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Apartheid in South Africa — Gordon
$24.15
By David Gordon, Professor of History This volume introduces undergraduates to a collection of primary documents on apartheid in South Africa, one of the best known and frequently cited systems of institutionalized and legalized racial and ethnic segregation. David Gordon’s introduction provides context essential to understanding the emergence, ...
Birds of Bowdoin — Dow '24

Birds of Bowdoin — Dow '24
$14.00
By Cora Dow, Class of 2024 A beautifully illustrated guide to the birds that can be seen on the Bowdoin College campus. Article: Student Artist Creates Illustrated Book of Birds

Crush Your Test Anxiety — Bernstein '69
$18.99
By Ben Bernstein, Class of 1969 Tests cause a lot of stress and anxiety, but no more! Performance coach Ben Bernstein delivers a comprehensive training guide on how to improve test scores. These lessons avoid memorization and answering strategies and instead address the test-taker individually to determine what they need to perform well at test ...

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...

Demography in the Age of the Postmodern — Riley
$20.00
By Nancy Riley, A. Myrick Freeman Professor of Social Sciencesand James McCarthy Nancy Riley and James McCarthy examine demography in this study from the new perspective of postmodernism, and survey its development as a field. Demography as a social science has struggled to maintain its political and academic strength. Riley and McCarthy accordi...

Driving the Green Book — Hall '74
$18.99
By Alvin Hall, Class of 1974 Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentiall...

Find Your Perfect Job — Smith '89
$12.95
By Scott Smith, Class of 1989 LEARN THE INSIDER SECRETS TO FIND YOUR PERFECT JOB -- GET THE ONLY REAL-WORLD CAREER GUIDE FOR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS Young professional who cracked Wall Street, Washington, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley, while earning an MBA and law degree along the way, shares everything he learned about job searching, careers, and g...

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...
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...
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...
I, Grape — Clarke

I, Grape — Clarke
$17.00
By Brock Clarke Professor of English In fifteen sharply engaging essays, acclaimed novelist and short story writer Brock Clarke examines the art (and artifice) of fiction from unpredictable, entertaining, and often personal angles, positing through a slant scrutiny of place, voice, and syntax what fiction can—and can’t—do. (“Very: is there a wea...

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...
Into the White — Heuer '94

Into the White — Heuer '94
$32.95
By Christopher Heuer, Class of 1994 European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, and sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet between 1500 and 1700 one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: ...

La rebelión de las niñas — Celis
$32.50
By Nadia V. CelisProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies A study of the representation of girlhood in the work of Hispanic Caribbean women writers, The Rebellion is also a critique of the multifaceted relation of power and gendered bodies in Caribbean cultures. Combining feminist theory wi...
Lección Errante — Celis

Lección Errante — Celis
$26.00
By Nadia V. CelisProfessor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Lección errante: Mayra Santos Febres y el Caribe contemporáneo is the first book of critical essays on Mayra Santos-Febres, one of the Caribbean’s most versatile writers, and arguably the first Latin American Afra-Hispanic literary c...

Living Sustainably — Sanford '83
$36.95
By A. Whitney Sanford, Class of 1983 In light of concerns about food and human health, fraying social ties, economic uncertainty, and rampant consumerism, some people are foregoing a hurried, distracted existence and embracing a mindful way of living. Intentional residential communities across the United States are seeking the freedom to craft t...

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...

Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego
$35.00
By Carolyn Wolfenzon NiegoAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Muerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16th-18th centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothe...

Neighborhood Heroes — Rielly '18
$15.95
By Morgan Rielly, Class of 2018 Inspired by the old African proverb: "When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground," high-school student Morgan Reilly sought to preserve as many Maine libraries as he could by interviewing men and women who served in World War II. All of these veterans taught him something, not just about how to fight a wa...
On Target — Bechtell '78

On Target — Bechtell '78
$29.95
By Michele Bechtell, Class of 1978 In all too many companies, once a business plan is created there is no systematic follow-up. The plan is filed and forgotten until it's time for the annual review-and the result is repeated failure to achieve goals and objectives. Seasoned organizational consultant Michele Bechtell draws on twenty years of expe...

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...
Outpost — Hill '74

Outpost — Hill '74
$17.00
By Christopher Hill, Class of 1974 A “candid, behind-the-scenes” (The Dallas Morning News) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors who—in his career of service to the country—was sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.Christopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He ...

So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03
$40.00
Edited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,and Lorien Foote Highlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War-era Union. Compiling essays from both established and young historians, this volume addresses th...

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...