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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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Book Cover for: Peace & Health: How a group of small-town activists and college students set out to change healthcare, Charles Barber

Peace & Health: How a group of small-town activists and college students set out to change healthcare

Charles Barber
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

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
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Book Cover for: I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love, Mahogany L. Browne

I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love

Mahogany L. Browne
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

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
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Book Cover for: Mad Honey: A GMA Book Club Pick, Jodi Picoult

Mad Honey: A GMA Book Club Pick

Jodi Picoult
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

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
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Book Cover for: Hollywood: The Oral History, Jeanine Basinger

Hollywood: The Oral History

Jeanine Basinger
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

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
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Book Cover for: Marx in the Anthropocene, Kohei Saito

Marx in the Anthropocene

Kohei Saito
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

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
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Book Cover for: Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens: Essays on the Politics and Economics of Underdevelopment, 1804-2013, Alex Dupuy

Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens: Essays on the Politics and Economics of Underdevelopment, 1804-2013

Alex Dupuy
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

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)
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Book Cover for: Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, the Fifth Marx Brother, Chris Enss

Straight Lady: The Life and Times of Margaret Dumont, the Fifth Marx Brother

Chris Enss
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

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
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Book Cover for: The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival, Bozoma Saint John

The Urgent Life: My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

Bozoma Saint John
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

@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
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Book Cover for: Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race, Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race

Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

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
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Book Cover for: Chrome Valley: Poems, Mahogany L. Browne

Chrome Valley: Poems

Mahogany L. Browne
Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University

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
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