basic books feb 2026 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The groundbreaking guide to trans history in America, revised and updated for a new political eraTransgender History is the modern classic on transgender life in America since the nineteenth century, encompassing the major movements, writings, and events that shape today's gender revolution. Susan Stryker's sweeping, intersectional account charts more than a century of history, showing how rising acceptance in the 1960s and 2010s was met with waves of bigotry and intolerance that began in the '70s and continue today. Through her explanation of central concepts and terms, informative sidebars, and brief biographies of trans pioneers, Stryker reminds readers of one crucial truth: Transgender people have always been here. In good times and bad, they've built supportive and expansive communities, battled for freedom, and transformed American culture and society in the process. Now completely revised and updated, including a longer, global history and a timely chronicle of the latest wave of anti-trans backlash, Transgender History remains both a vital resource and a powerful testament to the enduring legacy of trans lives.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in Americaand why Waffle House can save us all. "This book is sustenance for your mind as it imagines more democratic and delightful ways we can all fill our stomachs." Astra Taylor, author ofDemocracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone The food industry is a major driver of climate change, pollution, obesity, animal suffering, and workplace exploitation. Many food writers blame the industrial food system and tell individual eaters to fix these problems by buying local, artisanal food from small farmersa solution most Americans can't afford. But, as food-policy expertsJan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg remind us, modern technology has made food more affordable, abundant, varied, and tastier than at any other time in history. In Feed the People!, they argue that modern food pleasures like Waffle House waffles, and the industrial systems that make them possible, are actually good. With smart technology and commonsense policies, we can make them even better. Dutkiewicz andRosenberg have traveled around the United States to find the people changing the way we make and eat food, from the innovators behind plant-based burgers to the cooks serving free school lunches to the labor organizers unionizing fast food joints. They show that building a food system that works for everyone will take more than just eating your vegetables.Feed the People! invites you to sit at the table and join this delicious movement.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A landmark new history of Syriaa country forged in conflict, cursed by civil war and dictatorship, and pivotal to the future of the Middle East "A masterful history of Syria that is both sweeping in scope and brimming with vivid detail.a riveting and insightful book." Wendy Pearlman, author of We Crossed A Bridge and It Trembled Modern Syria has seen violence, repression, and autocracy, suffering through tragedy after tragedy over the past century. Yet the history of Syria is not just a tale of dictators and generals. From the 1800s to the 2020s, the Syrian people have engaged in a passionate struggle for justice, equality, and a better future. Whether fighting for national independence from French colonial rule, battling local landowning elites to share the country's wealth, or rising up against the Assad regime, the Syrian people have fiercely clung to their right to live with respect and dignity. Theirs is a story of protest and perseverance in the long fight to reshape the political destiny of their nation. Daniel Neep's Syria: A Modern History offers a gripping narrative of how Syrians have navigated these events. Never losing sight of the fates of ordinary people, it provides a comprehensive account of how a nation born in conflict nevertheless sustained a rich, complex, and diverse society that will now chart its own path into the uncertain future.