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The Kaepernick Effect: Taking a Knee, Changing the World
$30.32 Read moreRiveting and inspiring first-person stories of how “taking a knee” triggered an awakening in sports, from the celebrated sportswriter
“The Kaepernick Effect reveals that Colin Kaepernick’s story is big
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976757
- Language: English
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
$25.48 Read moreRecommended by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Book Riot and Autostraddle
Nominated for a 2019 NAACP Image Award, a groundbreaking collection of profiles of African American women leaders in
- Author: Bell, Janet Dewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975580
- Language: English
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Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
$32.57 Add to cartFew philosophers have had as strong an influence on the way we think about power and knowledge as Michel Foucault (1926-1984). His work has influenced the teaching of any number of disciplines and rem
- Series: Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 1565844343
- Language: English
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Queer America: A People’s Glbt History of the United States
$31.15 Add to cartPlacing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century,
Vicki L. Eaklor’s Queer America: A People’s GLBT History of the United States is a major new effort to popularize a long-over… [more below]- Series: New Press People’s History
- Author: Eaklor, Vicki L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1595586369
- Language: English
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Refugee High: Coming of Age in America
$26.90 Read moreA year in the life of a Chicago high school with one of the nation’s highest proportions of refugees, told with “strong novel-like pacing” (Milwaukee Magazine)
“A stunning and heart-wrenching work of n
- Author: Fishman, Elly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978326
- Language: English
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The Coup: 1953, the Cia, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations
$19.95 Add to cartIn August 1953, the CIA orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran’s democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his place. Over the next twenty-six years, the United State
- Author: Abrahamian, Ervand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 07 2015
- ISBN10: 1620970864
- Language: English
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The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ
$25.43 Add to cartIn July 2008 a front-page story in the New York Times reported on the discovery of an ancient Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Jesus, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the de… [more below]
- Author: Boyarin, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2013
- ISBN10: 1595588787
- Language: English
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Power
$38.23 Add to cartPart of the definitive collection of Michel Foucault’s articles, interviews, and seminars, this volume lays out the philosopher’s influential thinking on the machinations of power in society
“A rare op
- Series: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (Paperback) #03
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2001
- ISBN10: 1565847091
- Language: English
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We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future
$25.43 Add to cart“Powerful…Iyer catalogues the toll that various forms of discrimination have taken and highlights the inspiring ways activists are fighting back. [She] is an ideal chronicler of this experience.”
–Th… [more below]- Author: Iyer, Deepa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972735
- Language: English
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Law Lit: From Atticus Finch to the Practice: A Collection of Great Writing about the Law
$32.57 Read moreIn Law Lit, acclaimed novelist and law professor Thane Rosenbaum delves into our cultural obsession with the law, exploring how the legal system has historically captivated the imagination of artists … [more below]
- Author: Rosenbaum, Thane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1595584129
- Language: English
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The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society
$44.99 Add to cartIn The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contemporary art to provide a fascinating examination of our multiple senses of place.
Divided into f
- Author: Lippard, Lucy R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1565842480
- Language: English
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Japan at War: An Oral History
$39.67 Read moreA “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II
“Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach
- Author: Cook, Haruko Taya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1565840399
- Language: English
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Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
$26.90 Add to cart“A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the
developing world” (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present dayIn a book Paul Farmer called “a gem of a social history linking t
- Author: Mitman, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977966
- Language: English
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The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools
$35.40 Add to cartThis “well-told and inspiring”story (Publishers Weekly, starred review) is the monumental product of Lillian Smith Book Award-winning author Vanessa Siddle Walker’s two-decade investigation into the c
- Author: Walker, Vanessa Siddle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1620976021
- Language: English
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
$39.67 Add to cartWinner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian
A wide-ranging cultural and political history
- Author: Cowie, Jefferson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 1595587071
- Language: English
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Thick: And Other Essays
$29.15 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: Cottom, Tressie McMillan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974363
- Language: English
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May It Please the Court
$28.27 Add to cartUntil The New Press first published “May It Please the Court” in 1993, few Americans knew that every case argued before the Supreme Court since 1955 had been recorded. The original book-and-tape set w
- Series: May It Please the Court
- Author: Irons, Peter H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1565840526
- Language: English
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37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination
$49.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of s
- Author: Boschert, Sherry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1620975831
- Language: English
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Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice
$63.75 Add to cartWhen it was first published in 1999, Crimes Against Humanity called for a radical shift from diplomacy to justice in international affairs. In vivid, non-legalese prose, leading human rights lawyer Ge… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1595588604
- Language: English
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The Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis
$29.99 Read moreA beautiful and engaging guide to global warming’s impacts around the world
Our planet is in peril. Seas are rising, oceans are acidifying, ice is melting, coasts are flooding, species are dying, and
- Author: Conklin, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1620974568
- Language: English
