Only decades ago, the population of Guangzhou was almost wholly Chinese. Today, it is a truly global city, a place where people from around the world go to make new lives, find themselves, or further their careers. A large number of these migrants ar...

At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, we are more inclined than ever to look to its history for context and inspiration. But that history only helps, Paul H. Mattingly argues, if it's...

What is the state of philosophy today, and what might it be tomorrow? With "What Philosophy Is For", Michael Hampe answers these questions by exploring the relationships among philosophy, education, science, and narrative, developing a Socratic criti...

Thirteen-year-old Booker leads a sheltered life in Vermont – until a spellbinding relic throws him skidding into a world of magic and myths come to life. Anna is an Unangax? teenager looking for answers after her long-absent mother reappears in her l...

As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels women to be mothers – both symbolic and corporeal. Motherhood – and non-motherhood – is not just physiological. As the piv...

"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg". That's Milton Mayer, writing in a...

A woman is a series of shifting possibilities. The frame that contained her in the morning can transform into something completely different by afternoon. The roles she's called on to play mutate over the years and throughout a lifetime. And her very...

China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred...

It is time to leave capitalism behind. In "Prosperity without Greed", Sahra Wagenknecht shows that we live in a system of economic feudalism that has nothing to do with a free market economy, where the innovations we require to solve myriad important...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomaš Garrigue Masaryk's study "The Czech Question", Czech politics – instead of the nation's historical struggle for s...