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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the 2022 Colorado Book Award for General Nonfiction Winner of the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Creative Nonfiction Now the basis for an investigative documentary of the same name, award-winning journalist Julian Rubinstein's The Holly...

"Acho’s gregariously pragmatic delivery educates with clarity and makes the book come alive." -- Booklist "Narrated by the author, this audio program feels like an evening with a good friend who doesn't shy away from awkward questions.... A personal interview with his editor, great production...

The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed...

With the same piercing intelligence as the bestselling Say it Loud!, Interracial Intimacies hits a nerve at the center of American society: race relations and our most intimate ties to each other. “The best book written on the subject, an exhaustive source of deep, rich scholarship and...

Bogen til alle, der hylder ligestilling. De peger på familiens skjulte arbejdsopgaver som en skævvridende faktor, og de forklarer, hvordan rutineopgaverne oftest ender hos kvinden, mens manden står for det mere fleksible. Det er en nedarvet tendens og struktur, som vi skal have gjort op med...

Andet bind i Birgitte Wulffs hitkrimiserie om Anne Velin. Denne gang foregår historien hos eliten i dansk ridesport. For Josefine er lykken gjort, da den tidligere landsholdsrytter og ejendomsinvestor Alexander Lunn tager hendes ridekarriere under sine vinger, for hans undervisning er kendt...

FANGET I FAMILIEN er en tankevækkende og gribende familiefortælling om et forspildt liv bag et drab i bandemiljøet, fortalt af en efterladt storesøster, der selv har kæmpet sig fri af den tunge sociale arv i den danske ”indvandrerklasse”. Kun 24 år gammel faldt Ari Hussein i en regn...

HUN SPILLER PÅ TO HOLD MED LIVET SOM INDSATS Femte bog i Birgitte Wulffs populære og anmelderroste krimiserie om journalisten Anne Velin. Amina forsøger at skabe sig et helt almindeligt liv. Hun arbejder i Fødevarestyrelsens Rejsehold, men familien, der er flygtet fra Irak til Danmark og...

Unge piger i gymnasiealderen drives til at sælge stoffer og sig selv. For nogle ender det med døden. BIRGITTE WULFF er forfatter til en række bestsellerbiografier og erfaren kriminalreporter. Hun brillerer med sin research i den anmelderroste og populære serie om journalisten Anne Velin...

Livet begynder i den. Den er på størrelse med en knyttet hånd og har en kraft, der langt overgår dens størrelse. Alle mennesker kommer fra den, men hvad ved vi egentlig om livmoderen, om UTERUS? Er den forbundet med hjernen? Kan livmoderhalsens hulrum gemme på sædceller? Påvirker...

Black people are exhausted. The toll of living within systems designed to exclude them devastates minds, bodies, and spirits. Award-winning diversity, equity, and inclusion leader Mary-Frances Winters—now joined by Mareisha Winters Reese—addresses this ongoing crisis with an urgent update to her bestselling book.

A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read "A powerful and urgent call to action—for the health and safety of half of our population, it’s time we rethink the male body ideal and build a world that includes us all.” —Dr. Elizabeth Comen, MD, medical oncologist, associate professor of medicine at NYU...

In a world that feels more divided than ever, there has never been a greater need for a more nuanced conversation about bias. And while racism is widely recognized as a social ill, there is another, more invisible hierarchy informed by our most visible feature, skin tone--and it impacts all of...

An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy—an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the turn of the twentieth century in Laurinburg, North Carolina. In the late nineteenth century...

A new history of US education through the nineteenth century that rigorously accounts for Black, Native, and white experiences; a story that exposes the idea of American education as “the great equalizer” to not only be a lie, but also a myth that reproduces past harms. Education is the...

AUDIOBOOK READ BY THE AUTHOR “In writing a book about Minneapolis, Justin Ellis has really written a book about America's favorite lie—that good intentions lead to justice. Ellis is a rigorous historian and a visceral storyteller, and he has produced something essential: a reckoning with a...

El movimiento feminista actual tiene un punto ciego y, paradójicamente, son las mismas mujeres. La mayoría de las feministas rara vez hablan de la satisfacción de las necesidades básicas como una cuestión feminista, pero la inseguridad alimentaria, el acceso a una educación de calidad, los barrios seguros, un salario digno y la atención médica son también cuestiones relacionadas. El hecho de que muchas feministas se nieguen a dar prioridad a estas cuestiones no ha hecho más que exacerbar las discordias internas.

A revolutionary work since its publication, Black Power exposed the depths of systemic racism in this country and provided a radical political framework for reform: true and lasting social change would only be accomplished through unity among African-Americans and their independence from the preexisting order.

This work illuminates the efforts of Black educators to fight oppression and institutionalized racism in schools. It provides strategies that district and school leadership can adopt to recruit, retain, and support Black educators in schools.

A searing critique of the disability rights movement from within, and a call for collective liberation that is pro-Black and centers disabled people of color For over twenty years, Dara Baldwin has often been the only person of color in the room when significant disability policy decisions are...