Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones
10 best books like Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones (Connie Rice): Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled, What the Bee Knows: Reflections on Myth, Symbol, and Story, Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's, The Scent Trail: A Journey of the Senses, Called To Question: A Spiritual Memoir, What Matters?: Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth, Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century, The Palace of the Snow Queen: Winter Travels in Lapland, Life in the Balance: A Physician's Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson's Disease and Dementia, Don't Leave Me This Way: Or When I Get Back on My Feet You'll Be Sorry
Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
| Author | Nancy Mairs |
| ISBN | 0807070874 |
Everyone: read this book. It takes an ice-pick to the trope of 'pitiful cripple' that many of us carry about.
Mairs is a brilliant essayist and memoirist, writing about her own experiences as a woman with MS, who has lost movement in two legs and one arm and lives in the Southwest. She weaves larger...
| Author | P.L. Travers |
| ISBN | 0850307864 |
Years ago, when I was in my own dark wood wandering and could not find my way, serendipity sent What the Bee Knows: Reflections On Myth, Symbol and Story my way. I immersed myself in P.L. Travers feminine-centered retelling of Greek myths, her essays, poems and interviews. Her essay titled, Re-Stroying...
| Author | Thomas DeBaggio |
| ISBN | 0743205669 |
"We are foolish, those of us who think we can escape the traps of aging," writes Tom DeBaggio. "I was one of them, dreaming of a perfect and healthy old age....Now, at fifty-eight, I realize the foolishness of my dreams as I watch my brain self-destruct from Alzheimer's." Losing My Mind is DeBaggio's extraordinary...
| Author | Celia Lyttelton |
| ISBN | 0593051149 |
When Celia Lyttelton visited a bespoke perfumers, she realized a long-held ambition: to have a scent created solely for her. Entering this heady, exotic world of oils and essences, she was transported from a leafy London square to a place of long-forgotten memories and sensory experiences. And once...
| Author | Joan D. Chittister |
| ISBN | 1580511430 |
Called to Question is Sr. Joan Chittister's most personal and intense writing to date. Centered around a series of conversations with spiritual writers featured in her private journal, Sr. Joan looks at the common questions or dimensions of life as we know them in our daily lives-not answers as we've...
| Author | Wendell Berry |
| ISBN | 1582436061 |
Over the years, Wendell Berry has sought to understand and confront the financial structure of modern society and the impact of developing late capitalism on American culture. There is perhaps no more demanding or important critique available to contemporary citizens than Berry’s writings —...
| Author | Daniel Hernandez |
| ISBN | 1416577033 |
MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion,...
| Author | Barbara Sjoholm |
| ISBN | 1593761597 |
A Frequent traveler to Northern Europe, Barbara Sjoholm set off one winter to explore a region that had long intrigued her.
Sjoholm first travels to Kiruna, Sweden, to see the Ice Hotel under construction and to meet the ice artists who make its rooms into environmental art. Traveling to the...
| Author | Thomas Graboys |
| ISBN | 1402753411 |
At the age of 49, Dr. Thomas Graboys had reached the pinnacle of his career and was leading a charmed life. A nationally renowned Boston cardiologist popular for his attention to the hearts and souls of his patients, Graboys was part of “The Cardiology Dream Team” summoned to treat Boston Celtics...
| Author | Julia Fox Garrison |
| ISBN | 0061120618 |
Just an ordinary day . . .
You get up, fix breakfast for your three-year-old son, drive yourself to work -- a day like any other. You're running late for a meeting, and as you hurry down the hall, the light is getting brighter and brighter, and suddenly your vision explodes and . . . you're gone.
When...
A legend, a land once seen and then lost forever, Thule was a place beyond the edge of the maps, a mystery for thousands of years. And to the Nazis, Thule was an icy Eden, birthplace of Nordic “purity.” In this exquisitely written narrative, Joanna Kavenna wanders in search of Thule, to Shetland, Iceland,...
| Author | John Kenneth Galbraith |
| ISBN | 0395859980 |
Galbraith attempts to lay out what a good, humane society might look like, what values it might espouse, how it would treat people within and outside of its borders. He lists general principles and it is cheering that so many of them seem to have found their way into the Obama Administration’s plans....
| Author | John Ross |
| ISBN | 1568584245 |
John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City’s days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated...
| Author | David Ngaruri Kenney |
| ISBN | 0520255100 |
Asylum Denied is the gripping story of political refugee David Ngaruri Kenney's harrowing odyssey through the world of immigration processing in the United States. Kenney, while living in his native Kenya, led a boycott to protest his government's treatment of his fellow farmers. He was subsequently...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
| Author | Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
| ISBN | 0679776664 |
"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet...
| Author | Jana Leo |
| ISBN | 1558616810 |
In the gripping first pages of this true story, Jana Leo relives the moment-by-moment experience of a home invasion and rape in her own apartment in Harlem. After she reports the crime, she waits. Between police disinterest and squabbles from the health insurance company over who’s going to pay for...
Killer Stuff and Tons of Money: Seeking History and Hidden Gems in Flea-Market America
| Author | Maureen Stanton |
| ISBN | 1594202931 |
One dealer's journey from the populist mayhem of flea markets to the rarefied realm of auctions reveals the rich, often outrageous subculture of antiques and collectibles.
Millions of Americans are drawn to antiques and flea-market culture, whether as participants or as viewers of the...
The Case of the Frozen Addicts
| Author | J. William Langston |
| ISBN | 0679424652 |
In the summer of 1982, hospital emergency rooms in the San Francisco Bay Area were suddenly confronted with mysteriously "frozen" patients - young men and women who, though conscious, could neither move nor speak. Doctors were baffled, until neurologist J. William Langston, recognizing the symptoms...
The Crime of Sheila McGough
| Author | Janet Malcolm |
| ISBN | 0375704590 |
"No other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book Review
The Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a disbarred lawyer recently...
Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times
| Author | Studs Terkel |
| ISBN | 1565848373 |
This book might be, unfortunately, something to read again in these dysfunctional times of 2017-18. Unfortunately, too, I no longer have it.
I remember it was very uplifting. Terkel does a great job.
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Previous review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe
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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
| Author | Philip Cushway |
| ISBN | 0393352730 |
Included in this extraordinary volume are the poems of 43 of America’s most talented African American wordsmiths, including Pulitzer Prize–winning poets Rita Dove, Natasha Tretheway, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Tracy K. Smith, as well as the work of other luminaries such as Elizabeth Alexander,...
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
| Author | John W. Dower |
| ISBN | 0393061507 |
Over recent decades, John W. Dower, one of America’s preeminent historians, has addressed the roots and consequences of war from multiple perspectives. In War Without Mercy (1986), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, he described and analyzed the brutality that attended World War...
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back
| Author | Thomas Geoghegan |
| ISBN | 1565848861 |
When it first appeared in hardcover, Which Side Are You On? received widespread critical accolades, and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. In this new paperback edition, Thomas Geoghegan has updated his eloquent plea for the relevance of organized labor in America...
Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model
| Author | Ashley Mears |
| ISBN | 0520270762 |
Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider’s study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models,...
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-violent Conflict
| Author | Peter Ackerman |
| ISBN | 0312240503 |
This nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes...
