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Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Talk about Life in the Segregated South
$28.32 Add to cartA timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts
Praised as “viscerally powerful” (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work
- Author: Chafe, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 162097682X
- Language: English
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Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
$28.32 Add to cartThe nationally acclaimed “engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking” (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist
“Nell Bern
- Author: Bernstein, Nell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1620971313
- Language: English
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Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
$28.27 Add to cartPAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism
Bestselling “overeducated cartoonist” Larry Gonick has delig- Author: Gonick, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1620972824
- Language: English
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Power Lines: Building a Labor-Climate Justice Movement
$17.99 Read moreThe essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in the field
The corporate elite have long pitted climate and labor mo
- Author: Ordower, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978180
- Language: English
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The World Is Waiting for You: Graduation Speeches to Live by from Activists, Writers, and Visionaries
$22.15 Read moreInspiring commencement speeches from Wynton Marsalis, Toni Morrison, Gloria Steinem, and others: “The perfect gift for grads-to-be” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
“The voices of conformity speak so loudly.- Author: Grove, Tara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1620970902
- Language: English
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The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ And Mũmbi
$33.98 Read moreA dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities, injustices, and corruption of a continent”
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels and memoirs have rec
- Author: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975254
- Language: English
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Playing in the Light
$22.65 Add to cart“In her ambitious third novel, Wicomb explores South Africa’s history through a woman’s attempt to answer questions surrounding her past” (The New Yorker).
Set in a beautifully rendered 1990s Cape To- Author: Wicomb, Zoe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: January 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1595582215
- Language: English
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Possessing the Secret of Joy
$25.48 Add to cartFrom the author the New York Times Book Review calls “a lavishly gifted writer,” this is the searing story of Tashi, a tribal African woman first glimpsed in The Color Purple whose fateful decision to
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: May 06 2008
- ISBN10: 1595583645
- Language: English
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Coming of Age Around the World: A Multicultural Anthology
$26.90 Add to cartFollowing in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America, this collection of twenty-four stories from around the world is a wonderful introduction to literature rarely available to
- Author: Adiele, Faith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1595580808
- Language: English
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Pig Tales: A Novel of Lust and Transformation
$22.60 Add to cartPig Tales is the story of a young woman who lands a position at Perfumes Plus, a beauty boutique/”massage” parlor. She enjoys great success until she slowly metamorphoses into . . . a pig. What happe
- Series: New Press International Fiction
- Author: Darrieussecq, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1565844424
- Language: English
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
$31.15 Add to cartNewly updated: “An enjoyable introduction to American working-class history.” —The American Prospect
Praised for its “impressive even-handedness”, From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set- Author: Murolo, Priscilla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974487
- Language: English
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Fires in the Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from High School Students
$28.27 Add to cartSince its initial publication in hardcover in 2003, Fires in the Bathroom has been through multiple printings and received the attention of teachers across the country. Now in paperback, Kathleen Cush… [more below]
- Author: Cushman, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1565849965
- Language: English
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The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power
$29.15 Read moreTwo of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan
“Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most im
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977605
- Language: English
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
$31.15 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review).
In this “invaluable record” of one o- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 07 2005
- ISBN10: 1565846567
- Language: English
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
$31.00 Add to cart“Every teacher, every student of history, every citizen should read this book. It is both a refreshing antidote to what has passed for history in our educational system and a one-volume education in i… [more below]
- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974673
- Language: English
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A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment
$19.99 Add to cartA “delicious” (Dorie Greenspan), “genial” (Kirkus Reviews), “very cool book about the intersections of food and history” (Michael Pollan)–as featured in the New York Times
“The complex political, his
- Author: H?naut, St?phane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975475
- Language: English
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A History of Bombing
$29.68 Add to cartA daring literary and historical look at the ideologies of war and violence, by the author of “Exterminate All the Brutes”
On November 1, 1911, over the North African oasis Tagiura, Lieutenant Giulio
- Author: Lindqvist, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1565848160
- Language: English
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In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety
$33.82 Add to cartIn Their Names busts open the public safety myth that uses victims’ rights to perpetuate mass incarceration, and offers a formula for what would actually make us safe, from the widely respected head o
- Author: Anderson, Lenore
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977125
- Language: English
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In Praise of Love
$19.82 Read moreThe renowned French philosopher’s “ode to love’s power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain” (Publishers Weekly).
In a world rife with consumerism, where online dati- Author: Badiou, Alain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1595588779
- Language: English
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The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
$15.95 Add to cartIn this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human nature.
In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2006
- ISBN10: 1595581340
- Language: English
