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Filibustered!: How to Fix the Broken Senate and Save America
$27.99 Add to cartThe U.S. Senator from Oregon who is leading the fight to restore the talking filibuster explains how changing just one rule could save our democracy
If we want to fix what ails America, we have to fix- Author: Merkley, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977982
- Language: English
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
$22.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 9, 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976579
- Language: English
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Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
$22.95 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
“[Gurnah’s novels] recoil from stereotypical descriptions and ope- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 1, 1995
- ISBN10: 1565841638
- Language: English
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Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls
$24.07 Add to cartA groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout
“Monique Morris is a personal shero of mine and a respected expert
- Author: Morris, Monique W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977265
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome
$26.90 Add to cart“A provocative history” of intrigue and class struggle in Ancient Rome–“an important alternative to the usual views of Caesar and the Roman Empire” (Publishers Weekly).
Most historians, both ancient- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: August 30 2004
- ISBN10: 1565849426
- Language: English
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Blackbirds Singing: Inspiring Black Women’s Speeches from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
$27.99 Add to cartAn uplifting collection of speeches by African American women, curated by the civil and human rights activist, scholar, and author
When Mary Ann Shadd Cary–the first Black woman publisher in North Am
- Author: Bell, Janet Dewart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 1620976285
- Language: English
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Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
$18.99 Add to cartNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR
An NPR Best Book of the Year, exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race, with a new afterword- Author: G?mez, Laura E
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977613
- Language: English
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The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts
$34.98 Add to cartA legendary lawyer and a legal scholar reveal the structural failures that undermine justice in our criminal courts
“An urgently needed analysis of our collective failure to confront and overcome racia- Author: Bright, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1620970252
- Language: English
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Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
$16.99 Add to cartHopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need
“This is a glorious book that challenges our conceptions of bookmaking- Author: Grist
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977583
- Language: English
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Race to Incarcerate: A Graphic Retelling
$26.90 Add to cart“Do not underestimate the power of the book you are holding in your hands.”
More than 2 million people are now imprisoned in the United States, producing the highest rate of incarc
–Michelle Alexander- Author: Mauer, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1595585419
- Language: English
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The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
$33.98 Add to cartDuring the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy’s most cherished possession–but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stono… [more below]
- Author: Saunders, Frances Stonor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589147
- Language: English
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
$35.00 Add to cartNamed one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly’ Slate’ Chronicle of Higher Education’ Literary Hub, Book Riot’ and Zora
A tenth-anniversary edition of the
- Author: Alexander, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975459
- Language: English
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Thick: And Other Essays
$22.99 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: McMillan Cottom, Tressie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975874
- Language: English
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No More Police: A Case for Abolition
$26.90 Add to cartAn instant national best seller
A persuasive primer on police abolition from two veteran organizers“One of the world’s most prominent advocates, organizers and political educators of the [abolitionist
- Author: Kaba, Mariame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 162097732X
- Language: English
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Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration
$32.65 Read moreAn original argument that the answer to mass incarceration lies not with experts and pundits, but with ordinary people taking extraordinary actions together–written by a leading authority on bail ref
- Author: Simonson, Jocelyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977443
- Language: English
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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
$26.99 Add to cartFinalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for Books
The New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds
“After reading Allow Me to Retort,- Author: Mystal, Elie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976811
- Language: English
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Surviving Our Catastrophes: Resilience and Renewal from Hiroshima to the Covid-19 Pandemic
$29.15 Read moreFrom the National Book Award winner, a powerful and timely rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of “survivor power” to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID-19 pandemic
- Author: Lifton, Robert Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978156
- Language: English
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On Anarchism
$16.99 Add to cartThe definitive primer on anarchist thought and practice, from the thinker the New York Times Book Review calls “the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet”
“The essence of anarchism [i
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1595589104
- Language: English
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
$24.99 Add to cartStuds Terkel’s classic oral history of Americans’ working lives–and the inspiration for Barack Obama’s new Netflix series about work in the twenty-first century
“Reading these stories, I started to c- Author: Terkel, Studs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1565843428
- Language: English
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Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
$28.00 Add to cartA radical educator’s paradigm-shifting inquiry into the accepted, normal demands of school, as illuminated by moving portraits of four young “problem children”
In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby,- Author: Shalaby, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972360
- Language: English
