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  • Macedonia

    What Does It Take to Stop a War?

    by Harvey Pekar, Heather Roberson ...
    “Pekar has proven that comics can address the ambiguities of daily living, that like the finest fiction, they can hold a mirror up to life.”–The New York TimesFor years Heather Roberson, a passionate peace activist, has argued that war can always be avoided. But she has repeatedly faced counterarguments that fighting is an inescapable consequence of world conflicts. Indeed, Heather finds proving ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Thinking About Black Education

    An Interdisciplinary Reader

    Edited by Hilton Kelly, Heather Moore Roberson ...
    2024 SPE Outstanding Book Award WinnerIn this pioneering interdisciplinary reader, Hilton Kelly and Heather Moore Roberson have curated essential readings for thinking about black education from slavery to the present day.The reading selections are timeless, with both historical and contemporary readings from educational anthropology, history, legal studies, literary studies, and sociology to ... Read more

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  • Animals in Classic American Poetry

    How Natural History Inspired Great Verse

    by Mary McAleer Balkun, Margarida Vale de Gato, Aaron Moe, Brian Yothers, Susan L. Roberson, Philip Edward Phillips, Heather Cass White, Calista McRae, Daniel Cross Turner, Thomas C. Gannon ...
    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    In this companion volume to Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction, John Cullen Gruesser brings together leading experts who explore the integral role animals play in American poetry. The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    by Melissa V. Harris-Perry ...
    From a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefsJezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Dancing at the Edge of the World

    Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    "Ursula Le Guin at her best . . . This is an important collection of eloquent, elegant pieces by one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers." —Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post Book World"I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind," writes Ursula K. Le Guin in her introduction to Dancing at the Edge of the World. But she has, and here is the record of that ... Read more

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  • Words of Fire

    An Anthology of African-AmericanFeminist Thought

    Edited by Beverly Guy-Sheftall ...
    The timeless and essential anthology of Black Feminist thought—showing that Black women have always understood the need for feminism to be intersectional“In this pathbreaking collection of articles, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall has taken us from the early 1830s to contemporary times. . . . She has refused to cut off contemporary African American women from the long line of sisters who have righteously ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Kingdom of Speech

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    The legendary reporter and author of The Right Stuff takes on Darwin, Chomsky, and the origin of language in "his boldest bit of dueling yet" ( The New York Times).Tom Wolfe, the great journalist-provocateur, aims his piercing wit at the presiding theories of what makes us human. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech—not evolution—is responsible for ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Majority Finds Its Past

    Placing Women in History

    by Gerda Lerner ...
    Lauded for its contribution to the theory and conceptualization of the field of women’s history and for its sensitivity to the differences of class, ethnicity, race, and culture among women, The Majority Finds Its Past became a classic volume in women’s history following its publication in 1979. This edition includes a foreword by Linda K. Kerber, introducing a new generation of readers to Gerda ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder

    Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy

    by Lawrence Weschler ...
    Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionPronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers through an intellectual hall of mirrors, Lawrence Weschler revisits the 16th-century "wonder cabinets" ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Young, Gifted, and Black

    Promoting High Achievement among African-American Students

    by Theresa Perry, Claude Steele ...
    “An important and powerful book” that radically reframes the debates swirling around the academic achievement of African-American students (Boston Review)“The solutions offered by each essay are creative, inspirational, and good old common sense." —Los Angeles TimesIn 3 separate but allied essays, African-American scholars Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard examine the alleged ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Invisible Pyramid

    A Library of America eBook Classic

    by Loren Eiseley ...
    A revered ecologist and conservationist examines the origins and possible futures of humankind within the context of the Space Age, masterfully “[communicating] the awesome spectacle of our environmental crisis” (New York Times Book Review)To read Loren Eiseley is to renew a sense of wonder at the miracles and paradoxes of evolution and the ever-changing diversity of life. In this brilliant ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Second Words

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series A List
    Reissued in a handsome A List edition, the largest collection of critical prose to date from world renowned author and poet Margaret Atwood, featuring an introduction by Lennie Goodings.Originally published in 1982, Second Words brings together fifty of Margaret Atwood’s finest essays and reviews spanning two decades, beginning in 1962, with an introduction and commentary by the author.With her ... Read more

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