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In this fully updated and revised new edition of his landmark study of violence in and around contemporary sport, Kevin Young offers a comprehensive s...
In this lyrical picture book from an award-winning poet, a young boy cherishes a neighborhood field throughout the changing seasons. With stunning ill...
Poems
A book of loss, looking back, and what binds us to life, by a towering poetic talent, called "one of the poetry stars of his generation" (Los Angeles ...
On the Blackness of Blackness
*Finalist for the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism* *A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Literary Criticism and Essays Pick for Spring 201...
Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most
The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the glob...
The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction โThere Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we...
A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. โIn the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,โ he tel...
Uncertainty, Solidarity and Innovation
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Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia
Conflicts over subterranean resources, particularly tin, oil, and natural gas, have driven Bolivian politics for nearly a century. โResource nationa...
James Brown. John Brown's raid. Brown v. the Topeka Board of Ed. The prizewinning author of Blue Laws meditates on all things "brown" in this powerful...
The Remix
Revamped from its original "double album" version of 350 pages into this unique "remix," To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of t...
Poems of Grief and Healing
โKevin Young has thoughtfully gathered many of these sorrowful perambulations and grievous plummets.โ -Billy Collins The Art of Losing is the firs...
The debut collection by the Poet Laureate of the United States * Winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize * You are pure appetite. I am pure Appetit...
Delivered in Youngโs classic bluesy tone, this powerful collection of poems about the American family, smoky Southern food, and the losses that time...
One (Mad)mans Philosophical Perspective on Life
Every day, you are confronted by people, situations, and obstacles that literally wear you down. You are bombarded by so many distractions that you ha...
How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It
Understanding the power of the corporations and how to take the struggle directly to them It's no secret that "the 1%" - the business elite that comma...
Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-century African American Literature
Jean Toomer's Cane was advertised as a book about Negroes by a Negro, despite his request not to promote the book along such racial lines. Nella Larse...
"The world of sport offers a deep - and often-overlooked - source for the study of deviance and its development. Deviance and Social Control in Sport ...
A Blues
In a collection of poetry inspired by the rhythms of the blues, the poet blends traditional lyric diction with African American idiom to create such v...
Saucy and ironic, Sam Durant's works address utopias and their failures, crossing events from the recent American past to create relationships between...
In this surprising book, the poet manages embrace the contradictions of the "Confederate" legacy and the troubled nation where that legacy still linge...
As a poet, Young is as dazzlingly agile and as hard-hitting as Jack Johnson in his prime.-Lorenzo Thomas. Kevin Young has written a big and audacious ...
Ancient Ways to Make Your Relationship with God Whole Again
Navigate the deepest questions of faith with the compassionate guidance of a pastor whose faith nearly fell apart This book is a must have for anyone ...
DescriptionRiding the Edge is about the author's struggles through life in dealing with his bipolar disease coupled with attention deficit disorder. T...
What happened to the documents captured in the Alamo? Does a ghost actually haunt the state capitol in Austin? Was John Wilkes Booth killed or did he ...
Five Sides in B Minor : Sung by the Author
'80s art-world phenomenon Jean-Michel Basquiat was prolific in his short lifetime, creating an exhilarating new art inspired by music, language, and b...
Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
Longlisted for the National Book Award A rich and lively gathering of highlights from the first twenty years of an extraordinary career, interspersed ...
A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels
Now in paperback, a haunting chorus of voices that tells the story of the captivity, education, language, hopes, dreams, and fight for freedom, of the...
Series Editor David Lehman
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-205)....
Most Way Home is the incandescent first collection by award-winning poet Kevin Young. Selected by Lucille Clifton as part of the National Poetry Serie...
Encompassing America's African-American landscape and rich oral histories of the South, this poetry collection centers on the concept of "home" and ex...
Thirty-four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno
Published to accompany a major traveling exhibition, this small volume presents the 34 drawings Rauschenberg made for each canto of Dante's Inferno. B...
Dust Jackets for the Niggerati
"The works reproduced in this book were exhibited in their entirety in an exhibition titled 'Dust Jackets for the Niggerati - and Supporting Dissertat...
No other book has created more millionaires! A property analyst for over 40 years, Kevin Young and his wife Kathy started The Investors Club in 1994 i...
#1 Property Book by Australia's #1 Investor
Build Therefore Your Own World
Sam Durant is a multimedia artist whose work engages social, political, and cultural issues. His work has been widely exhibited in the UK, Europe, Asi...
Lessons from Movements That Won
Climate destruction is a problem of political power. We have the resources for a green transition, but how can we neutralize the influence of Exxon an...
Inside Secrets of Property Millionaires