One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S. I. Hayakawa scrambling onto a sound truck parked in front of San Francisco State College amid campus unrest. Hayakawa had hoped to use this soapbox to address the assembled demonstrators, but instead he ended up ripp...

The Burroughs-Warhol Connection revolves around four meetings between William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol in 1980. Its author, Victor Bockris, was a friend and collaborator of both men and attempted to bring them together for a series of interviews. The results were comical, absurd, and brilliant...

My Mother’s Kitchen: A Novel with Recipes is an enchanting place filled with promise, change, and good food. If the weathered walls of this magical room could talk, they would tell the story of Meena and her childhood life. Meena’s story takes place in the fictional town of Mahagiri, nestled in...

Panorama of Halacha is a compilation of 100 halachic questions and answers on a broad range of topics, designed to give the English reader a deeper understanding of Halacha with full sources and notes....

Newly expanded, this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by the likes of Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and ELLE magazine. Bad Indians —part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir—is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn about California Indian history, past and present. Wi...

“[I] can’t recommend this joint enough. ... An illuminating and discomfiting read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates  "Essential reading." — New York Review of Books A shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off...

A riveting and elegant story of climate change on one city street, full of surprises and true stories of human struggle and dying local trees – all against the national backdrop of 2023's record heat domes and raging wildfires and, simultaneously, rising hopes for clean energy. In 2023, author a...

"A unique description of how clients think in the situations that produce anxiety, and how they can work on changing their thinking and reclaiming their lives, which have been lost to fears, rituals, and patterns of avoidance."--Aaron T. Beck, M.D., from the foreword Gracie hasn't left her house in...

John Shelton Reed’s Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke. Since colonial times southerners have held barbecues to mark homecomings, reunions, and political campaigns; today barbecue signifies celebration as much as ever. In a lively and amusing style, Reed tr...

"There are crazy people all over, you know that, don't you?" Spring was intoxicating the city air, but the harassing anonymous telephone calls planting seeds of fear around town were no April Fool's joke. Crank calls and crackpot threats reported to the 87th Precinct by a respected businessman were ...

Le richissime Sam Westing est mort, et en guise de funérailles, ses héritiers sont invités à un jeu macabre pour toucher l’héritage : découvrir lequel d’entre eux l’a assassiné! Parmi eux, un sportif rapide comme l’éclair, une secrétaire mythomane, un bookmaker, un poseur de bombes,...

A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and legal scholars. “Somewhere among the anger, mourning and ...

This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years on energy inputs from a finite...

From his earliest days as a Freedom Rider and leader of Students for a Democratic Society, through decades as a state senator, to contemporary notes on the Iraq war, the global South, immigration and spirituality, Tom Hayden’s writings constitute nothing less than an alternative history of our tim...

The Master of Seventh Avenue is the definitive biography of David Dubinsky (1892—1982), one of the most controversial and influential labor leaders in 20th-century America. A “character” in the truest sense of the word, Dubinsky was both revered and reviled, but never dull, conformist, or bou...

Priests of Our Democracy tells of the teachers and professors who battled the anti-communist witch hunt of the 1950s. It traces the political fortunes of academic freedom beginning in the late 19th century, both on campus and in the courts. Combining political and legal history with wrenching person...

Release your stress, enhance your creativity and increase self-confidence while enjoying making perfect paintings of everything you can see in The Ultimate Coloring Book, featuring tons of awesome illustrations, guaranteed to satisfy your needs! Overwhelmed by work and don't know how to relieve anx...

“A fierce tale of conspiracy and retribution… Thanks to Tucker’s sympathetic necromancy and her luscious resurrection of everyday detail, even in gilded palaces the human psyche seems familiarly deceitful and self-justifying.” ―Michael Sims, author of The Story of Charlotte’s Web and ...

This issue of Beatdom is devoted to the San Francisco Renaissance. It includes essays on Robert Duncan, ruth weiss, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kenneth Rexroth, and many other poets who called San Francisco home in the middle of the 1950s. Table of Contents Essays Blowing Beats in the Basement: Rexrot...

Streetcars “are as dead as sailing ships,” said Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in a radio speech, two days before Madison Avenue’s streetcars yielded to buses. LaGuardia was determined to eliminate streetcars, demolish pre-1900 elevated lines, and unify the subway system, a goal that became reality ...