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How to turn the paradoxes built into anti-racism work into drivers of learning and change Even as anti-racism practices seemed to be gaining momentum, the nation shows signs of falling back into...

The bestselling approachable guide that has inspired thousands of readers to manage or overcome depression — fully revised and updated for life in the 21st century.Depression rates around the world...

From an acclaimed historian, a mesmerizing account of how medieval European Christians envisioned the paradoxical nature of holy objectsBetween the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European...

Understanding the Bible as an account of the unfolding revelation of God to humankind through history, Roland Mushat Frye suggests that the many sub-plots, monologues, and reflections of the Bible...

Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics all agree that sex should be innocent and ecstatic. For most of Western history people have not had...

Cave paintings at Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, fraught with expression thousands of years later; point to an early human desire to form a cultural identity. In the Oxford Companion to World...

Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanizationThe fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world’s...

"A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today's AI. Since the advent of computers, society has...

"The avant-garde owed much of its fascination and doubts about language to the poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) and his utopian call for a "total expansion of the letter." While Mallarmé aspired to...

A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny,...

An intimate collection of African American women's voices on their lives in prisonThe rate of women entering prison has increased nearly 400 percent since 1980, with African American women...

"A cult classic, FIXER CHAO-which was named a Los Angeles Times Book of the Year-by New Yorker contributor Han Ong, delivers a sharp and insightful narrative about racial and social hierarchy,...

The Classical Music Sound Book series introduces our youngest music lovers to famous composers—featuring whimsical illustrations and 6 magical sound buttons so children can experience the joy of this...

"What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is...

"Sidney Reilly (c. 1873-1925) is one of the most colorful and best-known spies of the twentieth century. Emerging from humble beginnings in southern Russia, Reilly was an inventive multilingual...

The phenomenal Stacey Abrams, #1 New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps, returns with another intricately plotted, riveting suspense novel featuring Avery Keene, an ingenious...

The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as...

Variations in the foreign exchange market influence all aspects of the world economy, and understanding these dynamics is one of the great challenges of international economics. This book provides a...

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the...

"The powerful proven blueprint for confident conversations and meaningful connection, from the bestselling author of Cues and Captivate Does the thought of small talk with strangers make you want to...