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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 ...

The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914 - Paperback

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by Richard J. Evans (Author)An Economist Best Book of the Year "Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating."--Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street JournalFrom the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, r...

The Statesman as Thinker: Portraits of Greatness, Courage, and Moderation - Hardcover

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by Daniel J. Mahoney (Author)In his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena. "A brilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of classically trained and thinking men of action." --Victor Davis HansonIn The Statesman as Thinker, Daniel J. Mahoney provides thoughtful and elegant portraits of statesmen who struggled to preserve freedom during times of crisis: Cicero using all the powers of rhetoric...

America, Let Me in: A Choose Your Immigration Story

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Report copyright infringementby Felipe Torres Medina (Author)A hilarious and satirically accurate introduction to the United States immigration system from comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Felipe Torres Medina Born in Colombia, Felipe Torres Medina moved to the US at the age of 21 and has spent over ten years of his life both navigating the chaos and confusion of the immigration system and explaining that craziness to the clueless Americans around him. There are few...

A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

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Report copyright infringementby Kelly Weinersmith (Author), Zach Weinersmith (Author)* THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the Hugo Award * Scientific American's #1 Book for 2023 * Winner of Royal Society's Trivedi Prize * A Guardian Best Book of 2024 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * A Times Best Science and Environment Book of 2023 * A Tor.com Best Book of 2023 * "Exceptional. . . Forceful, engaging and funny . . . This book will make you happy to live on this p...

Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy - Paperback

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by Nathaniel Philbrick (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Travels with George . . . is quintessential Philbrick--a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement." --The Boston Globe Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, which were now an unsure nation. Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for...

Shadow Cell: An Insider Account of America's New Spy War

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew Bustamante (Author), Jihi Bustamante (Author)A thrilling firsthand account by husband-and-wife CIA operatives who, against all odds, triumphed in a deadly cat-and-mouse game against a mole within the agency--an unprecedented insider account of 21st-century spycraft in the tradition of Argo and Black Ops. Andrew and Jihi Bustamante were a "tandem couple" married spies who'd dedicated their lives to the CIA. They met as trainees at Langley, and got marrie...

Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2025 - Paperback

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by Mickey Huff (Editor), Andy Lee Roth (Editor), Mnar Adley (Foreword by)Highlighting the year's most significant independent journalism--including reports on toxic chemicals, climate disinformation, and union victories--Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2025 illuminates issues and raises voices that the establishment press have throttled. State of the Free Press 2025 shows how independent journalism can promote civic engagement and reconnect people who have otherwise lost interest i...

Dark Aeon: Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity - Hardcover

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by Joe Allen (Author), Stephen K. Bannon (Foreword by)Humanity is consumed by relentless transformation Like a thief in the night, artificial intelligence has inserted itself into our lives. It makes important decisions for us every day. Often, we barely notice. As Joe Allen writes in this groundbreaking book, "Transhumanism is the great merger of humankind with the Machine. At this stage in history, it consists of billions using smartphones. Going forward, we'll be hardwiring our brains to ...

The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos - Paperback

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by Nick Henck (Editor), Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos (Author), Henry Gales (Translator)For over two decades, Mexico's Zapatista indigenous movement has stood as a beacon of hope for activists around the world working against the havoc that capitalism is wreaking upon the earth. Subcommander Marcos was their military leader and spokesperson, a poetic advocate who was, for many, almost indistinguishable from the movement he championed. On May 25, 2014, in the town of La Realidad, deep in the...

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State - Paperback

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by Kerry Howley (Author)A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR - A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thrown "At 25, [Reality] Winner--yoga teacher, beloved sister, AR-15 owner--was sentenced to five years in prison for leaking classified documents about a Russian election attack. Howley deftly analyzes the brutal, surreal conditions that underlie this drama and the way that they implicate all of us." --Glamour Who are you? You are ...

Servants of the Damned: The Dark Side of American Law - Paperback

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by David Enrich (Author)National Bestseller"A powerful and important picture of how mega law firms distort justice."--David Cay Johnston, Washington PostThe NYT's Business Investigations Editor reveals the dark side of American law: Delivering a "devastating" (Carol Leonnig) exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world's largest law firms, David Enrich traces how one firm shielded opioid makers, gun companies, big tobacco, Russian oligarchs, Fox News, the Catholic Church, ...