From ';tomorrow's greatest designer' (The Atlantic), a personal and deeply researched look at how the choices we build into our environment reflect and determine the way we think, connect, and live.
"e;The first step in the reconciliation process,"e; Spencer Perkins writes, "e;is admitting that the race problem exists and that our inability to deal with race has weakened the credibility of our gospel.
Harnessing the emotional truth, narrative power, and moral vision of Morrison, Kingsolver, and Zinn, Sarah Towle's urgent and evocative journey of discovery reveals how the US immigration system evolved into a weapon to drive democracy into crisis.
'Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of FiguringAn inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revolutionary, by the bestselling author of The Invention of NatureGeorge Forster was a man out of time: he journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe with radical ideas about equality and freedom.
In the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Fuller Seminary theologian William Pannell decried the sentiment among white evangelicals that racism was no longer an urgent matter.
'Vivid and compelling' - The Telegraph'A masterful portrait of the city' - Observer'A propulsive, gorgeously reported account of the forces that re-shaped New York in the late 1980s, The Gods of New York is brilliant historical non-fiction that doubles as a warning about the future.
In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months to unlock Earths greatest mysteriesand changed science forever.
In 1957, 6,000 scientists from 66 nations achieved the impossible: they erased political borders for 18 months to unlock Earths greatest mysteriesand changed science forever.
From the Black Lives Matter movement to the health and economic disparities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have been forced to reckon with our country's fraught history and present of racial bias and inequality.
From the Black Lives Matter movement to the health and economic disparities exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic, Americans have been forced to reckon with our country's fraught history and present of racial bias and inequality.
This volume explores the complexities and variations of the nation and examines its transformative potential within the broad field of literary studies through various literary works, including fiction, autobiography, poetry, and theater.
One June morning in 2026, the Supreme Court struck down a fifty-year-old limit on money in politics -- and, the same morning, refused to let the government erase birthright citizenship.
Triple Award Winner, including Silver Nautilus Book Award and Independent Publisher Bronze Medal for Memoir, and Next Generation Book Award Finalist for SpiritualityTo the chagrin of her parents, Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust, the author became a Buddhist at 19, nearly tearing her family apart.
In the Lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia, generations of Gullah Geechee families have watched their ancestral land slip away through a legal trap known as heirs property.
Gewaltsame Germanisierung, Marginalisierung, versteckte und offene Diskriminierung der Sorben in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart – das Wissen darum ist lückenhaft.
"La esclavitud de nuestro tiempo" surgió cuando Lev Tolstói se enteró por un conocido de que los cargadores de la línea de ferrocarril Moscú-Kazán trabajaban por norma unas treinta y seis horas seguidas, así que quiso ir a hablar con ellos y a comprobar con sus propios ojos esas condiciones miserables.
«Para Simone Weil, la acción política, incluso la acción revolucionaria, debe ser concebida como una acción metódica y racional -lo que equivale para ella a una forma de trabajo- en la que hay que esforzarse por evitar, en la medida de lo posible, que se desaten las pulsiones irracionales y la violencia.
Neste libro analízase a evolución da diversidade LGBT ao longo da Idade Media, centrándose sobre todo en documentación galega e portuguesa, que ofrece información crucial nunha dimensión europea.
Desde que fue fundado en Oakland, California, en 1966 hasta su disolución definitiva en los años ochenta, el Partido de las Panteras Negras de Autodefensa fue una organización política radical que ocupó un papel destacado en la lucha antirracista en Estados Unidos y el resto del mundo y mantuvo una relación tensa con el movimiento de los derechos civiles.
Während die Diskussionen um Antisemitismusdefinitionen immer unzugänglicher werden, hat die Ideologie in ihrer öffentlichen Wahrnehmung nichts von ihrem Rätselcharakter verloren.
DIE GEWOLLTE KLASSENGESELLSCHAFT Wie soziale Ungleichheit entsteht, wie sie politisch untermauert wird – und warum wir sie nicht schulterzuckend hinnehmen dürfen Soziale Ungleichheit lässt sich messen.
Jugando con el título de la revista socialista de Castoriadis ("Socialisme ou Barbarie"), sin filosofía y sin feminismo, más que cualquier otro movimiento emancipatorio por el conocimiento, la igualdad y la libertad, no puede haber sociedad, solo salvajismo.
