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Red Set: A History of Gang of Four
JAMES DOOLEY · Repeater
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback
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Based on detailed interviews with band members, Red Set considers the music, art and politics that shaped Gang of Four and how the band, in turn, left an indelible mark on popular music.In the autumn of 1976, two young British Fine Arts students travelled to New York on a university grant,... |
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The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and Other Appreciations
John McCain · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A candid new political memoir from Senator John McCain - his most personal book in years - covering everything from 2008 up to the present.In a time when Washington, DC and the country is more polarized than it has been for decades, John McCain is the rare public figure who has earned the respect... |
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
NAOMI KLEIN · Haymarket Books
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
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The election of Donald Trump is a dangerous escalation in a world of cascading crises. Trump's vision -- a radical deregulation of the US economy in the interest of corporations, an all-out war on "radical Islamic terrorism," and sweeping aside climate science to unleash a domestic... |
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Writers under Surveillance: The FBI Files
JPat Brown · The MIT Press
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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FBI files on writers with dangerous ideas, including Hannah Arendt, Allen Ginsberg, Ernest Hemingway, Susan Sontag, and James Baldwin.Writers are dangerous. They have ideas. The proclivity of writers for ideas drove the FBI to investigate many of them -- to watch them, follow them, start... |
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The Souls of Black Folk
W E B Du Bois · Restless Books
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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Restless Classics presents The Souls of Black Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois's seminal work of sociology, with searing insights into our complex, corrosive relationship with race and the African-American consciousness. Reconsidered for the era of Obama, Trump, and Black Lives Matter, the new edition... |
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Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union
Guy Verhofstadt · Basic Books
Pages: 304
Format: Print book
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Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalog of ills seems endless: an economic crisis spread through most of Europe's Mediterranean tier that has crippled Greece and driven a wedge between northern and southern Europe; terrorist attacks in Paris,... |
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Sacred Liberty: America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom
Steven Waldman · HarperOne
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation's "greatest invention." Steven Waldman, the bestselling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined... |
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América: The Epic Story of Spanish North America, 1493-1898
Robert Goodwin · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 544
Format: Hardcover
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An epic history of the Spanish empire in North America from 1493 to 1898 by Robert Goodwin, author of Spain: The Centre of the World. At the conclusion of the American Revolution, half the modern United States was part of the vast Spanish Empire. The year after Columbus's great voyage... |
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Headcase: LGBTQ Writers & Artists on Mental Health and Wellness
Stephanie Schroeder · Oxford University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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Headcase is a groundbreaking collection of personal reflections and artistic representations illustrating the intersection of mental wellness, illness, and LGBTQ identity, as well as the lasting impact of historical views equating queer and trans identity with mental illness. The pieces... |
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The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Andrew G. McCabe · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!On March 16, 2018, just twenty-six hours before his scheduled retirement from the organization he had served with distinction for more than two decades, Andrew G. McCabe was fired from his position as deputy director of the FBI. President Donald... |
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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
Cherríe Moraga · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, CherrÃe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother,... |
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Terrorism and the Politics of Fear
David L Altheide · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback
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This thoughtful text demonstrates how the mass media constructs a politics of fear in the United States. Using a social interactionist perspective, the chapters examines such issues as the expansion of surveillance on the Internet, the construction of a terrorism-fighting hero to promote... |
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Apollo in the Age of Aquarius
Neil M Maher · Harvard University Press
Pages: 356
Format: Print book
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The summer of 1969 saw astronauts land on the moon for the first time and hippie hordes descend on Woodstock for a legendary music festival. For Neil M. Maher, the conjunction of these two era-defining events is not entirely coincidental. Apollo in the Age of Aquarius shows how the celestial... |
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