Wesleyan University Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Peace & Health: How a group of small-town activists and college students set out to change healthcare
Charles Barber
Charles Barber’s new book “Peace & Health,” tells the remarkable story of the rise of Middletown’s @CHCConnecticut as a model for care across the country. Find the book here: https://t.co/J48ia7Lt8L https://t.co/AwjYEPWWfq
Paperback, 2022
$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
Mahogany L. Browne
Browne is the founder of the diverse lit initiative, Woke Baby Book Fair; and is excited about her latest poetry collection. I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love is a book-length poem responding to the impact of mass incarceration on women and children.
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mad Honey: A GMA Book Club Pick
Jodi Picoult
Jennifer Finney Boylan ‘80 was interviewed about the book she’s written with @jodipicoult , “Mad Honey,” a murder mystery novel which reached No. 3 on the @nytimes hardcover fiction best-sellers list October 23rd. https://t.co/feqtqti3Mf
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hollywood: The Oral History
Jeanine Basinger
The @hartfordcourant spoke to Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Emerita, and @WassonSam ’03 about their new book “Hollywood: An Oral History.” https://t.co/0EYue5YmCV https://t.co/6yT9T1UYzG
Paperback, 2023
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Marx in the Anthropocene
Kohei Saito
Philosopher Kohei Saito ’09 spoke with @guardian on his work in Marx in the Anthropocene which builds on Karl Marx’s writings on the economic and ecological crises to propose degrowth communism as a “new way of living.” https://t.co/KwMdgnrN1x
Paperback, 2023
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens: Essays on the Politics and Economics of Underdevelopment, 1804-2013
Alex Dupuy
Alex Dupuy, Professor of Sociology, spoke to the @AP about the democratic crisis in Haiti. “It’s a very grim situation,” Dupuy said, “one of the worst crises that Haiti has had since the Duvalier dictatorship.” https://t.co/J7rg9xjLhr
Paperback, 2015
$52.95$27.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, the Fifth Marx Brother
Chris Enss
Jeanine Basinger, Corwin-Fuller Professor of Film Studies, Emerita, published a review of Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, The Fifth Marx Brother, in the @WSJ. https://t.co/61qB5HWMeB
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
Bozoma Saint John
@NPR's Morning Edition spoke with @badassboz ’99 about her memoir “The Urgent Life." https://t.co/VeStY6b67q
Hardcover, 2023
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Professor of Religion and Science in Society, has a new book: "Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space". The book offers a vision of space exploration that places cosmic caretaking over profiteering. https://t.co/CbXcymvO2c
Hardcover, 2022
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chrome Valley: Poems
Mahogany L. Browne
Students from the “Dance as Activism” course will perform a new movement piece based on excerpts from Shapiro-Silverberg Distinguished Writer in Residence Mahogany L. Browne‘s poetry collection “Chrome Valley” at Lincoln Center in New York on September 9. https://t.co/hAdLHC8d7B
Hardcover, 2023
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book