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1877

America's Year of Living Violently

by Michael A. Bellesiles
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010

“[A] powerful examination of a nation trying to make sense of the complex changes and challenges of the post–Civil War era.” —Carol Berkin, author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution In 1877—a decade after the Civil War—not only was the United States gripped...
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Blue Covenant

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

by Maude Barlow
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009

A cautionary account of climate change and the global water supply. “You will not turn on the tap in the same way after reading this book.” —Robert Redford In a book hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “passionate plea for access-to-water activism,” Blue Covenant addresses an environmental...
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Bitterly Divided

The South's Inner Civil War

by David Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010

The little-known history of anti-secession Southerners: “Absolutely essential Civil War reading.” —Booklist, starred review Bitterly Divided reveals that the South was in fact fighting two civil wars—the external one that we know so much about, and an internal one about which there...
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by Dr. Helen Caldicott
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007

The renowned antinuclear activist delivers a “frighteningly convincing argument” against nuclear energy as a solution to climate change (Publishers Weekly). In a world torn apart by wars over oil, politicians have stepped up their search for alternative energy sources—and their leading...
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Protest Nation

Words That Inspired a Century of American Radicalism

by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, John McMillian
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010

Historic writings by socialists, LGBT activists, environmentalists, and more: “An extraordinary collection of the voices of American dissidents.” —Howard Zinn Protest Nation is a guide to the speeches, letters, broadsides, essays, and manifestos that form the backbone of the American...
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Examined Life

Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers

by Astra Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009

Philosophy reconnects with daily life in these conversations with eight renowned thinkers—the uncut interviews from the documentary film Examined Life. Astra Taylor’s documentary film Examined Life took philosophy out of the academy and into the streets, reminding us that great ideas are...
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Framing Innocence

A Mother's Photographs, a Prosecutor's Zeal, and a Small Town's Response

by Lynn Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010

The harrowing true story of a mother whose innocent photos of her daughter resulted in child pornography charges—“an enthralling book” (Robert Coles). When Oberlin, Ohio, resident Cynthia Stewart dropped off eleven rolls of film at a drugstore near her home, she had no idea that two snapshots...
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The First Lady of Radio

Eleanor Roosevelt's Historic Broadcasts

by Stephen Drury Smith, Blanche Wiesen Cook
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017

“This anthology of 38 addresses . . . offer[s] a means for visiting anew the lifework of an extraordinary American woman” (HistoryNet). A tie-in to the American RadioWorks® documentary—with audio and video content. Eleanor Roosevelt’s groundbreaking career as a professional...
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by Astrid Dehe, Achim Engstler
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013

This acclaimed novel imagining the life of Israeli soldier Shalom Nagar explores the legacy of the Holocaust: “A fascinating book that doesn’t let you go” (Neue Deutschland, Germany). In May 1962, twenty-two men gathered in Jerusalem to decide by lot who would be Adolf Eichmann’s executioner....
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Fortress Europe

Dispatches from a Gated Continent

by Matthew Carr
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016

Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on “the brutal frontiers of new Europe,” Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most affluent region-and history’s greatest experiment with globalization-has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a humanitarian...
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How the World Breaks

Life in Catastrophe's Path, from the Caribbean to Siberia

by Stan Cox, Paul Cox
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016

We’ve always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren’t what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth’s hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire...
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The Humorless Ladies of Border Control

Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar

by Franz Nicolay
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016

In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka “the world’s greatest bar band.” Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock...
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Speaking Freely

My Life in Publishing and Human Rights

by Robert L. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Václav...
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Cast Away

True Stories of Survival from Europe’s Refugee Crisis

by Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

**Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence 2017 “Galvanizing and deeply compassionate.” -O Magazine From Time magazine’s European Union correspondent, a powerful exploration of the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, told through the stories of migrants who have...
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