The torture machine

A warrior for the people, Flint Taylor has spent nearly fifty years fighting for justice, from the courtrooms of Cook County to the US Supreme Court.

Directions for use

A rich embroidery of frank sexuality and lyric images from award-winning Serbian poet

Women writing in india: 600 b.c. to the present, v

These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from eleven languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and India. This extraordinary body of literature and important documentary re...

Oxygen

Poetry debut (in English) that explores humans in the natural world using tender, sometimes erotic, always moving language.

Against memoir

A queer countercultural icon divulges on all things artistic, romantic, and neurotic in this collection of essays.

Composing olana

The first and only book devoted to the landscape Frederic Church designed at Olana—what he considered his greatest work of art—timed to coincide with the bicentennial of his birthModelled on her acclaimed On the High Line (now in its third edition from Fordham University Press), Composing Olana u...

Making women's history

The only collection of work by a groundbreaking historian.

The new carbon architecture

In The New Carbon Architecture, discover biomimicry-inspired innovations in construction – from wooden cities to mycelium insulation – that pull carbon from the atmosphere, heal the climate, and produce safer, healthier, and more beautiful buildings.

In the shadows of the american century

Explores the distinctive instruments of American ascent to global domination and hegemony--including covert intervention, client elites, psychological torture, and surveillance.

Little moons

In this moving graphic novel, thirteen-year-old Reanna grieves the loss of her older sister. Can she find comfort through her family’s Ojibwe traditions? It’s been a year since Reanna’s sister, Chelsea, went missing on her way home from school. Without any idea of what happened, Reanna and her ...

The comedy of errors: the 30-minute shakespeare

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

Revolution today

Susan Buck-Morss highlights new forms of international solidarity and revolutionary subjectivity that can break the impasse of neoliberal capitalism and reactionary nationalism.

The great disconnect in early childhood education

Examines the disconnect between public policy and classroom practice—and what educators need to change in order to teach children well.

Leading with wisdom

In Leading With Wisdom, Jann Freed takes the several years she spent interviewing more than 100 respected leaders, and distills their advice into eight practices that underpin leaders who connect and inspire others to achieve high performance. She takes the words of heavyweights such as Warren Be...

La bastarda

This coming-of-age story from Equatorial Guinea chronicles a teenage girl’s quest to find out who she is.

The lost architecture of jean welz

A deserted Paris house holds the mystery of a brilliant Viennese modernist who worked alongside Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos before vanishing.Wyeth takes readers on a deeply personal and revelatory journey. This research process, which readers experience vicariously, makes Wyeth’s prose exhilarati...

Henry v: the 30-minute shakespeare

How to conduct productive meetings

An essential guide for facilitating productive, decisive meetings.Meetings are well-known time-wasters that often produce no meaningful business results. How to Conduct Productive Meetings enables anyone to plan and facilitate a fruitful, decisive meeting. Assess whether a meeting is actually...

I know where i'm going

Fran Carlen's poetry reads as if it had been written at the turn of the last century, on the continent, had been forgotten, and then found its way to the present day in a steamer trunk; as if a translation of a romance language, where the translation doubles as the original; everyday concerns met...

Like a lake

A vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and femaleWhen photographer Coda Gray befriends a family with a special interest in a young boy, the motivation behind his special attention is difficult to...

A brief history of commercial capitalism

Spanning centuries and continents, this short work fundamentally reconfigures our view of the rise of capitalism on the world stage.

The silent partner

The Silent Partner (1871) and “The Tenth of January” (1868) were among the earliest realistic portrayals of industrial life—and social injustice—in the United States. The novel focuses on Sip, a mill worker, and Miss Kelso, the silent partner in the mill after her father’s death. The lives of th...

Heart of darkness

Heart of Darkness is about a voyage into the Congo Free State in the heart of Africa, by the story's narrator Marlow, an introspective sailor who takes a job as a riverboat captain with the Company, a Belgian concern organized to trade in the Congo.

Karl marx

A bracing, concise, and accessible overview of the entirety of Marx’s thought, by a major figure of twentieth-century Western Marxism.

Children, childhood, and everyday life

This book rethinks child development by documenting children's perspectives through interactions in family, school, and social contexts. It offers tools for analyzing participation over time, using vignettes, case studies, and transcripts. It also addresses teaching dilemmas for children with dys...

Rapid media development for trainers

Create stunning digital media quickly and affordably.Shaky camerawork and scratchy audio just won’t cut it with your learners. But can your time- and budget-constrained training department produce the polished media they expect? Absolutely. In Rapid Media Development for Trainers, veteran trainer...

Medea

ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL AND ENDURING OF GREEK TRAGEDIES

Choice words

With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, this powerful literary collection takes back the conversation on abortion.

The st. veronica gig stories

Sketches of immigrant life in Brooklyn.

After transformation

Modeling a new way of writing the past while experiencing ourselves more fully in time, Maia Kotrosits offers a lyrical history of Christian late antiquity as it lives on in and with the present.

Stranger on lesbos

Sexy, beautiful, but frustrated… a neglected housewife finds the delights and degradations of forbidden love.

Untold narratives

This book highlights the voices of African American students with disabilities, challenging deficit perspectives and emphasizing successful narratives. It provides personal experiences and counter-narratives to demystify myths about their abilities, aiming to help educators meet their academic an...

Debating transcendence

A bold and rigorous reexamination of transcendence—uniting religion, theology, philosophy, and science—while bridging Confucian and Christian thought to explore the origins of the world and human destiny Debating Transcendence is a groundbreaking contribution to the ongoing dialogue between Confu...

The day nina simone stopped singing

The wild ride of a young woman’s sexual rebellion in war-torn Beirut.

Somatic states

Franck Billé examines the conceptual link between the nation-state and the body, particularly the visceral and affective attachment to the state and the symbolic significance of its borders.

Learning while working

Don’t Leave On-the-Job Training to ChancePeople become experts at their job by learning while doing. But when your employees need to develop a new skill, how do you ensure they all receive the same experience if a trainer isn’t leading and guiding them? Most on-the-job training programs leave lea...

Family engagement in early childhood settings

Strategies for early childhood programs to enhance interactions, engagement, expectations, and communication with families.

Doing democracy

An empowering guide to understanding the strategies behind successful social movements.

Confessions of a corporate trainer

Embrace the Gritty Reality of TrainingEver watched half your class stomp out on you? Fallen asleep facilitating a creativity workshop? Planned a bulletproof lesson plan, then dropped it 10 minutes after you started? Don’t worry—it’s fine to confess.If you have faced a surprise in the training roo...

This is doug hall

Even if you know Doug Hall’s work, you don’t know “this” Doug Hall: the little boy afraid of bears in Boston who became the love-smitten art student who grew into a fearless Conceptual artist challenging many of our most beloved assumptions. Although lavishly and beautifully illustrated, this is ...

The g-string murders

Legendary stripper serves up a witty whodunit that's also a colorful portrait of the burlesque demimonde. A mystery set in the underworld of burlesque theater, The G-String Murders was penned in 1941 by the legendary queen of the stripteasers—the witty and wisecracking Gypsy Rose Lee. Narrating a...

Chicago's great fire

A definitive chronicle of the 1871 Chicago Fire as remembered by those who experienced it—from the author of Chicago and the American Literary Imagination.Over three days in October, 1871, much of Chicago, Illinois, was destroyed by one of the most legendary urban fires in history. Incorporated a...

Infamous bodies

Samantha Pinto explores how histories of and the ongoing fame of Phillis Wheatley, Sally Hemings, Sarah Baartman, Mary Seacole, and Sarah Forbes Bonetta generate new ways of imagining black feminist futures.

Good time party girl

Dirty Helen lived life by her rules. This irascible and defiant woman chucked tradition behind her as she fought for her independence the only way she knew how-on her back.

The story of what is broken is whole

The Story of What Is Broken Is Whole collects for the first time fifty years of writing by Puerto Rican Jewish feminist and radical thinker Aurora Levins Morales.

I love myself when i am laughing... and then again when i am looking mean and impressive

A collection of essays, fiction, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, preserving the legacy of one of the Harlem Renaissance’s greatest writers.

We, too, must love

More stories about 1950s lesbian New York, inspired by the six hundred letters written in response to Aldrich's first book.

Abolition. feminism. now.

An urgent, vital contribution to the indivisible projects abolition and feminism, from leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth E. Richie.

The brain-friendly workplace

Transform your organization into a “best place to work” by using brain-friendly strategies.It is an understatement to say that this is a difficult time to be a part of the American workforce. It is difficult for employees enduring the many seismic shifts in the work they do, the way they do that ...

The elegance of the hedgehog

A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous. In an elegant apartment building in the heart of Paris, Renée, the concierge, scrutinizes the vacuous lives of its well-to-do tenants. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: plump, cantan...