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Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty
$32.65 Read moreTwo groundbreaking sociologists explore the way the American dream is built on the backs of working poor women
Many Americans take comfort and convenience for granted. We eat at nice restaurants, orde
- Author: Freeman, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977427
- Language: English
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The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27 Amendments, and the Promise of a More Perfect Union
$52.50 Add to cartThe 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution–the product of compromises and an artifact of its time–and made it more democratic
Who wrote the Constitution? That
- Author: Kowal, John F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975610
- Language: English
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Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
$32.65 Add to cartHow the Supreme Court’s decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for Black people
The summer of 2020 will be re
- Author: Carbado, Devon W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 162097424X
- Language: English
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Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us
$34.98 Read moreThe front-page news and the trials that followed Operation Varsity Blues were just the tip of the iceberg. Poison Ivy tells the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission av
- Author: Mandery, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976951
- Language: English
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‘I Won’t Learn from You’: And Other Thoughts on Creative Maladjustment
$25.50 Add to cart“I Won’t Learn From You,” Herb Kohl’s now-classic essay on “not learning,” or refusing to learn, is available for the first time in an affordable paperback edition along with four other landmark essay… [more below]
- Author: Kohl, Herbert R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1565840968
- Language: English
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Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History
$46.67 Add to cartWinner, James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
A stunning work of popular history–the story of how a crop transformed the history of sla
Winner, Harriet Tubman Prize- Author: Lewis, Jori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1620971569
- Language: English
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Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America
$29.15 Read moreA groundbreaking expos? about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color
Should Johnny Cash have been charged with murder after he sang, “I shot
- Author: Nielson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1620973405
- Language: English
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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
$30.32 Add to cartThe MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable
A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 20
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976080
- Language: English
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A People’s History of the United States: The Civil War to the Present
$42.50 Add to cartAn abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn’s bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter.
Like Volume I, each chapter in Volume II provides exercises- Series: New Press People’s History #2
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1565847253
- Language: English
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Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
$28.32 Add to cartThe winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize and the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Blood on the River also won two of the highest honors for works
- Author: Kars, Marjoleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 162097780X
- Language: English
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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
$34.00 Add to cartWidely recognized as “one of the nation’s foremost scholars on the slave era” (Boston Globe), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in sl
- Author: Berlin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: November 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1595581731
- Language: English
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Paradise: By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021
$29.99 Read moreFrom the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Award, Paradis
- Author: Gurnah, Abdulrazak
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1994
- ISBN10: 156584162X
- Language: English
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War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine
$18.99 Add to cartWith a new preface by the author on the Gaza war
An unflinching expos? of the hidden costs of American war-making written with “an immense and rare humanity” (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier politi- Author: Solomon, Norman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979160
- Language: English
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On Cuba: Reflections on 70 Years of Revolution and Struggle
$24.99 Add to cartAn intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire
An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978571
- Language: English
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Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
$30.99 Add to cartIn her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, the National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the “p… [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Arlie Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1620976463
- Language: English
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A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It
$27.99 Add to cartA sitting federal judge’s lively and provocative recounting of six cases, to make the argument for revisiting overly punitive sentences
Murderous mafia capos. The police officer who brutalized Abner
- Author: Block, Frederic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978873
- Language: English
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Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration
$17.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening look at “participatory defense,” the innovative practice that allows the loved ones of those charged with crimes to help influence the outcome of court cases, by the MacArthur Award-win… [more below]
- Author: Jayadev, Raj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977001
- Language: English
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A Plausible Man: The True Story of the Escaped Slave Who Inspired Uncle Tom’s Cabin
$28.99 Add to cartThe remarkable story of the man behind the book that helped spark the Civil War, in a stunning historical detective story
In December of 1850, a faculty wife in Brunswick, Maine, named Harriet Beecher
- Author: Ashton, Susanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978199
- Language: English
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation
$27.99 Read moreAt last! The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to American history myths–adapted by the famed National Book Award-winning artist behind John Lewis’s March … [more below]
- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977036
- Language: English
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Planet Palm: How Palm Oil Ended Up in Everything–And Endangered the World
$32.65 Read moreFinalist, Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
In the tradition of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, a groundbreaking global investigation into the industry ravaging the environmen- Author: Zuckerman, Jocelyn C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975238
- Language: English
