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"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now"

The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

by Annelise Orleck
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018

The story of low-wage workers rising up around the world to demand respect and a living wage. Tracing a new labor movement sparked and sustained by low-wage workers from across the globe, “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now” is an urgent, illuminating look at globalization as seen through...

The Predator Paradox

Ending the War with Wolves, Bears, Cougars, and Coyotes

by John Shivik
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014

An expert in wildlife management tells the stories of those who are finding new ways for humans and mammalian predators to coexist. ** ** Stories of backyard bears and cat-eating coyotes are becoming increasingly common—even for people living in non-rural areas. Farmers anxious to protect their...
by Michael Bronski
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011

Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present. In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire,...

The Family of Adoption

Completely Revised and Updated

by Joyce Maguire Pavao
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015

Full of wonderful stories that give insight into a wide variety of adoption issues, now revised in light of recent developments, The Family of Adoption is a powerful argument for the right kind of openness in adoption. Joyce Maguire Pavao uses her thirty years of experience as a family and adoption...

Sowing Crisis

The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

by Rashid Khalidi
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009

Acclaimed historian and political commentator Rashid Khalidi presents the compelling case that U.S. and Soviet intervention in the Middle East not only exacerbated civil wars and provoked the breakdown of fragile democracies, but continues to this day to shape global conflict in the region. Examining...

I Don't Wish Nobody to Have a Life Like Mine

Tales of Kids in Adult Lockup

by David Chura
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

Since the early 1990s, thanks to inflamed rhetoric in the media about “superpredators” and a wave of get-tough-on-crime laws, the number of juveniles in prison has risen by 35 percent, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and their placement in adult prison has increased by 208 percent,...

Kabir

Ecstatic Poems

by Robert Bly
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense...

Wrapped in the Flag

A Personal History of America's Radical Right

by Claire Conner
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013

A narrative history of the John Birch Society by a daughter of one of the infamous ultraconservative organization’s founding fathers   Long before the rise of the Tea Party movement and the prominence of today’s religious Right, the John Birch Society, first established in 1958, championed many...

Power in Words

The Stories behind Barack Obama's Speeches, from the State House to the White House

by Mary Frances Berry, Josh Gottheimer
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010

Whatever his ratings, Obama remains personally popular, widely acknowledged for his soaring oratory. His words were one of the lasting legacies of his presidential campaign and are proving to be among his most effective governing weapons.   In Power in Words, distinguished historian and civil rights...

Enabling Acts

The Hidden Story of How the Americans with Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights

by Lennard J. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015

The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA—the “eyes on the prize” moment for disability rights   The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become...

Beyond the Miracle Worker

The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller

by Kim E. Nielsen
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other historians and biographers, had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and mythologized as a straightforward educational superhero, the real story of...
by Michael Gecan
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012

A New York city neighborhood once called “the beginning of the end of civilization” is where Michael Gecan starts. Hired by residents to help them save their community, he and local leaders spend more than a decade wrestling New York politicians in an impassioned effort against all odds that brings...

Five Dollars and a Pork Chop Sandwich

Vote Buying and the Corruption of Democracy

by Mary Frances Berry
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

A timely and nonpartisan book on voter manipulation and electoral corruption—and the importance of stimulating voter turnout and participation Though voting rights are fundamental to American democracy, felon disfranchisement, voter identification laws, and hard-to-access polling locations...

The Muse of the Revolution

The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

by Nancy Rubin Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008

Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.
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