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The Only Woman in the Room

Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club

by Eileen Pollack
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

A bracingly honest exploration of why there are still so few women in the hard sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science   In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set...

Flashback

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War

by Penny Coleman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

With the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, once again America's men and women who have seen war close-up are suddenly expected to return seamlessly to civilian life. In Flashback, Penny Coleman tells the cautionary and timely story of posttraumatic stress disorder in the hope that we can sensitively...

The Trials of Nina McCall

Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison "Promiscuous" Women

by Scott W. Stern
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

**The nearly forgotten story of the American Plan, a government program to regulate women’s bodies and sexuality—and how they fought back—told through the lens of one of its survivors “A consistently surprising page-turner . . . a brilliant study of the way social anxieties have historically...
by Daisy Hernandez
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014

A coming-of-age memoir by a Colombian-Cuban woman about shaping lessons from home into a new, queer life   In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her mother warns her about envidia and...

Epic Journeys of Freedom

Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty

by Cassandra Pybus
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006

Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can the exhilaration...

In Defense of Women

Memoirs of an Unrepentant Advocate

by Nancy Gertner
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011

From a “Human Rights Hero,” a memoir of her illustrious career litigating groundbreaking cases   In the boys' club climate of 1975, Nancy Gertner launched her career fighting a murder charge on behalf of antiwar activist Susan Saxe, one of the few women to ever make the FBI's Most Wanted List....

Pistols and Petticoats

175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction

by Erika Janik
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years In 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon, and kept her badge stuffed in her pocketbook. She...

Defiant Brides

The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

by Nancy Rubin Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013

The story of two Revolutionary–era teenagers who defy their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold, and are forever changed   When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated...
by Terry Galloway
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009

In 1959, the year Terry Galloway turned nine, the voices of everyone she loved began to disappear. No one yet knew that an experimental antibiotic given to her mother had wreaked havoc on her fetal nervous system, eventually causing her to go deaf. As a self-proclaimed "child freak," she...

Project Fatherhood

A Story of Courage and Healing in One of America's Toughest Communities

by Jorja Leap
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015

A group of former gang members come together to help one another answer the question “How can I be a good father when I’ve never had one?”   In 2010, former gang leader turned community activist Big Mike Cummings asked UCLA gang expert Jorja Leap to co-lead a group of men struggling to be better...
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014

**2015 Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples**   Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of...

The Fearless Benjamin Lay

The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist

by Marcus Rediker
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded...

Loving

Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

by Sheryll Cashin
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics. Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime:...

Red Bird

Poems

by Mary Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008

Mary Oliver's twelfth book of poetry, Red Bird comprises sixty-one poems, the most ever in a single volume of her work. Overflowing with her keen observation of the natural world and her gratitude for its gifts, for the many people she has loved in her seventy years, as well as for her disobedient dog Percy, Red Bird is a quintessential collection of Oliver's finest lyrics.
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