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Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
$31.48 Add to cartA compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them
“Conniff brings her skills and- Author: Conniff, Ruth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976374
- Language: English
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On Language: Chomsky’s Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume
$39.67 Add to cartThe two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume–an ideal introduction to his work.
On Language features some of Noam Chomsky’s most informal and highly accessible work. In- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 269
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1565844750
- Language: English
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Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
$32.65 Read moreFrom a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood–and what we can do about it
“Engrossi- Author: Linn, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1620972271
- Language: English
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How We Win the Civil War: Securing a Multiracial Democracy and Ending White Supremacy for Good
$33.82 Read moreA National Bestseller
“If we first recognize that we are in a war, and then learn the lessons and follow the lead of those who have shown they know how to prevail, we can definitely win the Civil War,
- Author: Phillips, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976765
- Language: English
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
$33.82 Read moreA “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review
“Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.”
—Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Leona- Author: Clark, Alexis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1620971860
- Language: English
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Light Up the Night: America’s Overdose Crisis and the Drug Users Fighting for Survival
$31.48 Read moreA revelatory, moving narrative that offers a harrowing critique of the war on drugs from voices seldom heard in the conversation: drug users who are working on the front lines to reduce overdose death
- Author: Lupick, Travis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976382
- Language: English
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What We Talk about When We Talk about Rape
$22.65 Read more“What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape is brilliant, frank, empowering, and urgently necessary. Sohaila Abdulali has created a powerful tool for examining rape culture and language on the individ
- Author: Abdulali, Sohaila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974746
- Language: English
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
$35.00 Add to cartThe National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestseller that became a guide and balm for a country struggling to understand the election of Donald Trump
“A generous but disconcerting look at th
- Author: Russell Hochschild, Arlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 1620972255
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartInspiring 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
