Theory as critique

Theory as Critique argues that the key to understanding Marx’s Capital lies in viewing it as a critique of economic theory.

Unsettled labors

Rachel H. Brown explores the overlooked labor of migrant workers in Israel’s eldercare industry, showing that live-in eldercare in Palestine/Israel is an often invisible area where settler colonialism is reproduced.

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...

The global education movement

This book honors thirteen scholars for their contributions to global international education, highlighting their achievements and impact on the global education movement. It aims to inspire educators, scholars, and policymakers with role models from Africa, Europe, and the United States, promotin...

10 steps to successful training

This is not your typical training book. You won't find a traditional training-cycle outline or a classic training table of contents. Instead, this book pinpoints the key actions necessary to successful training and focuses on the elements with the most influence on bottom-line results. Throughout...

Needs assessment on a shoestring

Determine Organizational Needs Despite Limited Resources Needs Assessment on a Shoestring offers talent development professionals a process for addressing organizational needs and determining whether training is the solution. Needs assessment pros Kelly L. Jones and Jody N. Lumsden apply the Buil...

Ghostbelly

In this courageous memoir, Elizabeth Heineman “illuminates the complex emotional landscape of stillbirth—putting into frank and poetic words the unspeakable experience of simultaneously grieving and mothering a baby who has died” (Deborah L. Davis). Ghostbelly is Elizabeth Heineman’s personal acc...

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.

Marx on capitalism

A reconstruction of Marx’s account of capitalism based on a systematic retranslation of the texts

Essential poems from the staying alive trilogy

Staying Alive, Being Alive and Being Human have introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry, and have helped poetry lovers to discover the little known riches of world poetry. Each anthology in the Staying Alive series has 500 poems to touch the heart, stir the mind and fire t...

The house on via gemito

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The modest apartment on Via Gemito smells of paint and white spirit. The furniture is pushed up against the wall to create a make-shift studio, and drying canvases must be moved ...

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...

Worms at work

Worms play a vital role in soil health, soil fertility and the yield of a garden. Designed as a easy-to-use handbook, Worms at Work is a guide to creating and harnessing the power of vermicompost. Intended for the beginning gardener and experienced farmer alike, all that is required is a healt...

Idiographic approach to health

This book explores the complex concept of health within the idiographic framework, viewing health as a dynamic process rather than a static state. It discusses health as a resource for individuals and communities, emphasizing the importance of contextual and contingent dynamics.

The flip

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

Sales training basics

Sales Training Basics recognizes the bottom line focus of sales professionals and offers proven techniques and approaches that create engaging and impactful training. The book provides learning professionals with specific guidance on designing programs that provide the right tools and techniques ...

Underground politics

How Colombian mining communities navigate state power in a context of criminalization and political neglectIn the Chocó rainforests of Colombia, local and settler miners turn to gold as a means to get by and get ahead on the margins of capitalism. They eke out livelihoods while worrying about the...

Places of the heart

A neuroscientist illuminates how we make and are made by the world both real and virtual

Choose your words

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

One equal music

“My favorite nonfiction book of the past 25 years... humane and angry and subtle and heartbreaking. I give it to people all the time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Unrelenting, mesmerizing, and beautifully written… Transformative.” Foreword Reviews Published in hardcover as Disturbance (20...

Art and labour

Deutscher Prize winning artist and writer Dave Beech turns his attention to what it means to view Art as work.

Chasing the king of hearts

When her husband is arrested in Nazi-occupied Poland, Izolda endures unending brutality to ensure his safety.

Notes from the underground

“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the UndergroundThe darkly fascinating novella Notes From The Underground was written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1864, shortly before he penned his lengthier later novels, including The Brothers Karamazov and C...

Everyday coaching

The living flame

A remarkable collection of essays illuminating Rosa Luxemburg's tremendous contributions to revolutionary struggle and enduring relevance.

Witness to the german revolution

In 1923 history stood at a cross roads. Serge unapologetically lent his pen to those fighting for international workers' revolution.

Learning that lasts

Make Learning Stick Through Reflection Activities Employees today crave development, growth, and skill building. They also want more meaning and connection at work. When they learn to reflect on training experiences intentionally, they get all that and more. Pausing to reflect makes it easier to ...

The truffle eye

A Vietnamese-Israeli writes scorching poems about sex, dislocation, cruelty, vulnerability, and the question that pursues her, Where did I come from?

Design an rp2040 board with kicad

Design and make your own microcontroller board using the same chip that powers the popular Raspberry Pi PicoKiCad is an amazing piece of free and open-source software that allows anyone, with some time and effort, to make high-quality PCB designs. Couple this amazing software with numerous PCB fa...

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.

Essential rainwater harvesting

Essential Rainwater Harvesting covers complete home-scale rainwater harvesting system design including goal setting, system planning, site assessment, calculations, and material selection and sizing for all climates.

Seeking challenge in the career

Volume 4 of the Research in Careers series explores the influence of challenge on career development and outcomes. It examines career challenges in various national contexts and fields, focusing on groups like nurses and Millennials. Outcomes studied include career satisfaction, leadership skills...

Eternal sovereigns

Gloria Jane Bell explores the relationship between Indigenous cultures around the world and the Vatican, which holds thousands of works by Indigenous scholars and refuses to return them.

Stella dallas

“One of the most entertaining, excellently sustained and consistently developed novels of the season.";—New York Times (1941)

From a marxist-feminist point of view

An indispensable guide to approaching key philosophical and political questions from a Marxist-feminist point of view. The book shows the fruitfulness of combining Marxist and feminist perspectives in our analysis of oppression under capitalism. Different modes of production like capitalism and ...

Becoming the twin cities

Whether motivated by visionary ideals or commercial gain or political ambition, many have tried to unite Minneapolis and St. Paul into one city, and all have failed. This book explains why. Why haven’t Minneapolis and St. Paul merged into one city? In Becoming the Twin Cities, award-winning writ...

Smes from the ground up

Sometimes SMEs can cause problems for your instructional design project. But have you done everything you could to understand, communicate with, and involve your SMEs successfully? From years of experience, there are guidelines for working well with everyone on the design team—but you must includ...

Work the problem

Cultivate the Mindset to Overcome AnythingA software engineer sees her tech skills slipping even as she rises to manage her own team. A marketing director is squeezed between a demanding, artistic boss and her staff. A tech-savvy manager of operations wants to modernize his warehouse but is surpr...

Barbarians and the birth of chinese identity

The third volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China's relationship with its barbarian neighbors. The Mongols!

Needs assessment basics, 2nd edition

Go from order-taker to valued performance consultant. You may be pressured to give an immediate “yes” to a training request. Resist. Instead, start playing an essential role in driving your organization forward by using needs assessment to target your training programs to support critical busines...

The joy of movement

Quick and easy large-motor movement activities for three- to six-year-olds to maximize development.

The adventures of huckleberry finn

This tale of freedom and friendship depicted through a boy’s journey down the Mississippi River, conveyed both the voice and the experience of the American frontier as no other book had done before

Romeo and juliet

This story of a love that can never be truly realized and the tragedy that ensues, involves two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets, who had been engaged in a blood feud for many years.

Class war, usa

An engaging collection of little known stories of working people in United States history fighting back in the darkest times.

Return to paueru gai

Essays about the remarkable history of Vancouver's Powell Street Festival and the proud Japanese Canadian community behind it Paueru Gai, the Powell Street neighbourhood in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, was a place of early settlement and forced removal for Japanese Canadians during the shameful...

The united states, southeast asia, and historical memory

Exposes the horrifying criminality of US policy in Indochina was during the Vietnam war.

Measurement demystified field guide

The Bridge to Your L&D Measurement and Reporting StrategyBuilding measurement skills is critical for talent development professionals who seek to align their L&D programs to business outcomes for organizational success. Designed to improve your measurement capability and advance the measu...

Presentation skills training

Don't Let Brilliant Ideas Get Lost in Bad Presentations.Inspiring and influencing others starts with the effective delivery of ideas. Speaker and trainer Christee Gabour Atwood designed the interactive two-day, one-day, and half-day workshops in this book with exactly that in mind.Help your train...