Society

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.

An Uncovered Self
by Kenji Yoshino
In this remarkable and elegant work, acclaimed Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil rights in our law and culture.

Equal = Equal
The 51% Minority; How Women Still Are Not Equal and What You Can Do About It
by Lis Wiehl
Women make up 51% of the American population, yet still aren't treated equally to men in areas that matter most. In this provocative new book, Lis Wiehl, one of the country's top federal prosecutors, reveals the legal and social inequalities women

Part 1
A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists, and One Man's Exploration of the Weird and Wonderful Judeo-Evangelical Alliance
by Zev Chafets
In a time of jihad 'against Jews and Crusaders,' the Jews of America and Israel find themselves with a powerful albeit unlikely ally: tens of millions of American evangelicals. As the conflict in the Middle East roils and divisions harden, Israel

Taking the Lead
Stand For Something: The Battle for America's Soul
by John Kasich
John Kasich calls it like he sees it. A former longtime U.S. congressman, a respected author and popular television host, Kasich has been around the neighborhood a few times.

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

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.

Narcissism
The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
by Debra Dickerson
What is racism but a fascination with oneself? Why, a seventeenth-century European newly arrived in Africa must have mused, are these odd creatures not pale, not straight-haired, not freckled, not wearing filthy pantaloons, and not praying to two pieces

Taking the Words Out Of Black Mouths
The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
by Debra Dickerson
Black people are not crazy. They're not paranoid. They're punch-drunk, or as Carter G. Woodson put it, 'the Negro's mind has been brought under the control of his oppressor. The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved.

Eminem: The New White Negro
Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
by Greg Tate (Editor)
Pentheus, the protagonist of Euripides' The Bacchae, was a young moralist and anarchical warrior who sought to abolish the worship of Dionysus (god of tradition, or perhaps better said, god of the re-cyclical, who causes the loss of individual identity

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.

Love It or Leave It : Part 2
Don't Get Too Comfortable
by David Rakoff
All by way of saying, that if there ever came a time when the government of my new homeland was actually calling up the forty-something asking-and-telling homosexuals with hypo-active thyroids to take up arms, something very calamitous indeed will have

Love It or Leave It
Don't Get Too Comfortable
by David Rakoff
George W. Bush made me want to be an American. It was a need I had not known before. A desire that came over me in a rush one day, not unlike that of the pencil-necked honors student suddenly overwhelmed with the inexplicable urge to make a daily gift

The Form Complete
Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
by Michael Sims
Neanderthals yawned. Tutankhamen cried. Eleanor of Aquitaine belched. No doubt Murasaki Shikibu combed her hair and Askia Muhammad liked to prop up his feet. The pages of Louis XV yearned to sit down.

Affirmative Actions, Part 4
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)
by Nelson George
Despite having enjoyed some solo hits, Michael struggled through adolescence as he searched for a grown-up identity (both on vinyl and off). The trick that underlies Off the Wall is how deftly veteran producer Quincy Jones matures the singer

Affirmative Actions, Part 3
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)
by Nelson George
At our starting point, black culture is in the mainstream to a degree. There are blacks in sitcoms and on local news. Several major cities have black mayors and desegregation is public policy in all fifty states.

Affirmative Actions, Part 2
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)
by Nelson George
One of the safe assumptions of Post-Soul Nation is that the inventions, phenomena, and fads evolving out of the black community eventually shape the lives of nonblack Americans.

Affirmative Actions
Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Before That Negroes)
by Nelson George
For centuries the word soul was (pardon the pun) solely employed by religious leaders and philosophers to describe man's spiritual core. The soul could be cursed to eternal damnation. The soul could rise up to heavenly salvation.

Modern Montana
Collapse. How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared Diamond, Ph.D.
When I asked my friend Stan Falkow, a 70-year-old professor of microbiology at Stanford University near San Francisco, why he had bought a second home in Montana's Bitterroot Valley, he told me how it had fitted into the story of his life.