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Kindergarten: A Teacher, Her Students, and a Year of Learning
$26.90 Add to cart” Diamond] has captured the world of the class–at times chaotic, always busy, usually inspired”– Essential reading for parents and teachers alike (Los Angeles Times).
Hailed by renowned educator De- Author: Diamond, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1595583483
- Language: English
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History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History
$31.10 Add to cartHistory Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004
- Author: Lindaman, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: July 04 2006
- ISBN10: 1595580824
- Language: English
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The War: A Memoir
$22.67 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Lover, Marguerite Duras’s haunting memoir of suffering and survival in a time when Europe was torn asunder
Written in 1944 and first published in 1985, Duras’s rivet
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565842219
- Language: English
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Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice
$27.99 Read moreA powerful argument that greater inclusion of women in conservation and climate science is key to the future of the planet
Women are disproportionately impacted by climate change–floods, droughts, a
- Author: Kormos, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977494
- Language: English
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The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began
$31.45 Add to cartHow ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: ” A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “th- Author: Raphael, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1620971267
- Language: English
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Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair
$44.33 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974797
- Language: English
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Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It
$28.27 Add to cartEssays by Thomas Frank, Clay Shirky, David Simon, and others: “Anyone concerned about the state of journalism should read this book.” —Library Journal
The sudden meltdown of the news media has spark- Author: McChesney, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 03 2011
- ISBN10: 1595585486
- Language: English
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Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas about Justice
$34.98 Read moreHow to envision a justice system that combines the least possible punishment with the greatest possible healing, from an all-star cast of contributors
“An extraordinary and long overdue collection off- Author: Travis, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977559
- Language: English
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The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
$38.00 Add to cartThe 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 historian
“An essential re
- Author: Cohen, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976536
- Language: English
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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
$46.67 Add to cartA scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world
Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prison
- Author: Segrest, Mab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1620972972
- Language: English
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Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks
$26.25 Add to cartA teaching edition of the “thought-provoking study” History in the Making, which explores how our view of the history changes over time (Library Journal).
Kyle Ward’s celebrated History in the Making- Author: Ward, Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 25 2010
- ISBN10: 1595581448
- Language: English
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The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law
$29.99 Read moreBrilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnist–aka the Mad Law Professor–tackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillance, and more
Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a ce
- Author: Williams, Patricia J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978164
- Language: English
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100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting
$35.00 Add to cartA timely and paradigm-shifting argument that all members of a democracy must participate in elections, by a leading political expert and Washington Post journalist
Americans are required to pay taxes
- Author: Dionne, E. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1620976773
- Language: English
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Won’t Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
$18.99 Add to cartThe “heartfelt” (Shelf Awareness) story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students
Published to wide acclaim, Won’t Lose This Dream is the “illuminating”
- Author: Gumbel, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979152
- Language: English
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Tax the Rich!: How Lies, Loopholes, and Lobbyists Make the Rich Even Richer
$17.99 Read moreA powerfully persuasive and thoroughly entertaining guide to the most effective way to un-rig the economy and fix inequality, from America’s wealthiest “class traitors”
The vast majority of Americans–
- Author: Pearl, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976269
- Language: English
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Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers
$26.85 Add to cartEight renowned thinkers take philosophy to the streets in interviews drawn from a Toronto International Film Festival premiere
Examined Life boldly takes philosophy out of the dark corners of the acad
- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2009
- ISBN10: 1595584471
- Language: English
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Believable: The Portraits of Lola Flash
$31.15 Read moreNamed one of the Best Photo Books of the Year by Smithsonian
A stunning full-color collection of photographs, old and new, by the renowned photographer and LGBTQIA+ activist Lola Flash Working at the- Author: Flash, Lola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977532
- Language: English
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One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the acclaimed Behind the Kitchen Door, a powerful examination of how the subminimum wage and the tipping system exploit society’s most vulnerable
“No one has done more to move forw
- Author: Jayaraman, Saru
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620975335
- Language: English
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What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System
$31.48 Read more“This is what we know, and we know it better than anyone else.” –from the introduction by Vivian Nixon and Daryl V. Atkinson
A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America’s cr
- Author: Nixon, Vivian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975297
- Language: English
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States of Neglect: How Red-State Leaders Have Failed Their Citizens and Undermined America
$32.65 Read moreAs America continues down its path of polarization, a celebrated journalist tells us the deep story of the red-state/blue-state divide
In the wake of Trump’s presidency, Republican-led states have join
- Author: Kleinknecht, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1620976412
- Language: English
