Social Science - Essays

A powerful read redefining the meaning of genius while illuminating the ways in which Black Americans have found various ways to thrive despite insurmountable obstacles. Black genius sits at the heart of the American story. In his probing essay collection, Black Genius, cultural critic...

With deeply personal and uplifting essays in the vein of Black Girls Rock!, You Are Your Best Thing, and I Really Needed This Today, this is "a necessary testimony on the magic and beauty of our capacity to live and love fully and out...

BLACK!Feminist!FREE! gathers Beverly Guy-Sheftall's most influential essays, public speeches, and interviews into a single volume, offering readers access to the depth and range of her contributions. From early reflections on the intersections of race, gender, and class, to her contemporary analyses of sexuality, reproductive...

Black, Jewish, and Beautifulbrings together powerful perspectives and showcases the vastly divergent ways people come to inhabit a shared Blewish, or Black Jewish identity. These voices demonstrate that Black Jewishness is just one dimension of their multifaceted lives as they explore how they feel,...

"A must-read for today's politics" (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America's class problem are collected in one searing and insightful volume. In Bone of the...

"A must-read for today's politics" (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America's class problem are collected in one searing and insightful volume. In Bone of the...

Author: Helen AndrewsPublisher: PortfolioPublished: 11/18/2025Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.58dISBN: 9798217184231About the AuthorHelen Andrews is a senior editor at The American Conservative. Previously, she was the managing editor of the Washington Examiner magazine and a 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow....

A New York Times 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Readers Pick #1 New York Times BestsellerA Washington Post and Los Angeles Times BestsellerAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As...

Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound with a new cover...

As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends, and reading everything: English...

Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.Author: Rebecca SolnitPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 09/04/2018Pages: 166Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.70dISBN: 9781608469468Award: Kirkus Prize - WinnerReview Citation(s): Kirkus...

A bold and incisive personal manifesto on the ways sexism is used in capitalist systems to exploit women, using algorithms that pressure them into spending money on a distorted ideal of beauty, motherhood, and success. The age-old pressure to focus on either a career...

Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence.Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Goop Book Club Pick -...

Following on the success of Tough Cases, called "A law buff's dream" by headbutler.com, Challenging Cases collects judges' firsthand stories of deciding cases when the world is watchingMost cases judges decide garner little public attention. But occasionally, a case is tried both in the...

The "essential" (Bari Weiss) book on Jewish identity and Zionophobia, "which should be required reading" (Bernard-Henri Lévy).Catalyzed by the kidnapping and murder of his son, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, world-renowned computer scientist and philosopher Dr. Judea Pearl has been a relentless advocate...

"The best writer about pop music . . . an inspiration."--Jarvis Cocker, BBC Radio 6 Music "[A] longtime freelance scene-maker, [Cohn] practices a form of journalism that might be called loitering with intent . . . [He] was in the exact demographic place to...

From the bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck two classic collections of uproarious essays tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit.This edition brings together some of Ephron's most famous...

A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenges to the american form of government. Index.Author: Hannah ArendtPublisher: Mariner Books ClassicsPublished: 05/10/1972Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.90h x...

A Pulitzer Prize Finalist Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes...