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  • Abolition

    Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1

    A major collection of essays and speeches from pioneering freedom fighter Angela Y. DavisFor over fifty years, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for abolition and feminism and the fight against state violence and oppression. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis’s essays, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA

    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2015: “A riveting account of a watershed moment in our history.”—President Bill ClintonRenowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty years—enduring society’s ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Old Sparky

    The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty

    A shocking exploration of America’s preferred method of capital punishment.In early 2013, Robert Gleason became the latest victim of the electric chair, a peculiarly American execution method. Shouting Póg mo thóin (Kiss my ass” in Gaelic), he grinned as electricity shot through his system. When the current was switched off, his body slumped against the leather restraints, and Gleeson, who had ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Toast to Silence

    Avoid Becoming Another Victim of Deceptive Police Tactics By Knowing When and How to Use the Power of Silence

    by Peter Baskin ...
    Every day, police deception tactics fool millions of Americans into giving evidence they don’t have to give, leading to their arrest and conviction in court because they don’t know when and how to take advantage of their absolute constitutional right to remain silent. By the time they hear the Miranda warning, they have already voluntarily given up the evidence the police need to make an arrest by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sweet Land of Liberty

    The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North

    The struggle for racial equality in the North has been a footnote in most books about civil rights in America. Now this monumental new work from one of the most brilliant historians of his generation sets the record straight. Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • American Justice

    Series Book 2 - True Crime
    A primary or secondary text for criminal justice, criminology, constitutional law, and related social science and legal studies, this book is for those who believe they know all they need to know about the criminal justice system — the system that keeps us safe from criminals; the system that protects its good, law-abiding citizens.Told in two sections, the first a first-person perspective of a ... Read more

    $10.34 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Day Freedom Died

    The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction

    by Charles Lane ...
    The untold story of the slaying of a Southern town's ex-slaves and a white lawyer's historic battle to bring the perpretators to justiceFollowing the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex–Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Legal Rights, 6th Ed.

    The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People

    The standard handbook on law affecting deaf and hard of hearing people has been completely rewritten and updated. The sixth edition of Legal Rights: The Guide for Deaf and Hard of Hearing People meticulously describes those statutes that prohibit discrimination against deaf and hard of hearing people, and any others with physical challenges. Written in easy-to-understand language, the new edition ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Shades of Freedom

    Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process

    Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard, and as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals. But Judge Higginbotham ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation’s founding.**New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • US Citizenship Test Study Guide 2023

    by Donald Bond ...
    BONUS INCLUDED SCANNING A QR CODE INSIDEDo you have little time left to prepare for the exam?Have you heard that several of your friends have failed?Do you want to prove your worth and realize the American dream?If you answered "Yes" read on as I have something for you.I imagine you haven't passed a school exam in years, and you are worried because this time, the res... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Notorious RBG

    The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    New York Times BestsellerFeatured in the critically acclaimed documentary RBG"It was beyond my wildest imagination that I would one day become the 'Notorious RBG." — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 2019She was a fierce dissenter with a serious collar game. A legendary, self-described “flaming feminist litigator” who made the world more equal. And an intergenerational icon affectionately known as the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • No Place to Hide

    Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

    A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward SnowdenIn May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong to meet an anonymous source who claimed to have astonishing evidence of pervasive government spying and insisted on communicating only through heavily encrypted ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • One Person, No Vote

    How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

    As featured in the documentary All In: The Fight for DemocracyFinalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionLonglisted for the National Book Award in NonfictionAn NPR Politics Podcast Book Club ChoiceNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by:Washington Post * Boston Globe * NPR* Bustle * BookRiot * Ne... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • No Pity

    People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

    “A sensitive look at the social and political barriers that deny disabled people their most basic civil rights.”—The Washington Post“The primer for a revolution.”—The Chicago Tribune“Nondisabled Americans do not understand disabled ones. This book attempts to explain, to nondisabled people as well as to many disabled ones, how the world and self-perceptions of disabled people are changing. It ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Burglary

    The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI

    by Betty Medsger ...
    The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists—quiet, ordinary, hardworking Americans—that made clear the shocking truth and confirmed what some had long suspected, that J. Edgar Hoover had created and was operating, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, his own shadow Bureau of Investigation.It begins ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Derechos humanos y restricciones: Los dilemas de la justicia

    Series series Biblioteca Jurídica Porrúa
    ¿Qué es una restricción a los derechos humanos?, ¿cuántas y cuáles son las restricciones que presenta nuestra Constitución?, ¿deben observarse ciertas reglas para establecerlas y aplicarlas? Si ese fuera el caso, ¿en qué consisten esas reglas? Interrogantes que son centrales en el debate jurídico actual, en particular en México después de la reforma constitucional de derechos humanos de 2011 y de ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • I Can't Breathe

    A Killing on Bay Street

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    A work of riveting literary journalism that explores the roots and repercussions of the infamous killing of Eric Garner by the New York City police—from the bestselling author of The DivideNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTOn July 17, 2014, a forty-three-year-old black man named Eric Garner died on a Staten Island sidewalk after a police officer put him in what has ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Freedom Riders

    1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice

    The saga of the Freedom Rides is an improbable, almost unbelievable story. In the course of six months in 1961, four hundred and fifty Freedom Riders expanded the realm of the possible in American politics, redefining the limits of dissent and setting the stage for the civil rights movement. In this new version of his encyclopedic Freedom Riders, Raymond Arsenault offers a significantly condensed ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • With Liberty and Justice for Some

    How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

    From "the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years" (Bill Moyers), a scathing critique of the two-tiered system of justice that has emerged in AmericaFrom the nation's beginnings, the law was to be the great equalizer in American life, the guarantor of a common set of rules for all. But over the past four decades, the principle of equality before the law has been ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Imbeciles

    The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

    by Adam Cohen ...
    **Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for NonfictionOne of America’s great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court’s infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of “undesirable” citizens the law of the land**In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. In ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Faces at the Bottom of the Well

    The Permanence of Racism

    by Derrick Bell ...
    The groundbreaking, "eerily prophetic, almost haunting" work on American racism and the struggle for racial justice (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow).In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example—including the classic story "The Space Traders"—to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • New Handbook for a Post-Roe America

    The Complete Guide to Abortion Legality, Access, and Practical Support

    by Robin Marty ...
    A completely new edition of Robin Marty's bestselling manual on what to do now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.The New Handbook for a Post-Roe America is a comprehensive and user-friendly manual for understanding and preparing for the looming changes to reproductive rights law, and getting the health care you need. Activist and writer Robin Marty guides readers through various worst-case ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

    "Vivid storytelling built on exacting research." —Bill Keller, New York Times Book ReviewIn 1735, struggling printer John Peter Zenger scandalized colonial New York by launching a small newspaper, the New-York Weekly Journal. The newspaper was assailed by the new British governor as corrupt and arrogant, and as being a direct challenge against the prevailing law that criminalized any criticism of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD