NEW Titles on the Social Sciences: Groups of People, Social Processes, and Culture and Institutions

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On Social Processes [303’s]

303.48 BIN  Witness to the Revolution: Radicals, Resisters, Vets, Hippies, and the Year America Lost its Mind and Found its Soul, by Clara Bingham.

Woven together from one hundred original interviews, Witness to the Revolution provides a firsthand narrative of that period of upheaval in the words of those closest to the action–the activists, organizers, radicals, and resisters…

On Groups of People [305’s]

305.42 WHA  What I Told My Daughter, edited by Nina Tassler.

Tassler has brought together a powerful, diverse group of women—from Madeleine Albright to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, from Dr. Susan Love to Whoopi Goldberg—to reflect on the best advice and counsel they have given their daughters either by example, throughout their lives, or in character-building…

305.896 FIR  The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward.

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.

On Culture & Institutions [306’s]

306.0948 PAR  The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life, by Ani Partanen.

Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships—parents and children, men and women, employees and employers, and government and citizens.

306.768 STR  Transgender History, by Susan Stryker.

Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject of transgender history, with each chapter covering major movements, writings, and events.

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