
concludes with a set of comprehensive and indispensable appendices
packed with instructions, from first aid to making a fire.
Lonely Planet Publications. Paperback. $12.99 |
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The Rough Guide
to First-Time Around the World
by Doug Lansky
Arranging an around-the-world itinerary is an increasingly popular
travel option, and this indispensable new guide turns the planning
process into a few easy steps that will make the most of your journey.
Wherever you're starting from and whatever your budget, the guide
covers the airline routes, health insurance, visas and money together
with issues that need a friend's voice — how to find work abroad,
how to avoid scams, how to hitchhike on yachts, and how to hook up
with others. If you're in the market for a RTW ticket you need this
book.
Lonely Planet Publications. Paperback. $15.99 |
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Friday, February 20
10:50 a.m., Convocation
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait
of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
by David Quammen
Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural
selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's
publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin
delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades?
The human drama and scientific basis of these years constitute
a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a
cautious naturalist who initiated an intellectual revolution.
W. W. Norton & Co. Paperback. $14.95 |
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Thursday, February 19
12:00 noon
The Carleton Bookstore
Carleton College
Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way
by Jeff Blodgett and Bill Lofy
Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is based on the
work of Wellstone Action, a leading-edge progressive training center
that has instructed thousands of political activists, campaign
managers, and volunteers — and more than two hundred of these
participants have gone on to run for office and win. Jeff Blodgett
and Bill Lofy analyze the crucial lessons learned from many successful
(and several losing) campaigns and demystify what it takes to run
for — and win — a political seat.
University of Minnesota Press. Paperback. $22.95 |
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Monday, February 16
7:00 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
Carleton College
Let There Be Night: Testimony on Behalf
of the Dark
edited by Paul Bogard
The development of the modern world has brought with it rampant
light pollution, destroying the ancient mystery of night and exacting
a terrible price—wasted energy, damage to human health, and
the sometimes fatal interruption of the life patterns of many species
of wildlife. In Let There Be Night, twenty-nine writers,
scientists, poets, and scholars share their personal experiences
of night and help us to understand what we miss when dark skies
and nocturnal wildness vanish. They also propose ways by which
we might restore the beneficence of true night skies to our cities
and our culture.
University of Nevada Press. Paperback. $21.95 |
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Friday, February 6
10:50 a.m., Convocation
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Carleton College
New Black Man
by Mark Anthony Neal
From headlines to street corners, the message resounds: Black men
are in crisis. Politicians, preachers, and pundits routinely cast
blame on those already ostracized within African American communities.
But the crisis of black masculinity does not rest with "at-risk" youth
of the hip-hop generation or men "on the down low" alone.
In this provocative new book, acclaimed cultural critic Mark Anthony
Neal argues that the "Strong Black Man" may be at the
heart of problems facing black men today.
Routledge. Paperback. $27.95 |
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Friday, January 23
10:50 a.m., Convocation
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement
of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas Blackmon
Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Slavery
by Another Name unearths the lost stories of slaves and their
descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation
and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude. It also
reveals the stories of those who fought unsuccessfully against
the re-emergence of human labor trafficking, the modern companies
that profited most from neoslavery, and the system’s final
demise in the 1940s, partly due to fears of enemy propaganda about
American racial abuse at the beginning of World War II.
This is a moving, sobering account of a little-known crime against
African Americans, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates
today.
Hardcover. $29.95 |
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Friday, January 16
10:50 a.m., Convocation
Skinner Memorial Chapel
Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday
Talk and Black Political Thought
by Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell
What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just
listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests
Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has—to black
college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare,
to Southern, black Baptists discussing homosexuality in the church,
to black men in a barbershop early on a Saturday morning, to the
voices of hip-hop music and Black Entertainment Television. Using
statistical, experimental, and ethnographic methods Barbershops,
Bibles, and BET offers a new perspective on the way public
opinion and ideologies are formed at the grassroots level.
Paperback. $19.95 |
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Monday, January 12
5:00 p.m.
Gould Library Athenaeum
Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay,
and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
by Kai Wright
There are countless migratory kids who populate the outskirts of
New York City’s gay wonderland. These young people are what
policymakers and social service agencies call at-risk youth. Drifting
Toward Love tells the story of one such teenager and his friends
as they embark on their own precarious journeys to belonging. Wright
neither diagnoses their problems nor prescribes solutions, but
instead uses his own literary and journalistic skill to allow a
more complete and human portrait to emerge.
Paperback. $16.00 |
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