Beacon press okt 2026 (8 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - "I was riveted by this searing ode to the resiliency of the human psyche, rich in beauty and devastation."Melissa Febos, author of GirlhoodAn unflinching and stunning memoir of an Iranian girl's coming-of-age experiencing abuse, war, and superstitionand her survival through dissociative identity disorderWhen she was a child, Atash Yaghmaian's home life was unpredictable: a confusing mix of love and terror. Outside of her home, Iran was also on fire. Her reality of abuse, war, gender oppression, and religious superstition left her feeling unsafe everywhere. So, she left reality and disassociated into a place she called the House of Stone: a building in a magical forest full of peaceful creatures, kind talking trees, and volcanoes. Inhabiting this world are 9 beings, each different parts of Atash, who would be her salvation from the external horrors of her outer world.Set against the backdrop of the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini's regime, and the 8-year Iran-Iraq War, My Name Means Fire is Atash's story of survival as she experiences tragic events including sexual abuse, a mother who subjected her to superstitious rituals, and the horrors of war. In chapters alternating with what's happening in her outside world, her other partseach named after a colortell the story of her inner world, giving readers an understanding of what it's like to be inside the consciousness of someone who is multiple.Honest, powerful, and moving, My Name Means Fire is a bold narrative that challenges the stigma and misinformation around dissociative identity disorder (DID) and ultimately reckons with what it takes to survive.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - An investigation into how Native American identity became a commodity, from cultural appropriation to ethnic fraud to disenrollmentSettler capitalism has been so effective that the very identities of Indigenous people have been usurped, misconstrued, and weaponized. In Who Gets to Be Indian , scholar and writer Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) explores how ethnic fraud and the commodification of Indianness has resulted in mass confusion about what it means to be Indigenous in the United States.As an entry point to the seemingly intractable problem of ethnic fraud, Gilio-Whitaker critically looks to the film industry, including a case study of Sacheen Littlefeather, who is most known as the Native American woman that rejected an Oscar on behalf of Marlon Brando in 1973though later revealed, she was not who she said she was. Gilio-Whitaker argues that this pretendian phenomenon originated in Southern California when the United States was forcing assimilation of Indians into white America culturally, but also into its capitalist economic system. With Indianness becoming a marketized commodity in the Hollywood film business, the field became open to anyone who could convincingly adopt an Indian persona.Deeply researched using socio-historical analysis, Gilio-Whitaker offers insights from her own experiences grappling with identity to provide clarity and help readers understand how the commodification of Indianness have ultimately left many people of legitimate American Indian heritage to be disconnected from their tribes. Personal and compelling, Gilio-Whitaker takes settler capitalism to task and helps us better understand how we got here in order to counteract the abuses of pretendianism and disenrollment.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'An intimate text on how we really change, deep underneath it all. Give this book to everyone you love who is stuck in a heartbreaking worldview.' adrienne maree brown, author of Loving Corrections and Emergent StrategyWhat if the beliefs shaping your life aren't fixedand you can change them In Radical Unlearning, journalist and activist Lewis Raven Wallace shows how even our most deeply ingrained biases and habits can be rewired.Drawing on neuroscience and reporting, Wallace explains how neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to form new pathways, allows us to break old patterns and build new ways of thinking. Like well-worn footpaths, our habits of mind take shape over time, but with intention, we can create different routes.Designed for readers ready to examine and challenge their assumptions, this book combines compelling storytelling with practical tools you can use right away, guided exercises and reflection prompts that help you actively engage in the process of change.Through unforgettable real-world examples, Wallace reveals what transformation looks like in practice, including:- A former white nationalist who becomes a transgender anti-racist organizer- An ex-Israeli soldier who reexamines his beliefs and becomes an outspoken activist- Wallace's own grandmother, who confronts a lifetime of racism and transphobia in her 80sAt a time of deep division, Radical Unlearning offers a clear, actionable path forward. It's a book for readers who want to think more critically, engage more thoughtfully, and contribute to meaningful changestarting with themselves.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A renowned Israeli-British historian argues Israel is fracturing, and considers the issues that must be centered for a peaceful future for Palestinians and Jews alikeIn this timely book, historian Ilan Pappé argues that with the 2022 election of the most right-wing government in Israel's history, the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the subsequent Israeli war on Gaza, political fractures inherent in the Jewish state have expanded dangerouslyand will potentially lead to Israel's collapse. With the goal of working towards a transition that is as peaceful as possible, Pappé sets out his thoughts about the risks and opportunities emerging from this historical moment.Eight "mini-revolutions," he argues, will be necessary for this more hopeful future to emerge, including:-Relocating the Right of Return of the Palestinian refugees to the center of the future vision;-Establishing a new definition for the Jewish collective in historical Palestine;-Finalizing a plan for the future of the Jewish settlements built in the West Bank since 1967; and-Creating a new strategy for a united Palestinian national movement.Pappé concretely envisions a more just futurea democratic decolonized state for both Palestinians and Israelisand how we might get there.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A romance editor looks for love where you'd least expect itand discovers what our favorite horror films can tell us about sex, society, and ourselves"A bloody love letter to those horrors that have drenched the silver screen. The Happily Ever After here . . . is a comprehensive list of grisly films that pluck on our heartstrings . . . only to rip the whole organ out and hold it up to the movie projector's light." Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Devil InsideIf Sinners and the 1999 cult classic The Mummy taught Emma Cole anything in the year she spent bingeing scary movies, it's that we love to swoon, sweat, and scream. We seem to crave the uncanny and the transgressive. Emma would know: Her day job as a Harlequin book editor revolves around steamy stories that ruffle feathers and rip bodices. In Love Never Dies, she shows how our favorite horror films flirt with familiar tropes and themes to give us romantic subplots that are just as spine-tingling.Emma takes readers behind the scenes of films like Tod Browning's Dracula and Josh Ruben's Heart Eyes, exploring how and why movies blur the lines of horror and romance. The books dives intoThe "Dark Moment" and how it signals an HEA (Happily Ever After)Why not having a lover (spoiler alert) saved Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode in HalloweenRosemary's Baby, Interview with the Vampire, and Gothic horror's comebackHow romance, especially monster romance, is often a stand-in for uncomfortable truthsFrom vampires and monsters to slashers and psychological thrillers, Love Never Dies explores the enthralling nature of horror romance films that are full of heart. It's just that sometimes, those hearts are on the outside. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A "finely gifted writer" shares 15 "brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency" at Bellevue Hospital (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat).Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the countryand perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters these 250-year-old doors as a tentative medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, life-and-death decisions, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, and overworked interns devising creative strategies to cope with the feverish intensity of a big-city hospital.Yet the emphasis of Singular Intimacies is not so much on the arduous hours in medical training (which certainly exist here), but on the evolution of an instinct for healing. In a hospital without the luxury of private physicians, where patients lack resources both financial and societal, where poverty and social strife are as much a part of the pathology as any microbe, it is the medical students and interns who are thrust into the searing intimacy that is the doctor-patient relationship. In each memorable chapter, Ofri's progress toward becoming an experienced healer introduces not just a patient in medical crisis, but a human being with an intricate and compelling history. Ofri learns to navigate the tangled vulnerabilities of doctor and patientnot to simply battle the disease.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 29 personal essays exploring mixed identity, belonging, family, racism, community and the paradoxical ways of being in the world"An unprecedented ode to the wide range of mixed-root experiences and what is shared across difference. Required reading for anyone who has ever been asked what are you I want everyone to read this." Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood and The Dry SeasonMultiracial people are everywherebut so often their stories are oversimplified, overlooked, or left out of the narrative altogether. Mixed Roots collects 29 voices from different generations, geographies, and mixes of race and ethnicity. Combining powerful personal narratives with community-oriented perspectives, Mixed Roots explores themes of inherited belief systems, racism, whiteness, migration, language, trauma, ancestry, and healing. When society so often wants to divide us into either/or categories, Mixed Roots reminds us that multiracial experiences are complex and can be told in different ways. This anthology engages with the familiar questions of "what are you " or "where do you belong " with nuance, dispelling the idea that there is ever one right way to identify. In a time of increased polarization, Mixed Roots invites more of us to examine the historical legacies and harm caused by racism within ourselves and our communities. With compelling, intimate, lyrical and conversational prose, the voices in Mixed Roots honor the realities we've inherited around race, while pushing against old assumptions encouraging readers to embrace paradox and non-binary belonging.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - "Kamau Bobb writes with a piercing clarity about race, history, and technology that does not comfort but confronts. His words do not allow you the luxury of distance. They leave you sharper, more aware, and undeniably changed about the AI crisis we are living through."Bettina L. Love, author of Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We HealUrgent lessons from the US's haunting past to light the path ahead for equitable education as AI transforms while the nation regresses to racial backlashEducated citizens are the lifeforce of democracy. Across all aspects of modern life, and especially in education, AI is raising existential questions. Like any new technology, it is both transformative and problematic.In The Bullwhip's Algorithm, Dr. Kamau Bobb meditates on the convergence of American memory and the colorblind promises of AI in education. At the critical milestone of the US's 250th anniversary, Bobb argues that enthusiasm and clamor for AI are a veil for the vacuous neglect of our nation's racist past. Bobb encourages readers to pause and examine the actual foundation on top of which the grand claims of AI's potential in education are being built, raising questions like:- How does AI change the fundamental structure of American education - How does the application of AI enabled tools affect educational outcomes in schools that are profoundly segregated - When the purveyors of these technologies claim that they will close gaps and improve the educational experience for all students, what does that really mean American educational history is overflowing with abuse, segregation, and smoldering scorn from white nationalists who have historically cracked the bullwhip, attempting to subjugate Black Americans to the bottom the racial caste system. Bobb's exploration of race, tech, and society makes it clear: the potential of AI in education to be justly realized depends on our ability to assess and learn from our past of limiting Black students' academic achievement.…