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The Secret World of Oil
Ken Silverstein · Verso, 2014.
Pages: 281
Format: Print book |
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady meeting ground of fixers, gangsters, dictators, competing governments,... |
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To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America's Police
Norm Stamper · Nation Books
Pages: 309
Format: Print book |
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The police in America belong to the people - not the other way around. Yet millions of Americans experience their cops as racist, brutal, and trigger-happy: an overly aggressive, militarized enemy of the people. For their part, today's officers feel they are under siege - misunderstood,... |
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"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · Beacon Press
Pages: 208
Format: Print book |
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Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing... |
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Winning the Inside Game: The Handbook of Advocacy Strategies
Mr. Ilir Zherka · Ilir Zherka
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback |
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This handbook is a practical, accessible, unique guide to help leaders become more successful advocates. Winning the Inside Game is designed for quick reference. It provides busy practitioners with straightforward guidance and specific techniques to advocate for social change. This book... |
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National Geographic People of the World: Cultures and Traditions, Ancestry and Identity
Catherine Herbert Howell · National Geographic Soc
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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From the heart of National Geographic comes this expansive guide to the clans, tribes, ethnicities, and peoples of the world. Organized in keeping with our knowledge of the migration of human groups through history, with statistics and a cultural portrait of each ethnic group, the book... |
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The Politicians and the Egalitarians: The Hidden History of American Politics
Sean Wilentz · W.W. Norton & Company
Pages: 364
Format: Print book |
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One of our most eminent historians reminds us of the commanding role party politics has played in America's enduring struggle against economic inequality."There are two keys to unlocking the secrets of American politics and American political history." So begins The Politicians... |
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The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Gloria J Browne-Marshall · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 226
Format: Print book |
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The Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that legalized segregation in 1896... |
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