Sundial House.mp4
New from Sundial House! These stories, by Latin American and Iberian authors, explore the complexities of the human heart, resilience, community, and displacement. https://buff.ly/3EjWa1p
Marília Arnaud 's THE BOOK OF AFFECTS is a collection of short stories devoted to uncovering the moving, complex, and often mystifying workings of the human heart.
Luisa Etxenike's CROSSING WATERS depicts a Colombian woman and her son finding their way in the Spanish Basque country.
Verónica Gerber Bicecci's THE COMPANY uses mixed media to tell the story of a mining company’s arrival in a small town and the terrorizing of its inhabitants.
#FictionReads #BookLovers #LiteraryFiction #MigrationStories #CulturalIdentity #FamilyResilience #BasqueCountry #FictionThatMatters #ImmigrantExperience #MixedMediaStorytelling #ThoughtProvokingReads #IdentityAndBelonging #BookLovers #ShortStorie
Rockbook.mp4
New from Rockbook! Take a delightful journey into Japanese popular culture through yokai art. Yokai are strange, mysterious creatures that populate Japanese folklore and inspire contemporary art and entertainment, such as Pokémon and the Oscar-winning film Spirited Away. POP YOKAI replicates The Yokai Art Museum in a book. It includes material written by Dr. Masanobu Kagawa, museum director, Chubei Yagyu, and yokai tales from Shodoshima and other parts of Kagawa. https://buff.ly/3WksDLw #Yokai #Japan #Art #YokaiArt #Anime #Manga Yōkai Art
Peterson Institute for International Economics.mp4
New from the Peterson Institute for International Economics ! THE CENTRAL BANK AS CRISIS MANAGER calls on central banks to make preparation for crisis management a core activity. Departing from the rather sedate mode of operation appropriate to their normal focus on price stability and risk control, they must speed up their decision making, change their style of communication, and be more open to cooperation with governments when a crisis hits. https://buff.ly/4g2siUu
Q&A Hannibal Lokumbe.mp4
What does it take to heal from the wounds of segregation? Today, we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy with a touching conversation between orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician Hannibal Lokumbe and his coauthor Lauren Coyle Rosen. Together, they reflect on his life journey, beginning with the segregation era and how he found liberation and healing from past traumas through music, storytelling, and community. His journey echoes Dr. King's belief in the power of art and collective action to mend hearts and bridge divides. https://buff.ly/4h2HdzC
#MLKDay #MartinLutherKingJr #HannibalLokumbe #HealingThroughArt #SegregationStories #RacialHealing #JusticeAndEquality #MusicForChange #CivilRightsMovement #LegacyOfLove #EqualityForAll #JazzAndJustice #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #BlackMusicians #BlackAuthors #BlackLivesInTheDiaspora
Jagiellonian University Press.mp4
Explore the impact of modern theater, or learn about adapting to change in business with these new titles from https://buff.ly/4jhp5Dg
TWENTIETH-CENTURY MODELS OF THE THEATRICAL WORK offers a clear model of reflection on a work of theater art and on the consequences and achievements of contemporary theatrical autonomism.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCES outlines the directions of evolution in management sciences, focusing on changes emerging in the environment and emphasizing the processes of adaptation and resilience building. https://buff.ly/3DTgyGF
ibidem.mp4
New from ibidem-Verlag! From stories of resilience and love, to borders, identity, and the meaning of home, these works will inspire readers to reflect on the human spirit amid war, resistance, and change. https://buff.ly/4aeAkIT
DARK DAYS, DETERMINED PEOPLE is a collection of stories from diverse regions of Ukraine since the beginning of the 2022 full-scale invasion that speak of courage, resilience, pain, death, love, and hope.
EXECUTING A RENAISSANCE is an attempt at existential optimism and a response to the poets, thinkers, and scholars who are again persecuted and executed by the Russian soldateska.
In PHANTOM BORDER Kerstin Lange uses the German Green Belt as a map for a multifaceted investigation of borders, migration, identity, and the meaning of home.
THE WILD WEST OF EASTERN EUROPE discusses how Ukraine has become the new West Berlin of Eastern Europe.
WHY DO THEY KILL OUR PEOPLE? is a collection of stories from witnesses and victims of Russian war atrocities that occurred in Ukraine during the full-scale Russian invasion that started in 2022.
#Ukraine #UkrainianResilience #UkrainianHistory #UkraineStories
Fernwood.mp4
New from Fernwood Publishing! From the struggles of the public housing community to navigating 2SLGBTQ+ family planning to free speech, these stories of activism and resilience will inspire readers to rethink, learn, and act. https://buff.ly/4gYvH7Q
CAUGHT IN THE EYE OF THE STORM is a historical account of a public housing community struggling and persevering in the face of stigmatization, oppression, and urban revitalization.
CONCEIVABLE is a practical guide to navigating the politics, challenges, choices, and opportunities in 2SLGBTQ+ fertility, conception, and family building in Canada.
FOR LAND AND CULTURE offers a fascinating and historically important account of the little-known struggle of Iran’s Turkmen peasant movement for collective control over land, democracy and cultural revival.
RETHINK FREE SPEECH challenges readers to rethink free speech to better address diverse goals from knowledge production to democratic participation and individual expression.
GOT BLOOD TO GIVE investigates how racist and homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation.
THINKING SYSTEMATICS is a toolkit for the mind designed to improve how we think about the world, analyze information, and pursue our goals.
#SocialJustice #LGBTQFamilies #CanadaReads #Equity
Featured at MLA 2025 (1).mp4
In literary studies, we publish books that examine how literature offers new ways of thinking about modern and contemporary history, politics, the global, gender, the environment, and our interaction with technology and media. Check out our complete list of Modern Language Association conference titles at booth 210 or online. https://buff.ly/40Cj5y1
LOVE, JOE presents a selection of Brainard’s letters stretching from 1959 to 1993, offering an intimate view of his personal and artistic life.
SCATTERED AND FUGITIVE THINGS tells the stories of these Black collectors, traveling from the parlors of the urban north to HBCU reading rooms and branch libraries in the Jim Crow south.
Offering new ways to grasp the meanings and implications of Black freedom, THE DARK DELIGHT OF BEING STRANGE invites us to reimagine history and memory, time and space, our identities and ourselves.
IRREPARABLE EVIL explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations.
In UNSEASONABLE, Sarah Dimick links accounts of shifting seasons across the globe, tracing how knowledge of climate change is constructed, conveyed, and amplified through literature.
In HELL, Timothy Morton argues that there is an unexpected yet profound relationship between religion and ecology that can guide a planet-scale response to the climate crisis.
#MLA25 #LiteraryStudies #BlackStudies #Nature #ClimateChange
Eris.mp4
New From Eris! From cultural history and radical democracy to art, poetry, and personal journeys of intellectuals and revolutionaries, these books offer insights into the complex human experience. https://buff.ly/4a78kqm
THE MODERSOHN-BECKER/RILKE CORRESPONDENCE provides a fascinating view of everyday life during an exceptionally fertile and exciting period of cultural production.
I MUST HAVE A GREAT INNER LIFE will prove an indispensable companion to a major figure, Hans Hartung, in the cultural life of the last century.
LIVE THEORY brings together in thirteen seminal essays Aronowitz’s theoretical contributions to fundamental questions regarding science, class, culture, and education, alongside his pioneering interventions on labor, contract unionism, and the ongoing struggle for radical democracy.
HUNGRY GHOSTS sees the prize-winning poet Gabriele Tinti collaborate with the acclaimed photographer Roger Ballen on a unique artistic engagement with the furthest edges of life and consciousness.
STORY OF A COMMUNIST—the first volume of Negri’s three-part autobiography—gives a riveting account of his intellectual development and of the price he paid for living out his ideals.
2024 MLA Aards.mp4
Attending #MLA25? 🎉📚 Stop by booth 201P to browse our MLA award-winning titles. We can't wait to see you there! Modern Language Association https://buff.ly/4iVqdMK
ON THE EDGE probes precarity in contemporary China through the lens of the dark and angry cultural forms that chronic uncertainty has generated.
Drawing on a rich collection of sources, including newly recovered recordings, listeners’ letters to radio stations, original interviews with broadcasters, and archival documents from across three continents, RADIO FOR THE MILLIONS rethinks assumptions about how the medium connects with audiences.
Revealing how migration shapes and is shaped by language and narrative, MIGRANT AESTHETICS casts fiction as vital testimony to past and present colonial, imperial, and structural displacement and violence.
AFTERLIVES OF LETTERS bridges Asian studies and comparative literature and delivers a remapping of world literature.
THE SISTERHOOD tells the story of how this remarkable community transformed American writing and cultural institutions.
#LiteraryStudies #AsianStudies #AwardWinningBooks #AcademicPublishing
2025.01.03 Association for Asian Studies.mp4
New from the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AAS)! Dive into cinematic creativity, environmental storytelling, and historical narratives with MURAKAMI HARUKI ON FILM, ECO-DISASTERS IN JAPANESE CINEMA, MODERN INDIAN HISTORY. https://buff.ly/4j26F9t
MURAKAMI HARUKI ON FILM offers a timely look at the cinematic adaptations of Japanese writer Murakami Haruki’s fiction over the past forty years. These films demonstrate the way adaptations are fundamentally creative works that say something new about the different cultural contexts in which they appear.
ECO-DISASTERS IN JAPANESE CINEMA explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first book dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japanese cinema.
MODERN INDIAN HISTORY is a chronological historical narrative starting in the 16th century and ending in the present, that considers political, economic, and social developments on the Indian subcontinent.
#AsianStudies #FilmAdaptations #EnvironmentalCinema #IndianHistory
2025.01.02 Agenda Publishing.mp4
New from Agenda Publishing Publishing! From African agriculture to deindustrialization, to Max Weber’s economic insights to net-zero strategies, these works tackle today’s critical social, political, and environmental challenges. https://buff.ly/4gZNUBP
In DECOLONIZING AFRICAN AGRICULTURE, William Moseley advocates for a non-colonial, indigenous agronomy that creates the social innovation needed to support the livelihoods of small-scale farmers.
HERALDS OF DEMOCRATIC EUROPE provides detailed research that challenges the received wisdom in European integration history that there was a "permissive consensus" between European elites and the general public, which allowed European integration to move forward.
MAX WEBER'S SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT ON THE ECONOMY offers a fresh reading of Weber's work and highlights his thinking about the economy and economic interactions in society.
In DEGLOBALIZATION, Edward Ashbee guides the reader through the intricate web of processes and forces of globalization that have shaped the world's politics and economics over the last 40 years.
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF DEINDUSTRIALIZATION is a critical examination of the processes of deindustrialization that explores why it has become an issue of deep politics, informing right-wing populism, contemporary geopolitical tensions (with China), Brexit, the New Green Deal, and leveling up.
UNHAPPY FAMILIES explores the ethical and political dimensions of parenthood, childcare and reproduction, and the dominant ethos of the family, in a world riven by conflict, inequality, and the absence of hope.
In PESSIMISM, QUITEISM AND NATURE AS REFUGE, philosopher David E. Cooper explores the question, "How do we bring about the well-being and happiness we seek in the face of such overwhelming evidence that our condition is and will remain very bad indeed and owes significantly to our own entrenched failings?"
In PREVENTING THE GREENLASH, Lorenzo Forni dissects the net-zero challenge and offers a cle
