Pragmatic, philosophical, urgent, and inclusive, "Introduction to Transgender Studies" is a crucial introduction to an important area of study. As new fields of academic study emerge, tracking their new findings, upcoming theories, and... Read More

"The 53rd Card" is a heavy but rewarding spiritual fantasy. Virginia Weiss’s intensely character-driven "The 53rd Card" chronicles a damaged woman’s attempts to understand her life’s meaning. A life filled with trauma and loss... Read More

"Frescoes by the Bay" is a two-volume visual tour of the wealth of fresco murals in the San Francisco area. Karen Norton-Sinell provides detailed research and extensive commentary about the frescoes’ history, composition, iconography,... Read More

Johann Chapoutot’s "The Law of Blood" is a meticulously researched, chilling history of Nazism’s roots and doctrines that clarifies why the ideology was widely accepted for so long. The book is a comprehensive study of the cultural,... Read More

Regardless of design background, anyone who wants to design and produce a professional-looking book should find everything they need in Book Design Made Simple. Fiona Raven & Glenna Collett’s second edition of "Book Design Made... Read More

Little’s is, above all, a human story about a man who fought for justice and fair treatment for workers. Both a work of history and biography, Jane Little Botkin’s "Frank Little and the IWW" views the early days of the US labor... Read More

Suffering from Game of Thrones withdrawals? The latest book in A. J. Smith’s twisted fantasy series, "The Dark Blood", has enough renegade clerics, murderous assassins, and unholy pacts and feuds to soothe even the most passionate... Read More

Rosalind Rosenberg’s long-delayed biography, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray, uses the papers of Pauli Murray deposited at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library to give voice to Murray’s experience in a way Murray couldn’t in her... Read More