‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ Paul Gilroy, founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at UCL‘Hicks’ must-read book describes how it was possible for a human skull to be made into a drinking cup and used in a genteel Oxford college, well into the 21st ...

New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' – Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer'– EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.Few artefacts embody ...

Inheritance of Shadows is not a haunted house story.Maria Hart believes she has inherited a problem, not a mystery. A remote property in rural West Virginia. An unfinished estate. A few weeks of inventory, paperwork, and cleanup before the house is sold and forgotten.Instead, the work stretches.The house resists habitation in small, deniable ways. Measurements don't agree. Repairs fail without drama. Water behaves incorrectly. Bureaucracy stalls. Co...

THE 45ERSNobody built it. Nobody voted for it. And nobody will say where the money comes from.For thousands of Americans over forty-five-those who worked the "wrong" jobs in the "wrong" decade-a payment now arrives on the first business day of every month. It isn't charity. It isn't a government handout. It is simply a floor: the exact amount of money required to finally stop bracing for impact.THE ANOMALYLea West is a thirty-four-year-o...

THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS: 270 or BustEstefanía Mendoza Arroyo has $42 in her bank account, a busted Corolla, and a job cleaning up after people who will never learn her name.According to the algorithm that fired her, she's a redundancy.According to two bored billionaires in Dorado, she's a wager.Their idea is simple: prove that anyone can be engineered into a viable presidential candidate. Give her a crash course in optics. Hand her a script. Wrap her in "aut...

**Brought to you by Penguin.The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities — and one that has a deeper history than you might think.**Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, heritage, memory, and colonialism, Every Monument Will Fall joins the dots between the building of st...

God seems always to be giving us tests. Each exam we pass makes us a better person, but getting there can be a major struggle. That's the way it is when alcohol overwhelms a person's life. Overcoming such an addiction is one of God's toughest tests to pass. But by placing him in the center of our lives, faithfully attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, working through AA's Twelve Steps, and exploring our inner selves, it becomes possible to overcome alcoholism. This book suggests ways to...

New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020'Essential' – Sunday Times'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books'A real game-changer'– EconomistWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.Few artefacts embo...

'We won’t leave any stone unturned here. We’ll get to all the stones, because I’m a giver.' Dan Hicks**'There are lots of people who can point to music on the shelf. Some like to light candles to it, others seek only to snuf them out. Dan burned them all brightly, and here is his tale.'Elvis Costello, from his foreword to this bookDan Hicks didn’t have his heart set on a career in music. It all just sort of happened to him. It did...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais “Jungle” – the informal camp where, before its destruction in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people lived.LANDE: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand ‘crisis’, activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in Refugee and Forced Migration S...

Do they buzz, fly, bite, or sting? Discover some incredible facts about insects in this colorful book.

Popular media can spark the national consciousness in a way that captures people’s attention, interests them in history, and inspires them to visit battlefields, museums, and historic sites. This lively collection of essays and feature stories celebrates the novels, popular histories, magazines, movies, television shows, photography, and songs that have enticed Americans to learn more about our most dramatic historical era.From Ulysses S. Grant’s Memoirs to Abraham Lin...