"Recovery narratives usually progress over time, restoring or recuperating something that has been lost. That we speak of recovery as a journey out of illness and toward health evinces this progressive function. The story of recovery this book tells asks...

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 Awards Winner, 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Women working in the sciences face obstacles at virtually every step along their career paths. From subtle slights...

"After the Human explores how the strategies and methods of scientific as well as humanistic inquiry are converging to construct a relational view of the world. It evaluates Einstein's theory of relativity, quantum theory, information theory, cognitive...

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...

"An inspired weaving of indigenous knowledge, plant science, and personal narrative from a distinguished professor of science and a Native American whose previous book, Gathering Moss, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing...

"This book proposes creative living as a response to neoliberalism--the instrumentalist, individualistic, opportunistic, and narcissistic ethos that has permeated social life in the West at least since the Second World War. At the level of the individual...

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 extraordinary work Gilles Deleuze, the most renowned living philosopher in France, reflects on one of the figures of the past who has most influenced his own sweeping reconfiguration of the tasks of philosophy. Deleuze's brilliant text shows how...

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...

A history of how humans have created monsters out of one another—from our deepest fears—and what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future.   Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. Join award-winning historian of...

Winner, 2025 Firecracker Awards Winner in Creative Nonfiction, given by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Raised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility,...

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...