Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
Category: Social Sciences
TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATUREUpdated with 100+ pages of new material and a foreword by Janette Sadik-KhanThe bestselling urban planning book of the past decade, translated into seven languages, Walkable City has changed the conversation on community design ...Show more
Black Trans Feminism by Marquis Bey
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study Ser.
In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each. Theorizing black trans feminism from the vantages of abolition and gender radicality, Bey articulates blackness as a mutiny against racializing cate ...Show more
The Muslim Problem: Why We're Wrong About Islam and Why It Matters by Tawseef Khan
Category: Social Sciences
A provocative exploration of what it means to be a Muslim today. Why do we see Muslim men as inherently violent? Does the veil violate women's rights? Is Islam stopping Muslims from integrating? Across western societies Muslims are more misunderstood than any other minority. But what does it mean to bel ...Show more
Bookishness - Loving Books in a Digital Age by Jessica Pressman
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Literature Now Ser.
Jessica Pressman explores the rise of "bookishness" as an identity and an aesthetic strategy that proliferates from store-window décor to experimental writing. Ranging from literature to kitsch objects, stop-motion animation films to book design, she considers the multivalent meanings of books in contem ...Show more
Good Arguments - How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo
Category: Social Sciences
"The rare book that has the potential to make you smarter--and everyone around you wiser." --Adam GrantTwo-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of effective communica ...Show more
IRL: Finding Our Real Selves in a Digital World by Chris Stedman
Category: Social Sciences
What does "IRL" really mean in the digital age? Every day, the lines between digital and real space blur even further. "A must-read" (Buzzfeed Books), IRL invites us to consider how the online spaces we use might fulfill our essential human need to feel real. "A must-read." --Buzzfeed It's reflexive and ...Show more
A Social Media Survival Guide - How to Use the Most Popular Platforms and Protect Your Privacy by Melody Karle
Category: Social Sciences | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The every person's guide to social media... how to use it and what never to do. Are you trying to figure out how to safely use social media but finding yourself struggling? Here's a book specifically designed to help regular people figure out social media platforms. It begins with a chapter about social ...Show more
The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Soci al Impact Driving Movements We Need Now More tha n Ever by Mapp Frett
Category: Social Sciences
While I was Listening is a book that looks at the needs of feminist movements and the champions and organizations that are behind them. We know that everyday women start and sustain modern social movements like Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Mi Unas Menos, etc. But we only hear about these women and their ...Show more
Postsecular Sacred: Jung, Soul ... by David Tacey
Category: Social Sciences
In The Postsecular Sacred: Jung, Soul and Meaning in an Age of Change, David Tacey presents a unique psychological study of the postsecular, adding a Jungian perspective to a debate shaped by sociology, philosophy and religious studies. In this interdisciplinary exploration, Tacey looks at the unexpecte ...Show more
The Great Reset - And the War for the World by Alex Jones
Category: Social Sciences
In The Great Reset: And the War for the World, the most controversial man on earth Alex Jones gives you a full analysis of The Great Reset, the global elite's international conspiracy to enslave humanity and all life on the planet. If you really want to know what's happening in the world, this is the on ...Show more