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Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. It is also an...

Soccer is the most popular sport in the world. It is also an endless scientific panorama. Every movement by the players and each interaction with the ball involves physics, fluid mechanics, biology, and physiology, to name just a few of the scientific disciplines. In a book that targets middle and high school players, Taylor begins with a history of soccer and its physical and mathematical aspects.

Smuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew...

Smuggling diesel; Ben-Hur (the movie, yes, but also Lew Wallace’s original book, and Seosamh Mac Grianna’s Gaelic translation); a real trip to Havana; an imaginary trip to the Château d'If: Paul Muldoon’s newest collection of poems, his twelfth, is exceptionally wide-ranging in its subject matter–as we’ve come to expect from this master of self-reinvention.

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself...

For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shaming–meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letter–a radically empathetic book about public shaming, and about shaming as a form of social control.

Richard Davies, economics editor of The Economist, takes us on...

Richard Davies, economics editor of The Economist, takes us on a journey through the paper’s own analysis of the state of the world’s economies, how we reached this point and what to expect in the next decade. The result is a fascinating review of the global economy and the changing role of economics in the new world order.

The spaces between poems evoke the quietness around worlds and...

The spaces between poems evoke the quietness around worlds and things, while the poems themselves appear as momentary associations, or pauses on a walk. Yellow & Blue invites readers to share the spaciousness of a journey and to share in the exactness and clarity of Clarke’s perception.

In the aftermath of her father’s death, the speaker of...

In the aftermath of her father’s death, the speaker of Rusty Morrison’s exquisitely formed poems takes a step-by-step accounting of her transformation as she reconciles herself to loss. This book-length sequence is the silvery underside of elegy, a lyric of living acceptance paced with “the linen texture of right silences.”

The tools we need to save the planet aren’t to be found in the...

The tools we need to save the planet aren’t to be found in the technologies or lifestyles of the past. Nor must we sacrifice prosperity and human progress to ensure our survival. The catastrophists have been wrong since the days of Thomas Malthus. This is the time to embrace the innovators and businesses all over the world who are making things Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper.

A book that examines literature featuring young adults who...

A book that examines literature featuring young adults who either identify themselves as artists or use the arts in very intentional ways to help create a sense of self in their adolescent lives shares educational advice for parents and educators while analyzing how the use of art in a range of disciplines can help teens develop a sense of self, cope with loss and express differences.

Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or...

Whether it happened at school, at work, while watching TV, or reading a book, many of us can point to a particular moment when we knew we were feminists. In Click, editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan bring us a range of women—including Jessica Valenti, Amy Richards, Shelby Knox, Winter Miller, and Jennifer Baumgardner—who share stories about how that moment took shape for them.

This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has...

This edited collection examines how fantasy sports play has established a prominent and promising foothold in the larger sports ecology. The contributors include leading scholars and sports professionals from several different fields who share historical and emerging perspectives on the importance of fantasy sports as an artifact of theoretical and empirical importance to larger issues of sport and society.

College courses that had been kept for centuries from all but...

College courses that had been kept for centuries from all but an elite few were released to millions of students throughout the world-for free. Exploding college prices and a flagging global economy, combined with the derring-do of a few intrepid innovators, have created a dynamic climate for a total rethinking of an industry that has remained virtually unchanged for a hundred years.

Argues that focused persistence is more important than talent...

Argues that focused persistence is more important than talent in enabling high achievement, drawing on the author’s pioneering research and experiences as the daughter of a hard-to-please parent to counsel caregivers, educators, athletes, students and business people on how to promote optimal performance through perseverance.

Essays on various aspects of South Africa, by Newsweek’s...

Essays on various aspects of South Africa, by Newsweek’s former Johannesburg bureau. Manning was expelled from the country in 1986 as a result of his hard-hitting reports on that volatile society.

Evolution: The Whole Story provides an in-depth and up-to-the-...

Evolution: The Whole Story provides an in-depth and up-to-the- minute account of evolution, one of the ultimate keystone theories in modern science. Ten esteemed experts thoroughly survey how each of Earth’s major groups of living things diversified and evolved through time and using visual features that make the story comprehensible, the book gives readers, even those with no previous knowledge of the topic, a clear understanding of evolution and how it brought us to the present day.

The practice of eating / Alan Warde The Practice of Eating...

The practice of eating / Alan Warde The Practice of Eating thus addresses both substantive problems concerning the explanation of food habits and currently controversial issues in social theory, illustrated by detailed empirical analysis of some aspects of contemporary culinary life. It will become required reading for students and scholars of food and consumption in a wide range of disciplines, from sociology, anthropology and cultural studies to food studies, culinary studies and nutrition science.

Immigration and the border : politics and policy in the new...

Immigration and the border : politics and policy in the new Latino century / edited by David L. Leal and Jose E. Limon The advent of the twenty-first century marks a significant moment in the history of Latinos in the United States. The “fourth wave” of immigration to America is primarily Latino, and the last decades of the twentieth century saw a significant increase in the number of Latino migrants, a diversification of the nations contributing to this migration, and an increase in the size of the native-born Latino population.

Sombra : (dis)locate / Raina J. León In this book, the poet...

Sombra : (dis)locate / Raina J. León In this book, the poet converses with spirits of the living and the dead, spirits tied to location and dissembled by dislocation. The book offers a scrying cartography, exploring liminality with poems that exist at threshold. They are situated very much in the vibrant present with an eye towards the prophetic, itself a balance between shade and light, the dismal and ecstatic.

Reliance, Illinois / Mary Volmer Enduring discrimination in...

Reliance, Illinois / Mary Volmer Enduring discrimination in her late-19th-century community after her mother pretends she is her sister to secure a marriage of convenience, a young teen with a large facial birthmark enters the service of the town’s founder’s suffragette daughter and trains her in the black-market birth control trade while the girl falls hopelessly in love with a haunted Civil War veteran.

Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from...

Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars / Nathalia Holt In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn’t turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.

The wings of the doves : love and desire in Dante and medieval...

The wings of the doves : love and desire in Dante and medieval culture / Elena Lombardi In The Wings of the Doves, Elena Lombardi undertakes a detailed reading of Dante’s Inferno V - the canto of Francesca da Rimini and her doomed love for her brother-in-law, Paolo Malatesta, a richly layered episode within the Divine Comedy, which continues to challenge readers today, blurring the distinction between poetry and doctrine, pity and condemnation, and literature and reality.

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