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Advanced Placement 2019 CATALOG HISTORY GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ECONOMICS HUMAN GEOGRAPHY LITERATURE CONTEMPORARY FICTION NONFICTION DRAMA & POETRY COMPOSITION SCIENCE & MATH ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY TEST PREP Penguin Random House Education is pleased to present this curated selection of books appropriate for use in Advanced Placement courses. Contents U.S. HISTORY ....................................................................... 2 EUROPEAN HISTORY ............................................................... 9 WORLD HISTORY .................................................................. 12 U.S. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS ............................................... 14 COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS ................................... 16 ECONOMICS ....................................................................... 18 HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ............................................................. 19 LITERATURE ....................................................................... 21 CONTEMPORARY FICTION ........................................................ 28 NONFICTION ....................................................................... 32 DRAMA AND POETRY .............................................................. 37 SHAKESPEARE .................................................................... 38 COMPOSITION ..................................................................... 39 SCIENCE & MATH .................................................................. 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ...................................................... 45 PSYCHOLOGY ...................................................................... 47 TEST PREP ........................................................................ 48 Examination copies are available to teachers and administrators who wish to consider them for adoption at U.S. high schools. To request an examination copy, please email us at [email protected] For more titles from Penguin Random House, visit www.randomhouse.com/highschool Cover Image: Underground, by Will Hunt (see page 20). U.S. HISTORY Presidents of War Michael Beschloss Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. “Presidents of War . looks at leadership from every angle: communication, the critical relationship with Congress, the treatment of civil liberties and CROWN the role of the (often formidable) presidential spouse.” Hardcover 752 pages • $35.00 —Lionel Barber, Financial Times 978-0-307-40960-7 The Poison Squad One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Deborah Blum In the late 1800s, unregulated food manufacturers knowingly sold lethal products, like “milk” containing formaldehyde. Deborah Blum tells the story of the scientists, led by Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, who fought for food safety and consumer protection. “The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 ended a century of scandal and bitter political maneuvering, with major impetus from Harvey Washington PENGUIN PRESS Hardcover Wiley, a genuinely unknown American hero. Pulitzer Prize-winning jour- 352 pages • $28.00 nalist Blum offers a vivid account of Wiley’s achievements.” —Kirkus 978-1-59420-514-9 A Queer History of the United States Michael Bronski A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski charts the breadth of lesbian, gay, BEACON PRESS bisexual, and transgender history, from 1492 to the 1990s. Paperback 312 pages • $20.00 “Bronski demonstrates with wit, insight, and impeccable scholarship that 978-0-8070-4465-0 queer lives are, and always have been, woven into the very fabric of this TEACHER’S GUIDE country.” —Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home FORTHCOMING A Queer History of the United States for Young People Michael Bronski; Adapted by Richie Chevat It is crucial for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth to know their history. A Queer History of the United States for Young People demonstrates that LGBTQ people have long been vital to shaping our BEACON PRESS understanding of what America is today. With over 60 illustrations and Paperback 336 pages • $18.95 photos, a glossary, and a corresponding curriculum, A Queer History of 978-0-8070-5612-7 the United States for Young People will be vital for teachers who want to TEACHER’S GUIDE introduce a new perspective to America’s story. FORTHCOMING To request examination copies, email [email protected] 1 U.S. HISTORY The War Before the War Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War Andrew Delbanco Andrew Delbanco tells how fugitive slaves both forced northerners to con- front the true nature of slavery and enraged southerners who demanded the return of their human “property,” a conflict that ultimately led to civil war. “[Delbanco] transforms the figure of the fugitive slave from the margins of American history to its dynamic center….This delightfully readable PENGUIN PRESS book is thronged with stories of heroes whose flights from bondage Hardcover helped to revolutionize [this] country.” 464 pages • $30.00 978-1-59420-405-0 —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University All the Real Indians Died Off And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker In this enlightening book, scholars Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: “Columbus discovered America.” Each chapter shows how these BEACON PRESS myths are rooted in the fears and prejudice of European settlers and in the Paperback 224 pages • $15.00 larger political agendas of a settler state aimed at acquiring Indigenous 978-0-8070-6265-4 land and tied to narratives of erasure and disappearance. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Spanning over three hundred years of history, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is a comprehensive history that significantly reframes how we view U.S. history. Dunbar-Ortiz challenges the founding BEACON PRESS myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous Paperback peoples was genocidal and imperialist, and designed to crush the original 312 pages • $16.00 978-0-8070-5783-4 inhabitants. Told from the viewpoint of the Indigenous, this book reveals how Native Americans for centuries actively resisted expansion of the TEACHER’S GUIDE FORTHCOMING U.S. empire. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; Adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese In An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States for Young People, Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz’s original academic text, An Indigenous Peoples History of the United States is fully adapted by renowned curriculum BEACON PRESS experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young Paperback adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, 264 pages • $18.95 recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage 978-0-8070-4939-6 students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own TEACHER’S GUIDE FORTHCOMING place in history. 2 Advanced Placement 2019 U.S. HISTORY The Book That Changed America How Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Ignited a Nation Randall Fuller This compelling account chronicles the impact Darwin’s On the Origin of Species had on a group of American writers, abolitionists, and social reformers in 1860: Asa Gray, Charles Loring Brace, Franklin Sanborn, Bronson Alcott, and Henry David Thoreau. “A lively, wide-ranging, informative account of the enthusiasm—and PENGUIN BOOKS Paperback consternation—provoked by Darwin’s masterpiece among his first 304 pages • $18.00 influential American readers.” —Lawrence Buell, Harvard University. 978-0-14-313009-3 Stony the Road Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow Henry Louis Gates, Jr An essential tour through one of America’s historical tragedies, Stony the Road tells the story of the struggle for equality during the century between the Civil War and the civil rights era. “Gates chronicles an American tragedy, the story of how white supremacy PENGUIN PRESS Hardcover and Jim Crow became the South’s—and white America’s—brutal answer 320 pages • $30.00 to Emancipation and Reconstruction.” —Jill Lepore, author of These Truths 978-0-525-55953-5 A Nation Without Borders The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910 Steven Hahn Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn presents a provocative analysis of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War and leading into the twentieth century. “A bold reinterpretation of the American nineteenth century, this tour de force bristles with fresh insights gained from often surprising vantage points. It confirms Hahn’s position as one of the most important PENGUIN BOOKS interpreters of the American experience.” Paperback 608 pages • $20.00 —Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton 978-0-14-312178-7 A Documentary History of the United States Revised and Updated Edition Richard D. Heffner