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Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America
$26.90 Add to cartAwarded “Special Recognition” by the 2018 Robert F. Kennedy Book & Journalism Awards
Finalist for the American Bar Association’s 2018 Silver Gavel Book Award
Named one of the “10 books to read after you… [more below]
- Author: Edelman, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975483
- Language: English
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Chokehold: Policing Black Men
$25.48 Add to cartFinalist for the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards
Nominated for the 49th NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work (Nonfiction) A 2017 Washington Po- Author: Butler, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1620974835
- Language: English
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Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong
$28.32 Add to cartA fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called “jim-dandy pop history,” by the bestselling, American Book Award-winning author
“The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cau
- Author: Loewen, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974339
- Language: English
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Sociology Is a Martial Art: Political Writings by Pierre Bourdieu
$31.10 Add to cartSociology is a Martial Art is an accessible survey of Pierre Bourdieu’s most influential writings. It includes the full text of his short books Acts of Resistance, Firing Back, and On Television, in a… [more below]
- Author: Sapiro, Gisele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 16 2010
- ISBN10: 1595585435
- Language: English
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Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants
$25.50 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A powerful, in-depth look at the imprisonment of immigrants, addressing the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system, with a new epilogue by the author
“Argues com
- Author: Garc?a Hern?ndez, C?sar Cuauht?moc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978318
- Language: English
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Social Security Works for Everyone!: Protecting and Expanding America’s Most Popular Social Program
$17.99 Add to cartSocial Security expansion is back on the agenda, at a time when Americans need it more than ever–here’s what it should look like (and why it matters to everyday people all over the country)
“Altman a
- Author: Altman, Nancy J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976226
- Language: English
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Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
$24.02 Add to cartThe classic and deeply prescient collection that explores the multifaceted nature of race, class, and identity in America, from one of our most insightful and iconoclastic intellectuals
Hailed by Publ- Author: Reed, Adolph L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1565846753
- Language: English
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When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule
$33.82 Read moreA gripping work of narrative nonfiction, told across time, that exposes what’s at stake when prosecutors conceal evidence–and what we can do about it
The Brady rule was meant to transform the U.S. ju- Author: Dybdahl, Thomas L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1620977044
- Language: English
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From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation
$21.23 Read more“What Sun Tzu and Clausewitz were to war, Sharp. . . was to nonviolent struggle–strategist, philosopher, guru.”–The New York Times
The revolutionary word-of-mouth phenomenon, available for the first- Author: Sharp, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1595588507
- Language: English
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Where the Line Is Drawn: A Tale of Crossings, Friendships, and Fifty Years of Occupation in Israel-Palestine
$30.28 Add to cart
“Remarkable and hopeful . . . a deeply honest and intense
” Shehadeh’s] books are maps, painstakingly pieced together, of regions lost to senseless division, to bad choices, and to lies.”
—The Nation- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 1620972913
- Language: English
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The Responsibility of Intellectuals
$22.15 Add to cartIn one of his most famous essays, Noam Chomsky lays out the idea that intellectuals’ relative privilege imbues them with greater responsibility–one that was to be the guiding principle of his intelle
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 162097343X
- Language: English
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Right Out of California: The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
$28.32 Add to cart“Olmsted’s vivid, accomplished narrative really belongs to the historiography of the left… as her strong research shows, race and gender prejudice informed or deformed, almost the whole of American … [more below]
- Author: Olmsted, Kathryn S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1620973065
- Language: English
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The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
$25.48 Read moreFinalist for the 2020 PEN / E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
Acclaimed on its hardcover publication, a global journey that reminds us “of how magical the planet we’re about to lose really is
- Author: Jamail, Dahr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1620975971
- Language: English
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Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry
$27.98 Add to cartA definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control
In this unique and timely v
- Author: Lifton, Robert Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974991
- Language: English
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Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
$28.33 Add to cart2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Finalist
A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization–and profitability–of separate and unequal sc
- Author: Rooks, Noliwe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 162097598X
- Language: English
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Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
$23.00 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of 2017 that exposes our oral health crisis and the astonishing role that teeth and oral health play in our society
In this brilliant debut book, hailed by the New York Times Book Rev
- Author: Otto, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974827
- Language: English
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Hell Is a Very Small Place: Voices from Solitary Confinement
$25.43 Add to cartNOW IN PAPERBACK The “elegant but harrowing” (San Francisco Chronicle) collection of writing from solitary confinement that lifts the veil on this widespread modern-day form of torture
On any given da- Author: Casella, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1620973510
- Language: English
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Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children
$26.90 Add to cartFrom a world-renowned expert on creative play and the impact of commercial marketing on children, a timely investigation into how big tech is hijacking childhood–and what we can do about it
“Engrossi- Author: Linn, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978334
- Language: English
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 National Council on Crime & Delinquency’s Media for a Just Society Awards
Winner of the 2017 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Valuable . . . [like Mich- Author: Burton, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974355
- Language: English
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Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
$46.67 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 b- Author: G?mez, Laura E
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1595589171
- Language: English
