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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
$38.00 Add to cartThe book the American Prospect calls “an essential resource for future reformers on how not to govern,” by America’s leading defender of the public interest and a bestselling historian
“An essential re
- Author: Cohen, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976536
- Language: English
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
$46.67 Add to cartA scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world
Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prison
- Author: Segrest, Mab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1620972972
- Language: English
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Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks
$26.25 Add to cartA teaching edition of the “thought-provoking study” History in the Making, which explores how our view of the history changes over time (Library Journal).
Kyle Ward’s celebrated History in the Making- Author: Ward, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1595581448
- Language: English
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The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law
$29.99 Add to cartBrilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnist–aka the Mad Law Professor–tackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillance, and more
Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a ce
- Author: Williams, Patricia J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978164
- Language: English
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100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting
$35.00 Add to cartA timely and paradigm-shifting argument that all members of a democracy must participate in elections, by a leading political expert and Washington Post journalist
Americans are required to pay taxes
- Author: Dionne, E. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976773
- Language: English
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Won’t Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
$18.99 Add to cartThe “heartfelt” (Shelf Awareness) story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students
Published to wide acclaim, Won’t Lose This Dream is the “illuminating”
- Author: Gumbel, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979152
- Language: English
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Tax the Rich!: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer
$17.99 Read moreA powerfully persuasive and thoroughly entertaining guide to the most effective way to un-rig the economy and fix inequality, from America’s wealthiest “class traitors”
The vast majority of Americans–
- Author: Pearl, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976269
- Language: English
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Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers
$26.85 Add to cartEight renowned thinkers take philosophy to the streets in interviews drawn from a Toronto International Film Festival premiere
Examined Life boldly takes philosophy out of the dark corners of the acad
- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2009
- ISBN10: 1595584471
- Language: English
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Believable: The Portraits of Lola Flash
$31.15 Read moreNamed one of the Best Photo Books of the Year by Smithsonian
A stunning full-color collection of photographs, old and new, by the renowned photographer and LGBTQIA+ activist Lola Flash Working at the- Author: Flash, Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977532
- Language: English
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One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed Behind the Kitchen Door, a powerful examination of how the subminimum wage and the tipping system exploit society’s most vulnerable
“No one has done more to move forw
- Author: Jayaraman, Saru
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975335
- Language: English
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What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System
$31.48 Read more“This is what we know, and we know it better than anyone else.” –from the introduction by Vivian Nixon and Daryl V. Atkinson
A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America’s cr
- Author: Nixon, Vivian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975297
- Language: English
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States of Neglect: How Red-State Leaders Have Failed Their Citizens and Undermined America
$32.65 Read moreAs America continues down its path of polarization, a celebrated journalist tells us the deep story of the red-state/blue-state divide
In the wake of Trump’s presidency, Republican-led states have join
- Author: Kleinknecht, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1620976412
- Language: English
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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
$30.32 Add to cartRiveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter
“The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick’s story is big
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976757
- Language: English
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
$25.48 Add to cartRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle
Nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in
- Author: Bell, Janet Dewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975580
- Language: English
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Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
$32.57 Add to cartFew philosophers have had as strong an influence on the way we think about power and knowledge as Michel Foucault (1926-1984). His work has influenced the teaching of any number of disciplines and rem
- Series: Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 1565844343
- Language: English
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Queer America: A People’s Glbt History of the United States
$31.15 Add to cartPlacing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century,
Vicki L. Eaklor’s Queer America: A People’s GLBT History of the United States is a major new effort to popularize a long-over… [more below]- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Eaklor, Vicki L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1595586369
- Language: English
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Refugee High: Coming of Age in America
$26.90 Read 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978326
- Language: English
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The Coup: 1953, the Cia, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
$19.95 Add to cartIn August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United State
- Author: Abrahamian, Ervand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1620970864
- Language: English
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The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ
$25.43 Add to cartIn July 2008 a front-page story in the New York Times reported on the discovery of an ancient Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the de… [more below]
- Author: Boyarin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1595588787
- Language: English
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Power
$38.23 Add to cartPart of the definitive collection of Michel Foucault’s articles, interviews, and seminars, this volume lays out the philosopher’s influential thinking on the machinations of power in society
“A rare op
- Series: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (Paperback) #03
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2001
- ISBN10: 1565847091
- Language: English
