Social Sciences, February 2018 | Best Sellers

by LJ Reviews
Feb 22, 2018 | Filed in Reviews+
March 2017 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
March 2017 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO
  1. Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? Davis, Heath Fogg New York University Press 2017. ISBN 9781479855407. $25
  2. About Abortion: Terminating Pregnancy in Twenty-First-Century America Sanger, Carol Belknap: Harvard University Press 2017. ISBN 9780674737723. $29.95
  3. #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media Sunstein, Cass R. Princeton University Press 2017. ISBN 9780691175515. $29.95
  4. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Forman, James, Jr. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2017. ISBN 9780374189976. $27
  5. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked Alter, Adam Penguin Books 2017. ISBN 9781594206641. $27
  6. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America MacLean, Nancy Viking 2017. ISBN 9781101980965. $28
  7. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest Tufekci, Zeynep Yale University Press 2017. ISBN 9780300215120. $26
  8. A Colony in a Nation Hayes, Christopher W.W. Norton 2017. ISBN 9780393254228. $26.95
  9. Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy Taplin, Jonathan Little, Brown 2017. ISBN 9780316275774. $29
  10. Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment Davis, Angela J. Pantheon 2017. ISBN 9781101871270. $27.95
  11. Genocide: A World History Naimark, Norman M. Oxford University Press 2017. ISBN 9780199765270. $78
  12. Plugged In: How Media Attract and Affect Youth Valkenburg, Patti M. Yale University Press 2017. ISBN 9780300218879. $35
  13. The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die Payne, Keith Viking 2017. ISBN 9780525429814. $28
  14. Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics Spruill, Marjorie J. Bloomsbury 2017. ISBN 9781632863140. $33
  15. We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves Cheney-Lippold, John New York University Press 2017. ISBN 9781479857593. $27.95
  16. The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It Florida, Richard Basic Books: Perseus 2017. ISBN 9780465079742. $28
  17. Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America Frank, Nathaniel Belknap: Harvard University Press 2017. ISBN 9780674737228. $35
  18. Human Trafficking: A Reference Handbook Aronowitz, Alexis A. ABC-CLIO 2017. ISBN 9781440834844. $60
  19. Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century Haugeberg, Karissa University of Illinois Press 2017. ISBN 9780252040962. $95
  20. The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention Brooks, Abigail T. New York University Press 2017. ISBN 9780814724101. $89
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