"A riveting insider account of the progressive movement in Congress centering Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Ayanna Pressley, and Ilhan Omar--their rise, their efforts to set an ambitious agenda for the country, and their struggle to find their footing within the Democratic party"--

"It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform this dying factory town into a thriving economic center. This transformation has a profound effect on three African American couples as their own personal transformations take place. Sydney Stallworth steps away from her fellowship and law studies at an elite university to support husband Malachi's dream...

"Since 1989, the year the World Wide Web was born, the art world has grappled with the rise of networked culture. This unprecedented survey of the artists and innovators in this area from 1989 to today is interwoven with the personal narrative of one of the leading voices on the digital world. In this book, Omar Kholeif, whose prolific career parallels the growth of the Internet, tells the story of this mass medium and how it has fostered new possibilities...

Nutcracker time is here! The world s greatest dancing pigs, Gwendolyn and Omar, are eager to rehearse. All is excitement, hard work, and fun. Natasha Levertov, the Artistic Director, and her former ballet partner, Bary Mishnakoff, are on hand to help their students learn the steps and a little bit about life! The story is sweet, clever, and charming, and the illustrations will make you laugh out loud. Wait! Is that the Overture I hear? Gwendolyn's...

Terraform hones the predictive capacity of science fiction and seeks new, vivid, and visceral ways to depict the future we're hurtling toward, translating the decay and anxiety that surround us into something else, something unexpected, something that burns like a beacon and upends the conventional ideas of where we'll end up next. Section by section--Watch/Worlds/Burn--the book takes on surveillance, artificial intelligence, and climate collapse....

"Upwards of forty percent of American voters now self-identify as independent, with the polling data sometimes reaching as high as fifty percent. Who are these growing numbers of independents, what do they want, and how are they transforming the political landscape in the United States? What is the connection between the volatile crisis in US democracy and the steep rise of the independent voter? With no formal name, no party affiliation and no common...

A new, bigger scale book following Phaidon's 2009 guide, Coco. Today's special is a who's who of who's next in the global dining world. Twenty culinary icons each select five emerging chefs, felt to become rising stars in the future. These are men and women making their marks across continents, techniques, and styles. -- From Introduction, page 7.

The "twin shocks" of the Egyptian coup and the rise of ISIS have challenged conventional wisdom on political Islam, forcing scholars and Muslim activists to reconsider some of the basic assumptions about Sunni Islamist movements. While ISIS and other jihadist groups garner the most media attention, the vast majority of Islamists are of the mainstream variety, seeking gradual change and participating in parliamentary politics when they're allowed to....

"In this poignant collection, Christian Wiman draws together one hundred evocative poems and prose fragments about home, exploring home's deep theological, literary, philosophical, historical, political, and social dimensions. Wiman calls home 'a house, a country, a language, a love, a longing, a grief, a god.' It's 'a word that disperses into more definitions than one book can contain.' The tensions between diffusion and concentration, roaming and...