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A lifelong veterinarian invites us into animal labs--and shares his vision for more compassionate research.
Look into the day-to-day realities of backpacking in the wilderness, while featuring the extraordinary scientific discoveries of the Wolf-Moose Project itself and highlighting the role and rewards for volunteers in this extraordinary endeavor. Published by Michigan State University Press
The long-awaited collection by one of the most distinguished poets working today.
A high-stakes game of hide-and-seek played by two world powers—a game that could end in all-out war.
A thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and reality.
Explore the fascinating world of real-life insect zombification.
A proactive, inclusive plan for the cross-disciplinary teaching of climate change from preschool to high school.
Chad T. Hanson explains how natural alarm over wildfire has been marshaled to advance corporate and political agendas, notably those of the logging industry.
Protein explores the contemporary obsession with a nutritional superstar, tracing how protein moves through food systems and fitness cultures, strengthening some bodies and environments at the expense of others.
The origins of natural history as a discipline, showing how early illustrated treatises reflected a vibrant exchange between artists and naturalists that contributed to the growth of natural science and sparked public fascination with the animal kingdom.
Douglass begins by saying that he does not know his birthday and this bothers him.
D. Watkins's love letter to Black boys in concrete cities, a daring testimony that brings to life the contradictions, fears, and hopes of boys hurdling headfirst into adulthood.
Fifteen-year-old Will puts a gun in the waistband of his jeans and sets out to avenge his brother.
Once again, the real and the fictional worlds have become dangerously entangled. And if Susan doesn't solve the mystery of Pünd’s Last Case, she could well be its next victim.
Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she’s been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don’t want Ruth, who is Black, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene? Ruth hesitates before performing CPR and, as a result, is [...]
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens–until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state’s best witness, but she can’t remember what happened before her very own eyes–or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show–destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who [...]
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate—a life and a role that she has never challenged…until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister—and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, [...]
A brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.
De Burgos broke new ground in her poetry by fusing a romantic temperament with keen political insights.
As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life--and for language--can create a space of poetic decolonization.
This is the story of two women who find resistance and freedom in literature. Â
The obstacles to a mixed-race relationship between a son of the nobility and a woman of African ancestry.
Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity.
Aloud showcases the work of the most innovative and accomplished word artists from around America.
This groundbreaking novel, set in New York City during the 1990s, is guaranteed to be unlike any literary experience you have ever had.
The narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
The relationship between Baley and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that they had assigned him a partner: R. Daneel Olivaw. Worst of all was that the “R” stood for robot.
A fascinating firsthand account written by a veteran mission controller of one of America's greatest achievements.
The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film—and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves.
A passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love—this time among the stars.
Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
Personal narratives of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border
In this tender collection of letters to his son, Tomás Q. MorĂn meditates on love, the body, and the future his son will have to face.
A moving portrait of a grim period in American immigration history, when approximately one million ethnic Mexicans--mostly women and children who were US citizens--were forced to relocate across the southern border.
Individual profiles of more than eighty photographers from the early history of the photographic medium to the present
Works produced by Spanish-speaking people of Mexican descent who became United States citizens by virtue of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
