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A People’s History of the United States: The Civil War to the Present
$33.98 Read moreAn abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn’s bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter.
Like Volume I, each chapter in Volume II provides exercises- Series: New Press People’s History #2
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1565847253
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
$28.32 Add to cartThe winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works
- Author: Kars, Marjoleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 162097780X
- Language: English
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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
$34.00 Add to cartWidely recognized as “one of the nation’s foremost scholars on the slave era” (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in sl
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1595581731
- Language: English
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Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradis
- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 156584162X
- Language: English
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War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new preface by the author on the Gaza war
An unflinching expos? of the hidden costs of American war-making written with “an immense and rare humanity” (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier politi- Author: Solomon, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979160
- Language: English
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On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
$24.99 Add to cartAn intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire
An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978571
- Language: English
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Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
$30.99 Add to cartIn her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “p… [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Arlie Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1620976463
- Language: English
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A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It
$27.99 Add to cartA sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences
Murderous mafia capos. The police officer who brutalized Abner
- Author: Block, Frederic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978873
- Language: English
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Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration
$17.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening look at “participatory defense,” the innovative practice that allows the loved ones of those charged with crimes to help influence the outcome of court cases, by the MacArthur Award-win… [more below]
- Author: Jayadev, Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977001
- Language: English
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$28.99 Add to cartThe remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher
- Author: Ashton, Susanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978199
- Language: English
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation
$27.99 Add to cartAt last! The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to American history myths–adapted by the famed National Book Award-winning artist behind John Lewis’s March … [more below]
- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977036
- Language: English
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Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything–And Endangered the World
$32.65 Read moreFinalist, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
In the tradition of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, a groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the environmen- Author: Zuckerman, Jocelyn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975238
- Language: English
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Kindergarten: A Teacher, Her Students, and a Year of Learning
$26.90 Add to cart” Diamond] has captured the world of the class–at times chaotic, always busy, usually inspired”– Essential reading for parents and teachers alike (Los Angeles Times).
Hailed by renowned educator De- Author: Diamond, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1595583483
- Language: English
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History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History
$31.10 Add to cartHistory Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004
- Author: Lindaman, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: July 04 2006
- ISBN10: 1595580824
- Language: English
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The War: A Memoir
$22.67 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras’s rivet
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565842219
- Language: English
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Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice
$27.99 Add to cartA powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet
Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change–floods, droughts, a
- Author: Kormos, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977494
- Language: English
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The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began
$31.45 Add to cartHow ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: ” A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “th- Author: Raphael, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1620971267
- Language: English
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
$44.33 Add to cartThe award-winning “radically original” (The Atlantic) restorative justice leader, whose work the Washington Post has called “totally sensible and totally revolutionary,” grapples with the problem of v
- Author: Sered, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974797
- Language: English
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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
$28.27 Add to cartEssays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: “Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book.” —Library Journal
The sudden meltdown of the news media has spark- Author: McChesney, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1595585486
- Language: English
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Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas about Justice
$34.98 Read moreHow to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors
“An extraordinary and long overdue collection off- Author: Travis, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977559
- Language: English
