What does it mean to love? Does love complete us, giving us purpose and meaning? Or does it tie us down and even harm us? Is erotic desire complicit in oppression, or could it deliver liberation? Are our desires extricable from the wrongs of our...

A revealing account of what we feed our citizens in schools, hospitals and prisons.Access to good food is the litmus test of a society’s commitment to social justice and sustainable development. This book explores the ‘good food revolution’ in public...

Inspired by Mary Shelley's conviction that reading is a socially significant communal activity, this book presents four essays on modern interactions with literary classics. Ancient tragedy, Shakespeare, and Frankenstein are read anew in the context of...

Silver Medal in the Social Change and Social Justice Category, 2024 Nautilus Book AwardsWinner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleWomen working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights to...

The world is on fire and time for avoiding impending disaster is rapidly running out. This catastrophe has deeply entrenched foundations: a belief in human exceptionalism and human mastery over the Earth. Accelerating technological changes ranging from...

In their hybrid debut collection Arrangements, Esther Kondo Heller creates stunning textual & visual language that escapes the page to utter and speak past the record, the archive, and the document.Can words hold a note? Can language foam like a mouth?...

Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we think of now as atrocities have not always invited...

Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope.Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and...

A New York Times BestsellerA Washington Post BestsellerNamed a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary HubAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen...

“Be the best you can be!” Practically from the moment we are born, we are taught to optimize our lives―to devote ourselves to increasing our productivity and efficiency, which, we are told, will make us happier and more successful. The imperative of...

From the outset of the twentieth century, Egyptian and Indian leaders understood their movements for self-determination as linked and part of a shared project. Following World War I, as connections between the Middle East and South Asia proliferated,...

The pirate is the original enemy of humankind. Before humanitarian organizations, human rights, and the establishment of international law in the early modern period, the Roman statesmen already made this point perfectly clear. As Cicero famously...

In this remarkable work, Gilles Deleuze, the renowned French philosopher, reflects on one of the thinkers of the past who most influenced his own sweeping reconfiguration of the tasks of philosophy. For Deleuze, Spinoza, along with Nietzsche and...

A curated selection of key texts and artists’ voices exploring US Latinx art and art history from the 1960s to the present.A Handbook of Latinx Art is the first anthology to explore the rich, deep, and often overlooked contributions that Latinx artists...

Why Do Humans Make Monsters, And What Do Monsters Tell Us About Humanity? Monsters Are Central To How We Think About The Human Condition. Join Award-winning Historian Of Science Dr. Surekha Davies As She Reveals How People Have Defined The Human In...

A leading global consulting firm on how to achieve new product launch success rates far above industry averages.New product launches are risky. But disciplined innovation practices lead to success rates well above industry benchmarks. Predictable Winners...

Reading Silent Spring as an outgrowth of Rachel Carson's love with Dorothy Freeman, Maxwell argues for the power of queer love now in the fight against climate change.There is something major missing from most accounts of Silent Spring and its impact:...

How the historic resistance to racial desegregation in schools led to the over-punishment of students todayEvery year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve...