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|  | Sergeant in the Snow by Archibald Colquhoun, Mario Rigoni Stern
Mario Rigoni Stern was barely twenty-one -- and already a battle veteran -- at the time of the hallucinating World War II disaster searchingly described in this book. In July 1942, the Italian forces in Russia totaled 230,000 men. They included three divisions of Alpini troops, specially trained for winter warfare; the author of this book belonged to one of these, the Tridentina. In December, the troops began retreating, entirely on foot, with no supplies, at a temperature of 30-40 degrees below zero. Many of the troops, overcome by exhaustion, broke away from the column, others were cut off and captured by the Russians, and others got lost in the steppes. In the end, about 90,000 were missing or dead; about 45,000 frostbitten and wounded. This narrative, together with his novel The Story of Tonle and several other works, paints a broad fresco of Italy's history in this century, chronicling social and political change so radical and profound that it has touched even those in such secluded provincial communities as those Rigoni Stern has so masterfully described. AUTHOR: Archibald Colquhoun, Mario Rigoni Stern
PUBLISHER: Northwestern University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Intensive Care by Echo Heron
Description not available.Illuminates the day-to-day routine and texture of a nurse's life through an account of the author's career that spans from training to practice to burnout AUTHOR: Echo Heron
PUBLISHER: Ballantine Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Jennifer Lopez by Jill C. Wheeler
Description not available.A biography of Jennifer Lopez, whose talent and determination have led to her success as an actress, singer, and dancer. AUTHOR: Jill C. Wheeler
PUBLISHER: ABDO Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | From ACT UP to the WTO by Benjamin H. Shepard, Ronald Hayduck, Ronald Hayduk
In March 1987 a radical coalition of queer activists converged on Wall Street--their target, Business, Big Business, Business as Usual!!! It was ACT UP?s first demonstration. In November 1999 a radical coalition of environmental, labor, anarchist, queer, and human rights activists converged in Seattle--their target was similar, a system of global capitalism. Between 1987 and 1999 a new project in activism had emerged unshackled from past ghosts. Through innovative use of civil rights? era non-violent disobedience, guerrilla theatre, and sophisticated media work, ACT UP has helped transform the world of activism. This anthology offers a history of ACT UP for a new generation of activists and students. It is divided into five sections which address the new social movements, the use of street theater to reclaim public space, queer and sexual politics, new media/electronic civil disobedience, and race and community building. Contributions range across a diverse spectrum: The Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition, Jubilee 2000, Students for an Undemocratic Society, Fed Up Queers, Gender Identity Center of Colorado, Triangle Foundation, Jacks of Color, National Coalition for Sexual Freedom, Lower East Side Collective, Community Labor Coalition, Church of Stop-Shopping, Indy Media Collective, Black Radical Congress, The Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory, Adelante Street Theater; HealthGAP, Housing Works, SexPanic! and, of course, ACT UP itself. AUTHOR: Benjamin H. Shepard, Ronald Hayduck, Ronald Hayduk
PUBLISHER: Verso
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Slacks & Calluses by Clara Marie Allen, Constance Bowman, Constance Reid, Sandra M. Gilbert
In 1943 two spirited young teachers decided to do their part for the war effort by spending their summer vacation working the swing shift on a B-24 production line at a San Diego bomber plant. Entering a male-dominated realm of welding torches and bomb bays, they learned to use tools that they had never seen before, live with aluminum shavings in their hair, and get along with supervisors and coworkers from all walks of life. And they learned that wearing their factory slacks on the street caused men to treat them in a way for which their dignified school-teacherhood hadn`t prepared them. First published in 1944 and illustrated with humorous drawings, Slacks and Calluses is an on-the-spot account of how two women assumed the wartime roles that would change society, coping with traditional attitudes they encountered along the way. Constance Bowman tells of foremen who struggled futilely to enforce a rule requiring all women to wear caps; of young coworkers who wistfully imagined earning their high school diplomas; and of the bruises and cut fingers that she and Clara Marie Allen endured in making final installations to the Liberator planes that rolled off the Consolidated Vultee production line. Bowman and Allen evoke in vivid detail the ambiguities, drama, and comedy of life on the home front during World War II. Perceptive and irreverent, their personal story illuminates the public history of defense work in which they and thousands like them participated. AUTHOR: Clara Marie Allen, Constance Bowman, Constance Reid, Sandra M. Gilbert
PUBLISHER: Smithsonian Institution Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Will of Instinct by Charles Cross
Description not available.Based on four years of research, more than four hundred interviews, and exclusive access to Kurt Cobain's unpublished diaries, a portrait of the late rock-and-roll star follows his early days in a trailer, his rise to fame, his relationship with wife Courtney Love, and his tragic suicide. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Charles Cross
PUBLISHER: Hyperion Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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