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Learning to Die in the Anthropocene
Reflections on the End of a Civilization
Av Roy Scranton
Häftad, 2015
140 kr
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"In Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton draws on his experiences in Iraq to confront the grim realities of climate change. The result is a fierce and provocative book."--Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History "Roy Scranton's …
Writing on the Wall
Selected Prison Writings of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Av Mumia Abu Jamal, Johanna Fernandez
Häftad, 2015
235 kr
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"Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal ...His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgently. Black man, old-school jazz man, freedom fighter, …
Speed of Dreams
Selected Writings 2001-2007
Av Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
Häftad, 2007
347 kr
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Since the publication of Our Word Is Our Weapon-which Publishers Weekly described as "strong as dignity and as subtle as love"-Mexico's enigmatic Zapatista leader has written some of his most brilliant and complex works. From a retelling of indigenous myths and legends, to visions of the future of …
Colorblind
The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity
Av Tim Wise
Häftad, 2010
201 kr
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Following the civil rights movement, race relations in the United States entered a new era. Legal gains were interpreted by some as ensuring equal treatment for all and that "colorblind" policies and programs would be the best way forward. Since then, many voices have called for an end to …
Bomb
Av Howard Zinn
Häftad, 2010
135 kr
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As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France. Two decades later, he was invited to visit Hiroshima and meet survivors of the atomic attack. In this short and powerful book, Zinn offers his deep personal reflections and political analysis of these …
Dear White America
Letter to a New Minority
Av Tim Wise
Häftad, 2012
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213 kr
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White Americans have long been comfortable in the assumption that they are the cultural norm. Now that notion is being challenged, as white people wrestle with what it means to be part of a fast-changing, truly multicultural nation. Facing chronic economic insecurity, a popular culture that …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself
A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis
Av Angela Y. Davis, Frederick Douglass
Häftad, 2010
245 kr
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A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis.A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass's Narrative is the powerful story of an enslaved youth coming into social and moral consciousness by disobeying his white slavemasters and …
Black History of the White House
Häftad, 2011
266 kr
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The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to work there to its first black First Family, the …
New World of Indigenous Resistance
Av Noam Chomsky, Lois Meyer m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
358 kr
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Indigenous societies throughout Latin America are facing difficult choices. After centuries of colonization, the ongoing struggle to preserve communal knowledge, rituals, language, traditions, and teaching and learning practices has taken on even more significance in the increasingly standardized …
Historic Unfulfilled Promise
Av Howard Zinn
Häftad, 2012
230 kr
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Howard Zinn's views on social movements, freedom, history, democracy, and our own human potential are educational and transformative. In few places is his voice more clear and accessible than in the dozens of articles he penned for The Progressive magazine from 1980 to 2009, offered together here …
Violence of Organized Forgetting
Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine
Häftad, 2014
293 kr
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"Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."--Bill Moyers "Henry Giroux has accomplished an exciting, brilliant intellectual dissection of America's somnambulent …
Border Patrol Nation
Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security
Av Todd Miller
Häftad, 2014
219 kr
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"In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style tactics...Miller's book arrives at a moment when it appears …
Under the Affluence
Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America
Av Tim Wise
Häftad, 2015
330 kr
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"Tim Wise is one of the great public moralists in America today. In his bracing new book, Under the Affluence, he brilliantly engages the roots and ramifications of radical inequality in our nation, carefully detailing the heartless war against the poor and the swooning addiction to the rich that …
Storming the Wall
Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security
Av Todd Miller
Häftad, 2017
160 kr
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RECIPIENT OF THE 2018 IZZY AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM "Every so often a book comes along that can dramatically change, or elevate, one's thinking about a global problem. Much like Naomi Klein's books, Todd Miller’s Storming the Wall is such a book and deserves far more …
Loaded
A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
Häftad, 2018
232 kr
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"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Loaded is like a blast of fresh air. She is no fan of guns or of our absurdly permissive laws surrounding them. But she does not merely take the liberal side of the familiar debate."--Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of Books"If . . . anyone at all really wants to 'get …
America at War with Itself
E-bok, 2016
225 kr
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From poisoned water and police violence in our cities, to gun massacres and hate-mongering on the presidential campaign trail, evidence that America is at war with itself is everywhere around us. The question is not whether or not it's happening, but how to understand the forces at work in order to …
Torn from the World
A Guerrilla's Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico
Av John Gibler
Häftad, 2018
170 kr
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"The book that most shocked me this year for its literary quality is called Tzompaxtle, although in English it has another title, Torn from the World. The author is John Gibler, a real outlaw."--Diego Enrique Osorno, author of El Cartel de SinaloaAndres Tzompaxtle Tecpile was torn from the world. …
American Nightmare
Facing the Challenge of Fascism
Häftad, 2018
166 kr
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Are we in the beginning of a new fascist era?As white supremacy, ultra-nationalism, rabid misogyny and anti-immigrant fervor coalesce, a new and uniquely American form of fascism looms. Could our current moment actually bring about the end of democracy in the United States? Are Americans willing to …
United States of Distraction
Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It)
Häftad, 2019
166 kr
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A powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction."Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon emphasize what we can do today to restore the power of facts, truth, and fair, inclusive journalism as tools for …
No Fascist USA!
The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements
Häftad, 2020
266 kr
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The story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, laying the groundwork for today’s anti-fascist/anti-racist movements."Smash fascism! Read this book!"—Tom Morello, songwriter and guitarist with Rage Against the …
Death Blossoms
Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition
Häftad, 2020
245 kr
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Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith, written by radical Black journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution."Uncompromising, disturbing . . . Abu-Jamal's voice has the clarity and candor of a man whose impending death emboldens him to say what is on …
ReTargeting Iran
Häftad, 2020
189 kr
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A timely primer on the conflict between the United States and Iran by scholars of Middle Eastern politics who advocate diplomacy and de-escalation.The United States and Iran seem to be permanently locked in a dangerous cycle of brinkmanship and violence. Both countries have staged cyber attacks and …
Green New Deal and Beyond
Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can
Av Stan Cox
Häftad, 2020
148 kr
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A clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change.“An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be.”—Naomi …
Dispatches from the Race War
Av Tim Wise
Häftad, 2021
303 kr
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Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fear in America today."Drawing on events from the killing of Trayvon Martin to the Black Lives Matter protests last summer, Wise calls to account his fellow white citizens and exhorts them to combat racist power …
Build Bridges, Not Walls
A Journey to a World Without Borders
Av Todd Miller
Häftad, 2021
163 kr
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Is it possible to create a borderless world? How might it be better equipped to solve the global emergencies threatening our collective survival? Build Bridges, Not Walls is an inspiring, impassioned call to envision—and work toward—a bold new reality."Todd Miller cuts through the facile media …
Rising Up
The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice
Häftad, 2023
160 kr
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Rising Up offers a timely exploration of how truthful narratives by and about people of color can be used to advance social justice in the United States. While people of color are fast becoming the majority population in the United States, the perspectives of white America still dominate the vast …
Women Who Change the World
Stories from the Fight for Social Justice
Av Loretta Ross, Hilary Moore m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
160 kr
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Nine women who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for social justice—movement leaders, organizers, and cultural workers—tell their life stories in their own words. Sharing their most vulnerable and affirming moments, they talk about the origins of their political awakenings, their struggles …
Targeting Iran
Häftad, 2007
116 kr
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Iran and the United States are on a collision course. David Barsamian presents the perspectives of four experts on Iran who discuss the 1953 CIA coup and the rise of the Islamic regime, Iran's internal dynamics and competing forces, relations with Iraq and Afghanistan, and the consequences of US …
Illusions of Security
Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World
Av Maureen Webb
Häftad, 2006
160 kr
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In light of the recent terrorist threats at U.K and U.S. airports, this book is a timely and provocative read about what governments should and should not be doing to protect us from further terrorist attacks. It is a crucial look at a little-examined aspect of the U.S. -- led "war on terror" -- …
Interventions
Av Noam Chomsky
Häftad, 2007
149 kr
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Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, it's a responsibility. For the past several years Chomsky has been writing essays for The New York Times Syndicate to do just that: challenge power and expose the global consequences of U.S. policy and military …
