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By: Kilgore, James
Understanding E-Carceration: Electronic Monitoring, the Surveillance State, and the Future of Mass Incarceration
$20.98PaperbackRead moreA riveting primer on the growing trend of surveillance, monitoring, and control that is extending our prison system beyond physical walls and into a dark future–by the prize-winning author of Underst
- Author: Kilgore, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976145
- Language: English
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El Color de la Justicia: La Nueva Segregación Racial En Estados Unidos
$31.15PaperbackRead moreEn este revolucionario trabajo que ha permanecido por m s de dos a os en la lista de los libros m s vendidos del New York Times, Michelle Alexander argumenta que “no hemos erradicado las castas racial… [more below]
- Author: Alexander, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 20 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972743
- Language: Spanish
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By: Gilly, Adolfo
The Mexican Revolution
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartFirst published in Spanish in 1971, The Mexican Revolution has been praised by Mexico’s Nobel Prize-winning author Octavio Paz as a “notable contribution” to history and is widely recognized as a semi
- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Gilly, Adolfo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1595581235
- Language: English
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By: The New Press
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartFrom the political to the aesthetic, Nobel Lectures collects the words of a quarter century of literature laureates, offering a glimpse into the inspirations, motivations, and passionately held belief… [more below]
- Author: The New Press
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 1595584099
- Language: English
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By: Kaba, Mariame
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
$34.98HardcoverRead moreAn instant national best seller
A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers“One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist
- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976781
- Language: English
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By: Amato, Theresa
Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny
$32.62HardcoverRead moreRalph Nader’s former campaign manager “takes the biggest swing–not a jab, but a roundhouse punch–at America’s corrupt electoral system” (Phil Donahue).
As the national campaign manager for Ralph Na- Author: Amato, Theresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1595583947
- Language: English
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An Unplanned Life: A Memoir
$33.82HardcoverRead moreA major autobiography of a remarkable life that broke down racial barriers, transformed institutions, and energized the struggle for justice, by the former president of the Ford Foundation
“Frank has- Author: Thomas, Franklin A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977575
- Language: English
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By: Delpit, Lisa
The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom
$25.43PaperbackAdd to cartIn this powerful book, bestselling author and MacArthur “genius” Lisa Delpit joins with other education experts to unpack the complex relationship between language and power in the classroom
In what B
- Author: Delpit, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 229
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1595583505
- Language: English
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By: Fishman, Elly
Refugee High: Coming of Age in America
$26.99HardcoverRead moreA year in the life of a Chicago high school with one of the nation’s highest proportions of refugees, told with “strong novel-like pacing” (Milwaukee Magazine)
“A stunning and heart-wrenching work of n
- Author: Fishman, Elly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975084
- Language: English
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By: Kornbluh, Peter
The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability
$40.83PaperbackAdd to cartRevised and updated: the definitive primary-source history of US involvement in General Pinochet’s Chilean coup–“the evidence is overwhelming” (The New Yorker).
Published to commemorate the fortiet- Author: Kornbluh, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589120
- Language: English
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By: Lochbaum, David
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
$26.85PaperbackRead more“A gripping, suspenseful page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews) with a “fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller” (International Business Times), Fukushima teams two leading experts from the U… [more below]
- Author: Lochbaum, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1620970848
- Language: English
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By: Freeman, Amanda
Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
$32.65HardcoverRead moreTwo groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women
Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, orde
- Author: Freeman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977427
- Language: English
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By: Kowal, John F.
The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
$52.50HardcoverAdd to cartThe 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution–the product of compromises and an artifact of its time–and made it more democratic
Who wrote the Constitution? That
- Author: Kowal, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975610
- Language: English
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Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
$32.65HardcoverAdd to cartHow the Supreme Court’s decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for Black people
The summer of 2020 will be re
- Author: Carbado, Devon W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 162097424X
- Language: English
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By: Mandery, Evan
Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us
$34.98HardcoverRead moreThe front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission av
- Author: Mandery, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976951
- Language: English
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By: Kohl, Herbert R.
‘I Won’t Learn from You’: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
$25.50PaperbackAdd to cart“I Won’t Learn From You,” Herb Kohl’s now-classic essay on “not learning,” or refusing to learn, is available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition along with four other landmark essay… [more below]
- Author: Kohl, Herbert R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1565840968
- Language: English
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By: Lewis, Jori
Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
$46.67HardcoverAdd to cartWinner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
A stunning work of popular history–the story of how a crop transformed the history of sla
Winner, Harriet Tubman Prize- Author: Lewis, Jori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1620971569
- Language: English
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By: Pekar, Harvey
Studs Terkel’s Working: A Graphic Adaptation
$32.52PaperbackRead moreComics impresario Harvey Pekar brings to vivid life Terkel’s bestselling masterpiece, with comics by America’s leading illustrators
Ever since Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel’s Working first documen
- Author: Pekar, Harvey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 28 2009
- ISBN10: 1595583211
- Language: English
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By: Nielson, Erik
Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America
$29.15HardcoverRead moreA groundbreaking expos? about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color
Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, “I shot
- Author: Nielson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1620973405
- Language: English
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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
$30.32HardcoverAdd 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976080
- Language: English









