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The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement

Susannah Gibson · W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Book

An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated,...

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Brothers on Three: A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana

Abe Streep
Format: Book

March 11, 2017, was a night to remember: in front of the hopeful eyes of thousands of friends, family members, and fans, the Arlee Warriors would finally bring the high school basketball state championship title home to the Flathead Indian Reservation. The game would become the stuff...

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Hubert Humphrey: The Conscience of the Country

ARNOLD A OFFNER · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

One of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century, rediscovered in an important, definitive biography Hubert Humphrey (1911-1978) was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office he has been largely overlooked...
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The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

Matthias Schmelzer · Verso
Format: Paperback

We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization,...

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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo · Seal Press
Format: Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling...
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The Storyteller's Supper: A Feast of Food Folk Tales

Taffy Thomas · ?The History Press
Format: Book

'You and me, me and you, we all bring something to the stew, From the tales we tell, to the food we've got, we all bring something to the pot.'Over the last fifty years, Taffy Thomas has shared the stage with noted Lakeland chefs, who have tickled his palate with tastings...

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Why You Should Be a Socialist

Nathan J. Robinson · All Points Books
Format: Hardcover

A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it. America is witnessing the rise of a new generation of socialist activists. More young people support socialism now than at any time since the labor movement of the 1920s. The Democratic Socialists of America,...
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You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back

Carol Roth · Broadside Books
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothing - and yet you are somehow happy.When Carol Roth first heard that one of the World Economic Forum's...
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