National Network for Equitable Library Service

A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community's development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, charts, and illustrations.

A collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world. Salami offers fresh insights on key cultural issues that impact women's lives, including power, beauty, and knowledge. She also examines larger subjects, such as Afrofuturism, radical Black feminism, and gender politics.

Race has always been used to gain and keep power, creating dynamics that separate and silence. This exploration reveals the history of racism in America and inspires hope for an antiracist future.

Maggie Nelson presents 240 short pieces, all on the color blue, that offer surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human.

Deborah Frances-White reassures us that we don't have to be perfect to be a force for meaningful change. Exploring big issues, she explodes the myth of the model activist and offers a realistic path toward changing the world.

Drugs like fentanyl, K2, and Spice--and those with arcane acronyms like 25i-NBOMe--were originally conceived in legitimate laboratories for proper scientific and medicinal purposes. Their formulas were then hijacked and manufactured by rogue chemists, largely in China. Westhoff has infiltrated this shadowy world. He chronicles the lives of addicted users and dealers, families of victims, law-enforcement officers, and underground drug-awareness organizers in the US and Europe.

Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how traditional western-centric thinking has failed to explain what is happening to people in a newly globalized world. This precise but accessible book covers many of the most essential issues of our day--including migration, unemployment, growth, free trade, political polarization, and welfare.

In the 1970s, a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems.

Lindy West provides an incisive look at how patriarchy, intolerance, and misogyny have conquered politics and culture in America.

As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels--underfunded or nonexistent pensions, health problems, lack of savings, and job destruction without comparable job creation--will drive many into homelessness and produce a dramatic rise in violence as we fight over shrinking resources.