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
An in-depth look at a beautiful island paradise devastated by a thirty-year war and the tsunami Weaving together reporting, travelogue, and personal narrative, debut author Adele Barker b
More than eighty years after the Scopes trial, creationism is alive and well. Through local school boards, sympathetic politicians, and well-funded organizations, a strong movement has developed to e
The idea of crossing the border between the U.S. and "Greater Mexico" has always conjured images of racial hostility and exclusion. In American Encounters, award-winning anthropologist LimUn offers an
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza—who "stands among the most articulate and respected theologians who have challenged the silence and marginality . . . of Christian women" (The New York Times B
"Cornel West is one of the most authentic, brilliant, prophetic, and healing voices in America today" —Marian Wright Edelman Nine of America's most influential artists, scholars, and public fig
Offers powerful insight into the portrayal of romantic love by Jean Rhys, Clover Adams, Christina Stead, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, and others."Gornick makes forceful and
Together in one volume, Emerson's Nature and Thoreau's Walking, is writing that defines our distinctly American relationship to nature. "Certain writings should be read together, and these two make p
A comprehensive collection of writings by the revolutionary writer, feminist, and literary dissident Ding Ling (1904-85), one of the most colorful and important Chinese women writers of the twentieth
In richly diverse essays, stories, memoirs, poems, and interviews, the contributors to this collection affirm the depth of Jewish women's participation in Jewish life and give strength to feminist str
Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis’s wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother’s suicideGayle Brandeis’s mother disappeared just after Gayle gave
In an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these 13 stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped populati
Historian and civil rights activist proves how progressive movements can flourish even in conservative times.Despair and mourning after the election of a hostile President is part of the push-pull of
Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis’s wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother’s suicideGayle Brandeis’s mother disappeared just after Gayle gave
"Getting old sucks," says best-selling author Dr. Lillian Rubin. With refreshing candor, she digs down under the statistics about our graying population and offers a provocative and unflinc
Full of established writers and fresh voices, a rich collection of essays celebrates Boston's past, present, and futureThis collection presents a vivid new portrait of Boston through the writing
Through the narratives of four cousins at the brink of maturity, Laila Halaby immerses her readers in the lives, friendships, and loves of girls struggling with national, ethnic, and sexual identitie
In The Edges of the Field Harvard law professor Joseph William Singer offers a brilliant and cogent look at America's complex relation to property and ownership. Incorporating examples as far-reaching
Dan Wakefield was a successful writer of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays when he awoke to a private life that was disintegrating in alcohol, depression, and isolation. He fled Hollywood for Boston
Updated and Expanded EditionProvides information on suicide statistics and gives advice on how to recognize the warning signs of a potential suicide attempt, how to intervene when a suicide has been
A bold and impassioned meditation on injustice in our country that punctures the illusion of a postracial America and reveals it as a place where authoritarianism looms large.Whether the issues are pr
Revised edition of the groundbreaking book on the effects of lynching in the U.S. featuring a foreword from Bryan StevensonNearly 5,000 black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960, and, as Sher
Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early AmericaIn life and in death, slaves were commodities, their monetary value assigned b
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of lifeThe Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and ti
Engaging and largely untold, From the Closet to the Courtroom explores how five pivotal lawsuits have altered LGBT history. Beginning each case narrative at the center—with the litigants and their law
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
Once upon a time, "Boston Town" was a large and insulated New England township. But between 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a metamorphosis to become a thriving metropolis, one that achieved national
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl labor
Deborah Meier offers a fresh take on standardized tests. While others have criticized standards and what they measure. Meier rejects the very idea of a centralized authority that dictates how and wha
Man's Search for Meaning has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 psychiatrist Viktor Frankl l
Highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo offers the first detailed writing program designed for healing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to overcome the emotional and phys
It's influenced William Gibson and been listed as one of the ten essential works of science fiction. Most importantly, Joanna Russ's THE FEMALE MAN is a suspenseful, surprising and darkly witty chroni
Award-winning anthropologist Ruth Behar offers a new theory and practice for humanistic anthropology—an anthropology that is lived and written in a personal voice."Behar has convinced me that e
An exploration of this most difficult and affirming relationship in the lives of Jewish women through poems, stories, and personal essays. "You don't have to be Jewish to appreciate Faye Moskowitz's w
For thousands of years before the classical myths were recorded by Hesiod and Homer, the Goddess was the focus of religion and culture. In Lost Goddesses of Early Greece, Charlene Spretnak recreates,
A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movementsArmed with a rich array of online media platforms, seemingly endless reserves of creativity, and a keen sens
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction? The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.Ambit
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
In the third century BC, Afghanistan was part of a peaceful, multi-ethnic and multicultural empire ruled by the Indian emperor Ashoka, who led with the values of tolerance, nonviolence, and respect fo
A sweeping story of the right to privacy as it sped along colonial postal routes, telegraph wires, and today’s fiber-optic cables on a collision course with presidents and programmers, libraria
