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We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
$25.43 Add to cart“Powerful…Iyer catalogues the toll that various forms of discrimination have taken and highlights the inspiring ways activists are fighting back. [She] is an ideal chronicler of this experience.”
–Th… [more below]- Author: Iyer, Deepa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972735
- Language: English
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Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to the Practice: A Collection of Great Writing about the Law
$32.57 Read moreIn Law Lit, acclaimed novelist and law professor Thane Rosenbaum delves into our cultural obsession with the law, exploring how the legal system has historically captivated the imagination of artists … [more below]
- Author: Rosenbaum, Thane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1595584129
- Language: English
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The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
$44.99 Add to cartIn The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into f
- Author: Lippard, Lucy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565842480
- Language: English
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Japan at War: An Oral History
$39.67 Read moreA “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II
“Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach
- Author: Cook, Haruko Taya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1565840399
- Language: English
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
$26.90 Add to cart“A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the
developing world” (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present dayIn a book Paul Farmer called “a gem of a social history linking t
- Author: Mitman, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977966
- Language: English
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
$35.40 Add to cartThis “well-told and inspiring”story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is the monumental product of Lillian Smith Book Award-winning author Vanessa Siddle Walker’s two-decade investigation into the c
- Author: Walker, Vanessa Siddle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976021
- Language: English
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
$39.67 Add to cartWinner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian
A wide-ranging cultural and political history
- Author: Cowie, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1595587071
- Language: English
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Thick: And Other Essays
$29.15 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian
As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE
- Author: Cottom, Tressie McMillan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974363
- Language: English
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May It Please the Court
$28.27 Add to cartUntil The New Press first published “May It Please the Court” in 1993, few Americans knew that every case argued before the Supreme Court since 1955 had been recorded. The original book-and-tape set w
- Series: May It Please the Court
- Author: Irons, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565840526
- Language: English
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37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination
$49.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of s
- Author: Boschert, Sherry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1620975831
- Language: English
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice
$63.75 Add to cartWhen it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Ge… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1595588604
- Language: English
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The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis
$29.99 Add to cartA beautiful and engaging guide to global warming’s impacts around the world
Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and
- Author: Conklin, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1620974568
- Language: English
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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
$26.90 Add to cartAwarded “Special Recognition” by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards
Finalist for the American Bar Association’s 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award
Named one of the “10 books to read after you… [more below]
- Author: Edelman, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975483
- Language: English
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Chokehold: Policing Black Men
$25.48 Add to cartFinalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards
Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) A 2017 Washington Po- Author: Butler, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974835
- Language: English
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
$28.32 Add to cartA fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award-winning author
“The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cau
- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974339
- Language: English
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Sociology Is a Martial Art: Political Writings by Pierre Bourdieu
$31.10 Add to cartSociology is a Martial Art is an accessible survey of Pierre Bourdieu’s most influential writings. It includes the full text of his short books Acts of Resistance, Firing Back, and On Television, in a… [more below]
- Author: Sapiro, Gisele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 16 2010
- ISBN10: 1595585435
- Language: English
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Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
$25.50 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants, addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system, with a new epilogue by the author
“Argues com
- Author: Garc?a Hern?ndez, C?sar Cuauht?moc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978318
- Language: English
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Social Security Works for Everyone!: Protecting and Expanding America’s Most Popular Social Program
$17.99 Add to cartSocial Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when Americans need it more than ever–here’s what it should look like (and why it matters to everyday people all over the country)
“Altman a
- Author: Altman, Nancy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976226
- Language: English
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Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
$24.02 Add to cartThe classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals
Hailed by Publ- Author: Reed, Adolph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1565846753
- Language: English
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When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule
$33.82 Read moreA gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes what’s at stake when prosecutors conceal evidence–and what we can do about it
The Brady rule was meant to transform the U.S. ju- Author: Dybdahl, Thomas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977044
- Language: English
