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  • Doppelganger

    A Trip into the Mirror World

    by Naomi Klein ...
    A finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle AwardNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | National Indie BestsellerA New York Times notable book of 2023 | Vulture’s #1 book of 2023One of Slate’s ten best books of 2023 | A Guardian best ideas book of 2023 | One of Time’s ten best books of 2023 | **Winner of the Pacific Northwest Book A... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Masiosare, nuestro extraño enemigo

    Después del éxito rotundo de Los mitos que nos dieron traumas, llega la esperada segunda parte.México necesita una transformación. Sólo tú puedes hacerla.Juan Miguel Zunzunegui nuevamente nos quita la venda de los ojos para hacernos responsables del país y de sus circunstancias.Masiosare se esconde en el pasado, en la profundidad de nuestramente, y detrás de muchos de nuestros mitos. Está o... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Being Comanche

    The Social History of an American Indian Community

    Winner, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award (American Society for Ethnohistory)Comanches have engaged Euro-Americans' curiosity for three centuries. Their relations with Spanish, French, and Anglo-Americans on the southern Plains have become a highly resonant part of the mythology of the American West. Yet we know relatively little about the community that Comanches have shared and continue to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Hammer and Hoe

    Alabama Communists during the Great Depression

    A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Detroit Project

    Three Plays

    Three provocative dramas, Paradise Blue, Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew, make up Dominique Morisseau’s The Detroit Project, a play cycle examining the sociopolitical history of Detroit. Each play sits at a cross-section—of race and policing, of labor and recession, of property ownership and gentrification—and comes alive in the characters and relationships that look toward complex, hopeful futures. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Sidelined

    Sports, Culture, and Being a Woman in America

    by Julie DiCaro ...
    “Sidelined is the feminist sports book we've all been waiting for.”—Jessica ValentiShrill meets Brotopia in this personal and researched look at women's rights and issues through the lens of sports, from an award-winning sports journalist and women's advocateIn a society that is digging deep into the misogyny underlying our traditions and media, the world of sports is espec... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Fighting to Breathe

    Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore

    Series Book 54 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses in addition to heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular disease, all of which can lead to premature death. Fighting to Breathe ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Season

    The Secret Life of Palm Beach and America's Richest Society

    Palm Beach is known around the world as the most wealthy, glamorous, opulent, decadent, self-indulgent, sinful spot on earth. With their beautiful 3.75 square-island constantly in the media glare, Palm Beachers protect their impossibly rich society from outside scrutiny with vigilant police, ubiquitous personal security staffs, and screens of tall hedges encircling every mansion.To this bizarre ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Refuge and Resistance

    Palestinians and the International Refugee System

    by Anne Irfan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime that became central to the lives of displaced people around the world. This regime has exerted particular authority over Palestinian refugees, who are served by a specialized UN body, the Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Formed shortly after the 1948 war, UNRWA continues to provide quasi-state services such ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

    **“[A] deeply researched and counterintuitive history . . . Penningroth reframes the conventional story of civil rights.” —Matthew F. Delmont, Washington PostA prize-winning scholar draws on astonishing new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.**The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America’s legal system ... Read more

    $22.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • 42 Today

    Jackie Robinson and His Legacy

    “Essays on the baseball great’s impact on American society . . . A successful attempt to give a towering cultural figure his due beyond the baselines.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • There's Always This Year

    On Basketball and Ascension

    A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop DreamsGrowing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Rage Becomes Her

    The Power of Women's Anger

    ***A BEST BOOK OF 2018 SELECTION***NPR * The Washington Post * Book Riot * Autostraddle * Psychology Today***A BEST FEMINIST BOOK SELECTION***Refinery 29, Book Riot, Autostraddle, BITCHRage Becomes Her is an “utterly eye opening” (Bustle) book that gives voice to the causes, expressions, and possibilities o... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Brief History of Japan

    Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

    Series series Brief History of Asia Series
    This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion.First revealed to Westerners in the chronicles of Marco Polo, Japan was a legendary faraway land defended by a fearsome Kamikaze storm and ruled by a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Monster Theory Reader

    Edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock ...
    A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributionsZombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons, golems, and ghosts. From the mythical monstrous races of the ancient world to the murderous cyborgs of our day, monsters have haunted the human ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • বাঙালির মিডিয়োক্রিটির সন্ধানে - Bangalir Mediocrityr Shondhane

    Like so many of his neighbours and fellow citizens, Faham Abdus Salam came to Australia to study and ended up making its small-town-capital his home. The last words of his bio in the book reads Shehvaar’s father —and that identity is the one that underpins his book Bangali’r Mediocrity’r Shondhane (In Search of the Bengali Mediocrity). He writes for his daughter, knowingly and explicitly in the ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Burn Book

    A Tech Love Story

    by Kara Swisher ...
    Instant New York Times BestsellerFrom award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.“Swisher, the bad-ass journalist and OG chronicler of Silicon Valley…takes no prisoners in this highly readable look at the evolution of the digital world…Bawdy, brash, and compulsively ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ocean of Sound

    Ambient sound and radical listening in the age of communication

    by David Toop ...
    David Toop's extraordinary work of sonic history travels from the rainforests of Amazonas to the megalopolis of Tokyo via the work of artists as diverse as Brian Eno, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk and Brian Wilson.Beginning in 1889 at the Paris exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed, Ocean of Sound channels the competing instincts of 20th century music into an ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Man in the Music

    The Creative Life and Work of Michael Jackson

    by Joseph Vogel ...
    For half a century, Michael Jackson’s music has been an indelible part of our cultural consciousness. Landmark albums such as Off the Wall and Thriller shattered records, broke racial barriers, amassed awards, and set a new standard for popular music. While his songs continue to be played in nearly every corner of the world, however, they have rarely been given serious critical attention. The ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    One of the most essential works on the 1960s counterculture, Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism.This is the seminal work on the hippie culture, a report on what it was like to follow along with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters as they launched the "Transcontinental Bus Tour" from the West Coast to New York, all while introducing acid (then legal) to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Goth

    A History

    by Lol Tolhurst ...
    The co-founder of The Cure and author of Cured delivers a fascinating deep dive into the dark romanticism of Goth music, a misunderstood genre and culture.GOTH is an entertaining and engaging historical memoir, and a journey through Goth music and culture, exploring creative giants like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division, and many more great bands that offered a place of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Indians of Texas

    From Prehistoric to Modern Times

    by W.W. Newcomb ...
    Series series Texas History Paperbacks
    An anthropological history of Native Americans in the Lone Star State.First published in 1961, this study explores the ethnography of the Indian tribes who lived in the region that is now the state of Texas since the beginning of the historic period.The tribes covered include:CoahuiltecansKarankawasLipan ApachesTonkawasComanches;Kiowas and Kiowa ApachesJumanosWichitas<... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Riddles of the Sphinx

    Inheriting the Feminist History of the Crossword Puzzle

    "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off the page."—New York TimesCombining the soul-baring confessional of Brain on Fire and the addictive storytelling of The Queen’s Gambit, a renowned puzzle creator’s compulsively readable memoir and history of the crossword puzzle as an unexpected site of women’s work and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD