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Dr. Claude Steele

Whistling Vivaldi:

And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us

"In an accessible, page-turning account written for a general audience, Steele explains how identity contingencies—-the conditions that a given social identity forces us to face and overcome in a particular setting—affect our everyday behavior and perpetuate broader societal problems"

--Harvard Educational Review

Location:Martinos Auditorium, The Granoff Center for the Arts

154 Angell Street, Providence

A Reading from "The Round"

Join student poets and authors as they read from their work published in Brown University's "The Round" magazine.

Location:Brown Bookstore

244 Thayer Street, Providence

Ifa Bayeza

Some Sing, Some Cry: A Novel

"...this story of lifesaving music and heartbroken maternity is engaging from start to finish."

--"New York Times" Book Review

Pre-Order Some Sing, Some Cry

Location:The Brown University Bookstore

244 Thayer Street, Providence

Rachel Herz

That's Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion

"Drawing on surprising research in psychology and evolutionary biology, That's Disgusting shows us that disgust mirrors human nature and, as a result, is as complex and varied as we are."

--publisher description

Location:The Brown University Bookstore

244 Thayer Street, Providence

Marcy Brink-Danan, Asst. Prof. of Judaic Studies

Jewish Life in 21st Century Turkey: The Other Side of Tolerance

"...Jews in Turkey celebrate their long history in the region, yet they are subject to discrimination and their institutions are regularly threatened and periodically attacked.  Brink-Danan explores the contradictions and gaps in the popular ideology of Turkey as a land of tolerance...difference as Jews and sameness as Turkish citizens..."

--publisher description

Location:The Brown University Bookstore

244 Thayer Street, Providence

Charles C. Mann

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

"Fascinating...A landmark of a book that drops ingrained images of colonial America into the dustbin one after the other."

--Roger Atwood, Boston Globe

Location: John Carter Brown Library

94 George Street, Providence

David Rohde '90

A Rope and A Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides

"The singular and harrowing account of a journalist's captivity in the most important place on earth, and what it means to be the one left behind."

--Ezra Griswold, "The Daily Beast"

Location: Brown-RISD Hillel

80 Brown Street, Providence

Mary Marshall Clark

After The Fall:

New Yorkers Remember September 2001 and the Years That Followed

"A meticulously edited and staggering book of 'living memory."

--"Booklist"

Location:John Nicholas Brown Center

357 Benefit Street, Providence

JNBC Directions & Parking

Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow:

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

"With dazzling candor, legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it..."

--publisher description

Location: Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center for the Arts

154 Angell Street, Providence

Madeline Miller

The Song of Achilles

"...It's a daunting effort to recast an ancient tale, but classics scholar Madeline Miller proves that she is worthy of the task with this finely wrought debut grafted from the historical root of the Trojan War."

--Robert Geake, The Indie Monthly

Location:Brown Bookstore

244 Thayer Street, Providence