University of California Press
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Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth
$26.95 Add to cartThe powerful story of an activist movement that challenged the racial inequities of Israel.
Israel’s Black Panthers tells the story of the young and impoverished Moroccan Israeli Jews who challenged t- Author: Elia-Shalev, Asaf
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0520294319
- Language: English
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Spider Eaters: A Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartSpider Eaters is at once a moving personal story, a fascinating family history, and a unique chronicle of political upheaval told by a Chinese woman who came of age during the turbulent years of the C… [more below]
- Author: Yang, Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0520276027
- Language: English
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Can Legal Weed Win?: The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics
$31.18 Add to cartTwo economists take readers on a tour of the economics of legal and illegal weed, showing where cannabis regulation has gone wrong and how it could do better.
Cannabis “legalization” hasn’t lived up- Author: Goldstein, Robin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 520383265
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Book of Animals: Volume 3
$31.18 Read moreLongtime admirers of Mark Twain are aware of how integral animals were to his work as a writer, from his first stories through his final years, including many pieces that were left unpublished at his … [more below]
- Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #3
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 520271521
- Language: English
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No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger: Volume 3
$24.95 Add to cartThis is the only authoritative text of this late novel. It reproduces the manuscript which Mark Twain wrote last, and the only one he finished or called the “The Mysterious Stranger.” Albert Bigelow P… [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Library #3
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0520270002
- Language: English
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Needle at the Bottom of the Sea: Bengali Tales from the Land of the Eighteen Tides
$24.95 Add to cart“Brave and vivid.”–New York Review of Books
These enchanting stories from early modern Bengal reveal how Hindu and Muslim traditions converged on timeless themes of human morality, social culture, an… [more below]- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Stewart, Tony K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0520388933
- Language: English
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Moby Dick Or, the Whale
$29.95 Add to cartThis trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookma… [more below]
- Author: Melville, Herman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 16 1983
- ISBN10: 0520045483
- Language: English
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Thoreau and the Language of Trees
$31.18 Add to cartTrees were central to Henry David Thoreau’s creativity as a writer, his work as a naturalist, his thought, and his inner life. His portraits of them were so perfect, it was as if he could see the sap … [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 520294041
- Language: English
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 135th Anniversary Edition
$22.99 Read moreThis is Mark Twain’s first novel about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, and it has become one of the world’s best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of … [more below]
- Series: Mark Twain Library
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0520266129
- Language: English
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Weed Rules: Blazing the Way to a Just and Joyful Marijuana Policy
$26.95 Add to cartWith full legalization seeming inevitable, it’s time to shift the conversation–from whether recreational cannabis should be legalized to how.
Weed Rules argues that it’s time for states to abandon th- Author: Wexler, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0520343921
- Language: English
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The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
$22.95 Add to cart“The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe.”–Kimber… [more below]
- Author: Beydoun, Khaled A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0520402693
- Language: English
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Ovid’s Metamorphoses: A New Translation
$17.95 Add to cartThis fresh translation revives the politics and power at play in classical mythology’s foremost source
Centuries of conservative translators have robbed the Metamorphoses of its subversive force. In- Series: World Literature in Translation
- Author: Soucy, C. Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0520394852
- Language: English
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Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases–San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
$59.95 Add to cart“The maps themselves are things of beauty.”–The New York Times
Explore the hidden histories of San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York with this brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas. From- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 574
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0520314298
- Language: English
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Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice Volume 55
$27.95 Add to cartInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is- Series: California Public Anthropology
- Author: Sanford, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0520393457
- Language: English
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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
$26.95 Add to cartThis beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, … [more below]
- Series: American Crossroads
- Author: Miles, Tiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 0520285638
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Orange County: Volume 4
$31.18 Read moreOne of the Top Urban Planning Books of 2022, Planetizen
The full and fascinating guidebook that Orange County deserves. A People’s Guide to Orange County is an alternative tour guide that documents si- Series: People’s Guide
- Author: Lewinnek, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0520299957
- Language: English
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The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
$21.18 Add to cartOne of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and
- Author: Homer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: February 23 2019
- ISBN10: 520281438
- Language: English
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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
$37.43 Add to cartWinner of the 2017 Brendan Gill Prize from the Municipal Arts Society of New York
“The maps themselves are things of beauty . . . A document of its time, of our time.”
–Sadie Stein, New York Times- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 19 2016
- ISBN10: 520285956
- Language: English
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
$29.95 Add to cart“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White‘s California Exposures.“–Kirkus Reviews
Before there was such a thing as “Cal
Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.- Author: Akins, Damon B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0520280490
- Language: English
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The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from Around the World
$49.93 Add to cartVeteran food writer Linda Lau Anusasananan opens the world of Hakka cooking to Western audiences in this fascinating chronicle that traces the rustic cuisine to its roots in a history of multiple migr… [more below]
- Author: Anusasananan, Linda Lau
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 08 2012
- ISBN10: 520273281
- Language: English
