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Holocaust Reparations and the Gaza Genocide: Does One Holocaust Justify Another? - Paperback

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by Peter G. Myers (Author) Number of Pages: 356 Dimensions: 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 10, 2025

The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800, 197: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People - Paperback

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by Colin G. Calloway (Author)Before European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake Champlain and Connecticut River valleys. This history of their coexistence and conflicts with whites on the northern New England frontier documents their survival as a people-recently at issue in the courts-and their wars and migrations, as far north as Quebec, during the first two centuries of white contac...

Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media - Paperback

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by Jason Hannan (Author)Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated public discourse in its image and converted democracy into show business. In Trolling Ourselves to Death, Jason Hannan builds on Postman's classic thesis, arguing that we are now not so much amusing, as trolling ourselves to death. Yet, how do we explain this profound change...

Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators - Paperback

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by Collective the Education for Liberation (Author), Bettina L. Love (Contribution by), Mariame Kaba (Contribution by)A political vision for a future ripe with alternatives to imprisonment and punishment.Born from sustained organizing, and rooted in Black and women of color feminisms, disability justice, and other movements, abolition calls for an end to our reliance on imprisonment, policing and surveillance, and to imagine a safer future for our communities. Lessons in Liberation: An Abolit...

Black and Episcopalian: The Struggle for Inclusion - Paperback

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by Gayle Fisher-Stewart (Author), Kelly Brown Douglas (Foreword by)A personal story of the struggle for authentic inclusion in the church. From a strong voice in the dialogue about what Black lives matter means in relation to faith, a powerful lament and a hopeful message about the future. Historically, to be Episcopal/Anglican, as it was to be American, was to be white. Assimilation to whiteness has been a measure of success and acceptance, yet, assimilation requires that people of color gi...

She's a Badass: Women in Rock Shaping Feminism - Hardcover

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by Katherine Yeske Taylor (Author)Feminism has always been a complex and controversial topic, as female rock musicians know especially well. When they've stayed true to their own vision, these artists have alternately been adored as role models or denounced as bad influences. Either way, they're asked to cope with certain pressures that their male counterparts haven't faced. With each successive feminism movement since the 1960s, women in rock have been prominent proponents of progress as the...

The Japanese Myths: A Guide to Gods, Heroes and Spirits - Hardcover

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by Joshua Frydman (Author)While people around the world love Japan's cultural exports--from manga and anime to Zen--not everyone is familiar with Japan's unique mythology that shapes these interests, which is enriched by Shinto, Buddhism, and regional folklore. The Japanese Myths is a smart and succinct guide to the rich tradition of Japanese mythology, from the earliest recorded legends of Izanagi and Izanami with their divine offspring and the creation of Japan, to medieval tales of vengefu...

Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream - Paperback

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by David McGowan (Author), Nick Bryant (Foreword by)As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the artists who populate this book provided the soundtrack to my youth, so it is a subject matter that is close to my heart. But what really set the hook was discovering, early on in my research, that there were a number of aspects of the Laurel Canyon scene that didn't really seem to fit in with the prevailing image of a hippie utopia that was oste...

Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller - Paperback

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by Chloé Griffin (Author), John Waters (Contribution by), Mink Stole (Contribution by)Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child of suburban 1950s Maryland, she made her name first as an actress in the films of John Waters, and then as an art critic and columnist, a writer of hilarious stories and a maven of New York's downtown art world. Edgewise, by Berlin-based actress and writer Chlo Griffin, tel...

Blood and Lightning: On Becoming a Tattooer - Hardcover

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by Dustin Kiskaddon (Author)Any tattoo is the outcome of an intimate, often hidden process. The people, bodies, and money that make tattooing what it is blend together and form a heady cocktail, something described by Matt, the owner of Oakland's Premium Tattoo, as "blood and lightning." Faced with the client's anticipation of pain and excitement, the tattooer must carefully perform calm authority to obscure a world of preparation and vigilance. "Blood and lightning, my dude"--the mysterious ...

Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture - Hardcover

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by Jennifer T. Roberts (Author)A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common ...

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party - Paperback

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by Joshua Bloom (Author), Waldo E. Martin (Author)This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political landscape, especially as it relates to Black Lives Matter and other struggles to fight police brutality against black communities. In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patr...

Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation - Paperback

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by Sophie Lewis (Author)From the author of Abolish the Family, an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms, making the case instead for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we need. In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, a...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Paperback

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by Frederick Douglass (Author)Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome these obstacles to become a leading spokesman for his people.In this, the first and most frequently read of his three autobiographies, Douglass pr...

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by Judy Chicago (Author), Martha Easton (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Revelations is the work that Judy Chicago believed would never be published: a radical retelling of human history in the form of an illuminated manuscript, recovering stories of women that society sought to erase. Begun alongside her iconic installation The Dinner Party in the mid-1970s, and drawing on her intensive research into goddess worship and women's history, Revelations i...

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals - Paperback

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by Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Author), Adrienne Maree Brown (Foreword by)Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean. Gumbs employs a brilliant mix of poetic sensibility and naturalist observatio...

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger - Paperback

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by Richard Wilkinson (Author), Kate Pickett (Author)Groundbreaking analysis showing that greater economic equality-not greater wealth-is the mark of the most successful societies, and offering new ways to achieve it. "Get your hands on this book."-Bill Moyers This groundbreaking book, based on thirty years' research, demonstrates that more unequal societies are bad for almost everyone within them-the well-off and the poor. The remarkable data the book lays out and the measures it uses are lik...

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Paperback

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by Charlene Carruthers (Author)A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more q...

Loving Our Own Bones: Disability Wisdom and the Spiritual Subversiveness of Knowing Ourselves Whole - Paperback

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by Julia Watts Belser (Author)A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture A 2024 National Jewish Book Award winner and essential read on disability, spirituality, and social justice "What's wrong with you?" Scholar, activist, and rabbi Julia Watts Belser is all too familiar with this question. What's wrong isn't her wheelchair, though--it's exclusion, objectification, pity, and disdain. Our attitu...

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by Linda Sue Park (Author)"This powerful and riveting tale of one close-knit, proud Korean family movingly addresses life-and-death issues of courage and collaboration, injustice, and death-defying determination in the face of totalitarian oppression." (Kirkus starred review)Sun-hee and her older brother, Tae-yul, live in Korea with their parents. Because Korea is under Japanese occupation, the children study Japanese and speak it at school. Their own language, their flag, the folktales Uncle...

Understanding Politics and Government - Hardcover

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by Rosie Hore (Author), Alex Frith (Author), Louie Stowell (Author)An informative guide to political systems, elections, voting and government, and issues including feminism, human rights, freedom of speech and fake news, all explained with clear text and bright, infographic style illustrations. Includes tips on how to argue and debate, a glossary, and links to specially selected websites with more information. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9.77 x 6.9 IN Publication Date: May 07, 2024

She Speaks: The Women of Greek Myths in Their Own Words - Hardcover

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by Honor Cargill-Martin (Author), Camelia Pham (Illustrator)Written by "the new Mary Beard," classicist Honor Cargill-Martin flips the script in this enchanting anthology of eight Greek myths where women take center stage In She Speaks, passionate classicist Honor Cargill-Martin redresses this imbalance by retelling eight classic Greek myths, this time from an all-female perspective. Written in first-person, we hear from the astute sorceress Medea and her pivotal role in the quest for the ...

No Way but Forward: Life Stories of Three Families in the Gaza Strip - Hardcover

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by Brian K. Barber (Author)What is life really like in the disparaged Gaza Strip? No Way but Forward takes you there via a set of deeply human accounts of three ordinary young Palestinian men over the past thirty years, including the year following October 7, 2023. Their lives have been riddled with oppressive military constraint, violence, humiliation, and loss. Yet along with their parents, wives, and children, they have persevered in making an honorable life for themselves. These narrative...

By Any Dreams Necessary: Anti-Racist Strategies for Sustainability, Resilience and Environmental Justice in African American Communities. - Hardcover

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by Bruce W. Strouble (Author)"By Any Dreams Necessary" is a transformative guide that offers a strategic vision for enhancing sustainability, building resilience, and achieving environmental justice in African American communities. Dr. Bruce Strouble delivers a strategic plan for African Americans to address systemic racial oppression, economic disenfranchisement, and environmental injustice and turn them into opportunities for empowerment through practical solutions and strategic action.This...

37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination - Hardcover

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by Sherry Boschert (Author)A sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance." --Title IX's first thirty-seven words By prohibiting sex discrimination in federally fund...

The Train Driver and Other Plays - Paperback

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by Athol Fugard (Author)For me The Train Driver] is the biggest of them all. Everything I have written before has been a journey to this.--Athol FugardA dramatic, moving theater experience written for South Africa. . . . It will save us from hopelessness. See it.--Sunday IndependentThe Train Driver is classic Athol Fugard, and one of his most important plays. The playwright, known throughout the world as a chronicler of his native South Africa's apartheid past, directed its premiere at the n...

Texas Indian Myths and Legends - Paperback

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by Jane Arcger (Author)Step into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas. From the Caddo in the Piney Woods, the Lipan Apache in the Southwest, the Wichita at the Red River, and the Comanche across the Great Plains to the Alabama-Coushatta in the Big Thicket, five nations come alive through myth and history in Jane Archer's vividly written book about the first Texans.Back JacketStep into a colorful pageantry of the powerful peopl...

Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country - Paperback

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by B. J. Hollars (Author)Midwestern Strange chronicles B.J. Hollars's exploration of the mythic, lesser-known oddities of flyover country. The mysteries, ranging from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping space aliens to a lumberjack-inspired "Hodag hoax," make this book a little bit X-Files, a little bit Ghostbusters, and a whole lot of Sherlock Holmes. Hollars's quest is not to confirm or debunk these mysteries but rather to seek out these unexplained phenomena to understa...

Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau Through Fanon - Paperback

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by Jane Anna Gordon (Author)Might creolization offer political theory an approach that would better reflect the heterogeneity of political life? After all, it describes mixtures that were not supposed to have emerged in the plantation societies of the Caribbean but did so through their capacity to exemplify living culture, thought, and political practice. Similar processes continue today, when people who once were strangers find themselves unequal co-occupants of new political locations they ...

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences - Paperback

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by Michel Foucault (Author)With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sciences of biology, philology, and political economy. The result is nothing less than an archaeology of the sciences that unearths old patterns of meaning and reveals t...

Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth - Paperback

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by Carol Rose (Author)We have always conjured up creatures never seen in nature, from flying horses and two-headed birds to fire-breathing dragons and enormous killer skunks, as well as fantastic distortions of our own image, from giants to nubile maidens. In these pages you will meet extraordinary beings from Hindu and Navajo religions, Scandinavian tales, Russian folklore, Lithuanian stories, Irish oral history, American tall tales, and Aztec myth. Just some of the monstrous entourage: - Ba...

Women, Art, Freedom: Artists and Street Politics in Iran - Paperback

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by Pamela Karimi (Author)Women, Art, Freedom offers an insightful look at the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran, sparked by the tragic murder of Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of the "morality police" for violating hijab rules. Beyond its feminist undertones and the remarkable courage of the young protesters, what sets this uprising apart from previous ones is the abundant and diverse art it has inspired. This book, rather than merely analyzing the artworks that garnered attention on ...