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Living with Purpose and Integrity is a deeply reflective reimagining of the Ten Commandments by Unitarian Universalist minister the Rev. Tom Owen-Towle. With over five decades of spiritual leadership, Owen-Towle brings warmth, candor, and moral urgency to this timeless subject. Drawing from Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, and secular traditions, he invites readers of all backgrounds to reflect, disagree, and grow.

The unlikely trajectory of the author’s own life reveals the strange and counterintuitive nature of synchronicity. From Wilmington, Del., to 1960s-era San Francisco, Beitman explores his experience with precognition and telepathy while playing high school football, living as a psychiatric medical school student and hippie in Haight-Ashbury, and becoming head of psychiatry at University of Missouri-Columbia Medical School.

Love Without Borders examines the phenomenon of U.S. families adopting Chinese-born children. The book explores familial bonds that transcend biological links, the continuing connection of the adoptees and their families with their homeland in China, and the special relationship that developed between the author, a Chinese orphanage administrator, and families who adopted daughters from his jurisdiction.

With practical strategies and real-life examples, the authors offer a design for building community organized around four key aspects: every voice matters; collaboration supports student agency; student-created representations offer anchors, openings, and depth; and students become initiators and advocates for their own learning. Each chapter examines how teachers implement these ideas through video examples from six public elementary school classrooms.

Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a highly polarizing figure. He is viewed as an emblem both of Twain’s alleged racism and of his opposition to racism. Eminent Twain scholar Fishkin probes the controversies around him, exploring who Jim was, how Twain portrayed him, and how the world has responded to him.

Ehrhart is a Marine Corps veteran of both the Vietnam War and Vietnam Veterans Against the War. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wales at Swansea, and spent several decades as a teacher at the Haverford School. His other titles include Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir and Thank You for Your Service: Collected Poems.

The damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park succeeded largely through the efforts of John R. Freeman. Portraying Freeman for the first time in all his provocative complexity, The Man Who Dammed Hetch Hetchy is at once a deeply researched, richly detailed biography and social history, and a compelling reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in U.S. environmental culture.

Political philosopher and legal scholar George argues that the “Age of Faith” of the medieval period and the “Age of Reason” of the European Enlightenment have been followed by a modern “Age of Feeling,” in which people derive their beliefs from neither faith or reason, but from emotion, which becomes the central source of truth.

Facing the White Shadow is a self-help book that guides white readers to understand and manage their own racism. Readers learn how to talk back to their internalized racism — their white shadows — so they can enjoy authentic and mutually satisfying relationships with people of color. This book offers a compassionate framework for white readers without minimizing the devastating effects of racism on people of color.

Dermatologist McMichael offers straight talk, insider strategies, and deeply personal stories to help medical students navigate the competitive path to a successful match. With candor and clarity, McMichael speaks directly to students — especially those from underrepresented backgrounds — who may feel unseen or unsure of how to succeed in high-stakes medical fields.

The illicit global economy encompasses cross-border flows of goods, people, money, and information unauthorized by either the sending or receiving country. This primer answers key questions about how illicit global markets are structured and operate, how they intersect with state institutions and practices, how they interact with the legal economy, and how they shape and are shaped by domestic and international politics.