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Growing Up on the Gridiron

Vicki Mayk

• Paperback | Engels
• Explores the experience of one young man and the concerns about CTE he helped to illuminate, and the cultural allure of football in America that keeps... Lees meer

Obsessed by Dress

• Hardcover | Engels
• Are you obsessed by dress? Do you wonder if your obsession is a virtue or a vice? The flourish of a creative spirit or a sign of conformity to social ... Lees meer

Junk Raft

Marcus Eriksen

• Paperback | Engels
• An exciting account of a scientist's expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft" in order to learn more about plastic marine pollution A ... Lees meer

Shut Out

Howard Bryant

• Paperback | Engels
• WINNER OF SPITBALL MAGAZINE'S 2002 CASEY AWARD FOR BEST BASEBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR "An essential read." -John Henry, principal owner of the Boston Red ... Lees meer

Diving Deep & Surfacing

Carol P Christ

• Paperback | Engels
• First published in 1980, "Diving Deep and Surfacing" continues to find new readers as women both young and old search for stories that value their str... Lees meer

Two Billion Caliphs

Haroon Moghul

• Hardcover | Engels
• Explains the attraction of Muslims to their faith, and discusses the challenges contemporary Islam confronts, and how we might imagine an Islamic theo... Lees meer

Beyond Shame

Patrick Moore

• Paperback | Engels
• The radical sexuality of gay American men in the 1970s is often seen as a shameful period of excess that led to the AIDS crisis. Beyond Shame claims t... Lees meer

Under Deadman's Skin

Jane Katch

• Paperback | Engels
• The five-and six-year-olds in my class have invented a new game they call suicide. I have never seen a game I hate so much in which all the children i... Lees meer

Lorca & Jimenez

• Paperback | Engels
• A unique gathering of poems by two great twentieth-century poets, with the original Spanish versions and powerful English translations on facing pages... Lees meer

I Myself Am a Woman

Ding Ling

• Paperback | Engels
• Selected writings by the revolutionary writer, feminist, and literary dissident Ding Ling (1904-1985), one of the most colorful and important Chinese ... Lees meer

Marketplace of the Marvelous

Erika Janik

• Paperback | Engels
• An entertaining introduction to the quacks, snake-oil salesmen, and charlatans, who often had a point Despite rampant scientific innovation in ninetee... Lees meer

Saviors or Sellouts

Christopher Bracey

• Paperback | Engels
• The first book by an African American liberal about black conservatism and its growing appeal among African Americans today. What exactly is a black c... Lees meer

A Strange Freedom

Howard Thurman

• Paperback | Engels
• A spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; the first black dean at a white university; cofounder of the first interracially pastored, intercultur... Lees meer

White Fragility

Robin Diangelo

• Hardcover | Engels
• A reimagining of the best-selling book that gives young adults the tools to ask questions, engage in dialogue, challenge their ways of thinking, and t... Lees meer

Making Americans

Jessica Lander

• Hardcover | Engels
• A landmark work that weaves captivating stories about the past, present, and personal into an inspiring vision for how America can educate immigrant s... Lees meer

Dirt Road Revival

Chloe Maxmin, Canyon Woodward

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Democratic Party left rural America behind. This urgent rallying cry shows how Democrats can win back and empower overlooked communities that have... Lees meer

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

Christopher Emdin

• Paperback | Engels | Race, Education, and Democracy
• A New York Times Best Seller "Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophi... Lees meer

A More Beautiful and Terrible History

Jeanne Theoharis

• Hardcover | Engels
• Praised by The New York Times ; O, The Oprah Magazine ; Bitch Magazine ; Slate; Publishers Weekly ; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a natio... Lees meer

The Place of Tolerance in Islam

Khaled Abou El Fadl

• Paperback | Engels
• Khaled Abou El Fadl, a prominent critic of Islamic puritanism, leads off this lively debate by arguing that Islam is a deeply tolerant religion. Injun... Lees meer

Carnal Acts

Nancy Mairs

• Paperback | Engels
• Acclaimed personal writing from one of our most outspoken essayists, on disability, on family, on being an impolite woman, and on the opportunities an... Lees meer

School: The Story of American Public Education

• Paperback | Engels
• Esteemed historians of education David Tyack, Carl Kaestle, Diane Ravitch, James Anderson, and Larry Cuban journey through history and across the nati... Lees meer

The Boys from Little Mexico

Steve Wilson

• Paperback | Engels
• For nineteen straight years, the all-Hispanic boys' soccer team from Oregon's Woodburn High has made the playoffs. As they prepare to make it twenty, ... Lees meer

Playing House

Lauren Slater

• Hardcover | Engels
• Acclaimed author Lauren Slater ruminates on what it means to be family. Lauren Slater's rocky childhood left her cold to the idea of ever creating a f... Lees meer

God vs. Gay?

Jay Michaelson

• Paperback | Engels | Queer Ideas/Queer Action | nr. 6
• A passionate argument for LGBTQ equality within religious communities--"a book for our times and a book for the ages" ( EDGE ) The myth that the Bible... Lees meer