“Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer of her time and an overlooked leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Her voice seemed born of heaven.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.If Americans today still recognize the name Mahalia Jackson, they might recall that she was perhaps the greatest gospel singer who ever lived. But for many people, there is no awareness at all, not even for an entertainer whose “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold eight million copies, who headlined ...

The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everythingWhich is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common?These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who uses data analysis to study the riddles of everyday life—from cheating an...

For more than twenty years, I lived by my Air Force code.Until I made a choice. Put my family first. Something a soldier is never allowed to do.Now I don’t know who I am. Or where I belong.Getting lost in Mexico sounds like a good idea, but with only guilt and regret as my constant companions, I’ll never figure it all out.Until a chance meeting with Dr. Mikayla Salim in a hotel bar changes my course.She’s everything I’m not. Full of life and on a mis...

The kingdom is in trouble……and one mage has a plan.Will it be enough to stop the dragon?Subin just became an apprentice to the legendary Dugen the Blue, the high mage of the kingdom. Old rivalries between his boss and the general have put him in a tough spot. Will he need to choose sides?Can the army and the mages come together for the greater good?Or will their personal feud cost them everything?Do they even know the real threat?You’...

The problems with the Bible that New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman discussed in his bestseller Misquoting Jesus—and on The Daily Show with John Stewart, NPR, and Dateline NBC, among others—are expanded upon exponentially in his latest book: Jesus, Interrupted.This New York Times bestseller reveals how many books in the Bible were not written by their traditional authors, and that the New Testament itself is filled with c...

The Bard's Blade is the start of the new Sorcerer's Song fantasy adventure series from Brian D. Anderson, bestselling author of The Godling Chronicles and Dragonvein.Mariyah enjoys a simple life in Vylari, a land magically sealed off from the outside world, where fear and hatred are all but unknown. There she's a renowned wine maker and her betrothed, Lem, is a musician of rare talent. Their destiny has never been in question. Whatever life brings, they wi...

Figuring the Contemporary in US Popular Cinema, 1967-2022: Genre, History, Event explores how popular film offers us frameworks through which to historicize the present and to imagine alternative futures in the opacity of the contemporary moment.This book offers an original way to interpret the contemporary as form, presenting the idea of contemporaneity as historical concept and not simply as "period" in the temporal sense. It explores how we might histor...

Building on the premise that landscapes provide a common ground where different kinds of knowledge may come together, this edited volume draws on a wide range of disciplines, including geology and geography, cultural anthropology and philosophy, architecture and art history. It suggests that the complex social and environmental crises of the 21st century cannot be understood independently of a historically constituted aesthetic approach to landscapes.Boulouki – Itinerant Workshop o...

Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination offers the first comprehensive study of one of Australia's most innovative and overlooked writers.Spanning seven decades of poetry, fiction, and cultural advocacy, this book uncovers the intellectual and artistic currents that shaped Hall's creative philosophy – from Vico's poetic wisdom and Graves's mythic thinking to Joycean experiment and Latin American fabulism. It demonstrates how Hall uses labyrinths, masks, myth, and imaginatio...

Between Barricades and Breakthroughs begins where most crisis training ends.This is not a book about de-escalation techniques or communication scripts. It is a book about the decisions that matter most in high-stakes crisis work - the ones that have to be made under pressure, with incomplete information, in conditions that are rarely clean and never fully predictable. It is about knowing when words are still the right tool and when they are not. When voluntary engagement is suffici...

The comprehensively updated third edition of a popular introductory statistical thermodynamics text that describes the principles and forces that drive chemical and biological processes.This widely used, comprehensively updated introductory text on statistical thermodynamics describes the principles and forces that drive chemical and biological processes. It explains how a few simple physical principles cause the complex behaviors of molecules, and how simple model...

The Cold War never ended—because Communism was never defeated.For more than a century, the United States has been locked in an ideological war most Americans do not perceive. In America’s Hundred Years’ War, Dr. Bradley A. Thayer argues that the struggle against Communism did not end with the fall of the Soviet Union—it evolved, spread, and embedded itself within American politics, institutions, and culture, and Western civilization.Tracing the roo...