Disoriental

In this high-spirited, kaleidoscopic story, key moments of Iranian history, politics, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Kimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she ...

The names of all the flowers

A compassionate memoir of a mixed-race childhood that humanizes the devastating frequency of black murder characterizing 1990s Oakland.

Dream the size of freedom

A look at how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagement with the Global South from the 1960s through the 1970sDream the Size of Freedom explores how anti-colonial movements in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau reshaped US activist engagem...

Modern mentoring

If you want to do more with mentoring, you’ve found the right book. The notion that only the most experienced members of an organization can guide a few promising go-getters no longer applies in today’s business world. In Modern Mentoring, Randy Emelo advocates for a vastly different mentoring pr...

How we write now

Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists have turned to beautiful writing as the voice that allows readers to stay close to the field’s central object and preoccupation: loss.

Dreaming of baghdad

“With passion and commitment,” an exiled Iraqi woman recounts her time organizing resistance to Saddam Hussein and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib (Nawal El Saadawi, author of Zeina).In 1970s Iraq, the Ba’ath Party was at the height of its influence in the Middle East and popularity throughout the Wes...

Communication skills training

Individuals, teams, and organizations are only as good as their ability to communicate effectively.Communication Skills Training offers the crucial tools you’ll need to help your workshop participants master the skills that drive performance. The first book in the ATD Workshop Series offers pract...

Jerzy

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEA startling novel of a celebrated author whose life was warped by war, shrouded in mystery, and broken by scandal.Jerzy Kosinski was a great enigma of post-World War II literature. When he exploded onto the American literary scene in 1965 with his best-selling novel ...

Anthem

Hailed as one of Russian-American writer Ayn Rand's greatest works, Anthem, a dystopian fiction novella, was a clear predecessor to her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Dale carnegie's public speaking

The Unparalleled Classic on how to Speak With Confidence and PowerPublic Speaking: A Practical Course For Business is Dale Carnegie's master class on how to speak so that people listen. This comprehensive guide, written in a clear and concise manner, is designed to help you improve your public sp...

Fuego subterráneo

Accessible, radical history of the U.S. labor movement examines the history of workers' resistance, in Spanish for the first time.

Put emotional intelligence to work

Put Emotional Intelligence to Work provides a background on the concept of emotional intelligence, the awareness and ability to manage ones emotions in a healthy and productive manner. This title features tips for achieving peak performance, cognitive and behavioral strategies for emotional self-...

Arabic picture dictionary

A fun and helpful resource for anyone interested in learning Arabic—whether you're 5 or 100!This illustrated dictionary presents the 1,500 most useful Arabic words and sentences that beginning learners need to know. The vocabulary is organized into 38 thematic sections. Each section presents 25-3...

Ageing migrants’ sense of home

Ageing Migrants’ Sense of Home addresses a critical gap in understanding the conditions that facilitate or impede positive ageing in the context of migration, enhancing scholarly knowledge on how processes of identification and sense of belonging to places are experienced by people ageing away fr...

A complex sentence

In A Complex Sentence, Marjorie Welish builds immersive intertextual environments as she questions the canon of modernist poetry and the ways we talk about poetics.In her sixth collection with Coffee House, Welish continues to explore rhetorical practices such as diagramming, inscription, and quo...

Effective teaching

This peer-reviewed volume features essays by university professors on effective teaching practices in higher education. It examines program demographics, vision, preparation, process, and outcomes, focusing on best practices in teacher education and evaluation.

Educating a working society

Educating a Working Society explores the history of career and technical education (CTE) in the 20th century, examining efforts to link schooling and work. It covers topics like vocational program controversies, racism in philanthropic giving, and trends in college and career readiness.

Love war stories

Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionFinalist for the 2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES AwardBest Book/Most Anticipated Book/Recommended Read of 2018: Cosmopolitan.com, The Root, Electric Literature, Bustle, Book Riot, PEN America, PopSugar, The Rumpus, B*tch, Remezcla, Mitú, and other ...

Rio as method

Rio as Method brings together a Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars, activists, attorneys, and political leaders center their Brazilian megacity as a globally-relevant source for transformational worldmaking insights.

The dialectical meaning of offshored work

A thoughtful analysis of the developing interplay between post-socialist European communities and Western neoliberal actors.

Abolitionist intimacies

Eithne Luibhéid examines writings by and about queer- and trans-identified migrants and allies who contest pervasive US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls.

Silences

Special 25th anniversary edition of the landmark survey that revolutionized the view of literary history.

Farsi (persian) for beginners

Perfect for self-study or classroom learners, this Farsi language book takes a user-friendly approach.Farsi for Beginners is a complete language course by experienced teacher Dr. Saeid Atoofi, which will help you to speak the language and open doors to Persian culture. This second edition is upda...

Black and white sat down together

Mary White Ovington, a white selement worker, "vividly describes the experiences that shaped her life," Booklist, including her pivotal role in the founding of the NAACP in the early 20th century.

Research-based instructional practices of effective principals

This book addresses the gap in literature on evidence-based instructional strategies for school leaders. It offers research, examples, action plans, and frameworks for principals and educators. Useful for principal-preparation programs, school district leaders, and educational associations.

Open-ended art for young children

Common challenges and practical solutions for practicing open-ended art in early childhood classrooms.

Crime and punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student living in Saint Petersburg who feels compelled to rob and murder Alyona Ivanovna, an elderly pawn broker and money lender.

Bridging the relationship gap

A resource for working with children growing up without caring adults at home.

Homecoming

A celebration of the art and career of Walter Osborne (1859–1903), one of Ireland’s leading landscape and portrait painters.Published to coincide with the artist’s first monographic exhibition organized in the United States, Homecoming: Walter Osborne’s Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900 explores the...

10 steps to successful presentations, 2nd edition

Overcome Your Fear of Presenting Are you afraid of public speaking? Do you feel anxious before presenting? Are you worried about making mistakes in front of others and being judged? If so, you are not alone—public speaking and presenting are among the things people fear the most. Conquer your ph...

Mies in his own words

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings. This book is a heterogeneous collection of writings, speeches, and interviews. Read together, they reveal the breadth of Mies’ deep engagement with architecture ...

Secularism as misdirection

Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism hyper-visualizes women and religion as a means of obscuring forms of capitalist, racialized, caste, and anti-minoritarian violence throughout the global South.

A stranger at my table

A biracial son of a subcontinental, migrant family searches for his estranged father’s story and ultimately rewrites his own.

The emerald handbook of family and social change in the global south

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This handbook presents chapters on the family in the Global South, acknowledging gender differences and their impact on individuals and societies in those nations and cultures.

Shadow of my shadow

Jennifer Doyle shares her experience with harassment complaints on college campuses, showing how harassment profoundly reshaped her relationship to her work, writing, and ultimately to herself.

Le guide officiel du débutant raspberry pi / the official raspberry pi beginner's guide

Apprends à configurer ton Raspberry Pi, à coder, et à réaliser des projets avec des composants électroniques.Ce petit ordinateur bien pensé de construction britannique regorge de potentiel. Doté d’un processeur économe en énergie, le Raspberry Pi est conçu pour t’aider à apprendre le codage, à dé...

Mazie's amazing journey

The amazing true story of US Senator Mazie Hirono will inspire young readers to believe in the American dream.Come journey with 8-year-old Mazie as she leaves her home country of Japan to make a new life in Hawaii. As an immigrant, she faces the challenges of learning a new language, making frien...

The flip

A perspective-altering deep dive into the nature of consciousness honoring both science and spirituality

The fourth string

Two women. Two cultures. One music.

Inclusive and innovative leadership in higher education

Universities around the world are grappling with the normalization of ineffectual leadership practices that are normalized and rarely challenged. This timely edited collection offers a critical examination of the leadership vacuum that has quietly become the norm.

Choose your words

This book examines how to clearly communicate with young children in order to create a healthy, quality learning environment.

Partner for performance

As an L&D professional, you know not to take a client request at face value. But can you steer misguided initiatives in the right direction, arriving at a solution that works for your customers and your company?Partner for Performance is the key to aligning your learning and development role ...

Everyday coaching

Putin's exiles

The future of Russia lies outside the country Since Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, some one million Russians have fled the country and gone into exile. Motivated by opposition to the war, by guilt for their country’s deeds, by personal hatred for the Tsar-like Putin, and by a vi...

The merchant of venice

An abridgement for performance by young people and amateur adults, “road tested” at the Folger Shakespeare Library’s Student Shakespeare Festival.

Acoustic colonialism

Luis E. Cárcamo-Huechante examines the role of sound in Chilean and Mapuche cultural production and struggles over colonialism and Indigenous agency over the last two centuries.

Indigenomicon

Jodi A. Byrd examines the differences between settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies by bringing video game studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous feminist critique.

12 bytes

Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love from New York Times bestselling author Jeanette Winterson"Talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy," said Dwight Garner in the New York Times about ...