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Under the Feet of Jesus
Helena Maria Viramontes Literature & Fiction Plume
As a second-class Mexican-American citizen laboring under dangerous conditions in America's fields, Estrella learns the values of life and discovers ways to defy repression and the hopelessness of her situation. Reprint. Tour.

Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out
Various UCLA Students Nonfiction UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education

Underground Undergrads: UCLA Undocumented Immigrant Students Speak Out (Copy 1)
Various UCLA Students Nonfiction UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education

Understanding Society: An Introductory Reader
Margaret L. Andersen, Kim A. Logio, Howard F. Taylor Nonfiction Wadsworth Publishing
This compelling reader presents a balance of classic and contemporary readings that professors teaching the course find important. The emphasis of the collection is on articles that students will both understand and find intriguing. The collection is less rigid than the other readers now on the market and includes articles with a variety of styles and perspectives. Like the Andersen/Taylor introduction to sociology textbooks, this reader has a strong focus on diversity. Five themes run throughout book: classical sociological theory, contemporary research, diversity, globalization, and the application of the sociological perspective.

Understanding Society: an Introductory Reader
Margaret L.; Taylor, Howard F. Andersen Writing Wadsworth Publishing
This reader was developed as an accompaniment to Andersen/Taylor's SOCIOLOGY: THE ESSENTIALS. This reader can also be used with any Wadsworth text or any competitor's text as well as a sole text for the course. The emphasis of the collection is on articles that students will both understand and find intriguing. The collection is less rigid than the other readers now on the market and includes articles with a variety of styles and perspectives-a global perspective is apparent throughout. Like the text, the reader has a strong focus on diversity. The book also features more current research than the competitors. And, the book presents a balance of classic and contemporary readings that professors teaching the course find important. Five themes have been developed: 1. Classical sociological theory, 2. Contemporary research, 3. Diversity, 4. Globalization, 5. The application of the sociological perspective.

Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education
Derek Bok Business & Investing Princeton University Press
Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right? In this book, one of America's leading educators cautions that the answer is all too often "yes." Taking the first comprehensive look at the growing commercialization of our academic institutions, Derek Bok probes the efforts on campus to profit financially not only from athletics but increasingly, from education and research as well. He shows how such ventures are undermining core academic values and what universities can do to limit the damage.
Commercialization has many causes, but it could never have grown to its present state had it not been for the recent, rapid growth of money-making opportunities in a more technologically complex, knowledge-based economy. A brave new world has now emerged in which university presidents, enterprising professors, and even administrative staff can all find seductive opportunities to turn specialized knowledge into profit.
Bok argues that universities, faced with these temptations, are jeopardizing their fundamental mission in their eagerness to make money by agreeing to more and more compromises with basic academic values. He discusses the dangers posed by increased secrecy in corporate-funded research, for-profit Internet companies funded by venture capitalists, industry-subsidized educational programs for physicians, conflicts of interest in research on human subjects, and other questionable activities.
While entrepreneurial universities may occasionally succeed in the short term, reasons Bok, only those institutions that vigorously uphold academic values, even at the cost of a few lucrative ventures, will win public trust and retain the respect of faculty and students. Candid, evenhanded, and eminently readable, Universities in the Marketplace will be widely debated by all those concerned with the future of higher education in America and beyond.

Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist
Woody Kipp Biographies & Memoirs Bison Books
It was at Wounded Knee, huddled under a night sky lit by military flares and the searchlights of armored personnel carriers, that Vietnam vet Woody Kipp realized that he, as an American Indian, had become the enemy, the Viet Cong, to a country that he had defended at the risk of his life. With candor, bitter humor, and biting insight, this book tells the story of the long and tortuous trail that led Kipp from the Blackfeet Reservation of his birth to a terrible moment of reckoning on the plains of South Dakota. Kipp’s is a story of Native values and practices uneasily intersected by cowboy culture, teenage angst, and quintessentially American temptations and excesses. As a boy, Kipp was a passionate reader and basketball player, always ready to brawl and already struggling with discrimination and alcoholism in his teens. From his tour of duty in Vietnam as a Marine to his troubled return, from his hell-raising as a violent, womanizing, hard-drinking horse breaker to his consciousness-raising experiences as a college student and foot soldier in the American Indian Movement, Kipp’s memoir offers a unique, firsthand view of the enduring power—and the vulnerability—of Blackfeet culture, of the difficulties inherent in cross-cultural understanding, and of the urgent necessity of overcoming these difficulties if the essential heritage of Native America is to survive.

Viz. Inter-Arts Event: A Trans-Genre Anthology
Roxanne Power Hamilton Literature & Fiction VIZ. Inter-arts
Poetry. Art. Essays. Fiction. VIZ. INTER-ARTS EVENT, a one-of-a-kind collection, includes a packet of broadsides. Nearly 100 writers, artists, film-makers, performers & scholars transgress genre boundaries to forge new forms & relationships between the arts. A large-format, beautifully-designed art book with colored pages, each copy includes its own unique set of 9 x 12 broadsides with visuals/text by Kenneth Patchen, Joe Brainard/Ron Padgett, George Hitchcock & others. New & classic work by music/poetry collaborators Michael McClure & Ray Manzarek; NY School collaborators from the 60s on (new work by Bill Berkson & George Schneeman) with Kenneth Koch Transcontinental Poetry tribute (David Antin, Andrei Codrescu, Anne Waldman, more). Archive of recent trans-genre events in Bay Area & UC Santa Cruz (Viz.' home) include: New Narrative (Robert Gluck, Dodie Bellamy, more); Poet's Theater (Kevin Killian/Brian Kim Stefan); poetry films (Carl Rakosi, Leslie Scalapino, more); poems + paintings (Jerome Rothenberg/Nancy Tobin, more); "political" poetry/poetics (Juliana Spahr, Eileen Myles, more); installation art/poetry (Norma Cole), plus emerging writers & forms. Winner of an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) in the Anthologies category!

Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
Robert L. Park Science Oxford University Press, USA
Scientific error, says Robert Park, "has a way of evolving ... from self-delusion to fraud. I use the term voodoo science to cover them all: pathological science, junk science, pseudoscience, and fraudulent science." In pathological science, scientists fool themselves. Junk science refers to scientists who use their expertise to befuddle and mislead others (usually juries or lawmakers). Pseudoscience has the trappings of science without any evidence. Fraudulent science is, well, fraud--old-fashioned lying.
Park is well-acquainted with voodoo science in all its forms. Since 1982, he has headed the Washington, D.C., office of the American Physical Society, and he has carried the flag for scientific rationality through cold fusion, homeopathy, "Star Wars," quantum healing, and sundry attempts to repeal the laws of thermodynamics. Park shows why a "disproportionate share of the science seen by the public is flawed" (because shaky science is more likely to skip past peer review and head straight for the media), and he gives a good tour of recent highlights in "Voodoo". He has a rare ability to poke holes compassionately, without excoriating those taken in by their fondest wishes. Park is less forgiving of scientists (especially Edward Teller) when he thinks they've fallen down on the job, a job that should include helping the public separate the scientific wheat from the voodoo chaff. "--Mary Ellen Curtin"

Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Languages
Peter Ladefoged Reference Wiley-Blackwell
This superb introduction to phonetics, with an accompanying CD, is perfect for anyone who wants to learn about the sounds of language. Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, descibes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages.

Waking the Tiger : Healing Trauma : The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
Peter A. Levine Health, Mind & Body North Atlantic Books
Nature's Lessons in Healing Trauma...

"Waking the Tiger" offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.

"Waking the Tiger" normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.

War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
Hedges, Chris Vintage International 2003
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: "It gives us purpose, meaning, a reason for living." Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary.

Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
John Berger Arts & Photography Penguin (Non-Classics)
Ways of Seeing is about looking at art, if you get right down to it. However, it is about looking at it from a political point of view, or a cultural point of view, or a gender point of view. He takes a few different actual art pieces and writes about each of them, taking this sort of thing into account.

We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay! And Other Works: The Collected Plays of Dario Fo, Volume One
Dario Fo Television Theatre Communications Group
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the words of his translator, Ron Jenkins: "The Nobel committee's decision to honor Fo as a master of literature is a historic tribute to the theatre, which is still viewed by many as literature's bastard child; it is also the first time that the Nobel for the literary arts has been awarded to an actor. This courageous and controversial choice indirectly expands the modern definition of literature to include the power of the spoken word."

Volume One includes:
"We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!
Elizabeth
Archangels Don't Play Pinball
About Face"

What's Love Got to Do with It?: A Critical Look at American Charity
David Wagner Nonfiction New Press
A groundbreaking critique of American charity which Barbara Ehrenreich says "demolishes the conventional wisdom that private philanthropy is innately superior to public welfare measures." "What's Love Got to Do with It?" is an insightful debunking of the way charitable giving disguises American neglect of the public welfare. Award-winning Professor of Social Work and Sociology David Wagner points out that while the United States prides itself on being one of the most generous nations, it provides its citizens with the lowest public benefits of any Western society and has rates of poverty and inequality among the highest in the industrialized world. These two facts, Wagner argues, are not unrelated: independent philanthropy actually provides a cover for the harshness of America's free-market capitalism. In a book that Howard Zinn, author of "A People's History of the United States", says "raises sobering questions for all of us who want to live in a just society," Wagner offers a provocative contribution to our thinking on philanthropy and social welfare.

When Harlem Was in Vogue
David Levering Lewis Arts & Photography Penguin (Non-Classics)
Stretching from the close of World War I to immediately after the Depression, the Harlem Renaissance was a time of glorious artistic freedom and intellectual collaboration between black artists and white bohemians of Greenwich village. In his masterful and fascinating study of this era, Lewis takes a daring look at what was considered to be a successful utopian effort at assimilating and validating black culture in white America.

Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta
Ike Okonta, Oronto Douglas Business & Investing Sierra Club Books
In 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, a writer, political activist, and leader of the Niger Delta's Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), was summarily executed by Nigeria's brutal military junta. MOSOP was formed out of a final, desperate need to protest the destruction of a people's land and culture by two forces: a giant multinational corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, and a series of corrupt and repressive Nigerian governments.
With the support of the Nigerian regime, Shell has instituted practices such as gas flaring (the ignition of gas in the atmosphere), the laying of dangerous high-pressure oil pipelines above ground, and the pollution of water sources, degrading the land and leaving many local people destitute. In contrast to the beneficial picture of the corporation's activities painted by its public relations professionals, authors Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas have found persuasive evidence that Shell and the Nigerian government share responsibility for making the Niger Delta one of the world's most endangered ecosystems.
As compelling as it is important, Where Vultures Feast is a story that demands to be heard.

Will Standards Save Public Education
Joel Rogers Nonfiction Beacon Press
As usual, Deborah Meier has a fresh take on standardized tests. While other critics fault standardized tests and what they measure, Meier contests the very idea of a centralized authority that dictates how and what teachers teach. This, she argues, sets up a terrible model for students because it doesn't allow for their teachers to emerge as thoughtful, accountable adults, seriously engaged with the dynamics of their own schools, classrooms, and communities. In turn, the students can't learn from them how to be thoughtful, accountable, creative adults and good citizens. Theodore Sizer, Abagail Thernstrom, Linda Nathan and others respond.

NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM
A series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. The series editors (for Boston Review), Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious debate about fundamental issues—both on and off the agenda of conventional politics.

Women Filmmakers: Refocusing
J. Levitin Business & Investing Routledge
What difference does it make when a woman wields the camera? Has the gender issue been eclipsed by questions of race and class? Does feminist theory still make a contribution to practice? This wide-ranging volume of new work brings together women filmmakers and critics who speak about what has changed over the past twenty years. Including such filmmakers as Margarethe von Trotta, Deepa Mehta, and Pratibha Parmar, and such critics as E. Ann Kaplan, this comprehensive volume addresses political, artistic, and economic questions vital to understanding the relationship of women to the art and business of filmmaking.

Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001
D. L. Lepidus Literature & Fiction Smith & Kraus
Synopsis
This volume showcasing plays by contemporary women playwrights includes works from the 2001 theatre season. The plays are: "Deux Mariages: Romola and Nijinsky" by Lynn Alvarez, "T for 2" by Gina Barnett, "The Syringa Tree" by Pamela Gien, "The Visible Horse" by Mary Lathrop, "Strangers and Romance" by Barbara Lhota, "Notes" by Jennifer Laura Paige, and "Saint Lucy's Eyes" by Bridgette Wimberly.



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