Tarek, a biographer who doesn't know his own story, gets a call from Helga of the former East Germany. She now lives in Vienna and wants him to write her life story. Finding Tarek has put Helga's life on a new path. Meanwhile, Tarek is lost in his own problems. He is back in Vienna to care for his sick father and see his self-absorbed mother's new art exhibit. He has an angry and pregnant Danish girlfriend at home in Ireland but is rekindling a relationship from his childhood in Vienna. Ho...

Finding Grace with God: A Phenomenological Reading of the Annunciation engages in an interweaving of phenomenology, mystical theology, and feminist philosophy to unfold a theopoetic interpretation of the narrative of the Annunciation in the Gospel of Luke. It begins with a discussion of the foundational phenomenologies of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and then moves to the more recent work of several French phenomenologists, including Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Louis Chretien, and Michel Hen...

National Bestseller: A hilarious and emotionally charged novel about a couple who embark on an open marriage-what could possibly go wrong?Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb. They've got a two hundred year-old house, an autistic son obsessed with the Titanic, and 17 chickens, at last count. It's the kind of p...

An award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism—thirtieth anniversary editionA fascinating chronicle of radical feminism’s rise and fall from the mid-60s to the mid-70s, Daring to Be Bad is a must-listen for both students of gender history and activists of intersectionality. This thirtieth anniversary edition reveals how current debates about race, transgender rights, qu...

In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical weaponry that had been secretly stockpiled near the city during the Cold War. In this probing work, Ellen Griffith Spears offers a compelling narrative of Anniston's battles for environmental justice...

A series of prose and poetry by emerging and established writers from Indigenous, migrant & refugee backgrounds that has been praised by award-winning author Jamie Marina Lau as 'stories that need to be told louder'.The Big Black Thing: Chapter. 1 is the first issue in a series of prose and poetry by emerging and established writers from Indigenous, migrant and refugee backgrounds. Featuring Peter Polites, Winnie Dunn, Stephen Pham, Shirley Le, Jason Gray, Maryam Azam, Lou...

Encounter the scariest clowns and freakiest curiosities under the big top, in stories by Stephen Graham Jones, Laird Barron, Priya Sharma, and others.With an introduction from Katherine DunnLadies and gentlemen, step right up for fifteen tales of terrifying rides, supernatural sideshows, and petrifying performers guaranteed to keep you up all night—with Hugo and Bram Stoker Award–winning editor Ellen Datlow as the ringmaster.In Stephen Graham ...

The sea is a dangerous, unknowable entity, with depths that man has yet to explore and creatures that we may never encounter. The seas that surround the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador are particularly vicious, with freezing waves, terrible winds, and strong undertows.This collection features fifteen tales designed to highlight the strange beauty and wonderful thrill of the sea. Delve into stories from genius authors such as Lisa M Daly (Navigating Stories), Brad Dunne...

Embark on a captivating journey through the American Civil War with the "North & South (Civil War Boxed Set)," a collection that deftly captures the complexity and chaos of one of the defining periods in American history. This anthology brings together a diverse range of literary styles, from thrilling adventure tales and poignant dramas to incisive social commentaries. Spanning various themes such as honor, sacrifice, and the tumultuous human spirit, the collection offers readers an insig...

North & South (Civil War Boxed Set) is an evocative and comprehensive anthology that unites an eclectic range of literary voices against the backdrop of America's most tumultuous years. The collection embodies the overarching themes of conflict, resilience, and transformation that defined the Civil War era. Encompassing a broad spectrum of styles'Äîfrom the astute observations of wartime memoirs to vivid fictional portrayals'Äîeach piece offers a unique window into the epoch's socio-politi...

This book examines the increased standardization and management of community college course outlines in Ontario and the associated decline in the ability of college professors to effectively educate their students. Dunn tracks the changes of increased pressure from corporations to privatize public services and make them for-profit friendly. Interviews of program faculty who have recently been forced to use course outlines for the first time, along with critical analyses of a sample course ...

In the years since it was first published, this influential book based on the highly innovative findings of social psychologist Dr. Ellen J. Langer and her team of researchers at Harvard made its mark for its unique concept of mindfulness, thoroughly adapted to contemporary life in the West. Langer’s theory has been applied to a wide number of fields, including health, business, aging, prejudice, and learning. There is now a new psychological assessment based on her work (called the Langer...