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* Linden, Eugene. Fire and Flood: A People's History of Climate Change, from 1979 to the Present. Penguin Pr. Apr. 2022.336p. ISBN 9781984882240. $28. Linden (Deep Past) has written a [...]

Weill, Kelly. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything. Algonquin. Feb. 2022. 256p. ISBN 9781643750682. $27.95. soc sci A fringe theory dating to the [...]

* Hobbs, Jeff. Show Them You're Good: A Portrait of Boys in the City of Angels the Year Before College. Scribner. Aug. 2020. 336p. ISBN 9781982116330. $28. SOC SCI Hobbs [...]

Why I'm Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex and Who Does the Dishes. Hudson Street. Jan. 2006. c.304p, ed. by Karen Propp & Jean Trounstine. [...]

Mintz, Steven. The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood. Belknap: Harvard Univ. Apr. 2015.422p. photos, notes, index. ISBN 9780674047679. $35. SOC SCI Historian Mintz (Huck's Raft) approaches a [...]

Double Bind: Women on Ambition. Liveright: Norton. Apr. 2017. 336p. ed. by Robin Romm. ISBN 9781631491214. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9781631491221. SOC SCI Developed and curated by Romm (The Mercy Papers), [...]

Hong, Euny. The Birth of Korean Cool: How One Nation Is Conquering the World Through Pop Culture. Picador. Aug. 2014. 288p. notes. ISBN 9781250045119. pap. $16; ebk. ISBN 9781250045126. SOC […]

* Boyd, Danah. It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Yale Univ. Feb. 2014. 320p. notes; bibliog. index. ISBN 9780300166316. $25. SOC SCI This groundbreaking survey of the online [...]

Alameddine, Rabih. The Perv. Picador: St. Martin's. 1999. c.208p. ISBN 0-312-20041-2. $21. F The Lebanese-born author of Koolaids presents a thematically related collection of blunt, discomforting stories set largely in [...]

Conde, Maryse. Windward Heights. Soho, dist. by Farrar. Aug. 1999. c.364p. ISBN 1-56947-161-4. $24. F Caribbean novelist Conde's intricate retelling of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights recasts the tragic classic of [...]

Zeidner, Lisa. Layover. Random. Jun. 1999. c.272p. LC 98-53463. ISBN 0-375-50286-6. $24. F Claire Newbold, the maybe-unstable but assertively insightful and articulate narrator of poet/novelist Zeidner's new book, one day [...]

Accawi, Anwar. The Boy from the Tower of the Moon. Beacon, dist. by Ballantine. May 1999. c.208p. ISBN 0-8070-7008-4. $23. AUTOBIOG A charming, economical collection of autobiographical vignettes, Lebanese-born Accawi's [...]

Xu Hongci. No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison. Sarah Crichton: Farrar. Jan. 2017.336p. tr. from Chinese by Erling Hoh. maps, index. ISBN 9780374212629. $26; [...]

* Younge, Gary. Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives. Nation: Perseus. Oct. 2016. 304p. illus. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9781568589756. $25.99; ebk. ISBN 9781568589763. [...]

van der Leun, Justine. We Are Not Such Things: The Murder of a Young American, a South African Township, and the Search for Truth and Reconciliation. Spiegel & Grau. Jun. [...]

Egan, Sophie. Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale Smoothies--How What We Eat Defines Who We Are. Morrow. May 2016.416p. illus. notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780062390981. $28.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062391001. SOC [...]

Weigel, Moira. Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating. Farrar. May 2016. 304p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780374182533. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780374713133. SOC SCI Just how do people go about meeting [...]

* Joyce, Kathryn. The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption. Public Affairs. 2013. 308p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9781586489427. $28.99; ebk. ISBN 9781588489434. SOC SCI This [...]

Taylor, Yuval & Jake Austen. Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy from Slavery to Hip-Hop. Norton. Aug. 2012. c.256p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780393070989. $26.95. SOC SCI Over 150 years after the [...]

* Colby, Tanner. Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America. Viking. Jul. 2012. c.320p. ISBN 9780870023714. $27.95. HIST Who would expect a coauthor [...]

* Fong, Mei. One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment. Houghton Harcourt. Feb. 2016.272p. notes, index. ISBN 9780544275393. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780544276604. SOC SCI This timely investigative report, [...]

Bateson, Mary C. Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom. Knopf. Sept. 2010. c.272p, bibliog. ISBN 9780307266439. $25.95. SOC SCI With increasing life expectancies, we have evolved past [...]

Weber, Lauren. In Cheap We Trust: The Story of a Misunderstood American Virtue. Little, Brown. Sept. 2009. c.288p. index. ISBN 9780-316-03028-1. $24.99. SOC SCI This splendid, timely history and apologia […]

Giffels, David. All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House. Morrow. Jun. 2008. c.320p. illus. ISBN 978-0-06-136286-6. $25.95. AUTOBIOG Those visiting Giffels's (columnist, Akron Beacon Journal) dream [...]

Alexander, Brian. America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction. Harmony: Crown. 2008. c.320p. ISBN 978-0-307-35132-6. $23.95. Bogle, Kathleen A. Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus. New York [...]

* Berger, Joseph. The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York. Ballantine. Sept. 2007. c.288p. maps. ISBN 978-0-345-48738-4. $25.95. SOC SCI New […]

Kuczynski, Alex. Beauty Junkies: Inside Our $15 Billion Obsession with Cosmetic Surgery. Doubleday. Oct. 2006. c.304p. ISBN 0-385-50853-0. $24.95. SOC SCI To what lengths will people go in pursuit of [...]

Justman, Stewart. Fool's Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology. Ivan R. Dee. Sept. 2005. c.288p, index. ISBN 1-58663-628-0. $27.50. McGee, Micki. Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life. Oxford [...]

Kitwana, Bakari. Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggas, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America. Basic Civitas: Perseus. Jun. 2005. c.240p. index. ISBN 0-465-03746-1. $23. SOC [...]

Cultures of Transnational Adoption. Duke Univ. Jul. 2005. c.232p. ed. by Toby Alice Volkman. index. ISBN 0-8223-3576-X. $74.95; pap. ISBN 0-8223-3589-1. $21.95. SOC SCI Volkman (deputy provost, New School Univ.) [...]

Crown. Feb. 2004. c.256p. ISBN 0-609-60976-9. $23.95. SOC SCI While a foreign correspondent for the Detroit Free Press in the late 1990s, Tucker and his wife, Vita, volunteered at an [...]

McQuaid, John. Tasty: The Art and Science of What We Eat. Scribner. Jan. 2015.304p. notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9781451685008. $26; ebk. ISBN 9781451685022. SOC SCI Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist McQuaid (Path [...]

Norton. 2003. 395p. photogs. ISBN 0393-05737-2. $35 with CD: pap. ISBN 0-393-32466-4. $19.95. SOC SCI In the wake of 9/11, four youths smash up an Egyptian coffee shop. The police [...]

Harvard Univ. Sept. 2003. c.256p. index. 0-674-01268-2. $22.95. SOC SCI This well-timed book, expanded from the author's Oliver Wendell Holmes lectures at Harvard Law School, argues that healthy societies protect [...]

Roeder, Mark. Unnatural Selection: Why the Geeks Will Inherit the Earth. Arcade: Skyhorse. 2014.320p. notes, bibliog. ISBN 9781628724356. $24.95; ebk. ISBN 9781628724806. SOC SCI The future belongs to the bright, [...]

Cross, Gary S. & Robert N. Proctor. Packaged Pleasures: How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire. Univ. of Chicago. Oct. 2014. 336p. notes, index. ISBN 9780226121277. $35; ebk. ISBN 9780226147383. BUS [...]

Tizon, Alex. Big Little Man: In Search of My Asian Self. Houghton Harcourt. Jun. 2014.272p. ISBN 9780547450483. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780544232853. SOC SCI This book presents the complicated, difficult, but [...]

* Taylor, Astra. The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Metropolitan: Holt. Apr. 2014. 288p. notes. index. ISBN 9780805093568. $27; ebk. ISBN 9780805095456. SOC SCI [...]

Broadway. Jan. 2003. c.272p. ed. by Greg Tate. LC 2002026115. ISBN 0-7679-0808-2. $23.95. SOC SCI How does the majority, dominant, power-holding culture appropriate elements of the disenfranchised minority culture? In [...]

Carey, Peter. Knopf. Feb. 1998. c.320p. ISBN 0-67944008-9. $24. F Carey's Booker Prize-winning novel, Oscar and Lucinda (1988), has recently been released in motion-picture form, and it is easy to [...]

Friedman, Hilary Levey. Playing To Win: Raising Children in a Competitive Culture. Univ. of California. 2013. 312p. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9760520276758. $65; pap. ISBN 9780520276765. $29.95; ebk. ISBN 9780520956698. […]

Kraybill, Donald B. & others. The Amish. Johns Hopkins. 2013. 520p. illus, notes, bibliog. index. ISBN 9781421409146. $29.95; ebk. ISBN 9781421409153. $29.95. REL A staunchly simple people coexisting with, yet [...]

Clark, Lynn Schofield. The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age. Oxford Univ. 2012. 320p. illus, bibliog, index. notes. ISBN 9780199899616. $29.95; ebk. ISBN 9780199986804. SOC SCI Media critic [...]

Shelton, Michael. Family Pride: What LGBT Families Should Know about Living in Isolated, Unwelcoming, or Hostile Communities. Beacon, dist. by Random. Jan. 2013. c.240p, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780807001974. pap. $16. [...]

Blum, Edward J. & Paul Harvey. The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America. Univ. of North Carolina. Sept. 2012. c.336p, illus, index. [...]

* Walsh, Mikey. Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies. Thomas Dunne: St. Martin's. 2012. c.288p. ISBN 9780312622084. $24.99. AUTOBIOG A best seller in the [...]

Cohen, Patricia. In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age. Scribner. Jan. 2012. c.288p. bibliog. ISBN 9781416572893. $25. SOC SCI As those at the tail of the baby boom approach [...]

Romero, Mary. The Maid's Daughter: Living Inside and Outside the American Dream. New York Univ. Sept. 2011. c.265p, bibliog. index. ISBN 9780814776421. $27.95. SOC SCI Mexican-born Carmen settled in Los [...]

Haag, Pamela. Marriage Confidential: The Post-Romantic Age of Workhorse Wives, Royal Children, Undersexed Spouses, and Rebel Couples. Harper: HarperCollins. Jun. 2011. c.352p. ISBN 9780061719288. $25.99. SOC SCI This keen study [...]

Wheeler, Jacob. Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Journey through Adoption. Univ. of Nebraska. Apr. 2011. c.280p. photogs. bibliog. ISBN 9780803233621. $24.95. SOC SCI Journalist Wheeler examines the emotional [...]