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DIVERSITY
 Brooks, Geraldine Nine Parts of Desire
(305.48 Bro)
In this captivating book, award-winning journalist
Geraldine Brooks offers an intimate, often shocking portrait of the lives of
modern Muslim women, and shows how male pride and power have warped the original
message of a once-liberating faith.
 Colman, Penny Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts
(393 Col)
This
comprehensive volume examines the compelling subjects of death and burial across
cultures and societies. Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts includes photographs and
descriptions of famous people, a collection of literary quotes, images of death
and burial in the arts, interesting epitaphs, and gravestone carvings.
 Mahmoody, Betty and William Hoffer Not Without My
Daughter (305.4 Mah) The true story of Betty Mahmoody's escape
from Iran with her daughter after her Iranian husband attempted to turn a
two-week vacation into a permanent relocation and a life of subservience for
Betty and her daughter.
 Oufkir, Malika Stolen Lives (363.45
Ouf)
On August
15th, 1972, Malika Oufkir was probably the most privileged teenager in all
Morocco. The eldest daughter of King Hassan II's top aide, she had been raised
in the opulent seclusion of the monarch's harem. But within 24 hours, her father
would be tried and summarily executed for treason, and she and her entire family
would be arrested and imprisoned in a remote desert penal colony. For the next
20 years, her accommodations would only grow worse.
 Roach, Mary Stiff (611.21
Roa)
Stiff is an
oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies
postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some
unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest
undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of
cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we
are no longer with them.
 Sasson, Jean Princess (305.42
Sas)
A true story
of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia, Princess delivers a gripping account of
the horrors and degradations suffered by actual modern-day Saudi
women.
CHAPTER THREE: CULTURAL CONFORMITY AND
ADAPTATION
 Haber, Barbara From Hardtack to Home Fries (394.1
Har)
Barbara
Haber, one of America's most respected authorities on the history of food, has
spent years excavating fascinating stories of the ways in which meals cooked and
served by women have shaped American history. As any cook know, every meal, and
every diet, has a story -- whether it relates to presidents and first ladies or
to the poorest of urban immigrants. From Hardtack to Home Fries brings together
the best and most inspiring of those stories, from the 1840s to the present,
focusing on a remarkable assembly of little-known or forgotten Americans who
determined what our country ate during some of its most trying
periods.
 Von Drehle, David Triangle (974.7
Von)
On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave
for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle shirtwaist factory in New York's
Greenwich Village. This harrowing yet
compulsively readable book is both a chronicle of the Triangle shirtwaist fire
and a vibrant portrait of an entire age. It follows the waves of Jewish and
Italian immigration that inundated New York in the early years of the century,
filling its slums and supplying its garment factories with cheap, mostly female
labor. It portrays the Dickensian work conditions that led to a massive
waist-worker's strike in which an unlikely coalition of socialists, socialites,
and suffragettes took on bosses, police, and magistrates. Von Drehle shows how
popular revulsion at the Triangle catastrophe led to an unprecedented alliance
between idealistic labor reformers and the supremely pragmatic politicians of
the Tammany machine.
CHAPTER FOUR: SOCIAL
STRUCTURE
 Hine, Thomas The Rise
and Fall of the American Teenager (305.23 Hin) In the
groundbreaking work, Thomas Hine examines the American teenager as a social
invention shaped by the needs of the twentieth century. With intelligence,
insight, imagination, and humor he traces the culture of youth in America—from
the spiritual trials of young Puritans and the vision quests of Native Americans
to the media-blitzed consumerism of contempory thirteen-to-nineteen -year-olds.
The resulting study is a glorious appreciation of youth that challenges us to
confront our sterotypesm, rethink our expectations, and consider anew the lives
of those individuals who are blessing, our bane, and our future.
 Wiseman, Rosalind
Queen Bees & Wannabes (649.12 Wis)
In her groundbreaking book, Queen Bees and
Wannabes, Empower cofounder Rosalind Wiseman takes you inside the secret
world of girls' friendships. Wiseman has spent more than a decade listening to
thousands of girls talk about the powerful role cliques play in shaping what
they wear and say, how they respond to boys, and how they feel about themselves.
In this candid, insightful book, she dissects each role in the clique: Queen
Bees, Wannabes, Messengers, Bankers, Targets, Torn Bystanders, and more. She
discusses girls' power plays, from birthday invitations to cafeteria seating
arrangements and illicit parties. She takes readers into "Girl World" to analyze
teasing, gossip, and reputations; beauty and fashion; alcohol and drugs; boys
and sex; and more, and how cliques play a role in every situation.
CHAPTER FIVE: SOCIALIZING THE
INDIVIDUAL
 Hayden, Torey Ghost Girl (362.1
Hay)Jadie never spoke. She never laughed, or cried,
or uttered any sound. Despite efforts to reach her, Jadie remained locked in her
own troubled world--until one remarkable teacher persuaded her to break her
self-imposed silence. Nothing in all of Torey Hayden's experience could have
prepared her for the shock of what Jadie told her--a story too horrendous for
Torey's professional colleagues to acknowledge. Yet a little girl was living in
a nightmare, and Torey Hayden responded in the only way she knew how--with
courage, compassion, and dedication--demonstrating once again the tremendous
power of love and the relilience of the human spirit.
CHAPTER SIX: THE ADOLESCENT IN
SOCIETY
 Blanco, Jodee Please Stop Laughing at Me
(305.23 Bla)
While other kids were daydreaming about dances, first kisses, and college,
Jodee Blanco was just trying to figure out how to get from homeroom to study
hall without being taunted or spit upon as she walked through the halls.
 Browning Smith, Chelsea Diary of an Eating
Disorder (362.1 Bro)
Chelsea relates how her parents' divorce and
sexual abuse by a neighbor resulted in a deep-rooted negative personal image and
low self-esteem. Her diary reveals the surprising and shocking ideas and beliefs
she held about herself, her obsession with food and eating, her desire to
recover and become healthy, and her despair that her eating disorder could cause
her to lose the people she loved and prevent her from achieving her goals. She
recounts her days in an eating disorder rehab center and her long road to
recovery. Throughout the book, the author's mother, Beverly Runyon, describes
Chelsea's life and the difficulties of watching a beloved child starve herself
until she finally asks for help.
 Coloroso, Barbara The
Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander (Pro 371.7
Col)Drawing on her decades of work
with troubled youth and her wide experience with conflict resolution and
reconciliatory justice, bestselling parenting educator Barbara Coloroso offers a
unique, practical, and compassionate book destined to become a groundbreaking
guide to this escalating problem.
Coloroso helps readers recognize the
characteristic triad of bullying: the bully who perpetrates the harm; the
bullied who is the target (and who may become a bully); and the bystander — the
peers, siblings, or adults who don't act to defuse the situation.
 Eliot, Eve Insatiable
(616.85 Eli)
Insatiable is an astonishingly moving
story of four teenage girls whose shame, fear and confusion compel them to
binge, purge and refuse to eat in misguided attempts to feel safe and in control
of their lives.
 Hersch, Patricia A Tribe Apart (305.235
Her)
For three years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed
inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some
exotic culture - the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she
followed eight teenagers in the typically American town of Reston, Virginia,
listening to their stories, observing their rituals, watching them fulfill their
dreams and enact their tragedies. Without prejudice or stereotype, Hersch set
out with the goal of seeing adolescents as they see themselves.
 Michener, Anna
Becoming Anna (B Mic)
"My grandmother says I destroyed my mother before
I was even born." What does it mean for a child to hear sentiments like this
from the family that is supposed to love her? What does it tell her about what
kind of woman she can become? In Becoming Anna, a poignant and painful memoir of
her first sixteen years, Anna Michener describes the effect of words like these
and deeds even worse. At the age of sixteen she finally found a new family, and
she found her own voice. Changing her name to Anna and adopting the last name of
her new legal guardians, she wrote Becoming Anna as an early step toward
recovery, a self-affirmation, and a powerful plea on behalf of all the other
children who still suffer.
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE ADULT IN
SOCIETY
CHAPTER EIGHT: DEVIANCE
AND SOCIAL CONTROL
 Sebold, Alice Lucky (346.15
Seb)
Fifteen years
ago, at the age of eighteen, Alice Sebold was raped. In the days just following,
she made herself a promise, the promise that one day she would write a book
about her experience. And now, on the other side of heroin addiction,
post-traumatic stress disorder, and a decade and a half of recovery, that book
has arrived: a starkly honest, grippingly detailed narrative of violence and
healing, suffused with poignancy, pain, and a natural
wit.
 Tarbox, Katherine Katie.com (B
Tar)
Katie.com is far more real than any
front-page tabloid tale of Internet deception. Katherine Tarbox, now 17, bravely
spills her guts in these pages, carefully outlining the events leading up to her
meeting with Mark in Texas. She even admits to feeling guilty, describing at
length what she feels responsible for, even though she was just a young girl
when she met a man in a chat room. But Tarbox doesn't end her memoir with the
Texas meeting. She writes about the ensuing depression, anger, and shame.
Katie's parents, severely disappointed in her, pressed charges against Mark, and
Katie had to spend hours with the police and the FBI. She felt ostracized,
ashamed, gossiped about. She went through many therapists and had to work hard
to regain her family's trust.
CHAPTER NINE: SOCIAL
STRATIFICATION
 Ehrenreich, Barbara
Nickel and Dimed (305.56 Ehr)
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round,
for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She
was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised
that a job -- any job -- could be the ticket to a better life. But how does
anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out,
Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and
accepted whatever jobs she was offered as a woefully inexperienced homemaker
returning to the workforce. So began a grueling, hair-raising, and darkly funny
odyssey through the underside of working America.
 Kotlowitz, Alex The
Other Side of the River (977.4 Kot)
Separated by the St. Joseph River, St. Joseph and
Benton Harbor are two Michigan towns that are geographically close, yet in every
sense worlds apart. St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community, 95 percent
white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and 92 percent black. When the body
of Eric McGinnis, a black teenage boy from Benton Harbor, is found in the river,
relations between the two communities grow increasingly strained as long-held
misperceptions and attitudes surface. As family, friends, and the police
struggle to find out how McGinnis died. Alex Kotlowitz uncovers layers of both
evidence and opinion, and demonstrates that in many ways, the truth is shaped by
which side of the river you call home. Thoughtful and affecting, The Other Side
of the River proves once again that Alex Kotlowitz is one of our foremost
writers on the ever-explosive issue of race. In an afterword to this Anchor
edition, Kotlowitz discusses the reaction to the book in the communities it
deals with.
 Kotlowitz, Alex There
Are No Children Here (305.23 Kot)
This is the moving account of two remarkable boys
struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex
disfigured by crime and neglect.
 Register, Cheri
Packinghouse Daughter (977.6 Reg)
The daughter of a Wilson & Company millwright,
Cheri Register recalls the 1959 meatpackers' strike that divided her hometown of
Albert Lea, Minnesota. The violence that erupted when the company replaced its
union workers with strikebreakers tested family loyalty and community stability.
Register skillfully interweaves her own memories, historical research, and oral
interviews into a narrative that is thoughtful and impassioned about the value
of blue-collar work and the dignity of those who do it.
CHAPTER TEN: RACIAL AND ETHNIC
RELATIONS
 Griffin, John Black
Like Me (B Gri)
He trudged southern streets searching for a place
where he could eat or rest, looking vainly for a job other than menial labor,
feeling the "hate stare." He was John Griffin, a white man who darkened the
color of his skin and crossed the line into a country of hate, fear, and
hopelessness--the country of the American Black man.
 Harrington, Walt Crossings (305.896
Har)
A white man married to a black woman, Walt
Harrington has two mixed-race children. A racist joke made in the dentist's
office one afternoon provoked first anger, then anguish and fear for his
children as Harrington, a Washington Post Magazine staff writer, realized that
the butt of the joke was not simply "those people" but his son and daughter.
Crossings, which grew out of this incident, is the eye-opening story of
Harrington's twenty-five-thousand-mile excursion through black America, a
personal journey that is also a documentary look at African Americans
today.
 Jacob, Iris My Sisters' Voices (305.23
Jac)
My Sisters' Voices is a passionate and poignant
collection of writings by teenage girls of African American, Hispanic, Asian
American, Native American, and biracial backgrounds. With candor and grace,
these young women speak out on topics that are relevant not only to themselves
and their peers but to anyone who is raising, teaching, or nurturing girls of
color.
 McBride, James The Color of Water (974.7
McB)
Around the
narrative of Ruth McBride Jordan, a.k.a. Rachel Deborah Shilsky, the daughter of
an angry, failed Orthodox Jewish rabbi in the South, her son James writes of the
inner confusions he felt as a black child of a white mother and of the love and
faith with which his mother surrounded their large family. The result is a
powerful portrait of growing up, a meditation on race and identity, and a
poignant, beautifully crafted hymn from a son to his
mother.
 McCall, Nathan Makes Me Wanna Holler (305.38
McC)
An explosive,
true-life Native Son for the 1990s--a black Washington Post reporter who served
time recounts his life and brilliantly shows why prison has become a rite of
passage for many young black men. McCall's accounts of the hidden prejudice
encountered in seemingly liberal, integrated bastions of the newsroom are
eye-opening.
 Nam, Vickie Yell-Oh Girls! (305.23
Nam)
In this groundbreaking collection of personal
writings, young Asian American girls come together for the first time and engage
in a dynamic converstions about the unique challenges they face in their lives.
Promoted by a variety of pressing questions from editor Vickie Nam and culled
from hundreds of submission from all over the country, these revelatory essays,
poems, and stories tackle such complex issues as dual identities, culture
clashes, family matters, body image, and the need to find one's
voice.
 Tatum, Beverly Daniel
"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the
Cafeteria?" (305.8 Tat)Anyone who's
been to a high school or college has noted how students of the same race seem to
stick together. Beverly Daniel Tatum has noticed it too, and she doesn't think
it's so bad. As she explains in this provocative, though
not-altogether-convincing book, these students are in the process of
establishing and affirming their racial identity. As Tatum sees it, blacks must
secure a racial identity free of negative stereotypes. The challenge to whites,
on which she expounds, is to give up the privilege that their skin color affords
and to work actively to combat injustice in society.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: GENDER, AGE, AND
HEALTH
 Brumberg, Joan Jacob
The Body Project (305.235 Bru)
Girls today are in crisis -- and this book shows
why. Drawing on a vast array of lively historical sources, unpublished diaries
by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up memories of the past,
The Body Project chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed
over the past century and why that experience is more difficult today than ever
before. Girls' bodies have certainly changed -- they mature much earlier -- but
at the same time traditional social supports for girls' growth and development
have collapsed. The media and popular culture exploit girls' normal sensitivity
to their changing bodies, and many girls grow up believing that 'good looks' --
rather than 'good works' -- represent the highest form of female perfection.
With an eye for the humor in as well as the pain of female adolescence, Joan
Jacobs Brumberg shows how American girls came to define themselves increasingly
through their appearance, so that today the body has become their primary
project.
 Kettlewell, Caroline Skin Game: A Memoir
(616.8 Ket)
Caroline Kettlewell’s
autobiography reveals a girl whose feelings of pain and alienation led her to
seek relief in physically hurting herself, from age twelve into her twenties.
 Levenkron, Steven Cutting (616.85
Lev)
Known as the illness of the 1990s, close to two
million Americans and possibly more suffer from the psychological disorder of
self-mutilation. The most prominent public admission was that of Princess Diana.
Written for the self-mutilator, parents, friends, and therapists, Levenkron
unravels step by step the mindset of the self-mutilator, explains why the
disorder manifests in self-harming behaviors, and, most of all, describes how
the self-mutilator can be helped.
 Pipher, Mary Reviving Ophelia (305.23
Pip)
A therapist who has worked extensively with young
girls reveals firsthand evidence of the damage that can be caused by growing up
in a "girl-poisoning culture, " raises a call to arms, and offers parents
compassion and strategies for survival.
 Pollack, William Real Boys' Voices (305.23
Pol)
What are boys today saying about drugs, sex,
sports, violence, ambition, school, parents? The author of the bestseller REAL
BOYS now lets us listen directly to boys speaking out about their lives and many
hot topics, and he offers advice on how boys and adults can speak with one
another more effectively.
 Shandler, Sara Ophelia Speaks (305.235
Sha)
At age sixteen, Sara Shandler read Mary Pipher's
Reviving Ophelia, the national bestseller that candidly explored the
unique issues that challenge girls in their struggle toward womanhood. Moved by
Pipher's insight yet driven to hear the unfiltered voices of today's adolescent
girls, Shandler yearned to speak for herself, and to provide a forum for other
Ophelias to do so as well.
 Snyderman, Nancy L. and
Peg Streep Girl in the Mirror (306.87 Sni) Girl in the Mirror
is the book we've all been looking for. It teaches us that our daughters'
adolescence isn't a time to be gotten through or survived; instead, it's a
tremendous opportunity not just to foster social, emotional, and intellectual
growth, but to forge new connections between us and our daughters. Drawing on
the latest research and interviews with experts in different fields, Girl in the
Mirror sheds new light on the journey of adolescence, the crucial interaction
between mother and daughter, and the ways in which our own parenting skills must
evolve as our daughters move into a new stage of growth. Filled with practical
wisdom and sound advice, with stories drawn from Snyderman's own experience as
the mother of two adolescent girls and from the experiences of women around the
country, Girl in the Mirror offers readers a bold and reassuring vision.
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE
FAMILY
 Bradley, James Flags
of Our Fathers (940.54 Bra)
To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the
photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered
closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James
Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men
of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has
written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial
island—an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who
would fight to the last man.
 Clark, Mary JoOn the
Home Front (973.93 Cla)
Mary Jo's distinctive style animates these
touching and sometimes lighthearted stories of family and friends, love and war,
school and work. Through her words and images, we are transported to a
sun-warmed living room, where we sip tea while sifting through a box of old
photos, as our own past plays itself out, sprung from memory like a much-loved
song. Arranged thematically and accompanied by family photos of the people and
places she recalls, On the Home Front captures unforgettable moments in
American history and a mother's cherished memories.
 Greene, Bob Duty
(940.54 Gre)
When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be
with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his
dad in a way he never had before, thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few
miles away and changed the history of the world. In 1945, Paul Tibbets had
piloted a plane called Enola Gay to the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where
he dropped the atomic bomb. On the morning after the last meal Greene ever ate
with his father, he went to meet Tibbets. What developed was an unexpected
friendship that allowed Greene to discover things about his father, and his
father's generation of soldiers, that he had never fully understood
before.
 McCourt, Frank Angela's Ashes (B
McC)
"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to
survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood
is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the
miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic
childhood."
So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt,
born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the
slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the
children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks
his wages. Yet Malachy -- exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling -- does
nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Frank
lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel
on the Seventh Step, who brings his mother babies.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE ECONOMY
AND POLITICS
 Moore, Michael Downsize This!
(320.97 Moo)
Nothing but the truth is sacred in Michael Moore's
hilarious screed on the state of America, Downsize This! With the same
in-your-face tenacity that has made him everyman's hero, Moore gets under the
skin of corporate giants, politicians, lobbyists, and the media - anyone who has
made life tougher for the millions of Americans who are working longer hours for
less pay and have had enough. Moore brings his wit and working-class voice to an
American public desperate to save what's left of their American dream. His
take-no-prisoners attitude is brutally funny, insightful,
irrepressible.
 Moore, Michael Dude, Where's My Country?
(320.97 Moo)
If Moore's earlier work Stupid White Men
didn't shake up the Bush administration, this latest exposé is another shout for
attention. Moore, whose credits include the bestseller Downsize This! and
the award-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine," challenges Dubya to
either step down or explain his 25-year involvement with the bin Laden family,
his relationship to the Saudi royal family, the Taliban's visit to Texas, and
the Saudi connection to 9/11. He also attempts to sort out Bush's web of tall
Texas tales regarding Saddam Hussein and the war in Iraq. In addition to pages
of notes and credits, Moore includes a helpful chapter called "How to talk to
your conservative brother-in-law."
 Moore, Michael Stupid
White Men (320.97 Moo)
Michael Moore's mission is to ruffle as many
feathers as possible, and with his latest manifesto, Stupid White Men,
he's done an admirable job. Moore, known as both a filmmaker and a bestselling
author, takes on our current and former presidents, corporate America, and the
judicial system in this irreverently witty, no-holds-barred look at the state of
the nation.
 O'Reilly, Bill The No Spin Zone (973.92
O'Re)
The No-Spin Zone cuts through all the
rhetoric that some of O'Reilly's most infamous guests have spewed to expose
what's really on their minds, while sharing plenty of his own emphatic
counterpoints along the way.
 O'Reilly, Bill
Who's Looking Out For You? (973.93 O'Re)
Who's Looking Out for You? is a book that
confronts our worst fears and biggest problems in a post-9/11,
post-corporate-meltdown world. Its sage, candid advice on regaining control and
trust in these troubled times will resonate with the millions of readers and
viewers who have come to believe in Bill O'Reilly as the man who speaks for
them.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN:
EDUCATION AND RELIGION
 Burnham, Gracia In the Presence of My Enemies
(B Bur)
Soon after September 11, the news media stepped up
its coverage of Martin and Gracia Burnham, the missionary couple held hostage in
the Philippine jungle by terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden. After a year
of captivity and a violent rescue that resulted in Martin's death, the world
watched Gracia Burnham return home in June 2002.
 Corwin, Miles And Still We Rise (371.95
Cor)
Author and journalist Miles Corwin spent the
entire 1996-97 school year with a remarkable group of individuals: the students
in the senior Advanced Placement English class at Crenshaw High School—-young
ghetto scholars who have managed to excel despite living in the hostile world of
South Central Los Angeles. This book is a moving account of their courage,
achievements, strength, and resilient spirit—-their personal crises, setbacks,
catastrophes, and triumphs. It is an unforgettable ten-month visit to the
dynamic, electrically charged classroom of Toni Little, an inspiring but
volatile and wildly unpredictable white educator determined to imbue her
minority students with a passion for great literature. Corwin also spent the
year with Anita "Mama" Moultrie, a flamboyant black teacher whose Afrocentric
teaching style was diametrically opposed to Little's traditional approach. These
exceptional students—-all classified as gifted—-provide a ground zero
perspective on the affirmative action debate and will remain with the readers
always. .
 Freedman, Samuel G. Small Victories (373.11
Fre)
Small Victories is the story of one incredibly
dedicated teacher and the struggles she and her students face both inside the
classroom and out. is a book with important lessons for anyone concerned about
the quality and state of education in America today.
 Hayden, Torey Beautiful Child (371.9
Hay)
Seven-year-old Venus Fox's unresponsiveness was so
complete that Torey Hayden initially believed the child was deaf. Venus never
spoke, never listened, never even acknowledged the presence of another human
being in the room with her. Yet an accidental playground bump would
release a rage frightening to behold, turning the little girl into a whirling
dynamo of dangerous malice.Of the five children in Torey's classroom that
September, Venus posed the greatest challenge — though the other four had
serious problems of their own that could not be overlooked. The six-year-old
twins Shane and Zane suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome and its accompanying
mix of high agitation and low concentration. At nine, cocky, aggressive Billy
had already been expelled from school twice. Eight-year-old Jesse suffered from
Tourette's syndrome. And then there was Venus. Though all of the children had
different needs and afflictions, they had two things in common: a profound,
sometimes violent dislike of one another, and the desire to be almost anywhere
other than Torey's class. The school year that followed would prove to be one of
the most trying, perplexing, and ultimately rewarding of Torey's career, as she
struggled to reach a silent child in obvious pain and need and, at the same
time, create an atmosphere of learning and cooperation in a class bent on
chaos.
 Kozel, Jonathan Savage
Inequalities (371.96 Koz)
National Book
Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the
American educational system in this stunning New York Times
bestseller.
 Stotsky, Sandra Losing Our Language (306.43
Sto)
A
hard-hitting, well-researched expose showing why multiculturalism as the guiding
philosophy in the classroom is damaging to all children--and to minority
children in particular.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: SCIENCE AND THE MASS
MEDIA
 Nielsen, Jerri Ice Bound (616.99
Nie)
Most of us harbor a fear of falling ill while away from home, but Dr.
Jerri Nielsen experienced perhaps the ultimate sojourner's nightmare: While on a
year's sabbatical to provide medical care at Antarctica's Amundsen-Scott South
Pole Station, she discovered a lump in her breast. That's not a development ever
to be welcomed, but especially not when one is stranded in one of the most
remote spots on earth. Nielsen was forced to perform her own biopsy and to
self-administer chemotherapy treatments for some four months until weather
conditions allowed for her to be rescued. Ice Bound recounts Nielsen's
courage in the face of overwhelming corporeal and climatic
adversity.
 Wolf, Naomi The Beauty Myth (305.42
Wol)
In this
controversial national bestseller, feminist scholar Naomi Wolf argues that there
is one hurdle in the struggle for equality that women have yet to clear--the
myth of female beauty. She exposes today's unrealistic standards of female
beauty as a destructive form of social control and a reaction against women's
increasing status in business and politics.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: POPULATION AND
URBANIZATION
 Kozel, Jonathan
Amazing Grace (362.7 Koz)
The children in this book defy
the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender,
generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty
about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened
them.
 Kozel, Jonathan Ordinary Resurrections
(305.23 Koz)
Jonathan Kozel returns to
the South Bronx to spend another four years with the children who have come to
be his friends at P.S. 30 and St. Ann's. A fascinating narrative of daily
urban life seem through the eyes of children, Ordinary Resurrections
gives the human face to Northern segregation and provides a stirring testimony
to the courage and resilience of the young.
 Kozel, Jonathan Rachel and Her Children
(362.5 Koz)
There is no safety net for the
millions of heartbroken refugees from the American Dream, scattered helplessly
in any city you can name. Rachel and Her Children is an
unforgettable record for humanity, of the desperate voices of the men, women,
and especially children, and their hourly struggle for survival, homeless in
America
CHAPTER
SEVENTEEN:COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOR
AND
SOCIAL MOVEMENT
 Beamer, Lisa Let's
Roll (973.93 Bea)
On September 11, 2001, Lisa
Beamer was thrust into the public spotlight after her husband, Todd, died a hero
resisting terrorist hijackers on United Flight 93, which crashed in a
Pennsylvania field. In telling her story, Lisa explores the life of her husband,
telling how and why he was prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice and how she
has found hope, courage, and quiet personal strength. The phrase "Let's Roll"
was a frequent expression of Todd's and the last words the GTE Airfone operator
heard from him before the crash.
 Longman, Jere Among
the Heroes (974.8 Lon)
Of the four horrific hijackings
on September 11, Flight 93 resonates as one of epic resistance. At a time when
the United States appeared defenseless against an unfamiliar foe, the gallant
passengers and crew of Flight 93 provided for many Americans a measure of
victory in the midst of unthinkable defeat. Together, they seemingly
accomplished what all the security guards and soldiers, military plots and
government officials, could not - they thwarted the terrorists, sacrificing
their own lives so that others might live.
 Moose, Charles
A. Three Weeks in October (364.15 Moo)
In a memoir that details his
rise through the ranks of the Montgomery County Police Department, Chief Charles
Moose recounts the riveting story of the hunt for the serial snipers who
terrorized the Washington, D.C., area in October
2002.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:
SOCIAL CHANGE AND
MODERNIZATION
 Fairclough, Adam
Better Day Coming (323.1 Fai)
Beginning with the campaign against lynching
launched by Ida B. Wells in the 1890s, Fairclough examines the tradition of
militant protest that in 1909 led to the formation of the NAACP, which over the
next fifty years formed a powerful foundation for civil rights efforts. He
focuses on the South, where white repression often inhibited open protest, and
also discusses the efforts of black women and teachers to promote racial
equality through education, self-help, and interracial cooperation. Offering a
fresh interpretation of Booker T. Washington, Fairclough emphasizes the tactical
wisdom and political realism of the gradualist strategy often condemned as
"accommodationism."
 Mason, Gilbert R. (323
Mas)
This book, the first to focus on the integration
of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing
episodes that occurred during the civil rights movement. Newly opened by court
order, documents from the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission's secret files
enhance this riveting memoir written by a major civil rights figure. He joined
his friends and allies Aaron Henry and the martyred Medgar Evers to combat
injustices in one of the nation's most notorious bastions of segregation." "His
story recalls the great migration of blacks to the North, of family members who
remained in Mississippi, of family ties in Chicago and other northern cities.
Following graduation from Tennessee State and Howard University Medical College,
he set up his practice in the black section of Biloxi in 1955 and experienced
the restrictions that even a black physician suffered in the segregated South.
Four years later, he began his battle to dismantle the Jim Crow system. This is
the story of his struggle and hard-won victory.
 Pearson, Hugh Under the Knife (B
Gri)
Hugh Pearson grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
encouraged by his parents to believe that nothing was beyond his reach. If he
needed any further inspiration, he could look to his great-uncle, Dr. Joseph
Griffin. Although Griffin had stayed in the Deep South, he managed to become a
pillar of his community at a time when Afro-Americans—then called Negroes—rarely
prospered. He became the first Negro surgeon in south Georgia, donating millions
of dollars to Afro-American institutions and building the largest private
hospital for Afro-Americans in the state. Griffin inspired Louis Sullivan, who
later became President Bush's Secretary of Health and Human Services, to go into
medicine and a young Hosea Williams, who grew up to be one of Martin Luther
King, Jr.'s most trusted aides, to aspire to be someone important. He served as
a father figure to Donald Hollowell, the lawyer who became a mentor to Vernon
Jordan and earned the nickname Georgia's "Mr. Civil Rights" for his legal
battles on behalf of Martin Luther King, Jr., and other activists.
 Schlosser, Eric Fast Food Nation (394.1
Sch)
Fast food has become a veritable
American institution, with restaurants serving a quick bite in every strip mall
and roadside rest area across the country. But, according to Fast Food
Nation, the fast food establishment has been serving up much more than just
cheap hamburgers and greasy fries. In compelling fashion, author Eric Schlosser
traces the growth of fast food chains after World War II and condemns the
industry for giving rise to such cultural maladies as obesity, classism,
American global imperialism, and environmental
devastation.
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