Twilight prisoners

An incisive, lyrical, and deeply reported account of India’s descent into authoritarianism. Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces ol...

Hands-on machine learning with scikit-learn and pytorch

The potential of machine learning today is extraordinary, yet many aspiring developers and tech professionals find themselves daunted by its complexity. Whether you're looking to enhance your skill set and apply machine learning to real-world projects or are simply curious about how AI systems fu...

Create dangerously

A New York Times Notable BookA Miami Herald Best Book of the YearA moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards—now with a new preface by the author"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I'...

Stillbirth and the law

Each year in the United States, about 1 in 170 births is a stillbirth, a rate that has remained stagnant for most of this century even as other high-income countries have dramatically reduced their already lower rates. Jill Wieber Lens, the nation’s foremost expert on stillbirth and the law, blen...

Open secrecy

Examines how the global digital underground is liberated by "open secrecy"—a novel and ominous mix of tools for mass communication and anonymity Shadowy groups are increasingly capable of collective action. Using military-grade encryption, rerouting software, and cryptocurrencies, anonymous and p...

Oxygen

The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planetThe air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it come to be this way? Donald Canfiel...

Stuck at home

The Philippines is among the most successful migrant-sending nations in the world, both lauded and critiqued for exporting its own citizens to a global labor market. Yasmin Y. Ortiga brings readers beyond this popular image to explore questions often overlooked: What happens when workers who were...

No straight road takes you there

New York Times Bestseller In the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty. Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about ...

Rot and revival

Rot and Revival is one of the first scholarly works to comprehensively theorize and document how politics make American constitutional law and how the courts affect the path of partisan politics. Rejecting the idea that the Constitution's significance and interpretation can be divorced from conte...

Memories that smell like gasoline

"Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable." —New York MagazineDavid Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space—all under the specter of AIDS.Here are David Wojnarowicz’s most intimate stories and sketches, f...

Appropriate/an octoroon: plays (revised edition)

Includes Revised Broadway version of Appropriate Winner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a Play A double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative writers. In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a...

Experimental times

Experimental Times is an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of Bengaluru/Bangalore from a site of "backend" IT work to an aspirational global city of enterprise and innovation. The book journeys alongside the migrant workers, technologists, and entrepreneurs who shape and survive the drea...

Seeding empire

In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history of American projects that introduced capitalist agriculture across the Global South. Expansive in sc...

Our history is the future

One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022 PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020 One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development Institute, 2020 Finalist, Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2019 Shortlist, Brooklyn Pu...

Mother of stories

A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.

The global journey of racism

In The Global Journey of Racism, Michelle Christian provides a unified narrative of how the world's racial hierarchies came to be. Christian's story begins before the Ku Klux Klan, Nazi Germany, and South African Apartheid, tracing the historical lineage of white supremacy to the expansion of wes...

Cartesian questions iii

In this masterful work, Jean-Luc Marion shows how some of Descartes' most decisive points remain masked by the various "Cartesianisms" that historiography and convenient simplifications alike have constructed. The book's first half shows how Descartes lines up against Cartesianism, setting forth ...

Recovering the sacred

Only the power to define what is sacred and access it will enable Native American communities to remember who they are.

Boycott, divestment, sanctions

As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.

Their end is our beginning

A deeply reported analysis of the connections between policing and capitalism, centering global lessons of revolt and resistance Where do cops come from and what do they do? How did “modern policing” as we know it today come to be? What about the capitalist state necessitates policing? In this c...

Capitalism: histories

Charts the emergence and development of capitalism across the world from a variety of perspectives, providing a deep understanding of how capitalism came to be the dominant economic force.This book re-examines the historical emergence and evolution of capitalism. Why did a radically new way of or...

Everyday futures

Despite increasing attention on unaccompanied Central American youth migration to the United States, little empirical research has examined the crucial role of language in the incorporation process, particularly for Indigenous youth. Drawing on the perspectives of Maya (primarily K'iche')-speakin...

The beliefs and experiences of world language teachers in the us

This book tells the stories of 15 world language (WL) teachers in the US through rich descriptions of their lived worlds and experiences. It illustrates in detail how teacher beliefs relate to their practices and are mediated and moderated by their learners, institutional demands, equity and acce...

The handbook of educational theories

This Handbook consolidates influential educational theories into a single volume, making it an accessible reference for researchers and practitioners. It covers traditional and emerging theories, with practical examples and an appendix of associated instruments.

Fuel

The poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-soaked world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives. Traversing multivalent intimacies from the underworld of California’s Central Valley oil fields to the quotidian domestic and love’s painful retraction, ...

Curriculum windows

This book explores how curriculum texts and theorists from the 2000s can inform modern education. The authors examine key works from the era, offering insights into curriculum, teaching, and leadership. This reflection helps educators address current challenges by learning from past theories and ...

Suburban refugees

America's suburbs are more diverse and more unequal than ever before. Focusing on Southern California's Little Saigon, a global suburb and the capital of "Vietnamese America," Jennifer Huynh shows how refugees and their children are enacting placemaking against forces of displacement such as fina...

Focus on developmentally appropriate practice

What Does Developmentally Appropriate Practice Look Like in an Infant and Toddler Program? If you’ve ever wondered how effective teachers actually do DAP with very young children, this is the book for you. Here, you can peek into classrooms to see teachers making intentional decisions in key area...

So much more than the abcs

Laying a Strong Foundation for Literacy in the Early Years A child’s literacy development begins long before their formal education does. The skills and knowledge that infants, toddlers, and preschoolers acquire through meaningful, playful language and literacy experiences are the building blocks...

A revolution in music

Established in the 1950s by musician and engineer Pierre Schaeffer, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales would become the nerve center for avant-garde artists experimenting with sound and acoustics, as well as the birthplace of a genre of music-making enabled by new recording technologies and sound...

Stem

A wide-ranging collection from a rising poet that showcases her sharp, contemporary voiceIn Stem, Stella Wong intersperses lyric poems on a variety of subjects with dramatic monologues that imagine the perspectives of specific female composers, musicians, and visual artists, including Johanna Bey...

Interpretive sociology and the semiotic imagination

Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still needs to engage with semiotic mediation. Written by a diverse group of authors in interpretive socio...

Abolishing state violence

Abolishing State Violence calls for the abolition of structures of violence, including police, prisons, borders, war, nuclear weapons, surveillance, and capitalism.

The well-tempered reader

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.The Well-Tempered Reader provides a new understanding of the term adab, a ubiquitous concept in Arabic literature with many meani...

Rethinking masterplanning

Written in a clear and accessible matter, the approaches described throughout this book are relevant to all professionals and researchers involved in planning and designing the urban environment, such as urban planners, urbanists, urban designers, architects, policy makers, developers as well as ...

Their borders, our world

From the organizers of the Palestine Festival of Literature, this anthology of essays connects Palestinian resistance with global freedom struggles against settler colonialism and calls on us to think more concretely about the practice of solidarity. The Palestine Festival of Literature, or Pal...

Palestine speaks

For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the global focal point of intractable conflict, one that has led to one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises. In their own words, men and women from West Bank and Gaza describe how their lives have b...

Language and power

Language and Power is the second volume in ISLS's Readings in Language Studies series. It offers international perspectives on power and bilingualism, identity in professions, media, the learner, and pedagogy. Founded in 2002, ISLS is a global organization dedicated to interdisciplinary language ...

The science of last things

“Offering a deeply necessary, clear-eyed look at who we are as flesh-and-bone bodies during the climate crisis, this is a book that searches and finds meaning in both the hard truths and the value of wonder.”—Ada LimónIn this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland-Smith probes the raw edges...

Reparations and anti-black racism

The Black Lives Matter movement has exposed the state violence and social devaluation that Black populations continue to suffer. Police shootings and incarceration inequalities in the US and UK are just two examples of the legacy of slavery today. This book offers a criminological exploration of...

Liberalism as a way of life

Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriouslyWhere do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberal...

Lean analytics

Deep learning for biology

The nightmare sequence

An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo—poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed–that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrai...

Us foreign policy

Paying close attention to its domestic roots, this textbook provides a valuable introduction to the construction and application of US foreign policy in the modern era. Accessibly written and including helpful illustrative material, a glossary and guide to further reading, it is organised around ...

Teaching conceptual understanding in multilingual classrooms

This practical guide presents a concept-based curriculum designed to foster deep, enduring understanding for multilingual learners. With accessible theoretical explanations, classroom examples and sample lesson plans, it is ideal for pre-service and in-service teachers.

On loop

How struggles over Black sound have shaped Oakland’s culture, politics, and geography.   Chicago has house. Detroit has techno. But Oakland slaps.  On Loop explores the role of Black dance music and sonic politics in recurring struggles over race and space in Oakland, California. Insisting on the...

Creative writing for social research

This groundbreaking book brings creative writing to social research. Its innovative format includes creatively written contributions by researchers from a range of disciplines, modelling the techniques outlined by the authors. The book is user-friendly and shows readers: • how to write creativel...

Life

A vivid and intimate glimpse of ancient life under the sway of cosmic and spiritual forces that the modern world has forgotten.  Life immerses the reader in the cosmic sea of existences that made up the late ancient Mediterranean world. Loosely structured around events in the biography of one ear...

Fighting fascism

Clara Zetkin’s report and resolution on fascism at the June 1923 enlarged plenum of the Communist International’s Executive Committee.