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Award-winning sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a…

Nobel Prize Winner Toniy Morrison's novel The Bluest Eye tells the story of a young African-American woman, Pecola, who…

In this collection of essays, Eastern philosopher and counterculture icon Alan Watts deals with our relationship to the…

Eastern philosopher and cultural revolutionary, Alan Watts explores the root of our anxieties and insecurities in this…

In this work by the Eastern philosopher and counterculture icon, Alan Watts asks what is the true meaning of "the self."…

Job crap, awkward sex and dating, racism, biphobia, changing friendships, a difficult childhood, money problems, reality…

Paul isn't your typical bartender at the gay club - if there is such a thing. He's also a shapeshifter, and uses that to…

I mean, I for one could use a break from society now and again, but this book brings it to a whole other level. An…

Radical hope is radical because "it is directed toward a future goodness that transcends the current ability to…

The father of the new science of positive psychology and author of Authentic Happiness draws on more than twenty years…

First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect…

Part travelog, part science lesson, this book takes readers from the driest deserts of Chile to the genetic wasteland of…

M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the…

The Year of Magical Thinking is a record of Joan Didion's life in the year after her husband's death. This is an…

The hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York, and makes public what few have…

From the bestselling author of 1491, this is a deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the…

Contrary to what Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine…

In this lively and eye-opening investigation, Tom Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits and cognitive underpinnings…