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{"id":6539559731289,"title":"Drawn with the Sword","handle":"drawn-with-the-sword","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy James McPherson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames M. McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. \u003cem\u003eBattle Cry of Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, called \"history writing of the highest order.\" Now, in \u003cem\u003eDrawn With the Sword\u003c\/em\u003e, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on some of the most enduring questions of the Civil War, written in the masterful prose that has become his trademark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilled with fresh interpretations, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, \u003cem\u003eDrawn With the Sword\u003c\/em\u003e explores such questions as why the North won and why the South lost (emphasizing the role of contingency in the Northern victory), whether Southern or Northern aggression began the war, and who really freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln or the slaves themselves. McPherson offers memorable portraits of the great leaders who people the landscape of the Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant, struggling to write his memoirs with the same courage and determination that marked his successes on the battlefield; Robert E. Lee, a brilliant general and a true gentleman, yet still a product of his time and place; and Abraham Lincoln, the leader and orator whose mythical figure still looms large over our cultural landscape. And McPherson discusses often-ignored issues such as the development of the Civil War into a modern \"total war\" against both soldiers and civilians, and the international impact of the American Civil War in advancing the cause of republicanism and democracy in countries from Brazil and Cuba to France and England. Of special interest is the final essay, entitled \"What's the Matter With History?\", a trenchant critique of the field of history today, which McPherson describes here as \"more and more about less and less.\" He writes that professional historians have abandoned narrative history written for the greater audience of educated general readers in favor of impenetrable tomes on minor historical details which serve only to edify other academics, thus leaving the historical education of the general public to films and television programs such as \u003cem\u003eGlory\u003c\/em\u003e and Ken Burns's PBS documentary \u003cem\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach essay in \u003cem\u003eDrawn With the Sword\u003c\/em\u003e reveals McPherson's own profound knowledge of the Civil War and of the controversies among historians, presenting all sides in clear and lucid prose and concluding with his own measured and eloquent opinions. Readers will rejoice that McPherson has once again proven by example that history can be both accurate and interesting, informative and well-written. Mark Twain wrote that the Civil War \"wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations.\" In \u003cem\u003eDrawn With the Sword\u003c\/em\u003e, McPherson gracefully and brilliantly illuminates this momentous conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-04T17:00:06-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-04T16:58:25-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Civil War"],"price":1895,"price_min":1895,"price_max":1895,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1895,"compare_at_price_min":1895,"compare_at_price_max":1895,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39258361036889,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBC296","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Drawn with the Sword","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1895,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0195117964T","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc296-mcpherson-drawn.jpg?v=1614895200"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc296-mcpherson-drawn.jpg?v=1614895200","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Drawn with the Sword, by James M. 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McPherson is acclaimed as one of the finest historians writing today and a preeminent commentator on the Civil War. \u003cem\u003eBattle Cry of Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of that conflict, was a national bestseller that Hugh Brogan, in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, called \"history writing of the highest order.\" Now, in \u003cem\u003eDrawn With the Sword\u003c\/em\u003e, McPherson offers a series of thoughtful and engaging essays on some of the most enduring questions of the Civil War, written in the masterful prose that has become his trademark.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilled with fresh interpretations, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, \u003cem\u003eDrawn With the Sword\u003c\/em\u003e explores such questions as why the North won and why the South lost (emphasizing the role of contingency in the Northern victory), whether Southern or Northern aggression began the war, and who really freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln or the slaves themselves. McPherson offers memorable portraits of the great leaders who people the landscape of the Civil War: Ulysses S. Grant, struggling to write his memoirs with the same courage and determination that marked his successes on the battlefield; Robert E. Lee, a brilliant general and a true gentleman, yet still a product of his time and place; and Abraham Lincoln, the leader and orator whose mythical figure still looms large over our cultural landscape. And McPherson discusses often-ignored issues such as the development of the Civil War into a modern \"total war\" against both soldiers and civilians, and the international impact of the American Civil War in advancing the cause of republicanism and democracy in countries from Brazil and Cuba to France and England. Of special interest is the final essay, entitled \"What's the Matter With History?\", a trenchant critique of the field of history today, which McPherson describes here as \"more and more about less and less.\" He writes that professional historians have abandoned narrative history written for the greater audience of educated general readers in favor of impenetrable tomes on minor historical details which serve only to edify other academics, thus leaving the historical education of the general public to films and television programs such as \u003cem\u003eGlory\u003c\/em\u003e and Ken Burns's PBS documentary \u003cem\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach essay in \u003cem\u003eDrawn With the Sword\u003c\/em\u003e reveals McPherson's own profound knowledge of the Civil War and of the controversies among historians, presenting all sides in clear and lucid prose and concluding with his own measured and eloquent opinions. Readers will rejoice that McPherson has once again proven by example that history can be both accurate and interesting, informative and well-written. Mark Twain wrote that the Civil War \"wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations.\" In \u003cem\u003eDrawn With the Sword\u003c\/em\u003e, McPherson gracefully and brilliantly illuminates this momentous conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6539558715481,"title":"Gettysburg, Day Three — Wert","handle":"gettysburg-day-three-wert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jeffry D. Wert\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeffry D. Wert re-creates the last day of the bloody Battle of Gettysburg in astonishing detail, taking readers from Meade's council of war to the seven-hour struggle for Culp's Hill -- the most sustained combat of the entire engagement. Drawing on hundreds of sources, including more than 400 manuscript collections, he offers brief excerpts from the letters and diaries of soldiers. He also introduces heroes on both sides of the conflict -- among them General George Greene, the oldest general on the battlefield, who led the Union troops at Culp's Hill. A gripping narrative written in a fresh and lively style, \u003ci\u003eGettysburg, Day Three\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable rendering of an immortal day in our country's history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-04T16:54:36-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-04T16:54:19-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Civil War"],"price":2895,"price_min":2895,"price_max":2895,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2895,"compare_at_price_min":2895,"compare_at_price_max":2895,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39258357301337,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBC295-Wert","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Gettysburg, Day Three — Wert","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2895,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2895,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"0684859157","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc295-wert-gettysburg.jpg?v=1614894861"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc295-wert-gettysburg.jpg?v=1614894861","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Gettysburg, Day Three, by Jeffry D. Wert","id":20243748487257,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc295-wert-gettysburg.jpg?v=1614894861"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc295-wert-gettysburg.jpg?v=1614894861","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jeffry D. Wert\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJeffry D. Wert re-creates the last day of the bloody Battle of Gettysburg in astonishing detail, taking readers from Meade's council of war to the seven-hour struggle for Culp's Hill -- the most sustained combat of the entire engagement. Drawing on hundreds of sources, including more than 400 manuscript collections, he offers brief excerpts from the letters and diaries of soldiers. He also introduces heroes on both sides of the conflict -- among them General George Greene, the oldest general on the battlefield, who led the Union troops at Culp's Hill. A gripping narrative written in a fresh and lively style, \u003ci\u003eGettysburg, Day Three\u003c\/i\u003e is an unforgettable rendering of an immortal day in our country's history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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

{"id":6538928881753,"title":"At Every Hazard: Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War","handle":"at-every-hazard-joshua-chamberlain-and-the-civil-war","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Matthew Langdon Cost\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoshua Chamberlain and the Civil War: At Every Hazard\u003c\/em\u003e is a historical novel about one of that war’s genuine heroes, a college professor with no formal military training who, together with a small company of men, turned the tide of the battle and the war with a bayonet charge at Gettysburg. This was not the end of his exploits, however, and by war’s end, he was so respected that Ulysses S. Grant chose Chamberlain [Bowdoin 1852] to accept the South’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. The novel traces his evolution from an arrogant, overbearing professor to unwitting and unlikely hero and leader of men. Interwoven are subplots including the coming of age of his young orphaned aide, a complicated marriage, and of course, lots of rousing battle scenes.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-08-11T15:12:43-04:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T16:24:21-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Civil War","Joshua Chamberlain"],"price":1600,"price_min":1600,"price_max":1600,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1600,"compare_at_price_min":1600,"compare_at_price_max":1600,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256839290969,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBC294-Cost","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"At Every Hazard: Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1600,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1600,"inventory_quantity":5,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781511527965","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc294-cost-jlc.jpg?v=1614806697"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc294-cost-jlc.jpg?v=1614806697","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Joshua Chamberlain and the Civil War: At Every Hazard, by Matthew Langdon Cost","id":20240098066521,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc294-cost-jlc.jpg?v=1614806697"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc294-cost-jlc.jpg?v=1614806697","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Matthew Langdon Cost\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoshua Chamberlain and the Civil War: At Every Hazard\u003c\/em\u003e is a historical novel about one of that war’s genuine heroes, a college professor with no formal military training who, together with a small company of men, turned the tide of the battle and the war with a bayonet charge at Gettysburg. This was not the end of his exploits, however, and by war’s end, he was so respected that Ulysses S. Grant chose Chamberlain [Bowdoin 1852] to accept the South’s surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. The novel traces his evolution from an arrogant, overbearing professor to unwitting and unlikely hero and leader of men. Interwoven are subplots including the coming of age of his young orphaned aide, a complicated marriage, and of course, lots of rousing battle scenes.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538925899865,"title":"Dogging It — Wagner","handle":"dogging-it-wagner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jonathan Wagner, Bowdoin Alumnus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book of self-discovery is about much more than a failed marriage. Author Jonathan Wagner shares his journey of moving on and discovering the divine presence in the world with the help of his dogs. A testament that dogs are truly man’s best friend, \u003cem\u003eDogging It Through Divorce and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful exploration of why dogs mean so much to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-08-11T15:12:26-04:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T16:18:19-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1995,"price_min":1995,"price_max":1995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1995,"compare_at_price_min":1995,"compare_at_price_max":1995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256834539609,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA23-Wagner","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Dogging It — Wagner","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1995,"inventory_quantity":4,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781684014620","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Dogging It by Jonathan Wagner","id":20240078176345,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba293-wagner-dogging.jpg?v=1614806351","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Jonathan Wagner, Bowdoin Alumnus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book of self-discovery is about much more than a failed marriage. Author Jonathan Wagner shares his journey of moving on and discovering the divine presence in the world with the help of his dogs. A testament that dogs are truly man’s best friend, \u003cem\u003eDogging It Through Divorce and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonderful exploration of why dogs mean so much to us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538917904473,"title":"Sculpture — Hooke '64","handle":"sculpture-hooke-64","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Robert L. Hooke, Class of 1964\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHandsome art volume of sculpture by Robert L. Hooke, Bowdoin Class of 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T16:01:18-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T16:01:02-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":3995,"price_min":3995,"price_max":3995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3995,"compare_at_price_min":3995,"compare_at_price_max":3995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256821235801,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA291-Hooke","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sculpture — Hooke '64","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3995,"inventory_quantity":10,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780983541905","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba291-hooke-sculpture.jpg?v=1614805263"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba291-hooke-sculpture.jpg?v=1614805263","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Robert L. Hooke Sculpture by Robert L. Hooke '64","id":20240042295385,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba291-hooke-sculpture.jpg?v=1614805263"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba291-hooke-sculpture.jpg?v=1614805263","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Robert L. Hooke, Class of 1964\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHandsome art volume of sculpture by Robert L. Hooke, Bowdoin Class of 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538914529369,"title":"The Forgotten Longfellow: The Saga of Alexander Longfellow, Sr.","handle":"the-forgotten-longfellow-the-saga-of-alexander-longfellow-sr","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Richard Shain Cohen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA provocative biography of one of the country's first explorer-topographers, [Bowdoin College alumnus] Alexander Longfellow, Sr., the neglected brother of famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin Class of 1825]. With humor, self-effacement, grace and touching affection, this man wrote letters to his family, drew maps and drawings, and lived the rough life as he explored and charted the far reaches of the American landscape, shook hands with presidents, sailed around the Horn, and toured the South through the ruins of the Civil War, leaving us a rich legacy of documents to give us a rare picture of America in the 1880's.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:50:51-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:50:44-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"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":39256813535321,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA290-Longfellow","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Forgotten Longfellow: The Saga of Alexander Longfellow, Sr.","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2599,"inventory_quantity":8,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780976597575","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba290-longfellow-forgotten.jpg?v=1614804670"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba290-longfellow-forgotten.jpg?v=1614804670","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Forgotten Longfellow by Richard Shain Cohen","id":20240021979225,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba290-longfellow-forgotten.jpg?v=1614804670"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba290-longfellow-forgotten.jpg?v=1614804670","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Richard Shain Cohen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA provocative biography of one of the country's first explorer-topographers, [Bowdoin College alumnus] Alexander Longfellow, Sr., the neglected brother of famous poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin Class of 1825]. With humor, self-effacement, grace and touching affection, this man wrote letters to his family, drew maps and drawings, and lived the rough life as he explored and charted the far reaches of the American landscape, shook hands with presidents, sailed around the Horn, and toured the South through the ruins of the Civil War, leaving us a rich legacy of documents to give us a rare picture of America in the 1880's.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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

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

{"id":6538898964569,"title":"Forging the Ideal Educated Girl - Khoja-Moolji","handle":"forging-the-ideal-educated-girl-khoja-moolji","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shenila Khoja-Moolji,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/skhoja\/\" title=\"Shenila Khoja-Moolji faculty profile\"\u003e Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eForging the Ideal Educated Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-\/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls’\/ women’s education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:15:12-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:15:02-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":3495,"price_min":3495,"price_max":3495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3495,"compare_at_price_min":3495,"compare_at_price_max":3495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256730861657,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF285-Khoja-Moolji","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Forging the Ideal Educated Girl - Khoja-Moolji","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3495,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780520298408","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Forging the Ideal Educated Girl by Shenila Khoja-Moolji","id":20239929770073,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf-khojamoolji-forging.jpg?v=1614802504","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shenila Khoja-Moolji,\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/skhoja\/\" title=\"Shenila Khoja-Moolji faculty profile\"\u003e Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eForging the Ideal Educated Girl\u003c\/i\u003e, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving politics of educational reform and development campaigns in colonial India and Pakistan. She challenges the prevailing common sense associated with calls for women’s and girls’ education and argues that such advocacy is not simply about access to education but, more crucially, concerned with producing ideal Muslim woman-\/girl-subjects with specific relationships to the patriarchal family, paid work, Islam, and the nation-state. Thus, discourses on girls’\/ women’s education are sites for the construction of not only gender but also class relations, religion, and the nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538896113753,"title":"Time Use of Mothers — Connelly","handle":"time-use-of-mothers-connelly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Rachel Connelly, \u003ca title=\"Rachel Connelly faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\"\u003eBion R. Cram Professor of Economics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Jean Kimmell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on the time use of mothers of preteenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006. We explore how mothers at the start of the twenty-first century are using their time in order to better understand their lives, the lives of their partners, and the lives of their children. Differences in the time choices American mothers make will have important implications for their own well-being and the well-being of family members. The study of maternal time use is hugely important because of the relationship between quality caregiving and child well-being. Additionally, employers looking for new labor pools are also affected by the time use choices of mothers of young children because 60 percent of American mothers with young children are employed. The time choices of mothers in the United States also affect policymakers' thinking about things such as educational policy, the role that taxes play in the allocation of time between paid and unpaid activities, and possible expansion of publicly funded preschool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:08:33-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:08:10-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":1800,"price_min":1800,"price_max":1800,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1800,"compare_at_price_min":1800,"compare_at_price_max":1800,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256708546649,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF284","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Time Use of Mothers — Connelly","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1800,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1800,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780880993685","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Time Use of Mothers by Rachel Connelly","id":20239906766937,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf284-connelly-time.jpg?v=1614802600","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Rachel Connelly, \u003ca title=\"Rachel Connelly faculty profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/connelly\/\"\u003eBion R. Cram Professor of Economics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Jean Kimmell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on the time use of mothers of preteenaged children in the United States from 2003 to 2006. We explore how mothers at the start of the twenty-first century are using their time in order to better understand their lives, the lives of their partners, and the lives of their children. Differences in the time choices American mothers make will have important implications for their own well-being and the well-being of family members. The study of maternal time use is hugely important because of the relationship between quality caregiving and child well-being. Additionally, employers looking for new labor pools are also affected by the time use choices of mothers of young children because 60 percent of American mothers with young children are employed. The time choices of mothers in the United States also affect policymakers' thinking about things such as educational policy, the role that taxes play in the allocation of time between paid and unpaid activities, and possible expansion of publicly funded preschool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6538892181593,"title":"Gendered Bodies — Cui","handle":"gendered-bodies-cui","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shuqin Cui, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/scui2\/index.html\" title=\"Shuqin Cui faculty profile\"\u003eBowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The book presents a critical review of women's art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art\/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label “feminist artist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-03T15:01:20-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-03T15:00:03-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction"],"price":5299,"price_min":5299,"price_max":5299,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":5500,"compare_at_price_min":5500,"compare_at_price_max":5500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39256665817177,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF283-Cui","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Gendered Bodies — Cui","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5299,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":5500,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780824840037","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Gendered Bodies by Shuqin Cui","id":20239877701721,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"width":552,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":552,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf283-cui-gendered.jpg?v=1614802570","width":552}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Shuqin Cui, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/scui2\/index.html\" title=\"Shuqin Cui faculty profile\"\u003eBowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The book presents a critical review of women's art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art\/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label “feminist artist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4786556731481,"title":"How Your House Works — Wing '61","handle":"how-your-house-works-a-visual-guide-to-understanding-and-maintaining-your-home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Charlie Wing, Class of 1961\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn easy-to-understand, richly illustrated guide to how everything in a house works\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003eWhy is my faucet leaking, my toilet running, or my dishwasher refusing to start? Can I fix it myself? What's causing the heating system to smell bad or the foundation to crack? Do I need an air filtration system? Is the new \"engineered lumber\" as good as conventional wood? These are just a few examples of questions homeowners face when repairs are needed or when a new house or addition is being planned.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of \u003ci\u003eHow Your House Works\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the mysteries behind just about every major appliance and building element in your house. Clear \"exploded\" drawings show you exactly how these things should be put together and how they function—what to check if they don't work, and what you can do that might save you from calling in a professional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe easy-to-understand pictures and explanations on every page get right to the point, helping you understand how things work, what can go wrong, and how to troubleshoot a problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVirtually everything in your house is included:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElectrical\u003c\/b\u003e – circuit breakers and grounding, service, outlets, lamps, and fixtures\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeating and air conditioning\u003c\/b\u003e – gas, electrical, and oil, ductwork and piping, thermostats, central and window AC units, humidifiers and dehumidifiers, and air filtering systems\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlumbing\u003c\/b\u003e – kitchen and bath fixtures, piping, water heaters, traps and vents, septic tanks, and pumps and water softener systems (even sprinkler systems and swimming pool filters\/heaters)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMajor household appliances\u003c\/b\u003e – from kitchen to laundry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFoundation, framing, doors, and windows\u003c\/b\u003e – including issues like drainage and radon, types of framing and how it supports the house, and all types of doors and windows\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSustainability and beyond\u003c\/b\u003e – covers sustainability and issues outside the house, as well as clock thermostats, ventless gas heaters, moisture and mold, and passive solar heating\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis quick and easy guide will save you time and money, answer nagging questions, and help you keep your house running smoothly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2021-02-06T17:27:31-05:00","created_at":"2021-02-06T17:26:25-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Home Improvement"],"price":2495,"price_min":2495,"price_max":2495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2495,"compare_at_price_min":2495,"compare_at_price_max":2495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32375626235993,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA277-Wing","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"How Your House Works — Wing '61","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2495,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781118099407","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba277-wing-how_3adb11df-e1a8-4171-8e6c-5d1eb3c4fadb.jpg?v=1614019436"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba277-wing-how_3adb11df-e1a8-4171-8e6c-5d1eb3c4fadb.jpg?v=1614019436","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of How Your House Works by Charlie Wing 1961","id":7515766292569,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba277-wing-how_3adb11df-e1a8-4171-8e6c-5d1eb3c4fadb.jpg?v=1614019436"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba277-wing-how_3adb11df-e1a8-4171-8e6c-5d1eb3c4fadb.jpg?v=1614019436","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Charlie Wing, Class of 1961\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn easy-to-understand, richly illustrated guide to how everything in a house works\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003eWhy is my faucet leaking, my toilet running, or my dishwasher refusing to start? Can I fix it myself? What's causing the heating system to smell bad or the foundation to crack? Do I need an air filtration system? Is the new \"engineered lumber\" as good as conventional wood? These are just a few examples of questions homeowners face when repairs are needed or when a new house or addition is being planned.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of \u003ci\u003eHow Your House Works\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers the mysteries behind just about every major appliance and building element in your house. 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{"id":4785182965849,"title":"Sutton E. Griggs — Chakkalakal","handle":"jim-crow-literature-and-the-legacy-of-sutton-e-griggs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/tchakkal\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Tess Chakkalakal faculty profile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eTess Chakkalakal\u003c\/a\u003e, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, Director of Africana Studies Program, and Kenneth W. Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eImperium in Imperio\u003c\/i\u003e (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. 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{"id":4766787338329,"title":"A Dog-Friendly Town — Cameron '98","handle":"a-dog-friendly-town","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Josephine Cameron '98\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJosephine Cameron's\u003c\/em\u003e A Dog-Friendly Town\u003cem\u003e is a delightful middle-grade cozy caper sure to excite dog-lovers and gentle mystery readers alike!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwelve-year-old Epic McDade isn't ready for middle school. He'd rather help out at his family's dog-friendly bed n' breakfast all summer, or return to his alternative elementary school in the fall, where learning feels safe. But change comes in all shapes and fur colors. When Carmelito, California is named America's #1 Dog-Friendly Town, all the top dogs and their owners pour into Epic's sleepy seaside neighborhood for a week of celebration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe McDades are in dog heaven with all the new business until a famous dog's jewel-encrusted collar goes missing. Every guest is a suspect, and Epic will have to embrace new friends and new ideas to sniff out the culprit before the week is through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-12-22T15:13:09-05:00","created_at":"2020-12-22T15:12:17-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Children's","Fiction"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":1699,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1699,"compare_at_price_min":1699,"compare_at_price_max":1699,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32324656267353,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA260-Cameron","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Dog-Friendly Town — Cameron '98","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1699,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780374306441","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba260-cameron-dog.jpg?v=1614023718"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba260-cameron-dog.jpg?v=1614023718","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of A Dog-Friendly Town by Josephine Cameron '98.","id":7515902181465,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba260-cameron-dog.jpg?v=1614023718"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba260-cameron-dog.jpg?v=1614023718","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Josephine Cameron '98\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJosephine Cameron's\u003c\/em\u003e A Dog-Friendly Town\u003cem\u003e is a delightful middle-grade cozy caper sure to excite dog-lovers and gentle mystery readers alike!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwelve-year-old Epic McDade isn't ready for middle school. He'd rather help out at his family's dog-friendly bed n' breakfast all summer, or return to his alternative elementary school in the fall, where learning feels safe. But change comes in all shapes and fur colors. When Carmelito, California is named America's #1 Dog-Friendly Town, all the top dogs and their owners pour into Epic's sleepy seaside neighborhood for a week of celebration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe McDades are in dog heaven with all the new business until a famous dog's jewel-encrusted collar goes missing. Every guest is a suspect, and Epic will have to embrace new friends and new ideas to sniff out the culprit before the week is through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4761658392665,"title":"The Enchanted Hour — Gurdon '86","handle":"the-enchanted-hour-the-miraculous-power-of-reading-aloud-in-the-age-of-distraction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Meghan Cox Gurdon '86\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"hc-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. 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{"id":4761651413081,"title":"Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America","handle":"whatever-it-takes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Paul Tough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"about-content active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would it take?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever It Takes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2020-12-10T10:02:08-05:00","created_at":"2020-12-10T10:02:00-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":1599,"price_min":1599,"price_max":1599,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1599,"compare_at_price_min":1599,"compare_at_price_max":1599,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32311513088089,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA258-Canada","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1599,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780547247960T","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough, biography of Geoffrey Canada 1974","id":7515914797145,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba258-tough-whatever.jpg?v=1614024430","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Paul Tough\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"about-content active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat would it take?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat was the question that Geoffrey Canada [Bowdoin College Class of 1974] found himself asking. What would it take to change the lives of poor children—not one by one, through heroic interventions and occasional miracles, but in big numbers, and in a way that could be replicated nationwide? The question led him to create the Harlem Children’s Zone, a ninety-seven-block laboratory in central Harlem where he is testing new and sometimes controversial ideas about poverty in America. His conclusion: if you want poor kids to be able to compete with their middle-class peers, you need to change everything in their lives—their schools, their neighborhoods, even the child-rearing practices of their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhatever It Takes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tour de force of reporting, an inspired portrait not only of Geoffrey Canada but of the parents and children in Harlem who are struggling to better their lives, often against great odds. Carefully researched and deeply affecting, this is a dispatch from inside the most daring and potentially transformative social experiment of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":4723705479257,"title":"No Rules Rule — Hastings '83","handle":"no-rules-rules-netflix-and-the-culture-of-reinvention","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Reed Hastings '83\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewith Erin Meyer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNetflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to instead build a culture focused on freedom and responsibility, one that has allowed Netflix to adapt and innovate as the needs of its members and the world have simultaneously transformed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hastings set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, there are no vacation or expense policies. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance, and hard work is irrel­evant. At Netflix, you don’t try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees don’t need approval, and the company pays top of market. 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It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other companies operate and defied tradition to instead build a culture focused on freedom and responsibility, one that has allowed Netflix to adapt and innovate as the needs of its members and the world have simultaneously transformed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Hastings set new standards, valuing people over process, emphasizing innovation over efficiency, and giving employees context, not controls. At Netflix, there are no vacation or expense policies. At Netflix, adequate performance gets a generous severance, and hard work is irrel­evant. At Netflix, you don’t try to please your boss, you give candid feedback instead. At Netflix, employees don’t need approval, and the company pays top of market. When Hastings and his team first devised these unorthodox principles, the implications were unknown and untested. But in just a short period, their methods led to unparalleled speed and boldness, as Netflix quickly became one of the most loved brands in the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture Map \u003c\/i\u003eand one of the world’s most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial ideologies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from Hastings’s own career, \u003ci\u003eNo Rules Rules \u003c\/i\u003eis the fascinating and untold account of the philosophy behind one of the world’s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}