New Non Fiction
LIVING WITH THE LIVING DEAD: THE WISDOM OF THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
Written by Garrett, Greg
When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very existence, a macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture: corpses begin to stand up and walk around. The dead walked in the fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes roiled Europe. They walked in images from World War I, when a generation died horribly in the trenches.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN X: A HIGHLY SPECIFIC, DEFIANTLY INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY
Written by Klosterman, Chuck
New York Times-bestselling author and cultural critic Chuck Klosterman compiles and contextualizes the best of his articles and essays from the past decade.
TRAINWRECK: THE WOMEN WE LOVE TO HATE, MOCK, AND FEAR . . . AND WHY
Written by Doyle, Sady
She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself.
STOKELY SPEAKS: FROM BLACK POWER TO PAN-AFRICANISM
Written by Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Stokely
In the speeches and articles collected in this book, theblack activist, organizer, and freedom fighter Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, andPan-Africanism.
AMERICAN GIRLS: SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE SECRET LIVES OF TEENAGERS
Written by Sales, Nancy Jo
A New York Times Bestseller
BRAIN DEFENSE: MURDER IN MANHATTAN AND THE DAWN OF NEUROSCIENCE IN AMERICA'S COURTROOMS
Written by Davis, Kevin
In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from a twelfth-story window. The woman s husband, Herbert Weinstein, soon confessed to having hit and strangled his wife after an argument, then dropping her body out of their apartment window to make it look like a suicide.
KEEP THE DAMNED WOMEN OUT: THE STRUGGLE FOR COEDUCATION
Written by Malkiel, Nancy Weiss
As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time. Coeducation met with fierce resistance.
AMERICAN HOOKUP: THE NEW CULTURE OF SEX ON CAMPUS
Written by Wade, Lisa
The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought.
UNMENTIONABLE: THE VICTORIAN LADY'S GUIDE TO SEX, MARRIAGE, AND MANNERS
Written by Oneill, Therese
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Have you ever wished you could live in an earlier, more romantic era? Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.)
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