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What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick · Columbia University Press
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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Hard to imagine a more original or significant contribution - Doug McAdamSuch a study has always been seen as the Holy Grail - Kevin BalesA stellar work of scholarship - Zoe TroddDrawing on fifteen years of work in the antislavery movement, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick examines the systematic... |
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The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma: Resilience through Adversity
Stephen Warren · University of Oklahoma Press
Pages: 371
Format: Hardcover
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Non-Indians have amassed extensive records of Shawnee leaders dating back to the era between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812. But academia has largely ignored the stories of these leaders' descendants - including accounts from the Shawnees' own perspectives. The Eastern... |
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Anthony Ray Hinton · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine... |
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Senator Leahy: A Life in Scenes
Philip E Baruth · UPNE
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
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Having vaulted to a position in the United States Senate at the tender age of thirty-four, Patrick Leahy now claims the longest tenure of any member of that institution still serving - and he was third in line for the presidency when the Democrats held control. Few recent American lawmakers... |
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Rebel Mother: My Childhood Chasing the Revolution
Peter Andreas · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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"[A] luminous memoir" - Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle will find much to admire here." - BOOKLIST (starred review) The intimate true story of a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to South... |
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The Fate of the West: The Battle to Save the World's Most Successful Political Idea
Bill Emmott · The Economist
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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The West has long been a font of stability, prosperity, and security. Yet when faced with global instability and economic uncertainty, it is tempting for states to react by closing borders, hoarding wealth, and solidifying power. We have seen it in Japan, France, and Italy in the past,... |
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Melting Pot or Civil War?: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders
Reihan Salam · Sentinel
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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Will the America of the future be peaceful and united, or it will be wracked by intense ethnic and class conflicts that will undermine our most cherished ideals? Reihan Salam, one of today's brightest young conservatives, argues that the answer hinges on how we as a society choose to manage... |
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Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America
María Isabel Alvarez · NYQ Books
Pages: 324
Format: Paperback
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The poets anthologized in Misrepresented People: Poetic Responses to Trump's America bear witness to, rage against, and defy the misogyny, racism, homophobia, xenophobia, and authoritarian impulses that have always surrounded us, but that are incarnated in the 45th president. At a time... |
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Women's Studies: The Basics
Bonnie G. Smith · Routledge
Pages: 206
Format: Paperback
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Women's Studies: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the pathbreaking and cross-disciplinary study of women -- past and present. Tracing the history of the field from its origins, this revised and updated text sets out the main topics making up the discipline, exploring its global... |
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Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence
Brian Clements · Beacon Press
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted, including a foreword by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly and an introduction by Colum McCann, published on the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting.Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence... |
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The Make-or-Break Year: Solving the Dropout Crisis One Ninth Grader at a Time
Emily Krone · The New Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for its "failing schools" In eighth grade, Eric thought he was going places. But by his second semester of freshman... |
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