From a brilliant new talent, Milk is an astonishingly evocative, intimate and moving memoir charting one woman\'s experience of pregnancy and motherhood in modern

Stories by celebrated female writers Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton - edited by Elaine

In 1972, underground cartoonists Joyce Farmer and Lyn Chevli produced Tits & Clits -- a funny, rowdy, raucous underground comix series about female sexuality that one reviewer described as \"the ultimate in vaginal politics\" -- and became the first American women ever credited with writing, drawing, and publishing their own comic books. A feminist answer to Zap, Tits & Clits quickly became an anthology

Marxists Against Stalinism brings together contributions from Ernest Mandel and Chris Harman in the long-running debate on the class nature of the USSR. Chris Harman argued that Soviet Union and the other \"socialist\" countries were bureaucratic state-capitalisms. Mandel argued that the Soviet Union had degenerated under the bureaucratic dictatorship of Stalin but had not reverted to a form of capitalism.

\"I need you to get in the wardrobe.\" Faye\'s afraid. She\'s not sleeping, she doesn\'t trust ducks and all she\'s had to eat this week is a box of dry Rice Krispies. A doctor recommends a form of exposure therapy, so Faye enlists the help of her brother, Naoise. But Naoise has a devastating secret that\'s about to explode. A darkly funny new play by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, Lie Low is a theatrical

This book offers a much-needed reframing of food discourse by presenting alternative ways of thinking about the changing politics of food, eating, and nutrition. It examines critical epistemological questions of how food knowledge comes to be shaped and why we see pendulum swings when it comes to the question of what to eat.As food facts peak and peril in the face of conflicting dietary advice and

This wide-ranging book is the first to examine one of the most significant and characteristic features of modern medicine - specialization - in historical and comparative context. Based on research in three languages, it traces the origins of modern medical specialization to 1830s Paris and examines its spread to Germany, Britain, and the US, showing how it evolved from an outgrowth of academic teaching

Among the great philosophers of the Middle Ages Aquinas is unique in pursuing two apparently disparate projects. On the one hand he developed a philosophical understanding of Christian doctrine in a fully integrated system encompassing all natural and supernatural reality. On the other hand, he was convinced that Aristotle\'s philosophy afforded the best available philosophical component of such a

The penultimate volume of Woolf\'s diaries details the mature period of The Years and moments of personal sadness brought by the deaths of Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and Roger Fry. \"A book of extraordinary vitality, wit, and beauty\" (New York Times Book Review). Edited by Anne Olivier Bell, assisted by Andrew McNeillie;

The true story of the flourishing of a theatre in a wartime Jewish Ghetto. Winner of the 1989 Evening Standard Award for Best

After years of indifference and neglect, John Clare (1793-1864) is now recognized as one of the greatest English Romantic poets. Clare was an impoverished agricultural laborer, whose genius was generally not appreciated by his contemporaries, and his later mental instability further contributed to his loss of critical esteem. But the extraordinary range of his poetical gifts has restored him to the

With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, romance, and intrigue that began with the World Fantasy Award-winning Witchmark. Assassinations, deadly storms, and long-lost love haunt the pages of this thrilling final volume.For years, Robin Thorpe has kept her head down, staying among her people in the Riverside neighborhood and hiding the magic that

Emma Anderson has had her entire world turned upside down and not for the better. The only man in her life she has ever been able to trust is gone because she just couldn\'t let him in, her job a distant memory, because of the fact she had been weak enough to let things go too far, and her future bleak. She has lost the facade she spent years perfecting and has been left in a desolate slump, trying

Arthur and his family venture to the Helstea auction, where many rare and valuable items are up for sale. Art hopes to gather some for himself to help with his adventuring, but things take an unexpected turn when he and his companions get entangled with the royal family...and Sylvie catches the eye of a certain guard who\'s determined to have her, no matter what it

In a land filled with roaring, towering dinosaurs, Gus stands out - not because he\'s the biggest or the loudest, but because he\'s uniquely himself. While he may not look like the others, does that truly set him apart? Dive into the heartwarming tale of It Is OK To Be Different and join Gus on a journey of self-discovery, where he learns that our differences are what make us special. A delightful

A smart, funny, and heartfelt middle grade novel about Lily Hong\'s attempts to save her parents\' Chinese school and the town\'s community center using all the resources she has--devoted friends, ingenuity, a passion for filmmaking, mediocre dance moves (at best), and perhaps even her archnemesis.If there\'s one thing Lily Hong can\'t stand, it\'s being second best. That\'s why she and Max Zhang have