Ice

In a careful examination of personal and collective histories, David Keplinger’s Ice indexes the findings from memory’s slow melt—stories and faces we’ve forgotten, bones hidden in frost.“I am asking how much more / I have to learn from this,” Keplinger writes. “You are asking that same question....

Building together

Develop the leadership skills needed to build sustainable early childhood systems and work toward continuous improvement.

100 plays for the first hundred days

A stunning new play collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Topdog/Underdog.

Cacophony of bone

From the acclaimed author of Thin Places, a luminous day book about an unexpected year and finding home.Two days after the winter solstice in 2019, Kerri and her partner moved to a remote cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to settle into a stable life. Then t...

Urban ecology

Urban Ecology is an easy guide to create a safe neighborhood and park right where people live.

Ego sum

Ego Sum proposes a provocative and unprecedented reading of Descartes. By paying attention to mode of presentation of Descartes’s philosophy, Nancy challenges our common understanding of the Cogito and shows how Descartes’s ego is not the self-certain, self-transparent Subject of metaphysics but ...

How to be a good savage and other poems

The latest in the Seedbank series, the debut in English of a groundbreaking Indigenous poet of the Americas.In a fiercely personal yet authoritative voice, prolific contemporary poet Mikeas Sánchez explores the worldview of the Zoque people of southern Mexico. Her paced, steely lyrics fuse cosmol...

Unmasking the administrative state

The election of Donald J. Trump to the presidency shocked the political establishment, triggering a wave of hysteria among the bicoastal elite that may never subside. The biggest shockwaves of all, however, were felt not in the progressive parishes of Manhattan or San Francisco, but in the halls ...

In france profound

From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in an ancient town in “Deep France,” from nearby prehistoric caves to medieval dynastic struggles to the colorful characters populating the area today When T. D...

The deserts of california

A magnificent illustrated journey into California’s famed deserts and the astonishingly abundant life they contain.2023 Glenn Goldman Award Winner for California Lifestyle, Chosen by the California Independent Booksellers AllianceA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller!From Obi Kaufmann, author-illu...

Alif: journal of comparative poetics, no. 28

This issue of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics addresses literary and artistic adaptations comprehensively. It offers articles on adaptations and appropriations of textual and visual material, focusing on adapting works from one genre to another, from one discourse to another, and from one me...

Why you will marry the wrong person

A pessimist's guide to marriage.Anyone we might marry could be wrong for us - even just a little bit. We know that perfection is not in the cards. And yet, errors of deep-seated incompatibility in married couples seem to occur regularly. This informative (and funny) book examines the reasons why ...

400 kilometres

400 Kilometres is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, a thirty-something urban professional, having discovered her roots as the Ojibway orphan Grace Wabung in Someday, and having visited her birth family on the Otter Lake R...

Swahili-english/english-swahili practical dictionary

This bestselling bilingual Swahili dictionary is the also most comprehensive available, with over 35,000 entries that cover the modern vocabulary of politics, telecommunications, the Internet, tourism, business and travel. Swahili is the most widely spoken African language and the lingua franca o...

The white review anthology

The White Review Anthology collects the best fiction and non-fiction published in the magazine's seven-year history, including work by Anne Carson, Chris Kraus, China Mieville, Samanta Schweblin and Lauren Elkin.

Crowds in american culture, society and politics

This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society and politics.

Alif: journal of comparative poetics, no. 27

This issue of Alif is published on the centennial anniversary of the founding the first Casa dei Bambini, a progressive educational institution for children, which seeks an alternative mode in bringing them up and nurturing their independence. An extract from the writings of the pedagogue of this...

On confidence

Confidence is a skill that anyone can learn. Despite the confidence we build over time in our field of work, we tend to overlook the primordial need for a more free ranging variety of confidence - one that can serve us in the course of our everyday lives: speaking to strangers at parties, asking ...

Living histories

A new and stimulating way of looking at Old Master paintings with a foreword by Hanya Yanagihara, contributions by Jonathan Anderson, Jessica Bell Brown, Christopher Lew, Jason Reynolds, Legacy Russell, and Russell Tovey, and works by Jenna Gribbon, Doron Langberg, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Salman Toor...

Spanish-english/english-spanish (latin america) dictionary & phrasebook

Cross-linguistic transfer of writing strategies

In the context of increasingly multilingual global educational settings, this book provides a timely exploration of the phenomenon of cross-linguistic transfer of writing strategies (in particular, transfer from the foreign language to the first language) and presents a compelling case for a mult...

Dmitry rybolovlev

The story of the man who rescued AS Monaco and turned the club into a giant of European football.

Upside-down gods

Human survival requires a reorientation of science away from its exclusive technical and materialist premises focused on control, towards feedback and relational processes of organism-plus-environment. Gregory Bateson’s holistic approach unites culture, communication, psychology, biology and ecol...

Out of the ordinary

Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.

Chimerica and other plays

First collection of plays by a major new voice in theater.

Deus in machina

This interdisciplinary volume explores how two domains of human experience and action–religion and technology–are implicated in one another. Combining rich historical and ethnographic detail with extended theoretical reflection, Deus in Machina challenges longstanding assumptions about religion ...

The trusted learning advisor

Use this practical guide to develop the skills you need to become a trusted learning advisor to the business and make L&D part of the wider company strategy.

Faith communities and the fight for racial justice

The communities, congregations, and faith-based coalitions that have been working for racial justice over the past fifty yearsHave progressive religious organizations been missing in action in recent struggles for racial justice? In Faith Communities and the Fight for Racial Justice, Robert Wuthn...

Red apple

Through five case histories, the book provides a snapshot of political persecution in mid-twentieth century America.

Thinking shakespeare (revised edition)

A newly revised edition of the much-loved guidebook to better knowing the Bard.

Poland: a history

A fabulous failure

How the Clinton administration betrayed its progressive principles and capitulated to the rightWhen Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, he ended twelve years of Republican rule and seemed poised to enact a progressive transformation of the US economy, touching everything from health care ...

Strategies for media reform

This collection brings together strategies for advancing media reform, prepared by 33 scholars and activists from around the world. Chapters consider how best to secure change in areas including media ownership, media literacy, net neutrality, community radio, online surveillance and public serv...

Authenticity across languages and cultures

This volume centres around concepts of personal and cultural authenticity in foreign language teaching and learning. The chapters cover a wide range of contexts and disciplines, offering diverse perspectives regarding the role language plays in processes of personal growth, learning, development,...

Nineteen sixty-eight in america

“A splendidly evocative account of a historic year—a year of tumult, of trauma, and of tragedy.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Acky bright b/w

Plato and the invention of life

Beginning with a reading of Plato’s Statesman, this work interrogates the relationship between life and being in Plato’s thought. It argues that in his later dialogues Plato discovers—or invents—a form of true or real life that transcends all merely biological life and everything that is common...

You might go to prison, even though you're innocent

Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it can happen to you.    Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent, he offers up-close accounts of the cases he has...

Al-murshid

This grammar book is intended for intermediate learners of Modern Standard Arabic. It covers the main points that they need to master at this level to prepare them for the next level of proficiency. Each lesson in the book begins with a brief statement and explanation of a grammar rule followed ...

Zero hour for gen x

In Zero Hour for Gen X, Matthew Hennessey calls on his generation, Generation X, to take a stand against tech-obsessed millennials, apathetic baby boomers, utopian Silicon Valley “visionaries,” and the menace to top them all: the soft totalitarian conspiracy known as the Internet of Things. Soon ...

People in the room

An uncanny exploration of desire, domestic space, isolation and voyeurism by a writer Borges loved—only now in English translation.

Messy europe

Interdisciplinary Different disciplines actually integrated nicely Grounded in fieldwork in specific countries Focus on local- and state- and pan-state levels Offers critical look at “crisis” talk Links together crisis that are often treated separate  Offers unique un...

Grandmothering while black

In Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households (consisting only of grandparents and grandchildren). She prioritizes the voices of Black grandmothers through in-depth inte...

Democracy and truth

"Fake news," wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as lies—citizens of democracies increasingly inhabit a public sphere teeming with competing claims and counterclaims, with no institution or person possessing the authority to settle ...