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In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she ...

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Two of our most celebrated intellectuals grapple with the uncertain aftermath of the American collapse in Afghanistan Through the structure of a deeply engaging conversation between two of our most important contemporary public intellectuals, we a...

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After nearly a decade overseas as a war reporter, the acclaimed journalist Dahr Jamail returned to America to renew his passion for mountaineering, only to find that the slopes he had once climbed have been irrevocably changed by climate disruptio...

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A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine In this major work of daring criticism and analysis, scholar and political commentator Marc Lamont Hill and Israel-Palestine expert Mitchell Plitnick spot...

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A critical response to dialogues about producing, exhibiting and criticizing art and aesthetics at a time when the art world is locked in an analysis of identity politics. The book addresses the question of how art can be an empowering and revolut...

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An unremitting assault on the impact and pretensions of television that demolishes conventional arguments.' - TLS'

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A dynamic celebration of trans male culture, this essential collection makes visible a decade of FTM and transmasculine experiences.

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In a headlong narrative--with high-speed car chases, negotiated prisoner exchanges, and an international scandal--acclaimed reporter McGeough uses extensive interviews with Khalid Mishal himself and the key players in Amman, Jerusalem, and Washing...

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"A well-rendered and -documented tale of exploitation in the developing world" (Kirkus Reviews) with deep resonance in the present day In a book Paul Farmer called "a gem of a social history linking two countries stuck in uncomforta...

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With a foreword by Bruce Western Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR The most comprehensive critique of probation and paroleand a provocative and compelling argument for abolishing bothfrom the former Probation Commissioner of New York ...

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2018 American Book Award WinnerA beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation-and the debut of an important new social criticHow much of what we understand of ourselves as "human...

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Sold by his father in repayment of a debt, 12-year-old Yusuf is thrown from his simple rural life into the complexities of precolonial urban East Africa. Through Yusuf's eyes, Gurnah depicts communities at war, trading safaris gone awry, and the u...

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Combining sociological theory, fandom, and memoir on sex work and motherhood, this experimental manifesto rejects dominant narratives about marginalized bodies.

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The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the overlooked history of the Third Worldwith a new pre...

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From the acclaimed veteran political analyst, a searing new expos of how the American military, with the help of the media, conceals its perpetual war No one is better at exposing the dynamics of media and politics that keep starting and continuin...

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Depicted as an insular and forbidding police state with an "insane" dictator at its helm, North Korea-charter member of Bush's "Axis of Evil"-is a country the U.S. loves to hate. Now the CIA says it possesses nuclear, chemical,...

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Greedy corporate interests have been lying to us for centuries. Heres an illustrated, entertaining road map for navigating through their hypocrisy and deception From praising the health benefits of cigarettes to moralizing on the character-buildin...

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In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with resp...

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A stunning collection of photographs of the LGBTQ community in Thailand, from one of the world's most renowned photographers Steve McCurry is the artist behind some of the most iconic images in contemporary photography. His 1984 portrait of Sharba...

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A groundbreaking look at how America exported mass incarceration around the globe, from a rising young historian American Purgatory will forever change how we understand the rise of mass incarceration. It will forever change how we understand this...

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The electrifying story of the woman who wrote SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol.

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From one of America's leading biographers, the definitive story of the radical feminist and anti-pornography activist, based on exclusive access to her archives Fifteen years after her death, Andrea Dworkin remains one of the most important and ch...

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In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish...

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As the national campaign manager for Ralph Nader's runs for president in 2000 and 2004, Theresa Amato had a rare ringside role in the last two hotly contested presidential elections. The only woman ever to have managed two high-profile American pr...

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Not since the Great Depression have so many Americans questioned the fundamental tenets of capitalism and expressed openness to a socialist alternative. We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism - American Style offers a road map to making this alte...

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In 2008, The New York Times reported on the discovery of a Hebrew tablet, dating from before the birth of Christ, which predicted a Messiah who would rise from the dead after three days. Famed religious scholar Daniel Boyarin stated that 'som...

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A new translation of this classic work: "Parsipur is a courageous, talented woman and...a great writer."--Marjane Satrapi

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Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can help create the world we need This is a glorious book that challenges our conceptions of bookmaking as much as it questions our conceptions of worl...

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Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, ';Exterminate All the Brutes' is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe's genocidal colonization of Africaand the terrible myths and lies that it spawned';A book of s...

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In this groundbreaking book, playwright and social critic Sarah Schulman explores the family, the first place where all people: straight, gay, and bisexual, learn homophobia. It is within the family that homophobia begins to control the lives of p...

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