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Mike Davis
Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See
Three muckraking essays on the underside of San Diego cover the city’s historically recent turn from red to blue while highlighting a new cast of villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justice—now in a new, updated, twentieth-anniversary edition. "Behind the luminous veneer of Sa...
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Dr Koen P. R. Bartels
Doing Interpretive Research: Learning and Teaching Imagination in Social Research
Interpretivism has an intuitive appeal to many social researchers, but they often feel ill-equipped to do it. Other social researchers tend to believe that interpretivism is a specialized niche with little relevance to their research practice. What has been lost is the awareness that interpretation ...
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Sandy Northrop
American Political Cartoons: The Evolution of a National Identity, 1754-2010, Revised Edition
From Benjamin Franklin's drawing of the first American political cartoon in 1754 to contemporary cartoonists' blistering attacks on George W. Bush and initial love-affair with Barack Obama, editorial cartoons have been a part of American journalism and politics. American Political Cartoons chronic...
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Burt Neuborne
Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment
“A detailed history of the transformation of First Amendment law” from one of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers ( The New York Times ).   Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we’ve been treating smal...
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Adrian Kerr
Murder at the Agora (Athenian Mystery)
Murder at the Agora (An Athenian Mystery, Book 1) Special Price until September 7, 2025 Athens, 451 BC. The city is alive with debate, ambition, and the fragile promise of democracy. But when a gifted young orator collapses and dies in the midst of a public speech, the dream of freedom is stained ...
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Luis Munoz
The Case for Biblical Antichrist, Global Government, and the Man Chosen to Save America
The godfather of the global mafia (Rockefeller) indicated that he and other globalists are relying on "the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." Moreover, the renowned globalist and Obama's advisor Strobe Talbott said, "In the next century (21st), nations as we know it...
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Robert Kuttner
Notes for Next Time: Surviving Tyranny, Redeeming America
Why did we lose the broadly decent economy of the era after World War II? Why did reformers win all the important arguments about how to renew a good society, only to lose the politics? Why do democracies keep saving capitalism—only to watch plutocrats undermine democracy again and again? How did ...
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Robbin Laird
Perspectives on Portuguese Histroy: The 2024 Lectures by Professor Kenneth Maxwell (Portugal and Brazil Confront the Contemporary World)
When Kenneth Maxwell—the world's foremost historian of Portuguese democracy—stood before audiences in São Paulo, Lisbon, and Harvard in 2024, he wasn't just delivering academic lectures. He was connecting the threads of a revolutionary story that spans centuries and continents, linking the 1974...
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Karim Ani
Dear Citizen Math: How Math Class Can Inspire a More Rational and Respectful Society
American democracy is at risk. Fueled by partisan news and emotion-stoking social media, Americans are becoming less and less able to think rationally about the challenges facing the country. For self-governance to succeed, citizens must analyze issues objectively, engage with one another respectful...
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Howard Zinn
The Historic Unfulfilled Promise (City Lights Open Media)
Howard Zinn's views on social movements, freedom, history, democracy and our own human potential are educational and transformative. In few places is his voice more clear and accessible than in the dozens of articles he penned for The Progressive magazine from 1980 to 2009, offered together here i...
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Steven Feldstein
The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries. While increasing numbers of people rely primarily or exclusively on online platforms, authoritarian regimes have concurrently develop...
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John Dewey
The School and Society
The School and Society by John Dewey is an educational classic that provides an influential analysis of the relationship between school and society. Drawing on his experience in the classroom and his philosophical background, Dewey offers a unique perspective on topics such as the role of the tea...
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Tony Smith
Why Wilson Matters: The Origin of American Liberal Internationalism and Its Crisis Today (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
How Woodrow Wilson's vision of making the world safe for democracy has been betrayed ― and how America can fulfill it again The liberal internationalist tradition is credited with America's greatest triumphs as a world power―and also its biggest failures. Beginning in the 1940s, imbued with th...
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Ella Myers
The Gratifications of Whiteness: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Enduring Rewards of Anti-Blackness
The first book-length study of W. E. B. Du Bois's conceptualization of American whiteness. W. E. B. Du Bois famously argued that whiteness in the US in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries functioned as a "public and psychological wage," offering valuable social standing to even the ...
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Merrill
The Key of Liberty: The Life and Democratic Writings of William Manning, “a Laborer,” 1747–1814 (The John Harvard Library)
The recovery of the ideas and experiences of William Manning is a major event in the history of the American Revolutionary era. A farmer, foot soldier, and political philosopher, Manning was a powerful democratic voice of the common American in a turbulent age. The public crises of the infant republ...
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John Dewey
Moral Principles in Education
Moral Principles in Education presents John Dewey's ideas on the moral education of children and the importance of moral values in the educational process. Dewey argues that moral education should be based on experience and social interaction, rather than rigid rules and regulations. He emphasize...
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Jim Rough
Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People
Good News! Important news! There is a Breakthrough answer to today's crucial issues ? the threat of terrorism, racism, the lop-sided distribution of wealth, the corporate takeover of democracy, the non-involvement of citizens in government, materialism, alienation and spiritual decay.Sound too good ...
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Thom Hartmann
The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America (The Thom Hartmann Hidden History Series)
The New York Times –bestselling author “delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court in this punchy polemic” ( Publishers Weekly ). In this book, Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America, explains how the Supreme Court has spilled beyond its Constitu...
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Kurt Weyland
Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings
Can Latin America’s “new left” stimulate economic development, enhance social equity, and deepen democracy in spite of the economic and political constraints it faces? This is the first book to systematically examine the policies and performance of the left-wing governments that have risen to ...
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Jie-Hyun Lim
Global Easts: Remembering, Imagining, Mobilizing (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)
South Korean historian Jie-Hyun Lim, raised under an anticommunist dictatorship, turned to Marxian thought to explain his country’s development, even as he came to struggle with its Eurocentrism. As a transnational scholar working in postcommunist Poland, Lim recognized striking similarities betwe...
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