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A Totally Alien Life-Form

Sydney Lewis

• Paperback | Engels
• Young people between the ages of 13 and 19 from all over the US were interviewed for this book. In it, they discuss fears, plans, ambitions, and even ... Lees meer

The New American Crisis

• Paperback | Engels
• This work features some of America's leading activists and progressive thinkers examining the current conservative political climate and considering w... Lees meer

Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

Robert W McChesney, Victor Pickard

• Paperback | Engels
• The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling ... Lees meer

Daniel

Henning Mankell

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: The "haunting and fascinating" tale of a young boy's harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden... Lees meer

Truth Has a Power of Its Own

Howard Zinn

• Paperback | Engels
• American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself--and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn... Lees meer

The Essential Wallerstein

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein

• Paperback | Engels | Essential
• Immanuel Wallerstein is one of the most innovative social scientists of his generation. Past president of the International Sociological Association, ... Lees meer

Monopolized

David Dayen

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the cars we drive to what toothpaste we use, how a tiny group of corporations dominate every aspect of our lives. Lees meer

Teachers Have It Easy

Daniel Moulthrop, Ninive Clements Calegari, Dave Eggers

• Paperback | Engels
• Interweaving teachers' voices from across the country with hard-hitting facts and figures, this book is a view of the harsh realities of teaching. Fro... Lees meer

The One That Got Away

Zoe Wicomb

• Hardcover | Engels
• These short stories from the award-winning South African author "combine the coolly interrogative gaze of the outsider with an insider's intimate warm... Lees meer

The Least Among Us

Rosa L Delauro

• Hardcover | Engels
• The outspoken Connecticut congresswoman provides "a powerful case for protecting and expanding America's safety net" (Elizabeth Warren). Cynical polit... Lees meer

37 Words

Sherry Boschert

• Hardcover | Engels
• A sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX "No pe... Lees meer

States of Neglect

William Kleinknecht

• Hardcover | Engels
• As America continues down its path of polarization, a celebrated journalist tells us the deep story of the red-state/blue-state divide In the wake of ... Lees meer

Industry and Empire

Eric Hobsbawm

• Paperback | Engels
• Premier historian Eric Hobsbawm's brilliant study of the Industrial Revolution, which sold more than a quarter of a million copies in its original edi... Lees meer

Usual Cruelty

Alec Karakatsanis

• Hardcover | Engels
• From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the lega... Lees meer

Guantanamo

David Rose

• Hardcover | Engels
• Praised as a tour-de-force deconstruction of Bush's supermax gulag ( San Diego Union Tribune ) when first published in hardcover, Guantánamo makes sho... Lees meer

After the New Economy

Doug Henwood

• Paperback | Engels
• Some of the manic exuberance surrounding this story has disappeared with the bursting of the Nasdaq bubble and the scandals that emerged as the froth ... Lees meer

Zero Tolerance

• Paperback | Engels
• "Zero tolerance" began as a prohibition against guns, but it has quickly expanded into a frenzy of punishment and tougher disciplinary measures in Ame... Lees meer

The People's Constitution

John F Kowal, Wilfred U Codrington III

• Hardcover | Engels
• The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution--the product of compromises and an artifact of its time--and made i... Lees meer

A School of Our Own

Samuel Levin, Susan Engel

• Hardcover | Engels
• The remarkable true story of the high school junior who started his own school--and earned acclaim nationwide--" will make you laugh, cry and cheer" (... Lees meer

False Dawn

John Gray

• Paperback | Engels
• Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as both "a convincing analysis of an international economy headed for disaster" and a "powerful challenge to economic orthodo... Lees meer

The Scheme

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller

• Hardcover | Engels
• "A damning investigation of dark money by a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee." ( Kirkus Reviews ) with a new preface on recent disclosu... Lees meer

From Cairo to Wall Street

• Paperback | Engels
• "The first essential text of a new and remarkably dynamic era of social activism that has already brought profound change to the world." --Bob Herbert... Lees meer

Remembering Jim Crow

• Paperback | Engels
• This "viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era" won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award... Lees meer

Unfinished City

Thomas Bender

• Hardcover | Engels
• Throughout history, cities have been a powerful source of inspiration and energy, nourishing invention and intellect and fuelling movements for innova... Lees meer