Arcade: 311 books
The Pastures of Beyond
An Old Cowboy Looks Back at the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
At age thirteen, Dayton Hyde, a spirited beanpole of a boy, ran away from home in Michigan to Yamsi, his uncle’s ranch in eastern Oregon. This was in the 1930s, and Yamsi was one of the last great cattle ranches of the West. Soon the boy, nicknamed Hawk,” was riding a horse, soaking up ranch...
Sex Is Forbidden
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute, the Buddhist retreat where Beth Marriot has taken refuge, and that’s a big advantage. Beth has been working as a server, assisting in the kitchen and helping out—discreetly, so the meditators aren’t disturbed. The meditators are making big sacrifices...
Periods Gone Public
Taking a Stand for Menstrual Equity
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The first book to explore menstruation in the current cultural and political landscape and to investigate the new wave of period activism taking the world by storm.
After centuries of being shrouded in taboo and superstition, periods have gone mainstream. Seemingly overnight, a new, high-profile...
by Rosa Arcade
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
[Revised Edition] The Job Hunter's Guide is an easy-to-use book will guide you through your job search process, step-by-step. It includes helpful tips on:* Networking and Research;* Informational interviews;* Writing resume and cover letters;* Preparing for a job interview;* Interview...
Greed, Inc.
Why Corporations Rule the World and How We Let It Happen
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Why is it that multinational drug companies hide or falsify unfavorable results? Why do automakers knowingly sell us unsafe cars? Why is big business allowed to poison our environment-and us? Why is our food so unhealthy, with obesity growing at such an alarming rate? Why are we working such long...
Wish Lanterns
Young Lives in New China
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
One of the best [books] I’ve read about the individuals who make up a country that is all too often regarded as a monolith.” -Jonathan Fenby, Financial Times
If China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen...
Ecotopia 2121
A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
**A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" Winner
A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**
Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published...
Africa Doesn't Matter
How the West Has Failed the Poorest Continent and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
What happens to the billions of aid dollars given yearly? Why do trade rules that fail African countries also cost us at the checkout line? Why don’t the African people matter? In this engaging, jargon-free, reader-friendly guide, longtime aid worker and diplomat Giles Bolton offers his radical...
by Steven Poole
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The Edge calls Trigger Happy a "seminal piece of work." For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic impact on society to that of film. Thirty years...
People of the First Crusade
The Truth About the Christian-Muslim War Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Near the end of the eleventh century, Western Europe was in turmoil, beset by invasions from both north and south, by the breakdown of law and order, and by the laxity and ignorance of the clergy. Searching for a way out of the increasing anarchy, Pope Urban II launched an army of knights and peasants...
Children Are Diamonds
An African Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This is not the Africa of Isak Dinesen, nor the Africa of Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord’s Resistance Army recruits child-soldiers after forcing them to kill their parents and eat their hearts. The aid workers who voluntarily subject themselves...
by Donald Everett Axinn
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Grounded in nature and the earth, but often soaring to high altitudes (Axinn is a veteran pilot) this new book of poems catches moods, seasons, weather; poses questions large and small about life, the earth, the passage of time and the seasons, about geography and geometry. In this his sixth volume of poems, he hones his language more cleanly and elegantly than ever before.
Travel in My Borrowed Lives
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
For almost half a century, Donald Everett Axinn has been writing poetry in which, as Jay Parini notes in his introduction, "the stamp of individuality, the personal voice of the poet, lives on every page." A seasoned pilot, as well as a poet and novelist, Axinn revels as much in viewing the world...
Ivy League Stripper
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Heidi Mattson successfully united sex and scholarship to realize a '90s version of the American Dream by becoming a smart, sassy, self-confident stripper while attending Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Intelligent and ambitious, she grew up