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• Holiday Books Gift Guide: 12 Gripping Reads by Graduate Center Faculty About Living a Good Life, Dressing in Your Dreams, and Arguing with Zombies

  

  Recent books by Wayne Koestenbaum, Katina Rogers, David Reynolds, Tanisha Ford, William Helmreich, Melissa Checker, Margaret Chin, Massimo Pigliucci, Richard Alba, Ismael García-Colón, Sanford Schram, and Paul Krugman.

  We’ve been warned about the long, dark winter and the need to stay away from relatives and friends this holiday season. But if you’d like to send a gift, these books might be the perfect choice. Read more

• How the ‘Greening’ of Gentrifying Neighborhoods Leads to the ‘Browning’ of Others Revealed in a New Book by Professor Melissa Checker

  

  Melissa Checker and her book "The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice"

  Checker exposes the hidden costs of New York City’s efforts to transform industrial waterfronts into green oases, in The Sustainability Myth. Read more

• Follow the Footnotes: Unearthing Puerto Rican History After the U.S. invasion

  

  Laird Bergad and his book "Agrarian Puerto Rico: Reconsidering Rural Economy and Society, 1899-1940"

  In their new book, Professor Laird Bergad and his co-author debunk common notions about how U.S. control affected Puerto Rico’s agrarian economy and society in the early 20th century. Read more

• Faculty Book: Melissa Checker

  Melissa Checker
  The Sustainability Myth
  (NYU Press, 2020)
  
  
  
  
  
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• Faculty Book: Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Carlos Riobó

  Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Carlos Riobó
  Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa
  (Nebraska Press, 2020)
  
  
  
  
  
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• The Adults in the Room Couldn’t Stop Him: Hitler and the March to World War II

  

  European leaders of 1938 Peace Conference (Credit: Getty Images)

  Professor Benjamin Carter Hett discusses his new book on Nazi Germany and what it reveals about our times. Read more

• What Would Lincoln Do?

  

  Professor David S. Reynolds and his new book, "Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times"

  Professor David S. Reynolds’ latest book, Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, reveals a “fresh” portrait of Lincoln that also speaks to our divided times. Read more

• Faculty Book: Laird W. Bergad

  César J. Ayala and Laird W. Bergad
  Agrarian Puerto Rico
  (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
  
   

   

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• How White Nationalism Moved from the Margins to the Center of American Politics

  

  Professor Sanford Schram's new book takes a deep, intellectual look at white nationalism’s move from the fringes to the center of American politics. Read more

• Faculty Book: David S. Reynolds

  David S. Reynolds
  Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
  (Penguin Publishing Group, 2020)

   

  
  
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