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A devastating critique of race- and class-based inconsistencies in the American criminal justice system.

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Harvard Law professor and legal scholar Martha Minow uses incidents, such as the casting of Miss Saigon and the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to explain the legal issues bearing on such incendiary questions as affirmative action, segregation, racial redistricting, and "identity politics."

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Yeomans explores the role of oil in America--from driving the US economic engine to consolidating the US's position as unilateral superpower--and explains the American consumer's love affair with gasoline and the automobile.

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A study of how prehistoric images get "overlaid" onto contemporary art by today's artists. It attempts to understand how art can be meaningfully reintegrated into the fabric of society as a whole, as in prehistoric times.

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A wonderfully nuanced exploration of life in post-apartheid South Africa.

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Arguing that number-crunching should never replace thoughtful, democratic discussion of policy, the book also includes a particularly timely discussion of why only military expenditure is afforded the kind of moral weight the authors wish was put on other issues.

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Explains the origins and justifications for using racial profiles in police investigation, and argues that not only does the policy have serious social side effects, but statistics suggest that it is ineffective.

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In this text, one of America's leading scholars of Mexico looks not only at the Chiapas conflict of the end of the 1990s, but at 500 years of struggle and uneasy accommodation between Chiapas's primarily Maya population and the Spanish conquerors and "criollo" landowners.

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"Say It Plain" deals with African American studies.

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An autobiography of Studs Terkel, an American oral historian, which mirrors the events of our century. From Mahalia Jackson to Bertrand Russell, from Martin Luther King Jr to Federico Fellini, the author captured their voices for posterity.

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A clarion call for rescuing creative play from the grips of commericialism by the bestselling author of Consuming Kids.

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"The Discipline of Hope" chronicles veteran educator Herb Kohl's love affair with teaching since his first encounter 40 years ago. Kohl has been an ardent advocate of the notion that every student can learn and every teacher must find creative ways to facilitate that learning. In this book he distills the major lessons of an attentive lifetime in the classroom.

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This work draws upon the full range of Wallerstein's social scientific scholarship, from his research on contemporary African politics, to his study of the modern world-system and essays on the new structures of knowledge emerging from the crisis of the capitalist world-economy.

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For the better part of fifty years, the powerful German army of World War II has been seen as an organization of consummate skill and honor, one that had little in common with the criminal policies and ideology of the Nazi regime. The German Army and the Genocide explodes that myth.

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Traverso rejects the belief that the Holocaust was an historical aberration completely outside the trajectory of Western civilization, and sets out to demonstrate that it was the culmination of Western liberal thought.

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A prescient and deeply empathetic work based on seven years of reporting on the fault lines of the culture wars that continue to divide America.

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This work tells the story of the desert concentration camps in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies. Not until September 1991, under international pressure, was Hassan's regime forced to open these desert hellholes.

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An introduction to the company, Wal-Mart, this book aims to mark an effort to dissect its business operations, its social effects, and its role in the US and world economy. It examines such topics as the giant retailer's managerial culture, revolutionary use of technological innovation, and controversial pay and promotional practices.