Carolyn Chen, a sociologist, is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Getting Saved in America (Princeton) and the coeditor of Sustaining Faith Traditions. She lives in Kensington, California. Website carolynchen.org How tech giants are reshaping spirituality to serve their religion of peak productivity Silicon Valley is known for its lavish perks, intense work culture, and spiritual gurus....

"One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year" "Winner of the Heartland Booksellers Award in Nonfiction, Midwest Independent Booksellers Association" "Longlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Awards" "A Scholarly Kitchen Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations of the Year" Jeff Deutsch is the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, which in 2019 he helped incorporate as the first not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling....

How b*tches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women from having to be nice. Female characters throughout history have been burdened by the moral trap that is likeability. Any woman who dares to reveal her messy side has been treated as a cautionary tale. Today, unlikeable female characters are everywhere in film, TV, and wider pop culture. For the first time ever, they are being accepted by audiences...

"Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate and metanarrative look into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival."

From the internationally bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, New World Order and many more. Albert Jack's Mysterious World Part One is a collection of the world's most famous and puzzling mysteries. What really happened to Agatha Christie? Who is responsible for Crop Circles? Where is Bigfoot? Could Aliens really exist? From crop circles to the Scottish lighthouse keepers who vanished one stormy night and from...

Well beyond his passing in 2009, Michael Jackson remains one of the most adulated and mysterious stars in the world. Incredible singer, brilliant musician, amazing performer, he was just as talented as he was eccentric, adored as well as reviled with sordid accusations, sadly caught between a stolen childhood and a suffocating star system. Discover in this biography mixing comics and documentary chapters, how the youngest of the Jackson 5 was propelled...

"Frida Kahlo, remembered as one of the most inspiring personalities of the 20th century, was a woman of two intertwined parts: she was both a charismatic and empowered artist exploring themes of resistance, authenticity, cruelty, and suffering, and a more private person whose wounded body caused her a lifetime of pain that underpinned the many successes and disappointments that marked her time in the world. Revealing and exploring these two Fridas,...

In this delightful blend of nonfiction and inspirational humor, readers will encounter a small forest of facts and learn a few life lessons from our foliaged friends, who show how their interconnected community collaborates, shares resources, warns of threats, and thrives together.

"In the Thai village of Koh Panyee, a team of boys builds their own football pitch on top of the Phang Na Bay"

"Ever since mysterious bones were found in 1822, scientists and artists have tried to figure out what the creature they came from looked like. But it seems that every time they've made up their minds, someone makes a new discovery, and they have to start all over. That's only fair, though--after all, it's how knowledge advances!"