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  • On Freedom

    A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On TyrannyTimothy Snyder has been called “the leading interpreter of our dark times.” As a historian, he has given us startling reinterpretations of political collapse and mass killing. As a public ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Nine Black Robes

    Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences

    by Joan Biskupic ...
    New York Times Editor's Choice"Biskupic, an accomplished and well-sourced journalist, knows the court as well as anyone now covering it... In her new book Biskupic has done something different and a good deal harder. She has written a group narrative that combines close accounts of the court's public business in the Trump years with a history of its private dramas and conflicts... The deeper ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Reading the Constitution

    Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism

    A provocative, brilliant analysis by recently retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer that deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court’s supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution.The relatively new judicial philosophy of textualism dominates the Supreme Court. Textualists claim that the right way to interpret the Constitution and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Unhumans

    The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)

    If you don’t understand communist revolutions, you aren’t ready for what’s coming.The old rules are over. The old order is over. Accusations are evidence. Activism means bigotry and hate. Criminals are allowed to roam free. Citizens are locked up. An appetite for vengeance is unleashed—to deplatform, debank, destroy. This is the daily news, yet none of it’s new. Patterns from the past make sense ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • America's Great Debate

    Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the Compromise That Preserved the Union

    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a “gripping, vigorous [history] featuring a large cast of unforgettable characters with fierce beliefs” (Publishers Weekly, starred Review).When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the US Senate was precariously balanced with fifteen free states ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends

    The Cyberweapons Arms Race

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award * Bronze Medal, Arthur Ross Book Award (Council on Foreign Relations)"Written in the hot, propulsive prose of a spy thriller" (The New York Times), the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, government-backed market on earth-and a terrifying first look at a new kind of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

    A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

    A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family historyIn 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Stranger Next Door

    The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights; Or, How the Right Divides Us

    by Arlene Stein ...
    Winner of the Ruth Benedict PrizeThe story of a small town’s fight over LGBTQ+ rights that reveals how the far right weaponizes social issues to declare whose lives are valuable—and whose are expendableA new preface bridges the past and the present in Arlene Stein’s award-winning work of narrative sociology, The Stranger Next Door, contextualizing the so-called “culture wars” as they have evolved ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Just Mercy

    A Story of Justice and Redemption

    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.“[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me and many others and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • How to Think Like a Lawyer--and Why

    A Common-Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas

    by Kim Wehle ...
    Series series Legal Expert Series
    A law professor and author teaches non-attorneys how to think like a lawyer to gain advantage in their lives—whether buying a house, negotiating a salary, or choosing the right healthcare.Lawyers aren’t like other people. They often argue points that are best left alone or look for mistakes in menus “just because.” While their scrupulous attention to detail may be annoying, it can also be a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • A Death in Malta

    An Assassination and a Family's Quest for Justice

    **“A chronicle of the sort of silencing-by-murder that we might have thought happens only in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. . . . [and] a son’s distraught but beautiful tribute to his journalist-mother. . . . Exquisite.” —Wall Street JournalA journalist’s spellbinding account of the shocking murder of his muckraking mother and a quest for justice that has reverberated far beyond their tiny homeland**An ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Banned Book Club

    Illustrated by Hyung-Ju Ko ...
    A Junior Library Guild Selection"Highly recommended for readers passionate about activism." — SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL, Starred Review"Sure to inspire today’s youthful generation of tenacious changemakers." — BOOKLIST, Starred Review"The messages of hope are universal." — PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, Starred Review"A timely read about friendship amid chaos." — NPR<... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Be a Revolution

    How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—and How You Can, Too

    by Ijeoma Oluo ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an eye-opening and galvanizing look at the current state of anti-racist activism across America.In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: T... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cold Zero

    Inside the FBI Hostage Rescue Team

    Only 200 people have ever been in Christopher Whitcomb's elite branch of the F.B.I. The Hostage Rescue Team is its most highly trained and specialized squadron -- equivalent to the Navy's Seals and the Army's Delta Force -- charged with terrorist capture, hostage situations, and other large-scale emergencies in the U.S. and around the world. Whitcomb is the first HRT member ever to write about his ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Spies

    The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America

    “This important new book . . . based on archival material . . . shows the huge extent of Soviet espionage activity in the United States during the 20th century” (The Telegraph).Based on KGB archives that have never been previously released, this stunning book provides the most complete account of Soviet espionage in America ever written. In 1993, former KGB officer Alexander Vassiliev was ... Read more

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  • There is Power in a Union

    by Philip Dray ...
    From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Oil and the Glory

    The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea

    by Steve LeVine ...
    Remote, forbidding, and volatile, the Caspian Sea long tantalized the world with its vast oil reserves. But outsiders, blocked by the closed Soviet system, couldn’t get to it. Then the Soviet Union collapsed, and a wholesale rush into the region erupted. Along with oilmen, representatives of the world’s leading nations flocked to the Caspian for a share of the thirty billion barrels of proven oil ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

    'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of "history from below" ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonians, the early Quakers and others taking advantage of the collapse of censorship to bid for new kinds of freedom were given centre stage ... Hill lives on' Times Higher EducationIn 'The World Turned Upside Down' Christopher Hill studies the beliefs of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hollow Land

    Israel's Architecture of Occupation

    by Eyal Weizman ...
    Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupationThis new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over Palestinian lands.From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Bitter End

    The 2020 Presidential Campaign and the Challenge to American Democracy

    What an intensely divisive election portends for American politicsThe year 2020 was a tumultuous time in American politics. It brought a global pandemic, protests for racial justice, and a razor-thin presidential election outcome. It culminated in an attack on the U.S. Capitol that attempted to deny Joe Biden’s victory. The Bitter End explores the long-term trends and short-term shocks that shaped ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bloody Lowndes

    Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt

    Bloody Lowndes is the true story of the people of rural Lowndes County, Alabama, who organized a radical experiment in democratic politics in 1966.Winner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the Best Book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationEarly in 1966, African Americans in Lowndes County, Alabama, aided by activists from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kim Philby

    A story of friendship and betrayal

    by Tim Milne ...
    Kim Philby, the so-called Third Man in the Cambridge spy ring, was the Cold War's most infamous traitor, a Soviet spy at the heart of British intelligence. Philby joined Britain's secret service MI6 during the war and went on to head the section tasked with rooting out Russian spies before becoming the service's chief liaison officer with the CIA. He betrayed hundreds of British and US agents to ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Illuminati Paradigm Shift

    The Illuminati Series, #2

    Series Book 2 - The Illuminati Series
    What is the nature of the New Order proposed by the Pythagorean Illuminati, the world's most controversial secret society?The Illuminati advocate the replacement of democracy by meritocracy, the abolition of all monarchies, dynastic families and privileged elites.How can the corrupt reign of the Old World Order finally be brought to an end? The Illuminati have proposed the most radical and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Seat at the Table

    Congresswomen's Perspectives on Why Their Presence Matters

    The presence of women in Congress is at an all-time high -- approximately one of every five members is female -- and record numbers of women are running for public office for the 2018 midterms. At the same time, Congress is more polarized than ever, and little research exists on how women in Congress view their experiences and contributions to American politics today. Drawing on personal ... Read more

    $25.99 USD