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In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right&ap...

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An intimate conversation between towering public intellectuals examining the contentious interplay between the Cuban Revolution and U.S. empire An audacious revolutionary experiment in the backyard of empire, Cuba has occupied a vexed role in the ...

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A finalist for the 1994 Booker Prize, England's highest honor for works of fiction, Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of the corruption of African tradition by European colonialism. So...

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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 essential one-volume collection of Michel Foucaults letters, lectures, and interviews, tracing the evolution of the eminent and groundbreaking philosophers thought throughout his life A rare opportunity to see how a great and original mind pro...

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In a work that has rapidly become "imperative reading" (Lisa Delpit) on education, gender, and juvenile justice, Monique W. Morris (Black Stats, Too Beautiful for Words) chronicles the experiences of Black girls across the country whose ...

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Almost more than artists, art critics today form an elite class that legislates cultural tastes. The Crisis of Criticism is a collection of brilliantly argued, provocative essays that address the problematic nature of the critic's authority a...

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During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possessionbut such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts...

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A bestseller for decades, this contemporary classic gets a substantial new introduction by the authors.

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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 Worldwith a new pre...

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Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic, healing the sick, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond her small town where she and her mother run the stables. Even though a strange plague is killing the trees in the Kin...

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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 'som...

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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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The nationally acclaimed engrossing, disturbing, at times heartbreaking (Van Jones) book that shines a harsh light on the abusive world of juvenile prisons, by the award-winning journalist Nell Bernsteins book could be for juvenile justice what Ra...

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With a foreword by Bruce Western Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR Shortlisted, 2024 Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice The most comprehensive critique of probation and paroleand a provocative and compelling argument for abol...

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A classic novel of the immigrant experience Lore Segal may have come closer than anyone to writing the Great American Novel. The New York Times Book Review Shes Ilka Weissnix, a young Jewish refugee from Hitlers Europe, newly arrived in the United...

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Finalist, 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The much-anticipated new book from the acclaimed author of Other Peoples Houses and Her First AmericanLore Segals first major work of fiction in twenty years Lore Segal is . . . one of those rare people wh...

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In eight highly praised treatises on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - is unapologetically 'thick': deemed 'thick where I should have been thin, more...

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For the past thirty years, Hal Foster has pushed the boundaries of cultural criticism, establishing a vantage point from which the seemingly disparate agendas of artists, patrons, and critics have a telling coherence. In The Anti-Aesthetic, preemi...

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American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himselfand the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinns hundredth birthday Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with...

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Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important and successful American history books of our time. Now Rebecca Stefoff turns Loewen's beloved work into Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers. Beginning with pre-Columbian American hist...

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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...

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How ideas such as civilization and progress have been used as a smoke screen for Western dominance, by the world-renowned sociologist Ever since the Enlightenment, Western intervention around the world has been justified by appeals to notions of c...

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

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A new critical edition of the groundbreaking novella about a lesbian’s feminist awakening in the 1970s by feminist and speculative fiction icon, Joanna Russ. Esther, a recently divorced academic, has her first lesbian love affair with gradua...

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A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, scientists are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category. In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorot...

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Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel’s debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire—charting the messy layers of love and loss that constitute a life. Phoebe Forde has a new home, a new name, and is newly thirty. A...

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In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns...

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Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold over two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell C...

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A new voice in European literature: Balsam Karam’s work is strongly influenced by her personal experience as a writer of Kurdish ancestry, who spent her first years as a refugee throughout the Middle East before arriving in Sweden at age sev...

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