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White Coat, Black Hat

Adventures on the Dark Side of Medicine

by Carl Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010

Over the last twenty-five years, medicine and consumerism have been on an unchecked collision course, but, until now, the fallout from their impact has yet to be fully uncovered. A writer for The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, Carl Elliott ventures into the uncharted dark side of medicine,...

Expand Social Security Now!

How to Ensure Americans Get the Retirement They Deserve

by Steven Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

Why Social Security is not only sustainable but should be substantially expanded Social Security is bankrupting us. It’s outdated. It’s a Ponzi scheme. It’s stealing from young people. These are some of the biggest myths and lies about one of the most successful programs in our nation’s...
by Gayl Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 1987

Here is Gayl Jones's classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
by Alice Childress
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017

A new edition of Alice Childress’s classic novel about African American domestic workers, featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First published in Paul Robeson’s newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One...
by Octavia E. Butler
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004

The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now. Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband...
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer   Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2006

In the first anthology of its kind, Lila Azam Zanganeh argues that although Iran looms large in the American imagination, it is grossly misunderstood-seen either as the third pillar of Bush's infamous "axis of evil" or as a nation teeming with youths clamoring for revolution. This...

The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings

by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013

A collection of the most well-known and treasured writings and speeches of Dr. King, available for the first time as an ebook The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. is the ultimate collection of Dr. King's most inspirational and transformative speeches and sermons, accessibly available for the...

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon

On Objects and Intimacy

by Mark Doty
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002

Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (The New York Times Book Review) and "achingly beautiful" (The Boston Globe). In Still Life with Oysters and Lemon he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with human store, and why.

Thirst

Poems

by Mary Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2006

Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of her beloved partner of over forty years, she strives to experience sorrow as a path to spiritual progress, grief as part of loving...

Why I Wake Early

New Poems

by Mary Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2004

The forty-seven new works in this volume include poems on crickets, toads, trout lilies, black snakes, goldenrod, bears, greeting the morning, watching the deer, and, finally, lingering in happiness. Each poem is imbued with the extraordinary perceptions of a poet who considers the everyday in our lives and the natural world around us and finds a multitude of reasons to wake early.
by Mary Oliver
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

When New and Selected Poems, Volume One was originally published in 1992, Mary Oliver was awarded the National Book Award. In the fourteen years since its initial appearance it has become one of the best-selling volumes of poetry in the country. This collection features thirty poems published only...
by Viktor E. Frankl
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

A young readers’ edition of the best-selling classic about the Holocaust and finding meaning in suffering, with a photo insert, a glossary of terms, a chronology of Frankl’s life, and supplementary letters and speeches The Library of Congress called it “one of the ten most influential...

Art and Culture

Critical Essays

by Clement Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1971

"Clement Greenberg is, internationally, the best-known American art critic popularly considered to be the man who put American vanguard painting and sculpture on the world map. . . . An important book for everyone interested in modern painting and sculpture."—The New York Times
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