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Caucasia
Danzy Senna Adult Fiction Riverhead Books

Ceremony
Leslie Marmon Silko Literature & Fiction Penguin (Non-Classics)
Thirty years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power.

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England
William Cronon Technology Hill and Wang
Much historical writing is far more concerned with the players than the stage: narratives of kings and cabbage-merchants, although acted out in fields and forests, typically include nature only as a convenient prop to provide the occasional splash of color. In Changes in the Land, Cronon treats the land of New England with the same sensitivity and attention to detail as the lives of the American natives and the colonists--he depicts the effects of changing land-use patterns on the texture of the New England landscape, and gives voice to the changing communities of trees, rock walls, and rivers. The chapter on the effects of changing notions of "property" on the ecology of New England are especially strong.
Changes in the Land is almost the equal of Cronon's masterpiece, "Nature's Metropolis", a monumental study of the ecological effects of Chicago on the entire central portion of the United States in the 1800s. Highly Recommended to specialists and general readers alike.

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (Copy 1)
William Cronon Technology Hill and Wang
Much historical writing is far more concerned with the players than the stage: narratives of kings and cabbage-merchants, although acted out in fields and forests, typically include nature only as a convenient prop to provide the occasional splash of color. In Changes in the Land, Cronon treats the land of New England with the same sensitivity and attention to detail as the lives of the American natives and the colonists--he depicts the effects of changing land-use patterns on the texture of the New England landscape, and gives voice to the changing communities of trees, rock walls, and rivers. The chapter on the effects of changing notions of "property" on the ecology of New England are especially strong.
Changes in the Land is almost the equal of Cronon's masterpiece, "Nature's Metropolis", a monumental study of the ecological effects of Chicago on the entire central portion of the United States in the 1800s. Highly Recommended to specialists and general readers alike.

Chemical Principles
Steven S. Zumdahl Brooks Cole
The Study Guide reflects the unique problem-solving approach taken by the "Chemical Principles" text. The new edition of the Study Guide includes many new worked out examples.

Chemical Principles (Copy)
Steven S. Zumdahl Professional & Technical Brooks Cole
Known for helping students develop the qualitative, conceptual foundation that gets them thinking like chemists, this market-leading text is designed for students with solid mathematical preparation and prior exposure to chemistry. The unique organization of the text supports this qualitative-to-quantitative approach. A strong emphasis on models and everyday applications of chemistry combines with a thoughtful, step-by-step problem solving approach to build conceptual understanding.

Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change
Martin Silberberg Science McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
With each edition, Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change by Martin Silberberg is becoming a favorite among faculty and students. Silberberg's 3rd edition contains features that make it the most comprehensive and relevant text for any student enrolled in General Chemistry. The text contains unprecedented macroscopic to microscopic molecular illustrations, consistent step-by-step worked exercises in every chapter, an extensive range of end-of-chapter problems which provide engaging applications covering a wide variety of freshman interests, including engineering, medicine, materials, and environmental studies. All of these qualities make Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change the centerpiece for any General Chemistry course.

Chemistry: Principles & Practices
Daniel L. Reger Professional & Technical Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Students appreciate the logical organization and thorough integration of real, descriptive chemistry with chemical principles. used good condition

Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change
Martin Silberberg Science McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change by Martin Silberberg has become a favorite among faculty and students. Silberberg’s 4th edition contains features that make it the most comprehensive and relevant text for any student enrolled in General Chemistry. The text contains unprecedented macroscopic to microscopic molecular illustrations, consistent step-by-step worked exercises in every chapter, an extensive range of end-of-chapter problems which provide engaging applications covering a wide variety of freshman interests, including engineering, medicine, materials, and environmental studies. All of these qualities make Chemistry: The Molecular Nature of Matter and Change the centerpiece for any General Chemistry course.

Child of the Dark
Carolina Maria de Jesus Signet Classic

Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection
Michael Wessells Health, Mind & Body Harvard University Press
Compelling and humane, this book reveals the lives of the 300,000 child soldiers around the world, challenging stereotypes of them as predators or a lost generation. Kidnapped or lured by the promise of food, protection, revenge, or a better life, children serve not only as combatants but as porters, spies, human land mine detectors, and sexual slaves. Nearly one-third are girls, and Michael Wessells movingly reveals the particular dangers they face from pregnancy, childbirth complications, and the rejection they and their babies encounter in their local contexts.
Based mainly on participatory research and interviews with hundreds of former child soldiers worldwide, Wessells allows these ex-soldiers to speak for themselves and reveal the enormous complexity of their experiences and situations. The author argues that despite the social, moral, and psychological wounds of war, a surprising number of former child soldiers enter civilian life, and he describes the healing, livelihood, education, reconciliation, family integration, protection, and cultural supports that make it possible. A passionate call for action, "Child Soldiers" pushes readers to go beyond the horror stories to develop local and global strategies to stop this theft of childhood. (20070401)

Children of Sanchez
Oscar Lewis Biographies & Memoirs Vintage
An anthropology classic, Oscar Lewis's pioneering "The Children of Sanchez" is a deep and intimate account of an actual family from the slums of Mexico City.

Christ in Concrete
Pietro Di Donato Literature & Fiction Signet Classics
One of the 20th century's greatest works of social protest-and its 21st-century message. A classic examination of the American experience for hard-working Italian immigrants living in New York City's Lower East Side shortly before the Great Depression, "Christ in Concrete" focuses on a family's struggle against harsh economic realities and tenement living.

Circle K Cycles
Karen Tei Yamashita Literature & Fiction Coffee House Press

"Yamashita is so tuned into now, she can see tomorrow."-"Booklist" on "Tropic of Orange", starred review
""Through the Arc of the Rainforest" progresses toward an apocalyptic resolution that spreads out like a Bosch triptych reproduced by Gauguin. In this, her first novel, Ms. Yamashita presents a critique of human waste and stupidity that is fluid and poetic as well as terrifying."-"The New York Times Book Review"
Yamashita's innovative melding of fiction and essay explores issues such as labor, nationalism, and cultural diaspora. When the grandchildren of Japanese immigrants to Brazil move to Japan to assume the manual work native Japanese people no longer want, their need for cultural belonging, their homesickness for details of their birthplace, clash with the status quo. This book of hybrids-merging collage with text, story with history-opens a door onto one of the important issues of the new century.
Yamashita has a powerful story to tell about a community that is globally extensive and the freedom-physical and emotional-implied by that new geography.
Karen Tei Yamashita is a winner of the American Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. She is an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
Christine Stansell History University of Illinois Press
Chritine Stansell has captured and vividly illuminated the lives of working women of the Industrial Revolution in NYC. I have studied this book for two classes and am sorry that I had not come across it sooner. If you are interested in the youth culture and the ways that a culture of single women emerged, this is a great book. If you are interested in the ways that working women handled themselves against the burden of the middle class genteel precepts, read this book. If you want a factual yet compelling picture of a history of women that is free from bias, check this out! City of Women details the lives of these women in a way that empowers and reveals truths that have long been hidden from America's full historical picture.

Civilization in the West, Volume B
Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, Patricia O'brien History Longman
"Civilization in the West "blends social and political history with an exceptional map and image program to engage students and bring history to life.   The authors tell a compelling story of Western Civilization that is enhanced by an image-based approach.   “The Visual Record” chapter openers draw students in by using illustrations that underscore a dominant theme of the chapter. New “Image Discovery” features guide students to interrogate images, understand their contexts, and unpack their multiple meanings. The dramatic, changing contours of the West are explored through an exceptional map program, through" Map Discovery "features, and through "Geographical Tours of Europe".  

Classical Hollywood Comedy
Jenkins Arts & Photography Routledge
Applies the recent `return to history' in film studies to the genre of classical Hollywood comedy as well as broadening the definition of those works considered central in this field.

Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
William Finnegan Nonfiction Modern Library
"When I first started going to New Haven," writes William Finnegan, "I was taken on a tour of the city's neighborhoods by two black residents. Their conversation reminded me of others I've heard--in countries suffering from chronic guerrilla war."
"Cold New World" depicts the lives of American teenagers and young adults, struggling to hang onto what little they've got. They are part of a growing underclass whose lives have become saturated with drugs and violence. Whether he's talking to an African American drug dealer who plies his trade in the shadow of Yale or a young woman caught up in the feud between two rival skinhead gangs in the northernmost suburbs of Los Angeles, Finnegan brings his subjects to life on the page with a compassion that doesn't undermine any of his bluntness about their desperate conditions. You may not like what "Cold New World" has to say about the state of the nation, but it's a book that you ignore at your peril.

Colonize This: Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism
Daisy Hernandez & Bushra Rehman Seal Press

Colored Museum
George C. Wolfe Arts & Photography Grove Press
The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. Its eleven "exhibits" undermine black stereotypes old and new, and return to the facts of what being black means. " Mr. Wolfe is the kind of satirist who takes no prisoners. The shackles of the past have been defied by Mr. Wolfe's fearless humor, and it's a most liberating revolt!" - Frank Rich, The New York Times; "Brings forth a bold new voice that is bound to shake up blacks and whites with separate-but-equal impartiality. True satire." - Jack Kroll, Newsweek.



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