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Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution

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Report copyright infringementby Peniel E. Joseph (Author)A "captivating and compelling" (Keisha N. Blain, coeditor of the #1 New York Times-bestseller Four Hundred Souls) narrative history of 1963, the pivotal moment in America's long civil rights movement--the year of the March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and the assassinations of Medgar Evers and John F. Kennedy In Freedom Season, acclaimed historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a stirring narrative hi...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard C. Harwood (Author)The New Civic Path: Restoring Our Belief in One Another and Our NationWe are suffering from a crisis of belief in our country today. So many people have lost faith in America-in our leaders, institutions, and even one another. The status quo is not working for far too many of us. Our central task today is to meet this historic moment. But how do we grow our belief that we can get things done together-not as Republicans or Democrats or...

How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller's Guide to Changing the World

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Report copyright infringementby Rob Hopkins (Author)There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us--like threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in. "No one makes environmental optimism more credible or compelling than Rob Hopkins. Read this and don't weep."--Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, chef and campaignerIn 2020, when the COVI...

Murder Ballads: Illustrated Lyrics & Lore

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Report copyright infringementby Katy Horan (Author)In this unique, illustrated collection, Literary Witches co-creator Katy Horan unearths the true and fictional stories behind twenty traditional murder ballads, exploring the beauty and horror of the art form through stories, lyrics, and original illustrations. Murder Ballads is a guide to the origins and cultural impact of murder ballads as a music genre, covering its roots in patriarchal violence and white supremacy, as well as its contempo...

I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission Into a Collective Fight

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Darian (Author)**International Bestseller**THE BOOK THAT TELLS THE FIRST-HAND STORY OF THE GIS?LE PELICOT TRIAL AND GIVES A VOICE TO WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN SILENCEDThe trial of Dominique Pelicot has captured the world's attention. Behind Pelicot's unthinkable crimes are a mother, Gis?le Pelicot, and her daughter, Caroline Darian, who were forced to rebuild their lives.This is their story.In November 2020, Caroline Darian received a call from the police. H...

The Cannabis Grow Bible: The Definitive Guide to Growing Marijuana for Recreational and Medical Use

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Report copyright infringementby Greg Green (Author)Discover the ultimate resource for cannabis cultivation with the latest edition of The Cannabis Grow Bible. This fully updated guide by Greg Green explores the art and science of growing cannabis, offering cutting-edge techniques and the latest advancements in the field. The fourth edition covers everything from strain selection and optimizing environments to advanced lighting and extraction methods.With over 1,500 photos and 50 photo essays,...

These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Summerfield (Author)An insider look at the Large Language Models (LLMs) that are revolutionizing our relationship to technology, exploring their surprising history, what they can and should do for us today, and where they will go in the future--from an AI pioneer and neuroscientist In this accessible, up-to-date, and authoritative examination of the world's most radical technology, neuroscientist and AI researcher Christopher Summerfield explores wh...

Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures

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Report copyright infringementby Lizzie Wade (Author)A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Book of May 2025 - A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated History Book of the Year - A The Millions Most Anticipated Spring Book of the Year"Lizzie Wade is an exceptional journalist and a master storyteller. She reminds us that survival always has been, and still is, possible, and that our world always has been, and still is, a choice." -Ed Yong, author of An Immense World"This book upended my understanding of th...

Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

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Report copyright infringementby Rutger Bregman (Author), Erica Moore (Translator)From the author of the New York Times bestsellers Humankind and Utopia for Realists--"a more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell" (The New York Times)--comes a bold manifesto daring us to harness our talents and transform our idealism into action, all with the goal of making the world a wildly better place. A career consists of 2,000 workweeks, and how you spend that time is one of the most important decisions ...

Coming of Age: Overcoming trauma to acheive self-determination

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Report copyright infringementby Elaine Alec (Author)COMING OF AGE: OVERCOMING TRAUMA TO ACHIEVE SELF-DETERMINATION By Elaine Alec (teɬkənitkʷ)What if coming of age wasn't about age at all-but about remembering who you are?In this powerful blend of memoir, Indigenous wisdom, and healing framework, author and community leader Elaine Alec shares her journey of overcoming addiction, shame, and generational trauma to reclaim her identity and voice. Through personal stories, cultural teachings, and...

Mythopedia: A Brief Compendium of Natural History Lore

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Report copyright infringementby Adrienne Mayor (Author), Michele M. Angel (Illustrator)From acclaimed folklorist and historian Adrienne Mayor, an enchanting collection of the ancient myths that emerged out of the wonders--and disasters--of the natural world Mythopedia is a fun, fact-filled A-Z treasury of myths inspired by natural events. Bringing together fifty legends from antiquity to the present, this delightfully entertaining book takes you around the world to explore sunken kingdoms and...

All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders--Abolitionist Frameworks and Practices from Clinicians, Organizers,

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Report copyright infringementby Ronica Mukerjee (Editor), Carlos Martinez (Editor), Rachel Herzing (Foreword by)A multi-discipline, multimedia guide to abolition through the lens of healthcare and medicine - featuring writings and artwork from 10+ incarcerated and post-detention activists Exposing how marginalized communities are vilified by "carceral safety" systems, educators and health justice advocates Carlos Martinez and Ronica Mukerjee call for a radical break with reformist strategies ...

Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America

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Report copyright infringementby Will Bardenwerper (Author)A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what's right and wrong with modern America--written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in Batavia, New York. What happens when a minor league team--the heart and soul of a Rust Belt town in western New York--is shut down by the bill...

Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Kaplan (Author)"Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience." --Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn essential account of America's most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays our in our own time. In 1945, it was not inevitable that a global superpower emerging victorious from World War II would come to identify with a small state for Jewish refugees, refugees who at that time were still being turned away from the Unite...

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Report copyright infringementby Niko Stratis (Author)A memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us. When Wilco's 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as "dad rock," Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted trans woman working in her dad's glass shop in the Yukon Territory. As she sought escape from her hypermasculine environment, Stratis found an unlikely lifeline amid dad rock's emotionally open and honest music. Listening to dad rock, Stratis co...

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Report copyright infringementby Roxane Gay (Editor)A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive A Penguin Classic For Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is subjective and always evolving. A feminist canon represents a long history of feminist scholarship, embraces skepticism, and invites robust discussion and debate. Selected writings by ancient, historic, and more recent feminist voices include Henricus Cornelius Agrippa, Anna Julia Cooper, Kimberl...

Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Kemp (Author)A NEXT BIG IDEA CLUB'S MUST-READ BOOK - A radical retelling of human history through the cycle of societal collapse--"a Cassandra-like warning about the path today's oligarchs have set [and] a sweeping and dire vision of a world on the brink." (Publishers Weekly, starred review) "Deeply sobering and strangely inspiring. . . . Read it now, or your descendants will find it in the ruins." --Johann Hari, author of Stolen Focus "Anyone who doubts ...

The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World

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Report copyright infringementby Selena Wisnom (Author)A tour of an ancient library transports us to Mesopotamia, introducing us to its people, their ideas, and their humanity. The library of Ashurbanipal, Assyria's last great king, held an astonishing collection at the forefront of knowledge in its day, from ancient traditions in religion and literature to the latest developments in magic and medicine. When the Assyrian empire fell, the library burned to the ground, and its contents, clay ta...

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Report copyright infringementby Tom Wolfe (Author), Geoff Dyer (Introduction by)Now featuring an introduction by Geoff Dyer, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a wild, psychedelic, utterly Wolfe-ian romp through the rise of the counterculture movement of the 1960s.The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is Tom Wolfe's seminal portrait of Ken Kesey, one of the most magnetic figures of the 1960s, and his band of Merry Pranksters. Along the way, even as Wolfe vividly recounts the group's infamous Acid T...

Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Luo (Author)From New Yorker writer Michael Luo comes a masterful narrative history of the Chinese in America that traces the sorrowful theme of exclusion and documents their more than century-long struggle to belong. A TIME MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK A NEW YORK TIMES NONFICTION BOOK TO READ THIS SPRING "A story about aspiration and belonging that is as universal as it is profound."--Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Say Nothing "A gift to anyone interested in ...

The Global Politics of Artistic Engagement: Beyond the Arab Uprisings - Paperback

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by P駭駘ope Larzilli鑽e (Volume Editor)Are artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation of art is also the globalisation of art politics. Here, based on multi-site field research, we follow artists from the MENA countries, Latin America, and Africa along their committed transnational trajectories, whether these are voluntary or the result of exile. With this global and decentred approach, the different repertoires ...

The Fragile Juggernaut: Marx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis - Hardcover

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by Harry Cleaver (Author)Whether loving or hating it, many visualize capitalism as an unstoppable juggernaut. For those of us who would defeat it, we must identify its weaknesses. Fortunately, Marx and Engels' writings on "crisis" reveal them. They show how its endless imposition of exploitative and alienating work creates such antagonistic conflicts everywhere as to make it, ultimately, a far more fragile monster than it first appears. Each of its efforts to shape social relationships, subor...

Storyworlds in Short Narratives - Hardcover

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by Stavroula Constantinou (Volume Editor)This interdisciplinary and comparative volume offers a new systematic approach to the early Greek tale, a dynamic and complex genre inviting a rich array of critical responses. The chapter authors base their fresh approaches on a rich variety of texts and authors. Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.79 x 9.37 x 6.14 IN Publication Date: February 13, 2025

Discovering Black Existentialism - Paperback

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by E. Anthony Muhammad (Author)In the post-Trump era, the Black lived experience continues to come under assault. Emerging from the suffering imposed on Black bodies comes Black Existential Philosophy, an umbrella term encompassing the multiple depictions of Black life under White subjugation. Whether taking the form of first hand narratives of the lives of enslaved Blacks, the racialized theological discourse of the Nation of Islam, or the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, the wor...

American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology: A Foundational Model for Future Empirical and Confessional Approaches - Paperback

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by Derek Brown (Author)In American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology, Derek Brown argues that American Christian Programmed Quakerism has inherited a practical and pragmatic ecclesiology at the expense of an ontological understanding of the church. Inspired by the work of Gerben Heitink, Brown proposes a normative, deductive, ontological ecclesiology based on the biblical concept of koinonia, which would act as a 'foundational' model for future confessional, empirical, and practical ef...

The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts - Paperback

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by Olívia Maria Gomes Da Cunha (Author)The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s. However, the book's goal is not to dig up evidence of the creation of an epistemology of knowledge and its transnational connections. The research on which this book is based suggests that the artefacts ...

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by Erin Peabody (Author), Victor Rivas (Illustrator)Learn all about creatures and monsters throughout history and discover if they're real or not in this new nonfiction series! Behind the Legend looks at creatures and monsters throughout history and analyzes them through a scientific, mythbusting lens, debating whether or not the sightings and evidence provided are adequate proof of their existence. In Bigfoot, readers learn about all the sightings and proof of it, from the famous photograph ...

Alienation. Recuperating the Classical Discussion of Marx Et Al. - Paperback

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by Asger Sørensen (Author)Nowadays alienation is naturally discussed as an existential condition of human beings, but in the 20th century, a strong Marxist current claimed alienation to be implied by capitalism, in particular by private property and the social division of labor. Alienation should therefore be criticized as part of the critique of capitalism and political economy, and might therefore also possibly be overcome. Today, under the hegemony of neo-liberal capitalism, the basic logi...

Gender and Pop Culture: A Text-Reader (Second Edition) - Paperback

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by Adrienne Trier-Bieniek (Editor)Gender and Pop Culture provides a foundation for the study of gender, pop culture, and media. This newly updated edition is comprehensive and interdisciplinary, providing both text-book style introductory and concluding chapters written by the editor. The text includes eight original contributor chapters on key topics and written in a variety of writing styles, discussion questions, additional resources, and more. Coverage includes: - Foundations for studyi...

Prostitutes and Their Rescuers: Sociological Dynamics and Public Controversies in French Prostitution - Paperback

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by Lilian Mathieu (Author)Few sociological subjects excite so much passion - and fantasies - as prostitution. Relying on a thirty year-long study of the French case, Lilian Mathieu offers an objective and comprehensive account of prostitution realities, first by analyzing the sex market as a social world with its own rules, hierarchies, and vulnerabilities, but also by stressing how prostitutes' practice and living conditions are framed and shaped by moral campaigns, public controversies, and...

Global Rupture: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Rise of Informal Labour in the Global South - Paperback

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by Anita Hammer (Volume Editor), Immanuel Ness (Volume Editor)Global Rupture makes a key intervention in debates on informal and precarious labour. Increasing recognition that informal and precarious labour is an enduring reality under neo-liberal capitalism, and the norm globally, rather than the exception has ignited debates around analytical frames, activist strategies and development interventions. This pathbreaking volume provides a corrective through drawing upon theoretically informed ...

History Through Narratives of Education in Africa: Social Histories in Times of Colonization and Post Independence (1920s - 1970s) - Paperback

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by Ellen Vea Rosnes (Volume Editor), Pierre Giudi (Volume Editor), Jean-Luc Martineau (Volume Editor)Who were the actors involved in colonial and post-independence education in Africa? This book on the history of education in Africa gives a special attention to narratives of marginalized voices. With this original approach and cases from ten countries involving four colonial powers it constitutes a dynamic and rich contribution to the field. The authors have searched for narratives of educati...