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Quick view Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh First introduced in "Freakonomics," here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology graduate student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs. View Details
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Quick view Undisputed Truth by Mike Tyson Philosopher, Broadway headliner, fighter, felon Mike Tyson has defied stereotypes, expectations, and a lot of conventional wisdom during his three decades in the public eye. Bullied as a boy in the toughest, poorest neighborhood in Brooklyn, Tyson grew... View Details
Quick view Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote PeaceÂ…One School at a Time by Greg Mortensen Anyone who despairs of the individual s power to change lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan s treacherous K2, was inspired by a chance encounter with impoverished mountain... View Details
Quick view The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida Using an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct words, sentences, and thoughts that he is unable to speak out loud, Naoki answers even the most delicate questions that people want to know. Questions such as: Why do people with autism talk so loudly... View Details
Quick view The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in... View Details
Quick view The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malxolm X If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the... View Details
Quick view The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein Largely to amuse herself, Gertrude Stein wrote this book in 1932..using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. The book is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more... View Details
Quick view Runing in the Family by Michael Ondaatje In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his... View Details
Quick view Periodic Table by Primo Lei An extraordinary work in which each of the 21 chapters takes its title and starting point from one of the elements in the periodic table. Mingling fact and fiction, history and anecdote, Levi uses his training as a chemist and his experiences as a... View Details
Quick view Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass. View Details
Quick view Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored by Clifton L Taulbert In this beautifully evocative tale of life in the segregated South, the author of The Last Train North looks back at his "colored" childhood with deep pride, striking honesty, and unusual affection. Soon to be released as a major film from BET Pictures,... View Details
