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What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Climate JusticeAn urgent, on-the-ground look at some of the "new American radicals" who have laid everything on the line to build a stronger climate justice movement The science is clear: catastrophic climate change, by any humane definition, is upon us. At the same time, the...
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights HistoryPraised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by...
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Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last CenturyThree renowned historians present stirring tales of labor: Howard Zinn tells the grim tale of the Ludlow Massacre, a drama of beleaguered immigrant workers, Mother Jones, and the politics of corporate power in the age of the robber barons. Dana Frank brings to light...
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Buy American-The Untold Story of Economic NationalismWith the election of Donald Trump, economic nationalism has re-emerged as a patriotic rallying cry. But are imports and "foreigners" really to blame for the disappearance of good jobs in the United States? Tracing the history and politics of economic nationalism from the American...
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Bullets Into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun ViolenceA powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean...
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"they're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about UnionsFrom Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective...
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The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for StatehoodAt a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is an essential step in restoring hope to the region. In The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi, one of the most respected historians...
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Do It Anyway: The New Generation of ActivistsIf you care about social change but hate feel-good platitudes, Do It Anyway is the book for you. Courtney Martin's rich profiles of the new generation of activists dig deep, to ask the questions that really matter: How do you create a meaningful life?...
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Dictionary of Civics and GovernmentA collection of hundreds of words and expressions fully but simply defined, valuable for a clearer understanding of the operation of our national, state and local governments.Author: Marjorie TallmanPublisher: Philosophical LibraryPublished: 01/01/1953Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.68dISBN: 9780806529868
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The Age of ReasonAuthor: Thomas PainePublisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationPublished: 11/01/1989Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.59h x 5.54w x 0.47dISBN: 9780806505497About the AuthorThomas Paine was born in Thetford, England, in 1737, the son of a staymaker. He had little schooling and worked at a number of jobs, including...
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The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights ActOn June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision--the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections--marked the...
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Serving the Nation, Volume 14: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy--a form of what today might be called social welfare--based on matrilineal descent, egalitarian relations, kinship obligations, and communal landholding. The ethic of gadugi, or work coordinated for the...
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Daschle vs. Thune: Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate RaceThe story behind the unseating of a Senate majority leader the race between Tom Daschle and John Thune in South Dakota was widely acknowledged as "the other big race of 2004." Second in prominence only to the presidential race, the Daschle-Thune contest pitted the...
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Religious Freedom in America: Constitutional Roots and Contemporary Challengesvolume 1All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U.S. democratic experiment. But what freedom of conscience means, what its scope and limits are, according to the Constitution--these are matters for heated...
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American Indian Policy in Crisis: Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865-1900"[Francis Paul Prucha's] contextual definition and rigorous exemplification of what 'assimilation' meant to Protestant reformers of the late nineteenth century represents a unique and valuable contribution to our cultural history." American Historical Review The years 1865 to 1900 formed one of the most critical...
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Red Power Rising, 5: The National Indian Youth Council and the Origins of Native Activism2012 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards-Multicultural (finalist) Uncovers the origins of the Red Power movement During the 1960s, American Indian youth were swept up in a movement called Red Power-a civil rights struggle fueled by intertribal activism. While some define the movement as militant and...
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A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962, 34The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during...
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The Complexity of Modern Asymmetric Warfare, 8Today more than one hundred small, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars are being waged around the world. This book provides invaluable tools for fighting such wars by taking enemy perspectives into consideration. The third volume of a trilogy by Max G. Manwaring, it continues the...
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A Letter to AmericaA powerful wake-up call to all AmericansWith only 6 percent of the world's population, how long will the United States remain a global superpower? The answer, David Boren tells us in A Letter to America, depends on asking ourselves tough questions. A powerful wake-up...
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Radical L.A.: From Coxey's Army to the Watts Riots, 1894-1965When the depression of the 1890s prompted unemployed workers from Los Angeles to join a nationwide march on Washington, "Coxey's Army" marked the birth of radicalism in that city. In this first book to trace the subsequent struggle between the radical left and L.A.'s...
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