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A leading political writer and activist speaks out on the crisis in the Middle East, the war on terror, and the resurgent militarism of the American empire.

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Fourth grade is ground zero in the fierce debates about education reform in America. In this fascinating and groundbreaking book, Schaenen adds the voices of actual fourth-grade kids to the conversation.

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A dazzling satirical spy novel, part La Femme Nikita, part Pink Panther and part Le Carrfrom one of the world's preeminent authors

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The leading sociologist's brilliant and revelatory argument that the future of politics, work, immigration, and more may be found in California.

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The leading sociologist's brilliant and revelatory argument that the future of politics, work, immigration, and more may be found in California.

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Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America, with its large, optimistic middle class, to the widening economic inequalities, poverty and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present.

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"A novel that tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle, whose only legacy is in South Africa where he is dubbed the 'Father of South African Poetry.'"--

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Former Boko Haram captives tell their terrifying and heartbreaking stories to a leading European journalist

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Combining insight and panache, this work captures the intricacies of a nation perplexed at its growing isolation from the rest of the world and often bitterly divided against itself. It offers discussions with, among others, Warren Beatty, Michael Moore, Louis Farrakhan, Susan Sontag, and Maya Angelou.

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This is a renowned activist's impassioned look at gangs and youth violence in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York.

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Chicago was home to the Pulitzer Prize winning Studs Terkel, who moved there in 1922 and made it his home until his death in 2008 at the age of 96. A tribute to the 'Second City' that is part history, part memoir and 100% Studs Terkel, the book is infused with anecdotes, memories and reflections that celebrate the great city of Chicago.

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Comics impresario Harvey Peckar brings Terkel's bestselling masterpiece to life in a collection of vibrant, visual comic art that will delight Terkel fans and introduce his work to a whole new audience

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Over the past several years, "Harper's Magazine" has fostered an exciting brand of journalism--participatory, sometimes even undercover, in approach. This work collects the best of this reportage that serves as a proclamation in favor of truth-telling instead of PR spin.

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A timely expose on a hidden undercurrent of racial tension in the US: 'Sundown Towns' where the residents are almost exclusively white.

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The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author.

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Discusses what it means to ingest things humans weren't meant to eat, and how the line between human bodies and foreign bodies can sometimes blur.

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As public schools become increasingly embattled by budget shortfalls, crowded buildings, and ever-more-rigid curricula, the burden of these restrictions has drastically changed the way children are expected to learn. Nowhere is this more obvious or more devastating than classrooms in high-need urban areas.

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NPR's Best Book of 2017 now in paperback, Teeth is an essential insight into a shocking aspect of America's health crisis.

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"First published in India as Indians in a globalizing world, by HarperCollins Publishers India, Noida, 2014"--Title page verso.