Cultural Studies

1. Unfinished People: Eastern European Jews Encounter America

   Ruth Gay

   Winner of the National Jewish Book Award, a seminal work of history on immigrant Jewish life in early twentieth-century New York.More

2. Nymphomania: A History

   Carol Groneman

   "A knowledgeable, tightly constructed piece of scholarship."—Washington Post Book WorldMore

3. Latinos: A Biography of the People

   Earl Shorris

   "Brilliant.... A loving and detailed celebration of a diverse, beautiful and often astounding people."—Laurence Gonzales, Chicago TribuneMore

4. Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors

   Robert Claiborne

   A colorful compendium of everyday words and phrases and where they originated.More

5. The Twilight of American Culture

   Morris Berman

   An emerging cult classic about America's cultural meltdown—and a surprising solution.More

6. Were You Always an Italian?: Ancestors and Other Icons of Italian America

   Maria Laurino

   "One of the best books about the immigrant experience in America....unique and gracefully written."—San Francisco ChronicleMore

7. Police Brutality: An Anthology

   Jill Nelson

   A landmark work by twelve leading critics and community leaders—essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American race relations.More

8. The Land I'm Bound To: Photographs

   Jack Leigh

   This retrospective volume places Jack Leigh in the company of other documentary giants such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lang.More

9. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

   Richard Sennett

   A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of WorkingMore

10. Old and on Their Own

    Robert Coles, Alex Harris, Thomas Roma

    Long recognized for his work with young people, the prominent child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles explores the lives of the elderly in Old and on Their Own.More

11. The Tender Passion: The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud

    Peter Gay

    The Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.More

12. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.More

13. Out of the East: Transition and Tradition in Asia

    Hiroji Kubota

    More than two hundred magnificent, full-color photographs document the enormous productivity of eastern Asia against the background of traditional life and culture.More

14. Life's Little Deconstruction Book: Self-Help for the Post-Hip

    Andrew Boyd

    Portable Po-Mo, Disposable Derrida, Foucault-to-Go.More

15. The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society

    Arthur Meier Schlesinger

    Revised and Enlarged Edition

    The bestseller that reminded us what it means to be an American is more timely than ever in this updated and enlarged edition, including "Schlesinger's Syllabus," an annotated reading list of core books on the American experience.More