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{"id":7612111978585,"title":"Value Added Risk Management — Belmont '88","handle":"value-added-risk-management-belmont-88","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David P. Belmont, Class of 1988\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA new perspective on risk management.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRisk management has evolved to address the more strategic issue of optimization of return on risk. This has been accompanied by statistical, mathematical, and financial techniques which-when actively applied-can aid an institution in producing disproportionately high returns on risk. \u003cem\u003eValue Added Risk Management\u003c\/em\u003e aims to describe these techniques, illustrate their application, and discuss their strategic value for financial institutions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-19T15:24:16-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-19T15:24:16-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":5999,"price_min":5999,"price_max":5999,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41228025725017,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA455-Belmont","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Value Added Risk Management — Belmont '88","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5999,"weight":635,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0470821159","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba455-belmont-value.jpg?v=1713554527"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba455-belmont-value.jpg?v=1713554527","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":25064078901337,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"width":1200,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba455-belmont-value.jpg?v=1713554527"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1200,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba455-belmont-value.jpg?v=1713554527","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David P. Belmont, Class of 1988\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA new perspective on risk management.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRisk management has evolved to address the more strategic issue of optimization of return on risk. This has been accompanied by statistical, mathematical, and financial techniques which-when actively applied-can aid an institution in producing disproportionately high returns on risk. \u003cem\u003eValue Added Risk Management\u003c\/em\u003e aims to describe these techniques, illustrate their application, and discuss their strategic value for financial institutions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7569934155865,"title":"Outpost — Hill '74","handle":"outpost-hill-74","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Christopher Hill, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “candid, behind-the-scenes” (\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in his career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He participated in one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic and traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo, and to the Dayton conference, where a truce was arrived at. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, in the cold war; chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton’s hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutpost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Hill’s “lively, entertaining…introduction to the difficult game of diplomacy” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)—an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents (Bush, Clinton, and Obama), of vice presidents including Dick Cheney, of Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger, among others. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America’s aggressive interventions and wars of choice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutpost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “is a personal story, filled with the intricacies of living abroad, coping with the bureaucracy of the huge US foreign-policy establishment, and trying to persuade some very difficult people that America really does want to help them” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-09T16:20:37-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-09T16:20:37-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41132207931481,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA454-Hill","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Outpost — Hill '74","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":544,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781451685930","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba454-hill-outpost.jpg?v=1712693886"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba454-hill-outpost.jpg?v=1712693886","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24971830591577,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba454-hill-outpost.jpg?v=1712693886"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba454-hill-outpost.jpg?v=1712693886","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Christopher Hill, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA “candid, behind-the-scenes” (\u003ci\u003eThe Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in his career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChristopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He participated in one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic and traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo, and to the Dayton conference, where a truce was arrived at. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, in the cold war; chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton’s hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutpost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Hill’s “lively, entertaining…introduction to the difficult game of diplomacy” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e)—an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents (Bush, Clinton, and Obama), of vice presidents including Dick Cheney, of Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger, among others. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America’s aggressive interventions and wars of choice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOutpost\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “is a personal story, filled with the intricacies of living abroad, coping with the bureaucracy of the huge US foreign-policy establishment, and trying to persuade some very difficult people that America really does want to help them” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eProvidence Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7556977197145,"title":"Crush Your Test Anxiety — Bernstein '69","handle":"crush-your-test-anxiety-bernstein-69","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Ben Bernstein, Class of 1969\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTests cause a lot of stress and anxiety, but no more!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerformance coach Ben Bernstein delivers a comprehensive training guide on how to improve test scores. These lessons avoid memorization and answering strategies and instead address the test-taker individually to determine what they need to perform well at test time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on 50 years of teaching experience and 35 years of practice as a clinical psychologist, this book distills the best practices used by elite athletes, performing artists, and top business executives to create a system that can be applied to any test, including the SAT, ACT, LSAT, MCAT, GRE, GMAT, licensing exams, finals, and even driving tests. The system trains test takers to be calm, confident, and focused: the dependable \"three-legged stool\" for successful performance. Also included are special chapters for parents and teachers, as well as online access to additional test-prep material for individual use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-03T16:43:25-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-03T16:43:25-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":1899,"price_min":1899,"price_max":1899,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1899,"compare_at_price_min":1899,"compare_at_price_max":1899,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41099232772185,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA449-Bernstein","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Crush Your Test Anxiety — Bernstein '69","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1899,"weight":454,"compare_at_price":1899,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781641700252","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba449-bernstein-crush.jpg?v=1712176883"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba449-bernstein-crush.jpg?v=1712176883","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24939003904089,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba449-bernstein-crush.jpg?v=1712176883"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba449-bernstein-crush.jpg?v=1712176883","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Ben Bernstein, Class of 1969\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTests cause a lot of stress and anxiety, but no more!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerformance coach Ben Bernstein delivers a comprehensive training guide on how to improve test scores. These lessons avoid memorization and answering strategies and instead address the test-taker individually to determine what they need to perform well at test time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on 50 years of teaching experience and 35 years of practice as a clinical psychologist, this book distills the best practices used by elite athletes, performing artists, and top business executives to create a system that can be applied to any test, including the SAT, ACT, LSAT, MCAT, GRE, GMAT, licensing exams, finals, and even driving tests. The system trains test takers to be calm, confident, and focused: the dependable \"three-legged stool\" for successful performance. Also included are special chapters for parents and teachers, as well as online access to additional test-prep material for individual use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7556976640089,"title":"Neighborhood Heroes — Rielly '18","handle":"neighborhood-heroes-rielly-18","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Morgan Rielly, Class of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by the old African proverb: \"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground,\" high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women who served in World War II. All of these veterans taught him something, not just about how to fight a war, but how to live a life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-03T16:37:59-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-03T16:37:59-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":1595,"price_min":1595,"price_max":1595,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1595,"compare_at_price_min":1595,"compare_at_price_max":1595,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41099230380121,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA448-Rielly","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Neighborhood Heroes — Rielly '18","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1595,"weight":363,"compare_at_price":1595,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781608932634","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba448-rielly-neighborhood.jpg?v=1712176531"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba448-rielly-neighborhood.jpg?v=1712176531","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Neighborhood Heroes: Life Lessons from Maine's Greatest Generation, by Morgan Rielly","id":24938996826201,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba448-rielly-neighborhood.jpg?v=1712176531"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba448-rielly-neighborhood.jpg?v=1712176531","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Morgan Rielly, Class of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by the old African proverb: \"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground,\" high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women who served in World War II. All of these veterans taught him something, not just about how to fight a war, but how to live a life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7556973559897,"title":"On Target — Bechtell '78","handle":"on-target-bechtell-78","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Michele Bechtell, Class of 1978\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn all too many companies, once a business plan is created there is no systematic follow-up. The plan is filed and forgotten until it's time for the annual review-and the result is repeated failure to achieve goals and objectives. Seasoned organizational consultant Michele Bechtell draws on twenty years of experience to describe a straightforward, easy-to-implement, yet powerful set of business review techniques that will transform a traditional static paper plan into a reliable targeting process to produce quantum leaps in performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBechtell shows how to:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdentify the priority measures requiring continual review,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetect and respond to early warning signs,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccelerate the change process to drive current objectives,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLink lessons from one cycle to the next for dramatic results, and much more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter includes sample forms, tools, and graphics easily customized for your organization. If you are stretching toward a compelling vision, attempting to implement a strategy, or have tried and failed to achieve a desired goal or objective, this book is a must-read\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Target\u003c\/em\u003e shows that by making business review an ongoing process, rather than an isolated event, you can achieve dramatic results at any level of any organization.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-03T16:29:48-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-03T16:29:48-04:00","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":41099210981465,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA247-Bechtell","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"On Target — Bechtell '78","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2995,"weight":544,"compare_at_price":2995,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"1576751716","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba447-bechtell-on.jpg?v=1712176090"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba447-bechtell-on.jpg?v=1712176090","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"On Target: How to Conduct Effective Business Reviews by Michele Bechtell","id":24938991353945,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba447-bechtell-on.jpg?v=1712176090"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba447-bechtell-on.jpg?v=1712176090","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Michele Bechtell, Class of 1978\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn all too many companies, once a business plan is created there is no systematic follow-up. The plan is filed and forgotten until it's time for the annual review-and the result is repeated failure to achieve goals and objectives. Seasoned organizational consultant Michele Bechtell draws on twenty years of experience to describe a straightforward, easy-to-implement, yet powerful set of business review techniques that will transform a traditional static paper plan into a reliable targeting process to produce quantum leaps in performance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBechtell shows how to:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdentify the priority measures requiring continual review,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetect and respond to early warning signs,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAccelerate the change process to drive current objectives,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLink lessons from one cycle to the next for dramatic results, and much more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach chapter includes sample forms, tools, and graphics easily customized for your organization. If you are stretching toward a compelling vision, attempting to implement a strategy, or have tried and failed to achieve a desired goal or objective, this book is a must-read\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Target\u003c\/em\u003e shows that by making business review an ongoing process, rather than an isolated event, you can achieve dramatic results at any level of any organization.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7556972413017,"title":"So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03","handle":"so-conceived-and-so-dedicated-wongsrichanalai-3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Lorien Foote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, \u003cem\u003eSo Conceived and So Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e 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\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? 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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\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? 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{"id":7528055668825,"title":"Find Your Perfect Job — Smith '89","handle":"find-your-perfect-job-smith-89","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Scott Smith, Class of 1989\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLEARN THE INSIDER SECRETS TO FIND YOUR PERFECT JOB -- GET THE ONLY REAL-WORLD CAREER GUIDE FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYoung professional who cracked Wall Street, Washington, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley, while earning an MBA and law degree along the way, shares everything he learned about job searching, careers, and graduate schools in this complete guide for young professionals. Written in a concise, highly readable style, the author pulls no punches, giving you the inside scoop and telling you what the other career books are afraid to!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUse this book's revolutionary system to identify and land your dream job. Make the best choices for you at each juncture of your career, from college into your 30s. Find out:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* How to create a comprehensive profile of the best job for you\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* How to get around HR gatekeepers and reach the actual hiring manager\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* Invaluable resume, interview, and networking tips\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* The differences between business school and law school\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* What law school and being a lawyer are really like\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e* The NUMBER ONE question to ask yourself to identify your Perfect Job\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is different than the other job-search books:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMost job-search books are written by career counselors with little or no outside professional experience. 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The author has personally confronted nearly all of the job-search questions and situations young professionals face in the modern era and shares all the answers in this brand new career guide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-03-13T14:18:35-04:00","created_at":"2024-03-13T14:18:35-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":1295,"price_min":1295,"price_max":1295,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1295,"compare_at_price_min":1295,"compare_at_price_max":1295,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40996565287001,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA440-Smith","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Find Your Perfect Job — Smith '89","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1295,"inventory_quantity":4,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780984393800","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba440-smith-find.jpg?v=1710353917"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba440-smith-find.jpg?v=1710353917","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Find Your Perfect Job, by Scott Smith","id":24847216803929,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba440-smith-find.jpg?v=1710353917"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba440-smith-find.jpg?v=1710353917","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Scott Smith, Class of 1989\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLEARN THE INSIDER SECRETS TO FIND YOUR PERFECT JOB -- GET THE ONLY REAL-WORLD CAREER GUIDE FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYoung professional who cracked Wall Street, Washington, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley, while earning an MBA and law degree along the way, shares everything he learned about job searching, careers, and graduate schools in this complete guide for young professionals. Written in a concise, highly readable style, the author pulls no punches, giving you the inside scoop and telling you what the other career books are afraid to!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUse this book's revolutionary system to identify and land your dream job. Make the best choices for you at each juncture of your career, from college into your 30s. 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{"id":7396438212697,"title":"Seen and Heard in Mexico — Albarrán '98","handle":"seen-and-heard-in-mexico-albarran-98","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Elena Jackson Albarrán, Class of 1998\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the beneficiaries of the largest percentage of the national budget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile most historical accounts of postrevolutionary Mexico omit discussion of how children themselves experienced and perceived the sudden onslaught of resources and attention, Elena Jackson Albarrán, in \u003cem\u003eSeen and Heard in Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e, places children’s voices at the center of her analysis. Albarrán draws on archived records of children’s experiences in the form of letters, stories, scripts, drawings, interviews, presentations, and homework assignments to explore how Mexican childhood, despite the hopeful visions of revolutionary ideologues, was not a uniform experience set against the monolithic backdrop of cultural nationalism, but rather was varied and uneven. Moving children from the aesthetic to the political realm, Albarrán situates them in their rightful place at the center of Mexico’s revolutionary narrative by examining the avenues through which children contributed to ideas about citizenship and nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:17:29-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:17:29-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Books","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","History","Non-Fiction"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3500,"compare_at_price_min":3500,"compare_at_price_max":3500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590091944025,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA430-Albarran","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Seen and Heard in Mexico — Albarrán '98","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3500,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780803265349","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba430-seen-albarran.jpg?v=1694625451"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba430-seen-albarran.jpg?v=1694625451","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Seen and Heard in Mexico by Elena Albarran","id":24333117718617,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba430-seen-albarran.jpg?v=1694625451"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba430-seen-albarran.jpg?v=1694625451","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Elena Jackson Albarrán, Class of 1998\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the beneficiaries of the largest percentage of the national budget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile most historical accounts of postrevolutionary Mexico omit discussion of how children themselves experienced and perceived the sudden onslaught of resources and attention, Elena Jackson Albarrán, in \u003cem\u003eSeen and Heard in Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e, places children’s voices at the center of her analysis. Albarrán draws on archived records of children’s experiences in the form of letters, stories, scripts, drawings, interviews, presentations, and homework assignments to explore how Mexican childhood, despite the hopeful visions of revolutionary ideologues, was not a uniform experience set against the monolithic backdrop of cultural nationalism, but rather was varied and uneven. Moving children from the aesthetic to the political realm, Albarrán situates them in their rightful place at the center of Mexico’s revolutionary narrative by examining the avenues through which children contributed to ideas about citizenship and nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396434903129,"title":"La rebelión de las niñas — Celis","handle":"la-rebelion-de-las-ninas-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, \u003cem\u003eThe Rebellion\u003c\/em\u003e is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining feminist theory with Caribbean and cultural studies, Celis contextualizes the struggle for “a body of one’s own” engaged by the protagonists of novels from the 1940’s to the turn of the 21st century. Challenging dominant associations of childhood narratives with nostalgia or lost innocence, Celis sets the spotlight on the desire, anger, and the bodily expressions girls deploy to contest the patriarchal appropriation of their sexuality. These girls’ embodied subjectivities inspire the coining of “corporeal consciousness” to name the force at the core of liberatory practices preceding and coexisting with the sanctioned performances of femininity faced by fictional and real girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful and innovative work, Celis selected a precise and persuasive corpus that exposes how patriarchal politics work on girls’ bodies and sexualities both in the ways girls incorporate and reproduce the logics of male desire in their bodies and gestures, and in the ways they subvert these parameters. A magnificent book that makes substantial contributions not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to the study of Latin American gender culture,” writes Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephen of Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Bowdoin Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:08:47-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:08:47-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":3250,"price_min":3250,"price_max":3250,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3250,"compare_at_price_min":3250,"compare_at_price_max":3250,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590081359961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF412-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"La rebelión de las niñas — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3250,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3250,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9788484898368","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf412-rebelion-celis.jpg?v=1694624929","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Rebelion de las ninas by Nadia V. 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Challenging dominant associations of childhood narratives with nostalgia or lost innocence, Celis sets the spotlight on the desire, anger, and the bodily expressions girls deploy to contest the patriarchal appropriation of their sexuality. These girls’ embodied subjectivities inspire the coining of “corporeal consciousness” to name the force at the core of liberatory practices preceding and coexisting with the sanctioned performances of femininity faced by fictional and real girls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A powerful and innovative work, Celis selected a precise and persuasive corpus that exposes how patriarchal politics work on girls’ bodies and sexualities both in the ways girls incorporate and reproduce the logics of male desire in their bodies and gestures, and in the ways they subvert these parameters. A magnificent book that makes substantial contributions not only to the field of Caribbean studies but also to the study of Latin American gender culture,” writes Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephen of Rice University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From Bowdoin Books.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396434018393,"title":"Lección Errante — Celis","handle":"leccion-errante-celis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary celebrity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLección examines the unique poetic universe of Santos-Febres, populated by “wandering” beings such as immigrants, transvestites and sex-workers, whose fictional voices rise up against their long-standing socio-historic marginalization. Lección errante delves into Santos-Febres’ public persona, revealing her as an emblem of a new generation of Latin American writers who shuttle comfortably between fiction, poetry, and the scholarly essay; between printed media and virtual technologies; between the traditionally intellectual arena and the popular culture scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From Bowdoin Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:02:37-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:02:37-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":2600,"price_min":2600,"price_max":2600,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2600,"compare_at_price_min":2600,"compare_at_price_max":2600,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590080180313,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF411-Celis","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Lección Errante — Celis","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2600,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2600,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789945455687","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Leccion errante by Nadia V. Celis","id":24333099368537,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf411-leccion-celis.jpg?v=1694624558","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nadia V. Celis\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca title=\"Nadia Celis faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/ncelis\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary celebrity\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLección examines the unique poetic universe of Santos-Febres, populated by “wandering” beings such as immigrants, transvestites and sex-workers, whose fictional voices rise up against their long-standing socio-historic marginalization. Lección errante delves into Santos-Febres’ public persona, revealing her as an emblem of a new generation of Latin American writers who shuttle comfortably between fiction, poetry, and the scholarly essay; between printed media and virtual technologies; between the traditionally intellectual arena and the popular culture scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From Bowdoin Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396432969817,"title":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","handle":"muerte-de-utopia-carolyn-wolfenzon-niego","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. In their own way, each of the novels recreates the image of an island, showing how the principal characters either stand in a marginal and peripheral position relative to history or do not participate in the passing of time at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis set of novels can be broadly considered “ahistorical” in the sense that time seems stagnant or imperceptible; however, I argue throughout the project that each novel contains multiple frames of history, reflecting a historical moment of the colonial past as well as a present moment in the authors’ contemporary postcolonial world. ​The authors that I study are: Antonio di Benedetto (Argentina), Carmen Boullosa (México), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), Enrique Rosas Paravicino (Perú) and Abel Posse (Argentina).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- By the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3500,"compare_at_price_min":3500,"compare_at_price_max":3500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590077853785,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF410-Wolfenzon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3500,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789972515552","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of book Muerte de Utopia by Carolyn Wolfenzon","id":24333093830745,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. 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From 1936 to 1967, millions relied on \u003cem\u003eThe Negro Motorist Green Book\u003c\/em\u003e, the definitive guide to businesses where they could safely rest, eat, or sleep. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost Americans only know of the guide from the 2018 \u003cem\u003eGreen Book\u003c\/em\u003e movie or the 2020 \u003cem\u003eLovecraft Country\u003c\/em\u003e TV show. Alvin Hall set out to revisit the world of the \u003cem\u003eGreen Book\u003c\/em\u003e to instruct us all on the real history of the guide that saved many lives. With his friend Janée Woods Weber, he drove from New York to Detroit to New Orleans, visiting motels, restaurants, shops, and stores where Black Americans once found a friendly welcome. They explored historical and cultural landmarks, from the theatres and clubs where stars like Duke Ellington and Lena Horne performed to the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. 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{"id":6966610427993,"title":"From Spinning to Winning — Sullivan '69","handle":"from-spinning-to-winning-sullivan-69","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Tim Sullivan, Class of 1969\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre you one of the millions of young people struggling to make a real start in your career? Are you on your second or third job and still don't know how to find the best way forward... or can't seem to open the door to the path that was meant for you?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf so, \u003ci\u003eFrom Spinning to Winning\u003c\/i\u003e is the book you've been waiting for. Written by an executive coach who has seen and done it all, it describes a completely different way to think about finding a job. In a series of humorous stories and fun exercises, author Tim Sullivan guides you through the process of finding your strengths, building a network of influential contacts, and tapping into the power of the hidden job market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady for a different way to think about your career? It doesn't matter if you're in your 20s or 30s, or whether you're stuck in a dead-end job or trying to break into a new industry - this is the one book you need to read this year!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-08-14T16:30:59-04:00","created_at":"2022-01-12T11:36:17-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Books","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"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":39680807338073,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA408-Sullivan","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"From Spinning to Winning — Sullivan '69","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1795,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1795,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781737944805","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba408-sullivan-spin.jpg?v=1642005379"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba408-sullivan-spin.jpg?v=1642005379","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21183333761113,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba408-sullivan-spin.jpg?v=1642005379"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba408-sullivan-spin.jpg?v=1642005379","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Tim Sullivan, Class of 1969\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre you one of the millions of young people struggling to make a real start in your career? Are you on your second or third job and still don't know how to find the best way forward... or can't seem to open the door to the path that was meant for you?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf so, \u003ci\u003eFrom Spinning to Winning\u003c\/i\u003e is the book you've been waiting for. Written by an executive coach who has seen and done it all, it describes a completely different way to think about finding a job. In a series of humorous stories and fun exercises, author Tim Sullivan guides you through the process of finding your strengths, building a network of influential contacts, and tapping into the power of the hidden job market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReady for a different way to think about your career? It doesn't matter if you're in your 20s or 30s, or whether you're stuck in a dead-end job or trying to break into a new industry - this is the one book you need to read this year!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6844662906969,"title":"The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74","handle":"the-tin-ticket-swiss-74","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tin Ticket\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-10-26T16:45:19-04:00","created_at":"2021-09-29T09:36:38-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Books","tags":["History","Non-Fiction"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39506397298777,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA405-Swiss","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780425243077","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba405-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1632922600"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba405-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1632922600","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Tin Ticket by Deborah Swiss 1974","id":20750368440409,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba405-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1632922600"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba405-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1632922600","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tin Ticket\u003c\/em\u003e takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6824163410009,"title":"Dying to Be Beautiful — Kay '91","handle":"dying-to-be-beautiful-kay-91","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Gwen Kay, Class of 1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of how cosmetics came to be regulated in early-20th-century America. In 1906, the Food and Drug Administration was given the power to control food and drugs. Not until 1938 were other products that went into or onto the body, including cosmetics, similarly regulated. The intervening years saw death by depilatory and blindness by mascara and a rise in consumer and grassroots political activism. This book examines who fought for regulation of these inherently feminine products and why it took so long for their goals to be achieved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGwen Kay argues that many activists, often at the grassroots level, set the stage for changes in legislation. The activists’ continued outrage, letters, negative press, books, and just plain attention to these matters allowed for the plodding Congressional committee hearings to transform into swift action in the face of a national crisis provoked by a lack of regulatory oversight. Ordinary citizens, doctors as individuals rather than as an association, government officials acting in a personal rather than an official capacity, and even manufacturers concerned about less-reputable industrial cousins tainting the cosmetic industry’s good name all supported the effort to regulate cosmetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the first book that substantively examines the cosmetics industry in light of the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act. \u003cem\u003eDying to Be Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e pays particular attention to the problems caused by cosmetics and to the possible solutions offered, both before and after implementation of the 1938 law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-09-22T12:18:05-04:00","created_at":"2021-09-22T12:18:04-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Books","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":2295,"price_min":2295,"price_max":2295,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2295,"compare_at_price_min":2295,"compare_at_price_max":2295,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39473892819033,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA397-Kay","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dying to Be Beautiful — Kay '91","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2295,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0814251382","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba397-kay-dying.jpg?v=1632327486"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba397-kay-dying.jpg?v=1632327486","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Dying to Be Beautiful, by Gwen Kay","id":20721972576345,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba397-kay-dying.jpg?v=1632327486"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba397-kay-dying.jpg?v=1632327486","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Gwen Kay, Class of 1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDying to Be Beautiful: The Fight for Safe Cosmetics\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of how cosmetics came to be regulated in early-20th-century America. 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{"id":6824118255705,"title":"The Big Disconnect — Steiner-Adair '76","handle":"the-big-disconnect-steiner-adair-76","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Catherine Steiner-Adair, Class of 1976\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHave iPads replaced conversation at the dinner table? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat do infants observe when their parents are on their smartphones? \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShould you be your child's Facebook friend?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs the focus of family has turned to the glow of the screen—children constantly texting their friends, parents working online around the clock—everyday life is undergoing a massive transformation. Easy availability to the Internet and social media has erased the boundaries that protect children from the unsavory aspects of adult life. Parents often feel they are losing a meaningful connection with their children. Children are feeling lonely and alienated. The digital world is here to stay, but what are families losing with technology's gain?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs renowned clinical psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair explains, families are in crisis around this issue, and even more so than they realize. Not only do chronic tech distractions have deep and lasting effects, but children desperately need parents to provide what tech cannot: close, significant interactions with the adults in their lives. Drawing on real-life stories from her clinical work with children and parents, and her consulting work with educators and experts across the country, Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater under-standing, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution unfolding in their living rooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe all know that deep connection with the people we love means everything to us. It's time to look with fresh eyes and an open mind at the disconnection we are experiencing from our extreme device dependence. 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{"id":6797875413081,"title":"Strategic Warning Intelligence — Gordon '63","handle":"strategic-warning-intelligence-gordon-63","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Joseph S. Gordon, Class of 1963,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand John A. Gentry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon update our understanding of strategic warning intelligence analysis for the twenty-first century. Strategic warning—the process of long-range analysis to alert senior leaders to trending threats and opportunities that require action—is a critical intelligence function. It also is frequently misunderstood and underappreciated. Gentry and Gordon draw on both their practitioner and academic backgrounds to present a history of the strategic warning function in the US intelligence community. In doing so, they outline the capabilities of analytic methods, explain why strategic warning analysis is so hard, and discuss the special challenges strategic warning encounters from senior decision-makers. They also compare how strategic warning functions in other countries, evaluate why the United States has in recent years emphasized current intelligence instead of strategic warning, and recommend warning-related structural and procedural improvements in the US intelligence community. The authors examine historical case studies, including postmortems of warning failures, to provide examples of the analytic points they make. \u003ci\u003eStrategic Warning Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e will interest scholars and practitioners and will be an ideal teaching text for intermediate and advanced students.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-09-13T10:42:46-04:00","created_at":"2021-09-13T10:42:38-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":2599,"price_min":2599,"price_max":2599,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2599,"compare_at_price_min":2599,"compare_at_price_max":2599,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39441958207577,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA392-Gordon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Strategic Warning Intelligence — Gordon '63","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2599,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781626166554","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba392-gordon-stra.jpg?v=1631544185"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba392-gordon-stra.jpg?v=1631544185","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Strategic Warning Intelligence by Joseph S Gordon '63","id":20691649200217,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba392-gordon-stra.jpg?v=1631544185"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba392-gordon-stra.jpg?v=1631544185","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Joseph S. Gordon, Class of 1963,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand John A. Gentry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn A. Gentry and Joseph S. Gordon update our understanding of strategic warning intelligence analysis for the twenty-first century. Strategic warning—the process of long-range analysis to alert senior leaders to trending threats and opportunities that require action—is a critical intelligence function. It also is frequently misunderstood and underappreciated. Gentry and Gordon draw on both their practitioner and academic backgrounds to present a history of the strategic warning function in the US intelligence community. In doing so, they outline the capabilities of analytic methods, explain why strategic warning analysis is so hard, and discuss the special challenges strategic warning encounters from senior decision-makers. They also compare how strategic warning functions in other countries, evaluate why the United States has in recent years emphasized current intelligence instead of strategic warning, and recommend warning-related structural and procedural improvements in the US intelligence community. The authors examine historical case studies, including postmortems of warning failures, to provide examples of the analytic points they make. \u003ci\u003eStrategic Warning Intelligence\u003c\/i\u003e will interest scholars and practitioners and will be an ideal teaching text for intermediate and advanced students.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6562112995417,"title":"I, Grape — Clarke","handle":"i-grape-clarke","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Brock Clarke\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can—and can’t—do. (“Very: is there a weaker, sadder, more futile word in the English language?”)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Clarke supports his case with passages by and about writers who have both influenced and irritated him. Pieces such as “What the Cold Can Teach Us,” “The Case for Meanness,” “Why Good Literature Makes Us Bad People,” and “The Novel is Dead; Long Live the Novel” celebrate the achievements of master practitioners such as Muriel Spark, Joy Williams, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O’Connor, Paul Beatty, George Saunders, John Cheever, and Colson Whitehead. Of particular interest to Clarke is the contentious divide between fiction and memoir, which he investigates using recent and relevant critical arguments, also tackling ancillary forms such as “fictional memoir” and the autobiographical novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Anecdotal and unabashed, rigorous and piercingly perceptive—not to mention flat-out funny—\u003cem\u003eI\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Grape\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e or The Case for Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis a love letter to and a passionate defense of the discipline to which its author has devoted his life and mind. It is also an attempt to eff the ineffable: “That is one of the basic tenets of this book: when we write fiction, surprising things sometimes happen, especially when fiction writers take advantage of their chosen form’s contrarian ability to surprise.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-07T16:56:10-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-16T16:24:15-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39307063754841,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF365","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"I, Grape — Clarke","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781946724366","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"I, Grape; or The Case for Fiction, by Brock Clarke","id":20350316085337,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf365-clarke-grape.jpg?v=1618604687","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Brock Clarke\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/b\/bclarke2\/\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can—and can’t—do. (“Very: is there a weaker, sadder, more futile word in the English language?”)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Clarke supports his case with passages by and about writers who have both influenced and irritated him. Pieces such as “What the Cold Can Teach Us,” “The Case for Meanness,” “Why Good Literature Makes Us Bad People,” and “The Novel is Dead; Long Live the Novel” celebrate the achievements of master practitioners such as Muriel Spark, Joy Williams, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O’Connor, Paul Beatty, George Saunders, John Cheever, and Colson Whitehead. Of particular interest to Clarke is the contentious divide between fiction and memoir, which he investigates using recent and relevant critical arguments, also tackling ancillary forms such as “fictional memoir” and the autobiographical novel.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Anecdotal and unabashed, rigorous and piercingly perceptive—not to mention flat-out funny—\u003cem\u003eI\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Grape\u003c\/em\u003e;\u003cem\u003e or The Case for Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis a love letter to and a passionate defense of the discipline to which its author has devoted his life and mind. It is also an attempt to eff the ineffable: “That is one of the basic tenets of this book: when we write fiction, surprising things sometimes happen, especially when fiction writers take advantage of their chosen form’s contrarian ability to surprise.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6543815704665,"title":"Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon","handle":"apartheid-in-south-africa-gordon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Gordon, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/dgordon\/index.html\" title=\"David Gordon faculty page\"\u003eProfessor of History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\" id=\"more\"\u003eThis volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, development, and fall of apartheid, and highlights historiographic debates regarding apartheid, resistance to apartheid, and life under apartheid. Through a collection of sources that include key government documents, Afrikaner nationalist tracts and speeches, and records of meetings, students can explore apartheid’s basis, its social and economic impacts, life under apartheid, and forms of resistance to it. Document headnotes, maps, a Chronology of Apartheid in South Africa, Questions for Consideration, and a Selected Bibliography serve to further support student learning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-11T12:23:19-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-11T12:22:35-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History","Non-Fiction"],"price":2415,"price_min":2415,"price_max":2415,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2415,"compare_at_price_min":2415,"compare_at_price_max":2415,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39268038213721,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF324-Gordon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2415,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2415,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781457665547","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Apartheid in South Africa by David Gordon","id":20266267902041,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf324-gordon-apart.jpg?v=1615483382","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy David Gordon, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/dgordon\/index.html\" title=\"David Gordon faculty page\"\u003eProfessor of History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\" id=\"more\"\u003eThis volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, development, and fall of apartheid, and highlights historiographic debates regarding apartheid, resistance to apartheid, and life under apartheid. Through a collection of sources that include key government documents, Afrikaner nationalist tracts and speeches, and records of meetings, students can explore apartheid’s basis, its social and economic impacts, life under apartheid, and forms of resistance to it. Document headnotes, maps, a Chronology of Apartheid in South Africa, Questions for Consideration, and a Selected Bibliography serve to further support student learning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"display: inline;\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6543420555353,"title":"Living Sustainably — Sanford '83","handle":"living-sustainably-sanford-83","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy A. Whitney Sanford, Class of 1983\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft their own societies and live based on the values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equality, and voluntary simplicity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLiving Sustainably\u003c\/i\u003e, A. Whitney Sanford reveals the solutions that such communities have devised for sustainable living while highlighting the specific choices and adaptations that they have made to accommodate local context and geography. She examines their methods of reviving and adapting traditional agrarian skills, testing alternate building materials for their homes, and developing local governments that balance group needs and individual autonomy. \u003ci\u003eLiving Sustainably\u003c\/i\u003e is a teachable testament to the idea that new cultures based on justice and sustainability are attainable in many ways. Sanford's engaging work demonstrates that citizens can make a conscious effort to subsist in a more balanced, harmonious world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-10T16:31:24-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-10T16:30:59-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":3695,"price_min":3695,"price_max":3695,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3695,"compare_at_price_min":3695,"compare_at_price_max":3695,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39267077587033,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA315-Sanford","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Living Sustainably — Sanford '83","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3695,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3695,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780813177526","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba315-sanford-living.jpg?v=1615411878"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba315-sanford-living.jpg?v=1615411878","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Living Sustainably by A. Whitney Sanford","id":20263824326745,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba315-sanford-living.jpg?v=1615411878"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba315-sanford-living.jpg?v=1615411878","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy A. Whitney Sanford, Class of 1983\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft their own societies and live based on the values of nonviolence, self-sufficiency, equality, and voluntary simplicity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLiving Sustainably\u003c\/i\u003e, A. Whitney Sanford reveals the solutions that such communities have devised for sustainable living while highlighting the specific choices and adaptations that they have made to accommodate local context and geography. She examines their methods of reviving and adapting traditional agrarian skills, testing alternate building materials for their homes, and developing local governments that balance group needs and individual autonomy. \u003ci\u003eLiving Sustainably\u003c\/i\u003e is a teachable testament to the idea that new cultures based on justice and sustainability are attainable in many ways. Sanford's engaging work demonstrates that citizens can make a conscious effort to subsist in a more balanced, harmonious world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6543418851417,"title":"Into the White — Heuer '94","handle":"into-the-white-heuer-94","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Christopher Heuer, Class of 1994\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEuropean narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally “abstract,” the far North – a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination – offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a “nonsite,” spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts – and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art’s very legitimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInto the White\u003c\/i\u003e uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates of perception and matter, of representation, discovery, and the time of the earth – long before the nineteenth century romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, this book contends, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and unmasterable, something beyond the idea of image itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-10T16:27:01-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-10T16:26:55-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","History","Non-Fiction"],"price":3295,"price_min":3295,"price_max":3295,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3295,"compare_at_price_min":3295,"compare_at_price_max":3295,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39267072639065,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA314-Heuer","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Into the White — Heuer '94","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3295,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781942130147","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba314-heuer-into.jpg?v=1615411617"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba314-heuer-into.jpg?v=1615411617","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Into the White, by Christopher P. Heuer","id":20263822196825,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba314-heuer-into.jpg?v=1615411617"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba314-heuer-into.jpg?v=1615411617","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Christopher Heuer, Class of 1994\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEuropean narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally “abstract,” the far North – a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination – offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a “nonsite,” spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts – and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art’s very legitimacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInto the White\u003c\/i\u003e uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates of perception and matter, of representation, discovery, and the time of the earth – long before the nineteenth century romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, this book contends, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and unmasterable, something beyond the idea of image itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6540473335897,"title":"Demography in the Age of the Postmodern — Riley","handle":"demography-in-the-age-of-the-postmodern-riley","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nancy Riley, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/nriley\/index.html\" title=\"Nancy Riley faculty page\"\u003eA. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand James McCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordingly argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into the field in order to broaden and strengthen the analysis of demographic behavior. The book includes numerous examples of innovative demographic-related research, indicating how it enriches the field.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-05T12:21:09-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-05T12:21:08-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":2000,"price_min":2000,"price_max":2000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2000,"compare_at_price_min":2000,"compare_at_price_max":2000,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39260543254617,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF303-Riley","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Demography in the Age of the Postmodern — Riley","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2000,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2000,"inventory_quantity":7,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0521533643","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Demography in the Age of the Postmodern by Nancy Riley","id":20249263472729,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf303-riley-demography.jpg?v=1614964869","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nancy Riley, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/nriley\/index.html\" title=\"Nancy Riley faculty page\"\u003eA. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciences\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand James McCarthy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordingly argue for the inclusion of new methodologies and theories into the field in order to broaden and strengthen the analysis of demographic behavior. The book includes numerous examples of innovative demographic-related research, indicating how it enriches the field.\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"}