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The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
$18.99 Add to cartPrizewinning Book: The Dawn of Detroit won both the Merle Curti Prize and the James Rawley Prize, two of the top distinctions in American History Media track record: Hardcover edition attracted major … [more below]
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974819
- Language: English
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Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel
$24.99 Add to cart“A fascinating collection” of wartime cartoons from the beloved children’s author and illustrator (The New York Times Book Review).
For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelou- Author: Minear, Richard H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1565847040
- Language: English
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Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation
$29.15 Read moreWinner, Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing
In a dazzling mix of reportage, analysis, and memoir, the leading Palestinian writer of our time reflects on aging, failure, the occupation, and the changi- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975777
- Language: English
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Slave Old Man
$21.23 Add to cartThe “heart-stopping” (The Millions), “richly layered” (Brooklyn Rail), “haunting, beautiful” (BuzzFeed) story of an escaped captive and the killer hound that pursues him
“Slave Old Man is a cloudburst
- Author: Chamoiseau, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975882
- Language: English
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The Land Where the Blues Began
$50.98 Read moreWinner of a National Book Critics Circle award, a rollicking and unforgettable memoir by the man who helped bring the music of the blues into the mainstream
“Without Lomax it’s possible that there woul
- Author: Lomax, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1565847393
- Language: English
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When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History
$32.65 Add to cartWINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD – NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR
The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents’ lives in Egypt, Tuni
- Author: Hayoun, Massoud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974169
- Language: English
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Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
$31.15 Read moreOne of Janet Maslin’s Favorite Books of 2018, The New York Times
One of John Warner’s Favorite Books of 2018, Chicago Tribune Named one of the “Best Civil War Books of 2018” by the Civil War Monitor “- Author: Kytle, Ethan J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975467
- Language: English
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The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
$27.99 Add to cart“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee” (Kirkus Reviews) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court
“There’s no- Author: Whitehouse, Sheldon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977389
- Language: English
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The Essential Chomsky
$42.50 Add to cartThe seminal one-volume collection of Noam Chomsky’s thought, encompassing his best writings on politics, philosophy, and media theory
“Noam Chomsky is one of the most significant challengers of unjust
- Series: New Press Essential
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 515
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 1595581898
- Language: English
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The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
$28.32 Read moreThe landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author
In this award-winning investigation into the over- Author: Prashad, Vijay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977621
- Language: English
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The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court
$18.99 Add to cart“A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee” (Kirkus Reviews) with a new preface on recent disclosures about efforts to influence the Court
“There’s no- Author: Whitehouse, Sheldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978342
- Language: English
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Multiplication Is for White People: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children
$25.43 Add to cartFrom the MacArthur Award-winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People’s Children, a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America’s… [more below]
- Author: Delpit, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1595588981
- Language: English
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Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man’s Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide
$25.48 Add to cartNow part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa–and the terr
- Author: Lindqvist, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1565843592
- Language: English
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A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
$26.90 Add to cartA trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways-and how to fight back
“A powerful analysis of the predatory, profit-seeking forces that threaten our nation’s
- Author: Schneider, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977958
- Language: English
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Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real about Race in School
$35.35 Add to cartWinner, Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
The groundbreaking book on race in schools that has become an essential handbook for teachers working to create antiracist classroomsIn the wake of the Bl
- Author: Pollock, Mica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1595580549
- Language: English
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
$24.07 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
“A light in darkness, Alice Walker awakens us to our own power as
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976730
- Language: English
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Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920
$34.98 Read moreA groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women’s prison
What if prisoners were to write the history of their own p- Author: The Indiana Women’s Prison History Proje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1620975394
- Language: English
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
$24.99 Read moreWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
“The Good War“ is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian.- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1565843436
- Language: English
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Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
$31.48 Add to cart2018 American Book Award Winner
A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation–and the debut of an important new social critic How much of- Author: Taylor, Sunaura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1620971283
- Language: English
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
$32.57 Add to cart“Powerful and important . . . an instant classic.”
The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, re
—The Washington Post Book World- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974347
- Language: English
