History, journalism, women in popular culture, ethics in war

11/04/2011

More bad news from Israel / Greg Philo and Mike Berry. London : Pluto Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Those girls : single women in sixties and seventies popular culture / Katherine J. Lehman. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 2011. (Publisher’s description)

Ethics for enemies : terror, torture, and war / F.M. Kamm. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. (Publisher’s description)


Empathy; Gettysburg; modernist women writers

04/06/2011

The social neuroscience of empathy / edited by Jean Decety and William Ickes. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

The first day at Gettysburg : crisis at the crossroads / Warren W. Hassler, Jr. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

From the modernist annex: American women writers in museums and libraries / Karin Roffman. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Women and reading; the Coptic papacy; the new atheism

03/15/2011

Sicherman, Barbara. Well-read lives: how books inspired a generation of American women. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Swanson, Mark N. The Coptic papacy in Islamic Egypt (641-1517). Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Amarasingam, Amarnath, ed. Religion and the new atheism: a critical appraisal. Leiden: Brill, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Women’s studies

03/04/2011

Rupp, Leila J. Sapphistries: a global history of love between women. New York: New York University press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Deutsch, Tracey. Building a housewife’s paradise: gender, politics, and American grocery stores in the twentieth century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Barash, David P., and Judith Eve Lipton. How women got their curves and other just-so stories: evolutionary enigmas. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Gender and culture; music; World War I

02/28/2011

Gordon, Sarah A. “Make it yourself”: home sewing, gender, and culture, 1890-1930. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Hodgdon, Tim. Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: masculinity in two countercultural communities, 1965-93. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Marchenkov, Vladimir L. The Orpheus myth and the powers of music. Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon Press, 20093.(Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Steuer, Kenneth. Pursuit of an “unparalleled opportunity”: American YMCA and prisoner of war diplomacy among the Central Power nations during World War I, 1914-1923. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Jewish music in Nazi Germany; feminism; class and gender

02/25/2011

Hirsch, Lily E. A Jewish orchestra in Nazi Germany: musical politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Stansell, Christine. The feminist promise: 1792 to the present. New York: Modern Library, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)

Srole, Carole. Transcribing class and gender: masculinity and femininity in nineteenth-century courts and offices. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)(Click here to access resource)


Girl power; women domestic workers in Pakistan

02/08/2011

Zaslow, Emilie. Feminism, Inc.: coming of age in girl power media culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. (Publisher’s description)

Shahid, Ayesha. Silent voices, untold stories: women domestic workers in Pakistan and their struggle for empowerment. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)


Religious studies

01/24/2011

Pui-lan, Kwok, ed. Hope abundant: Third World and indigenous women’s theology. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Groome, Thomas H., and Michael J. Daley, eds. Reclaiming Catholicism: treasures old and new. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Shortt, Rupert. Rowan’s rule: the biography of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2009. (Publisher’s description)


Routledge Classics – Part III

12/03/2010

Kant, Immanuel. The moral law: groundwork of the metaphysics of morals.Trans. H.J. Paton. London: Routledge: 2005. (Publisher’s description)

Irigaray, Luce. Je, tu, nous: toward a culture of difference: with a personal note by the author. Trans. Alison Martin. London: Ruotledge, 2007. (Publisher’s description)

Žižek, Slavoj. Enjoy your symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and out. London: Routledge, 2008. (Publisher’s description)

Sartre, Jean-Paul. What is literature? Trans. Bernard Frechtman. London: Routledge, 2001.(Publisher’s description)

Weil, Simone. Letter to a priest. Trans. A.F. Wills. London: Routledge, 2002. (Publisher’s description)

Midgley, Mary. Wickedness. London: Routledge, 2001.(Publisher’s description)


Strip clubs; Organizational change at Boeing

11/22/2010

Price-Glrnn, Kim. Strip club : gender, power, and sex work. New York: New York University Press, 2010. (Publisher’s description)

Greenbreg, Edward S., et al. Turbulence: Boeing and the state of American workers and managers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.(Publisher’s description)


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