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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
$17.99 Add to cartThe MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable
A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 20
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977133
- Language: English
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A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the author Robert Lipsyte calls “the best young sportswriter in America,” a rollicking, rebellious, myth-busting history of sports in America that puts politics in the ring with pop culture
In th- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 1595584773
- Language: English
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An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
$25.99 Add to cartAn eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author
When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Ba
- Author: Kozol, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978725
- Language: English
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Coming of Age in the 21st Century: Growing Up in America Today
$26.90 Add to cartFollowing in the footsteps of the highly successful Coming of Age in America and Coming of Age Around the World, this new anthology of fiction and memoir explores coming of age in the new millennium. … [more below]
- Author: Frosch, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 319
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1595580557
- Language: English
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Confidential
$19.99 Add to cartThe darkly comic tale of three generations of a Jewish family, from one of Poland’s most renowned contemporary authors
“A novel sparing only in words and form, not in emotion.”
—Vogue (Poland)Confide
- Author: Grynberg, Mikolaj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1620978806
- Language: English
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Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future
$27.99 Add to cartA clarion call for justice in the quest for clean energy
California’s Salton Sea region is home to some of the worst environmental health conditions in the country. It is also ground zero for a new “l
- Author: Benner, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978741
- Language: English
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Disrupted City: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore
$29.99 Add to cartA stunning history of Pakistan’s cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South Asia
The city of Lahore was more than one thousand years old when it went through a viol
- Author: Asif, Manan Ahmed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1595589074
- Language: English
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The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War
$29.99 Add to cartA prizewinning historian uncovers one of the earliest instances of reparations in America–ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves
“A spectacular achieveme
- Author: Forret, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978865
- Language: English
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From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture
$27.99 Add to cartAn award-winning author’s powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America’s food system
It’s well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned priorit
- Author: Anderson, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978148
- Language: English
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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
$25.48 Add to cartRiveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered a political awakening among athletes of all ages and levels, from the celebrated sportswriter
“With profiles of courage tha- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977850
- Language: English
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Worn Out: How Our Clothes Cover Up Fashion’s Sins
$31.48 Add to cartAn insider’s look at how the rise of “fast fashion” obstructs ethical shopping and fuels the abuse and neglect of garment workers
“With years of expertise in the fashion industry, Alyssa’s reporting i- Author: Hardy, Alyssa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976943
- Language: English
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I’d Like to Say Sorry, But There’s No One to Say Sorry to: Stories
$23.32 Read moreFinalist for the National Jewish Book Awards
Finalist, National Translation Award in ProseAn exquisitely original collection of darkly funny stories that explore the panorama of Jewish experience in co
- Author: Grynberg, Mikolaj
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976838
- Language: English
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Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me: The Life of the Legendary Artist and Activist (Adapted for Young Adults)
$28.99 Add to cartThe inspiring life and legacy of vocal artist and civil rights icon Paul Robeson–one of the most important public figures in the twentieth century–adapted for young adults by the acclaimed Robeson b
- Author: Duberman, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976498
- Language: English
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Social Stratification in the United States: The American Profile Poster of Who Owns What, Who Makes How Much, and Who Works Where
$24.99 Read moreThe must-have new edition of the classic book-and-poster set, based on the most recent census data, depicting who owns what, who makes how much, who works where, and who lives with whom
Generations of
- Author: Rose, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977400
- Language: English
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Let’s Talk about Your Wall: Mexican Writers Respond to the Immigration Crisis
$30.32 Read moreMajor writers from Mexico weigh in on U.S. immigration policy, from harrowing migrant journeys to immigrant detention to the life beyond the wall
Despite the extensive coverage in the U.S. media of th
- Author: Boullosa, Carmen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976188
- Language: English
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Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
$33.82 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times
“Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope.”
—Rolling StoneAcclaimed media critic J. Hoberman’s masterful and majestic exploration of t
- Author: Hoberman, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1595580069
- Language: English
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Won’t Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
$32.65 Read moreThe extraordinary story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students
“Georgia State . . . has been reimagined–amid a moral awakening and a raft of data-driv
- Author: Gumbel, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1620974703
- Language: English
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A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
$31.48 Read moreIn the “vigorous, well-informed” (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officia
- Author: Schneider, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1620974940
- Language: English
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
$29.73 Add to cartThe groundbreaking, bestselling history of slavery, with a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Annette Gordon-Reed
“As vital and necessary a historical document as anyone has ever produ
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1620970287
- Language: English
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Why School?: Reclaiming Education for All of Us
$24.02 Add to cartWhy School? is a little book driven by big questions. What does it mean to be educated? What is intelligence? How should we think about intelligence, education, and opportunity in an open society? Dra… [more below]
- Author: Rose, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1595589384
- Language: English
