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As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of the postwar United States: the rise of suburbs and the decline of cities, a process in...

A gripping portrait of black power politics and the struggle for civil rights in postwar Oakland As the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring 'Know thyself' is said to have been one of the maxims carved into the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. On the face of it, this does not seem like a...

The international sensation that illuminates the experiences women are supposed to hide—from addiction, anger, sexual assault, and infertility to joy, sensuality, and love.WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH...

The New York Times bestselling authors of Super Brain and Super Genes present a groundbreaking, landmark work on the supreme importance of protecting our immunity to ensure lifelong health.“The...

Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind offers expert advice on how to limit self-criticism and offset its negative effects, enabling you to achieve your highest...

In The Sovereign Self, Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and...

"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...

Many contemporary readers have reduced the richer meaning of conversion in Augustine's Confessionsto merely its social, psychological, or philosophical dimensions. These constricted readings have...

The Resilient Self explores how international migration re-shapes women’s senses of themselves. Chien-Juh Gu uses life-history interviews and ethnographic observations to illustrate how immigration...

In this engaging account of the crucial significance of rice for the Japanese, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food, such as rice, corn, or wheat, in...

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A lively and accessible introduction to self- portraiture, reflecting on the work of over sixty artists from the Renaissance to the present day.After six centuries, self-portraiture shows no sign of...

There is no such thing as free, unconstrained speech. Laws and constitutions may protect us from the state when we speak our minds. But the state is just one possible constraint. Glenn Loury, one of...

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearFrom the famed author of the bestselling The Second Shift and The Time Bind, a pathbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, the Mistborn series is a heist story of political intrigue and magical, martial-arts action.Three hundred years after the events of the...

How do our brains store—and then conjure up—past experiences to make us who we are?A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often...