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  • Start your anti-racism journey with these hard but necessary conversations, led by Emmanuel Acho.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Flatiron Books, 2020. — 305.80097 ACH
  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    Alexander, Michelle
    Discusses mass incarceration, the War on Drugs, policies that affect convicted felons, and race.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : New Press, [2020] — 364.973 ALE
  • SPQR

    a History of Ancient Rome

    Beard, Mary
    "A prominent classicist explores ancient Rome and how its citizens adapted the notion of imperial rule, invented the concepts of citizenship and nation, and made laws about those traditionally overlooked in history, including women, slaves, and…
    Book, 2015New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2015] — 937 BEA
  • The Body

    a Guide for Occupants

    Bryson, Bill
    "An engaging head-to-toe tour of the human body that shares anecdotal insights into its functions, ability to heal and vulnerability to disease."
    Book, 2019Toronto : Doubleday Canada, [2019] — 612 BRY
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel

    the Fates of Human Societies

    Diamond, Jared M.
    The author dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors he feels are responsible for history's broadest patterns.
    Book, 2017New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. — 303.4 DIA
  • The Panic Years

    Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions

    Frizzell, Nell
    We have descriptors for many periods of life but there is a period of profound change that many women face, often in their late twenties to early forties, that does not yet have a name. Nell Frizzell is calling this period of flux “the panic years,”…
    Book, 2021New York : Flatiron Books, 2021. — 306.8743 FRI
  • The Bomber Mafia

    a Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

    Gladwell, Malcolm
    "How a small team of Utopian Air Force strategists attempted to win World War II through precision bombing-on."
    Book, 2021New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021. — 940.54497 GLA
  • Sapiens

    a Brief History of Humankind

    Harari, Yuval N.
    100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance?
    Book, 2014Toronto, Ontario : Signal, 2014. — 909 HAR
  • A Woman of No Importance

    the Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win WWII

    Purnell, Sonia
    "A compelling biography of a masterful spy, and a reminder of what can be done with a few brave people — and a little resistance."
    Book, 2019[New York, New York] : Viking, [2019] — 940.54864 PUR
  • Stamped

    Racism, Antiracism, and You : a Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning

    Reynolds, Jason
    "This book takes you on a journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited."
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2020. — 305.8 REY
  • Anna Sale wants you to have that conversation. You know the one. The one that you've been avoiding or putting off, maybe for years. This book explores five of the most fraught conversation topics -- death, sex, money, family, and identity -- and why…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2021. — 153.6 SAL
  • Sand Talk

    How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

    Yunkaporta, Tyson
    "A paradigm-shifting book from Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta, who brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to history, education, money, power, and sustainability-and offers a new template for living."
    Book, 2020[San Francisco, California] : HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020] — 909.82 YUN