The first book to examine the nature, practices, and potential of empathy for understanding and addressing human problems on a global scaleViolence and acts of hatred worldwide—from the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 to wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Darfur, and Palestine—call attention to the critical importance of empathy in human affairs. Empathy in the Global World examines the role of ...

Critical studies of the prophetic voice that reshaped a nation.Martin Luther King Jr. and the Sermonic Power of Public Discourse presents a rich and illuminating examination of Dr. King’s rhetorical mastery, revealing how his most iconic speeches and writings drew deeply from African American sermonic traditions to articulate a moral vision capable of transforming public consciousness. Through nine incisive essays, the volume explores how King’s o...

Grasp the mind-bending popular science of space and time without staring at a single complicated math equation. Perfect for your daily commute or an intellectually stimulating afternoon walk, this journey shatters everyday common sense to reveal reality's true nature.Step aboard speeding trains and imaginary spaceships to build a genuinely intuitive understanding of the universe. By swapping dense classroom lectures for vivid thought experiments, this audio experience transforms pr...

Grasp the mind-bending popular science of space and time without staring at a single complicated math equation. Perfect for your daily commute or an intellectually stimulating afternoon walk, this journey shatters everyday common sense to reveal reality's true nature.Step aboard speeding trains and imaginary spaceships to build a genuinely intuitive understanding of the universe. By swapping dense classroom lectures for vivid thought experiments, this audio experience transforms pr...

Grasp the mind-bending popular science of space and time without staring at a single complicated math equation. Perfect for your daily commute or an intellectually stimulating afternoon walk, this journey shatters everyday common sense to reveal reality's true nature.Step aboard speeding trains and imaginary spaceships to build a genuinely intuitive understanding of the universe. By swapping dense classroom lectures for vivid thought experiments, this audio experience transforms pr...

Grasp the mind-bending popular science of space and time without staring at a single complicated math equation. Perfect for your daily commute or an intellectually stimulating afternoon walk, this journey shatters everyday common sense to reveal reality's true nature.Step aboard speeding trains and imaginary spaceships to build a genuinely intuitive understanding of the universe. By swapping dense classroom lectures for vivid thought experiments, this audio experience transforms pr...

What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever."It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNNOriginally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of tel...

Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable effect on the fabric of daily life and the laws of the nation. As no other preacher in living memory and no politician since Lincoln, he transposed the themes of love, suffering, deliverance, and justice from the sacred shelte...

Over the past ten years, the work of Michael Eric Dyson has become the first stop for readers, writers, and thinkers eager for uncommon wisdom on the racial and political dynamics of contemporary America. Whether writing on religion or sexuality or notions of whiteness, on Martin Luther King, Jr. or Tupac Shakur, Dyson's keen insight and rhetorical flair continue to surprise and challenge. This collection gathers the best of Dyson's growing body of work: his most incisive commentary, his m...

A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveho...

A classic work on religion and the racial problems of modern america -now brought up to date.Since the early days of the Republic, Americans' exuberant, unchastened idealism, their commitment to the notion of a perfect society in the New World, has clashed with the reality of ugly American society, and religious groups have all too often accommodated themselves to these injustices.In Race, Religion, and the Continuing American Dilemma, C. Eric Lincoln reevaluates wha...

Educator, writer, critic, intellectual, film-maker-Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been widely praised as being one of America's most prominent and prolific scholars. In what will be an essential volume, The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader collects three decades of writings from his many fields of interest and expertise.From his earliest work of literary-historical excavation in 1982, through his current writings on the history and science of African American genealogy, the ess...