AK Press, March 2019. Paper Back. How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls... More about Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy
Riverhead Books, May 2019. Hardcover. "Urgent and important. . . an essential read for bosses, parents, coaches, and anyone who cares about improving performance." --Daniel H. Pink "So much crucial and revelatory information about performance, success, and education." --Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet A powerful argument for how to... More about Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Harper Wave, June 2019. Hardcover. A brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us, written with humor and playfulness that challenges words and phrases and how we use them. "I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell's... More about Wordslut
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2019. Paper Back. A preeminent thinker redefines the meaning of city life and charts a way forward Building and Dwelling is the definitive statement on cities by the renowned public intellectual Richard Sennett. In this sweeping work, he traces the anguished relation between how cities... More about Building and Dwelling
Farrar Straus Giroux, June 1984. Trade Paperback. More about Message in the Bottle
Bloomsbury Publishing, March 2019. Paper Back. "This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we'll no longer need such a book. Essential." --Marlon James "The most important book for me this year." -Emma Watson Selected by Emma... More about Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Atlantic Monthly Press, December 2018. Hardcover. English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer... More about Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
Verso, March 2019. Paper Back. Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban... More about Rebel Cities
The MIT Press, August 2016. Paper Back. The real story of how our brains and nervous systems change throughout our lifetimes--with or without "brain training." Fifty years ago, neuroscientists thought that a mature brain was fixed like a fly in amber, unable to change. Today, we know that our brains... More about Neuroplasticity (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Penguin Classics, April 2019. Paper Back. For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which... More about The Stonewall Reader
Vintage, September 2008. Trade Paperback. Revised and Expanded With the same trademark compassion and erudition he brought to The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a.... More about Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Revised and Expanded Edition
