Since 2012, The Wayfarer has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspires our readers,enrich their lives, and highlight the power for agencyand change-making that each individual holds.By our definition, a wayfarer is one whose inner compass is ever-oriented to truth, wisdom, healing, and beauty in their own wandering. The Wayfarer's mission as a publication is to foster a community of contemplative voices and provide ...

Originally published in 1940, From Thirty Years with Freud by Theodor Reik is the English translation of a collection of essays presenting the author's memories of Freud. The book includes an unknown lecture of Freud, Freud as a critic of our culture, and diverse subjects treated from the psychoanalytic standpoint. Several of these articles have appeared elsewhere before, mostly in German. The final group of essays, originally dedicated to Freud on his successive birthdays, deal with embar...

Described as "one of the best coming-of-age novels of the twentieth century," Theodore Weesner's modern American classic is now on audio!It's 1959. Sixteen-year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fourteenth car and frankly doesn't know why. His divorced, working-class father grinds out the night shift at the local Chevy plant in Detroit and looks forward to the flask in his glove compartment and the open bottles of booze in his Flint, Michigan, home. Broke and fighting to survive...

"A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." —Susan SontagA reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.This audiobook is expertly read by Joel Richards, with audio engineering by Katie Jackson. It was ...

Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees surveys the "Amherst School" of non-determinist Marxist political economy, 40 years on: its core concepts, intellectual origins, diverse pathways, and enduring tensions. The volume’s 30 original essays reflect the range of perspectives and projects that comprise the Amherst School—the interdisciplinary community of scholars that has enriched and extended, while never ceasing to interrogate and recast, the anti-economistic...

Drawing from the work of top researchers in various fields, The Handbook of Research on Black Males explores the nuanced and multifaceted phenomena known as the black male. Simultaneously hyper-visible and invisible, black males around the globe are being investigated now more than ever before; however, many of the well-meaning responses regarding media attention paid to black males are not well informed by research. Additionally, not all black males are the same, and each of them...

The Oxford Book of American Essays emerges as a seminal collection that captures the breadth and evolution of American thought through an array of essays spanning diverse literary styles and themes. This anthology assembles a rich tapestry of reflective narratives, philosophical discourses, and explorative prose from an array of pioneering writers. With essays that explore the intricacies of nature, society, and individualism, the book offers pieces of remarkable depth and insight, embodyi...

We are in a period of unknowns unlike any in a generation or more. As educators, we need new pathways and ideas that can help us educate children for the world to come. Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World provides practical steps and examples that parents and educators can use to begin to create new learning spaces, approaches, and outcomes. Dr. Richards's provocative book asks us to reconsider some of our basic assumptions about t...

I want to know what happened to Icarus after his wings melted away, when he fell into the fathomless sea.This is where the story begins.Ours is undeniably a world on fire. The seas are rising, forests burn, geopolitical strife accelerates, and our inner lives are increasingly unmoored, in collapse. Many of us no longer know our place in this world. Like Icarus, we are in free fall.Tracing the author's travels through some of the most despairing, remote, an...

Communism and Socialism represent different and yet allied movements of theory and practice. They aim to improve the common lot of humanity, in particular that of the lower classes, in a radical manner and by the application of thoroughgoing measures. Now, when we utter the word improvement we indicate a desire to change, and consequently dissatisfaction with the state which is to be changed. This brings us at once to the common standing-ground of politico-economic reformers. They are one ...

How did the Civil War affect the current cultural attitudes of those born in North Carolina? Did the US Civil War’s historical impact of defeat lead to Southern Families never forgetting their invalidation and blaming all “Northerners” for the economic hardships of the Federal Government? One hundred and fifty-eight years have passed, but generational links continued to weave the perception that poverty and despair are still factors created by the Northern Federal Government. If in 2023, N...

The fictional novel, AIR, RAIN, AND THUNDER©, focuses on the American (CIA)’s Covert Air & Land War in Asia from 1954 to 1964. If the (CIA) and the (USAF) had used advanced 2021-2025 military technologies, the War in Vietnam would have been short and not approximately 30 years, from 1955 to 1975, but within three years (1961-1964). America would have been victorious, and President Kennedy would not have been assassinated by the CIA.The main characters are (USAF) Military Commandos,...