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The Mis-Education of the Negro

by Carter Godwin Woodson Ph.D.

Published: 2017-08-18

Paperback: 92 pages

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Carter Godwin Woodson's seminal book exploring the structural and systemic features of American education that cause entrenched and perpetuated social segregation, economic disparity, and class distinctions among people of color and white citizens. Woodson's analysis has remained germane to modern times....

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

by Richard Rothstein

Published: 2017-05-02

Hardcover: 368 pages

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"Rothstein has presented what I consider to be the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation." ?William Julius WilsonIn this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Roths...

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The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Published: 2009-01-06

Paperback: 240 pages

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An exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panther...

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The Open Society and Its Enemies

by Karl R. Popper

Published: 2013-04-21

Paperback: 808 pages

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One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He...

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Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False

by Thomas Nagel

Published: 2012-09-26

Hardcover: 144 pages

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The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major...

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Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

by Nancy Pearcey

Published: 2015-03-01

Hardcover: 384 pages

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  Don't Think, Just Believe? That's the mantra in many circles today--whether the church, the classroom, the campus, or the voting booth.   Time for a Reality Check Nancy Pearcey, bestselling and critically acclaimed author, offers fresh tools to break free from presumed certainties and ...

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The Space Between the Stars

by Anne Corlett

Published: 2017-06-13

Hardcover: 368 pages

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A Recommended Summer Read from The Verge and io9A Recommended June Read from Hello Giggles and Tor.comWhen the world ends, where will you go?In a breathtakingly vivid and emotionally gripping debut novel, one woman must confront the emptiness in the universe—and in her own heart—when a...

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Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (FDR at War)

by Nigel Hamilton

Published: 2017-05-16

Paperback: 496 pages

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“Superb . . . Hamilton brilliantly sets out Roosevelt’s foresight, determination and skill in establishing a new world order.” —Fareed Zakaria, Washington Post “Provocative . . . stimulating to follow.” —Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review 1943 was the year of Allied ...

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The Last Place You Look: A Mystery

by Kristen Lepionka

Published: 2017-06-13

Hardcover: 336 pages

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Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared fifteen years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend Brad Stockton?black and from the wrong side of the tracks?was convicted of the murders and is ...

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The Vengeance of Mothers: The Journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill: A Novel

by Jim Fergus

Published: 2017-09-12

Hardcover: 352 pages

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The stunning sequel to the award-winning novel One Thousand White Women: A Novel."Clever and satisfying...Fergus is a superb writer [and] the characters are as real as any pioneer women who braved the rigors of westering." ?The Denver Post"A gripping tale, a history lesson infused with bot...