China's hypercompetitive job market is stunting and distorting the lives of an entire generation. Forced into a cutthroat doom loop, the people interviewed in Involution highlight how they are pitted against their colleagues, assigned pointless or impossible tasks, and warped by hostile environments. In response to an antisocial work culture, forms of passive resistance have become endemic.Through conversations with young workers from across China, the Gonglao Collective paints a h...

The Renewable Normal confronts the aesthetic, affective, and political dimensions of the transition to renewable energy. Written by the After Oil Collective, the book examines how renewable energy is being marshaled to sustain existing systems of inequality and exploitation under a banner of techno-optimism and green growth. It introduces the concept of the “renewable normal” to describe a regime of energy transition that promises transformation but delivers continuity, repackagin...

Reconnect with tradition and wonder during the holidaysA Christmas Keepsake Book invites families to slow down and savor the season. This beautifully curated collection of 24 classic carols and poems includes tender favorites like “Silent Night” and “O Christmas Tree,” along with joyful sing-along classics like “Jingle Bells” and “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Each piece is paired with whimsical full-color artwork that ca...

This thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.If you want to know how to teach poetry—in a university, a high school, at a nature preserve, in a hospital, or in your living room—read this book.June Jordan's Poetry for the People details how to build a grassroots poetry program through a collection of strategies, sample student wo...

The Art of Surrender is a powerful Christian anthology that redefines surrender not as defeat, but as a sacred posture of trust, obedience, and oneness with Yahweh. Through deeply personal testimonies, the women of The Daughters of Yah Collective invite readers into the honest, often uncomfortable, yet life-giving process of letting go of their own plans, timelines, control, fear, pride, and pain in order to embrace the perfect will of God.Each chapter offers a distinct st...

An expansive lexicon of words, terms, concepts, and ideas that takes the multiplicity of Black life as its point of departure.Thinking from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contributors—the Practicing Refusal Collective—are visual artists, poets, dancers, historians, writers, architects, painters, theorists, activists, anthropologists, filmmakers, educators, and musicians. Each has engaged with the idea of a lexicon of Black living and ta...

**"A monumental reflection in time, through blackness into light."Steve McQueen, artist and Academy Award-winning filmmaker“Thinking from Black performs the unworlding needed for alternate futures. It emancipates and facilitates meaning-making away from a colonialist orientation toward a globalizing storytelling that sets new frequencies, and logics without outcome. In a moment of great cultural, political, and social uncertainty, Thinking from Black curate...

Apocalypse is in the air. And the far right knows it. Since the pandemic, it has successfully cultivated crises, conspiracy theories, and coalitions to fight a green energy transition. Mobilising online and in the streets, far-right actors cast decarbonisation measures as a 'war on cars' endangering individual liberty, the nuclear family, the nation, and western civilisation.In The Great Driving Right Show, the Zetkin Collective traces the evolution of these conflicts and ...

The Chocolatier's Kitchen offers over 270 simple, concrete and practical recipes, covering the entire spectrum in confectionary (from bonbon, to truffles, snack bars, ...). From short, to medium or long shelf life, inspired by the Callebaut five colours of chocolate and executed in different chocolate types. The proud collective of Callebaut Chefs have bundled their expertise to conquer hearts and deliver inspiration, motivation and knowledge for every chocolate artisan & Chef, wh...

Say cheers and serve up these amazing healthy drinks courtesy of one of America's most beloved eateries with this fun gift ebook of refreshing recipes.***INCLUDES THREE NEVER-BEFORE PUBLISHED MOST-REQUESTED DRINK RECIPES FROM MOOSEWOOD RESTAURANT!***Moosewood Restaurant, founded in 1973, revolutionized vegetarian cooking by introducing delicious soups, satisfying sandwiches, warming casseroles, zesty entrees, spiffy salads, and divine desserts. Moosewoo...

Yamcha is a collection of fictional short stories and poems, dedicated to the popular Malaysian pastime of the same name.Enjoy this anthology of wistful poems and memories to fantastical stories with your favourite cup of warm tea or even satay. You can even take a quiz to find out which yamcha location you are when you're done. Best savoured with a cup of milky hot tea alone or reading aloud with friends at your favourite mamak joint.First published at CAFKL 2018, now avai...

The Vulpine Industrial Conglomerate has secured the rights to British rainfall. The Precipitation Privatisation Act includes a Splatter Indemnity Clause allowing citizens to be sued for unauthorised collection of water via damp clothing. The Treasury has not yet worked out the logistics of meter installation in the human trachea, but they are getting there.Agent Black has been briefed.Black is a greylag goose, an operative of the Service, barely a foot tall, and possessed o...