Where We Stand: Class Matters (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

Where We Stand: Class Matters (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

Drawing on both her roots in Kentucky and her adventures with Manhattan Coop boards, Where We Stand is a successful black woman's reflection--personal, straight forward, and rigorously honest--on how our dilemmas of class and race are intertwined, and how we can find ways to think beyond

Reel to Real: Race, class and sex at the movies (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

Movies matter - that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class

The Uncounted (Cobham Alex)(Paperback)

What we count matters - and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you're not counted, you don't count. Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate a wide range of damaging

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today. In a series of short, accessible, and enlightening essays, hooks explores the confounding and sometimes

Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

Ten years ago, bell hooks astonished readers with Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Now comes Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope - a powerful, visionary work that will enrich our teaching and our lives. Combining critical thinking about education with

Remembered Rapture: The Writer at Work (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

With grace and insight, celebrated writer bell hooks untangles the complex personae of women writers. Born and raised in the rural South, hooks learned early the power of the written word and the importance of speaking her mind. Her passion for words is the heartbeat of this collection of essays

Split: Class Divides Uncovered (Tippet Ben)(Paperback)

How can we make sense of a world where we have both too many billionaires and too many foodbanks? We're supposed to go to university, forge a career, get wealthier, buy a house - but why is that so hard for most of us to achieve? Split makes sense of our world by looking at class society - delving

Communion: The Female Search for Love (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed bestseller All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her

Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters (Stone Deborah)(Paperback)

In a post-Trumpian world where COVID rates soar and Americans wage near-civil war about election results, Deborah Stone's Counting promises to transform how we think about numbers. Contrary to what you learned in kindergarten, counting is more art than arithmetic. In fact, numbers are just as much

Salvation: Black People and Love (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

'A manual for fixing our culture...In writing that is elegant and penetratingly simple, [hooks] gives voice to some things we may know in our hearts but need an interpreter like her to process.'--Black Issues Book ReviewNew York Times bestselling author, acclaimed visionary and cultural critic bell

Where's Farmer Belle? (Dale Jay)(Paperback / softback)

I Forget Where We Were(Paperback / softback)

This artist-approved songbook to Ben Howard's chart-topping album, I Forget Where We Were, is the first time Ben's music is available in sheet music form and includes all songs that appear on the album arranged for piano, voice and

Ethics Matters (Vardy Charlotte)(Paperback)

How do we know the difference between right and wrong? How can we make decisions about issues from germ-line genetic engineering to the regulation of banking, from nuclear power to ethnic bioweapons, from end-of-life care to global warming? What does it mean to live a good life? Ethics Matters

Class Matters: Inequality and Exploitation in 21st-Century Britain (Umney Charles)(Paperback)

Despite many changes to society, education, and the labor market, social class remains a fundamental force in British life in the twenty-first century. Yet we have lacked any compelling Marxist analysis of class in Britain today--until now. Charles Umney here moves Marx from the mills and mines

Art of Gathering - How We Meet and Why It Matters (Parker Priya)(Paperback / softback)

We spend our lives gathering - first in classrooms and then in meetings, weddings, conferences and away days. Yet so many of us spend this time in underwhelming moments that fail to engage us, inspire us, or connect us. We've all sat in meetings where people talk past each other or go through the

Club (Wurger Takis)(Paperback / softback)

A runaway international bestseller, The Club is a smouldering story of class, privilege and matters of the

Football School Season 3: Where Football Explains the World (Bellos Alex)(Paperback / softback)

Football School Season 1: Where Football Explains the World (Bellos Alex)(Paperback / softback)

Football School Season 4: Where Football Explains the World (Bellos Alex)(Paperback / softback)

Class Matters: The Strange Career of an American Delusion (Fraser Steve)(Paperback)

A uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life From the decks of the Mayflower straight through to Donald Trump's 'American carnage,' class has always played a role in American life. In this remarkable work, Steve Fraser twines our nation's past

Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations (Hooks Bell)(Paperback)

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks

Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World (Adams Martin)(Paperback)

What if we lived in a world where everyone had enough? A world where everyone mattered and where people lived in harmony with nature? What if the solution to our economic, social, and ecological problems was right underneath our feet? Land has been sought after throughout human history. Even today,

History: Why It Matters (Hunt Lynn)(Paperback)

We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us

Fashionopolis: Why What We Wear Matters (Thomas Dana)(Paperback)

*NYTBR Paperback Row Selection * The Independent's Best Fashion Book on Sustainability* An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions