Sociology
Surviving the Silence: Black Women's Stories of Rape
Paperback
In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.
The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
Paperback
A Business Week Best Book of the Year.... "A devastating and wholly necessary book."—Studs Terkel, author of Working
The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual as a Social Type
Paperback
"Extraordinarily creative . . . an important and engrossing contribution to a complex and elusive subject."—Newsweek
Haven in a Heartless World
Paperback
In the American political vocabulary, "family" and "family values" no longer simply evoke pictures of harmonious scenes; they also push our buttons (left and right) about what is wrong with society.
