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...

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...

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 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...

**"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...

Celebrate the season with Hotwife Digest's special holiday issue, from the ACHE Collective. This special issue of hot letters from our wildest readers unwraps the most daring desires of the holidays. Everyday people like you share their stories of exploring hotwife and cuckold fantasies against the backdrop of festive traditions.From secret encounters beneath the mistletoe to daring adventures at holiday parties and intimate New Year's Eve revelations, each letter ...

Arthur the Magnificent was never magnificent. He was a stage magician who vanished a mayoral wristwatch and never quite reappeared—until he took a job at St. Balthazar's Teaching Hospital, where the impossible operates under NHS billing codes and the line between illusion and medicine has become dangerously, absurdly thin.In Theatre 4, a levitating accountant floats six inches off the surgical table, his chakras misaligned and his floating IV dangling like a question mark. In the m...

Patternmaking method for women’s skirts, shirts, bodices and dresses for flat cutting. Learn the guidelines of the ESMOD patternmaking method to create a collection or complete your wardrobe with bases adapted to women’s ready-to-wear. In this book, you will discover how to make patterns for a woman’s wardrobe that correspond to the “soft dressmaking” workrooms in couture houses: clothing made in supple, often unlined fabrics that are easier to make than clothes done in the “tailoring” wor...

"A i t i o sIs.a divine beingwhich - when pregnant - hold billions of fetuses in the womb at once.One day a disease breaks out amidst the fetuses. A disease which causes the cells to recognize those of other fetuses and the womb as foreign.The affected fetuses see the womb as flesh as good for eating; as good as the flesh of other fetuses.Which of the two is the more excruciating pain?Look at the pyramid. Stacks of fetuses feeding upon...

Chap Fan is another name for economy rice, where consumers select from an array of dishes to accompany their plate of rice. Like the dish, the Chap Fan Chap Book is a collection of eclectic poems written by members of Prose-ACK!, covering daily life, heartbreaks and missed moments. This anthology was originally sold at CAFKL 2015.

This coursebook offers an expansive exploration of bioethics, an interdisciplinary field examining ethical, social, and legal dilemmas in medicine, life sciences, and beyond. It challenges conventional boundaries, embracing Van Rensselaer Potter’s vision of bioethics as a global, holistic ethics of life—integrating human health, environmental considerations, and transdisciplinary insights.Through engaging discussions, thought experiments, and case studies, the book empowers student...