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A practical guide for scholars ready to write beyond the academy.

Public scholarship should not be reserved for celebrity intellectuals or tenured faculty at elite institutions. It's designed for anyone who wants to share their academic work and engage with the public beyond the classroom or conference panel. In The Public Scholar, historian and journalist David M. Perry offers a clear, candid, and practical guide to writing for public audiences.

Rather than debating whether academics should write for the public, Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? What counts as evidence in a 900-word op-ed? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world? Covering the full life cycle of public writing, Perry walks readers through pitching, writing, editing, publishing, building a platform, and navigating the real-world risks and rewards that come with stepping into the public sphere. As the author of multiple best-selling books and over five hundred essays, Perry shares insights that are direct, hard-won, and refreshingly honest. He explains how public-facing work can support an academic career, how it can provide leverage for tenure and promotion, and, importantly, how it can also live outside traditional institutional paths.

Perry's accessible approach invites scholars at all stages to consider what public engagement might look like in their own lives. Whether you're hoping to write for major newspapers, connect with communities beyond your discipline, or simply make your research more visible, The Public Scholar offers the right tools to help you get started.

A triumphant, cross-generational exploration of Black joy and resilience.

Remember frolicking outside during the long, jubilant days of summer? This vibrant collection invites readers to breathe deeply and return to that "carefree" season. From riding bikes with friends through the neighborhood, to hopping the ferry to Boblo Island, catching catfish along the river, dancing on warm nights to Afrobeats and jazz music, and cooling off in the Swimmobile, those sun-drenched memories were often clouded by racism for the Detroiters in this evocative anthology. These emerging and award-winning creators of all ages recount the struggles and triumph of staking their claim to public spaces. Ranging from poetry to essay, creative nonfiction to comics, this collection blends nostalgia with struggle and resilience. Arising from the iconic city of the African American experience comes this exploration of Black joy in the urban outdoors.

Lindon has a year left.When his time runs out, he'll have to fight an opponent that no one believes he can beat. Unless he learns sacred arts the right way, from scratch, he won't have a chance to win...and even then, the odds are against him.In the course of their training, he and Yerin travel to the Blackflame Empire, where they fight to master an ancient power.Success means a chance at life, but failure means death.In the sacred arts, only those who risk the most can travel far.

"The Cradle series is explosively fun, endlessly addictive, and it somehow manages to make reading feel like a full-contact sport. Wight makes writing this stuff look so easy." -- Matt Dinniman, New York Times best-selling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

Lindon has taken his first step on the road to power, but the sacred artists of the world outside his homeland are still far beyond him.

To advance, he turns to the arcane skills of the Soulsmiths, who craft weapons from the stuff of souls. With new powers come new enemies, but also new allies, including a mysterious mentor who seems interested in Lindon for his own purposes.

Even with new training and new help, Lindon is still only a Copper, and he soon finds himself facing down an entire sect of enemy Golds.

Series Description
Cradle is a New York Times best-selling progression fantasy series following Lindon's growth as he goes from one of the weakest users of his world's magic to among the strongest.

The completed 12-book series features an original magic system inspired by Chinese cultivation and martial arts novels, with a heavy emphasis on anime-style super-powered battles.

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION featuring new covers, a map of Cradle, and a bonus scene (or two!) in each book!

Teepa Snow's new Dementia Care Partner Guide features many updates from the original Dementia Caregiver Guide, including:

• A more in-depth look at the GEMS States of Brain Change, with her updated language and philosophy
• New photos to enhance learning, including a step-by-step photo guide to the Hand-under-Hand(R) support position
• Essential information about Positive Action Starters, Positive Personal Connectors, and Visual-Verbal-Touch Cueing
• Bonus resource card visual aids

The goal of this updated version is to help individuals truly make the shift from caregiver to care partner.

• Discover what's unique, remarkable, and even precious in the progression of dementia
• Let go of what is missing and learn to celebrate and use what remains, making life worth living until the end of the journey

The fascinating story of how the fossils of dinosaurs, mammoths, and other extinct animals influenced some of the most spectacular creatures of classical mythology

Griffins, Centaurs, Cyclopes, and Giants--these fabulous creatures of classical mythology continue to live in the modern imagination through the vivid accounts that have come down to us from the ancient Greeks and Romans. But what if these beings were more than merely fictions? What if monstrous creatures once roamed the earth in the very places where their legends first arose? This is the arresting and original thesis that Adrienne Mayor explores in The First Fossil Hunters. Through careful research and meticulous documentation, she convincingly shows that many of the giants and monsters of myth did have a basis in fact--in the enormous bones of long-extinct species that were once abundant in the lands of the Greeks and Romans.

As Mayor shows, the Greeks and Romans were well aware that a different breed of creatures once inhabited their lands. They frequently encountered the fossilized bones of these primeval beings, and they developed sophisticated concepts to explain the fossil evidence, concepts that were expressed in mythological stories. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin, for example, sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners, who, passing through the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground.

Like their modern counterparts, the ancient fossil hunters collected and measured impressive petrified remains and displayed them in temples and museums; they attempted to reconstruct the appearance of these prehistoric creatures and to explain their extinction. Long thought to be fantasy, the remarkably detailed and perceptive Greek and Roman accounts of giant bone finds were actually based on solid paleontological facts. By reading these neglected narratives for the first time in the light of modern scientific discoveries, Adrienne Mayor illuminates a lost world of ancient paleontology.

"The Cradle series is explosively fun, endlessly addictive, and it somehow manages to make reading feel like a full-contact sport. Wight makes writing this stuff look so easy." -- Matt Dinniman, New York Times best-selling author of Dungeon Crawler Carl

Lindon is born Unsouled, the one person in his family unable to use the magical Paths of the sacred arts. He uses every trick and technique he can borrow or steal to improve his life, but it seems he will never be able to join the ranks of the truly powerful.

Until the heavens descend and show him the future.

When Lindon becomes the only one who sees the approaching doom, he must leave his homeland to save it...and to see how far he can go by walking his own Path.

Series Description
Cradle is a New York Times best-selling progression fantasy series following Lindon's growth as he goes from one of the weakest users of his world's magic to among the strongest.

The completed 12-book series features an original magic system inspired by Chinese cultivation and martial arts novels, with a heavy emphasis on anime-style super-powered battles.

10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION featuring new covers, a map of Cradle, and a bonus scene (or two!) in each book!

Unlock the secrets to your best vegetable garden ever with The Key to Abundance! Permaculture for the vegetable garden.

This book is filled with practical, tried and tested real-world garden designs that deliver the highest yields with the least work, all while being eco-friendly and chemical-free.

These innovative gardens practically care for themselves: they water, fertilize, and build soil naturally, while fending off pests and diseases without the need for harmful pesticides or fertilizers. By mimicking nature, keyhole gardens create healthier plants and vibrant ecosystems that thrive on their own.

In this book, Permaculture expert and professional gardener Michael Hoag delivers dozens of research-informed garden plans that have been refined over decades of experience. These designs:

• Maximize yields and minimize work with clever design.
• Get many times more yields out of the same space with smart polycultures.
• Minimize wasted space and reduce weeds.
• Blend vegetables, herbs, and companion plants into resilient gardens that fend off pests and diseases.
• Build carbon-rich, biodiverse soil- even on tough sites with tough climates.

If you're ready to grow abundant, organic food while nurturing the planet, The Key to Abundance is your ultimate guide.

As a real human author, you can find Michael as an active participant in the global Permaculture community, and on your favorite social media.

An empire built on tequila. A family torn apart by greed and betrayal. A lawyer caught in a deadly web of cartels, corruption, and forbidden love.

From the agave fields of Mexico to the skyscrapers of Manhattan, from bayside mansions in Miami to Los Angeles courthouses, Tequila follows three generations of the Ramirez family as they battle for control of RAM, a multibillion-dollar luxury spirits powerhouse. When Maria Ramirez becomes CEO, her greatest foes aren't her competitors. They're her brothers - the corrupt, sociopathic Miguel and the self-destructive, spiraling Tomaso - whose actions threaten to drag the Ramirez name to ruin.

LA attorney Brian Youngman enters their world, hired for Tomaso's divorce case. What he uncovers are cartel ties, financial crimes, and unimaginable violence. As his growing love for Maria collides with his fight for justice, Brian becomes a reluctant hero in a battle where survival means pain and sacrifice.

With searing legal drama and pulse-pounding twists, Tequila is a genre-bending, plot-driven epic - a gripping blend of suspense, emotional reckoning, and explosive thriller.

"Who are you, Sam?" Unfortunately for Sam, the answer is: a lonely, single, closeted, mid-thirties woman with no close friends and no romantic prospects who feels stalled in her own life. Entirely convinced that she is unworthy of love or happiness after surviving decades of emotional neglect and bullying, Sam knows she needs to make changes, but is held hostage by her own history, which complicates her attempts to take control and start her second act.

For most people it's the 2010's, but for Sam, it's 1991, 1997, 2004, or any other painful moment from her past. At any given moment, her memories rear up and seize her, paralyze her, force her to relive an endless loop of the worst times of her life. Sam's inability to come to terms with her past immobilizes her, leaving her isolated, unfulfilled and desperate for change while navigating past traumas and current family crises.

As Sam tries to change her own life for the better, her actions have unintended consequences across her family.

From the hit anime on Crunchyroll, Somali and her Golem father continue their enchanting journey in a world where humanity has nearly been wiped out.

This heartwarming fantasy manga is featured on PW's 10 Must-Read Manga of 2024 list.

In Somali and the Forest Spirit Volume 5, Somali and her Golem father's journey takes a dramatic turn as they venture into the lawless city of Arishikka, where danger lurks at every corner. While searching for clues about Somali's lost family, they meet Shizuku, a fellow traveler with her own questions. In this chaotic city, the truth about Somali's identity is finally revealed, and her Golem companion's motivations become clearer.

This volume delves into the heart of the story, recounting the pivotal moment of their first meeting and shedding light on the mysterious bond that has kept them together. As the duo face both external threats and internal questions about their relationship, Volume 5 explores identity, family, and the meaning of companionship in a world where trust is scarce, and survival is a daily struggle.

With its richly developed world, filled with magic, mystery, and complex characters, Somali and the Forest Spirit continues to captivate readers with its heartfelt narrative and emotional depth, reminiscent of The Last of Us and The Mandalorian. This fifth volume unveils new revelations and offers a deeper understanding of Somali and Golem's unforgettable journey.

Fans of the 12-episode anime series on Crunchyroll will find additional depth in the manga's exploration of this unique world, while newcomers will be entranced by Yako Gureishi's masterful storytelling and stunning artwork. The series, featured on PW's 10 Must-Read Manga of of 2024 List, is a top pick for anyone who loves fantasy and heartfelt adventures.

A gripping and twisty historical murder mystery featuring a chemist turned-sleuth who battles ignorance and superstition--as well as killers--in 15th century Estonia

Perfect for fans of rich historical mysteries in the tradition of The Name of the Rose and C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series.

The Apothecary Melchior series plunges the reader into 15th century Tallinn when Estonia stands at the edge of Christendom, the Church's last foothold before the East: a town of foreign merchants and engineers, dominated by the mighty castle of Toompea and the construction of St Olaf's Church, soon to become the tallest building in the world...

Apothecary Melchior is a divisive figure in the city: respected for his arcane knowledge and scientific curiosity but also feared for his aura of mystical power. When a mysterious murder occurs in the castle, Melchior is called in to help find the killer and reveals a talent for solving crime. But a serial killer is loose in Tallinn, and Melchior is tested to the limit in a plot with as many twists and turns as the corridors of the castle itself. Melchior uncovers a mystery surrounding St Olaf's church and a secret society that has been controlling the town for years, revealing truths that may spell danger for any who dare to speak them aloud...

This 1st book in a series of historical mysteries sees the chemist-turned-sleuth Melchior battle ignorance and superstition--as well as a dangerous killer--in a richly atmospheric medieval setting.

Nonviolent Communication offers powerful skills to awaken self-compassion and deepen our connection to the "divine" within ourselves and others.

This book by a clinical psychologist who was one of the pioneers of NVC offers guidance and exercises--solo and paired--to directly experience NVC as a spiritual practice.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC) is a potent, increasingly influential communication art that benefits interpersonal communication. But clinical psychologist and NVC pioneer Robert Gonzales also taught it as a tool to cultivate self-compassion and spiritual development. This book is an introduction to experiencing NVC as a connection to the "divine" within ourselves and others.

In this book, based on a series of talks and published posthumously, Gonzales introduces basic, foundational concepts of NVC--observation, feelings, needs, and requests--and then illuminates how they can lead to compassion--and ultimately a transcendent sense of connection with others. This sense of spirit manifests as the needs, longings, and values underlying whatever we hear or say, and it can be experienced in every moment and during every conversation. Gonzales shows that by expressing what is most important to us (our passion) and listening for the essence of what others express, no matter what words they use (compassion), we embody the Divine.

Gonzales addresses anger, fear, grief, and impermanence, pointing out that choices are always present for us to embrace or resist life. Each chapter includes exercises--to do alone or with a partner--to directly embody the concepts of spirituality that Gonzales introduces, showing simple and practical ways to access the Divine right here, right now.

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The world's favourite pocket travel guides

Make the most of your trip to Edinburgh with this Top 10 guide. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Edinburgh has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable; the perfect companion while out and about.

Inside this guide to Edinburgh, you'll find:

• Top 10 lists of Edinburgh's must-sees and must-dos, including exploring Edinburgh Castle, admiring masterpieces at the National and hiking up Arthur's Seat
• Edinburgh's most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping
• Themed lists, including the best museums and galleries, green spaces, performance venues, nights out and much more
• Brand-new itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend or a week
• A laminated pull-out map of Edinburgh, plus seven full-colour area maps

DK's Top 10 travel guides have been helping travellers to make the most of their breaks since 2002.

Looking to explore more of Scotland's culture, history and attractions? Try our DK Scotland travel guide.

A German psychoanalyst, his Jewish wife, and their young daughter are swept up in the rising tide of fascism

Günter Zeitz, psychoanalyst-in-training and the son of a Catholic country doctor, and Josine Rosen, Sigmund Freud's patient and the daughter of a Jewish shipping magnate, first meet in 1924, in Freud's Viennese waiting room. As their intense affair develops, Freud arranges for Günter's appointment to the newly created Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. Shortly after the move, their daughter Hannah is born. But less than a decade later, all their hopes and ideals are profoundly challenged by political realities so horrific that they are, initially, beyond comprehension.

A heartrending story of love in a time of hatred, an absorbing investigation into the Nazis' exploitation of psychoanalysis, and a cautionary tale about self-deception and the failures of a people to recognize the lies of their charismatic leader, We Want So Much to Be Ourselves examines the ways science can be corrupted and one's very identity transformed by historical circumstance.