Cultural Studies

1. A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward

   Alana Newhouse, Pete Hamill

   "A feast for the eyes...bringing alive a long vanished world that's still eerily present."--Daniel Czitrom, New York PostMore

2. Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880-1940

   Nigel Pavitt

   Extraordinary photographs, along with extensive captions, document the transition from a barely explored paradise to a modern nation.More

3. Time Wearing Out Memory: Schoharie County

   Susan Daley, Steve Gross, Jeffrey Lent

   These elegant and evocative photographs portray the oldest continuously farmed county in New York as it was and and as it is today.More

4. Inventing Human Rights: A History

   Lynn Hunt

   “A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book ReviewMore

5. Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales

   Nelson Mandela

   "A treasure for everyone in the family."--Bill CosbyMore

6. Frankenstein: A Cultural History

   Susan Tyler Hitchcock

   A lively history of the Frankenstein myth, tracing its evolution from a Romantic nightmare to its prominence in today's imaginative landscape.More

7. On Earth's Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs

   Tim Barnwell, John Ehle

   Author of the much-celebrated Face of Appalachia, Tim Barnwell once again turns an intelligent and compassionate eye toward rural America.More

8. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past

   A. Roger Ekirch

   "Remarkable….Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us."—Arthur Krystal, The New YorkerMore

9. College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now

   Lynn Peril

   The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl.More

10. Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience

    Chandra Prasad, Rebecca Walker

    With a roster of acclaimed fiction writers, Mixed shatters expectations of what it means to be multiracial.More

11. American Gothic: A Life of American's Most Famous Painting

    Steven Biel

    “Masterful. . . . This is cultural studies at its best.”—Chase Madar, Time Out New YorkMore

12. Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans

    Thomas Lynch

    In thirty-five years and dozens of return trips to Ireland, Thomas Lynch has found a template for the larger world inside the small one, the planet in the local parish.
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13. American Mania: When More is Not Enough

    Peter C. Whybrow

    A doctor's bold analysis of the cultural disease that afflicts us all.More

14. Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

    Judith Flanders

    "[Flanders] knows what we want to know and is thoroughly engaging, undidactic company."--Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday GlobeMore

15. The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Struggle for Freedom

    Afshin Molavi

    The truths about Iran; quite different truths from versions put forward by Washington, Tehran, and the media.More