Harold L. Drimmer Library Research Guides: Summer Reading : New Books! Non-fiction

Non-fiction

Butts : A Back Story / Heather Radke
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor ; QL950.39 .R33 2022
ISBN: 9781982135485
Publication Date: 2022
A cheeky exploration of how one body part has influenced the female--and human--experience for centuries, and what that obsession reveals about our lives today. Discusses why certain silhouettes come in and out of fashion--and how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about ourselves and others.
Black Designers in American Fashion / Elizabeth Way (Editor)
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor ; TT504.4 .B59 2021
ISBN: 9781350138476
Publication Date: 2021
Inspired by the award-winning exhibition at the Museum at FIT, this book interweaves fashion design and American cultural history from enslaved 18th century dressmakers to today’s “stars.” Fills critical gaps in the history of fashion and offers insights and context to students of fashion, design, and American and African American history and culture.
Drag : The Complete Story / Simon Doonan
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor ; HQ77 .D66 2019
ISBN: 9781786274236
Publication Date: 2019
Explores drag's journey through the twentieth century by dividing the past and present into nine categories: glamour, art, butch, black, historical, comedy, poster, movie, and radical. Examines how drag queens in different time periods have shaped drag and the LGBTQ community at large.
Fashion Killa : How Hip-hop Revolutionized High Fashion / Sowmya Krishnamurthy
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor ; ML3918.R37 K75 2023
ISBN: 9781982176327
Publication Date: 2023
Journalist Krishnamurthy interviews hip-hop artists, designers, and stylists who reinvented fashion over the last fifty years. She shows how the hip-hop scene and streetwear influenced the exclusive upper echelons of high fashion and the most exclusive luxury brands.
Matrimony, Inc. : From Personal Ads to Swiping Right, a Story of America Looking for Love / Francesca Beauman
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor ; HQ801 .B3523 2020
ISBN: 9781643135786
Publication Date: 2020
Have you ever used a dating app or website? Then you have a lot in common with lonely singles in the 18th century. Matrimony, Inc. reveals the unifying thread that weaves its way through not just marriage and relationships over the centuries, but American social history itself: advertising for love.
Bitch : On the Female of the Species / Lucy Cooke
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor ; QL775 .C66 2022
ISBN: 9781541674899
Publication Date: 2022
A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom. Since Charles Darwin, evolutionary biologists believed that the males of the animal kingdom were the interesting ones while females were dull, passive, and devoted. In Bitch, Cooke tells a new story. This isn't your grandfather's evolutionary biology.
Forces of Nature : The Women Who Changed Science / Anna Reser; Leila McNeill
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780711248977
Publication Date: 2021
Spanning the ancient period to the present day, this richly illustrated book seeks to redress the balance, with over 20 essays exploring how women have created space for themselves in science, technology, medicine, mathematics, theology and more.
The Skeptics' Guide to the Future / Steven Novella; Bob Novella
Call Number: New Book Collection, 1st Floor ; Q162 .N674 2022
ISBN: 9781538709542
Publication Date: 2022
The present is the result of failed past predictions and incorrect estimations that were built on our hopes and fears, biases, and ignorance. The Novellas examine what we got right, what we got wrong, and how we can learn from these lessons.

Summer Reading : New Books! Non-fiction

Non-fiction

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