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The Coming of the Third Reich - Paperback

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by Richard J. Evans (Author)"Brilliant." --Washington Post"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." --A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement "The generalist reader, it should be emphasized, is well served. . . . The book reads briskly, covers all important areas--social and cultural--and succeeds in its aim of giving "voice to the people who lived through the years with which it deals." --Denver PostThere is no story in twentieth...

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by Eldridge Cleaver (Author)The classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. With a preface by Ishmael Reed - "As with Malcolm X, Cleaver's book is a spiritual autobiography. An odyssey of a soul in search of itself, groping toward a personal humanism which will give meaning to life."--The Progressive By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver...

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 - Paperback

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by Juan Williams (Author), Julian Bond (Introduction by)The 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams's celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement; their stories are told in Eyes on the Prize. From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose John a...

Unite History Volume 4 (1960-1974): The Transport and General Workers' Union (Tgwu): 'The Great Tradition of Independent Working Class Power' - Paperback

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by John Foster (Author)The fourteen years between 1960 and-1974 saw the trade union and labour movement transformed. In 1959 Labour had been beaten at the polls for the third successive time - with political commentators claiming that class politics in Britain were dead. By 1974 a mobilised trade union movement had forced a Conservative government from office, compelled the abandonment of its anti-trade union legislation, released imprisoned dockers from Pentonville prison and twice provided ...

Intent to Destroy: Russia's Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine - Hardcover

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by Eugene Finkel (Author)Written with "erudition and verve" (Timothy Snyder, New York Times-bestselling author of On Tyranny), this is the full story of how and why Russia has tried to violently subjugate Ukraine across the centuries, and how Ukrainians have resisted Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet, to Ukrainians, this attack was painfully familiar, the latest episode in a centuries-long Russian campaign to divide and oppress Ukraine. In Inten...

Good Economics for Hard Times - Paperback

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by Abhijit V. Banerjee (Author), Esther Duflo (Author)The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality,...

89 Words Followed by Prague, a Disappearing Poem

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Report copyright infringementby Milan Kundera (Author), Matt Reeck (Translator)Two newly translated works from one of the greatest literary writers and thinkers of the modern age, available together in English for the first time.Translating a work from its original language can be complicated; it's a complex art that can easily mar and twist the intent and meaning of a writer's words. Precise translations were of particular importance to Milan Kundera, who did not live to see all his books pu...

Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher William Blackwell (Author), Deborah Zalesne (Author), Kwaneta Harris (With)"These compelling reﬂections by people who have been entrapped within the tortures of solitary, should rekindle our abolitionist impulses at an especially critical moment in our history" - Angela Y. Davis "Oﬀers an indispensable tool to campaigns for abolition everywhere" - Juan E. Méndez, former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture "Powerful...These excruciating accounts from pr...

13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven't Read)

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher J. Scalia (Author)A discussion of 13 works of literary fiction in the context of their relevance to conservative beliefs. Great novels are a remarkable confluence of complex characters, powerful storytelling, and beautiful language. They ask important questions and explore major ideas that can reflect a culture--and shape it. Yet if you talk to right-of-center readers about literary fiction that considers ideas of particular interest to conservativ...

We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Report copyright infringementby Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Author), Ignat Solzhenitsyn (Editor)This collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997.Following his exile from the USSR in 1974, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn lived and traveled in the West for twenty years before the fall of Communism allowed him to return home to Russia. The majority of the speeches collected i...

Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System

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Report copyright infringementby Brando Simeo Starkey (Author)A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court--even more than the presidency or Congress--aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution's Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments. T...

The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It

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Report copyright infringementby Katharina Pistor (Author)A fascinating study of the legal underpinnings of capitalism, reasons why the system must be transformed, and actions we can take Even though capitalism has been conventionally described as an economic system, it is actually a deeply entrenched legal regime. Law provides the material for coding simple objects, promises, and ideas as capital assets. It also provides the means for avoiding the legal constraints that societies have freque...

Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes

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Report copyright infringementby Leah Litman (Author)Something is deeply rotten at the Supreme Court. How did we get here and what can we do about it? Crooked Media podcast host Leah Litman shines a light on the unabashed lawlessness embraced by conservative Supreme Court justices and shows us how to fight back. With the gravitas of Joan Biskupic and the irreverence of Elie Mystal, Leah Litman brings her signature wit to the question of what's gone wrong at One First Street. In Lawless, she a...

Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Joyce Vance (Author)A political manifesto for our present moment--part history lesson, part call to save the Republic "Brilliant, galvanizing, and inspirational. A road map to help us find our way out of the darkness." --Mary L. Trump We're in this together. For the past several years, Joyce Vance has signed off posts on her chart-topping Substack, "Civil Discourse", with these four words. In that time, she has guided readers through a continued erosion of demo...

Diversity without Discrimination: How to Promote a Culture of Unity in a Post-DEI/Affirmative Action World

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Report copyright infringementby Carol M. Swain (Author), Mike Towle (Author)Political scientist and former law professor Carol Swain warned in 2023 that the Supreme Court's decision that year to end race-based college admissions spelled doom for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and affirmative action in the workplace. What had been unthinkable for many Americans occurred on January 20-21, 2025, when President Donald Trump signed executive orders jettisoning DEI in federal progr...

Raiding the Heartland: An American Story of Deportation and Resistance

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Report copyright infringementby William D. Lopez (Author), Nicole L. Novak (Foreword by)Chronicles the devastating impacts of immigration raids--and the enduring resistance of immigrant communities in the aftermath.Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) upends small towns and rural communities by staging dramatic raids and rounding up hundreds of people in a single day. These worksite raids fracture families, devastate local economies, and spread fear and trauma t...

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

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Report copyright infringementby Jill Lepore (Author)The U.S. Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world but also one of the most difficult to amend. Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and law, explains why in We the People, the most original history of the Constitution in decades--and an essential companion to her landmark history of the United States, These Truths. Published on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation's founding--the anniversary, too, of th...

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Report copyright infringementby Guy Gugliotta (Author)Grant's Enforcer offers a gripping story of the early years after the Civil War and the campaign led by President Grant's attorney general Amos T. Akerman to destroy the Ku Klux Klan. Akerman, a former Georgia slaveholder and the only Southerner to serve in a Reconstruction cabinet, was the first federal lawman to propose using the Fourteenth Amendment to prosecute civil rights violations. In 1871 Akerman and his allies brought the KKK to ...

Born Equal: Remaking America's Constitution, 1840-1920

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Report copyright infringementby Akhil Reed Amar (Author)From "one of our most prodigious constitutional scholars" (Jonathan Eig), the definitive history of how the ideal of birth equality reshaped the American Constitution, from antebellum debates over slavery and secession, to the Civil War and emancipation, to women's suffrage In 1840, millions of Black Americans groaned in the chains of slavery. By 1920, millions of American men and women of every race had won the vote. In Born Equal, the...

Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ziegler (Author)The next phase of the war over reproduction in America What's next for the battle over abortion? Mary Ziegler argues that simply undoing Roe v. Wade has never been the endpoint for the antiabortion movement. Since the 1960s, the larger goal has been to secure recognition of fetuses and embryos as persons under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, a step that the modern antiabortion movement argues would make liberal abortion ...

Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back

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Report copyright infringementby Miranda S. Spivack (Author)Winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel PrizeA groundbreaking look at how ordinary people are fighting back against their local and state governments to keep their communities safe, by an award-winning journalist Most Americans are likely to encounter the effects of government malfeasance or neglect close to home--from their governors, mayors, town councils, school boards, police, and prosecutors. In fact, deals shrouded in darkness are r...

The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It

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Report copyright infringementby Corey Brettschneider (Author)Imagine an American president who imprisoned critics, spread a culture of white supremacy, and tried to upend the law so that he could commit crimes with impunity.In this propulsive and eminently readable history, constitutional law and political science professor Corey Brettschneider provides a thoroughly researched account of assaults on democracy by not one such president but five. John Adams waged war on the national press of th...

Just Freedom: Inside Florida's Decades-Long Voting Rights Battle

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel Rivero (Author)The story of an extraordinaryexpansion of voting rights and the obstacles holding back its implementation WhenFlorida citizens voted in 2018 to pass Amendment 4 to the state constitution, whichpromised to restore voting rights to people with past felony convictions, thedecision was celebrated as a civil rights victory and the nation's largestexpansion of voting rights in almost 50 years. In Just Freedom, DanielRivero details the advocacy...

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia

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Report copyright infringementby Philippe Sands (Author)In this intimate legal and historical detective story, the world-renowned lawyer and acclaimed author of East West Street traces the footsteps of two of the twentieth century's most merciless criminals--accused of genocide and crimes against humanity--testing the limits of immunity and impunity after Nuremberg. "Though nearly a decade in the making, this book could not arrive at a better time, because its subject is one of the most pressi...

Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America

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Report copyright infringementby Elie Mystal (Author)The New York Times bestselling author brings his trademark legal acumen and passionate snark to offer a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today--an urgent yet hopeful read for our current political climate "Mystal is a grassroots legal superhero, and his superpower is the ability to explain to the masses in clear language the all-too-human forces ...

Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

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Report copyright infringementby Jacob McHangama (Author)"The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made."--P. J. O'Rourke Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, we are experiencing a free speech recession. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, a...

Beyond Blood Quantum: Refusal to Disappear

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Report copyright infringementby Norbert S. Hill (Editor), Megan M. Hill (Editor), Desirae Louise Hill (Editor)In the second volume of The Great Vanishing Act, voices from Indian Country convey the insidious impacts of the Indian Reorganization Act confronting the existential and pragmatic questions facing many Native Nations to determine who is-- and who is not-- a citizen. The voices of poets, parents, academics, activists, educators, young adults, and elders prompt conversations in consider...

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

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Report copyright infringementby David Enrich (Author)David Enrich, the New York Times Business Investigations Editor and the #1 bestselling author of Dark Towers, produces his most consequential and far-reaching investigation yet: an in-depth expos? of the broad campaign--orchestrated by elite Americans--to overturn sixty years of Supreme Court precedent, weaponize our speech laws, and silence dissent.It was a quiet way to announce a revolution: In an obscure 2019 case that the Supreme Court ...

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The Volunteer: The Failure of the Death Penalty in America and One Inmate's Quest to Die with Dignity

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Report copyright infringementby Gianna Toboni (Author)A riveting account of one death row inmate's quest to die--and a fearless look at how America's system of punishment has failed the public it claims to serve. When Scott Dozier was sent to Nevada's death row in 2007, convicted of a pair of grisly murders, he didn't cry foul or embark upon a protracted innocence campaign. He sought instead to expedite his execution--to hasten his inevitable death. He decided he would rather face his end swi...

Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741, a Graphic Novel - Paperback

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by David Lester (Author), Marcus Rediker (Author), David Lester (Illustrator)Based on the little known real life "Slave Insurrection" of 1741, this book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial social order Rebel fugitive John Gwin was previously introduced in Under the Banner of King Death and this graphic novel continues his adventures. Revolution by Fire is a hypothetical look at the inner workings of the so ...

Very Short History of the Israel-Palestine Conflict - Paperback

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by Ilan Pappe (Author)An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it. 'Ilan Pappe is the most original, radical and hard-hitting of Israel's "new historians".' Avi Shlaim, author of Three Worlds The devastation of 7 October 2023 and the horrors that followed astounded the world. But the Israel-Palestine conflict didn't start on 7 October. It didn't start in 1967 either, when Israel occupied the West Bank, or in 1948 when ...