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Opening at the end of 1960, the Chicago Eight trial bought Yippies, anti-war activists and Black Panthers to face conspiracy charges, arising from the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. This book contains a transcript of the trial, and drawings help recreate the atmosphere of the courtroom.

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According to Linn, corporate marketing has become a societal problem as complex and harmful as racism or pollution, and is so pervasive that it should be tackled by public policy rather than leaving things solely to beleaguered parents.

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Award-winning French author Patrick Chamoiseau recreates in truly magical language the stories he heard as a child in Martinique. Folktales with a twist, fairy tales with attitude, these stories are a marvelous introduction to a world, both real and imaginary, too long ignored by North Americans.

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Presents voices from the great second wave of American immigration. Mixing writing from celebrated authors such as Richard Rodriguez, Jamaica Kincaid, and Maxine Hong Kingston with striking selections from young writers, as well as diary entries and letters from undocumented workers.

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If we are what we eat, then, this book contends we are not in good shape. It takes us beyond Fast Food Nation to explain why our entire food system is in crisis. It argues for a different way of looking at what we eat - one that places healthy, sustainably-produced food at the top of the menu for a change.

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Desegregation has been one of the only legally enforceable routes of access and opportunity for millions of school children. However, the American Supreme court has opened the door for wide-scale abandonment of desegregation plans. This text analyses the trend, offering evidence and solutions.

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Offers a candid revelation of the ideas, values, and attitudes that inform "drylongso" or ordinary black life in America. In writing this book the author went in search of "Core Black People" - the ordinary men and women who make up black America and asked them to define their culture.

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Through the letters and testimony of freed slaves, this work tells the story of the making of the black family during the tumultuous era of the American Civil War. Former slaves, free blacks and their contemporaries recount their experiences.

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"Fighting Words" deals with military history/civil war.

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America's leading female playwrights offer seven brilliant plays on pressing contemporary issues, celebrating politically inspired theatre.

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Focusing on the changing field of historiography, this text sets the work of historians associated with the Annales school into the wider context of postwar French historiography, structuralism, quantitative methods and interdisciplinary studies.

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This collection brings together fiction from the French-, Spanish-, and English-speaking Caribbean. Its diverse selection addresses the central themes of the region's literature: the plantation, maroon society, colonial education, rural and urban life, and women's changing roles.

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The private lives of a broad section of Russians who lived during Stalin's purge are revealed in this book. The nine diaries here capture the day-to-day thoughts of these people, and represent a vast selection of opinions, from those oblivious to the terror and those deeply affected by it.

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Clarifying the main tenets of Islam, the major landmarks in Islamic history and the modern politics of Islamic fundamentalism, this book also sheds light on the key words that have come to dominate coverage of the modern crisis: terrorist, crusade, jihad, fundamentalist and fatwa.

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All of the authors have written works on exile, home, and memory, using the written word as a tool for revisiting their old homes or fashioning new ones. This work includes five newly commissioned essays offering moving distallations of their most important thinking on these themes.

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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.