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A bold new argument that conservative policy has lead to America's lawsuit culture.

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Gille was just five when her mother, Russian writer Irene Nemirovsky, was deported to Auschwitz, and the two never heard from each other again. This work is a fictionalized account of their wrenching separation and a piercing look at what it means to survive mass genocide.

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A follow up to the groundbreaking Asian American comics anthology Secret Identities, this volume is bolder, darker and more breathtaking in scope.

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The rollicking true story of a 1930s version of Bernie Madoffand the building and loan crash he helped precipitatein a wonderful work of narrative nonfiction by the Gustavus Myers book award winner

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Deals with the role and influence of children's literature in the context of both education/parenting.

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A groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of colour.

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Through case studies of four key policy debates--tax reform, health care, social security, and school vouchers--this powerful expos demonstrates how conservative organizations have discredited their opponents, influenced the media, and engineered sweeping changes in public opinion and public policy.

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Looks at the controversies surrounding the interpretation of slavery's history in the public arena. This book takes on contemporary reactions to the fundamental contradiction of American history, and offers an analysis of how people remember their past, and how the lessons they draw influence American politics and culture.

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This powerful work demonstrates how slavery shaped the day-to-day experience of New Yorkers, black and white, and how slavery, as a way of doing business, propelled New York to become the commercial and financial power it is today.

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"A stunning work of popular history-the story of how a crop transformed the history of slavery. Author Jori Lewis reveals how demand for peanut oil in Europe ensured that slavery in Africa would persist well into the twentieth century, long after the European powers had officially banned it in the territories they controlled"--

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This classic volume by acclaimed historian Ira Berlin is a moving portrait of life for the thousands of free black people living in the American South before the Civil War.

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Media critic, John Leonard takes a look at TV, our most influential medium. Instead of scapegoating television as the cause of crime in our streets, stupidity in our schools, and spectacle rather than substance in our government, John Leonard views television in an altogether different light.

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Previously published in hardcover in 2012.

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"Presents the case for expanding Social Security, explaining why monthly benefits need to be increased, and why Americans need national paid family leave, sick leave, and long term care protections"--

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This reader collects the substance of their main finding: that life expectancy, illness, and other health factors are related to the structure of a given society, and that variations of health within a population are related to socio-structural factors, including income inequality, educational differences, lack of opportunities, and racism.

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This reader collects the substance of their main finding: that life expectancy, illness, and other health factors are related to the structure of a given society, and that variations of health within a population are related to socio-structural factors, including income inequality, educational differences, lack of opportunities, and racism.

(Hardback)

From the arrest of Nelson Mandela in 1962 to his release in 1990, the relationship of the United States to South Africa has been one of the most controversial aspects of American foreign policy. This book contains the internal US policy debates over South Africa.

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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