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  • Not That Bad

    Dispatches from Rape Culture

    by Roxane Gay ...
    New York Times BestsellerEdited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on.Vogue, “10 of the Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2018” * Harper’s Bazaar, “10 New Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2018” * Elle,</e... ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Be a Revolution

    How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too

    by Ijeoma Oluo ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: T... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • God's Monsters

    Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible

    The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swims through the wine-dark sea. A stunning array of peculiar creatures, mind-altering spirits, and supernatural hitmen fill the biblical heavens, jarring in both their strangeness and their propensity for violence--especially on God's behalf.Traditional interpretations of the creatures of the Bible have ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Third Millennium Thinking

    Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

    Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, how to use scientists’ tricks of the trade to make the best decisions and solve the hardest problems in age of uncertainty and overwhelming information.In our deluge of information, it’s getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradictory. How do we make health decisions in the face of conflicting medical advice? Does the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Science of Happily Ever After

    What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love

    by Ty Tashiro ...
    **"A new approach to dating." – NPRThere may be no formula for love, but that certainly doesn’t mean there’s no science behind it. In this fascinating analysis, acclaimed relationship psychologist Dr. Ty Tashiro sets out to revolutionize the ways we search for love.**Dr. Tashiro’s research looks at the studies and research data behind romance and relationships. He pinpoints why our decision-making ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Run the Storm

    A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro

    In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it thirty-three lives.On October 1, 2015, the SS El Faro, a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • 洞洞舞廳

    跟曖昧中國一起跳舞

    by 周成林 ...
    Series series MARK
    什麼是「砂舞」?跟交際舞有何不同?哪些舞女可稱「孃孃」?哪些是「女神」?洞洞舞廳的文化又是從何演變而來?不論舞女舞客,會不會跳舞不要緊,重要的是,微明之中,隨著音樂共舞或挪動腳步,不關精神,無視身家,或許讓你暫時忘掉絕望孤獨和荒誕人生。「男人心知肚明但沒幾個作家敢沉浸道破的公開的屏蔽題材。」──陳冠中,作家◆本書賣點●《洞洞舞廳》描寫流行在中國社會底層的情色產業「砂舞」舞廳文化。從旁觀的第三者到個人親歷的視角轉換,挑戰禁忌的第一手考察與描寫。●本書不僅僅是新聞記者的報導,更是親身考察後的再創作。沒有批判,只有從身體延伸到筆端的人物面貌與撫觸。... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In Sapiens, he explored our past. In Homo Deus, he looked to our future. Now, one of the most innovative thinkers on the planet turns to the present to make sense of today’s most pressing issues.**“Fascinating . . . a crucial global conversation about how to take on the problems of the twenty-first century.”—Bill Gates, The New York Times Book Review<strong... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The New Jim Crow

    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    • Best seller history: 250+ weeks on New York Times paperback non-fiction bestseller list, including as recently as December 2018.• New 10th anniversary preface: covering events of the past decade; we expect to serialize this.• New York Times columnist: Alexander is now a regular op-ed columnist, writing for the daily paper and the Sunday Review. • Tie-in with YA edition.• New cover· New 10th ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Death in Malta

    An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

    **“A chronicle of the sort of silencing-by-murder that we might have thought happens only in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. . . . [and] a son’s distraught but beautiful tribute to his journalist-mother. . . . Exquisite.” —Wall Street JournalA journalist’s spellbinding account of the shocking murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reverberated far beyond their tiny homeland**An ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Being Heumann

    An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

    A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year for Nonfiction"*...*an essential and engaging look at recent disability history."— BuzzfeedOne of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human.A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn’t built for all of us and of one woman’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Teenager's Journey

    Overcoming a Childhood of Abuse

    This triumphant follow-up to his New York Times bestselling memoir A Brother's Journey chronicles Pelzer's heartbreaking teenage years as he struggled with the effects of childhood abuse and how a surrogate family offered him comfort and hope. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Seat at the Table

    Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters

    The presence of women in Congress is at an all-time high -- approximately one of every five members is female -- and record numbers of women are running for public office for the 2018 midterms. At the same time, Congress is more polarized than ever, and little research exists on how women in Congress view their experiences and contributions to American politics today. Drawing on personal ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • An American Tragedy

    The naturalist author Theodore Dreiser was obsessed with true crime, keeping track of articles and cases in the early 20th century. The product of this obsession was his 1925 novel, "An American Tragedy", based on a true crime story from New York's Adirondack Mountains region that Dreiser followed. This novel was one of Dreiser's most successful works and has often been hailed as his masterpiece. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Pursuit of the Common Good

    Twenty-Five Years of Improving the World, One Bottle of Salad Dressing at a Time

    An entertaining, accessible history of the iconic Newman’s Own brand that also serves as a roadmap for foundations and charitable organizations looking to do the most good they can with what they have.Shameless exploitation has never been more fun nor done more good for more people than when done by Newman’s Own—the first green food company to use all-natural ingredients, and still the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Under Our Roof

    A Son's Battle for Recovery, a Mother's Battle for Her Son

    **A congresswoman and her son reveal how he survived a ten-year battle with opioid abuse—and what their family’s journey to recovery can teach us about finding hope amid the unspeakable.“Beautiful and inspiring.”—Maria Shriver’s Sunday Paper (Book of the Week)**When Madeleine Dean discovered that her son Harry was stealing from the family to feed a painkiller addiction, she was days away from ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Who Counts?

    The Mathematics of Death and Life after Genocide

    In Who Counts? Diane M. Nelson explores the social life of numbers, teasing out the myriad roles math plays in Guatemalan state violence, economic exploitation, and disenfranchisement, as well as in Mayan revitalization and grassroots environmental struggles. In the aftermath of thirty-six years of civil war, to count—both numerically and in the sense of having value—is a contested and qualitative ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Human Diversity

    The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

    All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual orthodoxy that has ruled the social sciences for decades. The core of the orthodoxy consists of three dogmas:- ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Prisoners of Geography

    Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

    by Tim Marshall ...
    Series series Politics of Place
    In this New York Times bestseller, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers—“fans of geography, history, and politics (and maps) will be enthralled” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram).Maps have a mysterious hold over us. Whether ancient, crumbling parchments or generated by Google, maps tell us things we want to know, not only ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

    'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre stage ... Hill lives on' Times Higher EducationIn 'The World Turned Upside Down' Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Brooklyn Was Mine

    A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers.Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly infused and nurtured modern literature as Brooklyn. Though its literary history runs deep-Walt Whitman, Truman Capote, and Norman Mailer are just a few of its storied inhabitants-in recent years the borough ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Means of Control

    How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State

    by Byron Tau ...
    **You are being surveilled right now. This sweeping exposé reveals how the U.S. government allied with data brokers, tech companies, and advertisers to monitor us through the phones we carry and the devices in our home.“A revealing . . . startling . . . timely . . . fascinating, sometimes terrifying examination of the decline of privacy in the digital age.”—Kirkus Reviews**“That evening, I was ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • On Gaslighting

    by Kate Abramson ...
    Series series Insights: Philosophy in Focus
    A philosopher examines the complicated phenomenon of gaslighting“Gaslighting” is suddenly in everyone’s vocabulary. It’s written about, talked about, tweeted about, even sung about (in “Gaslighting” by The Chicks). It’s become shorthand for being manipulated by someone who insists that up is down, hot is cold, dark is light—someone who isn’t just lying about such things, but trying to drive you ... Read more

    $17.99 USD