The Warmth of Other Suns “chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the south for northern and western cities…
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The Complete Walker is “undoubtedly the best how-to book in the backpacking field.” It’s an insanely detailed, 800+ page book about the gear and logistical requirements of the serious hiker…
The Power of Maps explores “the mapmaker’s bias…how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power.” This seems like a unique approach to the…
A book with category listing of “Education / Communications Studies / Information Studies / Future Studies” will pretty much always catch my eye. The book’s premise, interrogating the ramifications of…
A collection of essays by iconic radical educator Paolo Freire, this book presents “a view of pedagogy and praxis that is partisan to its core” — a “radical critical theory”…
A vivacious variety of strange short works by master of the short and strange, Julio Cortázar. I love Cortázar’s short stories, and his wonderfully mundane / absurd travelogue Autonauts of…
The House of the Spirits is an intergenerational saga that “spans decades and lives, twining the personal and the political into an epic novel of love, magic, and fate.” Critics…
The very first sentence of the main text: “This is a study of five artists engaged in that act of creation that engages us all — the composition of our…
This guide to the beauty of the “shadowlands” of math is “[p]art history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics…an illuminating tour of infinity.” I’m curious to…