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  • Resistance

    A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage

    by Tori Amos ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA timely and passionate call to action for engaging with our current political moment, from the Grammy-nominated and multiplatinum singer-songwriter and New York Times bestselling author Tori Amos.Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry’s most enduring and ingenious artists. From her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 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

  • At Home in Two Countries

    The Past and Future of Dual Citizenship

    by Peter J Spiro ...
    Read Peter's Op-ed on Trump's Immigration Ban in The New York TimesThe rise of dual citizenship could hardly have been imaginable to a time traveler from a hundred or even fifty years ago. Dual nationality was once considered an offense to nature, an abomination on the order of bigamy. It was the stuff of titanic battles between the United States and European sovereigns. As those conflicts ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Only the Dead

    The Persistence of War in the Modern Age

    The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows that the evidence simply doesn't support the decline-of-war thesis propounded by scholars like Steven ... Read more

    $20.99 USD $17.99 USD

  • Voices of the Nakba

    A Living History of Palestine

    ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2021***During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ‘disaster’ or ‘catastrophe’ - lays bare the violence of the ongoing Palestinian plight.Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Fascist USA!

    The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements

    Series series City Lights Open Media
    The story of how a national grassroots network fought a resurgence of the KKK and other fascist groups during the Reagan years, laying the groundwork for today’s anti-fascist/anti-racist movements."Smash fascism! Read this book!"—Tom Morello, songwriter and guitarist with Rage Against the Machine"Studying the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee will give readers an understanding of the complexity of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Strongmen

    Trump / Modi / Erdoğan / Duterte / Putin

    Five noted writers and thinkers profile five of the world’s leaders. For some of us, these leaders are heroes; for others, villains; for all of us—strongmen.We’re edging towards a new kind of global fascism driven by aggression and strident nationalism. In this energetic, focused book, a group of five accomplished writers confronts five would-be dictators.American playwright Eve Ensler (The Vagina ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Straight State

    Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

    Series Book 64 - Politics and Society in Modern America
    How the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenshipThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Allow Me to Retort

    A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution

    by Elie Mystal ...
    Finalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksThe New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal’s reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds“After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don’t understand—quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer . . .” —Michael Harriot, The RootAllow ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lynching

    Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity

    by Ersula J. Ore ...
    Series series Race, Rhetoric, and Media Series
    Winner of the 2020 Rhetoric Society of America Book AwardWhile victims of antebellum lynchings were typically white men, postbellum lynchings became more frequent and more intense, with the victims more often black. After Reconstruction, lynchings exhibited and embodied links between violent collective action, American civic identity, and the making of the nation.Ersula J. Ore investigates ... Read more

    $21.99 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

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  • Green Shoots of Democracy within the Philadelphia Democratic Party

    by Karen Bojar ...
    Drawing on the experiences of grassroots political activists from different socio- economic and ethnic backgrounds, Green Shoots of Democracy explores how self-identified progressives manage (or fail to manage) to work within a big city political machine. Although the book focuses on the work of progressives to foster democracy and transparency within the Philadelphia Democratic Party, lessons ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Erosion of Democracy

    Democracy -, #1

    by J. Dhopte ...
    Series Book 1 - Democracy
    This book is a first part of the series - DEMOCRACY, a series of three books. Democracy during the last decade has suffered a dramatic decline.The constitutional democracies are being overthrown and there is an increase in the regimes that retain the formal institutional trappings while flouting the norms and values on which constitutional democracies are based.The forces of neo- liberalism are ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Civil Disobedience

    Thoreau advocates for nonviolent protest in his classic manifestoMotivated by his disgust with the US government, Henry David Thoreau’s seminal philosophical essay enjoins individuals to stand against the ruling forces that seek to erase their free will. It is the duty of a good citizen, he argues, not only to disobey a bad law, but also to protest an unjust government. His message of nonviolence ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy

    With a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administrationTHE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER"A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” —Ezra Klein, New York TimesAn insider’s account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to hijack our democracy.Our democracy is under assault from homegrown ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Moral Basis of Democracy

    A wartime manifesto on the moral obligations of democratic citizens from the most influential first lady in American history.With the threat of the Third Reich looming, Eleanor Roosevelt employs the history of human rights to establish the idea that at the core of democracy is a spiritual responsibility to other citizens. Roosevelt then calls on all Americans, especially the youth, to prioritize ... Read more

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  • Tell Me How It Ends

    An Essay in 40 Questions

    American Book Award Winner: A “moving, intimate” account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review). Nonfiction Finalist for the Kirkus PrizeFinalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Structured around the forty questions volunteer worker Valeria Luiselli translates from a court system form and asks undocumented Latin ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We the People : The Citizen & the Constitution

    Level 2 (middle school), Third Edition (2017)

    We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution teaches middle school students about civics, government, and active citizenship. The textbook, composed of 6 units and 30 lessons, uses critical-thinking exercises and cooperative-learning strategies to teach the history and principles of American constitutional democracy. Lessons include "What were the British colonies in America like in the 1770s?" ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • We the People High School Textbook, 4th Edition

    The Citizen and the Constitution

    Series series We the People
    The We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution textbook teaches high school students about government and citizenship. Students explore the history and principles of constitutional democracy through critical-thinking exercises, cooperative-learning and participation in a simulated congressional hearing. The We the People textbook contains six units and 39 lessons. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Totalitarianism

    The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear witness to loneliness, free-floating anxiety, and fear giving way to censorship, loss of privacy, and surrendered freedoms. It is all spurred by a singular, focused crisis narrative that forbids dissident views and relies on destructive groupthink.Desmet’s work on mass formation theory was brought to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    From a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefsJezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Great American Awakening

    Two Years that Changed America, Washington, and Me

    by Jim DeMint ...
    Following his New York Times best seller, Saving Freedom, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint's The Great American Awakening chronicles two tumultuous years from the presidential election of 2008 through the mid-term elections of 2010. Untold insider views of the controversial stimulus bill passage, corporate takeovers, and lesser-known executive actions that epitomize political paybacks and moral decay will ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • David Hume

    17 Works

    by David Hume ...
    David Hume (1711 - 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and scepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment.This collection includes a total of 17 works of Hume’s most famous works:13 essays:Of The Delicacy Of Taste And PassionOf The Liberty Of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Against Authority

    Freedom and the Rise of the Surveillance States

    In both his novels and in his 2005 essay, How We Live Now, John Twelve Hawks was one of the first authors to warn us about the growing power of surveillance technology. Now he has written a personal and controversial book that shows how our lives are watched and analyzed by governments and international corporations. In a world in which our actions can be monitored by a computerized grid of social ... Read more

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