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Welcome to the University of Iowa Libraries’ virtual New Book Shelf. Here we will present new titles for you to browse and check out. Titles listed here will be monographs published in the current year. If you see a title you would like to borrow, please click the link below the item and sign in with your Hawk ID and Password to request a loan.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nice White Ladies: <\/span>The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n
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An acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that white women play in perpetuating racism, and how they can work to fight it <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a nation deeply divided by race, the \u201cKarens\u201d of the world are easy to villainize. But in Nice White Ladies<\/span>, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning white women. She reveals how their everyday choices harm communities of color. White mothers, still expected to be the primary parents, too often uncritically choose to send their kids to the \u201cbest\u201d schools, collectively leading to a return to segregation. She addresses a feminism that pushes women of color aside, and a wellness industry that insulates white women in a bubble of their own privilege.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniels then charts a better path forward. She looks to the white women who fight neo-Nazis online and in the streets, and who challenge all-white spaces from workplaces to schools to neighborhoods. In the end, she shows how her fellow white women can work toward true equality for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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An NPR Favorite History Book of 2021<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u201chome economics\u201d may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics<\/span>, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field\u2019s history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women\u2015and they were mostly women\u2015became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics\u2019 women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, \u201cit makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker Motley\u201d (CNN). The first major biography of one of our most influential judges\u2014an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary\u2014that provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century.<\/span>
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Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP’s Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs. The Board of Education,<\/span> and played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South. She was the first black woman elected to the state Senate in New York, the first woman elected Manhattan Borough President, and the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary.
    
Civil Rights Queen <\/span>captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. Burnished with an extraordinary wealth of research, award-winning, esteemed Civil Rights and legal historian and dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings Motley to life in these pages. Brown-Nagin compels us to ponder some of our most timeless and urgent questions–how do the historically marginalized access the corridors of power? What is the price of the ticket? How does access to power shape individuals committed to social justice? In Civil Rights Queen<\/span>, she dramatically fills out the picture of some of the most profound judicial and societal change made in twentieth-century America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Generation Myth: Why When You’re Born Matters Less Than You Think<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Millennials, Baby Boomers, Gen Z\u2014we like to define people by when they were born, but an acclaimed social researcher explains why we shouldn’t.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. It makes for good headlines, but is it true?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bobby Duffy has spent years studying generational distinctions. In The Generation Myth<\/span>, he argues that our generational identities are not fixed but fluid, reforming throughout our lives. Based on an analysis of what over three million people really think about homeownership, sex, well-being, and more, Duffy offers a new model for understanding how generations form, how they shape societies, and why generational differences aren\u2019t as sharp as we think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Generation Myth<\/span> is a vital rejoinder to alarmist worries about generational warfare and social decline. The kids are all right, it turns out. Their parents are too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Should A Government Be?: The New Levers of State Power<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Global in scope, approachable and upbeat in tone, this book explores the new technological capacities of government with clear eyes and an open mind. When the art of government itself is changing, the old political divisions no longer make sense. Now, with revolutions in technology and organisational structure and a world transformed by Covid-19, a revolution is also coming in the essential business of government – whether we like it or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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\u201cThe best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.\u201d \u2014<\/span>P.J. O\u2019Rourke<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hailed as the \u201cfirst freedom,\u201d free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Free Speech<\/span>, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. Through captivating stories of free speech\u2019s many defenders\u2014from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-R\u0101z\u012b, to the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and modern-day digital activists\u2014Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant, and he explores how even its champions can be led down this path when the rise of new and contrarian voices challenge power and privilege of all stripes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meticulously researched and deeply humane, Free Speech<\/span> demonstrates how much we have gained from this principle\u2014and how much we stand to lose without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany\u2019s March to Global War<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler\u2019s declaration of war on the United States<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By early December 1941, war had changed much of the world beyond recognition. Nazi Germany occupied most of the European continent, while in Asia, the Second Sino-Japanese War had turned China into a battleground. But these conflicts were not yet inextricably linked\u2014and the United States remained at peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hitler\u2019s American Gamble<\/span> recounts the five days that upended everything: December 7 to 11. Tracing developments in real time and backed by deep archival research, historians Brendan Simms and Charlie Laderman show how Hitler\u2019s intervention was not the inexplicable decision of a man so bloodthirsty that he forgot all strategy, but a calculated risk that can only be understood in a truly global context. This book reveals how December 11, not Pearl Harbor, was the real watershed that created a world war and transformed international history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them Down<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Storytelling, a tradition that built human civilization, may soon destroy it<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore. Storytelling, the very tradition that built human civilization, may be the thing that destroys it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Story Paradox<\/span>, Gottschall explores how a broad consortium of psychologists, communications specialists, neuroscientists, and literary quants are using the scientific method to study how stories affect our brains. The results challenge the idea that storytelling is an obvious force for good in human life. Yes, storytelling can bind groups together, but it is also the main force dragging people apart. And it\u2019s the best method we\u2019ve ever devised for manipulating each other by circumventing rational thought. Behind all civilization\u2019s greatest ills\u2014environmental destruction, runaway demagogues, warfare\u2014you will always<\/span> find the same master factor: a mind-disordering story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gottschall argues that societies succeed or fail depending on how they manage these tensions. And it has only become harder, as new technologies that amplify the effects of disinformation campaigns, conspiracy theories, and fake news make separating fact from fiction nearly impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With clarity and conviction, Gottschall reveals why our biggest asset has become our greatest threat, and what, if anything, can be done. It is a call to stop asking, \u201cHow we can change the world through stories?\u201d and start asking, \u201cHow can we save the world from stories?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The World Before Us: The New Science Behind Our Human Origins<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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A fascinating investigation of the origin of humans based on incredible new discoveries and advanced scientific technology<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fifty thousand years ago, Homo sapiens<\/span> was not the only species of humans in the world. There were also Neanderthals in what is now Europe, the Near East, and parts of Eurasia; Hobbits (H. floresiensis<\/span>) on the island of Flores in Indonesia; Denisovans in Siberia and eastern Eurasia; and H. luzonensis<\/span> in the Philippines. Tom Higham investigates what we know about these other human species and explores what can be learned from the genetic links between them and us. He also looks at whether H. erectus<\/span> may have survived into the period when our ancestors first moved into Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Filled with thrilling tales of recent scientific discoveries, this book offers an engaging synopsis of our current understanding of human origins and raises new and interesting possibilities\u2014particularly concerning what contact, if any, these other species might have had with us prior to their extinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us about the Destiny of the Human Species<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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“An arresting vision of this relentless natural world”\u2014<\/span>New York Times Book Review<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A leading ecologist argues that if humankind is to survive on a fragile planet, we must understand and obey its iron laws<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our species has amassed unprecedented knowledge of nature, which we have tried to use to seize control of life and bend the planet to our will. In\u202fA Natural History of the Future<\/span>, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life\u2019s overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul. When we create artificial islands of crops, dump toxic waste, or build communities, we provide new materials for old laws to shape. Life\u2019s future flourishing is not in question. Ours is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As ambitious as Edward Wilson\u2019s Sociobiology<\/span> and as timely as Elizabeth Kolbert\u2019s The Sixth Extinction<\/span>, A Natural History of the Future<\/span> sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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