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Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security

(Paperback)

By: Todd Miller

ISBN: 9780872866317
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Fast-paced frontline reporting and analysis on the militaristic spread of US Border Patrol and the long-term consequences for free society.

Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think

(Paperback)

By: Ralph Nader

ISBN: 9780872867055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A Thomas Paine-style indictment of how wealthy corporations control politics and how average Americans, through democracy, can fight-back and win.

Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders

(Paperback)

By: Todd Miller

ISBN: 9780872868342
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Crusade 2.0: The West's Resurgent War on Islam

(Paperback)

By: John Feffer

ISBN: 9780872865457
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Why anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the US and Europe, and what can be done to stop it.

Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, Expanded Edition

(Paperback)

By: Mumia Abu-Jamal

ISBN: 9780872867970
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Profound meditations on life, death, freedom, family, and faith written by radical, Black journalist, Mumia Abu-Jamal, while he was awaiting his execution.

America at War with Itself: Authoritarian Politics in a Free Society

(Paperback)

By: Henry A. Giroux

ISBN: 9780872867321
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A blistering critique of how America's drift toward authoritarian intolerance is dividing the nation and intensifying social and political conflicts.

Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization

(Paperback)

By: Roy Scranton

ISBN: 9780872866690
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: City Lights Books
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An Iraq War vet's bracing, visionary response to the challenge posed by global warming and his hope in the humanities.

The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues

(Paperback)

By: Angela Y. Davis

ISBN: 9780872865808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: City Lights Books
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First and only book of speeches on racism, community, freedom, and politics in the U.S. by international icon Angela Davis.

Women Who Change the World: Stories from the Fight for Social Justice

(Paperback)

By: Lynn Lewis

ISBN: 9780872868748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (And How to Prevent the Next One)

(Paperback)

By: Alan Hirsch

ISBN: 9780872868298
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: City Lights Books
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An urgent primer on what can be done to combat emerging threats to the core of U.S. democracy-presidential elections.

American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism

(Paperback)

By: Henry A. Giroux

ISBN: 9780872867536
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A far-ranging critique of the rise of authoritarianism and white nationalism in the US and the consequences for democracy

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama

(Paperback)

By: Tim Wise

ISBN: 9780872865006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2009
Publisher: City Lights Books
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How Barack Obama's rise is reshaping the meaning of race in the United States today.

Crossing Zero: The AfPak War at the Turning Point of American Empire

(Paperback)

By: Elizabeth Gould

ISBN: 9780872865136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A cutting-edge analysis of the AfPak war involving Russia, India, China, and Iran, emphasizing US strategy and the people implementing it.

Dear President Bush

(Paperback)

By: Cindy Sheehan

ISBN: 9780872864542
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: City Lights Books
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America's most famous antiwar mom speaks out for peace, social justice, and an end to the Iraq war.

Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority

(Paperback)

By: Tim Wise

ISBN: 9780872865211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Tim Wise addresses whites' anxiety about cultural shifts displacing their power and privilege--and offers ideas on how to move forward.

Dispatches from the Race War

(Paperback)

By: Tim Wise

ISBN: 9780872868090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Essays on racial flashpoints, white denial, violence, and the manipulation of fears in America today.

Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle

(Paperback)

By: Brad Evans

ISBN: 9780872866584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A dazzling exploration of the seduction of violence and spectacle in politics, culture, entertainment and everyday life

Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid

(Paperback)

By: Joseph Nevins

ISBN: 9780872864863
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: City Lights Books
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The real story--and human price--of US/Mexico border enforcement.

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered

(Paperback)

By: Mumia Abu-Jamal

ISBN: 9780872867383
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A powerful indictment on the history of police violence against people of color, from slavery to today's Black Lives Matter.

I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us: An Oral History of the Attacks Against the Students of Ayotzinapa

(Paperback)

By: John Gibler

ISBN: 9780872867482
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Harrowing personal narratives describing how Mexican authorities killed, injured, and disappeared scores of students and others in a still-unsolved crime.

Interventions

(Paperback)

By: Noam Chomsky

ISBN: 9780872864832
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Short, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics from Latin America to the Middle East.

Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment

(Paperback)

By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

ISBN: 9780872867239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A provocative, timely, and deeply-researched history of gun culture and how it reflects race and power in the United States

Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance

(Paperback)

By: Noam Chomsky

ISBN: 9780872865372
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: City Lights Books
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Making the Future presents more than fifty concisely argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis

(Paperback, NONE, A New Critical Edition)

By: Angela Y. Davis

ISBN: 9780872865273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: City Lights Books
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A new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis.

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