Social Sciences Resources
Spring 2021
History & Geography
Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution
by David A. Bell
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
by Charles J. Hanley
They Didn’t See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties
by Lisa Levenstein
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP
by Alex Tresniowski
A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes
by Eric Jay Dolin
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
by Marjoleine Kars
Political Science
Why We’re Polarized
by Ezra Klein
Surviving Autocracy
by Masha Gessen
Separated: Inside an American Tragedy
by Jacob Soboroff
The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy
by Daniel Q. Gillion
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
by Alicia Garza
A User’s Guide to Democracy:
How America Works
by Nick Capodice & Hannah McCarthy
Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter
by Tehama Lopez Bunyasi & Candis Watts Smith
The Short Life & Curious Death of Free Speech in America
by Ellis Cose
Sociology
Black Futures
edited by Kimberly Drew & Jenna Wortham
From the Periphery:
Real-Life Stories of Disability
by Pia Justesen
Funeral Diva
by Pamela Sneed
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
by Anne Helen Petersen
Beyond Magenta:
Transgender Teens Speak Out
by Susan Kuklin
The New Noir: Race, Identity, and Diaspora in Black Suburbia
by Orly Clerge
Creating Equality at Home:
How 25 Couples Around the World Share Housework and Childcare
edited by Francine M. Deutsch
& Ruth A. Gaunt
Worked Over: How Round-the-Clock Work Is Killing the American Dream
by Jamie McCallum
Legendary Children:
The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life
by Tom Fitzgerald & Lorenzo Marquez
Psychology
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
by Christie Tate
Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain
by Daphna Joel & Luba Vikhanski
Social Chemistry: Decoding the Patterns of Human Connection
by Marissa King
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
by Adam Grant
Perfectly Confident: How to Calibrate Your Decisions Wisely
by Don A. Moore
Better, Not Perfect: A Realist’s Guide to Maximum Sustainable Goodness
by Max H. Bazerman
