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Hell's Angels : A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)
by Hunter S. Thompson
California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo

How Biology Refutes Our Racial Myths
The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America
by Joseph L. Graves Jr., Ph.D.
Sometimes, the scientific investigation of one problem presents solutions to another. In 1986, scientists proposed a major undertaking: to sequence the entire human genome, to draw a map of the 100,000 or so genes that make humans distinct from apes or do

The Problem, Simply Stated
The Race Myth: Why We Pretend Race Exists in America
by Joseph L. Graves Jr., Ph.D.
Preeminent evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves proves once and for all that it doesn't. Through accessible and compelling language, he makes the provocative argument that science cannot account for the radical categories used to classify people

The Revenge of the Radcons; Wealth and Power
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
by Robert B. Reich, Ph.D.
For anyone who believes that liberal isn't a dirty word but a term of honor, this book will be as revitalizing as oxygen. For in the pages of Reason, one of our most incisive public thinkers, and a former secretary of labor mounts a defense of classical

Dobie Gillis Williams
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ
Brave and fiercely argued new book that tests the moral edge of the debate on capital punishment: What if we're executing innocent men? Two cases in point are Dobie Gillis Williams, an indigent black man with an IQ of 65, and Joseph Roger O'Dell.

Part One
740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
by Michael Gross
For seventy-five years, it's been Manhattan's richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas

In a small village near Kandahar

An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris. In this groundbreaking book, Iranian-American Behzad Yaghmaian

Introduction
Welcoming Our Children to a New Millennium - A Daybook of Hopes and Wishes for the Future
by Jane Middelton-Moz, Ph.D.
In times goneby, welcoming ceremonies for children were part of every culture. In her work in communities through-out the world today, author Jane Middelton-Moz has become increasingly aware of the number of children who are not received with gladness

The Sleeper Curve
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them.

The Growing Pains of an Adolescent Culture: The Codes for Love, Seduction and Sex
The Culture Code
by Dr. Clotaire Rapaille
As you will learn throughout this book, the American culture exhibits many of the traits consistent with adolescence: intense focus on 'the now,' dramatic mood swings, constant need for exploration and challenge to authority, a fascination with extremes

Chapter One
God of the Rodeo : The Quest for Redemption in Louisiana's Angola Prison
by Daniel Bergner
When he had finished work-building fence or penning cattle or castrating bull calves with a knife supplied by his boss on the prison farm-Johnny Brooks lingered in the saddle shed. The small cinder-block building is near the heart of Angola, Louisiana's

Money and Its Opposite
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
by David K. Shipler
“Nobody who works hard should be poor in America,” writes Pulitzer Prize winner David Shipler. Clear-headed, rigorous, and compassionate, he journeys deeply into the lives of individual store clerks and factory workers, farm laborers and sweat

The American Culture Code for love is FALSE EXPECTATION
The Culture Code
by Dr. Clotaire Rapaille
Without question, losing at love is an international experience. Even in cultures where marriages are arranged and courtship is rare, there are tales of forbidden love and the sad consequences when that love dies.

Blacks on Television
Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority
by John McWhorter
I once appeared on a television talk show with a black professor where as usual I was cast as the conservative voice in opposition to his liberal one. As we chatted during a commercial break, I asked him, 'What kind of thing leads you to think that racism

Teaching Black Children to Love Themselves
Strength for Their Journey: 5 Essential Disciplines African-American Parents Must Teach Their Children and Teens
by Robert L. Johnson, M.D., Paulette Stanford, M.D.
In this opening chapter, we talk about the importance of fostering self-love in children. We explore the special challenges parents who raise black boys and girls face, and show you how to construct the towers of self-love: resilience and self-esteem.

'Cut Yer Thumb er Finger Off'
Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision
by Peter Irons, Ph.D., J.D.
These stories of former slaves, recorded in the 1930s by interviewers from the Federal Writers' Project, tell in poignant words of the struggle for education of people the Supreme Court described in its Dred Scott decision of 1857 as beings

Crime and Its Causes
by William Douglas Morrison
This volume, as its title indicates, is occupied with an examination of some of the principal causes of crime, and is designed as an introduction to the study of criminal questions in general.

Girls and Women
by Harriet E. Paine
I cannot say how it is in other places, but every one who knows much of society girls in Boston must have been struck with a certain earnest note which sounds through all their frivolity. Few of them are satisfied to be simply society girls.

“That's Our Biggest Difference”
Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
by David Berreby
There are so many ways to sort people. We all do it, all the time. From everyday decisions (whom to invite to dinner?) to life choices (whom to marry?) to the great turning points of history (whom to war against?), we're guided by an ever-present sense

Nigs R Us Or How Blackfolk Became Fetish Objects
Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
by Greg Tate (Editor)
White kids from the 'burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear.