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Thick with trouble

"In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being "trouble"-difficult, unruly, powerful, defiant-is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees. Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth, and life outside the male gaze, Amber McBride has craf

 
The Student- A Short History

From the president of Wesleyan University, an illuminating history of the student, spanning from antiquity to Zoom

 
Sound and silence - my experience with China and literature

"Yan Lianke is a renowned writer of novels, short stories, and essays who became prominent in contemporary Chinese literature through works of fiction and literary criticism in the late 1990s. Yan's writing is provocative and nuanced, engaging Chinese history to highlight the reality of life for the people of China and to analyze the country's contributions to a worldwide literary canon. Working against increasing publication restrictions in China, Yan has sought out publishing opportunities in

 
Slow food, fast cars - Casa Maria Luigia stories and recipes

The renowned chef behind three-Michelin-starred restaurant Osteria Francescana invites you to Casa Maria Luigia, her idyllic guest house in the Italian countryside, where she shares 85 authentic, accessible recipes for each meal of the day, providing information about the dish's origins and ingredients while sharing personal essays and fascinating stories.

 
Simply chic - modern interior design

"A lavish collection of 30 spectacular homes around the world that are the epitome of chic, including coastal escapes, country retreats, and dramatic city residences. Chic is sophistication and elegance, balance and ebullience. It is stylish and fashionable, but never trendy and never tries too hard. On this exclusive Veranda tour of stunning homes, the talented designers and architects offer palettes, patterns, and points of view that are utterly confident and breathtakingly inspiring. The book

 
Selling the dream - the billion-dollar industry bankrupting Americans

"Peabody and Emmy Award-winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to expose the scourge of multilevel marketing schemes and how they have profited off the evisceration of the American working class. We've all heard of Amway, Mary Kay, Tupperware, and LuLaRoe, but few know the nefarious way they and countless other multilevel marketing (MLM) companies prey on desperate Americans struggling to make ends meet. When factories close, stalwart industries shutter, and blue-

 
The secret mind of Bertha Pappenheim - the woman who invented Freud's talking cure

"In 1880 in Vienna, young Bertha Pappenheim lost her ability to control her voice and body and was treated by Sigmund Freud's mentor, Josef Breuer, who diagnosed her with "hysteria." Pappenheim and Breuer developed what she called "the talking cure"-talking out memories so that symptoms go away-which became the basis for psychoanalysis. Brownstein describes Pappenheim as a brilliant feminist thinker, a crusader against human trafficking, and a pioneer in her own right. He also tells a parallel s

 
The science of weird shit - why our minds conjure the paranormal

"Psychological insights into weird beliefs and experiences"--

 
School moms - parent activism, partisan politics, and the battle for public education

"An on-the-ground look at the rise of parent activism in response to the far-right attacks on public school education"--

 
Rising Son- The Life and Music of Arlo Guthrie Volume 10

Rising Son: The Life and Music of Arlo Guthrie, written by award-winning author Hank Reineke, recounts the veteran musician's second act, from the early 1980s to the present. Featuring extensive reflections and commentary from Guthrie himself, this book is the only authorized biography of the renowned folk singer.

 
Said on opera

"In May of 1997 Edward W. Said delivered the Empson Lectures at Cambridge University under the title "Authority and Transgression in Opera." He planned to publish the lectures with Cambridge but never finished the manuscript. Some portions of the lectureswere published in journals, about 20 years ago.The lecture typescripts are preserved in the Edward W. Said Papers at Columbia. The Edward W. Said Estate and Wouter Capitain have collaborated on the proposal for this book. The typescripts require

 

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