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Freedom: Freedom In The Making Of Western Culture
John Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson
and
Orlando Patterson
No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era
Jacqueline Jones
Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey
Dan Berger
Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice
Jamie K. McCallum
For Profit: A History of Corporations
William Magnuson
The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America
Joshua D. Rothman
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
Dorothy Roberts
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All
Martha S. Jones
The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
Bernard E. Harcourt
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Erika Lee
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States
Erika Lee
The Social Transformation of American Medicine
Paul Starr
In the Shadow Of the Poorhouse: A Social History Of Welfare In America, Tenth Anniversary Edition
Michael B. Katz
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Walter Johnson
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
Walter Johnson
Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash over the New Deal
Eric Rauchway
Lords of the Desert: The Battle Between the United States and Great Britain for Supremacy in the Modern Middle East
James Barr
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence-From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Judith Herman
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland
Jonathan M. Metzl
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
Mark Pendergrast
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Bhaskar Sunkara
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
Bhaskar Sunkara
Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness
Alisa Roth
Power and Conflict in Organizations
Elise Boulding
and
Robert L. Kahn
Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do And Why They Do It
James Q. Wilson
The Culture of Fear: Why Americans are Afraid of the Wrong Things
Barry Glassner
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
Michael Eric Dyson
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
Michael Eric Dyson
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It
Dambisa Moyo (Author)
A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
Rachel Devlin
The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
Robert W. Harms (Author)
Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism
Steven M. Gillon (Author)
Caliphate: The History of an Idea
Hugh Kennedy
Goddess of Anarchy
Jacqueline Jones (Author)
City on the Verge: Atlanta and the Fight for America s Urban Future
Mark Pendergrast
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
Stephanie Coontz
Toxic Inequality: The True Costs of Poverty and Racial Injustice for America's Families
Thomas M. Shapiro (Author)
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It
Richard Florida
The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class and What We Can Do About It
Richard Florida
Locked In: How Our Fractured Criminal Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration
John Pfaff (Editor)
1848: Year of Revolution
Mike Rapport
Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity
Michael Scott
The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China
RALPH D. SAWYER
and
Mei-chün Sawyer
The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America
Steve Fraser
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Randy Roberts
and
Johnny Smith
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Randy Roberts
and
Johnny Smith
Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement
Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall
,
Rosalyn Baxandall
, and
Linda Gordon
Rosa Lee: A Generational Tale of Poverty and Survival in Urban America
Leon Dash
Jacob's Cane: A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore
Elisa New
Black Rage
William H. Grier
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
Charles E. Cobb, Jr. (Author)
Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century
Richard Edwards (Author)
Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now that the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room is the Room
David Weinberger
The Crowded Universe: The Race to Find Life Beyond Earth
Alan Boss
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
Sarah Gristwood
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama
Peniel E. Joseph (Author)
The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet
Dimitar Sasselov
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile
Helen Rappaport
Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision that Legalized Racism
Harvey Fireside
In Defense of Flogging
Peter Moskos
When Gadgets Betray Us: The Dark Side of Our Infatuation with New Technologies
Robert Vamosi
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about when We Talk about Hip Hop--and why it Matters
Tricia Rose
Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
Douglas R. Hofstadter
and
Emmanuel Sander
Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom
Leila Schneps
and
Coralie Colmez
The Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Reader
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
Hardy Green
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
Joyce Tyldesley
Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow
Walter Mosley
The Age of Anxiety: A History of America's Turbulent Affair with Tranquilizers
Andrea Tone
Africa's Armies: From Honor to Infamy
Robert B. Edgerton
The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History
Don Oberdorfer
The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History
Don Oberdorfer
Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale
Donald Petterson
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist (Author)
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist (Author)
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch (Author)
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch (Author)
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
Douglas R. Hofstadter
and
Daniel Clement Dennett
The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-And What We Can Do About It
Tony Wagner (Author)
The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-And What We Can Do About It
Tony Wagner (Author)
Managers Of Virtue: Public School Leadership In America, 1820-1980
David Tyack (Author)
and
Elisabeth Hansot (Author)
Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner (Author)
Pr!: A Social History of Spin
Stuart Ewen
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Christopher Hitchens (Author)
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
Richard Phillips Feynman
,
Robert B. Leighton
, and
Matthew Sands
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Sherry Turkle
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs
David Roediger
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Howard Rheingold
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
Benoit Mandelbrot
and
Richard L. Hudson
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II
Madhusree Mukerjee
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch
Legacy of The Prophet: Despots, Democrats, And The New Politics of Islam
Anthony Shadid
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Frank Wu
Huey: Spirit of the Panther
David Hilliard
,
Fredrika Newton
, and
Keith Zimmerman
More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave
Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision that Legalized Racism
Harvey Fireside
Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism
Derrick Bell
"Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity
Beverly Daniel Tatum (Author)
Rebels Against The Future: The Luddites And Their War On The Industrial Revolution: Lessons For The Computer Age
Kirkpatrick Sale
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
Richard Florida
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
I Am a Strange Loop
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940
George Chauncey
Intercourse
Andrea Dworkin
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod
The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror
Christian Parenti
The Anarchist In The Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Anarchist In The Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
Siva Vaidhyanathan
The Republican War on Science
Chris Mooney
Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East
Clyde Prestowitz
Letters to a Young Activist (Art of Mentoring)
Todd Gitlin
Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration
Tamar Jacoby
and
Tammar Jacoby
The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor
Nelson Lichtenstein
Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend
Kate Fullbrook
and
Edward Fullbrook
Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the 21st Century
Stanley Aronowitz
,
Heather Gautney
,
Peter Marcuse
,
Ellen Willis
,
Michael Hardt
,
Alex Callinicos
, and
Manning Marable
The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change
Lester C. Thurow
From the Ashes of the Old: American Labor and America's Future
Stanley Aronowitz
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
John Allen Paulos
Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America
James Davison Hunter
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
Richard Phillips Feynman
The Periodic Kingdom: A Journey into the Land of the Chemical Elements (Science Masters Series)
P. W. Atkins
and
P.W. Atkins
Call to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South
Carol B. Stack
and
Carol Stack
Essential McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
,
Eric McLuhan
, and
Frank Zingrone
What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News
Eric Alterman
