New Releases

Where the Wild Things Were centers on the exploding, contentious national conversation about the nature of childhood and parenting in the postwar US emblematized by Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. Renowned scholar Henry Jenkins demonstrates that the language that shaped a growing field of advice literature for parents also informed the period's fictions—in film, television, and elsewhere—produced for and consumed by children.

In DIE INSPIRIERTE WAHL: Chroniken der Transformation jenseits aller Vorstellungskraft nimmt Caroline Biesalski die Leserschaft mit auf eine transformative Reise, in der sie erzählt, wie sie in den vergangenen 365 Tagen eine erfolgreiche und gefragte Podcast-Moderatorin wurde.

In the midst of widespread mass shootings in America, a common motif stands out: the perpetrators of these attacks often view themselves as vigilante saviors, whose job it is to regulate society in a way that exterminates their enemies. In this critique, Rachel Wagner makes the case that this unfortunate phenomenon is best understood through the idea of the cowboy apocalypse. She shows that across US media, from video games and movies to novels and TV, a story arc has been created that provides a complete myth about the end of the world and the future after that.

A must-listen from the authors of Who Built the Moon?

يحوي الكتاب العديد من المواضيع ويناقش عدة قضايا في مجالات مختلفة، تخرج منه بمعلومات ثقافية دينية تاريخية أدبية وأخلاقية وغيرها من معلومات متنوعة يخبرك بأن الحق حق والباطل باطل مهما كثر مرتادية ومؤيّديه. فالكتاب عبارة عن مقالات كُتبت بتواريخ مختلفة في الصحف ومدونات الجزيرة والمواقع الإلكترونية وجمعها في كتاب واحد، حيث يناقش الكاتب بعض القضايا في المجتمع ويحاول إيجاد حلول لها.

Una Marson was a true trailblazer: she made history by becoming the first Black female broadcaster at the BBC and paved the way for Black women and the amplification of Black voices in the media. Despite all this, though, her story has been all but forgotten by history. Marson was a fierce political activist throughout her life, and in this rigorously researched and deeply personal biography, the life and achievements of this extraordinary, complex and multifaceted person will be told in full for the first time.