Society

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.

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

Introduction
The Culture Code
by Dr. Clotaire Rapaille
The Culture Code is the unconscious meaning we apply to any given thing - a car, a type of food, a relationship, even a country - via the culture in which we are raised.

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.

“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

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

Chapter 3
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
by Nina Bernstein
In 1973, a young ACLU attorney filed a controversial class-action lawsuit that challenged New York City's operation of its foster-care system. The plaintiff was an abused runaway named Shirley Wilder who had suffered from the system's inequities.

Integration: Together and Separate
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America
by David K. Shipler
A Country of Strangers is a magnificent exploration of the psychological landscape where blacks and whites meet. To tell the story in human rather than abstract terms, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer David K. Shipler bypasses both extremists

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

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

Roll em, boys
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

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

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