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|  | Ground Zero: The Gender Wars in the Military
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After immersing herself in military life, author Linda Bird Francke (THE AMBIVALENCE OF ABORTION) provides an account of the gender wars she sees as inevitable given the military's conservative male culture. Her presentation of conflicting viewpoints on the subject is as even-handed as it is complete, making this book highly useful if not finally hopeful.
CATEGORY: Current Affairs 
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 | The Conscience of the Eye by Richard Sennett
From the assembly halls of Athens to the Turkish baths of New York's Lower East Side, from eighteenth-century English gardens to the housing projects of Harlem--a study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture. AUTHOR: Richard Sennett
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Current Affairs
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 | An Eyewitness History of the Civil Rights Movement by Julian Bond, Sanford Wexler
Description not available.Explores the history of civil rights movements in the United States, with entries on the political, social, and cultural issues faced by African Americans. AUTHOR: Julian Bond, Sanford Wexler
PUBLISHER: Facts on File Inc.
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Current Affairs
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 | Beard on Bread by James A. Beard
James Beard's classic 100 bread recipes, both yeast and non-yeasted, from the early 1970s, are considered definitive by two generations of bread bakers. Recipes include Buttermilk White Bread, Boston Brown Bread, Raw Apple Bread, and Beard's mother's recipe for Raisin Bread that she made for Red Cross benefits during World War I. AUTHOR: James A. Beard
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Cooking & Food
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 | Inventing the People by Edmund S. Morgan
Description not available.Traces the origins of democratic government in England and the U.S. compares their approaches, and discusses elections and the philosophical background of political representation AUTHOR: Edmund S. Morgan
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Current Affairs
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 | Living for Change by Grace L. Boggs
More than a deeply moving memoir, this is a book of revelation. Grace Lee Boggs, Chinese American, middle class, highly educated, discovers through her encounters with remarkable rebels, blue collars as well as philosophers, where the body is buried: who is doing what to whom in our society. It is an adventure that is truly liberating . Studs Terkel Grace Lee Boggs has made a fundamental difference in keeping alive the traditions of the struggles for freedom and democracy . Cornel West Living for Change is a sweeping account of the life of an untraditional radical from the end of the thirties, through the cold war, the civil rights era, and the rise of Black Power, the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panthers to the present efforts to rebuild our crumbling urban communities. This fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Grace Lee Boggs was raised in New York City during a time when her father was not allowed to buy land for their home because he was Chinese. Educated at Barnard and Bryn Mawr, Boggs was in her twenties when radical politics beckoned, and she was inspired to become a revolutionary focusing on the black community. During her early years as an activist in New York, Boggs began a twenty-year friendship and collaboration with C. L. R. James, the brilliant and influential West Indian Marxist to whom she devotes a revelatory chapter of this book. In 1953, she moved to Detroit where, she writes, radical history had been made and could be made again . It was also the home of James Boggs, an African American auto worker (and later author and revolutionarytheoretician) who would become one of the movement's freshest and most persuasive voices, as well as Grace's husband. Beginning with their work together on the newsletter Correspondence, Grace and James formed the core of a network that over the years would include Malcolm X, Lyman Paine, Ping Ferry, AUTHOR: Grace L. Boggs
PUBLISHER: University of Minnesota Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Current Affairs
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