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{"id":6540769755225,"title":"So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03","handle":"so-conceived-and-so-dedicated-wongsrichanalai-03","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Lorien Foote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War–era Union. Compiling essays from both established and young historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the conflict and implementing their vision of a victorious Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"accordion__content\" data-accordion-element=\"content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBroadly defining “intellectuals” to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college professors, health reformers, and religious leaders, the essays address how these thinkers disseminated their ideas, sometimes using commercial or popular venues and organizations to implement what they believed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a vast range of perspectives on how northerners thought about,experienced, and responded to the Civil War, \u003cem\u003eSo Conceived and So Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e is organized around three questions: To what extent did educated Americans believe that the Civil War exposed the failure of old ideas? Did the Civil War promote new strains of authoritarianism in northern intellectual life or did the war reinforce democratic individualism? How did the Civil War affect northerners’ conception of nationalism and their understanding of their relationship to the state?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays explore myriad topics, including: how antebellum ideas about the environment and the body influenced conceptions of democratic health; how leaders of the Irish American community reconciled their support of the United States and the Republican Party with their allegiances to Ireland and their fellow Irish immigrants; how intellectual leaders of the northern African American community explained secession, civil war, and emancipation; the influence of southern ideals on northern intellectuals; wartime and postwar views from college and university campuses; the ideological acrobatics that professors at midwestern universities had to perform in order to keep their students from leaving the classroom; and how northern sketch artists helped influence the changing perceptions of African American soldiers over the course of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollectively, \u003cem\u003eSo Conceived and So Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e offers relevant and fruitful answers to the nation’s intellectual history and suggests that antebellum modes of thinking remained vital and tenacious well after the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-08T15:47:49-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-05T16:10:35-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Civil War","History"],"price":4000,"price_min":4000,"price_max":4000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":4000,"compare_at_price_min":4000,"compare_at_price_max":4000,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39261039362137,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA313-Wongsrichanalai","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":4000,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":4000,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780823264483","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba313-wongsrichanalai-socon.jpg?v=1614978686"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba313-wongsrichanalai-socon.jpg?v=1614978686","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"So Conceived and So Dedicated, edited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai '03","id":20250188087385,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba313-wongsrichanalai-socon.jpg?v=1614978686"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba313-wongsrichanalai-socon.jpg?v=1614978686","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Lorien Foote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War–era Union. 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Did the Civil War promote new strains of authoritarianism in northern intellectual life or did the war reinforce democratic individualism? 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{"id":6540600475737,"title":"The Twentieth Maine — Pullen","handle":"the-twentieth-maine-pullen","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy John Pullen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fascinating story of Joshua Chamberlain [Bowdoin Class of 1852] and his volunteer regiment, the Twentieth Maine, is reprinted with a new foreword by Civil War historian and UCLA professor Joan Waugh. Pullen's classic and highly acclaimed book tells how Chamberlain and his men fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville on their way to the pivotal battle of Gettysburg. There, on July 2, 1863, at Little Round Top, they heroically saved the left flank of the Union battle line. The Twentieth Maine's remarkable story ends with the surrender of Lee's troops at Appomattox.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-08-14T16:31:13-04:00","created_at":"2021-03-05T13:47:54-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Civil War","Joshua Chamberlain"],"price":2395,"price_min":2395,"price_max":2395,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2395,"compare_at_price_min":2395,"compare_at_price_max":2395,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39260711125081,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBC306-Pullen","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Twentieth Maine — Pullen","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2395,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2395,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780811735247","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc306-pullen-20th.jpg?v=1614970076"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc306-pullen-20th.jpg?v=1614970076","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Twentieth Maine by John J. Pullen","id":20249735921753,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc306-pullen-20th.jpg?v=1614970076"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc306-pullen-20th.jpg?v=1614970076","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy John Pullen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fascinating story of Joshua Chamberlain [Bowdoin Class of 1852] and his volunteer regiment, the Twentieth Maine, is reprinted with a new foreword by Civil War historian and UCLA professor Joan Waugh. Pullen's classic and highly acclaimed book tells how Chamberlain and his men fought at Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville on their way to the pivotal battle of Gettysburg. There, on July 2, 1863, at Little Round Top, they heroically saved the left flank of the Union battle line. The Twentieth Maine's remarkable story ends with the surrender of Lee's troops at Appomattox.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6540466192473,"title":"The Blue Hour — Kennedy '76","handle":"the-blue-hour-kennedy-76","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Douglas Kennedy, Class of 1976\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the #1 internationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moment\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFive Days\u003c\/i\u003e comes a “completely absorbing and atmospheric” (Philip Kerr) novel about a woman whose husband disappears without a trace amidst the stunning, labyrinthine world of Morocco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobin knew Paul wasn’t perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. When he suggests a month in Morocco—where he once lived and worked, a place where the modern meets the medieval—Robin reluctantly agrees.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Once immersed into the swirling, white-hot exotica of a walled city on the North African Atlantic coast, Robin finds herself acclimatizing to its wonderful strangeness. Paul is everything she wants him to be—passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here that she will finally become pregnant.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But then Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry. 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As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For fans of thought-provoking page-turners such as \u003ci\u003eThe Talented Mr. Ripley\u003c\/i\u003e, Douglas Kennedy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Hour\u003c\/i\u003e is a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the question: What would you do if your life depended on it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6540441452633,"title":"Mud, Sand, and Snow — Agell '81","handle":"mud-sand-and-snow-agell-81","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Charlotte Agell, Class of 1981\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mud makes me dance in the spring \/ I fly up to the sky on my swing.” So begins a celebration of the four seasons, as a young girl explores, with family and friends, the mud of spring, sand and wind in the summer, leaves and pumpkins in the fall, and the joys of snow in winter. Toddlers will enjoy listening to, and repeating, the easy rhyming text that invites them to use all their senses to experience the world changing around them. We feel grass tickling our toes, hear bees buzzing, and see our breath steam in the cold of winter. Author\/illustrator Charlotte Agell brings her trademark light and airy watercolors to this joyful board book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-08-14T16:31:04-04:00","created_at":"2021-03-05T11:52:08-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Children's"],"price":1095,"price_min":1095,"price_max":1095,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1095,"compare_at_price_min":1095,"compare_at_price_max":1095,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39260492791897,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA301-Agell","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Mud, Sand, and Snow — Agell '81","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1095,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1095,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781944762636","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba301-agell-mudsand.jpg?v=1614963129"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba301-agell-mudsand.jpg?v=1614963129","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20249125945433,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba301-agell-mudsand.jpg?v=1614963129"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba301-agell-mudsand.jpg?v=1614963129","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Charlotte Agell, Class of 1981\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mud makes me dance in the spring \/ I fly up to the sky on my swing.” So begins a celebration of the four seasons, as a young girl explores, with family and friends, the mud of spring, sand and wind in the summer, leaves and pumpkins in the fall, and the joys of snow in winter. Toddlers will enjoy listening to, and repeating, the easy rhyming text that invites them to use all their senses to experience the world changing around them. We feel grass tickling our toes, hear bees buzzing, and see our breath steam in the cold of winter. Author\/illustrator Charlotte Agell brings her trademark light and airy watercolors to this joyful board book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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{"id":6539465588825,"title":"Song for an Unsung Hero — Lund '57","handle":"song-for-an-unsung-hero-lund-57","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Erik Lund, Class of 1957\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiane Theis Lund belonged to that generation of women who came of age in the 1950s and '60s, just on the threshold of the highly vocal, sometimes radical, feminist movement. As a young woman, Diane learned that the barriers to women were high—but this represented a challenge, and against all odds of the time, she excelled at Stanford, then at Harvard Law School, and then, for a time, in private law practice. Turning to public-interest law, she became an advocate and lobbyist for the interests of women, poor people, and minorities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a quiet and determined way, Diane Lund was instrumental in improving the lives of women in Massachusetts—young and old, privileged and poor—and her work had a ripple effect across the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-04T12:25:12-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-04T12:25:03-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":2500,"price_min":2500,"price_max":2500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2500,"compare_at_price_min":2500,"compare_at_price_max":2500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39258125860953,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA282-Lund","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Song for an Unsung Hero — Lund '57","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2500,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780615274478","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba282-lund-song.jpg?v=1614878736"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba282-lund-song.jpg?v=1614878736","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Song for an Unsung Hero by Erik Lund '57","id":20243144966233,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba282-lund-song.jpg?v=1614878736"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba282-lund-song.jpg?v=1614878736","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Erik Lund, Class of 1957\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiane Theis Lund belonged to that generation of women who came of age in the 1950s and '60s, just on the threshold of the highly vocal, sometimes radical, feminist movement. As a young woman, Diane learned that the barriers to women were high—but this represented a challenge, and against all odds of the time, she excelled at Stanford, then at Harvard Law School, and then, for a time, in private law practice. Turning to public-interest law, she became an advocate and lobbyist for the interests of women, poor people, and minorities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a quiet and determined way, Diane Lund was instrumental in improving the lives of women in Massachusetts—young and old, privileged and poor—and her work had a ripple effect across the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538925899865,"title":"Dogging It — Wagner","handle":"dogging-it-wagner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jonathan Wagner, Bowdoin Alumnus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book of self-discovery is about much more than a failed marriage. Author Jonathan Wagner shares his journey of moving on and discovering the divine presence in the world with the help of his dogs. A testament that dogs are truly man’s best friend, \u003cem\u003eDogging It Through Divorce and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful exploration of why dogs mean so much to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-08-11T15:12:26-04:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T16:18:19-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1995,"compare_at_price_min":1995,"compare_at_price_max":1995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256834539609,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA23-Wagner","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dogging It — Wagner","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1995,"inventory_quantity":7,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781684014620","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Dogging It by Jonathan Wagner","id":20240078176345,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jonathan Wagner, Bowdoin Alumnus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book of self-discovery is about much more than a failed marriage. Author Jonathan Wagner shares his journey of moving on and discovering the divine presence in the world with the help of his dogs. A testament that dogs are truly man’s best friend, \u003cem\u003eDogging It Through Divorce and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful exploration of why dogs mean so much to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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{"id":6538906075225,"title":"Sarah Jane Foster — Reilly '67","handle":"sarah-jane-foster-reilly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Wayne Reilly, Class of 1967\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Jane Foster of Gray, Maine, was one of the hundreds of northerners who headed South to teach former slaves after the Civil War. In addition to seven months of her 1866 diary, this volume includes 23 letters she wrote while in West Virginia and South Carolina to a Portland, Maine, newspaper between 1865 and 1868, as well as some samples of her published fiction and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:30:15-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:29:35-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","Civil War"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1995,"compare_at_price_min":1995,"compare_at_price_max":1995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256774377561,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA287","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sarah Jane Foster — Reilly '67","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1995,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0897254457","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba287-reilly-sarah.jpg?v=1614803376"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba287-reilly-sarah.jpg?v=1614803376","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Sarah Jane Foster: Teacher of the Freedmen by Wayne Reilly '67","id":20239975710809,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba287-reilly-sarah.jpg?v=1614803376"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba287-reilly-sarah.jpg?v=1614803376","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Wayne Reilly, Class of 1967\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Jane Foster of Gray, Maine, was one of the hundreds of northerners who headed South to teach former slaves after the Civil War. In addition to seven months of her 1866 diary, this volume includes 23 letters she wrote while in West Virginia and South Carolina to a Portland, Maine, newspaper between 1865 and 1868, as well as some samples of her published fiction and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538903289945,"title":"Thinking Woman - Dragseth '93","handle":"thinking-woman-dragseth-93","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, Class of 1993\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be a woman? Do women have a unique nature and a unique vocation? Should feminists work to help women specifically or to support all people? \u003cem\u003eThinking Woman\u003c\/em\u003e examines the lives and ideas of women in the history of philosophy who wished to understand and advocate for themselves as women. Some, like Hildegard of Bingen and Edith Stein, found women to be a unique creature designed by God, necessary for good stewardship of creation. Others, such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Sojourner Truth, found women to be identical to men in all but biology and thus identical before the law. Still others, from Simone de Beauvoir to Judith Butler, found the very question troubling as they tried to sort out cultural ideas from biological rules. These women and their views form a canon on the question of women, a canon that can help guide the conversation for thinkers and activists today who want both to understand women and to advocate for justice for all people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:22:41-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:22:29-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2995,"compare_at_price_min":2995,"compare_at_price_max":2995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256751046745,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA286-Dragseth","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Thinking Woman - Dragseth '93","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2995,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781625646347","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba286-dragseth-thinking.jpg?v=1614802951"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba286-dragseth-thinking.jpg?v=1614802951","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Thinking Woman by Jennifer Dragseth '93","id":20239954640985,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba286-dragseth-thinking.jpg?v=1614802951"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba286-dragseth-thinking.jpg?v=1614802951","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, Class of 1993\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to be a woman? Do women have a unique nature and a unique vocation? Should feminists work to help women specifically or to support all people? \u003cem\u003eThinking Woman\u003c\/em\u003e examines the lives and ideas of women in the history of philosophy who wished to understand and advocate for themselves as women. Some, like Hildegard of Bingen and Edith Stein, found women to be a unique creature designed by God, necessary for good stewardship of creation. Others, such as Mary Wollstonecraft and Sojourner Truth, found women to be identical to men in all but biology and thus identical before the law. Still others, from Simone de Beauvoir to Judith Butler, found the very question troubling as they tried to sort out cultural ideas from biological rules. These women and their views form a canon on the question of women, a canon that can help guide the conversation for thinkers and activists today who want both to understand women and to advocate for justice for all people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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{"id":4761651413081,"title":"Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America","handle":"whatever-it-takes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Paul Tough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"about-content active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would it take?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever It Takes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2020-12-10T10:02:08-05:00","created_at":"2020-12-10T10:02:00-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1599,"price_min":1599,"price_max":1599,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1599,"compare_at_price_min":1599,"compare_at_price_max":1599,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32311513088089,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA258-Canada","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1599,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780547247960T","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough, biography of Geoffrey Canada 1974","id":7515914797145,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Paul Tough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"about-content active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would it take?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever It Takes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":4754584371289,"title":"Cake Keeper Cakes — Chattman '85","handle":"cake-keeper-cakes-100-simple-recipes-for-extraordinary-bundt-cakes-pound-cakes-snacking-cakes-and-other-good-to-the-last-crumb-treats","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Lauren Chattman, Class of 1985\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"9877601\" id=\"titleId\"\u003eFew things are as satisfying as a sweet snack that's mouthwateringly moist. So skip the cookie jar and head for the cake keeper. In Cake Keeper Cakes, Lauren Chattman, the author of \"Dessert Express,\" presents simple and delicious recipes that stand up to everyday eating. Made from only the most wholesome ingredients, Lauren's heavenly creations include Espresso-Hazelnut Bundt Cake, Banana and Bittersweet Chocolate Cake, Citrus Pound Cake, Raspberry Yellow Cake Squares, and Mississippi Mud Cake. Designed with the busy baker in mind, this intoxicating cookbook shows how to make long-lasting cakes like mom used to, in a lot less time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-11-23T11:32:17-05:00","created_at":"2020-11-23T11:32:08-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Cookbooks"],"price":1795,"price_min":1795,"price_max":1795,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1795,"compare_at_price_min":1795,"compare_at_price_max":1795,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32291296739417,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA252-Chattman","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Cake Keeper Cakes — Chattman '85","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1795,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1795,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781600851209","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba252-chattman-cake_cac05295-50c0-48fa-a1e8-15fa2959c6bd.jpg?v=1614024585"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba252-chattman-cake_cac05295-50c0-48fa-a1e8-15fa2959c6bd.jpg?v=1614024585","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cake Keeper Cakes by Lauren Chattman","id":7515916337241,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba252-chattman-cake_cac05295-50c0-48fa-a1e8-15fa2959c6bd.jpg?v=1614024585"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba252-chattman-cake_cac05295-50c0-48fa-a1e8-15fa2959c6bd.jpg?v=1614024585","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Lauren Chattman, Class of 1985\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"9877601\" id=\"titleId\"\u003eFew things are as satisfying as a sweet snack that's mouthwateringly moist. So skip the cookie jar and head for the cake keeper. In Cake Keeper Cakes, Lauren Chattman, the author of \"Dessert Express,\" presents simple and delicious recipes that stand up to everyday eating. Made from only the most wholesome ingredients, Lauren's heavenly creations include Espresso-Hazelnut Bundt Cake, Banana and Bittersweet Chocolate Cake, Citrus Pound Cake, Raspberry Yellow Cake Squares, and Mississippi Mud Cake. Designed with the busy baker in mind, this intoxicating cookbook shows how to make long-lasting cakes like mom used to, in a lot less time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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