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  • Solid State Physics

    by J. R. Hook, H. E. Hall ...
    Series series Manchester Physics Series
    This Second Edition is aimed at students taking a firstcourse in this subject, although it will also be of interest toprofessional physicists and electronic engineers requiring a graspof the fundamentals of this important area of physics. Basicconcepts are introduced in an easily accessible context: forexample, wave propagation in crystals is introduced using one-andtwo-dimensional geometries. ... Read more

    $60.00 USD

  • All About Love

    New Visions

    by bell hooks ...
    Series Book 1 - Love Song to the Nation
    A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Will to Change

    Men, Masculinity, and Love

    by bell hooks ...
    From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, an evergreen treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all.Feminist writing did not tell us about the deep inner misery of men.Everyone needs to love and be loved—including men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways in which patriarchal culture keeps them from understanding ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Teaching to Transgress

    Education as the Practice of Freedom

    by bell hooks ...
    In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks-writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual-writes about a new kind of education, education as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.bell hooks speaks to the heart of education today: how can we ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Philosophy, History and Social Action

    Essays in Honor of Lewis Feuer with an autobiographic essay by Lewis Feuer

    Edited by S. Hook, W. O'Neill, R. O'Toole ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Two articles by Lewis Feuer caught my attention in the '40s when 1 was wondering, asa student physicist, about the relations of physics to philosophy and to the world in turmoil. One was his essay on 'The Development of Logical Empiricism' (1941), and the other his critical review of Philipp Frank's biography of Einstein, 'Philosophy and the Theory of Relativity' (1947). How extraordinary it was ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Communion

    The Female Search for Love

    by bell hooks ...
    Series Book 2 - Love Song to the Nation
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER by the author of All About Love!“When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.” –Maya AngelouIntimate, revealing, provocative, Communion challenges every woman to courageously claim the search for love as the heroic journey we must all choose to be truly free. In her trademark commanding and lucid ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Families in an Era of Increasing Inequality

    Diverging Destinies

    Edited by Jennifer Van Hook, Susan M. McHale, Alan Booth, Paul R. Amato ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The widening gap between the rich and the poor is turning the American dream into an impossibility for many, particularly children and families. And as the children of low-income families grow to adulthood, they have less access to opportunities and resources than their higher-income peers--and increasing odds of repeating the experiences of their parents.Families in an Era of Increasing ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • She Asked Questions : The True Crime Story of Brook Baker

    by Patricia Hooks ...
    She dreamed of exposing the truth. Instead, she became the story.On September 7, 1997, nineteen-year-old Brook Baker, a journalism student at Vincennes University, was found brutally murdered inside her off-campus home in Vincennes, Indiana. She had been stabbed multiple times in a crime so violent it stunned the quiet college town and left investigators searching desperately for answers.In the ... Read more

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  • Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

    A Memoir Anthology

    by Maya Angelou, Russell Baker, Kim Barnes, Rick Bragg, Rosemary L. Bray, Mary Childers, Paul Clemens, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Vivian Gornick, Pete Hamill, E. Lynn Harris, Daisy Hernández, Oscar Hijuelos, Richard Hoffman, bell hooks, Mary Karr, Michael C. Keith, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Bich Minh Nguyen, Joe Queenan, Luis J. Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Scofield, Kate Simon, Brent Staples, Michelle Tea, Tobias Wolff, Monica Wood, Howard Zinn ...
    Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, ... Read more

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  • Driven

    by Hooks ...
    Embark on the inspiring journey of Hiero, a kid with a big dream and a bigger heart. The moment he hears the roar of a go-kart engine, he's hooked. But racing costs money-and the older kids say he'll never make it.Against the odds, Hiero pushes past every obstacle. Through scraped hands, lost races, and long days of hard work, he keeps going-until the day he faces his greatest challenge yet: the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • DROWNING IN MY THOUGHTS

    by Theresa Hooks ...
    Drowning in My Thoughts is a heartfelt collection of poems that gives readers an intimate look into the author's reflections on love, pain, and healing. Through her verses, she shares her personal struggles, her unwavering faith in God, and the inspiration she draws from the biblical women who have shaped her spiritual journey. In this powerful debut, she invites readers into her world of poetic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Bounty of Freedom

    by Skyler Hooks ...
    the bounty of freedom is a epic dark pirate fanasty. go on an adventure with our making character Alex, a poor young orphan, who becomes a pirate captain, and oppresses the oppressers and grows on his journey. enjoy the twist from begining to end! ... Read more

    $17.09 USD