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

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

{"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. 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. 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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"}

{"id":4692639940697,"title":"Easy Chinese Cookbook — Toy '77","handle":"easy-chinese-cookbook-restaurant-favorites-made-simple","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Chris Toy '77\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen you think of the irresistible tastes and smells of popular takeout meals, very few are more satisfying than Chinese food. \u003cem\u003eEasy Chinese Cookbook\u003c\/em\u003e offers you more than 85 recipes to help you re-create restaurant favorites in the comfort of your own kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearn how to make staples like General Tso's Chicken, Crab Rangoon, and Egg Rolls with easy step-by-step instructions for beginners. This cookbook will also walk you through a typical Chinese American pantry, recommend ingredient substitutions, and teach you cooking shortcuts to keep recipes fast, easy, and great tasting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecipes include: Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs, Fried Wontons, Moo Goo Gai Pan, Orange Chicken, Beef and Broccoli with Oyster Sauce, Kung Pao Beef, Buddha's Delight, Shrimp Lo Mein, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-08-14T16:30:58-04:00","created_at":"2020-07-31T16:18:03-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Cookbooks"],"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":32085282979929,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA255-Toy","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Easy Chinese Cookbook — Toy '77","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1699,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781646115877","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba255-toy-easy.jpg?v=1613770076"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba255-toy-easy.jpg?v=1613770076","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Easy Chinese Cookbook by Chris Toy","id":7492111958105,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba255-toy-easy.jpg?v=1613770076"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba255-toy-easy.jpg?v=1613770076","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Chris Toy '77\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen you think of the irresistible tastes and smells of popular takeout meals, very few are more satisfying than Chinese food. \u003cem\u003eEasy Chinese Cookbook\u003c\/em\u003e offers you more than 85 recipes to help you re-create restaurant favorites in the comfort of your own kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearn how to make staples like General Tso's Chicken, Crab Rangoon, and Egg Rolls with easy step-by-step instructions for beginners. This cookbook will also walk you through a typical Chinese American pantry, recommend ingredient substitutions, and teach you cooking shortcuts to keep recipes fast, easy, and great tasting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecipes include: Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs, Fried Wontons, Moo Goo Gai Pan, Orange Chicken, Beef and Broccoli with Oyster Sauce, Kung Pao Beef, Buddha's Delight, Shrimp Lo Mein, and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":4682522099801,"title":"Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","handle":"cross-of-snow-a-life-of-henry-wadsworth-longfellow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nicholas A. 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We see Longfellow’s two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite–Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his “fiery crucible,” he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator–the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e"}

{"id":4164644274265,"title":"Hockey: A Global History — Hardy '70","handle":"hockey-a-global-history","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Stephen Hardy, Class of 1970, \u0026amp; Andrew C. Holman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jacket_copy\"\u003eLong considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In \u003ci\u003eHockey: A Global History\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere is the story of on-ice stars and organizational visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern hockey's \"birthing\" in Montreal and follow its migration from Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story then shifts from the sport's emergence as a nationalist battlefront to the movement of talent across international borders to the game of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace 'em up on the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and across the breadth of Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweeping in scope and vivid with detail, \u003ci\u003eHockey: A Global History\u003c\/i\u003e is the saga of how the coolest game changed the world--and vice versa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-02-09T16:52:27-05:00","created_at":"2019-09-25T15:12:34-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","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":30262352773209,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA245-Hardy","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Hockey: A Global History — Hardy '70","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2995,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780252083976","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba245-hardy-hockey_2739f2ba-6ee1-45d7-8c3b-71bc35ff9940.jpg?v=1613769791"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba245-hardy-hockey_2739f2ba-6ee1-45d7-8c3b-71bc35ff9940.jpg?v=1613769791","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Hockey: A Global History, by Stephen Hardy","id":7492106485849,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba245-hardy-hockey_2739f2ba-6ee1-45d7-8c3b-71bc35ff9940.jpg?v=1613769791"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba245-hardy-hockey_2739f2ba-6ee1-45d7-8c3b-71bc35ff9940.jpg?v=1613769791","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Stephen Hardy, Class of 1970, \u0026amp; Andrew C. Holman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jacket_copy\"\u003eLong considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In \u003ci\u003eHockey: A Global History\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere is the story of on-ice stars and organizational visionaries, venues and classic games, the evolution of rules and advances in equipment, and the ascendance of corporations and instances of bureaucratic chicanery. Hardy and Holman chart modern hockey's \"birthing\" in Montreal and follow its migration from Canada south to the United States and east to Europe. The story then shifts from the sport's emergence as a nationalist battlefront to the movement of talent across international borders to the game of today, where men and women at all levels of play lace 'em up on the shinny ponds of Saskatchewan, the wide ice of the Olympics, and across the breadth of Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweeping in scope and vivid with detail, \u003ci\u003eHockey: A Global History\u003c\/i\u003e is the saga of how the coolest game changed the world--and vice versa.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":2149366726745,"title":"The Quotable Longfellow","handle":"the-quotable-longfellow","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction by Wesley McNair\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguably America’s most recognized poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin College Class of 1825] was the equivalent of a movie star in his day (1807–1882), and his epic poems, such as “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “Evangeline,” and “Song of Hiawatha” helped create the mythic vision of America that still exists today. Many of his lines and phrases such as, “Into every life a little rain must fall,” have weathered the centuries and become part of the cultural canon. Introduced by Maine poet laureate Wesley McNair, this collection of gems makes an excellent keepsake or gift.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-05-09T17:04:42-04:00","created_at":"2019-08-07T11:12:30-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni"],"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":22030094237785,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA244-Longfellow","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Quotable Longfellow","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1295,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1295,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781608932610","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba244-longfellow-quotable.jpg?v=1614014155"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba244-longfellow-quotable.jpg?v=1614014155","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Quotable Longfellow, introduction by Wesley McNair.","id":7515619983449,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba244-longfellow-quotable.jpg?v=1614014155"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba244-longfellow-quotable.jpg?v=1614014155","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction by Wesley McNair\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArguably America’s most recognized poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [Bowdoin College Class of 1825] was the equivalent of a movie star in his day (1807–1882), and his epic poems, such as “Paul Revere’s Ride,” “Evangeline,” and “Song of Hiawatha” helped create the mythic vision of America that still exists today. Many of his lines and phrases such as, “Into every life a little rain must fall,” have weathered the centuries and become part of the cultural canon. Introduced by Maine poet laureate Wesley McNair, this collection of gems makes an excellent keepsake or gift.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":2124653068377,"title":"All the Light We Cannot See — Doerr '95","handle":"all-the-light-we-cannot-see","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Anthony Doerr, Class of 1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoerr’s \"stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) are dazzling. 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{"id":1879092691033,"title":"On the Other Side of Freedom — McKesson '07","handle":"on-the-other-side-of-freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deray McKesson, Class of 2007\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn August 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson stood with hundreds of others on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, to push a message of justice and accountability. These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, and political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation’s complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change. He argues that our best efforts to combat injustice have been stunted by the belief that racism’s wounds are history, and suggests that intellectual purity has curtailed optimistic realism. The book offers a new framework and language for understanding the nature of oppression. With it, we can begin charting a course to dismantle the obvious and subtle structures that limit freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHonest, courageous, and imaginative, \u003ci\u003eOn the Other Side of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a work brimming with hope. Drawing from his own experiences as an activist, organizer, educator, and public official, Mckesson exhorts all Americans to work to dismantle the legacy of racism and to imagine the best of what is possible. 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These protests, and others like them in cities across the country, resulted in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, in his first book, Mckesson lays down the intellectual, pragmatic, and political framework for a new liberation movement. Continuing a conversation about activism, resistance, and justice that embraces our nation’s complex history, he dissects how deliberate oppression persists, how racial injustice strips our lives of promise, and how technology has added a new dimension to mass action and social change. He argues that our best efforts to combat injustice have been stunted by the belief that racism’s wounds are history, and suggests that intellectual purity has curtailed optimistic realism. The book offers a new framework and language for understanding the nature of oppression. 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Could the overlooked essay have offered critical red flags that might have warned of, or even prevented, the murders to come? 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As the media storm grows around her, Maggie makes a series of desperate choices that threaten to destroy not just the personal and professional lives she’s worked so hard to build, but-more important-the happiness and safety of her sensitive daughter, Anna.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEngrossing and provocative, combining sharp plot twists with Juska’s award-winning, trademark literary sophistication, IF WE HAD KNOWN is at once an unforgettable mother-daughter journey, an exquisite portrait of a community in turmoil, and a harrowing examination of ethical and moral responsibility in a dangerously interconnected digital world.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e- From the publisher.\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":427545244,"title":"Mourning Lincoln — Hodes '80","handle":"mourning-lincoln","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Martha Hodes, Class of '80\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people—northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Through deep and thoughtful exploration of diaries, letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, Martha Hodes, one of our finest historians, captures the full range of reactions to the president’s death—far more diverse than public expressions would suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, blame, and fear. “’Tis the saddest day in our history,” wrote a mournful man. It was “an electric shock to my soul,” wrote a woman who had escaped from slavery. “Glorious News!” a Lincoln enemy exulted. “Old Lincoln is dead, and I will kill the goddamned Negroes now,” an angry white southerner ranted. For the black soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, it was all “too overwhelming, too lamentable, too distressing” to absorb. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e There are many surprises in the story Hodes tells, not least the way in which even those utterly devastated by Lincoln’s demise easily interrupted their mourning rituals to attend to the most mundane aspects of everyday life.  There is also the unexpected and unabated virulence of Lincoln’s northern critics, and the way Confederates simultaneously celebrated Lincoln’s death and instantly—on the very day he died—cast him as a fallen friend to the defeated white South.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Hodes brings to life a key moment of national uncertainty and confusion, when competing visions of America’s future proved irreconcilable and hopes for racial justice in the aftermath of the Civil War slipped from the nation’s grasp. Hodes masterfully brings the tragedy of Lincoln’s assassination alive in human terms—terms that continue to stagger and rivet us one hundred and fifty years after the event they so strikingly describe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-10-18T14:47:01-04:00","created_at":"2015-02-18T10:46:52-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"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":1170954756,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA233-Hodes","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Mourning Lincoln — Hodes '80","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2000,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2000,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780300219753","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba233-hodes-mourning_e2ba1712-057b-4e68-917f-ed4513e08b1b.jpg?v=1614014670"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba233-hodes-mourning_e2ba1712-057b-4e68-917f-ed4513e08b1b.jpg?v=1614014670","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes '80","id":7515635646553,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba233-hodes-mourning_e2ba1712-057b-4e68-917f-ed4513e08b1b.jpg?v=1614014670"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba233-hodes-mourning_e2ba1712-057b-4e68-917f-ed4513e08b1b.jpg?v=1614014670","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Martha Hodes, Class of '80\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe news of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on April 15, 1865, just days after Confederate surrender, astounded the war-weary nation. Massive crowds turned out for services and ceremonies. Countless expressions of grief and dismay were printed in newspapers and preached in sermons. Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people—northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Through deep and thoughtful exploration of diaries, letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, Martha Hodes, one of our finest historians, captures the full range of reactions to the president’s death—far more diverse than public expressions would suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, blame, and fear. “’Tis the saddest day in our history,” wrote a mournful man. It was “an electric shock to my soul,” wrote a woman who had escaped from slavery. “Glorious News!” a Lincoln enemy exulted. “Old Lincoln is dead, and I will kill the goddamned Negroes now,” an angry white southerner ranted. For the black soldiers of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts, it was all “too overwhelming, too lamentable, too distressing” to absorb. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e There are many surprises in the story Hodes tells, not least the way in which even those utterly devastated by Lincoln’s demise easily interrupted their mourning rituals to attend to the most mundane aspects of everyday life.  There is also the unexpected and unabated virulence of Lincoln’s northern critics, and the way Confederates simultaneously celebrated Lincoln’s death and instantly—on the very day he died—cast him as a fallen friend to the defeated white South.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Hodes brings to life a key moment of national uncertainty and confusion, when competing visions of America’s future proved irreconcilable and hopes for racial justice in the aftermath of the Civil War slipped from the nation’s grasp. Hodes masterfully brings the tragedy of Lincoln’s assassination alive in human terms—terms that continue to stagger and rivet us one hundred and fifty years after the event they so strikingly describe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":161299739,"title":"We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die — Howard 1859","handle":"we-are-in-his-hands-whether-we-live-or-die-the-letters-of-brevet-brigadier-general-charles-henry-howard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by David K. Thomson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany soldiers who served in the American Civil War found solace in their faith during the most trying times of the war.  But few soldiers took such a providential view of life and the Civil War as Charles Henry Howard \u003cstrong\u003e[Bowdoin Class of 1859]\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Born in a small town in Maine, Howard came from a family with a distinguished history of soldiering: his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran and his brother, the older and more well-known Oliver Otis Howard, attended West Point and rose to command an army in the Civil War.  Following in his brother's footsteps, Charles Henry Howard graduated from Bowdoin College in 1859.  After graduation, Charles visited his older brother at West Point during the tumultuous election of 1860.  While at West Point, Howard saw the tensions between Northern and Southern cadets escalate as he weighed his options for a military or theological career.  The choice was made for him on April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding to his brother's plea for the sons of Maine to join the Union cause, Charles found himself a noncommissioned officer fighting in the disastrous Battle of First Bull Run.  All told, Howard fought in several major battles of the Eastern Theater, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and went on to participate in various military actions in the Western Theater, including Sherman's bloody Atlanta Campaign.  He was wounded twice, first at the Battle of Fair Oaks and again at Fredericksburg.  Yet, despite facing the worst horrors of war, Howard rarely wavered in his faith and rose steadily in rank throughout the conflict.  By war's end, he was a brevet brigadier general in command of the 128th U.S. Colored Troop Regiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoward's letters cover a wide-ranging period, from 1852 to 1908.  His concern for his family is typical of a Civil War soldier, but his exceptionally firm reliance on divine providence is what makes these letters an extraordinary window into the mind of a Civil War officer.  Howard's grounded faith was often tested by the viciousness of war, and as a result his letters are rife with stirring confessions and his emotional grappling with the harsh realities he faced.  Howard's letters expose the greater thoelogical and metaphysical dilemas of the war faced by so many on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2013-09-30T15:47:26-04:00","created_at":"2013-09-30T16:18:40-04:00","vendor":"Algonquin Books","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","Civil War","History"],"price":5200,"price_min":5200,"price_max":5200,"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":369700961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBC225-Howard","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die — Howard 1859","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5200,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":8,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781572339439","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"We Are in His Hands Whether We Live or Die: The Letters of Brevet Brigadier General Charles Henry Howard","id":7515939143769,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc225-thompson-weare.jpg?v=1614025188","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by David K. Thomson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMany soldiers who served in the American Civil War found solace in their faith during the most trying times of the war.  But few soldiers took such a providential view of life and the Civil War as Charles Henry Howard \u003cstrong\u003e[Bowdoin Class of 1859]\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Born in a small town in Maine, Howard came from a family with a distinguished history of soldiering: his grandfather was a Revolutionary War veteran and his brother, the older and more well-known Oliver Otis Howard, attended West Point and rose to command an army in the Civil War.  Following in his brother's footsteps, Charles Henry Howard graduated from Bowdoin College in 1859.  After graduation, Charles visited his older brother at West Point during the tumultuous election of 1860.  While at West Point, Howard saw the tensions between Northern and Southern cadets escalate as he weighed his options for a military or theological career.  The choice was made for him on April 12, 1861, with the firing on Fort Sumter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eResponding to his brother's plea for the sons of Maine to join the Union cause, Charles found himself a noncommissioned officer fighting in the disastrous Battle of First Bull Run.  All told, Howard fought in several major battles of the Eastern Theater, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, and went on to participate in various military actions in the Western Theater, including Sherman's bloody Atlanta Campaign.  He was wounded twice, first at the Battle of Fair Oaks and again at Fredericksburg.  Yet, despite facing the worst horrors of war, Howard rarely wavered in his faith and rose steadily in rank throughout the conflict.  By war's end, he was a brevet brigadier general in command of the 128th U.S. Colored Troop Regiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoward's letters cover a wide-ranging period, from 1852 to 1908.  His concern for his family is typical of a Civil War soldier, but his exceptionally firm reliance on divine providence is what makes these letters an extraordinary window into the mind of a Civil War officer.  Howard's grounded faith was often tested by the viciousness of war, and as a result his letters are rife with stirring confessions and his emotional grappling with the harsh realities he faced.  Howard's letters expose the greater thoelogical and metaphysical dilemas of the war faced by so many on both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":148376257,"title":"Blessed Boyhood — Chamberlain 1852","handle":"blessed-boyhood-the-early-memoir-of-joshua-lawrence-chamberlain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Joshua L. Chamberlain, Class of 1852\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnnotations by Thomas A. Desjardin and David K. Thomson '08; foreword by U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr. H\u003cspan\u003e‘07\u003c\/span\u003e; edited by Richard Lindemann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in Commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain's early memoir is published in its entirety here for the first time.  In his own words, he recounts his childhood—playing with his siblings, hunting and haying, Sunday socials—coming of age at Bowdoin College and the Bangor Theological Seminary, forming his own family with his wife, Fanny, and closing with his departure from Brunswick, Maine, to combat Southern secession and preserve the Union. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I consider myself a modest student of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain but never knew him so well until reading the pages that follow.  What a revelation—for here are the origins of his extraordinary character, insights into his amazing intellect, and a vivid demonstration of his command of elegant prose....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-07-29T16:40:48-04:00","created_at":"2013-07-26T09:09:19-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Joshua Chamberlain"],"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":338997165,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBC027-Chamberlain","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Blessed Boyhood — Chamberlain 1852","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1595,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1595,"inventory_quantity":31,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780916606435","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc027-chamberlain-blessed.jpg?v=1614026701"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc027-chamberlain-blessed.jpg?v=1614026701","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Blessed Boyhood by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain Bowdoin Class of 1852","id":7515996586073,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc027-chamberlain-blessed.jpg?v=1614026701"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbc027-chamberlain-blessed.jpg?v=1614026701","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Joshua L. Chamberlain, Class of 1852\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnnotations by Thomas A. Desjardin and David K. Thomson '08; foreword by U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr. H\u003cspan\u003e‘07\u003c\/span\u003e; edited by Richard Lindemann\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished in Commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoshua Lawrence Chamberlain's early memoir is published in its entirety here for the first time.  In his own words, he recounts his childhood—playing with his siblings, hunting and haying, Sunday socials—coming of age at Bowdoin College and the Bangor Theological Seminary, forming his own family with his wife, Fanny, and closing with his departure from Brunswick, Maine, to combat Southern secession and preserve the Union. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I consider myself a modest student of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain but never knew him so well until reading the pages that follow.  What a revelation—for here are the origins of his extraordinary character, insights into his amazing intellect, and a vivid demonstration of his command of elegant prose....\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- U.S. Senator Angus S. King, Jr.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":121150344,"title":"Dangerous Convictions — Allen '67","handle":"dangerous-convictions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Tom Allen '67\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe debt ceiling debacle of 2011 was clear evidence of the dangerous polarization of American politics.  Heedless of the warnings of economists, a majority of Republicans in the House refused to allow the Treasury to borrow enough money to pay for spending already ordered by Congress.  The government avoided a catastrophic default only by unprecedented legislative contortions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe debt ceiling fight also showed that the two parties simply don't understand each other.  In \u003ci\u003eDangerous Convictions\u003c\/i\u003e, former six-term Democratic congressman Tom Allen of Maine explains how beneath the surface of our political debates, the incompatible worldviews of the two parties have turned Congress into a dysfunctional body.  \"Years of listening to what seemed to me to be preposterous arguments in committee, on the House floor, or in private conversations,\" he writes, \"changed my mind about our capacity to find bipartisan agreement on the most fundamental topics.\"  Likewise, most Republican members of Congress gave no credence to Democratic arguments on budget and tax issues, health care, and climate change.  Allen argues that \"smaller government, lower taxes\" in all times and circumstances is not an economic policy but an ideological barrier to meaningful debate and the simplest compromises.  In the last thirty years, he suggests, Republicans and Democrats have been speaking different languages; 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GOP members increasingly see government as a threat to personal liberty, while Democrats continue to believe it can be a vehicle to expand opportunity and serve the common good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining personal experience with the insights of George Lakoff, Norman Ornstein, Robert Bellah, Isaiah Berlin, and many others, Allen explains why we need to address this fundamental ideological conflict if we are to escape its grip -- and allow Congress to work productively on our 21st century challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":107194650,"title":"The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm","handle":"the-struggles-of-john-brown-russwurm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Winston James \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) is almost completely missing from the annals of the Pan-African movement, despite the pioneering role he played as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist, and colonizationist.  Russwurm's life is one of \"firsts\": first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College [class of 1826], co-founder of \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, America's first newspaper to be owned, operated, and edited by African Americans, and, following his emigration to Africa, first black governor of the Maryland section of Liberia.  Despite his accomplishments, Russwurm struggled internally with the perennial Pan-Africanist dilemma of whether to go to Africa or stay and fight in the United States, and his ordeal was the first of its kind to be experienced and resolved before the public eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this thoroughly researched but accessible biography of Russwurm and a carefully annotated selection of Russwurm's writings, Winston James makes a major contribution to the history of black uplift and protest in the early American republic and the larger Pan-African world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2018-02-19T10:36:12-05:00","created_at":"2012-10-09T16:14:02-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":2500,"price_min":2500,"price_max":2500,"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":245693808,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA212","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780814742907","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba212-james-struggles.jpg?v=1614015044"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba212-james-struggles.jpg?v=1614015044","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of The Struggles of John Brown Russwurm 1826","id":7515651407961,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba212-james-struggles.jpg?v=1614015044"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba212-james-struggles.jpg?v=1614015044","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Winston James \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) is almost completely missing from the annals of the Pan-African movement, despite the pioneering role he played as an educator, abolitionist, editor, government official, emigrationist, and colonizationist.  Russwurm's life is one of \"firsts\": first African American graduate of Maine's Bowdoin College [class of 1826], co-founder of \u003ci\u003eFreedom's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, America's first newspaper to be owned, operated, and edited by African Americans, and, following his emigration to Africa, first black governor of the Maryland section of Liberia.  Despite his accomplishments, Russwurm struggled internally with the perennial Pan-Africanist dilemma of whether to go to Africa or stay and fight in the United States, and his ordeal was the first of its kind to be experienced and resolved before the public eye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this thoroughly researched but accessible biography of Russwurm and a carefully annotated selection of Russwurm's writings, Winston James makes a major contribution to the history of black uplift and protest in the early American republic and the larger Pan-African world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":58147912,"title":"Sunshine — McKinley '75","handle":"sunshine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Robin McKinley '75, H'86\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk.  But there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts.  Vampires never entered her mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil they found her...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNPR: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/11\/139085843\/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTop 100 Science-Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2017-10-18T10:52:00-04:00","created_at":"2011-10-07T12:28:49-04:00","vendor":"Penguin","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Fiction"],"price":1600,"price_min":1600,"price_max":1600,"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":139912982,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA198","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Sunshine — McKinley '75","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1600,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780425224014","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba198-mckinley-sunshine.jpg?v=1614025688"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba198-mckinley-sunshine.jpg?v=1614025688","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Sunshine by Robin McKinley","id":7515959197785,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba198-mckinley-sunshine.jpg?v=1614025688"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba198-mckinley-sunshine.jpg?v=1614025688","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Robin McKinley '75, H'86\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are places in the world where darkness rules, where it's unwise to walk.  But there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts.  Vampires never entered her mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil they found her...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e- From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNPR: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/08\/11\/139085843\/your-picks-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-books\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTop 100 Science-Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":57143332,"title":"The Book of Ice — Miller '92","handle":"the-book-of-ice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Paul D. Miller '92\u003cbr\u003e a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe unforgiving and nationless continent of Antarctica serves as the perfect point of entry for considering our relationship with the natural world.  Inspired by his visits to this frozen landscape, Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky , created \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Ice \u003c\/i\u003eto offer his visual and textual meditations on Antarctica as a place and metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2011-09-30T10:27:00-04:00","created_at":"2011-09-30T10:27:19-04:00","vendor":"Mark Batty Publisher","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":2995,"price_min":2995,"price_max":2995,"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":134465272,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA193","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Book of Ice — Miller '92","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781935613145","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba193-miller-book.jpg?v=1614025835"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba193-miller-book.jpg?v=1614025835","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Book of Ice by Paul Miller '92, aka DJ Spooky","id":7515964014681,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba193-miller-book.jpg?v=1614025835"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba193-miller-book.jpg?v=1614025835","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Paul D. Miller '92\u003cbr\u003e a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe unforgiving and nationless continent of Antarctica serves as the perfect point of entry for considering our relationship with the natural world.  Inspired by his visits to this frozen landscape, Paul D. Miller, a.k.a. DJ Spooky , created \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Ice \u003c\/i\u003eto offer his visual and textual meditations on Antarctica as a place and metaphor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":32902572,"title":"Tales of Bowdoin — Mills '72","handle":"tales-of-bowdoin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSome Gathered Fragments and Fancies of Undergraduate Life in the Past and Present\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eCollected by John Clair Minot, class of 1896, and Donald Francis Snow, class of 1901\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New Preface by Barry Mills '72,\u003cbr\u003e 14th President of Bowdoin College\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThis classic volume contains stories of student life in the late 19th Century at one of America's oldest colleges, Bowdoin College.  Published in 1901, the stories reveal a bygone era and many have the ring of true experience.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Read about famous American professors and student pranks and prejudices, about athletics and academics as they once existed.  Not only are these fascinating and often amusing portraits of student life, but they also contain scenes of Maine life more than 100 years ago.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Well illustrated, these stories include writings of Bowdoin presidents William DeW. 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{"id":32899462,"title":"Infinite Persistence Life Book — Weinberger '87","handle":"infinite-persistence-life-book","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Gordon Weinberger '87\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At age 28, Gordon Weinberger started his company, Gordon's Pies, in the sleepy little New Hampshire town of Londonderry.  With his great-grandma's pie recipe and two blue ribbons from the county fair pie contest, Weinberger pursued his dream of successfully branding the Great American Dessert.  By the time he was 33, he was a self-made millionaire -- and he had transformed his pie business from a roadside operation to a national, multi-million dollar corporation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In his first book, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eSimple as Pie\u003c\/span\u003e, Weinberger details his journey from popular success to the edge of bankruptcy to a multimillion-dollar, national brand carried by more than 1000 Wal-Mart SuperCenters across America.  Now Weinberger begins a new journey.  His \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e\"Never give up, no matter what\" \u003c\/span\u003ephilosophy, born of his experiences in the pie business, crystallized during his three-year sabbatical following the sale of his company to Mrs. Smiths bakeries, now emerges in what he calls the Infinite Persistence Life Brand.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e By exploring the power of a few simple ideas he discovered on his roller-coaster ride to success, Weinberger relates these concepts back to his own lessons and shows by his own example how Infinite Persistence can work to change lives.  In the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eInfinite Persistence Life Book\u003c\/span\u003e, Weinberger seeks to lead others in discovering -- and reaching -- their own infinite potential.  Inspired by the mathematical equation of pi, the infinity of the circle and the timeless order of the universe that connects us all, the \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eInfinite Persistence Life Book\u003c\/span\u003e is more than just an idea -- it's a universally ordered system of thinking that has the power to change lives.\u003cbr\u003e - 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{"id":32897012,"title":"The Madonna of Las Vegas — Smith '75","handle":"the-madonna-of-las-vegas","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Gregory Blake Smith '75\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It's the hair-raising countdown to a new millennium, and Cosmo Dust watches in dismay as the wreckage of his life comes into garish focus in the glow of post-Sinatra Las Vegas. Surrounded by the simulacra of Western civilization, Cosmo finds himself strong-armed by the Golden Calf Casino into recreating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: a task that makes a mockery of both Michelangelo's genius and Cosmo's skill.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Just when Cosmo has decided to quit this job to search for something real, Reality trumps him by making him the chief suspect in the murder of a cocktail waitress. Joining forces with the daughter of the Pope of Las Vegas, the local mob boss, he tries to piece together who's killing whom and why. Navigating a world that subverts rational motivation, Cosmo and the Pope's daughter encounter film-noir homicide detectives, Gnostic monks, a Vatican Inquisitor, and a baby who may or may not be the messiah.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A masterfully written novel that is part romantic comedy, part dysfunctional detective story, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Madonna of Las Vegas \u003c\/span\u003eexuberantly explores the quest for a genuine life in a world built on false appearances.\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:23:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:23:03-05:00","vendor":"vendor-unknown","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Fiction"],"price":1300,"price_min":1300,"price_max":1300,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1300,"compare_at_price_min":1300,"compare_at_price_max":1300,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77637272,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA095-Smith","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Madonna of Las Vegas — Smith '75","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1300,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1300,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"1400081866","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba095-smith-madonna_d3247ce4-ea20-4b86-9970-2784b65a1b39.jpg?v=1614026274"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba095-smith-madonna_d3247ce4-ea20-4b86-9970-2784b65a1b39.jpg?v=1614026274","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Madonna of Las Vegas By Gregory Blake Smith '75","id":7515977482329,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.643,"height":400,"width":257,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba095-smith-madonna_d3247ce4-ea20-4b86-9970-2784b65a1b39.jpg?v=1614026274"},"aspect_ratio":0.643,"height":400,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba095-smith-madonna_d3247ce4-ea20-4b86-9970-2784b65a1b39.jpg?v=1614026274","width":257}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Gregory Blake Smith '75\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It's the hair-raising countdown to a new millennium, and Cosmo Dust watches in dismay as the wreckage of his life comes into garish focus in the glow of post-Sinatra Las Vegas. Surrounded by the simulacra of Western civilization, Cosmo finds himself strong-armed by the Golden Calf Casino into recreating the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel: a task that makes a mockery of both Michelangelo's genius and Cosmo's skill.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Just when Cosmo has decided to quit this job to search for something real, Reality trumps him by making him the chief suspect in the murder of a cocktail waitress. Joining forces with the daughter of the Pope of Las Vegas, the local mob boss, he tries to piece together who's killing whom and why. Navigating a world that subverts rational motivation, Cosmo and the Pope's daughter encounter film-noir homicide detectives, Gnostic monks, a Vatican Inquisitor, and a baby who may or may not be the messiah.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A masterfully written novel that is part romantic comedy, part dysfunctional detective story, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Madonna of Las Vegas \u003c\/span\u003eexuberantly explores the quest for a genuine life in a world built on false appearances.\u003cbr\u003e - From the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback."}

{"id":32896422,"title":"Odd Botany — Moeckel '93","handle":"odd-botany","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e By Thorpe Moeckel '93\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Thorpe Moeckel is litanist, pilgrim, sensualist, beseecher, explorer, and connoisseur of the heart's underbrush and waterways. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eOdd Botany\u003c\/span\u003e gives us a language of plenitude and paradox that is 'rambunctious on the tongue' -- pop-culturally savvy, intensely lyric, and capable of an incomparably delicate tensility.\"\u003cbr\u003e - Lisa Russ Spaar, from the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:17:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:17:48-05:00","vendor":"vendor-unknown","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Poetry"],"price":1488,"price_min":1488,"price_max":1488,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1488,"compare_at_price_min":1488,"compare_at_price_max":1488,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77635792,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA082","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Odd Botany — Moeckel '93","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":1488,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1488,"inventory_quantity":8,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781878851178","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba082-moeckel-odd-21.jpg?v=1613771340"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba082-moeckel-odd-21.jpg?v=1613771340","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Odd Botany by Thorpe Moeckel '93","id":7492141154393,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba082-moeckel-odd-21.jpg?v=1613771340"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba082-moeckel-odd-21.jpg?v=1613771340","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e By Thorpe Moeckel '93\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Thorpe Moeckel is litanist, pilgrim, sensualist, beseecher, explorer, and connoisseur of the heart's underbrush and waterways. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eOdd Botany\u003c\/span\u003e gives us a language of plenitude and paradox that is 'rambunctious on the tongue' -- pop-culturally savvy, intensely lyric, and capable of an incomparably delicate tensility.\"\u003cbr\u003e - Lisa Russ Spaar, from the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paperback."}

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Canada contends that we, particularly our children, are subjected to a kind of unstated death penalty as the odds of being shot and killed, not even being the target, have dramatically increased. Anyone living in urban America can relate to this book on some level, for we are all aware that our cities have become just as war torn and dangerous as any official battleground. Canada is willing not only to discuss this crisis, but to offer firsthand solutions by such examples as the Countee Cullen Community Center in Harlem, which provides unity, education, and safety for its neighboring community. This book should be necessary reading for all politicians and media personell and for every NRA member who thinks licensing handguns, getting \"tough on crime,\" or \"just saying no\" is enough. 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