A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very diffe
A midwife’s memoir of living free and naturally against all odds ?In her first, highly praised memoir, The Blue Cotton Gown, Patricia Harman recounted the stories that patients brought into her exam r
A leading environmental writer looks at the unexpected effects—and possible benefits—of a shrinking, graying population ? Is overpopulation the most important environmental issue of our time? Already
A veteran journalist and levelheaded mom tackles the ethics of everyday life ? We live in a society that is at once the most politically aware and the most consumer oriented in human history. Twenty-f
A powerful argument for why dam removal makes good scientific, economic, and environmental sense—and requires our urgent attention In the Pacific Northwest, the Snake River and its wilderness tributa
My Sister’s Keeper in nonfiction: a family’s real-life struggle to cure their daughter by creating her genetic match ? Marshaling the most cutting-edge reproductive technologies, Stacy and Steve Trebi
The colliding histories of black and Latin ballplayers in the major leagues have traditionally been told as a story of their shameful segregation and redemptive integration. Jackie Robinson jumped bas
A complete and revealing history of the Peace Corps—in time for its fiftieth anniversary ? On October 14, 1960, at an impromptu speech at the University of Michigan, John F. Kennedy presented an idea
A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system, and winner of the?2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency?Drawi
From a leading writer of the Black Arts Movement, poems of commemoration and loss for readers of all ages ? This new volume is music to the ears: a collection of haiku that celebrates the lives and m
Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 ?On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the ci
The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters ?Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American exp
An examination of privacy and the evolution of communication, from broken sealing wax to high-tech wiretappingAmerican Privacy traces the lineage of cultural norms and legal mandates that have swirled
Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 ?Often applauded as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why
Surprising firsthand accounts from the front lines of abortion provision reveal the persistent cultural, political, and economic hurdles to access ? While “abortion wars” may bring to mind the very re
Over the last decade, there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we spend over $12 billion annually on procedures like liposuction, face-lifts, tummy tucks, and boob jobs. In this pr
The Pure Lover is David Plante’s elegy to his beloved Nikos Stangos, their forty-year life together, and its tragic end. Written in vivid fragments that, like the pieces of a mosaic, come together int
In November and December 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered five lectures for the renowned Massey Lecture Series of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The collection was immediately rele
"Berry and Gottheimer bring their own depth of insight to an analysis of each of the speeches and the vision they embody...A book to savor and return to for subsequent readings."---Kirkus ReviewsWhat
Dispatches from Arizona—the front line of a massive human migration—including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others ?For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported o
One woman’s hilarious and thought-provoking quest to find love, Muslim-style?“At the age of thirteen, I knew that I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London door
Described by Cornel West as “a towering public intellectual and the leading universalist philosopher of his generation,” Forrest Church was one of the preeminent liberal theologian
For Orthodox Jews, immersion in a ritual bath—the mikveh—is the cornerstone of family life and is central to Jewish women’s practice of their faith. Yet women from across the Jewish spectrum frequent
Homeschooling is a large and growing phenomenon in American society--between 1999 and 2003 it grew at ten times the rate of public school enrollments. Current estimates suggest that about two million
The brilliant graphic adaptation of a backlist classic by the renowned activist and children's advocate Oprah Winfrey called “an angel from God”?Long before President Barack Obama called his work “an
"Beneath the white coats and sterile labs of the great American heath care system. Carl Elliott finds a drug-addled, gang-run, con game---sometimes bizarre, often hilarious. The noble are that runs f
Finally in paperback, a collection of forty-six poems that delve into the mysteries of life, love, and death?Never afraid to shed the pretense of academic poetry, never shy of letting the power of an
"Mary Oliver moves by instinct, faith, and determination. She is among our finest poets, and still growing."-Alicia Ostriker, The Nation"Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessin
Martin presents profiles of eight Americans under the age of thirty-five who have taken the cultural dictum "save the world" and made personal meaning out of the impossible task often set upon the sho
The Boston Arts Academy comprises an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse student body, yet 94 percent of its graduates are accepted to college. This remarkable success rate, writes Principal Lind
Expert Gail Dines has been writing about and researching the porn industry for over two decades. She attends porn industry conferences, interviews porn producers and performers, and speaks to hundred
"A timely chronicle of how key legal battles reflect and raise the visibility of sexual minorities and compel society to take seriously their claims to equal citizenship. By revealing the people and s
Woodburn High’s Bulldogs, aka Los Perros, started their 2005 soccer season with eight undocumented students, a midfielder groomed to play for a pro Mexican team, a goalkeeper living in his thir
When an organization committed to free speech succumbs to pressure to suppress internal criticism and disregard or "spin" the truth, it offers important lessons for other associations, corporations,
Kathryn Joyce's fascinating introduction to the world of the patriarchy movement and Quiverfull families examines the twenty-first-century women and men who proclaim self-sacrifice and submission as
A critical care and emergency flight nurse, Jennifer Culkin is no stranger to death and its dramas, and her memoir plunges the reader into both. Aboard the Agusta A109A helicopter, we see through her
Demography is destiny. It underlies many of the issues that shake the world, from war and economics to immigration. No wonder, then, that overpopulation fears flared regularly over the last century,
Already widely covered in the New York Times, the Nation, the American Prospect, and on Huffington Post; adapted as a dramatic performance; and discussed on NPR, NBC, and CBS, The Lonely Soldier vivi
This collection brings together forty-five of Oliver’s classic poems and two essays. The award-winning poet considers beasts of all kinds: bears, snakes, spiders, porcupines, humpback whales, hermit c
Since 1990, thanks to inflamed rhetoric about "superpredators" and get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in jail has risen by 35 percent (U.S. Department of Justice), and their placement i
