Books like Willful Subjects by Sara Ahmed

Arthur Schopenhauer’s seminal work contemplates the nature of reality as will and representation, examining his critique of Kant and the foundations of knowledge and perception.

Matthew B. Crawford examines how our attention shapes the self, arguing that a modern crisis of focus stems from deeper cultural assumptions rather than just digital distraction.

Living a Feminist Life guides readers through everyday feminist practice, linking theory with lived experience and offering practical tools to support feminist activism.

"In Complaint! Sara Ahmed examines what we can learn about power from those who complain about abuses of power. Drawing on oral and written testimonies from academics and students who have made complaints about harassment, bullying and unequal working conditions at universities, Ahmed explores the gap between what is supposed to happen when complaints are made and what does happen. To make complaints within institutions is to learn how they work and for whom they work: complaint as feminist pedagogy. Ahmed explores how complaints are made behind closed doors and how doors are often closed upon those who complain. To open these doors, to get complaints through, keep them going, or keep them alive, Ahmed emphasizes, requires forming new kinds of collectives. The book offers a systematic analysis of the methods used to stop complaints and a powerful and poetic meditation on what complaints can be used to do. Following a long lineage of Black feminist and feminist of color critiques of the university, Ahmed delivers a timely consideration of how institutional change becomes possible and why it is necessary"--

An ABC board book that invites children to learn about activism, social justice, and civil rights through bold, inspiring illustrations.

"In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word--in this case, use--and following it around. She shows how use became associated with life and strength in nineteenth century biological and social thought and considers how utilitarianism offered a set of educational techniques for shaping individuals by directing them toward useful ends. Ahmed also explores how spaces become restricted to some uses and users with specific reference to universities. She notes, however, the potential for queer use: how things can be used in ways that were not intended or by those for whom they were not intended. Ahmed posits queer use as way of reanimating the project of diversity work as the ordinary and painstaking work of opening up institutions to those who have historically been excluded from them"--

Norman Cousins explores how patients can actively participate in their healing by embracing responsibility, stress management, and mind‑body interaction, drawing on his own battle with a debilitating disease and insights from medical research.

Covers the psychological and spiritual aspects of fear, love, tension, good and evil, and the search for meaning.