book

{"id":137795295,"title":"Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea","handle":"maurice-prendergast-by-the-sea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoachim Homann, with contributions by Trevor J. Fairbrother, Joachim Homann, Nancy Mowll Mathews, Joseph J. Rishel, and Richard J.Wattenmaker.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis selection of works in a variety of media focuses on Maurice Prendergast’s creative process as he imaginatively and innovatively captured the look and feel of coastlines from New England to France and Italy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe seaside watercolors, paintings, monotypes, and sketches of Maurice Prendergast invite viewers into a world of sunlight and sailboats, leisure and amusement. Accompanying the first retrospective of Prendergast’s work in more than two decades, this book traces the artist’s experiments with different media and highlights innovative techniques that established his reputation as early modernist. Filled with exquisite reproductions of Prendergast’s luminous work—well-known masterpieces and rarely seen, equally compelling examples—this volume also features contributions by an impressive roster of distinguished scholars whose essays provide fresh ways of thinking about a quintessentially American artist. Sumptuously illustrated with more than 100 color illustrations, this appealing volume celebrates one of the nation’s most popular and canonical painters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book accompanies the exhibition, \u003ci\u003eMaurice Prendergast: By the Sea,\u003c\/i\u003e on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 29 through October 13, 2013.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover, 176 pages, 100 color illustrations, 5 b\/w illustrations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2013-05-21T12:11:00-04:00","created_at":"2013-05-21T12:11:16-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College Museum of Art","type":"Book","tags":["Art Museum","Catalogs \u0026 Books"],"price":5500,"price_min":5500,"price_max":5500,"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":314528637,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"BCMA-CAT13PREND","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":5500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_quantity":100,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma_cat13prend.jpg?v=1571438543"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma_cat13prend.jpg?v=1571438543","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea exhibition catalogue.","id":3096707161,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma_cat13prend.jpg?v=1571438543"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma_cat13prend.jpg?v=1571438543","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJoachim Homann, with contributions by Trevor J. Fairbrother, Joachim Homann, Nancy Mowll Mathews, Joseph J. Rishel, and Richard J.Wattenmaker.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis selection of works in a variety of media focuses on Maurice Prendergast’s creative process as he imaginatively and innovatively captured the look and feel of coastlines from New England to France and Italy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe seaside watercolors, paintings, monotypes, and sketches of Maurice Prendergast invite viewers into a world of sunlight and sailboats, leisure and amusement. Accompanying the first retrospective of Prendergast’s work in more than two decades, this book traces the artist’s experiments with different media and highlights innovative techniques that established his reputation as early modernist. Filled with exquisite reproductions of Prendergast’s luminous work—well-known masterpieces and rarely seen, equally compelling examples—this volume also features contributions by an impressive roster of distinguished scholars whose essays provide fresh ways of thinking about a quintessentially American artist. Sumptuously illustrated with more than 100 color illustrations, this appealing volume celebrates one of the nation’s most popular and canonical painters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book accompanies the exhibition, \u003ci\u003eMaurice Prendergast: By the Sea,\u003c\/i\u003e on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 29 through October 13, 2013.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHardcover, 176 pages, 100 color illustrations, 5 b\/w illustrations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6540436832345,"title":"Maybe Tomorrow? — Agell '81","handle":"maybe-tomorrow-agell-81","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Charlotte Agell, Class of 1981\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated by Ana Ramírez González\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElba has a black block. She's been dragging it around for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorris dances everywhere he goes, even uphill. He is always surrounded by a happy cloud of butterflies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan Norris and his butterflies help ease Elba's sadness and convince her to join them on a trip to the ocean?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis tender exploration of loss illuminates how kindness, empathy, and friendship can lift our spirits and see us through many tomorrows. It will resonate with anyone who has experienced hardship or grief, from the death of a loved one or a pet, to a friend moving away, or the transition to a new home or family situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-03-05T11:46:25-05:00","created_at":"2021-03-05T11:46:16-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Children's"],"price":1799,"price_min":1799,"price_max":1799,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1799,"compare_at_price_min":1799,"compare_at_price_max":1799,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39260476964953,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA300-Agell","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Maybe Tomorrow? — Agell '81","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1799,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1799,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781338214888","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba300-agell-maybe.jpg?v=1614962777"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba300-agell-maybe.jpg?v=1614962777","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Maybe Tomorrow? by Charlotte Agell '81","id":20249088032857,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba300-agell-maybe.jpg?v=1614962777"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba300-agell-maybe.jpg?v=1614962777","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Charlotte Agell, Class of 1981\u003cbr\u003eIllustrated by Ana Ramírez González\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eElba has a black block. She's been dragging it around for a long time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorris dances everywhere he goes, even uphill. He is always surrounded by a happy cloud of butterflies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan Norris and his butterflies help ease Elba's sadness and convince her to join them on a trip to the ocean?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis tender exploration of loss illuminates how kindness, empathy, and friendship can lift our spirits and see us through many tomorrows. It will resonate with anyone who has experienced hardship or grief, from the death of a loved one or a pet, to a friend moving away, or the transition to a new home or family situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6576483008601,"title":"Meet Me in Paradise — Hubscher '01","handle":"meet-me-in-paradise-hubscher-01","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Libby MacKenzie Hubscher, Class of 2001\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"72202390\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarin Cole has never: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Seen the ocean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Climbed a mountain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Taken a risk on love \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e ....But if her sister's plan works, she just might do all three.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ever since her journalist mother died on assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside the state of Tennessee. Her wild-child younger sister, Sadie, has trotted the globe as a photographer, living off of art and adrenaline.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"72202390\"\u003eWhen Sadie returns from a tough assignment abroad and looks a little worse for wear, Marin reluctantly agrees to a sisters' spa weekend on the tropical island of Saba. But her lifelong fear of travel is affirmed when Sadie misses the flight, Marin's luggage gets mixed up with another passenger's, and an episode of turbulence sends her hurtling into the lap of Lucas Tsai, the handsome stranger who stole her sister's seat.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"72202390\" id=\"titleId\"\u003eFor the first time in a long time, Marin has to step outside of her comfort zone as she explores the island with Lucas and learns what she's been missing out on. With each breathtaking new experience, Marin gets closer to her real self, the man she's falling for, and the heart-wrenching truth about why she's there in the first place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"72202390\"\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-07-18T16:51:39-04:00","created_at":"2021-05-18T09:53:41-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Fiction"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"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":39331196600409,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA387-Hubscher","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Meet Me in Paradise — Hubscher '01","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1600,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780593199428","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba387-hubscher-meet.jpg?v=1621346022"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba387-hubscher-meet.jpg?v=1621346022","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20424287092825,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":752,"width":752,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba387-hubscher-meet.jpg?v=1621346022"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":752,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba387-hubscher-meet.jpg?v=1621346022","width":752}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Libby MacKenzie Hubscher, Class of 2001\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"72202390\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarin Cole has never: \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Seen the ocean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Climbed a mountain\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e Taken a risk on love \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e ....But if her sister's plan works, she just might do all three.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ever since her journalist mother died on assignment, Marin has played it safe, refusing to set foot outside the state of Tennessee. Her wild-child younger sister, Sadie, has trotted the globe as a photographer, living off of art and adrenaline.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"72202390\"\u003eWhen Sadie returns from a tough assignment abroad and looks a little worse for wear, Marin reluctantly agrees to a sisters' spa weekend on the tropical island of Saba. But her lifelong fear of travel is affirmed when Sadie misses the flight, Marin's luggage gets mixed up with another passenger's, and an episode of turbulence sends her hurtling into the lap of Lucas Tsai, the handsome stranger who stole her sister's seat.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"72202390\" id=\"titleId\"\u003eFor the first time in a long time, Marin has to step outside of her comfort zone as she explores the island with Lucas and learns what she's been missing out on. With each breathtaking new experience, Marin gets closer to her real self, the man she's falling for, and the heart-wrenching truth about why she's there in the first place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"72202390\"\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6554102988889,"title":"Mexico in My Heart — Barnstone '48","handle":"mexico-in-my-heart-barnstone-48","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Willis Barnstone, Class of 1948\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"32778271\" id=\"titleId\"\u003eWillis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New Testament in a version Harold Bloom describes as 'a superb act of restoration'. Borges himself declared, 'Four of the best things in America are Whitman's Leaves, Melville's Whale, the sonnets of Barnstone's The Secret Reader, and my daily Corn Flakes...' \u003ci\u003eMexico in My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential Barnstone, drawing on fifteen collections, poetry from six decades of writing and from several continents. He went to Mexico at the age of fifteen and, gathering languages and literatures, has never stopped learning. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"32778271\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-01T15:07:06-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-01T15:06:28-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Poetry"],"price":2399,"price_min":2399,"price_max":2399,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2399,"compare_at_price_min":2399,"compare_at_price_max":2399,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39291755987033,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA337-Barnstone","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Mexico in My Heart — Barnstone '48","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2399,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2399,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781784100148","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba337-barnstone-mexico.jpg?v=1617304018"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba337-barnstone-mexico.jpg?v=1617304018","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Mexico in My Heart, New \u0026 Selected Poems by Willis Barnstone 1948","id":20318900387929,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba337-barnstone-mexico.jpg?v=1617304018"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba337-barnstone-mexico.jpg?v=1617304018","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Willis Barnstone, Class of 1948\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"32778271\" id=\"titleId\"\u003eWillis Barnstone is a literature in himself: poet, translator, interpreter, in one year he can range from Jesus to Sappho and Borges with calm authority and good humour. He re-translates the New Testament in a version Harold Bloom describes as 'a superb act of restoration'. Borges himself declared, 'Four of the best things in America are Whitman's Leaves, Melville's Whale, the sonnets of Barnstone's The Secret Reader, and my daily Corn Flakes...' \u003ci\u003eMexico in My Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential Barnstone, drawing on fifteen collections, poetry from six decades of writing and from several continents. He went to Mexico at the age of fifteen and, gathering languages and literatures, has never stopped learning. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-title-id=\"32778271\"\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6568125169753,"title":"Misadventures in Filgersville — Colbert '16","handle":"misadventures-in-filgersville-colbert-16","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Michael Colbert, Class of 2016\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChris Hastings, the stereotypical dumb jock, is suspended from his sports teams by his parents right before his baseball team is going to play in the state championships. Chris makes a deal with school nerd Melvin Moore: Melvin will tutor Chris and, in return, Chris will train Melvin in sports. Once he improves he will be able to play on his team again, but it's not as easy as it seems. Along the way, he goes through many challenges: crushes, backstabbing friends, and his older brother. Will Chris get sports back and persevere through these hard times? Join Chris and his friends to find out!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-28T11:44:21-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-28T11:44:20-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Children's"],"price":800,"price_min":800,"price_max":800,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":800,"compare_at_price_min":800,"compare_at_price_max":800,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39316462501977,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA372-Colbert","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Misadventures in Filgersville — Colbert '16","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":800,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":800,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781606433805","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba372-colbert-misad.jpg?v=1619625305"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba372-colbert-misad.jpg?v=1619625305","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Misadventures in Filgersville by Michael Colbert","id":20380481323097,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba372-colbert-misad.jpg?v=1619625305"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba372-colbert-misad.jpg?v=1619625305","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Michael Colbert, Class of 2016\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChris Hastings, the stereotypical dumb jock, is suspended from his sports teams by his parents right before his baseball team is going to play in the state championships. Chris makes a deal with school nerd Melvin Moore: Melvin will tutor Chris and, in return, Chris will train Melvin in sports. Once he improves he will be able to play on his team again, but it's not as easy as it seems. Along the way, he goes through many challenges: crushes, backstabbing friends, and his older brother. Will Chris get sports back and persevere through these hard times? Join Chris and his friends to find out!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":32898932,"title":"Monstrous Society — Collings","handle":"monstrous-society","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy David Collings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/d\/dcolling\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMonstrous Society\u003c\/span\u003e problematizes competing representations of reciprocity in England in the decades around 1800. It argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power is divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T. R. Malthus, attempt to discipline the social body, to make state power immune from popular response. But once negated, counter-power persists, even if in the demands of a debased, inhuman body. Such a response is writ large in Gothic tales, especially Matthew Lewis's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/span\u003e and Mary Shelley's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/span\u003e, and in the innovative, embodied political practices of the mass movements for Reform and the Charter. By interpreting the formation of modern English culture through the early modern practice of reciprocity, David Collings constructs a 'nonmodern' mode of analysis, one that sees modernity not as a break from the past but as the result of attempts to transform traditions that, however distorted, nevertheless remain broadly in force.\u003cbr\u003e -From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:33:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:33:44-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":6150,"price_min":6150,"price_max":6150,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":6150,"compare_at_price_min":6150,"compare_at_price_max":6150,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77640962,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF150-Collings","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Monstrous Society — Collings","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":6150,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":6150,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780838757208","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Monstrous Society by David Collings","id":20239817474137,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba150-collings-monstrous.jpg?v=1614800014","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy David Collings\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/d\/dcolling\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eProfessor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eMonstrous Society\u003c\/span\u003e problematizes competing representations of reciprocity in England in the decades around 1800. It argues that in the eighteenth-century moral economy, power is divided between official authority and the counter-power of plebians. This tacit, mutual understanding comes under attack when influential political thinkers, such as Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and T. R. Malthus, attempt to discipline the social body, to make state power immune from popular response. But once negated, counter-power persists, even if in the demands of a debased, inhuman body. Such a response is writ large in Gothic tales, especially Matthew Lewis's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Monk\u003c\/span\u003e and Mary Shelley's \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/span\u003e, and in the innovative, embodied political practices of the mass movements for Reform and the Charter. By interpreting the formation of modern English culture through the early modern practice of reciprocity, David Collings constructs a 'nonmodern' mode of analysis, one that sees modernity not as a break from the past but as the result of attempts to transform traditions that, however distorted, nevertheless remain broadly in force.\u003cbr\u003e -From the jacket.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover."}

{"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":6540441452633,"title":"Mud, Sand, and Snow — Agell '81","handle":"mud-sand-and-snow-agell-81","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Charlotte Agell, Class of 1981\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mud makes me dance in the spring \/ I fly up to the sky on my swing.” So begins a celebration of the four seasons, as a young girl explores, with family and friends, the mud of spring, sand and wind in the summer, leaves and pumpkins in the fall, and the joys of snow in winter. Toddlers will enjoy listening to, and repeating, the easy rhyming text that invites them to use all their senses to experience the world changing around them. We feel grass tickling our toes, hear bees buzzing, and see our breath steam in the cold of winter. Author\/illustrator Charlotte Agell brings her trademark light and airy watercolors to this joyful board book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-08-14T16:31:04-04:00","created_at":"2021-03-05T11:52:08-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Children's"],"price":1095,"price_min":1095,"price_max":1095,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1095,"compare_at_price_min":1095,"compare_at_price_max":1095,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39260492791897,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA301-Agell","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Mud, Sand, and Snow — Agell '81","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1095,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1095,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781944762636","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba301-agell-mudsand.jpg?v=1614963129"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba301-agell-mudsand.jpg?v=1614963129","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20249125945433,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba301-agell-mudsand.jpg?v=1614963129"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba301-agell-mudsand.jpg?v=1614963129","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Charlotte Agell, Class of 1981\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Mud makes me dance in the spring \/ I fly up to the sky on my swing.” So begins a celebration of the four seasons, as a young girl explores, with family and friends, the mud of spring, sand and wind in the summer, leaves and pumpkins in the fall, and the joys of snow in winter. Toddlers will enjoy listening to, and repeating, the easy rhyming text that invites them to use all their senses to experience the world changing around them. We feel grass tickling our toes, hear bees buzzing, and see our breath steam in the cold of winter. Author\/illustrator Charlotte Agell brings her trademark light and airy watercolors to this joyful board book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396432969817,"title":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","handle":"muerte-de-utopia-carolyn-wolfenzon-niego","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. In their own way, each of the novels recreates the image of an island, showing how the principal characters either stand in a marginal and peripheral position relative to history or do not participate in the passing of time at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis set of novels can be broadly considered “ahistorical” in the sense that time seems stagnant or imperceptible; however, I argue throughout the project that each novel contains multiple frames of history, reflecting a historical moment of the colonial past as well as a present moment in the authors’ contemporary postcolonial world. ​The authors that I study are: Antonio di Benedetto (Argentina), Carmen Boullosa (México), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), Enrique Rosas Paravicino (Perú) and Abel Posse (Argentina).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- By the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T12:56:47-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","Non-Fiction","Spanish Language"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3500,"compare_at_price_min":3500,"compare_at_price_max":3500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590077853785,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF410-Wolfenzon","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3500,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9789972515552","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of book Muerte de Utopia by Carolyn Wolfenzon","id":24333093830745,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wbf410-muerte-wolfenzon.jpg?v=1694624209","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cwolfenz\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Carolyn Wolfenzon faculty profile.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAssociate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuerte de Utopía: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana\u003c\/em\u003e, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e-18\u003csup data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems reflective of their own time, rendering visible the permanence of colonial structures in postcolonial Latin America over a period of roughly 40 years. The book explores the relationship between the colonial past and the present in four different Latin American countries (Argentina, Cuba, Mexico and Peru) and how the times in which the novels were written maintain a permanent dialogue with the colonial past, producing the sensation that time does not move forward, but has stopped, and that History is not a continuum but rather, moves circularly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThese novels suggest that Latin America exists in a perpetual crisis that produces several juxtapositions in time: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Colonia\u003c\/em\u003e survives simultaneously in the twentieth century. The modern order is erected on top of the hierarchies of a strong colonial order, but without completely discarding the former structure, thereby exposing the perpetual clash between tradition and modernity in the countries analyzed in my book. In order to point out this “ahistoricism” that paradoxically defines what is historical in Latin America, I argue that the novels place characters in a tangential situation with regard to the progress of history—stressing the fact that there is no linear movement of time. In their own way, each of the novels recreates the image of an island, showing how the principal characters either stand in a marginal and peripheral position relative to history or do not participate in the passing of time at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis set of novels can be broadly considered “ahistorical” in the sense that time seems stagnant or imperceptible; however, I argue throughout the project that each novel contains multiple frames of history, reflecting a historical moment of the colonial past as well as a present moment in the authors’ contemporary postcolonial world. ​The authors that I study are: Antonio di Benedetto (Argentina), Carmen Boullosa (México), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), Enrique Rosas Paravicino (Perú) and Abel Posse (Argentina).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- By the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book is written in Spanish.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6554666926169,"title":"Natural Sustenance — Fleck '58","handle":"natural-sustenance-fleck-58","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nick Fleck, Class of 1958\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNick Fleck is a retired high school teacher. He spends much of his time sauntering in the open spaces and woods wherever he lives, and especially in unsettled areas on Moosehead Lake in Maine. He has been influenced by the words and wandering of Thoreau and feels that he is not apart from the flora and fauna of our planet, but rather a part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-02T10:40:38-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-02T10:40:29-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Poetry"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39293424271449,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA340-Fleck","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Natural Sustenance — Fleck '58","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780983334491","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba340-fleck-natur.jpg?v=1617374432"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba340-fleck-natur.jpg?v=1617374432","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Natural Sustenance, Selected Poems by Nick Fleck.","id":20320046088281,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba340-fleck-natur.jpg?v=1617374432"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba340-fleck-natur.jpg?v=1617374432","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nick Fleck, Class of 1958\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNick Fleck is a retired high school teacher. He spends much of his time sauntering in the open spaces and woods wherever he lives, and especially in unsettled areas on Moosehead Lake in Maine. He has been influenced by the words and wandering of Thoreau and feels that he is not apart from the flora and fauna of our planet, but rather a part of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6557965877337,"title":"Nature Behind Barbed Wire — Chiang","handle":"nature-behind-barbed-wire-chiang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in desolate camps in the nation's interior. Photographers including Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange visually captured these camps in images that depicted the environment as a source of both hope and hardship. And yet the literature on incarceration has most often focused on the legal and citizenship statuses of the incarcerees, their political struggles with the US government, and their oral testimony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNature Behind Barbed Wire\u003c\/em\u003e shifts the focus to the environment. It explores how the landscape shaped the experiences of both Japanese Americans and federal officials who worked for the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the civilian agency that administered the camps. The complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained the WRA's power and provided Japanese Americans with opportunities to redefine the terms and conditions of their confinement. Even as the environment compounded their feelings of despair and outrage, the incarcerees also found that their agency in transforming and adapting to the natural world could help them survive and contest their incarceration. Japanese Americans and WRA officials negotiated the terms of confinement with each other and with a dynamic natural world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, as Connie Chiang demonstrates, the Japanese American incarceration was fundamentally an environmental story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-09T15:16:14-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-09T15:16:13-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":3799,"price_min":3799,"price_max":3799,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3700,"compare_at_price_min":3700,"compare_at_price_max":3700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39300396089433,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF360-Chiang","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Nature Behind Barbed Wire — Chiang","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3799,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780190842062","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Nature Behind Barbed Wire by Connie Chiang","id":20333411336281,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wbf360-chiang-nature.jpg?v=1617995775","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Connie Chiang, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" title=\"Connie Chiang faculty profile\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/profiles\/faculty\/cchiang\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDirector of Environmental Studies Program and Professor of History and Environmental Studies\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed from their homes on the temperate Pacific Coast, Japanese Americans spent the war years in desolate camps in the nation's interior. Photographers including Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange visually captured these camps in images that depicted the environment as a source of both hope and hardship. And yet the literature on incarceration has most often focused on the legal and citizenship statuses of the incarcerees, their political struggles with the US government, and their oral testimony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNature Behind Barbed Wire\u003c\/em\u003e shifts the focus to the environment. It explores how the landscape shaped the experiences of both Japanese Americans and federal officials who worked for the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the civilian agency that administered the camps. The complexities of the natural world both enhanced and constrained the WRA's power and provided Japanese Americans with opportunities to redefine the terms and conditions of their confinement. Even as the environment compounded their feelings of despair and outrage, the incarcerees also found that their agency in transforming and adapting to the natural world could help them survive and contest their incarceration. Japanese Americans and WRA officials negotiated the terms of confinement with each other and with a dynamic natural world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, as Connie Chiang demonstrates, the Japanese American incarceration was fundamentally an environmental story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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

{"id":4725309112409,"title":"New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection","handle":"new-views-of-the-middle-ages-highlights-from-the-wyvern-collection","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Kathryn Gerry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhy does medieval art matter today? This beautifully illustrated book examines this question through the lens of the magnificent objects in the Wyvern Collection of Medieval and Early Renaissance art, accompanying the collection’s first exhibition in the United States. Works include exquisite examples of metalwork, stone and wood sculpture, and illuminated manuscripts from across Europe, as well as the Christian community of Ethiopia. Offering new photography and an accessible text, this book is an essential resource for one of the world’s most important private collections of medieval art, and a fascinating read for all interested in the Middle Ages and the role of art history in exploring our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAuthor information:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKathryn Gerry is Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Art History at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Dr. Gerry has taught and written widely on the art and architecture of medieval Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAyla Lepine is an art and architectural historian specializing in the Gothic Revival in modern Europe and North America. She is also an Anglican priest and a trustee of the UK charity Art and Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStephen Perkinson is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Bowdoin College. In both his teaching and scholarship, he focuses on Medieval and Renaissance art of Northern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover, 144 pages, fully illustrated, 10-1\/4 x 8-3\/4 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished by Scala Arts Publishers Inc., in association with the Bowdoin College Museum Art, September 2020\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2020-09-24T16:50:17-04:00","created_at":"2020-09-24T16:50:16-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College Museum of Art","type":"Book","tags":["Catalogs \u0026 Books"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3500,"compare_at_price_min":3500,"compare_at_price_max":3500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32184130043993,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"BCMA-CAT-WYVERN","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3500,"inventory_quantity":97,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat-wyvern-20.jpg?v=1600980618"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat-wyvern-20.jpg?v=1600980618","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Book cover of New Views of the Middle Ages: Highlights from the Wyvern Collection","id":6947642966105,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1800,"width":1800,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat-wyvern-20.jpg?v=1600980618"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1800,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat-wyvern-20.jpg?v=1600980618","width":1800}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eby Kathryn Gerry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhy does medieval art matter today? This beautifully illustrated book examines this question through the lens of the magnificent objects in the Wyvern Collection of Medieval and Early Renaissance art, accompanying the collection’s first exhibition in the United States. Works include exquisite examples of metalwork, stone and wood sculpture, and illuminated manuscripts from across Europe, as well as the Christian community of Ethiopia. Offering new photography and an accessible text, this book is an essential resource for one of the world’s most important private collections of medieval art, and a fascinating read for all interested in the Middle Ages and the role of art history in exploring our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAuthor information:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKathryn Gerry is Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval Art History at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Dr. Gerry has taught and written widely on the art and architecture of medieval Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAyla Lepine is an art and architectural historian specializing in the Gothic Revival in modern Europe and North America. She is also an Anglican priest and a trustee of the UK charity Art and Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStephen Perkinson is Professor of Art History and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Bowdoin College. In both his teaching and scholarship, he focuses on Medieval and Renaissance art of Northern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHardcover, 144 pages, fully illustrated, 10-1\/4 x 8-3\/4 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublished by Scala Arts Publishers Inc., in association with the Bowdoin College Museum Art, September 2020\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":760242628,"title":"Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960","handle":"night-vision-nocturnes-in-american-art-1860-1960-pre-order","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoachim Homann, with contributions from Linda Docherty, Avis Berman, Daniel Bosch, Alexandere Nemerov, and Helene Valance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning a century from the introduction of electric light to the dawn of the Space Age, this first major survey of American night scenes by artists such as Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, and Joseph Cornell proposes the central importance of nocturnal images in the development of modern art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeously illustrated book investigates how leading American artists of diverse aesthetic convictions responded in a range of media—including paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs—to the unique challenges of picturing the night. Retooling their palette and reconsidering their techniques, artists cherished the night as a time of heightened alertness and active imagination. Mysterious and provocative, the darkness was experienced as liberating, both on an aesthetic and personal level—allowing artists to become invisible, turn inward, and express personal truths in unique and poetic ways. \u003cem\u003eNight Vision\u003c\/em\u003e expands the conversation on American art and the rise of modernism, as it demonstrates how the theme of the night inspired artists who sought to leave behind established styles and traditions to better reflect the broader societal and technological shifts as well as a new understanding of the value of art as personal expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published by Prestel and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 27 through October 18, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover with jacket, 176 pages, 24.0 x 27.9 cm, 9.4 x 11.0 in., 113 color illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-3-7913-5466-8\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2015-06-04T09:14:00-04:00","created_at":"2015-06-04T09:16:35-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College Museum of Art","type":"Book","tags":["Art Museum","Catalogs \u0026 Books"],"price":6000,"price_min":6000,"price_max":6000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":6000,"compare_at_price_min":6000,"compare_at_price_max":6000,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":2589369540,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"BCMA-CAT15-NIGHT","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":6000,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":6000,"inventory_quantity":98,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-night.jpg?v=1571438549"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-night.jpg?v=1571438549","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Night Vision catalog","id":18151899225,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-night.jpg?v=1571438549"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-night.jpg?v=1571438549","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoachim Homann, with contributions from Linda Docherty, Avis Berman, Daniel Bosch, Alexandere Nemerov, and Helene Valance.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning a century from the introduction of electric light to the dawn of the Space Age, this first major survey of American night scenes by artists such as Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, and Joseph Cornell proposes the central importance of nocturnal images in the development of modern art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis gorgeously illustrated book investigates how leading American artists of diverse aesthetic convictions responded in a range of media—including paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs—to the unique challenges of picturing the night. Retooling their palette and reconsidering their techniques, artists cherished the night as a time of heightened alertness and active imagination. Mysterious and provocative, the darkness was experienced as liberating, both on an aesthetic and personal level—allowing artists to become invisible, turn inward, and express personal truths in unique and poetic ways. \u003cem\u003eNight Vision\u003c\/em\u003e expands the conversation on American art and the rise of modernism, as it demonstrates how the theme of the night inspired artists who sought to leave behind established styles and traditions to better reflect the broader societal and technological shifts as well as a new understanding of the value of art as personal expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published by Prestel and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 27 through October 18, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover with jacket, 176 pages, 24.0 x 27.9 cm, 9.4 x 11.0 in., 113 color illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 978-3-7913-5466-8\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. 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","published_at":"2022-07-29T16:41:18-04:00","created_at":"2020-09-21T11:27:42-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":2800,"price_min":2800,"price_max":2800,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2800,"compare_at_price_min":2800,"compare_at_price_max":2800,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32177668325465,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA257-Hastings","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"No Rules Rule — Hastings '83","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2800,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2800,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781984877864","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba257-hastings-no.jpg?v=1613770977"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba257-hastings-no.jpg?v=1613770977","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of the book No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings '83.","id":7492133978201,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba257-hastings-no.jpg?v=1613770977"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba257-hastings-no.jpg?v=1613770977","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\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. 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":6554798719065,"title":"Notes from a Nomad — Snyder '77","handle":"notes-from-a-nomad-snyder-77","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Sarah Dickenson Snyder, Class of 1977\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet Sarah Dickenson Snyder moves between worlds as traveler and teacher — from the crowded streets of Hanoi, to Istanbul, Eleuthera, Machu Picchu, and Rwanda — where a woman sets down a heavy water jug, the scar on her arm \"a cracked map of what remains.\" Snyder's carefully observed \"earthbound stories\" teem with life as her lyrical voice plumbs the \"unsayable\" words, dust, and the \"billion trillion specks of light beyond our reach.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Wendy Drexler, \u003cem\u003eBefore There Was, Western Motel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-02T13:58:18-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-02T13:58:17-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Poetry"],"price":1699,"price_min":1699,"price_max":1699,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1499,"compare_at_price_min":1499,"compare_at_price_max":1499,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39293607936089,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA346-Snyder","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Notes from a Nomad — Snyder '77","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1699,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1499,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781635342048","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba346-snyder-notes.jpg?v=1617386344"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba346-snyder-notes.jpg?v=1617386344","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Notes from a Nomad, by Sarah Dickenson Snyder","id":20320508346457,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba346-snyder-notes.jpg?v=1617386344"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba346-snyder-notes.jpg?v=1617386344","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Sarah Dickenson Snyder, Class of 1977\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet Sarah Dickenson Snyder moves between worlds as traveler and teacher — from the crowded streets of Hanoi, to Istanbul, Eleuthera, Machu Picchu, and Rwanda — where a woman sets down a heavy water jug, the scar on her arm \"a cracked map of what remains.\" Snyder's carefully observed \"earthbound stories\" teem with life as her lyrical voice plumbs the \"unsayable\" words, dust, and the \"billion trillion specks of light beyond our reach.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Wendy Drexler, \u003cem\u003eBefore There Was, Western Motel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"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."}

{"id":32906652,"title":"Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College","handle":"old-master-drawings-at-bowdoin-college","description":"David Becker examines BCMA's collection of old master drawings many of which were part of the original gift from James Bowdoin III.","published_at":"2013-11-26T08:52:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:58:39-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College Museum of Art","type":"Book","tags":["Catalogs \u0026 Books"],"price":1500,"price_min":1500,"price_max":1500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1500,"compare_at_price_min":1500,"compare_at_price_max":1500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77661472,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"BCMA-CAT85DRAW","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":1500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1500,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BCMA-CAT85DRAW.jpeg?v=1571438535"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BCMA-CAT85DRAW.jpeg?v=1571438535","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Old Master Drawings at Bowdoin College book cover.","id":1471578201,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BCMA-CAT85DRAW.jpeg?v=1571438535"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/BCMA-CAT85DRAW.jpeg?v=1571438535","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"David Becker examines BCMA's collection of old master drawings many of which were part of the original gift from James Bowdoin III."}

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

{"id":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. Honoring the voices of a new generation of activists, \u003ci\u003eOn the Other Side of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary’s call to take responsibility for imagining, and then building, the world we want to live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","published_at":"2023-08-14T16:31:05-04:00","created_at":"2018-11-26T11:02:30-05:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Non-Fiction"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":18484845903961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA241-McKesson","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"On the Other Side of Freedom — McKesson '07","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780525560579","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba241-mckesson-onthe.jpg?v=1613770603"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba241-mckesson-onthe.jpg?v=1613770603","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Book cover of On the Other Side of Freedom by Deray McKesson 2007","id":7492123426905,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba241-mckesson-onthe.jpg?v=1613770603"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba241-mckesson-onthe.jpg?v=1613770603","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\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. Honoring the voices of a new generation of activists, \u003ci\u003eOn the Other Side of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary’s call to take responsibility for imagining, and then building, the world we want to live in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e"}

{"id":6554814054489,"title":"Open Your Eyes — Thwing '64","handle":"open-your-eyes-thwing-64","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy William Thwing, Class of 1964\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Your Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of 70 songs, poetry and experimental Haiku-like verse written by William C. Thwing, an American military intelligence officer whose medium of choice is poetry. It represents various styles of verse created over the past 50 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-29T11:34:55-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-02T14:09:05-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","Poetry"],"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":39293725638745,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA346","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Open Your Eyes — Thwing '64","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2599,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2599,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781605714820","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba346-thwing-open.jpg?v=1617386946"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba346-thwing-open.jpg?v=1617386946","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Open Your Eyes by William C. Thwing","id":20320538951769,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba346-thwing-open.jpg?v=1617386946"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba346-thwing-open.jpg?v=1617386946","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy William Thwing, Class of 1964\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOpen Your Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of 70 songs, poetry and experimental Haiku-like verse written by William C. Thwing, an American military intelligence officer whose medium of choice is poetry. It represents various styles of verse created over the past 50 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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

{"id":444112464,"title":"Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas","handle":"past-futures-science-fiction-space-travel-and-postwar-art-of-the-americas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Sarah J. Montross\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverview\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This book offers a sumptuously illustrated exploration of how artists from the United States and Latin America visualized the future. Inspired variously by the “golden age” of science fiction, the Cold War, the space race, and the counterculture, these artists expressed both optimism and pessimism about humanity’s prospects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePast Futures\u003c\/em\u003e showcases work by more than a dozen artists, including the biomorphic cosmic spaces and hybrid alien-totemic figures painted by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911–2002); the utopian \u003cem\u003eHydrospatial City\u003c\/em\u003e envisioned by Argentine Gyula Kosice (born 1924); and\u003cem\u003e Incidents of Mirror-Trave\u003c\/em\u003el in the Yucatan, in which Robert Smithson (1938–1973) layered tropes of time travel atop Mayan ruins. The artists respond to science fiction in film and literature and the media coverage of the space race; link myths of Europeans’ first encounters with the New World to contemporary space exploration; and project futures both idealized and dystopian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, also includes an essay by the editor and curator mapping central themes; an exploration of how Latin American artists have depicted astronomic phenomena, utopian projects, and the modern machine; an essay on space-age art in Argentina during the 1960s; and a study of Smithson and science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Montross, Rodrigo Alonso, Rory O’Dea, Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover\u003c\/strong\u003e | ISBN: 9780262029025 | 136 pp. | 9.5 x 11.5 in\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2015-03-11T11:58:00-04:00","created_at":"2015-03-11T12:00:06-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College Museum of Art","type":"Book","tags":["Art Museum","Catalogs \u0026 Books"],"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":1226340124,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"BCMA-CAT15-PAST","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2995,"inventory_quantity":99,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-past.jpg?v=1571438548"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-past.jpg?v=1571438548","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Past Futures exhibition catalogue.","id":15092252761,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-past.jpg?v=1571438548"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/bcma-cat15-past.jpg?v=1571438548","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Sarah J. Montross\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOverview\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1940s to the 1970s, visionary artists from across the Americas reimagined themes from science fiction and space travel. They mapped extraterrestrial terrain, created dystopian scenarios amid fears of nuclear annihilation, and ingeniously deployed scientific and technological subjects and motifs. This book offers a sumptuously illustrated exploration of how artists from the United States and Latin America visualized the future. Inspired variously by the “golden age” of science fiction, the Cold War, the space race, and the counterculture, these artists expressed both optimism and pessimism about humanity’s prospects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePast Futures\u003c\/em\u003e showcases work by more than a dozen artists, including the biomorphic cosmic spaces and hybrid alien-totemic figures painted by the Chilean artist Roberto Matta (1911–2002); the utopian \u003cem\u003eHydrospatial City\u003c\/em\u003e envisioned by Argentine Gyula Kosice (born 1924); and\u003cem\u003e Incidents of Mirror-Trave\u003c\/em\u003el in the Yucatan, in which Robert Smithson (1938–1973) layered tropes of time travel atop Mayan ruins. The artists respond to science fiction in film and literature and the media coverage of the space race; link myths of Europeans’ first encounters with the New World to contemporary space exploration; and project futures both idealized and dystopian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, also includes an essay by the editor and curator mapping central themes; an exploration of how Latin American artists have depicted astronomic phenomena, utopian projects, and the modern machine; an essay on space-age art in Argentina during the 1960s; and a study of Smithson and science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Montross, Rodrigo Alonso, Rory O’Dea, Miguel Ángel Fernández Delgado\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHardcover\u003c\/strong\u003e | ISBN: 9780262029025 | 136 pp. | 9.5 x 11.5 in\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":32900542,"title":"Political Economy \u0026 States of Literature in Early Modern England — Kitch","handle":"political-economy-states-of-literature-in-early-modern-england","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Aaron Kitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/akitch\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAssociate Professor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Much of the historicist criticism of the past few decades has ignored the shaping influence that an emerging discourse of trade exercised on the literature of early modern England.  \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePolitical Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England\u003c\/span\u003e seeks to address that oversight by demonstrating that subjects like commerce and credit are treated thoughtfully by a range of canonical authors writing between 1570 and 1620, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Jonson.  Rather than interpreting these texts as evidence of the transition from feudalism to capitalism as a Marxist critic might, or invoking a catch-all abstraction like \"social energy\" as a New Historicist might, Kitch draws on his impressive reading in a range of subjects -- from the herring fisheries to bills of exchange -- to interpret the economic metaphors and assumptions of early modern authors in light of the local economic contexts that he carefully reconstructs.  By examining a wide range of literary forms, Kitch also invites us to ask whether we can speak of the distinct economic values of particular genres like comedy or epyllion.\u003cbr\u003e - Blair Hoxby, from the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover.","published_at":"2011-02-22T10:45:00-05:00","created_at":"2011-02-22T10:45:37-05:00","vendor":"vendor-unknown","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Faculty","History"],"price":9995,"price_min":9995,"price_max":9995,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":9995,"compare_at_price_min":9995,"compare_at_price_max":9995,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":77646132,"title":"Default","option1":"Default","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBF166-Kitch","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Political Economy \u0026 States of Literature in Early Modern England — Kitch","public_title":null,"options":["Default"],"price":9995,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":9995,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780754667568","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Political Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England by Aaron Kitch","id":20239815147609,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":0.659,"height":475,"width":313,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965"},"aspect_ratio":0.659,"height":475,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba166-kitch-political.jpg?v=1614799965","width":313}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eBy Aaron Kitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bowdoin.edu\/faculty\/a\/akitch\/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eAssociate Professor of English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Much of the historicist criticism of the past few decades has ignored the shaping influence that an emerging discourse of trade exercised on the literature of early modern England.  \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003ePolitical Economy and the States of Literature in Early Modern England\u003c\/span\u003e seeks to address that oversight by demonstrating that subjects like commerce and credit are treated thoughtfully by a range of canonical authors writing between 1570 and 1620, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Middleton, and Jonson.  Rather than interpreting these texts as evidence of the transition from feudalism to capitalism as a Marxist critic might, or invoking a catch-all abstraction like \"social energy\" as a New Historicist might, Kitch draws on his impressive reading in a range of subjects -- from the herring fisheries to bills of exchange -- to interpret the economic metaphors and assumptions of early modern authors in light of the local economic contexts that he carefully reconstructs.  By examining a wide range of literary forms, Kitch also invites us to ask whether we can speak of the distinct economic values of particular genres like comedy or epyllion.\u003cbr\u003e - Blair Hoxby, from the back cover.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Hardcover."}