In the nineteenth century, Manhattan’s streets were so choked with pedestrians, horses, vehicles, and vendors that a trip from City Hall to Central Park could take hours. Alfred Beach had the perfect solution: build a giant pneumatic tube underneath Broadway from the Battery to Harlem.

New York’s Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit tells a classic story of good versus evil, pitting the mild-mannered Beach, a visionary inventor and entrepreneur, against the oafish tyrant Boss Tweed, the exemplar of corruption in the Gilded Age. It also tells the story of one of the most astonishing feats of engineering in American history, the surreptitious creation of the nation’s first operational subway.

Richly illustrated and populated with larger-than-life characters, New York’s Secret Subway will captivate readers and provide historical context for today’s clashes between public interests and powerful business and political groups. Algeo tells this amazing true story in full for the first time, and although it took place more than a century ago, it will at times sound surprisingly familiar.
 

As a child in the foothills of the Himalayas, Priyanka Kumar was entranced by forest-like orchards of diverse and luscious fruit—especially apples. These biodiverse orchards seemed worlds away from the cardboard apples that lined supermarket shelves in the United States. Yet on a small patch of woods near her home in Santa Fe, Kumar discovered a wild apple tree—and the seeds of an odyssey were planted. Could the taste of a feral apple offer a doorway to the wild? In The Light Between Apple Trees, Kumar takes us on a dazzling and transformative journey to rediscover apples, brilliantly weaving together science and childhood memories with the apple’s storied history.

The Light Between Apple Trees is a lyric odyssey that will forever change how you look at an “apple a day.” Kumar shows how—if we follow untamed paths—the tang and texture of an apple can lead us back to the wild.

The Tarahumara Rebellion of 1690 examines a seventeenth-century Indigenous uprising in northern Mexico aimed at driving out Spanish miners, missionaries, and settlers from Tarahumara (Rarámuri) and Tepehuanes homelands. Historian Joseph P. Sánchez shows how the Indigenous rebellions in the northern Mexican borderlands during the colonial period were part of the overall Indigenous struggle for defense of homeland throughout the Americas.

In this definitive biography—more than forty years in the making—Stephen Forrester documents Neuberger’s extraordinary life and career, highlighting a legacy that includes shaping Oregon’s renowned conservation policies and developing the state’s modern Democratic party.

This collection highlights how meXicana scholars center their community-engaged research to reflect on important regional themes in the U.S. Southwest and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Divided into five sections, authors explore what it means to cultivate spaces of belonging, navigate language policies, and excavate silences in various spaces, among other important themes, with a particular emphasis on Arizona in each section.

This richly illustrated book traces the life and career of Mac Schweitzer (1921–1962), once renowned as a mid-twentieth-century painter of southwestern scenes—wildlife, Native American families and craftspeople, landscapes, and semi-abstractions. Six decades after the artist’s death, author Ann Lane Hedlund has rediscovered an artistic legacy full of intriguing stories, successful shows and awards, and a fascinating, diverse body of artwork never before seen in public.

This book provides an overview of the literary genre of Middle English lyrics, anonymous short poems that were composed between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, identifying common features and trends over time and including modern translations of select examples.  

This book is the first to document the story of Amy Mallard, who sought justice through the legal system for the 1948 lynching of her husband in Georgia and later became an advocate for civil rights at the national level.

A short, informative guide for adults who are supporting children with a PDA profile, including parents, extended family members and professionals. The emphasis is on accessibility and demystification. There are engaging illustrations provided throughout.

Introductory guide to PDA for children, to help them understand PDA friends or family members. Readers are shown how it can feel to have PDA, and are given the opportunity to explore their own experiences too. Contains gentle age-appropriate advice and engaging illustrations.

How do I survive and thrive as a bi+ young person? LGBTQIA+ sex educator Laura Clarke has the answers on everything from coming out, dating and sex to myths, misconceptions and biphobia. With advice from bi+ activists and influencers including Pearl Mackie, Megan Jayne Crabbe, and Sofie Hagen - and many more.

An illustrated guide to notable queer Latine figures from history, for children 5+. With beautiful illustrations, short biographies, fun facts and glossary of key terms - this is the perfect resource for children and educators alike.

This positive illustrated guide explores the impact of pornography and helps you form a deeper understanding of sex and sexuality. Exploring topics including consent, body image and safe sex as well as offering engaging activities, you will be well equipped to have healthy conversations around sex and navigate porn safely.

Using polyamory to cast a new light on faith and sexuality, this book reveals the richness that can come from reevaluating our relationships to ourselves, each other and our entrenched ideas about spirituality and queerness. By tracing key concepts across relationship-building and faith, the enriching potential of polyamory is revealed.

This book explores how World War II transformed Florida into a major hub of military industry and an important training base for ground, naval, and air forces, detailing the war’s lasting impacts on the state.

This book examines the evolution of queer Dominican literary and cultural production from the 1950s to the present, tracing how same-sex desire and gender nonconformity have been negotiated both tacitly and overtly across this time period.

A stunning sketch of the life and career of the little-known American actress and socialite