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Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities

by Chad Broughton

Published: 2016-09-01

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Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owe much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.Political elites and policy experts have been bewildered by combative talk of building a wall and the ubiquity of anti-TPP (Trans-Pacif...

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Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of Jo Ann Gibson Robinson

by Jo Ann Robinson

Published: 1987-05-22

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ignited the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, has always been vitally important in southern and black history. With the publication of this book, the boycott becomes a milestone in the history of American women as well. "This autobiographical a...

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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Published: 2009-03-01

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A $1.3 trillion industry, the US nonprofit sector is the world’s seventh largest economy. From art museums and university hospitals to think tanks and church charities, over 1.5 million organizations of staggering diversity share the tax-exempt 501(c)(3) designation, if little else. Many...

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Race Matters

by Cornel West

Published: 1994-03-29

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With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate.Cornel West is at the forefront of thinking about race. In Race Matters he ...

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

by Jonathan Kozol

Published: 2012-07-24

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For two years, beginning in 1988, Jonathan Kozol visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not o...

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition

by Paulo Freire

Published: 2000-09-01

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First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's work has taken on especial urgency in...

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Jewish Literacy Revised Ed: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People, and Its History

by Joseph Telushkin

Published: 2008-06-17

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What does it mean to be a Jew? How does one begin to answer so extensive a question?In this insightful and completely updated tome, esteemed rabbi and bestselling author Joseph Telushkin helps answer the question of what it means to be a Jew, in the largest sense. Widely recognized as one ...

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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

by Glenn Greenwald

Published: 2012-07-03

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From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers) and the journalist who broke the story on NSA spying programs comes a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in AmericaFrom the nation's beginnings, the law was to...

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The Romanovs: 1613-1918

by Simon Sebag Montefiore

Published: 2016-05-03

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The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?   This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and ...

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When We Fight, We Win: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World

by Greg Jobin-Leeds, AgitArte

Published: 2016-01-05

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Same-sex marriage, #BlackLivesMatter, the DREAM Act, the People’s Climate March, End the New Jim Crow, Occupy Wall Street, the fight for a $15 minimum wage?these are just a few of the remarkable movements that have blossomed in the past decade, a most fertile and productive era of activi...