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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul"Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi" --Vanity FairAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing...
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You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from MyanmarIn this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western feminism in an Asian home, and more, guiding us toward an expansive idea of what it means to be a...
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Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East: Deception, Disinformation and Social MediaYou are being lied to by people who don't even exist.Digital deception is the new face of information warfare. Social media has been weaponised by states and commercial entities alike, as bots and trolls proliferate and users are left to navigate an infodemic of...
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Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage MovementRestores queer suffragists to their rightful place in the history of the struggle for women's right to vote The women's suffrage movement, much like many other civil rights movements, has an important and often unrecognized queer history. In Public Faces, Secret Lives Wendy L....
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The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled HitlerHow six conservative media moguls hindered America and Britain from entering World War II "A damning indictment. . . . The parallels with today's right-wing media, on both sides of the Atlantic, are unavoidable."--Matthew Pressman, Washington Post "A first-rate work of history."--Ben Yagoda, Wall...
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Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American LifeA new edition of a celebrated contemporary work on race and racism Praised by a wide variety of people from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Zadie Smith, Racecraft "ought to be positioned," as Bookforum put it, "at the center of any discussion of race in American...
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Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and PandemicsA plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a radical plan to address climate disaster and guarantee...
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Post-Scarcity AnarchismIn this series of essays, Murray Bookchin balances his ecological and anarchist vision with the promising opportunities of a "post-scarcity" era. Technological advances during the 20th century have expanded production in the pursuit of corporate profit at the expense of human need and ecological...
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The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It IsMost people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the speeches Hamer delivered at the 1968...
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Puerto Rico: An Interpretive History from Pre-Columbian Times to 1900Because many of the documents and books about Puerto Rico have been written by the island's colonizers, only the victors were celebrated. With this in mind, the author has expressly composed this book from the viewpoint of the colonized, suppressed, and exploited. She challenges...
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Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to PossibilityAn energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"--New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.Not Too Late is the book for anyone who...
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Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in AmericaOnce home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real--an event that could be more catastrophic...
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Design After Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable TomorrowHow design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles. The designed things, experiences, and symbols that we use to perceive, understand, and perform our everyday lives are much more than just props. They directly shape...
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We Need to Build: Field Notes for Diverse DemocracyFrom the former faith adviser to President Obama comes an inspirational guide for those who seek to promote positive social change and build a more diverse and just democracy The goal of social change work is not a more ferocious revolution; it is a...
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Metropolis: A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest InventionIn a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. "A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time--dazzling." --The Wall Street...
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The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and IdentityTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERUpdated with a new afterword'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' - Jordan B. Peterson 'An excellent take on the lunacy affecting much of the world today. Douglas is...
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Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the Us Working ClassA brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United StatesPrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned...
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A People's History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New MillenniumA spiritual companion to A People's History of the United States, this world history bestseller captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling peoples throughout the ages. You've never read a history of the world quite like this--a perfect gift...
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What Unites Us: Reflections on PatriotismAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I find myself thinking deeply about what it means to love America, as I surely do." --Dan Rather "A tonic for our times . . . Rather's writing shows why he has won the admiration of a new...
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Good Economics for Hard TimesThe winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much...
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