Social groups, communities and identities

Who are you, when you come from two places? Ennatu Domingo was adopted from Ethiopia at the age of seven and transplanted to Barcelona where she learned to flourish. But she never forgot her nomadic childhood in the mountains and meadows of Gondar, near...

An inspiring and beautifully produced series of photo-portraits of LGBTQ Russians living in an increasingly homophobic RussiaDo we want children from elementary school to be imposed withthings that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want them to...

Saliha, translated, means 'virtuous'. A question becomes timeless not because it lacks an answer, but also because it requires revisiting as contexts change. So, in our ever- changing, post-normal world, the time is ripe to ask: What...

Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency. This book looks at the origins of that insurgency, and the broader and longer history of the relationship between Islam and politics in the country. Did Mozambique's Muslim...

The northern parish of Assynt boasts some of the most spectacular scenery in Britain. The mountains of Quinag and Suilven dominate a very varied landscape with wild, white hills inland and a complex, intricate moorland to the west. Here, rocky crags,...

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction. This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish...

With color photographs and artwork, Sisters in Art is the first biography to capture the lives and works of Margaret, Esther, and Helen Bruton, three exceptionally talented sisters whose mark on the California modernist art scene still impacts our world...

This edited volume asks how the city, with its spatial and temporal configuration and its rhythms, produces and shapes violence, both in terms of the built environment, and through particular 'urban' social relations. The book builds on the insight that...

A fierce activist for women's rights and against climate change, Judy Chicago defines herself best: 'I'm Judy Chicago, and I'm an artist and a troublemaker'. A leader of the Women's Art Movement of the 1970s, Chicago also founded the...

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the landThe Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans brings together works by many of today's most boldly innovative Native American artists...

In contrast to the traditional Marxist interpretation of emerging capitalism and its revolutionary bourgeoisie, State and Society in Eighteenth-Century France shows that commodified labor, fundamental to the existence of a capitalist bourgeoisie, did not...

During World War II, the Japanese military extended Japan's civilian licensing regime for domestic brothels to those next to its overseas bases. It did so for a simple reason:to impose the strenuous health standards necessary to control the venereal...

The New Year's Eve is more precious than a thousand pieces of gold. It is the Great Divide between winter and spring, which none can pass over without copper and silver.Ihara Saikaku is regarded as Japan's first popular writer. The...

A candid and revealing look at life in television, Hollywood, and work in the writer's room, from an insider who wrote for some of the most popular television shows in history - Friends, Desperate Housewives, and Breaking Bad.Ever since Patty...

From leading AI researcher Blaise Agera y Arcas comes an exploration of how biology, ecology, sexuality, history, and culture have intertwined to create a dynamic "us" that can neither be called natural nor artificial.Identity politics occupies the front...

Is social media a waste of time? Is love with an artificial intelligence being possible? Gather your opinions and get ready to DEBATE IN KOREAN!Korean Conversations and Debating offers intermediate and advanced level students the tools they need to bring...

"Extraordinary storytelling about unfathomable horror."-Library Journal(starred review)"[A] worthy tribute to the extraordinary bravery of a remarkable woman."-Publishers WeeklyIn World War II's Poland, thirty year old Zofia Sterner and her husbandWacek...

An essential record from the Second International, assembled by Under the Socialist Banner. At its height, the Second (Socialist) International (1889-1914) represented the majority of organized workers in the world, with the revolutionary goal of...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION THEGLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023THEGLOBE AND MAILBEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN NONFICTION OF 2023 Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's...

Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening Steacy Easton grew up Mormon, queer, and Autistic in the West. This book traces the people and spaces that made them who they are: the Mormon church, an Anglican...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"A beautiful love letter to nature and the world around us."-Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club September '24 Pick) THE PERFECT GIFT FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS, WITH ORIGINAL COLOR ART...

'An ode to storytelling itself...A gorgeous and heart-rending story of survival.' - Melissa Febos, author of GirlhoodA moving and essential exploration of what it takes to find your voice as a woman, a survivor, an artist, and an icon...

Crosby, Holiday, Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Garland, and Streisand were the major interpreters of the American songbook, and this is the interlocking story of their lives and careers. Here is the epic tale of how these artists dominated American popular music...

What happens when, in the middle of a happy heterosexual marriage, a woman falls in love with another woman?The Swift Dark Tide is a story of selfhood and desire, of careful listening to an ungovernable heart.Part memoir, part love letter, The Swift Dark...

The Mahogany Pod is a moving portrayal of a joyful love affair that was cut short by a terminal illness after just one exhilarating year and an inspirational account of vulnerability, reconciliation and learning to live fully after loss."Gorgeous ... her...

A confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from Sao Paulo to Altamira, a city along the Xingu River that has been devastated...

Fifteen-year-old Noemi has no choice but to leave school and work in the house of the wealthy De Grandbourg family. Just across the road from the slums where she grew up, she encounters a world that is starkly different from her own yet one which would...

Rescued from a puppy mill in 2010, Freddie was a bright light in lives of his human companions and the ultimate muse for biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies to explore the human-animal bond in his books. As Grant helped Freddie overcome the fears and traumas...

A searing, diaristic portrayal of a city and society in revolution by Magnum nominee Myriam BoulosIn her debut monograph, Myriam Boulos casts an unflinching eye on the revolution that began in Lebanon in 2019 with protests against government corruption...

45,000 years ago, rare and precious statues of faceless women with hourglass figures, sturdy hips and generous breasts surfaced across Europe. Spanning thousands of years and nurturing many a fantasy, they are known as the prehistoric Venus figurines...

A majority of women often suffer, without knowing it, in not having the sexual life that they wish: to be comfortable with the sensations, to be able to adjust them to those of their partner, thus benefiting from the restoring virtues of the sharing of...

Celebrated by writers including Jonathan Franzen, who said that"[t]his crazy, gorgeous family novel is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century," The Man Who Loved Children is a 1940 novel by Australian writer Christina Stead...

A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world.Edith Hamilton (18671963) didn't publish her first book until she was sixty-two. But over the next three decades, this former...

How our reliance on Child Protective Services makes motherhood precarious for those already marginalizedIt's the knock on the door that many mothers fear: a visit from Child Protective Services (CPS), the state agency with the power to take their...

'Some girls fancy sailors, others fancy soldiers. But you, my dear, are a fag hag!'Lola Miesseroff's childhood certainly predisposed her to be a rebel. She was born in Marseilles in 1947 to immigrant parents, her mother a...

An experimental account of one woman's quest to shed addictive substances and behaviors from her life-which dares to ask if we're really better off without them.In January 2021, Freda Love Smith, acclaimed rock musician and author of Red Velvet...

The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheidHealth Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar...

There's history as it's told, and then there's history as it actually happened. You may think you know the stories behind the world's most well-known, groundbreaking achievements, but To Her Credit is here to make you reevaluate our collective story as...

Practical steps based on brain science and development to help kids thrive post-pandemic and beyond.Attention, mood, emotions, behaviors, organization, communication, social interactions, learning, and confidence all have one thing in common-the brain...

How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance.One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First...

Why acknowledging diverse eco-social relationships can help us overcome the political polarisation that undermines our ability to protect the environmentWhen we picture the ideal environmentalist, we likely have in mind someone who dedicates herself to...

A 2023Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Religion Category"With clarity and penetrating insight, Alex Ryvchin unravels the mystery of antisemitism... Mandatory reading for anyone concerned with the ethical fate of the human race." Isaac...

The joy is in the journey! We all have our own journey in life with ups and downs. Sometimes it feels like things will never go our way, but yet if we are bold enough to face our fears, learn from our failures, and heal from our pain then we can find the...

How a legendary woman from classical antiquity has come to embody the threat of transcendent beauty in movies and TV.Helen of Troy in Hollywood examines the figure of the mythic Helen in film and television, showing how storytellers from different...

Nine women who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for social justice-movement leaders, organizers, and cultural workers-tell their life stories in their own words. Sharing their most vulnerable and affirming moments, they talk about the origins...

This volume of Sayyid Qutb's tafsir, commentary on the Qur'an, covers Surahs 78114. This part of the Qur'an is known as Juz Amma and is made up of the shorter chapters that focus on the importance of belief, the afterlife, and the nature of God and His...

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a...

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the leading figures of Pan-African thought and activism in the twentieth century. As a sociologist, Du Bois wrote much about the historical and social circumstances of African Americans while often acknowledging the African...