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Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
Julian Assange · OR Books
Pages: 185
Format: Print book |
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Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in code) as a route to progressive change. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since its inception in the 1980s.Now,... |
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Dorothy E Roberts · Vintage Books
Pages: 373
Format: Paperback |
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This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform"... |
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The American Political Landscape
Byron E Shafer · Harvard Univ.Press
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover |
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Social scientists and campaign strategists approach voting behavior from opposite poles. Reconciling these rival camps through a merger of precise statistics and hard-won election experience, The American Political Landscape presents a full-scale analysis of U.S. electoral politics over... |
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Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education
Glenn Beck · Threshold editions/Mercury Radio Arts, 2014.
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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PUBLIC EDUCATION IS NEVER MENTIONED IN THE CONSTITUTION. WHY? BECAUSE OUR FOUNDERS KNEW THAT IT WAS AN ISSUE FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS--NOT THE FEDERAL ONE. It's not a coincidence that the more the federal government has inserted itself into public education over the years, the worse... |
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The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement
Jon N Hale · Columbia University Press
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover |
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Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale... |
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The New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians
Naomi Schaefer Riley · Encounter Books
Pages: 232
Format: Print book |
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If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and why gang violence affects American... |
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Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
Julia Reynolds · Chicago Review Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The city of Salinas California is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia one of the most violent gangs in the United States Born in the prisons of California in the late s Nuestra Familia expanded... |
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City of Refuge: Separatists and Utopian Town Planning
Michael J Lewis · Princeton University Press 2017.
Pages: 256
Format: Print book |
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The vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning. In City of Refuge, Michael Lewis takes readers across centuries and continents to show how Utopian town planning produced a distinctive type of settlement characterized by its square... |
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Forged Through Fire: War, Peace, and the Democratic Bargain
Frances Mccall Rosenbluth · Liveright Publishing Corp
Pages: 352
Format: Print book |
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Peace, many would agree, is a goal that democratic nations should strive to achieve. But is democracy, in fact, dependent on war to survive? Considering this question, two of our most celebrated political scientists trace the shocking ways in which governments have mobilized armies since... |
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Democracy in the Dark: The Seduction of Government Secrecy
Frederick A O Schwarz · The New Press, 2015.
Pages: 350
Format: Print book |
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From Dick Cheney's man-sized safe to the National Security Agency's massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government's modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important new book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief... |
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Law & Disorder: The Chaotic Birth of the NYPD
Bruce Chadwick · St Martin'S Press
Pages: 384
Format: Print book |
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Nineteenth-century New York City was one of the most magnificent cities in the world, but also one of the most deadly. Without any real law enforcement for almost 200 years, the city was a lawless place where the crime rate was triple what it is today and the murder rate was five or six times... |
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