Poems about unknowing and the uncertainty of in-between statesShadow of the Living Brightness takes its title from Christian mystic Hildegard of Bingen’s description of the ‘sensation of God’s presence.’ Béchard manages to make this and other ineffables effable in this collection of poems that offers multiple dimensions of knowing and feeling that are at once fugitive and palpable. How to limn the tension between stepping into and away f...

This book is about macroeconomics as a major field of economic theory. The reference to "alternative macroeconomic theory" emphasizes the distance from mainstream and Keynesian economics. There are important groundings in this book, notably in Marxian, Keynesian, Schumpeterian, and Minskian approaches, but no strict adhesion to a particular train of thought.The frontal treatment of "disequilibrium" is the key idiosyncratic feature. Disequilibrium is understood in the strict sense, ...

Adapted from the New York Times' acclaimed "Overlooked" column, this collection of ten true stories about dreamers and doers, from scientists to stuntwomen, celebrates larger-than-life heroes who have gone unappreciated--until now!What do a high-flying stuntwoman, a radio astronomer, a music producer, and a woman who went over Niagara Falls in a barrel have in common? They all wowed the people in their lives with their accomplishments--but none were commem...

From the author of Pale Shadows, a delicate reimagining of the relationships that created the great American novelWhile writing Moby Dick, Herman Melville meets Nathaniel Hawthorne, an encounter that alters the course of his life and his novel. From this true story of friendship, only a handful of Melville’s letters remain. Inspired by the surviving correspondence, Dominique Fortier imagines the passionate relationship between the two authors: the...

How do the descendants of enslaved people from the West Indies perceive the consequences of transatlantic slavery today? How do they view this legacy? What do the variations in discourses from one island to another reveal?This book presents an original study based on a survey on slavery in Dominica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Saint Lucia, to which 100 people responded. The findings provide an overview of how this heritage is perceived, while revealing the common and unique element...

Dominique Morisseau’s most radical play yet follows two Black women living more than a century apart as they struggle to define freedom for themselves.Confederates tells the story of two women in what at first appear to be radically different circumstances. Sara is an enslaved rebel ferrying information from the plantation to Union soldiers. Sandra is a political science professor fighting the patriarchy at a predominantly white university. As the play pro...

Seasoned Canadian survivalist Pierre Pannetier unearths a runestone—evidence of a forgotten Norse settlement and inscriptions pointing to a long‑lost treasure. To decipher it, he turns to Katya, a brilliant but introverted Swedish anthropologist whose expertise reveals something far more dangerous than buried gold.The rune markings point to a stolen document of immense power: a secret treaty once forged between Rome and Constantinople, capable of shaking the foundations of the Chri...

Create schools students don′t want to missChronic absenteeism continues to affect schools across the world, yet traditional approaches—rewards, punishments, and attendance campaigns—rarely address the underlying reasons students miss school. Improving Attendance in Your School and Classroom offers educators, school leaders, counselors, and support staff a comprehensive, research-grounded framework for improving attendance through relationships, engagement,...

Givry, Burgundy, 1943. In occupied France, Élise Gaillard, a seemingly quiet pharmacist, wages her own shadow war. False papers, silent acts of sabotage, erased identities — she helps Resistance fighters and Jewish families vanish from the reach of the Germans.But when a wounded British airman parachutes into her vineyard, everything changes. Hiding him is a direct challenge to the Gestapo, all the more perilous because he is Jewish and in possession of aerial photographs taken ove...

The Roommate MarriageHow to Stop Co-Managing Your Life and Reclaim Intimacy Through Micro-Rituals and Shared ConnectionYou still share a home. You still handle the bills, the schedules, the children, the errands, and the endless small decisions that keep life moving.But somewhere along the way, your marriage began to feel less like a relationship and more like a management team.You are not necessarily fighting. Nothing dramatic may have happened. From the out...

A notification at 11:47 PM. Three words on a screen: I miss you.In the modern era, betrayal doesn’t start in a hotel bar. It starts on a smartphone. It begins with a seemingly harmless Slack message, a late-night gaming chat, or a dating app you forgot to delete. Infidelity today is rarely an accident—it is a predictable outcome of unchecked digital temptations and invisible emotional gaps.The quiet epidemic of modern relationships is that most couples never realize how clo...

You recognize the moment it begins—the familiar tone, the heavy sigh, the instant shift into the same exhausting script you have performed dozens of times. The topic changes, yet the outcome never does. Dishes, texts, schedules, or spending always circle back to the same unresolved tension and emotional fatigue.How to Stop Fighting About the Same Thing shows you exactly why these loops persist and how to dismantle them. You will learn to separate surface triggers from the deeper dy...