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"A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door is about the right-wing agenda to dismantle public education, assessing the myriads of ways our education system is being eroded with privatization measures that exacerbate inequality"--

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"A deeply affecting exposae of America's hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc"--

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From the National Security Archive, the little known story of how the United States and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war during the Reagan years, told through newly declassified documents.

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The revered education correspondent of "PBS NewsHour" distills his best thinking on American public education into a "twelve-step" approach to fixing a K-12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: schools that are inappropriate for the 21st century.

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A scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world.

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The second in a three-volume definitive collection of articles, interviews, and seminars from one of the century's most influential thinkers, Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Selections include commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Roussel, and Boulez. They also include unique insight into the development of Foucault's original philosophical program.

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A bestselling business journalist critiques the top-down approach of popular education reforms and profiles the unexpected success of schools embracing a nimbler, more democratic entrepreneurialism

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An oral history drawn from the collection of 9/11 interviews at Columbia University.

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Some of the manic exuberance surrounding this story has disappeared with the bursting of the Nasdaq bubble and the scandals that emerged as the froth cleared. But what really happened Economic journalist Doug answers all of these questions in "After the New Economy."

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Talks about current affairs/African American Studies/legal studies.

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Published to coincide with the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, this is one of the few books to offer the perspectives of African Americans on the Gulf Coast tragedy.

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Includes a collection of outstanding original pieces, along ith photographs and maps, that offer a frank critique of the wall from a range of perspectives: legal,

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From a "San Francisco Chronicle" journalist comes this lively, funny, and revealing look at the little known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America.

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From a "San Francisco Chronicle" journalist comes this lively, funny, and revealing look at the little known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America.

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Smash hit investigation into the US incarceration policy, taking an intimate look at the two million plus parents and children devastated by US incarceration laws.

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Provides a survey of the way the modern United States military enlists, trains, and deploys its all-volunteer force. This book also includes first-person accounts from soldiers on active duty in Iraq, providing a picture of life at the sharp end of combat duty.

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A first-of-its kind collection of the most vivid reporting about the most lethal addiction crisis ever.

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An incredibly detailed and thorough examination of Hollywood year by year during the first decade of the Cold War. Addresses the dramatic synergy between American politics and pop culture.