Browsing the "Social Science" category: 1985 books
Pasted into Bibles, schoolbooks, and hearts, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," written by J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson in 1900, has become one of the most beloved songs in the African American community--taught for years in schools, church ...more »
ISBN: 0375506462 / Random House / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 7566K
The eye-opening, heart-rending account of how an alienated and disenfranchised generation is finding solidarity, opportunity, and hope on the Internet, by the author of "Running to the Mountain." ...more »
ISBN: 0375505180 / Random House / Pub Date: Feb 2000 / File Size: 390K
Discovering that law and justice are not the same thing, Burnett presents a narrative of his encounter with crime and punishment, American style, when he serves on a jury and realizes the terrifying power of the state. ...more »
ISBN: 0375414258 / Knopf / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 211K
Gay Science is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical questions surrounding sexual orientation research. Bioethicist Timothy Murphy presents the views of many gay men and women who detect ominous motives behind this research. If a genetic ...more »
ISBN: 0231500319 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Sep 1997 / File Size: 714K
What happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America, and it has reached epidemic proportions in the African American community. Jone ...more »
ISBN: 034544440X / Ballantine / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 327K
Today the American family is under siege as never before. From the dramatic rise in illegitimacy, divorce, cohabitation, and single parenthood to the call for recognition of gay marriages, the traditional nuclear family is being radically challeng ...more »
ISBN: 0385504861 / Doubleday Books / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 261K
As you read these words, the architects of the new virtual reality are inventing a world you never imagined: call it the playful world. It's a world of interactive Web-based toys that instantly collapse the gulf between wish and existence, space and ...more »
ISBN: 0345446909 / Ballantine / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 330K
Even now, at the end of the twentieth century, many still have difficulty standing up and saying, "I am the parent of a gay child". Something to Tell You recounts the stories of families whose lives have been touched by the discovery that a child is ...more »
ISBN: 0231500211 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 2000 / File Size: 597K
Travis Hugh Culley went to Chicago to make his name in its burgeoning theater scene, yet found in his day job a sense of community and fulfillment -- and a brotherhood of like-minded individualists -- that he encountered nowhere else. He was an invis ...more »
ISBN: 0375506659 / Random House / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 533K
In a major new theory of criminal behavior, Mark Colvin argues that chronic criminals emerge from a developmental process characterized by recurring, erratic episodes of coercion. Colvin's differential coercion theory, which integrates seve ...more »
ISBN: 0312292775 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 741K
The career of Norton and Margot, a ballroom dance team whose work was thwarted by the racial tenets of the era, serves as the barometer of the times and acts as the tour guide on this excursion through the worlds of African American vaudeville, black ...more »
ISBN: 0312299680 / Palgrave / Pub Date: Jul 2001 / File Size: 2864K
The history of the black struggle for civil rights and political and economic equality in America is deeply tied to the strategies, agendas, and styles of black leaders. In this compelling work, Manning Marable examines different models of black lead ...more »
ISBN: 0231500297 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jun 1998 / File Size: 559K
As socialist regimes crumbled across Eastern Europe and statues of their leaders were dismantled, another pattern arose in the former Iron Curtain nations: the bodies of political leaders, revolutionary heroes, artists, and other luminaries were take ...more »
ISBN: 0231500432 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 1521K
The stunning biographical portraits in Modern Girls, Shining Stars, the Skies of Tokyo, some adapted from essays that first appeared in The New Yorker, explore the lives of five women -- two actresses, two writers, and a painter -- who did their best ...more »
ISBN: 0231500025 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 531K
The murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America's bitter history of violence against minorities. While the details of the tragedy are familiar to mo ...more »
ISBN: 0231500289 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 270K
As the populations of Latin American and Caribbean background in the United States proliferate, it becomes all the more important to understand the distinctions among nationalities and regional groups. To this end, Juan Flores investigates the histor ...more »
ISBN: 0231500165 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: May 2000 / File Size: 1098K
This is a rewritten and updated text of the book published two years ago in Australia and the UK. It is a popular science work, a bit heavy on the science, but still within the range of the readership of Discover and Scientific American. It explores ...more »
ISBN: 0312700903 / St Martins / Pub Date: Feb 2001 / File Size: 401K
This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the junc ...more »
ISBN: 0374700303 / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 2217K
This spirited, enlightened book offers a powerful antidote to the paralysis of postmodern intellectual life, showing how to make sense of, and learn from, the extraordinary diversity of cultures past and present. ...more »
ISBN: 0231500130 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Oct 1999 / File Size: 670K
A brilliantly evoked journey into the core of human history and the destiny of the world's hunting peoples. ...more »
ISBN: 0374701644 / North Point Press / Pub Date: Aug 2001 / File Size: 439K
In Ian Frazier's bestselling Great Plains, he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala, South Dakota." In On the Rez, Frazier returns to the plains and focuses on a place at their center -- the ...more »
ISBN: 0374700214 / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 1781K
How do Americans use and understand the past? Rosenzweig and Thelen analyze results from a unique and comprehensive survey in which they polled 1,500 Americans about their connection to the past and its continuing influence on their present as well a ...more »
ISBN: 0231500483 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Oct 1998 / File Size: 1962K
ISBN: 0231500009 / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 1443K
In this provocative history of our nation's most distinctive and enduring drama, Malcomson offers a way to move forward from our obsession with race. From Puritan enslavement of Indians to the dramas of separatism we enact daily in schools and neighb ...more »
ISBN: 0374700745 / Farrar, Straus, & Giroux / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 1197K
ISBN: 023150036X / Columbia University Press / Pub Date: Jan 2000 / File Size: 573K
