Dead Weight chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become the...
The Weight of Numbers describes the metamorphosis of three people: Anthony Burden, a mathematical genius destroyed by the beauty of numbers; Saul Cogan, transformed from prankster idealist to...
"Can one rash decision prove the difference between a life well lived and a life destroyed? When the Marquess of Queensberry left his calling card at the Albemarle Club in February 1895, it bore only...
A rural family’s cycle of love, loss, and renewal, set against the beauty and adversity of mid-century AmericaEdie comes into the world calmly as the adults around her rage. Her father is a cruel man...
In The Weight of the Printed Word, Steve Wright explores the creation and use of documents as a key dimension in the activities of Italian workerists during the 1960s and 1970s. From leaflets and...
Confined in their governmental ivory towers, their actions largely dictated by public opinion polls, politicians and state officials are all too often oblivious to the everyday lives of ordinary...
Selected from sermons delivered by C. S. Lewis during World War II, these nine addresses offer guidance and inspiration in a time of great doubt.These are ardent and lucid sermons that provide a...
What if ending racial injustice means transforming not just wealth, but time itself?Mieroop-Al Bahrani explores how capitalism, racism, debt and inheritance operate through a politics of time, where...
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN INDIE BESTSELLER“One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”—Jameela Jamil, iWeigh PodcastThe...
"It's precisely Soto's refusal to be 'weighted' down by decades of genre tradition, to instead turn the trope on its head and in doing so remind us that no-one but ourselves is coming to save us,...
A WIRED "BOOK YOU NEED TO READ" • For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc...
In Heavyweight, Jordana Moore Saggese Examines Images Of Black Heavyweight Boxers To Map The Visual Terrain Of Racist Ideology In The United States, Paying Particular Attention To The Intersecting...
Out of print for more than two decades, John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless is an award-winning classic of a “lost generation” of young people born on the human-colonized Moon.Matthias Ronay has...
Heavyweight Champion gathers thirteen years of mixed-media work by Los Angeles-based artist Martin Kersels into one gallery filling installation. His artwork, though funny at first glance, often...
Find out about the largest, tallest, and most powerful transportation giants on Earth! The biggest monster truck, the tallest construction cranes, the longest trains, and many more fill the pages of...