Science Identity

Vivek Shraya knows this to be true: people change. We change our haircuts and our outfits and our minds. We change names, titles, labels. We attempt to blend in or to stand out. We outgrow relationships, we abandon dreams for new ones, we start fresh. We seize control of our stories. We make resolutions. In fact, nobody knows this better than Vivek, who’s made a career of embracing many roles: artist, performer, musician, writer, model, teacher. In People Change, she reflects on the origins of this impulse, tracing it to childhood influences from Hinduism to Madonna.

A teenager, a sketchbook, and a monster ... Choctaw teenager Toby Miller has a sensible post-high school career path: World-famous multimillionaire comic book artist. Duh. A fateful encounter with a meteor behind his apartment complex, however, transforms Toby into the superhero Wyldfyre. That same meteor also brings seven deadly supervillains to life straight from the pages of his sketchbook. Crippling Captain Cowboy, Oklahoma City's only superhero, the villains now have free rein of the city and its defenseless inhabitants. Training under Captain Cowboy, Toby must master his new powers to...

A far-reaching cultural transformation is occurring across much of the West that is threatening the very foundations of democracy. Individuals are no longer judged by their deeds, actions, and behavior but rather are defined by their race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Driven largely by the political Left, this transformation has led to the wholesale division of individuals into oppressed and oppressor classes.

At the age of ten, Aaron's childhood within a diverse community shifted abruptly when his family moved to small-town Indiana. There, racist mentalities stereotyped him for his Mixed features and heritage. Marginalized as a Black person within his new, overwhelmingly European-American community, he learned to hide parts of himself that were rejected, hoping to escape harsh racial prejudices.

He came to Earth to observe. He didn’t expect to care. Felix Winters isn’t your average eleven-year-old. He’s not even human. Disguised as a boy and sent to Earth from the planet Bopton, Felix’s mission is simple: live among humans, study their behavior, and report back. But nothing could prepare him for life in an American middle school—where bullies roam, social rules make no sense, and doughnuts taste like heaven. As Felix navigates the chaos of locker rooms, cafeteria food, and suspicious custodians, he finds himself forming real friendships and questioning everything he’s ...

From rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations. Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in A Map Is Only One Story highlight the human side of immigration policies and polarized rhetoric, as 20 writers share provocative personal stories of existing between languages and cultures.

In The Healing Otherness Handbook, Stacee Reicherzer-a nationally known transgender psychotherapist and expert on trauma, otherness, and self-sabotage - shares her own personal story of childhood bullying, and how it inspired her to help others heal from the same wounds. Drawing from mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Reicherzer will help you gain a better understanding of how past trauma has limited your life, and show you the keys to freeing yourself from self-defeating, destructive beliefs.

Com seu estilo franco e certeiro, Ruth Manus mostra que expandir a conversa sobre o machismo, convidando para o papo as pessoas que ainda não têm familiaridade com o assunto, é mais do que necessário: é urgente. Deixando claro que um audiolivro contra o machismo não é um audiolivro contra os homens, que não são só os homens que têm atitudes machistas e que reconhecer o próprio machismo—e lutar contra ele—é um ato de coragem, Ruth nos guia no caminho da conscientização e nos convida a mudar comportamentos, discursos e, em última instância, o próprio mundo.

Greg Bottoms writes about growing up white and working class in Tidewater, Virginia, during school desegregation in the 1970s. He offers brief stories that accumulate to reveal the everyday experience of living inside complex, systematic racism that is often invisible to economically and politically disenfranchised white southerners - people who have benefited from racism in material ways while being damaged by it, he suggests, psychologically and spiritually.

In 2015, millennial author and cultural anthropologist Veronica Kirin drove 11,000 miles across more than 40 states to interview the last living members of the Greatest Generation. Stories of Elders is the result of her years of work to capture and share their perspective for generations to come. Stories of Elders preserves the wisdom, thoughts, knowledge, and advice of the people who make up one of America’s finest generations, including the Silent Generation. Their stories include the devastation that came from major events in US history like World War I and more.

Deni Todorović never meant to become a poster child for self-love. On their popular Instagram page, Style by Deni, they show their followers what it means to lead a joyous, open-hearted life–but this wisdom has been hard-won, and in this book Deni shares how they’ve learned to live on their own terms. As a queer, non-binary person and as a child of migrants, Deni knows firsthand what it means to exist between worlds and to step into one’s truth.

Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces old and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The result is an absorbing—and disturbing—portrait. India has become a religious fundamentalist dystopia, one depicted here with a novelist's precise language and eye for detail.

The Truth About Dragons follows a young child on a journey guided by his mother's bedtime storytelling. He quests into two very different forests, as his two grandmothers help him discover two different, but equally enchanting, truths about dragons.

In The Making of White American Identity, Ron Eyerman provides an explanation for how whiteness has become a basis for collective identification and collective action in the United States. Drawing upon his previous work on the formation of African American identity, as well as cultural trauma theory, collective memory, and social movements, he reveals how and under what conditions such a collective identification emerges, as well as how the mobilization of collective action around an ideology of whiteness and white superiority.

Scanguards bodyguard Cain struggles with amnesia, however, the curtain to his past finally begins to lift when a mysterious stranger appears, revealing that Cain was the victim of an assassination attempt. It turns out that not only is Cain a powerful vampire king, he's also engaged to Faye Duvall, the female vampire who's been haunting his dreams. When Faye thinks Cain is dead, she's devastated and can only keep going because she knows her clan needs her. Out of loyalty and love for her fellow vampires, she agrees to marry Abel, Cain's brother, and is shocked when Cain returns to reclaim his throne. Cain is determined to recapture the love he once shared with Faye. But the assassin won't give up and his ruthlessness knows no limits. Backed up by his loyal friends from Scanguards, Cain suddenly finds himself in a fight to the death and confronted with a choice: to either save his kingdom or his queen.

A war-torn world. A secret that must never escape. A chase that has no end. In the dying days of World War II, elite spy Lila Dubois is tasked with tracking down a man who should not exist. Deep in the shadows of Nazi-occupied Europe, a brilliant but ruthless scientist, Dr. Meissner, has perfected an experiment that could alter the course of warfare forever. But when his lab is destroyed and his research vanishes, the only thing more dangerous than what he created is what he took with him. Now, Lila and her team are in a desperate race across war-ravaged cities, treacherous mountain passes,...

Throughout his career, Johnny Cash was depicted - and depicted himself - as a walking contradiction: social protestor and establishment patriot, drugged wildman and devout Christian crusader, rebel outlaw hillbilly thug and elder statesman. Leigh H. Edwards explores the allure of this paradoxical image and its cultural significance. She argues that Cash embodied irresolvable contradictions of American identity that reflect foundational issues in the American experience.

With his girlfriend's life on the line, Kevin Jason (Bolt) accepts a mission from the government to save her life. He must retrieve a stolen government superweapon that, if it falls into the wrong hands, could spell disaster not just for America, but the whole world. To retrieve this weapon, Bolt must team up with a spy to infiltrate the pirate crew of an infamous and dangerous supervillain, who plans to sell the weapon off to the highest bidder. Yet not all is what it seems, especially in regard to the true nature of the weapon. And once Bolt discovers the truth, his whole world will be ...

With war raging in the streets between superheroes and vigilantes, Alex Fry (Beams) strives to not only survive the war, but also end it before the superpowered battles completely demolish his city. In addition, Beams must decide how much longer he will continue to work for his boss and his future in the superhero business in general. But all of that fades into the background when Beam's worst enemy blackmails him. She offers him a simple choice: Kill Rubberman, his boss, in a week, or have his identity made public and his family killed by her minions. Now Beams must find a way to stop this...

Determined to rescue his kidnapped grandfather, Jack McDonald (Trickshot) sets out to assault the headquarters of the spy organization Icon. Along the way, he allies with three agents from an opposing spy organization, whose true agenda is a mystery to Trickshot. And that's before Christina Madison, his former enemy, defects from Icon and offers to help Trickshot take them down. Trickshot doesn't trust her, but accepts her help anyway because he doesn't have much of a choice. Between saving his grandfather and figuring out who is friend and who is foe, Trickshot has a lot on his plate. But ...