From the preeminent scholar on Black masculinity in America, Save a Seat for Me is Mark Anthony Neal’s attempt to bring his scholarship on fatherhood to a broader audience.

In the late 1930s, as the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany and Austria intensified, five distinguished gentlemen met half a world away for regular late-night poker games. What began as an excuse to drink whiskey, smoke cigars, and discuss the political events of the day resulted in an ambitious plan to rescue as many Jewish refugees as possible from the clutches of Hitler's Gestapo.This small group of men in Manila—Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. Eisenhower, Philip...

A first-of-its-kind history of Dallas told through the city’s most significant buildings.With an exceptional blend of architectural history, social history, and critical writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mark Lamster takes readers to the sun-scorched origins of Dallas as a remote outpost on the Texas frontier, then traces the city's development into the dynamic, if imperfect, metropolis we know today. Welcome to Paradox City is an illuminating, il...

Educating Anxiety explores how anxiety can be transformed from a debilitating force into a creative and formative presence in students' lives and offers practical ideas for doing so in the context of higher education.Taking anxiety as an intrinsic part of the human experience, the book examines the impact of neoliberal pressures, social media and institutional structures on students’ anxiety. Through five insightful essays, it provides readers with concrete frameworks to u...

Clear Answers to Tough Questions About RevelationIf we want to better understand the resurrected Jesus who now reigns in heaven and how He calls us to live in these last days, we need the book of Revelation. But whether we approach the book with Jesus as our focus or to better grasp God’s plans for the future, there are many statements and passages that are a challenge to understand and can leave us scratching our heads.That’s why Robert Furrow wrote Th...

An eye-opening collection from contemporary artists and authors about how art and technology can reimagine humanity’s relationship with nature and society.Shimmer—the apt name of both the highly-illustrated book and the exhibition it accompanies—offers a timely collection of essays by today’s key thinkers about art and technology. In this vital showcase that takes on some of the most salient questions of our time, authors and artists consider how a “posthu...

Hero Whakaari helicopter pilot and former SAS soldier Mark Law on surviving a series of life-threatening events that would shape his life and career.Lucky You're Tough chronicles the early life of helicopter pilot and NZSAS soldier Mark Law, from growing up in the rural wilds of Whangamōmona through to surviving a series of life-threatening events that would shape his life and career.After a career as a badged soldier in the NZSAS that led to an in...

Strapped to a nightmarish operating table, Genshi faces a brutal “living autopsy” as a fanatical cult seeks to rip the Tengu from his soul—forcing him to make a deadly choice that will either end his life... or unleash the monster within?

Shows how to turn real-word human rights practices into comparable numbers, evaluates the barriers to improvement, and ranks countries of the world.Science and the Study of Human Rights provides a clear, teachable framework for comparing human rights practices across countries and over time and for developing theories about why some governments violate rights more than others. The book explains why the scientific method offers a powerful approach to studyi...

Weakened Ramsey Theory provides readers with an overview of weakened generalizations of various parameters studied in Ramsey theory. Rather than determining how large a structure must be to guarantee the existence of monochromatic substructures in a t-coloring, weakened Ramsey theory considers how large a structure must be to guarantee the existence of a substructure that uses at most a given number of colors. Weakened generalizations of Ramsey numbers, Gallai-Ram...

Former spy Felicity Jardine is caught up in the long tentacles of an operation at the Greek Embassy in the 1980s, in this gripping new spy thriller by the author of the CWA Steel Dagger shortlisted A Sting in her Tale.After a month of various people clearing up various messes, Felicity Jardine is finally cleared to go back to her little village cottage. But when a celebratory cream tea with her new and well-connected friend Percy is interrupted by a sniper's bullet, she's ...

The weeks after Pearl Harbor saw Japan destroy the well-prepared US air forces in the Philippines**. Fully illustrated, this studies the Pacific War's little-known first major air campaign.**On December 7, 1941, the Japanese not only attacked Pearl Harbor,but also struck at US and allied bases throughout the Pacific, including the USA's biggest overseas territory, the Philippines. However, that was an air ...