Including interviews with Black women holding political office at the national, state, and local levels, as well as focus group data, The Radical Imagination of Black Women explores how Black women decide to seek political office. Pearl K. Ford Dowe argues that Black women's political ambition often manifests outside formal politics, in activism and community building, a process that is linked to a wider radical vision for a full democracy. Learn More
The rise of the automobile as told through its Rubicon moment—a sensational, high-risk race across two continents on the verge of revolution. Learn More
The celebrated legal scholar and author of The Color of Money reveals how neoliberals rigged American law, creating widespread distrust, inequality, and injustice. Learn More
An illuminating, insider's journey through the world of Little House on the Prairie and beyond, from Dean Butler, who starred as Almanzo Wilder, the man Laura "Half Pint" Ingalls married—on the iconic show still beloved by millions of fans as it reaches its fiftieth anniversary. Learn More
A powerful and revealing history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which have been essential for empowering Black citizens and for the ongoing fight for democracy in the US. Learn More
In this study, Laura Robson uses a framework of mass violence—encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization—to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel. Learn More
by Christine Leuenberger and Izhak Schnell; read by Rachel Perry
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The Politics of Maps explores how the geographical sciences came to be entangled with the politics, territorial claim-making, and nation-state building of Israel/Palestine. Learn More
Chaim Gans's A Political Theory for the Jewish People examines the two dominant interpretations of Zionism, contrasts them with post-Zionist alternatives, and develops a third model. Along with exploring the historiographic, philosophical, and moral foundations of each of these approaches, Gans considers their implications for the relationship between Jews and Arabs in Israel/Palestine as well as the relationship between Israeli and diasporic Jews. Learn More
Yorkshire's detective duo descends into the kinky world of underground films in an "undeniably lively" mystery of murder and illusion (Kirkus Reviews). Learn More
by Allan Sikk and Philipp Köker; read by David Marantz
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Based on a new database of 200,000 electoral candidates from over sixty elections across nine Central and Eastern Europe democracies, this book presents a groundbreaking study of party evolution using candidate change as an indicator of party change. Learn More
The exhilarating first novel from filmmaker and James Patterson collaborator Shan Serafin, The Paris Vendetta is a pulse-pounding thrill ride through central Europe's most beautiful cities—Paris and Amsterdam—that exposes the rot beneath their gorgeous facades. Learn More
by Jamal J. Myrick, EdD; read by Bill Andrew Quinn
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In a world where the journey of parenting is both beautiful and challenging, Parenting is Hard AF: 53 Affirmations for Black Parents Who Struggle stands as a guiding light, offering a collection of powerful affirmations designed specifically for Black parents. Learn More
If you've ever wondered about the constitutional basis for presidential pardons, this book explains it, offering examples from the recent and distant past. Follow constitutional law professor and popular newsroom commentator Kim Wehle through a fascinating rundown of how this executive power has been—and might be—used by American presidents. Learn More
A pioneering and inventive novel that confronts family history, creativity, Magical Realism, and the impact of violence from Mexico's drug war. Learn More
A lively account of how Darwin's work on natural selection transformed science and society, and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author. Learn More
edited by Andrew Blauner; with Siri Hustvedt, Andre Aciman, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Alex Pheby, and Colm Toibin; read by Perry Daniels and Dina Pearlman
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A collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers. Learn More