Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Chris Hedges

Bold Type Books

Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back

<p>In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by a quarter-century of neoliberal policies, that threatens to doom us before we've grasped the full extent of the crisis.\nAs Kate Aronoff argues, since the 1980s and 1990s, economists, pro-business Democrats and Republicans in the US, and global organizations like the UN and the World Economic Forum have all made concessions to the oil and gas industry that they have no intention of reversing. What's more, they believe that climate change can be solved through the market, capitalism can be a force for good, and all of us, corporations included, are fighting the good fight together.\nThese assumptions, Aronoff makes abundantly clear, will not save the planet. Drawing on years of reporting and rigorous economic analysis, Aronoff lays out a robust vision for what will, detailing how to constrain the fossil fuel industry; transform the economy into a sustainable, democratic one; mobilize political support; create effective public-private partnerships; enact climate reparations; and adapt to inevitable warming in a way that is just and equitable.\nOur future, Aronoff's book makes clear, will require a radical reimagining of our politics and our economies, but if done right, it will save the world.\nAronoff's bold political & economic agenda for saving the world in 12 years includes:\n* decarbonizing the economy<br />
* nationalizing utilities and the fossil fuel industry<br />
* public sector - private sector partnerships in the public interest<br />
* a jobs guarantee<br />
* climate reparations<br />
* equitable planning for inevitable warming<br />
* low-carbon luxury</p>

Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet - And How We Fight Back

Business & Money

Aronoff, Kate

Economics

Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race?: 25 Arguments That Won't Go Away

Politics & Social Sciences

Boykin, Keith

Social Sciences

<p><p><b>From the author of <i>Work Won't Love You Back</i>, a stirring examination of how collective grief can ignite powerful change.</b></p> Our era is one of significant and substantial loss, yet we barely have time to acknowledge it. The losses range from the personal grief of a single COVID death to the planetary disaster wrought by climate change, in an age of unraveling hopes and expectations, of dreams curtailed, of aspirations desiccated.<br /> <br /> &nbsp;<br /> <br /> This is capitalism's death phase. It has become clear that the cost of wealth creation for a few is enormous destruction for others, for the marginalized and the vulnerable but increasingly for all of us.&nbsp;&nbsp;At the same time, we are denied the means of mourning those futures that are being so brutally curtailed.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> &nbsp;<br /> <br /> At such a moment, taking the&nbsp;time to grieve is a political act. Sarah Jaffe shows how the act of public memorialization has become a radical statement, a vibrant response to loss, and a path to imagining a better world. When we are able to grieve well the ones we have lost, the causes they fought for, or the examples they bequeathed us, we are better prepared to fight for a transformed future.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> &nbsp;</p>

From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire

Jaffe, Sarah

History

<p>Review\n“A resonant paean to the beauties of the cosmos and a persuasive appeal for solutions to injustices in science.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)\n“In this powerful and compelling book, Prescod-Weinstein lays it out patently: Racist and sexist policies and behaviors are rampant across all scientific disciplines…From the hunt for dark matter (her area of expertise) to the often fraught relationship among Indigenous peoples, their lands, and high-tech experiments, Prescod-Weinstein’s deep dives into complex subjects are accessible and exhilarating... A timely, necessary, stellar book—a game-changer.”―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)\n“Particle physicist Prescod-Weinstein presents a provocative and richly detailed critique of the largely white and male scientific community and her place in it as a Black queer woman…A fascinating and disquieting look at a discipline that often holds itself above interrogation.”―Booklist (starred review)\n“In this eye-opening book Prescod-Weinstein describes her work studying particle physics, dark matter and cosmology, as well as how that work is affected by being a ‘queer agender Black woman’ in physics. She has faced abuse most of her colleagues have not—told by advisers she was not smart enough to be a physicist and subjected to racism and even physical assault from fellow researchers. Somehow her awe at the cosmos remained intact, and it illuminates this fascinating tour of the universe, from cosmic inflation to the physics of melanin.”―Scientific American\n“Part introduction to quantum mechanics and cosmology, part memoir, and part sociological study, this work challenges readers to question the nature of how science is done in contemporary society, as well as what it means when everyone has a seat at the cosmological table. For general science readers, gender and feminist studies students, and those concerned about the role feminist and racial politics plays in STEM professions.”―Library Journal\n“Celebrated scientist Dr. Prescod-Weinstein uncovers how systematic racism limits humanity’s potential. Using the universe as her classroom, she highlights the value of equality in laboratories and society at large.”―Essence\n“The Disordered Cosmos is equal parts critical analysis, personal essay, and popular science…Prescod-Weinstein not only narrates her struggle to become a cosmologist, she advocates for all peoples whom physicists have undervalued…Prescod-Weinstein’s most vital work, in the end, is the emancipation of Black and brown children who still cannot see their futures in the stars.”?―Undark\n“Physics and astronomy are often seen as abstract and universal, but this wide-ranging corrective, by a particle cosmologist, emphasizes the fact that they are also ‘a human, social enterprise,’ shaped by the same racism and sexism that plague society as a whole.”―The New Yorker\n"The Disordered Cosmos, more than most other science books, is an urgently needed call for justice. It is brave, passionate and angry, and rightly so. If the book and documentary A Brief History of Time were influential in making a wider public accept and celebrate disabled scientists, Prescod-Weinstein’s book will hopefully do the same for people of colour and other marginalized groups.”―Nature Astronomy\n"In this one-of-a-kind book, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein simultaneously discusses her love of physics while placing that love in tension with science as a discipline that is deeply marred by racism…the author shows us that the field of science can do amazing things, but also, if placed in the wrong hands, can be deeply damaging to people of color.”―Book Riot\n“Her book is a tour of particles like quarks and leptons, as well as the axions that Prescod-Weinstein specializes in, but it also explores the various structural oppressions that affect who gets to study and discover them -- and even who gets to name those discoveries.”―CNN\n“We live in a golden age of science books that artfully escape their usual bounds</p>

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

Biographies & Memoirs

Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda

Community & Culture

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

<p><div><b>From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos -- and a call for a more just practice of science.</b></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>In <i>The Disordered Cosmos</i>, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter -- all with a new spin informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly non-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, sexism, and other dehumanizing systems. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society that begins with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky. <i>The Disordered Cosmos</i> dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.</div></p>

<p><div><b>This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better.</b><br /> <br /> Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s.<br /> <br /> In <i>Brave New Home</i>, Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities.<br /> <br /> Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their own paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, <i>Brave New Home</i> offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.</div></p>

Brave New Home: Our Future in Smarter, Simpler, Happier Housing

Lind, Diana

<p>A debut collection of tender, biting essays on sex, dating, and identity from a gay Filipino immigrant learning to navigate race and resistance in America.<br>When Matt Ortile's family moved from Manila to Las Vegas, the locals couldn't pronounce his name. Bullied for his brown skin, accent, and femininity, he couldn't wait to move to New York, start over, and leave the past behind him - Filipino name included. In The Groom Will Keep His Name, Ortile traces his journey to an awakening of radical self-love.<br><br>When we date and mate, we tell stories about ourselves, trying to put our "best foot forward." Dating apps and social media have encouraged us to further curate the face we show the world. Our personal myths, however true or false, reveal not just who we are, but who we want to be. The Groom Will Keep His Name explores the various fables Ortile has spun for himself: as a Vassar Girl, an American Boy, a card-carrying member of Gay Twitter, and a Filipino immigrant looking to build a home.<br><br>With intelligence, wit, and his heart on his sleeve, Matt Ortile examines cruising and one-night stands, DMs and texts, relationships and whateverships that helped him interrogate his queer desire, race, complicity in white supremacy, and solidarity with other marginalized people.   </p>

The Groom Will Keep His Name: And Other Vows I've Made About Race, Resistance, and Romance

Ortile, Matt

<p><b>In <i>Belabored</i>, Lyz Lenz will "make you cry in one paragraph and snort-laugh in the next" (Chloe Angyal, contributing editor at MarieClaire.com).</b><br /> <br /> Written with a blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, <i>Belabored</i> is an impassioned and irreverent defense of the autonomy, rights, and dignity of pregnant people. Lenz shows how religious, historical, and cultural myths about pregnancy have warped the way we treat pregnant people: when our representatives enact laws criminalizing abortion and miscarriage, when doctors prioritize the health of the fetus over the life of the pregnant patient in front of them, when baristas refuse to serve visibly pregnant women caffeine. She also reflects on her own experiences of carrying her two children and seeing how the sacrifices demanded during pregnancy carry over seamlessly into the cult of motherhood, where women are expected to play the narrowly defined roles of "wife" and "mother" rather than be themselves.<br /> <br /> <i>Belabored</i> is an urgent call for us to trust women and let them choose what happens to their own bodies, from a writer who "is on a roll" (<i>Bitch Magazine</i>).<br /></p>

Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women

Lenz, Lyz

Women's Studies

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