A Black feminist take on exploitation and care in America's favorite game.Big-time college football promises prestige, drama, media attention, and money. Yet most athletes in this unpaid, amateur system encounter a different reality, facing dangerous...

From Munchausen by Tiktok to wellness apps to online communities to AI, the DISCO Network explores the possibilities that technoskepticism can create.This is a book about possibility and refusal in relation to new technologies. Though refusal is an...

The first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders.Clerical sexual abuse is as global as the Roman Catholic Church, with bishops moving credibly accused priests not simply between parishes...

A riveting account of labor's bottom-up resurgence, providing a roadmap for workers, unions, and social movements to win widely.After decades of union decline and rising inequality, an inspiring wave of workplace organizing—from Starbucks stores to...

The story they have chosen to tell is wrong. It is time to tell a better story.Keith Richotte begins his playful, unconventional look at Native American and Supreme Court history with a question: When did plenary power–the federal government's...

In an era when "self-care" often revolves around consumption and profit, a health and science journalist emphasizes the genuine health advantages of a culture of caring.Helping others can enhance our physical and mental well-being, boost resilience, and...

This edition of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer features imitation leather binding, and is an ideal gift for celebrating special occasions.The Gift Edition offers all of the unique supplementary features available in Oxford's prayer books - The Revised...

The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately held views that have affected not...

The Compact Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary offers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary French and English. It covers all the words you need for everday use, carefully selected from evidence from the Oxford Languages...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /bOur self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated by...

Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a...

Obbie Tyler Todd's The Beechers Is A Biography Of One Of The Most Influential Families In American History As Well As The First Biography Of The Beecher Family In Over 40 Years. The Book Combines Elements Of Intellectual, Religious, Political, And Social...

While not commonly centered in the Cold War story, Latin America was intensely affected by that historic conflict. In this book, available for the first time in English, Vanni Pettina makes sense of the region's diverse, complex political experiences of...

In The Time Of Ebola Is A Firsthand Account And Anthropological Study Of The 2014-16 West African Ebola Epidemic, Centering On The Residents Of A City That Became Swept Up In The Emergency. The Book Tells The Stories Of Young Men And Women Over A Period...

In 2018, while teaching her kids to swim and working on urban river restoration projects, Hannah S. Palmer began a journal of social encounters with water. As she found herself dangling her feet in a seemingly all-white swimming pool, she started to...

Rebecca Lehmann’s The Sweating Sickness contains wide-ranging topics—the suicide of an abusive ex, parenting young children, fairy tales, reproductive rights, domestic violence, ghost stories, ancient myth—all set to the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action--has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Writing for a wide audience, David...

The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,000 dead, more than 2 million refugees, and the destruction (in modern dollars) of more than $700 billion...

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John...