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Thinking Woman - Dragseth '93
$29.95
By Jennifer Hockenbery Dragseth, Class of 1993 What 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? Thinking Woman examines the lives and ideas of women in the history of philosophy who wished to understand and advocate for themselves as w...
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl - Khoja-Moolji
$34.95
By Shenila Khoja-Moolji, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies In Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, 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 associ...
Time Use of Mothers — Connelly
$18.00
By Rachel Connelly, Bion R. Cram Professor of Economicsand Jean Kimmell This 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 l...
Gendered Bodies — Cui
Gendered Bodies — Cui
$52.99 $55.00
By Shuqin Cui, Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies This 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 aest...
Success Simplified — Fuller '61
$12.99
Contributor Ted Fuller, Class of 1961 A refreshingly practical compilation revealing simple time tested strategies that produce measurable results in business and in life. The book features best-selling authors Stephen Covey (The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People), Dr. Tony Alessandra (The New Art of Managing People), and Patricia Fripp (Award...
Sutton E. Griggs — Chakkalakal
$29.95
Edited by Tess Chakkalakal, Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Africana Studies and English, Director of Africana Studies Program, and Kenneth W. Warren Imperium in Imperio (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 newspap...
The Labor of Faith — Casselberry
$24.95
By Judith Casselberry, Associate Professor of Africana Studies In The Labor of Faith Judith Casselberry examines the material and spiritual labor of the women of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., which is based in Harlem and one of the oldest and largest historically Black Pentecostal denominations in the United S...
The Enchanted Hour — Gurdon '86
$17.99
By Meghan Cox Gurdon '86 A Wall Street Journal 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.A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a...
The Democratization of Invention — Khan
$35.99
By Zorina KhanProfessor of Economics An examination of the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century,' this book compares the American system to developments in the more oligarchic societies of France and Britain. The United States created the first modern patent system and its policies wer...
Hockey: A Global History — Hardy '70
$29.95
By Stephen Hardy, Class of 1970, & Andrew C. Holman Long considered Canadian, ice hockey is in truth a worldwide phenomenon--and has been for centuries. In Hockey: A Global History, Stephen Hardy and Andrew C. Holman draw on twenty-five years of research to present THE monumental end-to-end history of the sport. Here is the story of on-ice s...
On the Other Side of Freedom — McKesson '07
$17.00
By Deray McKesson, Class of 2007 In 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 hi...
Dangerous Convictions — Allen '67
$24.95
By Tom Allen '67 The 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 defau...
Making Families Through Adoption — Riley & VanVleet
$27.00
By Nancy E. Riley, Professor of Sociology and Krista E. Van Vleet, Associate Professor of Anthropology This text provides both a comprehensive look at adoption practices in the United States and in other cultures, providing insights into the practices and ideology of kinship and family. The subject of adoption allows a window into discussions o...
Horror after 9/11 — Briefel
Horror after 9/11 — Briefel
$55.00
Edited by Aviva Briefel, Professor of English and Cinema Studiesand Sam J. Miller Horror films have exploded in popularity since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, many of them breaking box office records and generating broad public discourse. These films have attracted A-list talent and earned award nods, while at the same time becoming...
Sober Consent of the Heart — McKeen
$30.00
Joseph McKeen, First President of BowdoinCompiled and edited by Robert B. Gregory It is impossible to spend any time in the Bowdoin chapel and not be impressed with the influence that Bowdoin's first president Joseph McKeen continues to have on the life of the college. Those few words about the "common good" taken from his inaugural message whi...
Infinite Persistence Life Book — Weinberger '87
$19.99
By Gordon Weinberger '87 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...