Joy James has a long, well regarded career marked by praise from author/activists including Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelly, Howard Zinn, Manning Marable and reviews in trade, academic, and popular press.This, her first book published by a trade publisher, is poised to break out and join with her academic/activist peers in reaching a broader audienceThis book was inspired by and is dedicated to Erica Garner–Eric Garner’s daughter–and will be embraced by Black Lives Matter ac...

Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona.Excavating layers of networks, activists, academics, polemicists, and funders across the ideological spectrum, Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical intellectual.Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis's birthplace and ending in California in 1970 with a ...

In Transcending the Talented Tenth, Joy James provocatively examines African American intellectual responses to racism and the role of elitism, sexism and anti-radicalism in black leadership politics throughout history. She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as an elite leadership of race managers and takes us through the lives and work of radical women in the anti-lynching crusades, the civil rights and black liberation movements, as well as explores the co...

Selected essays on radical social change.Written over the course of twenty years, the essays brought together here highlight and analyze tensions confronted by writers, scholars, activists, politicians, and political prisoners fighting racism and sexism. Focusing on the experiences of black women calling attention to and resisting social injustice, the astonishing scale of mass and politically driven imprisonment in the United States, and issues relating to governm...

Never Meant to Survive presents a historical, political, and social assessment of anti-black genocide and liberatory struggles that arose to resist it. Based on fine-grained accounts of community life at the street level, Costa Vargas's work presents crucial examples of political resistance and community activism.By examining two cities linked by common experiences of Blackness, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, this book identifies a prevailing genocidal force that organize...

"An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."-Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End TimesKeywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and oppression-free, cannot drop words such as democracy,’ occupatio...

Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row, it is also one of the few developed countries that continues to deploy the death penalty. International Human Rights Organizations such as Amnesty International have also noted the scores of political prisoners...

In this deeply moving novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a determined young woman must survive a series of abandonments to find a love that is worthy of her.When she is only six years old, Allegra Dixon’s party-loving mother leaves without so much as a goodbye. Her father, an emotionally distant military officer, is also unable—or unwilling—to care for her. Sent to live like a ghost in her grandparents’ joyless home, Allegra finds her only solace throug...

“This funny and bighearted debut is an ode to queer friendship and chosen family. . . . A tender and generous novel about finding your people, getting vulnerable, and celebrating every joy—big or small.”—BuzzFeedCould I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me?Harley is a young queer black man struggling to find his way in nineties Britain. Returning home, having just dropped out of college, ...

In this collection of five erotic short stories, Joy C. James imagines five scenarios of a young, beautiful woman being seduced into becoming erotically obsessed with someone they absolutely shouldn't - their beautiful female professors. They succumb to their desires, leading to erotic scenes of deviant pleasure.In 'Professor's Punishment', college professor Jessica Savoy is used to running a tight ship in her class. But college freshman Celia Sinclair has caused her class trouble ...

The Joy of Photoshop is the long-awaited book from the social media sensation James Fridman.Have you ever taken a seemingly perfect picture only to have it ruined by one tiny detail? Photoshop master James Fridman is only too happy to help, even if he sometimes takes requests a little too literally.The Joy of Photoshop contains James's best-loved and funniest image alterations. From the woman who wished to look like a mermaid, to super-fan...

“Father of agricultural medicine” James A. Dosman developed the discipline from the ground up.Little could young Dosman, growing up on a family farm in rural Saskatchewan, imagine that he would one day receive the Saskatchewan Order of Merit (2005), Order of Canada (2011) and be inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (2019). Yet he would make stunning breakthroughs in recognizing the unique medical risks posed to agricultural workers, ultimately leading him to establish wh...