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The Knowing: How the Oppression of Indigenous Peoples Continues to Echo Today

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Report copyright infringementby Tanya Talaga (Author)***Winner of the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book!******Shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize!***"The Knowing is everything we've come to expect from a Tanya Talaga book - meticulous research, impassioned advocacy, searing prose."--Duncan McCue, author of Decolonizing Journalism: A Guide to Reporting in Indigenous CommunitiesFrom award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga comes a riveting explorat...

The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny

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Report copyright infringementby Laura Bates (Author)Misogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it?We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities--they're deepening them.In The New Age of Sexism, acclaimed author and activist Laura Bates exposes how misogyny is being c...

Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History of the Indie Rock Explosion

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Deville (Author)The definitive history of twenty-first-century indie rock--from Iron & Wine and Death Cab for Cutie to Phoebe Bridgers and St. Vincent--and how the genre shifted the musical landscape and shaped a generation Maybe you caught a few exhilarating seconds of "Teen Age Riot" on a nearby college radio station while scanning the FM dial in your parents' car. Maybe your friend invited you to a shabby local rock club and you ended up having a r...

Midnight on the Potomac: The Last Year of the Civil War, the Lincoln Assassination, and the Rebirth of America

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Report copyright infringementby Scott Ellsworth (Author)From the author of The Ground Breaking, longlisted for the National Book Award, comes a riveting saga of the last year of the Civil War--and a revealing new account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln Told with a page-turning pace, New York Times bestselling author and historian Scott Ellsworth has written the most compelling new book about the Civil War in years. Focusing on the last, desperate months of the war, when the outcome ...

The Anthropology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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Report copyright infringementby DK (Author)Explore and understand the key ideas and movements in anthropology--the study of human societies and cultures and how they work. What does it mean to be human? Why do we have rituals? How do family structures differ around the world, and why? The Anthropology Book answers questions like these and many, many more. Applying the Big Ideas series' combination of authoritative, accessible text and bold graphics, The Anthropology Book introduces key conc...

No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement

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Report copyright infringementby Micah Herskind (Editor), Mariah Parker (Editor), Kamau Franklin (Editor)A collection of essays from the Stop Cop City movement on the fight for police abolition and for a liveable planet for all, with gripping reporting from activists on the ground and rousing articles from renowned radical academics The Stop Cop City movement is a decentralized effort to stop the construction of a $120 million police training facility and the destruction of 170 acres of the W...

Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025

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Report copyright infringementby Jelani Cobb (Author)From one of the definitive journalists of this era--acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism--comes a kaleidoscopic, real-time portrait of the turbulent past decade. What just happened? From the moment that Trayvon Martin's senseless murder initiated the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, America has been convulsed by new social movements--around gun...

Beyond Limits: Stories of Third-Trimester Abortion Care

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Report copyright infringementby Shelley Sella (Author)"Beyond Limits is moving, personal, insightful, and powerfully written. This book helps us to see people who seek abortions with clarity and compassion, as people in the real world, rather than as the objects of an abstract moral or political debate."--Diana Greene Foster, author of The Turnaway Study A compassionate perspective on late-term abortion that challenges preconceived notions of who gets abortions and why Within both the anti-a...

What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything

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Report copyright infringementby Jessa Crispin (Author)A hilarious, ambitious work of trenchant cultural criticism that traces the origins of today's crisis of masculinity through . . . Michael Douglas's oeuvre from the eighties and nineties How to be a Man? That question--and all the anxiety, anger, and resentment it stirs up--is the starting point for a crisis in masculinity that today manifests as misogyny, nativism, and corporate greed; gives rise to incels and mass shooters; and leads to ...

The American Game: History and Hope in the Country of Lacrosse

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Report copyright infringementby S. L. Price (Author)From "the master of new journalism [who always] hits it over the fence" (New York Times) and "one of the finest writers on sports anywhere" (USA Today), the scintillating story of lacrosse--the game invented by the Haudenosaunee, played with more passion than any other, that stubbornly mirrors America's ongoing struggle with inclusivityNearly a millennium ago, Native Americans created lacrosse as a means of training warriors and settling dis...

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Report copyright infringementby James Patterson (Author), Vicky Ward (Author)"The clearest profile yet of the twisted quadruple killer and his motives" (New York Post). The whole story, the true story, behind the senseless murders--and the accused who's pleaded guilty on all counts. The murders of four innocent college students attending the University of Idaho left us all with so many questions. Now, after more than 300 interviews, James Patterson and prize-winning journalist Vicky Ward f...

Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden from Us

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Report copyright infringementby Anna Malaika Tubbs (Author)The new book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers. In Erased, Anna Malaika Tubbs recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy. Patriarchy has oppressed women and denied their contributions worldwide, but the United States of America has its own unique gendered hierarchy. Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs applies her signature blend of approachable yet rigorous analysis in this definitive and groundbreakin...

Queer Enlightenments: A Hidden History of Lovers, Lawbreakers, and Homemakers

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony Delaney (Author)A ground-breaking history delivered in a refreshing new voice, Queer Enlightenments details eleven overlooked stories of eighteenth-century queer people who lived extraordinary lives of resistance and joyQueer people have always existed. In an era when this basic truth faces undue scrutiny, here is a dazzling work of restorative history that reveals the hard-won lives of those who dared to break the mold in the "long eighteenth-century."...

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The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Fuller (Author)The incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team's triumphant climb from underdog to undefeated, their inspirational brotherhood, a fascinating portrait of deafness in America, and the indefatigable head coach who spearheaded the team, by New York Times reporter and San Francisco Bureau Chief, Thomas Fuller. "The Boys of Riverside is another example of how anyone can achieve their dreams, making what appears impossible, possib...

Before They Were Men: Essays on Manhood, Compassion, and What Went Wrong

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Report copyright infringementby Jacob Tobia (Author)Gender nonconforming thought leader and bestselling author Jacob Tobia offers a paradigm-shifting argument for fundamentally reframing how we think about men. "A reckoning, a manifesto, a wellspring of curiosity, and an invitation to consider better ways of imagining masculinity."--Amanda Montell, New York Times bestselling author of The Age of Magical Overthinking, Cultish, and Wordslut The conversation about masculinity, patriarchy, and m...

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Report copyright infringementby Pamela S. Nadell (Author)Jews experienced antisemitism the moment they landed on what would become the United States. When they first arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654, Peter Stuyvesant tried but failed to deport them. As historian Pamela S. Nadell tells in Antisemitism, an American Tradition, this was only antisemitism's beginning on our shores, as negative European stereotypes about Jews rooted into American soil.Compared with the Old World, with its expulsion...

The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster

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Report copyright infringementby John O'Connor (Author)"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED ReviewFrom the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and books, on coffee mugs, beer koozies, car p...

Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

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Report copyright infringementby John Grisham (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The master of the legal thriller" (Associated Press) teams up with "the godfather of the innocence movement" (Texas Monthly) to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions. "Each of these stories is told with astonishing power."--David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon "Gripping . . . compelling . . . What makes [Framed] important reading isn't the shock value advertised in the title. I...

Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific

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Report copyright infringementby Coll Thrush (Author) A provocative retelling of shipwreck tales from the Northwest Coast The Northwest Coast of North America is a treacherous place. Unforgiving coastlines, powerful currents, unpredictable weather, and features such as the notorious Columbia River bar have resulted in more than two thousand shipwrecks, earning the coastal areas of Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island the moniker "Graveyard of the Pacific." Beginning with a Spanish galleon ...

Codex Regenesis: Five Fables of Magick Misused

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Report copyright infringementby H. M. Batsel (Author)Unlock the secrets of a mystical tome through gorgeous illustrations, clever paper mechanics, and a mysterious story. This interactive book will keep you and your friends immersed for hours! You have been cast as an expert on occult texts and tasked with solving a literary mystery. An antiquarian bookseller recently vanished under strange circumstances, leaving only a copy of Codex Regenesis behind. This intriguing volume contains five fabl...

Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Grant (Author)From the award-winning author of Birth, a journey into the underground activist networks that have been working to protect women's autonomy over their bodies amidst legal, political, religious, and cultural oppression over the past sixty years. In this definitive, eye-opening history, award-winning author Rebecca Grant charts the reproductive freedom movement from the days before Roe through the seismic impact of Dobbs. The stories in Acce...

Curious Coffins and Riveting Rituals: Death Practices Around the World

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Report copyright infringementby Yy Liak (Author)Discover the world's most fascinating death and funeral traditions in this illustrated modern-day memento mori. Embark on a whirlwind tour of burial, preservation, and memorial practices and landmarks from across the globe and throughout history, ranging from the customs of our ancestors to contemporary practices. In these vibrantly illustrated pages, you can explore how humans from time immemorial have honored and remembered the dead, including...

Like: A History of the World's Most Hated (and Misunderstood) Word

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Report copyright infringementby Megan C. Reynolds (Author)A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language.Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use of this word is a surefire way to make those who pride themselves on propriety, both grammatical and otherwise, feel compelled to issue correctives.But what the detractors of this word fail to understand is its true function and versatil...

By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine

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Report copyright infringementby Danielle Leavitt (Author)An intimate, affecting account of life during wartime, told through the lives that have been shattered. Even as scores of Americans rally to the Ukrainian cause and adopt Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero, the lives of Ukrainians remain opaque and mostly anonymous. In By the Second Spring, the historian Danielle Leavitt goes beyond familiar portraits of wartime heroism and victimhood to reveal the human experience of the conflict. An America...

Language and Life on Ocracoke: The Living History of the Brogue

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Report copyright infringementby Jeffrey Reaser (Author), Walt Wolfram (Author), Candy Gaskill (Author)In this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet. Many visitors are drawn to Ocracoke's natural beauty and fascinating dialect, known as the Ocracoke Brogue. During the summer on the island, despite the required ferry ride to even set foot there, tourists (or, ...

The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986-1990

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Report copyright infringementby Jonathan Mahler (Author)A sweeping chronicle of four tumultuous years in 1980s New York that changed the city forever--and anticipated the forces that would soon divide the nation--from the bestselling author of Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning "A rip-roaring, sweeping, essential work of history . . . a deeply reported and brilliantly observed account of how the modern city was born and why all of us continue to live with the results."--Jonathan Eig, ...

Native Nations: A Millennium in North America

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Report copyright infringementby Kathleen Duval (Author)"A magisterial overview of a thousand years of Native American history" (The New York Review of Books), from the rise of ancient cities more than a thousand years ago to fights for sovereignty that continue today WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE, THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE, AND THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE Long before the colonization of North America, Indigenous Americans built diverse civilizations and adapted to a changing world in ways t...

The Man No One Believed: The Untold Story of the Georgia Church Murders

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Report copyright infringementby Joshua Sharpe (Author)In 1985, a white man walked into a South Georgia church and brutally murdered Harold and Thelma Swain, two pillars of the area's Black community. The killer vanished into the night. For fifteen years, the case remained unsolved. Then authorities zeroed in on Dennis Perry, a carpenter who grew up nearby. Convicted with devastatingly flawed evidence, Perry received a double life sentence.When award-winning journalist and South Georgia native...

Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down

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Report copyright infringementby Anand Pandian (Author)An anthropologist's quest to understand the deep social and political divides in American society, and the everyday strategies that can overcome them. In 2016, Anand Pandian was alarmed by Donald Trump's harsh attacks on immigrants to the United States, the appeal of that politics of anger and fear. In the years that followed, he crisscrossed the country--from Fargo, North Dakota to Denton, Texas, from southern California to upstate New Yo...

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Report copyright infringementby Chuck Schumer (Author)In an urgent and personal new book, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sheds light on the Jewish American experience and sounds the alarm about the troubling resurgence of antisemitism. When it comes to the history of the Jewish people, there is a national and global crisis of misunderstanding. This lack of knowledge feeds demons of ignorance, hatred, and violence. ANTISEMITISM IN AMERICA: A WARNING is an urgent work of nonfiction that...

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

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Report copyright infringementby Sophie Gilbert (Author)"Searing... rigorously researched but never stuffy... Gilbert has compiled perhaps the first comprehensive examination of turn-of-the-millennium mainstream, cool-kid trends and ephemera, and how they were largely molded by those in power to sell a generation of girls and young women reality-warping lies." --The New York Times "So clear-eyed that it's startling." --The Washington Post "Entertaining and even energizing, transforming a disma...