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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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Doug Henwood scrutinizes the "news economy" of the 1990s and questions whether it lives up to the grand claims of being unimaginably productive and freed of antique logic.

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

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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.

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"A major autobiography of a remarkable life that broke down racial barriers, transformed institutions, and energized the struggle for justice, by the former president of the Ford Foundation"--

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A synthesis of the revolutionary struggle and war in Vietnam - the longest in the past two centuries.

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Sharing stories from his twenty years at the Academy, Fleming explores questions about teaching, the labels of "liberal" versus "conservative", and the ultimate purpose of higher education and issues made all the more gripping at a time when many of his students will graduate from the classroom to the battlefield.

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Insisting that the roots of terrorism lie in the USA's cynical foreign policies, Gabriel Kolko argues that it reacts to complex world affairs with technology and firepower, not with an engaged political response. He questions whether such policy offers any hope of security for the USA or the world.

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An "eyewitness account from an unsung hero of the battle for racial equality in America--a battle that, far from ending with the great victories of the civil rights era, saw some of its signal achievements in the desegregation fights of the 1970s and its most notable setbacks in the affirmative action debates that continue into the present in Ferguson, Baltimore, and beyond"--

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This book contains the critical texts that embody the radical political transformation in both methodology and thematics in classics since 1945. Seminal texts by Gernet, Vernant and Vidal-Naquet and Detienne, among others, provide perspectives on topics such as society, politics, myth and gender.