A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces.“The word ‘love’ is most often defined ...

This innovative and insightful book presents a motivational and transformational framework designed to help individuals close the gap between knowing and doing, with a focus on disciplined execution and personal leadership.Through a structured dialogue between the Seeker and the Master, the author explores the psychological and practical barriers to finishing what matters, such as internal negotiation, perfectionism, and reliance on motivation.

Meet Willow, an ordinary 10-year-old girl who lives with her parents and their dog Leo. Her best friends, Aaron and Jimmy, help her to escape from the difficulties at home.She had been living an ordinary life, but that all changed two years ago. Now, nothing is as it seems. Eventually, the truth starts to reveal itself…but is it too late?Join Willow on her path, as she discovers the reality of life and friendship, finding strength in places she never thoug...

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks-writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual-writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we rethink teaching practices in the age of multiculturalism? What do we do about teachers who ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by the author of All About Love!“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya AngelouIntimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid language, hooks explores the ...

What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteristic clarity and directness, hooks encourages readers to see how feminism can touch and change their lives—to see that feminism is for everybody.

This book presents a comprehensive framework for achieving enrollment mastery through the Fig Tree Enrollment Model™, which integrates eleven sequential strategies that transform enrollment from an uncertain act into a disciplined, repeatable process.The author combines practical communication techniques with deep inner mindset development, emphasizing that true enrollment is rooted in personal certainty, alignment, and identity rather than persu...

One of bell hooks' foundational works introduced to the UK for the first time.'With the emotion of poetry, the narrative of a novel, and the truth of experience, bell hooks weaves a girlhood memoir you won't be able to put down―or forget. Bone Black takes us into the cave of self-creation' Gloria SteinemStitching together the threads of her girlhood memories, bell hooks shows us one strong-spirited child's journey toward becoming t...

She dreamed of exposing the truth. Instead, she became the story.On September 7, 1997, nineteen-year-old Brook Baker, a journalism student at Vincennes University, was found brutally murdered inside her off-campus home in Vincennes, Indiana. She had been stabbed multiple times in a crime so violent it stunned the quiet college town and left investigators searching desperately for answers.In the days that followed, rumors spread across campu...

A rich, thought-provoking collection of essays, critiques and interviews from the influential author of Ain't I a Woman and All About Love‘There must be a revolution in the way we see, the way we look'In a collection of essays, critiques and interviews, bell hooks responds to the ongoing dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticising art and aesthetics in a world increasingly concerned with identity politics. hooks shares h...

What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can we say that we truly belong?These are some of the questions of place and belonging that renowned cultural critic bell hooks examines in her new book, Belonging: A Culture of Place. Traversing past and present, Belonging charts a cyclical journey in which hooks moves from place to place, from country to city and back again, only to end where she began--her old Kentuck...

By the New York Times bestselling author of All About Love and Communion“A manual for fixing our culture…In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.”—Black Issues Book ReviewBeloved visionary and cultural critic bell hooks continues her exploration of the meaning of love in contemporary Americ...