FROM THE PAGE: An excerpt from Victor Luckerson’s Built from the Fire

Built from the Fire is a multigenerational saga of a family and a community in Tulsa’s Greenwood district, known as “Black Wall Street,” that in one century survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, urban renewal, and gentrification.   Prologue Jim Goodwin remembers the symphony of the old Greenwood well. The blues mingling with smoke as

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Do You Teach Psychology?

You can search for books across this discipline through our course lists, which cover Abnormal & Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Physiological Psychology, and Social & Applied Psychology. Here is a small selection of the books available:   Abnormal and Clinical Psychology Cognitive Psychology Developmental Psychology Physiological Psychology Social and Applied Psychology

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FROM THE PAGE: An Excerpt from Bo Seo’s Good Arguments

Two-time world champion debater and former coach of the Harvard debate team, Bo Seo tells the inspiring story of his life in competitive debating and reveals the timeless secrets of effective communication and persuasion. 1. Topic How to find the debate On a Monday morning in January 2007, a couple of months after my graduation from

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The MIT Press Radium Age Series: A Science Fiction Primer for Students

In these forgotten classics in MIT Press’ Radium Age series, students will discover the origins of enduring tropes like tyrannical supermen, dystopian wastelands, sinister telepaths, and eco-catastrophes. According to the Los Angeles Review of Books, the series “challenges readers to reconsider the science fiction of the early 20th century… By returning to an international tradition of

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Remembering Cormac McCarthy

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy died on June 13th, 2023 of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He was eighty-nine years old. His death was confirmed by his son, John McCarthy. McCarthy was one of the world’s most influential and renowned writers, His career spanned nearly six decades and several genres,

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