Verso, November 2022. Paper Back. If police are the problem, what's the solution? Tens of millions of people poured onto the streets for Black Lives Matter, bringing with them a wholly new idea of public safety, common security, and the delivery of justice, communicating that vision in the fiery vernacular..... More
Pantheon, September 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very light shelf wear on the jacket. One corner slightly bumped. More
Houghton Mifflin, January 1999. Trade Paperback. How do you pronounce affluent: AF-loo-int or uh-FLOO-int? Does it make a difference? Charles Harrington Elster believes that yes, it does make a difference (and that, for the record, one should pronounce the word AF-loo-int). More
Lookout Books, November 2022. Paper Back. Big Indie Book of Fall, Publishers Weekly "Valerie Boyd's Bigger Than Bravery isn't just an anthology; it is a survival guide." --Courtney B. Vance, Tony- and Emmy-winning actor An anthology of Black resilience and reclamation, with contributions by Pearl Cleage, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Honorée Fanonne..... More
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, January 1973. Reprint. Cloth. {6' x 9'} Without dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name in ink on front pastedown and front free end page. Foxing & spotting on textblock top edge and fore-edge. Third printing. [521 pages]. More
Amistad, October 2022. Hardcover. In this long-overdue celebration of Black women's resilience and unheralded strength, the revered, trailblazing White House correspondent reflects on "The Year That Changed Everything"--2020--and African-American women's unprecedented role in upholding democracy. "I am keenly aware that everyone and everything has a story," April D. Ryan acknowledges..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2000. Trade Paperback. ENTER A GALLERY OF WIT AND WHIMSY As the largest and most dynamic collection of words ever assembled, the English language continues to expand. But as hundreds of new words are added annually, older ones are sacrificed. Now from the author of Forgotten..... More
Doubleday Books, November 2022. Hardcover. From the award-winning author of Sandworm comes the propulsive story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. "[An] absorbing narrative... Each key section of the book... unfolds like a compact mystery." (New..... More
Scribner, October 2022. Paper Back. Set in Appalachian coal country, this "superb" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) legal drama follows one determined lawyer as he faces a coal industry giant in a seven-year battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community.For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of..... More
Back Bay Books, September 2021. Trade Paperback. Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers, and why they often go wrong--now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2019. Hardcover. A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically It goes without saying that even today, it's not easy to be gay in America. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2022. Paper Back. Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as "experts" on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding..... More
Pantheon Books, January 1976. First Edition. Cloth. First American Edition {8 & 1/2' x 5 & 3/4'} Dustjacket is missing. Grey cloth covered boards with red (fading) lettering along spine and a darker grey lettered title on front board. Dust staining to textblock edges. Lightly tanned spine and board edges..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, March 1999. Trade Paperback. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the..... More
Penguin Books, September 2015. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times bestseller "Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society." --Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers..... More
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, November 2022. Hardcover. *ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF FALL: Esquire, Time, LitHub, The Every Girl, BookPage* "One of the year's most ingenious and eye-opening cultural studies." --Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2022 "Deeply thought, rigorously researched, and riveting...A pitch-perfect debut." --Melissa..... More
Little, Brown Spark, October 2022. Hardcover. ***INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy. In this book, Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. What..... More
Hachette Books, September 2022. Hardcover. A gripping investigation into the nation's most notorious far-right group, revealing how they created a new blueprint for extremism and turned American politics into a blood sport After the 2016 election, Americans witnessed a frightening trend: the sudden rise of a host of new extremist..... More
Mariner Books, August 2001. Trade Paperback. Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee and renowned photgrapher Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men is a landmark work of American photojournalism "renowned for its fusion of social conscience and artistic radicality (The New York Times) In the summer of 1936, James Agee..... More
Little, Brown Spark, October 2022. Hardcover. ***INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*** Disrupt and push back against capitalism and white supremacy. In this book, Tricia Hersey, aka The Nap Bishop, encourages us to connect to the liberating power of rest, daydreaming, and naps as a foundation for healing and justice. What..... More
The MIT Press, May 2022. Paper Back. An accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, language acquisition, literacy, and language disorders. Neurolinguistics, the study of language in the brain, describes the anatomical structures (networks of neurons in the brain) and physiological processes (ways for..... More
Little, Brown, January 1967. First Edition. Paper Back. First Delta paperback. [401 pages]. More
The New Press, September 2022. Hardcover. From a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood--and what we can do about it Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, digital technologies had become deeply embedded in children's..... More
The New Press, September 2022. Paper Back. An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos' new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword by the author Who are Latinos and where do they fit in America's racial order? In this..... More
Pegasus Books, December 2022. Paper Back. "An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights."--Hillary Rodham Clinton The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the..... More
