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A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School
$26.90 Add to cartA trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways-and how to fight back
“A powerful analysis of the predatory, profit-seeking forces that threaten our nation’s
- Author: Schneider, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977958
- Language: English
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Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real about Race in School
$35.35 Add to cartWinner, Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
The groundbreaking book on race in schools that has become an essential handbook for teachers working to create antiracist classroomsIn the wake of the Bl
- Author: Pollock, Mica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1595580549
- Language: English
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
$24.07 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
“A light in darkness, Alice Walker awakens us to our own power as
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976730
- Language: English
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Who Would Believe a Prisoner?: Indiana Women’s Carceral Institutions, 1848-1920
$34.98 Add to cartA groundbreaking collective work of history by a group of incarcerated scholars that resurrects the lost truth about the first women’s prison
What if prisoners were to write the history of their own p- Author: The Indiana Women’s Prison History Proje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1620975394
- Language: English
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The Good War: An Oral History of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction
“The Good War“ is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Studs Terkel as an interviewer and oral historian.- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1565843436
- Language: English
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Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
$31.48 Add to cart2018 American Book Award Winner
A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation–and the debut of an important new social critic How much of- Author: Taylor, Sunaura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1620971283
- Language: English
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
$32.57 Add to cart“Powerful and important . . . an instant classic.”
The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, re
—The Washington Post Book World- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974347
- Language: English
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Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought
$22.99 Add to cartWinner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Anthology
Winner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle Awards
A Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021- Author: Jones, Briona Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975769
- Language: English
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The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945
$39.65 Add to cartThe Abandonment of the Jews received enormous critical and commercial attention when it was first released in 1984, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks as well as on its Bes
- Author: Wyman, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 159558174X
- Language: English
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The Make-Or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time
$27.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Bestseller
An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for its
- Author: Krone Phillips, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1620973235
- Language: English
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Teaching When the World Is on Fire: Authentic Classroom Advice, from Climate Justice to Black Lives Matter
$17.99 Add to cartA timely collection of advice and strategies for creating a just classroom from educators across the country, handpicked by MacArthur “genius” and bestselling author Lisa Delpit
“A favorite education
- Author: Delpit, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 162097665X
- Language: English
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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
$28.32 Add to cartNOW IN PAPERBACK The 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 historia
- Author: Cohen, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977974
- Language: English
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Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
$23.95 Add to cartThe perfect introduction to the wide-ranging thought of “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet” (The New York Times Book Review)
“Chomsky ranks with Marx, Shakespeare and the Bibl
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: February 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1565847032
- Language: English
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Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom
$17.95 Read moreThe classic, groundbreaking analysis of the role of race in the classroom and a guide for teaching across difference, from the MacArthur Award-winning educator
“Phenomenal. . . . [This book] overcomes
- Author: Delpit, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: August 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1595580743
- Language: English
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Coming of Age in America: A Multicultural Anthology
$26.90 Add to cartBy turns touching and hilarious, Coming of Age in America gathers together writers from fifteen different ethnic groups who, through their fiction, explore the terrain we all traverse as we come of ag… [more below]
- Author: Frosch, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565841476
- Language: English
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Paris Is Not Dead: Surviving Hypergentrification in the City of Light
$32.65 Read moreA street-level people’s view of one of the world’s beloved cities, in a stunning debut that blends cutting-edge reporting and sweeping political analysis of a changing Paris
“Working-class Paris is st- Author: Stangler, Cole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977826
- Language: English
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong
$22.50 Read moreNow adapted for young readers ages 12 through 18, the national bestseller that makes real American history come alive in all of its conflict, drama, and complexity
Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of th
- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 162097469X
- Language: English
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Charisma’s Turn: A Graphic Novel
$22.99 Add to cartNamed one of the Young Adult Library Services Association’s 2024 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
From the award-winning author of Pushout, an inspiring graphic novel about what can happen when Black gir- Author: Couvson, Monique
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02, 2023
- ISBN10: 1620974010
- Language: English
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A History of America in Ten Strikes
$25.48 Add to cartRecommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These Times
An “entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued” (The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to- Author: Loomis, Erik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976277
- Language: English
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Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family/School Partnerships
$30.00 Add to cartCountless studies demonstrate that students with parents actively involved in their education at home and school are more likely to earn higher grades and test scores, enroll in higher-level programs,… [more below]
- Author: Henderson, Anne T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1565848888
- Language: English
