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In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she ...

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The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third World-with a new pr...

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Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan "Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals...

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In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with resp...

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The electrifying story of the woman who wrote SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol.

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From one of America's leading biographers, the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist, based on exclusive access to her archives Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and ch...

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Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer commu...

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In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish...

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As the national campaign manager for Ralph Nader's runs for president in 2000 and 2004, Theresa Amato had a rare ringside role in the last two hotly contested presidential elections. The only woman ever to have managed two high-profile American pr...

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In 2008, The New York Times reported on the discovery of a Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Christ, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Famed religious scholar Daniel Boyarin stated that 'some Chr...

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Not since the Great Depression have so many Americans questioned the fundamental tenets of capitalism and expressed openness to a socialist alternative. We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism - American Style offers a road map to making this alte...

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A new translation of this classic work: "Parsipur is a courageous, talented woman and...a great writer."--Marjane Satrapi

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Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need This is a glorious book that challenges our conceptions of bookmaking as much as it questions our conceptions of worl...

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Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, ';Exterminate All the Brutes' is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe's genocidal colonization of Africaand the terrible myths and lies that it spawned';A book of s...

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From the acclaimed veteran political analyst, a searing new expos of how the American military, with the help of the media, conceals its perpetual war No one is better at exposing the dynamics of media and politics that keep starting and continuin...

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This odyssey across America's musical heartland covers the history of blues through candid conversations with bluesmen and vivid, firsthand accounts of the landscape where their music was born.

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New Press People's History.

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A young Guatemalan immigrant's adolescence is shaped by her journey to the US, as she grapples with Chapina tradition and American culture.

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It has been 35 years since Pulitzer-Prize winner Terkel first documented American workers' hopes and dreams. Now, his masterpiece has been turned into a comic book by Harvey Pekar, author of the award-winning comics series American Splendor. Brill...

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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it has been the winner of nume...

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Finalist for the National Jewish Book Awards An exquisitely original collection of darkly funny stories that explore the panorama of Jewish experience in contemporary Poland, from a world-class contemporary writer "These small, searing prose ...

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Inspired by the ground-breaking work of Howard Zinn, A People's Art History of the United States is propelled by a democratic vision of art, showing that it doesn't just belong in museums and archives. Art is created every day all around us, and e...

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"Go home!" is always a slur, but often also an impossibility; this collection explores the words' personal and political dimensions.

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What would a world that matched your values look like? Today's leaders envision the ideal future of feminism.

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The shocking and significant story of how the White House and Pentagon scuttled an epic Hollywood production. Soon after atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, MGM set out to make a movie studio chief Louis B. Mayer called the ...

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From a description of Sartre's hitherto unknown father to the painful last moments of Sartre's declining years, this intimate portrait incorporates previously untold aspects of Sartre's private, political, and literary life, in a new edition of th...

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WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD - NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his f...

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The inside story of the U.S.-Chinese superpower conflict playing out behind the scenes of todays movie industry, from the leading media scholar China surpassed North America to become the world s largest movie market in 2020. Formerly the focus of...

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The essential one-volume collection of Michel Foucault's letters, lectures, and interviews, tracing the evolution of the eminent and groundbreaking philosopher's thought throughout his life "A rare opportunity to see how a great and original ...

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A 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. justice system. In soaring language, the Supreme C...

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